~Chapter Thirty-Four~

Normal P.O.V

Shana and Shaina both land in the streets of a town. "Ow!" they both shout together. Then, they get up and look around. The streets are filled with people. Something seems oddly familiar about this place. There's s corner shop bookstore, the local library, the café…it's all the same from home, the real world of the Ofrancia twins.

They suddenly hear, "Girls! I've been waiting for you!" The girls both turn around and gasp. It's… "Dad? Dad!" Shaina voice crackles.

"I've been waiting for you for such a long time girls." Their father says, welcoming them with open arms.

Shaina unconsciously begins to walk towards him, but Shana holds her back. "Don't. Shaina, that isn't dad. He's a fake." Shana says, looking over to their 'Dad'.

"But…" Shaina says. Then, their Dad and the people around them disappears. Now it's just the two sisters standing alone in the now empty town. A malicious laugh rings out in the empty streets. "Well girls, time to get a blast from the past!" they hear Mr. Odin's voice announce.

Suddenly, the girls are transported inside a living room. They hear quiet sobbing from upstairs. The girls go upstairs, finding a girl sobbing over someone on the floor covered in blood. And Shaina immediately recognized who that is. It's the ten year old version of Shaina. Crying over. The dead body of their father.

Shaina gasps, and feels her eyes are tearing up. She quickly looks away from the scene. Shana puts a hand on her shoulder, knowing the traumatizing event of her sister. "How dare you! You have no right to show us our memories!" Shana hollers, looking around.

The scene materializes into a dim lit room. Sitting there is the young Shaina, lying down on a chair, and a grown woman sitting next to her. "So, Shaina, how did you feel about your father dying in front of your eyes?" she asks.

The younger Shaina closes her eyes, and shakes her head. "I told you, I'm not going crazy in the head. I don't need therapy. I just want to leave the past behind and forget about this." She whispers. However, the woman presses on, continuing asking her endless, torturing questions about the death of their father. Finally, the younger Shaina simply gets up, and walks out of the room.

"Shaina!" the woman calls out, running after her. The twins watch this scene quietly. Shana feels intrigued, not knowing this side of the aftermath of their father's death. True, she knew that their father died in a house raiding, and she is sad about his death, but she never knew the agony of the experience of him dying in front of you.

She turns to her sister, who's eyes are watering more. Shana puts an arm around her. "I'm sorry. I had no idea about what you had to go through after our father's murder." She whispers. Shaina shakes her head, and wipes her eyes. "That's all behind now." The scene materializes again.

This time it shows the cafeteria. A younger version of Shana, sits on one side of the room, surrounded by stylish looking girls, and jocky looking boys. They were all laughing and talking. Then, on the other side, it shows Shaina sitting alone, looking wistfully at the crowd. Shana looks guiltily away at this memory.

Shaina clenches her fists angrily. "Stop this! What's the point of this? Why are you showing us our memories?! What do you want from us?!" she screams. They hear the evil laughter of Mr. Odin again.

He materializes in front of them. "Oh, there's a reason to everything girls. You see…your father wasn't entirely honest with you either." He says, smirking.

"What do you mean?" Shana asks demandingly.

"Do you know why he's always on his little travels? Well you see…he was actually a scientist, working on the project in order to find the formula to travel through the fourth dimension. Since the two of you turned up, I decided that you were the perfect experiments to use if we were ever to accomplish the traveling of dimensions."

"What?!" Shaina and Shana say at the same time, in complete shock.

"Yes, what I'm saying is true. For you see…your father and I are both brothers."

Shana's eyes widen with realization. "Which means…"

"That you're our uncle!" Shaina finishes with disgust.

Mr. Odin smiles widely. "Yes my dear nieces. Isn't this such a nice family reunion? Anyway, as I left off, when I told your father this by the time the both of you were age ten, he refused telling me that, 'you're not to be used as guinea pigs.' So, your father quit the project. I would've been fine for him to just leave, but he stole some extremely important files of papers of our research.

So, I sent some hit men to your house to finish him and to bring back those papers. But those hit men weren't quite useful. After six years of failed and tried experiments, I finally succeeded by the time you girls were sixteen. I tracked the both of you down, and came to your home to transport you into the Yu-Gi-Oh world. Once you both proven it to work, you've already affected the events so much, which leads to many secrets of this anime. And these secrets, are the key, to absolute power." Mr. Odin explains.

"YOU BASTARD! You're the one who killed him! You murdered my father! I swear, you'll pay for what you've done! And you've done all of this just for power and a stupid project!" Shaina shouts. Mr. Odin sneers. "All in time my dear nieces."

"Don't you dare call us 'your nieces.' You're nothing like our father, you're not our family." Shana snarls angrily. Mr. Odin simply gloats at the twins. "Now since you girls are in my domain now…let's make it interesting shall we? Everytime one of your friends duels against one of my partners, and loses their life points, that will be closer to you two's deaths." He says evilly.

Suddenly, the twins both feel a searing pain shoot up in their heads. They hold their heads in pain. "Like right now my dears. Your friend—Yami is it? Is dueling against Gansley, and is losing quite an amount of life points. Wouldn't it be a shame if his life points drop to zero?"

"You…you won't get away with this!" Shana says weakly. Mr. Odin laughs. "But I will niece." A door appears behind him, and he turns away from the twins, going inside. "Come back here!" Shaina yells. The twins run towards the door. When Shaina opens the door, suddenly there are crashing waves below her, with jagged rocks sticking out.

Shaina quickly loses her balance, and slips. Luckily, Shana catches her. "Hold on!" she shouts, hanging on to her sister desperately.

A/N: Cliffhanger. Literally. Cliffhanger. As for you, grapejuice101, I realize that I cannot fulfill your wish for Yami to simultaneously dueling and see Shaina about to fall to her death. I half fulfilled, so I made an effort, right? :D