The Beginning Part Three
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, Buffy, Angel, etc etc. Only own the OC that officially debuts in this chapter.
The neighbors had heard the commotion and called the police soon after Tea...did whatever she did to Goro. The three Motou's and their guest sat around the dining room table, telling the police that they had an intruder and that he was trying to harm Yugi, but he soon ran off when Solomon appeared with his rifle. They didn't tell them the truth, who would believe that a person would turn to dust when a piece of wood was crammed into their hearts.
Luckily, before the cops had even arrived, Mrs Motou and Solomon managed to clean up the dust and bones from Yugi's room and seal it in a garbage bag that was placed in the dumpster outside. When the police had their statement and promised to watch out for the assailant, they left the shaken up family and guest alone.
They all sat around the table, unable to go back to sleep. Who could blame them, though? They had been attacked by something that wasn't normal and the situation was solved in an abnormal way. Though he was scared by the attempt on his life, Yugi noticed that Tea was far more disturbed about the night's events than any of them. He glanced over to see both her hands shaking as she tried to drink a cup of tea that his mother had poured for her.
"Tea, you okay?" he asked slowly before kicking himself mentally, Stupid question, of course she's not! She just killed something and you ask that question? Moron!
"I...I don't know, Yugi," Tea shook her head as she lowered the teacup, "I-I-I killed a guy! I grabbed something sharp and I rammed it into his chest, killing him!"
"Tea, sweetheart, we don't know if that was...a guy," Mrs Motou said slowly and soothingly, "What we do know is that Yugi was in danger and you attacked in his defense. If it was any normal person, it'd be called self-defense in court,"
"If it was a normal person!" Tea repeated loudly, "It wasn't a normal person, Mrs Motou! It was...it was...I don't know what the hell that thing was!"
"You should, Miss Gardner," a new voice said quietly.
The group of four shot up from the table and turned to see another person standing nearby, leaning against the wall. The person was a man; American, by the looks of it. He was about...somewhere in his late teens or early twenties, had brown hair, a pair of glasses over his bluish-green eyes, and a roundish face that had fuzz growing under his chin.
"Who are you?!" Solomon grabbed a nearby chair, ready to defend his family, "What are you doing here?"
The man held up his hands, "Easy, old timer, I mean you no harm. I'm here to talk to Miss Gardner here," he turned to Tea, "I was hoping to get a chance to talk to you earlier before all this happened, but that was kinda hard after you guys called the cops on me,"
Tea looked at him for a few moments, "You're the creep who's been stalking me!"
"I'm calling the police!" Mrs Motou ran for the phone, but the American beat her to it.
"Now hold on!" he half-yelled, "This is very important! Just let me say what I have to say and I'll leave! I'm not here to hurt any of you, but I must talk to Gardner before I leave! It's very urgent!"
"The hell it is," Solomon let go of the chair and picked up the discarded rifle from nearby, taking aim at the intruder, "Get out of our house!"
The American held up his hands and started to back away as Solomon ushered him towards the door, "Alright, alright. I'm leaving," he turned and made his way downstairs, "For a Potential Slayer, Tea, I'm impressed,"
"I said get out!"
"Wait!" Tea ran up to Solomon, her eyes staring at the American's back, "What did you just call me?"
"A Slayer,"
"Like that anime?" Yugi asked, confused.
The American laughed, "Only in name, King of Games. No, Slayer as in...," he looked over his shoulder, looking right at Tea, "...vampire slayer,"
Vampire Slayer? Tea froze as those two words echoed in her head.
Solomon noticed her tension, "Tea? Are you alright?"
"You know that term, don't you, Tea?" the stranger turned around slowly, hands still up, "I guess all those dreams and what that thing called you before you staked him really left an impression,"
Tea slowly reached out and pushed Solomon's rifle away from the stranger, then walked closer towards him.
"Who...are you?" she looked into his eyes, as if to find the answer, "What's going on?"
"My name is Brian Berg. I'm a member of the Watcher's Council and I'm here to let know of your destiny,"
"For hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years, vampires have been around the Earth. They roam the nights, looking for blood to drink to satisfy their hunger. They are soulless monsters who lay in wait in the darkest reaches of the world, preying on the innocent and the only thing out there trying to put an end to their evil are the Slayers,"
Brian looked at each of the people around the table, but looked at Tea the longest and hardest
"...Into each generation a girl is born, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill needed to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness, stopping the swell of their numbers and the spread of their evil. She is the slayer..."
Tea's eyes widened, "That...I heard that in a dream!"
"Because you are a Slayer," Brian nodded slowly.
"What is a Slayer, though? I don't understand,"
"A Slayer is a girl...a woman...that is bestowed mystical energy and powers from a powerful source and with this power, she is granted superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, endurance, enhanced healing abilities and sometimes, dreams that show her what needs to be shown. I believe you know about the agility, speed and strength already, thanks to the fight you had with that vamped kid,"
"And to think, all I thought girls had to worry about these days was their looks," Mrs Motou sighed and held her head, "This is so much,"
"Maybe so, but it's the truth," Brian shrugged, "Tea is a Potential Slayer, and she must be trained in the ways of a Slayer if she is to fulfill her destiny,"
Tea leaned back in her chair, rubbing her eyes, "I don't believe this. How can I believe it?" she looked up at the American, "How can I, or anyone for that matter, possibly believe that there are vampires and there are girls out there who are supposed to kill them?"
"You have to believe it, or else you are denying your destiny!" Brian said firmly, leaning forward, "You cannot deny this calling, Tea. You must take it up, you must train and you must fight!"
"I...I don't know...," she shook her head and looked at her friend, "Yugi? Any thoughts on this?"
"Well, normally, I'd say that it was a prank and have Grandpa get the cops over to arrest him," he looked at Brian, then fingered his Millenium Puzzle, "But...I believe him,"
Tea bit her lip, "To be honest, I think I do too,"
Brian clapped his hands loudly, "Wonderful! Now that we've gotten past that hurtle, we can now focus on the business at hand,"
"Business at hand?" Solomon frowned, "You mean this training of hers?"
"Yes, that and patrols around the city,"
"Patrols?" Tea blinked, "For...?"
"Vampires," Brian nodded, "...and other evil inhuman entities,"
Everyone stared at him.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that she'll be fighting against stuff besides vampires?"
Every nodded.
"My bad," Brian cleared his throat, "We'll worry about that when the time comes. But as for training and patrol, we gotta start on this ASAP," he reached into the pocket of his leather brown jacket he draped behind him, "I have a card with my address and number. What I want you to do, Tea, is to visit me everyday, after school so we can train. At night, we will patrol the graveyards for the other vampires,"
"Other vampires?" Mrs Motou repeated, "There's more?"
"Of course, other wise the Slayers job would be very easy in life," Brian pulled out a card and handed it to Tea, "That kid you staked today was a freshly sired vampire. The one who sired him is still out there somewhere and we have to watch for him, or her, and the rest of their friends,"
Tea looked at the card and closed her hand around, "Man, Joey and the others are not gonna believe this,"
"Ah...," Brian held up a finger, "I would strongly advise against letting your friends, or the whole world, know that you're a Slayer, Tea. If you do that, you'll be putting bullseye targets on their backs," he pointed to the three Motou's, "We need to keep this to a minimum. I need you three to swear you're not gonna tell anyone about Tea,"
"As if anyone would believe us," Mrs Motou shook her head, "If we go around telling anybody about this, they'd lock us up in the loony bin,"
"Or use you against Tea, or turn you three into vampires," Brian shrugged, "You know, the usual bad guy motif,"
Solomon cleared his throat, "I have a question, young man,"
"Please, call me Brian," he grinned, "Wassup?"
"What is this Watcher's Council that you said you're a part of?"
"Ah, of course," Brian nodded, "Of course, of course, how could I forget that? Well, as you know, there are vampires and there are Slayers...,"
Everyone nodded.
"Well, the Watcher's Council is the organization who looks for those who could be Slayers and train them to fight. They either train them in the Headquarters in England-,"
"I can't go to England!"
Brian cleared his throat, looking annoyed at Tea's interruption, "..or they send an operative so that they can train the Slayer. Each operative is called a Watcher, and in this case, Tea is the Slayer, I am her Watcher,"
"And your jobs is watch over her, train her and...?"
"Watch her in the bathroom,"
Everyone stared at him disgusted.
"I'm joking! God, people can't take a joke nowadays,"
"...and that's what happened,"
Ryou, Tristan, Joey and Duke stared at Yugi and Tea, who had just got done telling them what had happened the night before.
"Any questions, boys?"
Joey raised a hand.
"Yeah?"
"What the hell kinda drugs are you taking?"
Seconds later, Joey found himself on the classroom for, the side of his face feeling sore. Tea pulled back her arm and looked at her hand.
"Whoa...," she looked down at Joey, "I'm so sorry, Joey! Are you okay?"
"Uh...yeah, yeah," Joey sat up, holding the bruise that was already forming on his cheek, "Just peachy,"
The other three boys looked at Joey, then at each other, then backed away out of Tea's reach.
The blonde teenager climbed to his feet, still rubbing his face, "Well, I dunno whether or not to believe all the crap about vampires and Tea being some kind of almighty vampire slaying savior of the world, I will admit that her punches are getting harder," he probed his mouth with his tongue, "I think she made a couple of my teeth loose,"
"Sorry, sorry, sorry!"
"First you can't win a decent duel, then you get knocked on your ass by Gardner," a cold, familiar voice chuckled behind them, "Wheeler, you just keep getting sadder and sadder,"
Before she could stop herself, Tea spun around and slugged Seto Kaiba square in the face, knocking him on his back just as she did with Joey. The entire classroom went silent, every student, including the other pain in Joey's ass, Jon, stared in shock at what they had just witnessed.
Kaiba moaned as blood trickled down his nose.
"YEAH!" Joey jumped up and hugged Tea tightly, "KAIBA GOT KNOCKED THE F-,"
"Joseph Wheeler, you finish that sentence and you get a week's detention!"
"Screw that, did anyone get that on camera?! We need to get this on Youtube, now!"
Kilnorc: Yeah, I thought I'd end this chapter with some comedy. I'm aware that Kaiba's good in some fights, but I don't think even he can match up against a Slayer's speed and strength. I also don't think he'd expect that from Tea, so the punch worked out -V sign- mwaha.