I'm very very sorry this is so late but I had a good excuse, my father was in hospital, but he's out and a lot better now, and to make up for it I have a super-sized chapter for you!
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Warnings: don't know, maybe some light swearing. And watch out for my ignorance of the Japanese school timetable.
Also there will be no homosexual relationship in this story Thank you to everyone who voted.
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"Why is Heart being so stubborn?" Hope asked
Carl shrugged. "Heart had figured something out that the others hadn't yet."
"What?"
"That, even if you have escaped from the shadow realm if you are still so afraid of it that you keep running away you aren't really free of it."
"But...better that then dead right?"
"If they had thought that in the first place they never would have left the shadow realm in the first place."
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CHAPTER 15 -DESTINY DRAW
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-~-~-~-~- Saturday -~-~-~-~- (The Japanese do have school on a Saturday don't they?) -~-~-~-~-
It had been a day since the meeting. And it was the day that Neo and Red was moving to their new bigger apartment.
It was meant to be a great day, and Neo was looking forward to having a bedroom again instead of sleeping in the living room. Red had squealed when she had seen how big her new room was. Neo turned when he heard a knock at the door.
"Magi? What...shouldn't you be in school?" Neo asked.
"Well that's a fine way to greet someone who's her to help you." Magi complained crossing her arms. "Besides if Red can have a day of school to move her stuff in I can take a day off to help."
Neo stepped out of Magi's way.
"Sorry...you surprised me." Neo said. "Thanks for offering a hand."
"Well I'm surprised no one else is here to help you." Magi muttered looking though the towers of heavy boxes in the living room. "Funny I didn't think you had this much furnisher."
"The place was already furnished. It means the rent is a bit higher but it works out cheaper than furnishing the place myself. " Neo explained. "I'm just glad I can afford this at all, I owe your brother big time."
"Nah he was glad not to be the only one of us working for Kaibacorp, and then of course he had to be transferred." Magi pouted. "Leaving me behind like excess baggage."
"Don't be silly." Neo said as he picked up a box to carry into his room. "Dar and De probably just thought you were mature enough to take care of yourself."
"Really?" Magi asked picking up another box marked Neo's bedroom and following Neo. Red was still in her room sorting out the stuff she had took in with her.
"Sure." Neo answered. "How are they anyway?"
"Oh their fine, Dar said he's coming back as soon as he can. He also said that if we decide to go he can try to set up places for us to stay over there."
"Mmmm."
"Mmmm?" Magi echoed. "Aren't you going to vote to leave?"
"Red doesn't want to."
"Red's just a kid." Magi pointed out. "Of course she doesn't want to leave her friends behind, but I don't think she is old enough to have a vote on this."
"She chose to come with us so far, she's very mature for her age..."There was the sound of a computer game starting up in Red's room. Red had chosen her priorities and her PS2 was the most important thing which should be set up first.
"Most of the time." Neo finished dumping his box and heading to the living room for another.
Magi done the same and followed him
"What do you think then?" She asked.
"I haven't decided yet. What about you? You still set on running?" Neo asked picking up a box for the kitchen this time.
"What do you mean?" Magi asked following him. "Setting up here is fine, but it's going to do us a lot of good dead."
Neo didn't reply he opened the box and pulled out a kettle, filled it with water and plugged it in.
"Magi, we knew that me might be killed when we first started running, Flamed was my friend you know, and I know that he wouldn't want us to run all our life, that's no life at all." Neo said as he dug in the box for three cups and tea bags. "Look at where we are now, the monsters can't actually come after us ripping buildings apart or anything, it would be like the film Godzzila, the army would be called out at stop it."
"And what if they don't care? What if they send something powerful but small?"
Neo sighed finishing making the tea. "I know that's a chance, and I'm going to have to think. You might not need a week to make up your mind but I do."
Magi sighed.
"Sorry I just wanted to know what your thinking of doing."
"Well for now I'm just thinking about getting Red off that computer and actually unpacking."
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Tea listened as Joey and Yugi kept talking about how they were going to get ready for Battle City starting next week. Joey was all starry eyed, and Yugi would fall quiet at times as he talked to his other half.
It was last lesson and the teacher was away ill so the sub has given them all a free period.
Tristan was asleep, Ryou was reading, as was Kaiba. Other students were taking. Heart was reading a newspaper of all things, but when Tea had asked her about it Heart said it was personal. Tea turned to look at...Carl wasn't it? He was drawing in an Artist pad.
It looked like a Dragon, a very familiar dragon.
Tea got up and walked over to Carls desk.
"Nice Blue Eyes." Tea said.
Carl jumped, he hadn't noticed Tea.
"Sorry Carl I didn't mean to scare you."
"No it's okay, Tea isn't it?"
Tea nodded.
"Call me Chaos, I...er...like it better than Carl."
"Sure." Tea agreed although she thought Chaos was an odd nickname. "What's the mark across the dragon?"
"Oh that was where he was ripped."
"How did you know about that?"
"Err...Know about what?" Chaos looked behind Tea and she saw Heart watching them.
"That Yugi's grandfather's Blue Eye's White Dragon was ripped in half?"
Oh crap! Chaos panicked.
"I didn't know that....You mean...Yugi's grand father had a real Blue-Eye's ?"
"What do you mean real?"
"Well I had a fake one you see." Chaos said. "I was so excited I took it to show a card expert that I used to know, who told me it was a fake and ripped it in half before my eyes."
Chaos looked down doing his best to look utterly miserable.
"Oh." Tea looked like she didn't have a clue how to respond to Chaos's story. "I'm sorry...I better get back to my desk now.
A moment after Tea left Chaos was hit in the head in the head with a scrunched up ball of paper.
Nice going dummy. Good cover story though Loved the acting, maybe you should add tears next time?.
Chaos looked up but Heart had already turned back to her newspaper.
-~-~-~-~- Sunday -~-~-~-~-
Celt had just gotten to bed after working all Saturday night when the phone rang.
"Hello?" Myst answered.
Celt pulled the blanket over his head so he could sleep when Myst squealed.
"By the Pharaoh! Yes yes of course, I'll be right there!"
Next thing Celt knew the blanket was pulled off him and some clean clothes were thrown at him.
"Hurry up and get dressed, Lady is having her Egg!"
Myst clapped her hands together and started getting the stuff she needed, Celt didn't see what he was too tired. He staggered out of the bedroom.
"Celt dear you have your sweater on backwards..."
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Seto sat on a bench in the park. A laptop was appropriately enough resting on his lap. Every few moments he would look up from the screen to Watch Mokuba playing.
"YOUR KIDDING!"
Seto looked up sharply at Mokuba's shouting. Mokuba was with his two friends from school. He and the girl with black air were sitting on the swings and the red-head was in the wheel chair before them. The dark haired one was nodding vigorously.
"Yeah it's true, by the time Myst..." The dark haired girl, Seto thought Mokuba called her Itch, was saying.
"Myst?" Mokuba interrupted.
"She's a friend, she's acting like Lady Rose's er what do you call them?" The wheel-chaired...Red Seto remembered...girl tried to explain.
"Midwife." Itch answered.
"Oh." Mokuba nodded.
"Yeah and Myst didn't want us there, so Itch phoned me to see if I'd go to the park with her."
"I thought it was another month before your aunt was going to give birth." Mokuba said.
"She said that she must have worked the dates out wrong.
"So how did you get your brother out of the office?" Red asked looking in Seto's direction.
Seto rose an eye brow looking back at the screen but still listening.
"Yeah I thought you said he was chained to his desk." Itch giggled.
"Well it turns out he's just chained to his computer." Mokuba told the girls. "He said that he had fallen behind because of Battle city next week. So he had to bring his work with him."
"Oh."
Was it just Seto or were the girls suddenly subdued.
"Mokuba...There's something we have to tell you." Red said.
"We might be moving away...soon."
Seto looked up, Itch was looking down at her lap her hands holding tightly to the chains. Seto blinked, something wasn't right with what he could said, save for the fact the three of them looked so miserable. Seto's eyes widened when he realised what the problem was, he stopped eves-dropping looking down at his keyboard so he wouldn't openly stare.
The girls shadows.
They weren't human.
Seto shook his head. Impossible...
He looked up again.
The shadow's were normal.
It must have been a trick of the light. Seto told himself, he almost believed it too. It's a good thing they're moving then I don't think I should let them hang around Mokuba to much.
To save himself from anymore shocks Seto immersed himself in his work again. Looking though application forms for the people he needed to monitor the duel disks in battle city.
One of the names marked down was Myst Evens.
-~-~-~-~- Monday -~-~-~-~-
Black kept his tailed curled around the egg. It would keep it warm long enough for him to finish the deer he was eating. It was only the second day of egg sitting and he was already finding it a strain, he couldn't leave the cave at all now or the child within the egg would die.
"I should be grateful, at least I didn't have to lay the thing." Black told himself. "It's a very big egg for just a little monster."
"It is to big." Ther said as he walked into the cave Myst followed him with a dead bird to cook for themselves and Lady who was sleeping in the sun out side the cave.
"Really?"
"Yes, I think travelling from the shadow realm to here done something to the unborn child, it's growing faster than it should." Myst said sounding deeply concerned. "With luck once he or she breaks out of the egg the child will be fine other wise..."
"Myst what's wrong?" Black rose up on his hunches.
Ther looked at Myst in surprise. "Your not...?"
"Me?!" Myst laughed. "No I'm not pregnant, but what if this happens to all the children any of us have? What if this was the reason leaving the shadow realm was forbidden was because of this?"
"Myst, Lady is here to worry about the child and it's Dar's job to worry about the rest. You just worry about that job you applied for." Black lowered himself back down to all fours. "Dose Celt know?"
"So you did apply for that Kiabacorp job Neo told you about did you?" Ther asked.
"Yeah, and he was not happy about it."
Black chuckled. "I can imagine, have you heard from Dar?"
"He said that if we vote not to leave he'll come back, without De." Myst sounded worried again.
"Without her?" Black lay against egg to keep it warm.
"She's not very well." Myst muttered.
"Ah, so that is why your worried, I'm sure that if it was really that bad Dar would insist that you went to see her."
Myst smiled. "Your right, thanks."
Baby ran into the cave a second dead deer with him.
Ther laughed at the excided little dragon and how proud of the kill he was. The Harpy Brother took the deer and set it to cook as well as the bird Myst had brought.
"You know what else I'm right about?" Black said as he watched the two.
"What?" Myst asked.
"No matter what happens to this child, or any other children that comes, they will be well taken care of, and well loved."
Myst sniffed tears in her eyes. She ran at Black and wrapped her arms around his muzzle in a hug.
"Mmuff!" Black growled but his words were muffled. "Get off woman I'm trying to eat!"
-~-~-~-~- Tuesday -~-~-~-~-
Over on the other side of Japan Dar closed the door as he came home.
"Dar your home?"
"Looks like it." Dar said collapsing against the back door.
De hugged Dar, though she was moving a little stiffly.
"Still worried?"
Dar nodded.
"Look it was your job to get everyone here." De said pulling Dar to the living room to sit down on the couch. "You've done that, now you heard Myst yourself, until they make the vote on Friday you have no reasonability and nothing to worry about."
Dar snorted.
"Hey, hey." De chided gently. "If you keep stressing you'll end up looking like a dark sage."
"Very funny."
De sat next to Dar and started playing with his long hair.
"If you really feel that bad about being away now, why don't you go back, a week isn't going to make a difference to me."
"Yes it will and I am not leaving you." Dar sighed. "I'll wait for them to make the vote and then decide what to do."
"That's better." De said. "I'll have just to go into hospital a bit early if they vote note to come here."
"No you won't" Dar said. "When I go back your coming with me."
"Are you sure? You know I can't fight now."
"I know, but we've gone though so much together so far, I just want to keep you as close as I can."
"Aww, you really do love me don't you." De said looking at Dar with half lidded eyes.
Dar kissed her on the nose. "Of course."
De laughed but Dar cut her off by kissing her on the lips.
"Dar haven't you gotten me into enough trouble?" De asked.
"There's isn't any trouble we can't handle." Dar answered.
-~-~-~-~- Wednesday -~-~-~-~-
Solomon waved goodbye to his son as he left with his friends for school. He had already swept the pavement outside the shop and was now going inside to sweep the tiled floor.
He turned around when the bell above the door rung.
In the doorway was a young blond girl, she was about the same height as Yugi's friend Ryou. She was wearing the same uniform as Tea.
"Oh, are you a friend of my grandson Miss?"
The girl shook her head, she seemed nervous about something.
"Sir, er... I have a message to give to you but, I need to know two things first."
Solomon looked at the girl suspiciously. He had a odd feeling about her.
"And what may they be young lady?"
"Can you keep a secret sir?"
Solomon nodded his head though the suspicious look didn't leave his face.
Heart look a step into the shop. "And do you have the fourth Blue-Eyes White Dragon card, the one that was torn?"
Solomon didn't answer immediately, that question had just confirmed all of his doubts about this child.
"Why do you ask that?"
"I should have expected it would be like this."
Solomon blinked two voices from one child? Could this girl be like his grandson? And if so what will happen to him this time? He really didn't want to have his should banished again.
"Do you have the torn Blue-Eye's White Dragon?" As the girl spoke half of her body became cast in shadow.
Solomon nodded.
"Good." Two wings burst froth from the girls back. "That dragon helped me at one time, and in return he asked me to tell you, He knows that it was not your fault that he was torn."
Solomon swallowed to wet his suddenly dry throat. "Change of Heart? Ryou Bakura's change of heart?"
The change of heart shook her head.
"No, I'm not in any deck, I'm...a runaway."
Solomon realised why she had come after Yugi had left. Why she had waited for everyone that Solomon knew was connected to his son was on the way to school.
"Then you've taken a risk coming here haven't you?"
"Yes, which leads to the reason I asked if you could keep a secret, tell no one you have seen, not even your grandson. More than my life depends on it."
"If giving me that message puts you at such risk...?"
"Why deliver it? Your dragon saved my life sir." The change of heart turned away her wings growing down into her back and the shadow's faded from her body.
"And besides." The girls voice began to fade together again. "I always keep my word. Now if you excuse me I'm going to be late for school."
The girl ran out of the shop.
Solomon watched the empty doorway for a long time after she had gone.
-~-~-~-~- Thursday -~-~-~-~-
It was recess, almost everyone was out side, Heart on the other hand was still sat by her desk with another newspaper.
"Just what are you doing with a newspaper all the time? You can't be that interested in the current affaires of the human world."
"I'm looking for a flat." Heart said not looking up.
"What on earth for?" Bakura asked looking over Heart's shoulder. "And all those places are dumps anyway."
"Yeah well even they are more than I can afford." Heart muttered.
"Get a job."
"How can I do that I'll be expelled." Heart complained still not looking up.
Bakura crossed his arms.
"Your just as bloody stubborn as your mother."
Heart didn't answer.
"Why are you looking for a flat anyway?"
"Because...." Heart sighed. "Everyone else might be leaving soon and I've refused to do so."
Bakura blinked. "Why?"
Now Heart did look up at Bakura, but didn't answer his question. Bakura sighed, picking up the newspaper and rolling it up.
"If you need a place to stay you can stay at my place."
Heart cocked her head to one side. "Don't you mean Ryou's place?"
Bakura glared at Heart.
"Hey it's not often I do something for free so quit looking this gift horse in the mouth right!"
"Yes thief king whatever you say thief king."
Heart flinched when the newspaper was bought down on her head.
"That was for your impertinence child." Bakura said walking towards the door. "You always did have too quick a mouth."
"How would you know?" Heart asked.
Bakura dropped the newspaper in the bin by the door.
"What you thought I never kept tabs on you? You are the only child of my favourite card."
Heart opened her mouth but it was already to late, Bakura was gone.
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Chaos, Magi and Heart picked up Itch and Red when school had finished, they were walking though town to were they would meet Neo, Myst, and Celt for a lift up to black's cave, where lady, Black and Baby were waiting for them.
The vote was today.
As they walked they saw that every child and teen in the city was going nuts over the tournament start tomorrow.
"It's a good thing it's half term now, I don't think anyone would have turned up for school tomorrow anyway." Itch said.
"That's for sure." Red agreed. "Magi stop pushing me I can get this chair to move fast enough on my own."
Magi huffed. "I was only trying to help."
"No you just want to get the vote over with so you can get as far away from here as possible you coward." Red snapped.
"Magi opened her mouth."
"Red Magi is no coward." Heart snapped at read. "She just doesn't want to fight anymore, and I don't blame her."
Heart walked on ahead leaving the others staring at her.
As they walked Chaos saw Yugi Joey Tea and Tristan enter a shop, probably to pick up their own duel disks like so many others.
At the cave there was none of the usual cheery greetings. The importance of the vote was weighing on everyone's minds. They're choice today would change they're life's forever.
If they voted to leave they would go and have to start a new life all over again in another place, make new home's get new jobs make new friends, and even then they might still be hunted down and forced to move again.
If they voted to stay, they might not be found by the other duel monster that hunted but if they were they would have no choice but to fight, and all most certainly die.
Black with the egg nestled against his side with his tail still wrapped around it and now his wing over it sat at the back of the cave, Baby sat between his forepaws, Magi sat next to baby, Chaos sat on Blacks right forelimb. Heart sat to Chaos's right, then Itch and Red. Neo to Red's right and was almost opposite Magi, Then next to Neo was Celt, Mist, Ther, and finally Lady was sitting by Black's left paw.
Each of them had given up there disguise and looked like their true monster form, save for Celt Neo and Magi who's only disguise was their clothes or in Magi's case her uniform.
"So who will lead this meeting?" Mystical Elf asked.
Each monster looked at each other.
"I think that you have been doing a very good job at being our leader so far Myst." Lady said "why do you want to pass leadership off onto someone else now?"
"I..." Myst paused. "I've come to this meeting with my mind made up as to what to do, I don't want it to effect my judgment."
"Please." Heart said. "Don't mention 'Judge' I never want to think of her again."
Black, Chaos and Neo started snickering. Red and Itch joined in once they realised Heart was talking about the Empress Judge.
Magi just gave her a 'how can you joke at a time like this' look.
"I think," Ther said braking into the laughter, "that almost all of us has come here with our mind made up. I'm sure you can jud- decide the best course of action without your own wishes getting in the way."
Murmurs of agreement came from everyone else at Ther's comment.
with a new look of determination on her face Myst nodded. "Thank you, well I guess I should tell you how we shall be voting."
Myst took off the hat Celt was wearing to hide his ears.
"Hey!"
"Relax I'm only borrowing it." Myst said as she pulled two bags of marbles, one white and one black. out of a larger bag she had brought with her. She passed them to Ther. "Take one of each colour and pass them around.
"What's this for?" Lady asked as she accepted the bags off her brother.
"This is so no one feels forced to vote a certain way." Myst explained. "You each have one white marble and one black marble, if you vote to leave you place the white marble into Celt's hat, if you vote to stay you place the black marble into the hat."
"What about me? I can't pick up the marbles they're too small."
Myst stood up and walked towards Black. Picking up the two marbles that Lady had placed by his right forepaw for him.
"I didn't think of that sorry. Whisper your vote to me and I'll drop your marble in for you."
Black whispered his vote and Myst dropped one of the marbles in, she hid the other in her pocket so no one could see what his vote had been. She then done the same to her own marbles before passing the hat to Ther. Who quickly dropped his marble in and passed it to his sister.
When the Hat reached Magi she held the white marble in the palm of her hand for everyone to see before dropping it in. Chaos kept his vote secret, but Heart done the same thing as Magi, only with the black marble.
"I think you've lost your marbles." Magi muttered.
Heart glared at Magi but said nothing as she passed the hat onto Itch. When Red passed it to Neo he locked his eyes on Magi when he put his marble in, though he let no one see what colour it was.
Finally the hat reached Myst again. One by one she pulled the marbles out and placed them on the ground before her so everyone could see.
"It looks like we're staying then." She announced.
For only three of the marbles were white.
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I chickened out of writing the laying of the egg, so sue me. (As if you'd get much) but hey at least I updated right?