A/N: A second chapter already? Well, not really. I'm just reposting what was up before it was taken down. The next chapter, I will start to bring in the OC's that have been chosen and have been sent in. Please look at chapter one if you wish to submit a character. Enjoy the next chapter! And please review!

Ten years later. . .

"I'm always one card short. Always one day late," fifteen-year-old Keely Braeden sang as she got ready for school one stormy Monday morning.

"For once I'd like an ending I can celebrate. I stacked the deck myself, so there's no one else to blame. I need just one more move, one more chance to prove, I can win this game!" she continued to sing as she danced around her bedroom, selecting her clothing that would eventually make up her school uniform.

It was the first day of school at a new high school: Domino High School. Keely didn't know anyone at the school and was just a little nervous of what people would think of her. This was a small town, in a sense, and first impressions were important because people would quickly hear about you, whereas in Boston, nobody cared about who was new, and likely, nobody would hear what you did, unless it made the papers.

After divorcing her father five years before, her mother, Natasha, had decided to start off new. After consulting Keely, who had also agreed to leaving Boston, even though it meant leaving her few trustworthy friends behind, Natasha had decided to accept a job offering as an ad executive for a clothing company. She had gotten into the ad business because of the challenge to create creative ads that would grab a person's attention for more than a second. And with the ads, there would be the occasional fashion show that Natasha would help out on as part of the job.

Since being in Domino for only two months, Keely had already discovered the town to be friendly and pleasant, with no real disturbances. People were cheerful and would greet those they knew and toss friendly smiles to those they didn't know. After the first month, Keely had already made up her mind that she would like it here: maybe not as much as she loved Boston, but she would definitely like it here.

"Keely!" Natasha called from downstairs, snapping Keely off her train of thought. "Hurry up or you'll be late for school!"

"I forgot!" Keely replied, yelling back downstairs before smacking herself in the head. In a mutter, she added, "Keely, you idiot. It's your first day at a new school and you forget to get ready?"

After a few minutes of rushing to get ready, Keely grabbed her black shoulder bag and threw on her shoes before running downstairs.

"Here!" Keely yelled slightly, grinning.

"About time," Natasha replied, with a smile, her purple eyes studying her daughter's school uniform that consisted of a blue mid-thigh skirt, white socks that ended just below the knee, a white blouse and a pink blazer with a blue bowtie. The shoes that Keely wore were black with a small one-inch heel. Natasha ran a hand through her dark brown hair, and sat down a plate with bacon and eggs in front of her daughter.

"Good morning to you too mom," Keely replied back in a sarcastic tone, a grin gracing her lip-glossed lips.

"That uniform looks good on you," Natasha said, grinning. "The pink though, really doesn't do anything for you. Not with the colour scheme."

"Well, why don't you get your friends at work to design us new uniforms?" Keely laughed, with a wink while shoving the scrambled eggs into her mouth in an attempt to eat them as fast as she could so she could catch the bus to school.

A honking sound was heard outside a few minutes later. Curious, Natasha looked out of the window and answered, "Your bus is here Keely."

Keely's eyes went wide and she jumped up, grabbing her bag. "Gotta go!"

"Have a good day!" Natasha called after her only daughter, as Keely shoved her wallet into her bag and grabbed her house keys.

However, a few minutes later, the sound of a door opening and closing alerted Natasha that Keely had missed the bus.

Walking back into the kitchen, Keely grinned sheepishly.

"Can I get a ride to school today?"

---

16 year old Yugi Motou walked around Domino High School grounds, looking for any of his friends. Spotting a some-what tall girl with shoulder length brown hair and blue eyes, Yugi grinned and waved.

"Tea!"

The brown haired-blue eyed girl looked up and walked over to Yugi, her short friend that held the weirdest hair style ever: black spiked hair with red highlights and blonde bangs. "Hey Yugi. How did your summer go?"

Yugi shrugged. "Alright. I spent most of it doing summer homework."

Yugi groaned and looked up with a grin. "But, it was okay. By the way, have you seen Joey or Tristan around?"

Tea shook her head with a grin. "No, but I just bet you they'll show up in homeroom. By the way, what do you have this year?"

Yugi pulled out his schedule and compared it to Tea's, just as Joey and Tristan jogged up.

"'Ey dude." Joey Wheeler greeted as he ran a hand through his messy blonde hair. Tristan Taylor followed suit.

"And you two have been where?" Tea questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Hey, don't get started on us about being late. It's the first day Tea." Tristan shot back with a grin.

Just then, the first bell rang, signalling that they had five minutes to get to class. Taking a quick look, they all found out they were in the same homeroom yet again (which they were all happy about), and they hurried off to homeroom.

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A few minutes later, Yugi found himself sitting in his new homeroom class, waiting for class to begin. Out of complete boredom, he drummed his fingers on the desk, while talking to his friends, waiting for the second bell to ring, and when it finally did, students poured in through the doorway, some laughing, and some groaning that it sucked to be back in school.

The last student to walk in through the door was a somewhat tall redhead with purple eyes. Her exotic eyes studied the room, looking for an empty seat before eventually walking towards Yugi and sitting in the seat in front of him, her red hair swinging slightly.

A new student, Yugi thought to himself. Either that, or she's someone a lot of people overlook.

"Welcome everyone to a new year at Domino High School. I'm your teacher, Mr. Kushtundra, and I will be teaching you about Ancient Civilizations." the teacher began, looking out over his class. "But before we begin, I would like to welcome new student, Keely Braeden."

As the students, who somehow knew that the girl sitting in front of Yugi was the unfamiliar student, turned to Keely, Keely felt her face slowly began to redden slightly, and tossed her teacher a small smile.

"Would you like to tell the class something about yourself Keely?" Mr. Kushtundra questioned, a warm smile on his face.

"Um," Keely began. "I moved here from Boston about two months ago and so far, I like what I've seen. There's not much about me that seems to be interesting."

She laughed slightly, her face still slightly red from embarrassment. She was nervous about being put in the centre of attention.

"Well, welcome to the class, and I hope you have a good semester," he finished before turning back to the class and going over the rules of his class and handing out materials that students would need for that semester.

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Keely sighed as she walked around the cafeteria with her Ancient Civilizations notebook and textbook, looking for a place to sit so she could eat and work. Knowing that she had a hard semester ahead of her, and lots of homework tonight, she had hoped that she could find a place to sit and do a bit of homework over lunch.

She had already had Ancient Civilizations class and Natural Disasters class, and both teachers wanted every student to write half a page on what the term Ancient Civilization and Natural Disaster meant in the dictionary and what it meant to the student.

Sighing, Keely finally found a table at the back of the cafeteria that was empty for the most part. Only a few students sat at the table, chatting and laughing happily. Figuring, they wouldn't mind, she walked over to the table and was about to sit down when one of the blonde females looked up at Keely and frowned.

"Uh, what do you think you're doing?" she asked Keely.

Keely shifted her eyes to each side quickly before focusing on the student. "Sitting down."

"Not at this table you're not." the blonde female stated, her green eyes studying Keely's appearance before adding, "Geek."

Keely rolled her eyes. "It's not like this table has your name written all over it. Besides, there's no where else to sit."

"Think I care?" she shot back.

"No, not really." Keely replied, trying to ignore the female. "And I don't expect you too."

The blonde growled slightly and was about to stand up when another four people walked up to the table. One of the boys was short with black spiked hair with red highlights and blonde bangs. The other two boys were tall with brown eyes, but one had messy blonde hair and the other had brown hair. And finally, the only girl of the group had shoulder length brown hair with blue eyes.

"Trisha," the female greeted, before adding, "Leave her alone. Just back off. The world doesn't revolve around you in the first place."

Trisha, the blonde, rolled her eyes. "I don't have time for this. I need to relax."

Standing up, she smirked at the other female and waved her manicured fingernails. "Tootles geeks."

With that, she stalked out of the cafeteria, her other two friends, following her. When they were out of ear shot, the female that had stood up for Keely turned to her with a smile.

"Sorry about her. Trisha can be a bit snobby at times." she said, brushing her brown bangs away from her face, her blue eyes studying Keely. "She's not someone you want to be around if you don't like snobby people."

Keely smiled at the girl. "Thanks for the advice. Maybe it'll come in use later."

The tall blonde teenager grinned. "You're welcome. My name's Joey Wheeler, duelist extraordinaire."

"Whoa there Joey. Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourself?" The brunette boy joked. "After all, you've only been duelling for just over a year."

Joey tossed his friend a sick look before turning back to Keely. "That nimrod is Tristan, that's Tea (he pointed to the girl) and this dude is Yugi (he pointed to the short boy)."

Keely giggled. "Nice to meet you. And I'm –"

Tea cut Keely off with a grin. "Keely Braeden. We know. I sit beside you in Ancient Civilizations class."

Yugi caught site of Keely's book and asked with a grin, "You work during lunch?"

Keely nodded, a blush evident on her face. "I wanted to get started because I have geography homework to work on tonight. And I have other things to do tonight."

With that, the group sat down and started talking with Keely, who talked back. By the end of lunch, Keely was sure she had made a few new friends.

Finding out that she was in three of the whole gang's classes and in one class with Tea and another with Joey, she didn't have to worry about not feeling left out of anything. She spent her afternoon in gym class with Tea, and drama with the whole gang.

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Later that day, when school let out, Keely had said goodbye to her new friends, having to go a different way than the others.

"Just take that short cut and you'll be home in no time." Joey said with a grin, handing the map that he drew up on a napkin to Keely, who blushed lightly and took it.

"Thanks Joey. Anyway, I have to get going. Lots of homework, and I have to finish some stuff. Later."

"Bye," the four of her friends said, before turning and walking off, just as Keely had done.

---

He smiled, standing in the shadows.

"My little girl," he muttered, watching her walk through the empty park. "has grown up so much. She's so beautiful. I should pay her a visit."

With that said, he took off, slowly walking behind 'his little girl'.

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"Keely!" Natasha called to her daughter, later that night. "Your grandmother is here!"

Keely looked up from working on her homework, and climbed off her bed. "Coming."

She walked out from her bedroom and smiled when she saw Rika. "Grandma!"

She hurried over and hugged her grandmother, Rika, who hugged back, smiling.

"How are you doing Keely? Have you made any friends yet?"

Keely nodded, smiling. "Yeah. And, I finished my dress. Want to see it?"

"Sure," Rika nodded with a smile, following her daughter and her granddaughter into Keely's bedroom.

Keely smiled and pulled out a plum-coloured knee length dress, with a 'V' shaped-collar, a silver strip of sequins outlining the collar, holding it up proudly. "I finished it after school."

Rika smiled. "It goes with your eyes. It's lovely."

Natasha nodded with a smile. "You've got talent Keely. But, I can't stay. I have a meeting to go to."

"Bye mom!" Keely said, waving a hand while putting the dress back into the closet.

"Bye dear." Rika said, hugging her daughter. "See you in a bit."

Natasha grinned and waved, leaving the room. The door closing a few moments later alerted Rika and Keely, who had been talking, that Natasha had left.

"Keely?" Rika asked, sitting on Keely's bed. "Have you ever heard about your great great grandmother, my grandmother, Josephine?"

Keely blinked and responded. ". . .No. Am I supposed to?"

Rika smiled. "Well, I was just thinking about how much you and she were alike. She, like you, had talent for designing clothes. It was like, when she designed clothes, her very soul was the material. Her clothes were just beautiful. But, she was different."

"Different? How so?"

"She was in love with one of the most powerful magicians of her time, Clow Reed. She was actually a student of his."

Keely smiled. "Aw, that's so romantic!"

"Well," Rika continued with a smile. "She, like I said, was different. She had a strange ability, in a sense. She had gone to Clow Reed, asking him to teach her how to control her magic and teach her new magic. He had agreed to teach her how to control her abilities if she agreed to be patient with him and with herself. After all, learning magic was difficult and required patience, something she didn't have."

"Sort of like me, huh?" Keely joked, a goofy grin on her face.

"Exactly like you." Rika joked back. "But, as time went on, Josephine became obsessed with the magic that Clow Reed was teaching her and her own abilities. She began to use them for her own purposes, some of which were selfish. When Clow Reed found out, he was angered. He had helped her with her magical abilities and she had used them for selfish purposes."

"So, what did Clow Reed do?" Keely asked, tilting her head while sitting on the floor in front of Rika.

"He punished her. He told her that she was no longer his student, or his friend, and that he would no longer teach her anything. He didn't want to teach people like her."

"People like her?"

"People who disobeyed him and who would betray him. She betrayed him when she began to use the magic he taught her and her own abilities for selfish purposes. She was crushed. She loved him with all of her heart, and she lost it. After Clow Reed had created the Clow Cards, cards with special abilities that, if in the wrong hands, could destroy many things, and cause chaos."

"So why make them? If they were going to nothing but destroy everything in sight?" Keely asked.

"At first, they weren't cards. They were obedient, or well-trained, creatures that he had created with his magic. But soon, they got out of control so he had no choice but to change them into cards to keep them in check. He hadn't wanted to, but, like I said, he had no choice. When Josephine found out about them and how powerful they could be if they were released, she had threatened Clow Reed that one day, her offspring would capture the cards if she didn't. She felt that she deserved the cards, she had worked hard for them and that they belonged to her. She died a few years later."

"So, what happened to the cards?" Keely asked, now curious, and leaning forward, eager to hear more of the story.

"No one knows. No one who knows about the cards in our bloodline has heard about the cards being released or anything like that. But I have the strangest feeling that something is going to happen soon, and that the cards will be released, the power will be released again."

Keely laughed. "Come on grandma, that wouldn't happen. You said Clow Reed transformed the creatures into cards. So, how could've they been released?"

Rika smiled at her granddaughter. "I know that wouldn't happen. But you never know. Everything is controlled by Destiny. If Destiny wants something to happen, it will. Destiny and Fate are interlinked, and they can work in the strangest ways."

For some reason, after hearing Rika say that, Keely shivered. It unsettled her to hear someone say that; say that Fate and Destiny work in the strangest ways. She wasn't one to believe in things such as Destiny and Fate, but for some reason, she had the weirdest feeling that she had better start believing in it soon.