Auroris: ARGGHHH!!!!!!!!
Hafertis: What's wrong?
Yugi: She's mad....
Joey: Very mad....
Tristan: At Silver Moon.
Hoshi: Who?
Auroris: *gnashes teeth* SILVER MOON!!!
Ryou: What about her?
Auroris: I always send my chapters to her to be posted 'cause she knows how
to make the bold, underlined and italicized words appear.....AND SHE HAD TO
ADD THAT STUPID NOTE AT THE BOTTOM OF CHAPTER FOUR!!!!
Joey: Then why don't ya just delete dat chapter and repost it?
Auroris: Because if I do so then I delete all of those reviews for Chapter
Four and I DO NOT want to do that!!!
Joey: Oh.
Auroris: Grrrrr...if Silver Moon wasn't traveling now during the holidays
I'd probably maul her by now!!!
Yami Bakura: Ooh...temper...temper....
Auroris: Go away Yami Bakura!!!
Hafertis: *sniggers* Or shall we call you baka?
Yami Bakura: Hey! I take that personally!!
Hafertis: *mocks* Oh no! I've hurt your feelings!!!
Yugi: Errr....aren't we talking a bit too long here?
Auroris: Oh yeah! Mokuba do the disclaimers!
Mokuba: Auroris doesn't own the Yugioh! show or its characters, she only
owns Hoshi, Hafertis, the Millennium Bracelet....anything that is not from
Yugioh yet is in this story.
Auroris: Well done! Grrrrr.....I'm going to kill Silver Moon when she comes
back....
Scientist
Ah! How harshly the youth of the student passes,....................... While all around her, with passions ever fresh,.......................... Other youths search eagerly for easy pleasures!.......................... And yet in solitude.................... She lives, obscure and blessed,..................... For in her cell she finds the ardor.................... That makes her heart immense.....................
But the blessed time is effaced.................... She must leave the land of Science.................... To go out and struggle for her bread..................... On the grey roads of life....................... Often and often then, her weary spirit........................ Returns beneath the roofs........................ To the corner ever dear to her heart.............................. Where silent labor dwelled........................
And where a world of memory has rested...........................
by: Madame Skoldovska
Chapter 5: Chased After a few minutes everything was explained again to Ryou. He was truly apologetic when he found out how his yami acted and kept on apologizing to Hafertis. She soon lost her temper and was about to tell him to shut his trap when she noticed his sincere expression and decided against it. Everyone began mulling over the two prophecy verses.
"The second is never ending A finder for things of power An object forever searching Shall help in the needy hour" muttered Tristan to himself. "Finder for things of power, hmm....."
Looking up he saw Ryou's Millennium Ring.
//Finder for things of power....finder...//
"I'VE GOT IT!!!" Tristan yelled. Everyone jumped up in surprise.
"That verse that begins with 'The second is never ending' ", Tristan said eagerly. "It's about the Millennium Ring. See? A FINDER for things of power. Doesn't the Ring give off an alert whenever a Millennium Item approaches?"
"What is he talking about?" demanded Yami who now took possession of Yugi's body.
"We're trying to find out the meaning of some verses to a prophecy," explained Hafertis. "Didn't your light tell you of that dear Pharaoh?"
Yami's left eyebrow slightly twitched. "Don't call me Pharaoh," he sternly commanded.
"Of course dear Pharaoh."
"It's Yami now. Stop calling me Pharaoh."
"Yes Pharaoh."
"It's Yami."
"Understood Pharaoh."
"Call me Yami."
"Most certainly Pharaoh."
Yami's teeth were gritted. "Stop calling me that!"
"Absolutely Pharaoh."
Steam billowed off in rage. "It's not Pharaoh. It's Yami!"
"Will do so Pharaoh."
"GAH!" shrieked Yami as he flung himself at Hafertis. Tristan, Joey and Ryou caught him in mid-flight and dragged his struggling figure back to the bed.
Hafertis watched in amazement. "You aren't controlling your composure anymore aren't you Pharaoh?"
Yami didn't reply to the question, too busy trying to simmer down. "Yes, Yugi told me all about the world domination plan," he snapped back. "Is it Malik who's doing all of this?"
Hafertis looked questioningly at Yami. "Who's Malik?"
Tea launched into a story about how Malik was a person who had the Millennium Rod and had been part of a family to protect the Pharaoh's legacy, preventing the Millennium Items' union to reopen the Shadow Games. And how Malik wanted to kill the Pharaoh so that it was possible for him to be free of protecting the Pharaoh's legacy while Yami Malik was intent on collecting the God Duelist cards.
"Interesting," commented Hafertis. "Although for they don't strike me as the world dominating type, maybe Yami Malik, but not Malik."
"True," said Ryou quietly. "But Yami Malik has many good reasons for reopening the Shadow Games."
"It just seems," mused Hafertis. "That these high powers wouldn't go to all this trouble contacting me if wasn't a large situation...."
"THESE high powers?" interrupted Joey. "You said THESE high powers? You don't even know who these high powers are at all?!"
"Umm....." stammered Hafertis, not wanting to lose face. "They did contact ME to pass on their instructions."
Yami Bakura appeared. "So...those high powers didn't even trust you with their identity ne?" he taunted. "Not even the great 'Champion of the Pharaoh' was told of their identity? The O-so-powerful 'Champion of the Pharaoh' didn't even object or dare request who was their presence? You just followed along like a weak puppy. Not so high and might are you now..."
Hafertis muttered something coarse in Egyptian to Yami Bakura making Yami crack a grin and the tomb raider narrow his eyes. Ryou came back and looked politely confused, but nobody bothered explaining to him what had happened.
"Returning back to the verse of the prophecy," announced Tea. "About the Ring? The line 'Shall help in the needy hour'...does that mean the Ring will stop the Shadow Games reopen and spill all of its nasties out?" Tea wrinkled her nose. "And would Yami Bakura be part of it as well since he's a part of the Millennium Ring?"
Ryou was reverted back to Yami Bakura. "Wouldn't help this damn world for a million dollars," he snarled out before retreating to his soul room leaving Ryou with a slight headache from changing quickly many times.
Yami sighed. "That's what the prophecy says yet it's possible that it's not true," he said. "Maybe it's wrong as the Millennium Tauk once was with its future visions."
Everyone started contemplating the other prophecy verse starting with 'The third is the reader...' It was Tea this time who discovered its meaning.
"EUREAKA!!!" she screamed. Everyone jumped up again and looked at her with are-you-out-of-your-mind looks.
"Sorry," she said sheepishly. "Couldn't help myself."
"It's the line 'The user as a miser'," Tea excitedly began. "Out of all the Millennium Item holders who's the one that's the richest and cruel?" There was a brief pause.
"Maximillions Pegasus!" Yugi, just changed from Yami, caught on.
"So he shall be the one whose Item shall be ripped away and given in 'fallen rain'?" questioned Hafertis.
"That's what it seems to be," Ryou responded quietly. Hafertis' eyes lingered on him momentarily, Yugi the only one noticing.
//I wonder what she thinks of him,// he wondered.
"Then does this mean dat ya gotta go to all of the other Items and hold on to them to find out the rest of the verses to the prophecy?" Joey asked Hafertis. She nodded.
"That's what it seems to be so."
Joey moaned loudly. "That's gonna be one hell of a job, convincing those Millennium Item holders to let ya grasp their Item for a bit of poetry."
Hafertis said cheerfully, "Then there's another path to walk on."
"What's dat?" Joey asked.
"Waiting for the Shadow Games to be opened and destroy the world."
Joey quickly amended, "Uhh....I think I'll walk up to Yami Malik for his Millennium Rod instead."
In hearing this from his soul room Yami's lips slightly quirked. His former bodyguard still hadn't lost her way of presenting facts in a blunt, depressing view. He sighed. He just hoped that she wouldn't continue to pursue past events that had occurred since a millennia. They all had had enough time back then to resolve them yet Yami wasn't sure whether or not Hafertis was satisfied. Perhaps in this new day and age she would go on, but knowing her Yami knew that she wouldn't do so. He gave another deep sigh. What would come, would come. And he would be prepared.
Hafertis suddenly frowned and massaged her forehead lightly.
"I will, I will..." she mumbled under her breath. "I will do so in a short period of time, is that fine with you?"
Yugi, concerned, asked Hafertis what was the matter.
She sighed. "Hoshi wants her body back. You would think, as my light she would be more generous with her body." Not waiting for a reply Hafertis morphed into Hoshi. Hoshi shook her head and rubbed her arms. She looked up at the group.
"Can I leave yet?"
The other whined about her leaving so soon, being who they were and how they were nice to other people, but Hoshi shook off their protests and walked downstairs out of the store's front door.
"I wonder what made her leave so quickly?" Ryou asked the others.
* * * * *
~Why did you go?!~ Hafertis ranted at her abiou.
-'Cause...I wanted to,- an annoyed Hoshi answered back.
~But we were making so much progress back there on cracking the prophecies!!~ Hafertis complained.
-You were done with what you needed to know so wasn't that enough?-
~Yes, but there was so much more we could have discussed.~ Hafertis grumbled.
//I don't like hanging out with people who I've only met for less than a minute.// Hoshi wanted to snap back, but knew that Hafertis would start bombarding her with 'Why?' questions. That thought made Hoshi halt in her tracks.
//Wait a second, what am I thinking? ALREADY I can judge for sure whether Hafertis would react to me like this? I hardly even know anything about Hafertis except that she's supposed to be my yami and was a former bodyguard in Ancient Egypt. Hey is that even true at all? I mean is my theory that I'm in a coma in the real world correct? And that everything I'm experiencing right now is almost like a virtual reality...like the movie "Matrix"! So many questions...so many questions...// Hoshi thought to herself. She started walking again.
//I've read in tons of books where people enter into books to discover fantasy worlds and there they follow along with whatever quest is there for them. And after reaching their goal they return back to their true world. So is that what I should do? Follow the quest set before me and hope that I stay alive long enough to reach its end. Will I even die in this anime world? Or will the good guys win just like on the t.v. shows and I get whisked back to my own place all safe and sound. Hmm....So many questions, so many questions...//
"Oof!" she sounded out when she bumped into something solid. She looked up to see a very tall, African-American man wearing a black bodyguard-type suit (with those crisp, starched white shirts and shiny shoes) and those sleek sunglasses that curved at the edges around the face. Hoshi edged back a few steps nervously, having a gut feeling that this man wasn't nice.
"Hello there," the suited man boomed out in a bass voice. Hoshi's eyes traveled down to where his hands were and froze at them. The hands were covered up with black...leather...gloves.
//It's about 25oC out here and he's wearing gloves? This isn't good at all, this isn't good.//
"Are you lost?" the man asked, in that deep voice of his.
Hoshi didn't answer, her mind working too furiously.
//Wearing black gloves on a hot day, four times my height, ten times my weight and as strong as an elephant...this doesn't look good.// she thought.
"You're the shy type aren't you little girl?" the black man asked rhetorically. "I like those kind of people...makes my job much more easier."
//RUN!!!// Hoshi screamed at herself and her legs jumped at the command. She neatly dodged around the man and sprinted as fast as she could.
~BY THE GODDESS NUT WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!?!~ Hafertis roared into Hoshi's brain.
-I bumped into a man...a black man...not good...HE'S CHASING ME!!!- Hoshi hurriedly sent back.
~If you have a problem you call for me.~ Hafertis crisply sent back. ~I am an expert at hand-to-hand combat.~
-This guy is four times my height and ten times my weight!!!- Hoshi screamed as she tried to evade pedestrians as carefully as possible and gallop around corners without losing balance.
~I refuse to run like a coward!~ Hafertis shouted. ~I could make that guy cry like a baby in a few seconds if you would allow me the chance!!~
-This is MY body that you're talking about using and I don't want to risk the chance injuring any of it!!- Hoshi shot back as she jumped over a short rail fence. -So we're doing this my way, RUNNING!!!-
~Oh yes, take the coward's way,~ Hafertis quarreled. ~Just give me a few seconds...~
"AHH!!" Hoshi shrieked, skidding to a halt when at a corner a black limousine screeched to stop in front of her. The door opened and a black- gloved hand from inside held up a hand gun with a silencer screwed on and gestured for Hoshi to step in. Looking from her left and right she assessed her options. Coming to her left was the black elephant man who had now stopped a few meters away. On her right side there was a threatening gun that had complete intentions to kill if Hoshi didn't obey. She closed her eyes.
-You win. Come out.-
~May Ra's light shine upon me!!!~ Hafertis screamed and traded spots with Hoshi. Hafertis grinned lopsidedly when she saw her situation.
"Let's start it right here," she dared.
(A/N: Everything now done in slow motion like the movie Matrix.)
The black man let out a bull roar and charged at Hafertis head-first. The gun shot out with a rang. Hafertis bent her knees and jumped, performing a somersault a meter high into the air. Bullet moves through the air making sound waves. Elephant man runs forward to meet it. Hafertis spinning head over heels in the background preparing to drop down on feet.
(A/N: Matrix done people, normal pace now.)
The bullet hit the black man full in the chest who leant back from the collision. His face contorted in pain, he slowly turned to face Hafertis who had landed smoothly like a cat. He let out a few guttural moans, blood spreading clearly through his white shirt, reached a trembling hand towards Hafertis and collapsed on the side of his head with the sunglasses tumbling off.
Wasting no time Hafertis began running as fast as a leopard. The limousine's door slammed as it gave chase.
~Your bad black man is gone, now what?~ Hafertis asked as she jumped over small obstacles.
-Umm...umm...- Hoshi was unsure. -Let me out! I'll run wherever I think is safe.-
Without question the souls smoothly switched. The body still running, Hoshi now in control saw a pair of big gates, silently shutting, that lead to a large mansion...with Seto going through the front door.
-Seto Kaiba!- Hoshi shouted out triumphantly and barely managed to dash through the closing gates.
"Hold that door!" she yelled out as Seto's butler swung the front door closed. She whizzed by the surprised old man to face Seto who was turning around.
"Who are you to intrude..." Seto began to growl then his face turned to one of surprise. "Is that you Hoshi Sato?"
Wildly looking around Hoshi dived behind a couch. The doorbell then just rang.
Hoshi pointed at herself and placed a finger across her lips begging for silence concerning her. Seto scowled and snapped at the butler to open the door. Complying, the butler revealed three impassive men with coiled phone lines in their right ear and wearing the same attire as the black man (Edge- curved sunglasses, black suit, white shirt, etc.) and a black limousine in the driveway.
They stoically stared before themselves and asked in the same tone, "Seto Kaiba?"
"That's me," the teenage millionaire said in a special business voice, stepping forward. "What can I do for you gentlemen?"
The middle of the trio snapped his fingers and the expressionless man on his right showed Hoshi's photo before Seto Kaiba.
"Do you know who this girl is?" the middle of the three, clearly the leader, asked unfeelingly.
In her hiding spot the girl they were talking about held her breath in fright.
Seto paused. "Why no I don't," he said pleasantly. "Is there anything concerning her that I should be aware of?"
The three men looked at each other and faced back at Seto.
"Give us a call if you do know," leader of Cold trio heartlessly smiled. The man on the left handed a card to Seto who accepted it. Swiveling around like robots the three 'agents' walked back to their limousine. From her position Hoshi heard the car doors close and the car driving away. She breathed in relief.
"You can come out now," Seto said quietly.
Hoshi hopped out from behind the couch. "Thanks for the help will be out of your way sorry to bother you," she ranted as she ran out of the door. Seto blinked in surprise.
"Never trust the quiet ones."
* * * * *
~That was close,~ Hafertis said.
-Yeah...TOO close for my taste,- Hoshi sent back as she jogged down the street wearily, eyes darting around. -Did the high powers tell you anything about people with guns that are trying to KILL ME?-
~What are guns?~ Hafertis asked curiously.
-Umm....they are a kind of machine that can kill people,- Hoshi answered. -They're a modern weapon, used to shoot small bits of metal that are catapulted at a high speed.-
~You remind me of a scholar,~ Hafertis said amused.
-Me a scholar? You're not saying that I sound like a dictionary?-
~What's a dictionary?~
Hoshi sighed. -Sometimes I keep on forgetting that you're from Ancient Egypt.-
~What's a dictionary?~
-It's a book that tells the meaning of words.-
~Interesting! We never had that whence I came from.~ Hafertis said brightly.
-Hafertis?-
~Mm hm?~
-How...how can you act like this?-
~Act like what?~
-All normal and cheery, we were just nearly kidnapped by these murderers and you can still act as if nothing's happened?!-
~When I was a bodyguard for the Pharaoh,~ Hafertis began seriously. ~We would have to kill people in a blink of an eye and still maintain our composure.~
-Umm...Hafertis? How many people did you kill? And were they all innocent?-
~What?! How dare you say I killed only for pleasure!!~ Hafertis said indignantly. ~I only killed those who opposed the Pharaoh!!!~
-Ok then....but how many people did you kill?-
~More than 80.~
-EIGHTY!!! YOU KILLED MORE THAN EIGHTY?!?!-
~What's wrong with that?~
-Nothing...besides the fact that I'm sharing the same body with a killer!-
~Oh don't worry! I wouldn't kill you! Besides we're not even sharing the same body right now.~
//Just my luck.// Hoshi grumbled. //I have to get stuck with a murderer instead of a nice thief or...or...even a prostitute would be preferable!//
~Hoshi?~
-Yes?-
~Do you know where you're going?~
Hoshi immediately took a look at her surroundings and noticed that she was in unknown territory.
-Hold on...lemme see...-
She retraced her steps a few feet back and suddenly she knew the way she was supposed to be going. Looking around in confusion, it was extremely odd that just by straying off the path a little she didn't know where she was supposed to be heading.
~Can we go yet? It's past sunset you know.~
-Past sunset? PAST SUNSET?- These words set Hoshi sprinting down the road.
~What's wrong with being in the dark?~
-......-
~Hoshi?~
-......-
~Fine be that way!!~ Hafertis abruptly cut off the conversation line.
Running down a path with a forest on one side and fields on the other, she slowed down to a jog when she saw the warehouse, her current...ahem...house.
//I never knew it was so...big.// Hoshi gazed in wonderment at the warehouse. After rushing to school that morning she hadn't had enough time to glance at the exterior of the warehouse, but now seeing it in full view it startled her.
//I should do some exploring around the other floors.// she mused. //There could be some more rooms that I haven't noticed before or some hidden corridors that would be handy.// A thought crossed her mind. //What if those people who were chasing me know where I live? And decide to attack in the night? Aggh!!! I'm gonna have to put on some heavy-duty protection on the inside of the warehouse then.//
Managing to drag the heavy metal door open she slid past it and shut it with a clang. There were some rusty chains and a large lock to fasten the door and with some struggling she managed to fasten them around the handle. Walking to the kitchen area of the warehouse she noticed that the computer was on. Dumping her books on the floor she sat on the chair and used the mouse to revive the monitor. Seeing the main screen she was surprised that it had Msn Messenger downloaded onto it.
//Might as well use it.// she thought and logged in, typing in her e-mail and password. Going online a message immediately popped up.
HOSHI!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!
Em...is that really you? Hoshi typed back in amazement.
Auroris: Phew! I've typed up 12 pages of this fic. That should keep you all satisfied. And....HA HA HA!! I'm leaving you on a cliffhanger!!! Well, you might not really count it as a cliffhanger as there isn't MUCH suspense in it but it does to me!
Hoshi: Errr.....Aren't you forgetting something?
Auroris: What? Hoshi: Your rage at killing Silver Moon? Auroris: Oh...right.....YOU SHALL DIE SILVER MOON!!!!! Hafertis: *to Hoshi* What was that for? Hoshi: It's interesting to watch Auroris go into a killing frenzy. Hafertis: Hah! That is true. Yami Malik: Hey!!! Auroris!!! When's me and my sis gonna come into the fic? Pegasus: And when shall my presence grace your story? Shadi: And mine!!! Auroris: Grrrr.....*growls at three other Millennium users causing them to run away* Hoshi: Errrr.....I think you can calm down now Auroris. Hafertis: Somebody's must say the line you at the end of this chapter.... Auroris: YOU BETTER REVIEW OR ELSE I'LL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!!!! Hoshi: Calm down Auroris! You're chasing away your reviewers! Auroris: Grrr...I'd rather be chasing Silver Moon right now to the edge of a cliff. Hoshi: Heh heh....I think I'll just sliiiiide over here out of harm's way then..... Hafertis: All of you readers out there better review or else Auroris won't write the next chapter and then I won't be able to kick some ass!! Hoshi: No way you are gonna do so!!! This is my body you're using and... Hafertis: *sticks fingers into ears* Blah....blah...blah...I can't hear you!!!! Auroris: And one more note!! Would you be so kind as to tell me what you think Hoshi's and Hafertis' personalities seem to you? Please please please please please please pretty please? I REALLY want to know whether I'm giving you readers the right ideas about Hafertis and Hoshi. Hoshi: I hate getting injured and do you even know how much a bruise can hurt and..... Hafertis: By Horus will you shut up!!!
Scientist
Ah! How harshly the youth of the student passes,....................... While all around her, with passions ever fresh,.......................... Other youths search eagerly for easy pleasures!.......................... And yet in solitude.................... She lives, obscure and blessed,..................... For in her cell she finds the ardor.................... That makes her heart immense.....................
But the blessed time is effaced.................... She must leave the land of Science.................... To go out and struggle for her bread..................... On the grey roads of life....................... Often and often then, her weary spirit........................ Returns beneath the roofs........................ To the corner ever dear to her heart.............................. Where silent labor dwelled........................
And where a world of memory has rested...........................
by: Madame Skoldovska
Chapter 5: Chased After a few minutes everything was explained again to Ryou. He was truly apologetic when he found out how his yami acted and kept on apologizing to Hafertis. She soon lost her temper and was about to tell him to shut his trap when she noticed his sincere expression and decided against it. Everyone began mulling over the two prophecy verses.
"The second is never ending A finder for things of power An object forever searching Shall help in the needy hour" muttered Tristan to himself. "Finder for things of power, hmm....."
Looking up he saw Ryou's Millennium Ring.
//Finder for things of power....finder...//
"I'VE GOT IT!!!" Tristan yelled. Everyone jumped up in surprise.
"That verse that begins with 'The second is never ending' ", Tristan said eagerly. "It's about the Millennium Ring. See? A FINDER for things of power. Doesn't the Ring give off an alert whenever a Millennium Item approaches?"
"What is he talking about?" demanded Yami who now took possession of Yugi's body.
"We're trying to find out the meaning of some verses to a prophecy," explained Hafertis. "Didn't your light tell you of that dear Pharaoh?"
Yami's left eyebrow slightly twitched. "Don't call me Pharaoh," he sternly commanded.
"Of course dear Pharaoh."
"It's Yami now. Stop calling me Pharaoh."
"Yes Pharaoh."
"It's Yami."
"Understood Pharaoh."
"Call me Yami."
"Most certainly Pharaoh."
Yami's teeth were gritted. "Stop calling me that!"
"Absolutely Pharaoh."
Steam billowed off in rage. "It's not Pharaoh. It's Yami!"
"Will do so Pharaoh."
"GAH!" shrieked Yami as he flung himself at Hafertis. Tristan, Joey and Ryou caught him in mid-flight and dragged his struggling figure back to the bed.
Hafertis watched in amazement. "You aren't controlling your composure anymore aren't you Pharaoh?"
Yami didn't reply to the question, too busy trying to simmer down. "Yes, Yugi told me all about the world domination plan," he snapped back. "Is it Malik who's doing all of this?"
Hafertis looked questioningly at Yami. "Who's Malik?"
Tea launched into a story about how Malik was a person who had the Millennium Rod and had been part of a family to protect the Pharaoh's legacy, preventing the Millennium Items' union to reopen the Shadow Games. And how Malik wanted to kill the Pharaoh so that it was possible for him to be free of protecting the Pharaoh's legacy while Yami Malik was intent on collecting the God Duelist cards.
"Interesting," commented Hafertis. "Although for they don't strike me as the world dominating type, maybe Yami Malik, but not Malik."
"True," said Ryou quietly. "But Yami Malik has many good reasons for reopening the Shadow Games."
"It just seems," mused Hafertis. "That these high powers wouldn't go to all this trouble contacting me if wasn't a large situation...."
"THESE high powers?" interrupted Joey. "You said THESE high powers? You don't even know who these high powers are at all?!"
"Umm....." stammered Hafertis, not wanting to lose face. "They did contact ME to pass on their instructions."
Yami Bakura appeared. "So...those high powers didn't even trust you with their identity ne?" he taunted. "Not even the great 'Champion of the Pharaoh' was told of their identity? The O-so-powerful 'Champion of the Pharaoh' didn't even object or dare request who was their presence? You just followed along like a weak puppy. Not so high and might are you now..."
Hafertis muttered something coarse in Egyptian to Yami Bakura making Yami crack a grin and the tomb raider narrow his eyes. Ryou came back and looked politely confused, but nobody bothered explaining to him what had happened.
"Returning back to the verse of the prophecy," announced Tea. "About the Ring? The line 'Shall help in the needy hour'...does that mean the Ring will stop the Shadow Games reopen and spill all of its nasties out?" Tea wrinkled her nose. "And would Yami Bakura be part of it as well since he's a part of the Millennium Ring?"
Ryou was reverted back to Yami Bakura. "Wouldn't help this damn world for a million dollars," he snarled out before retreating to his soul room leaving Ryou with a slight headache from changing quickly many times.
Yami sighed. "That's what the prophecy says yet it's possible that it's not true," he said. "Maybe it's wrong as the Millennium Tauk once was with its future visions."
Everyone started contemplating the other prophecy verse starting with 'The third is the reader...' It was Tea this time who discovered its meaning.
"EUREAKA!!!" she screamed. Everyone jumped up again and looked at her with are-you-out-of-your-mind looks.
"Sorry," she said sheepishly. "Couldn't help myself."
"It's the line 'The user as a miser'," Tea excitedly began. "Out of all the Millennium Item holders who's the one that's the richest and cruel?" There was a brief pause.
"Maximillions Pegasus!" Yugi, just changed from Yami, caught on.
"So he shall be the one whose Item shall be ripped away and given in 'fallen rain'?" questioned Hafertis.
"That's what it seems to be," Ryou responded quietly. Hafertis' eyes lingered on him momentarily, Yugi the only one noticing.
//I wonder what she thinks of him,// he wondered.
"Then does this mean dat ya gotta go to all of the other Items and hold on to them to find out the rest of the verses to the prophecy?" Joey asked Hafertis. She nodded.
"That's what it seems to be so."
Joey moaned loudly. "That's gonna be one hell of a job, convincing those Millennium Item holders to let ya grasp their Item for a bit of poetry."
Hafertis said cheerfully, "Then there's another path to walk on."
"What's dat?" Joey asked.
"Waiting for the Shadow Games to be opened and destroy the world."
Joey quickly amended, "Uhh....I think I'll walk up to Yami Malik for his Millennium Rod instead."
In hearing this from his soul room Yami's lips slightly quirked. His former bodyguard still hadn't lost her way of presenting facts in a blunt, depressing view. He sighed. He just hoped that she wouldn't continue to pursue past events that had occurred since a millennia. They all had had enough time back then to resolve them yet Yami wasn't sure whether or not Hafertis was satisfied. Perhaps in this new day and age she would go on, but knowing her Yami knew that she wouldn't do so. He gave another deep sigh. What would come, would come. And he would be prepared.
Hafertis suddenly frowned and massaged her forehead lightly.
"I will, I will..." she mumbled under her breath. "I will do so in a short period of time, is that fine with you?"
Yugi, concerned, asked Hafertis what was the matter.
She sighed. "Hoshi wants her body back. You would think, as my light she would be more generous with her body." Not waiting for a reply Hafertis morphed into Hoshi. Hoshi shook her head and rubbed her arms. She looked up at the group.
"Can I leave yet?"
The other whined about her leaving so soon, being who they were and how they were nice to other people, but Hoshi shook off their protests and walked downstairs out of the store's front door.
"I wonder what made her leave so quickly?" Ryou asked the others.
* * * * *
~Why did you go?!~ Hafertis ranted at her abiou.
-'Cause...I wanted to,- an annoyed Hoshi answered back.
~But we were making so much progress back there on cracking the prophecies!!~ Hafertis complained.
-You were done with what you needed to know so wasn't that enough?-
~Yes, but there was so much more we could have discussed.~ Hafertis grumbled.
//I don't like hanging out with people who I've only met for less than a minute.// Hoshi wanted to snap back, but knew that Hafertis would start bombarding her with 'Why?' questions. That thought made Hoshi halt in her tracks.
//Wait a second, what am I thinking? ALREADY I can judge for sure whether Hafertis would react to me like this? I hardly even know anything about Hafertis except that she's supposed to be my yami and was a former bodyguard in Ancient Egypt. Hey is that even true at all? I mean is my theory that I'm in a coma in the real world correct? And that everything I'm experiencing right now is almost like a virtual reality...like the movie "Matrix"! So many questions...so many questions...// Hoshi thought to herself. She started walking again.
//I've read in tons of books where people enter into books to discover fantasy worlds and there they follow along with whatever quest is there for them. And after reaching their goal they return back to their true world. So is that what I should do? Follow the quest set before me and hope that I stay alive long enough to reach its end. Will I even die in this anime world? Or will the good guys win just like on the t.v. shows and I get whisked back to my own place all safe and sound. Hmm....So many questions, so many questions...//
"Oof!" she sounded out when she bumped into something solid. She looked up to see a very tall, African-American man wearing a black bodyguard-type suit (with those crisp, starched white shirts and shiny shoes) and those sleek sunglasses that curved at the edges around the face. Hoshi edged back a few steps nervously, having a gut feeling that this man wasn't nice.
"Hello there," the suited man boomed out in a bass voice. Hoshi's eyes traveled down to where his hands were and froze at them. The hands were covered up with black...leather...gloves.
//It's about 25oC out here and he's wearing gloves? This isn't good at all, this isn't good.//
"Are you lost?" the man asked, in that deep voice of his.
Hoshi didn't answer, her mind working too furiously.
//Wearing black gloves on a hot day, four times my height, ten times my weight and as strong as an elephant...this doesn't look good.// she thought.
"You're the shy type aren't you little girl?" the black man asked rhetorically. "I like those kind of people...makes my job much more easier."
//RUN!!!// Hoshi screamed at herself and her legs jumped at the command. She neatly dodged around the man and sprinted as fast as she could.
~BY THE GODDESS NUT WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!?!~ Hafertis roared into Hoshi's brain.
-I bumped into a man...a black man...not good...HE'S CHASING ME!!!- Hoshi hurriedly sent back.
~If you have a problem you call for me.~ Hafertis crisply sent back. ~I am an expert at hand-to-hand combat.~
-This guy is four times my height and ten times my weight!!!- Hoshi screamed as she tried to evade pedestrians as carefully as possible and gallop around corners without losing balance.
~I refuse to run like a coward!~ Hafertis shouted. ~I could make that guy cry like a baby in a few seconds if you would allow me the chance!!~
-This is MY body that you're talking about using and I don't want to risk the chance injuring any of it!!- Hoshi shot back as she jumped over a short rail fence. -So we're doing this my way, RUNNING!!!-
~Oh yes, take the coward's way,~ Hafertis quarreled. ~Just give me a few seconds...~
"AHH!!" Hoshi shrieked, skidding to a halt when at a corner a black limousine screeched to stop in front of her. The door opened and a black- gloved hand from inside held up a hand gun with a silencer screwed on and gestured for Hoshi to step in. Looking from her left and right she assessed her options. Coming to her left was the black elephant man who had now stopped a few meters away. On her right side there was a threatening gun that had complete intentions to kill if Hoshi didn't obey. She closed her eyes.
-You win. Come out.-
~May Ra's light shine upon me!!!~ Hafertis screamed and traded spots with Hoshi. Hafertis grinned lopsidedly when she saw her situation.
"Let's start it right here," she dared.
(A/N: Everything now done in slow motion like the movie Matrix.)
The black man let out a bull roar and charged at Hafertis head-first. The gun shot out with a rang. Hafertis bent her knees and jumped, performing a somersault a meter high into the air. Bullet moves through the air making sound waves. Elephant man runs forward to meet it. Hafertis spinning head over heels in the background preparing to drop down on feet.
(A/N: Matrix done people, normal pace now.)
The bullet hit the black man full in the chest who leant back from the collision. His face contorted in pain, he slowly turned to face Hafertis who had landed smoothly like a cat. He let out a few guttural moans, blood spreading clearly through his white shirt, reached a trembling hand towards Hafertis and collapsed on the side of his head with the sunglasses tumbling off.
Wasting no time Hafertis began running as fast as a leopard. The limousine's door slammed as it gave chase.
~Your bad black man is gone, now what?~ Hafertis asked as she jumped over small obstacles.
-Umm...umm...- Hoshi was unsure. -Let me out! I'll run wherever I think is safe.-
Without question the souls smoothly switched. The body still running, Hoshi now in control saw a pair of big gates, silently shutting, that lead to a large mansion...with Seto going through the front door.
-Seto Kaiba!- Hoshi shouted out triumphantly and barely managed to dash through the closing gates.
"Hold that door!" she yelled out as Seto's butler swung the front door closed. She whizzed by the surprised old man to face Seto who was turning around.
"Who are you to intrude..." Seto began to growl then his face turned to one of surprise. "Is that you Hoshi Sato?"
Wildly looking around Hoshi dived behind a couch. The doorbell then just rang.
Hoshi pointed at herself and placed a finger across her lips begging for silence concerning her. Seto scowled and snapped at the butler to open the door. Complying, the butler revealed three impassive men with coiled phone lines in their right ear and wearing the same attire as the black man (Edge- curved sunglasses, black suit, white shirt, etc.) and a black limousine in the driveway.
They stoically stared before themselves and asked in the same tone, "Seto Kaiba?"
"That's me," the teenage millionaire said in a special business voice, stepping forward. "What can I do for you gentlemen?"
The middle of the trio snapped his fingers and the expressionless man on his right showed Hoshi's photo before Seto Kaiba.
"Do you know who this girl is?" the middle of the three, clearly the leader, asked unfeelingly.
In her hiding spot the girl they were talking about held her breath in fright.
Seto paused. "Why no I don't," he said pleasantly. "Is there anything concerning her that I should be aware of?"
The three men looked at each other and faced back at Seto.
"Give us a call if you do know," leader of Cold trio heartlessly smiled. The man on the left handed a card to Seto who accepted it. Swiveling around like robots the three 'agents' walked back to their limousine. From her position Hoshi heard the car doors close and the car driving away. She breathed in relief.
"You can come out now," Seto said quietly.
Hoshi hopped out from behind the couch. "Thanks for the help will be out of your way sorry to bother you," she ranted as she ran out of the door. Seto blinked in surprise.
"Never trust the quiet ones."
* * * * *
~That was close,~ Hafertis said.
-Yeah...TOO close for my taste,- Hoshi sent back as she jogged down the street wearily, eyes darting around. -Did the high powers tell you anything about people with guns that are trying to KILL ME?-
~What are guns?~ Hafertis asked curiously.
-Umm....they are a kind of machine that can kill people,- Hoshi answered. -They're a modern weapon, used to shoot small bits of metal that are catapulted at a high speed.-
~You remind me of a scholar,~ Hafertis said amused.
-Me a scholar? You're not saying that I sound like a dictionary?-
~What's a dictionary?~
Hoshi sighed. -Sometimes I keep on forgetting that you're from Ancient Egypt.-
~What's a dictionary?~
-It's a book that tells the meaning of words.-
~Interesting! We never had that whence I came from.~ Hafertis said brightly.
-Hafertis?-
~Mm hm?~
-How...how can you act like this?-
~Act like what?~
-All normal and cheery, we were just nearly kidnapped by these murderers and you can still act as if nothing's happened?!-
~When I was a bodyguard for the Pharaoh,~ Hafertis began seriously. ~We would have to kill people in a blink of an eye and still maintain our composure.~
-Umm...Hafertis? How many people did you kill? And were they all innocent?-
~What?! How dare you say I killed only for pleasure!!~ Hafertis said indignantly. ~I only killed those who opposed the Pharaoh!!!~
-Ok then....but how many people did you kill?-
~More than 80.~
-EIGHTY!!! YOU KILLED MORE THAN EIGHTY?!?!-
~What's wrong with that?~
-Nothing...besides the fact that I'm sharing the same body with a killer!-
~Oh don't worry! I wouldn't kill you! Besides we're not even sharing the same body right now.~
//Just my luck.// Hoshi grumbled. //I have to get stuck with a murderer instead of a nice thief or...or...even a prostitute would be preferable!//
~Hoshi?~
-Yes?-
~Do you know where you're going?~
Hoshi immediately took a look at her surroundings and noticed that she was in unknown territory.
-Hold on...lemme see...-
She retraced her steps a few feet back and suddenly she knew the way she was supposed to be going. Looking around in confusion, it was extremely odd that just by straying off the path a little she didn't know where she was supposed to be heading.
~Can we go yet? It's past sunset you know.~
-Past sunset? PAST SUNSET?- These words set Hoshi sprinting down the road.
~What's wrong with being in the dark?~
-......-
~Hoshi?~
-......-
~Fine be that way!!~ Hafertis abruptly cut off the conversation line.
Running down a path with a forest on one side and fields on the other, she slowed down to a jog when she saw the warehouse, her current...ahem...house.
//I never knew it was so...big.// Hoshi gazed in wonderment at the warehouse. After rushing to school that morning she hadn't had enough time to glance at the exterior of the warehouse, but now seeing it in full view it startled her.
//I should do some exploring around the other floors.// she mused. //There could be some more rooms that I haven't noticed before or some hidden corridors that would be handy.// A thought crossed her mind. //What if those people who were chasing me know where I live? And decide to attack in the night? Aggh!!! I'm gonna have to put on some heavy-duty protection on the inside of the warehouse then.//
Managing to drag the heavy metal door open she slid past it and shut it with a clang. There were some rusty chains and a large lock to fasten the door and with some struggling she managed to fasten them around the handle. Walking to the kitchen area of the warehouse she noticed that the computer was on. Dumping her books on the floor she sat on the chair and used the mouse to revive the monitor. Seeing the main screen she was surprised that it had Msn Messenger downloaded onto it.
//Might as well use it.// she thought and logged in, typing in her e-mail and password. Going online a message immediately popped up.
HOSHI!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!
Em...is that really you? Hoshi typed back in amazement.
Auroris: Phew! I've typed up 12 pages of this fic. That should keep you all satisfied. And....HA HA HA!! I'm leaving you on a cliffhanger!!! Well, you might not really count it as a cliffhanger as there isn't MUCH suspense in it but it does to me!
Hoshi: Errr.....Aren't you forgetting something?
Auroris: What? Hoshi: Your rage at killing Silver Moon? Auroris: Oh...right.....YOU SHALL DIE SILVER MOON!!!!! Hafertis: *to Hoshi* What was that for? Hoshi: It's interesting to watch Auroris go into a killing frenzy. Hafertis: Hah! That is true. Yami Malik: Hey!!! Auroris!!! When's me and my sis gonna come into the fic? Pegasus: And when shall my presence grace your story? Shadi: And mine!!! Auroris: Grrrr.....*growls at three other Millennium users causing them to run away* Hoshi: Errrr.....I think you can calm down now Auroris. Hafertis: Somebody's must say the line you at the end of this chapter.... Auroris: YOU BETTER REVIEW OR ELSE I'LL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!!!! Hoshi: Calm down Auroris! You're chasing away your reviewers! Auroris: Grrr...I'd rather be chasing Silver Moon right now to the edge of a cliff. Hoshi: Heh heh....I think I'll just sliiiiide over here out of harm's way then..... Hafertis: All of you readers out there better review or else Auroris won't write the next chapter and then I won't be able to kick some ass!! Hoshi: No way you are gonna do so!!! This is my body you're using and... Hafertis: *sticks fingers into ears* Blah....blah...blah...I can't hear you!!!! Auroris: And one more note!! Would you be so kind as to tell me what you think Hoshi's and Hafertis' personalities seem to you? Please please please please please please pretty please? I REALLY want to know whether I'm giving you readers the right ideas about Hafertis and Hoshi. Hoshi: I hate getting injured and do you even know how much a bruise can hurt and..... Hafertis: By Horus will you shut up!!!