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Chapter 21

Krista pulled her car into the driveway of Kaiba manor. Her entire body language showed determination. She knew her new destiny as a mentor for Shadow Magic was about to begin.

She was just about to open the door to her car when Seto reached his hand over to stop her. "Krista, we need to talk."

"About what?" Krista asked.

"I know right now you are feeling guilty about your condition. I swore to myself never to mention what happened to send you to see Dr. Montgomery for your tests, which is why I didn't correct you at the office, and gave a bull shit reason for why your are jealous of Miss Applegate." Seto stated.

Krista had a feeling in the pit of her stomach on where this conversation was headed and didn't want to deal with it right now. "Seto, please don't."

Seto thought for a moment about not saying anything more but knew that any anger he provoked in Krista would be for the best so he continued. "You need to hear this, the real reason you are jealous is, should Miss Applegate go through with her pregnancy, she doesn't have a high risk of miscarriage, not the fact she actually conceived. I don't like seeing you feeling guilty and blaming yourself for things that are out of your control. I also don't like to see you giving up all hope. You know as well as I do that Dr. Montgomery was mistaken when he gave you the odds of conception and I know you remember why I came to that conclusion."

"Yeah, I do remember thanks for bringing that up. I've spent the last fifteen months trying to forget that heartbreaking day." Krista sated she was really getting pissed and could feel her eyes filling with tears. She didn't want to have this conversation. "I remember that I somehow totally fucked up by forgetting to take my Orthotrycycline one day because we were too busy working on preparing the negotiations for Project DA, and ended up pregnant. Even though we didn't plan it we were excited and totally surprised since usually missing one pill doesn't result in a pregnancy. Then three days after we found out I was pregnant, I had a miscarriage. Why the hell do you think I don't ever forget my pills by making sure I have them with my morning coffee? I never want to feel that kind of pain of loss again."

Seto looked deep into Krista's sapphire eyes and could see she was trying to hold back. "I know that, which is why I swore never to bring it up. But the events of today made me realize sometimes you need to be reminded that we are in this together. Whether we choose to figure out a way to minimize your miscarriage factor or just adopt someday we will have children running around the manor."

Krista could tell Seto was trying to be understand and helpful. These two things made her eternally grateful she had Seto to lean on. "I know we are in this together, but it is hard for me not to feel guilty right now. If I didn't have so much uterine scaring as a result from underground dueling, our child would be about seven months old." She explained.

"Just promise me you won't lose complete control of your emotions and destroy the conservatory again." Kaiba teased.

"Shit I forgot that happened when I got back from seeing Dr. Montgomery. You know we shouldn't even address him as doctor anymore since I made sure his license was revoked for leaking to the tabloids my condition." Krista stated.

The CEO smirked. "You got a good payoff too."

Krista snickered. "That I did. But rest assured I know how closely my emotions are tied to my magic and I don't want to hurt anyone. But I will use my dark emotions right now to my advantage with the lesson I'm going to do tonight with my new apprentice."

"Correction apprentices remember Hermione wanted in too." Seto said.

"Okay apprentices." Krista replied.

"We are going to keep this conversation between us right. I mean we didn't even get the chance to tell Mokaba about the pregnancy before I had a miscarriage." Krista said.

"I prefer to keep some things just between us. Why do you think when I told our friends about your condition last September I conveniently left out why you wanted to have the tests done? And twisted the truth slightly on why you take your pill everyday." Kaiba explained.

"Thank you for being so wonderful to me." Krista said with a slight smile. She knew Kaiba had been right about needing to talk. It was making her feel a little better.

"I love you need I say more." Kaiba said.

"I love you too." Krista said as she leaned over and gave Seto a quick kiss. The couple spent several moments kissing before deciding to exit Krista's car and head into manor.

Kaiba and Krista entered the living room of Kaiba Manor to find most of their group going over the text books for next year. Krista looked around at her friends and started to speak in a very stern tone. "Queen and Mokaba, I want to start your apprenticeships tonight meet me in the manor's dueling arena in one hour. If you are late don't bother to try showing up again as I will not accept tardiness. High Priest I'll need you as well this evening for damage control, don't make me wait for your ass either." Krista threatened as she walked over to the wall and placed her hand on the panel. "Krista Kaiba access number 670-KWQ-5B."

"Fingerprints and DNA analysis confirmed. Hello Mrs. Kaiba." Rang a female voice.

A panel in the wall opened reviling the Kaiba's wall safe. Krista quickly entered the combination and removed her Magic Formula spell book and several blood sugar testers. She placed the blood sugar testers in her pocket and tucked her spell book under her arm. As she was walking she looked over her friends she debated which to choose for today's lesson finally she knew there was only one that would work. "Black Dragon you will report to the dueling arena in one hour as well."

"But cousin..."

"For the duration of the summer when I get back from the office to do these lesson everyone in this room will address me as Royal Sorceress do I make myself clear!" Krista commanded.

"Crystal." Everyone said together.

"Good." Krista stated.

Draco was getting annoyed by Krista's antics so retaliated by saying. "Okay Royal Sorceress," Malfoy's voice was filled with distain and sarcasm. "Why do you need me? I'm not a Shadow Wielder."

Krista gave Malfoy a glare that resembled Kaiba's glare when he fired incompetent employees. "Black Dragon you are going to be my guinea pig tonight and if you refuse, I'll send your ass to the Shadow Realm for a week where you will find yourself on a deserted island with only Umpa Lumpas to keep you company!" Krista hollered. Krista knew her friends would understand her behavior when the time was right but for now she had a room to prepare so she left the living room and headed down stairs to the dueling arena.

"High Priest what is up with the Royal Sorceress that didn't seem like the act she pulled during Christmas break, when she gave the Queen, the Chosen One and the Black Dragon a dueling lesson?" The Pharaoh inquired.

"Part is guilt, part is jealousy and part is she wants to demonstrate the severity and commitment required to becoming her apprentice." Seto reasoned. "Pharaoh, both you and I know that Mahad sealed part of his power away for his own protection and if he released his power he would be the most powerful of your court. Krista never had any of her power sealed and as Mahad's decedent should she ever fully release all of her shadow powers her power would rival Mahad's power."

Atem started nodding as he began to see the whole picture. "I've been sensing her increase in power ever since her Shadow Game with Bellatrix. Which is why I knew it was time for her to take up her ancestor's role and encouraged her to take on apprentices." He stated.

"What does she feel guilty and jealous about?" Yugi asked.

"She feels guilty that she joined the underground and now has internal damage that makes carrying children to term highly improbable. She is jealous because Miss Applegate is now expecting. So she is embracing her guilt and jealousy to prepare for whatever lesson she came up with on the drive home." Seto explained.

"I thought she had quit blaming herself for that." Marik said.

"She hasn't blamed herself in months, I think the shock of Miss Applegate just brought out some tough emotions in her and she is dealing with them in her own way. At least this time she is more in control of her guilt when she first found out about her condition she wreaked the conservatory with shadow magic." Kaiba said.

"I still am baffled each time you mention something about magic accruing in your presence during a time you always denied its existence in our presence." Atem said.

"I am just good at hiding things that are no one's business and also it was just fun to piss you off each time I bluntly called it hocus pocus nonsense, or how I called you Yugi's imaginary friend." Kaiba said as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"How long did you know the truth about me honestly?" Atem asked.

"I noticed the switching thing when you and I were dueling outside Pegasus' castle. You declared your attack but Yugi took over and stopped it." Kaiba said.

"I'm sure you don't mind that I stopped it." Yugi teased.

Kaiba gave Yugi a smirk to communicate that he didn't mind that at all before continuing to answer Atem's question. "However I wasn't convinced that I was seeing two different people at that time, I thought Yugi just lost his nerve to giving a duel everything. I became convinced Yugi was a reincarnate shortly after Battle City when I read all those books about past lives. However I really didn't realize that two souls occupied the same body until I got a call from Wheeler about Yugi losing a duel. He called shortly after Krista's loss to Alister. I had ran to my office to get Mokie and was trying to come up with a good excuse to track you guys down when he called saying Yugi lost a duel and how his soul was gone. I noticed then that Yugi's body wasn't soulless the only logical conclusion is that two souls shared one body. That was the moment I truly believed that you and Yugi were two separate identities not just a split personality disorder."

"So you knew when we were dueling Dartz that the soldiers were infarct the souls of Yugi, Mai, Pegasus and Joey." Atem stated.

"Yeah and I really didn't care. I only had one goal in mind bring down Dartz so I could get Krista back. I knew they wouldn't be hurt, but you were still too consumed with guilt to realize it. I even tried to convince you by telling you that they were holograms but that didn't seem to work. I ended up having to restrain you when I destroyed them." Kaiba said.

"You have always given me advice even when it was twisted with your way of denying things, I can't believe it took the events in Egypt for me to realize that." Atem replied.

"I didn't want you to know. If we hadn't been attack in Egypt you still wouldn't know my real face." Kaiba replied.

"No shit, because I wouldn't even be here." Atem retaliated.

Kaiba smirked. "You assume Yugi would have won your little duel. I had my money on you."

"Who did you have a bet with?" Atem asked.

"Krista who else, she knew just about everything I knew. We have been a couple for over three years." Kaiba said.

"So Krista actually bet on me winning huh?" Yugi asked.

"Actually she bet on you because she hoped you would win and that Shadow Magic would be sealed away forever and she wouldn't have mishaps from losing control like the day she destroyed the conservatory, or the day she first summoned Venus in corporeal form knocking me out." Kaiba said.

"And now that didn't happen so she knows she needs to start training anyone who is born with the ability to wield the magic because it is dangerous in the wrong hands." Atem said

"And since it wasn't sealed only a fool would believe more wielders won't show up." Kaiba stated.

"After having her teach that lesson in dueling personalities. I must admit I'm a little nervous about having her teach me. However I do know it is for the best. I know how she feels about losing control. I could have killed Ron with a penalty game if I had said he would die instead of thinking he was an 11 year old girl." Hermione said.

"She won't hurt you, but while you are in her classes I doubt she will see you as more than her student but don't take it personally she will still consider you her best gal friend outside of class." Kaiba stated.

"Point taken Kaiba." Hermione said as she went back to looking through her book.

Kaiba sat down and pulled out his laptop. He decided that the best way to kill an hour was to go over work. Everyone else in the room started going back over their textbooks. Tine seemed to fly by for Hermione and Mokaba and soon it was almost time to join Krista in the dueling arena.

"Well Mokaba are you ready to head down to the dueling arena. I think we should be a few minutes early just to impress the Royal Sorceress." Hermione suggested.

Mokaba's body was filled with excitement as well as a thrust for revenge. He intended to get a handle on his powers for the next time he bumped into Wormtail. Mokaba intended to use his training to keep his oath to his deck. "Let's go." Mokie replied.

Hermione, Kaiba Draco and Mokaba all left the living room and headed down to the dueling arena. Each person was having similar thoughts about what was going to happen when they got to their destination. They knew that Krista had something planned and were slightly worried about what they would see when they arrived. However they all quickly pushed that worry out of their minds and replaced it with determination. They knew that this first lesson was going to be a true test of Krista's abilities to take on her ancestor's role from 5000 years ago.

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