After Christmas, it was now the New Year and the Grand Prix was coming close. Feather was now a month old. I woke up to the sound of Crow snoring in my ears. His arms were around me, hugging me into him. I smiled and put my hands on his arms. He woke up instantly. He snuggled his head into my neck and I felt him smile.
"Morning babe," he said and kissed my neck. I giggled.
"Good morning darling," he snickered. I turned around to face him. He smiled and kissed me head on.
"You are so beautiful," he said. I giggled.
"So I've been told," he snickered and kissed me again. Just then Feather started to make a few noises. Crow and I break away. He snickered. He placed his hand on my face and stroked it with his thumb. Then he stroked it with the back on his fingers. Feather made another cute noise. Crow snickered and I giggled.
"I'll get that," he kissed me again, got up and went to tend to Feather. He looked into the crib, smiled and said cutely. "Hey baby girl." He picked her up and she made another baby noise. He snickered. "Does daddy's little girl want kisses?" I giggled as Feather made another noise to answer. He snickered and kissed her cute little cheeks and forehead. He then pulled her little body towards him and hugged her. Her head was lying on his shoulder. I noticed that her eyes were starting to droop. She yawned and fell straight asleep.
"Well, I think she's still tired," I said as I sat up.
"How do you know that? Oh, let me guess, Mothers intuition?" I giggled and shook my head.
"She fell asleep in your arms," I said smiling. Crow gasped.
"She did?" I giggled and nodded. He started to form tears.
"Awe," I got up and kissed his cheek. He smiled and kissed me head on. "You are so amazing," I hugged his free arm and kissed his cheek again. He snickered and kissed me. Feather made a noise to us kissing. "Awe, is me little girl hungry?" I put my hand on her head and she turned around and sat her head on Crow's shoulder again. Her eyes wondered around the room and then she stared at us. Crow and I both smiled and kissed again. Feather started to cry. I gasped. "I better feed this one before she gets angry." Crow laughed.
"Angry? Can a baby become angry?" I giggled and took her from him.
"Angry, to a baby is upset, but..." Feather cried harder. "Like that." I finished. "Come on beautiful, breakfast for you." I said. She calmed down and made a few cute baby noises. Crow chuckled.
"Are you always right?" He said walking over to me as I sat down on the bed and prepared for her to drink. I giggled.
"Yep," I simply said. He laughed. I did what I had to do and Feather quickly drank her breakfast. Crow sat down next to me and stared down at her happily drinking. She curled her fingers over one of mine. Crow kissed my cheek and kept watching with that huge grin on his face. I smiled at him. Feather finished and gave her to Crow. He wanted to burp her again. I kissed his cheek as Feather fell asleep. I went to do my morning routines and came out twenty minutes later. Crow still had Feather in his arms, he didn't want to let go. I looked around. She was fast asleep on his shoulder. I smiled and sat down next to him. "Has she been sleeping this whole time?" Crow smiled and nodded.
"I heard a little voice before, but that was it," I giggled and smiled.
"Have you and the others finished that new duel runner engine yet?" I asked Crow. He looked at me and smiled.
"No, but we're close. I can't wait until we test it out!" His smiled turned into a large grin. "So, Yusei, Jack and I decided to take the day off and go and visit the kids." I gasped and a large grin came to my face.
"R-Really?" He nodded. I screeched softly, trying not to wake up Feather. Crow snickered at me.
"Excited?" I giggled and nodded. He snickered at me again. Feather made a cute baby noise and lifted her head to switch from one side to the other. Her face was facing us. Crow and I smiled at her. She let out a sigh and fell asleep on Crow's shoulder again. We both smiled. Then, we heard a knock.
"It's open," I said. The door opened and Emily walked inside quietly.
"Morning," She said. "The guys are ready to head off. Are you ready?" Crow and I both nodded. I stood up and grabbed the red sling to put Feather inside. Crow carefully placed her inside the sling and we all walked out to the others.
"Hey guys," Emily said. Crow, Emily and I walked down the stairs to greet them. Yusei looked up and smiled. Emily blushed hard.
"Hey are we all set to go?" Yusei asked. We all nodded and we were off.
~A few minutes later~
We were on the boys runners. I was on Crow's with Feather lying in the sling, Emily was with Yusei and Jack was alone. (Awe NOT FOR LONG *Hint Hint* Lol)
"What happened to this place?" Crow said. "I mean look at this. Cleaner streets, nice building," Yusei laughed.
"The Satellite we all grew up in is gone, that's for sure."
"What do you lads say to a high speed race through the streets, for old time sake," Jack asked. Yusei nodded and said.
"You're on!" Crow decided not to race, because of Feather and I. A few minutes later and we were there. Three of the kids were outside waiting for us. Jake, Jason and little Jasmine.
"What's up little runts?" I elbowed Crow in the ribs. "Ow," He said. "I was only joking." They ran over.
"Crow! Yusei!" Jake said.
"Long time, no see," Jasmine said. Jasmine looked at me and giggled smiling. I smiled back.
"Jack, will you duel me later today?" Jasmine ran over to us and hugged me. She saw the sling. Martha and Blister walked out.
"Well, look who's decided to return to their own stomping grounds. Good to see you guys," Blister said.
"Did you set shop fulltime here Blister?" Yusei, Jack, Emily, Crow and I got off the runners. Jasmine grabbed my free hand and we walked over to join them.
"You tasted Martha's cooking? How can I walk away from that?" I giggled.
"Have you nerds been behaving?" Crow said, kneeling down to their level.
"Been practicing every day," Jake said.
"And we help Martha take care of the old people," Jasmine smiled.
"They causing you any trouble Martha?"
"Nothing like the trouble you caused me when you were their age," Crow, the kids and I laughed. Feather made a few baby noises. Jasmine tugged on my hand. Martha looked over at Emily. "And may I ask who you are?" She smirked. "Yusei's girlfriend?" Emily and Yusei blushed. Emily was too embarrassed to say who she was, so I told Martha.
"She's Emily Kaiba, my best friend," I said.
"Ah: the granddaughter of the most famous duellist to ever work and own the famous Blue Eyes White Dragons?" She said. Emily stopped blushing and nodded.
"But, I have them now," Emily stated. Yusei lightly gasped.
"You have the three Blue Eyes White Dragons?" Martha asked. She blushed and nodded.
"Like Wendy was given the Dark Magician and Dark Magician girl from her grandfather, I was given the three Blue Eyes White Dragons from my grandfather," She said smiling. I smiled too. Jasmine tugged on my arm.
"Mummy? Where's the baby? We heard you had a baby girl," I giggled, knelt down and opened the sling. She gasped at Feather sleeping. "She's so pretty!" I giggled.
"Wendy, how was the birth? How are you feeling?" Martha asked. I smiled.
"It was good. Hard, but good," I answered. She smiled.
"Any complications?" I shook my head.
"None at all"
"I'm glad. How is she now?"
"At the moment, she's sleeping soundly in the sling," I said. Martha and Blister walked over and saw her sleeping. Blister smiled.
"She's beautiful Wendy, you both must be proud," Martha said. I nodded.
"Oh yeah, I definitely am," Crow said from the side. I giggled.
"Who wouldn't be?" I asked staring down at my beautiful little girl. "She's perfect," I whispered. Martha smiled again.
"Now go look around you five and meet us back in the house," Martha said. Crow took my free hand from Jasmine and we all walked inside.
"Darling, do you want to see my old childhood room?" I smiled.
"It's still there?" I asked. He nodded. He took me up two flights of stairs and to the right. We stopped at the door that said 'Crow' on it with two blackbirds on either side of the name. "Awe," I said giggling. Feather wriggled in the sling. Crow put his hand on my cheek. He leaned in and kissed me directly. It was a long tasteful kiss, filled with passion. We break apart. "Why did you kiss me before entering?" I asked. Crow stared at me and started laughing. "What?" I asked. I then realised what I just said and blushed. "I didn't mean it that way," I said. He just kept laughing. Feather made a baby noise to Crow laughing. He stopped and stared at her.
"Can I take her?" I nodded and he took her out of the sling. "Come on beautiful. Daddy wants to show you something," I giggled as Crow opened the door and walked inside. I walked behind him. I stared around. This place was exactly how I would picture Crow's childhood room. Duel Monster and bird posters, toys, books, but one thing caught my eye. I gasped and walked over to his dresser, near his old bed. There was a photo, of Yusei, Jack and Crow as kids. They were laughing. I smiled and 'awed'. There was another one near it. This time, Crow, Jack and Yusei were sitting at a table and duelling. Yusei was duelling Crow and Crow was pointing at Yusei like he won a battle. I giggled. "What are you giggling at?" Crow walked over with Feather. I turned around and showed Crow the pictures. He gasped and smiled. "You can keep them if you want."
"Really?" I said. He nodded.
"Knowing you, they will probably be in our room anyway," I smiled and nodded. I stared back down at the pictures. Crow was adorable as a kid. Feather started making more baby noises. Crow snickered at her. "Alright baby girl. You can go back to mummy," I smiled as Crow put her back in the sling. She fell straight asleep.
"Hey guys," Emily said. Yusei, Jack and Emily were at the door. "What have you two been doin'?" I smiled and turned around the two photos of the guys in my hands. They all gasped. Emily walked over and took the photo of the boys duelling. "Awe, well aren't you three cute," I giggled.
"I know! Aren't they just," I said. The boys looked at each other and blushed. "Anyway, we just came to get you two after the little tour. Should we go back?" Crow and I nodded and we walked back downstairs to where Martha and the kids were. We heard Martha talking to Dr. Schmidt.
"So what did he say?"
"Nothing, he just launched a trash can lid at me." We walked inside.
"That sounds painful," Crow said as we walked in the room.
"Oh, hey you five," Martha said. "Or should I say six." She smiled at me.
"Maybe you could help us out Crow," Tory said.
"With what?"
"Mr Bashford, an elderly fella who lives by himself in the Grogen district." Dr. Schmidt said. "We've been worried about him and wanted to offer him the chance to relocate and live here at Martha's place."
"But he's a little hard-headed and he won't even listen to what we have to say," Martha said.
"You should go and convince him to move here Crow." Ellie said.
"Wait what? Why me? Old people make me kinda nervous." Crow said. I giggled.
"Hear that you guys? Crow's not up to the challenge," Jason said. That hit a nerve with Crow.
"Say what?"
"Yeah, he can't pull it off," Jasmine said.
"He's not clever enough," Jake followed. I started giggling. These kids sure know how to hit a nerve with Crow.
"Oh yes I am. You just set an extra plate tonight cause this old fossils gonna be living here by sundown," Crow said determined.
"Wait a minute Crow," Jack said.
"I'm on this like pop-on-corn." I giggled. Crow walked around to the doctor. "So talk to me, where do I find this old crock-pot?" He said. I looked over at the kids. They were whispering to each other. But I could hear them.
"Heh, he has no idea what he's getting into," Jake whispered.
"Should we go ahead and call an ambulance now?" I giggled and quietly walked over.
"What are you five talking about?" I asked kneeling down to their level. The gasped, stopped talking and blushed. I giggled. "Is it something interesting?" Jasmine blushed and nodded. "Don't worry, I heard it, and I'm all for it," I said and winked. The kids giggled. A few minutes past and we were at the old guy's house.
"Somebody lives here? It's a mountain of junk!"
"It's more like a mountain range of junk"
"Are you certain this is the right place?"
"This is it," Blister said.
"Alright guys, I'm on it," He started to walk but we heard a loud noise. I held Feather closely, so she didn't wake up.
"THAT'S CLOSE ENOUGH PUNK!" We heard from the speakers.
"And that, is Mr Bashford," Blister commented.
"What's up you old timer? You wanna ditch this trash heap and come live at Martha's place?" Crow yelled to him.
"Good Crow, nice and direct," Yusei said.
"THIS TRASH HEAP IS MY HOME!" He yelled in the speakers.
"But you're all alone, what if you fall down and can't get up?"
"THE ONLY WAY I'M LEAVING IS IF YOU DRAG ME OUT," He yelled in the speakers. Feather started to cry.
"Awe, baby it's okay," I said calming her. Crow looked over at me. She stopped crying. "She's okay." Crow smiled.
"Well you heard him, guess I gotta infiltrate the fortress," Crow said and ran into the property.
"He's going to regret that," Blister said. We just stood and watched.
"You're coming with me old man," Crow said while he was running. He kept running until...a scrap-iron scarecrow came out of nowhere. Crow ran into it and fell into the trash behind him. He was alright though. "This means war old-timer." He got up and ran again. He jumped and we saw a trap door open. Crow jumped over that trap door. But the old man opened another one. "Whoooahhhh...mummy" I giggled. He fell in. Emily and I gasped as the boys had their mouths open.
"Okay, now this is my idea of a good time boys and girls. We should do stuff like this more often," Jack said.
"Crafty use of the double trap grandpa," Crow said as he lifted himself out of the trap. "Thing is, I do not give up easily." He started walking slowly towards the house. He stopped and screamed as another trap was sprung. He flew what appeared to be 20 feet in the air. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh," he screamed and crashed again.
"I give that dive an 8.3," Yusei said. Emily giggled. I clutched Feather as we ran over to where Crow was to see if he was alright. He was face to face with a...duel monster? He kept crawling backwards. The monster then vanished. Crow looked around. He was on top of an old school duel arena.
"Hey Crow!" Yusei yelled.
"That was a doosy," Blister said.
"Are you alright darling?" I said. He looked down at us.
"I'm good. But forget about me. Look at this, it's a duel arena. Like a real one," Crow said. Feather wriggled around in the sling. She made cute baby noises.
"Look at those supporting rods; they're made of tire rims," Jack pointed out.
"Yeah, I'm thinking this is a home-made job," Yusei commented. He is a mechanic after all.
"Hey!" The old man ran over. "No one's allowed up there, get down!"
"Easy there grandpa, I'm only up here cause you flung me up here with your little booby-trap," Crow stated.
"I don't care how you got up there, just get down!" He kept yelling.
"I got a better idea. Why don't you get on up here and duel me century-man?" Crow asked. I gasped. Why would he want to duel him?
"What did you say?"
"If I lose I will quietly leave," Crow said slowing down at the end. "But if I win, you have to come and check out what life is like at Martha's place," He said. He got excited. I giggled. "Come on! You have this incredible arena just standing here. You gotta duel me grandpa. I'm always wanted to throw down in a real duel arena like this one." But he has...he has duelled my grandfather at KaibaLand. The old man gasped.
"You uh...you really like my duel arena, do ya now?" He asked.
"Yeah, Of course I like it," Crow answered. "What's not to like?"
"Well then, let's see how you like losing on it"
"Are they serious about this?" Jack asked.
"You and I have duelled for sillier reasons," Yusei said. I smiled. Crow stared at me and smiled.
"Have fun darling," I said.
"I will. Oh, is Feather sleeping right now?" I stared down at Feather. She was. I nodded. "Let her sleep. I was gonna ask if you could let her watch me. But if she's asleep, I don't wanna wake her." I smiled and nodded. Crow and Mr Bashford walked to the duel arena duellist areas and activated them.
"Let's duel!"