Back again! thanks to all you who've stuck by this story (and/or have at least read up to this chap w/out giving up a while back when the story was really really really really extremely boring) I'm hyper! (wasn't that out of nowhere?) ahahahaha!
*Serashi*: I am so scared right now *watches Kirsta*
*Annya*: I think, more importantly, Seto should be.
*Serashi*: *looks at sister confusingly* Why?
*Annya*: you handed her seto's card, didn't you?
*Serahsi*: oh yeah...
Disclaimer: *Annya*: besides what she's buying online right now with that credit card, Kirsta don't own anything, kirsta don't know anything. The ShoRans own all she has owned. *smirk* *Serashi grins*
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Chapter 15: Getting Ready
The normal tedium of everyday life, and school, resumed for the week, except for one, or maybe more, considering who we're talking about, thing. Every morning, Caleia would walk out of her house and find a little package for her. The first day this happened, she had been wary to open it, a little scared that it was a bomb or something of that sort, until she found a not taped to the bottom of the box.
'Smart person... tape a note to the bottom,' she had thought to herself as she ripped the note off and unfolded the tight creases. Words from someone with fairly good handwriting greeted her eyes.
Caleia,
Here's something to go with your dress, c ya later!
Mokuba
"Oooh," she had said as she ripped the package open to reveal a shoebox. Obviously by now, it was a pair of shoes, --a really ice looking high heeled pair of dress-shoes, to be exact. She stuck them in the house to look at later as she grabbed her mug of hot coca and sped off on her bake to school, fearing that she may be late for class now that she had been delayed.
Everyday after that, there was another package on the doorsteps. She got a pair of elbow high black silk gloves, a nice handbag, and an elaborate diamond necklace. It was totally overkill, in Caleia's own opinion.
* * *
"Your time is over, Keeper, I will break you blood," a man's voice said to Caleia, his hoarse voice sending shivers down her spine. She looked around the dark emptiness, seeing no one.
"Where are you?" she shouted into the darkness. "Who are you?"
"I am the one who has the power to rule the world. All I have to do is eliminate the nuisance of you and the Shadow Guardians-- and after you death, and your bonds on the card powers are broken, not even the Shadow Guardians will be a match for me. As to where I am, I'm not near you, at the moment, but far away where no one knows that I am here.
"You still have not answered my question completely. Who ARE you?" Caleia asked with a sudden courage in her soul, her tone calm yet with authority, demanding a straight answer.
"My name is Morsei, and I suggest you enjoy your life while you have one to live," the voice of Morsei replied menacingly.
A head-splitting pain suddenly enveloped Caleia, her bones seemed to be on fire as se felt the wave of energy hit her. Unable to think, to feel anything sides the burning, blinding pain, Caleia could only clutch her head as she sank to her knees, her legs unable to support her anymore. She clenched her teeth, determined not to scream, but only managing to muffle her screams of agony. A few more seconds of this and she was sure to pass out.
The pain only seemed to grow worse.
* * *
Caleia gasped as her eyes flicked open and she bolted up into a sitting position on her bed. The pain was gone, save for a quickly subsiding throbbing in her head. Her hand went reflexively to her forehead, as if to push the annoying, pulsing pain from her mind. The dream itself, though, was already starting to fade from her mind.
It subsided completely in a few moments and the doorbell rang a moment later. Caleia looked at the clock, 7:00. Dragging herself out of bed, she sauntered to the door and opened it.
"What the-- oh, hi, Mokuba," she started to shout. "It's 7:00, go back to sleep."
"But..."
"Mokuba, it's Saturday-- CRAP!"
"Yeah--"
"I forgot!"
"Obviously."
"Crap crap crap crap...."
"Don't freak out! I brought people to help," Mokuba said as he motioned to the little group of people unloading equipment out of a truck and bringing it in the house, setting it al up. Mokuba motioned for Caleia to go back in, which she did. He closed the door behind them and introduced her to all the people.
"This is Kathy Metch, who'll do your hair," he started. Caleia said hi, and Kathy bowed back. Mokuba continued. "And this is Daniel Syter, who's doing your makeup--Kate Kelsy who's doing your nails-- and ME!--" He threw his hands up to indicate himself, "--who's here pretty much just to hang." Caleia grinned in amusement at the sincere words.
"Auhh!" Caleia yawned. "I'm taking a shower-- Just do whatever--" She stumbled away to the shower as Mokuba's team started transforming the living room into a beauty salon.
Feeling tenfold better and much more awake and energetic, Caleia walked down the hall to see what Mokuba and his people had done to her house.
Being somewhat hyper right now, (and this really scared me,) Caleia started running down the hall, then slid down the hardwood floor until her balance slipped and her feet got too far ahead of her body.
*THUMP!*
She fell backwards and hit the floor rather loudly. "Ow..." she moaned before picking herself up.
"Kaza-sama, are you alright?" Kathy Metch asked behind her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just hyper," Caleia replied Both of them laughed. "And just call me Caleia."
"Ok," Kathy replied simply as she and Caleia walked to the living room, which was past resembling a beauty salon-- add a sign outside and it would be one!
They decided to start with Kate giving Caleia a pedicure. It took way longer than Caleia had expected, but, not only were her toenails great but also, her feet and legs were silky smooth from all the different foot creams, lotions, masques, and oils.
"Ooooh..." Caleia went as she slid her hand over her foot and lower leg. "This feels so cool!" Kate thanked her politely.
The group then took a lunch break, in which Mokuba took them all to Cafe Spot. And there, Caleia realized he still had Seto's credit card.
Back at Caleia's house, Daniel put a masque on her face, neck, and shoulders before Kate started giving her a manicure.
To Caleia, it felt like she was at a day spa-- and Daniel had even given her the cucumber slices for her eyes.
After Kate was done, the masque was ready to come off. Caleia's skin seemed to radiate.
She changed into her dress-- it was 3:00 now-- before Kathy started doing her hair.
Kate packed some of her stuff up and Caleia told Mokuba, Daniel, and Kate to go play video games or something to entertain themselves. Mokuba grinned and opened the entertainment center to find a console. He chose the PS2 and got to work loading some 007 game. Caleia, not being able to see the TV, didn't know which one.
At about 5:00, her hair was finally done. Kath had put it up in an elegant bun with spiral curls flowing down it like a waterfall. Caleia was *SO* tired of sitting in that chair by now. She got up and walked over to see Mokuba, Daniel, and Kate paying Super Smash Brothers.
"Oie! My butt hurts from sitting in that blasted chair!" she announced. Mokuba snorted as Daniel grinned, paused the game, tossed his controller to Kathy, then directed Caleia back to the chair, and sat her down in it.
"I'm sorry, but you're not done yet." Caleia pouted and blew a raspberry. Daniel laughed. "Give me an hour and a half or so--I'll make your face so pretty that Kaiba-sama will gawk at you open-mouthed when he sees your beautiful face.
"That'll be a sight to see," Caleia remarked amusingly. "Kodak moment, but I probably won't have a camera." Daniel took out about six shades of foundation and got stated applying it to Caleia's face and neck.
*1 hr 15 mins later*
"There, see? That wasn't that bad, was it?" Daniel asked as he finished off Caleia's lips with a layer of gloss over the lipstick. Caleia got up to go look at a mirror.
"I don't ever want to see a chair again?" she remarked. Mokuba stared at her with wide eyes. She saw his face. "What? Is something wrong?" she inquired urgently as she turned to see the mirror.
The girl staring back looked exactly like her, yet completely different. Caleia was almost taken aback, but very pleased with how she looked. She like the fact that she still looked like herself. Daniel had used natural toned colors on her face, so she didn't look fake and too made up at all. Her eyes, which Daniel, and she herself too, agreed was her best feature, were brought out with eyeshadows that accented them; not to say that the rest of her face was neglected, of course, not by a long shot.
Caleia turned her attention back at Mokuba. "Seriously," she pressed, "do I look okay?"
"Whoa," Mokuba awed, then snapped his attention back. "Okay? You don't look okay--" Caleia's face darkened with disappointment. "--You look amazing! Absolutely positively freakishly pretty!" Caleia smiled. "There's just a couple things missing-- start packing up, we have to go back to Kaiba Corp soon."
"Hai!" came the reply from the three who looked obviously pleased with their work today.
"Now, where are you thingies that I bought you?" Mokuba asked Caleia.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot!" she exclaimed. "They're in my room-- you can come with me." She went down the hall to her room, Mokuba following, and put all the stuff Mokuba had gotten her onto the bed. They were all sitting in a lone corner, Caleia having been too lazy to put anything away.
Mokuba handed her the necklace to put on, which she did, shuddering slightly as the cold platinum touched her hare neck. "It's cold!" she stammered as she waited a little for the metal to heat up a bit.
"Well, of course it's cold! It's metal!" Mokuba laughed as he tossed her the gloves. She slid them onto her hands and up her arm, then went to her own jewelry box and opened it up-- selecting a simple diamond and platinum bracelet and ring set-- or maybe not *that* simple. If you looked closely, the under said of the platinum was engraved with tiny hieroglyphics and magical symbols that were sacred to the Keeper of the Cards. and, of course, if you tilted the diamond just the right way so the light reflected by it didn't blind you, you could see a tinny Sunstar crest carved on the base of the diamond.
The two pieces of jewelry had been passed down Caleia's family for generations unknown. they had been made after the princess' time, but way before her reincarnation was born. The only thing Caleia knew for sure was that the two pieces of jewelry had always drawn her, and that she would cherish them forever.
Caleia put them on-- and also a pair of dangling diamond earrings her mother had given her for her 15th birthday-- seemingly a millennia ago. Turning to Mokuba, she asked him if she looked okay-- to which he replied, "You look so stunning that Seto would probably stop thinking during a duel if he saw you." Caleia laughed, knowing full well the almost inexistance of that scenario--almost.
She also remembered once when that had happened, but that was long ago--back in ancient Egypt-- and they had been play a strip duel in Seto's room.
Their laughter was interrupted when Daniel poked his head through the door to inform Mokuba that they were finished packing up. "Oie! Okay. I got ta go, kay, Caleia? I hope they've found my suit by now--" he mused as he left. Caleia waved goodbye and see ya later, then went back inside.
Going back into her room, Caleia took out a leg strap and strapped it to her upper thigh under her dress, then clipped a little case for her deck to it. Thinking a little more, she also tucked the knife Yami had given her to it--just in case.
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*yawn* sorry. I got up at five in the morning to type this up.... now i have to go to school. please review, okay? I gotta know people are still reading this and like it or else i lose interest in writting it... *yawn* god i gotta get more sleep!
*Serashi*: I am so scared right now *watches Kirsta*
*Annya*: I think, more importantly, Seto should be.
*Serashi*: *looks at sister confusingly* Why?
*Annya*: you handed her seto's card, didn't you?
*Serahsi*: oh yeah...
Disclaimer: *Annya*: besides what she's buying online right now with that credit card, Kirsta don't own anything, kirsta don't know anything. The ShoRans own all she has owned. *smirk* *Serashi grins*
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Chapter 15: Getting Ready
The normal tedium of everyday life, and school, resumed for the week, except for one, or maybe more, considering who we're talking about, thing. Every morning, Caleia would walk out of her house and find a little package for her. The first day this happened, she had been wary to open it, a little scared that it was a bomb or something of that sort, until she found a not taped to the bottom of the box.
'Smart person... tape a note to the bottom,' she had thought to herself as she ripped the note off and unfolded the tight creases. Words from someone with fairly good handwriting greeted her eyes.
Caleia,
Here's something to go with your dress, c ya later!
Mokuba
"Oooh," she had said as she ripped the package open to reveal a shoebox. Obviously by now, it was a pair of shoes, --a really ice looking high heeled pair of dress-shoes, to be exact. She stuck them in the house to look at later as she grabbed her mug of hot coca and sped off on her bake to school, fearing that she may be late for class now that she had been delayed.
Everyday after that, there was another package on the doorsteps. She got a pair of elbow high black silk gloves, a nice handbag, and an elaborate diamond necklace. It was totally overkill, in Caleia's own opinion.
* * *
"Your time is over, Keeper, I will break you blood," a man's voice said to Caleia, his hoarse voice sending shivers down her spine. She looked around the dark emptiness, seeing no one.
"Where are you?" she shouted into the darkness. "Who are you?"
"I am the one who has the power to rule the world. All I have to do is eliminate the nuisance of you and the Shadow Guardians-- and after you death, and your bonds on the card powers are broken, not even the Shadow Guardians will be a match for me. As to where I am, I'm not near you, at the moment, but far away where no one knows that I am here.
"You still have not answered my question completely. Who ARE you?" Caleia asked with a sudden courage in her soul, her tone calm yet with authority, demanding a straight answer.
"My name is Morsei, and I suggest you enjoy your life while you have one to live," the voice of Morsei replied menacingly.
A head-splitting pain suddenly enveloped Caleia, her bones seemed to be on fire as se felt the wave of energy hit her. Unable to think, to feel anything sides the burning, blinding pain, Caleia could only clutch her head as she sank to her knees, her legs unable to support her anymore. She clenched her teeth, determined not to scream, but only managing to muffle her screams of agony. A few more seconds of this and she was sure to pass out.
The pain only seemed to grow worse.
* * *
Caleia gasped as her eyes flicked open and she bolted up into a sitting position on her bed. The pain was gone, save for a quickly subsiding throbbing in her head. Her hand went reflexively to her forehead, as if to push the annoying, pulsing pain from her mind. The dream itself, though, was already starting to fade from her mind.
It subsided completely in a few moments and the doorbell rang a moment later. Caleia looked at the clock, 7:00. Dragging herself out of bed, she sauntered to the door and opened it.
"What the-- oh, hi, Mokuba," she started to shout. "It's 7:00, go back to sleep."
"But..."
"Mokuba, it's Saturday-- CRAP!"
"Yeah--"
"I forgot!"
"Obviously."
"Crap crap crap crap...."
"Don't freak out! I brought people to help," Mokuba said as he motioned to the little group of people unloading equipment out of a truck and bringing it in the house, setting it al up. Mokuba motioned for Caleia to go back in, which she did. He closed the door behind them and introduced her to all the people.
"This is Kathy Metch, who'll do your hair," he started. Caleia said hi, and Kathy bowed back. Mokuba continued. "And this is Daniel Syter, who's doing your makeup--Kate Kelsy who's doing your nails-- and ME!--" He threw his hands up to indicate himself, "--who's here pretty much just to hang." Caleia grinned in amusement at the sincere words.
"Auhh!" Caleia yawned. "I'm taking a shower-- Just do whatever--" She stumbled away to the shower as Mokuba's team started transforming the living room into a beauty salon.
Feeling tenfold better and much more awake and energetic, Caleia walked down the hall to see what Mokuba and his people had done to her house.
Being somewhat hyper right now, (and this really scared me,) Caleia started running down the hall, then slid down the hardwood floor until her balance slipped and her feet got too far ahead of her body.
*THUMP!*
She fell backwards and hit the floor rather loudly. "Ow..." she moaned before picking herself up.
"Kaza-sama, are you alright?" Kathy Metch asked behind her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just hyper," Caleia replied Both of them laughed. "And just call me Caleia."
"Ok," Kathy replied simply as she and Caleia walked to the living room, which was past resembling a beauty salon-- add a sign outside and it would be one!
They decided to start with Kate giving Caleia a pedicure. It took way longer than Caleia had expected, but, not only were her toenails great but also, her feet and legs were silky smooth from all the different foot creams, lotions, masques, and oils.
"Ooooh..." Caleia went as she slid her hand over her foot and lower leg. "This feels so cool!" Kate thanked her politely.
The group then took a lunch break, in which Mokuba took them all to Cafe Spot. And there, Caleia realized he still had Seto's credit card.
Back at Caleia's house, Daniel put a masque on her face, neck, and shoulders before Kate started giving her a manicure.
To Caleia, it felt like she was at a day spa-- and Daniel had even given her the cucumber slices for her eyes.
After Kate was done, the masque was ready to come off. Caleia's skin seemed to radiate.
She changed into her dress-- it was 3:00 now-- before Kathy started doing her hair.
Kate packed some of her stuff up and Caleia told Mokuba, Daniel, and Kate to go play video games or something to entertain themselves. Mokuba grinned and opened the entertainment center to find a console. He chose the PS2 and got to work loading some 007 game. Caleia, not being able to see the TV, didn't know which one.
At about 5:00, her hair was finally done. Kath had put it up in an elegant bun with spiral curls flowing down it like a waterfall. Caleia was *SO* tired of sitting in that chair by now. She got up and walked over to see Mokuba, Daniel, and Kate paying Super Smash Brothers.
"Oie! My butt hurts from sitting in that blasted chair!" she announced. Mokuba snorted as Daniel grinned, paused the game, tossed his controller to Kathy, then directed Caleia back to the chair, and sat her down in it.
"I'm sorry, but you're not done yet." Caleia pouted and blew a raspberry. Daniel laughed. "Give me an hour and a half or so--I'll make your face so pretty that Kaiba-sama will gawk at you open-mouthed when he sees your beautiful face.
"That'll be a sight to see," Caleia remarked amusingly. "Kodak moment, but I probably won't have a camera." Daniel took out about six shades of foundation and got stated applying it to Caleia's face and neck.
*1 hr 15 mins later*
"There, see? That wasn't that bad, was it?" Daniel asked as he finished off Caleia's lips with a layer of gloss over the lipstick. Caleia got up to go look at a mirror.
"I don't ever want to see a chair again?" she remarked. Mokuba stared at her with wide eyes. She saw his face. "What? Is something wrong?" she inquired urgently as she turned to see the mirror.
The girl staring back looked exactly like her, yet completely different. Caleia was almost taken aback, but very pleased with how she looked. She like the fact that she still looked like herself. Daniel had used natural toned colors on her face, so she didn't look fake and too made up at all. Her eyes, which Daniel, and she herself too, agreed was her best feature, were brought out with eyeshadows that accented them; not to say that the rest of her face was neglected, of course, not by a long shot.
Caleia turned her attention back at Mokuba. "Seriously," she pressed, "do I look okay?"
"Whoa," Mokuba awed, then snapped his attention back. "Okay? You don't look okay--" Caleia's face darkened with disappointment. "--You look amazing! Absolutely positively freakishly pretty!" Caleia smiled. "There's just a couple things missing-- start packing up, we have to go back to Kaiba Corp soon."
"Hai!" came the reply from the three who looked obviously pleased with their work today.
"Now, where are you thingies that I bought you?" Mokuba asked Caleia.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot!" she exclaimed. "They're in my room-- you can come with me." She went down the hall to her room, Mokuba following, and put all the stuff Mokuba had gotten her onto the bed. They were all sitting in a lone corner, Caleia having been too lazy to put anything away.
Mokuba handed her the necklace to put on, which she did, shuddering slightly as the cold platinum touched her hare neck. "It's cold!" she stammered as she waited a little for the metal to heat up a bit.
"Well, of course it's cold! It's metal!" Mokuba laughed as he tossed her the gloves. She slid them onto her hands and up her arm, then went to her own jewelry box and opened it up-- selecting a simple diamond and platinum bracelet and ring set-- or maybe not *that* simple. If you looked closely, the under said of the platinum was engraved with tiny hieroglyphics and magical symbols that were sacred to the Keeper of the Cards. and, of course, if you tilted the diamond just the right way so the light reflected by it didn't blind you, you could see a tinny Sunstar crest carved on the base of the diamond.
The two pieces of jewelry had been passed down Caleia's family for generations unknown. they had been made after the princess' time, but way before her reincarnation was born. The only thing Caleia knew for sure was that the two pieces of jewelry had always drawn her, and that she would cherish them forever.
Caleia put them on-- and also a pair of dangling diamond earrings her mother had given her for her 15th birthday-- seemingly a millennia ago. Turning to Mokuba, she asked him if she looked okay-- to which he replied, "You look so stunning that Seto would probably stop thinking during a duel if he saw you." Caleia laughed, knowing full well the almost inexistance of that scenario--almost.
She also remembered once when that had happened, but that was long ago--back in ancient Egypt-- and they had been play a strip duel in Seto's room.
Their laughter was interrupted when Daniel poked his head through the door to inform Mokuba that they were finished packing up. "Oie! Okay. I got ta go, kay, Caleia? I hope they've found my suit by now--" he mused as he left. Caleia waved goodbye and see ya later, then went back inside.
Going back into her room, Caleia took out a leg strap and strapped it to her upper thigh under her dress, then clipped a little case for her deck to it. Thinking a little more, she also tucked the knife Yami had given her to it--just in case.
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*yawn* sorry. I got up at five in the morning to type this up.... now i have to go to school. please review, okay? I gotta know people are still reading this and like it or else i lose interest in writting it... *yawn* god i gotta get more sleep!
