Language table

"hello" - Main language

"hello" - Secondary language

'hello' - thought

"hello" - yelling in main language

"hello" - yelling in secondary language

'hello' - yelling in a thought

The Goddess Within

Chapter One: New Beginning

Two more days, that was all it would take before she was back in Japan with Yugi and the others. Anzu had waited all summon for this, to show them how much she had changed, to see how they would treat the new her. She had learned a lot about herself during her summer in Greece, and also a lot about an ancient secret her family had held for generations.

Flashback

"Are those duel monster cards, Anzu?" her elderly grandmother cautiously asked a few days into the summer after she had seen the card case attached to Anzu's belt. "It seems all the youngsters duel nowadays..." "Yeah, I guess I wear them as a habit since my friends duel, I never do though." Anzu replied thinking of all the duels she had seen in which she had stayed on the sidelines cheering them on. She was never given the chance to duel for herself. It wasn't as if she didn't know how, after all of the lectures by her friends Yami and Kaiba on the "finer points" of dueling. She even had her own deck that she carried with her always, a weak deck true, but it was cards that she had collected by herself for herself to use whenever she could. Even though they were weak, and she hadn't much practice, she knew how to use them well. Anzu proved that by beating Mai in the duelist kingdom when her usually strong friend, Yugi, had fallen apart. But no, she was forever a cheerleader, putting on a happy face in front of the guys, just waiting for them to notice. They wouldn't even think to include her. She was not a jealous person by nature, but couldn't they share the spotlight, or if not that, the experience?

While Anzu was lost in her thoughts she did not notice as her grandmother nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. She left the room and returned carrying a gold and marble box the size of a thick book. The sound it made hitting the sturdy wooden table was enough to wake Anzu up out of her daze. "Woah! Sorry! Grandma? What is that?" Anzu said embarrassed by her outburst and startled by the box itself. It was engraved with weird symbols that she recognized even if she didn't understand them.

"I have been holding this box since I was your age and my grandmother gave it to me. Now it is your turn to carry it." The grandmother smiled there and swept Anzu into a big hug. "I was worried when I saw you carried cards, but if you don't duel, these will be best in your care." Anzu walked over to the table with a confused look and stroked the gold lettering. Yes, that was where she had seen them before, they were ancient Greek, and this looked old enough to be authentic. She stroked the letters again and turned the key that had been placed in the gap in the front. It creaked as if it had not been opened for years, but what was inside was worth the wait as it slowly opened fully. Surrounded by black silk was a deck of duel monster cards. She took them out of the box almost reverently, thinking of the age of such an archaeological find, and turned to her grandmother.

"Are these... How did... What could... wow..." Anzu sputtered half thinking this was a dream, that she could be given something so amazing. These cards had to be at least a thousand years old, and if the ancient Egyptian cards were any indication, the older the stronger.

"This is only one of the remaining Grecian decks and is the only complete one. It is the women of our family's duty to preserve these cards because since ancient times we have been priestesses to the goddesses of the pantheon. Now it is your turn."

Flashback End

After that day, Anzu went into training to take over for her grandmother, learning the legends, the mythology, the heroes, the creatures, and most importantly, the gods. The entire pantheon was open to her, and once she learned what she needed to, she could borrow the god's powers for her own use. Through the lessons, Anzu had not mentioned one word about dueling, though that was what she had intended. Her grandmother had only presumed she wouldn't, and thus did not say she couldn't. Anzu was finally going to get her revenge. And who better to share her revenge with then the boyfriend her "friends" never thought she would get.

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