Hikaru: We're back!
Yami: Not again. Please, dear Ra, not again.
Hikaru: (Summons a dark energy ball) Yami........
Yami: (The third eye appears on his forehead)
Hikaru: (Smirks) Please, Pharaoh, you think you can take me on?
Witty: (Watches them) Umm, we don't own YGO but anything original is ours. (Heads off to join the stand-off between Hikaru and Yami)
Chapter 5: Yet Another Narrow Escape
Hikaru glanced over her shoulder and noticed Weevil and Rex following them. She glanced at Witty for a moment, then stopped. She turned around, her eyes narrowing slightly when Rex and Weevil very nearly ran into her.
"Why are you two following us? Scram," Hikaru snapped.
Weevil and Rex looked at her as if they were hesitant to leave, but more still to do anything that would make the girl mad. They looked at each other, then both noticed the way Hikaru's mismatched eyes seemed to glow with an unnatural aura and took off. She snickered when they were gone, glancing over at Witty again.
"It's just way too easy sometimes," she laughed.
Witty shook her head in amusement. "Do you think you should have chased them off so soon?" she asked.
Hikaru nodded. "Yeah, we don't need them. I think I know where to start looking for Yugi, anyway, if what the old man said was true"
"What did he say, anyway?"
Hikaru sighed. "Seems there's been some really weird stuff going on and they left for San Fransico yesterday"
"So how do we get there?" Witty asked.
"I think I might be able to teleport us there. Come on, let's go back to where we left the motorcycles," Hikaru said and started walking again with Witty following next to her.
As they passed by an alleyway, Hikaru suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, her entire body tensing like a coiled spring. Her mismatched eyes went slightly wide and started glowing with that same unnatural aura, almost as if she sensed something nearby. Witty kept walking, lost in her thoughts, not noticing the fact that her friend was no longer with her. Hikaru moved cautiously into the alleyway, glancing around to make sure no one was lurking in the shadows. She was about to leave when she felt someone grab her roughly from behind. She squeaked in fear and looked over her shoulder, then screamed when she realized that it was Raphael who had grabbed her.
"WITTY! HELP!" Hikaru screamed.
He clamped his hand over her mouth to stiffle the frightened girl's desperate cry for help, but it was too late. Witty had heard the scream and raced back to where the shout had come from. She stopped when she saw her friend struggling wildly in Raphael's grip, and took her dagger from where she kept it hidden inside her vest. Raphael only smirked, tightening his grip on Hikaru painfully. She let out a muffled cry, frightened tears starting to slide down her face. Raphael had pinned her arms behind her back and was using the power from his Oricalchos crystal to keep her from using her magic on him again.
"Let go of her!" Witty demanded, her eyes narrowing. "Now."
"I don't think so. Alastair! Grab the other one and let's go!"
Witty turned and dodged out of the way of the woman-look-alike and brought her dagger up, slashing him on the arm as she moved away from him. Hikaru watched, wide-eyed. She struggled against Raphael's grip on her, but went totally still, her eyes filled with terror when she felt the cold blade of a dagger touch her neck warningly, causing him to move the hand that had been previously clamped over her mouth. She whimpered softly, shutting her eyes tightly.
Why are they doing this?! she thought to herself desperately.
Witty noticed her friend's position and rushed over, knocking the blade out of Raphael's hand with her own and pulling her friend away from him. Hikaru ducked behind Witty, trembling, as the two so-called palace guards advanced on them. Witty held her dagger out in front of her in a defensive position, slowly backing away with Hikaru still behind her. Witty cursed to herself when the two found themselves backed up against the brick wall of the alleyway with nowhere left to run.
Hikaru!
Hikaru gasped, looking around, trying to figure out where the voice had come from, but saw no one else enter the alleyway. She glanced at Witty, thinking it might have been the other girl who had somehow called out to her, but Witty's attention was on the two who were advancing on them.
Hikaru! came the strange voice again.
/H-hello?/ she called out tentatively.
Thank Ra you heard. Hikaru, use your powers to summon us and we'll shield your escape! came a second voice.
/B-but who are you?/
You know us, Hikaru. We've always been with you, protecting you, the first voice replied.
/Protecting me? Wait! Change of Heart?! Dark Magician Girl?!/
Yes, Hikaru, came the second voice.
You must summon us now! the first voice said.
/O-okay, I'll give it a shot./
With that she pulled her deck from the pouch that hung at her side and held up her Change of Heart and Dark Magician Girl cards. "Spirit creatures with whom I have a pact, reveal your true forms! Reveal your true forms, my emissaries, and answer my summons! Come forth from the Dominion of the Beasts and protect us!" she chanted.
A moment later, there was a bright flash of white light that nearly blinded them, and made Raphael and Alastair stumble backwards. When the light was gone, Hikaru and Witty saw the two Duel Monsters standing in front of them. Dark Magician Girl held her staff out in front of her in much the same way Witty had been holding her dagger. Change of Heart held her hands out, a bright energy ball forming and illuminating her half-light, half-dark face and casting eerie shadows all around them.
"What the....?!" Alastair started.
Before he could finish what he was saying, both Duel Monsters launched an attack, knocking both Raphael and Alastair backwards and stunning them. Dark Magician Girl turned to Hikaru and Witty.
"Run, now! We'll shield your escape!" she said.
Hikaru nodded and she and Witty took off, slipping easily past Raphael and Alastair. They kept running until they got to where they had left the motorcycles, and it was only then that they stopped to look behind them, making sure that they had not been followed. Luckily no one was behind them, and Witty removed her concealment spell. Hikaru used her magic to hotwire the motorcycles again and they took off.
Witty drove up along side Hikaru and looked at her. "You all right?" she asked.
Hikaru nodded. "Yeah, just a little shaken up, that's all"
"Why are they after us?" Witty asked, wanting answers.
"I have no idea. They came after me last night, too. I saw them in the hallway when I was heading back to my room, and for some reason they just came after me, I don't know why," she replied. But how they were able to find us this quickly, I don't know. I'm sorry, Witty, I can't tell you just yet. There's too much going on that we don't know about.
To Be Continued. Well, here's part five of this. Hope you enjoy this. Please R&R, my friend and I have put a lot into this, and I'm kind of taking a chance with putting it up here after last time when one of my other fics got taken down after being unnecessarily attacked. And if people are avoiding me because of the almost-flame-war between me and the one who flamed my "Of Dragons And Dogs" fic, then please don't, because surely you understand where I was coming from when I retaliated. And if you are avoiding me, then at least don't take it out on my friend who's collaborating with me on this fic. Meh, maybe I'm paranoid. Anyway, I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can, but that might not be until sometime later this week. Well, ja ne, minna-san.
Hikaru Shinatoru, Daughter of Shaadi and Dartz