Fate of the Angels
Part One
Eyes of Greed
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, or anything related to it.
Actually, I don't own much of anything, besides my precious computer here.
And 'The One Ring', I have four of those! :)
Anyway, if you're reading this, you should probably have read Hidden Truths, High Twilight, and Falling Stars.
Parts One, Two, and Three of the Tingilya Arc.
Well, I've rambled on long enough, thank you for putting up with this little note!
Now, on with the Angst!
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Estel has been dragged back to Japan, unwilling, by her foster father, Seto. She has little more than pure hatred for the billionaire, and complete anger towards Yami, for his repeated insults to her real father, Bakura.
She refuses to speak, letting only the cold emotion in her icy eyes tell stories that would burn even the most innocent child's soul to the crisp.
But she has been befriended by a girl of the name Rakka, who goes through life as happy and naive as Yugi once was, a lifetime before.
And now, as the dice are cast, the sides of the forces are about to meet in battle, the line between friend and foe so dizzily gray that not even the wisest of them all will be able to find it, until it is too late.....
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~~~~~Domino High School, Lunch~~~~~
"Oh, come on now Estel! It's the Sadie Hawkins dance, you have to ask someone! I'm going to take Van(1), what about you? I noticed that Seita(2) has been eyeing you!" Rakka giggled, looking across the grassy school yard at a group of boys laughing and shouting at a lunch table.
Estel rolled her eyes silently, munching on a tuna fish and pickle sandwich(3). She didn't care what anyone said, she didn't want to go to the dance. She didn't mind Rakka, who's cheerful chatter was easy to faze in and out as she wished, but hanging around all night, in some freakish fancy dress, at school none the less, wasn't her idea of fun.
And Rakka kept insisting otherwise.
"Hmmm.... I bet he'll say yes if I ask him for you!" Rakka jolted Estel out of her reverie, leaping up and running across the lawn toward the table, before the albino could stop her.
'Rakka, don't!' Estel shouted mentally, knowing that it would do no good, chasing wildly after her friend, completely ignorant of the tree's roots hidden beneath the greenery.
"Seita, my friend Estel would like to know if you'll attend the Sadie Hawkins dance with her!" Rakka laughed, turning to point at Estel just as the tiny girl tripped, sailing through the air, and landed with a sickening thud on the stone walkway.
"Estel?" Seita whispered, his face draining of color as Rakka screamed, a puddle blood of pooling beneath her still form.
From behind a pillar, Yami smirked, pushing the worried alarm to the back of his mind, letting the true darkness creep over his soul, destroying whatever shred of light that might have existed within his form......
~~~~~Hospital~~~~~
Rakka sniffled, sobbing in a waiting room chair, Yami letting fake tears dribble down his face as he paced the floor, smirking in his soul. A doctor had yet to inform them on what Estel's situation was, but Yami could sense that it was not good.
He doubted that she would survive the night, much like his beloved Yugi.
A few more tears streamed down his face as he thought of Yugi.
And of how Estel killed her, in his opinion.
"Where is she!? What happened!?" Seto demanded, grabbing Yami by the shirt, and lifting the short duelist with ungodly strength. Yami struggled for a second before Seto put him down, glaring, still demanding answers.
"She was running, and she tripped. I don't know anything beyond that." Yami sighed, a lifetime of being Pharaoh making him a perfect actor.
"It was my fault, sir." Rakka hiccuped, her voice faint. "I was teasing her about the dance, and I was asking a guy for her, and she was trying to stop me. I'm sorry, it was all my fault." Rakka sobbed, turning and fleeing, even as Seto turned to Yami to see if it was, indeed, true.
Yami sighed, and nodded, not noticing the doctor come up behind him.
"Mr Kaiba?" the doctor asked, looking at the chart, his tone neutral. Seto nodded, glaring down at Yami. He was going to lecture a certain spirit about protecting a certain little girl later.
"You have one lucky little girl there, Mr. Kaiba. She's going to be fine, a few broken ribs, and one nasty gash on the back of her head. I want to keep her overnight for observation, but she should be able to be released in the morning." the doctor managed a weak smile, and Kaiba nodded, looking down at the puzzled Yami.
The ancient spirit was sure that, just a moment before, Estel had been dying. He was positive of it, would bet his very existence upon it. But now, now she was weak, and in pain, but fine. He couldn't figure it out.
How had it happened, and why?
What had happened to Estel, exactly?
"Thank you. Please, may we see her now?" Kaiba asked, relief flowing over him. Estel had been the closest thing to a daughter he had ever had.
He had already lost Elendil, to lose Estel now would break him, completely.
"Yes, but try to keep it short. She needs her rest." the doctor nodded, leading them to her room, Yami sitting in the waiting room, puzzling over the situation.
"Estel, you have a visitor." the doctor said, closing the door behind Kaiba as he went to make his rounds.
"Hey, Estel, how are you doing?" Kaiba asked, sitting next to the bed, flinching at the unnatural pallor of the young girl.
"..... I want my Father......." Estel whispered, her voice grating against her throat. Kaiba sighed, and shook his head.
"I'm sorry, Estel, but I refuse to let you near that man. He raped your mother, he kidnapped and brain washed you, and he never did anything good in his life." Kaiba growled, meeting Estel's cold, hard gaze.
A gaze as ruthless as he had had so many years before, and now shivered at the implications. She had the eyes of the arctic in the dead of a moon less night, amethyst awash on the sea.
"I hate you." the albino whispered, turning her head away from the middle aged billionaire, revealing the carefully done stitches along the back of her head, red thread standing out clearly against her pale skin and white hair.
"Fine, but my ruling still stands, and it is for your own good. I just hope you'll see that one day." Kaiba closed the door carefully behind him, glaring at the still confused Yami.
"And you!" Kaiba hissed, looking around before he slapped the spirit, "You're supposed to protect her, not sit idly by and watch as she's nearly killed!"
Yami shrugged, barely registering the slap, or Kaiba's words. All he knew is that one minute, Estel had been struggling for her very life, the next minute, she had been injured, but fine. A familiar presence had washed their link for a moment, less even, and the target of his anger had been fine.
'A familiar presence!' Yami's eyes lit up as he realized where the presence was familiar from.
"Yugi!" Yami shouted, running towards Estel's room, leaving a very confused Kaiba chasing after him.
"Yami, what are you shouting about!?" Seto demanded, Yami storming into the injured girls room.
"Where is she, where is she?! I know I felt her in here somewhere, where did she go!?" Yami demanded, looking under the bed, behind the coat rack, and staring greedily at Estel.
Estel shook her head, refusing to speak once more, even as Yami grabbed her by the throat, a dark field of energy holding the screaming Kaiba at bay.
"Where is my Yugi!" Yami demanded again, shaking Estel like a rag doll, his eyes greedy with insanity....
~TSUZUKU~
Disturbing, neh?
Yami's gone insane!
And Estel is fine.
For those of you who will say that you've tripped and been fine, you have to remember, she's just recovering from that huge fall she had back in Seattle, so she's still a little weak.
Explanations:
1: I'm still a huge Escaflowne fan, and only three episodes away from seeing the entire series!
2: Seita is one of the main characters in one of my favorite movie, 'Grave of the Fireflies'.
What can I say, my favorite stuff always shows up in my writing!
3: Yami and Bakura were having a tuna fish and pickle sandwich eating contest in the first chapter of Hidden Truths. I just thought it would be funny is Estel ate them too! ^_^
Well, Goddess of Anime, I am sorry to tell you that I know of no good web site for the series Haibane Renmei, the origin of Rakka's name.
I myself didn't know of the series until a friend, who knew what a big Lain fan I am, burned me a copy. It's made by the same people who made Lain, but there are no computer involved.
It's about people with little gray wings, the Haibane, and their lives.
It's slightly angsty, but is only 13 episodes.
So, if you have DSL, or anything like it, you could probably download it.
Beyond that, I can't really help you, sorry! ^_^
Part Two
