Olivia: Can someone say new story? :D

Desirae: Yea, because you're doing such a good job with the other ones.

Olivia: Oh shut up! You're just jealous because I have stories and you don't.

Desirae: Oh, you're right! I totally am.

Olivia: Are you being sarcastic?

Desirae: She can be taught! And here I thought she was a moron.

Olivia: You're so mean. Anyway, here's a new story, hope you like it. I do NOT own YuGiOh (unfortunately).


There are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who are born normal, who find a good place for themselves in society, and those who are known as the gem children.

These people are oddities. They're born with powers, both fantastical and terrifying, and recognizable by striking eyes coloured red like rubies or violet like amethyst. Hence, the name gem children.

Little is known about how or why gem children came to be, perhaps they are just a mistake in the genetic code or maybe something more sinister was at work. All anyone knows is that they overwhelmingly powerful and a potential threat to those unlike them. Therefore, must be captured and terminated.

At least, that's what one of "normal" upbringing would believe… until those ones, or even just one, could be convinced otherwise. The real question is, could that ever happen?


Sixteen-year-old Yami Mutou awoke and rubbed his sleepy ruby red eyes. Light streamed in through the boarded up window of his hiding place, telling him it was late morning, just before noon.

He sighed and cast the thin blankets off himself before standing up to stretch. The pillows he'd been sleeping on had slipped out from under him during the night. He'd been on the floor most of the time and his back was more than willing to let him know about it.

He looked to the floor to see his younger twin, Yugi, lying sound asleep looking like an angel. Yami smirked as his brother's face twitched in response to whatever dream he was having. He sighed. Though they looked almost identical in appearance, there were a few minute differences.

They both had spiky black hair with magenta tints and blonde bangs, Yami had a few more blonde highlights mixed in with the black. However, the biggest difference was their eyes. While Yami's eyes were cold, calculating and above all, red, Yugi's were wide, innocent and a dazzling shade of amethyst. Of course, one couldn't tell now as they were closed.

The differences were more than skin deep. Yami had always been a fighter and protector. He knew the world for the horrible, unfair place it was and yet had no intention of letting it take him or his brother down without a fight.

This suited perfectly because Yugi was timid, too timid, to stand up for himself. He was full of an almost child-like optimism that could never be crushed by something as trivial as a harsh word or a cold heart. To him, the world may have been cruel, but it was still a place of wonder and joy.

There was another difference though. One that confused even the two of them. Yami's ability to control the shadows had been evident since he was seven months, but Yugi had yet to show any sense of power at all.

This was extremely unusual, even for gem children like them. Their powers came about the same time their eyes shifted from blue to whatever colour they shifted to, around the age of six months or a year old. Yugi's eyes changed, but for whatever reason his powers never came.

It put him even more at risk of being caught by the Gemologist Constabulary, the organization that arrested and exterminated gem children, because he couldn't defend himself if he ever got cornered. Thankfully, he had Yami to defend him.

The two were as different as night and day, light and darkness, but at the same time they were the best of friends and loved each other deeply. Yami shook his head. He really should wake Yugi up, it really wasn't safe to leave him here alone, but he looked like he was having a good dream. He hadn't had one of those for a while.

Besides, Yami would only be gone long enough to "borrow" something for breakfast from the market just a block away. How much trouble could a sleeping Yugi get into in fifteen minutes?

He grabbed a pen and the stack of post it notes and wrote a quick note saying he would be back soon. He stuck the note to the floor beside his brother's face and headed for the doorway. He paused at the threshold and looked back. He felt like something was off about today, though he couldn't place his finger on it.

Yami brushed the feeling off. It was probably just because he had never really done anything without Yugi in a while. The last time he'd left him alone Yugi had gotten hurt. Badly. Yami shuddered at the memory. Never again, he thought to himself.

He turned back to the door and crept out, using the shadows to dull the sound of his footsteps. Little did he know, fifteen minutes was all it would take to turn the world upside down.


Desirae: So I'm guessing this is an alternate universe.

Olivia: You guess right.

Desirae: And the reason you changed the spelling from Yuugi to Yugi is...

Olivia: I don't know, a lot of people spell it that way. It's how it's spelled in the manga.

Desirae: Caving to peer pressure... for shame.

Olivia: I didn't! Can't I spell it this way in this story? It's not like I switched halfway through, the other stories it's still consistent (unless I missed something).

Desirae: Then maybe you should double check.

Olivia: *gets paranoid and goes to check*

Desirae: Let us know what you think!