Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Millennium Items ❯ The Witches Of Morva's Bargain ( Chapter 11 )

The four are now at a swamp, a strange mist decorating the air along with dead trees splattered upon the ground. Seto is sitting atop Ryou's hat lazily as Ryou continues walking, obviously exhausted and breathing hard.

"Can't we .... Rest for a minute?" Ryou asks, panting.

"Not yet! We're almost --" Seto stops as the four reach the top of a hill, where a small house built into a dead tree could be seen. "We're here."

Yami blinks. "This is it? Kinda expected more."

 

Anzu expects the scenery, "ooh... this place is dreadful," she looks to Seto, "you sure this is the place?"

 

"As sure as I hate Atemu." Seto says with a small smirk.

 

Anzu looks to Seto, then the house, "well, than it must be the right place..." she looks to Seto, "and I don't get something, if you and Atemu are cousins, why do you two hate each other so much?"

 

"None of your damn business!" Flies off of Ryou's head and heads toward the horrid looking house.

 

Ryou blinks and looks at Anzu, "Touchy subject?"

 

"Seems so... but the questions gonna bother me for a while... we should hold him down until he tells us or something... but we should have him tell us...” Anzu says to them

 

Ryou blinked nervously. "Uh, d-d-on't you think that's a violation of his privacy?" Yami scoffed.

"Well, he shouldn't have been so rude in the first place! And anyway, it's not like finding out about why it's such a touchy subject will help us find the last millennium item. Let's just go." Yami starts walking towards the small house with Ryou right behind him. Jou looked up at Anzu and gave a cheeky smile.

"Jou hold him, you punch him!" He gave out a snicker and then ran down the hill after Yami and Ryou.

 

Anzu chuckles at Jou's remark and followed them. The five got to the house and entered, it was pretty empty and quiet... and oldish, Anzu stokes a finger over a table, "wow... this place is dusty... but lets just look" so the five begin to search the house to find the millennium eye

 

They begin to look for the last millennium item. Jou looks behind a door. Yami looks in a cabinet. Ryou looks in a drawer. Yami walks over to a chest and opens it. As the top comes up, a bunch of frogs suddenly jump out at him, sending him to the floor as the frogs leap towards the open door.

Ryou screams like a girl and jumps onto a table while Jou tries to catch them, each frog slipping through his fingers.

 

Anzu covers her ears at Ryou's girly scream and looks to him, "calm down Ryou! Its just frogs!"

 

Yami covers his heads as the frogs continue jumping over him. "Where did all of these frogs come from!?"

Suddenly, a woman's voice rippled through the air. "THIEVES! THIEVES!" A loud explosion of light happened within the very middle of the room. When the smoke cleared, three women were visible.

One had wavy blonde hair that reached her waist and dark amethyst eyes. She wore a long, dark purple robe that had various rips at the bottom along with a purple ruby on her chest.

The second woman had black hair that was tied up into two buns along with a few strands hanging along the side of her face next to her brown eyes. She wore a crimson colored kimono with red straps hanging around her waist.

The third woman also had blonde hair, but different to the first woman's in that it was pulled around her head and was straighter. She had ocean blue eyes and a dark blue robe that had ruffles around the cuffs and the neck decorated in a lighter blue.

 

"YOU!!" The fir woman pointed at the group of four. "You stole all of our frogs! THIEVES!"

 

At the appearance of the witches, Seto quickly vanished into thin air to Ra knows where.

 

The second woman snickered, "Hey Mai, how about we turn THEM into frogs and then BOIL'em!" She said, getting very close to Yami, pushing against him and batting her eyelashes lovingly. She grabbed his arm and started pinching and stretching the skin. "Ohh! Nice and tender!" Yami tried to pull away but the woman simply tightened her grip, snickering.

"Great idea, Vivian! We'll --" She turns around at the sound of clattering, only to see Ryou trying to escape quietly.

 

The third sister quickly stepped in front of him, "Oh! Aren't you a handsome one!" She sighed. "Your hair reminds me so much of my past husband .... Who's on your head." Ryou put his hands on his head and screamed when he felt a frog, quickly throwing it to the ground.

 

Mai rolled her eyes, "Enough of this love nonsense, Cecelia!" Mai then raised her finger, and a puff of smoke appeared around Ryou. When the smoke cleared, a frog was on the ground, bouncing around in anxiety.

"We're having Toad Stew tonight, girls!" Mai yelled in ecstasy, and made a boiling pot of water appear right under Ryou who had jumped straight into the air. Ryou fell in and clawed at the edges, quickly popping out.

"You're not going to eat this one!" Cecelia screamed at her sister raising her finger. Another puff of smoke appeared around Ryou, and when it cleared, he was once more a human being. Cecelia hugged him tightly. "Does anyone perform marriages here?" She asks innocently.

"MARRAIGES!?" Ryou yelled in astonishment. Suddenly, he found himself surrounded by blonde hair. Once again, he had been turned into a frog by Mai, but since he was being hugged by Cecelia, he got lost in her hair.

The witch looked around curiously, “Where is he? Where'd he go? Yoo-hoo! Where are you?" She pouts. "Now look what you've done! He's gone! I'll never forgive you for this, Mai! Never!" Ryou finally find a way out of Cecelia's poofy hair and jumps out onto the floor. "Oh, there you are!" She changes Ryou back so that he's in an awkward hopping position. All three witches laugh. Yami growls.

"ENOUGH!" Everyone falls silent and looks at him. "We've come for the millennium eye!" Mai gave a bit of a devilish smile.

"Did you hear that sisters?" She asked, looking toward the two others. Vivian scoffed.

"Oh, it's just another on of those humans trying to collect all of the millennium items." She went in closer to Mai. "We're not going to let him have it, are we?" Mai smirks, her eyes flashing.

"Of course not!" She turns back towards our heroes. "It's none of your business where the eye is. It's OURS, and we're NOT going to give it to a few simple humans such as yourselves. I --"

She stops when she sees the sword within Yami's hands, noticing the red gem in the handle. "I don't believe it! That sword is a rarity!" She comes closer, observing it. "I've only heard of swords like this in fairy tales. Ones with THE gem!" She looks up at Yami. "We'll trade the eye for the sword!"

"WHAT!?" Both Vivian and Cecelia ask, stunned. Mai walks quickly over to them, saying in a harsh whisper, "Relax! They can't do anything with the millennium items anyway! Not without the Stone Tablet." The two nod in understanding. Mai turns back towards Yami.

"It's decided then, you shall have the millennium eye."

 

Anzu smiled in glee at the witches, "so you'll give it to us?"

 

Mai laughed loudly. "Of course not! Weren't you listening? You see, we don't just give things away, we trade. We BARGAIN." She said, circling around Yami.

"Well, you can't have my sword!" Yami said, hugging the sword more closely to himself.

"Then no eye." Mai said, beginning to walk away.

"W-Wait!" Mai turned around at the sound of Ryou's voice. "How about you trade it for this MAGNIFICENT harp?" Ryou asked with a big smile. At this statement, a string snapped with a loud twang, Ryou chuckling nervously. Mai laughed.

"Oh, please! When we want music, we listen to the birds." As she said this, she made a cage of birds appear in her hand and opened the cage, the birds flying out, letting the birds out and fly out of the window.

"Wait! Jou will trade, uh ...." He looked around, and picked up a random pot on the floor. "Jou will trade you this!" Mai rolled her eyes.

"That's already ours." Jou scuffed his foot on the floor nervously.

"No it isn't." Mai sighed in irritation.

"If you don't have anything good for us, then you should be on your way." She turned around, about to open the door for them. Yami furrowed his eyebrows worriedly.

"Wait!" Mai turned around expectantly. Yami lifted the sword a bit, looking at it.

 

Anzu sees Yami do this and she shakes her head, "no Yami! You can't! Not the sword..."

 

"It's our only chance, Anzu!" Yami said back to her. He looks back to Mai and bends down on one knee, lifting the sword above him. "The sword .... Take it."

"This is your own choice, child. Remember, with this sword you could be the greatest of warriors!" Mai reminds him.

"I know! Just take it!" Yami says, his voice cracking slightly as tears brim his eyes. Mai snaps her fingers and the sword disappears from Yami's hands.

"Then it's done!" Mai says, and disappears with her sisters. The cottage begins to fall apart as the wind blows it away. Stools, chairs, pots and pans fly by.

"Everyone! Out of the house!" Yami yells as the structure begins to crumble.

 

They didn't have to be told twice for that. Everyone quickly ran out of the crumbling establishment. Our heroes lay on the ground to keep out of the way of the random items. Just when they think it's over, ominous black clouds move in and a small meteor looking thing shoots down from the clouds and causes a small explosion when it hits the ground. When the glow disappears from the object, the crew gets closer and a small ball with the eye of Horus on it is the object.

 

Yami smiles broadly. "It's the millennium eye!" He steps closer and sees its glowing red with heat, so decides not to touch it just yet. He then hears the laughs of the witches. He looks up to see them watching him from the clouds.

"Don't you fools know that the millennium items are useless without the stone tablet!?" Mai asks incredulously, smirking.

"We don't want to USE the items, we want to DESTROY them! Before the Thief King uses them for his own needs!" Yami corrected angrily.

 

The three witches laugh again, "Fool! The items are indestructible! Only the Stone Tablet can be destroyed."

 

Yami smiles at this. "Then there's a way to stop the items from ever being used! But how?"

 

"The only way to destroy the tablet is to seal your soul within it, destroying it from the inside. Of course, you would die in the process." Mai added with a snicker, and then disappeared into the night air along with her sisters.

 

Anzu sees that the eye had cooled down, she goes over and picks it up and examines it, "su-ku.. all that for this. And we can't even use it"