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Thanx for the reviews! Here's the next chapter. By the way, there's going to be a lot of dialogue because I'm explaining how the enmity started (that's why Tea is not going to play that much of a role in this chapter). By the way....it's really long! So fasten your seatbelts!
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Everyone turned around as Tea looked at the downed Kaiba.
"Welcome to the club," muttered Marik.
"oh...uh..sorry Kaiba. I did that out of habit....," Tea said to the now groaning Kaiba.
Kaiba braced his hand on the wall as he gingerly got up. "Before I call security to throw you guys out for trespassing and attempted assault," Kaiba said icily, rubbing his head, "How did you get in here? You couldn't have gotten in here without alerting the alarm."
Everyone looked at Tea and said, "Ask her."
Tea: x__x "Well...would you believe me if I said we got here by magic?" she said with a weak grin.
Kaiba: -__- "Okay, I'm going to call secur-" A umph sound was heard behind him. A disheveled Shalanelle appeared. Streaks of blood showed on her face and hands.
"Shalanelle! Are you okay?" cried Tea. Shalanelle gave her a thumbs up.
"Never been better!....This your new friend?" she replied, looking at the angry Kaiba.
"I am the owner of this house," said Kaiba stiffly.
S: O___O "Oops....you weren't supposed to be here for a couple of days," she said looking slightly flustered.
Kaiba gazed at Shalanelle, taking in her dirty appearance and blood on her cheek. "I came back early," he said coldly. 'Damn!' he thought. 'She's beautiful.' (I'm describing her now....I'll try to put her description in ch.2) She was wearing a white dress, now dirty, with a deep slit on the side. Snake bracelets encircled her upper arms while a black onyx necklace surrounded her neck. Set within her pale face and deep red lips were sparkling green eyes with tints of watery blue.
"uhh...hello? Anyone there?" S said, waving her hands in front of Kaiba's face. He jerked his head back, embarrassed to be caught looking at her.
"I don't know who you are or what they're doing here but you're trespassing," he said harshly. S smiled, "Oh but you can't stop me," she said shaking off the attempts of Tea to shut her mouth. "Shalanelle, we are trespassing," muttered Tea. "He is right..."
S tilted her head to one side, looking at the CEO of KaibaCorp. "Listen mister who-ever-you-are, I'm sorry to bother you, but we need to stay here for awhile. Now you're probably right, but at this point I don't feel like arguing. You can either let us stay here peacefully, or...." she said slowly raising Kaiba off the ground. "Well....you understand."
Everybody: o__o
Kaiba visibly gulped as he started to rise even higher, now 18 ft. up in the air, face-down. "A-alright! Alright!" he yelled as S started to twirl him in the air.
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An hour later in the living room.
S walked back in, washed and bandaged, to the living room. The gang were relaxing in front of the fire, talking quietly among themselves. Kaiba sat stiffly in a chair.
"Looks like all of you are here, good," said S. "Kaiba you get over here too, I'm sure they've already filled you in on what's been happening. Like it or not, you're now involved, unfortunately. He'll probably hunt you down for giving us shelter." "Really now," she said shaking her head, "shouldn't have came back early....but what's done is done."
"I'm going to train you all in martial arts or at least in some defense techniques," she said seriously, looking into everyone's faces. "For now, we're safe. I know you're probably all very tired right now, so I'm going to let you guys rest."
Tea looked up at her. "Aren't you forgetting something?" she said with a raised eyebrow.
"What!"
Tea coughed in her hand that sounded a lot like, explain husband.
"What did you say?," S said pointedly, looking at Tea dangerously.
"Explain husband!" coughed Joey. S turned to look at him. Joey looked away, coughing like crazy. "Sorry something in my throat," he said with a straight face.
"Oh alright!" S exclaimed with a huff. "As you all know, there is a....lot of....bad feeling between me and him," she said, referring to her husband.
"I already told you that it was in name only, but I didn't really explain how it came to be."
With a sad sigh, she continued. "Imagine that you're a spirit and you have a family but it's made up of people/spirits loyal to you . One of your own people gets killed by another spirit. Blood feud comes between the two. Allies emerge as more and more people get involved, thus more enemies. Eventually it gets so bad that it is total war. However there are innocents being drawn in as well. Finally a couple of the spirits who are part of neither party uses the Dragon of Light to judge which party is right."
Everyone: o__O
"Dragon of Light is the most powerful being that rules over everybody," explained S. "But he only interferes between the spirits if one of us call him and it has to be a very good reason too."
"He judged that to solve this, the leaders of both parties would be combined in marriage, thus ending the conflict," she said with a disgusted look on her face. "Since most of the leaders were killed and I was one of the most powerful spirits that was left on my side, I was joined in marriage with him."
"Since he ruled that we were to stop fighting, we had too. But I think he knew that we would continue to fight secretly, thus he gave me the job of protecting the mortals. Our fight had killed a lot of them so I had to take the job of protecting them as punishment."
"However," she said looking at Tea, "my husband-in-name-only tried to start trouble with my side as expected, and started manipulating some of the humans. There was another skirmish and the Dragon of Light was called forth again."
"By this time, my....I'll call him by his name, S'nauh, had killed several thousands of mortals. This time the Dragon was....very angry with S'naugh because of all the problems he was causing and decreed him and his allies banished from our realm forevermore, stripped of their rank of spirits. S'naugh's side then devoted their time trying to destroy the earth or at least kill as many mortals as they could, blaming our side for their banishment.
Still looking at Tea, "The Dragon then made a prophecy that someone in your family line would be the only one to stop S'naugh with the gift that you now have. The Dragon of Light then disappeared, never to be seen again."
"Thus our side devoted our time trying to protect your family line....then S'naugh developed a spell that could force the person to work for him," said S softly. "So far, you're the fourth person to have the gift. The first two were long dead before the Dragon made his prophecy. But the third person.....the one that I was supposed to guard and train was.....taken from us to his side by the spell," S said while tears came unbidden into her eyes. She looked down at her hands, gripped tightly together in her lap, "..the one I was supposed to guard," she repeated softly.
Everyone was silent, the only thing that could be heard was the crackling of the fire as the embers popped and sparked.
S looked up, a don't-you-dare-pity-me look on her face.
Kaiba was the first to break the uneasy silence. "If this is all true, why didn't he just use his 'allied' spirits to get Tea today?"
"He did......the leader is a spirit, not as good as S'naugh and I are, but good enough," she said frowning. "But I don't recognize him....he must be a newbie. S'naugh didn't know that I had already got to Tea first, that's why he only sent one spirit."
"Besides," she added, "he thinks that he'll just use the spell and Tea'll come over to his side either way."
Joey spoke up next. "So your sayin' that this is practically a war over earth?" he said incredulously.
"Yes, his side will try to destroy every mortal possible in revenge of everything that has happened between us. And also because they fear that if Tea could kill someone as powerful as S'naugh, then they wouldn't stand a chance...," she left the sentence hanging.
"If I'm supposedly that powerful.....wouldn't your side fear me as well?" said Tea directly.
".......Ye-e-essss......but for now they think you can destroy S'naugh for them," said S with an apologetic expression.
Tea:x___x "So, you're saying that on S'naugh's side, they will either kill me or force me to work for them. And then on your side, they're gonna just use me to do their dirty work?!!! The way I see it, is that both of you are made of the same stuff. Both want me as they're mindless puppet!" she said in an outraged tone, her voice steadily rising.
S looked at her unwaveringly. "I'm sorry Tea," she said simply.
Tea suddenly felt a wave of guilt. "I-I'm sorry Shalanelle, I know you're not like that....," she said awkwardly.
S gave a small smile, "It's not that bad. My side isn't as stubborn as S'naugh's side is. They know that you play a big part in this, I'm pretty sure that they'll get rid of that foolish notion quickly when they meet you. Besides, they still remember what happened to Takeena. They'll treat you with the respect that you deserve."
Suddenly they heard a snoring sound. Tristan was slumped on the couch, drool coming out of the corner of his mouth.
S: o__O "Well, so much for the serious-ness of this talk!" exclaimed S, laughing.
"Huh," Tristan said, waking up and wiping his mouth with his hand. "What happened?"
"Oh, nothing, I was just explaining how we're gonna save the world from evil spirits and still manage to survive," she said smiling.
"Well," S said, looking at the clock, "That took a long time. You guys need your rest....I'm going to sleep now....I'm sure Kaiba can show you to your rooms." With that she stood up from the chair she was sitting in and left the room.
Everyone stared at each other over her abrupt departure.
"Well, I'm going to get some beauty sleep," said Mai yawning. "I have a headache over all this."
As everyone was shown to their rooms by Kaiba, Yami was lost in thought over all this. 'I never thought that the great pharoah would be such an insignificant thing in this world,' he thought to himself. 'Poor Tea, she seems overwhelmed by all this.....oh wait! I forget to tell her about Marik and Bakura!'
He jogged up to catch up with Kaiba, who was about to show the rest of the people (Bakura, Marik, and Tea) their rooms. "Tea!" he called out. "Can I talk with you for a second?"
"Sure," she said. Marik looked sideways at Yami. 'Uh-oh, did he hear my conversation with Bakura?' he thought to himself. At the same time, Bakura was quickly coming to the same conclusion. Both thought to themselves, 'Gotta stop him before Tea knows!'
"Wait!" said Marik. "I want Yami to stay in the room next to me."
"Yeah," Bakura chimed in. "Put him next to me too (shooting a daggered look at Yami)."
Yami: sweatdrop
Both of them were looking at Yami viciously, with an evil glint in their eyes.
Kaiba: O__o "Well," he said slowly, looking at the rabid looks in their faces, "sure." 'heh,' the thought to himself. 'Hopefully that stupid pharaoh will get killed and I won't have to worry about beating him anymore.'
Tea: O__o
"Don't worry about him, Tea," said Marik smiling evilly. "He'll tell you it in the morning," draping an arm around the sweating Yami.
"O-okay," said Tea, a weird expression on her face.
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That's the end of this 2000 word chapter! Yeah, I know it was mostly dialogue and all but I had to explain how this all began or else you guys would be so confused! So I was like sooner or later I'm gonna have to explain it... By the way, do you want Tea with Marik or Bakura? So far it's been all Marik.......some want Tea with Seto. Anywayz Review and tell me what you want and if you liked this chapter. Oh, and tell me if you want S to be with Seto or not.