Yu Gi Oh GX AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
Crowler groaned as he came to the next day, his arm in a sling and his leg in a cast. Looking around weakly he noticed two figures sitting asleep, leaning against each other, next to a bed where a deathly pale 'Jaden' was laying down her eyes closed. Huh so it wasn't a dream? Okay…
Crowler's eyes began to close before they shot open as he looked at 'Jaden' again, scrambling up and wincing as he put pressure on his shot leg but ignoring it as he moved over to 'Jaden's bedside and flipped the arm laying over the side back onto the bed with the palm face up as he felt it for a pulse. Just cause he wanted the kid expelled didn't mean he wanted the kid dead!
"Thank goodness." Crowler said softly sighing when he felt a pulse through the tanned but scrawny limb.
"You'd better be happy. If she died saving you after you tried to get her expelled…it wouldn't be pretty." A voice said coldly from the doorway, causing Crowler's head to snap up and his jaw to drop when he saw his boss, Seto Kaiba, standing there looking furious with Crowler before glancing worriedly at the small and rather frail looking teenager on the bed.
"Yugi, Ishizu. The clown is up." Kaiba said walking into the room, his wife Mai right beside him rushing over to the frail teen worried. Instantly the two sleeping people snapped awake as they shot up, looking around wildly while Crowler looked shocked at the sight of the 'King and Queen of Games'. None other than Yugi Muto and his wife Ishizu Muto nee Ishtar were sitting there now giving him cold and dangerous looks.
"What's the last thing you remember Crowler?" Yugi asked his voice a growl as his purple eyes glared holes into Crowler. Normally Yugi would be the kind and gentle one…but when it came to his only child…his little Princess of Games…all bets were off.
"Jad…Hikari… getting me back to the shallow water after I'd been shot twice. H-She told me her name was Hikari Isis Muto before a large Ra student picked her up as she coughed up blood while Fontaline and Alexis grabbed me." Crowler said glancing down to the pale and frail looking girl on the bed before him.
"You were shot when a sniper, one of the students at the school sent to watch out for Hikari actually, spotted you in the water but didn't recognize you and told Fontaline and Hikari that someone suspicious was in the water. Thinking you were a hostile, Fontaline barked at the Ra, who was also sent to watch out for Hikari, to get Hikari and her little friend with blue hair to safety. Not being able to recognize you at that distance, she shot you in the shoulder and leg. Once they recognized your scream, Hikari dove into the water to save you without caring how dangerous that doing so was for someone in her condition. You owe my daughter your life Crowler, the Obelisk students were too shocked to move until after Hikari dove in after you, the Ra boy didn't know how to swim, Fontaline and the sniper were keeping an eye out for anymore possible hostiles and the little blue haired boy had fainted after you were shot." Yugi explained to Crowler who looked at the small frail teen shocked that she would dive in the rescue him after all that she had done and said about hi-her and her friends in the last few days.
"Our daughter has a short temper when her friends are threatened… but she has a big heart. She would never let someone die in front of her if she could stop it. She knows that you can't save everyone yes, and sometimes she's had to have someone attacking her be killed either by her guards or by her own hand… but she would never let someone drown after a large misunderstanding." Ishizu said softly as she looked at Crowler, one hand on her husbands arm, the other holding her daughters much smaller one.
"I…I don't even know why I was so determined to have her expelled… sure I was embarrassed at losing to who I thought to be an amateur slacker with no skill but… going so far as to try and get them expelled…I don't…" Crowler was at a loss for words as he looked confused, his actions for the past few days… no… years not making sense to him now. Sure he didn't like how most of the Slifers never seemed to study or do their homework but…he never called the Slackers before or tried to humiliate them like he had been doing.
"You're quite lucky that Hikari already knew something was off with your behavior and told us the night after she arrived on the island and saw you encouraging some Obelisk students to bully the Slifers. If she hadn't… Marik, Malik, and Bakura would be some of the least of your worries. And those three are nearly as protective of Hikari as Pegasus or I." Kaiba said looking at Crowler who looked confused.
"You've heard rumors of Shadow Duels before I'm sure. Those rumors are true. Both Ishizu and I have strong shadow magic due to… past circumstances. As our daughter, Hikari naturally has her own shadow powers although they aren't as well-honed as mine or Ishizus since she's still in training. One of the first things she learned to do with her powers was how to sense malevolent spirits or forces that have taken over someone. She sensed a dark spirit had taken over your mind and body, has been there for years it seems, and had alerted us about it so that we could come up with a plan to safely extract the spirit from you." Yugi explained at Crowlers confused look, causing it to morph into one of shock, disbelief, and slight horror. No one could blame him for that, they all had experience with the, pardon the pun, dark side of shadow magic and therefore understood his reaction.
"According to my visions, the spirit fled your body when you were shot. Apparently it thought of you as dead and left to search for a new host." Ishizu said answering Crowlers unasked question of what happened to the spirit before he even opened his mouth.
"…How…how do I make up for what the spirit did in my body?" Crowler asked causing Kaiba to grin slightly evilly. Yugi and Mai grinning evilly as well while Ishizu smirked at the rather frightened look on Crowlers face at Kaiba's gleefully said sentence.
"Oh I have an idea for that don't you worry."
