I don't own Yugioh.
Chapter 15
After breakfast, they fastened in and started to get ready to lift off.
Yugi sighed, sitting in the middle next to Anzu, "I don't think I'll ever get used to this…?"
"Mokuba gets airsick every time we use the plane," Seto stated.
Yugi groaned.
Jou and Yami, who were behind them, laughed.
"Lifting off," Seto announced, and powered up the plane.
Yugi felt the familiar feeling as the plane lifted into the air after going on the very short runway. But this time, he was able to push it back as they took to the sky.
"That was one odd storm last night," Jou looked out the window, "I mean, come'n up allava sudden, and then go'n away halfway through the night? Weird weather. Is it cause we're go'n to the equator?"
"Could be," Seto shrugged, navigating the plane as they leveled out.
Yugi paused, thinking about it. He felt his deck in his pocket, then looked up. That's right…the storm did come up so suddenly. I was so sick I didn't notice it then. But now that I think about it…the storm itself felt wrong.
/Ne, Yami?/
//Eh?//
/What do you think of the storm?/
//Come again? It was a storm…//
/Yea…but wasn't it…strange?/
//Huh?//
/It came out of nowhere./
//Storms do that sometimes. We are over the ocean.//
/Yea, but still…I have a bad feeling about it./
//The storm?//
/I don't know…I can't explain it. I just know that I just feel uneasy./
//It's probably the airsickness…//
/I'm serious…!/
//So am I.//
/I mean it, Yami. I just feel like…something's not right. Sorta like the feeling you get when you know you did something bad and you're going to get punished./
//But we didn't do anything bad.//
/…/
//Yugi?//
/How do you know? What if something we did in the past was bad?/
//What's with all this negative thinking? That's my job. Not yours.//
/Dunno…it's just that with the dreams and all…the creatures were trying to find out about me. What if they're after me?/
//Then we'll fight them.//
Yugi sighed and leaned back in the seat.
Anzu looked at him, "Are you alright?"
Yugi nodded, "Un." He still couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen.
Jou was talking to Yami, "So then I said, 'I put the Winged Dragon in attack mode!', and creamed the kid!"
Yugi blinked. Duel Monsters…? He reached into his pocket and pulled out his deck, looking through it. Come to think of it…I got most of my cards from jiichan …
***Flashback***
"Yugi! Come here!" Sugoroku called through the house.
"Coming, jiichan!" a 6-year-old Yugi bounded into the room and jumped onto his grandfather, hugging him.
"Ho…," Sugoroku laughed, "Easy there, Yugi." He set the boy down.
"Ne, jiichan," Yugi smiled at him, "What is it?"
"I want you to have this," Sugoroku handed him a deck of cards with a swirl pattern on the back.
"Wow!" Yugi gasped, "It's Duel Monsters!"
Sugoroku chuckled, "Yes…remember I taught you how to play a couple days ago?"
"Un!"
"Well, I want you to have this," Sugoroku pointed to the deck, "It was my deck. I found a bunch of rare creatures and all sorts of magic and trap cards. Don't forget to use the heart of the cards. They'll respond to you. I know they will."
"Wow…," Yugi whispered, looking at the deck.
"Oh, and add this to your deck, too," Sugoroku hesitantly reached into the box, then shook his head and gave the card to Yugi, "I think you're old enough."
Yugi took the card, "It's the Silver Fang."
Sugoroku nodded, "That card especially will not let you down. It's a loyal wolf. Loyal to its master."
"Cool…," Yugi whispered. "Arigatou, jiichan! I promise that I'll do my best and use the heart of the cards! I'll be nice and they'll help me!"
Sugoroku ruffled his grandson's unruly hair, "Atta boy."
***End Flashback***
Yugi thumbed through the deck, looking at the Silver Fang for a while. Come to think of it, this card looks brand new. But it looked so old when I first got it from jiichan. It's almost as if…the deck changed for me. Like it was waiting for me. Or, some of them, anyway. Yugi continued to look through them. The Dark Magician……Yami's favorite card. I guess it's okay. Better then the Fiend type monsters in here. It's a Spellcaster type. Yugi continued to go through the cards, until he came across a certain one. The Fierce Knight of Gaia. Gaia…where did I hear that term used…? His head started to hurt, and his temples were pounding. His vision blurred, and he winced. Gaia…isn't that what the fiend in my dreams mentioned…? Gaians…Gaia…there has to be a connection. Fierce Knight of Gaia…Gaia…Gaians……
Jou, Yami, and Anzu looked over when they heard a 'thump'. Yugi had dropped his deck on the seat, and his deck case hit the floor.
Yugi was staring at something that looked very far away. His eyes were wide and unfocused, and he just sat there, the color on his face draining a bit.
"Yugi?!" Anzu looked over.
"Yugi!" Yami shouted.
"Yug?!" Jou exclaimed.
Yugi didn't respond. He could vaguely hear them calling, but it seemed so far away…
***Flash***
"Anata!" the woman ran forward, "I can't find Tenko!"
The man dropped his papers and rushed out of the room, "Where was he last…?"
"He was in the playroom…oh, God! What if he wandered outside…?!"
"We must find him…!" the man ran outside, then shouted, "TENKO!?"
"Tenko?! Where are you?!" The woman called. "Oh, God…he's only a baby…"
Suddenly, they heard a hoarse galloping towards them, and it stopped in front of the house. The knight got off the horse and held up a laughing child.
"Is this yours?" the knight smiled.
"Tenko!" the woman took the child, hugging him. She looked at him, "Don't ever do that again! You had me worried sick!"
Tenko laughed and clapped his chubby hands.
"Thank you," the man smiled, "I don't know how to thank you enough."
"I saw him crawling around the bushes," the knight responded, "I knew he belonged to you. The Knights of Gaia were invited. Well, some of them. I was one of them."
"Thank you again," the man bowed.
"Thank you very much," the woman added.
Tenko giggled and babbled something.
The knight smiled, "Easy, little guy. You have too much great power to become a lowly Knight of Gaia. You'll become a Spellcaster, most likely. Just like your mother, ne?"
The woman blushed.
"You know of his powers?" the man asked.
The knight nodded, " 'To combat the powers of darkness, some of light will be born'. He is one of the legendary Holy Magicians. I can tell."
The woman smiled at the yawning child, "Hear that, Tenko? One day, you'll be a great protector of Gaia, just like this knight here."
Tenko smiled, and giggled, clapping his hands together in joy.
"I don't think he understands yet," the man chuckled.
"I'm sure he understands more then he's given credit for," the knight replied, "He's ahead of the times. I'm sure he'll be walking before he's even two, and talking before he's three. Can't you see the intelligence in his eyes?"
The two parents nodded.
"Well, have a nice day, folks," the knight bowed. Then, he mounted his hoarse, and rode away.
Tenko watched, his shining eyes taking in everything, until he fell asleep.
***End Flash***
"Yugi?! Yugi?!"
"Yugi?!"
"Yug?!"
Yugi's eyes rolled back in his head, and he slumped in his seat.
"What happened, Anzu?!" Yami demanded from the back.
"His eyes just rolled back in his head!" Anzu stammered, tears running down her cheeks.
Yami took his seatbelt off and made his way over as the plane continued through the air.
Yami bent down in front of Yugi and checked for a pulse and breathing. He placed a hand to Yugi's forehead, then one to his own.
"Well?!" Jou was leaning over the seat.
"I don't know," Yami shook his head, "His pulse is normal…his breathing is fine, he doesn't feel like he has a fever……everything checks out."
"He probably just passed out, then," Seto spoke up from the front, "Nothing to worry about unless he stops breathing."
Jou slowly sat back in his seat, refastening the seat belt.
Anzu wiped her eyes, "I'll switch seats with you, Yami. You know more about this stuff then me." She went to the back and sat next to Jou as Yami took Anzu's seat.
"Between yesterday and today," Jou muttered, "It feels like we're play'n 'musical chairs'…"
"We're almost at Midway Island," Seto stated after an hour or two, "How's Yugi doing?"
They had put a blanket over Yugi, and he was leaning against Yami, sleeping. Yami had put the deck back together, and put it back in Yugi's pocket.
"He's still sleeping," Yami responded.
"That was freaky," Jou stated.
"You thought it was freaky?!" Anzu hissed, "I was sitting right next to him! How do you think I felt when he went stiff as a board and seemed to be seeing something that we couldn't see, and then his eyes rolled back in his head and he collapsed?!"
"I'm just say'n that it was freaky!" Jou crossed his arms.
"Yea, well, it was! But it was more freaky to me!" Anzu responded.
"I bet Yug was freaked out," Jou stated.
"He probably didn't know what was happening," Anzu replied.
Yami blinked. 'Seeing something we couldn't see'…? I wonder…was he having another dream? But what was this one about? The unseen future that he's worried about that he has a bad feeling about, the dreams of the present warning us about what's happening to his grandpa, or…Yami glanced down at Yugi, …is it something from the past?
TO BE CONTINUED…