Author's notes: Hi everyone, it is me FireWing Pegasus, and with me is my friend DetectiveSkittleJoy.

DSJ: Hello!

FWP: This is my first co-written story and I am nervous.

DSJ: Heh, I'm used to it, but this is my first one with FireWing! I'm pretty excited about it.

Toshiro: Hashira, is this one of your friends?

FWP: Toshiro, if you embarrass me, you will not want to know what I am going to do to you.

Toshiro: -gulp-

Natalya: Hey! Who's this?

Toshiro: Who are you?

FWP: Toshiro, be nice, this is DSJ's OC, Natalya.

Natalya: Hiya. Hehe.

FWP: Toshiro, please do what I always make you do.

Toshiro: These two author's own absolutely nothing except their OC's and their ideas.

DSJ: Oui.

In the year 2000, the world had already been taken over by were-animals. They are ruled by a were-dragon emperor with a cold yet kind heart. All humans live in different communities around the world. The emperor's council is divided up so that every continent and country is ruled and kept safe. One day, a young girl is born with spiked flame colored hair with a cute little bang covering her left eye. Her eyes shine like ruby gemstones, and her skin is tanned from her Egyptian heritage. The were-animal nurses making sure she has a safe birth, are startled by how similar she looks like the emperor. They look her over carefully and believe that she will be quite beautiful when she grows up. They feel sorry for the young child as they inform the parents that she will become a personal servant to the emperor. The parents cry, and the were-animals say that they will wait until she is 14 to take her to the palace in Japan. The parents nod and they look at their daughter. They name her Hashira. The nurses take a picture of her and send it to the council members ruling over Africa, Atem and Yugi, with details. They leave the girl with her scared parents, who is unknowing of what fate has in store for her.

As the sorrowful parents head home, they continued examining their daughter's features, comparing and contrasting them to the emperor's. They still couldn't believe how she ended up looking like him. It was just unbelievable. Unbearable, really. Finding out your precious child would leave you in fourteen years, right after she was born, was heart breaking and made you feel distorted. Why is it law for the children blessed with beauty to become Emperor Toshiro's servants? Why does the child have to be a servant? Why a servant? It was almost impossible answering these questions without the emperor, himself, but they just couldn't help it. Their daughter was going to be gone in fourteen years, and that's all they could think about. Before she did, though… they wanted to give their little Hashira the best fourteen years of her life. Before she left them to become a servant for the emperor.

The parents wanted their child to be ready for becoming personal servant and having a great childhood at the same time, so they encouraged her and tried hard not to spoiler her as that would not be good for being a servant. Hashira grew up with little to no friends as they knew of her fate and they didn't want to risk hurting her, as were-animals were always watching her and guarding her. Hashira had even been taught how to defend herself in a fight and Hashira happened to have a personality that made her quite happy about learning how to fight. As her 14th birthday was coming up though, her parents decided that it was time to tell her about her fate. When Hashira learned, she ran out of the house crying all the way. She was sad and angry that her fate had been decided as soon as she was born. She then decided that she would both hate and fear the were-animals that were always watching her from a distance. She had decided that enough was enough and she would learn more ways to fight, before she had to leave. Her parents had already told her about were-animals, and because of her beauty, they feared that she would be turned into one, so they told her that once turned, they never see their families again. It made Hashira more scared and angry and she thought that on her birthday, she would do something about it.

She ran, and ran away from her home. Not permanently, but just for now. She didn't want to think about becoming the emperor's servant, or becoming a were-animal. The things chosen for her were unwanted and difficult to cope with. These were things she couldn't change, but knew she just needed to. So, before she did anything she would regret, she ran where she knew she could find the person that could help her. Natalya Baum. She was always in the park, underneath a tree, doing something. Most of the time, reading a book. And as soon as Hashira got there, there Natalya was. Reading a book, underneath the shade of a tree, cross legged. Like the leaves of the tree, the grass was green and perfectly cut. The sun was bright, and the rays of light shone down onto everything, giving it the perfect hue.

Natalya was a girl with really, really… really red hair. Much like Hashira. Her skin was bronze, and she was quite tall, compared to others. She was pretty thin, but could put up a fight whenever she wanted to. Her nose and cheeks were covered in freckles, and her eyes were just as green as the grass and leaves. Today, she was wearing a black tanktop, with white skinny jeans, and heavy brown boots, with yellow laces.

Hashira was wearing long red pants, a black shirt with red and gold designs of Arabian horses on it, a crimson jacket with a gold design of an Arabian horse head, black shoes, and a golden color backpack decorated with horses. Hashira had grown up and looked as beautiful as the nurses had predicted her to be, her vibrant ruby eyes shining like gemstones, but not today.

As Hashira approached, Natalya looked up from her book, and smiled, to see the girl. But, as she got closer, Natalya's smile faded away as she noticed Hashira's eyes weren't glowing, like they usually were. She bookmarked her page, closing it, and setting it down beside her. Natalya patted on her other side, giving Hashira room to sit down, next to her. Hashira sat down, and Natalya looked at her a little bit closer.

The green-eyed girl brought her legs up to her chest, "What's wrong, Hash?"

"My parents told me that on my birthday, I'm going to be the emperor's personal servant." Hashira said as she did the same thing.

"That's not right! Didn't they try doing something about it?"

"They said that they couldn't, they said that it was the law and that they were too upset and frightened to do anything about it." Hashira let more tears escape her eyes.

"Oh no, Hash, please don't do that." Natalya put her hand on Hashira's shoulder, attempting to comfort the girl, "That law is a bit strange, don't you think? A bit greedy, too, if you think about it… But, if your parents couldn't do anything about it, it's not their fault, right?"

Hashira nodded and said, "I just hope that the emperor doesn't try and turn me into a were-animal, my parents said that they feared that might happen to me."

"You don't have a choice to become a were-animal, or not?" Natalya's grip on Hashira's shoulder loosened in fright.

"I guess it depends on what the emperor does or not. I have no clue. Nat, I don't want to become a were-animal, I hate them because of what is going to happen to me." Hashira said in a very sad and pitiful voice.

Natalya let go of the shoulder and wrapped her arms around Hashira, holding her in a tight embrace. "I don't want you to become a were-animal, either. I won't be able to see you, anymore. But, it's not the were-animals' fault." She held her tighter in angerment, "It's the person who came up with that law."

"That would be the emperor, Nat, and he is a were-animal." Hashira said as if she was stating the obvious.

"Oh, yeah... right." Natalya let go of Hashira and wrapped her arms around her legs, once more. "Then I guess it is their fault, then. The were-animals…" She leaned her forehead on her knees and closed her eyes to calm herself down.

"I hope I can at least avoid that fate, although I know that on my birthday, they will come for me, and take me all the way to Japan, Nat, that is the other side of the world. I would hate to be that far away from you, and you know full well how hard it is for me to make friends." Hashira pouted with a sigh and leaned on Natalya.

Natalya stayed silent after that, but after a few minutes, Natalya chuckled to herself, "You don't think they'll mind if I sneak on to go with you, do ya?"

"Nat, they are were-animals, they can smell and hear you, before you can sneak on with me, so no." Hashira also chuckled a little and Natalya was happy that her friend was getting back to her old self a little.

She smiled, but kept her head leaning on her knees, "I'll miss ya, Hash. I promise I'll find a way to get back to you, alright?"

"Nat, I'm not leaving until my birthday, so at the moment, I'm not going anywhere." Hashira chuckled a little and showed her smirk that meant that she was back to her old self.

"Agggh, I know, I know. I just… kinda miss you already, you know? Thinking about it kinda brings me down. I really don't wanna bring you down, but I really can't help it."

"Will you at least be at my birthday/farewell party? It would make me very happy." Hashira asked as she showed Natalya her puppy dog eyes of doom.

Natalya pierced her lips as she lifted her head from her knees and slowly looked down at Hashira, knowing she already had the puppy eyes. She sighed deeply and nodded very slowly. Hashira smiled and hugged her friend saying, "Thanks Nat, you're my best friend."

"Yeah. But once I get there, don't be surprised to see me staring at a wall." Natalya stared straight ahead.

"Fine, but I at least want both you and me to have a good time together before I am taken away." Hashira said with a sigh.

"Alright, alright… Just don't bring that up too much at the party thing, okay?"

"Okay." Hashira said with a smile before she realized something, "Nat, I ran away from home to come here."

Natalya's eyes widened, "...Oh damn. Come on, Hash. We gotta get you home before your parents start to freak even more." She shook the girl next to her and grabbed her book.

Hashira nodded and went with Natalya back to her house.

Author's notes: That was a great first chapter.

Toshiro: Who is the emperor?

FWP: Dummy, he is you.

DSJ: Pretty much.

Toshiro: Why am I being hated by you Hashira?

FWP: -whispers to DSJ- He always calls me Hashira since she is based off of me. -turns to Toshiro- Toshiro, she doesn't even know you yet, and with all this pressure, of course she is going to hate you.

Natalya: Yeah, "emperor". You should know that.

Toshiro: Why am I being ganged up on? -FWP starts laughing like crazy-

DSJ: Sorry, but you just gotta see what happens next.

FWP: Please review. -keeps on laughing-