Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon nor Yu-Gi-Oh!.
A/N: Back again, as I've said before, trying to update this at least once a week, but maybe now I'll update it even more frequenly, be aware that the chapters will be shorter though.
Oww…Rini sat up, rubbing her head, I must've fell really hard…She looked up, eyes wide. But…from where? The skies above here were dark and cloudy, and when she looked around herself, she gasped.
Rini stood up, and brushed the dirt off of her clothes. She then slowly looked around, taking in her surroundings. "Am I…" she said aloud, "in Domino City…?" Did I make it to the future?
Although it didn't look quite as it had before. The buildings were crumbled, trash littered the streets and there was no one in sight. Rini furiously jerked her head, looking for Yugi of the pharaoh.
"We…must be separated." She finally concluded. She then gasped again as she heard a muffled sound.
"Meow!"
"Diana!" Rini cried, as the small gray cat jumped out of Rini's backpack. "Where did you come from?"
The small kitten looked up at her, a little more than annoyed. "You don't remember stuffing me in there?"
"Oh yeah…" Rini replied, mostly to herself. She had put Diana into her backpack before Trista had cast the circle for heading to the future.
"RINI!"
"Huh!?" Rini shook, lost in her own thoughts.
"I said where are we?"
"Oh, uh…well, I don't really know."
"It looks like Domino City."
"That's what I thought too, but it can't be, there's just no way!"
And then both Rini and Diana jumped, as they heard moans and groans from behind the crumbled buildings.
"Who's there?" Rini shouted, her voice shaking.
"Intruders…must…eliminate…" And then people that looked like they could have lived in this city emerged from behind the buildings, their eyes distant as though they weren't really there.
Rini knew she should have run. It was just common sense, and that sense was reassured by Diana screeching for her to run, but Rini's instinct was saying something else.
She slung the backpack off of her shoulders and looked through its contents. Yes! Her deck was still there, Rini pulled it out.
"Rini what are you doing?!" Diana whispered fiercely, her wide eyes darting back to the zombie-like citizens that were slowly making their ways toward them.
"If we run, they'll still find us." Rini said matter of factly. So maybe I can keep them at a distance, at least until we find out what's going on. Remember back in Egypt when were able to summon monsters and they became real?"
"Yes, but you need a duel disk and you don't have one!"
Rini looked around, and her eyes fell one something behind her. She quickly ran over to one of the crumbled buildings and began digging through all of the rubble.
"Now what are you doing!?"
"Found it!" Rini cried, pulling the object out. Diana's eyes went wide. It was a duel disk, but this one was different from the one Kaiba had designed. The card slots were blue and the rest of it was red, it looked a lot more modern, even though it looked as though it would fall apart any second.
"Rini are you sure that will work?"
"No, but it's the only thing we've got." Rini stood up and faced the crowd again. They stopped in their tracks, waiting for her to make the first move.
"All right you zombie freaks! Prepare to be blown away!" Rini shouted, holding the duel disk up and slapping it onto her left arm, although the sound was unclear, you could faintly hear the duel disk start up.
"Intruders…must…eliminate…" they chanted, making a move toward her and Diana again.
"Rini do something!"
Rini quickly placed her deck into the deck slot of the duel disk, and pulled out a card.
"I summon Gladiator Beast Samnite!" She placed the card onto the duel disk face-up. She closed her eyes and crossed her fingers, hoping that it would work. When she gathered the courage to open her eyes, she was that a large white saber-tooth tiger wearing black armor lined with gold was standing in front of her, crouched down, ready to pounce.
"It worked!" She giggled with excitement. The monster turned back to her and flared his nostril, wanting to fight. She nodded at him. "Go Gladiator Beast Samnite, wipe out these creeps! Saber-tooth slash!" Then she quickly added, "But don't hurt them!" Because inside she still knew that they were ordinary people, lost and confused.
The best raised his large shining sword, and swiftly slashed it once, not hitting anybody but a flash of light flew from the sword to the people, blowing them back well over three yards. They groaned as they fell on the ground, and rubbed their heads, some were beginning to get up again.
Rini stepped back, prepared to fight. But when she saw the expressions on their faces (and the life that came back to their eyes), she quickly raised her hand, a motion for her monster to stop as it was just about to launch another attack.
"No. They're okay, thank you Samnite, you were a great help." She smiled and the beast nodded once, and he slowly dissolved into particles, lost in the air. Rini took the card off her duel disk and placed it back in her deck. She turned back to the people.
One of them was a young girl about her age, she was looking around, frightened, her eyes wide with fear. Rini slowly took steps toward her and crouched down next to her.
"Do you know what happened?"
She gasped and stumbled back, obviously afraid. Rini outstretched her hand to comfort her but the girl hissed. Rini jerked her hand away, taken back.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
The girl shook her hands violently, Rini also noticed that her hands were shaking as well. "I…I don't know…one minute I was eating d-dinner with my family and the n-next…I don't know…" she said again, tears falling.
"It's okay." Rini said gently, placing her hand on her shoulder. This time the girl didn't flinch.
"Rini! Look!" Diana cried, now running toward her.
"What is it Diana?" Rini stood up, but she could already tell by looking around. The confused people around her were slowly disappearing, it was as if an invisible wave of invisibility was covering all of them, and it was getting closer.
"RUN!" The girl cried, pushing Rini out of the way as the shadows engulfed her.
"NO!!" Rini screamed. But Diana tugged at Rini's clothes with her claws, forcing her to run away from the darkness.
"M-m-maybe I can stop it…" Rini panted as she ran, thinking about summoning another one of her monsters.
"Are you crazy? You can't fight something you can't see! Just keep running!" Diana shouted. "Maybe we can find some place underground we can hide…" Diana said, but she was slowing down, as her small legs couldn't keep up with Rini's pace, nor outrun the shadows that were chasing them.
"Diana, jump into my bag!" Rini cried. Diana did as she was told, using her last ounce of energy to jump into Rini's backpack.
Rini continued to run, although she felt as though her heart was going to explode at any second. I have to keep running! She told herself. That is until she came to a building that didn't look so run-down. In fact, it looked like it was the only one that hadn't been destroyed, compared to all the ones around it.
Maybe if I hide behind that, the thing that's chasing me won't get me! So she took her chance and darted toward the building, then Rini immediately ran into the alley of it, pressing her body against the wall and breathing heavily, waiting for whatever was chasing her to come and pass.
After a few minutes, she slowly peeked out from her hiding spot to find that everything was normal. Cautiously, Rini stepped out from the alley and looked around, then down at herself. The invisibility must have passed, as she could still see herself.
"It's okay Diana you can come out now." Rini said. Diana jumped out of her backpack once more and stretched.
"Well that was definitely weird." Diana mumbled. "What do you think that was?"
"I don't know." Rini admitted. She then turned to Diana. "But I know that I definitely don't' want to stay and find out. We should get going, find out what happened to Yugi, the others, where we are…" She was surprised out how calm and confident she sounded, that is until they heard a loud, ear-shattering boom from the sky.
"Ah!" Rini cried, crouching down and covering her ears. She hadn't realized that it was getting dark and that the cloudiness she had seen before was not thickening to an even darker mist, as a storm was arriving.
"We have to find someplace safe Small Lady!" Diana said.
But suddenly Rini didn't feel so confident anymore. She was afraid, she was all alone, and she was afraid of thunder, so that didn't help. Rini has been scared of the thunder for as long as she could remember, she gets it from her mother, who was afraid of it when she was a child as well.
"It's okay to be afraid daughter," she had said, "But it is not okay to let that fear take over and consume you. In order to be strong, you must overcome your fears, because the biggest fear of all, is the one that is living inside of you. Conquer that, and everything else will seem so small. I know you can do it dearest, because I believe in you."
"Mama…" Rini whimpered, her eyes brimming with tears. She now suddenly felt like a small child, and wanted to curl up and cry for her mother. But Rini quickly wiped the tears out of her eyes with her sleeves, and stood up, remembering her mother's words.
"I won't let my fear get the best of me." She said. Then another wave of crackling thunder shook through, Rini winced, but had now fully got up.
"Small Lady?"
"Let's go Diana. She said, as she began walking. Diana jumped into Rini's arms and snuggled against her, loving her warmth. Rini cuddled her and was glad that she wasn't alone.
As she was walking, strong hands covered her mouth and dragged her, pulling her into another dark alley.
She tried to scream but the hands had a strong grip over her mouth, and only muffled cries came out.
"Shh. I won't hurt you."
"Meow!" Diana snarled, jumping out of Rini's arms and scratching the man on the hand.
"Ouch!" He yelped in surprise, immediately letting go of Rini and rubbing his hand.
Rini took big gulps of air and looked up at the man who grabbed her. He was very tall, and had serious eyes that bore right through you. But the most distinct feature of his was the mark on his face, almost as someone has etched it onto him.
"W-who…who are you?" She asked, breathless.
"I am," he said, "Yusei Fudo."
A/N: Didn't expect that comin' did ya? ^^ Another crazy twist I thought of. XD I'm not much of a Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's fan myself (for those of you that don't know Yusei is a main character on that show), but when I was thinking of where Rini would be I just had to put him there, and I like Yusei so...yeah. Review please, will update soon! Next chapter will be about where Yugi is and Atem in one chapter I think.
