Chapter 6
Only Will
Regan walked a distance away from Yugi's battlefield and took out her newly gained swords.
The swords reacted with several lights. It had three dark blue sapphire gems one the ends of the handle. The handle itself was black with a gold line connecting the sapphire and went straight down the middle of the silver blade that was glowing with the primary and secondary colours. Dark Matter grabbed a regular two handed sword from the air above him and watched the blade turn red.
"An aura sword is a sword that is powered by the aura of a person. With enough energy, aura slashes and explosions can be created. Aura swords can change shape and colour depending on the user." Nile explained from the wall.
Dark Matter ran towards Regan; making her pay attention to the duel in front of her. He swung his sword at her who jumped out of the way instinctively. She swung her left sword and met his side in a counter attack. Dark Matter cursed in some unknown language and jumped out of the way from her assault of her right blade. From the sounds off to her right of Yugi's opponents screaming she could tell that he was having just as much luck as she was.
"Not bad for a newbie." Dark Matter commented.
"I have seen enough movies to help me along." Regan answered.
"Okay then, it's my turn to show you some moves." He came charging again the exact same way.
'Well this I have a feeling this is going to hurt and it is not going to be him.' Regan thought jumping out of the red blade's range.
She noticed that he wasn't trying to slice her, but attack her with what came off the sword. A giant stream of red light hit her in mid-air and smashed her into a magical wall that Dark Matter placed.
"Do you have a thing for walls?" She asked as she got up in a daze.
"I do, because I can tear them down with my enemy." He answered.
"So what was that?" Regan asked another question.
"That is what makes me supreme to you. Aura slashes are your energies placed into the weapon and fired. Sort of like an aura sphere only on steroids without the use of your hands. It can make a hydrogen bomb look like a cherry bomb."
"You can't compare a chemical reaction to a collection of energy."
"Do you always have a smart ass comment to make yourself look good?"
"No, I am only stating fact for people who don't know common sense." Regan answered grinning.
Dark Matter apparently didn't like that comment, because he threw another aura slash at her. She dodged, 'I wonder...'
She concentrated her energy into her aura swords. She ran towards the demon and went to his left, only to aim for his right that was unprotected. She threw her slashes in an X-slash.
It was a direct hit which made him fly a good twenty feet. She would've been proud of her progress except the toxin seemed to be attacking her more than before. She felt ready to throw up, but didn't want to see what came up; for all she knew it could have been an organ.
"You can't place your entire being into one blast, it will drain you faster and that toxin will be able to get to you faster. Monitor the number of slashes you use also you don't have an unlimited store of aura; it will deplete and you will die." Nile called from her chains. "Your aura is slowing down the process.
"So my aura is slowing down the infection, what about Yugi?" Regan asked turning towards Yugi, who was just attacked by Injection Fairy Lily. She winced and looked away.
"They are almost finished, don't worry about me and worry about the real opponent." Yugi stated sounding out of breath.
She heard a grunt of someone getting off the ground. She turned back to Dark Matter who looked a hundred percent and charged. Their blades came in contact that sizzled with access power. They kept at swinging and slashing at each other and threw aura slashes at every opportunity.
'His attacks are flawless, when it comes to stamina and power; he strategy is to exhaust me until I have nothing left.' She thought feeling the poison getting stronger as she tried to concentrate on her opponent. 'His attacks take both hands to weld his blade making his full body weight placed into the attack. This requires the base being his legs having to be in a fixed position so that they can embrace the attack, but what if his stand is not made to be attacked. Hey Dark Matter guess what, I figured out your weakness.'
"Slifer the Sky Dragon, attack directly with six thousand points of damage!" Yugi yelled off to her right.
"NO!" The demons yelled and died out.
Dark Matter didn't flinch as he continued with a right aura slash. She stepped to the side of the attack and spun her leg and took Dark Matter's legs out from underneath him. He fell to the floor with his sword landing beside Yugi. She placed her foot on his chest and her right blade at his throat.
"It's over." Regan told him trying not to sound out of breath.
"Hardly." He said grinning.
"Regan watch out!" Yugi yelled a little too late.
Dark Matter summoned his sword back to him and had slashed her back with the blade making her move off him. Then a very powerful blast of an aura sphere made her go through another one of his walls not even five feet away.
She tried to get up, but her body refused. 'How is everyone going to escape? Come on, GET UP AND FIGHT!' She yelled at herself.
"I see that you gave it all you've got, but you still couldn't beat me." Dark Matter stated as he approached her. She heard her blood drip onto the floor from her mouth.
"Well then why aren't you killing me, if I couldn't beat you?"
"Well I figured that if you didn't want to die, you could always join the winning side, so how about it?"
Yugi didn't understand what had happened. First Regan looked like she had won that fight that had almost killed him with a crazy light beams. Then DM was asking for her to join him.
"This is what happened last time." Atem stated from behind him.
"So this guy has a crush on teenage girls?" Yugi asked.
"No, just one and the last one he had died five thousand years ago."
'Something's just never change, but what is Regan going to do? That poison must be doing some incredible damage with an open wound like that.'
"Dammit Regan, get up and fight for what you believe in! If you have a door locked in front of you, then you find the key to open it!"
"Yeah, that creep is just messing with you." Téa stated.
"And what supports do you have on your bridge; I am trying to make her see that her life is a fictional novel."
"My life is a fictional novel?" Regan questioned getting to her knees.
"And that helps your case how? She is just going to defeat you anyway and when she does; you are going to receive a not so nice present from me, you bastard." Kaiba shouted with rage.
'Since when does Kaiba give support?' Yugi thought to himself.
"Why do I know that voice?" Regan said clenching her head trying to remember something.
"So you recognize something from even at that young age. If you want to know come with me." DM insisted.
"No." Regan stated as Yugi watched her staggered into a standing position. "I said that I lost the battle, but I will not loss the war."
DM threw a reckless stream of light and Regan dodged it with ease. He threw another and Regan deflected it with her sword that managed to stay in her hand.
'Sweet, a direct hit,' Yugi cheered as DM went down with a thud.
Yugi noticed how close her other sword was to him so he ran to it. "Here!" He threw the sharp object at her.
She managed to catch it with the trick that Dark Matter pulled to control his sword. Yugi saw DM get up and met with Regan's blade in the stomach, a clean strike in one side and out the other. Regan pulled out the blade and let DM stagger backwards holding his wound.
"Now it's over,"
"We won your twisted little game." Yugi finished.
DM looked behind Yugi to the two people chained to the wall. "You know what's funny; this isn't the first time that this has happened. History does repeat itself, but you have to learn from it to not make that same mistake twice." He turned to Regan. "You think it was a coincidence that you could see the pharaoh when you walked into the classroom today. Unfortunately it wasn't, your partner there, Nile and Atem were quite close, in fact they were siblings."
They were celebrating the princess' birthday; just like how your birthday is today. The palace was in great joy and so was the kingdom below with the scent of the water lilies filling the area that could be smelt from the cliffs in the desert. Their father Pharaoh Aknamkanon was very proud of his children, they treated everyone with respect and had good hearts, but then I arrived. The priests and pharaoh didn't know what hit them until it was too late.
While they were trapped in tubes, they watched as the royal children struggled against me in the throne room. Even after Prince Atem had defeated my minions, I couldn't bring myself to kill the princess. From afar weeks before the attack, I had grown a liking to Princess Nile. That dream came to be with her as my master had wanted the kingdom.
But that dream came and went as she defended her brother when I attacked him instead. She was about to die and I was nowhere near death, so in order to save her kingdom she sealed me and her soul inside her item. After being placed into the tomb she wiped everything clean of her exists.
"Well you said history changes and you are very much dying." Yugi stated.
"Yes well I have found a way to collect my dream and make it a reality." DM argued.
"Well if that is your dream, when it is complete that dream will be gone it is no longer a dream. A dream is a fantasy itself to give a false hope, but it will only destroy the dreamer." Regan stated.
"As sad as that statement is; it is as true as the planet turns, but that dream is longer a dream it is a promise to myself, for you Regan Heartin will be mine." DM replied as his sword went blacker then black.
DM slashed the air in front of him. When Yugi noticed that it was a full aura slash, it was too late. He watched it come closer, but couldn't move out of the way. There was something holding his body in place. He looked and saw the blobs or lost souls of the Shadow Realm holding on to him getting ready to feed on his body.
He closed his eyes and waited for an attack that never came. He felt the blobs let go of his body and he could move freely again as he opened his eyes. Regan stood in front of him holding back the attack.
"What are you doing? Get out of the way; this is what he wanted you to do!" Yugi exclaimed.
"No, I also said that everyone is getting out of here alive and well, that includes you." Regan argued being pushed back.
Yugi was about to object, but Atem was faster. "You are going to destroy yourself!"
"Possibly, but I have to try. The River's Puzzle chooses the owner and it chose me for a reason. It is a puzzle of aura energy and with it; I can come out with either a) an obliterated body at seventy percent b) a dead body at twenty-seven percent or c) a body that is completely exhausted and need serious medical attention at three percent. So could you take care of the River's Puzzle for me if either (a) or (b) happens?"
Yugi couldn't answer with words, but nodded.
"Keep you percentages to yourself next time." Atem and Nile demanded as Regan's swords charged up, looking like the northern lights. She turned her head and laughed a bit
'She is laughing at their statement and crying in pain. That is not the way to go.'
Yugi grabbed Regan's wrists.
"What are you doing?"
"Use some of my aura that way your options have been levelled to b and c at fifty percent." He answered starting to feel the strain on his body.
She nodded and in unison they slashed the stream of light that DM sent and sent it right back with their own power filled aura slash. Yugi was thrown backwards as the streams caused a powerful explosion when they arrived at DM. The sounds of shattering metal and the smell of sulphur was all that was left afterwards.
Yugi rose to his feet as Regan dropped the handles of the aura swords. The tubes on the other side of the dome started to disperse and the people inside walked of them. He heard Atem and Nile land from their prisons against the wall.
"He's gone." Regan sighed and started to fall over.
Yugi caught her in mid fall and she was unconscious. Atem grabbed the handles to the blades which wasn't black but gold with only one crystal at the handles base.
"The handles changed." He stated obviously.
His partner gave him the handles and watched how handles grew to have side segments with emeralds instead of sapphires and a navy blue line formed connecting them on the golden handles. Yugi placed the handle in Regan's hand. The handle went back to regular titanium with a gold line in the middle.
"Hey this didn't happen before?"
"The aura sword is sensing very little of the trinity, but the toxin is still in the air and doing its job well." Nile answered in a calm, emotional voice. He couldn't see the spirit, but the River's Puzzle was somewhat glowing.
"When the aura is pushed to and over its limit it could kill the user, but in this case. She used the puzzle's ability and your aura to keep her in check of using too much. In other words she sealed a very minimum amount of aura in her body to keep herself from being sucked away."
"So she is okay?" he asked.
"No this would be the best time to change a person's heart, when in a recovery state the trinity keeps itself together so it doesn't have to fight knocking the person unconscious. This would be an easy way to enter a person and change the soul from order to chaos or reverse."
'Oh... that is what DM meant.' Yugi thought.
"Ha, told you that she would become mine." DM's voice echoed throughout the Shadow Realm.
"What do you want with my daughter?" Jade asked.
"She isn't 'your daughter' and besides I am already ready to bring out the dark side of this girl."
"No, I won't let you do so!" Yugi yelled into the sky.
"Oh Anubis will love her light side to judge."
Yugi grabbed the River's Puzzle that was dangling from Regan's neck. 'This is the aura item; I will protect the owner from that demon!' He thought as placed all of his energy into his hands and the item.
A large dome appeared and encased Regan and himself, even as it appeared he had no idea on how he was doing it. He felt a hard pulse hit the dome several times, with each time making it harder to keep the energy in the aura barrier up.
"How... how are you creating such a barrier? Let me in!"
"No get lost." Yugi answered and placed even more energy into the item and the barrier pulsed outwards making the Shadow Realm disappear leaving everyone in the middle of the moonless park.