Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Loop Hole of Love ❯ Avari, High Mage, and the Heart of the Cards ( Chapter 14 )

Avari The High Mage, and the Heart Of the Cards

Everything froze, and I stopped breathing.

There Pharaoh, stood, his eyes heated, with jealousy and what looked like contempful, rage.

Seto, spun around widly, and pointed a finger at me, hatred in his words.

"You. Have. Done This. To .Her?!", he said, proouncing each word with breeding dislike.

"Yes..", that one word, rang clear even though his voice was soft and guilt ridden.

In some ways I know Seto better then he knows himself, because I was there standing in front of Pharaoh, in a flash, before Seto even, raised his foot, towards the guilty Pharaoh.

I was speachless...how did I do that?! It was like in the blink of an eye, I saw my destination...and was there...in the blink of an eye...

"W-what was that?", Seto said in a breathy amazed tone, his mouth dropping slightly.

Pharaoh looked at me in a very, very odd way, even for him and said:

"She blinked out"

"How?", Seto said, regaining his old self, and momentarily forgetting his wrathful fury.

"Apparently, little Avari, is more Magick than once thought...her emotions provoke her Magick, and her obvious need to protect me-", he started.

I turned on him instantly like a snapping wolf.

"Don't flatter yourself Pharaoh, I didn't want a war...and you no longer have the right to call me anything but my name...or slave" I said, pouring all my contemp for him into those words.

"Avari I-"

"No, you listen to me once, listen to the slave... I do everything in my power to help both of you, all of you, and what you said in that room, was a slap in my face, you don't know what it costs me to stand around and kneel, in the presence of people, who are really, truly...no better than I!", I said, with a coldly bitter tone.

I looked at both of them for a mometn, expecting challenge, then Pharaoh and Seto said it at the same time.

"Your right"

Those words where like a pit in my proverbial stomach, that dampened my rage at them, a little. It was all I could do not to get on my knees and thank Ra, that maybe they understood.

"We have treated you more than poorly, at best and you deserve better Avari" Pharaoh said.

"You have no idea how much I regret those words I said to you in there, it may have ruined my only chance at a happy life with you..." ,he said, and the sadness in his eyes was heart-wrenching.

In that moment I would have given anything to take that look of total abandon from his lavender eyes, anything, to stop him from hurting.

But what does a stubborn woman like me do?

"Perphaps...perphaps not Pharaoh, but an apology doesn't cure everything...Seto is still in question for his previous acts and neither of your mistakes will be forgotton...", I started, and both their lovely eyes dropped.

I practically watched their heart grow, in front of me when I said my next statement.

"But forgiven...perphaps, with time" I said, gently, and they both looked at me.

"I will never be anything more than a slave tho-"

"Rubish, your last Magick act is more than proof, that your a Mage" Seto said giving me a grin.

My eyes popped their sockets.

"WHAT?!" I screamed.

They both grinned, and then, they did the unthinkable.

They both knelt, one on each side, took my hand, and kissed them.

"What are you- Are you crazy!- Get up right now before-" I hissed then fell short as Bakura rounded the corner, with a sheepish grin on his face.

"I felt your call to us Avari...High Mage", he said and seeing the two men, his grin widened, and he knelt as well, in back of my taking my skirt line and pressing it to his lips, still wearing his grin.

"Malik, should soon-", Bakura laughed as the fury ridden Malik rounded the corner in a swift fashion, then immediately knelt in front of me, taking my skirt to his mouth as well.

"What the hell Is going on?!", I yelled.

Before anyone could dare to answer a blinding white lght surrounded them, and the Dark Elf stepped out of her card, unbidden, and smiled a Avari, hovering over her.

She gave a look at all the High Mages bent to Avari, and let out a sound that must have been a laugh if Monsters could, it sounded like tinkling bells, literally.

Then with all concentration, she bent at the waist and touched each Mage's head gently, then uttering words, never meant to be understandable, she twirled once, and then a flash of purple fire lite the room.

Avari, literally couldn't talk.

All the mosters came out of their cards, and the Mage's eye widened, but like Avari, they were binded into silence, by the mere awe of it all.

They monsters one by one, gave the beautiful Dark elf, a sign of recognition, and then flowed to stand, behind their owners.

She practically beamed, at everyone, and Avari had never seen anything more beautiful, then her monster, though monster was hardly the word.

She looked at Avari, then smiled more, then Avari was struck by a white lightining, and her mind burst open like a door.

She realived her life, one memory at a time, all so quick it was dizzying, then the bolt stopped, and she felt this inner calm settle over her.

Next thing she knew the Mages were standing, and Malik was holding her up. Avari gave him a look, and he chuckled deeply, and not so evily as she once thought he would.

"For this...I would never harm you", he said, and his voice held such a warm tender note that she wanted to cry.

Just cry, for the sake of crying.

She recovered herself, and found the Dark Elf, looking at her then she heard those tinkling bells again.

//Hello, my dearest// the bells said, and she knew she was, for the first time, conversating with her Elf.

//Hello// Avari replied, and it was as easy as breathing.

//Do you know what you have done?//

//No, tell me please, my Elf//

//My dear you have just done the impossible//

//What is that? I feel...strange//

//You have unleashed ancient powers, you have harnessed the Heart of the Cards//

And suddenly I, didn't want an explaination, I would get that later...right now I wanted...

I looked around the room, and found only smiling people, handsome smiling men and content monster, happy to see me.

It was odd, but strangely...I felt at home..What I was missing all along was here right before me, and I knew I would never be the same again, because now I had a home...

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So well, I've decided I don't want to continue this story if nobody is going to appreciate it for the good story it is well...I'd rather save myself the anguish of it being lost in the archives, where no one can enjoy it and review.

I feel bad, but hey, I quess I'm just old-fashioned and can't compete aginst these new stories, that have the emphasis on "high school", and the you/ pairings...hey I can't compete with the universal need to be the center of attention can I?

R&R