Kirsta (me): back! Here's the next chapter. School is giving me a lot of work. If I ever complained about work in middle school, slap me.
*Caleia*:*smack*
Kirsta: Not literally!
*Caleia*: Sorry but you said---
Kirsta: Never mind.
*Yami*: Hey, quick question... if Yugi and Caleia are in the same class, they're the same age, right?
Kirsta: Yeah, of course
*Yami*: Then how can she be my daughter?
Kirsta: Because age has nothing to do with spirits... or something along that line. It doesn't matter that Caleia and Yugi are the same age.
*Yami*: Ok.
*Caleia*: You know, you should know that, I mean, I do
*Yami*: Yeah I should...hey Kirsta, why don't I?
Kirsta: Because I wanted to explain it just in case some people got the wrong idea, and I didn't feel like writing a long note about it so I explained it to you instead.
*Yami*: Well why do I have to be the one that doesn't know?
Kirsta: Cuz it's either you or Caleia and I---whatever, will you guys shut up and let them read?
*Caleia*: Fine
*Yami*: Fine
Kirsta: Oh yeah, almost forgot disclaimer again, sorry.
I don't own yu gi oh, duel monsters, all that stuff that I'm starting to get obsessed about, but Caleia and Keeper of the Cards is my own.
Oh yeah, Yaku is also my own, you'll understand later.
note: for mental talking... /Yugi to Yami/
//Yami to Yugi//
^Caleia's Yami to Caleia^
^^Caleia to her Yami^^
[Bakura to his Yami]
{Yami Bakura to Bakura}
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Chapter 5
Everyone gasped, thoughts momentarily frozen. None of them blinked, or even breathed as they stared at Yami and Caleia. It was Yugi who finally spoke.
"Wha--What?" At that point, everyone seemed to notice they were not breathing and took a deep breath, eyes still unable to pull away from the pair standing next to them.
Both Yami and Caleia smiled as Yami turned to face Yugi. "You see, aibou, there was a reason I knew Joey would not win. I knew what was in her deck, I knew there were three Blue Eyes, I knew she was master duelist. I knew, because, as you guessed, I knew her. She is my daughter, the princess, Caleia, the one I appointed the Keeper of the Cards." His words slowly sunk into Yugi, Bakura, Tea, Joey, and Tristen's mind.
"Keeper of the Cards, whadda heck is that?" Joey finally asked.
"The one who I appointed to make sure the magic and game does not get out of hand. The title, and spirit, is passed down from mother to daughter in the bloodline, my bloodline, my original bloodline, anyway," Yami explained.
"What game? Duel Monsters?" Joey retorted with a slight laugh of amusement. He could be so stubborn at times.
"The Shadow Game, of course," Yugi realized. Joey's smile faded rather quickly. He had had his fair share with the others in Shadow games, and he hadn't liked the experiences.
Joey only responded with a dejected 'oh' as he suddenly became interested on the paperclip on the floor. Caleia smiled as she continued talking. "In Egypt, it was my father who taught me how to play the Shadow Games, taught me how to summon the magic and the monsters. Each subsequent Keeper has taught the skills, to an extent, to their successor, and the rest of the skill comes to us when we spirit bond with the original spirit."
"Don't forget I taught your daughter too," Yami suddenly spoke up to say.
"Yes you did." That was all Caleia would offer. The others didn't question much. For Tea and Tristen, it might have just been because they were still in shock. For Bakura, it was probably because he knew too much than he wanted to know about the Shadow Game from his Yami.
Suddenly Bakura's Millennium Ring began to glow and his Yami materialized beside him. Yami(Yugi's) immediately put himself between Bakura's Yami and Caleia. He would die before he let the other Yami hurt her.
"Hello Caleia, we meet again," the yami said. The former pharaoh did not like the sound of his voice.
"I'm not going to let you hurt--" he started to say. Bakura was frozen with fear for Caleia, thinking of the conversation he had with his Yami earlier that day at school.
"Who said I was going to harm her, oh great pharaoh," Yami Bakura mocked. Yami still didn't let his guard down, but Caleia's expression was purely different.
Out of nowhere, Caleia ran over and jumped on Yami Bakura, knocking him down and giving him a big hug. Yami looked at her in confusion. "You know him?" he asked his daughter. Caleia stood back up before she answered.
"Yes, he's an old friend of mine. I met him the first time I sneaked out of the palace." Yami's expression suddenly changed again, for better or worse was still to be decided.
"You what! You sneaked out of the palace! Wait...'the first time'...so you did this more than once!" he practically shouted.
'Maybe I shouldn't have told him that,' Caleia mused. "Did you think I spent my whole life cooped up in the palace?" she said in an amused voice.
"No, but I expected you to have asked for my permission first. What if you got hurt--"
"That was the reason I didn't ask and I snuck out. The first time I asked your permission, you let me go, I remember--but you also sent five guards to go with me. They scared the people in the city half to death, they wouldn't let anyone near me or in anyway see me, not that there was much to be seen. You made me cover up head to toe so that no one would see me! That's why I never asked again."
"That was for your own protection!" Yami pleaded.
"I needed to live a little, see life outside the tedium of the palace. I'm sorry if I disappoint you, father, but it was the only way," Caleia honestly said. Yami took a deep breath. He really never had ever been able to stay mad at her long, and it seems like that had not changed with time.
"As she said, we met the first time she sneaked out of the palace. I didn't know she was the princess, and I didn't know for a while, not till she told me," Yami Bakura spoke up.
"And so I guess when you found out you used her to figure out ways to get into the tombs, huh, tomb robber?" Yami said sarcastically.
"I kept her out of that part of my life," Yami Bakura said. "She turned to be one of my best friends, and I wasn't going to betray that trust. I was one of the ones that helped her and Se--" Caleia shot him a glance that told him that she didn't want to discuss that part of her life yet. He quieted down. An eerie silence followed.
"Ok, enough talking, lets go out and get some ice cream of something," Yugi suddenly chirped up. Everyone agreed, though Yami looked like he would rather have refused.
"Father, don't tell me you've never tried ice cream!" Caleia laughed. Yami looked at her.
"No, I've not had the urge to put something frozen in my mouth, thank you very much," Yami replied.
"In shorter terms, he's a wimp," Yami Bakura said. The other Yami shot him an angry glance, but all the others only laughed.
They headed down to the ice cream shop a few blocks down, talking about random things along the way. Every once in a while Yami Bakura would chirp up about something he and the princess had done in Egypt, like pushing an unsuspecting priest into a shallow river and running away. Almost every time that happened, Yami would shoot Caleia a glance saying 'you did that?!' It was all very entertaining.
At the ice cream shop Caleia made Yami try ice cream. He was very skeptical at first, but after the first taste immediately like it and ordered his own. By the time they left Yami had already decided that his favorite flavor was Mint Chocolate Chip, and that you shouldn't eat ice cream too fast. His first encounter with a brain freeze was very amusing to watch.
Names for Caleia were getting confusing. She kept say "Bakura" and got two answers, so she finally started calling one Yami Bakura, as the others were already calling her father Yami. Around the gang, she would call him father, but she also called him Yami around other people. Saying Yami Bakura was getting annoying though, so she thought of interesting ways to herself of what to call her old friend.
After that, they went to the Dueling Arcade. Walking there, Caleia finally thought up of a name. "Is it just me, or does Yami Bakura seem to be a mouthful to say? Is there any other names you call him?" Yami Bakura gave her a, 'what the--' look in amusement. "I know, how bout Yaku?"
"Yaku?" Joey said. "Where'd you come up with that?"
"YAmi baKUra," Caleia smiled and said. "You like it?"
"I'm fine with it, but I should have known you'd come up with something like that!" Yaku said.
"Ok, then Yaku it is," Yugi concluded.
At the arcade, they all urged Caleia to register and duel, but she refused, not because she didn't want to play--she loved the game--but because she didn't want some title clinging to her. Yami made the point that she already had a title, but Caleia retorted that hardly anyone knew about the Keeper title. After that, the conversation was left alone, mostly because Yaku and Yami decided to inform the others that Caleia was stubborn and they couldn't change her mind--for now, anyway.
Yugi, Joey, and Yaku took out their decks and sat down at different tables to duel, Yaku obviously dueling under Bakura's identity. Tea walked around to all three to do what she does best, cheer them on, as Yami and Caleia walked around to look at how other players dueled. Bakura had since gotten bored and went into his soul room, which was more convenient for Yaku so as no one would question his identity. Yami and Yugi at least looked different enough to pass for brothers or something.
After returning from their trip around the arcade, Yami and Caleia walked over to Yugi in time to see him win against some boy before they walked over to the counter. The man there talked to them a bit, and joined the group's crusade to try to get Caleia to register, though Caleia showed no sigh of backing down yet.
The clerk was in the middle of telling them how THE Seto Kaiba came down every once in a while to observe people, and sometimes to even duel a few people, when the door opened. "Oh and there he is," he clerk said suddenly. "Hello Mr. Kaiba, can I do anything for you today?" Seto looked in his direction and saw Caleia and Yami. A grin crept up slightly onto his face.
"Well well, who do we have here? Caleia, isn't it? Came down to duel?" Seto snickered.
"Actually no, I didn't."
"She won't register," the clerk, Mr. Uda, said. Seto's eyes widened the slightest bit.
"Oh, won't register? Too bad. Maybe you're too scared to duel real pros." Something in those words made Caleia snap.
"That's it. Mr. Uda, I want to register," she said defiantly, at the same time reminding herself that this was not the Seto she knew in Egypt. Yaku won his duel and came over to see what the commotion was about, and so did the others once their duels were over. Yami told Yaku what happened, at which time Yaku exploded into hysterical laughter.
"You're changing you're mind--" he said between waves of laughter, "because--because Seto Kaiba offended you?" Caleia hit him in the head, but he couldn't stop laughing. The others had the same reaction, but restrained themselves the best they could to avoid being hit.
"I swear I will hurt you later," Caleia whispered in Yaku's ear. She was about to carry out the threat right there when Seto spoke.
"So, since you're registered, how about giving me the your first duel? Unless you're still too scared, that is," he taunted. Caleia was going to say yes, but her answer got delayed as Joey whispered in her ear.
"Cream him." 'Oh good,' Caleia thought to herself, 'support.'
"Of course I'll duel you, Seto," she replied, her voice betraying nothing. Seto froze for a second at the sound of his own name, not accustomed to having anyone call him by that name, except his brother, of course.
The second he came back to reality, he opened the metallic briefcase and pulled out two dueling devices. "Okay then, a duel it is. But I would like to use these." He tossed one to Caleia, who caught it and slipped it on her hand. With her other hand she reached into her jacket and pulled out her deck, then shot a smile at Seto as she slid that into the holder. Seto had mostly mirrored her, but without the smile. They each drew five cards.
"As I am a way more experienced player than you are, Caleia, it would only be right for me to allow you the first turn," Seto said mockingly.
'That's what you think,' Caleia thought, but said, "ok then, I'll go first." She drew a card. "I play one card face down, and another face down in defense, and end my turn."
'Running scared already?' Seto mused as a sneer crept up on his face. He drew a card--Blue Eyes. 'Blue Eyes on my first draw, not too bad, but lets save for now.' "I put Rude Kaiser in attack!" he said as he slapped the card down on the device. "Attack that face down card." A holographic Rude Kaiser appeared and ran over to Caleia, where a Mystical Elf appeared. The attack was deflected and two hundred life points were deducted from Seto's life points.
"Not that great of a move, was it?" Caleia said as she drew from her own deck. "Dark Magician, in attack!" she announced. The life size holographic image of the Dark Magician appeared before her. "Attack Rude Kaiser, Dark Magic attack!" The Dark Magician raised a hand up and sent his magic attack towards the Rude Kaiser, shattering it. Another seven hundred life points were deducted from Seto. He was already at 1100 while Caleia remained stable at 2000.
"Beginner's luck," Seto sneered. "Now I'll show you how a real pro plays. Blue Eyes, in attack. Attack that Dark Magician. White Lightning!"
"You forget I have this on the field," Caleia replied slyly, turning over her face down card. "Dragon Capture Jar." Seto's eyes widened in slight amusement.
"Not too bad, I'll admit."
"Thank you." Caleia smiled at Seto, who couldn't help but smile a little back. He checked and scolded himself a moment later. He couldn't be turning soft!
"My turn," Caleia reminded Seto. She drew another card--Blue Eyes--'sweet,' she thought. "First I play this magic card, Despell, to get rid of my Dragon Capture Jar, then I put Blue Eyes in attack. You do remember I have this card, don't you?" Seto looked as if he had.
"I wouldn't dare forget," he said instead. "But you do know that they're evenly matched, of course, and now my Blue Eyes can take out your Dark Magician, and then your Mystical Elf."
"Ah, then you forget that the song my Mystical Elf has been chanting is powering up my Blue Eyes, of course. So Blue Eyes, attack the other, White Lightning Attack!" Seto looked a bit taken back as his Blue Eyes was obliterated. He only had a handful of lifepoints left, and realized finally that he had underestimated Caleia. He drew a card.
"One card face down, and this magic card--Just Desserts." Caleia's life points went down by 1500. Now she had less than Seto.
"Ouch. My turn?" Seto nodded. "Ok." Caleia drew a card again. "Oh look, I'll use this, Stop Defense. That puts your--Pale Beast--in attack mode. Then I'll get my Blue Eyes to attack it--and that takes out the rest of your life points. I win," she simply stated. Everyone in the arcade stopped and stared in disbelief, everyone except Yami and Yaku, that is. They just looked on.
"Mr. Uda, don't put the duel on record, please, it's okay, really," Caleia said before the man put the duel into the records. Seto looked at her with full curiosity. It wasn't often that someone doesn't want a win recorded, especially one against the one of the highest-ranking duel monsters champions in the world.
"Good duel, Caleia. I have to admit, I underestimated your skill. That, of course, won't happen again. I'll see you at school," Seto said coolly. He took back the dueling devices, shut them back up into the briefcase, then turn on his heel and started walking out, his coat waving out behind him.
"Yeah, I'll see you in school. And the same to you, good duel," Caleia called after him, flashing him another smile. Seto turned around at her words and again the smile was contagious as he smiled back, not bothering to try to conceal it this time.
When the door finally shut, Joey spoke up. "I think he likes you, Caleia."
"And why would that be?" Tea questioned skeptically.
"He doesn't smile much," Joey replied. "And he didn't throw a hissy fit when he lost to you." They all started laughing.
When the laughter died down, Yaku spoke to Caleia in their native tongue. "They don't know what we know."
Caleia looked at him and replied in the same language. "He is not the same Seto." The others had only heard 'Seto,' except for Yami, who also knew the tongue. He spoke in it next.
"Fate works in mysterious ways."
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So how was that? If the ending sounds funny, don't worry. I know what I'm trying to say, it was just hard getting it down in words. I think I did it for like, about ten minutes? just to get that little line. This was the best I could come up with, everything before was even more confusing, even to me.
Notes:
**Yami Bakura was really getting too long to type so much, so that's the main reason for that change.
**I know Mystic Elf in the card game can't power up Blue Eyes but I'm using the TV version where she does that so don't flame me for it. :)
**I know some of the cards Seto used in this might not be in his deck, but I figured two points...
A) he has a whole lot more cards than what's in his deck
B) I just felt like it :)
Review pleeease. If I get enough I might write a prequel to this with Caleia and two characters that'll be introduced later named Aanya and Serashi and their life in Ancient Egypt with sneaking out of the palace and stuff. I'm already starting to think about what I'd put in it, but I'm not sure if I should start it after I'm done with this one. Tell me what you think. C ya all later!
~Kirsta~
*Caleia*:*smack*
Kirsta: Not literally!
*Caleia*: Sorry but you said---
Kirsta: Never mind.
*Yami*: Hey, quick question... if Yugi and Caleia are in the same class, they're the same age, right?
Kirsta: Yeah, of course
*Yami*: Then how can she be my daughter?
Kirsta: Because age has nothing to do with spirits... or something along that line. It doesn't matter that Caleia and Yugi are the same age.
*Yami*: Ok.
*Caleia*: You know, you should know that, I mean, I do
*Yami*: Yeah I should...hey Kirsta, why don't I?
Kirsta: Because I wanted to explain it just in case some people got the wrong idea, and I didn't feel like writing a long note about it so I explained it to you instead.
*Yami*: Well why do I have to be the one that doesn't know?
Kirsta: Cuz it's either you or Caleia and I---whatever, will you guys shut up and let them read?
*Caleia*: Fine
*Yami*: Fine
Kirsta: Oh yeah, almost forgot disclaimer again, sorry.
I don't own yu gi oh, duel monsters, all that stuff that I'm starting to get obsessed about, but Caleia and Keeper of the Cards is my own.
Oh yeah, Yaku is also my own, you'll understand later.
note: for mental talking... /Yugi to Yami/
//Yami to Yugi//
^Caleia's Yami to Caleia^
^^Caleia to her Yami^^
[Bakura to his Yami]
{Yami Bakura to Bakura}
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Chapter 5
Everyone gasped, thoughts momentarily frozen. None of them blinked, or even breathed as they stared at Yami and Caleia. It was Yugi who finally spoke.
"Wha--What?" At that point, everyone seemed to notice they were not breathing and took a deep breath, eyes still unable to pull away from the pair standing next to them.
Both Yami and Caleia smiled as Yami turned to face Yugi. "You see, aibou, there was a reason I knew Joey would not win. I knew what was in her deck, I knew there were three Blue Eyes, I knew she was master duelist. I knew, because, as you guessed, I knew her. She is my daughter, the princess, Caleia, the one I appointed the Keeper of the Cards." His words slowly sunk into Yugi, Bakura, Tea, Joey, and Tristen's mind.
"Keeper of the Cards, whadda heck is that?" Joey finally asked.
"The one who I appointed to make sure the magic and game does not get out of hand. The title, and spirit, is passed down from mother to daughter in the bloodline, my bloodline, my original bloodline, anyway," Yami explained.
"What game? Duel Monsters?" Joey retorted with a slight laugh of amusement. He could be so stubborn at times.
"The Shadow Game, of course," Yugi realized. Joey's smile faded rather quickly. He had had his fair share with the others in Shadow games, and he hadn't liked the experiences.
Joey only responded with a dejected 'oh' as he suddenly became interested on the paperclip on the floor. Caleia smiled as she continued talking. "In Egypt, it was my father who taught me how to play the Shadow Games, taught me how to summon the magic and the monsters. Each subsequent Keeper has taught the skills, to an extent, to their successor, and the rest of the skill comes to us when we spirit bond with the original spirit."
"Don't forget I taught your daughter too," Yami suddenly spoke up to say.
"Yes you did." That was all Caleia would offer. The others didn't question much. For Tea and Tristen, it might have just been because they were still in shock. For Bakura, it was probably because he knew too much than he wanted to know about the Shadow Game from his Yami.
Suddenly Bakura's Millennium Ring began to glow and his Yami materialized beside him. Yami(Yugi's) immediately put himself between Bakura's Yami and Caleia. He would die before he let the other Yami hurt her.
"Hello Caleia, we meet again," the yami said. The former pharaoh did not like the sound of his voice.
"I'm not going to let you hurt--" he started to say. Bakura was frozen with fear for Caleia, thinking of the conversation he had with his Yami earlier that day at school.
"Who said I was going to harm her, oh great pharaoh," Yami Bakura mocked. Yami still didn't let his guard down, but Caleia's expression was purely different.
Out of nowhere, Caleia ran over and jumped on Yami Bakura, knocking him down and giving him a big hug. Yami looked at her in confusion. "You know him?" he asked his daughter. Caleia stood back up before she answered.
"Yes, he's an old friend of mine. I met him the first time I sneaked out of the palace." Yami's expression suddenly changed again, for better or worse was still to be decided.
"You what! You sneaked out of the palace! Wait...'the first time'...so you did this more than once!" he practically shouted.
'Maybe I shouldn't have told him that,' Caleia mused. "Did you think I spent my whole life cooped up in the palace?" she said in an amused voice.
"No, but I expected you to have asked for my permission first. What if you got hurt--"
"That was the reason I didn't ask and I snuck out. The first time I asked your permission, you let me go, I remember--but you also sent five guards to go with me. They scared the people in the city half to death, they wouldn't let anyone near me or in anyway see me, not that there was much to be seen. You made me cover up head to toe so that no one would see me! That's why I never asked again."
"That was for your own protection!" Yami pleaded.
"I needed to live a little, see life outside the tedium of the palace. I'm sorry if I disappoint you, father, but it was the only way," Caleia honestly said. Yami took a deep breath. He really never had ever been able to stay mad at her long, and it seems like that had not changed with time.
"As she said, we met the first time she sneaked out of the palace. I didn't know she was the princess, and I didn't know for a while, not till she told me," Yami Bakura spoke up.
"And so I guess when you found out you used her to figure out ways to get into the tombs, huh, tomb robber?" Yami said sarcastically.
"I kept her out of that part of my life," Yami Bakura said. "She turned to be one of my best friends, and I wasn't going to betray that trust. I was one of the ones that helped her and Se--" Caleia shot him a glance that told him that she didn't want to discuss that part of her life yet. He quieted down. An eerie silence followed.
"Ok, enough talking, lets go out and get some ice cream of something," Yugi suddenly chirped up. Everyone agreed, though Yami looked like he would rather have refused.
"Father, don't tell me you've never tried ice cream!" Caleia laughed. Yami looked at her.
"No, I've not had the urge to put something frozen in my mouth, thank you very much," Yami replied.
"In shorter terms, he's a wimp," Yami Bakura said. The other Yami shot him an angry glance, but all the others only laughed.
They headed down to the ice cream shop a few blocks down, talking about random things along the way. Every once in a while Yami Bakura would chirp up about something he and the princess had done in Egypt, like pushing an unsuspecting priest into a shallow river and running away. Almost every time that happened, Yami would shoot Caleia a glance saying 'you did that?!' It was all very entertaining.
At the ice cream shop Caleia made Yami try ice cream. He was very skeptical at first, but after the first taste immediately like it and ordered his own. By the time they left Yami had already decided that his favorite flavor was Mint Chocolate Chip, and that you shouldn't eat ice cream too fast. His first encounter with a brain freeze was very amusing to watch.
Names for Caleia were getting confusing. She kept say "Bakura" and got two answers, so she finally started calling one Yami Bakura, as the others were already calling her father Yami. Around the gang, she would call him father, but she also called him Yami around other people. Saying Yami Bakura was getting annoying though, so she thought of interesting ways to herself of what to call her old friend.
After that, they went to the Dueling Arcade. Walking there, Caleia finally thought up of a name. "Is it just me, or does Yami Bakura seem to be a mouthful to say? Is there any other names you call him?" Yami Bakura gave her a, 'what the--' look in amusement. "I know, how bout Yaku?"
"Yaku?" Joey said. "Where'd you come up with that?"
"YAmi baKUra," Caleia smiled and said. "You like it?"
"I'm fine with it, but I should have known you'd come up with something like that!" Yaku said.
"Ok, then Yaku it is," Yugi concluded.
At the arcade, they all urged Caleia to register and duel, but she refused, not because she didn't want to play--she loved the game--but because she didn't want some title clinging to her. Yami made the point that she already had a title, but Caleia retorted that hardly anyone knew about the Keeper title. After that, the conversation was left alone, mostly because Yaku and Yami decided to inform the others that Caleia was stubborn and they couldn't change her mind--for now, anyway.
Yugi, Joey, and Yaku took out their decks and sat down at different tables to duel, Yaku obviously dueling under Bakura's identity. Tea walked around to all three to do what she does best, cheer them on, as Yami and Caleia walked around to look at how other players dueled. Bakura had since gotten bored and went into his soul room, which was more convenient for Yaku so as no one would question his identity. Yami and Yugi at least looked different enough to pass for brothers or something.
After returning from their trip around the arcade, Yami and Caleia walked over to Yugi in time to see him win against some boy before they walked over to the counter. The man there talked to them a bit, and joined the group's crusade to try to get Caleia to register, though Caleia showed no sigh of backing down yet.
The clerk was in the middle of telling them how THE Seto Kaiba came down every once in a while to observe people, and sometimes to even duel a few people, when the door opened. "Oh and there he is," he clerk said suddenly. "Hello Mr. Kaiba, can I do anything for you today?" Seto looked in his direction and saw Caleia and Yami. A grin crept up slightly onto his face.
"Well well, who do we have here? Caleia, isn't it? Came down to duel?" Seto snickered.
"Actually no, I didn't."
"She won't register," the clerk, Mr. Uda, said. Seto's eyes widened the slightest bit.
"Oh, won't register? Too bad. Maybe you're too scared to duel real pros." Something in those words made Caleia snap.
"That's it. Mr. Uda, I want to register," she said defiantly, at the same time reminding herself that this was not the Seto she knew in Egypt. Yaku won his duel and came over to see what the commotion was about, and so did the others once their duels were over. Yami told Yaku what happened, at which time Yaku exploded into hysterical laughter.
"You're changing you're mind--" he said between waves of laughter, "because--because Seto Kaiba offended you?" Caleia hit him in the head, but he couldn't stop laughing. The others had the same reaction, but restrained themselves the best they could to avoid being hit.
"I swear I will hurt you later," Caleia whispered in Yaku's ear. She was about to carry out the threat right there when Seto spoke.
"So, since you're registered, how about giving me the your first duel? Unless you're still too scared, that is," he taunted. Caleia was going to say yes, but her answer got delayed as Joey whispered in her ear.
"Cream him." 'Oh good,' Caleia thought to herself, 'support.'
"Of course I'll duel you, Seto," she replied, her voice betraying nothing. Seto froze for a second at the sound of his own name, not accustomed to having anyone call him by that name, except his brother, of course.
The second he came back to reality, he opened the metallic briefcase and pulled out two dueling devices. "Okay then, a duel it is. But I would like to use these." He tossed one to Caleia, who caught it and slipped it on her hand. With her other hand she reached into her jacket and pulled out her deck, then shot a smile at Seto as she slid that into the holder. Seto had mostly mirrored her, but without the smile. They each drew five cards.
"As I am a way more experienced player than you are, Caleia, it would only be right for me to allow you the first turn," Seto said mockingly.
'That's what you think,' Caleia thought, but said, "ok then, I'll go first." She drew a card. "I play one card face down, and another face down in defense, and end my turn."
'Running scared already?' Seto mused as a sneer crept up on his face. He drew a card--Blue Eyes. 'Blue Eyes on my first draw, not too bad, but lets save for now.' "I put Rude Kaiser in attack!" he said as he slapped the card down on the device. "Attack that face down card." A holographic Rude Kaiser appeared and ran over to Caleia, where a Mystical Elf appeared. The attack was deflected and two hundred life points were deducted from Seto's life points.
"Not that great of a move, was it?" Caleia said as she drew from her own deck. "Dark Magician, in attack!" she announced. The life size holographic image of the Dark Magician appeared before her. "Attack Rude Kaiser, Dark Magic attack!" The Dark Magician raised a hand up and sent his magic attack towards the Rude Kaiser, shattering it. Another seven hundred life points were deducted from Seto. He was already at 1100 while Caleia remained stable at 2000.
"Beginner's luck," Seto sneered. "Now I'll show you how a real pro plays. Blue Eyes, in attack. Attack that Dark Magician. White Lightning!"
"You forget I have this on the field," Caleia replied slyly, turning over her face down card. "Dragon Capture Jar." Seto's eyes widened in slight amusement.
"Not too bad, I'll admit."
"Thank you." Caleia smiled at Seto, who couldn't help but smile a little back. He checked and scolded himself a moment later. He couldn't be turning soft!
"My turn," Caleia reminded Seto. She drew another card--Blue Eyes--'sweet,' she thought. "First I play this magic card, Despell, to get rid of my Dragon Capture Jar, then I put Blue Eyes in attack. You do remember I have this card, don't you?" Seto looked as if he had.
"I wouldn't dare forget," he said instead. "But you do know that they're evenly matched, of course, and now my Blue Eyes can take out your Dark Magician, and then your Mystical Elf."
"Ah, then you forget that the song my Mystical Elf has been chanting is powering up my Blue Eyes, of course. So Blue Eyes, attack the other, White Lightning Attack!" Seto looked a bit taken back as his Blue Eyes was obliterated. He only had a handful of lifepoints left, and realized finally that he had underestimated Caleia. He drew a card.
"One card face down, and this magic card--Just Desserts." Caleia's life points went down by 1500. Now she had less than Seto.
"Ouch. My turn?" Seto nodded. "Ok." Caleia drew a card again. "Oh look, I'll use this, Stop Defense. That puts your--Pale Beast--in attack mode. Then I'll get my Blue Eyes to attack it--and that takes out the rest of your life points. I win," she simply stated. Everyone in the arcade stopped and stared in disbelief, everyone except Yami and Yaku, that is. They just looked on.
"Mr. Uda, don't put the duel on record, please, it's okay, really," Caleia said before the man put the duel into the records. Seto looked at her with full curiosity. It wasn't often that someone doesn't want a win recorded, especially one against the one of the highest-ranking duel monsters champions in the world.
"Good duel, Caleia. I have to admit, I underestimated your skill. That, of course, won't happen again. I'll see you at school," Seto said coolly. He took back the dueling devices, shut them back up into the briefcase, then turn on his heel and started walking out, his coat waving out behind him.
"Yeah, I'll see you in school. And the same to you, good duel," Caleia called after him, flashing him another smile. Seto turned around at her words and again the smile was contagious as he smiled back, not bothering to try to conceal it this time.
When the door finally shut, Joey spoke up. "I think he likes you, Caleia."
"And why would that be?" Tea questioned skeptically.
"He doesn't smile much," Joey replied. "And he didn't throw a hissy fit when he lost to you." They all started laughing.
When the laughter died down, Yaku spoke to Caleia in their native tongue. "They don't know what we know."
Caleia looked at him and replied in the same language. "He is not the same Seto." The others had only heard 'Seto,' except for Yami, who also knew the tongue. He spoke in it next.
"Fate works in mysterious ways."
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So how was that? If the ending sounds funny, don't worry. I know what I'm trying to say, it was just hard getting it down in words. I think I did it for like, about ten minutes? just to get that little line. This was the best I could come up with, everything before was even more confusing, even to me.
Notes:
**Yami Bakura was really getting too long to type so much, so that's the main reason for that change.
**I know Mystic Elf in the card game can't power up Blue Eyes but I'm using the TV version where she does that so don't flame me for it. :)
**I know some of the cards Seto used in this might not be in his deck, but I figured two points...
A) he has a whole lot more cards than what's in his deck
B) I just felt like it :)
Review pleeease. If I get enough I might write a prequel to this with Caleia and two characters that'll be introduced later named Aanya and Serashi and their life in Ancient Egypt with sneaking out of the palace and stuff. I'm already starting to think about what I'd put in it, but I'm not sure if I should start it after I'm done with this one. Tell me what you think. C ya all later!
~Kirsta~
