Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Young God ❯ Epilogue ( Chapter 23 )

Epilogue

All about him was darkness, as the last memories of his life, his childhood, his dreams, faded away.

All about him was a dead silence, a silence like that of the Shadow Realm.

Seto's curse has come to pass.

Belumfel had regained his senses and used the Dark Magician most of the time to defeat his opponents. It took many years to conquer the opponents and banish the Shadow Games from the world. He knew in the end that he'll end up like this. Lost, forgotten, and forever alone. Seto was clever. He tore up his soul, splitting it in half. So the conscious pharaoh was here, but his unconscious side was somewhere in the Field of Reeds.

If there is a Field of Reeds.

I deserved it. He thought to himself, as the memories receding were becoming those with Seto. I deserved this wretched fate. To suffer as those I doomed will suffer.

He thought of Banat. Dear Banat, who he'll never get to know because he punished him to early. Banat was his cousin. They shared flesh and blood. He had finished him off after the duel, to the worst fate possible.

He thought of Anksuna. Dear Anksuna, once as bitter and cold as he was. She had always looked down on him and now he realized why. Now he'll never be able to make it up for her. She was doomed as Banat was. To eternity in hell.

As the memories began to waste away, he finally locked his thoughts on Seto. He remembered the child's lovely laughter and his bitter tears.

Pharaoh, no! Please!

Pharaoh! Wait!

Pharaoh!

Pharaoh!

PHARAOH!!

The child didn't need him anymore. No, he didn't. Now he's in his own home, where he had always wished to be. The land where all is fair and pure, just like Seto had been, and Belumfel had almost ruined that.

Because of his foolishness.

Because of his love.

Sana...Shidame, shidame.

At last, the Pharaoh, doomed to eternity in the object he had treasured, lost all memories except for one.

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa,
Syoutu feng hua bai shima ehn sha,
Long meen, you ming na."

The song that Seto always sang. The love of home. The longing for home. Belumfel closed his eyes as he remembered the song, even as it began to fade away.

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa,
Syoutu feng hua bai shima ehn sha,
Long meen, you ming na."

Seto, I'm sorry...

The Pharaoh sighed and closed his eyes, bitterness engulfing him.

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa,
Syoutu feng hua bai shima ehn sha,
Long meen, you ming na."

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa,
Syoutu feng hua bai shima ehn sha,
Long meen, you ming na."

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa,
Syoutu feng hua bai shima ehn sha..."

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa,
Syoutu feng..."

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori kong mei laa..."

" Na tou ming ren shima eaina,
Cou lanei tori..."

" Na tou ming..."

And just like that, the song faded away into nothingness, and Belumfel could no longer remember it existing.

The Dark Magician appeared in his mind and he too faded away. Belumfel stretched his hand out.
" Don't leave me." He begged. " Don't! You're all I have left of him!"

It seemed to him that the Dark Magician stretched out his long arms to him as well, ready to hold on to anything Belumfel had to offer. He was willing to stay. He was willing to stay!

But before his eyes the Pharaoh saw the magician shimmer and fade away. But the memory remained. He became a small card, made of something different from papyrus. In there was a circle, with the Dark Magician, battle stance, ready to serve his master.

But the Dark Magician lost its meaning. It no longer reminded him of Seto. It was just the Dark Magician.

The card shimmered and faded away. But Belumfel no longer missed it. He no longer remembered anything of his past, and when he tried to search his soul doors they remained locked and forbidden to him.

Such was the curse of Seto Kaiba fulfilled.