Okay, people! I'm just letting you know that I did NOT copy ANYTHING from the (very good) movie Push. I came up with the idea before I'd ever even heard of the movie. I did not borrow/steal/copy anything. Seriously. I swear.
ALSO, I'm soo sorry about the lack of updates on my other fanfics, but I get ideas randomly, and I like to post when I get them.
Gifted
A Yu-Gi-Oh FanFiction
Chapter One: "Special Powers"
Seto Kaiba was walking down the street. Yes, he had a reason. No, you don't need to know it. The name of the street? It doesn't matter. At all. Just know that he was walking down it, and it wasn't very busy.
So, Kaiba walked down the street with that patented Seto-Kaiba's-Very-Determined-Look on his face. You know the one. If you don't, too bad. Use your imagination. He walked by a couple of random stores and random restaurants and other random things like that. They don't matter. What does matter is that there was somebody's taxi parked on the side of the road. Don't ask me whose. Don't ask me where the owner was, or who they were. Also not important. Maybe they went into a restaurant for lunch, or maybe they needed to pick something up at a store. Again, it doesn't matter.
Here's something that did: suddenly, someone said, "Seto Kaiba."
Kaiba turned around, and found himself face to face with a girl about his height, with jet black hair, and deep green eyes that seemed simultaneously eerie, beautiful, and mysterious. She wore a plain white t-shirt, black jeans, tiny pearl earrings, a black, long, sleeveless jacket, and black boots. "Yes?"
"Get in." The girl twitched her left index finger, and the lock on the taxi door clicked, and the door itself swung open.
"Did you just-," Kaiba's jaw dropped as he looked repeatedly form the now-opened door to the mystifying teenager facing him.
"Later. Get in." She grabbed Kaiba by the arm and climbed into the taxi, pulling him with her. The door slammed shut, and the incredibly strange girl buckled the seat belt of the driver's seat. She put her hands behind her on the headrest, blinked with an interesting yet indefinable look on her face, and the taxi promptly moved like heck. Apparently, the girl didn't care much for speed limits, because she'd passed it up 30 mph ago.
Despite the fact that Seto Kaiba was now officially thoroughly confused, and even more surprised about it, the girl was driving without touching the gas pedal or steering wheel, or anything else. Without taking her eyes from the road, she said, "Glory."
"Huh?"
"It's my name. Glory Mataconis."
"Oh." Kaiba was silent for a moment, then decided that it was in his best interest to put on the seat belt. Glory Mataconis had just sped up by about 15 mph. "WOULD YOU SLOW DOWN?!?!"
"See that black car behind us?" Glory still didn't look away from the road.
Kaiba looked. "The one that's going faster than we are?"
"Shoot!" Glory said, and sped up. Again. "I lost them four streets over.." she murmured, frowning.
"Well, apparently, they found you again, whoever they are." Kaiba said. "But I don't want any part of this, so you-,"
"Hmm. I thought you'd want to find your brother." Kaiba stared at her. For the first time, Glory looked away from the road and at the other person in the taxi. "See this?" She held up her left arm, and, also for the first time, Seto noticed that there was half of a handcuff on it. There was about half of the chain hanging from it, then, nothing. "You know who has the other half?"
"Mokuba."
"Bingo." Glory glanced in the mirror, than groaned. "They're catching up…time for a detour!"
"What kind of-?" Kaiba never finished, because the taxi very suddenly turned with a jerk, crashed through a McDonald's Drive Thru sign, through a fancy looking car in the drive thru, and skidded across a busy lane on the other side of the McDonalds.
"They're still behind you!" Kaiba gasped.
"Ugh!" grunted the black-haired and apparently superpowered girl. "Well, not for long!" she swerved the unfortunate taxi again, steering the car into an apparent collision course with a brick wall at the end of a long alley between two old, dirty, and out of business stores. The fancy black car that was tailing them followed, both cars now reaching speeds well above 100 mph.
When the front of the car was exceptionally close to the brick wall, Kaiba yelled, "ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!"
"Yes." Glory said, and the taxi shot upwards. The car that was following them slammed into the wall.
The taxi gently landed behind the now thoroughly wrecked black car, and Glory and Kaiba got out. Glory inspected the damage to the smashed car. "Ouch. Whoever was in that's probably not doing too good about now."
"Neither is the owner of this taxi." Kaiba told her. "They won't be too happy when they find out it's missing."
"Oh trust me," Glory said, smiling in a way that made Seto think she knew something he didn't, which she did. "He doesn't mind." She adjusted the collar of her jacket and calmly but briskly walked out of the alley, followed by a still very confused Kaiba.
"Now what?"
Glory pushed her hair out of her eyes, and didn't answer. Instead, she pulled a cellphone out of her right pocket, pressed a few buttons, and put it to her ear. "Hey, Massie?" There was a brief silence, then she answered, "No, we…erm…lost them." Kaiba (correctly!) assumed she was talking about whoever had been in the black car. "Yea, he's with me. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yea, I see it. Okay, see you there." She pressed a button, most likely end, and slipped the phone back into her pocket. "Come on." she told Kaiba, and quickly glanced both ways before running across a street into a coffee shop that just so happened to have an impossibly lame pun for a name. It was so lame, I won't even tell you. Just know it was very, very lame. So, if you're ever somewhere near Domino and see the lamest pun you've ever seen/heard used as the name of a coffee shop, congratulations, you've found it. Glory pushed open the door, and, as one of those stupid bells people tie onto door handles rang annoyingly, she and Seto Kaiba walked in. Then the door closed. Then Glory twitched her finger, and tapped the bell. Silence. She smiled slightly, and walked over to a table around which a group of people were seated. Or on. Mostly on.
One of the girls had fiery red hair, determined and impossibly deep blue eyes, and wore a cute, pleated blue skirt a white sleeveless top, black tennis shoes, a silky blue scarf, and a cuff around each wrist made of the same material. She was the only one of the three that was seated on an actual chair. The other two were sitting cross-legged on opposite sides of the table. Both had white-blonde hair and violet eyes. They were very clearly identical twins, and each wore an identical, thin gold band on their left wrist. One wore a sleeveless, blue and yellow polka-dotted top and khaki shorts. The other wore green tennis shoes, a green tank top, and black pants. Also sitting on the table were Joey and Yugi. I refuse to describe them to you. You should know what they look like.
"What're they doing here?" Kaiba said, not sounding happy at all. Yugi and Joey didn't look surprised to see him.
"Miracle and Eowyn are my cousins." Joey explained, gesturing to the two twins. "So, naturally…"
(Just for the record, Mira(cle) was the one in the polka-dotted top, and Eowyn was the one in the tank top.)
The red-haired girl stood up. "And I'm Massie Daec…Eowyn?"
All eyes turned to the blonde haired girl. She was staring at her shoes, but not in a shy way. Her hand was pressed onto her heart, and her green eyes seemed to dull. Her heart was beating nearly twice as fast as normal. She stood completely still for about thirty seconds, during which no one said a word. Then, she gasped, falling forward, and catching herself.
"What was that?" Kaiba raised an eyebrow.
Massie tilted her head ever-so-slightly. "Eowyn.. What'd you see?"
"See?" Yugi asked.
"We'll explain in a minute, just-," Massie began, but was interrupted by Eowyn.
"They're coming."
"Coming here?" Mira asked. Eowyn nodded. "That's not possible! How'd they find out where we were?"
"I don't know, but we've gotta leave!" Eowyn told her.
"That would be now." Glory said loudly. Eowyn, Miracle, Yugi, and Joey jumped off the table and, along with Glory, Kaiba, and Massie, charged towards the back exit, which was conveniently located behind the cash register everyone but Massie ran around. Massie catapulted over it. Glory, ignoring an annoyed employee yelling at them, wrenched open the door, and the seven of them left the coffee shop. Quickly.
After running down multiple (in other words, six) streets, the group finally stopped running and slowed to walking. "Okay." Massie said. "Now, we do proper introductions." She pointed to herself. "Massie Daecrew." Then she pointed to Eowyn. "Eowyn White." Then she pointed to Mira. "Miracle, or Mira, White." Point. "Glory Mataconis." Point. "Joey Wheeler." Point. "Yugi Moto." Point. "Seto Kaiba. Okay, are we good?"
Eowyn blinked. "I guess. Oh, and just to clear things up, I'm psychic."
"Oh." Kaiba and Yugi said at the same time.
"Kaiba's confused." Eowyn reported loudly. Then, after a pause, she said, "Well, yea, it's obvious. But also, I'm a mind reader." Kaiba, just for the record, had thought, Obviously.
"Glory, you didn't explain anything to him, did you?" Massie sighed.
Glory shrugged. "I was a little busy driving. It takes focus!"
"Well, just get a license! It takes less focus than controlling the car with your mind!" Eowyn rolled her eyes.
"First of all, you wouldn't know!" Glory snapped. "Second of all, I can't. I don't exist, remember?" Then she shoved Kaiba out of her way and stormed ahead of the group.
"Erm…she doesn't exist?" Joey asked.
"It's…complicated." Massie said awkwardly. "See, the Organization destroyed all records of her existence. Actually, none of us five exist."
"Five?" Yugi asked, looking confused. Well, more confused.
"Mya Sinclair. She's still back at Headquarters."
"Oh."
Massie glanced at Kaiba and laughed. He looked completely and thoroughly lost. "Okay. Starting at the beginning. Or something like it. The Organization is an evil program that wants to use people like us," she gestured to Glory, Eowyn, Mira, and herself. "as weapons."
"People like you?"
"We have…special powers." Mira explained. "I'm a healer. Like, if you have a cut or something, all I have to do is touch it, and POOF! All better."
"Psychic/Mind Reader." Eowyn said. "And then there's Mya. She's a technopath."
"A techno-what?" Joey asked.
"A technopath. She can control technology."
Joey looked at Massie. "What about you?"
Massie looked around, walked over to a car, and picked it up. With one hand. Then she set it back down carefully. "That. And I can break the world record for the fastest mile without breaking a sweat. Super-fast and super-strong."
"And Glory?" Kaiba asked.
"Glory has two different powers." Massie said, glancing at the sulking black-haired girl in the front of the group. "First of all, she's a telekinetic, and a good one at that."
"That would explain lifting the taxi." murmured Kaiba. "What else can she do?"
"Well-,"
"What else can I do?" Glory asked, walking back towards them. "I-,"
At that moment, she was interrupted by a fancy white car driving quickly past and skidding to a stop in front of them. Two men and a woman got out.
"I guess I get to show you." Glory said, grinning in a somewhat scary way that made Kaiba, Yugi, and Joey all take one very large step in away. Eowyn and Mira, whose powers weren't as useful in a fight, ushered the people without special gifts away from the soon-to-be fight, leaving Massie and Glory to face the people from the Organization.
Massie and Glory glanced momentarily at each other, reading the message in each others eyes and fully understanding. Then Massie charged towards the woman.
The woman's hands were suddenly ablaze. "She's a pyrokinetic!" Miracle gasped. (In other words, she could control fire.)
"Wow, Mira. Thanks for telling us. We never would've known otherwise." Glory said sarcastically, then scooted left to avoid a blast of fire.
Massie back-flipped over two more fireballs, then slammed her fist into the woman's stomach. The woman promptly went flying backwards. Massie chased after her.
Gory studied her nails, looking bored as the two men approached her. Then, she closed her eyes for a moment. Suddenly, she collapsed onto the ground.
"Uh-huh. That was…not very good." Joey said slowly.
"Hello. Not finished."
"What the-?" Joey gasped. Yugi did a double-take and Kaiba's jaw dropped. Glory's voice was coming from one of the two men.
"That'smy other power." Glory said. Or the man said. Or Glory…the man…GAH! You know what I mean! "Now let's see what I can do here…" A bolt of lightening appeared in hr hand. "Hmm. Useful." She threw it at the man she was fighting, hitting him square in the chest. Glory blinked. "Convenient."
The next few minutes were spent with Massie fighting the Pyrokenisis lady and Glory soundly thrashing the second man, who turned out to have the power of flight. It didn't help him much. So, pretty soon, the fight was over, and the group of seven once again set off. Just for the record, Glory had returned to using her own body.
"See, my second power is sort of like mind control, only a little different. I control them, but I can't use my own body while I'm doing it. And," Here she paused to steady herself. "It takes a lot of energy to do."
"And this is why we do not mess with Glory!" Mira proclaimed loudly.
"That. And she has a temper and is very easily provoked." Eowyn added.
"Hey! I do…okay, so I do and I am." Glory rolled her eyes and walked off. "Come on guys! Let's move. We have little brothers and friends to save here! Organizations to overthrow. Any of that ringing a bell to you guys?"
"Oh. Right." Mira said, and she and the others hurried to catch up.
Okay, so I hope you enjoyed it, even though I guess I could've done a bit better...anyway, hope you liked it! READ AND REVIEW!!! Wait. You already read. Shoot. Fine then. Just REVIEW!!! AND COME BACK WHEN I POST CHAPTER TWO! AND THREE! AND SO ON!