An: Well it has been a while. Got really tired after doing chapter after
chapter. I wrote chapter 7 on vacation. It is like 50+ pages O_o. This
chapter brings Calia and Adam to life, not just voices in their soul rooms.
Just warning y'all, there will be the first of a few lemons next chapter.
Ya ya, I am sorry to those of you who are not into that stuff. I think it
helps the plot with Calia and Seth being husband and wife. Plus I want to
see if I can do it. Thinking is nothing compared to trying to write it down
and make it not look like utter shit. BTW I have a duel in here. I do duel,
but I am lazy and do not want to try to figure out cause and effect of
dueling. So I threw in what I know.it anit much.
Disclaimer: I am a poor stupid college student I only own Adam, Milia, Calia, Kayla, Jackson, and Seth who just got added on.
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Battles Thru Time Chapter 7: Rediscoveries By Cascade Illusions Last Revised: August 8, 2003
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At the dance
Stopping mid-step, Kayla hitched her breath as if she were in pain. Kay could have sworn that she had heard a voice in her head. It was feminine, Kayla knew that.
"Kay what is wrong?" Adam stopped from his spot at her side turning to her with a concerned look on his face.
"It's nothing Adam. I thought I heard a female voice in my head, but it was just the music." Kayla was trying to convince herself. Kayla saw the look of disbelief in Adam's eyes and walked away. Adam knew this jester very well, but refused to let it drop.
"You know that you are not the only one who thinks they hear voices in their head. Mine happens to sound like a man." Adam whispered in her ear as he caught up with her. Kayla looked at him with saucer size like eyes.
"It's not normal is it?" Kayla now looked worried at the thought of hearing voices. Adam gave her a half smile as he shook his head.
"Is there anything normal about us Kay? You and Milia's parents are gay, I think Jack's dad may be gay, and my dad just dislikes humans period, as well as writing a bestseller on how to be an ass." Kayla's eyes widen to twice their size as she looked over Adam's shoulder.
"Is that what you think of me?" Seto said from his place behind Adam in the pitch-black gym that was punctured with color from spinning lights.
'Oh shit' Adam thought as he turned to face his adoptive father. Seto had his patented ice look to his features as he looked at his son.
"That should teach you to check before you go and insult someone." Adam's eyes narrowed. Seth's voice rang out thru his hikari's mind as he commented that he was looking at his father even down to the condescending sound of his voice. Adam shook his head trying to get the sound out.
"Lying to me boy?" Kayla stepped up to Seto.
"No he is just shaking his head at your over bloated ego. So what brings you here? Shouldn't you be making your employee's lives hell?" Kayla titled her head up and to the side at Seto watching his grow red with anger.
"I would watch what you say brat or you will find yourself out side." Seto was losing his temper.
"And you will find your self in the Shadow Realm." Kayla smiled sweetly as her threat hit Seto who in return glared.
"She also might splatter your nose all over your face again. Plus Yami would kick your butt to the Shadow Realm if you try to touch his little girl."
"Keep acting like this and you will never run Kaiba Crop." Seto crossed his arms across his chest as he smelled victory in this little fight.
"What made you think I want that punishment?" Kayla snickered.
"What are you doing here? Don't you and Adam have an appointment tomorrow to make Adam miserable at what. ten am?" Kayla said cheekily to Seto.
"I was informed by the school that since he is unable to behave, that I was needed to show up. I would also never pass a chance to piss you off" Seto said to Adam as the DJ changed the music from Union Underground to a party mix.
"Fine by me old man, but why don't you go sit before your old decrepit system over loads." Seto looked as if he was about to strike Adam, so Kayla took Adam by the hand and led him over to the dance floor.
"I am shocked you have lived this long with the way you talk to father. Only Calia had the guts to talk like that to my father and would live after wards. Well lived as long as that bastard pharaoh let her live. Well I might as well come out of this room and take a look at this girl my hikari loves." Seth thought as he materialized out side of his soul room. He felt a very weak power. Walking around to get a better look at Kayla.
"Hmm not bad at all. I can see why he would love this beauty." Adam laughed as he thought of the deep feelings his hikari had hidden deep down for this girl. "I know I would love her. She looks just like my beloved Calia." Seth continued to look over Kayla. He continued to notice how she looked like Calia. He worked his way down her body till he noticed her arm bands.
"It can't be. Why would this girl have the gauntlets that hold my love?" Seth questioned as Adam pulled Kayla up to him fitting her small butt into the crook of his hips as they rocked to the music. After looking for a few more moments Seth decided that those must have been a copy. He could not feel any power coming from them.
"Even if she had just woken up and had gone thru the weakness I went thru, Calia would have given off a power signal." Seth tried to make himself believe he was right and those gauntlets were the ones that Calia had been imprisoned in. Feeling tired Seth faded away from the real world and back into his soul room where he looked at a picture he had drawn of Calia.
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Calia's Soul Room
"Now I know I have lost my mind. Seth has long been dead." Calia cried out loud as she saw a ghostly figure appear next to her hikari. "What seems to be his reincarnation does not look to be so bad." Calia thought as she walked over to the chest that held Seth's priest robes. Pulling them out Calia buried her face into them inhaling her husband's scent that had stayed around for so long. Calia looked around her soul room. It was done exactly like her bedchamber from when she was with Seth before and after they were married. Calia thought about the last time she had seen her husband Seth. It was when the Pharaoh had sealed himself inside the Millennium puzzle and the shadow games with him. She and Seth had just defeated a brat by the name of Malik. Needless to say Calia had been very tired from her shadow magic use when she walked into the room where the sealing started to take place. The sealing took place as it was to. Then just before Calia could reach Seth, the High Counselors came and grabbed her from behind. Guards grabbed Seth as the priest's High Counselors had, performing the sealing ritual, sealed Calia into her grandmother's prized gauntlets. All this was done in front of Seth, who after seeing Calia's lifeless body blasted all of them to the Shadow Realm with what remaining power he had left.
"I still remember how much that hurt. It was like my essence was being ripped from my bloody body and placed in hell's eternal darkness. I never want to be in the dark again." Calia thought as the torches on the walls flared to life bring even more light to the room. Growing tired of watching her Hikari, listening to the awful sound, and missing her husband, Calia climbed onto Seth's side of the bed inhaling the jasmine and nutmeg scent that Seth always smelled of. She drifted off to sleep with memories of how it used to be.
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"Don't those two ever get tired of grinding into each other? I mean they say they are friends. but to watch them dance is saying something way different." Jackson leaned back in his chair he had stolen from another table and brought to his. Sighing he watched his best friends grind against each other as they moved to the music.
"Don't even try to figure those two out. It will not work. They act like lovers on the dance floor, but elsewhere they are just friends. I think it is cute and that they will find each other eventually." Milia leaned close to Jackson and giggled. She had had just a little too much spiked punch. It was at this moment that Adam and Kayla came up to them from the dance floor. There was a light coating of sweat on them that made their skin looked like it had glitter on it.
"What are you two talking about?" Adam rested his hand on Kayla's hip as he pulled her close. Jackson grinned.
"The fact for you two just being friends, you can't seem to keep your hands off each other. What is with all the grinding and body part touching?" Milia laughed as Adam quickly removed his hand from Kayla's hip.
"Well at least we have not gotten drunk, streaked thru out the city and got caught in the park having sex." Kayla said really loud.
"Shut up Kay. No one needs to know that shit." Milia was a beet red from embarrassment.
"Well I still say you two are on friendly terms. Come on Adam we have school tomorrow. Oh you two try not to get drunk and naked again." Kayla asked her friends as she and Adam left the dance to go to his house.
"You had to go and bring that up again?" Adam asked as he helped Kayla into the stretch black limo that was always ready for the Kaiba's. Kayla giggled.
"What comes around goes around Yami always says. Plus I think they are trying to hide something." Kayla said in her matter-of-fact way when she was sure of something.
"I agree with you on that. We'll just have to wait and see how things play out." Adam watched the limo pull out of Domino High's newly paved driveway.
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Adam's Room
"Your dad needs to take the stick out of his butt and de stress. I can't believe the way he went off on us like that. I mean we sleep in here a lot." Kayla was flustered. She came out in her Belle from Beauty and the Best tank top and short's pajama set. She had her green facemask on. Bending to her duffel bag Kayla grabbed a bottle of lotion. She sat in a chair that was across from the huge king size bed in Adam's room.
"Just do what I do. Listen to his crap for about ten seconds and then say you have to go take a crap." Adam never looked up from his manga that he was reading on his bed. He had seen Kayla in her facemask before. It had no effect on him. Adam's room was quite a site once you got past all the junk on the floor. The walls were painted in a rich midnight blue trimmed with gold. The curtains were of the same blue that had a gold gauzy material hunger over them; the gold material was also used as the valance, fine gold woven thread tassels were used to pull the curtains open and closed.
In between two huge windows laid a king size four-poster bed that had a flimsy canopy above it. Gold and midnight blue cascaded down the sides and front of the bed. The headboard was against the wall. The bed was made of a rich oak. On the bed were gold sheets that were trimmed in midnight blue; gold and midnight blue pillows were littered on a mid night blue comforter. A cherry wood bed trunk lay at the foot of the bed just across from the chaise lounge that was near the bathroom. The one Kayla was sitting in. A chest of drawers was next to the bathroom door. Two nightstands were on either side of the bed.
A desk in the far corner near of the room along with three bookcases and a closet completed the room. The desk was made of the same oak as the bed. Papers were scattered all over it and the two computers that were on it. Adam had a laptop and a desktop computer. They would have been black had Kayla not gotten to them. Stickers were placed all over the computers making them look cute. In the bookcases were manga's, books, and pictures of Kayla, Jackson, and Milia. Even some of his father and his uncle Mokuba. But the majority was of Kayla.
"Do you think they are right?" Kayla asked as she put on the Vanilla scented lotions on her freshly shaven legs. Adam looked up.
"What you me "are they right"?" Adam had a feeling what she was talking about.
"About us liking each other more than just friends." Kayla looked deep in thought.
"There could be if you ask your parents. According to them we have had eyes for each other since we were but three weeks old." Kayla frowned.
"That is not an answer and you know it." She said up in the chaise lounge with her freshly shaven and lotions legs looking Adam in the eye with her green mask covered face.
"Yes I believe I am developing feelings for you Kayla. but I am not sure and sure as hell do not want to lose you incase something goes wrong. You are my best friend. I would die with out you there with me. Whether it be as friends or as lovers. For some reason I feel destiny drew us together." Adam had made his way over to where Kayla was sitting and looked at her so she would know he meant what he said. She stood as well.
"I think I feel the same. It could also explain the way we dance together. The way we become one. What do we do now?"
"Yes that could very well be. We do what comes natural. Let fate guide us thru this. If we give in then it is fate who decides. Now do me a favor and lose your Halloween mask please." Kayla giggled as she walked into the bathroom to finish washing her face. She came out five minutes later. Kayla still had her gauntlets on.
"Hey Kay where did you find those? They look old." Adam started to take his armbands off.
"I found them in my old diaper bag. It was hidden away on the top shelf in the hall closet. I am not sure who put it there. I found it one day looking for something."
"I was just wondering since I have not seen them before. We might as well turn in before he comes to bug us." Adam crawled under the covers with Kayla doing the same. Leaning over he turned off the lamp that had been illuminating the room.
"Sweet dreams Kay."
"Nighty night Adam" Kayla slipped into the world of dreams only to have the same wired dreams she had been having for a while.
~~ Kayla's Dream ~~
"Ra damned bastard" Calia muttered to herself as she put warm water into the buckets she had on the floor next to her. His highness was due up with in the hour. His bath had to be ready before he woke up. "Why me of all people did he chose to be his personal servant?" Calia pulled another pitcher full of warm water out of the kettle that resided in the huge kitchen of the palace. It was done in stone and not marble due to all the mess that was made. Pouring it into the bucket that was attached to a wooden piece that had groves for her arms and neck as well as places for the rope holding the buckets.
Getting the wooden piece with the two buckets attached to them Calia hurried back to her father's room. She was late and it was all Seth's fault. He had been playful when they woke at the crack of dawn. Calia smiled at the though of her love. "Ten buckets down and ten to go" Calia muttered as she walked into the pharaoh's chambers. Looking to the right Calia saw that the bedchamber door was closed. That told her he was still asleep.
"Thank Ra" Calia breathed a sigh of relief. She had almost made it to her father's washroom when she felt this searing pain across her back. It's heat burning a hole in her already tender flesh. Calia fell forward from the suddenness spilling water everywhere. She felt the familiar warm trickle on her skin. "Damn" Calia had mistaken to think the bastard was still asleep and she could get away with being late.
"Shrieking of duties is punishable by lashing. Stand your pathetic body up and go stand in the center of the wall by my bed chamber door." Yami commanded from his spot above her. Already knowing what was coming Calia went to the spot as instructed and raised her hands above her head. She was just to tired to fight back today. "Maybe if I behave he will go east on me"
"So do you dare explain to me what is more important that obeying your master?" Yami was tying her hands above her head with leather straps that were anchored into the wall.
"I am very sorry your majesty. I was held up in the kitchen." Calia said with a false docile tone. Yami smirched as he stepped closer to Calia.
"Lying to me is the wrong course of action. Also my daughter being docile does nothing for you." He stepped back and readied his whip. Calia said nothing inadvertently fueling his anger. Yami started snapping the whip across her back. Each slash made to precision. Each blow meant to cause the most pain. After 20 slashes of his whip, Yami stopped. Calia white dress was now a bloody crimson. Her gold dueling belt was now a mud color thank to all the blood that spilled onto it. At least her cards were protected. Yami stepped up to her and turned her around. Calia face was a picture of anguish.
"You are the only slave I know who endured a whipping with out screaming" Yami sneered at his daughter who just glared at him. Yami was curios as to why she was late. Rumors had it she had a lover. Some even said she was married.
"Now care to tell me the truth? Were you late perhaps because of a friend? I have heard rumors and you know I can kill you if they were to be proven true." That did it for Calia. She spit the blood that had collected in her mouth right into Yami's face. For a split second father and daughter looked into each others eyes. Their ruby eyes hardening. Their eyes were the only thing that said Calia was Yami's daughter. Calia did not have the slanted eyes nor the tri-colored hair. No her hair was blond like her mothers. Just as soon as their eyes locked Calia felt a searing pain in her cheek. Yami had slapped her.
Grading her hair and twisting it violently so she was looking him in the eye. "I will break you if it kills me you insolent bitch." Yami stepped back. He picked up the discarded whip and started whipping Calia with a renewed passion. By the time he was done Calia's dress was in shreds. Releasing her from the leather straps Calia tumbled forward onto the ground. Yami ripped what was left of her dress off.
"You are to walk around the rest of the day naked. You will serve me and all the priest at supper naked. You will do what they want and how they want. If they want pleasure then you will pleasure them right then and there. If you fail to do so then I will whip you till you can not stand. Then I will rip thru your vaginal opening and your tight little ass as I did your mother. Now clean up this mess you made and prepare my bath." Yami let the threat sit in the air as he stood over her as she started to clean up the water.
~~ End of Kayla's Dream ~~
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Kayla shot straight up in bed. Thankfully Adam did not stir. "That could not have been Yami." Kayla thought to her self as she tired to clam down from that nightmare. Kayla laid back down in hopes of sleeping. In her soul room Calia was having a hard time.
"Yes that can be him. That bastard, I still fill those whip mark." Calia sobbed as she remembered that day.
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The next morning
"Hey Kay what is wrong with you. You look like death warmed over." Adam observed her pale skin as they walked up to the school.
"I just had a very disturbing dream with Yami in it. Please don't ask anymore. I am still trying to deal." Kayla was still shaken from the brutality of it all.
"Ok I am just trying to be your best friend." He wrapped an arm around her as they got closer to the school. Changing subjects Kayla turned to Adam.
"You are going to stay away from Johnson today aren't you?" Kayla did not want Adam to get in trouble cause of that bully.
"To late Kay moron is already looking for spanky here." Jackson came up to them from the left side of the school as he pointed to Adam. They had all gotten on to the green lawns of Domino High. Students of all grades were milling around trying to avoid the start of the day.
"Where is Milia?" Kayla was looking around for the white haired girl.
"Nursing a hangover. Some moron spiked the punch. Her dad took pity on her. Though leaving her with Bakura is not what I call taking pity on a person. Adam I would perform one of your lapse in memory I have to be to school tricks and leave. "That was what they all called Adam's skipping.
"Johnson can't touch me. So there is nothing to worry about. Plus I have heard the rumors he thinks he can kill me. I kicked his butt for a reason. No one puts their hands on the girls." Adam shrugged as he went into the school. He was not worried.
"Damn Adam, I told you to leave off. I kicked him in the balls. Why did you have to do something?" Kayla was upset now.
"He tired to touch you. He got way too close. If pussy cat thinks he wants to play, bring it on I say." Kayla threw up her hands in disgust.
"You and your Kaiba pride." She screeched as she went into the school. Adam and Jackson shook their heads and followed her in. This was normal for her. Kayla could fight, she just did not like to. Just like her father Yugi.
"Can you try not to pick a fight today?" Kayla pleaded with Adam. She nodded his head.
"I have teachers to mess with. That requires thought for my standards." Jackson laughed as he pulled his books out onto the oak desk.
"I think you need a new hobby that does not over tax that one brain cell there Adam." Jackson bent over avoiding a punch.
"That is asking to much from him. You know that Jack." Kayla giggled as the teacher came in.
Lunch time
"Well that was fun". Jackson was a bit green as he sat down under their favorite tree to eat lunch under.
"What Jack, you can't handle a few guts." They had dissected frogs right before lunch.
"Bite me Adam." Jackson thru a grape at Adam as Johnson and his crew came up to them.
"Well if it anit the bitch squad." Johnson let the words fall from his lips. Kayla rolled her eyes.
"Well I am not sure about these ladies, but I take that as a compliment. Who knew that micro of a brain could think one up." Adam laughed as Kayla dealt Johnson's ego a blow.
"What are you laughing at loser?" Johnson yelled only to have Adam reply nothing. This angered the bully even more. Johnson slugged Adam in the back. This did nothing but make Adam grunt as he ate his lunch.
"What is the point of this Johnson?" Kayla was trying to keep Adam cool.
"Bitch boy here needs a lesson taught to him. I challenge you to a duel on the roof in two minutes." Johnson then turned knowing Adam would follow. Sure enough Adam did just that. He ignored Kayla as he dug out his standard issue Duel Disk. They now came with internal projectors, Adam headed up to the roof where Johnson was standing on the ledge of the roof.
"Adam NO." Kayla knew his Kaiba pride would get him killed one day. Adam turned to her and shocked her.
"Stay out of this for once." Kayla was taken back because he never talked to her like that. She looked to Jackson and they knew they were helpless.
"Come on you simpering bitch. Make your move." Adam shook his head refusing to let the stupid boy get to him. He knew he was risking it. But something inside him said he was ok. Adam really regretted talking to Kayla like he did. Adam placed two cards face down and one monster in defense mode face down. The bully did the same.
"Scared are we Johnson?" Adam taunted as he put his Dream Clown in attack mode. The other boy just laughed.
"What is so funny?" Adam was getting annoyed.
"You are going to get what is coming to you Kaiba." Johnson placed the Giant Solider of Stone in Defense mode. Adam smirched till he saw Johnson flip one of his face down cards.
"Time to pay Kaiba." Johnson activated Fissure. With the amount of realism from the disks and being on the ledge Fissure would kill anyone.
'SHIT!! I NEED MY MAGIC JAMMER!!!' Adam's mental scream woke up Seth who looked to see what was going on.
"Damn what in the hell did this boy get himself into. Well now is the best time to try this." Seth thought as he pushed Adam into his soul room and took over. As Seth took over he took the card he needed from the deck. Using Magic Jammer, Seth was able to stop Fissure from killing everyone. Seth never thought to check what he was wearing. He was still in his kilt, sandals, cape, and necklace. He really did not care. Flipping Dream Clown into defense mode destroying his stone solider. Playing Ryu-Ran against the boy dropping him down to 1800 LP.
"I suggest you stop this nonsense and step down from the ledge and concede." Seth planted that though into the bully who did as he was told. Adam also erased everyone's minds of him. Everyone but a furious wife forgot Seth was there as he went back into his soul room. Kayla and Jackson ran to Adam as Calia ranted in her soul room.
"Seth you stupid pig headed son of a bitch what have you gone and done to your self. You were supposed to be dead. Not trapped in hell." Calia was pissed off at Seth. But at least he was here with her. Now all she needed to do was get to him.
"Adam don't you ever do that to me again." Kayla was crying. Jackson was right behind her shaking his head vigorously.
"I am sorry, I won't do that again. I think I got scared myself when he played fissure." Adam hugged Kayla as they walked off the roof shaking.
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Later that night
'Ok where is Kay? I know she said she needed some time alone. She also needed to help Joey. I should not have done that.' Adam thought to himself as he did his homework. He had gotten chewed out for what he did by his father. Adam heard a knock at his door, thinking it was his father he yelled.
"Go to hell old man! I am not in the mood!!" Adam then heard a soft female's voice thru the door. Jumping off the bed he wounded why Kayla was knocking. When he opened the door Kayla seemed different. She was wearing a dress he had never seen. Plus she hated dresses. For a second he thought her eyes were crimson red and not there normal sea blue. Seth who had been up since hearing the elder Kaiba had yelled at Adam, fell off of his bed. He thought he was daydreaming till he heard the girl say Seth. His Hikari was very puzzled by this. He kept saying he was Adam. Taking the hint, Seth for the second time in one day pushed his Hikari into his soul room and locked him away for the time being.
"Calia"
Disclaimer: I am a poor stupid college student I only own Adam, Milia, Calia, Kayla, Jackson, and Seth who just got added on.
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At the dance
Stopping mid-step, Kayla hitched her breath as if she were in pain. Kay could have sworn that she had heard a voice in her head. It was feminine, Kayla knew that.
"Kay what is wrong?" Adam stopped from his spot at her side turning to her with a concerned look on his face.
"It's nothing Adam. I thought I heard a female voice in my head, but it was just the music." Kayla was trying to convince herself. Kayla saw the look of disbelief in Adam's eyes and walked away. Adam knew this jester very well, but refused to let it drop.
"You know that you are not the only one who thinks they hear voices in their head. Mine happens to sound like a man." Adam whispered in her ear as he caught up with her. Kayla looked at him with saucer size like eyes.
"It's not normal is it?" Kayla now looked worried at the thought of hearing voices. Adam gave her a half smile as he shook his head.
"Is there anything normal about us Kay? You and Milia's parents are gay, I think Jack's dad may be gay, and my dad just dislikes humans period, as well as writing a bestseller on how to be an ass." Kayla's eyes widen to twice their size as she looked over Adam's shoulder.
"Is that what you think of me?" Seto said from his place behind Adam in the pitch-black gym that was punctured with color from spinning lights.
'Oh shit' Adam thought as he turned to face his adoptive father. Seto had his patented ice look to his features as he looked at his son.
"That should teach you to check before you go and insult someone." Adam's eyes narrowed. Seth's voice rang out thru his hikari's mind as he commented that he was looking at his father even down to the condescending sound of his voice. Adam shook his head trying to get the sound out.
"Lying to me boy?" Kayla stepped up to Seto.
"No he is just shaking his head at your over bloated ego. So what brings you here? Shouldn't you be making your employee's lives hell?" Kayla titled her head up and to the side at Seto watching his grow red with anger.
"I would watch what you say brat or you will find yourself out side." Seto was losing his temper.
"And you will find your self in the Shadow Realm." Kayla smiled sweetly as her threat hit Seto who in return glared.
"She also might splatter your nose all over your face again. Plus Yami would kick your butt to the Shadow Realm if you try to touch his little girl."
"Keep acting like this and you will never run Kaiba Crop." Seto crossed his arms across his chest as he smelled victory in this little fight.
"What made you think I want that punishment?" Kayla snickered.
"What are you doing here? Don't you and Adam have an appointment tomorrow to make Adam miserable at what. ten am?" Kayla said cheekily to Seto.
"I was informed by the school that since he is unable to behave, that I was needed to show up. I would also never pass a chance to piss you off" Seto said to Adam as the DJ changed the music from Union Underground to a party mix.
"Fine by me old man, but why don't you go sit before your old decrepit system over loads." Seto looked as if he was about to strike Adam, so Kayla took Adam by the hand and led him over to the dance floor.
"I am shocked you have lived this long with the way you talk to father. Only Calia had the guts to talk like that to my father and would live after wards. Well lived as long as that bastard pharaoh let her live. Well I might as well come out of this room and take a look at this girl my hikari loves." Seth thought as he materialized out side of his soul room. He felt a very weak power. Walking around to get a better look at Kayla.
"Hmm not bad at all. I can see why he would love this beauty." Adam laughed as he thought of the deep feelings his hikari had hidden deep down for this girl. "I know I would love her. She looks just like my beloved Calia." Seth continued to look over Kayla. He continued to notice how she looked like Calia. He worked his way down her body till he noticed her arm bands.
"It can't be. Why would this girl have the gauntlets that hold my love?" Seth questioned as Adam pulled Kayla up to him fitting her small butt into the crook of his hips as they rocked to the music. After looking for a few more moments Seth decided that those must have been a copy. He could not feel any power coming from them.
"Even if she had just woken up and had gone thru the weakness I went thru, Calia would have given off a power signal." Seth tried to make himself believe he was right and those gauntlets were the ones that Calia had been imprisoned in. Feeling tired Seth faded away from the real world and back into his soul room where he looked at a picture he had drawn of Calia.
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Calia's Soul Room
"Now I know I have lost my mind. Seth has long been dead." Calia cried out loud as she saw a ghostly figure appear next to her hikari. "What seems to be his reincarnation does not look to be so bad." Calia thought as she walked over to the chest that held Seth's priest robes. Pulling them out Calia buried her face into them inhaling her husband's scent that had stayed around for so long. Calia looked around her soul room. It was done exactly like her bedchamber from when she was with Seth before and after they were married. Calia thought about the last time she had seen her husband Seth. It was when the Pharaoh had sealed himself inside the Millennium puzzle and the shadow games with him. She and Seth had just defeated a brat by the name of Malik. Needless to say Calia had been very tired from her shadow magic use when she walked into the room where the sealing started to take place. The sealing took place as it was to. Then just before Calia could reach Seth, the High Counselors came and grabbed her from behind. Guards grabbed Seth as the priest's High Counselors had, performing the sealing ritual, sealed Calia into her grandmother's prized gauntlets. All this was done in front of Seth, who after seeing Calia's lifeless body blasted all of them to the Shadow Realm with what remaining power he had left.
"I still remember how much that hurt. It was like my essence was being ripped from my bloody body and placed in hell's eternal darkness. I never want to be in the dark again." Calia thought as the torches on the walls flared to life bring even more light to the room. Growing tired of watching her Hikari, listening to the awful sound, and missing her husband, Calia climbed onto Seth's side of the bed inhaling the jasmine and nutmeg scent that Seth always smelled of. She drifted off to sleep with memories of how it used to be.
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"Don't those two ever get tired of grinding into each other? I mean they say they are friends. but to watch them dance is saying something way different." Jackson leaned back in his chair he had stolen from another table and brought to his. Sighing he watched his best friends grind against each other as they moved to the music.
"Don't even try to figure those two out. It will not work. They act like lovers on the dance floor, but elsewhere they are just friends. I think it is cute and that they will find each other eventually." Milia leaned close to Jackson and giggled. She had had just a little too much spiked punch. It was at this moment that Adam and Kayla came up to them from the dance floor. There was a light coating of sweat on them that made their skin looked like it had glitter on it.
"What are you two talking about?" Adam rested his hand on Kayla's hip as he pulled her close. Jackson grinned.
"The fact for you two just being friends, you can't seem to keep your hands off each other. What is with all the grinding and body part touching?" Milia laughed as Adam quickly removed his hand from Kayla's hip.
"Well at least we have not gotten drunk, streaked thru out the city and got caught in the park having sex." Kayla said really loud.
"Shut up Kay. No one needs to know that shit." Milia was a beet red from embarrassment.
"Well I still say you two are on friendly terms. Come on Adam we have school tomorrow. Oh you two try not to get drunk and naked again." Kayla asked her friends as she and Adam left the dance to go to his house.
"You had to go and bring that up again?" Adam asked as he helped Kayla into the stretch black limo that was always ready for the Kaiba's. Kayla giggled.
"What comes around goes around Yami always says. Plus I think they are trying to hide something." Kayla said in her matter-of-fact way when she was sure of something.
"I agree with you on that. We'll just have to wait and see how things play out." Adam watched the limo pull out of Domino High's newly paved driveway.
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Adam's Room
"Your dad needs to take the stick out of his butt and de stress. I can't believe the way he went off on us like that. I mean we sleep in here a lot." Kayla was flustered. She came out in her Belle from Beauty and the Best tank top and short's pajama set. She had her green facemask on. Bending to her duffel bag Kayla grabbed a bottle of lotion. She sat in a chair that was across from the huge king size bed in Adam's room.
"Just do what I do. Listen to his crap for about ten seconds and then say you have to go take a crap." Adam never looked up from his manga that he was reading on his bed. He had seen Kayla in her facemask before. It had no effect on him. Adam's room was quite a site once you got past all the junk on the floor. The walls were painted in a rich midnight blue trimmed with gold. The curtains were of the same blue that had a gold gauzy material hunger over them; the gold material was also used as the valance, fine gold woven thread tassels were used to pull the curtains open and closed.
In between two huge windows laid a king size four-poster bed that had a flimsy canopy above it. Gold and midnight blue cascaded down the sides and front of the bed. The headboard was against the wall. The bed was made of a rich oak. On the bed were gold sheets that were trimmed in midnight blue; gold and midnight blue pillows were littered on a mid night blue comforter. A cherry wood bed trunk lay at the foot of the bed just across from the chaise lounge that was near the bathroom. The one Kayla was sitting in. A chest of drawers was next to the bathroom door. Two nightstands were on either side of the bed.
A desk in the far corner near of the room along with three bookcases and a closet completed the room. The desk was made of the same oak as the bed. Papers were scattered all over it and the two computers that were on it. Adam had a laptop and a desktop computer. They would have been black had Kayla not gotten to them. Stickers were placed all over the computers making them look cute. In the bookcases were manga's, books, and pictures of Kayla, Jackson, and Milia. Even some of his father and his uncle Mokuba. But the majority was of Kayla.
"Do you think they are right?" Kayla asked as she put on the Vanilla scented lotions on her freshly shaven legs. Adam looked up.
"What you me "are they right"?" Adam had a feeling what she was talking about.
"About us liking each other more than just friends." Kayla looked deep in thought.
"There could be if you ask your parents. According to them we have had eyes for each other since we were but three weeks old." Kayla frowned.
"That is not an answer and you know it." She said up in the chaise lounge with her freshly shaven and lotions legs looking Adam in the eye with her green mask covered face.
"Yes I believe I am developing feelings for you Kayla. but I am not sure and sure as hell do not want to lose you incase something goes wrong. You are my best friend. I would die with out you there with me. Whether it be as friends or as lovers. For some reason I feel destiny drew us together." Adam had made his way over to where Kayla was sitting and looked at her so she would know he meant what he said. She stood as well.
"I think I feel the same. It could also explain the way we dance together. The way we become one. What do we do now?"
"Yes that could very well be. We do what comes natural. Let fate guide us thru this. If we give in then it is fate who decides. Now do me a favor and lose your Halloween mask please." Kayla giggled as she walked into the bathroom to finish washing her face. She came out five minutes later. Kayla still had her gauntlets on.
"Hey Kay where did you find those? They look old." Adam started to take his armbands off.
"I found them in my old diaper bag. It was hidden away on the top shelf in the hall closet. I am not sure who put it there. I found it one day looking for something."
"I was just wondering since I have not seen them before. We might as well turn in before he comes to bug us." Adam crawled under the covers with Kayla doing the same. Leaning over he turned off the lamp that had been illuminating the room.
"Sweet dreams Kay."
"Nighty night Adam" Kayla slipped into the world of dreams only to have the same wired dreams she had been having for a while.
~~ Kayla's Dream ~~
"Ra damned bastard" Calia muttered to herself as she put warm water into the buckets she had on the floor next to her. His highness was due up with in the hour. His bath had to be ready before he woke up. "Why me of all people did he chose to be his personal servant?" Calia pulled another pitcher full of warm water out of the kettle that resided in the huge kitchen of the palace. It was done in stone and not marble due to all the mess that was made. Pouring it into the bucket that was attached to a wooden piece that had groves for her arms and neck as well as places for the rope holding the buckets.
Getting the wooden piece with the two buckets attached to them Calia hurried back to her father's room. She was late and it was all Seth's fault. He had been playful when they woke at the crack of dawn. Calia smiled at the though of her love. "Ten buckets down and ten to go" Calia muttered as she walked into the pharaoh's chambers. Looking to the right Calia saw that the bedchamber door was closed. That told her he was still asleep.
"Thank Ra" Calia breathed a sigh of relief. She had almost made it to her father's washroom when she felt this searing pain across her back. It's heat burning a hole in her already tender flesh. Calia fell forward from the suddenness spilling water everywhere. She felt the familiar warm trickle on her skin. "Damn" Calia had mistaken to think the bastard was still asleep and she could get away with being late.
"Shrieking of duties is punishable by lashing. Stand your pathetic body up and go stand in the center of the wall by my bed chamber door." Yami commanded from his spot above her. Already knowing what was coming Calia went to the spot as instructed and raised her hands above her head. She was just to tired to fight back today. "Maybe if I behave he will go east on me"
"So do you dare explain to me what is more important that obeying your master?" Yami was tying her hands above her head with leather straps that were anchored into the wall.
"I am very sorry your majesty. I was held up in the kitchen." Calia said with a false docile tone. Yami smirched as he stepped closer to Calia.
"Lying to me is the wrong course of action. Also my daughter being docile does nothing for you." He stepped back and readied his whip. Calia said nothing inadvertently fueling his anger. Yami started snapping the whip across her back. Each slash made to precision. Each blow meant to cause the most pain. After 20 slashes of his whip, Yami stopped. Calia white dress was now a bloody crimson. Her gold dueling belt was now a mud color thank to all the blood that spilled onto it. At least her cards were protected. Yami stepped up to her and turned her around. Calia face was a picture of anguish.
"You are the only slave I know who endured a whipping with out screaming" Yami sneered at his daughter who just glared at him. Yami was curios as to why she was late. Rumors had it she had a lover. Some even said she was married.
"Now care to tell me the truth? Were you late perhaps because of a friend? I have heard rumors and you know I can kill you if they were to be proven true." That did it for Calia. She spit the blood that had collected in her mouth right into Yami's face. For a split second father and daughter looked into each others eyes. Their ruby eyes hardening. Their eyes were the only thing that said Calia was Yami's daughter. Calia did not have the slanted eyes nor the tri-colored hair. No her hair was blond like her mothers. Just as soon as their eyes locked Calia felt a searing pain in her cheek. Yami had slapped her.
Grading her hair and twisting it violently so she was looking him in the eye. "I will break you if it kills me you insolent bitch." Yami stepped back. He picked up the discarded whip and started whipping Calia with a renewed passion. By the time he was done Calia's dress was in shreds. Releasing her from the leather straps Calia tumbled forward onto the ground. Yami ripped what was left of her dress off.
"You are to walk around the rest of the day naked. You will serve me and all the priest at supper naked. You will do what they want and how they want. If they want pleasure then you will pleasure them right then and there. If you fail to do so then I will whip you till you can not stand. Then I will rip thru your vaginal opening and your tight little ass as I did your mother. Now clean up this mess you made and prepare my bath." Yami let the threat sit in the air as he stood over her as she started to clean up the water.
~~ End of Kayla's Dream ~~
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Kayla shot straight up in bed. Thankfully Adam did not stir. "That could not have been Yami." Kayla thought to her self as she tired to clam down from that nightmare. Kayla laid back down in hopes of sleeping. In her soul room Calia was having a hard time.
"Yes that can be him. That bastard, I still fill those whip mark." Calia sobbed as she remembered that day.
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The next morning
"Hey Kay what is wrong with you. You look like death warmed over." Adam observed her pale skin as they walked up to the school.
"I just had a very disturbing dream with Yami in it. Please don't ask anymore. I am still trying to deal." Kayla was still shaken from the brutality of it all.
"Ok I am just trying to be your best friend." He wrapped an arm around her as they got closer to the school. Changing subjects Kayla turned to Adam.
"You are going to stay away from Johnson today aren't you?" Kayla did not want Adam to get in trouble cause of that bully.
"To late Kay moron is already looking for spanky here." Jackson came up to them from the left side of the school as he pointed to Adam. They had all gotten on to the green lawns of Domino High. Students of all grades were milling around trying to avoid the start of the day.
"Where is Milia?" Kayla was looking around for the white haired girl.
"Nursing a hangover. Some moron spiked the punch. Her dad took pity on her. Though leaving her with Bakura is not what I call taking pity on a person. Adam I would perform one of your lapse in memory I have to be to school tricks and leave. "That was what they all called Adam's skipping.
"Johnson can't touch me. So there is nothing to worry about. Plus I have heard the rumors he thinks he can kill me. I kicked his butt for a reason. No one puts their hands on the girls." Adam shrugged as he went into the school. He was not worried.
"Damn Adam, I told you to leave off. I kicked him in the balls. Why did you have to do something?" Kayla was upset now.
"He tired to touch you. He got way too close. If pussy cat thinks he wants to play, bring it on I say." Kayla threw up her hands in disgust.
"You and your Kaiba pride." She screeched as she went into the school. Adam and Jackson shook their heads and followed her in. This was normal for her. Kayla could fight, she just did not like to. Just like her father Yugi.
"Can you try not to pick a fight today?" Kayla pleaded with Adam. She nodded his head.
"I have teachers to mess with. That requires thought for my standards." Jackson laughed as he pulled his books out onto the oak desk.
"I think you need a new hobby that does not over tax that one brain cell there Adam." Jackson bent over avoiding a punch.
"That is asking to much from him. You know that Jack." Kayla giggled as the teacher came in.
Lunch time
"Well that was fun". Jackson was a bit green as he sat down under their favorite tree to eat lunch under.
"What Jack, you can't handle a few guts." They had dissected frogs right before lunch.
"Bite me Adam." Jackson thru a grape at Adam as Johnson and his crew came up to them.
"Well if it anit the bitch squad." Johnson let the words fall from his lips. Kayla rolled her eyes.
"Well I am not sure about these ladies, but I take that as a compliment. Who knew that micro of a brain could think one up." Adam laughed as Kayla dealt Johnson's ego a blow.
"What are you laughing at loser?" Johnson yelled only to have Adam reply nothing. This angered the bully even more. Johnson slugged Adam in the back. This did nothing but make Adam grunt as he ate his lunch.
"What is the point of this Johnson?" Kayla was trying to keep Adam cool.
"Bitch boy here needs a lesson taught to him. I challenge you to a duel on the roof in two minutes." Johnson then turned knowing Adam would follow. Sure enough Adam did just that. He ignored Kayla as he dug out his standard issue Duel Disk. They now came with internal projectors, Adam headed up to the roof where Johnson was standing on the ledge of the roof.
"Adam NO." Kayla knew his Kaiba pride would get him killed one day. Adam turned to her and shocked her.
"Stay out of this for once." Kayla was taken back because he never talked to her like that. She looked to Jackson and they knew they were helpless.
"Come on you simpering bitch. Make your move." Adam shook his head refusing to let the stupid boy get to him. He knew he was risking it. But something inside him said he was ok. Adam really regretted talking to Kayla like he did. Adam placed two cards face down and one monster in defense mode face down. The bully did the same.
"Scared are we Johnson?" Adam taunted as he put his Dream Clown in attack mode. The other boy just laughed.
"What is so funny?" Adam was getting annoyed.
"You are going to get what is coming to you Kaiba." Johnson placed the Giant Solider of Stone in Defense mode. Adam smirched till he saw Johnson flip one of his face down cards.
"Time to pay Kaiba." Johnson activated Fissure. With the amount of realism from the disks and being on the ledge Fissure would kill anyone.
'SHIT!! I NEED MY MAGIC JAMMER!!!' Adam's mental scream woke up Seth who looked to see what was going on.
"Damn what in the hell did this boy get himself into. Well now is the best time to try this." Seth thought as he pushed Adam into his soul room and took over. As Seth took over he took the card he needed from the deck. Using Magic Jammer, Seth was able to stop Fissure from killing everyone. Seth never thought to check what he was wearing. He was still in his kilt, sandals, cape, and necklace. He really did not care. Flipping Dream Clown into defense mode destroying his stone solider. Playing Ryu-Ran against the boy dropping him down to 1800 LP.
"I suggest you stop this nonsense and step down from the ledge and concede." Seth planted that though into the bully who did as he was told. Adam also erased everyone's minds of him. Everyone but a furious wife forgot Seth was there as he went back into his soul room. Kayla and Jackson ran to Adam as Calia ranted in her soul room.
"Seth you stupid pig headed son of a bitch what have you gone and done to your self. You were supposed to be dead. Not trapped in hell." Calia was pissed off at Seth. But at least he was here with her. Now all she needed to do was get to him.
"Adam don't you ever do that to me again." Kayla was crying. Jackson was right behind her shaking his head vigorously.
"I am sorry, I won't do that again. I think I got scared myself when he played fissure." Adam hugged Kayla as they walked off the roof shaking.
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Later that night
'Ok where is Kay? I know she said she needed some time alone. She also needed to help Joey. I should not have done that.' Adam thought to himself as he did his homework. He had gotten chewed out for what he did by his father. Adam heard a knock at his door, thinking it was his father he yelled.
"Go to hell old man! I am not in the mood!!" Adam then heard a soft female's voice thru the door. Jumping off the bed he wounded why Kayla was knocking. When he opened the door Kayla seemed different. She was wearing a dress he had never seen. Plus she hated dresses. For a second he thought her eyes were crimson red and not there normal sea blue. Seth who had been up since hearing the elder Kaiba had yelled at Adam, fell off of his bed. He thought he was daydreaming till he heard the girl say Seth. His Hikari was very puzzled by this. He kept saying he was Adam. Taking the hint, Seth for the second time in one day pushed his Hikari into his soul room and locked him away for the time being.
"Calia"