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Punishment of Redemption: Yugioh Fanfiction (Complete)

Author: Serena_Walken

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Chapter 1: 1 Prologue The Satiah Card (Part 1)

It needs some explanation to follow it right, but if you can, I think you'll really enjoy the journey of the gods, apocalypses, and of course a few cards.:) Bear with this and the story will begin soon. (I will be cutting chapters into parts for you so it makes reading easier on your devices.)

Dimension 1 Follows the Manga: Yes, from the beginning to Dark Side of Dimensions special. If you only know the anime of it, I'll make a note of it whenever something comes up that needs explained. So, spoilers for manga and the movie expected. It will be labeled dimension 1 but if you forget you'll see the names of Jounouchi, Yuugi, Anzu, and so on.

Dimension 2 Follows the anime (English adaption for the sake of name organization. Joey, Tristan, Yugi, and so on.)

Whenever there is a huge difference between them, it will be explained. Dimension 1 gets the most writing/typing time, it is the one chosen to save the world. Dimension 2 is the dimension that has to pay the hefty bill dimension 1 needs. (Maybe I've watched too much Fullmetal Alchemist, but a price should always be paid.)

Warning: I did research for Ancient Egyptian gods, their beliefs about death, the soul, it's people, but there are many mythology stories and sides to it all and a lot of info. I tried to capture a glimpse without going too far. This story will reach into evil gods, good gods, apocalyptic times, relationships, god theories, meaning of a soul and so much more. If any of that offends you, do not read.

Anything else I left out?: Since webnovel doesn't have italics or bold and there will eventually be three spirits talking to hosts sometimes, I'll have to leave the name next to it's user and marks like these so you won't be confused. ///

I write original and fanfiction at this site, and I am hoping to get some of my original work contracted. So please, if you enjoy this, check out my original work too.

Okay, that's all done! Let's kick back and begin . . .

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DIMENSION 1: MANGA (Saves the Day)

Before Battle City, After Duelist Kingdom

Notes for Manga in this chapter: Pegasus never gave Yuugi a winning card. Pegasus actually died. Pegasus was actually American while Yuugi and his friends live in Domino City, Japan. The prologue is longer than the rest of the chapters.

Prologue: The Satiah Card part 1

Seto Kaiba had heard of every card. He knew of each of their powers. He knew their strengths and their weaknesses. He had tried to strive for perfection, experience with every card. The only ones he never could attain had belonged to Pegasus. Toonworld.

That's what he thought at least. Somehow, his company had found a new card. Considered fake or just a decoration someone made. Mokuba had actually been the one to find it, always trying to help him.

After purchasing, Mokuba said it was real. It wasn't fake, it worked with their duel disk system, modern and classics. So, Seto Kaiba took it for a spin.

The card had a pretty picture of a woman with blonde hair. It looked human, like a self-portrait, which is why Mokuba had checked for it deeply before bothering him with it. It was a picture of Cyndia, Pegasus' former love. But, it was also a working card. What did it do? Kaiba laid out the card on his virtual disc system.

The same appearance was there from the card. Besides not being happy the digital version looked exactly the same. "Alright," Seto Kaiba said, feeling somewhat foolish. It better not just smile and say 'hello, honey' or something like that. It probably did, considering who it was based off of. But, Seto knew every card. If it was a worthless card, he had to find out. "Now, let's see what you can do. Since I don't know the names of your attacks, or your attack power, we'll stick with the tried and true." Seto Kaiba pointed to the opposite side of the field to a weak enemy his employee was playing against him. He hated when amateur cards like this existed. No attack and no defense clearly written on the card. Maybe that's why it never made it into circulation? "Cyndia, attack!"

Hm. No attack? Then it was a magic or a trap card. Kaiba summoned another monster. "Attack my monster card," he commanded his employee. He watched as his monster started to get attacked and tried to call for her to use her magic to save it.

No. He set it up again and had her spring her trap. No. "What does it do?" Was Mokuba sure it was a real card? So far, the card had only stood in the middle of the duel, looking around perplexed. "Maybe it has a power after it's been destroyed." He instructed his employee to attack it head on with his strongest monster.

But the card . . . moved out of the way. "How did that card move and why?" Was it similar to Pegasus' properties of toonworld when he changed his monsters? A high missing accuracy? He instructed his employee to keep trying, but again and again, the card just dove around.

The diving was strange too. It didn't float or dive around the board. Instead, it moved like a human would move. Then? Something Kaiba wasn't predicting happened. He watched the card hold her hands out and start to chant toward him. "Why are you doing that to me? I am the one who played you. I control you!"

Then, Kaiba heard it. Swore he saw it. The card . . . the beautiful card that was making eye contact with him?

"I beseech thee, I cannot forsake my King but please find it in your heart to stop this torture against me?"

"What?" Kaiba checked his system. "Is this some corrupted monster card?"

"I am not a monster," she continued to speak to him. "Please. Stop this. I? I can't bow to you," she swore, "I cannot dishonor the King but, I . . . I will do anything I can to escape otherwise. Please."

"Escape. This can't be. You can't actually be talking to me." She wasn't part of his virtual world technology, that was different. Not only that, but it wasn't even Japanese. It was speaking in English. What was this? He tried English. "You can't be talking."

"But I am talking to you," she answered back.

"It's not possible." Did someone steal his technology? Pegasus!

"It is."

"It's lucky guessing!" He pointed at her. No, not a her, at the card. "You are programmed to guess what I have to say. You're even speaking English, a true sign your Pegasus' handiwork."

"Then, please." She closed her eyes. "Test me. Ask me something I could never say."

"Amazing intellectual cards that speak inside the game, that's not built by me." Kaiba was intrigued. Stolen tech or new tech he could steal to his own arsenal of ideas. He would test her knowledge. "What is my little brother's name?"

"I didn't know you had a little brother," she answered.

She didn't know Mokuba's name. "Who is your master?"

"The Pharaoh King of Darkness," she said, "and my husband."

What? "Your pharaoh is your husband?"

She had a shocked look upon her face. "No, never." She actually got to the ground and bowed in shame. "This is not to honor you above the King of Darkness but it is to correct such a mistake seen. My husband is my owner, however, the King is above all and is mentioned above all others."

"You have a strange dialogue," Kaiba noticed. "You don't look like an ancient card from Egypt though, so it backfires the reality. However, it's interesting. You must be experimental which is why you were never released to the public."

"Seto, Seto," Mokuba cried out as he came over to the dueling system. "I saw it all. She's talking, and she's speaking English. How is a card talking to you? That's not our virtual tech, I checked it. It shouldn't do that."

"Don't be worried," Seto Kaiba assured him. "It's just a high tech language system. Instead of just all roars or chants, Pegasus had been dabbling in virtual AI talk."

"It sounded like she talked for real," Mokuba said. "Like she was from our virtual world tech. Plus, I heard her mentioning the King and Egypt. That part doesn't sound like our virtual game."

"My name is Satiah," the card said. "Truly. I implore you." She bowed down again. "Without disrespecting my own King, I ask you for help in the most need. I will grant you anything I can give you, just free me."

"Free you?" Mokuba went as close to the dueling area as he could. "Are you trapped?"

"I don't know," she confessed, "but I do know that I must be freed. I don't belong here."

"She's real, Kaiba," Mokuba said. "She isn't virtual, she's real."

"She's a card, she's virtual, end of story," Kaiba answered his brother. "The language system is decent, but she doesn't get quiet and she has no features to fight or defend with. She avoids every attack, so I suppose she could be used when in a tight jam with a monster. Even magic and trap cards don't work on her. We've tried."

"Clearly polite crap doesn't work on you." Her attitude changed. That wasn't supposed to happen with software, clearly inferior. "I was not meant to be in your game, and I need a way to get the hell out of here. Please?"

Mokuba tried to reach and touch her.

"Mokuba, don't." He knew better than that, what was he trying to do?

Satiah lied her own hand almost against him. "If there is anything you can do, please help me. Whether I am in the cursed shadows of nightmares, forced to dwell for eternity or not, I need to know about someone. Her name is Heba and she is two. If Heba is here, I need her too."

"Heba. That's the name of the girl?" Mokuba asked her. "Her hand is trying to touch me, Kaiba."

"She isn't real. She's a card, now back away." Yet, Kaiba could see it trying to stay perfectly lined up against Mokuba's hand. "If she was real, she'd come off the dueling field."

"Oh shut up," The card insisted. "Heba. She is a support card. Find her, and I will have a secret ability to serve you in your game."

"A card that ties with this card?" She could be a joint card. She might have a new power. A new fusion. Kaiba stared at Satiah. "You look like someone I saw at Pegasus' place. Whoever was your inspiration, might be the inspiration to this 'daughter' card of yours." He smirked. "It's quite interesting, talking to cards instead of my opponents in the middle of a duel. This would be good with some kind of solitary dueling system against oneself. For those who prefer chatter instead of strategy when dueling. Hmm. Solitaire dueling."

"I'll look into all the cards Pegasus ever gave away," Mokuba said. "That creep. I'll find the little girl. Oh, Seto," Mokuba shouted even though he was right next to his brother. "What if he stole her soul just like he did ours? But something happened to her body and now, she's just stuck as a card?"

"An interesting idea," Kaiba said, entertaining his little brother with the silly thought. "However ,she never said anything about Pegasus, she just spoke of a battle game and Egyptian Kings. Besides, she is speaking English too, not ancient Egyptian, if that puts a little more reality around you," Seto assured Mokuba. "However, I am very interested in seeing what her partner card can do. Let's look into Pegasus' more exclusive decks closely." Kaiba went over toward the dueling system and shut it all down. The Satiah card disappeared along with the rest.

As she should.


Chapter 2: Prologue The Satiah Card Part 2

DIMENSION: MANGA (Saves the Day)

Note: I use Atem's name for the spirit with Yuugi so it's not confusing later on in the manga version.

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"Pegasus had right hand and left hand cards for the final battle," Mokuba said as he looked into the system. "One was for the prize money. Jounouchi used it. The other was to duel Pegasus."

"Somehow I don't think the girl card is a pile of money on a card," Seto Kaiba said. "What else?"

"Uh?" Mokuba looked further. "Maybe Yuugi won a card in it? Maybe there was a card with Jounouchi's prize money?"

"That's probably it," Seto Kaiba agreed. "So. Yuugi or Jounouchi might have the card I need. I can offer them a price. I doubt they treasure a card given to them from Pegasus of all people. Then, I won't have anyone in my business." He heard a sigh from Mokuba. "Let's go."

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Game Shop

Seeing Kaiba and Mokuba in the Kame Game Shop, Yuugi came down with Jounouchi who was visiting at the time.

"What the heck's going on here?" Jounouchi questioned as Kaiba looked at the cards. "What are you doing here?"

"We are looking for a card," Mokuba said. "Do you have an exclusive card you got from Pegasus?"

"You mean a card that proved who won Duelist Kingdom?" Jounouchi teased.

"Jounouchi, don't aggravate him." Yuugi came all the way over. "Grandpa doesn't hold my cards and you know it." Mm. Maybe that was a little aggravating too, but- He tried to kill us. He hurt Grandpa. Meeting him on an island where he was saving his brother was one thing, but him personally in the Game Shop again?

"Name your price, Yuugi," Kaiba said. "It's no use to you as it is."

"Wha-huh? Yuugi did get a card?" Jounouchi asked. "I didn't know that."

"I'm sorry but I wasn't given a card," Yuugi apologized, "Jounouchi was teasing you. Even if I did, I doubt I would have kept it."

"I don't blame you," Kaiba answered. "His little tournament cards looked like decoration, purely an honor piece and those aren't needed in a functional deck. Every card should have a purpose. Did anyone else get an exclusive card?"

"No, so you should get going." Kaiba was clearly irritated, but so was Yuugi. ///Yuugi: I can't believe he's here again. I don't like him here!////

///Atem: Yuugi. /// His Other Personality's more sensible voice came from inside of him. ///Atem: There must be a reason he is here for an exclusive card. Look at Mokuba./// Yuugi followed the spirit's command and looked toward Mokuba. He didn't look like he was there just for a simple card like his brother. ///Atem: He looks worried. Panicked. Mokuba doesn't speak over his brother, Yuugi, but perhaps a card truly is important in a different way he can't reveal in front of his brother?///

"Please, Yuugi?" Mokuba begged. "If you know anyone, please? This is really important."

"Mokuba," Kaiba scolded his brother. "Forget it. If Yuugi doesn't have anything, then it doesn't exist."

"But Seto, she's-"

"Mokuba," Kaiba warned him again. "Let's go."

"It's not right. They should be together." Mokuba hid his face. "She doesn't have anyone, Big Brother."

"Mokuba, enough," Kaiba said. "Let's go. Yuugi can't help. Nothing new."

"She doesn't have anyone?" Yuugi questioned them. That's not a normal phrase to use when talking about cards.

"That didn't make much sense there, isn't he looking for a card?" Jounouchi said looking toward Yuugi. "Hey? Pegasus liked making cards out of souls. Do you think they got something?"

Yuugi caught Mokuba's look. ///Yuugi: He won't say it in front of Kaiba, Other Me, but Mokuba must know.///

///Atem: Yes, Yuugi, I think you are right. Your grandfather, Kaiba and Mokuba might not be the only soul victim of Pegasus. Perhaps he hid someone in a different kind of card.///

"Wait a second." Jounouchi was figuring it out too. "Hey there, hang on, Kaiba. Is there a soul trapped in a card?"

"Your attention to detail is astounding," Kaiba said to him, sarcastically of course. "If Yuugi can't help, then Yuugi can't help. He doesn't need to know anything."

///Yuugi: Kaiba won't share anything else. He's acting like he's collecting important cards, but Mokuba's acting like it's a soul on the line./// Yuugi looked toward Mokuba.

///Atem: Test him, Yuugi. If it's a soul, use the word own or master. Try both. Mokuba is becoming a good person who believes. See what happens.///

"You, only. If I can get it back from who I sold it to." Yuugi would have to lie to make this work.

"Me?" Mokuba pointed to himself. "Me what?"

"Only you can own the exclusive card I got," Yuugi said casually, waiting to see his reaction.

"Yeah, you," Jounouchi agreed. "We don't trust Kaiba."

"Only you could own it," Yuugi said again. "Only you could be the card's master."

Mokuba glanced toward Kaiba and then at Yuugi. "No, it wouldn't be me. No one has the right to own that card. No one has the right to another."

///Yuugi: Bingo.///

There was no more guessing in the matter, and now that a soul was on the line, Yuugi's other self took over. "I want to know about the secret of the exclusive card. Is it a soul card, Mokuba? Tell me, and I promise I will find a way to get it back to you. You are right, no one owns the soul of another."

That actually made Kaiba laugh. "That's rich."

"I can't say for sure, but there's a chance," Mokuba admitted. "We are looking for an exclusive card that Pegasus made. It might not be it," he said to Yuugi, "but we have to try. It belongs somewhere, but not in anyone's deck."

"That is all I need to know. Kaiba?" Yuugi questioned him. "I will do my best to get that card to Mokuba. Once it is in his possession, he will decide its future."

"Fine," Kaiba said, not caring. "As long as I have it near. I don't care. Come, Mokuba. We have a business to run."

Mokuba waved with a big smile on his face. "Bye Yuugi. Bye Jounouchi."

"Yeah, take care." Jounouchi waited for them to leave. "Good kid. Bad brother. Smart call wanting to get it to him, Yuugi, but how you gonna get it back? What card did you get?"

"No card, but with the way they were speaking, I suspect they have a soul card in their possession and want to break it free. Without Pegasus' assistance, maybe there is another card that can free it?" It was hard to say, but if it was in any way important to him and his past, he wanted to know more.

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Kaiba Corp

Satiah waited in the dueling arena. Life ceased to be every time a game was over, but Mokuba had felt compelled to keep her company. Although he was older, he himself still seemed to desire a mother figure. Mokuba tried his best to explain where she had been. She rose from the monster stones now called cards that were remarkably small. He even showed her what they looked like.

The painted cards fit restlessly, harmlessly in his hand. How the world had changed. She didn't care how much it changed on the surface though, she only cared about one thing. The fate of the one who suffered with her. Good or bad, she had to know.

"You're so lonely," Mokuba said to her. "It hurts me to see how lonely you are."

Satiah understood those feelings. Mokuba had conveyed his past to her. About how he was left alone with his brother to be raised. She understood his brother more, and why he couldn't believe what was in front of him.

Every day longer Mokuba wanted to speak to her. She understood his need. Lacking his own parental figures, he was gravitating toward her. It did her no real good. If she didn't feel like her presence somehow helped the boy, she would have rather stayed sealed away.

"Satiah?" Mokuba questioned today. "Yuugi said he'd call soon. Maybe he has news?"

"It'd be great if there were news." Mokuba put his hands on the arena near her and laid his head down. A risky move that the child never cared or thought about. He only wanted to be close to her.

Satiah bent down. He asked such foolish questions yet he was so familiar, she tried to answer what she could. It still wasn't easy though. His modern day senses couldn't conceive of what her time had been.

"Why couldn't you have spoken up? Why didn't you tell anyone you had to carry a little girl to the tablet, Satiah?"

"The new King Atem was trying to save the world, Mokuba." No matter how many times she explained, he still didn't understand. "Everyone helped."

"You carried a two-year-old girl into a battle you knew you probably would never walk away in. I don't understand, and I never will."

"There are worse things than death." Satiah tried to comfort him. "There were countless things that could have happened that were so much worse." That she could not reveal to him. "During these trying times, during this battle, people sought out things to own. Things to claim, especially lives. Heba. Could not defend herself." Unlike the other brats.

Mokuba looked up toward her, with a shine in his eyes that said he might be finally understanding.

"In life, Mokuba," she said, not wanting to stir his mind into negative directions. "We have to make decisions. Hard decisions. If I let go of her and left her to chance, anything was a possibility. She may have died with me, but we may have succeeded and lived well again. Her chances were better with me." At least, they would have had a quick death. Over within seconds.

"I'll call Yuugi again," Mokuba promised her. "I'll call right now. Maybe he's finally out of the hospital?" He backed away and rubbed his eyes and tried to clean his nose. "We are going to get Heba back, and we are going to get you out. I promise we are." Then his phone rang. Mokuba answered and he left to the panel right away to turn it off. "I have to go, Satiah. I'll see you later."

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Kame Game Shop

"Yuugi!" Mokuba's voice urgently pierced the air as he stepped into the Kame Game Shop. "You said you have it?"

"Not so quick there, pal," Jounouchi confronted Mokuba. "Yuugi had to do a lot for that card. Nobody likes to give up a card. He had to apologize, grovel, beg-."

"Jounouchi," Yuugi said quietly. He didn't need to embellish the lie. He hadn't done much, but they still needed to take care of it. Dealing with the millennium puzzle and the fire that almost ended his life put him behind. Yuugi borrowed a rare card that had a shape of a person on it from his grandpa's shop. As long as he was very careful with it, it should work on Mokuba.

But Jounouchi grabbed it like it was a regular card. "But we still don't know the importance of this card," he complained to Mokuba. "We just want to know? Is it a soul trapped by Pegasus? Give us something. Not the whole details that your brother said is off-limits."

"No," Mokuba admitted. "Yes? Pegasus was involved, but not the same way as with me and my brother." He was quiet a moment, like he was trying to think of what to say. "I wish I could tell you. I should, but a promise is a promise. Kaiba's been keeping the end of his promise. But. She's just so . . ."

///Atem:Yuugi, switch places with me.///

Yuugi switched places with his other self, leaving him in command.

"Promises are important, Mokuba. Being true to those we promise is something we should all strive for. However, there comes a point when a promise may have to be broken. If doing the right thing inside one's heart is overwhelming you, for instance. Are you feeling overwhelmed to tell us?"

"You should see. Oh, you could see," Mokuba shouted at Yuugi. "Come down to Kaiba Corp. Seto said I couldn't let you interact." He held up the card. "He never said I couldn't interact for you."

"Translate what to who?" Anzu asked as she and Honda walked into the game shop.

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