Paladin: That was just a prologue people, so I'm sorry if you found it bad. I tried to put as much stuff as I could without giving too much away, even though you already know about Ari.

Sol: Duh! Even I could see that.

Ari: SOL! You're back! I missed you so much.

Shadow: What about me?

Yam and Rai: SHADOW!

Sol: Gosh, gone for one chapter due to being pushed ONTO A PLANE THAT WE DIDN'T WANT TO GO ON, and we become everyone's idol.

Shadow: We should do that more often.

Ari, Yam, and Rai: (flames in eyes) DO THAT AGAIN AND YOU DIE!

Sol and Shadow: Gulp...

Paladin: I knew there was a reason why I put them on that flight. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Orphaned Ch. 1

Ari POV

*13 years later*

"Race ya home!" Mokuba yelled, rushing ahead of us. We all knew this competition was pointless seeing as me and my two twin brothers could just whip out our wings and fly ahead of him.

You read right. WIngs. You know, those feathery limbs that birds have? Yeah, we have them too.

I'm Ari En, a Japanese boy that has stark white hair, crimson eyes, and the uncanny ability to catch on fire whenever my emotions get jacked up. My two fraternal twins, who are near identical twins to each other, are Yam En and Rai En. Yam has pitch black hair, hypnotizing blood-red eyes, and the uncanny ability to turn into a werewolf whenever he wants. I think I read in a book somewhere that they were called Erasers, in a book series called Maximum Ride or something [which I don't own], but I never thought he could actually be other brother, Rai, has raven-colored hair with two golden lightning bolts running through it, he has golden eyes, and he has the ability to be as fast as light. And all three of us have wings.

But we didn't use our powers to give us an edge since we knew we were faster than Mokuba when we were walking. But we ran to see who was the fastest of us three.

Thirteen years ago, to the day, had been our "brother's" fifth birthday, making Yami the third to move out of the adoption agency, Yugi going next. And soon it'll just be us four.

Unsurprisingly, as it is everyday, us three had a tie while Mokuba came in last place.

We stepped in to the joyful atmosphere where Yami's party was taking place, and Seto and Joey had even come back to celebrate. Some of their friends had come to celebrate along with us- Marik Ishtar; Bakura Akefia; Tristan Taylor; Tea Gardener, whom was a word-that-I'm-not-supposed-to-know-yet-and-if-I-said-it-I-would-get-in-big-trouble- and Marik and Bakura even brought over their little brothers who were my age- Ryou Akefia an Malik Ishtar [I am sorry if its the other way around, but the Marik/Malik subject is not something I excel at.]- so we at least had some people to play with.

Though it wouldn't be necessary since the main party game was everyone's favorite: Duel Monsters. And so far, my two brothers and I were unbeatable, even by ourselves. So it was obvious who everybody wanted on their team when we played.

And we soaked it up, because we loved being wanted. We loved the attention.

Because deep inside, we were still insecure children scared that people will abandon us just like our mother.