Hikaru: Here's the second part of this.
Witty: We hope you like it! !
Yami: (Has been tied up with duct tape over his mouth)
Hikaru: Well, that's what he gets for what he did to poor Yugi.
Witty: (Nods) We don't own YGO, but anything original is ours!
Hikaru: (Smiles) Now, on with the fic!
Chapter 2: Of Pranks and Friendships
The girl grinned. "No," she said. "You just saved my life--besides, this dagger's blade's for someone else." She studied her dagger. It was gold hilted, with a coil on the tip of the hilt and jewels glistened in the firelight from along the walls of the room. "My name's Witty," she said. "Hikaru...Hmm. Nice name. I was named after my master, the legendary Witty Phantom. He taught me everything I know-- from thieving, to magic and..." Her voice trailed off. "He was killed a long time ago," she said. "His soul was banished into a card in the game of Duel Monsters and ever since I heard the name of my master's killer, I've been on a quest for justice."
Hikaru frowned. "Oh, I'm so sorry," she said. "Who banished him?"
"Dartz," Witty said darkly. "That's the name I heard the day my master's soul was stolen."
Hikaru's mismatched eyes went very wide with her shock, and she let out a soft gasp when Witty mentioned the name Dartz. She shook her head in denial. Surely her father wouldn't do something so heartless. Sure, he wanted the soul of the Pharaoh, but to actually kill somebody? She turned away from Witty and sat down on her bed, staring off into nothingness.
"It's not possible....." Hikaru whispered softly. "He'd never kill someone"
"Hey, you all right?" Witty asked, waving her hand in front of the other girl's face to get her attention.
Hikaru glanced up at Witty and shook her head. "Yeah, I...I'm fine"
"You sure? You look like you've seen a ghost or something, and you were muttering about something"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just thinking about something, that's all. Hey, I'm leaving for Domino City in the morning, you want to come with me?" Hikaru asked, hoping beyond all hope that Witty wouldn't discover her secret. If she did, it would be all over.
Witty offered a slight shrug. "Sure, why not? Might as well"
Hikaru smiled, and for the first time in a long time, it was genuine. "Good. You can stay here tonight since no one else knows you're here." And, she thought, I can't risk her finding out about father. I don't know what to believe. He would never kill anyone, I know he wouldn't. I mean, yeah, he's not the nicest person in the world to Alastair and those other idiots, but mother and I know how he truly is. He's too gentle to kill anyone, I know it!
"So, Witty, just out of curiosity, how did you find this place, anyway? I mean, it's not exactly in the most convienient of spots."
Witty took out her dagger and studied its shining silver blade. "My master told me about this place in his stories. He found this dagger in the desert and gave it to me when I completed my first theft and magic trick." She shrugged. "Plus, once you get travelers to talk to you for an hour or so, you learn a lot." She grinned. "You want to see a trick?"
Hikaru grinned back at her. "Yeah. Show me."
"Okay...who was that guy that walked past here before you pushed me in here?"
"Oh, that was Alistair--um...one of the guards of the palace," Hikaru said in a white lie.
Witty sneaked over to the doorway and peaked around the corner. Just her luck, she saw the woman-look-alike walking down the hallway with his back to her.
Witty gestured to Hikaru and the girl joined her side. "Careful," Hikaru whispered.
"I know," Witty whispered back. "Watch him," she said gleefully. As Hikaru watched, Witty muttered words in a runic spell and a quick POP sound resounded in the hallway.
When next the girls saw Alistair, he wore a fluffy white dress with baby-pink ruffles for the sleeves! Hikaru muffled a laugh and the girls quickly turned back into the room. They stared at each other in dead silence until they heard a blood-curdling scream down the hall.
They burst out laughing when suddenly, the voice of another so-called "guard" said darkly to Alistair in the hallway: "What by Ra are you wearing, Alistair?" His voice was much too close to the room and the girls gasped.
"I'M GONNA KILL THAT LITTLE BRAT!" the girls heard Alastair scream.
Hikaru looked over at the door, then at Witty. "Quick, hide! I'll get rid of them," she said.
Witty nodded and darted into the closet, shutting the door silently just as loud pounding could be heard on the other side of the door to Hikaru's room. She made sure Witty was out of sight before she opened the door, putting on a cold glare, her two-tone eyes flashing dangerously. She held back the urge to roll her eyes when she noticed that the other one standing there with Alastair was the other thorn in her side, a tall, blonde-haired tough guy wanna-be by the name of Raphael. She raised one pale eyebrow at Alastair, trying to keep from laughing at the dress he had suddenly found himself wearing.
"That's a new look for you. I always knew you were a she-man, but this just proves my point," she remarked a bit smugly, looking rather pleased with herself, or rather, with Witty, but they didn't know about the other girl, and Hikaru intended to keep it that way, for her friend's sake. She frowned inwardly, when had she begun to see the other girl as a friend? Oh well, she thought to herself and shrugged the thought aside for the time being.
"This is a new low, even for you, you annoying little wretch," Alastair growled.
"Oh, I don't know, I think it looks good on you," Hikaru snickered, turning to Raphael. "What do you think? Because you know, I seriously think you could use a make-over too"
Raphael didn't answer. That was when she noticed the very much irritated gleam in Alastair's eyes and the way he seemed to be plotting the best way to kill her and make it look like an accident in his mind. She summoned an energy ball into her hand, and it quickly became darker and larger as she added more of her power to it. The look on her face was a pure challenge, seeming almost to want him to try something so she would have a reason to blast him into the underworld with her magic. It truly was too bad that her father insisted on keeping the fool around, really. She would have liked nothing more than to dispose of him. But she was again denied the chance when Raphael sent a glare her way, then grabbed the woman-look-alike and dragged him off down the corridors away from her room. She sighed in relief when they were gone and shut the door again.
"They're gone, you can come out now," she said quietly.
A moment later, Witty emerged from her hiding spot and walked over to Hikaru, who seemed to not even notice the energy ball still in her hand. Witty cast a slightly nervous glance towards the energy ball, then looked at Hikaru. The other girl's eyes had suddenly taken on a distant look, as if she was seeing something that Witty could not. But whatever the reason, the glazed look in Hikaru's eyes vanished just as quickly as it had come, and she shook her head as if to clear it. Noticing the energy ball still burning in her hand, she let it dissapate harmlessly into the air around them.
"You all right?" Witty asked.
Hikaru nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine," she said, hoping that Witty wouldn't press the matter.
Luck seemed to be on her side tonight, though, for Witty said no more about it. "So who was that other guy with--what did you say his name was? Alastair"
Hikaru just offered a slight shrug. "Just another one of the guards, Raphael. He's pretty much your typical big, dumb, tough-guy wanna-be. I don't know which of those two is more annoying, really," she explained.
Witty nodded. "Oh."
Then she perched herself on the window ledge again, watching as Hikaru moved around the room, shoving various items into a large duffel bag. For lack of anything better to do, really, Witty brought out her own deck and started looking through it, a slightly sad look in her eyes as she did so. Hikaru noticed out of the corner of her eye and looked up, watching for a moment before she finally spoke.
"You play Duel Monsters?" she asked curiously.
Witty nodded. "A little, yes"
Hikaru nodded and brought out her own deck. "I do too. My father taught me the game." She pulled out two cards from her deck and showed them to Witty. They were Change of Heart and Dark Magician Girl. "These two are my favorites. Hey, I just thought of something. Do you have a Witty Phantom one?" she asked, hoping she wouldn't upset the other.
Witty shook her head sadly. "No, I don't. I just never really could bear to see his soul trapped in a card, but...." Witty trailed off.
Hikaru seemed to know what she was trying to say and nodded. Then she put her deck away and offered Witty a smile. Witty looked at her curiously, wondering what the other girl was thinking.
"Wait here, I'll be right back," she said, then left the room, closing the door behind her.
She made her way quickly through the corridors towards the gardens where Shaadi could more often than not be found when he wasn't with her or Dartz. Sure enough, Shaadi was there, sitting on the edge of a fountain that very closely resembled that of one of the four Legendary Dragons. She had always thought it looked like Tomiyas, but Dartz had told her it was actually the fourth nameless Dragon that he claimed. She walked over to Shaadi, hugging him briefly, pouting slightly when he ruffled her hair affectionately.
"Hello, little one"
"Hi. Umm, mother? May I have one of your special cards?" she asked quietly.
"Which one?" Shaadi asked.
"The Witty Phantom card"
Shaadi, as if sensing there was a reason for wanting the card that she wasn't willing to speak of, smiled and nodded. "You have a friend you want to give it to, am I right"
Hikaru gasped quietly and looked up at him with wide, two-tone eyes. "I...how"
Shaadi winked. "Don't worry, I won't tell your father about it." He took a card from the folds of his robe and handed it to her.
Hikaru smiled and practically glomped him. "Thank you."
Then she took off running back towards her room, hoping none of the others had figured out that Witty was hiding there. As she got closer, she heard voices and her eyes went wide again. But strangely enough, one of them sounded eerily like her own. She peered around the corner and saw Alastair and a doppleganger of herself arguing before he finally stormed away again. She ducked back into the shadows so she wouldn't be noticed, then darted into her room, closing the door behind her, and turned to Witty, who was perched on the window ledge again in her normal form, chuckling at the red-haired 'guard's' obvious stupidity. Hikaru looked at her curiously, tilting her head slightly to one side.
"Just a little trick I picked up from my master. He showed me how to make myself look and sound exactly like anyone I wanted. Alastair came back while you were gone, so I had to make him think I was you. Sorry about that," she explained.
Hikaru just laughed. "Don't worry about it. Do you think you can show me that trick when we get to Domino?"
Witty nodded. "Sure. Where'd you disappear to, anyway"
It was then Hikaru remembered the card in her hand. "Oh, I have something for you. Here, I hope you like it"
"What is it?" Witty asked, her curiosity starting to get the better of her. Her eyes went very wide when Hikaru handed her the Witty Phantom card. Tears filled her eyes but did not fall, and she looked up at Hikaru. "Thank you. You don't know how much this means to me," she said quietly, lightly running her hand along the card a couple of times fondly. "Master...." she whispered.
"Consider it a gift. It's a symbol of our friendship," Hikaru said. Then she squeaked in surprise when Witty hugged her, and returned it after a moment, the two finally moving back and smiling at each other. Witty placed the card carefully in her deck, tucking it away in her pocket.
"So what did Alastair want this time? I notice he wasn't wearing the dress anymore," Hikaru asked, looking a little disappointed that she couldn't razz him about the dress anymore.
To Be Continued....here's the next part of this. Hope you like it. Yes, Shaadi and Dartz are together, and Hikaru is their daughter. And yes, she calls Shaadi 'mother'. Very long, odd story behind this. I've never seen that particular pairing before though, and I thought they could be very cute together. Although I do think Dartz would be the more aggressive seme, though....(Snickers) Okay, sorry, my mind just wandered into the gutter for a moment. (Yanks it far away from said gutter) Sorry to anyone out there who is a fan of either Raphael or Alastair, but there will be much bashing of the two, just because they're fun characters to mess with. Besides, they make the perfect villians. Although I can see Alastair as still just being the henchman. And there's a rivalry between those two and Hikaru, as I've started to show, again, a very long story behind that. Anyway, sorry if this part was a little bit short. Well, I'm gonna go now. Ja ne, minna-san!
Hikaru Shinatoru, Daughter of Shaadi and Dartz