Hello all. Now this story might seem familiar to some of you. QUEEN OF MAGICIANS has found herself unable to write with her busy life, and forgot about this story from some time ago. She has given me rights to complete it for her. Originally she got it from collaborators NIGSEA and MIDENIUFUTSU KOYOTE, who had not been able to do it themselves either and she eventually lost contact with.
So now I have it.
With main plot points in hand from all three writers, and a few chapters already written, and then revised by myself to fit my writing style, I present to you, the new and improved PRIESTESS OF THE DRAGON.
This story will follow the actually story line to seem canon. I am re-watching all the episodes, in both English and Japanese, for the most part, using some English lines from the actual show, to truly make this all the more applicably canon. I will also for the most part be using the Japanese names, but a few I decided to make in English …'cuze common face it…Lazar sounds so much cooler…
This story starts Jack X OC and then in later chapters becomes Yusei X OC , Jack X Carly plus other pairings.
Enjoy the ride and keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times. I know I'm scared about the outcome. lol :)
-Drunk On Pancakes
Prologue - Blood Red Moon
The streetlights along the roadside winked by, as the red sports car sped past them in a blur. Young blue eyes drooped in the back seat with exhaustion from the day previous. 'Why were they driving so early?' the small child wondered, no older than five. Her mother and father frantic in the front seat, agitated and fearfully quiet.
"Faster, Darling!" The young woman begged the driver, desperation in her quiet voice.
He turned to her for a second, eyes full of trepidation, before jolting his eyes back to the front. "It's raining too hard..." He whispered, taking a sharp corner. The child clutched her stuffed bear to her chest tears starting to fall, feeding off her parent's anxiety.
"They're closing in…" the woman turned round frightfully, her red streaked, ebony black hair falling in her eyes. Normally she was the fearless one, so she had to be brave for her child. She forced a smile and spoke softly to her crying daughter trying to soothe her. Another sharp turn had her turning back around in her chair, resolve gone and her mind set on what had to be done now. With shaking hands she quickly opened the glove compartment and pulled out a fist-sized locked black box.
"What are you doing?" The man asked with gritted teeth as he accelerated faster, the headlights of the vehicle behind brighter in his rearview mirror.
"I was hoping it wouldn't have to be this way - that we could find another solution in time." She replied tearfully to her husband.
"Everything is going to be okay, Rinny." Her mother whispered, as she tried to hold back tears, turning back to her child with a lovingly sad smile. "Mother wants to see Mr. Bear for a moment. Would you give him to me?" Clutching the bear tighter, the child began to protest eyes squeezed tightly together.
"Give your bear to you mother, Rinai!" Her father bellowed, blue eyes never leaving the road. The brunette allowed himself only a few glances in the rearview mirror to see his only child crying fearfully, but safe, for the time being.
She regrettably handed her favorite stuffed animal over to her mother. With the already opened black box in hand, she pulled up the bear's shirt and opened the hidden pocket covered in layers of fur. She took the only two contents of the box and placed them inside before handing the stuffed animal back.
Curiosity overpowering her fear, Rinai reopened the hidden pocket and pulled out the only contents: two Duel Monster Cards, Scarlet Dragon and Ancient Fairy Dragon. She scrunched her nose at the card on top with its design of a twisting red and gold dragon, putting it back in the bear.
"You are beautiful." She whispered to the second card before tucking it under her precious bears shirt, missing the hidden internal compartment, and hugged the animal close.
"Mother…" The dark vehicle hit the back bumper of the sports car making it start fishtailing. The child cried out in pain, head crashing against the window, and the woman and driver whipped forward with an agonizing cry. Finally gaining control of the car once more, the husband and wife shared a look of terror whispering quick endearments, before the car was hit again, and flipped skidding down the hillside, before coming to a halting stop.
The man clutched his brunette bangs feeling the blood running down his face. "Take off your seat belt Rinai, and get ready to run." He ordered and he shook his wife to conscious. She opened her eyes, blood pouring out her nose, and immediately turned and saw her daughter huddled on the floor. "It's our only chance…" he whispered helping his wife out of her seatbelt after undoing his own with already bruising fingers urging his child to move so he could grab her.
"We will always love you, Rinny." Her mother exclaimed tortured as both of the adults finally opened the crushed doors with as much force possible and jumped out child in his arms, and stuffed bear in hers.
A shot rang through the air, and the woman fell, letting out a choked sound before falling into mud, the bear still held tight in her grasp.
He cried out to his fallen lover. He knew he couldn't stop but still, he ran to his lifeless wife and cried ripping the bear with its hidden cargo from her arms. He very soul crying knowing he had to leave her there even as his child screamed for her.
A bright light shone near them, and with his child now clinging to her bear tightly in his arms, the brunette took off in a run. "Don't let go of that bear, Rinai. What it holds inside they must never get." He demanded, trying to force himself with his damaged body to keep moving hidden for now with the moonless night.
Another shot rang in the darkness and he suddenly collapsed, dropping his daughter in the process. Blood seeped from his wound as the child maneuvered over to his body grasping at him. "Run. Run Rinai!" he gasped clutching at his leg as he tried to get up. A sudden light was upon them, and another shot rang out. Blood seeping from his chest, he slumped over.
Barely able to see in the light, Rinai's eye's opened wide seeing her father's lifeless body, and felt her body moving on its own away from him at high speed, bear held tightly to her person.
The light followed her as she tripped in the mud tumbling to a stop. A final shot rang through the night and she let out a scream dropping the stuffed animal, the 'Ancient Fairy Dragon' card slipping from under its shirt revealing itself. The child clutched her shoulder, blood pouring from the wound.
The sound of boots squishing in the mud made the young girl lift her head and see a large man in a black cloak. "You're poor parents couldn't run from us and hope to live," he laughed. "It's too bad really. Their idea to run would have been smart if we didn't have guns." His smirk widened as he saw the Duel Monster Card peaking out from the muddied toy's clothes. He bent forward and snatched up the bear.
"NOO!" She screamed, remembering her father's words, as she tried to launch herself in his way and splattered in the mud.
The cloaked man scoffed. "It seems I have what I wanted," He said as he threw the bear a few meters away carelessly. "At least one of them." With bloody blonde bangs and ebony muddied locks, Rinai tried to be brave and glared at him from her fallen position in the mud, even while fear claimed her very soul.
"You wouldn't know where the other is, would you child?" His voice was sinister and sent chills through her but she continued glaring silently.
"Foolish child," he growled as he grabbed Rinai by her nightgown, sneered, and threw her back down. "Heh, I guess that's hereditary. Your parents were fools too." He spat in her face. "Still, too bad you don't know anything." He spoke coldly.
"You're parent sacrificed themselves for you to live, how foolish of them." the man sneered pointing his gun towards her muddied figure before putting it back down. "I don't think I will kill you. I feel fate has something big in store for you." He smiled a horrific smile. "One day …yes one day, you will find the darkness in you. And child you will find your rightful place among the chosen ones. That is your fate!" He laughed a sinister laugh as he left.
Fear finally taking hold, Rinai cried into the dawn clutching at her broken and bleeding body as the sun began to rise in the sky.
My parents. They're dead.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
The alarm clock woke the only room's occupant with a start. Fumbling for the off button, she lazily threw off the covers and twisted out of the king bed. With head pounding and body drenched in sweat, the teenager sighed to herself rubbing at her eyes.
That nightmare again...
Rinai toed on a pair of light blue fuzzy slippers and threw an overcoat over her small frame forcing her arms through the sleeves and slipped out of the bedded area into the rest of her spacious master suite.
"Good morning Mother, Father." She smiled at their photo hanging on the wall.
Even though her parents had died when the girl was five years old and she now could barely remember them, she sometimes still missed them both terribly.
Especially after a night of tortured subconscious reminiscing.
Now thirteen years later, even with all her Uncle's money and all his connections, law enforcement still had not arrested the criminals responsible. The news had reported that the five-year-old Kaiba Heiress had lost a lot of blood and had been found unconscious in the mud by another car that was driving to work the next morning that has spotted the crash and disturbance around the vehicle. Her parents were found not far from her, shot to death.
Glancing in the mirror besides the photo the young heiress smiled seeing the same blue eyes staring back that her father once had, and his father as well: a hereditary trait it seemed. After finger combing through her blonde, wavy bangs and black length, she rubbed at yesterday's makeup frowning. Pulling out a compact from the pocket of her robe, the adolescent dabbed her cheek to the same perfection she did every morning, covering the horrible yellow markings that she was still slightly ashamed to have from her younger preteen years of rebellion against her Uncle's constant pressures of being a Kaiba. Now that he was no longer alive to harass her with etiquette and business lessons, and she now in his place running the company, Rinai understood why he was the way he was. You had to act a certain way to be able to fit the slot Seto Kaiba himself invented.
A sudden knock at her door startled her, and she called for them to enter, pocketing her makeup.
"Miss Kaiba," A servant whispered with a bowed head. "Your breakfast is ready downstairs and your driver is ready whenever you are. You are up late my lady, so I suggest just haste."
