Same disclaimer as usual…

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            As Diandra walked through the park, following Seto's directions to his house, she looked around.  Realizing she was alone in the man – made forest, she started to walk a little bit faster.  Soon, her belt started to glow and she began to sense a dark presence.  She stopped and turned around just in time to see a knife flying towards her head.  She quickly jumped out of the flying object's way and looked around to see who she could find.  Feeling a slight sting in her left shoulder, she looked down and realized that the knife had sliced through her skin and made it bleed.

            Not being able to see anything, she used her belt to look instead.  /Nothing… How can the belt sense nothing?  It sensed the evil presence…/ she thought to herself.  She turned back around and went to where the knife laid embedded into one of the trees.  Carefully pulling it out of the bark, she looked at the evidence and gasped.  /They can't be here!/ she thought as fear slowly crept upon her.  Looking around, she placed the knife into her pocket and climbed a tree, then jumping from branch to branch; she reached the outside of the park and landed gracefully on the ground.

            As she crossed the street and turned the corner, she saw it.  The biggest mansion in town and it belonged to her essay partner.

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            "You know what?  I really do think that Diandra likes that Kaiba guy."  Crystal pointed out to Amelia who was still sulking about her sister and her loss of the sacred credit card once again.

            "How can you tell?"

            "Because, no one else would even think about fighting her.  Remember at our old school, everyone would avoid just rubbing shoulders against her in the hallways.  That's why she relies on us more than everyone else."

            "I guess that is true.  Then yet again, I think she gets it from me because I'm not really the sociable type either.  It was the same for me as well."

            "I think it's because you're twins… genetics maybe."

            "Then how come you're more popular than us?"

            "In this school, we're all equally popular.  Did you not notice all the guys that drooled their heads off every time we walk into a room?"

            "I thought I was the only one.  And lots of them looked like this (@.@) on the floor when their girlfriends whacked them over the heads onto the floors."

            Laughing out loud, Crystal and Amelia kept at it until both of their sides hurt.  Snapping back to reality, Crystal sensed someone watching.  Stopping her laughter, Amelia soon followed into the quietness.  Both of them sensing someone, or something out of the ordinary, Crystal's Orb and Amelia's Staff appeared with a flash in front of them.

            Suddenly, a bomb crashed through the window and landed in front of the two sisters.  "Quickly!" Amelia shouted.  Nodding in response, Crystal threw the Millennium Orb into the air and shouted, "Time Freeze!"  Suddenly, everything went silent and the fizzing of the fuse being burned stopped.

            Looking down, Amelia picked up the bomb and inspected it.  Eyes large and full of shock, she looked at Crystal.  Knowing that she shouldn't disturb her sister when she was stopping time, she took one last look at the bomb before throwing it back out the window.  "Ok, Warrior's Shield!" she said as time just started again and the bomb blew the wall which contained the window to pieces.

            With the shield protecting both of them, when the aftershock knocked them backwards, the only thing that harmed them was the feeling of the ground hitting their backs from six feet from the air.  Having the wind knocked out of them, both teenagers passed out.

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            Ringing the doorbell for the second time, Diandra stood silently at the door, waiting patiently for the door to open.  Eventually, she heard the door unlock and open, and standing there was a little boy with black hair and grey eyes.  "Hi!" he said in the most annoying little kid's voice you could possible imagine.  "You must be Seto's essay partner.  Come in, he's been waiting for you." He also said with a sly grin on his mouth.

            Eye twitching, Diandra replied, "Thanks." and walked into the giant mansion.  Hearing the door close behind her, she turned around and looked at the young boy.  "I didn't know Seto had a younger brother.  And what's your name?"

            "It's Mokuba."  Said the young boy.  She could tell he was trying not to stare at her arm, but was doing a really bad job at it.  She then saw Seto out of the corned of her eye, standing over the railing, looking at her arm as well.

            /No wonder he's so protective.  He has to take care of this little one and so it eventually happens twenty – four seven…  He could be the key, this gives me even more reason to believe he is./ she thought.  "Umm… so, what do you do for fun around here?"

            "I duel."

            "As in Duel Monsters?"

            "Yea, do you play?"

            "YEA! I love that game, I bring my deck everywhere with me."

            "Maybe we can duel later then?"

            "Yes, of course.  When me and Seto take a break from working, we'll duel, and prepare to lose.  Now, can you show me where he is located in this place so we can get to work?"

            "Sure." Mokuba said and took Diandra's hand and started to lead her up a long staircase.  As they both finally reached the top, Mokuba led her down the hallway and to the 3rd door on their right. 

            "He should be in there.  Call me when you take your break."  Mokuba said and ran back down the stairs, skipping two at a time; leaving Diandra with the pain in her arm and sly grin on her face.

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            The first day of school wasn't going very well for Seto Kaiba, especially when he got a call while walking behind Yugi and his friends.  The shipment had been cancelled and he had to do everything in his power to try to re-order it again while trying not to be late for homeroom.  There, he pulled out one of the books he was reading.  He didn't pay that much attention in homeroom, only to that their teacher was American and didn't believe in having such a class, so they basically had twenty minutes of free time every morning.

            Then the principal came in and left.  He never stayed in a room for too long.  A few moments after he had gotten back to his book, there was a lot of mumbling going around him.  Wondering what was going on, he looked up and saw three pretty girls standing in front of the class room.  The one with the blue hair and green streaks had caught his eye more than the rest of the others.  She seemed strong and she could handle herself.

            As Ms. Greason was putting them in their seats, she placed the green streaked girl next to him.  As she sat down, she pulled out the same book he was reading.  Interested that someone his age could actually understand a book like that was beyond his comprehension.  Soon, the bell rang, ending first period and the start of the day.

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            Unable to eat lunch, Seto Kaiba went to the library to finish off his book.  As the bell rang, he got up and headed out.  Unable to keep his eyes from his book, he suddenly felt an object in his path.

            "Hey! Watch where you're going you jerk!" a female voice came from the ground.

            It was his natural response to talk back so, "Oh, and I suppose that it was my fault you ran into me?" came out of his mouth.  Looking down, he realized that it was the one girl who caught his eye.

            Before he could even try to apologize, something he had the sudden urge to do to this girl, she shouted up at him, "That was a stupid question. Of course it was your fault for running into me!"

            Annoyance swelled up in his throat and his muscles began to flex.  "Listen here girly, if you're trying to start something, try to pick a fight you know you could win." came out of his mouth before he could get a chance to stop himself.  /Darn those automatic defense mechanisms…/ he thought to himself.

            "Yea, sure. I've never lost a fight and I don't plan on losing it to you." The girl said while picking herself up off the ground.  She looked at him and finally stated, "Even if you are the CEO of Kaiba Corp."

            With a smirk, he said, "So I see you've heard of me? Scared now?"

            There was a spark in her eyes and she spat out, "Not even close."

            Suddenly, the other two girls came up behind her and placed their hands on her shoulders.  As if calming her nerves down, she looked at them and turned back to him, "Seto Kaiba, this isn't over."

            His only reply was, "No, it isn't Diandra."  He watched as she walked away, the blue streaked one picking her up and twirling her about three time and placed her back down in between herself and the other one.  They seemed to be on their way to Chemistry.

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            Silenced by anger, Seto walked into his mansion and threw his things onto the chair that sits in the hallway beside the door.  Unable to even talk to Mokuba and to tell him what's wrong, all he could get out was, "I'll be having someone come over in about an hour.  Will you answer the door for them?"

            Not wanting older brother to be mad at him as well, Mokuba agreed.  To calm down, he started on their work part of the essay.  /Darn that bald head of an English teacher.  Mr. Shinoshi will pay for partnering me up with a person like Diandra…/ As he mumbled to himself some more, time quickly flew by and he soon heard the door bell ring.

            /I guess I better go see who it is…/ he said to himself as he got up.  Opening the door as silently as he could, Seto walked down the hallway and looked over the railing.  There he saw Mokuba and Diandra talking.  There was something wrong though, her arm was deeply bleeding.  Not wanting to disturb the conversation, he stepped back and walked back towards the room he was in before either of them saw him.

            As he went back into the room, he sat by the computer and pretended to have been working all along.  He soon heard two pairs of footsteps coming up the stairs, down the hallways, and suddenly stopping in front of the door.

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            After being roughly shaken awake, Amelia looked up and saw he brother's face.  "Hey bro, what's shakin'?" she asked.

            "What the hell happened here?" Miroshu asked as he pointed towards the blown up wall.

            "Umm…" Amelia started to try to explain, "Someone knew this place was the bomb, so they light the fuse?"

            "Try again."

            Sighing, Amelia said, "It was the Shinokis… they're back.  When Crystal had frozen time," she nodded her head over towards the still knocked out girl, "I took the device and looked at it for some recognition.  There, on the bottom was the Shinokis' symbol, you know the one with the star and the spikes coming out from each indent?  Yea…" Amelia finished while looking at Crystal.

            Her brother just stared at her while she looked down.  /Let him go easy…/  As she slightly looked up, he said, "They followed us here?  So quickly?  They must know what we're looking for and they must also know of the key's power…  Then again, I thought we destroyed them all."

            "So did I…" came Crystal's voice from the other side of the room.  As she got up, she slowly stumbled over to where they were and fell onto her knees.  "I don't like the sound of this.  That means that if we are going to fulfill the prophecy, we have to quicken our pace.  That means that you, my dear brother, must join into the watching."

            Amelia and Miroshu both nodded in agreement.

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            As Diandra silently opened the door and entered the room, she saw it was pretty decent.  There were three computers and two sofas with a refrigerator and a microwave.  Closing the door behind her, she looked at the back of Seto's head.  Before she could even say anything, he turned around and asked, "What happened to you?"

            Slightly blushing, she asked if there was anything she could clean up her cut with.  He said yes, got up and went into the joining bathroom, soon coming out with a first aid kit.

            "Sit." He said while nodding over to the sofa.

            Blushing even more on appearing like this, she did what she was told.  As he sat next to her, he placed the first aid kit on his lap and rolled up the bloody cut shirt sleeve.  Opening the kit, he took out the rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball.  Putting some of the solution onto the ball, he placed it over the cut.

            Suddenly, a sharp pain spread throughout her arm and she winced.  /It's worse than actually being cut./ she thought to herself as he cleaned her cut.  /Actually, it's not that bad./

            Just when she was getting used to the pain, he removed the ball and took out a large band-aid.  She took this time to look at her shoulder.  Seeing blood was about to spill again, she also saw that it was cut all the way to the bone.  As he put the band-aid over it and wrapped her arm up, he put the kit back together and placed it on the table in front of them.

            All Diandra could do was stare at her arm while he got up and left the room.  A couple of minutes later, he entered with an overly large black shirt.  "Here, put this on." he said and tossed it to her.

            "Thanks." Was all she could say as she caught the shirt with her good arm and went into the bathroom to change.