Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Probationis Vitae ❯ Answers ( Chapter 9 )

Answers

AN: I know I said that this would take a while with finals coming up, but I felt guilty about doing that to you all, so I was working quite a lot on this chapter. It's not as long as I might've liked it to be, but I haven't had as much time as I would like. I can't wait until Christmas break. While my relatives are coming over for a bit, I can still try and work on my mom's computer and also start work on the prequel, hopefully. Well, we'll just see how kind fate decides to be to me.

--BIG NOTE FOR ALL SHONEN-AI/YAOI LOVERS. MAKE SURE TO READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH AT ALL COSTS--

I also worked on this a lot because I was in a good mood. Yesterday I managed to find the anime DVD of one of my favorite mangas, FAKE. And what I like best is the fact that, unlike most mangas, this is based completely on two male cops and one, Dee, really likes the other, Ryo a.k.a. Randy MacLean. The story revolves around Dee trying to convince Ryo, in his own very aggressive way, that he does love him as Ryo slowly starts to admit to himself that he is gay, he hadn't known that before, all the while having to deal with an over enthusiastic admirer of Dee's, the ten year-old soon-to-be-adopted-son of Ryo, a match-making thirteen year-old who's also Bikky-Ryo's soon to be son's-girlfriend, a police commissioner who also likes Ryo-and is so much like Dee that is pisses them both off to no end-, and the hazards of being a New York City detective on top of it all. Interesting and very, very sweet I liked the summary and was in love with the series after the first half of the first manga and it's only gotten better with each manga. For those of you wanting to check it out, look at www.tokyopop.com and look up FAKE. It's by Sanami Matoh, may fate always smile kindly upon her.

Next, to anyone who was wondering, Isis is Marik's (Japanese Malik Istar's) older sister Ishizu. I looked it up because I was pretty sure that was it, but I did make sure that I was right. That's for all of you who didn't know.

Also, thank you to all those who've reviewed:

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Also, here are the symbols:

/…../ is Yugi to Yami.

//…..// is Yami to Yugi.

\…..\ is Ryou to Bakura.

\\…..\\ is Bakura to Ryou.

^…..^ is Malik (hikari) to Marik (yami).

^^…..^^ is Marik to Malik.

"~…..~" is someone talking on the other end of a phone, walkie-talkie, etc.

~*~*~*~Last time~*~*~*~

"You misunderstand me Miss. I don't have business with the museum, I have business with the Pharaoh, the Chosen One, and their friends, including the Venators." James said, smiling slightly.

This caused everyone to tense up Yami stood up and said, "What do you know about us?"

"Quite a bit, sir. Quite a bit," James said and removed his glasses to reveal a pair of quite startling eyes. One eye was a bright silver color around the black iris and the other was the color of molten gold wrapped around the black iris, and both colors were outlined by black along the edges.

Isis gasped slightly and said, "He's one of the Vigilis."

~*~*~*~On with the story~*~*~*~

"What? How do you know Isis?" Derek asked suspiciously.

"His eyes. I read in an ancient tablet that only one of the Vigilis have eyes like that. It's supposed to be impossible to copy them by magic, science, or any other means." Isis said.

"Glad someone's heard of us. It makes my job a lot easier." James said.

"What do you mean, your job?" Yami asked, moving to stand behind Yugi and wrapping his arms around his waist, and Yugi relaxed against him.

"I'm here to help you find the other Key. I'm also permitted to answer a few questions. Despite legends that say we don't care either way, we'd rather not see the Earth under the rule of a maniacal, vengeful person or group of people." James said, a slight smirk on his face.

"Who is the other Key then?" Ryou asked, curious.

"First, do you all have any guesses who the Key a.k.a. the reincarnation of the High Priestess, mistress of the Wingweaver, is?" James asked, looking around at them all. Everyone fell silent for a moment before Yugi spoke from his place in Yami's arms.

"I've an idea who it could be." Yugi said uncertainly.

"Who?" James asked, a mischievous twinkle in his mismatched eyes.

"I think it's-" Yugi's next words were cut off by a scream from outside in the main hall of the museum. They all froze for a second before running out to see what was going on. When they got outside they froze when they saw…..Duel Monsters, four real, live Duel Monsters.

"What the hell?!" Jason said in a shocked tone, eyes wide.

"Hmmm," James said, strangely unperturbed, "that's interesting. Wasn't told that they could do that. Somehow they managed to summon Harpie Lady Sisters and Harpie's Brother from the Shadow Realm. Evidently they're here to stop me and for a try at the abduction act I'm guessing by the choice of monsters."

"You mean you knew they'd be able to do this?" Jo asked.

"Not quite. Knew they'd be able to eventually, but I didn't think they'd be able to yet," James said calmly. "Does anyone have their decks?" he asked and sighed when they shook their heads. "Guess I'll have a go then."

James extended his arms, opened his hands, and touched his thumbs and first fingers together, spreading the others out and forming a triangle with his thumbs and first fingers. Then his eyes glowed slightly and he started chanting.

"Evoco vim Vigilis.

Rogo vestrum auxilium in meo penso.

Commodo vim Deorum et Dearum.

Populi, dormi.

Monstri, relinquite."*

Suddenly all the people around them collapsed to the floor, dead asleep, and the Duel Monsters had vanished with nothing more than a barely audible `pop.' After which James fell to his knees, breathing hard.

"What did you just do?" Malik asked. "And for that matter how did you do it?"

"It's one of the advantages of being a Vigilis. It gives you certain powers that normal people don't have. What I just did was a wide range sleep spell on all those around us and had the Monsters return from where ever they came from. And damn that took a lot out of me." James panted from his kneeling position before standing up, his eyes no longer glowing.

"How wide a range?" Yugi asked.

"Well, I actually had it put everyone who'd seen the Harpies to sleep, though I did make sure that we were bypassed by the spell. Most people will put the sighting of the Harpies to a strange daydream. Don't know how they're supposed to explain so many people falling asleep, but my superiors will take care of it. Anyway, we better get out of here. We need to head to the closest place that it'll be safe for us to talk." James said and the others nodded.

"We can head over to my house," Ryou said, "my dad's still out of town and isn't supposed to be back for a while so it'll be safe for us to talk there."

Isis suddenly spoke up. "I have to stay here to take care of any suspicions. Anyway, I have a feeling that I've done my part in this occurrence."

After saying goodbye the others headed off to Ryou's house. When they reached the house most practically groaned in annoyance. It seems that Ryou's dad had come home ahead of schedule, his car was in the driveway. They headed off to Yugi's house by unspoken consent.

"It seems everything's against us," Derek suddenly said, breaking the silence as they neared Yugi's house. The others looked at him and he nodded, silently saying that he'd continue once he was sure that they couldn't be overheard.

When they all got to his house they immediately closed and locked the door before heading up to Yugi's room. After they all took a seat Damien asked, "What did you mean by that outburst earlier Derek?"

"What I mean is that not only do we happen to be currently hunted down by a group of people we know next to nothing about, but we've also had one of our friends taken captive and every time it seems that someone's about to say something really important, we get interrupted." Derek said. "I swear, someone of something is out to get us."

"I agree, but we have to keep trying." Jake said, nodding from his position in his boyfriends' laps, he was sitting on the knees of both of them as he was the smallest of their group.

"I know, but it's still frustrating." Derek said and the others nodded in agreement, they understood what he was talking about.

"Okay," James said suddenly, "first off, which of the three Keys do you know of?"

"Well," Yugi said, "we know that the moon pendent that Selene's mom gave her is one of the Keys and we guess that either Yami or I are one of the other two as our Duel Monster is Dark Magician. But we don't know the last one for sure."

"You got the first two right as long as the pendant fit into the key hole and unlocked the book," James said and continued when the others nodded, "and the other is you Yugi. By the way, you say that the girl named Selene was the owner of the moon pendant right? She was the one taken. Did she have the pendant on her?"

"No," Marik said, "she'd had a copy made, though not an exact one, and gave the original to Yugi here. She was wearing the copy when she was taken. I'm guessing that she wore it to fool them."

James shook his head and said, "A copy wouldn't fool them. That pendant was made by the High Priestess's magic in her dying hour, when she had used up most of her magic for the sealing and the rest on the Key. While the magic is dormant, if you know what to look for you can tell just by being near it. They wouldn't be fooled by a copy because it wouldn't be infused with the same ancient magic."

"But why did they take her then instead of going after Yugi. Wouldn't they be able to tell that she didn't have the Key and go after the one who did instead?" Damien asked.

"Unless," Yugi said, eyes wide, "my guess was right."

"What do you mean?" Jo asked while Yami's eyes widened and James grinned while the others still looked confused, it seems Yami had figured out what conclusion his hikari had come to.

"Would the High Priestess's reincarnation give off an aura like the pendant? She is one of the Keys after all. Would she give off the nearly undetectable aura that would allow those looking for her to identify her?" Yugi asked, tuning to James who nodded. At this Damien's eyes also went wide, he'd made the connection and most of the others looked close to figuring it out.

"It's Selene. She's the High Priestess's reincarnation. That's why they took her. While the pendant would've been an extra prize, they mainly wanted her before either she herself or we figured it out. They wanted to try and have something on us." Damien said shocked and everyone's, except those who already knew/figured it out, jaws dropped. But in way it made sense.

"And the description Isis gave us matches her too." Jason said. "Her eyes are emerald green, as in `eyes as vivid as any jewels,' and no matter what she always has been beautiful. And, as in `more powerful than most men, and few were her equals', she has pretty much never lost at anything. The only one who was able to beat her at anything was Yugi and then it was usually a tie rather than having one or the other win. And her having the pendant would make sense now, especially when she seemed to figure out that it was the key without any sort of clue. It would probably be some knowledge her subconscious retained from her soul's time as the High Priestess."

James was grinning by now. He was obviously that they'd managed to figure it out. "You all are exactly right. Selene is the High Priestess's reincarnation. We noticed the High Priestess's energy return when Selene was born. We figured that it was her when we sensed her energy, but we were sure when she managed to survive many different beatings that would've killed a normal person and yet doesn't have a single physical scar to show for it. She had many dormant powers that just expressed themselves in nearly unnoticeable ways. And before you say anything, the reason we never helped her was because at the time we were forbidden to not to mention locked in our stronghold."

"So, Selene's the High Priestess's reincarnation, she had the moon pendant, and Yugi's the pharaoh's reincarnation. To sum it up, we've had all three Keys around us since we came here with the book and haven't noticed it until just now." Jason said and let James nod before summing up his feelings all in one word. "Fuck."

TBC...

AN: Please read and review. I appreciate all questions and comments.

NOTE: ALL SHONEN-AI/YAOI LOVERS, IF YOU DIDN'T READ THE 2ND PARAGRAPH AT THE TOP, READ NOW. YOU'LL MISS OUT BIG TIME IF YOU DON'T!!!!

Also, just a note, I had planned on reveal the High Priestess a little later than I did, but it just fit and the fact that many had already guessed it did help.

*The translation for the Latin should read roughly as:

"I call forth the power of the Watchmen.

I request you aid in my task.

Lend me the power of the Gods and Goddesses.

People, sleep.

Monsters, return."