C.A.: Since everyone seemed to like larger chapters this time I stuck three together. While this turns three tiny chapters in to a good sized one it also means I no longer have chapters in reserve. *Insert scream of terror here.* Some times having a life sucks. -_-
Flamed: Since when did you have a life.
C.A.: *Slaps flamed.* Don't listen to him he just found out about a future plot twist I have in mind and he doesn't like it at ALL.
Flamed: *Mutters under breath.*
Indigo Tantarian. Another longish chapter. ^_^ Only problem is I think I'm getting writers block -_-. (Pet: Roar [Translation: Ra help us!]) Anyway I hope you like this, and I will write more of SS soon. (Flamed: Yeah keep telling yourself that OW what did you hit me for.)
Koriku Yeah S+S in the book, all the magic cards are. I was thinking of using it but not with Heart and I can't tell you more without spoiling the plot. And the Monsters humanity are going to get tested to.
fani90 No REBD not going to be forgotten, but he isn't in this chapter, and nether is Baby Dragon. I will get back to them though.
ShadowFire Oh they will. *Big Grin* Bakura plays a big role after all Heart grew up in his deck... ^_~
Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams I don't like Haga cause I can't beat him. That and his eyes are to narrow. And there's nothing wrong with sugar. ^_^ I've had lots today.
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Hope crossed her arms. "What happened to all the fights?"
"Come on, all stories have to have some romance in it, besides Life isn't just fighting, it's living." The Carl said. "And that is what they are doing living, but life isn't as easy as it may first appear, Besides learning about this world is much easer when you have a friend to show you the ropes."
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CHAPTER 10 - WITTY PHANTOM
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An hour later they came out of the art shop. Heart had two plastic bags in one hand. her new school uniform in one and few new tops that actually had backs in the other plastic, she was wearing a new PVC jacket, In he other hand she held two more bags the bag that held the Sailor Moon book, it now held a Gundam Wing book to, Chaos had insisted she should get one, She had read some of it and they had 'discussed' who was better Quatre or Dou. And a bag holding a couple of teen magazines, just so she could read them and make sure she didn't stick out like a sore thumb tomorrow. Chaos just had one bag with him with a new water colour painting pad and a tube of white paint since he had run out. They were on the way out for which Chaos was grateful, he was feeling his need for his magical staff more now.
"What's that?" Heart asked walking over to the store opposite. "A music store? It's not like the one downstairs."
"That was where you buy music to listen to, this is where you can buy instruments to make music with."
"Like the Musician King?"
"If your lucky you won't sound that bad."
"You never did like him did you? Why?"
"He though whacking me over the head with his guitar was a good way to introduce himself then complained when it broke." Chaos crossed his arms.
Heart laughed. "Can we come back tomorrow to have a look?"
"You don't want to go in now?" Chaos asked confused.
"You've been fidgeting for the past half hour, you need your staff right?"
Chaos smiled sheepishly. "Yeah..."
"You want Aunt Lady to give you a lift home?"
"Nah, the longer I spend away from it the longer I'll be able to stay away from it next time."
"You sure?"
Chaos nodded.
Out side they saw a little boy, he was in a wheel chair.
"Chaos what's that?" Heart asked careful not to point.
"What? Oh the wheel chair? Some times Humans get hurt and can't use their legs anymore, the wheel chair was made so they can move about." Chaos explained.
"Wheel Chair?" Heart tried the new phrase out. "Has anyone thought that Red could use one?"
Chaos blinked. "...Now why didn't anyone else think of that..?"
Lady pulled up out side the mall and honked her horn. Itch was in the back, she looked like she usually did save that her wings were gone, Lady still had her red hair, but her skin now looked more like the Dark Elf's dark tan. Not to mention her hands and feet were now human hand and feet. She wore a collar which was sort of her trade mark with her photos, it to had a dark green stone embedded in it.
"I'll phone Dar about the wheel chair when I get home okay?" Chaos said.
"Sure."
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Ten am the next morning, Neo Archer woke up to an insistent banging at the door. He had only gone to bed three hours ago, working nights sucks.
"Yeah yeah." Neo opened. Scratching a hand thought his hair. "Yeah wha...Dar?"
"NEO!"
"Red? What how...? What's with the wheel chair?"
"It's my clam!" Red pulled a dark green jewel from one of the arm rests and the wheel chair turned back into Red Archery Girls clam she placed it back on the clam and it turned back into the wheel chair. Which she the wheeled into the flat. "So, when is Red Archer moving in with her dad?"
Neo took hold of Dar's arm and pulled then far enough away for Red not to hear them.
"I don't make enough money to support a child!" He hissed. "No matter how much I want Red to move in."
"Relax I managed to get an interview at Kiabacorp for you, The CEO came back after being missing for a while, he sacked the whole board of directors, everyone is getting promoted and we need new men now, first come first served. It's my old job you'll have and trust me it's simple, A Trained Keriboh could do it."
"Yeah but I know nothing about computers!"
"And you think I did?" Dar sighed, and placed his index finger in the centre of Neo's forehead. A spark of energy flashed into Neo's head and suddenly he knew how to use a computer and everything else he could have possibility needed to know to work at Kiaba corp.
Dar laughed at Neo's face.
"What you thought I learnt how to use computers like I did in one night the old fashioned way?" Dar smirked. "Remember First come First served. Interviews start tomorrow morning."
Neo looked at him dumb struck. "Dar...thank you."
Dar Caster shrugged. "We're friends aren't we that's what Friend's are for. I hate to dump Red on you and go but I have to take De to the hospital."
Before Neo could ask what was wrong with De, Dar was gone.
"So what are we going to do?"
Neo scratched his head again before yawning. "Do you have enough clothes?"
"Yup, and everything I need for School Monday too, De said you can owe her the money."
"Great...If I make you something to eat and sit you in font of the TV. think you can let me sleep for another three hours? After all I was working all night." Neo asked hopefully. "Then I'll take you shopping for what you think we might need, like more food."
Red nodded. Neo ran his hand through his head again, he was too tired for this.
"Right...and I'll start looking for a bigger apartment once I'm sure I'll be able to keep this new job. There's a spare room you can keep your stuff in but there's no bed in there. So starting tonight you sleep in the bed and I take the couch-bed." Neo said. "And I'm to young to be your father, so we'll have to pretend to be brother and sister. Now what do you want for food?"
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"Now comes every the bane of every teenagers life, the bane of every child too."
"What?"
"School, a world within a world, with unwritten rules, and codes of honour, And much more for the runaways. School is where their gods, or at least what they believed to be gods are nearest, Dangerously near."
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The Mall was packed when Heart and Chaos and Itch arrived. Heart wanted to get something for Baby and Black while they were there, after all those two were the only ones left in the cave and they had said they were going to stay there since it was the only place big enough to hide the dragons. They had found a Dark Magician Girl plushy for Baby, that was actually bigger than him, and some polish for black to use on his metal Nails.
They were on the way upstairs when they ran into Neo and Red Archer.
"Red! Neo!" Heart ran up to them.
"Heart? Your here to?" Red asked. "That's great!" She hugged Heart around waist.
"Yeah I figured out how to make my self look okay, so I'm living with Lady and Itch here."
"Yeah, and she's going to be in School with Chaos and Magi." Itch added.
"Carl? What are you doing here?" The four turned to the new voice, it was Magi.
"Er Magi." Chaos suddenly looked like a deer stuck in head lights. "What are you doing here?"
"Just clothes shopping with the girls." Magi thumbed over her shoulder at a group of girl who stood about ten feet away giggling like hyenas, or the doppelganger card. "Of course if you have a better offer..."
"I'd love to go shopping with you but...I promised Neo, Red, and Heart here, that I'd help them get settled in." Chaos said a little to quickly.
"Okay...maybe next time." Magi said walking back over to her friends.
"What's wrong? You don't want to spend time with you fan club?" Neo asked.
Red giggled. Chaos glared at both her and Neo.
"Are we going to that music shop or not?" He demanded.
Red decided that she wanted to go to the music shop too only to find there was a step before the door and the door way it self was too small for the wheel chair.
"Well that's stupid!" Heart complained. She turned Red and picked her up from the chair. "Sorry about this but at least you can see what's in here now."
"Can I help you?" Said a shop assistant.
"Yeah you can make this shop okay for Wheel chairs." Heart said.
Chaos blinked, if he didn't know better he could have sworn that he could hear the demonic echo of her voice.
The boy looked at the entrance where Neo was standing by the wheel chair. "Tell me about it, my little brother can't even come into see me and the boss said that we don't get enough customers with Wheel Chairs to justify the cost of widening the door and turning the step into a ramp."
"Then sorry but your boss is a moron." Heart said but not with the venom that her voice had previously held. "Anyway I was thinking of taking up an instrument. Chaos is moral support, Itch and Red is just noisy."
"Hey!" Red complained. Itch laughed, Heart just smiled.
"Well learning to play an instrument can be difficult, any in particular you want to try?"
"Anything but an Electric Guitar." Chaos said in a deadpan voice.
There was a loud banging and everyone turned to see that Itch had found a drum set.
"Or a drum set." Heart added. "Itch, get away from that before you break it."
"But Heart..." Itch moaned but done as she was told.
When they left the shop. Dan, the shop keeper, had sold them a harmonica for Red, a flute for Itch , and a keyboard and Violin for Heart.
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Heart walked into her new class room, she didn't like the uniform she had to wear but she bared it, she was determined to like school, simply because Magi didn't like it. Thankfully Magi was in the year below her and Chaos. Heart took her seat as close to the magician as she could.
Then six more students walked in.
It was all Heart could do not to not to re-grow her wings and fly out of the school. She glanced at Chaos who had gone pale, in fact he was turning suspiciously blue.
"Chaos! You face!" Heart whispered fiercely.
Chaos looked at Heart broken out of his fearful trance and his skin turned back to normal, still pale, but without it's bluish hint.
Heart forced her self to breath normally as the six sat down, thankfully most of them were on the furthest half of the class from her and Chaos, only the tallest boy, who didn't seem to want anything to do with the others, he didn't scare them, nether did the girl, the blond boy or the other tall brunet. It was the white haired boy and the shortest boy with the spiky Black, red, and blond hair.
Especially the latter boy. The Pharaoh.
Heart didn't realise she was staring until she felt other eyes on her. One set was Chaos and the other was the girl Heart had dismissed as harmless. It looked like the Pharaoh had his protectors, and the female in particular. Heart turned to the front of class. The teacher had just started talking. Of course the holder of the Ring is worse than the Pharaoh, for me at least.
"Ah, it's nice to see that our students who had gone to the duellists kingdom are back, I trust you haven't fallen behind in your studies?"
Most of the students moaned, the tall brunet sitting in front of Heart and the white haired boy didn't.
"Also we have a new Student everyone welcome Heart Rose, Miss Rose please stand for the class."
Heart Rose and nodded her head at the class, and so began Heart's first day of School.
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"So all they have to worry about is School?" Hope asked. "Not much to be afraid of."
"You think? The Pharaoh and the Tomb Robber are in the same class as them, and besides, do you really think they could run form their past forever?"
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Chaos and Heart found Magi and dragged her off to one side.
"The Pharaoh is here." Heart said.
"Sure he is Heart." Magi said pretending to Yawn.
"It's true, I saw him to, and there is another item holder with him." Chaos said.
Magi turned pale to thankfully she didn't have to maintain a spell to look normal or she would have a lot of explaining to do to her friends. As it was her hair looked like it was fluttering in the breeze.
Except the was no breeze.
"Magi! Cool it!" Chaos hissed. "We haven't been found out yet, we just have to be more careful now."
"But...he's the Pharaoh! He'll find us out...send us back...I don't want to go back." Magi was going to cry.
Heart looked like she was resting her hand on Magi's shoulder but Heart knuckles were white and Magi hissed in pain. Heart looked around to see that no one was in ear shot.
"Keep a hold of yourself!" Heart let her twin voices snap Magi to her senses. "We will get found out if you start freaking out. Their not in your class so you may not even meet them."
Heart let got of Magi's shoulder. The two Magicians were looking at her in shock surprised that Heart could have been so...nasty.
Heart walked off, what did they know? She had a demons wing for a reason. Besides, she was scared too.
At the end of School Heart started walking towards the junior school, Lady had a photo shoot so Heart had to pick up Itch. She was almost there when the mobile phone that Dar had bought everyone, since he was paranoid and wanted to make sure everyone could call anyone at any time, started ringing.
"Hello? Oh hi Neo...what they want you to start work now? No It's okay I'll pick up Red for you, dose she have the keys to your place? Okay, she can stay with me and Itch till you can come and pick her up. See you in a few hours."
Heart looked around to see if there was anyone in sight before making a bubble of Magic like the one Chaos used to make to hide them in the shadow realm. She then re-grew her wings and flew to the Junior school, goodness knows what trouble Red and Itch could get into if they were board and together.
If she walked the School might not be standing by the time she got there.
She landed in an ally near the school, painfully hid her wings and dispersed the magic. She walked out ally and walked to the gate, there were three children waiting, Red in her wheel chair, Itch who was chasing the third, a boy with long black hair. Tell me that isn't the Trickster! [1]
"Itch what do you think you are doing!" Heart asked.
"Playing tag what does it look like?" Itch answered. "Mokuba this is Heart, my cousin."
"Oh, well come on, I'm picking you and Red up today, Neo has to work late." Heart said.
"Can we wait for Mokuba's brother to show up first. It's not fair to just leave him alone with one but teachers for company."
"It's okay." Mokuba said. "Seto will be there any moment."
On cue a limo pulled up.
The back door opened and the tall brunet that had been sitting in front of her in class looked out.
"That's him now." Mokuba said. "See you in school tomorrow, Red, Itch, Bye Heart."
"Bye Mokuba see you tomorrow." The girls waved.
"Goodbye Mokuba." Heart said too. "Come on you to lets start walking."
Red coughed.
"Oh don't be picky." Heart complained.
"Can you push me?" Red asked. "My arms are tired."
Heart sighed and started pushing the wheel chair. Then Itch started complaining that her feet hurt since she couldn't fly anymore.
Heart felt guilty about flying to the school now and the pain hadn't been worth it anyway, and it was a stupid thing to do, what if her bubbled hadn't worked, or if the pharaoh and his protectors saw her? No she wasn't even going to think of Flying again unless it was an emergency. Heart sighed and told Itch that it wasn't that far left to go.
Not one of the three noticed the two across the road.
"I don't think it's them my lady." Said the blond man. Holding his purple hat in his gloved hands, He had a spell cast on him so he read skin was a normal flesh tone, he wore glasses since the spell had failed to make his eyes look normal. He grinned when he saw the Kiaba brothers leave. He was the same Witty Phantom who had guarded Seto Kiaba when he had been trapped in the virtual game. Any opportunity to 'play' with humans, he could see why those young unsealed monsters and that little Change of Heart wanted to come her, but still orders are orders.
"What makes you said that?" The Empress Judge asked.
The Empress Judge was on a vendetta now she wanted revenge for being possessed. She looked slightly different in the human world, she had decided to wear very tight grey leather and a blood red tank top.
"Well, we witnessed a noticeable distance between the magic and monsters." The phantom said. "But these three seem very close, also why would they walk when, if these three are who we think they are, able to fly and hide their flight from the eyes from others?"
"You can only go though so much with someone with out forming bonds. I think we should start watching the item holders, power draws power towards it weather or not it wishes it. Now see to it." The Empress Judge walked into the crowd and vanished.
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[1] Yes the cards know Mokuba as the trickster Duellist. Mostly because I heard that in the first series. (The one they didn't want us to see.) Mokuba was a brat and he played Yugi in a game called Monster capsule, only the games were rigged. And also because He is the Dragon Duellist's little brother and most people know what younger siblings are like. ^_^ (I should I am one.)
Question : Did Mokuba exist in Ancient Egypt? (I don't need to know this I'm just wondering.)
Request: Please Review!
And I will work on Stolen Souls next I swear! *Chains herself to computer*