Purpose of the Little Gods (Part 1)

"They aren't babies, they aren't human, they are conduits," she said to Téa. "They weren't just making something for a bet or to help, they are goddesses and gods, they have so much more planned!" She grasped onto Téa tightly and shook her. "We are all going to die, and be used like puppets through them!"

What? Téa tried to stop her with Yugi's help. "Calm down, it's okay. We aren't going to die."

"They aren't babies!" She yelled again.

Atem felt odd as he looked at the expression on Masika's face. It was terrifying. What had she picked up on? Why was she speaking of death so terrifyingly? Something wasn't right.

"She's delirious." Bastet came toward her. "Ignore her, she is just confused."

"They aren't babies, they are us!" Masika yelled, keeping her eyes on Atem. Desperation to be believed. "I saw the truth in the exchange of me not being me, and I saw you through her eyes!"

What?

"She is a conduit for the future, she is an avatar for you to come back when needed as a backup, if you fail the god test with Yugi, and you are taking that test very soon!" Masika was getting pulled toward Bastet.

Atem stepped forward. "Wait." Avatar? Conduit? "Cease and listen!"

Bastet tried to place her hand on Masika's head but she was struggling. "She will get better, no worries. A lot of her memories might be a little spotty, but she will remember that Silhouette is hers and that -"

Atem moved her hand away and held onto Masika. "Do not do anything to her." He looked at everyone around him. "Listen to her words, don't just assume." He came closer to Masika, while trying to hold Bastet back. It would only work until Bastet got mad. "Continue."

"They are fusions of us, but they are not our children, they are copies of us. Our dna, our exact dna, so that we can come back in the future to help save the world through them. Probably in a fight with Zorc, where one person is actually four plus a goddess!"

What?

"I saw you through her eyes," Masika said again. "The unbalance allowed me to see what they don't want."

"They are babies," Bastet countered her. "They can't be conduits." She gestured toward Yugi and Bakura's boy. "A conduit doesn't breathe and blink and live, and no one is running it."

"You are a goddess that doesn't want to be together again, but you don't mind splitting apart," Masika said to her. "You gave some of yourself to be reborn. That child is another version of you. I almost got stuck in eternity just for another version of you!"

It sounded farfetched, but at the same time, it didn't. Gods and goddesses had the ability to split and infuse. "Silhouette is Sekhmet reborn."

"With room to spare inside and the dna of three humans to wield," Masika stated. "Don't you all remember how much we all believed they would fuse us into one body? All of us?"

Bastet was using her strength against him now, not liking his defiance. "You have earned your eternities, be grateful, and keep it at that."

"If we get our eternities, then why do we have an avatar to possess?" Bandit King asked her.

"It's . . . for the future," Bastet said clearly. "Instead of worrying about any of you having to come back to life, those that die, will have a way to come back easily. No more disturbance, you may rest in peace this time."

She was telling the truth. "You lied." Atem pointed at her. "You said we were fathers and mothers."

"You are, in a way?" Bastet looked uncomfortable. "It was better this way."

"No, it wasn't." Yugi's voice joined in. "You made Téa and Masika go through birth, just to give some part of yourself a body?"

"It will solve any problem that will come up. Two bodies, can have six players. Isn't that better to take on Zorc?" Bastet couldn't hide it, she looked ashamed. "Sekhmet and I knew you wouldn't want to hear this, but they are technically just useless humans now. Nothing is their fault. Just raise them so you can take over and handle Zorc when the time comes."

Yugi held his hand over his eyes.

"It's not our son at all," Bakura said slowly. "The dna that is ours, is actually ours. You . . . duplicated us three times in one body?"

"Like, cards." Atem could see it. "We were all taken in by a white light, and you used your powers to break your own selves off into a new body, nurtured by my friends!" He felt his jacket sleeve and tossed it back. "That was low."

"That was the deal, and it fulfilled your deal. You wanted something, and you needed something, and it worked by definition," Bastet told him. "Otherwise, your friends would have died for the power to be given."

Atem looked toward Téa. She looked so confused about her baby.

"Is he an illusion?" Téa asked Bastet.

"No. No, he's just a division from me. He has no memories of me, or of living. He's still just a baby that needs raised," Bastet told her. She stretched her arms out slightly. "Would it make you happier if he was a backup? If something unfortunate happens to your Yugi, we can give him control of it right away. That's fair?"

Téa was absolutely disgusted.

"It is still so similar," Bastet said so confused. "You get a new baby, something the whole of Masika was never able to have, and you get a bonus of prevention against Zorc. You also get a new god, eventually, when the whole of Atem becomes a god. All good things."

"At least I'm not really splitting a child with you after all," Bandit King said to Atem. "Good. I'm taking my eternity. Masika, you may handle the new Sekhmet yourself. If I am needed, at least I'll know where I'll fit in."

"They are still just babies," Sekhmet tried to explain to Téa and Masika. "They can't walk or talk, they have no memories, they are just new little people." Their looks didn't change. "They won't be useful anymore if you give them up." She stood up straight. "You can also be the ones to figure out how to kill them, because I'm not doing it."