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CHAPTER 8: Fairy Goddess Magician

            Serenity was still staring at the fireplace when the clock struck six. She was bored and depressed that she couldn't go to the ball. It wasn't that she wanted to go to marry Seto like all the other girls. She just wanted to test her skills at Dueling.

            "I'm not good at it anyway," she thought out loud. It didn't really matter if it was audible because her house was empty. "I've never actually officially dueled. Sure, Mr. Motou let me duel him, but he was using strategies that were simpler so I could learn. I have never gone against a duelist with a lot of power." Serenity leaned back in her chair and sighed.

            "Roses are red, violets are blue," she chanted out of boredom, "my sisters are at the ball and I want to be there too!!"

            "You do?" Serenity gasped and quickly got up, turning to face the source of the sound. It was definitely not her own or the one in her head. The foyer behind her was as bare as a deserted ghost town.

            "Who was that?" Serenity said, her voice a bit shaky. She got no response. Maybe if I say that rhyme again.

            "Roses are red, violets are blue, my sisters are at the ball, and I want to be there too!"

            "I heard that the first time." Serenity snapped her attention to her dueling deck.

            "Who are you??" Serenity asked. Just like the last time, she got no response. "Hello??? Roses are red, violets are blue, and I'm kind of frustrated, so answer who are you."

            "Okay, Miss Impatient, but first get like all of these cards off of me. These Wobaku men are really getting on my nerves." Serenity narrowed her eyes, confused, as she went to her deck to look for the card that supposedly had spoken.

            "Which one are you???" Serenity cried impatiently, flipping through the deck. She came across a card that was face down and flipped it over.

            Wobaku? The voice mentioned that. Serenity glanced at the card behind it and found the Dark Magician Girl. Just as she touched it, there was a bright flash and Serenity found herself sprawled back on the ground. As the white light slowly faded, a young blonde girl in a blue and pink costume appeared. She twirled her matching staff and winked.

            "Thanks-a-bunches," she said. "When you're pretty, guys really want to get to know you. Next time, I call the top of your deck, thank you very much." Serenity glanced warily at the young girl in front of her.

            "Who are you??" The girl chuckled.

            "I'm the Dark Magician Girl, or DMG. I'm you're supposed fairy godmother, but I'd rather be called Fairy Goddess Magician. After all, I am female and I am a magician, not a mother. Then, that would be FGM, but it doesn't have quite the ring of DMG. Oh whatever just call me DMG, got that???" Serenity scrunched her eyes, but eventually nodded.

            "Good, then down to business! I heard you're little wish there and I want to help you." DMG tapped her staff on the ground and it shortened into a little swirl pin, which she fastened on her dress. Then crossing her arms, she waited for Serenity's response.

            "Wish?" Serenity asked. "I didn't wish. I just said…"

            "Wish or rhyme? What's the difference? The point is, I want to help you. Now tell me how we can get started and we will." Serenity looked around.

            "Um…I don't know. What do you want to do?" DMG sighed and walked over to Serenity.

            "You're as tall as me," DMG remarked, "but you have half my creativity! I want you think of something bizarre that you want to happen and I'll make it happen."

            "Make the apple float???" Serenity offered, pointing to the fruit bowl. DMG rolled her eyes and sighed.

            "Can we please stick to things that apply to getting to the ball? For a person my height, you're surely not as smart."

            "What is thing about height, anyway??" DMG scowled.

            "Dark Magician started it. He's a head taller than me and therefore he thinks he's smarter! No!!! I will show him!!! I swear I will be his height one day!!!" Serenity sweat dropped.

            "Hey! Short people are smart too! What about Mr. Motou? Or his grandson Yugi I have heard so much about?" Or Seto…wait, he doesn't support my point.

            "You're right, he doesn't," DMG said. Serenity gaped at her.

            "You can sense my thoughts?"

            "No duh!! And I can tell what's on your mind and I know what you want and I'm going to get it for you!"

            "This is crazy! I must be delirious! I'm talking to my Duel Monster Card and she can read my mind!"

            "Yeah. The good thing about that is that if you have a sore throat, you can just think what you'll say to me. Now, to business." DMG glanced around the room and tried to find something.

            "What are you doing?" Serenity asked after a few minutes of silence.

            "I'm thinking of what to do." Suddenly she clasped her hands together. "Oh! I just got the best idea ever! Man, this is going to be so sweet!!!"

            "What?" DMG gave Serenity a wide grin. Serenity scrunched her eyebrows in confusion. DMG suddenly sprang forth onto the deck. Taking it into her hand, she shuffled it a few times. Then, she turned it over to reveal the Monster, Trap, and Magic cards.

            "Those aren't mine!" Serenity gasped.

            "Exactly, these are a few random cards taken from all the Duelists in your life," DMG informed. She picked out a card from the deck.

            "Pumking, the King of Ghosts. Mr. Motou used this to teach you the eerie effects of Zombie Monsters, didn't he?" Serenity nodded and gulped, remembering the lesson in which she had come across the brutality of those Monsters. Ever since the first one was played, even though they were cards, Serenity felt a fear grow inside her. Mr. Motou explained that it was the heart of the cards that were making her emotions.

            "Yes," Serenity finally replied. "I remember. But, he gave me a great strategy to beat them too." DMG motioned for Serenity to follow her as the two of them went outside into the lane. The female Duel Monster pulled out her staff and tapped the card three times.

            "The Legendary King, so brave and bold, come forth to a carriage, sparkling gold!" Her spell sent a rush of silver sparks pouring out from the card into the form of a giant pumpkin, sporting a face with an evil grin. Serenity stepped behind the Dark Magician Girl, who just glanced at the Zombie Monster with an acid glare.

            "YO!!" she yelled. The King of Ghosts eyed her. "Hey, Mister, what happened to the carriage of sparkling gold?"

            "Hey, Girlie, wazzup??"

            "The carriage of sparkling gold?"

            "Oh, um… I'm too lazy."

            "You will be a sparkling gold carriage!!"

            "What about the carriage of sparkling gold?"

            "Are you trying to be stupid on purpose? THEY'RE THE SAME THING, PEA BRAIN!"

            "Pumpkin brain, actually." Serenity chuckled at the funny exchange between the two Duel Monsters. The Pumking was looking calmly down at DMG, which she was glaring up at him with utmost fury, paused slightly for an annoyed roll of her eyes. "But, words arranged in different ways can mean the same thing?"

            "No duh!"

            "Sweet!"

            "Totally…uh, I mean… sparkling gold carriage?" The King of Ghosts sighed, but he quickly changed into a gold carriage, opening his mouth wide enough to reveal his teeth as cushions for a chair. His tongue rolled out to be a carpet and wheels formed out of the leaves on the vine.

            "Good, now, for horses." DMG closed her eyes and pulled out a random card. For some reason, three others followed it. Turning them over, she smiled.

            "What?" Serenity asked suspiciously.

            "Do you have a crush on anyone?" DMG asked slyly. Serenity felt her face grow pink.

            "Why?" she replied carefully. DMG tapped her staff twice on each card and hummed a weird tune. In an instant of swirling blue mist, four Blue-Eyes appeared out of thin air. Each was three times as tall as Serenity.

            "Cause only a deep infatuation with Kaiba would make him important enough in your life to get four of his most treasured card." The Blue-Eyes snarled down at DMG.

            "Deep infatuation? Excuse me?" Serenity demanded. "I don't think I heard you correctly."

            "Oh you did," DMG replied with a grin. The Blue-Eyes growled and let out blasts of White Lightning. DMG jumped. "Okay, I do not think they are tame…" DMG searched through the deck and came across a card. She tossed it in the air and hit it with her staff. It glowed a bright blue and a warrior with blue and yellow armor appeared.

            "How may I be of service?" he asked, bowing to DMG. She slightly flushed and patted her hair down.

            "Oh! I feel like a princess!!! Errrrrrrrrrr… um, Mr. Dragon Master Knight, can you please make the dragons obey me?"

            "Certainly, Miss, but I might need a whip or a bridle of some sort." DMG thought to herself for a second.

            Hmmm, Serenity thought, where have I seen that monster? I know the Pumking is from Mr. Motou, the Blue-Eyes from Kaiba, and DMG from myself. Oh, I got it! Yami has that card. Téa has been talking about him an awful lot for me not to know him.

            "I got it!" Serenity jerked out of her thoughts at DMG's sudden exclaim. She searched through the deck for a card. Finding it, she tapped it with her staff. Rose petals flew everywhere and a Rose Whip appeared in Dragon Master Knight's hand.

            "You know," DMK said. "This might not be long enough."

            "Is there any other way you can calm the Dragons? Please……… OH NO!! NO BAD DRAGONS! BAD DRAGONS!!! STOP EATING THE TREE!!! NO, BAD DRAGONS!!!" DMG screeched, rushing to stop the four vicious animals from wrecking the neighborhood. The Knight sighed and looked at the deck.

            "I got an idea!" Serenity exclaimed. "How about the Flute of Summoning Dragon? I mean, if it can summon them, it can probably calm them down." The Knight thought for a moment and shrugged. Serenity went over and searched the deck. She got out card.

            "Lord of Dragons," she said. Immediately, the card activated and the Lord of Dragons appeared, brandishing his cape.

            "Hello, peoples!" he announced with a grin. "How are you today?"

            "Listen, do you have the Flute of Summoning Dragon?" The Dragon Master Knight asked. The Lord of Dragons thought for a moment.

            "The Flute???" The Lord of Dragons searched his pockets. "I know I have it somewhere." He frantically patted his clothes. "Damn it! Did I lose it? Great, Dark Sage told me that was the last I could have. Ah………" The Duel Monster pulled it out of a secret pocket in his cloak. "I knew I had it somewhere."

            "Well…blow it!" Serenity instructed. The Lord blew into the golden horn. At the melodious tune, all four Dragons immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed over. They stood in a straight line, side by side, in front of the Lord with their heads held high.

            "Talk about a chill pill," DMG remarked with a chuckle. "Now all we need are the reigns." The Pumking solved this one, his vines wrapping around the Dragons and then hardening.

            "There!!" Serenity exclaimed. DMG came over and grinned at Serenity.

            "Okay, now I'm sure any infatuation you have on Kaiba has really, really, gone as much as it can, if you got two more of his cards."

            "What do you mean? I've only seen him a few times."

            "Ever heard of love at first sight?"

            "NO WAY!!! I don't have an infatuation, crush, love interest, or any damn thing on him."

            "Dang………" Lord of Dragons trailed off.

            "Okay, Serenity," DMG said, holding her laughter, "that line is going to stick in my head forever."

            "Good," Serenity muttered. "Then maybe you might understand."

            "Anyways," DMG said. "You two may run a long now…" The Lord and the Knight bowed and disappeared. "And we shall work on footmen."

            "Who would you suggest for that?" Serenity inquired.

            "Two men that are already in my mind, and they both have a deep crush on you. You know them, you've seen them. Both of them are your sisters' friends." DMG pulled out two cards from her hands.

            "Cyber Commander, Orgoth the Relentless!!!" In a flash, a brown haired boy appeared along with a black haired one with armor.

            "Where are we?"

            "Weren't we going to sneak into the castle and watch the Tournament?" Confused, the two of them looked over at Serenity and DMG.

            "Tristan? Duke?" Serenity asked.

            "Look!" Tristan cried. "It's Serenity!"

            "I get it now," Duke said. "We must have dozed off and this is a dream."

            "Makes sense." Serenity sighed.

            "Yes, it is a dream," DMG informed, winking at Serenity. "And in this dream, you get to be the two handsome footmen to Princess Serenity!"

            "I'm not a princess," Serenity protested.

            "You'll be one when you marry Seto."

            "I'm not going to marry him."

            "Yeah, I'll record that line and play it back to you on your engagement."

            "ARGH!"

            "Anyway, now we're all done… except for your dress."

            "Right, what do you suppose we'll use for that??" DMG thought for a moment. Serenity also thought. The both of them were silent for a couple of minutes. The Dragons - now tame - the coach, and the footmen looked on with suspense. Finally, DMG snapped her fingers.

            "That's it!" she cried. "Close you're eyes Serenity!" Serenity obeyed, though reluctantly. She didn't know what to expect. She could hear DMG chanting something in a different language. Suddenly, the air around Serenity moved and she felt tiny pricks all over her body. After everything settled, she finally opened her eyes.

            "NO WAY!!" Serenity looked down at her dress. It was a pretty pink gown with layers over layers of frills. Pink pearls were sewn in paisley pattern all over the bodice. The whole gown itself was made of silk, except the sleeves that went passed her hands and was made of sheer fabric. On her head was a black veil that could be pulled over her face. On one hand, she sported a black glove with six slots for some round objects.

            "What's this?" Serenity queried.

            "The glove? Oh, you'll figure out soon enough," DMG said. "Now, off you go!!" With a smile, Duke and Tristan helped Serenity into the Pumking's mouth. To her surprise, Serenity found that the teeth were quite comfortable. Tristan sat in the front and took hold of the reigns while Duke stood in the back. The Dragons stretched their wings to begin flight. DMG gave Serenity her real deck and then stepped back for the carriage's liftoff.

            "Oh!!!" DMG suddenly gasped. "One more thing. It's about twenty-five past six right now. You need to be back home by twelve!" Tristan shook the reigns and the Dragons took flight. Serenity leaned out of her seat.

            "Why??" she yelled back. DMG just drew the number twelve out of gold dust and disappeared. Serenity was a bit confused as she leaned back and closed her eyes. The Dragons flew with great speed toward the castle.

………

            At a little after half past six, Serenity reached the castle. She took a few seconds to adjust the veil over her face and hair. It reached all the way down to her hips. I must look like an Arabian princess or something. As soon as she figured out everything was okay, she hurried to the castle.

            From where she saw, the castle had at least a hundred steps. At the top, a man was talking to two girls. Serenity hurried up the steps as fast as she possibly could. As she got closer, she recognized the figures.

            "OH!!" she thought, though it came out in a whisper. "Mai, Téa, Seto!" Serenity quickened her pace to avoid them. Just her luck… as she reached the final part of the stairs, Seto turned to stare at her. Her sisters followed suit. Serenity felt the urge to stop and she did. She turned and glanced at them. She knew the veil was dark enough so they couldn't recognize her, but still Seto's glance seemed to penetrate everything she had on. With a shudder, Serenity quickly raced up the final steps and into the castle. She could still feel their eyes on her back.

            I wonder if Seto knows who I really am!