Second out in the "AU where the Ishtar siblings' actions causes the two Bearers and Spirits to Fall" series; Meisa
Inspired by Anna's villain song, with some lyrics from Anastasia's villain song too, on Youtube by Lydia the Bard
for @enneadau
Meisa both knew and felt it, the moment as Yugi's soul left her body.
"NO!! Yugi! YYYYUUUUUUUGGGGIIIII!!!""
She reached out with all the magic, fanatically trying to grab the soul of her Imoto.
"No...no...no...no!"
Her fear and desperation was not new. She knew that horrible feeling growing inside her heart, from the memory of Atem's death at the hand of Anubis.
"No....!"
The visions of her parents and siblings which Azra had shown her in Toyko. flashed around her. Alongside Yugi's memoires of her parents and grandfather. Her family, in different ways.
The Kame Game Shop, the royal palace back in Egypt, both places being her home...
Ba-Khu-Ra....and Mahad. Her two lovers back in Anicent Egypt.
Ishizu had taken them all away from her, all because she refused to accept that Yugi had found all the loopholes in her game and would still win.
Home, love, family, friends...
Without Yugi, she would never be complete....
Without Yugi, she would never be able to defeat Zorc, regain her True Name, keep her promise to Ba-Khu-Ra about freeing the souls of her people and get them to the Afterlife, alongside herself....
Without Yugi's help, she would never be able to free Atem from the Shadows as well...
She would never be complete...
Ice-cold despair filled Meisa as she knelt, somehow her arms forming how to hold a infant, as if a faint echo of her son could be felt there. The son, who she had given up, whose face she could not remember.
And now would never do that.
All thanks to the Tomb Keepers, who claimed to be her allies, yet kept hurting her, Yugi and everyone else they cared for.
"I will never be complete....I will never be complete...all thanks to YOU!!""
With tears falling down alongside her cheeks and her anger burning with desire to HURT AND PUNISH those who had taken away everything which had given her current "life" meaning even as she remained a spirit without a body of her own, it was far too easily for the piece of Zorc sealed inside the Puzzle to cloak her in shadows.
When Meisa opened her eyes, hearing the sound of the Seal breaking, they were no longer ruby-red, but a burning amber and her jacket had changed into a blood-red cloak which somehow felt familiar, as if she had seen someone wear it back in Ancient Egypt.
Marik had, honestly, gone into full-blown panic mood upon both sensing and seeing the tidal wave of Shadows entering the world as the Seal broke.
"Ishizu...? Ishizu?!"
What had happened to make the Seal break?! The Pharaoh would’ve never let herself be killed. Endangering Yugi that much to the point of kiling her, when they still needed her to keep the seal alive, wasn’t smart. He thought his sister knew better than that.
Right?
Surely Ishizu could NOT have done what the Thief Queen claimed, that she would actually poison Yugi? He wanted to believe that the Thief Queen had lied when she’d accused his sister of poisoning the soul of the Pharaoh’s vessel.
They just wanted to finally get that freedom to live their lives as they pleased, with no loyality to a long-death Pharaoh, no more scarring on their backs like his own! No more of living in the darkness underground!
“You’re a family of hypocrites.” “You lecture her Highness about having to hurt the ones she loves and how she has to sacrifice everything to follow your precious plan, but ask one of you to do the same and suddenly you’re willing to do anything but that.”
And yet the words of Ba-Khu-Ra echoed in his mind, as Marik ran around, praying to find his siblings before something worse happened.
"Rishid! Rishid! Ishizu?!"
"Marik!"
Seeing his little brother coming running in the distance, Rishid tried to support himself against a traffic light, to avoid collapsing in the amount of Shadows around him.
TRAITORS! TRAITORS!! TRAITORS!!
The Shadows was whispering those words in his ears, filled with hate and desire to hurt, before both Marik and Rishid suddenly was grabbed by their ankles and dragged along the ground.
"Ah!"
"Help!"
They tried to grab anything to held onto, but the Shadows was far stronger.
Outside the museum, Azra had just spotted someone she had not expected to see.
"....Shadi?"
She had been unnerved by the Pharaoh telling back in Toyko that Shadi had been the first Tomb Keeper Yugi had come in contact with, and not given a good impression.
"...The Pharaoh....has died?"
How could he sound so surprised, with all the Shadows around him?! Azra did not know what he had aimed for, by appearing in front of Ishizu like that, or what he had told the younger woman, but that did not matter now.
"Are you blind and deaf?! Did you not sense the Seal breaking....?!"
She never got to say anymore, before all three of the Ishtar siblings was dumped on the ground from above. Worse, her Necklace, the Rod, the Key and the Scales....
None of them seemed to work in keeping the Shadows at a distance, or even to control them.
"Agh!"
All five of them was grabbed roughly by Shadow forms and forced to kneel, as Meisa appeared.
"I have enough of your hypocrisy."
The clear view of her eyes being amber, told them what had happened upon Yugi's death. That Meisa had Fallen.
"P...Pharaoh...." Azra attemped to say in a trembling voice, but sadly, it did not seem like Shadi really understood what had happened.
"Your vessel failed the test to be proved worthy of the God Cards needed to defeat the Demon and be able to undergo the Ceremonial Duel to send you back to the Afterlife."
"SILENCE!!"
The furious scream drowned out all other sounds, as did the wave of magic from Meisa.
"I want to hear NO MORE PEACHING from any of you about "doing my duty" or anything such! All of you, every member of the Tomb Keeper tribe I’ve run into has had the same goal! Pushing me into doing something I am not ready for by forcing me into battle! Endangering those near and dear to me when I have requested to do things in a way that will mean less pain and suffering for everyone! Thanks to you insisting on me doing things as YOU want and NOT LISTENING to anything I say, Yugi is DEAD!! I WILL NEVER REGAIN MY MEMORIES, MY TRUE NAME, OR JOIN MY FAMILY AGAIN...ALL THANKS TO YOU!!"
She was openly crying in anger, and was not going to let any of them try to say a single word. And behind her, something was taking form:
The type of doors to a Pharaohic grave, like those in the Valley of the Kings. All three of the Ishtar siblings paled in terror at seeing the darkness behind the doors, having hoped to escape that underground darkness forever. Even Azra seemed scared of what this could mean:
"By doing all this and insisting that this "is the only way to do things" on, you betrayed what my cousin Seth hoped for, right? He intended for the Tomb Keepers to be my allies, and yet look what your indifference to anything else outside duty and family have caused! Traitors to the Pharaoh....was buried alive! But I will not let you die that easily from hunger, tirst or a lack of air..."
The Shadows was grabbing the souls of the four alive Tomb Keepers, dragging those out from their bodies, while Shadi already was in spirit form.
"There was one thing which held me back from doing those sorts of Penalty Games, and that was YUGI showing me how kindness is more effective to chance things! This is my Penalty Game, as punishment for destroying the chance to regain my True Name and memories...."
All five souls of the Tomb Keepers was tossed inside a separate tomb, and the doors was slowly getting shut by the Shadows as well.
"You shall return to the exact same underground darkness, which you wanted to escape, forever!"
She did not hear the horrified screamings, the pleading from inside the tombs, as the doors was closed. They had proved to be a danger to humankind by insisting that there was only one way to "do her duty" with no alternatives, and it had cost her everything.
So as their eternal punishment, their souls being unable to do anything else than seeing the damage of their actions, they would never leave the darkness of their catatombs again.
