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The trembling men pleaded on his knees. "I was hungry, I needed the food!" Around was dead bodies, strewn everywhere. The Council had sent the army to deal with a revolt in Sector 7.

Tea watched dispassionately at his pleas. Her face betrayed no emotion. She held a gauntleted hand up, cutting the man short.

"Is that all?" she said in a bored tone. "By the rules of Sector 7, and the Council of Galaxy 1, dealing with traitors, execute him, and set his head on a pike as an example." A Sphrynx bowed and they took the screaming man away.

An hour later Tea was back at the Council. She walked down the hall that so many hundreds of years ago (by Galaxy time, not Earth time) she had been dragged to face the Council on the day of her capture. From that day on she had been placed under training. Her usually happy face gradually transformed into a blank, cold expression. Her eyes bright and warm was dead, dead of emotions. She had achieved the fabled Superior place by sheer will and determination. She had proved to the Galaxy that humans, and a female at that could become greater than they, yet she felt nothing of her immense achievement. Being a Superior was a curse. It robbed her of her humanity, how many times had she killed in the name of justice for the Galaxy? She could withstand any type of pain thanks to the torture device during her training. Pain was nothing to her. And to top it all off, the Council had granted her the gift of superior fighting skills and all the abilities she would ever need in a fight.

As she strode down the hall she could hear the whispers from the passing people.

"Look at her, she's the Superior!"
"God, she makes my heart cold, did you know how many people she's killed?"

"I heard that she hasn't cried ever since she came here, even under torture device!"

"She's damned I tell you!"

"You mean, Queen of the Damned. Even her army is afraid of her, and they're all male!"

Tea ignored the whispers, she had heard them all before. They need to make new comments, she thought, they get boring after hearing them say the same thing over and over.

The guard at the door bowed, fear emanating from him.

Tea walked past him, not acknowledging him. As she entered the Council, conversations stopped. Tea smiled to herself. Even the Council were fearing her. She knew that they never expected her to become this ruthless being that they had created.

"Mission accomplished, traitors executed," she said to the Supreme Councilor.

"But you just left yesterday!" he spluttered. "It's impossible that you could defeat them....they were couple hundred thousand strong! You only brought an eight of the army along......." he paled visibly, comprehension dawning upon him.

Tea watched him, secretly enjoying his fear upon his face. "Yes," she drawled, "it only took half a day to kill them. Justice reigns there."

The Councilor controlled himself. "Well, uh, just after you left for Sector 7, we were discussing the fact that maybe you were.....taking this Superior thing too far."

Tea curled her lips. "Too far? What do you mean? Are you afraid of me now that you've realized what the Superior can do?" Her deadly gaze swept derisively over the Council. "Didn't you want a Superior to better control the Galaxy?" she said sneering. "Well congratulations you got a Superior. This is what I am. A Superior that lets nothing get in her way for the Galaxy," she said mockingly.

She looked at her hand. "Did you know that I could easily assassinate half of you if I wished," she said, ignoring the gasps from the Council. "Oh don't play coy, you know that's true. That's why you've sent me on these suicide missions with only a few men, hoping I would be killed."

"I gave up the idea of going back to Earth during the training. Becoming Superior and besting you guys was my only obsession. But after becoming Superior I realized that I could never come back to Earth. I had lost everything that would place in me the category of humans. I've been through things that none of you would ever survive," her eyes lighting up with fury.

The Councilor slowly backed away. "Well....we realized our mistake and.......we have come to a decision--"

"To send me back to Earth," Tea finished calmly. "And since I am only a servant of the Galaxy, I must obey." She smiled a cold smile. "But don't come running back to me when this Galaxy is under attack......." she left the sentence trailing ominously.

"What are you talking about?" the Councilor said sharply.

"You'll see," Tea said simply, walking away to the door.

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Tea landed on Earth a few hours later. They had told her that on Earth four months had passed. Everyone believed she had run away to America to dance. Dance, she thought sadly, that is one dream that is truly gone.

Her parents had died in a car crash the second month after she had left. By that time she was almost a Superior. She could not feel anything. But her warmth and beautiful personality started to slip away, never to return.

As she walked down the familiar streets, memories slowly came back. Things can never be the way they used to be, she thought, banishing the memories away.

As she passed by the school, the bell rang and the students ran out, chatting excitedly with each other. Suddenly Tea felt old. Well I am a couple hundred years older than they are, she thought sardonically.

Her feet led her to the regular place where she usually met the gang. There they were......her friends. Nothing seemed to change, except me, she thought.

Kaiba joined them. She raised an eyebrow, well that changed.

Kaiba frowned. "Yugi, I have to admit that Tea really doesn't want herself to be found. All my networks and access to information can't find her. I seriously doubt that she went to America. She was probably kidnapped. Since my debt to Tea is filled, I'll be leaving now."

"Wait," said Yugi desperately. "In that case could you find out what happened to her if she was kidnapped? I know you're only doing this because she saved your life but please, don't you care what happened to her?"

Tea decided to end this melodramatic moment. She walked toward the group, her boots making a click sound against the pavement.

"I didn't go to America," she said calmly.

They turned around. In front of them was the most beautiful girl that they had ever seen. Her hair was waist high, braided in one long rope. She was wearing a snug black outfit that looked like a Laura Croft. But it was her face that mesmerized them. It had reminisces of Tea's face but this girl's eyes were more sharper and colder, face paler and sterner. The pose screamed aristocratic bearing and arrogance.

Mai was the first to move. She threw her arms around Tea, "Girl, where have you been?!!" Tea stiffened, no one had touched her for awhile, not even a pat of comfort. Mai, sensing something wrong, released Tea and looked into her eyes.

Emotionless blue eyes gazed steadily back at her. "Tea," Mai said, now unsure of herself. "What happened to you?"

Tea slowly looked into the faces of her friends. She gave a cold smile. "I went.....on a trip. Even I'm surprised to be back here, believe me."

"Due to this....trip, it would be best if I didn't hang around you guys any longer."

"Uh...Tea, whatever happened to you, snap outta it!" said Joey, snapping his fingers in her face.

She looked at Joey, her face expressionless. It was the mask that had frightened so many other people, her death mask that never left her. She walked to the tree next to them. "I see you need an example," her voice impassive. She raised her hand as if she was going to chop at the tree. Then her hand flashed downward and it cut through the tree easily, cracking it in half.

They stared at her in fear and shock. She smiled, yes, this was the reaction she wanted from them. They needed to know that the old Tea was dead. The Tea now was a monster, a monster that would be the death of them.

"I'll be leaving now that you know that I'm serious." She started to walk away.

"Wait," said a harsh voice. It was Bakura. "Whatever the hell happened to you happened. But at least you owe us an explanation, mortal girl!"

Tea stopped in her tracks. Hmm...yes, perhaps they would better understand her predicament. "Alright, at my house tonight at 7."

"No, at mine," Kaiba cut in. "You owe me an explanation after all the trouble I went looking for you."

Tea shrugged, "Suit yourself," she said coolly. Her figure shimmered then vanished.

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Okay so that's the end of the first chapter! Please, please review!!!