Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Dragons Legacy ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )
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By: The Chaotic Ones 
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.09.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 276 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.09.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 276 | Status: Completed
Aaries: Ummm... what is that? ((Points to a large granite mountain that appeared out of nowhere))
Jef: Writer’s block, I think... That’s pretty impressive...
Chaos: Who cares?! GET IT OUT OF MY WAY! ((Attacks the granite mountain with a chisel and hammer))
Jef: Well, Come on Aaries, Angel, we might as well help her with it so we can get back to Dark.
Aaries+Angel: ((Groan but also attack the mountain with chisels))
Jef: Anywho, here is the next chapter.
Angel: And thanks again to Chroni for beta’ing. She really is the best ever!
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Jou stood atop one of the taller rocks, keeping watch on all the approaches to the makeshift camp that he and the others were currently setting up. They had arrived at the rock fields earlier that morning and scouted a cave big enough to hold all of them, and while Shizuka marshaled the younger kids into making it livable for a short time, Jou was keeping watch to make sure that no one found them. There were bands of slavers in this part of the desert, always on the lookout for careless, lost people, and Jou did not want to face them unprepared.
It had taken two days for the troupe of children to get to the rock field, because Jou had collapsed in the night with his first bout of change fever. The only good thing about the delay was that he could now cast a spell of silence so that the children were undetectable that way.
Jou was just about to have one of the younger kids take his place as sentry, when he noticed a cloud of dust from the north, the direction of their village and the fight...
"Oh shit," Jou muttered, unable to think of anything else to say. "Everyone into the cave!" Jou shouted, leading the way.
After a quick headcount to make sure that everyone was there he spoke to them seriously. "I need you all to remain here. Do NOT use any of your magics; they can be traced too easily. We may have been followed, and I need to investigate. I can't use my magic right now, so I need all of you to remain as quiet as you can," Jou explained as quickly as he could. "Shizuka, you’re in charge until I get back," Jou said, praying that he would be able to come back and take care of them.
"Okay, Dalninuk (AN1). Hurry back," Shizuka said solemnly, as if she sensed the same thing.
Jou nodded and left the cave, quickly working his way around to another section of the rock field. He knew where another cave could shelter him from sight but still let him see what was going on, but before he could get there his vision suddenly blurred on him. Not noticing that the dust cloud representing the horsemen following his group had curved to go directly to him, Jou collapsed and a viscous and unexpected fever over took him as his body began to adjust to another ability awakening inside of him.
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When Jou awakened, he was in a very dark place and the only reason he knew he wasn’t in some cave somewhere was that he was tied to a pole of some kind. His first instinct was to get up and survey his surroundings; however that idea was shot down when he felt rough ropes bite into his wrists at his attempt to move. "Vith!! (AN2)" Jou said, struggling as hard as he could to get out of the bindings.
"Don't bother," a familiar voice said, though it sounded more tired and worn than should have been possible, and Jou craned his neck around to see Honda's head somewhere behind him.
"What happened?" he asked, instantly concerned. Honda was one of his best friends (besides Nerutaki) and it pained Jou to see him so despondent.
A muffled sob was the only response he got from the brunet boy, but another slightly less familiar voice answered him, sounding almost as strained as Honda's. "Apparently whoever attacked the Solar Tribes wanted to take those of us with still-developing abilities prisoner. I had my group split up and hide among the dunes but I passed out from fever a moment later. Honda was in a flat area and there was no where for anyone to hide...." the voice said, and Jou had to crane his head around the other way to see the black hair of the speaker. Now he could attach a name to that voice. Otogi.
"What happened, Otogi?" Jou asked the young Riv'vel clansmen.
"They slaughtered everyone in his group after they captured him," Otogi explained, causing Honda to sob again.
"Vith!!!" Jou said again, struggling again against his bonds. "We have to get out of here, we're too vulnerable here!!" Jou said. The other two remained silent, with the exception of Honda's sobs.
It was about two hours later when someone else came into the tent, Jou could tell by the patch of light that hit the side of the tent they were in, briefly illuminating the enclosure much better than before. A person was briefly silhouetted in the patch of light, and then the tent flap closed again. Jou felt whoever had come into the tent come up behind him, and then felt a rough calloused hand cup his cheek and turn his head.
"Hmm... Not bad." a rough voice said, as if taking inventory. "Very exotic, even for one of the witch people. I have never before seen this shade of blond among your kind." Jou jerked his head away from the unwelcome grip, spitting.
"Vith'ir!! (AN3)" he said as insultingly as he could. The man merely chuckled deeply.
"Be that way. You are mine now, and nothing is going to change that," the man said, before moving to Jou's left, towards Honda. The brunet clansmen whimpered a little bit and Jou craned his neck again to see a large hulking figure examining his friend. "Hmm... pretty, but not very powerful. Pity," he commented dismissively, before moving to where Otogi was tied and examining him as well. Try as he might, Jou couldn’t twist far enough to see what was going on, but he heard a slight scuffle and a muffled sound of protest before the man started cursing. The stranger quickly got control of his anger and Jou heard a loud slap and a grunt of pain from Otogi. "Beautiful and spirited. That’s good," the stranger finished, and then he left the tent.
Jou felt an impending sense of doom, and as he started struggling twice as hard against his bonds he asked, "What happened Otogi?"
"Vithin den'suar!!! (AN4) He kissed me so I broke his nose." Otogi explained, and Jou chuckled even though he was concerned. It sounded like something the Riv'vel clansmen would do.
"I just hope we can get out of here before something bad happens." Jou said, redoubling his efforts to get free again, even as an Icy chill settled in his gut.
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Aaries: Okay... we had no Idea we would be using so much of a different language in this...
Chaos: we thought it would be just an occasional word here and there... Oh well. As for the language itself, it's Drow, not Japanese, in case you couldn’t tell. We have plans for that language in Legacy of Light, and Drow was something that is a hell of a lot more interesting than Spanish, which is the only other language we have ready access to a dictionary for.
Angel: anyways, for those translations....
AN1-Dalninuk= brother
AN2-Vith= basically the F-word
AN3-Vith'ir =the combination of the words Vith and Tir, the F-word and You.
AN4- Vithin Den'suar = If you haven’t figured out Vith by now we pity you. the "in" ending is the same as "ing". Den'suar we had to make up on our own because the Drow dictionary didn’t include the word for bastard. Oh well.
Aaries: As for the reason for using another language, we thought it would be more realistic if the Solar tribes had their own language, hence Drow. We will be using Drow mythological figures as Solar Gods and Goddesses as well. We are considering having them be the same as the ones that will be used in Dark but with different names, but we aren’t sure yet. Let us know what you think if your actually reading this.
REVIEW REPLIES
To Amber Eyes23: We're glad you find it interesting, and we're looking forward to seeing your first story!! Where will it be posted so we can read it? (Grins broadly) The untitled story? Oh yea... hehe... that’s our first planned Yugioh story; of course we will update it..... eventually... ((Crickets start chirping, driving Chaos insane)) As the very first reviewer for this story, what prize would you like, a one shot story or a drawing of one of us? ((Cheap and cheesy we know, but we have nothing better to offer))
To Tayko: Here You go!! ^__^
To rainystar186: Yea, we liked the idea too. There are other monster types, each separated into clans. It was all inspired by the summoners from FF2. This is updated, and Dark will be updated sometime within the next week or two, we hope...
To mandapandabug: We hope this makes you happy because it makes up happy too. Is this soon enough for you? we were hit hard by writer's block and that’s why it’s so late, or at least it seems late to us. We like your enthusiasm.
To Osiris-Lee: No, sorry. We’re sad that Seto can't be the one to take Jou prisoner, but then how could Seto rescue him later on? Would you like a hint who did take them prisoner? We’ll give you three anyways. A) it isn’t Pegasus B) He’s blond and C) he was a superb arsehole to Jou in Duelist Kingdom. Their powers awaken between the ages of ten and fifteen. During that time, they can't pull together enough magical energy to summon their dragons because it (the energy) is too scattered while their abilities are awakening. The average Solar child will have between ten and fifteen abilities awaken, over multiple bouts of very high fevers. As for bonding, many of the lesser dragons are willing to bond with humans because they would then get a boost from the human's power, and they would rise in status in their own world. -It’s not a very complicated process, this bonding. The dragons can communicate telepathically, AND form a link, if they so desire, to those that they communicate with. When a deeper link is formed, CONGRATS! They’re bonded. A dragon will generally outlive their human partner, and would probably take on another partner about a decade later. Hehehe... too long and involved? Probably. Oh well. -About the gods, I think we mentioned it earlier, but we will definitely be using different names for the gods, even if we decide that they'll be the same ones. We aren't quite sure yet... the culture doesn’t play a huge role in this story, so let us know what you want to know, and we’ll tell you, okay? Be specific, though, because we can’t explain an entire culture in one chapter, let alone a few paragraphs. Thanks for review, hope to see you next chapter as well.
To Misura: well... Shizuka doesn’t show up again until this story catches up with Dark. and as we said before the culture doesn’t play a huge role in the story, just a minor yet fairly important one. That made no sense... Anywho, This is the next chapter of Jou's story, what do you think?
It’s Bandit Keith, isn’t it? He’s only the villain in EVERY STORY EVER WRITTEN! (I should know – I do the same thing. Really, though, it’s okay. He’s…quite evil, even if I’m the only person who believes it.)
Jef: Writer’s block, I think... That’s pretty impressive...
Chaos: Who cares?! GET IT OUT OF MY WAY! ((Attacks the granite mountain with a chisel and hammer))
Jef: Well, Come on Aaries, Angel, we might as well help her with it so we can get back to Dark.
Aaries+Angel: ((Groan but also attack the mountain with chisels))
Jef: Anywho, here is the next chapter.
Angel: And thanks again to Chroni for beta’ing. She really is the best ever!
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Jou stood atop one of the taller rocks, keeping watch on all the approaches to the makeshift camp that he and the others were currently setting up. They had arrived at the rock fields earlier that morning and scouted a cave big enough to hold all of them, and while Shizuka marshaled the younger kids into making it livable for a short time, Jou was keeping watch to make sure that no one found them. There were bands of slavers in this part of the desert, always on the lookout for careless, lost people, and Jou did not want to face them unprepared.
It had taken two days for the troupe of children to get to the rock field, because Jou had collapsed in the night with his first bout of change fever. The only good thing about the delay was that he could now cast a spell of silence so that the children were undetectable that way.
Jou was just about to have one of the younger kids take his place as sentry, when he noticed a cloud of dust from the north, the direction of their village and the fight...
"Oh shit," Jou muttered, unable to think of anything else to say. "Everyone into the cave!" Jou shouted, leading the way.
After a quick headcount to make sure that everyone was there he spoke to them seriously. "I need you all to remain here. Do NOT use any of your magics; they can be traced too easily. We may have been followed, and I need to investigate. I can't use my magic right now, so I need all of you to remain as quiet as you can," Jou explained as quickly as he could. "Shizuka, you’re in charge until I get back," Jou said, praying that he would be able to come back and take care of them.
"Okay, Dalninuk (AN1). Hurry back," Shizuka said solemnly, as if she sensed the same thing.
Jou nodded and left the cave, quickly working his way around to another section of the rock field. He knew where another cave could shelter him from sight but still let him see what was going on, but before he could get there his vision suddenly blurred on him. Not noticing that the dust cloud representing the horsemen following his group had curved to go directly to him, Jou collapsed and a viscous and unexpected fever over took him as his body began to adjust to another ability awakening inside of him.
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
When Jou awakened, he was in a very dark place and the only reason he knew he wasn’t in some cave somewhere was that he was tied to a pole of some kind. His first instinct was to get up and survey his surroundings; however that idea was shot down when he felt rough ropes bite into his wrists at his attempt to move. "Vith!! (AN2)" Jou said, struggling as hard as he could to get out of the bindings.
"Don't bother," a familiar voice said, though it sounded more tired and worn than should have been possible, and Jou craned his neck around to see Honda's head somewhere behind him.
"What happened?" he asked, instantly concerned. Honda was one of his best friends (besides Nerutaki) and it pained Jou to see him so despondent.
A muffled sob was the only response he got from the brunet boy, but another slightly less familiar voice answered him, sounding almost as strained as Honda's. "Apparently whoever attacked the Solar Tribes wanted to take those of us with still-developing abilities prisoner. I had my group split up and hide among the dunes but I passed out from fever a moment later. Honda was in a flat area and there was no where for anyone to hide...." the voice said, and Jou had to crane his head around the other way to see the black hair of the speaker. Now he could attach a name to that voice. Otogi.
"What happened, Otogi?" Jou asked the young Riv'vel clansmen.
"They slaughtered everyone in his group after they captured him," Otogi explained, causing Honda to sob again.
"Vith!!!" Jou said again, struggling again against his bonds. "We have to get out of here, we're too vulnerable here!!" Jou said. The other two remained silent, with the exception of Honda's sobs.
It was about two hours later when someone else came into the tent, Jou could tell by the patch of light that hit the side of the tent they were in, briefly illuminating the enclosure much better than before. A person was briefly silhouetted in the patch of light, and then the tent flap closed again. Jou felt whoever had come into the tent come up behind him, and then felt a rough calloused hand cup his cheek and turn his head.
"Hmm... Not bad." a rough voice said, as if taking inventory. "Very exotic, even for one of the witch people. I have never before seen this shade of blond among your kind." Jou jerked his head away from the unwelcome grip, spitting.
"Vith'ir!! (AN3)" he said as insultingly as he could. The man merely chuckled deeply.
"Be that way. You are mine now, and nothing is going to change that," the man said, before moving to Jou's left, towards Honda. The brunet clansmen whimpered a little bit and Jou craned his neck again to see a large hulking figure examining his friend. "Hmm... pretty, but not very powerful. Pity," he commented dismissively, before moving to where Otogi was tied and examining him as well. Try as he might, Jou couldn’t twist far enough to see what was going on, but he heard a slight scuffle and a muffled sound of protest before the man started cursing. The stranger quickly got control of his anger and Jou heard a loud slap and a grunt of pain from Otogi. "Beautiful and spirited. That’s good," the stranger finished, and then he left the tent.
Jou felt an impending sense of doom, and as he started struggling twice as hard against his bonds he asked, "What happened Otogi?"
"Vithin den'suar!!! (AN4) He kissed me so I broke his nose." Otogi explained, and Jou chuckled even though he was concerned. It sounded like something the Riv'vel clansmen would do.
"I just hope we can get out of here before something bad happens." Jou said, redoubling his efforts to get free again, even as an Icy chill settled in his gut.
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Aaries: Okay... we had no Idea we would be using so much of a different language in this...
Chaos: we thought it would be just an occasional word here and there... Oh well. As for the language itself, it's Drow, not Japanese, in case you couldn’t tell. We have plans for that language in Legacy of Light, and Drow was something that is a hell of a lot more interesting than Spanish, which is the only other language we have ready access to a dictionary for.
Angel: anyways, for those translations....
AN1-Dalninuk= brother
AN2-Vith= basically the F-word
AN3-Vith'ir =the combination of the words Vith and Tir, the F-word and You.
AN4- Vithin Den'suar = If you haven’t figured out Vith by now we pity you. the "in" ending is the same as "ing". Den'suar we had to make up on our own because the Drow dictionary didn’t include the word for bastard. Oh well.
Aaries: As for the reason for using another language, we thought it would be more realistic if the Solar tribes had their own language, hence Drow. We will be using Drow mythological figures as Solar Gods and Goddesses as well. We are considering having them be the same as the ones that will be used in Dark but with different names, but we aren’t sure yet. Let us know what you think if your actually reading this.
REVIEW REPLIES
To Amber Eyes23: We're glad you find it interesting, and we're looking forward to seeing your first story!! Where will it be posted so we can read it? (Grins broadly) The untitled story? Oh yea... hehe... that’s our first planned Yugioh story; of course we will update it..... eventually... ((Crickets start chirping, driving Chaos insane)) As the very first reviewer for this story, what prize would you like, a one shot story or a drawing of one of us? ((Cheap and cheesy we know, but we have nothing better to offer))
To Tayko: Here You go!! ^__^
To rainystar186: Yea, we liked the idea too. There are other monster types, each separated into clans. It was all inspired by the summoners from FF2. This is updated, and Dark will be updated sometime within the next week or two, we hope...
To mandapandabug: We hope this makes you happy because it makes up happy too. Is this soon enough for you? we were hit hard by writer's block and that’s why it’s so late, or at least it seems late to us. We like your enthusiasm.
To Osiris-Lee: No, sorry. We’re sad that Seto can't be the one to take Jou prisoner, but then how could Seto rescue him later on? Would you like a hint who did take them prisoner? We’ll give you three anyways. A) it isn’t Pegasus B) He’s blond and C) he was a superb arsehole to Jou in Duelist Kingdom. Their powers awaken between the ages of ten and fifteen. During that time, they can't pull together enough magical energy to summon their dragons because it (the energy) is too scattered while their abilities are awakening. The average Solar child will have between ten and fifteen abilities awaken, over multiple bouts of very high fevers. As for bonding, many of the lesser dragons are willing to bond with humans because they would then get a boost from the human's power, and they would rise in status in their own world. -It’s not a very complicated process, this bonding. The dragons can communicate telepathically, AND form a link, if they so desire, to those that they communicate with. When a deeper link is formed, CONGRATS! They’re bonded. A dragon will generally outlive their human partner, and would probably take on another partner about a decade later. Hehehe... too long and involved? Probably. Oh well. -About the gods, I think we mentioned it earlier, but we will definitely be using different names for the gods, even if we decide that they'll be the same ones. We aren't quite sure yet... the culture doesn’t play a huge role in this story, so let us know what you want to know, and we’ll tell you, okay? Be specific, though, because we can’t explain an entire culture in one chapter, let alone a few paragraphs. Thanks for review, hope to see you next chapter as well.
To Misura: well... Shizuka doesn’t show up again until this story catches up with Dark. and as we said before the culture doesn’t play a huge role in the story, just a minor yet fairly important one. That made no sense... Anywho, This is the next chapter of Jou's story, what do you think?
It’s Bandit Keith, isn’t it? He’s only the villain in EVERY STORY EVER WRITTEN! (I should know – I do the same thing. Really, though, it’s okay. He’s…quite evil, even if I’m the only person who believes it.)