The Magician's Mistress
Me: Hey peeps! This is my first story! But I'm not going to hide behind it, because I've been writing stuff since I was about 8. So bring on the flames! Even though they will be used to warm my fingers. It's friggin' COLD out here!
Marik: Hey! I'm not in this story!
Me: Shut up Marik. I wrote this before I got to liking you. :D
Marik: You don't own me!
Me: Oh yeah! That's right, we need a disclaimer!
Marik: NO, no disclaimer!
Me: Just shut up and tell them!
Marik: Grrr..Alright!.... She... does not own ... this show or the characters.... but she does own the story... Fine! I did it!! Are you happy now?!
Me:Yes. *looks at readers* But I think they thought you were funny. O.o (ohhh crap he's gonna be mad)
Marik: FOR THE LOVE OF RA!!! *aims at me with his Rod* Bwahaha! My yami still has the Rod, and so that means I do too!!
Me: You dare? *holds up a fluffy teddy bear that says "I wuv you!" when squeezed*
Marik: AIEEE!!!! It is terrible! Get it away! *shielding his eyes*
Me: Then put away your Rod.
Marik: *gritting teeth* Grrr... fine.
Me: Okay then. *looks at readers* Pay no attention. He's a blonde, what do you expect?
Marik: *swings hard at her with Rod and just misses*
Anyway.... The Magician's Mistress
Chapter 1-- The Girl The girl hung her head oddly, Yugi thought to himself, as she grudgingly did the dishes. His Millennium Puzzle glowed brightly for a moment; Yugi only had enough time to look at it until Yami, the ancient pharaoh who resided in the Puzzle, appeared beside him.
"What's wrong with her?" Yugi asked his friend.
"She doesn't have her deck with her, Yugi." It was simple, but Yugi did not quite understand.
"Where is it? And what difference does that make?"
"She gave her deck to her duelist friend named Josh for the night. He plans to boost it, but he won't tell her how. My guess is that he will cut down on her deck and give her a few new cards," Yami explained.
"Oh." Yugi said quietly. "She's new, but she's already seen the power behind those cards, hasn't she? It must feel as if someone has torn her heart right out of her, huh?" he said, a little sadly, as he watched the girl, who was only three years younger than he, sigh and close the dishwasher.
"She's not the best duelist," Yami began matter-of-factly, "but she's already learned to put her heart in that deck. With it missing and her having no way of knowing its fate, she is edgy and worried, to put it lightly. You know what it is like to have your deck, your whole deck, with someone else."
Yugi nodded silently, and they followed the sorrowful girl to her room, where she threw herself on her bed and reached into her pants pocket. She began to talk to herself, sorrow and worry in her voice. "I don't know where the rest of you are," she almost whispered, sighing sadly, "but there are two of you I didn't let him take." Having said that, she pulled out two cards from her pocket. Yugi could only see the backs; one was rather creased, but the other looked almost new. After a few seconds, he got to see the fronts as the girl sat up and placed the cards on her bed. The two cards were her beloved Red Eyes and her Gaia the Fierce Knight, also very close to her. These were the cards that had been destined for her since creation. Without these two cards, Yugi reasoned, she would be nothing. These cards were like friends to her, both powerful and beautiful.
In reality, just before she'd handed over her deck to Josh, she'd taken Red Eyes and Gaia out. After making him promise to return her deck as soon as the two met again the nxt morning, he left.
Immediately she sat up, looking more worried than before. "Oh no," she said quietly but fervently, "my Reflect Bounder!" Yugi started; he hadn't expected a rookie such as this to possess such a rare card. "I forgot to take out my Reflect Bounder!"
The girl swore quietly and lay back down, drifting off into an uneasy sleep. Fearing for her cards, Yugi (who, even though he exists in another reality, can touch Duel Monsters cards in any realm, because he possesses the power of a Millennium item) knelt down and gently took them out of her hand, pausing for a moment to admire the holographic shine of the Red Eyes Black Dragon she loved so much. It was beautiful, Yugi thought to himself, even Joey's beloved dragon didn't shine like this!
He set the cards face down on her nightstand and turned to Yami. "This Josh person... do you know him?" Yugi asked.
"I have seen him. He is quite good, better even than that JB person this girl duels every week," he said with an odd look on his face; a mixture of scorn for JB, (Author's note: I really think Josh is better than JB; I just can't picture Josh losing to JB.) who was strong but cocky and would do anything to win, and also, respect for the faith the girl had in her deck. It ws simply amazing, that faith, almost overwhelming.
"Well, while she sleeps, let's go pay him a visit, ne?" Yugi said, looking out of the window as if to search for the house.
"Sure. Let's go," Yami said, smiling as only he could smile, managing to look happy as well as... well, Yugi wasn't sure there was a word to describe the pride-and-something-else that Yami, who'd lost his memory over the time he'd spent locked away in the Puzzle, carried with him. Whenever he allowed Yami to take control of his body, he felt that strange feeling course though him just before every duel. It was a mixture of pride, raw power and other things Yugi couldn't describe. Yami's power was a dark one, (in fact Yami's name means 'darkness') yet somehow it was as good a power as the light (or hikari) power that Yugi's friends, and Yugi himself, carried deep inside all of them. It felt somehow wonderful pounding through his veins. He supposed that before Yami had lost his memory, he had had words for the power he possessed, but now he was as confused on that particular point as Yugi, although Yami was more familiar with it. After all, Yugi thought, wasn't that how this whole mess had been started? By Yugi agreeing to help Yami rediscover his past?
Yami disappeared, causing Yugi to snap out of his thoughts, wondering for a moment where his darker side had gotten to, but soon he felt Yami's spirit return to the Puzzle. It stirred, silently asking Yugi a question. Just as silently Yugi answered, No, not here. I think we might wake the girl up, and the sight of us will scare her. She's a mess without her deck; let's leave her be and let her sleep. I'll let you take over as soon as we're out of sight.
The pharaoh agreed, and Yugi went outside; soon he was out in her neighborhood. Almost there, he quietly assured Yami. The next road over... He wondered to himself why Yami was so impatient today. Within a matter of minutes, he was out of sight of the house, and he let Yami take over. They quickly caught a bus (at Yugi's suggestion), and got off near where the one called Josh lived.
When they found his house, they quickly located his room. It was easy to tell it was his because of the many cards that lay in the floor, in rows. Being the dormant half at the moment, Yugi couldn't move his eyes where he wanted them to go, but he could still see the holographic Reflect Bounder laying in the almost center of the neat assortment of cards, some the girl's, some not. The question was, where was the owner of this room?
Seconds later, he appeared. He carefully stepped over all the cards he'd laid out, and set his soda down far out of spill range for any cards. He then set to work. Yugi noted the expertise with which he handled and put the cards together; easily as quickly as Yugi himself.
Before an hour had passed, he'd taken the two intersecting black bands the girl used to hold her deck together with, and carefully put them back on. With some surprise, Yugi and Yami both noticed that the deck hadn't got much bigger than before.
Yami ducked their head out of the window, and said, "Let's go back, shall we? That girl needs some support."
"Good idea," Yugi said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Me: Well, how was it? Good? Bad? You will be needing eye surgery? Please review, and I promise it will get good after this! But the chapters are short. Oh well. ^_^'
Marik: *tied up in a chair in the background* Mmmf mffff!!!! (Hurry, please!!!!)
Me: Eh heh heh..
Me: Hey peeps! This is my first story! But I'm not going to hide behind it, because I've been writing stuff since I was about 8. So bring on the flames! Even though they will be used to warm my fingers. It's friggin' COLD out here!
Marik: Hey! I'm not in this story!
Me: Shut up Marik. I wrote this before I got to liking you. :D
Marik: You don't own me!
Me: Oh yeah! That's right, we need a disclaimer!
Marik: NO, no disclaimer!
Me: Just shut up and tell them!
Marik: Grrr..Alright!.... She... does not own ... this show or the characters.... but she does own the story... Fine! I did it!! Are you happy now?!
Me:Yes. *looks at readers* But I think they thought you were funny. O.o (ohhh crap he's gonna be mad)
Marik: FOR THE LOVE OF RA!!! *aims at me with his Rod* Bwahaha! My yami still has the Rod, and so that means I do too!!
Me: You dare? *holds up a fluffy teddy bear that says "I wuv you!" when squeezed*
Marik: AIEEE!!!! It is terrible! Get it away! *shielding his eyes*
Me: Then put away your Rod.
Marik: *gritting teeth* Grrr... fine.
Me: Okay then. *looks at readers* Pay no attention. He's a blonde, what do you expect?
Marik: *swings hard at her with Rod and just misses*
Anyway.... The Magician's Mistress
Chapter 1-- The Girl The girl hung her head oddly, Yugi thought to himself, as she grudgingly did the dishes. His Millennium Puzzle glowed brightly for a moment; Yugi only had enough time to look at it until Yami, the ancient pharaoh who resided in the Puzzle, appeared beside him.
"What's wrong with her?" Yugi asked his friend.
"She doesn't have her deck with her, Yugi." It was simple, but Yugi did not quite understand.
"Where is it? And what difference does that make?"
"She gave her deck to her duelist friend named Josh for the night. He plans to boost it, but he won't tell her how. My guess is that he will cut down on her deck and give her a few new cards," Yami explained.
"Oh." Yugi said quietly. "She's new, but she's already seen the power behind those cards, hasn't she? It must feel as if someone has torn her heart right out of her, huh?" he said, a little sadly, as he watched the girl, who was only three years younger than he, sigh and close the dishwasher.
"She's not the best duelist," Yami began matter-of-factly, "but she's already learned to put her heart in that deck. With it missing and her having no way of knowing its fate, she is edgy and worried, to put it lightly. You know what it is like to have your deck, your whole deck, with someone else."
Yugi nodded silently, and they followed the sorrowful girl to her room, where she threw herself on her bed and reached into her pants pocket. She began to talk to herself, sorrow and worry in her voice. "I don't know where the rest of you are," she almost whispered, sighing sadly, "but there are two of you I didn't let him take." Having said that, she pulled out two cards from her pocket. Yugi could only see the backs; one was rather creased, but the other looked almost new. After a few seconds, he got to see the fronts as the girl sat up and placed the cards on her bed. The two cards were her beloved Red Eyes and her Gaia the Fierce Knight, also very close to her. These were the cards that had been destined for her since creation. Without these two cards, Yugi reasoned, she would be nothing. These cards were like friends to her, both powerful and beautiful.
In reality, just before she'd handed over her deck to Josh, she'd taken Red Eyes and Gaia out. After making him promise to return her deck as soon as the two met again the nxt morning, he left.
Immediately she sat up, looking more worried than before. "Oh no," she said quietly but fervently, "my Reflect Bounder!" Yugi started; he hadn't expected a rookie such as this to possess such a rare card. "I forgot to take out my Reflect Bounder!"
The girl swore quietly and lay back down, drifting off into an uneasy sleep. Fearing for her cards, Yugi (who, even though he exists in another reality, can touch Duel Monsters cards in any realm, because he possesses the power of a Millennium item) knelt down and gently took them out of her hand, pausing for a moment to admire the holographic shine of the Red Eyes Black Dragon she loved so much. It was beautiful, Yugi thought to himself, even Joey's beloved dragon didn't shine like this!
He set the cards face down on her nightstand and turned to Yami. "This Josh person... do you know him?" Yugi asked.
"I have seen him. He is quite good, better even than that JB person this girl duels every week," he said with an odd look on his face; a mixture of scorn for JB, (Author's note: I really think Josh is better than JB; I just can't picture Josh losing to JB.) who was strong but cocky and would do anything to win, and also, respect for the faith the girl had in her deck. It ws simply amazing, that faith, almost overwhelming.
"Well, while she sleeps, let's go pay him a visit, ne?" Yugi said, looking out of the window as if to search for the house.
"Sure. Let's go," Yami said, smiling as only he could smile, managing to look happy as well as... well, Yugi wasn't sure there was a word to describe the pride-and-something-else that Yami, who'd lost his memory over the time he'd spent locked away in the Puzzle, carried with him. Whenever he allowed Yami to take control of his body, he felt that strange feeling course though him just before every duel. It was a mixture of pride, raw power and other things Yugi couldn't describe. Yami's power was a dark one, (in fact Yami's name means 'darkness') yet somehow it was as good a power as the light (or hikari) power that Yugi's friends, and Yugi himself, carried deep inside all of them. It felt somehow wonderful pounding through his veins. He supposed that before Yami had lost his memory, he had had words for the power he possessed, but now he was as confused on that particular point as Yugi, although Yami was more familiar with it. After all, Yugi thought, wasn't that how this whole mess had been started? By Yugi agreeing to help Yami rediscover his past?
Yami disappeared, causing Yugi to snap out of his thoughts, wondering for a moment where his darker side had gotten to, but soon he felt Yami's spirit return to the Puzzle. It stirred, silently asking Yugi a question. Just as silently Yugi answered, No, not here. I think we might wake the girl up, and the sight of us will scare her. She's a mess without her deck; let's leave her be and let her sleep. I'll let you take over as soon as we're out of sight.
The pharaoh agreed, and Yugi went outside; soon he was out in her neighborhood. Almost there, he quietly assured Yami. The next road over... He wondered to himself why Yami was so impatient today. Within a matter of minutes, he was out of sight of the house, and he let Yami take over. They quickly caught a bus (at Yugi's suggestion), and got off near where the one called Josh lived.
When they found his house, they quickly located his room. It was easy to tell it was his because of the many cards that lay in the floor, in rows. Being the dormant half at the moment, Yugi couldn't move his eyes where he wanted them to go, but he could still see the holographic Reflect Bounder laying in the almost center of the neat assortment of cards, some the girl's, some not. The question was, where was the owner of this room?
Seconds later, he appeared. He carefully stepped over all the cards he'd laid out, and set his soda down far out of spill range for any cards. He then set to work. Yugi noted the expertise with which he handled and put the cards together; easily as quickly as Yugi himself.
Before an hour had passed, he'd taken the two intersecting black bands the girl used to hold her deck together with, and carefully put them back on. With some surprise, Yugi and Yami both noticed that the deck hadn't got much bigger than before.
Yami ducked their head out of the window, and said, "Let's go back, shall we? That girl needs some support."
"Good idea," Yugi said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Me: Well, how was it? Good? Bad? You will be needing eye surgery? Please review, and I promise it will get good after this! But the chapters are short. Oh well. ^_^'
Marik: *tied up in a chair in the background* Mmmf mffff!!!! (Hurry, please!!!!)
Me: Eh heh heh..