Good Day Readers! I only own Kylie and Katherine Hope along with the unique cards within their decks and whatever other OCs decide to crop up. Also this was originally written in dubbed so some chapters may have some dubbed dialogue remaining because I like it. Also italics symbolise another language not Japanese, I'm follow the Manga's timeline year speaking because it's easier for me. Thank you to alexc1209 and Atarya QueenofEgypt for your reviews.
To Atarya QueenofEgypt, the words in bold are to put emphasis on unless they're at the beginning since this differentiates from the rest of the text, to alexc1209, that transition is indeed coming and I also felt like a sucker punch hit me when learning of Pegasus' wife, I still cry today, but he didn't know Katherine had the Gauntlet, he knew it existed but Katherine and Kylie hid it well, he knew of the magic in their blood and assumed it was that not a Millennium Item.
I would appreciate any responses that you have, please enjoy
Chapter 38: - The Wrath of Rebecca
As we moved to catch up with the others, Kylie and Yugi filled me in on what had occurred within the spirit's Soul Room which was rather surprising and weird to say the least, things had definitely gotten much more confusing after the events of the tournament concerning Yugi, the spirit and Pegasus but if what Shadi said was true then things were only going to get worse.
We caught up with the others and proceeded to return to where the duel arena was located as Jounouchi called up to Bakura asking if the white haired boy was still with Mokuba who, with his soul released from its' prison, should have been waking up or had already woken up by now.
"Yes I'm with Mokuba, he's coming around," Bakura responded. A sigh of relief escape me upon learning that my young friend was returning from his time within the Shadow Realm, we entered to where the two were located and Kylie yanked the young boy straight into a bone crushing hug which caused Mokuba to begin squirming slightly.
"Kylie, I'm ok but you're crushing me," Mokuba protested. Kylie loosened her grip but didn't let go of him so Mokuba returned the hug and I saw his wide grey eyes shimmering with unshed tears, I gently placed my hand on his hair and began to stroke it in a soothing motion.
"Who would have believe Pegasus would've kept his word," Honda commented. I didn't blame them for such a lack of belief after Pegasus had toyed with them for so long it did seem like he might not have actually released the three souls he had taken hostage and used as leverage over Yugi and the spirit.
"For all his faults my uncle will always be a man of his word," I stated. The others nodded and turned to focus on Mokuba as Kylie finally released him from her hug. "Mokuba I think it's time we get off this island if you're ready," I suggested. Mokuba turned to look at me however he had an unsure look within his eyes.
"Not without Seto, where's my big brother?" Mokuba protested. Everyone turned to look at Honda however he only shook his head making it known that he hadn't found the elder Kaiba and that meant Seto could be anywhere on this damned island so we had a lot of searching to do if we wanted to located him.
It was at that moment that Crocketts appeared and called out to the two finalists informing us that Pegasus couldn't attend because of the fact that he had to go to hospital due to the theft of his Millennium Eye which caused my eyes to flicker down Bakura.
"Take this," Crocketts insisted. He got closer to us and held up a box with a Duel Monsters card contained within it that had a young blonde girl displayed on it in a pink dress with outstretched white wings and her arms were crossed over her chest, the box was held out directly to Yugi.
"This, is it…?" Yugi asked. Crocketts revealed it was a one of a kind card known as the Bonds of Friendship hand painted by Pegasus, Yugi was officially crowned King of Duelists as the cheque for the reward money was given to Yugi in an envelope. "Kylie?" Yugi asked. It was abundantly clear what the kind boy was asking my sister without any words.
"I'm rich and don't need it, if you want Yugi give it Jounouchi," Kylie responded. Yugi smiled in response and so the knuckle head received the cheque that would save his sister although the celebrations were soon cut off when Crocketts took his leave of us which allowed us to begin our search for the older Kaiba.
We went out into the courtyard where Mokuba began calling out to his brother hoping that the cold boy would hear his voice then the doors leading out of the castle creaked open and standing there was a fully alive Seto Kaiba causing Mokuba to charge towards his brother who walked towards him as Mokuba threw a hug around him.
Kylie also walked over and promptly wacked Seto upside the head causing the brunette to grab the offended area and glared at Kylie who cocked an eyebrow at the cold look that was being sent towards her but neither look held any venom that had been present the last time that these two exchanged words.
"You're an idiot, do something like that again and I'll really hit you," Kylie informed. Seto let out a sigh as his glare dropped since he returned his focus to Mokuba who had finally let his tears cascade down his cheeks, me and Kylie pushed the others back as the two brothers shared their tearful reunion in peace but once over Seto rose back to his feet and looked at Yugi.
"Yugi, you saved Mokuba. I owe you one," Seto admitted. The young man was much softer than before truly showing his gratitude with Yugi asking how he could do anything else. "But Yugi, don't you forget that our duel is not over yet," Seto admitted. Yugi agreed to this sentiment which meant that they would be gearing up for another match whenever that may be.
Suddenly the sound of a helicopter approaching cut off all noise from us and we looked up to see the white machine with a blue stripe around it but embronzed on the side was a golden capital H with the top right and lower left parts having loops added to them which was the symbol of our family company.
"That would be our ride Katherine. Yugi, Jounouchi, Seto, Mokuba… others; I'm sure we'll meet again but until then your questions must wait," Kylie spoke. Honda, Bakura and Anzu did an anime fall when Kylie glossed over them but Yugi looked ready to protest so I placed a hand on his shoulder causing him to stop.
"If Shadi's right we'll meet again," I spoke through our bond. Yugi jumped slightly but nodded then voices called down to us as a ladder was dropped down, both myself and Kylie took a grip on the ladder and began to climb up, once inside the helicopter its' door was closed and we took off towards America passing by a Kaiba Corporation helicopter obviously going to pick up the others since all the boats would be gone by now.
*Yu-Gi-Oh*
Two days had passed since me and Kylie had returned to our homeland and at the moment we were resting with Kylie sketching in her notebook and me solving a puzzle when a tingle of magic permeated the air causing both of us to still except to raised our heads to look at the reason for the magic sensation.
Slight before us were Andromeda and Athena, slightly floating off the ground and translucent – there yet not there almost like ghosts – it was another gift me and Kylie possessed, we could see these Duel Spirits and communicate with them, they provided us with wisdom and support when we needed them.
"My ladies, it is urgent that you head for Domino City in Japan. I sense something important about that city… perhaps connected to the destiny I have known would come for you both," Andromeda revealed. Kylie sat up much straighter obviously intrigued by what her partner was talking about.
"Andromeda is correct. The time we saw is coming to when your powers will be necessary to help save the world," Athena added. When your Spirit Partner gives you a doomsday warning, it is best to listen to it and so Kylie pulled out her phone, she immediately began talking to our father arranging transport and housing for us, since Kylie was eighteen it was perfectly legal for her to look after me in America but Japan was different so it might take time.
*Yu-Gi-Oh*
A few days later resulted in myself and Kylie having moved to Domino City, most of our stuff had been bought as well so at our moment the two of us were walking down the streets, Kylie wore a pair of black bell bottom jeans with a long sleeved green top that had silver embroidery around her collar and base, with dark brown riding boots covering her feet as her hair was allowed to flow free down to the middle of her back.
In my case I wore a purple knee-length, long sleeved dress embroidered with roses with black tights and purple ballet flats covered my feet, our mother's homeland was much chiller than America but it was still rather pleasant seeing the cherry blossom trees however our peace was shattered by the angry and loud voice of a young female.
We looked over in the direction it was coming from which happened to be across from us seeing that the person behind the noise; it was a young girl of only twelve with blonde hair pulled into pigtails with pale green eyes, she wore a blue turtle neck top covered by a pink cardigan with yellow edges, a red skirt with knee high socks and near knee high brown boots with stacks of luggage by her and her arms around a dark brown bear in overalls with a black muzzle.
"Hurry up and give it back! It's mine. Blue-Eyes White Dragon was an American super-rare card, it is only right that I, America's number one duelist, should have it. Right Teddy?" The young girl lectured. Amazingly the person she was lecturing was amongst the group that had stopped before her which consisted of Yugi and his friends along with an older man who had to be Yugi's grandfather.
The young girl was Rebecca Hopkins another friend of mine and Kylie's, she was a dueling prodigy and had become the American Regional Champion but this was the first time I had ever heard of her mention to be the rightful owner of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Due to her youthful age the others didn't believe her except for Yugi who had read about her before they left for Duelist Kingdom but Jounouchi was still disbelieving which resulted in him and Rebecca breaking out into an argument over dueling credentials.
"Oh I know all about that, Third Place went to Katsuya Jounouchi and Kathie, Second Place went to Miss Kylie – which I still can't believe – and First Place went to Yugi Muto. But only first place matters," Rebecca commented. Jounouchi got angered at her whilst I sighed and Kylie rolled her eyes, Rebecca still didn't understand true dueling no matter how hard the two of us had tried to teach her.
"Rebecca the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is an important card to me" Yugi's grandfather admitted. However this resulted in Rebecca accusing Yugi's grandfather of being a thief so naturally Yugi began to defend his grandfather from this accusation but Rebecca wasn't giving up so me and Kylie ran over.
"Rebecca!" Kylie yelled. Everyone looked over to see us as I waved whilst Kylie lifted Rebecca up by her cardigan with a displeased look on her face. "My little protégé, you're acting unbecoming of a duelist, now do as I taught you and act like a lady," Kylie commented. She set Rebecca down who dusted herself off before turning to them.
"If you refuse to hand over my Blue-Eyes White Dragon then I request the right to challenge you to a duel for it," Rebecca demanded calmly. Everyone was still shocked by our sudden appearance but Yugi recovered himself swiftly and immediately protested the challenge but didn't get the reason out although I knew it concerned what Seto had done to the other Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Sadly Rebecca wouldn't listen and directly challenged the old man calling him Suguroku Muto and refused to listen to reason insisting that they head for the arena; so a quick call ahead by Kylie and a little kindness from Mokuba got us into a duel arena owned by Kaiba Corporation although there was no one watching which I felt better about.
Rebecca was determined to get this duel underway although Yugi wasn't too thrilled about his grandfather putting himself in danger after recovering his soul only recently, but it seemed that Suguroku was determined to face off against the young girl with Rebecca getting annoyed by the indecision that was currently going on.
"Rebecca I'll be your opponent. Grandpa just got out of the hospital, he's not well enough to duel," Yugi offered. Rebecca agreed to this offer and after some words of advice from Suguroku, the two off them took their positions on the podiums yet unlike the times before, Yugi remained as Yugi implying that the boy wanted to teach a lesson to Rebecca personally so he kept the spirit out of this match.
Rebecca – LP: 2000
Yugi – LP: 2000
Rebecca asked if Yugi was sure about this which I knew the boy was however Rebecca proceeded to talk to her teddy bear which was an rather unusual quirk she had, sometimes I wondered if she was related to Pegasus in a distant way since the two of them were completely wacky it made my head spin; Rebecca started off by summoning the Witch of the Black Forest in attack mode.
Witch of the Black Forest – Attribute: Dark, Type: Spellcaster, Level: 4, ATK/1100, DEF/1200
"Witch of the Black Forest…," Suguroku spoke. I was curious about his interest in this move but I had seen Rebecca duel several times before and I knew what her strategy was but I know that Yugi wouldn't want any help otherwise then he would have asked, Yugi stayed still analysing the move before bringing out Elf Swordsman.
Elf Swordsman – Attribute: Earth, Type: Warrior, Level: 4, ATK/1400, DEF/1200
"Elf Swordsman attack!" Yugi commanded. The elven knight rushed forward and easily swung his sword through the weaker monster thus turning it into holographic shards as a shrill scream erupted from the witch and securing Yugi the early lead in the duel however Kylie's foot began to tap against the floor as her arm muscles bunched up from restraint.
Rebecca – LP: 2000 – LP: 1700
"No. My Witch of the Black Forest was sent to the graveyard. What now?" Rebecca complained. At that moment she began to talk to the bear which 'offered' a suggestion being to use the Witch's Special Effect to bring a monster out into her hand so long as it had fifteen hundred defence points or less, at least I now knew why Kylie insisted on locking the bear away whenever Rebecca wanted to duel.
I saw Yugi's confused expression but he would just have to go along with it as Rebecca looked through her deck before selecting a card, after sliding it into her hand Rebecca shuffled her deck and then set it back down onto the podium but despite it being her turn she stood still almost as if she was trying to drag this out.
"Rebecca, it's your turn," Yugi reminded. This caused Rebecca to snap at him for distracting her although she swiftly got back to looking over her options before selecting one in what sounded like a disappointed tone and summoning the creature onto the field, it was Critter in attack mode which caused Anzu to questioned if she really was the American Champion.
Critter – Attribute: Dark, Type: Fiend, Level: 3, ATK/1000 DEF/600
Rebecca gushed over the creature calling it cute – Kuriboh was much cuter! – but Yugi swiftly ordered his Elf Swordsman to attack Critter, much to Rebecca's displeasure, thus destroying the blonde girl's second monster and depleting even more of her Life Points and Kylie's muscles tightened even more whilst I rubbed the bridge of my nose, both actions out of annoyance.
Rebecca – LP: 1700 – LP: 1300
Rebecca complained about Critter being destroyed by Yugi's monster which annoyed Yugi as he cried out that technically Rebecca wasn't going to win anyway but this only caused Rebecca to claim that Yugi was taking advantage of her – that could be inferred in so many wrong ways – then the bear 'reminded' Rebecca about Critter's effect allowing her to choose a monster with fifteen hundred attack points or less and add it to her hand.
The other young spectators were completely confused by the way that Rebecca was acting with Honda asking if Rebecca was truly a genius whilst Jounouchi couldn't believe that Rebecca was the champion although I noted that Suguroku seemed to be contemplating something as he stared at Rebecca.
"Well she is, for all her eccentricity Rebecca is a good duelist… she just needs to start playing properly. I hate the warm up turns with her," Kylie admitted. The several times we'd dueled Rebecca and Kylie had always been annoyed by the childish attitude that the young girl always but on before getting serious, it did get to me sometimes as well.
"It's my turn now! Here goes!" Rebecca declared. Kylie finally seemed to unwind as both of us realised that Rebecca would finally stop fooling around and actually start dueling for real with Yugi noticing the sudden change in her demeanour as well. "Spell card, Tribute to the Dead, it can destroy a monster by sacrificing a card in my hand," Rebecca announced.
Rebecca then removed a card from her hand and sent it to the graveyard which caused bandages to appear underneath Elf Swordsman then wrapped around him, a hand appeared afterwards and seized the elven knight dragging him down into the graveyard.
Rebecca then proceeded to play a single face down monster in defence mode, Rebecca claimed that things would be getting interesting, the others also caught onto the sudden change in personality that Rebecca was displaying with Honda making sure that she was actually acting different until Anzu commented on her championship status despite her age and called out a warning to Yugi who would definitely need to heed those words.
"My turn, Demon's Summon, attack!" Yugi declared. He threw the card onto the podium thus allowing for it to be projected and lightning was immediately called forth and sent out towards the face down card however Rebecca called out that Yugi had fallen for it and flipped her card over revealing it was the Millennium Shield.
Demon's Summon – Attribute: Dark, Type: Fiend, Level: 6, ATK/2500, DEF/1200
Since the Millennium Shield had three thousand defence point that meant Yugi's attack failed since it was stronger than Demon's Summon thus the difference in points would be deducted from Yugi's Life Points although his fiendish monster remained on the field.
Millennium Shield – Attribute: Earth, Type: Warrior, Level: 5, ATK/0, DEF/3000
Yugi – LP: 2000 – LP: 1500
Rebecca cheered over her success whilst the others were very surprised and one of them commented she had been trained well and looked at Kylie who shook her head, even though Kylie referred to Rebecca as her protégé it was only recently that she'd been studying underneath us, a member of her family had trained her before us.
"Spell card, Ring of Magnetism," Rebecca announced. Since it was an Equip Spell this card caused four magnets to be projected around the Millennium Shield with two lines of electricity connecting all four of them in a ring shape around the Millennium Shield.
Millennium Shield – DEF/3000 – DEF/2500
Naturally Yugi was confused as to why Rebecca would willingly weaken the overwhelming defensive power of the Millennium Shield which the blonde girl proceeded to tease him about, Yugi opted to skip this turn when Rebecca questioned what he would do.
"Really? Are you going to observe? Then I'll go, Cannon Soldier, attack mode," Rebecca announced. The machine creature appeared on the field which caused Suguroku to yell out a warning cry to his grandson causing the rest of us spectators to look at the older man in confusion.
"Cannon Soldier sacrifices a monster to attack the player," Suguroku explained. This cleared up the other three but not me and Kylie since we knew what Cannon Soldier was capable of but what confused us was how Suguroku knew this; Jounouchi didn't believe Rebecca's attack would be able to get passed the Demon's Summon.
Cannon Soldier – Attribute: Dark, Type: Machine, Level: 4, ATK/1400, DEF/1300
Yugi commanded Demon's Summon to attack Cannon Soldier however when the lightning attack neared the machine monster, it suddenly diverted and locked onto the Millennium Shield; the Ring of Magnetism may have lowered its' defence but that also ensured that none of Yugi's monster could attack any of Rebecca's monsters other than the Millennium Shield.
Rebecca drew a card from her deck and looked rather happy to see it however the blonde girl opted to summon out another Witch of the Black Forest although she promptly sacrificed her to activate Cannon Soldier's effect causing a blast to be sent flying towards our friend.
Yugi – LP: 1500 – LP: 1000
The Witch's effect would allow Rebecca to select another monster from her deck with Jounouchi wondering if Rebecca really did have what it took to be the American Champion although Suguroku caught our attention when he claimed that Rebecca was 'just like him'.
"You'll know the pain in your heart from losing the Blue-Eyes," Rebecca declared. Yugi was confused by this whilst Suguroku began to ask Rebecca a question about who she was which caused me and Kylie to exchange looks of confusion. "You finally found out. Yes, my name is Rebecca Hopkins I'm Arthur Hopkins' granddaughter, the man you stole his cherished Blue-Eyes from," Rebecca accused.
The others couldn't believe that Suguroku would steal much less steal from a friend as they identified Arthur as being and I'd have to agree with them on that, if Suguroku had any hand in raising Yugi then there was no way he could be a thief with such a pure grandson however Rebecca refused to heed any of their words firmly set on the belief that her story was the true one.