Disclaimer: I'm not Yugi's owner, sadly.
Note: I've been working on this for a while. I might make some changes to the documents to make them sound better, and letting the character traits show a little bit more. I really wanted Jade to not be a Mary Sue, but having an OCC not be Mary Sue is like trying to tell 4 Kids not to sensor good shit. It's impossible. SO, I only hope I made her a likable heroine.
Black Sapphire Ch. 2, by YourGreatestDream
Let's Play a Game
Walking in through her front door, the girl with long dark-blonde hair placed the last of the bags of groceries she had fetched onto the floor and heaved a big sigh of relief. Flicking back her long and annoying hair out of her eyes, she closed the door behind her. Just another painfully normal day.
"I'm home." She called out, knowing that no one would answer. Taking off her shoes, she heard a shuffling of feet as a familiar four legged friend ran towards her excitedly. The black lab kindly welcomed the girl home with a handful of licks and a happy wagging tail. He gazed up at her with his mouth slightly open. His dark brown eyes glistening brightly from the house light in the hallway entrance.
The girl smiled warmly down at her friend and bent low to scratch him behind the ears. He instantly flopped over, belly up and pawing at her hand.
"Not right now, Dante." The girl grabbed the bags and carried them over to the kitchen. She stored the food in the cabinets and fridge, stowing away the frozen items first. Once all the groceries were put away, she turned around to see Dante sitting behind her, waiting hopefully for attention.
"Ok bud, now you get your hello." She went down to her knees and shuffled her hands quickly atop the fur on his back. Dante licked her in the face and panted happily.
She stopped as she heard the phone ring from the dining room. Standing up and patting herself down of all the dog hair, she muttered as she walked over to the other room and looked at the caller-ID. She picked up the receiver on the fourth ring.
"Hey mom." She answered.
"Did you get the eggs I asked you for this morning? I'm just making sure because it was the one item I didn't write down on the list." Her mother's voice spoke from the other end. From the sound of the background noise, the girl could tell she was at work.
"Yes, but they were out of fat-free milk. We'll have to settle for 1% fat." The girl said. She walked over to the front hallway again to pick up her backpack and carry it to the dining room table. From the last of the plastic bags she grabbed her new notebooks and pencils, and began filling her new backpack up with school supplies.
"And are you ready for your first day of school tomorrow?" Her mom's voice spoke from the speaker.
"I'm doing so right now." The girl mentioned, a bit annoyed. Sometimes her mother could be so repetitive. She checked off the list in her head of what she needed for her classes, and when the last item was mentally checked she zipped up her bag with finality. Honestly, she hated how normal her life was. The fact she would be the new girl in school was a good twist in her life, but otherwise everything was still unshaken and mundane.
"Oh! I almost forgot." The girl ran upstairs and entered her room. There it was, next to four others right in the center of her study desk. She snatched it up and ran downstairs.
She approached her bag and held out the deck of cards in her hand. She looked through it once more, making sure it was the fire deck she had improved on the day before.
"Maybe I'll find someone to play against." The girl whispered. "As long as mom doesn't find out."
The morning bell rang loudly at the Domino High School. A light drizzle of rain pattered at the window, into which Yugi stared off into space. Tea had gotten sick that day, but that wasn't the only thing he had on his mind. How had the player known as Black Sapphire work his way into the lead? The duel would have ended at the hopes of one draw from the deck, just like usual. However, Yugi had a feeling that even if his heart of the cards won and gave him a good comeback, Black Sapphire would have returned the favor.
"Earth to Yuug, class is starting." Joey said from the seat next to him. Yugi gathered up his notes and pencil, and got ready to settle in to another lecture that was not about duel monsters. Man, why couldn't they just make a school that taught only about duel monsters? On second thought, that would just be unrealistic. Not to mention ridiculous.
The teacher stood up from behind his desk and walked to the front of the class. "Today we're getting a new transfer student from Seattle, Washington. Everyone please give her a warm welcome."
A girl with long, dirty blond hair walked in from the door and stood next to the teacher. She had brown eyes and was, of course, taller than him. Other than that she was quite unremarkable and everything about her seemed normal. She wasn't shy, wasn't nervous, or wild in any way.
"Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you." The teacher encouraged.
"My name is Jade Meadowfields. I'm an only child and don't do sports. They don't interest me that much, but I like to write and draw." Jade said.
"Thank you, you may take your seat. How about the empty one behind mister Moto over there?" the teacher pointed to a nice window seat at the back of the class. Jade nodded.
The class watched as she walked over to sit quietly behind Yugi. He heard the shuffling of her getting out her notebook and pencils, making a note to himself to welcome her properly during break.
Jade hadn't been living under a rock. She knew who the king of games was. This kid didn't look nearly as talk as the man who beat Seto Kaiba, Pegasus, and won the city tournament. Yet, the teacher called him by the same last name. He could be another Yugi Moto, as well as a fan who died his hair color to match the real thing. Jade thought. She decided not to confront him about it, unless the topic came up by other means. Jade got down to work, and easily drifted far away from the voice talking about history in the 15 hundreds, to a place filled with dragons, spells and enchantments. Her pencil started to scribble against the paper.
Halfway through class, the teacher called for a break and ordered that everyone be back in their seats in ten minutes. Yugi turned around in his seat to face the new girl to welcome her to the school, but somehow Joey beat him to it.
"Hey Jade! Welcome to Boredz-ville, where the teachers yack and the students slack!" Joey said. "I'm Joey. That there's my friend Yugi, and over there's Tristan."
Jade's eyes widened. This is absurd. I'm being talked to? And by an already tight-nit group? I can't believe it. Tight groups of friends usually don't ever invite anyone new into their circle, at least that's what I learned from experience.
Jade looked up from her 'notes' and smiled at the three. "Nice to meet you all."
She snapped out of her thoughts to see Joey looking over at her 'notes'. Really, her drawings. She tried to cover them up, but it was too late. He'd already seen them.
"Incredible!" Joey blurted out. "It looks just like the real thing!"
"What does?" Yugi and Tristan got out of their seats to take a look. Jade submitted to the unveiling of her kept-to-self hobby, knowing that resisting would only take up time, and they had only five more minutes of break. Even a white haired kid from the far side of the classroom came over when he saw the others fascinated in something.
"What's everyone all excited about?" The white haired boy asked.
"Oh hey, Bakura. Check out Jade's drawing." Tristan said.
She pulled her hands aside, showing her scratchy outline of a Dark Armed Dragon, it's right claw outstretched and directed at the ground beneath it. It's tail wrapped around the back to the viewer's left hand side, and its wings unfurled as the dragon seemed to roar down at the earth.
"Hey Yuug, isn't that the dragon that almost beat you?" Joey pointed out.
Yugi nodded, a realization hitting him. He looked at Jade face to face. "Do you know Black Sapphire?"
Jade paled. Shit. She only went by that name to play under a different persona, and only in online simulations. If her mom caught her playing that game, she'd be in hella trouble. Honestly, she loved the game. It came so easy to her. However, her mother hated everything that had to do with the game. Puzzling together her different reactions towards duel monsters, the only thing Jade could surmise was that it may have had something to do with her father's disappearance. The reason she played under the name of Black Sapphire, was because she didn't want any of her friends to spill everything to her mom and get in trouble. In the past, when she told her friends not to tell her mom that she was playing the game, they wanted to know why. The last thing she wanted was to tell others about her past. It just brought up sad faces and pity, as well as pathetic attempts at making her feel better about something that was long long ago.
Could she trust them? Her doubts fled once she saw Yugi pull out his duel monster's deck. It finally clicked. This kid was the Yugi Moto. His game name he entered into the Duel World game wasn't a hoax.
"Yuug's been dead set on finding this guy ever since that duel he almost lost a few days ago." Joey said, poking fun at his short friend. "He wants to duel him again to find out who's the better duelist."
Jade had to choke back a laugh. 'Him?' They think I'm a guy? Well, this could turn out to be fun. I wonder how long I can get them to think that.
"Blue Sapphire?" Bakura said. "Who's that? You said he nearly beat Yugi?"
"Yeah." Yugi admitted. "It was through that new gaming system they made at the arcade, 'Duel World'."
Tristan looked at me and asked, "What about you? Do you duel?"
I figured it wouldn't hurt to say I did. After all, it seemed as if playing card games was all these people had an interest in. That, and they didn't know my mom.
"Yeah. I duel."
"Then why not play against me?" Yugi asked. I nodded and took out my fire deck, and after we shuffled each other's cards, set them down and drew our starting hand. Tristan was in charge of calculating Yugi's Life points, and Bakura was in charge of mine. Tea and Joey apparently were self-elected cheerleaders on Yugi's side. Pressed for time as we were, our life points started with the total of 2000 points.
Jade lucked out. In her hand were several magic and trap cards that would definitely prove useful in the near coming turns. She had a good monster that she could easily summon, and well as her ace, Tyrant Dragon, already in her hand.
"After this duel, you tell us if you know anything about Black Sapphire." Yugi said.
"Only if you win." Jade said craftily. She looked at the amount of break they had left until class stared up again. "The time limit is three minutes."
Yugi had used his queen's knight to special summon all three knights. Giving him a good field advantage. His queen was in defense mode, with a defense of 1600. His toughest monster, Jack's Knight, had 1900 attack. Before he ended his turn, he place two cards face down in the magic/trap card zone.
Jade drew a card. She had all she needed to summon her ace from her hand. Three dragons on her field. Two of which had levels sufficient to tribute for the Tyrant Dragon.
"I sacrifice two of my dragons on the field to summon Tyrant Dragon." Jade set her dragon in attack mode. Adding an additional face down just for insurance. "I order my dragon to attack Jack's Knight."
Jade imagined what it would look like with hologram projections. Tyrant Dragon, flapping and catching the wind in the sail-like sinews of his brown wings, and soaring towards Yugi's knight. The dragon's jaws would be dripping with the fire about to erupt from his maw.
"I activate Negate Attack." Yugi flipped up the trap card. Jade smiled coldly at Yugi.
"Tyrant Dragon's effect negates the attack of any trap cards activated against it, and then destroys it."
"Golly" Joey muttered in surprise. "She got you good Yuug!"
"I'm not done yet." Jade said. "During my Battle Phase, if my opponent controls a monster after this card's first attack, Tyrant Dragon can attack once again. My target is King's Knight."
Yugi placed his three cards in the graveyard. Tristan wrote down the deduction in his life points on the side. His life points went down 1700.
"What's with that?" Jade asked. "It should be 2300 points worth of damage…wait, that face down card-"
"Yup." Yugi showed the card he flipped up before his second monster was destroyed. "Let me introduce you to the trap card, Gift of the Mystical Elf. It increases my life points by 300 for each monster I have on my field, which were two when I flipped it, leaving me with 300 life points left."
The teacher came back into the room. Time was up. Jade sighed, wishing they could have continued to duel until the end. This was the second time their battle had been interrupted. Jade was getting tired of it. She knew one thing though. This kid truly was the King of Games.
In my next chapter, I will have the story move through Jade's point of view. It's easier for me to write that way, because Jade thinks a lot like me. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but I hope it doesn't make her personality too chill. 'Cause I'm a pretty chill person, yah know? :3
