Ottawa: Kill the rabbit, kill the rabbit, kill the rabbit, kill them all!
Yami: Let me guess, she's been watching Bugs Bunny?
Rye: Which way did he go George, which way did he go?
Yugi: I'll stay out of this one... same disclaimers and warnings apply.
Seto twitched as he glared at the drunken men in the kitchen. Rye's face was red from yelling, but her eyes danced with mirth as Ottawa threw various vases at the lot while Joey laughed at Bakura wrestling with his men and dragging Yami into the mix just to ruffle the pharaoh's feathers. Yugi and Ryou didn't know if they should be mad, worried or just start laughing. Malik and Marik watched with twisted glee before Thunderclaps filled the air and a portal opened above them.
"Lady Nubia?" Kia asked.
"Not mine..." She told her as she watched the portal.
"H-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-l-l-l-l-l-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!" shouted the annoying high voice of-
"DIE YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Ottawa lunged at the being as he appeared and sat on his chest while strangling him. "Why did I bother helping you when all you did was screw us over! Fucking son of a whore! Where is it!"
Rye sighed, she leaned back on the pillar as Ottawa tried to murder Hermes.
"Herm... If I were you I'd give her, her scythe and you better have my book and the key to this damned collar you put on me." Rye growled, eyes glowing a dark green color.
Hermes, managed some sort of gibberish that Rye seemed to understand as she walked over to Ottawa and picked her up and held her up in the air like a pup.
"She's off, now our things..."
"Here..." He gasped, twirling his fingers and giving Ottawa her scythe.
The brunette vanished from Rye's grip and was hugging her sycthe while hissing at Hermes. Rye glared down at him. He sighed and stood up, he snapped his fingers and a book appeared. It black and had runes that none had ever seen before. He gave it to her and she sighed, holding it in her hands.
"This collar?"
"... Anubis said no."
Rye twitched and he gulped.
"He said that he would remove the collar when he spoke with you and Ottawa! Here is the official summons!" he grabbed the scroll and gave it to her.
She took it and looked it over. She read it aloud in a language no one has ever heard and Ottawa nodded to Hermes. He bowed and vanished back through his portal before both women killed him.
"Looks like we've got court... Kia, please keep this place from going to hell and I'll bring you something that you could use for your next adventure... I'm sure Aly would have a good use for it..." Rye told her.
"Of course Lady Nubia... Cousin."
"Sister." Ottawa bowed her head before she and Rye vanished into thin air.
Yami sighed, "It seems my soul's on trial yet again... alright. While we let the psychos deal with the gods, we better get this crappy army into shape so we don't end up as one of Rye's experiments and trust me ending up as Hitler's Dog is the least of your worries."
"Why, what did we do?" Yugi asked. Yami sighed and took him in his arms.
"It's more we're the only ones who can stop her, so we'd better not fail sort of trial. For me it's I will earn the right to be alive again sort of trial, or even to try again for a new life if the worlds have to be remade."
"That can happen?" Ryou asked.
"Oh yes, it can, they don't like it to, but it can." Yami sighed.
"What did you call Rye?" Bakura asked Kia. Kia shrugged, her blue eyes mysterious.
"An honorary title, a very, very old one, older than even I." She replied with a small smile. "Now, I think you all need to sober up before I try seeing just how well you remember fighting."
"Do you have a name for Ottawa as well?" Marik asked, slurring mightily.
"There is one besides 'cousin' but it reveals that which should not be revealed, so I will not say." Marik's mouth hung open as his alcohol-deadened brain tried to process what she had just said. She just smiled at him. Aly gave him a toothy grin as well, stained from the cup of blood that she'd been drinking. "Aly, dear, wipe your mouth please." Aly obligingly licked her lips and hopped off the counter, trotting out of the kitchen.
"You know, it doesn't bother me that she's a vampire for some reason." Seto commented as Aly left.
"You've met us before, that's why." Kia explained. They all turned to stare at her as one.
"We were in Egypt for some time, we brought potions and other necessities to the locals, and occasionally we bedded in the palace, after the first time the pharaoh's guards had us arrested on suspicion of being demons."
"I think I remember that now, why could I not before?" Yami asked in a befuddled tone. Kia gave him her mysterious smile again.
"You didn't need to." She replied. "I am the kind of person who can slip right out of your mind. You never remembered who I was until I reminded you again in the palace back then too."
"What are you, Kia, how old are you?" Seto demanded. "Are you like Rye and Ottawa?"
"Oh no, I am nothing as grand as they are, but we do share a few talents, and in Ottawa and I's case, a service to Life, though in very different ways." She said. "It's difficult to explain, and not something I go into with people, and not something I can go into without revealing what I should not."
"Like about Rye and Ottawa?" Ryou asked. Kia nodded her head. "Why are they so secretive?"
"It's mostly privacy, and the fact that they want to keep the friends they make. Even Yami doesn't know the full story, because they want him to fight with them." Yami's brow scrunched up in confusion at the statement, whether it was the alcohol deadening his understanding, or what she had said, no one would ever know.
"So, you must be really old then, if you were back in Egypt." Joey slurred, blinking at her owlishly. Her smile turned somewhat sad.
"Sometimes I think too old." She murmured. She then made a shooing gesture with her hands. "Off to bed with you all, it's late and you'll need your strength for tomorrow."
"But we don't wanna go." Marik whined, hiccupping.
"Go." The tone of Kia's voice would have no arguments and even those who wanted to stay up and were sober found themselves heading for bedrooms to sleep.
As soon as she was alone in the room, Kia sighed and clapped her hands, everything began to right itself in its proper place as the mops and brooms cleaned up. She looked around the tranquil looking home and let her mind wander. It's been a long time since she thought of her past, but now it didn't hurt so bad and she was glad she met all the people she has and helped those who needed it most.
'My dear cousin, where will meet next time?' She wondered as she walked out of the room. 'I wonder what Lady Nubia is bringing for Aly?'
Ottawa: Powerful bark, huh?
Bakura: Where'd you guys go?
Rye: Up your ass and around the corner, by the way did you know that if you don't eat enough veggies you can't take a proper shit?
Seto: I don't think that kind of language is necessary.
Joey: When does that ever stop them? Reviews are much appreciated.