Chapter 1
Darkness. . . Silence. . .nothing could be heard, nothing could be seen, both of these in there purest forms stretching into the vast space of emptiness. Only the whisper of a young female voice could be heard in the distance, "Hello?..." looking around nothing could be seen, nothing could be heard, until the sounds of footsteps was upon deaf ears. "Is anyone there?" Again nothing had answered the question of the young girl. The footsteps came to a standstill, giving a 45 degree turn left, and then to the right, about to give up, a mysterious voice echoed in the distance, "one…."
Confused she looked in all directions again, "One? What do you mean one?" she waited, "Only….one!" it called out to her, the voice boomed from behind her, turning around quickly, the darkness was ignited with a wall of blazing fire, making her step back covering her face, in the distance she could see a shadowy figure, but couldn't tell exactly what it was. Her breathing sped up as her heart began to beat faster, "Only one what! Tell me! Who are you? Why am I here?"
The shadow in the distance seemed to turn towards her, "Only one can fully master …. Us…" her eye brows needed together, a small line of sweat forced it's way down the crease of her face, The fire had spread and she seemed to be standing on a large rock, "Master? Master of who?"
The flamed licked at her ankles as they began to raise higher, "ONLY ONE!" roared the voice and suddenly something shot out at her through the flames about to consume her.
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Shooting up at an alarming rate, a clean sheen of sweat glistened over her face and body, hair clinging to her forehead was a young teenage red haired girl, her eye's open and alert, looking around the room making sure nothing unusual had happened.
When the secure feeling of safety had kicked in knowing she was in her own bedroom her heart rate and breathing dropped into perfect sync with each other, Running a thin pale hand over her face she let out a soft sigh. "Ugh….that same dream again… that's the 3rd time this week."
Looking over at the digital clock on her nightstand, in big green numbers it read 6.23AM. giving out a slight groan knowing she wasn't going to get back to sleep, the young teenager dragged her body out of bed not really feeling any energy in it at all after the dream she had.
Wanting to get out of the cold wet damp clothing, she made her towards the connecting bathroom she had to take a shower.
Stripping off the damp clothing and stepping into the steaming shower, she immediately felt her muscles relaxing under the pressure, leaning her forehead against the cold tiles, her mind began to wander back to the dream. She had been having that same dream for the past few nights and didn't know exactly what it meant.
After a few minutes of pondering she stood up right shaking her head, "Get a grip Claudia, it's only a dream, I mean it doesn't have to mean anything…" giving her cheeks a quick slap, she perked up a bit more, "All that's going to happen is boring inventory work down at the Warehouse and get yelled at by gramps for messing about with some dangerous artefact." Giving a slight nod to herself she quickly finished up the shower before her other roommates began complaining about there not being any hot water.
Not a moment later the young teenager known as Claudia was dressed in a pair of dark wash blue skinny jeans, black led zeppelin t-shirt and black leather waist coat. She placed on her signature dark gothic make up and added on some worn out converse before making her way downstairs to the kitchen to heat up the kettle for some coffee.
Leaning against the kitchen counter waiting for the kettle to boil her mind began wandering back to that dream, she couldn't get it out of her mind at all. The voice seemed so dark and distant; it sent chills down her spin.
While being distracted by her thoughts, she didn't hear anyone walk into the room or that someone had been trying to communicate with her until she felt a hand land on her thin shoulder, causing her thoughts to scramble and jump out of her skin. She turned around to see a female standing right in front of her. "Myka! What the Frack! You scared the shit out of me."
The woman just gave her a concerned look, "Sorry Claudia, but I've been trying to get your attention for the past five minutes, is everything alright? Your usually trying to sleep in as late as you can at this time of the morning."
Which was true, Claudia was not a morning person, she complained every time Artie forced her out of bed just to do inventory or to clean out the gooary. Giving a few blinks to try and catch her breath, "Apart from being scared shitless then yeah, everything's fine I just had a weird dream last night."
Myka's eye's held concern and worry, but Claudia caught that, raising her hands up in defence, "Don't worry, it wasn't one of them…Dreams, just confusing one." Before Myka could speak any more the kettle signalled that it was finished boiling, Claudia leaned forward and began making her coffee, she also pulled out another cup and made a quick tea for the older woman.
"Sorry it's just weird seeing you awake at 7 in the morning, usually your screaming at Artie to give you at least another 10 minutes before getting up," Claudia sighed running a hand through her red locks, "Yeah, I know I'm fine though like I said nothing to worry about I'll most likely take a nap later on at the Warehouse."
She picked up her coffee and began walking out to the patio garden, as soon as she opened the door, the hot summer air hit her skin, it was only July but the Summer in South Dakota was warmer than usual, it made Claudia's mind think back to the fire that licked at her skin inside the dream world.
Sitting down on one of the chairs she looked out into the distant small town of Univille, she wasn't use to this quietness coming from the town, normally when she was up, most of the town was already busy with daily shopping or people coming to or from work. So for her, the silence reminded her of her past.
Before she had enough time to even think about her past, Myka came and sat down next to her, "Oh by the way Claudia, something came for you in the post yesterday, I never got chance to give it to you yesterday because you ran straight in and up to your room, did you and Artie get into another fight again down at the Warehouse?"
Claudia gave a slight grin to her friend and in a way older sister, "You could say something like that, The old fart was screwing with my Security system, apparently trying to make it better but he completely messed up all the codes and program date I had worked so hard to build, that I had to basically scrap it and re-build a new one. I swear I'm sure he just does it to piss me off."
Myka smiled taking a sip of the hot liquid inside her favourite blue cup, "I'm sure he was just trying to lighten the load of your shoulders, I know you build that security system at the Warehouse, and it's also your baby" Claudia held up her index finger that shone with one of her signature rings on it, "Exactly! That system is my baby and when someone messes with my baby they are going to get murdered! Myka it took me 3 day's to build that and he almost destroyed it within 10 minutes!"
The older woman sighed sitting back, knowing on how stubborn the young teen was, she wasn't going to get into a technology argument with the genius of the group, that was Claudia's department and obviously she knew exactly what she was doing to win the argument. "So anyway, you mentioned that something came for me in the mail? What was it?" Myka quickly placed her cup on the table, and stood up going into the dining room.
Claudia scrunched her eyebrows up confused, until she saw Myka coming back out with a parcel placing it onto the table.
"Wait a minute, that's for me? But I didn't order anything" Claudia spoke, she looked at the name and address on the package, Strangely enough it was written in English but the sender was from Japan, a city called Domino to be exact. An in the bottom corner was two letters together that said 'KC'
Claudia looked to the older agent confused but stood up and dug into her back pocket pulling out a red pocket knife. How she had managed to sit down on a chair with that thing in her back pocket was confusing to the older agent, but decided against it as she was just as curious to see what was in the parcel to begin with.
Myka had just originally thought that the young tech genius had ordered some type of parts for her latest invention she was always making for the warehouse, but the look of confusion on the young teenagers face indicated that she didn't know who the sender was either.
Claudia dug the knife into the middle of the box, going along the brown tape until it was unsealed and opened it, the first thing she saw was a folded up letter, that was placed neatly on top of a black jacket. She picked it up and began to read,
Claudia
After so many long years of searching I have finally been able to get in contact with you, I know this must come as a shock to you but I am your uncle, first I would like to express on how deeply sorry I am that it has taken so long for me to track you down. Second I would like you to know that after my brother's death I would have gladly taken you in but you was taken and hidden from me. Now that I have finally found you I am giving you a chance to seek me out, You see dear Niece my time is slowly coming to an end in my line of work and as it stands as you are my only last living blood relative that you are the heiress to my company, but I am not going to simply hand it over to you on a silver platter. No this is something you must earn from me.
I have sent you a few things to try and make up for the lost birthday's I have missed and also a contact number for you to get in touch with me. I will be expecting your call in the next week or so to arrange a meeting, I will either come to you in America or I will send a private transportation for you to come to me at Kaiba Corp. I will be sending you more things and if you accept my offer I will make sure you are well off in the future.
For now
Uncle Seto
Myka could see the shocked look in Claudia's eye's as her eye's darted from left to right on the page she was holding, She got up and looked over the girls shoulder, her own eye's widening in shock. "You have an uncle?"
She could feel Claudia's shoulder shaking slightly as she looked up into the woman's eye's, "Apparently so, An I didn't even know about him. How the hell did he manage to track me down?"
The older agent shrugged slightly as she looked back into the box, "Claudia look, what's that?" the teenager looked back into the box, and gently pulled out the large mechanical thing, it was in half, but on the bottom of it, it held a large arm holder, "A Duel disk!? Why a Duel disk?"
Claudia turned the machine around and on the bottom read the words, 'Kaiba corp product, Duel Disk.'
"Oh Jesus Christ! The Fracking dude sent me a Duel disk! And this guy is the inventor of the god damn thing!" Exclaimed the red head, Myka was about to give Claudia a lecture about her language when she saw something wrapped in a blue cloth, she reached in pulling it out and unravelled the cloth, the first thing she saw was a card, but these cards was nothing like she'd ever seen before, no this card held some type of monster on it.
"Gagaga Magician? A card?" She quickly skimmed through the rest of the cards, some was green and some was purple, after reading the symbols on each different coloured card, she managed to make out, "Monster, Spell, Trap, XYZ? Claudia you have some weird uncle."
"I know right… what does this dude expect me to do with duel monster cards? I'm not a duelist! Kaiba corp huh? It say's in the letter that I was hidden from him… Myka I don't think I can take another blow to the heart if Artie knew about this…" placing the stuff back into the box she sat down on the chair, running a hand through her messy red bangs.
"I know sweetie, but maybe he might know something about this guy," Before the teen could reply, an older male walked to the patio.
"Morning girls, sorry to interrupt but Claudia did you order anything?" Claudia looked to Myka then to the man, "No Pete why?"
He held out a pair of key's and pointed his thumb to the front door of the B&B they was living in, "You better go check it out then."
Quickly both women rushed to the front door, only to see a van unloading a brand new Ducati bike. Claudia walked over to the man unloading the bike, "Excuse me but can you tell me who sent this?"
The man turned around the her, "I'm sorry Miss but the sender is unknown, your friend already signed for this so here, enjoy" with that he handed her a black helmet with flames on it, on the right side of the Visor it read the words 'KC' again. She looked down to the bike and on the side it held the same initials.
"Myka… I think … I need to have a chat with this mysterious uncle Seto..i'll give him this though, He's got style."
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Well Folks, this is it for the first chapter of my brand new story! That I am writing along side ArticDragonSlayer, This is my first ever Warehouse 13 Story, especially with it being crossed over with Yugioh, this is going to be set in an Alternitive universe so there will be new style Yugioh decks mixed in with old style, and mainly following the GX Series.
You guy's know what to do, hit the review button and tell us what you think about this,
What's Artie going to say when he finds out about this mysterious uncle,
Will Claudia go to Japan or will Seto Kaiba come to America?
For now! Curedream90~ And! ArticDragonslayer over and out!~
