Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Spira's Tournement ❯ An Outcast's Sympathy! The Eye Of Horus! ( Chapter 5 )

I'm hoping to start a bit of plots in this chapter, as they'll play a big role in the much later ones.

Magicman/Smokegirl - I Know how ya feel.  Last month I lost everything due to my hard drive dying.  Anyways, expect Tea to show even more signs of Jealousy.  I agree about the Egyptian God Card situation, but I'd figured that they'd have it on display.

LadyViolet24 - Yep, that's the plan so far!  They'll be unstoppable…almost…

Uber Rei - Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about this story.  Especially when it's gonna have about 40 chapters in this story.  That's around 3 times as many chapters in "A New Path."

"What!?" Yugi blinked as he rushed over to the glass display case.  Much to his horror, the space where the Egyptian God Cards should've been was now vacant.  "Oh no!  Osiris, Obelisk, Ra, they're all gone!  They're all gone!"

"And just when you think you can relax and have things go back to normal, this crap happens!" Tristan said.  He was becoming to be sick of the whole Ancient Egypt/Duel Monster's thing.  It was like they couldn't go more than a few months before they were dragged back into danger.  Whether if it was for Yugi's puzzle, or the God Cards…  "Okay, who's responsible this time!"

"I have a good idea!" Tea glared at Erika, Aria, and Arana.  "Didn't you want to see the Egyptian God Cards?"

"Teyi…" Rikku reminded.  "I also wanted to see them too, so if you're going by that theory, I'd be on the list of suspect, too!  Remember, I am a thief!"

"But you were with Kaiba all day before you were with us, so you couldn't possibly have stolen the God Cards."

"So what are you applying Tea?" Aria asked.

"Yeah, Tea!" Erika hissed at the brunette.  "What makes you think that we have something to do about it, huh?"

"I don't know!  But then again, we don't know you!  For all you know you may be a part of the Rare Hunters!" Tea declared.

"The Rare What?" Arana blinked.

"Tea will you stop!" Yugi came to their defense.  "If they said that they had nothing to do with it, then we should give them the benefit of the doubt.  Yeah, we may not know them enough to not believe them.  But that doesn't mean that we don't know them enough to believe them either."

"Fine…" Tea crossed her arms before she mumbled to herself.

Tristan placed a hand on her shoulder.  "Let it go, Taye. Let it go!"

"The hell happened here?" Joey, who had just arrived here, was wide-eyed.  "I was finally relaxin' with a Strawberry smoothie at home and then you called me 'bout some emergency!"

"We've been robbed Joey…" Yugi explained.

"Robbed?" Joey sighed as it just hit him… "Don't tell me that someone actually stolen the Egyptian God cards!  I told ya once, I told ya a thousand times Yug: Ya gotta  put'em in a safe and putta padlock on that thing!"

"That's exactly what happened…" Yugi looked down.  "The worse part is that Grandpa…"

Joey blinked, "Gramps?  What's wrong with him?"

"He's unconscious! But I'm worried that…"

"About what?  You called the ambulance, right?"

"Yeah…But they haven't arrived yet!" Tea informed the blonde.

"Figures…" Joey scoffed.  "When you really need 'em, they're never on time!"

"I hear ya…" Aria agreed.  "It's like the police, minus the extra weight and craving for donuts."

"Hey, I may like donuts a lot, but at least I wouldn't let that distract me from the job!  If the police would focus more on helpin' the people in the city instead of helpin' themselves at a donut shop, the world would be a much betta place!"

Aria giggled a bit at the remark, as Tea began to notice the interaction between the two blondes.

"Now they're going after Joey…" She muttered, which Rikku overheard.

"Now you're looking for any excuse…" The Thief sighed.

"Look, I just don't trust them!" Tea said.

"It's just what I said before: You're so used to be the only girl in the group, now you're jealous that more girls are moving in on your territory, just like with Serenity!

"Speaking of Serenity, where is she Joey?" Tea asked Joey, breaking up his conversation with Aria.

"Haven't seen her since I left!" He answered.  "Have you?"

"No…not at all…" Tea sighed.

"Look Teyi, why don't we do some shopping?  I do need your expertise on what to buy?" Rikku smiled.

"I would, but I'm fresh out of cash."

"No prob, it'll be on me!  I do have plenty of cash!"

"Oh, okay-Wait, did Kaiba actually give you any money?"

"Hey, need I remind you who yer talking to?" Rikku took out a few 1000s from her utility belt.

"You know that stealing is a crime here, right?"

"Hey, it's not like Setty'll miss it.  It's practically pocket change to him!  Unless he spends all day counting his money while singing the money song in his underwea-" The thought of Seto Kaiba dancing in a pair of Blue Eyes White Dragon boxer shorts made Rikku smile.  "Then again, that would be a nice sight!"

"So Yuge, anything else missin'?" Joey asked his shorter friend.

"… I haven't checked…" Yugi rushed upstairs to see what else was stolen…but somehow he had a feeling what else the thieves could've possibly come for.

Yugi went inside his bedroom as he went under his bed and pulled back a loose board on the floor.  "Please still be there…" He whispered basically in a begging manner.  Much to his horror… "No…"

"What's wrong Yugi?" Tea asked as she, Rikku, Joey, Tristan, and the triplets rushed up to the room.

"The Millennium Rod's gone too!" Yugi cried.

"That narrows it down to who the culprit is!" Joey narrowed his eyes.  "Marik…we should've known better than to trust him…"

"Joey, don't be rash about this!" Tristan advised.

"Rash?  Isn't it obvious!  Who would go as far to steal the Egyptian God Cards and the Millennium Rod?  The only ones who could use 'em are those who are connected to ancient Egypt!  The narrows the list down to Yuge, Kaiba, Marik, and the Spirit of the Millennium Ring!  We all know Yuge couldn't possibly have done it, and as much as I despise Kaiba, and I stress the word 'despise,' I know that he wouldn't go after the Rod!"

"You got a point, buddy!" Tristan agreed.  "He doesn't believe in those 'superstitious fairytales!'" He mocked the CEO.

"And the Millennium Ring's back in Spira so the Spirit couldn't have possibly…" Joey began to remember Tristan throwing the Millennium Ring into the woods back at Duelist Kingdom, but somehow making it back to Bakura.  "Maybe Bakura is possessed again!"

"And maybe he and Marik have teamed up together again!"

"We haven't went through all of the suspects on the list!" Tea reminded as she gave a direct glare to Erika.

"What?" the Pink-banged blonde blinked.  "Are you saying that it was our fault?"

"Is it?" Tea countered.

"Why do you think that we have something to do with it?" Aria asked.

"Yeah Tea?" Arana glared at the brunette.  "What would we have to gain?"

"You tell me!" Tea hissed.  "All three of you were so interested with the God Cards so you decided to steal them and pretend that you didn't know anything about them?"

"Say what?!" Aria blinked.

"Hey, if the shoe fits!" Tea grabbed Erika by the shirt.  "So where did you put them?  TELL ME!"

"Enough Tea!" Rikku had to pry her away from the shaken-up girl.

Erika straightened out her shirt.  "We don't have to take this…"

"You're telling me…" Arana glared at the group.  "We know when we're not wanted."

"Let's go…" Aria sighed.  "Let's go to somewhere where we're not singled out!"

"Good riddance…" Tea crossed her arms as the triplets proceeded to leave.  She was met by glares from Joey and Tristan.  "What?"

"The hell was that about Tea?" Joey asked, not exactly happy with the way Tea treated them.

"Yeah Tea!  You don't even know them so what's up with the blame game!"

"You're just angry because you think they look cute!" Tea sighed.  "It's like you'd let them get away with murder if it'd get you one night with them!"

Rikku just sighed at the Brunette girl.  "J…E…A…L…O…U…S…"

…

In Macalania Woods, Yami Marik smiled as he looked at the item that was in his grasp.  The item that he believed was rightfully his.  The item that he now once again had possession over!  The item that was the Millennium Rod.

"Obtaining the Millennium Rod and the God Cards were almost too easy." He laughed.  "And the best part of all is that those fools will blame my weaker half!  They have no idea that I'm back, let alone that I have my own body!"

Seymour smiled.  "Now that you have your Millennium Rod, you can now show me more of this, Shadow Magic."

"The magic from the Shadow Realm must not be tampered with by Amateurs." Yami Bakura said to the former Maester as he tossed a small treasure chest before Seymour's feet.

Seymour picked up the oak-covered box as he then opened it.  Inside it contained cards, spell cards that contained the Eye of Horus on the face of the cards.  "What's this?"

From the bushes, it appeared that the three villains were not alone, as Tidus and Noah watched on, curious to what Seymour and the Yamis were planning.

"What do you think they're planning?" Noah asked the older boy.

Tidus sighed, "I don't know…but with Seymour, it can't be any good.  Did you know that he killed nearly the entire Ronso Tribe?"

Noah blinked.  "Ronso?"

"Just think of them as lion morphs of humans with horns on their heads." Tidus said to the young boy as they saw Yami Bakura picked up one of the cards from the chest.

"This is our contribution to Sin's revival." The Tomb Robber smiled. "You're gonna need souls, and what better way to obtain them then through a shadow game!"

"Shadow Game?"

"Normally in the Shadow Game, whoever loses would have to spend eternity wandering the Shadows.  But with this card, 'The Eye of Horus,' the souls will be designated to a new location: Under the Farplane, namely Sin's revival place."

Tidus blinked.  "They really are going to revive Sin!"

"Oh no…" Noah began to freak.  He had just really got back to the land of the living, only for it to be threatened once again.  This time, this was no accident.  Noah finally saw Yami Marik's face, which was then he remembered.  'That…that was the same man from the ship!'  Noah remembered when he set the satellite missiles to destroy the Virtual World, back then he just wanted everyone to suffer as much as he had.  But when he had a change of heart, it was too late as Yami Marik had already destroyed the only way to cancel that order.  Now the world was definitely in danger.  "We need to warn everyone!"

"I know, but we don't want to make everyone in Spira panic either!  Spira's already messed up with the Youth League and New Yevon at each other's throats without the possibility that Sin's coming back."

"Maybe we can each talk to one of them and hope for them to put aside their differences." Noah suggested.  "I'll talk to New Yevon's leader, Baralai, and you'll talk to the Youth League's leader, Nooj."

"We could give it a shot.  But I have to warn ya: Yevonites can be very stubborn…  Trust me…I know…" Tidus winced at the memory of fighting against Yevon, particularly Yuna having found out that everything that she believed in was a lie.  Speaking of Yuna, he longed to get back to her.  He knew that she was a part of a Sphere Hunting group, but didn't have any idea of her location.  Tidus hoped that he could rid Spira of both Seymour and possibly Sin - again! So he could return to his true love…"

…

Erika sighed as she and her sisters were leaving the game shop, "We try to be nice, and what do we get?  The third degree!"

"The nerve of her…" Aria hissed.  "What did we ever do to Tea, anyway?"

"We don't need her, or any of them…" Arana assured.  "If that's the way they think of us, then to hell with them…"

"Hey, wait!"

The girls turned around as they saw Joey and Tristan running up to them.  Arana rolled her eyes,

"What do you two want?" She hissed at the two boys.  "We told ya we had nothing to do with it!"

"Can't we a least talk about this?" Tristan asked.

"For what?  So we can get yelled at?" Arana turned away.  "Thanks but no thanks.  We wouldn't want Queen Tea to get angry with us."

Tristan sighed, "I know that Tea may be a bit skeptical about you guys, but it's not her fault…"

"He's right." Joey nodded.  "She did trust someone before, but all it got her was her mind being controlled.  Mine as well…"

"Let me guess: By Marik?" Erika asked.

"Yeah…" Joey nodded. "Tea was locked up in a chair under a crate, while I was forced to duel Yugi to the death!" That memory still haunted him up to this day.

"I see…" Erika glared, "But that still doesn't give her the right for her to treat us like we're common criminals!"

"I know how ya feel…"

"How?"

"Let's just say that it sucks to be payin' for the sins of the fathers…" He said.

Aria blinked, "What do you mean?"

"My father: User, boozer, and a loser!  Just because I'm his son, people think of the same thing about me: Nothing but a thug!  I tried the best that I could fit in, but they just assumed that I was no good!  Even my Ma didn't like me that much, that's why she left me with the old man to die!"  Joey looked down, seething.  Apparently he wasn't over that as it just made him angry.  "So I decided if they think I'm just a punk!  I'll show 'em a punk and give those idiots sumthin' to really bitch about."

Tristan tapped Joey on the shoulder.  "Joey, didn't you promise Serenity that you wouldn't swear anymore?"

"She ain't around, is she?" Joey responded.  "I didn't think so!"

"She's really concerned for you, man!  She's worried that you're going to get yourself killed!"

"You actually think that I'm dumb enough to let that happen?"

Before Tristan could answer, Aria stepped in.  "We know what it's like…to be abandoned…"

Joey blinked, "Yer Ma left all of ya, too?"

"Yeah…and our father died." Arana said.  "Nobody wanted us around because of the way were came into this world?"

Tristan blinked, "Came into this world?  It's not like you were summoned from the pits of hell or something like that, right?"

"We might as well.  Let me ask you two a question." Erika then asked, "How do you feel about us?"

"We've just met ya, so we can't really judge ya!" Joey said as Tristan nodded in agreement.

"Okay then, then how would you feel if you'd found out that we were rape babies?" Erika asked in a tone more serious then before.  However, neither Joey nor Tristan made a sound.  They just looked at her.  "I knew it." The pink braided blonde threw her hands up in defeat.  "You don't like us now, do you?"

Joey scoffed, "No!  Like that supposed to make us hate you!"

"Yeah!  That's not a good reason to hate somebody!  That's like saying that I hate ya because your blondes!"  Tristan then noticed the glares of the Al Bhed girls.  "Hey, I'm just kidding!  My best friend's blonde…!"

"Anyway, so you're gonna be in the tournament too?" Joey asked.

"Of course!" All three of them said.

"After all…" Erika started.

"Somebody has to kick your ass…" Aria added.

"In Duel Monsters!" Arana finished.

Joey smirked, "We'll just see about that!"

…

It was now 8 O'clock in the evening as the streetlights were on.  Everyone else had gone home, some to prepare for the tournament, which was set to start soon.  All with the exception of five…

"I'm telling you, yer wastin' yer time!" Joey warned.

"How do I know that you're not just saying that to be over protective of her?" Tristan replied.  "Forget Serenity having a father, you have that job down pat!"

"Y'think I'm lyin?  Why don't you ask her for yerself, if she's even home that is?  She's even made it clear that she wasn't interested in ya!"

"She just said that to shut you up!" Tristan stated as Joey rolled his eyes.  He was now looking for any reason not to believe him!

"Enough!" Arana yelled, only seconds away from getting a migraine.  "Tristan, you know where Joey lives right?" Tristan nodded as the blonde girl continued, "Okay, me and Erika will go with Tristan over to your place to see if Serenity's home and find out how she feels about him.  And if you're right, you get to punch him in the face.  But if your wrong, Tristan gets to punch you in the face!

"Fine with me…" The Blonde duelist shrugged.

"I'd risk a punch just to prove my point!" The brunette stated.

"Okay then, lead the way!" Erika said as she, Tristan, and her sister proceeded on their destination to the apartment Joey and Serenity shared with their mother.  Leaving Joey and Aria by themselves…

"Tristan must really like her…" Aria said to Joey.

"More like in lust with her." Joey thought differently.  "I basically have to knock some since to Tristan to get him away from my sista.  Him and Duke Devlin!"

"Who?"

"You'll get to know him!  Just look for a trio of cheerleaders and he can't be too far behind." Joey rolled his eyes.

"So is this Duke Devlin in a polygamous relationship?" Aria asked curiously with a giggle.

"The hell I know…" Joey shrugged.  "Then how would you explain him going after Serenity…but then what if he is in that kind of relationship?" Mental thoughts of Serenity, his baby sister in a cheerleading uniform joined up with the other three cheerleaders kissing Duke, touching him, ple- "Ugh…bad thought…" He nearly gagged, which made Aria giggle.

"From a dirty mind!  Serves you right!"

"Hey, I had to live with a deadbeat for six years!  What'd ya expect?"

"Okay, enough about our troubled upbringings for one day!  Let's talk about something else!"

"Like what?"

"Like how I'm going to cream you when the tournament starts!" Aria grabbed Joey by the head as she gave him a noogie.

"Hey!" Joey pulled from her headlock.  Despite that she wasn't that strong, Aria knew how to put on a mean headlock.

"What's that matter?  Didn't think a girl knew how to play rough?" She smirked at the shocked boy's expression.  Aria loved every minute of this!

"It's not that…it's just you looked too sweet to be into rough housing."

Aria gave him an annoyed look.  "Joey…I lived virtually homeless and had to survive with my sister on what we had!  Hell, look at what I'm wearing!  Do you honestly think that I am the 'sweet, innocent' type?"

"Good point…but yer still marriage material!" Now it was Joey's turn to place her in a noogie!

Aria let out a giggle as she broke free!  Apparently his headlock wasn't on tight enough. "I'll milk you for every cent you have, then dump ya after I've sucked you dry!"  She grinned.  "And I'll take all of these Duel Monsters cards as a memorial of our new friendship!"

"Huh?" Joey dug into the pocket of his jean jacket and found that all his cards were gone!  "HEY!" Blonde ran after blonde as the chase went up to down town Domino!

'I think I lost him…' Aria thought as she looked back, no longer seeing that Joey was behind her.  "Either I'm too fast, or Joey-Boy's out of shape…" Aria looked around, just to make sure that the blonde wasn't hiding.  She stopped at what she saw in the window of a restaurant.  A very expensive looking one, as a matter of fact.  She saw a couple at a table. First was a girl with Auburn hair.  Wasn't that Joey's little sister, Serenity?  It appeared that Joey would get to punch Tristan in the face today, no strings attached.  Although, from who she's with, he'd probably wish it was Tristan or Duke she was with.

The guy who was with her had brown hair and was pretty tall.  Wasn't that Seto Kaiba?  Aria remembered Joey telling…no ranting to her and her sisters why he hated Kaiba!  As well as telling them all the times that he went to save Kaiba and got less than a "thank you" from him.  As well as how he was quick to have Joey be sacrificed so that they could escape the shadow game.  And now he was with his sister!

"So a sister betrays a brother by going out with his worst enemy…" Aria sighed, feeling sorry for her new friend, as she takes out a camera the pocket of her jacket.  "I hate to do this to ya Joey, but you have a right to know."  With one click and flash of the camera, the photo was taken.

"There you are!"

Aria jumped out of surprise as she saw a semi-angry blonde running towards her way. The last thing she needed was for Joey to see what she just saw, storm in there, and make a scene.  So with that in mind, Aria held up her hands as she walked towards Joey.  "I surrender…just don't hurt me…" She said.

Joey smirked, "Oh, ya come to yer senses?"

"That's right…" Aria started as Joey was only three feet away.  "Psyche!"  She ran off past him as she looked back!  "Can't catch me!"

Let me say that I am NOT ripping off of the Seal of the Oricalchos.  I'm just combining both ideas together:  That and the Shadow Realm.  In about a few chapters, we'll witness the Eye of Horus in action. And second, there will not be, and I repeat there will not be any Silentshipping in this story.  Hints maybe, but that's about as far as I'll ever go!  So for all of you Silentshipping-fans, tough luck.  This is just serving as the set-up to a chapter much latter in this story, and I'll tell you this: It won't be pretty!

Preview for Next Chapter:

"Rao kioc! (Hey Guys!)" A Familiar voice shouted from behind as they look back.

Tristan snickered.  "Well look who it is!" He said as Brother caught up with the gang!"

"How's everyone Brother?" Tea asked.

"Well…it's pretty good!  Paine came back!" The Al Bhed looked around.  "Where's Rikku?"

"Don't know!" Yugi shrugged.  "We thought that you would know!"

Brother shook his head.  "No…"

Yugi sighed, "Okay.  But have you seen Bakura or Marik?"

"Bakura did come by the other day to check out a few spheres.  But Marik?" Brother blinked in confusion. He had never met Marik before, much less when the gang was last in Spira.

"Blonde Egyptian guy, around the same height as Bakura.  Wears a bit of gold around his arms!" Joey listed, "That ring a bell?"

The Al Bhed shook his head.  "No, why?"

Yugi sighed.  "The God Cards were stolen last night."

"Fryd!? (What!?)" Brother roared.

Chapter 6: Spira's Tournament Begins, A Blast From The Past!