After bringing the two mysterious, unconscious girls to Kame Game, the Pharaoh relinquished control back to Yugi, as well as the Spirit of the Millenium Ring allowing Ryou to remain in control.
Solomon Muto, Yugi's grandfather was out of town on a call about some rare artifacts, so they didn't have him to help keep watch of the two. Morning daylight rained down from above, signaling the start of a new day.
Yugi sat on his knees next to the red headed girl, who graced the sofa with her sleeping form.
His eyes were fixated on her face, which had a flawless, pristine complexion. The long hair framing her face accentuated her appearance.
He blushed a bit when she shifted around, almost hoping she wouldn't wake up.
The Pharaoh also kept a vigilant watch on her.
'Yugi...these girls have a strange aura to them...'
"It doesn't feel bad, does it?" Yugi asked his counterpart.
'No...it feels warm and fuzzy...it's a light essence the likes of which I've never felt before.'
The kid snickered.
"Maybe that's something else?"
'Like what?'
"Nothing, Pharaoh." Yugi replied.
Yami Yugi cast him a simple, confused glance before Ryou opened the door behind them.
"Any change in them?" The white haired boy asked.
"No...but they don't seem to be hurt or anything."
"That's a relief, Yugi, but have you checked on the one that I actually carried in here?" Bakura asked, tapping his foot.
Yugi blushed. He had focused only on the mysterious red head, and paid almost no attention to the exotic skinned girl Bakura brought.
His friend sighed, before looking in Yugi's damaged room. "That guy really did trash the place...did he take anything besides your Duel Disk before you got it back?"
"All my cards are accounted for. Even the God Cards. I don't know why he didn't take them. I don't really have anything else of value besides the Millenium Puzzle, and I had it with me when I went to track him down.
"Still...who was that guy? He seemed to have a grudge against the Pharaoh."
As their conversation transpired, the shop phone rang from the other half of the building.
Yugi went over to a wall phone wired into the shop one, and picked up the receiver.
"Hello, Kame Game shop?" He asked.
"Hey, Yugi!" A familiar voice-Tristan-called from the other end.
"Oh, Tristan! Good thing it's just you. The shop's closed until grandpa gets back from his business trip."
"Yeah, I was just calling to make sure that we were still on for the movie. I'm taking Serenity, so I was hoping you'd bring Tea."
"Uhhhhhhhhh..." Yugi paused, before Yami Yugi took control.
"Sorry, Tristan, but we've got a bit of a situation on our hands over here."
"Pharaoh? Is it another one of those 'Save the World' type situations?" Tristan asked.
Yami Yugi glanced back to the two girls lying down. Bakura knelt to take a closer look at the red head.
"I don't know, but Bakura and I have some...guests at Kame Game. We're watching them for the moment."
"Bakura's there? I hope the Ring doesn't control him again."
As Yami Yugi chatted up Tristan, Bakura raised his hand to lightly brush the red head's face. However, the lightest touch sent a spark of flame to light up his hand.
Yami Bakura, now in control, cursed and angrily shook his burned hand with a crazed scowl, before he heard the shifting.
The girl had woken up! She bolted upright, and looked to him, causing him to shift back to Ryou.
She stared at him oddly.
"Who...are you?" She asked.
Yami Yugi saw the exchange. "I'm sorry, Tristan, I have to go."
He hung up and gave back control to his modern counterpart, who ran over to them.
"I'm sorry about that...eh-heh-heh..." Yugi began, scratching the back of his head. "You see...we found you unconscious after I uh...fought...someone, and we brought you back to my house.
"I'm Yugi Muto. What's your name?"
"B...Bloom." She said, eyeing the teen, who seemed a full half-foot shorter than her.
The other girl started to stirr, and with a moan, she woke up, rubbing her forehead.
"Flora!" The red head, Bloom bolted over to her, stooping down and putting a hand on her back.
She groaned and rose groggily.
"I'm...all right." She said, waking up and immediately scanning the surroundings.
"Oh my...where are we?"
"It's the little guy's house. His name is Yugi."
"'Little guy'?" Yugi queried, prompting a chuckle from his ghostly other half.
"I woke up and saw that white haired boy looming over me."
"I was just trying to make sure if I'd seen you before...I can see now that I don't." Ryou began. "I'm Ryou Bakura by the way."
"I'm Flora, fai...just Flora."
"We were hoping you'd know anything about our current dilemna. You see, Yugi here found a creeper in his bedroom last night, who took something precious to him and ran off. He gave chase, bumped into me on the sidewalk, and then the fellow that took his item gave it right back.
"Yugi and the intruder started dueling, and after he won, the creeper burst into flames and the two of you were there, sleeping like doves."
Bloom and Flora's eyes widened, as they looked back and forth to each other.
"You wouldn't happen to remember what he looked like, would you Yugi?" Bloom asked.
"Yup." The young King of Games replied. "He wore a red bodysuit, with a bandana covering up his mouth. He also had dirty blond hair and completely white eyes."
Flora grimaced. "You saw one of Jekkel's shadow ninjas..."
"What's a Jekkel?"
Bloom sighed.
"You probably won't believe us, but...Flora and I are fairies from another dimension."
Yugi and Bakura paused.
"That's a bit of a tough thought to swallow." Bakura began.
"Here. Let me show you." Bloom said, standing in the center of the room. She cupped her hands, and much to Yugi and Bakura's shock, a ball of ethereal fire emanted from the center.
"I'm the Fairy of the Dragon Flame, from a Planet called Domino. Flora is the Fairy of Nature."
"We were students at a school for fairies called Alfea, in Magix." Flora added. "Could I ask...is this Earth?"
The talk of dimensions with fairies on other planets stirred Yugi's mind around. "Y...yes?"
"But...we already returned magic to Earth, so it's people should already know about us..."
"Unless...we're in a completely different offset reality." Bloom said.
"So uh...who's this Jekkel?" Bakura asked.
"He's a dark sorcerer that can create an army of the same kind of guy you fought. The ninjas are nothing but mindless pawns that act as remote controlled puppets linked to his own mind." Flora replied.
"You say you fought one?" Bloom asked. "How so?"
Yugi held up his Duel Disk. "Like this."
"What's that? It looks like a giant digital watch..."
"It's not. It's called a Duel Disk. A piece of gaming equipment used for a card game called Duel Monsters." He took his Deck out of the device, and passed it to Bloom. Both fairies inspected the cards.
They bore monsters, wizards, magnet creatures, even a pair of little cotton ball-like creatures with giant eyes.
What really caught their eye was the three cards bearing ten stars, and color coded frames.
One bearing a blue colossus, the other bearing a serpentine red and black two mouthed dragon, and the most catching, a golden bird-like dragon.
Bloom passed it back to Yugi.
"Those cards...I can feel a presence about them."
"Well, people that play it, like me and Yugi are called duelists." Bakura began. "You put the card on the Duel Disk during a game, and the Disk will produce a hologram based on the card image. The rest is decided by the player's actions."
"But how did you fight Jekkel's minion with it?"
Now it was Bakura and Yugi's turn to pause and nod to each other.
"You see...we're not as in the dark about magic as you'd think." Yugi said. "You see the pendant on this necklace? It's a relic called the Millenium Puzzle. One of seven items that originated in Egypt five thousand years ago. With them, the wearer can use ancient magic, but only if the item deems them worthy."
"Some of those magic powers are of purely malicious intent." Bakura noted. "It's not uncommon for the items wearers to develop split personalities. On top of that, they can turn ordinary games into 'Shadow Games', in which the loser, or a cheater will face severe consequences."
"That sounds dangerous..." Flora noted. "You shouldn't keep them lying around like that."
Yugi grinned. "Don't worry. The Millenium Puzzle is safe with me. The other me and I will make sure of that?"
"Other you?" Bloom asked in a playfully quizzical tone.
"It's a long story. Basically, the Millenium Puzzle didn't split my personality. Instead, it already housed the spirit of a Pharaoh from 5000 years ago. One that looks just like me, and we can give each other control of this body at will. Usually he doesn't take control, I give him control when a situation gets dangerous."
"So you always have someone watching your back."
"Yup!" Yugi replied. "We're the best of friends. And even if the Puzzle is seperated from me, I can still feel him. That, and I have lots of other friends to help me."
"Cool." Bloom giggled.
Yugi blushed.
Bloom smiled at the younger teen.
"We also have a lot of good friends to help us in our battles." Flora added. "We're a group of six, including a fairy of technology, a fairy of music, a fairy of waves, and a fairy of sunlight."
"That and our Pixie friends!" Bloom said. "As well as the teachers and staff of the Alfea college for fairies, the Specialists of Red Fountain, and even a few witches from Cloud Tower."
"Witches?" Bakura added.
"Well, normally witches and fairies don't get along very well, and in some cases a fairy can become a witch, or vice versa. They practice dark magic to battle evil, or in bad cases cause mischief and destruction. Not all of them are bad, but some of them go that way. Probably from the stigma."
"Right now, we need to find a way to get home. Bloom is the strongest of us, and the enemy is even more powerful than she is."
"Well, you're more than likely welcome to stay here until you find your way back." Yugi said. "Could I get you anything?"
"That's nice of you." The dragon fairy replied, before bringing attention to her parched throat. "Maybe some water will be fine."
"Okay!" Yugi went to the kitchen to fetch the water. Flora stood up and started moving about the living quarters, until she came across a room with a large number of boxes, bound in ropes.
"Yugi, what is this in all these boxes?"
"Oh, that's our stock for the month."
"Stock?"
"Yes. My grandfather runs a game shop called Kame Game. We sell anything from the cards I showed you, to board games, dice games, just about anything you can think of."
"Wow...I'll bet that's fun."
"Right?" He asked, before remembering what he went to the kitchen to grab. The diminutive duelist came back to give Bloom a bottled water. "Here you go."
Bloom graciously accepted, taking a few sips.
"Thanks." She replied with a smile.
"Don't mention it!"
The two looked back and forth to each other, before Yugi embarrasedly turned away, Bloom smiled at his bashfulness. It was no skin off her nose, but she really shouldn't lead him on. She already had her eye on another guy.
"Uh...Yugi, I think you better see this!" Ryou's voice called from the other room.
The boy and the two fairies walked in to see Bakura watching a news story.
A flustered reporter skittered about a chaotic street, crowded with throngs of fleeing people. "Your eyes are not deceiving you, people! A large number of monsterous creatures have appeared seemingly from thin air and are terrorizing east Domino City! Lock up your houses and hide your families-AAH!"
A dark blue ogre-like monster slammed into the reporter, sending him flying and the television to cut to a lost signal screen.
"No way..." Yugi whispered.
"That was a hunting troll...a species of monster found in the Magic Dimension..." Flora noted.
"We need to get down there! Those people need our help, Flora!" Bloom announced.
"I...I'll go with you!" Yugi added.
"No, Yugi. You should stay here. This isn't a game. I don't want you to get hurt."
Yugi closed his eyes, and the Puzzle around his neck glowed.
Bloom and Flora both paused and watched in awe as the boy transitioned with the Pharaoh.
In his darker, taller and more masculine form, Yami Yugi smirked.
"I don't think that will be much of a problem." He said.
"You're...the Pharaoh he was talking about, aren't you?" Bloom asked.
"I am. Though I have no memory of my past. That's what I'm in this world to find out, because an ancient evil will someday surface, and put it in danger of being destroyed again. But right now, we need to get to East Domino."
"I'll go with you as well." Ryou asserted.
"Alright then, let's hurry!" She went for the door and turned the handle.
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In the park of east Domino City, a young man with blond hair and brown eyes, wearing a blue and white t-shirt and acid washed jeans recoils from an attack from the troll.
"Shoot! And here I thought the two of us could take him!"
Tristan panted heavily next to him, bruises adorning his face and arms. "I know, Joey...But this thing clearly isn't a guy in a costume, and it isn't a Solid Vision hologram."
Serenity watched from behind them. "Brother...don't die..."
Joey turned back to her. "Who, me? Not happenin'!"
Behind the troll that faced them, two more of the drone ninjas that attacked Yugi the previous night stood next to a much stockier white skinned man with savage white hair, wearing brown leather breechcloth, knee-high lace-up boots, fingerless gloves, and no shirt, showing off his bare chest and musculature.
"It's no use, boys." He said in a deep, commanding voice. "No ordinary humans, no matter the number of them, can overcome a savage hunting troll."
"Oh yeah!? You should see me wrangle a bull bare-handed!" Joey boasted in an attempt to intimidate the enemy.
The man coldly cast him an indifferent gaze, before glancing in another direction with his ice blue eyes.
"Joey! Tristan!"
Yami Yugi thrust his form between them, and took a protective stance. "I won't let you harm my friends anymore!"
The white-haired brute focused solely on him.
"You are the Pharaoh that Jekkel has his eye on."
"Y...Pharaoh?" Joey asked.
"You're here..." Tristan sighed.
Bloom and Flora walked in front of the four humans.
The attacker indifferently met their gaze. "This is a surprise...fairies in this world...I see...Jekkel brought you here when he was fighting you so as to cut down resistance in the Magic Dimension."
"Uhhh...Just who are those girls, other Yug'?" Joey asked.
"Long story, but I have a feeling they're about to show you." Yami Yugi replied. Behind them, Yami Bakura took control of Bakura out of sight.
'Fairies...let's just see what they're capable of...' He hissed mentally.
"You're one of Jekkel's servants!" Flora said. "Why are you here? This world has nothing to do with your conflict in the Magic Dimension!"
"It has everything to do with it...but I'm not interested in his plans...please, amuse me for a little while."
"Oh we'll do more than amuse you." Bloom began. She and Flora stood next to each other before striking a back-to-back pose.
"Magic Winx-Believix!" They cried in unison.
In a burst of light, the two females were cloaked in light, nude but unnoticeable, and started to change.
Bloom sprouted simple, teal, insectoid wings and gained a blue halter top, and a matching mini skirt, with fingerless arm gloves, as well as light blue ankle boots. A three rounded point tiara appeared on her head. She finished her transformation with a hand on her hip and the other on her knee, glaring confidently. Flora donned a sparkling one piece bare shouldered top and mini shorts with ankle high boots all in a fuschia/orchid color. A green choker with a pink four petal flower appeared on her neck, as well as wrist length fingerless gloves. Her wings took a leaf-like shape in a lime green color.
"What the what!?" Joey blousted.
"S...so pretty." Serenity whispered.
Immediately, Bloom felt something was off, looking down at her outfit. She mouthed the word "what?" and twirled around to view herself as completely as possible.
"Th...this isn't Believix!"
"No...it isn't...It's our basic forms!" Flora cried. "Bloom...can we win like this?"
"I don't know, Flora." Her friend replied. "I don't know how, but we've lost access to our actual current form, and regressed to this...It must be...because hardly anyone believes in fairies in this realm!"
"What? You mean your powers come from the belief people have in your kind?" Yami Yugi asked.
"I'm stumped." Joey said.
"You and me both." Tristan added.
The white haired brute that faced them cracked his neck. "You two apparently don't know who you're dealing with, so I'll give you a clue. I am Chrom the Savage. And I'll tell you this. No fairy, even one of the holy Dragon Flame can compare to the fierce magic in my arsenal."
Bloom glared at him. "We'll never know if we don't try! Let's go, Flora!" She took flight, wings fluttering. Flora followed suit.
Yami Yugi watched until the troll that roughed up Joey and Tristan cast it's shadow over him.
"Umm...hi?" The young Pharaoh asked.
The troll bared it's teeth, and balled it's bestial fist, prompting him to duck. He quickly leapt back to the other four.
Joey acted swiftly, and grabbed a lid from a trash can, before twirling around and flinging it like a discus. The light metal plate struck the troll, but it bounced off.
The creature gave a chuckle. "Weak!" It boasted monsterously.
"Well, I'm outta ideas. Got any, Tristan?"
"Yeah, but they all involve running!"
Bloom channeled a ball of fire into her cupped hands before thrusting it out at Chrom. "Dragon Fury!" The brutish sorcerer simply held his arm up and dispelled it with a slap.
"You'll have to do better than that." Chrom taunted coldly, advancing on her menacingly.
"Wrapping Ivy!" Flora shouted as she cast her spell-a wave of magic that caused a wall of flowered rose vines to sprout from the ground and ensnare him.
"Pitiful." Chrom said, before flexing his hard muscles and ripping out of the vines. He held out his arm. "Dark Cacaphony!" He blasted a dark wall of sound at the two fairies, that made them grasp at their ears. It was the sound of innumerable crows crying at unrealistic decibels.
"Ughhh!" The fire fairy shouted before thrusting her arms up. "Sea of Flames!" She thrusted them down as they emitted sparkles of light. A wall of fire erupted from the earth and cascaded down upon Chrom.
Chrom bared his chest haughtily, not expecting the attack to harm him much. However as it hit, he grit his teeth at the great heat the flames carried with them.
He gave a yell, creating a barrier of dark blue energy to protect him from further attack.
The sorcerer glared at the girls with contempt. "That last spell stung...Fairy of Domino..." He growled.
"There's more where that came from!" Bloom countered.
"Here I come! Summer Thunder!" Flora shouted, throwing her arms down and casting a wave of pure natural energy in the form of a pulsating orb, breaking through Chrom's barrier, and sending him back.
He thrust his own arms out. "Chaos Lightning!" Bolts of blue electricity flew from his fingertips in a Darth Sidious-esque fashion, hitting the ground at the Winx girl's feet. The two flitted their wings to evade, but the bolts were scattering themselves erratically.
The troll that cornered the Pharaoh and his friends gave a beastly chuckle before advancing.
The group of humans had run out of room to run, and with no magic under their belt, or weapons to employ, the situation looked grim.
Yami Yugi scowled.
'Curses...' He thought. 'This doesn't look good...'
The creature growled and charged. Yami closed his eyes, and held his arms out in an attempt to save Joey, Bakura, Tristan and Serenity from being mauled as well, but a sudden burst of warm light forced his eyes open.
The hunting troll found himself frozen in mid attack, fists in an offensive position. The pose would've seemed comical if not for the danger of the circumstances.
Or for the beautiful blond magician standing before him.
Yami Yugi and his friends watched on in shock and awe.
"D...Dark Magician Girl?!" He gasped.
Indeed it was the Dark Magician's buxom, lovely apprentice, materiallized clear as the flesh. She held her wand up high, freezing the creature in place. Her cute face now contorted into a half scowl.
"You...will not harm the Pharaoh. Or his friends!" She exclaimed, blasting the creature with an extra powerful Dark Burning Attack, sending him back into one of Jekkel's ninja drones, nearly crushing it.
The other materiallized a sword out of darkness and charged the beautiful mage, only for another sword to block his way. A large jewel encrusted one.
"Holy...That's Buster Blader!" Joey shouted. "Other Yug', why's your Deck coming to life all of a sudden?"
"I don't know...I thought we were done with real Duel Monsters when we defeated the Leviathan!" Yami Yugi said.
Buster Blader parried the ninja's sword strike, before swinging him around with his weapon, and landing a killing blow, causing it to burst into shadows.
"Blimey...Now that's a One-Turn Kill!" Ryou exclaimed.
Dark Magician Girl turned around to face them, causing Joey, Tristan and Bakura to shrink back a little.
She kneeled.
"Great Pharaoh...in thanks for slaying the great beast and saving my domain, I am your humble servant."
Yami Yugi nervously smiled. "Um...you're welcome?"
"Should I assist your new friends against the sorcerer?" She asked.
He looked behind her to find Bloom and Flora dodging lightning bolts from Chrom. The Pharaoh nodded.
Dark Magician Girl immediately turned and flew into battle. Buster Blader saluted Yami Yugi before vanishing in sparkles of light.
"Pharaoh...Don't call me dumb, because I honestly can't believe it's coming out of my own mouth, but...who are those girls? Are they...actual fairies?" Tristan asked.
"It would seem so..." Yami Yugi replied. "I dueled one of those...drones last night when one of them stole our Duel Disk. When it lost, it burst into flames, and they were there plain as day and unconscious."
"Yugi and I brought them back to his house, and when they finally woke up, we detailed how we found them, and they went and explained that they were fairies." Bakura added. "Bloom-the red-haired girl even manifested a small fire ball for us."
Serenity watched the fairies' wings flutter as they gracefully attempted to dodge the attacks that their enemy threw their way.
"How...pretty..." She whispered.
Bloom panted as she landed next to Flora.
"This isn't going to work...this form is too weak to defeat him. We need Believix!"
"But we don't have time to make this world's people believe in magic...when we fought Ogron, we gradually made it happen." Flora noted.
Bloom looked to Flora. "Maybe a convergence?"
"It's worth a shot."
The two stood back to back and linked their left and right arms together, holding them skyward. "Magic Winx! Converge-"
Before they finished the declaration, a burst of dark magic hit Chrom square in the chest, startling them.
Chrom blanched as the attack landed before turning his scowl to the newcomer in the battle.
Dark Magician Girl landed next to Bloom and Flora, arms crossed.
"Who are you?" Bloom asked.
The spiritual Spellcaster turned back and smiled. "Consider me a friend. Now, let's take this guy down!"
Chrom grasped his pectoral region, uttering a curse. "That hurt...that HURT!"
"Well you shouldn't be hassling innocent people." The mage said, waving her weapon at him.
Chrom growled, before holding his hands up high. "Doom Sphere!" A large purple orb appeared above his head. "Choke on this!" He threw it at the fairies and magician, with the orb exploding on contact.
They were thrown back, landing on the pavement.
"Are you alright!?" Yami Yugi asked.
Bloom staggered to her feet. "Don't worry about me! It'll take more than that to beat us! So Flora, where were we?"
"I think I know." Her friend added.
The two of them locked their arms back together and raised them high. "Magic Winx-Convergence! Blazing Naturia!"
The two channeled their mystical powers, resonating them together, and sent a storm of fiery vines ripe with thorns at Chrom. He raised his barrier again, and it seemed like it would hold. Unfortunately, Dark Magician Girl shot him with an additional Dark Burning Attack, shattering it before the convergence attack wrapped around him, consuming the brutish sorcerer in a blazing sphere.
"Did that get 'im?" Joey asked.
The fire cleared to reveal Chrom, badly burned, but alive, hunched over and panting.
"Did you really think...that a convergence from a pair of basic fairies could defeat me!?" He outstretched his hands. "I will defeat you with my strongest spell...and after you've been destroyed, I'll RIP the Pharaoh's power right from him!"
"The Pharaoh? Why is Jekkel after Yugi's friend?" Bloom asked.
Chrom paused. "I haven't the foggiest idea, but I don't question the employer."
Yami Yugi dashed in between them, getting into a protective stance. "Enough of this!"
The sorcerer chuckled darkly. "Nameless Pharaoh...you should stay out of magical being's business. This isn't one of your little card games...If I were you, I'd stay out of my way and wait your turn!"
Yami Yugi grimaced, but noticed a glimmer emanate from the box at his waist. It was the box he kept their cards in. He opened it, and retrieved a single glowing card.
Yugi's silhouette appeared next to him.
'Should we try it?' He asked.
Yami Yugi smirked.
"Why not." He held the card up high. "Come forth, Kuriboh!"
Much to his own surprise, the spherical furry fiend appeared, flouncing around and cooing.
"Kurikuri!~~"
"It...worked..." Yami Yugi muttered.
"That's one of the creatures printed on his playing cards..." Flora noted.
Chrom awkwardly stared at the small spirit acting big, snorting like a bull about to charge. Then he broke out into a laugh.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha...hahahahahaha!" He bellowed. "And what do you intent to do with that? Cuddle me to death?"
Yami Yugi took another card from the box at his waist. "If a Monster Card came to life...maybe a Magic Card's effects will too! Multiply!"
The single Kuriboh split apart into multiple copies of itself that continued to duplicate.
"What is the meaning of this!?" Chrom asked, clearly confused. "Answer me!"
"I think I'll let you figure that out." The Pharaoh replied with a smirk, before beckoning Bloom, Flora, and Dark Magician Girl. The three came over, proceeding to huddle around him as he whispered.
One of the small fiends cooed and threw itself into Chrom's face. The sorcerer grunted.
"Buzz off!" He growled, balling his fist and hitting it with his forearm. The Kuriboh cried before glowing with intense white light. "What!?"
Bloom, Flora and Dark Magician Girl gasped before leaping into action. The fairies raised their arms while the mage lifted her wand. The three of them created a reinforced barrier around Chrom and the Kuribohs, all of them glowing now.
Yami Yugi ran behind Bakura, Joey, Tristan and Serenity. "Duck and cover!" He commanded, hiding behind one of the walls.
They immediately discovered why he directed them to do so. The Kuribohs inside the barrier with Chrom exploded with a tremendous BOOM! The barrier quaked and quivered from the force of the blast.
Bloom, Flora, and Dark Magician Girl struggled to maintain their ward, and digging deep down into themselves, managed to hold it until it was over.
As the barrier fell, the girls dropped to their knees. Exhausted, Bloom and Flora reverted to their human forms, in their civilian outfits. Dark Magician Girl vanished in a flurry of sparkles.
"Is he..." Serenity began.
This time, the smoke cleared and Chrom was NOT on his feet. Instead, he was on the lying on the ground, laboring to breath.
"H...how...dare...you..."
Bloom looked to him, ignoring the sweat dripping from her brow. "Please...just...stop. I don't want to destroy you."
Try as he may, Chrom couldn't rise to his feet. His body was heavy and limp. "C...confound it all! I...yield..." He panted.
Even so, his body emitted a dark aura, as did the unconscious body of the hunting troll.
"But this isn't over...never before has anyone put me through such pain. Fairy of the Dragon Flame...Nameless Pharaoh...I'll make you suffer for it!"
With that, he and the troll vanished.
A moment of silence pervaded the area.
Bloom stood back on her feet before looking around. No observers. They must've left at some point. Hopefully no one would blame them for the destruction.
She staggered over to Flora and helped her up.
"I'm glad that's over..." The red headed fairy sighed, but was caught off guard by the near stampede of footsteps.
"That was wicked!" Joey shouted. "The way you two blasted him with all that fire and light and stuff!"
Bloom eyed the blond boy nervously. "Uh, thanks?"
Serenity and Tristan followed suit.
"Real life fairies in Domino...How amazing!" Serenity commented. "You have to show me how you do that!"
Flora giggled. "It's not like pulling rabbits out of hats. You have to naturally be gifted with magical affinity, and get the proper education."
Tristan rubbed the back of his head. "I feel a little useless having to be saved by girls, but I am grateful. If you hadn't showed up, we'd have been dog meat! Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Bloom said. "So, who are you all?"
"I'm Tristan Taylor. One of Yugi's friends."
The blond guy shoved him out of the way rudely before cracking a cocky smirk, and sporting a comically over-pronounced chin. "And I'm Joey Wheeler! Nice ta meet ya!"
Tristan balled his fists. "Not cool, Joey! Why do you have to shove me away every time we meet new people?"
"Because I'm kind of a big deal." Joey chimed, fists in his pockets. "After all, I was runner up in Duelist Kingdom, and semifinalist in Battle City."
"Pul-ease! If I actually played Duel Monsters competetively, I'd mop the floor with you."
"Oh is that a challenge!?"
"What if it is!?"
Serenity sighed. "Those two..." She turned to Bloom and Flora. "My name is Serenity. I'm Joey's sister."
"Happy to meet you." Bloom said.
Bakura chuckled a bit as Joey and Tristan demonstrated their juvenile attitude. Undetected within his mind, Yami Bakura eyed Bloom and Flora from the darkness.
'Fairies, eh? They may seem like ordinary teenagers, but these two may be a threat to me. I may have to deal with them at some point. Still...this Jekkel sounds like he could throw a wrench in my plans. I suppose for now, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
'I can tell that things are going to get even more interesting in Domino City...Heh-heh-heh...'
Bloom looked to Yugi. "Excuse me, Yugi?"
The boy stopped trying to break up his friend's scuffle and turned to her. "Yes?"
"Could you and your friends show us around the town?" Bloom asked. "Like I said, we really need to be getting back to our own world, but if we are going to be stranded here, we should at least know our way around."
"And it would also be to our advantage to get some of the people to belief in magic." Flora added.
Yugi turned around, blushing a bit. "Umm...sure! Follow me!"
Joey and Tristan watched oddly as Yugi departed with Bloom and Flora, Serenity and Bakura following close behind.
"Did that girl kind of...ask Yugi out?" Tristan asked.
"Nah. Couldn't be. Besides, what would Tea do if she found out?" Joey replied with a sneer before following behind them. "Wait up!"
"Hey! Don't leave me behind!"
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As the group of six departed, wicked eyes watched on from a crystal ball in a dark subspace.
This man was slender, with sickly grayish skin, black hair wildly spiralling around his head. His yellow eyes fixated on the Puzzle around Yugi's neck.
"I told you they were pretty powerful..." A female voice said, matter-of-factly.
The dark wizard that peered into the ball glanced to his side to see a girl wearing a dark blue bodysuit-like ensemble with the letter 'I' with a very long pale blue ponytail. Her eyes are heavily laden with black mascara. She lies lazily over a fancy chair with a hand on her chin with a bored expression.
"Even trapped in a lesser realm like that, they managed to beat your stooge, Jekkel. You should really hire more useful henchmen."
"They only won because they had the Nameless Pharaoh with them, Icy."
"What's so special about this guy other than that crazy hair of his?" The witch asked. "He doesn't seem so powerful. He didn't even use any real magic."
"Do not underestimate him. In that world, he is near and around one of the most powerful beings ever to have existed. 5000 years ago, he defeated an evil god and saved the world from certain destruction, and more recently he destroyed an abominous soul devouring beast with comparable power."
Icy leaned in to get a better view of the crystal ball. "I don't see it...Whatever. Darcy and Stormy are already keeping the rest of Bloom's little troupe busy. So why exactly did you call me here?"
Jekkel raised his arm and manifested a blue and black device resembling a Duel Disk. He levitated it over to her. "You'll need that. You have a game to study up on."
The witch rolled her eyes. "Oh joy..." She said sarcastically.
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Hey Icy, dueling is legitimately fun! . Well not as fun because of modern meta, but it has entertainment value.
Now that the main heroes of the two realities have met, it's time to check up on the rest of the Winx. How exactly have things been faring for them, and will they be able to find Bloom and Flora?
Chapter 3: Finding the Portal coming soon!
