Hi all! Sorry for not posting sooner, but it's my last year at high school and I had a lead role in a ballet production, so my schedule has been pretty full these last few months, with exams and applying for uni and dancing every day…
Oh well.
These are a few random chapters that are the result of my reading creepy poetry and not having enough sleep.
Enjoy!
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Chapter One: The first Domino to fall…This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper…
Fire…
Blood…
Screaming…
It sent a little thrill of excitement through his heart as he surveyed the damage his devoted army had done to his former hometown. The good of all mankind, that was what they were fighting for. He and his followers were there to ensure the continued future of earth. After all, what was the point of being a Hikari if one didn't shine one's light for the entire world to see? His laughter echoed through the damaged streets as he turned to face his 'friends'.
There was Joey, sporting a black eye and bloodied nose that he earned while trying to fight off the soldiers. Beside him was Tristan, looking a little worse for wear as he stood slightly in front of Joey's little sister, Serenity, as though to shield her. How pathetic. There stood Tea. She looked as if she were going to cry. What a shame. Next to her, Seto Kaiba's perpetual sneer had been replaced by a look of utter horror and he was clinging tightly to his little brother, Mokuba, who looked as though he were going to be sick.
"What's the matter? Aren't you enjoying my little celebration?" Yugi asked snidely. Not bothering to wait for a reply, he turned his attention to his right, watching the arrival of his fellow Lights.
Malik was cackling wildly, his lavender eyes gleaming red in the reflected light of the fire and blood spattered across his tanned face and dripping from his flaxen hair. Ryou was beside him, smiling in that vague, angelic way of his, despite the gore that covered his companion and the devastation all around him.
"Sorry that we're late," he apologized politely, "but Malik got a little distracted at Domino High." Yugi merely grinned.
"Let me guess, the Gym teacher?" Malik's cackling slowed to an evil snigger and Ryou sighed.
"I do wish you wouldn't encourage him so. He's so messy. Honestly, why am I the only one capable of doing this without involving the most destructive methods possible?"
"Because you're neurotic and a neat-freak?" Yugi asked innocently.
"True, true," Ryou acknowledged, before finally noticing the captured teens staring at him, aghast. His eyes twinkled with genuine pleasure at seeing them, but his smile was pointed and sharp as a tiger's.
"Guests? Good thing we brought some of our own," he said silkily, gesturing behind him. His father, along with Yugi's grandpa and Malik's brother and sister, were 'escorted' forward by several of the soldiers.
"Grandpa!" Yugi exclaimed brightly. "I'm so glad to see you! Come see what we've done! Isn't it beautiful? Soon, the whole world will see that our way is the best way, and peace will reign."
The old man seemed on the verge of a heart attack and could not tear his gaze from the monster he once called his grandson. He seemed to radiate light and his face shone with pride and excitement. But his eyes… his eyes were the true sign that boy before him was no longer his beloved Yugi. Once amethyst pools of innocence, they glittered cruelly and insanity flickered in their depths, like the fires of hell. Like the fires of Domino. He could not wrap his mind around the fact that his peaceful little grandson was now a murderous dictator, commanding legions of rabid fanatics who would die at his word without hesitation.
It seemed like Ryou and Malik's relations were suffering from similar reality-checks. Ishizu was crying silently, unable to look Malik in the face, while Odion was on his knees, begging Malik to come to his senses. Ryou's father's face was strangely pale and he kept opening his mouth, as though trying to say something, but nothing emerged. He cringed when his son looked thoughtfully his way.
"Moto, why?" came a strangled voice. Yugi twisted to see Kaiba, a pleading look in his usually haughty eyes.
"Because the world was not going to change on its own, Kaiba. Surely you of all people could see that? We had no choice really. Humans need guidance, they need leadership. All this fumbling around with nations and conferences is just leading us further down the road to annihilation. We need to unite as one planet, and who better to lead than the three of us?" Yugi said calmly, as though explaining to a particularly slow child. There was no response to that. What could anyone really say? In the silence that followed (which seemed louder than the background noise of the final moments of the once proud city of Domino), Yugi, Ryou and Malik climbed to the top of a mound of rubble and stared proudly down at the work of art they had designed.
"I've got an idea!" Malik said suddenly, his voice loud with barely suppressed enthusiasm. The other two watched him curiously. "Let's invade Disneyland next!"
First Disneyland, and then the world!
I hope you guys liked that. There will be a few more on the way. Let me know what you think!
Lotsa love
DeadFoxy