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Something New, despite me working for the holidays I can't stop myself from writing new stories, I have a problem.
NO POV
There was an endless darkness spread out across the horizon, the only thing in that darkness was one woman. Her hair was black and cut into a short bob, her skin was lightly tanned and bronzed, her body modest yet quite feminine looking. She wore only silken robes, but they were tattered and ripped in some places from years of neglect.
"Rise." A voice boomed through the darkness "The time has come."
"Hmm." The woman looked up with an annoyance in her eyes "I refuse."
"This is not a choice!" a second voice yelled.
"You keep me in here for 3000 years and now you expect me to play along." The woman snarled a bit "Do you know who you're speaking to?!"
"An insolent child who doesn't know her place." A third voice joined.
"You are the will of the Gods, that is your punishment." The fourth said "The Pharaoh walks and the God Cards are in danger, you are to ensure their protection."
"TSK." The woman hissed.
"A host has been found, you are to join with her and complete your task." A fifth and final voice explained "Now go Cleopatra."
Elsewhere
"Have a good night Ma'am."
"Goodnight Yuki." Her boss smiled.
Yuki Shinonome sighed to herself. She was just a young thirties office worker, she had no real social circle aside from some acquaintances from work that would occasionally go out for drinks. She had no boyfriend, no boys she was even interested in, it wasn't that she was ugly, she had long black hair and a body that always looked cute in her suits and skirts for work.
"Haa…I need a nap." She sighed opening her door "Brr…it's cold in here."
"You're the host they found, what an bizarre choice." A voice whispered in her ear.
"Who's there?" she turned around and saw nothing.
"Make room girl." The voice said.
"AHH!" Yuki was racked with a splitting headache and the feeling like her body was about to just tear in half.
"Ugh…" she fell to her knees "What just happened?"
"It's a bit cramped, let's fix that." The voice said.
"HUH?!" Yuki gasped as her arms reached down and ripped her skirt to increase the flexibility in her thighs.
"Much better." The voice sighed "Well shall we get along."
Yuki felt her legs take her to the mirror in the bathroom and when she looked back she had two reflections, one of hers and one of a woman who looked right out of an ancient Egyptian exhibit.
"I am the great Cleopatra." The reflection said "You and I shall be amazing together, I do hope you'll keep my new host body in good condition."
"What host?!" Yuki gasped "No, I can't have some weird spirit in my body get out!"
"Tut-Tut." Cleo wagged a finger "you don't have a choice in this matter, for the Gods have ordained it, personally I don't consider it very good either but unless you want use both to be struck down we'll have to be working together. Besides there are some benefits."
"Benefits?" Yuki asked.
"Well so long as I, an immortal spirit of vengeance, inhabit this body with you your body will neither age you'll get to live forever so long as I'm here." She smiled "And from what the gods told me we'll get to take on that exciting battle game."
"Are you talking about that Duel Monsters tournament thing I saw on the news the other day?" Yuki asked.
"That's correct, Battle City, we'll be participating." She said.
"But I'm not a duelist." Yuki said "I mean I've only ever played a few times with girls from the office. Sides I heard you have to be really good to even qualify to get the disc to play."
"Then we'll have to do this the hard way." Cleopatra sighed "Let's find someone and slaughter them for their disk."
"Wait I don't want to hurt anyone." Yuki frowned.
"I use slaughter in the figurative sense." Cleo rolled her eyes "Now let me see you deck…hmm interesting we might be more alike than you thought."
Yuki's POV
"That one there, challenge that boy with the red hair." Cleopatra told me.
"What if he doesn't agree?" I asked.
"You're a woman, aren't you?" she smirked in my mind "Convince him."
I can't believe I'm stuck listening to this freaky ghost lady!
"Umm excuse me." I walked up to a man with bushy red hair and two small glasses "Are you going to participate in Battle City?"
"Yeah so what?" he asked.
"Well I wanted to play to, but I don't qualify." I frowned "I thought perhaps you'd let me use your Duel Disk. Please I'd really…appreciate it. I'd be willing to duel you for it Mr?"
"Sid." He looked at me and smirked "Alright but If I win I get a rare card like the rules say, and…some fun with you."
"What a disgusting creature." Cleopatra sighed "Let's begin."
I was allowed to borrow a Duel Disk from one of his friends to play with.
"Let's go!" he yelled drawing.
"Okay." I took a breath and drew a starting hand "Ladies first."
I drew another card and looked at me hand.
"Uhh…"
"My you are useless, the third card from the left." She told me.
"Okay, Vampire Baby in attack mode." I played a card.
Vampire Baby: Lvl 3, ATK 700 DEF 1000
A small purple skinned goblin like creature with a cloak appeared.
"Why didn't you play it in defense mode?" Cleopatra grumbled.
"You didn't tell me that." I groaned.
"Just set the card on the right." She growled.
"One Face down." I slid a card in "That's it."
"My turn." He drew "I'll summon Solar Flare Dragon in attack mode, take out Vampire Baby!"
Solar Flare Dragon: Lvl 4, ATK 1500 DEF 1000
"MM!" I groaned a bit as a heat washed over the field and destroyed my monster and took out 800 of my life points.
"One card face down to end the turn." Sid said.
"Activate the set card." Cleo said once my turn started
"I activate my face down, Call of the Mummy!" I flipped the card over "Umm now what?"
"Jeez step aside I'll do it!" Cleopatra snapped.
"GAH!" I groaned as I got another splitting headache and my vision blurred.
My arms limped to the side and my back craned down into a hunch while my bangs fell in front of my eyes.
"I'm activating Call of the Mummy." Cleopatra spoke through me "It allows me to Special Summon a Zombie Type Monster from my hand once a turn if I have no other monsters on the field, So I'll summon Vampire Lord!"
A handsome man with a batwing like cloak materialized.
Vampire Lord: LVL 5, ATK 2000 DEF 1500
"I'll play another face down card and summon Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower in Defense Mode!" she slapped another card on the disk to make a massive bony structure appear.
Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower: LVL 3, ATK 400 DEF 1500
"Now Vampire Lord attack his Solar Flare Dragon!" Cleopatra smirked "Blood Curdle!"
The Vampire Lord held out his hand and blew away his monster and dealt 500 points of damage.
"Since you took battle damage from Vampire Lord his effect activates." Cleopatra said "I declare a card type and you have to throw one card of that type from your deck away, so get rid of a trap card!"
"Tsk." He hissed dumping a card.
"Now I'll end my turn." She smiled.
"Draw." He started "First I'll summon Ultimate Baseball Kid!" he played a card.
Ultimate Baseball Kid: LVL 3 ATK 500 DEF 1000
"Then I'll banish Solar Flare Dragon from the Graveyard to Special Summon Inferno in defense mode!"
A living Fire appeared on the field.
Inferno: LVL 4 ATK 1100 DEF 1900
"For every fire monster on the field except itself my Baseball Kid gains 1000 attack points!" he said "So say goodbye to your Bone Tower!"
"Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower can't be attacked as long as I have another Zombie Monster on the field!" Cleopatra laughed "So you have to attack Vampire Lord and lose another 500 life points!"
"GAH!" he hissed.
She's amazing…
"My turn, draw!" Cleo grabbed a card "I really don't like people messing with cards in the graveyard. But I'm not always much better…"
"Cleopatra?" I asked.
"I banish Vampire Lord in order to Special Summon Vampire Genesis from my hand!" she yelled.
A huge hulking purple beast of a man appeared with bat wings and tusks.
Vampire Genesis: LVL 8 ATK 3000 DEF 2100.
"Then I'll Normal Summon Vampire Lady and shift my Bone Tower to Attack mode!" she turned all her cards.
Vampire Lady: LVL 4 ATK 1550 DEF 1550.
"And Lastly I'm playing Fairy Meteor Crush on Vampire Genesis to give it piercing damage!" she laughed "Now snuff out that fire!"
Vampire Genesis slammed it's hand down and blew away Inferno while also delivering 1100 damage to Sid's life.
"Now Bone Tower and Vampire Lady finish this!" she commanded "Combined they have 1950 ATK which is enough to beat the 1900 life points you've got left!"
The counter hit Zero and we won.
"Impossible!" he gasped.
"I've won." Cleopatra stalked over "You're Duel Disk please."
Later
"I can't believe we won, I didn't know this deck was really that great." I looked at the card.
"Yes, you have quite the deck assembled for a casual player." She noted.
"They're not mine." I frowned "They were my cousins but he…well…"
"I see." She floated in the mirror "I will not be able to take over your body like that for every turn of every duel, it's quite exhausting you know."
"I still don't understand why we have to compete, and what am I supposed to do about work?" I wondered.
"What's more important work or saving the world from sure damnation." She noted "We have one task, to protect the God Cards from the one known as Marik."
"I've never heard of any of that." I sat on my bed.
"He will surely come looking since we have been given the only God Card not to be stolen." She said pointing at the top of my deck "God of Death Anubis!"
"There are three more cards like this?" I looked at it.
"Yes, Slifer they Sky Dragon, Obelisk the Tormentor and The Winged Dragon of Ra." She told me "Once Battle City Starts we will have to be vigilant and complete our tasks, even if that means we must win the whole contest."
AN
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