Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Three-In-One Combo ❯ Puzzle and Eye ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Indigo Tantarian 
The Puzzle and Eye are next... You should recognize the Eye scene.
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.17.2003 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 284 | Status: Work In Progress
The Puzzle and Eye are next... You should recognize the Eye scene.
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.17.2003 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 284 | Status: Work In Progress
Author's Note: First of all, thank you so much for reviewing! I squeal with joy! Secondly, thanks to Onyx the Blind, who posted an episode script of the episode showing how Shadi gave Pegasus the Millennium Eye. It really helped, since I have a bad memory! I based the conversation in this chapter on it, and I'll use it in a future chapter too. I hate to say this, since it goes against much that I love and believe in, but this fic is mostly based on the dub. Ack, no! Not that! But yes, it is. I'll use English names, except for the Items. Mostly because Ankh sounds better than Key. And you were right, it is "tauk," not "torque." I fixed it. I tried to keep myself neutral about Ankh and Scale, but I'm really finding myself loving Ankh to death. So pardon my lack of impartiality. And I promise you, no more Rod jokes! Sorry about the one, but it just came to me and I thought it was fitting. The warning for this chapter is: Blood and oozy stuff! And cursing, but that's expected sometimes. So watch out! You who know what happened between Pegasus and Shadi know when THAT will come. And this is probably the longest chapter. Oh, one more thing. I'm running out of good insults for the Scales' spirit to use. If you've got any ideas, help would be appreciated!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its characters. How very sad! I will glomp them anyway!
Three-In-One Combo!
Shadi lay on his back, eyes closed. Some days he just didn't feel like getting up. The Puzzle was calling out, but not urgently. Someone who had a very close tie to its chosen one was nearby. But Shadi could tell that this person would be around town for a while yet. There was no need to rush, and it was far more comfortable to just lie there.
\\Imbecile!! Get off your lazy ass and take the Puzzle out!\\
//Shh. There's no need to hurry. And the Puzzle's spirit is scattered among its pieces. It has all the time in the world. So be nice.//
\\Don't talk to me that way, you self-righteous piece of tin! He doesn't deserve all that 'nice' crap. You know he won't go off to help people any more than he'll let me take over the world. That spineless idiot...\\
//Don't say such things about him! He's the kindest master either of us could ever hope for, and a far better master than you deserve.//
Shadi groaned. /All right, all right. I'm going. Just please, for the love of Ra, SHUT UP!/ He reluctantly sat up and yawned. The call of the Puzzle WAS growing. Oh well. So Shadi straightened his turban, splashed a bit of water on his face, and slipped the rope with the Ankh on it around his neck. He picked up the box containing the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle.
\\Don't even think about leaving me here! You know I'll just come after you!\\
/I think now, Scale. Not this time./ Shadi went back, taking the Ankh off. He picked up the Scales and thrust them through the loop at the top of the Ankh. /Keep him out of trouble, Ankh./
//Shadi!? Wait! Away from you, I barely have any power! I don't know if I can! Don't leave me alone with him!//
/Really Ankh, have a little backbone. You're still stronger than Scale is. I'm not asking you to hold him forever, just for a short while./ With that, Shadi left.
It was wonderful to be able to walk through the city streets without the constant insults and arguments being thrown back and forth in his mind. Shadi considered running out past the city limits and taking a quick nap while he had this little bit of peace and quiet, but he decided he'd better deliver the Puzzle first. So he followed the pull of the Puzzle out of the city, where he found a large group of tourists returning from the Valley of the Kings. Shadi watched them all get off the bus. Then the Puzzle gave a vague tug towards the last passenger getting off. He was an elderly man with spiky gray hair. Shadi approached him, and beckoned for him to stay behind the group for a moment.
"You are... hoping to find a souvenir for... your grandson, are you not?" Shadi asked, using some powers of his own to slowly get the information he needed.
"Who are you?" the man asked rather suspiciously.
"Here," Shadi said, handing the Puzzle's box to the old man. "This contains the Millennium Puzzle. The one who solves it will gain great power. It would be quite a gift for your grandson."
While the old man was marveling at the intricate designs on the box, Shadi slipped silently away. His work there was done. Now for that nap...
//Shadi! Please, you have to come back! Scale broke free, and he's planning something with Eye!// The Ankh had suddenly appeared around his neck. It sounded very tired. Shadi sighed in defeat.
/All right, I suppose I have to. And I guess you can't do anything against him?/
//I could barely make it to you! I'm all out of strength now.//
/Yes, yes, I'm going. Now that you're here, go ahead and recharge yourself./
On his way back, Shadi ran into a young man with long silver hair. He looked sad and lost, but not in the physical sense.
//Oh, this man is suffering so much. Please Shadi, help him!//
The young man's hat blew off down the alley towards Shadi, who caught it. /I will advise him. But that is all. It is not my place to help or hinder anyone against fate./
"Thank you," the silver-haired man said as Shadi returned his hat. He looked hopelessly lost, though he had a few maps among his belongings.
/All right Ankh, I owe you. But only this once./
"Stranger, heed my advice," Shadi said in his usual calm, ominous voice. "You have journeyed far, seeking to cure the ache within your soul. Take great care. Your search to heal the pains of a broken heart may only lead to greater heartache."
/I think that should suffice. Not that it will help him at all./ With that, Shadi turned to leave.
"Wait!" the young man called in a slightly strangled voice. "How... do you know?"
"It matters not. Go home," Shadi said without turning back.
As he walked through the narrow streets, Shadi could sense the man following him.
/You realize what will happen if he continues to follow me, do you not? Is this what you wished?/
//But... no... I never meant...//
/Yet this is what it has come to. Luckily, it was his fate anyway./
//Oh. So he is an Item holder? One will accept him?//
/I do not know./
//WHAT!?//
/I merely know that he was destined to follow me and be tested. By the Eye, in fact. What will follow, I cannot say./
//So... it was... MY fault? If he goes mad, I am to blame? If that happens, I do not see how I will be able to live with myself...//
/Oh no, you did not cause this. It was destiny and could not have been changed./
//R...really?//
/Of course. It would have happened anyway. You merely helped fate along. It just so happens that in this particular instance, whether the man goes mad or is chosen, you DID indirectly cause it./
Shadi heard a strangled whimper in his mind, and then Ankh was silent.
/It's really none of your concern. As I said, it would have happened anyway./
There was no answer. Shadi walked down the steps to his underground home.
"What is this place?" he heard after a moment.
"So, you chose not to heed my warning," Shadi said indifferently. In the resting place of the Millennium Items, Scale laughed darkly, though no one but the Ring spirit heard. Shadi approached the young man, looking deeply into his eyes. It made the younger man gulp and look to the side nervously.
"Wh...who are you? What is this place?"
"I am the guardian of the Millennium Items. Once this sacred place has been discovered, the only way to leave is to be chosen by one. It must be your destiny." Shadi walked over to the remaining Millennium Items. His hand hovered for a moment, and then he plucked the Eye from its resting place. He turned back to face the stranger.
"But how could these... Millennium Items... be part of my destiny? I've never even heard of them. What does it mean?" the man with silver hair asked.
"You will now be tested by the Item itself. The Millennium Eye."
"The Eye itself? What do you mean, 'tested'?"
The Millennium Scales disappeared from their resting place and appeared inconspicuously at Shadi's belt. Ankh gave a half-hearted struggle against the other spirit.
"Each Millennium Item awaits the day when its fated holder arrives to claim it," Shadi said. Then Scale completely took over his body. "...And punishes those who are unworthy!"
"Punishes...?" the man asked, transfixed by Shadi's eyes.
Shadi/Scale grinned. "Now, if you pass its test, it will allow you to see more than you've ever seen before." He approached the young man.
"And... If I fail its test?"
The cruel grin on Shadi's face spread. "All that awaits you is an endless nightmare beyond your imagination!" With that, he grabbed the man's hair in his free hand and shoved the Millennium Eye into the helpless man's left eye socket. The young traveler screamed as his left eye was crushed and oozed out of its bloody socket.
/That is NOT a good way to test a person, Scale! Ankh! Stop sulking, get out here, and help me!/
//Ack! Sorry Shadi! I'll stop him!// Now that Ankh was back in contact with Shadi, it was strong enough to do something about the other spirit. With strength born of sheer determination, Ankh wrested control from Scale, holding him back so Shadi could reclaim his body. Meanwhile, the other man was gasping in pain. But he had obviously retained his sanity.
"You have not descended into chaos and madness," Shadi said, fairly impressed. "You ARE the chosen one. Now your eyes will be opened to dimensions beyond the here and now. Like having a sixth sense, capable of seeing worlds and times outside our own."
A white light emanated form the Eye, engulfing the stranger. Shadi could not see the other man's vision, but from what he was saying, Shadi was fairly sure it had to do with that long-lost love.
"Cecelia!" he cried. There was a pause in which the man seemed like he was hanging on someone's every word. Then he answered the person who only he could see. "Cecelia, my darling, I've found you! We're reunited at last!" Obviously this man was taking his vision far too seriously.
"But be warned," Shadi interjected. "Seeing is not the same as touching... feeling... being."
\\Oh Ra, spare me. You spend too much time around that disgusting Ankh. Hurry up and finish with this numbskull.\\
"Cecelia..." the man murmured, grasping after phantoms of his past. He looked to Shadi, obviously begging him for reassurance.
"That is beyond the power of this Millennium Item," Shadi said, reading the unspoken question in the other's eyes. "Now, I suggest you follow me earlier advice and go home."
The man seemed rather choked up. He merely nodded and left without another word.
Shadi shook his head and sighed. He carefully wiped the blood and eye pulp on his robe. Then he took the Ankh and Scale, each in one hand. /I hope you know that you have both been extremely useless, not to mention annoying, today./ He then placed them both back in their resting places with the Ring. /Now, if you don't mind, I'm going back to my nap. I'm not doing anything significant. And the Ring's owner is nowhere near here. So please, by all the gods, just this once, LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!/ With that, he flopped back on his mat and did his best to ignore the world.
//He didn't have to be so rude about it...//
\\Quiet, weakling. My plans are succeeding so far, but I have more to discuss with the Ring. So butt out!\\
//You realize, if the others discover that you're plotting against them and pitting them against each other for your own gain, they'll all turn on you. And you ARE the weakest.//
\\Silence! You're no better, you buffoon! You just wait, you'll get what's coming to you.\\
In his sleep, Shadi kicked a stray rock and it bounced off Scale hard.
\\AND you. Moron...\\
Endnote: Okay, that was pretty long. And I'm not sure if I kept everyone in character. Please review, tell me what you think, and give me some interesting insults for Scale! Thanks!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its characters. How very sad! I will glomp them anyway!
Three-In-One Combo!
Shadi lay on his back, eyes closed. Some days he just didn't feel like getting up. The Puzzle was calling out, but not urgently. Someone who had a very close tie to its chosen one was nearby. But Shadi could tell that this person would be around town for a while yet. There was no need to rush, and it was far more comfortable to just lie there.
\\Imbecile!! Get off your lazy ass and take the Puzzle out!\\
//Shh. There's no need to hurry. And the Puzzle's spirit is scattered among its pieces. It has all the time in the world. So be nice.//
\\Don't talk to me that way, you self-righteous piece of tin! He doesn't deserve all that 'nice' crap. You know he won't go off to help people any more than he'll let me take over the world. That spineless idiot...\\
//Don't say such things about him! He's the kindest master either of us could ever hope for, and a far better master than you deserve.//
Shadi groaned. /All right, all right. I'm going. Just please, for the love of Ra, SHUT UP!/ He reluctantly sat up and yawned. The call of the Puzzle WAS growing. Oh well. So Shadi straightened his turban, splashed a bit of water on his face, and slipped the rope with the Ankh on it around his neck. He picked up the box containing the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle.
\\Don't even think about leaving me here! You know I'll just come after you!\\
/I think now, Scale. Not this time./ Shadi went back, taking the Ankh off. He picked up the Scales and thrust them through the loop at the top of the Ankh. /Keep him out of trouble, Ankh./
//Shadi!? Wait! Away from you, I barely have any power! I don't know if I can! Don't leave me alone with him!//
/Really Ankh, have a little backbone. You're still stronger than Scale is. I'm not asking you to hold him forever, just for a short while./ With that, Shadi left.
It was wonderful to be able to walk through the city streets without the constant insults and arguments being thrown back and forth in his mind. Shadi considered running out past the city limits and taking a quick nap while he had this little bit of peace and quiet, but he decided he'd better deliver the Puzzle first. So he followed the pull of the Puzzle out of the city, where he found a large group of tourists returning from the Valley of the Kings. Shadi watched them all get off the bus. Then the Puzzle gave a vague tug towards the last passenger getting off. He was an elderly man with spiky gray hair. Shadi approached him, and beckoned for him to stay behind the group for a moment.
"You are... hoping to find a souvenir for... your grandson, are you not?" Shadi asked, using some powers of his own to slowly get the information he needed.
"Who are you?" the man asked rather suspiciously.
"Here," Shadi said, handing the Puzzle's box to the old man. "This contains the Millennium Puzzle. The one who solves it will gain great power. It would be quite a gift for your grandson."
While the old man was marveling at the intricate designs on the box, Shadi slipped silently away. His work there was done. Now for that nap...
//Shadi! Please, you have to come back! Scale broke free, and he's planning something with Eye!// The Ankh had suddenly appeared around his neck. It sounded very tired. Shadi sighed in defeat.
/All right, I suppose I have to. And I guess you can't do anything against him?/
//I could barely make it to you! I'm all out of strength now.//
/Yes, yes, I'm going. Now that you're here, go ahead and recharge yourself./
On his way back, Shadi ran into a young man with long silver hair. He looked sad and lost, but not in the physical sense.
//Oh, this man is suffering so much. Please Shadi, help him!//
The young man's hat blew off down the alley towards Shadi, who caught it. /I will advise him. But that is all. It is not my place to help or hinder anyone against fate./
"Thank you," the silver-haired man said as Shadi returned his hat. He looked hopelessly lost, though he had a few maps among his belongings.
/All right Ankh, I owe you. But only this once./
"Stranger, heed my advice," Shadi said in his usual calm, ominous voice. "You have journeyed far, seeking to cure the ache within your soul. Take great care. Your search to heal the pains of a broken heart may only lead to greater heartache."
/I think that should suffice. Not that it will help him at all./ With that, Shadi turned to leave.
"Wait!" the young man called in a slightly strangled voice. "How... do you know?"
"It matters not. Go home," Shadi said without turning back.
As he walked through the narrow streets, Shadi could sense the man following him.
/You realize what will happen if he continues to follow me, do you not? Is this what you wished?/
//But... no... I never meant...//
/Yet this is what it has come to. Luckily, it was his fate anyway./
//Oh. So he is an Item holder? One will accept him?//
/I do not know./
//WHAT!?//
/I merely know that he was destined to follow me and be tested. By the Eye, in fact. What will follow, I cannot say./
//So... it was... MY fault? If he goes mad, I am to blame? If that happens, I do not see how I will be able to live with myself...//
/Oh no, you did not cause this. It was destiny and could not have been changed./
//R...really?//
/Of course. It would have happened anyway. You merely helped fate along. It just so happens that in this particular instance, whether the man goes mad or is chosen, you DID indirectly cause it./
Shadi heard a strangled whimper in his mind, and then Ankh was silent.
/It's really none of your concern. As I said, it would have happened anyway./
There was no answer. Shadi walked down the steps to his underground home.
"What is this place?" he heard after a moment.
"So, you chose not to heed my warning," Shadi said indifferently. In the resting place of the Millennium Items, Scale laughed darkly, though no one but the Ring spirit heard. Shadi approached the young man, looking deeply into his eyes. It made the younger man gulp and look to the side nervously.
"Wh...who are you? What is this place?"
"I am the guardian of the Millennium Items. Once this sacred place has been discovered, the only way to leave is to be chosen by one. It must be your destiny." Shadi walked over to the remaining Millennium Items. His hand hovered for a moment, and then he plucked the Eye from its resting place. He turned back to face the stranger.
"But how could these... Millennium Items... be part of my destiny? I've never even heard of them. What does it mean?" the man with silver hair asked.
"You will now be tested by the Item itself. The Millennium Eye."
"The Eye itself? What do you mean, 'tested'?"
The Millennium Scales disappeared from their resting place and appeared inconspicuously at Shadi's belt. Ankh gave a half-hearted struggle against the other spirit.
"Each Millennium Item awaits the day when its fated holder arrives to claim it," Shadi said. Then Scale completely took over his body. "...And punishes those who are unworthy!"
"Punishes...?" the man asked, transfixed by Shadi's eyes.
Shadi/Scale grinned. "Now, if you pass its test, it will allow you to see more than you've ever seen before." He approached the young man.
"And... If I fail its test?"
The cruel grin on Shadi's face spread. "All that awaits you is an endless nightmare beyond your imagination!" With that, he grabbed the man's hair in his free hand and shoved the Millennium Eye into the helpless man's left eye socket. The young traveler screamed as his left eye was crushed and oozed out of its bloody socket.
/That is NOT a good way to test a person, Scale! Ankh! Stop sulking, get out here, and help me!/
//Ack! Sorry Shadi! I'll stop him!// Now that Ankh was back in contact with Shadi, it was strong enough to do something about the other spirit. With strength born of sheer determination, Ankh wrested control from Scale, holding him back so Shadi could reclaim his body. Meanwhile, the other man was gasping in pain. But he had obviously retained his sanity.
"You have not descended into chaos and madness," Shadi said, fairly impressed. "You ARE the chosen one. Now your eyes will be opened to dimensions beyond the here and now. Like having a sixth sense, capable of seeing worlds and times outside our own."
A white light emanated form the Eye, engulfing the stranger. Shadi could not see the other man's vision, but from what he was saying, Shadi was fairly sure it had to do with that long-lost love.
"Cecelia!" he cried. There was a pause in which the man seemed like he was hanging on someone's every word. Then he answered the person who only he could see. "Cecelia, my darling, I've found you! We're reunited at last!" Obviously this man was taking his vision far too seriously.
"But be warned," Shadi interjected. "Seeing is not the same as touching... feeling... being."
\\Oh Ra, spare me. You spend too much time around that disgusting Ankh. Hurry up and finish with this numbskull.\\
"Cecelia..." the man murmured, grasping after phantoms of his past. He looked to Shadi, obviously begging him for reassurance.
"That is beyond the power of this Millennium Item," Shadi said, reading the unspoken question in the other's eyes. "Now, I suggest you follow me earlier advice and go home."
The man seemed rather choked up. He merely nodded and left without another word.
Shadi shook his head and sighed. He carefully wiped the blood and eye pulp on his robe. Then he took the Ankh and Scale, each in one hand. /I hope you know that you have both been extremely useless, not to mention annoying, today./ He then placed them both back in their resting places with the Ring. /Now, if you don't mind, I'm going back to my nap. I'm not doing anything significant. And the Ring's owner is nowhere near here. So please, by all the gods, just this once, LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!/ With that, he flopped back on his mat and did his best to ignore the world.
//He didn't have to be so rude about it...//
\\Quiet, weakling. My plans are succeeding so far, but I have more to discuss with the Ring. So butt out!\\
//You realize, if the others discover that you're plotting against them and pitting them against each other for your own gain, they'll all turn on you. And you ARE the weakest.//
\\Silence! You're no better, you buffoon! You just wait, you'll get what's coming to you.\\
In his sleep, Shadi kicked a stray rock and it bounced off Scale hard.
\\AND you. Moron...\\
Endnote: Okay, that was pretty long. And I'm not sure if I kept everyone in character. Please review, tell me what you think, and give me some interesting insults for Scale! Thanks!