Away with the Faeries
Hey, so this is one of the two options that scored the best, and one of my favourites.
I have changed things slightly to work with this story, basically I've got Yugi being half-welsh so that it fits in with what I've got in mind for the plot.
So thanks to HopelessRomantic183 and Dragongal, I'm glad that both of you liked this story idea, I will be doing another story at the same time as it gained the same number of votes. Also thanks to SetoKaibafan12338 for your review for the last fic.
I've been in a very good mood this weekend, not only have I got ideas coming out of my ears for this story and all the others that I'm doing but a guy left his number for me with a friend of his who works with me and I've got a date with him on Monday night (Wahoo!). Lol, sorry, just a bit excited.
Anything you recognise is not mine. Btw, there is bound to be countless 'Abridged Series' quotes in this.
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Name: Kisara Isolde Elen Ddriag
Age: 19
Height: 5'7"
Hair colour: Blue-black, electric blue highlights
Eye colour: Sapphire blue
Nationality: Welsh
Family: Sister (Iola Eilir Gwen Ddriag), Cousin (Yugi Moto)
Instrument(s): Voice and Violin
Name: Iola Eilir Gwen Ddriag
Age: 12
Height: 4'4"
Hair colour: Golden blonde
Eye colour: Sapphire blue
Nationality: Welsh
Family: Sister (Kisara Isolde Elen Ddriag), Cousin (Yugi Moto)
Instruments: Voice and Piano
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Chapter 1
Seto's P.O.V.
I didn't believe in magic, to me it was just a childish indulgence and completely impossible that such a thing should exist. I did, however, let my brother retain his belief in magic, after all, he was only a child. No, for many years I held the staunch belief that magic was something that only children and losers believed in. But when I was 19 I changed my tune.
I had been working late at Kaiba Corp again, so late in fact that Roland, my limo driver, had finished his shift and gone home for the night. This meant that I had to drive myself home, although I didn't really mind this as I enjoy driving and find it very calming. On this particular day I really needed calming down, Pegasus had attempted, yet again to persuade me to marry his daughter, Samantha. After three hours he still wouldn't listen to reason but had left anyway to give me "time to think" as he put it.
The drive home did calm me down, or at least enough so that I could come up with an effective plan to deal with Pegasus and his daughter. I was still tackling the problem three hours later, at around 2 am, when I heard a noise on the balcony. It sounded vaguely like someone, a woman, laughing but when I went to investigate there was no one there. This happened several times and, by the fifth, I was heartily sick of it. I stormed my way back into my room and slammed the French windows closed before locking them, determined not to go back onto the balcony. But suddenly I noticed that I wasn't alone. Stood there facing me was a woman; she was tall, around 5'8", with pale skin, long black hair and iron grey eyes. She was slim with a chest that would make most porn stars jealous, causing the fabric of her long red dress to stretch more than I would have thought possible.
She started walking towards me, with what I assume was supposed to be an alluring smile on her red lips, instead I just thought she looked brainless. As she walked her high red heels were slightly visible, the colour exactly matching her dress. Around her neck she wore a gold Chanel necklace with matching earrings and, holding her long black hair out of her face, was a headband made up of gold leaves.
"Who the Hell are you and why are you here?" I snarled, causing her to stop in surprise.
"I'm Morwenna, I'm here because you're the only person worthy enough to be my consort." She explained, snapping her smile back on. I couldn't help it, I started laughing.
"And why would I want to be your consort?" I asked, raising one eyebrow as was a habit with me.
"Because if you are then I can give you anything you want, it could be anything in the world and I could conjure it up for you." She said, taking another step towards me. I looked at her again, I suppose she could be pretty, if she wasn't trying so bloody hard to look like the kind of person I know Samantha Pegasus is.
"You make it sound like you have magic." I smirked.
"I do." She replied, again stepping forward. She was now only about five steps away from me.
"There's no such thing as magic. It's clear to me that you're delusional, why would I want to be a 'consort', I think you said, to someone who's clearly not in their right mind." I scowled. At first she simply looked shocked but then a scowl appeared on her face and her eyes narrowed.
"Are you refusing me?" She asked suspiciously.
"Are you stupid? Of course I am!" I snapped. The effect my words had on her were instantaneous. She grew incredibly angry, so angry in fact that the fury seemed to radiate from her very form. A red glow started to surround her and it grew brighter and brighter until I was forced to close my eyes. When the light receded again she looked different, her ears were sharply pointed, her hair was hanging around her face and down her back in loose curls and a marking that looked like a pair of blood-red roses had appeared on the side of her neck; the biggest difference was something that had me gawping, sprouting from the middle of her back was a pair of black and silver gossamer wings.
As if from nowhere she'd produced a blood-red wand which she had pointed directly at me. I froze instantly, I thought that she was obviously a mad woman. She walked closer to me, so close now that I could smell her Chanel perfume.
"Still don't believe in magic?" She snarled. I couldn't reply, it was almost as if she'd caused me to freeze up. With the want pointed directly at my heart, she started to chant:
"Spirits of flame and fire,
Avenge me on one who calls me a liar.
Let his heart seal his fate,
Unless he finds his soul mate
In six moons he shall die,
Do not rest till he does lie
In the ground, cold and dead.
Because he would no come to my bed,
Let his brother be cursed as well,
Will they survive? Only time will tell. " As she finished chanting, a bright red light shot out of the wand and sped towards me before hitting me in the chest. Pain started instantly, it was like every nerve-ending in my body was on fire. Eventually my brain couldn't take anymore pain and I passed out. When I came too I was lying on the ground in my room. My head pounded and I was having difficulty seeing; when I stood up my legs felt very shaky underneath me. I managed to stumble to my bed where I collapsed once more.
When I woke the next morning I felt sure that it was simply a dream, a dream that made me feel like death-warmed-up in real life. But when I found out that Mokuba felt much the same something from the 'dream' came back to me. That woman, Morwenna she said her name was, had cursed me and Mokuba as well. This made me uneasy, especially as we weren't any better by then end of the week. It was at that point that I did something I never thought I'd do, I called Yugi.
"Hello, Kame Game Shop." Yugi said, from the other end of the phone.
"Yugi, it's Kaiba." I sighed, mentally cringing.
"Kaiba? What's the matter?" He asked, sounding, quite obviously, confused.
"You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you and it's not the kind of thing I want to talk about over the phone." I replied, wondering why I was even calling him.
"Do you want me to come over?" He asked, normally I'd have avoided contact with Yugi at all costs but my concern for Mokuba meant that not even that would stop me helping him.
"If you don't mind." I replied, hoping that I didn't sound like I was about to confess something strange to him.
"I'll be there in ten minutes." Yugi said before hanging the phone up. True to his word, Yugi arrived ten minutes later. As soon as he saw me he gasped loudly.
"Kaiba, what happened to you?" He asked quietly. I knew why he was so shocked, I was far paler than normal and had large dark circles under my eyes. Sighing I launched into an explanation.
By the time I had finished Yugi had turned quite white.
"Kaiba, do you realise what's happened?" He asked.
"Some crazy person broke into my house, poisoned me and my little brother." I said, still not quite ready to admit that something strange was going on.
"Kaiba, you've been cursed by a Faerie, one of the people of Avalon." He said, rolling his eyes.
"Faerie? As in tiny little creatures that fly around and, according to fairy tales, grant wishes? Come off it Yugi, I think I'd know it I met one of those." I scoffed.
"Actually Kaiba you have, or at least someone who's half-Faerie. Faeries are similar to Tolkien's elves only they actually exist. They're incredibly proud and have legendarily bad tempers. If you get on the wrong side of one then you're pretty much screwed. Some of them do have wings but not all and they have pointed ears and a marking unique to them on their neck." He explained, biting his lip slightly.
"So according to you I've met someone who's half-Faerie, who is it then?" I scowled, his confident and informative answers were making it harder for me to deny what I subconsciously knew happened.
"Me actually. My mother was one. She met my dad when he was in Wales on business and they were together until he died causing her to pine and die after him." He explained, lifting up a part of his hair to show me the tips of his ears which were slightly more pointed that most. There was nothing I could say to that, I simply sat there stunned. Then it dawned on me that Mokuba and I actually had been cursed, this realisation made me groan out loud.
"What am I going to do, she cursed Mokie too!" I sighed.
"Actually Kaiba, there is someone who could help, if you're willing to go to Wales." Yugi said, obviously deep in thought.
"I don't care if it's in Timbuk-bloody-tu as long as it helps Mokie!" I replied. I had wanted to set off that day but it just wasn't realistic. Firstly, I had to sort out any work from Kaiba Corp being sent to me via email as well as cancelling any meetings; secondly, I had to arrange for Mokie to have some time off school; and thirdly, Yugi needed to let whoever it was in Wales know that we were coming. In the end we had to wait another week to leave, it did give Mokie and I a bit more time to pack, especially as I had no idea what sort of clothes we'd need in Wales, having never been there before.
By the time we set off Mokie looked really ill and he must have felt it too because as soon as we were settled on my private Kaiba Corp plane (trademark) he voluntarily went for a nap. Of course, while I felt the nap would do him good, it did leave me alone with Yugi and have to try and make conversation.
"Kaiba, I might as well tell you now, the person we're going to see is my cousin." He said once the plane was up in the air.
"Your cousin? Please tell me that he or she at least know what they're doing." I sighed in exasperation, I hate it when people deliberately keep things from me, I always have.
"Actually Kisara's probably the best person for you to see. If she can't help you then no one can." Yugi explained. After that that conversation ended up pretty much dead, so Yugi changed the topic. Funnily enough I found that I actually could get along with him, even more surprising was that I enjoyed talking to him, he wasn't as annoying a some of his friends were. When we arrived at Caernarfon Airport, about 20 minutes from Caernarfon itself, it was about 10am and it was raining. Yugi got us a taxi to Caernarfon and, once there, to a long-term car park. I have to admit that I was curious as to what car Yugi drove when he was in Wales but nothing could have prepared me for the car I saw. It was a dark blue Nissan Navara pickup truck. I must have been staring because Yugi looked at me and grinned.
"It might not be the most glamorous car but it when I'm here I do some serious off-roading." He grinned. Mokuba seemed quite happy in the back, in fact I'm sure he'd have ridden in the load-bed behind if he was allowed. I myself wasn't too sure of what to make of it but I have to admit that it was comfortable. It took about 20 minutes to actually get to Llyn Llydaw, a lake in North Wales that was near to Yugi's cousin's cottage, from there we had to drive off the road and onto a small beaten track. I understood immediately what Yugi had meant when he said that he did serious off-roading in Wales. The track was so bumpy that in a normal car you'd have likely caused yourself an injury and gotten stuck. As we got closer to the lake itself the rain began to stop and, when Yugi told us that we were around 5 minutes away, the sun started to shine. At first I had wondered how anyone could want to live in the middle of nowhere but as I looked out the window at the lake with the sunlight shining off it and faint mist on the nearby mountains, the sight was the most beautiful I'd seen in my life and I completely understood why someone would want to live in such amazing countryside.
Eventually we pulled up outside a small thatched cottage with white walls, windows and a white door. The garden was full of wildflowers, allowed to grow as they wished and a small stream ran through it, making a gentle burbling noise. Sat in a patch of sun, quite happily sunning itself was a black and white cat with mid-long fur and a bright green collar on, who looked up as we got out the car. There were numerous butterflies flying around the cottage in all manner of different colours and I was fairly sure that I'd seen some close to the ground, when I looked closer though, I discovered that the three close to the ground were not butterflies at all but rather fairies, something that, until that moment I would not have believed in. I took a deep breath of the air and found it to be clear and sweet, and very pleasant. Coming from the cottage I could hear the sound of someone playing the piano, Canon in D Major by Pachelbel I thought to myself at the time, and a beautiful job they were doing of it as well. As we got our bags out of the car, whoever was playing finished Canon and moved straight onto Toccata and Fugue in D minor, causing mine and Mokuba's mouths to drop open in astonishment and causing Yugi to laugh at our expressions.
"Sounds like Iola's excited." He said through his laughs. I glared at him until he explained.
"Iola is my other cousin, she's Kisara's little sister. She normally practices the piano in the afternoon but if she's practicing in the morning then she's excited about something." He explained, a huge grin still on his face. Meanwhile the music from inside stopped. We walked to the door which Yugi opened.
As we entered the cottage the sound of 'Country Roads' on violin started playing through the house and, after the intro, a girl started singing. Mokie and I followed Yugi as he walked through the cottage that was actually larger than it seemed. Finally we entered what looked like a library with a black piano in it. Stood there were two girls, one about Mokie's age with long blonde hair reaching her back and curling slightly, and one about my age with long black hair. The blonde one was stood with her back to us singing while her sister was playing the violin, her eyes closed in concentration and a soft smile on her face. She moved her body in time with the music she played, her movements fluid and graceful; I was completely entranced, I literally couldn't take my eyes off her, possibly because she was so different from every other woman I'd come into contact. She was simply dressed in a pair of paint splattered jeans, a plain black t-shirt and a pair of bright green converses with a white belt with a butterfly buckle around her middle. On her left wrist she wore a bracelet made up of lots of leather bands while on her right she wore one bracelet made of platted black leather with a silver Millennium eye on it. Around her neck she wore a silver dragon pendant and on the middle finger of her right hand she wore a silver serpent ring with a black stone in the middle; as she moved she flicked her hair around her face, making her ears visible at various times. They were very pointed and had she had a piercing near the top of her left one that consisted of a small ring with a ball on it, from the piercing on her earlobes hung small silver crosses. Her makeup consisted of bright red lipstick, bright green eye shadow, black eyeliner painted Egyptian style and black mascara. While she was playing she opened her eyes and looked directly at us with her large, almond-shaped Sapphire eyes that were ringed perfectly by the eyeliner. Quickly she winked at us before playing the final few bars of the song.
Once it ended Yugi and Mokie started clapping, bringing me out of my almost-trance causing me to join in the applause. The older girl, who I assumed was Kisara, gave a small bow while the other one, Iola, turned bright red upon turning around. She was also wearing a pair of distressed jeans but this time with black suede boots over the top and she'd matched them with a white t-shirt and a black sleeveless cardigan/waistcoat. On her head she wore a black and grey knit beret with silver lines running through it. She also had pierced ears and she had a pair of pink butterfly earrings on with a matching necklace. On her right wrist she had several small bracelets, one made of pearl beads, one of black beads and the other of diamante beads, while on her left she wore a white watch. She had no makeup on and her eyes were pale blue but she was clearly Kisara's sister as they had the same face, including the eye shape, the nose and the mouth. Her ears were also sharply pointed.
"How long have you been stood there?" She asked nervously, her voice light with a clear Welsh accent.
"Since Kisara started playing. You did really well Iola." Yugi smiled. Iola gulped and nodded. Then she looked at Mokie and I.
"Hi, I'm Iola." She smiled. Mokie introduced us both, I got the distinct feeling that he was as entranced with her as I was by her sister. That ensued to Mokie and Iola going to play outside, leaving me with Yugi and his cousin.
"Yugi, shwmae fy nghefnder?" She smiled, her voice was just as light as her sister's with the same Welsh lilt to it only I found it more musical, funnily enough Mokie has always thought that Iola's voice was the more musical, strange how these things work.
"Da iawn, diolch. A tithau?" Yugi replied. He then turned and introduced me.
"Kisara this is Seto Kaiba. Kaiba, this is my cousin Kisara." He said with a smile, I think even at that stage he could tell what was happening.
"Neis cwrdd â chi." She smiled, I could only look blank.
"Um, Kisara, he doesn't speak Welsh." Yugi pointed out.
"Oops, sorry. I said 'Pleased to meet you'." She said before letting out a gentle and musical laugh. Yugi looked at the violin.
"Practicing again?" He teased.
"Yes, I've been asked to play at a Ceilidh tomorrow. Need to make sure I don't muck it up. So please excuse me." She laughed before picking up her violin again. This time she started to play 'Cotton Eyed Joe' at a fast pace again astonishing me. By the time she'd finished I didn't think that anything about these sisters would surprise me anymore.
She helped put mine and Mokie's back in separate guest rooms, which were luckily right next to each other. Yugi simply carried his own bag and went to another guest room, there being three in total. Once I'd got settled in I wandered downstairs to try and find Kisara or Yugi. From the sounds of things they were in the kitchen with Mokie and Iola. When I walked into the room Kisara smiled at me and made me a cup of tea, all the while instructing me to sit down.
"There's cookies on the table help yourself before Iola eats them all." She smiled, setting the cup down in front of me. The cookies were surprisingly good, they didn't look all that appetising but they were actually amazing. Everyone else must have thought so too because it wasn't long before they were gone, at which time Mokie and Iola decided to go and play again.
"That's one Hell of a curse you've got one you, why don't you tell me what happened and we'll get started with undoing it." Kisara said casually. I nodded before telling her what happened. I'd only just finished describing Morwenna when Kisara sighed exasperatedly.
"Morwenna, I should have known. I'll need to tell the Faerie Council, she's got to be dealt with." She sighed, stunning me. I hadn't even mentioned Morwenna's name and Kisara knew exactly who I was talking about. Suddenly I felt quite angry that Morwenna had cursed and hurt others before me. There was nothing I could really do now so I continued telling her my story, her beautiful face growing more and more grave the farther I got with it.
Once I'd finished she sat there in silence for a few moments. Then she spoke.
"Well, as far as I can tell the only way to undo the curse is to find your Soul Mate, that shouldn't be too difficult as I know a spell to do it but it'll take a good month or two to prepare. Other than that all we can do for now is to make sure that you and your brother keep your strength up. That, and deal with Morwenna. Excuse me, I need to send a message to Éire, this year's Head of the Faerie Council." She said before leaving the room. I looked at Yugi.
"Don't worry Kaiba, Kisara will get rid of the curse." He smiled.
"I hope so." I said quietly.