I Am The Dark Magician Girl
By Anime2000
Disclaimer: Hahaha! That's funny! What makes you think that I own Yu-Gi-Oh!?
O-KAY! Everyone, this is important!
.........okay, not that important, but here's what's gonna happen to this fic! A friend told me that DMG isn't gonna show up again for a while soooo.........I'll be updating this fic randomly.
Er.........anyways, you can just read the chapter now.
"I can't do this!" I blurted out. Today was the test, but I don't think I could pull it off! The Magical Boxes, or Magical Boxes of Death, was something I could never do. Even though it was rescheduled to today and I had more time, I still feel like I can't.
"Sure you can, DMG," said the Magician of Black Chaos. Why was he here? The Black Luster Soldier challenged my master to a Duel, so he was the substitute. "You just have to believe in yourself!" He paused a few seconds and added. "That and the right words, luck, and experience wouldn't hurt either.........But that's not the point!"
"But I-" I stopped talking, not wanting to hear a lecture about self-confidence. I know the words by heart and I've tried this trick a once or twice, but failed. But luck is definitely not on my side. And believing in myself, it's kind of hard to when I just know that it's impossible to do this.
"Tell you what," he said, seeing how I was. "We've gone through everything that Dark assigned, so we'll wait for him to come back, and then you can do the test with him."
"R-really?!" I exclaimed, eyes widening in disbelief. Disbelief soon changed to joy. "Thanks!" I said, happily. One thing was that the test was delayed. The other thing was that I just feel better around my master than with anyone else, and I might get it done just because he's with me.
"No prob!" he said, grinning. "Uh, but don't tell him I called him Dark." At that precise moment, my teacher came back in a flash. I, uh, kinda gave a weird scream when that happened because it startled me.........
"I apologize for not being here," he said to the Magician of Black Chaos, probably not noticing my shriek. "So, did you finish everything?"
"Everything except the last one," he replied, nodding. "If you're going to do the test, can I stay around and watch?"
"I guess so," said Master. Then he turned to me. "Are you ready?"
I really wanted to say 'actually, no', but I couldn't say that! Today was the rescheduled test and I should have been ready a few days ago. I just nodded.
"Good," said my master. "Now then—hey, where are the boxes?" he asked, realizing that they weren't there. You couldn't perform it if you didn't have the equipment!
"Oh yeah," said the Magician of Black Chaos, slapping himself in the forehead. "I forgot to take them out!"
"You forgot to— How do you forget to— never mind," Master said, looking annoyed. He waved his wand and a dark stream of energy shot out and started wrapping itself around me.
"H-hey!" I yelled feeling alarmed. "What's going on?!" Then I understood. As the energy began to take shape and harden, it turned in to the boxes. I gulped remembering that there were five or so swords raining down on every side of me.
"Ready?"
"Yeah," I said, taking in a deep breath. I started the chant. The words never made sense to me, and it still doesn't. In fact, none of the old spells make sense to me. They were all in a different language. Uh oh. I think I made a mistake. But I can't go back and correct it! It'll mess the rest of the spell up. There's no time to start over. That's when I started panicking. "Hey! Let me out!" I yelled, banging on the sides of the box, but it was too late.
The swords came down, some leaving deep cuts, other leaving smaller ones. Then the doors opened; thank Ra it was over! I fell out, but was still awake. I landed on my hands and knees. Man, that hurt! I closed my eyes and lost consciousness. The last thing I heard was,
"Whaddarewegonnado?!"
"Stop panicking-"
"What?! Do I look like a doctor to you?!"
"Just stop panicking and help me get her in the house!"
(I'll, uh, just let you decide who was saying what )
I opened my eyes slowly. I could tell that I was in my room and on my bed. Was it all a dream? I started to get up when- "Don't get up, don't get up!" Ow!! My arms hurt!! "I told you not to........." I turned my head around to see Master. Beside him was a roll of bandages. A very small one. "You've been unconscious for an hour."
"What.........what happened?" I asked, looking at my hands. They were wrapped in bandages, but not my fingers. I guess it wasn't a dream. There were a few on my arms and legs, but it wasn't too bad. There were fewer cuts than I had thought, so that was the up side. The downs side, however, was that most of them were pretty deep. That's why I hurt so much. I looked in the mirror to see how I looked. "Oh Ra!" I cried, slapping my hands to my cheeks. That was stupid of me because that hurt! There was a small bandage on my cheek that I didn't mind, but my hair!
"As you can see, the swords cut some of your hair off," he said, seeing my stunned expression. My hair had been cut so that it barely went past my shoulders.
"Oh, talk about bad luck!" I moaned, falling back down on my bed.
"You're hair will grow back," he said, looking surprised.
"No, it's not that," I said, sighing. "When will I be able to move without hurting?"
"I'd say about a week or so," he replied. "Look on the bright side," he said, trying to cheer me up.
"What bright side? There's a bright side? I don't see any bright sides to this! Do you?"
"You're always complaining about not getting enough sleep."
"Ah......... Nuh uh! Not always," I said, sounding a bit immature. Master laughed.
"All right, then. Maybe not always, but you've said that many times," he said, walking out of my room. "Yell if you need anything."
I sighed again and closed my eyes. This was going to be one long week.
"I'm so glad to be able to get up and walk around!" I said, cheerfully as I strolled down the street. It was a warm spring morning and Mystical Elf came for some errands. I just wanted to move around. My master left a note this morning saying that he was visiting a friend so there wouldn't be any training today. That was a relief!
"So when do you plan to try those boxes again?" she asked me.
"Oh........." I said, "I don't really know." I don't really WANT to!
"Well, I've got to stop here," my elfin friend said, stopping at a store. "I'll see you later, Dark Magician Girl!"
I waved and walked on. Everything's changed a bit since the last time I've been here. All the monsters were back in their own decks because of Battle City, the new tournament. Great! No more Maya for a while! And it's probably because Yugi changed his deck(I think he did). What has changed the most was the Magic shop. They sold a few traps there, but there were a lot of magic items. It's been a while since I've been in. I pushed the door open, hearing the bell above me.
"Good morning, Dark Magician Girl."
"Oh! Hello, Master!" I said, surprised to see him here. Then I mentally slapped myself for forgetting that the owner of this shop was his former teacher, the Dark Sage.
"Ah!" the elderly mage exclaimed, walking over to me. "This is your apprentice? It's been a while since I've seen you! You've grown a lot!"
"Actually," I said, "I saw you talking to my master two weeks ago."
"But I didn't see you!"
"Okay," I said, deciding to play along. He was starting to treat me like a little kid. I'm almost seventeen! But what's strange is that I don't remember seeing him when I was little.
"She's not a child anymore," Master said, to my relief. He was leaning on the wall with his arms folded and his staff in one hand. He looked pretty cool! Er.........heheh.........
"Hm, you seem to trained her well," the Dark Sage said to him. "Well, she should be better than you! Remember that time when we were trying out the Magical Boxes? You failed on your first try, then second, the third, and then messed up on the test!" he laughed, causing my master to practically fall over from shock.
"Hey-hey! I thought we agreed to not talk about that!" he exclaimed, regaining his balance.
"We did?" he asked, in a mocking tone. "Gee, maybe I forgot because my memory is just awful according to someone!"
"But you said you wanted to know the truth!" protested my master. "I-"
"Stop talking! This is my shop and I tell you when to or when you can't talk!" the Dark Sage snapped. That's a strange rule.
"Uh........." Master blinked and shook his head, putting a hand to his forehead. Guess he decided to just go along with this.
"Well, anyway," said the Dark Sage. "I'm sure that you did much better than him!" I gave him an awkward laugh and looked at Master. He did the same, except he looked at me. "Noo! You didn't!" the old sage moaned. "You turned her in to a.........a failure like you!!"
"Fa-FAILURE?!" Master yelled. "I-I-!"
"Yeah, yeah," said the Dark Sage, turning his attention to a smudge on an item. "You're a loser." He took out a cloth and started rubbing the smear off.
Was it just me, or did Master just growl? "Come on, Dark Magician Girl. We're going." He muttered, taking my hand and dragging me out. Before I came out, I heard the Dark Sage snigger.
"You know," I said as we were walking home. "I think he was only joking around."
"He was," Master said, nonchalantly. "But it irritates me that he still treats me like an apprentice."
"Okay." I said.
"So how do you think you're doing with magic?"
"Okay."
"Speaking of that, should we try the Magical Boxes once more?"
"Oka-NO!" I shouted, a little too late.
"All right then. We could try the Magical Hats," he said. "But I think you can already do that."
I knew what he meant. "No," I said, shaking my head sadly. "Yugi's opponent found me on his first try. I think we should do a review on that--" Before I had finished my sentence, I heard Mystical Elf's voice.
"Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl! Wah.........wait up!" I turned around to see her yelling as she tried to catch up. Her long green robes kept slowing her down, almost tripping her once. She finally did catch up to us.
"Hi, Mystical Elf!" I said, watching her panting next to me.
"Hello!" she gasped. She mumbled a few things that I couldn't make out, but I did hear something about needing exercise and new clothes. "I.........got this for.........you!" she handed me bandages. "Thought you might need this!" she said, recovering pretty quickly.
"Aw, Mystical Elf," I said. "Is that how much faith you have in me!?"
"Of course not! I just got you these for the next time you try the Mystical Boxes!" she said, smiling innocently.
"Oh-hey!" I cried. "You DO have that little faith in me!!" She nodded and the innocent smile turned in to a sheepish grin. I turned to my master, but he tried to avoid making eye contact with me. "You too?! Okay, now I feel betrayed!"
"I was only joking," Mystical Elf said, laughing. "We have a lot of faith in you!"
Master smiled and nodded. "That's true. You have improved a great deal since you first started. We would never doubt you."
"But just in case," my elfin friend said to me, pointing to the bandages. "Just in case."
"Mystical Elf!" I yelled. But I couldn't help smiling.
R&R, please!
