"This can't get much worse, can it?"Tristan grumbled.
Kaily shook her head,"You'd be suprised. There's only two months left till the championship, and I get the feeling something bad is about to happen."
"You're not the only one."Yugi paced back and forth on the bleacher above them,"Yami's been on edge all week."
"You know what Bakahno's been up to?"Kaily hissed,"He trashed his soul room, AND mine, and he's been saying that something's really bad's about to happen, and I'll be alone soon."
"I'm afraid to ask about Yuga."Mokuba looked up from his Game Boy Advanced just long enough to see Kaily's eyes glow.
"Her?"Kaily closed her eyes for a minute,"Yuga's been really quiet lately, not even yelling at me for spending too much time on the new Duel Monsters cards, and that's one of her favorite hobbies."
"Is there somethin' the yamis know that we don't?"Tristan asked.
"Probably."Kaily looked at the Guardian's Flute,"Or maybe they're just more in-tune to the Shadow Realm and spirits in general than we are."
"I was talking to Serenity last night,"Kaiba didn't even bother to look up from his laptop,"she said she was afraid to go to Tokyo, something bad is going to happen. Her eyes have also been acting up."
Kaily turned her flute into a sword and stabbed the metal bleachers she was sitting on,"Please tell me you're kidding."
Kaiba shook his head,"It's not much, but she may need to go back to the doctor soon."
"Joey's gonna love this."Tristan snarled.
Yugi let out a low growl, making Kaily roll her eyes,"You two still at it?"
"Huh?"Mokuba and Tristan looked at her.
"Yugi and Joey got in this huge fight last week, and they're still going at eachother."Kaily hissed,"I'm ready to kill both of them by now."
"You've gotta be kidding!"Mokuba yelped.
"Sadly, no."Kaily withdrew her sword and examined it,"Right now all I'm really cocerned with is Angeline and Darien, they're dangerously close to my family, and I don't like it."
"You'll be happy to know they just filed a law suit against Solomon for child rights."Kaiba hissed,"They're headed here as we speak."
Kaily came dangerously close to putting her sword through the CEO's laptop,"Just what I need, more family problems."
"KAILY!!!! YUGI!!!! GET DOWN HERE!!! YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THIS!!!!!"
Kaily and Yugi exchanged glances, then jumped to their feet and bolted down the bleachers to the spot where Mai and Aurora were sitting, the latter holding a portable tv. Kaily grabbed the tv out of Aurora's hand,"What's up?"
"See for yourself."Mai was slightly pale and Aurora was ready to kill.
"Ban Duel Monsters. That's what some concerned parents are saying after a young boy, pretending to be one of the monsters, stabbed a classmate and killed him." Kaily paled considerably. "A group of people are trying to make Kaily Pegasus, the teenage head of Industrial Illusions, discontinue the production of Duel Monsters cards and merchandise, though they can't seem to find her."
"That's not gonna last long."Yugi muttered.
"The Duel Monsters game, which pits monsters against eachother in sometimes very violent battles, is a hit among teenagers and children all around the world. Despite this, a large number of parents wish to have the game banned because of what it teaches. I am here now with the leader of this group, Linda Cheshorme. Miss Cheshorme, why do you want the game banned so badly?" "This game is satanic and far too violent, that's been proven with the death of that boy. I've been against this game sine Maximillion Pegasus came out with it twenty years ago, and now his daughter is continuing the legacy." "Does it seem strange to you that the mother of the boy who was killed is not supportive of your group?" "Satan has clouded her eyes, and she can't see the evil of it." "What is your opinion on the Pegasus girl?" "I think she is a terrible girl, probably a satan worshipper, like her father. She's already been expelled from her school for vandalism and is notorious for getting into fights. She has a great gift from God, and she uses it for Satan. I've seen her paintings, and they're full of demons and such things. I'd be ashamed to have a daughter like her." "How do you think she will react to what you are doing?"
Kaily let out a low growl and turned the tv off,"I don't want to hear any more crap. We're going home."
Yugi and Mai looked at her, and saw the familiar fire that Yami was famous for when he got mad in her eyes. Yugi nodded to Aurora, who ran back up the bleachers to get the others, then turned back to his sister,"What will you do?"
"What I have to,"Kaily closed her eyes,"fight back. It's my nature to fight, I won't just let them destroy everything Dad worked so hard to build."
Mai nodded,"Those boys raised you well, Kaily. You're no little girl."
"Little girls don't run multi-million dollar companies."Yugi grinned,"I don't think she ever was a little girl."
Yugi sat up, his face drenched in sweat. He'd had a nightmare, but, what about he couldn't remember. All he knew was that it scared him. He sleepily climbed out of bed and wandered out of the room, every intention of going down stairs and getting something to snack on. Across the hall, Kaily's room was dark, and her door was wide open, but she was nowhere to be seen. He turned and began to head in the opposite direction. He passed Aurora's room, where said girl was sleeping soundly. Across the hall he could hear their grandfather's room was silent, like most of the world that night, save for the annoyingly loud snoring coming for the room next to his, which was occupied, much to his dissmay, by Joey, but even he was unusually quiet tonight. He wandered silently down the hall till he reached another flight of stairs, where he stopped. Those stairs had always frightened him, no matter what he did. Because of some flaws on the part of the builders Kaily had hired, there were no lights on the staircase or the fourth floor, where Kaily enjoyed hiding out. Even in broad daylight it was frighteningly dark up there. The only light came from the candles his sister kept lit. Oh, how he hated those stairs, and, he knew, Kaily hated them aswell, but for different reasons. While his fear came from the seemingly endless abyss of darkness, hers came from years on the streets, where every shadow concealed a gangers, ready to kill.
"Why are you up there, now?"Yugi whispered, looking into the shadows,"What are you doing?"
He slowly began to climb the stairs, stairs that, until now, he dared not climb out of fear. What was he afraid of? He did not know, all he knew was that ever since they'd moved into the mansion that stairway had always bothered him, and, now he was going against every instinct and climbing those dreaded stairs. It seemed like he had been walking for hours, spiraling up, never stopping. He finally came to a halt in the doorway of a huge room. The entire room was dark, save for the very center, which was lit by a few small candles set out in a ring on the floor. Kaily was seated in the middle of the ring, her long hair fanned out on the ground around her. If Yugi didn't know any better, he would have sworn the fire was actually IN her hair. Tallen and Storm were both curled up on either side of her, and her hands were folded, as if in prayer. In the dim light, it seemed almost as if she was glowing.
"Huh?"Yugi did a double take. She WAS glowing, and, more importantly, so were the Guardian's Flute and the Millenium Items,"What the?"
"De macht van schaduw, begeleidt nu me. Ik roep u help me om te beschermen ik geboren was te bewaken. Het kwaad neemt toe aangezien de dagen voorbijgaan, en aangezien onze reis aan Tokyo nadert, dat dit vreemde kwaad doet. Ik was geboren om de Punten van het Millenium, en hun houders te beschermen, maar ik kan dit alleen doen niet, en de jongens kunnen misschien komen niet. Ik kan de dark's vrees voelen, maken zij zich ongerust, zoals mijn broer. Deze vrees, kan ik begrijpen niet, maar het bindt me. Laat me dit overwinnen, en de schaduw van mijn hartstijging om de bedreiging te begroeten die aan me komt."
Ok, now he was really starting to worry now. What she'd said was clearly notin Egyptian, or he would have been able to understand it, but he could practically taste the fear in her voice, in her very breath. A dark black aura shined around her, and, for a moment, Yugi paniced, then realized, much to his releif, that it was simply her magic. His mind wandered back to the first night he'd learned about magic, and what Kaily had said. 'Each person has their own element, light, shadow, fire, air, earth, water, psy, and lightning, and each element is based in a certain part of the world, light in Eastern Africa, Shadow in Western, Fire in North America, Air in Antarctia, water in the Australia, psy in Asia, and lightning South America. Each item holder has their own element, and so do I. Mine is shadow, Bakura's is probably psy or air, and, I don't know about you....' They had yet to figure that one out, but, that didn't bother him, the fact that Kaily was nervous about something, that was what bothered him.
"I know you're there Yugi."
Kaily shook her head,"You'd be suprised. There's only two months left till the championship, and I get the feeling something bad is about to happen."
"You're not the only one."Yugi paced back and forth on the bleacher above them,"Yami's been on edge all week."
"You know what Bakahno's been up to?"Kaily hissed,"He trashed his soul room, AND mine, and he's been saying that something's really bad's about to happen, and I'll be alone soon."
"I'm afraid to ask about Yuga."Mokuba looked up from his Game Boy Advanced just long enough to see Kaily's eyes glow.
"Her?"Kaily closed her eyes for a minute,"Yuga's been really quiet lately, not even yelling at me for spending too much time on the new Duel Monsters cards, and that's one of her favorite hobbies."
"Is there somethin' the yamis know that we don't?"Tristan asked.
"Probably."Kaily looked at the Guardian's Flute,"Or maybe they're just more in-tune to the Shadow Realm and spirits in general than we are."
"I was talking to Serenity last night,"Kaiba didn't even bother to look up from his laptop,"she said she was afraid to go to Tokyo, something bad is going to happen. Her eyes have also been acting up."
Kaily turned her flute into a sword and stabbed the metal bleachers she was sitting on,"Please tell me you're kidding."
Kaiba shook his head,"It's not much, but she may need to go back to the doctor soon."
"Joey's gonna love this."Tristan snarled.
Yugi let out a low growl, making Kaily roll her eyes,"You two still at it?"
"Huh?"Mokuba and Tristan looked at her.
"Yugi and Joey got in this huge fight last week, and they're still going at eachother."Kaily hissed,"I'm ready to kill both of them by now."
"You've gotta be kidding!"Mokuba yelped.
"Sadly, no."Kaily withdrew her sword and examined it,"Right now all I'm really cocerned with is Angeline and Darien, they're dangerously close to my family, and I don't like it."
"You'll be happy to know they just filed a law suit against Solomon for child rights."Kaiba hissed,"They're headed here as we speak."
Kaily came dangerously close to putting her sword through the CEO's laptop,"Just what I need, more family problems."
"KAILY!!!! YUGI!!!! GET DOWN HERE!!! YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THIS!!!!!"
Kaily and Yugi exchanged glances, then jumped to their feet and bolted down the bleachers to the spot where Mai and Aurora were sitting, the latter holding a portable tv. Kaily grabbed the tv out of Aurora's hand,"What's up?"
"See for yourself."Mai was slightly pale and Aurora was ready to kill.
"Ban Duel Monsters. That's what some concerned parents are saying after a young boy, pretending to be one of the monsters, stabbed a classmate and killed him." Kaily paled considerably. "A group of people are trying to make Kaily Pegasus, the teenage head of Industrial Illusions, discontinue the production of Duel Monsters cards and merchandise, though they can't seem to find her."
"That's not gonna last long."Yugi muttered.
"The Duel Monsters game, which pits monsters against eachother in sometimes very violent battles, is a hit among teenagers and children all around the world. Despite this, a large number of parents wish to have the game banned because of what it teaches. I am here now with the leader of this group, Linda Cheshorme. Miss Cheshorme, why do you want the game banned so badly?" "This game is satanic and far too violent, that's been proven with the death of that boy. I've been against this game sine Maximillion Pegasus came out with it twenty years ago, and now his daughter is continuing the legacy." "Does it seem strange to you that the mother of the boy who was killed is not supportive of your group?" "Satan has clouded her eyes, and she can't see the evil of it." "What is your opinion on the Pegasus girl?" "I think she is a terrible girl, probably a satan worshipper, like her father. She's already been expelled from her school for vandalism and is notorious for getting into fights. She has a great gift from God, and she uses it for Satan. I've seen her paintings, and they're full of demons and such things. I'd be ashamed to have a daughter like her." "How do you think she will react to what you are doing?"
Kaily let out a low growl and turned the tv off,"I don't want to hear any more crap. We're going home."
Yugi and Mai looked at her, and saw the familiar fire that Yami was famous for when he got mad in her eyes. Yugi nodded to Aurora, who ran back up the bleachers to get the others, then turned back to his sister,"What will you do?"
"What I have to,"Kaily closed her eyes,"fight back. It's my nature to fight, I won't just let them destroy everything Dad worked so hard to build."
Mai nodded,"Those boys raised you well, Kaily. You're no little girl."
"Little girls don't run multi-million dollar companies."Yugi grinned,"I don't think she ever was a little girl."
Yugi sat up, his face drenched in sweat. He'd had a nightmare, but, what about he couldn't remember. All he knew was that it scared him. He sleepily climbed out of bed and wandered out of the room, every intention of going down stairs and getting something to snack on. Across the hall, Kaily's room was dark, and her door was wide open, but she was nowhere to be seen. He turned and began to head in the opposite direction. He passed Aurora's room, where said girl was sleeping soundly. Across the hall he could hear their grandfather's room was silent, like most of the world that night, save for the annoyingly loud snoring coming for the room next to his, which was occupied, much to his dissmay, by Joey, but even he was unusually quiet tonight. He wandered silently down the hall till he reached another flight of stairs, where he stopped. Those stairs had always frightened him, no matter what he did. Because of some flaws on the part of the builders Kaily had hired, there were no lights on the staircase or the fourth floor, where Kaily enjoyed hiding out. Even in broad daylight it was frighteningly dark up there. The only light came from the candles his sister kept lit. Oh, how he hated those stairs, and, he knew, Kaily hated them aswell, but for different reasons. While his fear came from the seemingly endless abyss of darkness, hers came from years on the streets, where every shadow concealed a gangers, ready to kill.
"Why are you up there, now?"Yugi whispered, looking into the shadows,"What are you doing?"
He slowly began to climb the stairs, stairs that, until now, he dared not climb out of fear. What was he afraid of? He did not know, all he knew was that ever since they'd moved into the mansion that stairway had always bothered him, and, now he was going against every instinct and climbing those dreaded stairs. It seemed like he had been walking for hours, spiraling up, never stopping. He finally came to a halt in the doorway of a huge room. The entire room was dark, save for the very center, which was lit by a few small candles set out in a ring on the floor. Kaily was seated in the middle of the ring, her long hair fanned out on the ground around her. If Yugi didn't know any better, he would have sworn the fire was actually IN her hair. Tallen and Storm were both curled up on either side of her, and her hands were folded, as if in prayer. In the dim light, it seemed almost as if she was glowing.
"Huh?"Yugi did a double take. She WAS glowing, and, more importantly, so were the Guardian's Flute and the Millenium Items,"What the?"
"De macht van schaduw, begeleidt nu me. Ik roep u help me om te beschermen ik geboren was te bewaken. Het kwaad neemt toe aangezien de dagen voorbijgaan, en aangezien onze reis aan Tokyo nadert, dat dit vreemde kwaad doet. Ik was geboren om de Punten van het Millenium, en hun houders te beschermen, maar ik kan dit alleen doen niet, en de jongens kunnen misschien komen niet. Ik kan de dark's vrees voelen, maken zij zich ongerust, zoals mijn broer. Deze vrees, kan ik begrijpen niet, maar het bindt me. Laat me dit overwinnen, en de schaduw van mijn hartstijging om de bedreiging te begroeten die aan me komt."
Ok, now he was really starting to worry now. What she'd said was clearly notin Egyptian, or he would have been able to understand it, but he could practically taste the fear in her voice, in her very breath. A dark black aura shined around her, and, for a moment, Yugi paniced, then realized, much to his releif, that it was simply her magic. His mind wandered back to the first night he'd learned about magic, and what Kaily had said. 'Each person has their own element, light, shadow, fire, air, earth, water, psy, and lightning, and each element is based in a certain part of the world, light in Eastern Africa, Shadow in Western, Fire in North America, Air in Antarctia, water in the Australia, psy in Asia, and lightning South America. Each item holder has their own element, and so do I. Mine is shadow, Bakura's is probably psy or air, and, I don't know about you....' They had yet to figure that one out, but, that didn't bother him, the fact that Kaily was nervous about something, that was what bothered him.
"I know you're there Yugi."