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He should have been used to married life by now. The highs and lows, the structural integrity of empty vows. She'd known that he couldn't possibly love her, and somewhere he only wondered if it was possible that she felt the same.

He sat at the cold steel table, steaming soup sat on top of the simple porcelain plate, she smiled and Seto found himself hesitating for a few seconds, taken back by the sheer kindness after todays betrayal of seeing her at the cocktail party flirting with Moto. It was the sheer wickedness in himself that made him wonder what game she was playing at, so spiteful to get back at him for the rape that had taken place last night, so many months of beating her out of frustration of his own inadequacies. Why now suddenly submissive? He didn't know...
"What's the occasion?" He questioned, looking down towards her plate, three pregnant pomegranates gazed back at him, one split open slightly to reveal it's ruby beads that were hidden inside it like gems in a treasure. She looked down towards her glass, fingers tracing the rim. "Our anniversary."

"Ha." He scoffed, his own voice sounded strange to him. Bitter--- nearly a cackle that ended short in the cold dininghall. "I've never seen you cook... now I know why... this all looks lousy."
She didn't look offended. She never really did--- as if she was used to his harshness. Perhaps somewhere within' her sick masochist brain she enjoyed his verbal assaults. "Then drink the wine, that I didn't make."
"No, I'm sure your touch probably spoiled that as well." He stated, but already cradled the fluted glass in his hands, burgundy sloshed in the glass, and he took a shallow sip, feeling the heat in the back of his throat. There was silence, her fingers picked at a seed and she placed it between her lips. He'd always told her she needed to wear lipstick, but she never listened to him.

"Do you know what I like about chess?" She questioned, so mildly out of the way of conversation that he was taken back for a second.
"What could a woman possibly know about games?" He retorted coldly, she was unphased her eyes lowered towards the fruit on her plate. Something in his stomach made him queasy, bile rose from the back of his throat and he swallowed hard from the sudden illness, hoping that it wouldn't pursue farther.

"The queen. She's such an important piece, surly not the ending factor to the game, but she holds all of the power." Her eyes rose to him, he felt cold fingers drip down his spine, the sudden heat that rose to his head. In one moment he vomited, and slumped forward against the tabletop, looking up at her, a fiercesome delight tainted her eyes. He looked towards his glass, but even then it spilled precious drops of poisoned red onto the tablecloth. His head spun, he felt trembling that start at his core suddenly shake his limbs in convulsions and terrified--- looked at his scournful wife helplessly.
"Poison," He wheezed, but it came out a struggle of breathes. "You bitch."
She continued, knowing perhaps that despite the seizure somewhere deep inside in the sudden wringing of panic he was listening. "The king can move in any direction, but only one square at a time. He's pathetic, weak without his pawns. The queen however, she's truly a treasure for the fact she can move without the constraint of such rules..."

The convulsions wouldn't stop, the terror wouldn't cease. The fire that had whelled up in his belly poured over his lips in tainted red foam and he watched the Judas woman, the nightmare within' her eyes suddenly unceasing in their harshness. The clatter of plates against his body sounded like cymbals crashing in a mock to his foolishness. He could feel hot soup seep into the fabric of his shirt, burning his skin as a last insult of his pathetic weakness. "Poison always has been a fascination with me. Perhaps because I was killed by it back in my reign. But for you Kaiba, you've served your purpose..." She lifted her own glass in a toast, tipping the soft velvet towards her lips, but didn't drink, only watched as he pathetically felt himself soiling his pants, felt the last burn of vomit squeeze from his lungs. His heart beat slowed in his ears, and he relaxed, somewhere--- in the distance of the dininghall the shadows swelled in his vision and his eyes dilated. "You've confused your queen for the other side my dear. Atem may be merciful, but you've found that I am not..."

He felt cold, that fading image of her burned into his memory as she tipped the wine back to her throat, giving a small secretive wink. "Checkmate."

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[Sorry for the wall of text writing this story!!! XD]

Whoo, I'm plum tuckered out. And annoyed. Every time I was drawing or came out with a good idea for color this in people kept talking to me, therefore I kept losing my train of thought. =_= I was not pleased. Still am not.

Critique isn't desired. Considering how long this took me to make pointing out the obvious flaws in this'll just make me want to drop kick a baby more than anything else.

This goes hand in hand with what I believe the end result of an RP I had with :iconbackwardsbutterfly: would have been if we hadn't rebooted the Atem X Ode pairing I had. Gist of the story is Ode's reincarnate of the wife of Atemu. She marry's Kaiba, possessing no memory of her past. When she runs off with Atem; Kaiba goes after them--- beats the shit out of Ode and almost kills Atem. We never finished the RP but I assume Ode's ruthlessness would get the best of her and she'd end things with Kaiba for good with her passive aggressive nature since she obviously couldn't win in a fist fight with him.

I simply adore Ode. She might be a crazy bitch, but she's a crazy bitch with class. XD

Again, I don't see how this would need a maturity warning. Sure Kaiba's dead, that's about as bad as it gets. *Shrugness*


Edit 11.1.12= Whelp, here you guys go. I re-edited this because it was so ungodly crappy, it certainly needed to be redone. I hope you guy'll enjoy this. :)

Seto Kaiba (c) Kazuki Takahashi
Ode (c) Me
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Diableret's avatar
Once again, fantastic work