FINALLY! I have posted this chapter!
Sorry it took so long. I was preparing for a friend's birthday party. My best friend and I had to learn ballroom dancing. Ugh my feet. But the food, AMAZING. And the place was so fancy that they had GLASS tissue boxes XDDDDD
See how much I am spacing still? Anyway, enjoy the first chapter of The Daughter of the King of Games Pt2!!.
I was as of now up in my room packing my belongings. Within the end of two days I'd be out of the KaibaCorp building and be living at the old Game shop with my parents, where I used to live so many years ago. It's strange, moving away from this place after so long, but it's for the best.
"All done," I sighed out, closing my last luggage, hearing the long zippering sound. I looked around the now-blank room. All of my belongings were gone - pictures, sheets, excess furniture- so it made the room look vacant, or rather very much how it looked when I first came to live here. Well it's supposed to be. "I'm gonna miss this place," I said to myself as my Magician's Valkyria appeared. "Hey, I can still see you. I thought I needed that card in order to see my cards' spirits."
"At first you did. You're gaining better control of your powers," she complimented with a satisfied and mature face.
"Powers. I doubt that," I scoffed disbelievingly before smiling towards my tall windows. "....You think things will ever get back to normal for me?"
"One day they will," she nodded in reply.
"But for now we have to focus on finding Kara," I remembered, watching a bird fly swiftly through the sky outside the tall regal windows. "Daughter or no daughter I can't let her stay trapped in the shadow realm."
"So what do you propose you do, Amet?" Valkyria asked with a worried and sincere face.
I brought my finger to my chin, trying to think of a logical plan. So far I knew nothing about the current situation at hand. And I can't just barge into action with Jet like I did before. "I guess I'll have to find the person who kills me in the future... If I can stop them, then I won't die, and Kara won't be sent to the shadow realm. "
"That's a start," Valkyria said.
"Question is how."
Valkyria's gaze went to my sheetless empty bed, where one of my last items laid. "Perhaps your Millennium Shard can help you."
I looked over at the item, too. I almost forgot about it after all this time. Much thinking can make you forget, I suppose. Shadi told me that this thing can help me travel to other worlds, so far only the shadow realm. But a confident smile appeared on my face. "We'll see. Right now, I have some catching up to do with my parents."
I took my duffel and brought it over my shoulder. I also bent down to get the handle of my much larger luggage, and headed to the bedroom door. Once there I turned around to take one final look at my KaibaCorp bedroom. I smiled faintly, reminiscing the past of how I grew up here. I remember when I was little and how I would redecorate a lot. I remember Jet always rushing into my room to beat my alarm clock to waking me up. I remember being sick and Kaiba and Mokuba taking care of me, despite the importance of their business. I remember my first Christmas without my parents and how everyone did their best to cheer me up and get me to unlock the door.
'All the memories I've made.... I'll never forget them.' Taking one final glance I turned my back, turning off the lights and leaving the vacant room. I shut the door behind me with a quiet click, the only light emitting from the three tall windows on the room's wall. A new beginning for me.... for everyone... shall start now.
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Opening the door to the game shop for the first time, Jet and I walked in with hesitance. We were finally here... home. Dad and Joey were behind us with boxes, while Mom and Mai helped unpack the rest of the stuff from the car outside. "So this is where I'm living now," I said anxiously, turning on the lights and entering the shop. I felt like a little kid entering a candy store.
"I remember coming here when we were little," Jet chuckled, looking at the empty glass counters and dusty wooden shelves. They were once filled with 'classic cards' as great-grandpa Mutou called it.
"Good ol' game shop," Joey said, putting down, or dropping, a box of whatever. "This was where my entire world of dueling began."
"Yeah during the dinosaur age," Jet remarked, only for Joey to grow an aggrivated face as I giggled.
"Why don't you guys go upstairs," Yugi suggested as he walked over with another box.
"Oh yeah!" I shouted with a brightened grin. Quickly I dropped my current holding bags and ran to the corner of the room where a door leading to the apartment of the building was. I opened the lights and started running up the stairs, two at a time. Jet trailed excitingly behind me in a race.
"We sure missed a lot of those two growing up," Tea commented sadly as she and Mai entered the shop.
"Nah, you guys didn't miss that much," Joey assured in a shrugging-off manner. "They're still the same good kids, sorta."
"Wow," I said in awe with a grin on my face as I looked at our living room, which was located right above the game shop. It was currently empty, but that's what the car full of furniture was for downstairs. There was a small hallway with three doors. Two bedrooms, one bathroom. "My old house..."
"This definitely isn't KaibaCorp, but it's nice," Jet nodded approvingly. "All it needs is a little paint and a couch where I can sleep on."
"Come on. My room should be here!" I told, taking Jet's wrist and running to another door. After entering my room I found traces of my old bedroom from the past. The wooden bed legs and the sheet-less dust-filled mattress. A small closet with a wooden brown door was present beside my bed, and a single square window beside an empty wooden table. The ceiling was slanted dowards towards the window as well. Empty bookshelves completed the old antique look of the room.
"Now this brings back memories," said my friend as I explored the old room. "Just, minus the dust."
My footsteps took me slowly around the room, touching the few dusty wooden furniture that had remained here after all these years. We can finally be a family again, after all this time. I went to my window and pushed it open, letting some well needed fresh air inside.
Jet too looked around the room. He went to my closet and opened it. It was big enough to fit a person (keyword a person), so it wasn't very roomy. Then again I didn't have much variety of clothes. However on the inside door Jet found a notebook paper with a child's drawing taped on. Jet took it off the door and observed it. There were two drawn people on it by a child's crayons or color pencils; a girl with long black hair that resembled a magician of some sort, along with a male dressed in some type of dark medieval clothing.
"What'cha looking at, Jet?" I asked curiously, putting my head back inside the room from the open window.
"Um, nothing just, uh, found this taped to your closet door," Jet answered unsure, showing me the paper from where he stood.
Walking away from the window I went over to the other side of the bed to where Jet and my closet were. He gave me the drawing and I automatically remembered something. "Oh yeah. I remember this."
"What is it?"
"I remember when I was five I think, it was my last day here before my parents would leave me with Kaiba. The night before I had this weird idea about a girl and a boy from somewhere. I worked on the drawing all day until my mom called me to the car. I thought I'd only be at Kaiba's for a little while, and then I'd be back home so I could finish the drawing. So I hid the drawing in my closet so that the moving people wouldn't throw it away."
"Guess you you were wrong about staying at Kaiba's for only a few days."
"Was I ever," I chuckled in agreement, smiling at the old drawing. I thought I'd return to this piece of paper in nine minutes, turns out to be nine years. "I actually forgot about this thing up until now. Guess that's one of the things about moving back into a home you haven't entered in nearly a decade."
"Hey Jet! Amet! Help us out down here!" Mai's voice called. I heard a small crash from downstairs and Joey make a smooth remark about the mater. This led to a loud argument between the Wheeler couple.
"Coming, Mom!" Jet called back down. "Come on, we better go."
"I'll be right down," I assured to him.
"If you say so," he said, leaving the room. After he did I looked back down at the paper and went back to the wall beside my bed. I attached the tape to the wall and let it hang there. After that I left back down to help unpack.
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"Alright, all set," announced my mom, my room just about done with unpacking. Empty cardboard boxes were present in the corner of the room, and all my clothes were unpacked into my closet. Fresh clean sheets were added onto my bed with a pillow and a blanket to keep me warm at night. Some of my belongings filled my bookshelf and my table beside my single window.
"Thanks for helping me, Mom," I smiled at the blue-eyed woman. Everyone else was unpacking the rest of the house, Mai ordering the guys around to keep them in check. It was kind of entertaining when you watch it from behind.
"It's the least I could do after all this time," Tea replied, sitting down on my bed beside me. I laid my head on her lap and she stroked my hair gently just like she used to before. It felt so, nice. "Is there anything troubling you at the moment?"
"Nothing besides Kara," I said quietly. "You think she'll be okay in the shadow realm?"
Tea smiled down at me, still stroking my hair. "She's a strong girl. Like mother like daughter."
I chuckled faintly, being careful not to laugh as loud that my mom would get the impression I was perfectly fine, not that I was. "I guess."
My mother sent me a sympathetic stare. "It's normal to worry about your own daughter, Amet. Because in the end things will always make a turn for the better."
"You sure sound optimistic," I comented depressingly.
"That's because what you're going through right now is the same as what I went through for the past nine years." I brought my gaze up. "In the shadow realm I waited to be freed, because I was separated from everything; family, friends, Yugi, you." She paused. "But most of all I worried about your well being. Having no parents around to raise you..."
I glanced down at the wooden floor. "Kaiba and Mokuba did a pretty good job."
Tea laughed. "Of course. You turned our pretty good for a troublesome teen." We both laughed at that remark. My laughter and smiles soon died down slowly, though.
"And about you being worried for me.... I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry, Amet," Mom said gently, making my eyes weary for rest. "Now go to sleep. We've had a long day of moving. Tomorrow's another day." Already heavy with sleep she moved me so I was laying properly on the bed. She covered me with the covers and heard the door open. Turning around she saw her husband in sight.
"She's asleep?" Yugi asked.
"Yeah," Tea whispered as I turned to my other side in my bed, smiling in my sleep.
"The others went home already," Yugi told. "How's Amet doing?"
"What any mother would do," Tea answered. "Worrying about her daughter."
Yugi chuckled, glancing over at his sleeping 14-year old. "It was hard to imagine Amet as a mother when she was just five. And now, I still find it hard to believe. One day she's going to be married off and have a child of her own."
"That's still a long time from now," Tea assured her best friend. "Right now, I think all we have to worry about, are the normal things parents have to worry about."
"And what's that supposed to be?"
"You know, grades, overprotective dates, groundings. All that stuff a normal teenager will go through," Tea said thoughtfully as she gazed at her sleeping daughter. "Guess it is a difficult adjustment, going from raising a five-year old little girl to raising a fourteen-year old teen the next day."
"Amet's no normal teenager," Yugi pointed out smiling.
"But we're normal parents," Tea said, making her husband face her. "It's our job to keep her grounded while she goes off to do her own thing. We've had our times with Tristan and Joey. It's her turn to have her adventure."
Yugi nodded. "You're right." Oblivious to my parents' conversation, I had another dream that night with Atem, which I was glad for. His advice was something I desperately needed.
"Atem," I smiled. I had so much to tell him about what's happened recently.
"I know," my dad's look-alike nodded, reading my thoughts. "How's reuniting with your parents?"
"It's everything I've dreamed it'd be. And, I just wanted to say thank you. I wouldn't have been able to find my parents without your guidance, Atem," I said a quick traditional Japanese bow. "I also can't believe you're an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Why'd you hide it?"
"I didn't think it was any needed information," Atem told me. "In the end you were able to succeed, and that's what counts."
"Yeah, but now we have a whole new problem," I told him. "I was able to rescue my parents, but now I have to help Kara."
"Kara?"
When you think he knows it all. "She's... a girl from the shadow realm who helped us," I told. "But she's been sealed there by someone from the future.. She says she's my daughter."
"I see..."
"Is there anything I can do about this?" I asked pleadingly. "My Magician's Valkyria said I might be able to use my Millennium Shard, but I still have to find my killer."
"That's quite a predicament you got yourself into," Atem commented.
"I got into? It got onto me," I corrected. "It actually makes me wish for a normal life."
"Believe me, Amet, by now I don't think you'll be living a normal life for a while," Atem said. "But, besides the future, you may also want to look into your past. It will help."
"My past?"
Atem smiled with his crossed arms. "Let's call that a hint as to finding your killer." SO HE DOES KNOW! And he doesn't tell me. Hmph.
And with that, I woke up dazedly in my new room, moonlight emitting from my one window. I almost missed my three tall windows that'd show me the entire city of Domino. This was different compared to my old KaibaCorp room, definitely. I'd have to get used to this, but what Atem said in my dream still lingered around like a shadow in the dark. "My... past...?"
That morning a couple hours later I was preparing myself in my uniform for school. Even with having saving my parents I guess some things never change. After pulling up my socks I tied my blue bow on my pink blouse and looked at myself in my bathroom mirror, nodding my head in approval. "Aright!"
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"I'm leaving for school now!" I called running down the stairs to the game shop. As I did, jumped when I saw Dad here downstairs, sitting behind the still-empty counter. He looked very deep in thought and didn't seemed very phased by my startling entrance. "D-Dad?"
"Hm? Oh, Amet. Sorry if I scared you."
"I'm fine," I replied, coming up in front of the counter, across from my father. There was scilence first but I bent my head forward closer, catching my father's slipping attention "Something on your mind?" I asked him.
"It's nothing. Just reminiscing on some past memories," Yugi smiled at me. Aren't we all? He placed a warm hand on the side of my face, and I smiled at my father's touch. "I've missed your childhood, and you're all grown up now... Makes me wish I could do it all over again."
"I wish so, too," I smiled softly, holding my dad's hand. Meanwhile Jet on his bike stopped outside the game shop. He saw inside my father and me talking, and waited patiently.
'I'm glad Amet's happy again with her parents. But now, I'm starting to deal with a whole new problem of my own. I can't be falling for Amet. Especially not now. It'd only be a distraction not to mention a pain in the butt. I mean, she has to find her future killer! Plus she already has a kid and a husband in the future so I'm out. -sigh-'
Jet shook his head, trying to forget the things he just remembered.
Yugi looked out the game shop's window, seeing the young Wheeler waiting patiently, yet he seemed to be making strange faces, much like Joey used to do when he had inside-conversations with himself. "Your friend's here."
"Hm?" I turned around, seeing Jet on his bike. "Oh. I guess even living here he'll still wait for me."
Yugi smiled as I said that comment. It made him wonder if Jet and I really would ever end up together. "Go on. You'll be late for school."
"Alright, Dad. Bye!" I waved, running to the front door with my bag. Grabbing my bike from the side of the shop, Yugi watched from inside as Jet and I made a brief conversation before riding off to Domino High.
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We were now presently in Literature class, but at the moment I was dazing off to the window, thinking about what Atem said.'My past... Maybe the killer is someone I've known from the past?'
"Ms. Mutou!" shouted the teacher, making me shoot up. "I suggest you stop starring out the window and start paying attention to class."
"S-Sorry," I apologized, re-adverting my sight frontwards. Jet looked over at me, worried. He knew we were both thinking the same thing.
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"So the killer is someone from your past, eh?" Jet repeated, the both of us at the top of the roof of Domino High.
I nodded. "But that doesn't exactly narrow it down. It could be anybody."
"At least we know it's a guy," Jet pointed out. "And once I get my hands on him I'll make sure he doesn't lay a finger on you."
I laughed. "Thanks Jet but I don't think he'd be a threat now." I looked over the city of Domino. "He may kill me in the future, but maybe's he's not a bad guy right now. Maybe that why we've been givin' a warning ahead of time, to prevent him from deciding to kill me."
"Maybe," Jet muttered. "But I still wanna kill him."
"Boys," I sighed with a sweatdrop.
"AHHH!" shouted a high-pitched voice from downstairs. Crashes and more terrifying screams could be heard as I picked my head up. I can't get one day of peace, ever.
"What's that?" Jet said, now alert.
"I don't know. We better go check it out," I ordered, dropping my lunch and running down the stairs off the roof. Arriving in the cafeteria, much to our surprise, we saw duel monsters flipping over tables. They had that Millennium Symbol on their foreheads. Sound familiar?
"Monsters...?!" Jet said in surprise. "How can they still be here?"
I narrowed my stare. "I guess the same person controlling them is still out there." We both ducked as a flying fending machine flew over our heads. "But we still have to fight these guys before they do any real damage."
"Oh like this isn't enough damage!" Jet retorted. "You know when a soda vending machine is thrown at you it's all over!" They monsters started coming at us, presumably to me. "You have your duel disk in your locker right?" Jet asked panicking.
"Yeah," I replied as we backed up.
"Then I'll distract them. You make a run for it and get your duel disk. It's the only way we can fight." We both ducked, dodging a flying lunch table. "Or at least the only way we can live."
"I'm on it." With that I made a quick run around the monsters before they could attack me. I sped down the hall ways for my locker. I didn't know how much longer Jet could keep up in the cafeteria. So kicking my feet harder I ran straight down the hallway, students glancing towards their classroom doorway after hearing the 'woosh' of my run. I hoped I was getting closer, because I was starting to get tired quickly. And a break was something I couldn't afford at the moment. "Got to get - to locker- before- monsters- beat- Jet into a pulp!"
Passing my locker a few feet I skidded to a stop and ran back to it. "Ah ha!" I turned the combination in a hurry and quickly opened it. Grabbing my duel disk I strapped it to my arm. Once I turned it on, I took out my deck from my belt holster and inserted it into the slot.
"AHHHH!!" Jet ran across the cafeteria, over and under the tables, doing his best to dodge the for-coming attacks launched at him. Somehow he was the last one in the room, everyone else previously having been evacuated. "Where's Amet already?! AND WHERE THE HECK DID EVERYONE GO?!"
A monster with a sword appeared in front of Jet, cornering him. However before he could strike, I did. "Magician's Valkyria attack!!"
A bright green ball of dark magic attacked the monster, thus saving Jet. He looked up, seeing me present with my duel disk and my monsters, Magician's Valkyria, Dark Magician Girl, and Magician's Apprentice.
"About time!" Jet shouted, running his hand through his hair. "Where the heck were you?!"
"Sure yell at me after I save your life," I said to myself. I ran over to where he was, helping him up as my monsters fought off against the others. "You alright?"
"I've been better," Jet replied, rubbing his back. "But don't you think it's weird, though?"
"What's weird?"
"How the monsters came to the school, and only school," Jet answered. "I look outside during my little goose chase and it was perfectly normal out there. Those monsters were sent here for something."
"Or someone," I said. "It's either me and you both, Jet. These things show up wherever we are. It's time we take some action."
"W-What action?" Jet stuttered unsure.
I turned around. "Magician's Valkyria! Get me an opening!"
She nodded and did as I said. I drew a card from my duel disk.
"A-Amet what're you doing?" Jet asked, concerned.
"Go magic card, Spell Shattering Arrow!" A bright arrow formed in front of me and pointed at one of the enemy monsters, the Night's End Sorcerer. Once the arrow hit the monster screamed, and I saw the bright glowing symbol on its forehead started to dim.
"What'd you do?" Jet asked, coming up behind me.
"I used one of my magic cards. It destroys spells of my opponent," I narrowed my eyes. "Even spells my opponent uses to control their own monsters." I noticed Jet give me a confused look.
But then I watched many of the others monsters previously fighting run away and start to vanish to escape the bending light from the arrow I had just fired. Once the light vanished, Jet and I covered our eyes. When it was gone, my monsters remained, along with the Night's End Sorcerer, laying unconscious on the floor. I noticed the Millennium symbol gone from his head.
I started running over, Jet following me for protection. My monsters vanashied like the holograms they were and I helped the former-enemy monster sit up. He groaned. "You okay?"
He opened his eyes and saw me. A faint smile appeared on his face. "Princess."
"Princess?" Jet repeated.
"You have freed me," he said weakly, blinking slowly and once. "Thank you."
"You're a real duel monster," I said with sympathetic eyes. "What happened to you? Who did this to you?"
He groaned, trying to remember. "A dark force... All of the others like me from the Dominion of the Beasts, they're being taken captive... and being controlled...."
"So the monsters aren't fighting on their own will," Jet figured out, exchanging realizing glances with me.
"We've been ordered... to take out the princess in her younger form... You," continued the Night's End Sorcerer, looking directly into my eyes from his weary ones. he began to disappear from his feet into this disappearing bright dust. "Please be careful, Princess. You must not fall into the hands of darkness," he begged as he had already disappeared half way.
"Wait! What's going to happen to you?" I asked desperately.
"I am going back home, to the Dominion of the Beasts," smiled the duel monster. "Thank you, Princess. Your bravery will not ever be forgotten."
And with that the rest of him disappeared from my grasp and into pixie dust. I stared at my bare hands. Jet and I remained silent, trying to process what had just happened. And what was he going on about 'princess'? I'm no princess, as far as I think anyway. "H-He's gone..."
"Well, there's our first lead: dude thinks you're a princess," Jet said, being the first to speak up out of the both of us. "What do you wanna do now?"
I looked down at where the Night's End Sorcerer once was. For once, I really didn't know whatwe should do. And to think things were weird before. Questions we had so far: Who's the man that kills me in the future? Who's the person controlling all these monsters out to destroy me? Perhaps they were both the same person? And what did he mean by princess? Am Isupposed to be some long-lost princess? No. I am the daughter of Tea and Yugi Mutou. Being a princess; that's only for fairly tales, and this whole ordeal is far from it. Not to mention this whole new unknown subject -what on earth is the Dominion of the Beasts?
And there you have it my dear readers.
Hope you like this first chapter. I'm always nervous about beginning a new story, even if it a sequel of a successful story. At least I think the first story was successful. If one person loves it, I say it's successful.
Anyway, in a little side story, I read on my school "Green Week", and I misread it in the beginning and I thought it said "Green Geek". I know I'm cheesy and corny, but I kinda like that misreading: Green Geek. Oh geez I couldn't stop laughing.
Starting tomorrow, I'm gonna get me and my best friend and my afro-dude to wear GO GREEN signs around class. Wish me luck! And what are YOU gonna do to GO GREEN??? Happy Green Week everyone!
