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The guardians of the Pharaoh

Sea and shadows: the Queens of the abyss

I don't own Yugioh or it's characters

Mentions of intense violence and blood. Have to say this has to be some of the gruesome I've ever written...hope you enjoy.

Chapter 2

Eons ago…

In a dark fortress that gloomed in the distance, a dark mist surrounding its parapets making it seem like a storm was hanging low on the structure. The land surrounding it was devoid of life, cracks decorating the ground like a crooked mosaic, the magic sucked from the depths to feed the magicians that roamed the area. The fortress carved out of black stone with purple flakes amongst the rock, thrumming like a slow heartbeat. Cages holding corpses and half dead creatures handing from the 6 towers surrounding the castle like building, their wails for freedom (whether for death or escape remained to be seen) filled the air as they were devoured alive by small raven like beasts with a hunger for flesh.

Down below was an open courtyard with different items used for training and magic filled the area, normally well-kept and pristine with everything in order as everyone tended to use this space and today was no exception as the sound of metal clanging, grunts and blasts of power filled the space. In the centre of the arena was a young girl no older than 13…she was wearing leather armour and long red hair was tied back in a loose pony tail. Her hands were cover in fine elegant markings and her fingers were blackened from magic use…this was Rozu…much older now and having done nothing but training since she was small. She was currently fighting off a group of warrior wizards, a special brand of fighter created by her father Lord Yomi who was standing on one the balconies watching his daughter.

He didn’t care much for her except for what she could do for him. He had hoped for a hybrid child, a creature that could match up to the Siren that fought on the side of the dragons and the warriors. He had thought that Rozu would be another disappointment, a weakling who would fall in battle like many of his other fighters…but she had shown some potential. Her proficiency in magic was…acceptable to say the least. She was able to use spells at an early age, able to summon even the smallest of shadows since the age of 5. The girl had potential but it needed to be trained and harnessed…to turn her into a dark lord like Yomi himself…and once she had used up her usefulness, he would devour her soul and gain her power.

Rozu had been at this for several hours now, since the moment she had woken up. Her muscles were aching and becoming stiff from the strenuous continuous movements as she swung her spear around at her opponents, either to pierce their flesh, slice at them or send blasts of dark energy at them. But even her magic was drained at this point. Her fathers’ training was relentless. He made her earn her right for food and water, she need to prove she deserved it and if she failed him in even the smallest way she would end up on the training grounds running drills till she collapsed from pure exhaustion and even then he would dump cold water on her to awaken her just so that she could get back to training.

She didn’t understand why she was doing all this. Her father had always been secretive about his motives…never speaking to her and simply giving her commands on what to do. He never even taught her personally, he delegated that to his second in command. He always watched her from a distance and never intervened (unless it was to drag her back to her feet when she had collapsed). Rozu hated the man. She knew the only thing that connected them was that he was the sperm donor that gave her life. He made her life a living hell and made her fight her very life every single day, making her bleed and use up every ounce of her strength just for something he wanted her to attain…she had never even left the fortress since the day she was brought into this world. She had seen glimpses of the outside world…a shining light in the distance, glowing with life and a hope for something better…something she wanted to see someday when she escaped this hell hole…

Rozu ducked a warrior swung his sword at her, nearly taking off her head. Her skin was covered with sweat, several cuts and abrasions covering her arms and legs, a gash running down the side of her temple, dried blood covering the side of her face. She stabbed him in the thigh with her spear, driving it in deep till it was sticking the other side, making the man lose balance and fall to the ground with a yell of pain, black purplish blood gushing from his leg. She yanks her weapon out and twirled it around and raised it over her head, ready to end him. However…she hesitated…for a split second she hesitated because despite everything she hated taking a life. It didn’t feel right. Life was a sacred thing, a gift given to every person that came into existence. She found it distasteful to kill anyone even if her father forced her to do it repeatedly. It was expected of her to take a life…they were nothing but tools to use or weaklings in her father’s way for glory.

In that second of hesitation a warrior came up behind her and thrusted his sword through her side, piercing her skin, muscles and tendons, barely missing several vital organs as the metal blade stuck out her stomach. A gasp of pain leaving her lips as a spike of pain flooded through her at being impaled. The man lifts his leg and shoves her over his blade, sending her falling to the ground, dropping her spear. Blood comes pouring from the massive wound in her side, soaking the dusty ground. She didn’t have time to press her hand to it to stop the bleeding because the warrior was ready to attack her again, raising his sword to send her. She covered her head with her arms to brace herself but the end never came…

She heard the man gasp loudly, her arms lowering and her eyes widening as she saw her father standing behind the man, his long clawed fingers around the fighters neck, crushing his wind pipe, his nails piercing his skin, ripping into his flesh…Yomi’s fist just closing further and further as the fight gasped for air. The next second the dark magician thrusted his hand threw the man’s chest, the fighters still beating heart in his palm, blood splattering across the faces of the other warriors and his daughter. He glares at the girl on the ground as she looks up at him with shock and fear…speaking to her in a dark cruel voice, “Pathetic.” He closed his fists around the man’s throat, his vertebra snapping and his head falling off, landing at Rozu’s feet, the warrior’s dead unmoving eyes staring into her very soul.

Lord Yomi dropped the man’s corpse and turned to the other fighters, “Dismissed.” He growls. The men bow and leave, not even caring that one of their own had just been brutally killed by their ruler. Rozu manages to stand up, holding her bleeding side; she could tell her father was angry… “F-father I--” before she could finish her back hands her across her face, sending her falling to the ground again as she winces. He steps forward and steps on the girls wound, pressing his heel into the tender flesh, blood squirting out of the deep cut, getting on his black leather boots. She screamed on pain as she grabbed his leg to try and shove him off but he simply lifted his other leg and kicked her in the face, her head being thrown back and hitting the ground as s sicken crack fills the air…blood gushing from her nose as she looks tearfully up at her father, her vision blurring as he leans over her.

A nasty snarl covers the man’s face, his golden eyes ablaze with rage, “You better listen well girl, there are two types of beings in the world: those that devour and those that get devoured. You best decide quickly which side you are on because right now you aren’t even worth being the dirty under my boot.” He spits in her face as he steps back and raises his arm, summoning a number of large shadow like beasts, their mouths snarling at Rozu, their sharp black teeth on display, purple drool running down their chins. “You can go for healing once you’ve destroyed every one of these creatures…if not, you will be their food.” He turned and disappeared into the shadows and reappeared on the balcony, “Begin!” He shouts as the beasts charge at Rozu. She quickly grabbed her spear and despite the agonizing pain she was in and the fact that she was bleeding profusely, she fought through every single one of them…promising that she would be the one to devour one day and she would start with her bastard of a father.

Back in the present, in the virtual world to be specific.

Noah was sitting in his large revolving chair surrounded by screens, several of them showing the locations he had dumped his hostages. He didn’t much care for the majority of them, they were nothing more than pawns in his plans and bodies for the Big 5 who agreed to help him if he found a way to get them new bodies. His main focus was the Kaiba brothers, Seto to be specifically. He had stolen everything from him, his father, his life, the company that was meant to be his, even his name. He had the life that was meant to be Noah’s and the green haired kid was going to get it back while destroying Seto Kaiba and stealing everything he held dear, leaving him in this virtual prison for the rest of eternity.

He watched as his victims started to awaken, all of them having been split up. Yugi was on his own in the middle of the woods as well as Serenity. Joey was on his own on side of a castle while Duke and Tristian were trapped together in another part of the castle, but the 3 friends would never find each other. Seto and Mokuba were together out in the forest and Tea was on her own in the middle of a canyon. Each place was chosen specifically for the teens to face on of the Big 5, well except the Kaiba brothers, they were Noah’s to toy with. But what of Lillian? Well the green haired boy had chosen a special place for her.

He knew exactly who she was; he had been watching Seto and examining his life closely since he took over Kaiba Corp, having been able to hack into the buildings security system was child’s play (even after Seto had put his own system into place). Noah had seen the girl in the office building on several occasions and her interactions with Seto every time she was there (including the intimate moments they had behind the closed of his office {and before anyone says anything, despite Noah’s youth appearance he is close to Seto’s age and no one can tell me different [plus I’m pretty sure most dudes have seen some kind of porn]}). It was very clear that the two of them had close relationship…he had overheard it when Yugi had confronted Seto about him hitting his sister (which how interesting that the one person who was able to beat the teen in a duel was the younger brother of the girl he loved. Noah found that rather hilarious, plus he two more thing he could use to turn Lillian against Seto just like he was planning to do with Mokuba) but this may be a little more difficult than Noah thought as it would seem that the couple had reconciled after everything that happened.

Still if Noah pushed the right buttons he could drive Seto and Lillian apart and making the teen suffer for stealing his life from him.

He pulled up the screen displaying the raven haired girl; he had placed her on an isolated island in the middle of the ocean in his digital world, far away from any of her friends and brother and her bean pole of a lover boy. She was his to do with as he pleased…so he set his plan into motion…

A soft whimper leaves Lillian’s lips as her eyes slowly opened, finding herself lying on a hot beach in the middle of nowhere. Her whole body ached, both her front and back. She somehow managed to sit up, wincing as she felt her stitches pulling despite moving as slowly as she could. She lighting touched her bandages, finding them dry meaning nothing had opened again. She looked around, gauging her surroundings. In front of her was a vast ocean and behind her looked like a dense jungle with luscious foliage and tall palm trees…this felt familiar…

Her mind goes back to that fever dream she had back on at Duellist Kingdom when the wound on her arm had gotten infected…the vision she had of herself as an infant crawling on the beach following a Blue eyes hatchling (which weird) and its mother showing up when she had cut her hand on a broken shell…

Lillian was still confused on the whole thing; she didn’t understand what it meant or where it came from. Maybe Seto’s obsession with those dragons was leaking into Lillian’s subconscious. Speaking of the tall teen, where was he? Where was her brother? Where was anyone? More importantly how did she even get here? Weren’t they kidnapped by some green haired kid and shorts, which by the way was not the weirdest situation Lillian has found herself in (watching the Millennium ring burning a man to death would always be the first).

She slowly stood up with much difficulty as she rested her arm around her middle when she heard something rustling in the plants behind her. She narrowed her eyes as her eyes glowed faintly, a few tendrils of water emerged from the ocean behind her, ready to defend herself if it was trouble…but relief washed over when she saw who it was, “Seto…” she looked at her beloved as he emerged from the foliage. She tried to step towards him but falls to the ground as she loses her balance, wave of pain washing over her as she clenched her teeth, grinding them together as she breathed heavily. She needed medical attention and fast.

She felt a hand on her shoulder, gentle fingers under her chin as they guide her to gaze up at Seto’s face, “You ok?” he asked in a soft voice. She shakes her head a little as she leans into his touch, letting herself relax as she knew she was safe now, “I’ll be ok. Where…where’s Mokuba? Where are the others?” a strange smile formed on Seto’s face as his fingers moved to her throat, the tips tracing her over her skin, “Why would I care where he is if I have you?”

Lillian frowned as she pulled back, this didn’t sound right…they may have been a couple but Mokuba was everything to Seto, everything he had ever done was for his little brother. Hell he had been beaten, whipped, treated like a dog and even been assaulted by his step father…he had endured it all just to ensure his brother had a good life…to hear him say something like that didn’t sound right at all. “He’s your brother…your family. How can you say something like that?”

He lets out a laugh, deep and condescending sending a chill down Lillian’s spine as his lips curled into a smirk, “Who cares about some brat? I don’t need him. And better yet…” his long fingers quickly curl around her throat and push her back into the sand, “…I don’t need you.”

Lillian’s eyes widen as she grabbed his wrist when he gripped her neck, letting out a choked gasp. What the heck was going on with him?! This wasn’t like him! He sneered down at the girl, leaning over her as he squeezed her neck, “The f@#$ is wrong with you?! Get off me!” She started to panic as she struggled beneath him, trying to push him off but the grains of sand were scraping horribly against the wounds on her back. Seto moved his free hand to the medical robe she was wearing and lifted it, exposing her bandaged torso, “I don’t think so…I’m gonna have little fun with just like we always do Lil. After all it’s just us here.” He walked his fingers up her stomach and hooked his index finger on the edge of the bandaged and yanked it hard, ripping the fabric and exposing the mess of stitched skin spanning across Lillian’s belly.

Her eyes widening tried to kick at him but he pinned her legs down with his own, his focus of the wires keeping her wounds closed, “But first I wanna hear what screams I can pull from those pretty lips of yours.” He grins as he pushes his hand down hard onto her stomach; some of the stitches pulling lose, ripping her skin as she lets out a blood curdling scream, blood starting to seep from the found as the man she loved was laughing above her.

She didn’t understand what was going on, this couldn’t be her Seto. She refused to believe that it was, he wouldn’t hurt her like this and he surely wouldn’t revel in her suffering…so she didn’t feel so bad when she clenched her fist and punched him as hard as she could in the face, unintentionally a stream of water shooting of the ocean, hitting the brunet with a such force that he is knocked clean off the girl and is send flying into a nearby palm tree.

With adrenaline running through her veins Lillian got up and ran as fast as her legs could carry her, needing to get away from the thing that was wearing Seto’s face.

Noah was watching all this unfold, satisfied with how things was going, getting ready to appear and save Lillian from his digital version of Seto Kaiba but somehow the girl had pulled water from the sea and sent the clone flying. How was that even possible?? She had no power over anything on this digital prison! He sent the clone after her, deciding to go with a different approach…

Lillian was searching either for a place to hide or a way to escape this island but the fake Kaiba had gotten up and was chasing after her, “You’re gonna pay for that you bitch!” he threatened. She turned for a moment and threw her arm out, sending another stream of water at him but doing something she had ever done before…as if moving on instinct she close her fist and the water freezes around his legs, hindering his movement and stopping him in his tracks.

Noah couldn’t understand what was happening, he searched through his programs to see it this was a bug or something…but what he found was even more confusing…it seemed like Lillian was functioning like one of the duel monsters that roamed the world. How the hell was that possible?!

She stalked towards the clone, a stream of water swirling around the false Seto, the tip freezing to form a sharp blade and presses against his throat as Lillian glares at him, “Who are you?” she demands before he starts to laugh, “I’m Seto Kaiba, who else would I be?” he doesn’t even flinch as the ice blade presses further against his neck, slicing into his skin ever so slightly, a drop of blood running over the ice. “A trick…a clone…something but you’re not Seto. I know Seto Kaiba and you’re not--” he laughs harder, “You don’t know me! I’m an egotistical asshole who doesn’t need anyone and wants to watch the world fall at my feet.” Even though Lillian knew this wasn’t her beloved, it still hurt to her seeing someone use his face and voice to say such horrible things and try to do something horrible to her…

Speaking of what he did, she was trying her best to ignore throbbing pain in her midsection as several of her wounds had opened and was bleeding through her medical robe…her body quivering slight as the adrenaline was wearing off. The man before her simply smirked, “You’re not looking too hot. You know I could get you some help…” she glared at him as she held her stomach, “Why would you help me?” he shrugs as he looked at her with condescension, “I’m not offering to help you…just putting it on the table…you’re more useful for me alive than dead.”

It was true; Noah had more use for her alive than dead. However this weird power thing she had going on was throwing a some issues into his plans…and even though it was a virtual world and none of this was real since technically her body was out in the real world, if her mind died in here then she would be brain dead out there…and that would be much greater blow for Seto than turning her against him. So all he needed to do was to stall for time and let her ‘bleed out’ and wait for her to die.

She didn’t want to believe him but she didn’t have a lot of options. With her wounds reopened and being trapped in the middle of nowhere she was sure she was going to bleed out again if she didn’t get help…so she chose to hear what this fake had to say, “What do you want from me?”

“Simple…a duel.”

Lillian raised a brow, “Seriously? A duel?”

“Why not? If you defeat me then I’ll take you somewhere to get medical attention. Seems fair doesn’t it?” he smirked, his blue eyes glinting with something evil. Lillian had to admit that this sounded stupid and too good to be true and she didn’t trust him but…

“Fine…I accept your challenge…” she waved her hand and the ice encapsulating the false Seto melted away. He chuckles darkly as a duel disk appears on his arm and one appearing on Lillian’s. She was confused for a moment before remembering that upon walking into the room and meeting the Big 5, they had mentioned every would be sent to some kind of digital world…so that’s what this place was…it explains the abomination that was in front of her.

Rows of cards appeared in front of her, hundreds of duel monsters cards. The fake Seto explained the rules and the aspect of a deck master which would’ve been interesting if she wasn’t duel for her life (one of the weirdest thing ever).

She searched through the cards and chose ones she thought could work against Seto’s deck (if he would even be using the same deck as her beloved but she suspected he would be if he was trying to make her believe he was her Kaiba). She saw a card she didn’t recognise…‘Maiden with Blue Eyes’. Its effect could be useful for her stagey…if she could get it to work that is. She selected the card and a few others, soon having her deck…she decided to use the Maiden card as her deck master and of course the fake Seto used a Blue Eyes White dragon as his…because of course.

Lillian holds her own for a while, she had made the right choice in picking cards that would work against Seto’s deck since the fake was using all his strategies…she was fine but was growing weaker with each passing turn as her robe was nearly soaked with her blood at this point…her vision growing blurry. The fake Kaiba could see she was struggling and decided to use his deck masters ability and summons two more Dragons and Fusing them with his deck master to form Blue Eyes Ultimate dragon. With a smirk he blasted Lillian’s monster on the field, the burst of energy knocking the raven head back, sending her flying back and slamming into a tree. She falls to the ground in a heap, her life points nearly at zero. She can barely stand as she was on the verge of unconsciousness…to her surprise her deck master is at her side and helps her to stand…

The false Seto laughs manically, “Any last words before I end you next turn?” Lillian glared at him weakly as her eyes started to glow, the sky filling with dark clouds as a harsh wind starts blowing…

Alarms started going off on one of the screens swirling around Noah, alerting him that something was happening to the system. He frowned as he tried to fix it but nothing was working. He turned his attention to the duel between his program and Lillian, the screen going static.

She slowly stands on her own as her tattoos light up, “This duel is over.” She declares as she draws a card and turns to her deck master, the white haired girl nodding before closing her eyes and clasping her hands together, her whole body glowing as the Ultimate dragon is moved to Lillian’s side of the field to fake Seto’s surprise, “H-how?” Lillian took a shaky step forward, “The Maiden with Blue Eyes special ability let’s her summon ever Blue Eyes monster that has been played to her side of the field for one turn…including the 3 you used to create you great beast…” his graveyard slot glowed as 3 beams of light shot out of it and flew towards Lillian’s side of the field, forming 3 dragons. They all snarled at the false Seto as he took a step back, the wind blowing harder as lightning strikes the sand between the two duellists, grains of dirt going everywhere, leaving a creator of glass.

More alarms go off as Noah starts to panic.

“You used Seto’s face to torment me, you used his words to turn him into something he’s not and you used his hands to hurt me!” Lillian‘s voice boomed over the howling wind, raining starting to pour heavily as one of the dragons roars in anger, “There’s only one true keeper of these beasts and it’s not you…” it sounded like another voice was echoing with Lillian’s, a voice filled with rage as she raised her arm, “…And now they will send you to oblivion! WHITE LIGHTENING ATTACK!” she belted out, a waved of sonic energy leaves her throat, encircling the beams of energy that come streaming out of the 4 dragons mouthed, creating an overwhelming attack that obliterated the fake Seto and most of the island.

Noah’s system goes haywire for a second before Lillian’s screen goes dark, losing signal to her location. His eyes wide as he doesn’t know what to make of this…

Lillian’s vision slowly goes black as she collapses to the ground, unconsciousness taking over as the duel disk around her arm disappears as well as the Ultimate dragon, the maiden and 2 of the others…one remaining. It hovers over Lillian’s pale near lifeless body, slowly leaning down, pressing its snout against the girl and nudging her gently to try and wake her up but she doesn’t respond. It makes some kind of soft distressed sound before it slowly disappears…and in the sand where it had once stood…was Lillian’s Blue Eyes necklace…

While Noah was still trying to regain a connection with Lillian’s location, he gets another alert…he turns his chair to look at the screen…the data on it revealing that some kind of virus was in the system…how was this even possible??! Could this day get in stranger?!

Elsewhere…in a pool of black ink and shadows a figure slowly rose from the ooze, a tall slender figure…the ink slowly sinking into the persons skin, revealing caramel coloured flesh, covered in red and black symbol tattoos, her fingers blackened, her hair a deep red, her eyes golden, long black skirt with slits running from the top of her thighs to her feet, exposing her curved thighs and calves that had markings on them too…her breasts were covered in a black fabric bindings, leaving her toned midsection exposed…she looks down at her hands and down at her body, running her fingers over her warm skin as a smirk forms on her lips, revealing her fangs…it had been 5000 years since she last had a physical form…she didn’t know how it was possible but here she was…

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