Disclaimer: I do not own the Yu-Gi-Oh! Series. Kazuki Takahashi does. Anything you recognize is NOT MINE! Hopefully the plot is, though…
Author's Note:
Hey everyone! This is my first fanfiction ever, so I'd really appreciate it if you'd leave a bit of constructive criticism or something. I haven't written much in the way of stories, so this may be a little slow, a little simplistic, and perhaps not entirely original. But hey, you live and learn. Enjoy!
A Love Lost...and Found
A Seto x Serenity Story
Chapter 1:
Little Changes
"Joey?" Serenity Wheeler poked her head inside her brother's door, doe-like eyes glinting with mischief. Good. He's still asleep. She carefully picked her way over to his bed, avoiding Duel Monsters cards, magazines, pizza boxes, and other such things that littered his floor.
"Mrrpph…take that, Moneybags…mmm doughnuts…hey there, Mai…" Joey mumbled in his sleep. Serenity shook her head ruefully. Wow. Joey talks even more in his sleep than when he's awake. And that's really saying something! Serenity giggled at her own little joke, feeling almost sorry she had to end her brother's pleasant dream. Almost. Waking her brother who was famous for sleeping through anything and everything, however, would be quite the challenge to even Serenity's ingenuity.
That isn't to say that Serenity came unarmed. Ohhhh no. In her small hands she clutched an increasingly heavy pail of ice water. I'm family! He's not allowed to kill me…I hope. Bolstering her courage to go through with her prank, she heaved the bucket up.
"One, two, THREE!"
"KyAHHhhHH! I'm drowning, I'm drowning!" Joey yelped as he sputtered his way into the land of the living. Serenity winced.
"Ow, Joey! You scream like one of Mai's harpies!"
Honey brown eyes narrowed as their owner realized why he was sitting in a very large, cold puddle of…rose-scented water? Serenity gulped. Oh crap. What's he going to do to me now?
"So this is how ya wake your favorite brother up?" Joey inquired in a falsely sugary voice (which didn't mix well with his Brooklyn accent at all). "Well, I guess I have to think of some way to repay you then. TICKLE ATTACK!"
"Joey, NO!" Serenity shrieked before her brother tackled her, mercilessly tickling her ribs. "Heehahaaa.. Can't breathe…ha haahhehaa!" Several tortuous minutes later, Joey asked,
"Hey Serenity, why'd ya do dat anyways? I would've expected something like that from Tristan, or even Dice-head, not from my sweet, innocent little baby sister!"
She shrugged. "Well, I wanted to go to the park and meet the gang for my birthday, and there was no way I could get you up otherwise… " Serenity trailed off. "That, and I thought it would be kinda fun." Feeling rather stupid indeed, Joey smacked his forehead.
"Oh yeah…Happy Birthday Sis!"
"Thanks Onii-chan! Hey, can you get ready in fifteen?"
"Joey Wheeler is always ready!"
Serenity raised a delicately arched brow. "Mm-hmm. Ready to take on the world in your Flame Swordsman boxers?"
"Aww nuts! Git outta here and let me get decent, willya?" he said as he gently propelled his sister out the door.
Serenity headed to the bathroom, intent on freshening herself up after the tickle attack. Running a brush through her waist-length fiery hair, Serenity mused
"Weird. My hair's acting funky today." Her hair, which normally framed her face in fluffy chin-length bangs, was lying quite flat against her head, rather like an upside-down 'V.' A few wisps strayed into her uniquely colored eyes, giving her a mischievous, elfin look.
"Just as well. I guess my hair decided it's time for a change!" Serenity consoled herself.
"JOEY? ARE YOU READY YET?"
Joey came skidding out of his bedroom in his typical white shirt, jeans, and black Air Techs. In his hand he clutched his beloved green blazer and his duel disk.
"Yup! Ready!"
"Good. Let's go!"
As Serenity held her brother's arm and forced him to skip with her to the park, she thought, Nothing can go wrong today…
Little did the Wheeler siblings know, two pairs of mysterious blue-green eyes were watching them.
"The time has come," the dark haired woman wearing flowing white robes and a peculiar golden necklace remarked.
"Yes. Let us hope that she will have the courage to fulfill her destiny," came stoic voice of the man garbed in a tunic and turban with a strange pendant hanging from a leather thong around his neck. The pair continued to watch the Wheelers skip down the tree-lined path that led to Domino Park. Though it was a sunny day, the man and woman felt the chill of wariness.
Shadi looked over at Ishizu. "She is a mere child. How is she to accomplish this great task? I doubt even the strongest warrior could manage it. "
Ishizu looked pensive for a moment, and responded, "Don't be so hasty to judge on appearances, Shadi. This slip of a girl has great inner strength, and just needs to have the proper incentive to tap into it. Besides which, this mission requires much more than physical power. She will not fail. She cannot…for the sake of the world."
AN: R and R! Your comments will (hopefully) inspire me to write faster! I promise I won't be one of those authors that doesn't update because he/she doesn't receive reviews though. Next chapter is longer. I'm trying to keep all the plot bunnies in a pen.