Chapter One: Sweet Dreams
" Funny … I don't remember the weather man saying that it was going to rain tonight?" said a young girl in a matching, silk, leaf green colored pajama's, with short amber colored hair, and golden brown eyes, staring out into the pouring rain of the night.
"Don't worry about it!" said another girl behind her. This one had waist long dark brown hair with light brown eyes. She was slightly taller than the redhead, and wearing an over sized white t-shirt and blue pajama pants. "Besides, it's not like we were planning on going out anyway!"
"Your move Misa," said another, slightly shorter girl, compared to the redhead, who was sitting across from the long haired one. This girl had medium length, wavy black hair, light blue eyes, and was dressed in a matching, cotton, purple pajama top and bottom. The one named Misa looked at the playing field as the redhead came and sat down between them. After a few seconds, Misa drew a card from her hand and laid it down on her side of the field.
"I win," Misa sighed, leaning back in her chair.
"Again?" the black haired girl asked puzzled. "That's three times in a row!"
"And the night is still young!" Misa said folding her hand behind her head with a satisfied grin on her lips. All three girls broke out in laughter at Misa's joke.
"Aw well. It was a good game though, Ami," Misa said picking up her cards. The black haired girl smiled and picked up her cards as well.
"Hey, Danya? Do you want to duel too?" Ami asked the redhead.
"Sure," Danya said nodding her head and grabbing her cards from her backpack.
"Well, while you're getting situated with that, anyone want something to drink?" Misa asked her two friends.
"Water's good!" Danya said as she readied her deck.
"Root beer for me!" Ami cheered as Misa walked out of the room and down the hall that led to the kitchen.
"Is sugar really best for you at this time of night?" Danya asked Ami curiously as she watched her grab a handful of M&M's from a nearby candy bowl, and shove them into her mouth.
"Who cares? As long as it keeps me awake and happy, I don't!"
"Ya, but you will when all that sugar goes to your hips." Misa said as she re entered the room, carrying three plastic cups and a bag of pretzels in her hands. "Then you'll be looking for a diet you can stick with." All three girls laughed again and began their new game, enjoying their drinks and snacks.
Little did they know that in a far away world, that in perspective didn't seem so far away, a young CEO sat in front of a large computer screen, displaying all kinds of graphs, charts, and other images. The hours were stretching late into the night, but the male brunette showed no sign of weariness. He knew he was on the edge of a massive breakthrough, and was determined to finish his work that night. And so, the hours rolled on.
"Well, I'm getting tired," Danya yawned after eight nonstop games of duel monsters, 4 glasses of soft drinks and one and a half bags of snacks.
"Why wouldn't we be? Misa asked her as she started to gather up her cards. "It's going on midnight!"
"Only midnight? We're finished this early?" Ami whined. "It's too early!"
"Ya, well, you're not the one who's been working for five days strait!" Danya snarled as she plopped down on the air mattress Misa had blown up for Danya and Ami to sleep on while she slept on the living room sofa.
"Here, here!" Misa agreed, as she picked up her cards and put them into her deck box. But as they dropped in, a stray card missed the box opening and fell to the floor. Ami noticed the falling card and picked it up.
"Hey! You dropped something," Ami said looking at the card in her hand before giving it back to Misa. "Huh? I've never seen you play that card before."
"That's because I never had to," Misa said taking her card back. "I've always beaten your butt before breaking it out!" Misa and Danya chuckled while Ami gave the other two a half smile then rolled her eyes at them. It took a minute for the other two to stop, and Misa raised her hand to say something.
"In all seriousness," Misa continued, "It's my favorite card," she said holding it out in front of her to admire her card. "The Blue Eyes Shining Dragon," She sighed. "It's beautiful"
"Maybe to a person with a dragon obsession as big as yours!" Ami said smugly, just to taunt Misa.
"You're so funny Ami!" Misa sneered at her as Danya looked over the card.
"I'm just saying!" Ami said innocently. "I mean look at your deck! It's basically all dragon type monsters!"
"Ya, well, those dragon type monsters in my deck 80 of the time burn your monsters to a crisp and take a nice chunk of your life points along with them!" Misa told her matter-o- factually. Ami, seeing how there was no point in continuing the conversation, crossed her arms and looked away. Danya whom had been totally oblivious to Misa's and Ami's little spat, looked up from the card and gave it back to Misa.
"Well it's not like you couldn't use it. You already have three Blue Eyes and the Blue Eyes Ultimate," Danya said as she pulled out her own cards and shuffled threw them until she pulled out a card of her own. "It's like my Red Eyes Darkness Dragon, only a few more hundred points."
"I know. I have one in another deck," Misa said, not really sounding too interested.
"Fine Miss. Dragon Keeper!" Danya mocked her before sticking out her tongue childishly.
"Sorry!" Misa laughed apologetically. Danya just smiled back and waved her hand, meaning that it was alright. "Anyway," Misa continued, "What's your favorite Ami?"
"Card or Dragon?" She replied.
"Dragon Card, dummy!" Danya said taking a sip from her cup.
"Well that's easy! It's Slifer the Sky Dragon!" She said as she turned to her own cards. "Here, look!" She said pulling one out and giving it to Misa so both her and Danya could see it.
"Sounds like a nice little addition to your collection, huh Misa?" Danya asked looking over at her.
"Ah-huh," were the first words that escaped from Misa's mouth after a minute of silence from her end. "Where did you get it?"
"My secret, so you can't get it!" Ami said taking back her card, as Misa drew lines for her fake emo tears.
"Well," yawned Danya once more, "time to hit the hay!"
"Sounds good to me," Ami agreed as she moved over to the air mattress as Misa turned out the lights.
"Hypocrite!" was the last word to render from Misa's mouth before the darkness instantly swarmed the room.
The hours flew by as the codes on the screen multiplied.
"Almost there!" thought the man behind the keyboard. "Just a little longer and the new virtual reality program will be complete!" He continued to type in sequences and lines of codes. Finally, a small window popped up in front of all the other open windows.
"Finish Programming?"
The man reached for the mouse and clicked the "Finish" button. Instantly, the window disappeared and was replaced with another window with a downloading bar titled, "Finish Update." After a few moments, that window disappeared, and up popped another reading;
"Finishing Process Complete."
The man moved the curser over to the "OK" button and clicked. Instantly, after that window vanished, another popped up in its place.
"Do you want to run the program?"
"Here goes nothing," the man thought to himself again, as he moved the cursed to the "OK" button once again, and clicked. On the screen, codes flashed by the man's eyes. Everything seemed to be going perfectly, that the man didn't notice the door behind him open.
In the doorway, stood a younger boy, no older than twelve years, dressed in PJ's, and wiping his sleepy eyes. He began to walk towards the man sitting in front of the screen, ever so quietly. He was used to his older brother not noticing him when he walked in. The older boy, unaware of the visitor, picked up his coffee mug and raised it to his lips. He was taking a sip when the boy, who was now standing right behind him, spoke;
"Big brother, aren't you going to go to bed?"
This startled the man so much that he spat out the contents from his mouth and all over the keyboard. That's when it happened. The entire screen had gone red and a window kept popping up and vanishing over and over again reading: Error, in large bold letters.
"Oh, Shit!" The brunette yelled as he franticly searched for a rag. But none could be found. He looked back at the screen and saw that it had become bright blue, and a new program was running a crossed the screen, one that the man had never seen before.
The girls slept sounding in their beds, unaware of other events; except for the ones in their dreams. Unaware of the ever so slowly, increasing blue light that illuminated just above their heads. As the blue rays became stronger, the girl's bodies began to rise into the air, towards the blue light. As they rose, they began to change. Ami's medium length, black hair, began to turn to into a firey red, and her eyes opened to reveal blank yellow eyes, and her pajamas vanished into thin air. As for Danya and Misa, their clothes vanished as well, but Danya hair became black and eyes blood red, and Misa's hair turned white and her eyes a vacant blue. As they inched closer to the light illuminating over them, their bodies began to disintegrate into other balls of light, the color of their new eyes. Once fully light, the balls rushed into the first, and away, as the first light snuffed out and left the room in darkness.
"What the hell?" The man whispered aloud as he moved to the coffee covered keyboard. "Abort Program!" But no matter how many times he ran the abort sequence, it wouldn't go through. It was almost like the computer had a mind of its own. "Why won't it abort?" the man asked aloud, too frustrated to care if it scared his sibling.
"Um… Seto?" the younger brother said trying to get the elders attention.
"What Mokuba?" the man asked, only half listening to him.
"Is it just me, or is the screen getting brighter?" Seto stooped to look at the brightness of the screen. To his surprise, his brother was right! The screen was getting brighter and brighter by the second. It got so bright that the boys had to shield their eyes with their arms.
Through their arm shields, the boys watched the brightly lit screen spit out three different colored balls of light. On red, one yellow, and the last blue. As the bright light began to quickly fade away the brothers saw the red and white lights speed away from their sight, but returned their focus to the blue light instantly. The Brothers watched it bib up and down. As they watched, the light slowly began to change. It shifted and transformed into a small doll shaped figure, and slowly began to grow. As the "doll" grew, details began to form and the light condensed down to the eye sockets.
The doll had now grown to human size and the lit up eyes began to fade. As the eyes dimmed, the body lowered to the floor, and the hair color began to turn from a shimmery white, to a dark brown. The body's eye lids closed, and the light vanished, leaving an unconscious, brown haired, naked female on the floor, fast asleep.
Halfway a crossed town, the white and red lights, having traveled together, suddenly split away in two different directions. The red light only traveled a few blocks before coming to a complex apartment building, out lined with flickering streetlights. It circled for a few seconds outside the lobby doors, then flew up to the third floor to where the only light in the whole building, was still on.
Inside a room sat a young, blond, teen at a desk sleeping on his books, the lamp still bright and glowing. Suddenly, he shifted in his sleep, causing him to fall onto the floor. He landed with a thud that instantly woke him up.
"What the hell?" he said groggily rubbing the bump on his head, as he slowly got up from the floor. Finally on his feet, he looked down at the desk, covered in half finished homework.
"Oh well," he thought as he switched off the desk lamp and climbed into his bed. "There is always tomorrow." He pulled the covers up to his neck and closed his eyes. Through his eyelids, he saw something bright, shin through, keeping him awake. When he got fed up, he opened his eyes, and looked for the source of the disturbance. To his surprise, he saw a firefly sized, hovering, red light just outside his window. He watched in amazement for a while as it just hovered. He got the feeling that it was watching him.
Suddenly, the unusual colored firefly flew away from the window, and the boy shot out of his bed to see if he could find out where it had flown to. He opened his window and stuck his head outside, looking left and right. Suddenly, from underneath him, the light flew up and leveled with his eyes. Stunned by the sudden movement, the boy jumped back and landed on his back on the floor. He watched in slight horror as the light moved through the open window, and into the room. He scrambled backwards, still watching the red light, until his back met the wall. His breathing quickened slightly as the light began to brighten.
The light grew until the entire room was encased in the red light. Then it started to dim. But something in the middle, the boy noticed, where the firefly sized light was last seen, began to grow. As the light dissipated even more, he realized it was female human shaped, with long ebony black hair, and glowing red eyes, the color of the firefly. When the light was only coming from the forms eye's, it lowered itself to the floor, and as it lowered, the body's long dark hair, shortened to mid length and changed its color to amber, all the while, the eyes closed.
Once the female body lay on the floor, it was only then that the young boy decided to move closer. He crawled over and looked over the nude girls face, wondering to himself, what had just happened.
The yellow light, heading in the other direction of the red light, passed street light after street light. It kept zig zaging down the street, not being seen by anyone, not even the occasional stray cat in the alleys looking for a meal of old fish bones. It flew on silently through the night until it came to a small house type building with the words "Kame" over the downstairs store door. Like the red light, it flew up to the wall to the top of the building, to a skylight.
Looking into the skylight, all that could be seen to the naked eye was a desk, drawers, a small bookshelf, and a bed being occupied by a small boy with spiky tri-colored hair. But to the unseen view, an older boy, who looked identical to the younger boy, was sitting on the edge of the bed staring off into the shadows of the room, as if he were a ghost. The elder didn't even notice the small yellow light come through the open skylight, until it was already inside. Instantly, he jumped up from his seat and watched the light, waiting for it to make a move. Mentally, he called to his other half to awake.
"Yugi!" said the older ghost like boy, to the sleeping one, "Yugi! Wake up!"
The younger boy shifted and stirred at the sound of his name. He sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyes as he yawned;
"What is it Yami? Can't it wait till morning?"
"No, it can't Yugi! We have a visitor," The elder told him mentally. When the younger boy heard the older mention a visitor, he looked a crossed the room to the light. He gazed in amazement at the light for a moment, before speaking to his other self.
"What is it?" He asked Yami, still stunned.
"It's a life force. Of what, I'm not quite sure. But it seems peaceful," He told his lighter half.
"Like a ghost?" Yugi suggested.
"No, not quite," Yami answered, still watching the light.
Suddenly, just like the other two before it, the yellow light began to grow and shine more brightly than before. Yugi, being only mortal, had to shield his sensitive eyes to the light, but Yami kept watching as the light encased the room. After a second or two, the light began to retreat back to its center where, instead of the small light that had been just a second before, a small female body with medium length fire red hair, blank yellow eyes, and was about the same size as Yugi, floated in mid air. Yami moved forward as the light dissipated back into the body's eye sockets. He stood in front of the female form for a second before raising his hand to touch her face. But as his hand inched closer to the girls face, her hair began to change to black and her eyes began to shut.
Yami jumped back as the transformation started and watched the body lower itself to the floor. When the body's eyes closed completely, the girl's body not yet close enough to the floor, fell forward. Yami jumped forward to catch her, not caring if she was nude or not, and to his amazement, caught her before she hit the floor. He dropped to his knees, and continued to hold her in his arms. Yugi, who was completely amazed that despite being a ghostly form, his darker self had caught this human looking girl with ease, walked over and kneeled beside the two.
"Take her," Yami said quickly, holding out the girl's nude form for him to take from him. Yugi did as his darker self had told him to do and took her into his own arms. Once the girl was securely resting in his lap, Yugi allowed his other half to takeover so he could hold on to the girl as he watched from the side.
"Who is this girl?" Yugi asked his other self. Yami simply shook his head and sighed.
"I don't know, but when she wakes up, I intend to find out," He told Yugi as he stroked the girl's dark hair. Suddenly, the phone rang. Yami gently laid the girl on the floor before getting up to get the phone.
"Hello?" Yami answered in his normal deep tone.
"Yugi! You're never going to believe what just happened!" came Joey's voice from over the phone.
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