Burning Flames
(Author note: I don't own Yu-gi-oh)
Chap2 Who is Lily Sumpter?
Seto woke up early Saturday morning. He got dressed and picked up a mug of coffee. Outside his driver was waiting for him to get in. Kaiba was heading to the hospital to see Mokuba first then he was going to do some research on Lily Sumpter. Opening the door Kaiba looked up at Domino Hospital. He frowned wondering how Mokuba was. Inside he talked to the receptionist. She told him to go up to room 504.
" Mokuba?" Kaiba called out.
A nurse wheeled Mokuba over to Kaiba. There was a long white bandage over Mokuba's eyes.
" I'll leave you two to talk," she smiled.
" Hey Mokie," Kaiba whispered.
" Hello big brother," Mokuba grinned.
" How are you?" he asked.
" I'm o.k," he smiled, " but big brother I want to see you."
" I know," he frowned.
Seto gave Mokuba a big hug. His little brother began to smile.
" Don't worry Mokuba," Kaiba promised, " I'm going to find out why this happened."
The nurse came back in telling Seto visiting hours were over, so he hugged Mokuba one last time and then he picked up his briefcase and left.
" Mr. Kaiba," his driver asked.
" What?" he snapped.
" Are you o.k?"
" Yes,"
" I was just wondering,"
" I don't pay you to wonder," he snarled, " now take me to the library."
The car roared into life as it drove down the crowded Domino streets. Stopping with a screeching halt the car was finally at Seto's destination. He closed the door and walked up the stairs to the library. He went to ask the librarian where he could find information about Lily. Kaiba watched her type the name into the computer.
" Sorry sir," she apologized, " there is no such name as Lily Sumpter."
" How can that be she?"
" If you want you can go to the biography section and look up her last name," she interrupted.
Kaiba walked over to the biography section to search for Sumpter. He looked under S first, but he couldn't find it. He tried looking under Lily, but also failed. He sat at a table wondering why she wasn't in the library. Libraries usually had all the information you could possibly need. Looking around he noticed three people he knew, but didn't like Yugi Muto Joey Wheeler , and Yami.
He slowly rose from his chair so they wouldn't see him, but no such luck because Yugi called out his name. The librarian pointed to a sign that read, " Silence is Golden." Kaiba glared at them, but Yugi kept waving him over. So they wouldn't embarrass him anymore he went over to talk to them.
" Hey Kaiba," Yugi greeted.
" Hello Yugi," he greeted back then looked at Joey, " doesn't the sign outside say that dogs aren't allowed?"
" I'm not a mutt," Joey grumbled.
" What brings you to the library?" Yami asked.
" I surely didn't come to see you three," he scowled, " I am here to do research on a name."
" Here I'll help you," Joey grinned, " Seto Kaiba means jerk, loser, freak, rich boy, and social outcast."
" Joey Wheeler means one thing," he smirked, " a canine or for those who don't know what that is, a dog."
Joey opened his mouth about to say something but Yugi butted in.
" Kaiba who's name are you looking up?" Yugi asked, " We might be able to help."
"Lily Sumpter," he responded, " but I don't need help from any of you."
" Don't worry I don't mind," he smiled going over to the library showed up on the computer screen. Yugi typed in Lily Sumpter. He then pressed search waiting for the options to pop up, but none did. Instead the screen said No search results found. Yugi decided to try it backwards, but it said the same thing.
" Maybe she doesn't exist," Yugi suggested.
" That can't be," Kaiba disagreed, " she is real I know I have her diary."
He went to a table an opened his briefcase. Putting the red book on the table everyone looked at it. Joey picked up the book and flipped to a random page. He read it out loud.
" Dear diary," he began but received a stare from the librarian.
Joey sat down at the table with the others.
" Dear diary," he whispered, " Sarah isn't allowed to come to my house anymore because her parents don't want me to hex her. My mother told me her parents were loony. She promised that I would be able to see Sarah at school, but I told my mom I couldn't go to school. She laughed at me until I gave her the signed petition. It had all the parents in the town's signature. She was really angry, and she promised that next week at the town meeting father and her would bring it up."
" That is really sad," Yugi frowned.
" Maybe," Kaiba grunted, " but the girl is haunting my house, and I need to get rid of her."
" Kaiba afraid of a little ghost?" Joey laughed.
" Yes, because this little ghost nearly killed my bother, and me," he told.
" You're bluffing," Joey smiled.
" No, and my brother is in the hospital because of her," he frowned.
" Kaiba wouldn't lye about things like that," Yami informed.
" How are you going to get rid of her?" Yugi asked.
" I have no idea," he sighed.
Seto began to think this ghost would haunt him forever. He wondered why she wasn't on the Internet or in any of the library books.
" I have an idea," Yugi grinned, " Why don't you talk to the ghost?"
" I've tried, all they say is " we just want them to know" I would like to know who are they?" Kaiba sighed louder.
" We just want them to know,"
" Just like that," Kaiba frowned.
" Joey are you okay," Yugi asked.
Joey eyes were glazed over. He sat there repeating the same thing.
" We just want them to know," he spoke louder
The librarian walked over to their table about to say something, but suddenly she burst into flames.
" Oh my gosh!" Yugi yelled, " Fire!"
Everyone in the library panicked and ran out the door. Joey wouldn't move, so they had to drag him out.
" Someone call 911!" Yami shouted.
Police cars, a fire truck, and an ambulance surrounded the library. Joey suddenly fainted.
" Joey," Yugi tried to shake his friend awake.
" Yug," he breathed.
" The diary is still in there," Kaiba frowned, " there goes my only way of figuring this out."
" What happened?" Joey asked getting to his feet.
" She burned the library down," Seto answered.
" Who?" they asked.
" Lily Sumpter," he replied.
Seto was clueless what was he going to do now?
" Hey, Kaiba how about we stay at your house help you investigate along with the others," Yugi asked.
" I don't," Kaiba said.
" We will promise to not disturb you," Yami promised.
Seto thought about Mokuba then nodded.
" I'll tell them," Yugi grinned, " 8:00 tonight then"
Kaiba sat at his desk upstairs waiting for the guests. He then went downstairs, so he could make sure everything was okay. He glanced around the living room, but his eyes fell upon the diary. He picked it up. It was in perfect condition. The doorbell rang, so he decided to go get it. There standing at his door was Yugi's friends. He thought about whether it was a good idea to invite them all over, but couldn't back down because they were all in his home now.
" Welcome," he tried his best to smile.
" Hey Kaiba," Marik smirked," you have a nice place what's the catch?"
" We are here to solve the mystery of Lily Sumpter," Yugi explained.
" Who is she?" he asked.
" We don't know exactly, but she is haunting this house," Yami informed.
" So this is a haunted mansion then," Tristan smirked.
" Exactly," Joey nodded.
Everyone sat down in different chairs. Seto popped in a movie, so they could have some entertainment. The movie was The Ring.
" The Ring that is a scary movie," Mai and Tea panicked.
" No it is cheap,"Bakura, laughed, " the movie is hilarious."
While they were watching the movie the power went out. Everyone screamed because they were scared except Kaiba and Yami.
" Oh shut up," he hollered putting on some candles.
" Okay, but what is he doing here?" Tea pointed.
A boy sat right next to Tea he had short golden hair. Tea was shaking wildly.
" Hey little boy," Yugi called out, " what are you doing here?"
" We just want them to know," he simply stated.
" Know about what?" Yugi asked.
" I'll show you," he frowned.
Everyone in the room fainted. A cold breeze blew over them. Seto woke up. He sat up right.
" Everyone wake up!" he demanded.
" Where are we?" Mai asked.
They looked around to see leaves scattered on the ground. Seto got off the ground noticing the little town. He instructed them to follow.
" Lily give me back my hat!" a boy shouted at Lily.
" You have to catch me first," she giggled.
" Hey that must be Lily and,"
" Her brother Michael," Kaiba interrupted Yugi.
" Lily give me back my hat!" Michael demanded.
" Michael I can't give you back your hat if you don't catch me," she smiled.
Seto noticed a lady drop a shopping bag. He watched Lily pick it up.
" Mrs., you dropped your grocery bag," she politely said.
" Give me that you witch," she grumbled.
" You're welcome lady," Michael hollered, " Lily don't cry."
" Why did she call me a witch Michael?"
" I don't know Lily,"
The scene changed and the gang ended up next to a school. Walking inside they saw Lily's classroom, and opened the door.
" Lily," the teacher grunted," take this home to your mother. It states that we don't want you to come back to school."
" Why not?" she asked.
" You're a witch," he answered.
" How do you know that?"
" People have been seeing you talk to animals," he stated.
" Doesn't everyone?"
" No," he replied, " and we saw you on a broom."
" I was just playing around,"
" And worse of all," he frowned, " you put a spell on Cindy at recess yesterday. She ended up not coming to school today."
" Maybe she is sick?"
" By you," he shook his head sadly, " now end of discussion."
The gang was in front of a house it was on fire.
" Whose house is that?" Malik asked.
" I have no clue," Marik shook his head.
Everyone fainted again this time they were back in the Kaiba mansion. It was on fire. Seto began to cough wildly as the smoke filled his lungs. He went over to the phone and dialed the fire department number, but when the firemen got there they went home angrily because there wasn't a fire.
" I don't understand," Tea, sighed, " we were all in the fire how did it just stop like that?"
" This is becoming weird," Yugi said.
" That isn't all that is weird," Joey pointed.
There standing by the TV was Lily Sumpter. She looked at all of them sadly. She walked toward Seto. He slowly backed up into his couch.
" Stay back," he stuttered.
She only got closer to him.
" Don't worry I have your back Kaiba," Duke grinned throwing a dice at the girl.
" Idiot!" Kaiba shouted, " She is a ghost."
" I don't believe in ghost," he proudly stated.
Lily turned her head toward Duke. She then strolled over to him a frown on her face. Duke's hands flew to his neck he began to choke wildly. Then clumps of black powder fell out of his mouth.
" It's ashes," Bakura spoke in a confused tone.
" Little girl," Kaiba yelled, " leave us alone."
The girl pointed at the diary then disappeared.
" Okay whoever wants to leave Kaiba's house say I," Duke asked.
" I,"
" No," Yugi stood, " we are going to help Kaiba figure this out."
" Can't he figure it out alone?" Malik pleaded, " I'm scared."
Seto picked up the red book and flipped to the last page. He stared at a page that was empty. He then flipped to the page before it.
" Hey everyone listen to this," he cleared his throat, " Dear diary mother and father are going to town tomorrow. I can't wait because I want to be able to go back to school. Mother and father said I couldn't come, so Michael has to stay home with me. He doesn't mind. Michael is a great big brother. I hope tomorrow will be better."
" Read the next entry," Tristan begged, " this is pretty interesting."
" Don't it isn't right to read others diaries," she disagreed, " especially a person who is dead."
" I can't," Kaiba answered, " there isn't another entry the rest of the pages are empty."
" Empty," Mai took the diary from Kaiba, " you're right."
" Why wouldn't there be anymore entries?" Yugi asked.
" It is like something happened," Yami said, " after that day."
" What was the day?" Ryou asked.
" January 29th 1856," Seto replied.
" What happened January 30th 1856?"Yugi asked.
" Tomorrow we should ask people around Domino," Joey suggested "they might know."
" If the computers and the books don't know then how will they know?" Kaiba asked.
" Maybe Domino city is hiding something," Duke said picking up the diary, " maybe they don't want us to know."
The gang decided to go to sleep that night even though they were still scared. One thing was on all of their minds what happened to Lily and Michael Sumpter on January 30th 1856?
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