It's one week before the princess's 16th birthday, the biggest one of all. Everyone within the palace and kingdom is planning out the weeklong celebration for their beloved princess. Even at a young age the princess was able to capture the hearts of her people, she treated everyone fairly, no matter their occupation, whether it be servant, royal consol member, farmer or even the lowliest of jobs, she always made sure to treat you fairly.
No one in the kingdom of White Light went hungry and everyone always had a roof over their head. The kingdom has been at peace for as long as the young girl remembers.
Yugi has made friends over the years, her first was a ruffed up girl who knew how to hold her own in a fight, Jou. She has blonde hair the barely pasted her shoulders that is puffy, but never tell her that, or you'll get a fist in the face. Her eyes are a honey brown, which always seemed to be void of emotions before she met the princess. Over to time those eyes soften bit by bit, but they go hard when she's provoked. Jou has always been hot tempered and always seems to be picking a fight with someone who gets on her nerves, which are many the guards who tell her she's more of a boy than girl. This, even she at times admits, is true. Jou has never been plentiful in the breasts department not that she minds, despite Yugi's protests, its one thing both of them have in common. Her arms and legs are lean and muscled, many people tend to under estimate her because 1- Jou is a girl and 2- she's not that big.
Jou first met the princess, 6 years ago, when the palace guards brought her in because she was fighting with one of them and it got physical. To this day Jou still claims that she would've won if she wasn't brought in. Anyway, when Jou was asked why she was fighting with the guard, she said because he (the guard) was bullying her sister, Serenity. Being the big sister she is Jou of course stepped in seeing as how her little sister didn't look happy
The king and queen let her off with a warning and the young princess seemed to take a liking to the girl in an odd way. When Yugi came up to her she quickly became intimated by how violent the girl looked. Serenity, after complaining and a bit of the puppy dog eyes, was able to have Jou warm up to the young princess. A few months pasted and the two quickly became friends.
One day, when the princess and Jou were to meet up to spend time, the princess discovered something. When Jou didn't show up, the princess had a guard escort her to Jou's house; nothing could have prepared her for what was inside.
Standing off to the side was Jou, holding a knife that had blood on it in one hand and the other was bleeding heavily along with her right shoulder. Serenity was behind Jou and in front of the pair was Jou's father, heavily drunk and bleeding out of several deep cuts. He kept yelling at Jou, calling her a whore, ungrateful bitch and a slut just like her mother was. He lunged at Serenity before Yugi could even scream and Jou didn't hesitate to drive the knife into the fat man's gut.
When things calmed down, Yugi had the guard take care of the father and had the pair come to the palace. Once there, Yugi discovered this wasn't the first violent act of their father's. For years after the bad divorce, their father got drunk and came home to abuse them, at first it was only Jou but then the man tried to abuse Serenity. Jou took the beatings and got involved with street fighting, quickly becoming good at defensive and offensive moves. Today was partially horrible because when he got home, he tried to rape Serenity. When Jou saw, she only saw red. She fought him and grabbed a knife from the kitchen, preparing to kill the bastard. Yugi bandaged her and asked if she regretted it, killing her father. Jou's eyes harden as she glanced at Serenity. "No," was all she said. Jou wasn't punished in anyway seeing as how it was self-defense.
The two lived in the palace since then and Jou became an apprentice of fighting, hand to hand, swords, guns and most importantly she learned to control her dragon. When she was little, right as Serenity was born and before the divorce, she was in the woods fooling around. She was attacked by thieves and saved by a dragon, red-eyes black dragon, little Jou called him Red. Well, after the fight was over, 'Red' asked Jou if she ever wanted to protect someone. Jou answered, "My new baby sister, Red." Red nodded and offered the young girl training in the art of magic, the ancient magic of dragon slaying. Jou, being a young girl who loved the idea of being a hero, didn't hesitate to say yes!
So since the age of 4, Jou snuck out to the woods where she'd train all day in the art of being a fire dragon slayer. Red warned her not to tell anyone about him and she promised. She became really good at it, still a little rusty on some parts but nothing she couldn't fix with training. One day she went to go to the woods, and Red never showed up. She came back every day and he never came back. She never told a soul about her training until she met Yugi. Yugi asked the mage Mahad to help her perfect her powers and he did.
Now today, 6 years later at the age of 16, Jou is one of Yugi's bodyguards and best friends, she's one of the most powerful mages in the kingdom along with 3 others. Jou walks down the halls of the palace in a white t-shirt and blue jeans with one pant leg ripped off, making it look likes shorts on one side. Wore black sneakers clad her feet, and there's a sharp sword strapped to her hip. Gleaming in the sunlight is a silver chain around her neck; on the silver chain is locket with Serenity's photo in it. There's a smirk on her face as she travels the halls.
"Oh Yug~ Where are you?" she coos in her smug voice. To her left in the gardens she hears movement. Smiling brightly she soundlessly walks in. Moments later she walks behind a large oak, she sees strands of try color hair peeking out and stealthy climbs the tree branches, hanging right above the small teen princess. Hanging on tight to the branch she swings over , hanging upside down and says loudly," Boo" The princess squeals and then laughs.
"Jou you nearly gave me a heart attack you fend!" Jou laughs loudly and jumps down from her spot.
"Shall we play 26 out of 27?" she says putting the princess in a head lock and rubbing her fist into her skull.
"Hey! Stop! You'll mess up my hair!" Yugi exclaims pulling free from the headlock. Glaring-more like pouting- at Jou she fixes her disarray hair. Yugi wears a pale purple skirt that goes up a few inches above her knees in the front and goes down in the back. Her top it's a white shirt that meets ends with the top of the high-waisted skirt. It goes up to the end of her neck and has no sleeves; her feet have golden sandals on them that have straps that go up her ankles a bit.
"Hehe, so what do you wanna do Yug?" Jou says running her fingers through her blonde locks. Yugi shrugs then looks thoughtful for a moment.
"Hey, where are Ryou and Malik? I haven't seen them today," Yugi says looking a little concerned. Jou gives her a look then says, "Do you even have to ask that?"
Yugi giggles, "True, those two are probably riding their dragon steeds and training again."
Just as she finishes the sentence the cries of two dragon steeds are heard.
(A/N: if any of you read this chapter before, i'm sorry there was a bug and it messed everything up! Any way I got Jou's powers and some of the backstory from Natsu of Fairy Tail. The dragon steeds and Yugi's name are from an anime Romeo X Juliet. I'll be updating both my stories tomorrow. Anyway, please review they mean alot to me.)