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Chapter 6:Imposter
He watched the three walk off together, Danielle giggling at their jokes smiling, something he never seemed to make her do. He couldn't get her to laugh at his jokes, he threw his head back and sighed as he ran thin fingers through the brown bangs. "What's wrong with me?" He asked himself as he sat in his Limo. "I think I know what it is but, it's not the same as with Mokuba, how can there be two types of love? Impossible, everything is suposed to be simple when it comes to emotions, isn't it?"
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So this was the girl that his Hikari coveted so much, his daughter, his flesh, his blood, his life. All to be destroyed in one earth shattering blast, or should he say mind shattering. What fun it was going to be to watch her bend and slowly break under him, as his other half lay in an almost eternal sleep as she goes over the edge. "Delightful, simply delightful." He smirked to himself as he brushed a strand of grey hair away from his eye.
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They walked towards the school the next day, Malik not daring to say anything about Isis after yesterday. "So I'll meet you at the gate after school right Ryou?" The white haired teen frowned "Why isn't Danielle going to be here?" Malik shook his head "Nope, I called her house last night, after you left she saw something and she kinda got freaked out, I called her house and the maid said she was locked up in her room." Ryou looked shocked "What could she have seen that scared her that bad." Malik shook his head "Beats me."
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School seemed to end faster that day, there was still no teacher, which meant free class period. So they had pretty much done absolutely nothing for most of the day. "Should we go see about Danielle?" Malik frowned and looked to Ryou who stared at the fence, standing there in a purple sweatshirt with old style pull strings (think Takato in Digimon Tamers) and a pair of lose chacki pants. Her uneven red hair flowing in the breeze as she stared glossy eyed at them "Hey Danielle where were you today?!" Malik waved over to her as they both ran towards the red haired girl. Only to find a pale hand resting on her shoulders, the pale had of a person Ryou knew all to well. A pale face accented by grey hair, the same amber eyes with a glint of maliace in them, the eyes only darkened slightly as he chuckled, "I'm afraid dear Celestia won't be helping you much longer, once I set the afairs in order she'll be going back home where she belongs!" His fingers gripped her shoulder tightly causing the to big shirt to wad up in his hands. "Isn't that right my darling daughter?" He smirked as the girls glassed over eyes only closed slightly "I think she's looking forward to it." They both looked from Pegasus to the girl with stunned expressions she was his daughter?! Ryou nearly passed out as Pegasus pulled the girl towards him and narrowed amber eyes dangerously at them. "What have you done to her?" Ryou spoke through gritted teeth at the girl who only seemed to have locked herself in her own little world. "What have I done?" Pegasus chuckled something that made Ryou want to smack him even more, "Absolutely nothing, if anything the worthless excuse for a person has done it to herself." He smirked as he threw her to the ground and suddenly everything turned black. "The shadow realm?! Why have you taken us here?!" They both yelled at the grey haired man he snickered. "Are you aware that it is possible to actually have the monsters cause physical damage to a person in this place." He smikred ruefully as a blast came from behind them sending Danielle up against a wall, she didn't even bother to move she couldn't she just wanted to die, he said she was worthless? could this man really be her father? she wondered before closign her eyes, she wanted this left behind her. 'It just feels like a bad dream, but the question is when can I go home? I want to so badly.'
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Bakura had taken Ryou's place, the boy could never stand against the power of the shadow realm the only question was, how was Pegasus accessing it without the eye? "What do you want?" He sneered at the grey haired man Malik standing behind him with clinched fists. Over in her corner Danielle lay on the floor glossed over emerald green eyes expression less, her pale lips moving, what was she saying? perhaps she had finally snapped and the only thing she was saying was some inane form of gibberish. He fronwed. "I want, perhaps since you so greatly insist that I want something for a chance at revenge my dear Bakura, my daughters purpose had been fulfilled now she will die." He snickered at the words. Bakura looked over at Malik who remained paralized on the ground. "Very well, we duel." Pegasus snickered at this, what did he have up his sleeve this time?
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She imagined herself, standing on the edge of a building, the cool breeze blowing her hair. A voice in her head telling her to jump, the perfect painless way to end it, jump, a swan dive into a sea of black concrete. 'Why am I like this?' She wondered to herself often, but then the memory came back, crystal clear of why she was like this, her best and only friend Chisa had commited suicide when they were only 7 and it had left an emotional scar on her mind. But had it really been suicide?
*Flashback.*
"Chisa why are we up here? I'm afraid of high places." She pointed out to Chisa a girl with black hair grey eyes and a pair of wire rimmed glasses who was standing on the railing of a ten story building. "Come on Danielle I wanna show you something fun, or at least it must be fun because my sister did it." She remarked climbing over the railing of the building the breeze blowing even harder. "Chisa...I don't want to, I'll leave my daddy alone if I do." Chisa giggle at this, "But my mommy and daddy say that when my sister did this that she was in a better place, think about it Danielle they'd never pick on us or call us names again if we did this." She turned away there was only one person she thought of at the moment, her father. "Okay if you don't want to..." With those words Chisa let go, and she burst into hysterical tears wishing someone was there to help. She stood up on the railing, and watched the crowd of people stare at the dead form that had landed. Suddenly something grabbed her from behind, the person who had done this was someone she wished was here right now. A tall thin teenager with light pink hair and amber eyes kind and friendly just like her fathers were at the time. Pale skin, he wore a blue shirt and white slacks, perfection at it's finest in her opinion. "Don't do it Danielle, this was Chisa's destiny to die at such a young age, it's all part of the master plan of things." She sniffled as he gently pushed the tears off of her cheeks. "You don't have to jump because you'll grow up into a beautiful person like you Mother and your father. Now stop crying." He smiled at the girl. "What's you name? Daddy says I'm not 'possed to talk to strangers." She remarked and the older boy smiled a little, "Phoneix, and I'll be with you whenever you need me."
*Flashback.*
'I need you now Phoneix'
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'Damn.' Bakura frowned to himself as he watched the grey haired man smile with that twisted smirk, 'I have to win this or I'll cause Ryout to lose her forever.' The older man chuckled a little bit "Deep in thought my dear Bakura?" He gave the man his best glare, he chuckled once me "Nice poker face. Lay down you cards and we'll see who wins what." He looked at his hand, 'Damn it.' were the only words that came to mind. "Problems my dear Bakura?"
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"Danielle, get up Danielle I'm here, you needed me and I'm here." The gentle voice of her childhood the teenager that had told her she didn't have to jump came through to her and she opened it to be greeted by a pair of amber eyes. "Your here..." She smiled through hazy eyes and tried to lift her head but was pushed back down by the insane pain that drove through her neck. "How?" The teen smiled at her and said "Because of the thing you thought was stupid." She frowned and her face showed regret, "I'm sorry, I stopped beliving in that, are you here to tell me that I can die now?" He shook his head and ran fingers through her hair, "I'm here to tell you that you can die another day, not this one." Her eyes widened.
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Malik winced, everything seemed numb, what the hell had Pegasus managed to do to them? He saw Bakura sitting at a dueling table with the man an uncommon emotion on his pale face: fear. Suddenly a movement caught his eye, Danielle slwoly staggering to her feet.
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Bakura's eyes widened as he saw the girl slowly rise to her feat, Pegasus however seemed to think that what had him stunned was something else. "Something wrong dear Bakura? Admitting defeat?" She moved rather quickly for someone with a concussion, she had covered the distance between herself and Pegasus in a short time. Slowly her hand grabbed his wrist. "What are you doing!?" His voice for once showed an insane since of fear "Your suposed to be giving up! your not suposed to have a shread of hope! Go crawl back into your corner and die!" She smirked, a look that didn't suit her face at all, glazed over emeralds gleaming with hatred, while his amber eyes were filled with absolute fear. "I guess I'll just die another day, yes I'll just die another, I think I'll find another way, it's not my time to go." His eyes widened even wider "However, Imposter, it is your time." Came a steady voice from behind Danielle. The girl smirked as she twisted the older mans wrist around with her thin hands, "I'm going to close my body now." With these words the person who was apperantly just posing as Pegasus disappeared and the blackness of the shadow realm left to show that they were at the gates of the school. She had seemed fine until then, her eyes dulled even worse "I don't feel very good Ryou." She muttered as she fell into the white haired boys arm unconsious. From over in the corner there came a groan, "My head, I'm going to kill someone for this." It was Malik he held the back of his head as he muttered. "Is Danielle alright?" He asked Ryou nodded as he lifted the girl. "We need to go to the hospital now, that's all I can say though I'm not sure how much damage is done."
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The words she said were actually from a song Madonna's Die another day. I find myself loving that song. Also event though Seto loves her she seems to be leaning towards Ryou. As for the song, Die another day is going to be hailed as Danielles theme song.