November 2nd: - 1689 Words
Aylth was a newcomer to the Dark Palace and sometimes she felt rather uncomfortable being there. It hadn’t been long since the war between the Dark Kingdom and the Light Lands had finally come to a cease and, as a powerful Light Spellcaster, Aylth often found herself avoided, out of fear or disgust, challenged by Dark Spellcasters who wanted to test their strength, or even hated by the weaker, lower level Dark monsters who would never be able to stand up to her.
It was why she spent so much time with Lady Mana, the co-ruler of the Dark Kingdoms and a partner in the deck of Aylth’s human partner, the human witch called Hermione. Not that that had been the case for more than a few weeks. Aylth had claimed Hermione, who often duelled against the Pharaohs of Light and Dark, as her human from almost the moment that the girl had gotten her hands on her card, but Mana had only joined the deck recently after her former deck owner had asked her to look after the girl if something happened to her and had then been killed during a tournament, leaving Mana’s card to Hermione in her will.
It was also why she was present in the throne room when Mahado, the ‘first’ Dark Magician and the Lord of the Dark Kingdom, returned from the human world with the Dark Pharaoh and the Guardian in tow.
“Mahado?” Mana, predictably, dropped everything, not that Aylth could blame her, it was, after all, incredibly unusual to bring your human partner through the Shadow Realm to the Realm of Monsters, especially when you considered the possible harm that it could cause to the human in question, and for Mahado to risk the Dark Pharaoh’s health and sanity like that meant that something had to be very wrong.
“Are you alright, my Pharaoh?” Mahado asked, helping the Dark Pharaoh to his feet as Mana helped the Guardian up.
“I am.” The Dark Pharaoh, Atem, nodded, looking around. “Where are we?”
“This is the Dark Palace, the centre point of the Kingdom I hold.” Mahado informed him, already looking around for the Dark Knight that was supposed to be on duty today and beckoning Aylth over when he didn’t see him.
Warily, for while she was stronger than Mahado easily, the Dark Magician had access to magics that she would never be able to use, the Millennium Witch approached the Lord of the Dark Kingdom and the Dark Pharaoh, the latter of whom nodded at her sharply as Mahado spoke. “Aylth, do you know where Vala is? I need her to send word to Kisara for me.”
Vala was a Wingweaver, a powerful high level fairy monster, who had been acting as the liaison between the Light Lands and Dark Kingdom since the war had come to a close and whose human partner was a Seer, “I’ll find her.” Aylth nodded, knowing that, if Vala’s normal schedule was anything to go by, Vala would either be around Kkwy Library, the Dark Kingdom’s answer to the Royal Magical Library, or she would be out in the grounds, “What is it you’d like me to tell her?”
“Yes Mahado, what’s going on?” Mana demanded, both concerned and furious that her significant other hadn’t discussed bringing the Pharaoh and the Guardian to the Monster World and that he’d risk their safety like this when he hadn’t allowed her to do the same for her former deck master.
Mahado hesitated, causing the Pharaoh to look at him sharply. “Mahado, you should tell them. After all we’re going to need all the help that we can get.” Atem’s voice was low, almost a growl, and his anger was almost palatable, making Aylth wonder what had happened.
“Medan got through to the human world.” Mahado’s worlds caused Aylth to hiss and Mana to look worried, both aware that the red Dark Magician had been causing trouble for the first Dark Magician for around five hundred years but had only really started to be particularly dangerous since his recent research.
“Is everyone alright?” Mana asked, worried, wondering why Atem and Joey would be here if Medan was causing trouble in their world, especially without those who the two were sworn to protect.
“Ombre is fine. She’s helping Gramps and Sirius clear up the mess Medan made of the flat above the Game Shop.” Joey said, finally speaking up. “But Medan grabbed Yugi and Harry managed to get himself dragged along.”
“Grabbed... he didn’t...” Mana looked rather pale at that news, “What happened...?”
“Yugi was knocked out in the fighting.” Atem said heavily, wishing he’d drawn a trap card to defend his hikari, but he hadn’t thought at the time, “And when it became obvious that Medan was going to lose, he took Yugi hostage and returned to your world. Harry grabbed a hold of Yugi before Medan could disappear, so he got pulled along when Medan jumped.”
Aylth swore under her breath before speaking aloud, “I’ll find Vala.” She promised the first Dark Magician and his human partner, unwilling to hesitate when losing more friends would hurt her partner, “I know Kisara, she has great respect for Yugi. She won’t stand for this.”
“Thank you, Aylth.” Atem nodded to her, having met the Millennium Witch just the week or so before when she had travelled to the human world for the first time with Mana’s aid, and still not completely trusting of the Light Spellcaster, though only because he hadn’t gotten to know her yet, where as he knew a lot of the other monsters who were partnered with his friends.
Aylth didn’t reply, but merely shot out of the throne room, heading down to the library first. She’d known for a while that the Pharaohs tended to get caught up in any mess that involved their friends, after all she’d been asking for information about the friends of the girl she’d chosen long before she’d actually managed to meet the witch in person, but she’d thought that, with Medan’s apparent inability to get into the human world, that the war that had been going on between Mahado’s troops and Medan’s forces would have passed them by completely.
She found Vala in the library, looking over the books that were normally reserved for the Dark Magicians who lived in the area. “It’s not like you,” The Wingweaver commented as Aylth came into view, “To step foot here. Your preference is for the books of the Royal Magical Library, not the books here which appear to have been written by Dark Sorcerers for Dark Sorcerers.” Vala turned to look at her properly, “Something must be wrong.”
Aylth, all too aware of the fact that, at some point, the greater majority of those who lived in the Dark Palace had looked to either of the Pharaohs, even if it was for an incredibly short time, looked around to check there was no one in hearing range before she spoke, “Mahado needs to speak with Kisara, urgently, and you’re the only one who can get through to her quickly.”
“Mahado could, if he’s so desperate.” Vala pointed out, getting a little fed up of the Dark Magician’s reliance on her swift lines of communication.
“Mahado is a little busy looking after the Dark Pharaoh and searching out where Medan’s gone with the Light one and the Prince.”
“I did wonder who that dark presence I felt arriving was.” Vala sounded almost bored, frustrating Aylth, “I’m surprised they haven’t been invaded by people wanting to know who the new Duel Monster is.”
“The Pharaoh’s not a…”
“He will be if he stays here too long. As will anyone else dragged here, you know that as well as I do.” Vala cut her off with a sharp look. “Has anyone warned the Dark Pharaoh of that fact yet?”
“I don’t know.” Aylth admitted, having wondered if the Guardian and the Dark Pharaoh had been told about the effect the ‘Realm of Monsters’ could have on them and their friends.
Vala nodded, heading out of the library, Aylth in tow. “And I take it the dark fire I sensed was the Guardian and he hasn’t been told either.” Aylth just nodded, wondering what Vala was planning. “All right, I’ll contact Kisara, but you should warn Mana, if she doesn’t warn the mortals before I run into them I will and they will probably be annoyed.” Vala said, getting a nod from the Millennium Witch in return. “Oh and I’d suggest that someone gets in contact with Boh or Wolf. If anyone’s going to find their partners it’ll be one of those two.”
Aylth blinked, having not thought of that and wondering if anyone else had as Vala paused in the doorway that led outside to consider her, “Go back to the throne room. I have a feeling that the Pharaoh’s going to want to know more about what Medan’s been up to and I can bet someone will be needed to go through the notes that were found in his study.”
Aylth nodded, understanding. Every Magician had a study which they normally shared with their apprentice and Medan had been no different. He’d had a study which he’d shared with Soraya, his apprentice, until Soraya, unhappy with her Master’s studies and the plans that he was building and wanting no part of them, had gone to Mahado and warned the Lord of the Dark Kingdom that Medan had been studying the magic of the Reaper of the Cards.
After the fight that had resulted from that and Medan’s banishment from the Dark Kingdom, Soraya had sworn her loyalty to Subhan, the blue Dark Magician whose card rested in Yugi’s deck, and Medan’s study had been sealed up with wards that were supposedly unbreakable.
But then Mahado had thought his protective wards on the Game Shop would have prevented Medan entering the building and look what had happened there...
“I’ll inform Mahado the moment I’ve gotten a reply.” Vala promised, looking ill amused by the turn of events, “Now shoo.”
On that note Aylth left.
It was why she spent so much time with Lady Mana, the co-ruler of the Dark Kingdoms and a partner in the deck of Aylth’s human partner, the human witch called Hermione. Not that that had been the case for more than a few weeks. Aylth had claimed Hermione, who often duelled against the Pharaohs of Light and Dark, as her human from almost the moment that the girl had gotten her hands on her card, but Mana had only joined the deck recently after her former deck owner had asked her to look after the girl if something happened to her and had then been killed during a tournament, leaving Mana’s card to Hermione in her will.
It was also why she was present in the throne room when Mahado, the ‘first’ Dark Magician and the Lord of the Dark Kingdom, returned from the human world with the Dark Pharaoh and the Guardian in tow.
“Mahado?” Mana, predictably, dropped everything, not that Aylth could blame her, it was, after all, incredibly unusual to bring your human partner through the Shadow Realm to the Realm of Monsters, especially when you considered the possible harm that it could cause to the human in question, and for Mahado to risk the Dark Pharaoh’s health and sanity like that meant that something had to be very wrong.
“Are you alright, my Pharaoh?” Mahado asked, helping the Dark Pharaoh to his feet as Mana helped the Guardian up.
“I am.” The Dark Pharaoh, Atem, nodded, looking around. “Where are we?”
“This is the Dark Palace, the centre point of the Kingdom I hold.” Mahado informed him, already looking around for the Dark Knight that was supposed to be on duty today and beckoning Aylth over when he didn’t see him.
Warily, for while she was stronger than Mahado easily, the Dark Magician had access to magics that she would never be able to use, the Millennium Witch approached the Lord of the Dark Kingdom and the Dark Pharaoh, the latter of whom nodded at her sharply as Mahado spoke. “Aylth, do you know where Vala is? I need her to send word to Kisara for me.”
Vala was a Wingweaver, a powerful high level fairy monster, who had been acting as the liaison between the Light Lands and Dark Kingdom since the war had come to a close and whose human partner was a Seer, “I’ll find her.” Aylth nodded, knowing that, if Vala’s normal schedule was anything to go by, Vala would either be around Kkwy Library, the Dark Kingdom’s answer to the Royal Magical Library, or she would be out in the grounds, “What is it you’d like me to tell her?”
“Yes Mahado, what’s going on?” Mana demanded, both concerned and furious that her significant other hadn’t discussed bringing the Pharaoh and the Guardian to the Monster World and that he’d risk their safety like this when he hadn’t allowed her to do the same for her former deck master.
Mahado hesitated, causing the Pharaoh to look at him sharply. “Mahado, you should tell them. After all we’re going to need all the help that we can get.” Atem’s voice was low, almost a growl, and his anger was almost palatable, making Aylth wonder what had happened.
“Medan got through to the human world.” Mahado’s worlds caused Aylth to hiss and Mana to look worried, both aware that the red Dark Magician had been causing trouble for the first Dark Magician for around five hundred years but had only really started to be particularly dangerous since his recent research.
“Is everyone alright?” Mana asked, worried, wondering why Atem and Joey would be here if Medan was causing trouble in their world, especially without those who the two were sworn to protect.
“Ombre is fine. She’s helping Gramps and Sirius clear up the mess Medan made of the flat above the Game Shop.” Joey said, finally speaking up. “But Medan grabbed Yugi and Harry managed to get himself dragged along.”
“Grabbed... he didn’t...” Mana looked rather pale at that news, “What happened...?”
“Yugi was knocked out in the fighting.” Atem said heavily, wishing he’d drawn a trap card to defend his hikari, but he hadn’t thought at the time, “And when it became obvious that Medan was going to lose, he took Yugi hostage and returned to your world. Harry grabbed a hold of Yugi before Medan could disappear, so he got pulled along when Medan jumped.”
Aylth swore under her breath before speaking aloud, “I’ll find Vala.” She promised the first Dark Magician and his human partner, unwilling to hesitate when losing more friends would hurt her partner, “I know Kisara, she has great respect for Yugi. She won’t stand for this.”
“Thank you, Aylth.” Atem nodded to her, having met the Millennium Witch just the week or so before when she had travelled to the human world for the first time with Mana’s aid, and still not completely trusting of the Light Spellcaster, though only because he hadn’t gotten to know her yet, where as he knew a lot of the other monsters who were partnered with his friends.
Aylth didn’t reply, but merely shot out of the throne room, heading down to the library first. She’d known for a while that the Pharaohs tended to get caught up in any mess that involved their friends, after all she’d been asking for information about the friends of the girl she’d chosen long before she’d actually managed to meet the witch in person, but she’d thought that, with Medan’s apparent inability to get into the human world, that the war that had been going on between Mahado’s troops and Medan’s forces would have passed them by completely.
She found Vala in the library, looking over the books that were normally reserved for the Dark Magicians who lived in the area. “It’s not like you,” The Wingweaver commented as Aylth came into view, “To step foot here. Your preference is for the books of the Royal Magical Library, not the books here which appear to have been written by Dark Sorcerers for Dark Sorcerers.” Vala turned to look at her properly, “Something must be wrong.”
Aylth, all too aware of the fact that, at some point, the greater majority of those who lived in the Dark Palace had looked to either of the Pharaohs, even if it was for an incredibly short time, looked around to check there was no one in hearing range before she spoke, “Mahado needs to speak with Kisara, urgently, and you’re the only one who can get through to her quickly.”
“Mahado could, if he’s so desperate.” Vala pointed out, getting a little fed up of the Dark Magician’s reliance on her swift lines of communication.
“Mahado is a little busy looking after the Dark Pharaoh and searching out where Medan’s gone with the Light one and the Prince.”
“I did wonder who that dark presence I felt arriving was.” Vala sounded almost bored, frustrating Aylth, “I’m surprised they haven’t been invaded by people wanting to know who the new Duel Monster is.”
“The Pharaoh’s not a…”
“He will be if he stays here too long. As will anyone else dragged here, you know that as well as I do.” Vala cut her off with a sharp look. “Has anyone warned the Dark Pharaoh of that fact yet?”
“I don’t know.” Aylth admitted, having wondered if the Guardian and the Dark Pharaoh had been told about the effect the ‘Realm of Monsters’ could have on them and their friends.
Vala nodded, heading out of the library, Aylth in tow. “And I take it the dark fire I sensed was the Guardian and he hasn’t been told either.” Aylth just nodded, wondering what Vala was planning. “All right, I’ll contact Kisara, but you should warn Mana, if she doesn’t warn the mortals before I run into them I will and they will probably be annoyed.” Vala said, getting a nod from the Millennium Witch in return. “Oh and I’d suggest that someone gets in contact with Boh or Wolf. If anyone’s going to find their partners it’ll be one of those two.”
Aylth blinked, having not thought of that and wondering if anyone else had as Vala paused in the doorway that led outside to consider her, “Go back to the throne room. I have a feeling that the Pharaoh’s going to want to know more about what Medan’s been up to and I can bet someone will be needed to go through the notes that were found in his study.”
Aylth nodded, understanding. Every Magician had a study which they normally shared with their apprentice and Medan had been no different. He’d had a study which he’d shared with Soraya, his apprentice, until Soraya, unhappy with her Master’s studies and the plans that he was building and wanting no part of them, had gone to Mahado and warned the Lord of the Dark Kingdom that Medan had been studying the magic of the Reaper of the Cards.
After the fight that had resulted from that and Medan’s banishment from the Dark Kingdom, Soraya had sworn her loyalty to Subhan, the blue Dark Magician whose card rested in Yugi’s deck, and Medan’s study had been sealed up with wards that were supposedly unbreakable.
But then Mahado had thought his protective wards on the Game Shop would have prevented Medan entering the building and look what had happened there...
“I’ll inform Mahado the moment I’ve gotten a reply.” Vala promised, looking ill amused by the turn of events, “Now shoo.”
On that note Aylth left.