Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Revival of the Heart ❯ Whisper in my ear ( Chapter 1 )

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Author's Note: This is my first fan fiction (at least on this site I already have other pre-written ones), so please, be gentle. Also, for all of you Evanescence fans out there( give me a cheer!... or don't, if you're too "cool" for that) I will be using a couple of their songs( there's even gonna be one in this chapter...Whoo!). It's "My Last Breath" by Evanescence (just repeating this name for the heck of it), and I shall repeat: I AM SOOOO HAPPY TO BE HERE!

Whisper in my ear….

The image was vivid, as it always was every night. Anzu watched in her dream-like state, almost unaware that it was her dream that she was once again witnessing. The events played out like clockwork, each moment coming after the next in a flowing motion that swept Anzu back to her memories of that depressing day...

It was the day that Atemu was finally leaving for the memory world. The scenes played out as time fast-forwarded at a high speed...the tears were shed... the words spoken... some words that should have been said never escaped as the tragic event took its course... the eternity that was Anzu's dream almost appeared ongoing until it reached its final climatic moment.

It was what none of the others saw. No one, not even Yugi had noticed the subtle movement, but Anzu did. She saw it as though it was only meant for her eyes alone; but why her? Why not Yugi, or Joey? Why her?

Hold on to me, love

You know I can't stay long

All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid

Can you hear me?

Can you feel me in your arms?

Atemu had gone into the doorway, the one leading him towards the afterlife for which he had longed so desperately to see, to be with those of his forgotten past. Anzu noticed that there wasn't a tear in his eye, or a sad feeling emanating from his amethyst orbs; he seemed... glad to be leaving them, glad to be...

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts of you

Sweet raptured light

It ends here tonight

No, he would never be happyto leave us... would he? The idea was impossible, doubtful, hurtful...yet so true as Anzu gazed upon the Pharaoh's purple eyes. He stepped into the glowing doorway, his outfit transformed into that of the pharaoh he once was, as he glanced back upon his friends. The words that she wanted to say jumped to her tongue, wishing to be spoken but were willed back into her heart, for they were not words of farewell in the least.

I'll miss the winter

A world of fragile things

Look for me in the white forest

Hiding in a hollow tree ( come find me)

I know you hear me

I can taste it in your tears

Time sped up again, but Anzu seemed not to notice as images zoomed on by. Her dream finally slowed to witness the moment that the temple caved in; she eyed her friends as they ran to escape the falling debris. From her out-of-body state she could see Shadi before he vanished into the darkness...

And there it was.

The passageway from which Atemu departed glowed with a holy light once more, as if the Pharaoh was trying to return from the world of the afterlife. Anzu could feel her dream-self's heart leap at the prospect of seeing him for one last time, but she knew that it could never be.

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts of you

Sweet raptured light

It ends here tonight

Whatever she had been expecting to occur didn't come to pass, as a small ball of pure white light shot towards her like a dead-on missile; she flinched, but the strange light did not make an impact as it slowed enough to stop directly in front of her. Anzu, though mentally aware of the danger this foreign ball of light could very well possess, felt so mesmerized by its shining brilliance that she couldn't help but hold out her hand...

Closing your eyes to disappear

You pray your dreams will leave you here

But still you wake and know the truth

No one's there

Gently, the tiny little star descended upon her palm; as it landed, the light faded away into the object's true form. Anzu gasped as she realized it was the cartouche she had given the Pharaoh before he had left for the Memory World. It was the same as when she had given it to him, except for the beautiful inscription that was now engraved onto its shiny, silver surface.

It read, "Atemu".

Say goodbye

Don't be afraid

Calling me calling me as you fade to black

A lone voice...a whisper in her ear... Anzu was sure that she didn't hear it later... but every night, as each dream came to pass, she knew it could only be-

"So that you won't forget me."

...him.

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"ATEMU!"

Anzu awoke from another bad dream, sweat forming on her brow even though her bed covers were clearly thrown off the bed in a small heap on her carpeted floor. The room was dark with midnight shadows, save the soft glow of moonlight that poured in through her bedroom window, and with her vision slightly hindered by the dark Anzu could strongly feel her heart pounding in her chest with a terrified sadness. Though every time she had that dream she became filled with the pain of remembering Atemu, she knew deep down inside that the same dream, the same images, will haunt her in her sleep tomorrow evening as well. She sighed.

“It was only the dream again", she whispered, disappointed. The things that Anzu saw always seemed so real; so real, that even though she knew it to be a dream she was nearly fooled every time she saw it replay in her mind. "Only a dream-"

In the silent darkness a soft chiming noise echoed in the deep regions of Anzu's mind; it took a moment to register that it came from her chest. Glancing down, a light as gentle as frost shimmered from a small pendant resting near her heart: Pharaoh Atemu's cartouche.

Anzu kept back the tears. All of the words that she wanted to say at his departure, all of the things that she wanted to tell Atemu before he had to leave, accumulated into the tears that threatened to fall from her azure eyes. So often did she regret not informing him of the feelings bubbled deep inside of her soul that she was curious if he could hear her from the afterlife, even now. She bit her lip before she could let her thoughts become verbal.

"Oh Atemu...", she quietly mumbled as she began to drift back into the sleep she left so quickly. She gathered up the blankets she kicked off earlier and closed her eyes from the world. "If only you could send me a sign. A sign... that you can hear me..."

Little did the sleeping girl know that her prayers were answered as she dozed off into a dreamless slumber, when an odd mist formed upon her window pane when her window was clean just a moment before. Like an invisible hand had touched the glass, a message was soon written like a ghostly apparition had created it. Though how it got there seemed to be a mystery in itself, but the message that it had conceived was even more obscure, and what it meant would seem to be the most puzzling mystery of all...

"Danger looms near."

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Author's Note: How was it? Like it? Love it? Hate it? Do you want me to stop asking these questions? Well, in any case, please review anyway! I REALLY wanna know what you think about my work! Oh, and by the way, I will be using their English names for every other character besides Anzu; I just like her Japanese name better.