It's Time To Duel
Thousands of years ago, when Egypt was at it's height of power, there was a 'game', called the Shadow Game. Growing in power, and becoming dangerous, one pharoah locked the powers of the Shadow Game away in Millenium puzzles. Some of these, having now been found. The Game has been reawakened…though not as it was. As the newest rage sweeping the world, Duel Monsters, created by Maxamillion Pegasus…the keeper of the Millenium Eye. To what extent, would anyone who knew of the mowers of these Millenium items go, to get them all together?
***
"Okay…I play this…and that takes your life points down to zero, sorry Joey," Tea said as she looked up from the card she had played on the field along with a few others that powered it up, just enough to beat her opponent, also one of her best friends.
"What? That can't be possible…" Joey said looking over the cards. Yugi, the smallest of the group of four laughed at his best friend and looked at Tea.
"Good move," he said.
"Dude..Joey you got beat by Shining Friendship? That has got to hurt," Tristian said as he leaned against the desk to the right of Tea a smirk tugging at his lips.
"You better believe it," Joey said dejectedly, and his friends laughed. He couldn't believe it, sure both he and Tea were ammatures at Duel Monsters…but Flame Swordsman beaten by Shining Friendship? That hurt more than he cared to admit. The class was on recess, but it was raining out, so there was really no point in going outside, they weren't allowed to anyway, the teachers wouldn't let them. Afraid that they would go play in the mud and come back in dirty as sin…they treated them like they were little kids.
"This is pointless," a voice from the corner said and Yugi looked over towards the window where two of his class mates stood. One, a girl in her school uniform, sitting on a desk with her feet up on the back of the chair, the other a tall male…Seto Kaiba. The girl was Amethist, a new student to their school, who seemed to hang around Kaiba, either to get attention, or because they were both so quiet they put up with each other's company.
"It'll be over soon…hopefully," Amethist said and looked out the window at the rain that was coming down, in truth, it didn't seem to be letting up any time soon. Kaiba looked over at Amethist and sighed before his gaze fell on Yugi and his 'pathetic' rag-tag group of friends that followed him around.
"Hmph…that's pathetic," Kaiba said as he looked at Joey take another calculation to see for certain that Tea's Shining Friendship had truly put him out of the duel.
"Oh come on Seto…maybe you could help me construct my own deck, I'd really appreciate it," Amethist said and held up a deck of Duel Monsters Cards and Kaiba smirked.
"Might as well there's nothing else to do…lets see what kind of cards you've got" he said. Joey over and watched Kaiba give Amethist some pointers on deck construction and he sighed.
"Great…Kaiba teaches her how to play Duel Monsters, before you know it, she'll be beating me with Rainbow Flower," Joey whined and banged his head off of his desk.
"Lighten up Joey, why don't we get my grandfather to teach you how to play? He knows absolutely everything about Duel Monsters," Yugi said trying to cheer his friend up.
"Really, you think he would?" Joey asked and when Yugi nodded he jumped up onto his desk and put one foot on the back of the chair.
"Alright…I'm gonna be the best!" he yelled then slipped on one of his cards and fell off the back of the chair cracking his head on the ground. The class was silent as Joey lay there, then they all started to laugh, the only ones that weren't laughing, was Joey, Yugi, Tea, and Amethist. Tristian was laughing his head off calling him a clumsy idiot, until Tea smacked him up the back of the head and he joined Joey laying on the floor in pain.
"You guys are such idiots," Tea said closing her eyes and resting her hands on her hips, shaking her head back and froth.
"You're so mean…" Tristian whimpered as he and Joey sat up both rubbing their heads, by now the class had all stopped laughing at them. Yugi looked up to see Amethist walking towards them and Kaiba walking out of the class room.
"Where's he going?" Yugi asked.
"He has to go pick up Mokuba, I think," Amethist said with a shrug then looked at Joey, "you want to have a duel?" she asked him. Joey looked at her and cringed, but then remembered something and chuckled.
"Sure, lets go for it," he said sittin at the desk that he and Tea had been playing at, and Amethist sat across from him.
"Alright, you both start off with 8000…do you want to flip a coin to see who goes first?" Yugi asked as he sat in a chair to watch the duel.
"No…ladies first," Joey said and motioned at Amethist who shrugged.
"I was going to say you could go first because you lost your last duel…but okay. I lay these two cards face down, and play this monster card down in defence as well," Amethist said then looked up at Joey, "you can go now," she said and smiled at him. Joey chuckled and drew a card from his deck, this was going to be easy.
"Guess Kaiba didn't teach you how to play too good did he?" Joey chuckled as he laid down a Magic/Trap card and played the Flame Swordsman. Amethist blinked and watched him and Joey chuckled, "and I play this, to power him up," Joey grinned, "and attack your face down card with an attack power of 2000" (For the love of me I can't think of the card or what the attack power goes up to).
"I suppose so…" she flipped over her card to reveal that face down she had put the Gyakutenno Megami card.
"Ha! Wiped it off the board" Joey said grinning from ear to ear.
"Um…not quite Joey. When you attacked my Gyakutenno Megami card, you also activated this trap card of mine," Amethist flipped over one of the other two face down cards, "Reverse Trap; All increases and decresses to attack and defence are reversed for the turn in which this card is activated. Meaning your Flame Swordsman's attack power goes back down to 1800. And since Gyakutenno Megami has an attack power of 1800 as well…I activate this quick use magic card. Light Energy; a fairy type monster equiped with this card increases the attack and defense by 300 points…meaning my Gyakutenno Megami is now stronger than your Flame Swordsman and you loose 300 life points," Amethist explained smiling at the move that Seto had taught her. The Reverse Trap was not necessarily a good card, but it worked on crazy stunts like that. Joey just stared at her and the cards blankely, in disbelief.
"She's got you there Joey…but don't worry…it's only started right?" Yugi said and looked at Joey as he tried to figure out what he could do now to get the edge in this game, except now it was Amethist's turn. She giggled a bit as she laid the cards down and she watched Joey.
"It was a lucky move," she said with her sweet smile and Joey groaned, he couldn't handle much more of her 'lucky moves'.
***
The television was on in front of her as she knelt at the coffee table, her parents were in the kitchen preparing dinner. Her older sister and brother were sitting behind her on the couch watching some sort of vampire show.
"What are you doing brat?" Koji, her brother, asked when the show went to a comercial and he beant over to see her playing with some type of cards on the coffee table.
"Ah, leave her alone. It's just kids stuff," Meeya, her sister, stated and flicked Amethist's ear. Amethist just ignored it, they'd always been like this to her.
"It's not kids stuff…it's Duel Monsters" she explained holding up one card, Change of Heart.
"Oh yeah, like that tells us anything" Meeya said waiting for the show to come back on.
"It's a game, see," she picked up two cards, Water Imotics and the Koumori Dragon, "each monster has Attack points, and each monster has Defence points. If a monster that is attacked has higher defence then the attacking monster, it lives and the other monster is destroyed. If it's defence points are lower…it's destroyed," she said. Her brother picked up her Horn of Heaven card and looked at it scratching his head.
"Doesn't look like much of a monster," he said. Amethist laughed taking the card from him and putting it back in her deck and putting her deck away in the pouch that hung at her hip.
"It's not, it's a trap card," she laughed and stood up to go help her parents but stopped and looked at the television. On it was a picture of Seto Kaiba, the world champion of Duel Monsters. But it was what the news anchor was saying that shocked her.
"Best in the world…no longer. Seto Kaiba, head of his own business and world champion of the newest craze…Duel Monsters, has been defeated. But not just by anyone, a local duelist…Yugi Moto," Amethist heard no more of what the news anchor was saying she was about to go out the door she had to talk to Seto to see what had happened.
"And where do you think that you're going?" her father's voice boomed from behind her and she spun around and looked at her father, he didn't look very happy.
"I…I have to go talk to Kaiba…it's about school work," she said blushing a bit when she saw Kaiba's picture back up on the television screen.
"School work my ass…she wants to get a piece," her sister said as she stood up walking towards the kitchen laughing.
"Just because you're a slut doesn't mean I am!" she yelled at her sister. She knew a moment of pain before her eyes opened again and she was on the floor, a hand to her face, her father had slapped her, nothing new though.
"Quiet…mind you…if you did go to him, and just happened to get pregnant, you know he'd have to pay you a lot…either to keep quiet about it or to keep you happy," her father laughed and beant in front of her, sliding his hand through her hair, "Daddy would forgive you then," he said then stood, leaving her where she was on the floor. She didn't know what hurt worse, what her father had said to her, or the actual slap. With great effort she pushed herself to stand up and opened the door. It was raining, but she didn't bother to grab her raincoat, she just had to get out of there.
She wasn't sure how long she had run for, the rain was cold and was soaking through her clothes, she felt numb all over. A yell escaped her lips and she tripped over something, falling forward into a puddle not that she could get any wetter. She winced and looked at her knee that was now bleeding and cringed. Looking up ahead of her something sparkling gold caught her attention.
"What?" she asked herself as she picked it up, it looked like an armband with a chain that went down to a ring. She blinked and looked it over then looked around to see if she could see the owner of such a piece of jewlery then she slipped it into her pocket, she'd find out later, right now, she needed to get out of the rain. Her gaze came up to a phone both and she slipped once in the mud as she made her way towards it and picked up the reciever pausing for a moment before she dialed a number.
"Hello, You have reached the local number of Kaiba Corporation 24 hour service, how may I direct your call?" an operator asked at Amethist blinked a few times, she didn't know his house number, but she knew she could get in touch with him this way…somehow.
"Um…is it possible to get intouch with Mr. Seto Kaiba…I…I'm from school…and we're doing a project, he gave me this number," she lied hoping that the operator would buy it.
"One moment please…" and then she was cut off, put on hold by the operator.
***
Seto Kaiba, C.O. of his own company, ex-champion of the world of Duel Monsters, Mr. Bad Ass…to the others at school, was sitting on his sofa with his little brother, Mokuba, watching one of his cartoons. Time with Mokuba was prescious to him , they were all either of them had left. He growled when one of his men walked in with a phone for him.
"Who is it?" Kaiba asked as he picked up the phone.
"The operator from the company," he said as Kaiba pushed a button on the phone and waved him away from him and looked over at Mokuba who was still entranced with the cartoon he was watching.
"What is it?" Kaiba asked still not too happy about this disruption so late at night.
"Sorry to interrupt you sir, but a girl is on the other line, she said she's from your school and that you're doing a project. But what I don't get is why she called this number…instead of your place if that's the case," the operator said and Kaiba blinked, a girl from school? Probably a joke, he'd set them straigth.
"Patch me through…" he said and waited until he heard a buzz then it vanished, "who is this?" he asked not bothering to say hello. There was a pause on the other end and he was about to hang up when he heard them speak.
"It…it's Amethist…." She whispered, and Kaiba then heard the sound of teeth chattering.
"Amethist…" he sat up and blinked a few times and Mokuba looked over at Kaiba and laughed starting to chant, "Seto's got a girlfriend, Seto's got a girlfriend," over and over again until Kaiba motioned him to be silent with a finger to his lips.
"Amethist what's wrong? Where are you?" he asked as he stood and looked out the window, it was raining harder now and the storm was worse.
"Phone booth….a block from the school…I can't go home…" she whimpered a bit on the other end of the line and Kaiba blinked, raising an eyebrow, this was not the kind of conversation to have on a phone.
"I'll send my chauffer out to get you, stay where you are Amethist," he said then hung up motioning the man that had brought him the phone to go and fetch the limo. He then looked over at Mokuba.
"Time for bed kido," he said and stood up walking towards the door.
"Aww…already? Why big brother? Is you 'girlfriend' coming over? Hmmm?" Mokuba teased as he hugged his brother's legs and looked up at him.
"First, Amethist is not my girlfriend, secondly, it's already past your bedtime," Kaiba stated as he led his brother towards his room to tuck him in.
"Aww you're no fun," Mokuba said as he hopped up onto the bed and he pouted cutely and Seto laughed at him and patted his head tucking the covers up around him.
"Go to sleep, you can stay up later tomorrow since it's not a school night" Kaiba said. Even though he'd lost his duel to Yugi, and his title, he did not let it affect what little peace he and Mokuba had.
By the time he had Mokuba to sleep and had walked back down to the main entrance hall of his mansion Amethist had been led in, and the chauffer had wrapped a warm blanket around her. Kaiba blinked a few times looking at her, she looked wet, miserable, and it was either dirt, or the starting of a brusie on the side of her face.
"What happened Amethist?" he asked as he led her towards the living room, noticing her limp he raised an eyebrow.
"My father…said some rather….crude things to me after he hit me…so I left. I called you, because…well you're the only one I really know at school…" she said and Kaiba blinked raising his hand he traced where the bruise was froming and frowned when she cringed.
"Are you hurt anywhere else?" he asked as he saw one of his men bring in a tray of bandages for her and he knelt in front of her sliding the blanket from around her wet form. He frowned again seeing the bloody knee and the few stones in it and he carefully cleaned it for her.
"You can stay here for tonight if you'd like," he said and looked up at her, she'd already fallen asleep as he'd been bandaging her knee.
"Blast that man," Kaiba said as he picked her up and looked to one of the maids, "follow me, I'm going to put her in the guest room, change her into one of my large shirts, but don't wake her, alright?" he asked and the maid nodded silenty as he carried the girl up into one of the numerous spare bed rooms that his mansion held. When he placed her on the bed he looked at her and felt his heart soften for a mere moment towards her.
"Sleep well, we'll deal with things tomorrow," he said and walked out, motioning for his maid to entre to attend to her, shutting the door behind her.
To be continued….
(Wow..that was long o.O. Okay, so Amethist's family isn't the nicest in the world . *coughs*. Ohhh…and cute Seto has a heart after all. Hehe…Oh, and Amethist's Duel Monster's deck, is actually my own that I've created from the Kaiba Starter Deck and a shit load of Metal Raiders Booster Packs. Heh…Hope you enjoyed)