Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Fallen ❯ Everybody's Fool ( Chapter 3 )

Priestess: This is based on a fanfiction series I never got around to writing. If enough people like it, I may write it!

Perfect by nature
Icons of self-indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world

I don't believe it.

Is this what you wanted?

How? How could this have happened? How could a sweet, innocent angel become a mad, homicidal demon? How could I not have seen it coming?

I lived inside you, and I didn't see it coming.

That never was and never will be
Have you no shame don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled

I will never know if it was gradual or immediate, or what my first hint should have been.

Was it when you gave up hope? Or when you started rebelling? I didn't think much of either-perhaps I should have, or perhaps it was later.

Either way, it was my fault.

When our bodies separated, I definitely should have realized something. I still remember the rage in your eyes, and how you lunged at me.

I could have ended it there-I should have ended it there.

But I didn't, and it could have cost me my life.

Look here he comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder

Your power rose gradually. It started with the ability of invisibility, an ability that took two forms-the mere illusion and turning into wind.

The wind power was what mattered-it developed into flight, weather-control, telekinesis, shape-shifting…you never even used the ability of illusion.

You didn't have too. You fooled everybody without using any magic at all.

Look here he comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you

I loved you.

I. Loved. You.

I gave up thievery for you, violence, everything. Maybe that was where I made my mistake, by shifting light and dark too much.

You didn't care. You knew I loved you and you took advantage of it.

You destroyed everything. Everything I cared about. You took apart my life piece by piece, ruining all the hard work I had done redeeming myself.

And because I loved you, I didn't suspect you until you revealed yourself.

No flaws when
You're pretending
But now I know he

I remember the insanity in your eyes, eyes that had been so soft and bright. I remember your mad laughter as you set loose a million plagues upon the earth.

Lava welled up from the ground, monsters went on a rampage, the pyramids were heaved to the ground, the Nile itself destroyed tombs of Pharaoh's pasts, screaming sandstorms destroyed everything in their path. You had become everything you hated, and you didn't care.

Was it worth it? Was it worth it, just for a little revenge?

There was no reason to do what you did, and I still loved you.

Never was and never will be
You don't know how you betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

And in the last instant, the moment it all came down to, I couldn't kill you.

You knew that would happen, didn't it? I could see it in your wicked smirk, the wild triumph in those once-kind eyes that were now so crazed and heartless.

In the end, I couldn't do it. I fell to my knees and showed weakness the first time in my life. I surrendered to death, one enemy I had believed would never defeat me.

And it didn't. Instead, it was you who died-but not by my hand.

Without the mask
Where will you hide
Can't find yourself
Lost in your lies

You really were going to kill me, weren't you?

If the Pharaoh hadn't attacked at that moment, driven by the death of Yugi and his friends, you would really have used those damn powers to destroy me.

What did you gain? That's all I want to know. In destroying half the world, what did you gain? A bit of revenge?

You had become exactly like me. You weren't even real anymore. Just like what I had been-a soulless corpse animated by insanity and hatred, fueled by a lust for revenge and death.

And it was death you found, but not mine-yours.

I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore

You were laughing when you died, wild with triumph, thinking I was about to be destroyed at last. The Pharaoh's attack came so swiftly you never even knew you had died.

What happened to your soul, I wonder? Is it wandering around the darkness, or does it simply not exist anymore? Or was it reborn in that child, the tiny white-haired infant that had somehow appeared in the shift of dark and light.

We took the baby, Ryou. The Pharaoh managed to convince me to rise and leave your corpse behind, but I couldn't leave your memory-and I couldn't leave your child.

It never was and never will be
I can't hear you, you can't hear me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

I won't let him suffer our fates, you know that. The Pharaoh and I, along with the few survivors (barely over a million, and only four that we know, among which includes Kaiba and Mariku) are rebuilding the world-slowly but surely.

I love the Pharaoh now, Ryou. And we're going to raise your child-our child. Don't ask how he was born. It doesn't matter.

Slowly, I'm becoming happy. Slowly, I'm recovering. But it's slow, always slow.

Is this what you wanted?

The Pharaoh, Kaiba, Mariku, they all tell me to forget about you. They tell me you weren't real, that you were pretending all along, but I know better.

At least you'll never be forgotten. You've left your imprint on this world forever.

Is that what you wanted?

It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
And somehow now you're everybody's fool