A Claymore X Yu-Gi-Oh! Fiction.
Two worlds collide
She walked along the path, Raki right behind her. Having just finished a job, Clare was ready to travel onto the next one. As she entered the town, she could feel the yoki of three warriors. She entered an alleyway and was led to the others by a man in black. She was hoping that she could find a room for Raki later, once formalities were taken care of. Once she entered the room, Clare looked at the three others. One of them she'd seen before, the shaggy razor banged longhair. The other two she'd never seen before. However, she would soon find herself in a position that she would not expect.
They'd barely gotten past their introductions when the ground shook so furiously that Clare and the others were thrown off balance, they were then flung to the ground. As they got up an aftershock hit and a gaping hole was opened in the ground. All five of them fell through it.
Yugi sighed, school, he decided was a waste of time. The afternoon sun was calling his name and yet he had to sit in the stuffy classroom learning maths, English, science and other seemly useless things. He noticed that Kaiba was there for once, hmm, why would Kaiba be here? He thought, I thought that he was busy with more important things then school.
At last, the end of school bell rung, Yugi was so happy, it meant that he could head to one of the many haunts that he was when he was hanging out with his friends, Tristan, Duke, Bakura and Joey. Bakura it seemed was going to be walking with him today.
"Hey Bakura, have you heard the latest news?"
Yugi asked him,
"Yeah I did. Those aftershocks are said to continue for quite some time."
He sighed then looked at Yugi,
"You know I heard that there were strange events going on all around Domino City too."
Yugi gaped at him,
"Whoa! No way! Really?"
He asked,
"Yeah, there was this large group of girls, about 47 of them all with blond hair and silver eyes apparently seen in the Domino Park."
Yugi gaped at Bakura, well this was hot stuff! If only he knew, what it meant. If only he knew just what was going to happen next, and that he'd be in grave danger of having Ta near murder him.
Miria looked around her to the strange surroundings, her-no their target was nowhere in sight. Of course the human was with the Number 47 was with them now. She'd just left the gathering of confused warriors in the forest that was now behind her, she said that she and the other three were going to complete their mission, and the others looked at her as if she was crazy, however Deneve Helen and Clare followed the Number 6 without question. Strange buildings now dominated the landscape, which was something that Phantom Miria had never seen in her life. She was trying to work out where they were and interpreting the strange writing that was plastered everywhere her head turned. Deneve Helen Clare and Raki all followed her.
"What is this place?"
Helen asked.
"I don't think that we're in a known world."
Miria said. If this was the other continent, then where were the Dragonkin? Moreover, if they weren't there then just where were they? Miria jumped as a strange machine whizzed past. She was going to go after it, but it didn't have any yoki in it. She noticed that more humans were getting into these strange machines like they were perfectly fine with them, so Miria assumed that they were horseless carriages for the time being.
"Don't worry about attacking those things, the humans appear fine."
Miria told the others as some humans emerged from the strange horseless carriages. Helen gaped,
"What are those things!"
She cried as a smaller one zipped past them. Miria looked around them, maybe the humans could help them. She calmly walked up to a human, to ask just what was going on, but the human cried
"Aliens!"
And ran away. At least five humans reacted the same as the first. Miria was beginning to get irritated. Surely, there was a human kind enough to help them. She tempted to cut one down when a young man with brown hair crossed their path. He seemed different from the last six humans, so Miria drew her breath.
"Would you be as kind as to tell us where we are?"
She asked him. His blue eyes regarded her with caution,
"Domino City."
He said,
"You foreigners?"
"I guess you could say that."
Miria replied.
"Hmm, from your appearance, I'd say you weren't human, but the way things are, I think I'll let that slide. If you want I can show you around, because despite your best efforts you do look lost."
His smile was something that Miria wasn't ready for. Humph, he just has to be attractive, doesn't he! She sighed,
"Your help would be most welcome."
She said. Helen snorted while Deneve simply looked bored. Clare was impossible to read and Raki didn't seem bothered with the brown hair's assessment.
"By the way, I'm Seto Kaiba, you are?"
"I'm known as Phantom Miria, the Number 6. My companions are the Number 15, Deneve, the Number 22, Helen the Number 47 Clare and her human, Raki."
He seemed amused, though he said nothing. He entered a building and they followed him. It was large and open as buildings go, Miria noticed that there were large screens and she could hear voices coming out of them
"More aftershocks are expected to rock the city with the emergency department already under a lot of pressure…monsters have been spotted around the centre of Domino City…"
Miria looked at the screens and she could clearly make out what looked like mass yoma attacking the humans.
"Where is that?"
She asked urgently. Seto looked at her, then said,
"This way."
Miria noticed that a horseless carriage was waiting for them. Seto called out in a strange language and it set off.
As they arrived, Miria could clearly see multiple yoma. She counted the yoki and felt no fewer then 50 of the rotten creatures. She groaned inwardly, then sprung out of the horseless carriage, that Seto called a "car" and started fighting the yoma. She could feel Deneve cut down a few, Helen it seemed was stretching her arms as far as they could go, wrapping them around a whole bunch of yoma, Miria felt those yoma die soon after. She tried to see Clare's yoki and it was soon apparent that she was over her yoki limit killing yoma. Miria hoped that they didn't have an awakened being on their hands. She paused as all of the yoma appeared to be dead; Clare it seemed had pulled back, her yoki was back down. The more she thought about it the more she wondered, had these girls gone over their yoki limit?
By the time they had finished, Deneve was finished regenerating an arm that she'd somehow lost. Miria could see shocked humans look at them, but she just had to ask them an important question. The very question that had been plaguing her the entire time.
"Deneve, Helen, Clare."
She called out to the three. They came up quickly. Miria took a deep breath,
"I don't wish to intrude, but there is a question that I simply must ask. Have you ever reached a point where you nearly awakened?"
Just as she expected the three girls were uneasy about the question she'd asked. Miria continued,
"I understand that you may not want to answer, it is after all a difficult question."
She told them, Clare looked away, then turned to face Miria and spoke up
"I had reached that point before."
The other two gaped at her,
"I was injured and had misjudged my yoki limit, I barely managed to pull back."
"Awakening isn't just painful, it can be quite pleasurable, which is why the Organization stoped producing male warriors."
Helen gaped,
"They made males!"
Miria sighed,
"Yes they did."
Deneve looked at Clare then looked to Miria,
"I too have come close to that point. Mine however was because I was testing my own limitations."
Helen decided to speak,
"I guess that makes three of us, I was like the males, found I couldn't resist."
"Yet you did resist, Helen."
Miria told the younger warrior,
"Another thing, have you ever been known to the Organization for causing trouble?"
"Well, you've seen what I'm like."
Helen sighed,
"Deneve here is miss perfect, she doesn't get into trouble with her clients, she's too professional about that, but she's gotten into a couple of fights with other warriors."
Deneve glared at Helen,
"I can talk for myself Helen."
"I can see that the youngest member of this team easily springs to mind as a trouble maker, after all she has a hard time following orders. Hmm, I hate to say this but there is definitely a pattern. It would appear that all of us here are miscreants who have nearly awakened."
The others looked at Miria too stunned to answer. Then Clare said,
"I have a hard time seeing you as a trouble maker, and an even harder time believing that you nearly awakened."
In the distance a longhaired warrior was watching, she had seen the four take the yoma out and was curious to know what was going on. The humans here looked at her with awe. She was clearly something to look at yet the Number 3 was in no mood to respond to the humans. Galatea took care to figure out which comrades the four were. She knew one of them was Phantom Miria, that girl she'd known for a long time. The other three, Galatea felt their yoki suddenly fill with surprise she was thinking of coming closer, but she stayed were she was for now…
"Few people know this but I did reach the point where I almost awakened. It was on my third awakened hunt…
The young newly appointed Number 8 followed the Number 4. Behind them were two lower ranked warriors. The Number 4 seemed to have an unspoken question on her mind. Miria could feel a large yoki in the area and she wondered on what it could be. The Number 4 turned to face the girls
"Mind if I ask you a question? Back there you seemed disappointed, are you uneasy because I'm the Number 4?"
She was talking of their rather brief meeting, where Miria had tried to hide the pang that had crushed her hope of a moment that she so wanted to happen might happen. She'd thought that now was the time, she'd see her friend once more-
"Oh, that, sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel bad, but I'd talked with another single digit awhile back about fighting together, and for a moment I was hoping it was her."
"Was she a friend?"
"Yes, she was a classmate of mine. We'd both come to the organization in the same way and we talked a lot, I can even say that I became a single digit thanks to her."
Miria smiled one of her rare smiles. The Number 4 seemed to have more to say. She told them a story and just as she'd finished it, Miria could feel an awakened yoki come closer.
She'd cried out to her comrades to scatter, and they fought the being.
As she kicked up from the ground Miria suddenly realised that she knew that yoki, as her blade went through the being's neck, she remembered who it was. HILDA…the pain that engulfed her was so deep she didn't think that she could bear it. Her yoki screamed to heights that she didn't want to think about, it was so hard to fight.
"Oh how fun! Phantom Miria said to be better then the Number 1 in group battle, I'd love to get a crack at her as an awakened being!"
"The only reason I didn't awaken was that I was mostly to proud to give in to her taunting."
"Who's taunting?"
Helen asked,
"It doesn't matter now."
Miria replied,
"That was quite some time ago."
She said to end the matter as Seto came over to them. Helen looked to pursue the topic but a warning look from Miria stopped her.
"Whoa, I thought I've seen it all, I guess I haven't. any ideas as to what these things are?"
Seto asked them. Miria replied,
"These creatures are called yoma, the can mimic humans and they eat their guts."
Seto wrinkled his nose,
"I have reason to believe that the people who made our kind also make the yoma."
Seto's eyes widened and he tilted his head.
"Now that you mention it, I think I've heard of something like that before…but I'd have to look it up."
Their eyes met,
"Alright then, what do you know."
"Not a whole lot I'm afraid."
He told her,
"but that doesn't mean that I can't find out."
They all got back into the car again. Miria and Seto were talking about the possible reasons that as to why their worlds appeared to have collided with one another, but they couldn't draw a satisfactory conclusion.
"Maybe if we could find Galatea, we might get a better understanding of just what the true situation is, if not then we are going to have to do something about it. Though what we're going to have to do, I don't really know."
Miria said slowly,
"Truth be told if that war is truly over and has been for thousands of years then how did we lose so much time? Or is our world in some alternate universe?"
"Hmm, well that is something that we defiantly need to consider, if it is at all accurate. The last thing we need are the monsters that you call creatures of the abyss here."
Seto said as they headed back to where he called home
