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Evading Destiny	By : Jeanne Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 7707 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh and all its characters are the property of Kazuki Takahashi, Shueisha, Konami, Toei, & unfortunately 4 Kids Entertainment. In other words I don't own them and I'm not making any money off of this I'm just a fangirl having

Chapter List
- 1-Evading Destiny
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-6
- 7-7
- 8-8
- 9-9
- 10-10
- 11-11
- 12-12
- 13-13
- 14-14
- 15-15
- 16-16
- 17-17
- 18-18
- 19-19
- 16
- 17
- 18
Title: Evading Destiny

Part: 17/19

Author: Murasaki Rose

Beta: none

Genre: Romance/Fantasy/AU

Rating: NC-17

Spoilers: Yami Yuugi's real name

Warnings: Yaoi (male x male), implied Mpreg

Pairings: YYxY, SxJxS, DxT, YBxR, YMxM

Minor Pairings: BMGxA, BMxK, TxCxH, HxO, PxC, IxM

Disclaimer: Here we go. Yu-Gi-Oh and all its characters are the property of
Kazuki Takahashi, Shueisha, Konami, Toei, and unfortunately, 4 Kids Entertainment.
In other words, I don't own them and I'm not making any money off of this, I'm just a
fangirl having some fun.

A/N: "text" = speech, 'text' = thought, ((text)) = telepathy
Summary: Sequel to Retrieving Destiny. Months
after their fateful trip to Egypt, the reunited soul mates continue to adjust to their new
life in Domino as well as the modern teens' impending graduation. Things appear to
be going well until a strange series of seemingly random attacks and bizarre accidents
begin plaguing both the lights and their protectors, forcing their lovers into
action. In order to protect their mates, the ancient beings must now determine not
only the fate of the "lost" city of Atlantis, but also their entire
species! The race is on to find the answers before they all face annihilation at the
hands of an unknown enemy.

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"Holy . ." the brunet teen breathed,
staring in awe at the sight before him. What he was seeing defied all explanation
and at the same time was everything he'd seen in his dreams and more.

"Well done, Varon." Dartz congratulated
the youth before sweeping out the cabin door to meet his jubilant light.

The small, orange-haired hikari barely slowed his
run in time to grab Dartz' hand as he ran towards the bow of the boat nearly dragging his
lover behind him in his excitement. "Thank the gods, we found it and it's still
intact!"

Wrapping the small teen up in his arms, Dartz
held him tight, "Yes, my love, we have found it. We've found our home."

"Home," the small light murmured,
snuggling into his lover's embrace.

"Wow! Is that really Atlantis?!"
Miruko exclaimed, startling the pair. They'd been so caught up in their joy that
they hadn't noticed when they'd been joined by their companions.

Mai smiled down at the excited boy, "Sure is
kid."

Looking for Amelda, Isis noticed he was strangely
absent. "Where is your brother, little one?"

"Big brother's in the cabin with
Varon. He told me to stay out here with you guys."

Marik and Malik snickered playfully getting
glares from Isis and Mai and a confused head tilt from Miruko. What was so funny?

Inside the cabin, Varon continued to steer the
boat towards the island, Amelda's arms wrapped around his waist snugly, but not so tight
as to interfere. The newly-reunited lovers enjoying the view of their former home
dominating the sky in all its shining glory.

"Dreams don't do it justice," the
red-head stated, staring out the window in awe.

"Ain't that the truth," the brunet
agreed.

"Varon! The docks are straight
ahead!" Tomoya yelled from his place at the bow.

The spiky-haired brunet grabbed a pair of
binoculars to confirm the orange-haired teen's sighting. Sure enough, there was an
active marina with several open docks. Surveying the area, he noted that the only
potential problem with docking there was that the space might belong to one of the boats
already out in the open water. As a matter of fact the closer they got to the
island, the more boats and water craft they saw, each manned by humans or anthros.

At one point a water dragon began pacing the
boat, eventually lifting it's massive head out of the water to check out the craft's
occupants. The great beast had roared softly (For a dragon that is.) and Miruko had
squealed in delight, making the dragon's chest swell proudly before the water got too
shallow and it had to retreat to deeper waters. Further away, the teens caught sight
of a herd of hippocampus (1) splashing through the water, their whinnies and neighing
echoing across the water.

Not long after the dragon left them, a man popped
up out of the water and hailed their boat. After a brief discussion, the man offered
to lead them to an unoccupied docking space. Varon quickly agreed and offered to
throw him a rope to help him aboard, but the man declined. "It'll be faster if
I just swim ahead of you!" he'd replied, diving into the water and swimming about 20
yards away. Waving back at the wide-eyed group of newcomers he waited patiently for
them to recover from the shock of having seen his tail. This was his favorite part
of his job.

Chuckling at his companions, Dartz urged Varon to
get a move on. "Honestly, I'm surprised at all of you. It's not like he's
the first merman you've met."

"Well excuse me for being
reincarnated!" Malik snapped, crossing his arms across his chest and scowling.
"I'd never even met anyone with magic until a few months ago."

Hugging him and nuzzling his hair, Marik tried to
soothe his angry hikari. ((Don't feel bad mry. I've
never seen a merman before either. Egypt was poorly suited for them to be born in
our lands and it was too dangerous for them to live in the Nile.))

Mollified, the tanned hikari relaxed into his
darkness' embrace and enjoyed the ride through the marina. Soon enough, the group
reached the empty docking space where the merman helped tie off the boat before leaving
them with instructions to head west to reach the marina's exit.

"It appears they are used to new
arrivals," Isis commented as they helped Varon finish a few necessary tasks on the
boat before disembarking. Most of the group left their lifejackets safely on board
except for Miruko, whom neither Varon or Amelda would allow to take his off until he was
safely off the boat, then Varon ran his life jacket back up onboard.

As they headed for the exit, the group received
many friendly greetings from the people working in the marina. Their meeting with
the harbor master confirmed Isis' thought's when he had Varon register his boat.
Noting the brunet's discomfort, the man was quick to reassure him that the boat would be
perfectly safe for however long it remained docked there.

"What do you mean by that?" Varon
asked, the man's odd wording making him suspicious.

"Nothing bad, young man and if you'll just
go along with the fine fellows behind you, you'll get your answers soon enough."

Varon slammed his palms down onto the counter,
"What do you mean by that?!"

"Ah, Varon?" Amelda interrupted.

"Yes?"

"Turn around please."

Curious now, the brunet complied and came face to
face with a squad of Atlantean knights decked out in full armor.

"Oh great, just great!" he exclaimed,
throwing his hands up in exasperation.

x-x-x-x-x-x-x

After firmly, but politely informing the new
arrivals that they were to go with them, the knights led the group to an air boat roughly
the size of a small bus. To the surprise of the current Atlanteans, the entire group
boarded the craft with no complaint, seating themselves as if this was an everyday
occurrence with only the child and one of the teenagers having any sort of trouble.
They were an odd group; appearing to be neither the holiday vacationers the knights were
used to dealing with or the occasional treasure hunters. Still, it wasn't odd enough
to cause them any concern. They only had to escort them to the magistracy so they
could determine what sort of people had come to their island sanctuary this time.

As the craft took off, the delighted exclamation
from the young boy brought smiles to several of their faces. No matter how many
times they did this, the reactions they got from newcomers were always entertaining.

Poor Miruko didn't know where to look with all
the dragons, pegasus, air vehicles and people, some winged and some not, flying around
them. Laughing warmly, Amelda wrapped an arm around his little brother and directed
his attention to the city straight ahead: This gave him the best view of the traffic
heading to and from the magnificent city and even a glimpse of the tall spires of the
palace towers.

Communicating through their link, Dartz and
Tomoya observed the changes made over the millennia to the remains of their kingdom.
They had noticed straight away that there had been very few changes to the knight's
armor: The chain mail seemed to be a tighter coil and the enchantments seemed to be
stronger, as though the spells had been layered and merged and the armor still bore the
seal of the house of Atlantis, making Tomoya glad he had had the foresight to tuck the
pendant under his shirt before they had disembarked Varon's boat. Once they took to
the air boats seemed to be the same, but they could see glimpses of newer styles mixed
amongst the older ones as they approached the city. Descending to a lower level of
flight traffic, the air boat traveled down the streets just above the street level traffic
below. Tomoya instantly noticed that there had been very little, if any changes to
most of the architecture, but there were signs of modern progress dotting the populace
below. Traveling in the same lanes as the horse drawn carriages, chariots, and
carts, were vehicles of multiple types and eras. He'd noticed a similar variety of
crafts in the marina as well. Yet despite all the modern vehicles, their wasn't even
a trace of exhaust in the air, so the teen figured they were powering them
magically. On the sidewalks, street vendors were selling many familiar and some
not-so familiar foods. Some he remembered having in his first life and others, like
hotdogs, were definitely new additions. Clothing too, showed a great deal of
variety, mixing the classic Atlantean wear with styles from all over the world and from
different points in history.

Their short visual tour of the city came to an
end when they arrived at building that Tomoya vaguely recognized, but could not remember
it's purpose. Escorting them off the boat and into the building, the knights led
them through an impressive lobby, down a long corridor and into a fairly large room at the
far end. Lining them up in front of a long judicial bench and instructing them to
remain where they were, the squad of knights took positions around the room to wait.
Moments later the door off to their far right opened and in strode four figures: The
first was an elderly mage carrying a gnarled wooden staff nearly as tall as he was, the
second was a middle-aged woman who appeared human, but to anyone capable of reading
magical auras could tell, was a shape-shifter, the third was a man apparently the same age
as the woman, but was fully human with no discernable magic about him, and the fourth was
a young centaur who gave the newcomers a warm, gentle smile.

Checking their auras, as he did with all new
arrivals, the mage was stunned to find that not only did the entire group possess magic,
but that there were three light and dark pairs amongst them!
Keeping his expression neutral, he reminded himself that such occurrences were rare but
not unheard of, and assumed that the strange group must have banded together to find this
sanctuary.

"Welcome to Atlantis young ones," he
greeted warmly. "I'm happy to be the first to welcome you to your new home,
safe from persecution-"

"Um, excuse me, but we aren't really here to
stay," Tomoya interrupted.

Nonplussed, the mage went another route,
"Then you stumbled here by accident?"

"Not exactly, " Tomoya replied.
"We were looking for Atlantis, but not for a permanent place to live. You see,
my husband and I, along with Varon and Amelda here, are all originally from
Atlantis."

"Impossible! We have magically
recorded every birth in Atlantis since the city first went into hiding! Had you been
born here, the protection spells would have recognized you and not alerted us!" the
human magistate argued.

Shaking his head gently the Japanese hikari
smiled wryly, "I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. I was actually
referring to my former life. We-" he waved his hands indicating his companions,
"-died three thousand years ago and have only recently been reincarnated, with the
exception of my husband. He has spent the last three millennia sealed away in
this," the small teen explained patiently, pulling out the pendant from beneath his
shirt.

Taking his husband's hand and giving the others a
nod, the small teen and his darkness revealed their wings, the other yami and hikari
following suit. "My name is Tomoya Hanasaki, reincarnation of Queen Tryphon,
husband to King Dartz."

Smiling at his mate, Dartz followed his lead and
introduced himself, "Dartz, son of Ironheart, King of Atlantis, recently freed from a
three thousand year-long imprisonment."

"Marik, kkwy,
chief tomb builder and engineer of Per-aA Atem of Khemet's
court."

"Malik Ishtar, akhu
to Marik."

"Isis, kkwy,
Priestess and advisor of Per-aA Atem's court."

"Mai Kujaku, reincarnation of Mie, akhu
to Isis, and warrior of Per-aA Atem's court."

"Amelda, reincarnation of Athene, knight of
Atlantis, and member of King Dartz and Queen Tryphon's personal guard."

"Miruko, Amelda's little brother!"

"Varon, reincarnation of Polemistis, knight
of Atlantis, and member of King Dartz and Queen Tryphon's personal guard."

No one, not the four members of the magistracy or
the guards that had brought them there, could think of anything else to say in response to
such a bold statement. Never in all the millennia since their disappearance had
anyone dared claim to be the lost King and Queen of Atlantis!

A loud bang startled everyone in the room as the
large entrance doors burst open, admitting a huge black, serpentine dragon with glowing
yellow eyes and long sharp spines running down it's back.

"Master! It's really you!"
the beast exclaimed, nearly bowling Dartz over in his exuberance.

"L-Leviathan?" the aqua-haired man
stuttered as he struggled to regain his balance. Stunned, he still managed to wrap
his arms around the dragon's head to scratch behind his eye-ridges. He'd never
expected to see his loyal dragon again and from the way the beast kept nuzzling his chest,
he realized the dragon had clearly felt the same way.

Ignoring the gaping magistrates and knights,
Tomoya laughed happily. "All right Leviathan, I'm sure he missed you too."

"Tryphon!"

"Ack!"

And now Tomoya was struggling to stand up under
the dragon's affectionate nuzzles.

"I've never seen him so happy," a new
voice mused, drawing everyone's attention to the main entrance where a beautiful woman
with long teal hair and ocean-blue eyes stood watching the scene with obvious amusement.

"Your majesty!" the members of the
magistrate and the knights bowed while the new arrivals took note of the tiara on her
forehead and the unicursal pentagram pendant hanging from her neck.

Gesturing for the others to rise, she crossed the
room to stand in front of the Atlantean King, "You must be my great grand uncle
Dartz," she said carefully sizing him up before turning her attention to Hanasaki who
had finally gotten Leviathan to settle down. "And you must be my great grand
uncle-in-law Tryphon." She turned back to Dartz, "I am Sophia (2), current
Queen of Atlantis. I've seen pictures of you both in the library and the Great Hall but I
never imagined I would get the chance to meet you until a few months ago."

"How do you know we are who we claim to
be?"

"Three thousand years ago, your mother Queen
Aella (3), foresaw that you and your daughter were not dead and that your wife would
return and created three soul stones. The stones would glow when you returned to the
physical realm once more. Queen Tryphon's stone was the first to glow, six years
before the birth of my son. Then a few months ago I noticed that first your stone
and then your daughter's began to glow as well. Ever since that day, I have been
awaiting your return as has Leviathan. Eighteen years ago was the first time in
millennia that anyone had seen him show any great sign of emotion and when your stone lit
. . . he was hard to contain. He wanted to go right out and find you."

Tomoya stroked the dragon's muzzle
affectionately, "I'm glad you didn't. You would have caused all kinds of chaos
if you had."

"Hmph. I wanted to see you and
my master again."

Dartz on the other hand, was regarding the woman
before him thoughtfully. "You called me your uncle, yet I had no
siblings."

She smiled, "True. At the time of your
disappearance, you had no siblings, but two hundred years later, your mother gave birth to
another child, your sister Eirene (4). She was born a mage as have been all her
descendants, including myself and my son Noah." Smiling at the former King, she
gestured towards the door. "Please come to the palace and I will explain all
that has transpired over the last three thousand years."

Nodding the aqua-haired Atlantean agreed,
"Very well, and then we will explain why we have come as well."

She looked surprised, "You were not seeking
out your home?"

"Yes, but not for the reasons we had
originally intended."

"I see." Taking note of the grave
expressions on the faces of her uncle and his companions, Queen Sophia quickly realized
that this conversation was not for public ears. "Follow me then. We shall
finish this discussion in the privacy of the palace."

Sweeping out the doors, the current Queen headed
for her carriage, followed closely by Dartz and Tomoya, the rest of their group only a few
steps behind. While her guards scrambled to arrange transport for the rest of her
uncles' companions, the mage Queen couldn't shake the sense of foreboding. Whatever
news her uncle had brought, she knew it did not bode well for their future.

-

November 22, 2010

-edited March 28, 2011

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1 - Sea horse. But not the type you're used
to. Full horse-sized creatures with the upper body of a horse and the lower body of
a fish. Not to be confused with kelpies. Some tales have hippocampus as
carnivorous beings, but they aren't in this universe. Because horses are herbivores,
I thought they should be eating kelp and other ocean plants.

2 - Sophia. Ancient Greek - wisdom

3 - Aella. Ancient Greek - whirlwind
(Dartz' mother)

4 - Eirene. Ancient Greek; original form of
Irene (Dartz' sister)
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