Authoress(es): Daughter of Dartz and Shaadi, and Apprentice to the Witty Phantom
Hikaru: Hi! Back with another one! This one is co-written by my friend Witty.
Witty: (Comes in) Hi!
Yami: Not again.
Hikaru&Witty: (Chase Yami out)
Hikaru: Now, where was I? Oh yeah. (A/N: I changed my penname, so now I'm gonna go by this particular character name for a while) Wow, no insanity this time. (Pouts) Sigh, I never get to have any fun. Someone want to do this disclaimer for me?
Ryou: (Nods) Hikaru-chan doesn't own YGO, but anything original belongs to her and her friend.
Hikaru: (Huggles Ryou) Arigatou, Ree-chan! On with the fic!
Chapter 1: Of Missions and Meetings
"You failed, Alastair"
Alastair cringed inwardly at those words. Though they were soft-spoken, the man speaking them had more than enough power to crush him in an instant. He knelt down, bowing his head slightly, and hoped that the man in front of him with his back facing him would not decide to use his soul as one of the sacrifices to the Great Leviathan.
"My apologies, Master Dartz"
Dartz turned around and looked down at Alastair, his expression unreadable. Alastair shuddered under the intense, mismatched sapphire and golden gaze, though he dared not look up or show any sign of his fear.
"It is of no consequence, Alastair. I will simply have to send another to capture the soul of the Pharaoh," Dartz said.
Alastair risked a glance upwards, his curiosity getting the better of him. Surely he couldn't mean those idiots Raphael and Varon. They had already been dispatched, as had that blonde-haired woman, what was her name? Oh, yes, Mai Valentine. And all three had already failed at taking the soul of the Pharaoh. He noticed that Dartz was no longer even looking at him, the other's gaze instead directed towards a figure lurking around in the shadows.
"Hikaru!" Dartz called.
A moment later, a delicate-looking, slender girl stepped out of the shadows, and Alastair groaned inwardly. Hikaru stepped forward, her long, light blue hair flowing out behind her, her mismatched golden and sapphire eyes that so resembled Dartz's own flashing with an intense inner fire, and yet still giving her an otherworldly, almost innocent appearance. The long skirt of the white dress she wore flared out delicately around her legs, and the dark cape she wore wrapped around her shoulders fluttered out behind her, looking for all the world like the dark wings of a fallen angel who was just as deadly as she was beautiful. A smirk crossed her pretty face when her eyes fell on Alastair, who was still kneeling down before the alter of the Great Leviathan. Alastair tensed, he had always despised that girl, and the feeling of hatred between them had always been mutual. He wanted to slap that smug smirk right off her face, but knew he didn't dare, or face the wrath of her father, Dartz.
"Yes, father?" Hikaru said, kneeling down before him, looking up at him.
"I have a mission for you. I want you to infiltrate the Pharaoh's group of friends, and once you've gained their trust, you will lead them here. You are not to let on who you truly are, though," Dartz answered.
This caused Hikaru to snicker in amusement, and she glanced over at Alastair. "I see the she-man over there was too incompetent to handle the job, then. Never send an amatuer to do an expert's job, I suppose," she commented, knowing the remark would tick Alastair off, but not really caring. She couldn't stand him, anyway. She never had liked him, ever since she had first laid eyes on him.
"What did you say, you little wretch?!" Alastair demanded angrily, 'convienently' forgetting that her father was standing there, watching the two get into yet another argument.
Hikaru smirked. "I think I just called you an amatuer and a she-man who's too incompetent to handle even a simple job like this," she repeated calmly.
"I swear, one of these days, you little--!" Alastair started when Dartz intervened, his eyes flashing dangerously.
It was then that Alastair realized that he had gone too far. Threatening the younger girl wasn't exactly what one would consider as being a particularly smart move anyway, but to do so in front of her father was like having a death wish. Alastair growled softly, but went silent, his heart pounding in fear of what Dartz would do to him.
"That's enough. You will not threaten my daughter again, or it will be your soul I use as a sacrifice to the Great Leviathan," Dartz snapped, his tone becoming deadly quiet.
Hikaru glared at Alastair, a light blue energy ball forming in her hand and quickly becoming darker as she added more of her power to it. She was about to let it loose when she felt Dartz lay his hand on her shoulder, a gesture that was meant to silently tell her to calm herself. A look of disappointment crossed her face for a moment, before she let the energy ball disappate harmlessly into the air around them. The look on her face a moment later, however, seemed to tell Alastair that he may have gotten lucky this time, but next time she would not be quite so forgiving of such a thing. His only response was a sneer sent in her direction, but she ignored it, instead turning her attention back to her father.
"You may leave, Alastair," Dartz said, and Alastair stood up and stormed out of the chamber, leaving the other two alone.
Once Alastair had gone, Dartz pulled two objects from a hidden pouch beneath his cloak and handed them to Hikaru. One was a Seal of Oricalchos card, while the other was a pendant hanging from a thin silver chain, and the charm itself was silver as well, and in the center of it was a shard from the Oricalchos Stone. "Take these, you will need them," Dartz replied quietly.
Hikaru took the offered items, slipping the pendant around her neck and tucking the charm itself beneath the fabric of the top of her dress, and took her deck which was similar in many ways to Yugi Motou's from a small pouch that hung at her side, and slipped the Seal of Oricalchos into it before replacing it in the pouch again. Then she stood up gracefully, brushing a few strands of hair away from her eyes.
"I won't fail you, father," she said softly, her eyes shining with determination.
Dartz offered a rare smile and nodded. "I know you won't, my child. Now, go pack what you will need, you are to leave in the morning," he said.
Hikaru nodded, hugged her father briefly and offered a slight bow, then turned and left the chamber, heading back for her private room. She moved silently through the corridors of their Atlantean home, her movements like that of liquid silver. She was about to turn down the hallway to her room when she sensed the presence of a stranger lurking in the darkness behind her. She stopped, her entire body going tense like a coiled spring, and summoned an energy ball in to her hand.
"I know you're there. Come out and face me, whoever you are"
She got no answer, so she turned and hurled the energy ball into the darkness behind her, not really aiming for the intruder, and it hit the wall next to whoever was there, causing them to flinch back out of the way, huddling closer to the wall. But it gave Hikaru a brief view of whoever was there, and she was surprised to see a girl close to her own age lingering there, who was holding a dagger in one hand and was brandishing it at her. The other stepped out of the shadows, circling Hikaru once or twice, holding the dagger out at arm's length in a defensive gesture.
"You're not going to throw another of those things at me, are you? I wouldn't suggest it," the stranger spoke, finally coming to a stop in front of Hikaru.
Hikaru didn't even appear to be phased by the other girl's hidden threat. "That depends. Why don't you start by telling me who you are and how you got here," Hikaru said, another energy ball forming in her hand as she did so.
Before the other girl could speak, though, they heard footsteps approaching. Hikaru silently cursed, letting the energy ball in her hand disappate harmlessly into the air. Then she glanced over at the other girl, and deciding she would rather take her chances than let anyone else know the other had gotten in there, she opened the door to her room and shoved the other girl inside. The other looked at her questioningly, but Hikaru just shook her head.
"Hide in here, and don't make any sound. I'll get rid of whoever's coming," she whispered, and with that, shut the door quickly just as she saw Alastair approaching. "Ugh, now what do you want?"
"You think you're pretty smart, making me look like a fool back there, don't you?" Alastair demanded.
Hikaru snorted derisively. "Please, you made yourself look like an idiot. It just comes naturally to you, I didn't have to do a thing. Now, state your business before I blast you into hell with my magic. I'm sure my father could easily find someone to replace you," she said with a smirk.
Alastair growled low in his throat and was about to say something else, but for some reason that not even he could explain, seemed to think better of it. His eyes narrowed and he stalked away, muttering darkly under his breath, something about strangling the blue-haired girl in her sleep and killing her slowly and painfully. Hikaru rolled her eyes, as she had heard the same thing before, and then seemed to remember the intruder. She glanced around to make sure no one else was lurking in the hallways, then ducked into her room, shutting the door behind her, and turned to the other girl who had perched herself on the window ledge and was looking at Hikaru warily, but curiosity shone plainly in the stranger's eyes too.
"Why did you let me hide? You could have just as easily have given me away to whoever that was," the girl spoke finally, watching as Hikaru started moving about the room.
Hikaru just shrugged. "I don't know, maybe it's because I haven't had any human contact except for my family and their three followers," she replied casually, turning to face the other girl.
"Oh. So who are you, anyway"
"The name's Hikaru. Hikaru Shinatoru." She shrugged again. "And you know, I should be asking you the same thing, as long as you're not planning on shoving that dagger of yours into my back or something"
To Be Continued....Mwah hahaha! Okay, I know it's been a while since I've posted anything, so I'm gonna do that now with this one to make up for being gone so long. Although I'm sure I haven't been that missed here. (Sobs) I'm kidding, just joking! (Chibi smile) Anyway, I'll have the next two chapters of this up tonight. R&R please, but no flames. I'm serious. If you have constructive criticism to offer, then fine. But no mindless flames like (coughcough) certain people made on my "Of Dragons and Dogs" fic, which isn't going to be put back up here, but if you want to see it, leave me your email addy in a review and I'll send it to you. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. It got unnecessarily attacked and then taken down when I posted it last time, and I don't need to deal with that again. Maybe I overreacted to having it flamed, and to the one who said that I flame other ppl who don't "praise my stuff", I wasn't flaming you in return, I said what I did to make a point, pure and simple. You don't want other ppl flaming your stuff, so don't do it yourself. Besides, who here among you wouldn't have defended something you'd created with all you had? (Hears nothing) Yes, that's what I thought. Well, okay, I'm going to stop rambling now and put up the next two chapters. Ja ne, minna-san!
Hikaru Shinatoru, daughter of Shaadi and Dartz