Hikaru: We're back!
Rex: (Pops in from nowhere) Don't tell me you're gonna torture us more?
Hikaru: Yes, later we are, now get lost, dino-boy. (Evil smirk)
Rex: (Hightails it when Hikaru's eyes start glowing)
Witty: (Laughs) You like doing that to them, don't you?
Hikaru: (Nods, grinning) Yup! Oh, and to vaporeon13204, yes, it is the same Shaadi who has the Millennium Scales and Ankh, and Malik and Marik are bounty hunters in this fic, hired by Raphael and Alastair. Hopefully we've seen the last of them for a while, but who knows? And the thing between Shaadi and Dartz is a long story, which will probably be revealed in another series of vingettes I have in mind. Witty-chan, if you would be so kind?
Witty: We don't own YGO, but anything original is ours.
Hikaru: Arigatou, Witty-chan! And now, on with the fic!
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Chapter 9: Journey To San Francisco
Once dusk fell over Domino, Witty and Hikaru arrived at the airport for a while to hide out. Hopefully we'll be safe here for a while until Hikaru gets better, Witty thought as she helped her friend through the sliding doors.
They found the gate area with a sign jutting out from the walkway. USA, CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, it read. Witty led Hikaru to the seats, but she sank down against one of the windows that faced the runways.
"Hikaru, are you okay?"
Hikaru wearily looked up at her and slipped the duel disk off her arm. "Yes," she whispered. "I'll be better in a minute."
Witty nodded and sat next to her. She pushed the duel disk away and looked back at her friend. She looked down at the stone at her chest and frowned. "Where did you get that, anyway?"
Hikaru knew how to answer honestly. "My father gave it to me," she said and left it at that.
Witty nodded and secretly touched the dagger that hid under her purple jacket. She sighed. "Quite the adventure today," she said with a bitter smile. "I hope we don't run into them again--"
"Me too," Hikaru said. She looked out toward the runway as the sun sprayed its crimson auras onto the planes that rolled by.
They watched as a red private leer jet came to a landing. On its side there were the initials, I.I. Witty frowned. "I-I? Who's I-I, do you think?" She looked at her friend as her bitter smile cured into a genuine grin.
Hikaru laughed. "Idiots Incorporated?" She gestured at the bottom of the plane. "Someone forgot to lower the wheels."
Witty gasped and watched as the plane hit the runway and sprayed orange fire sparks to either side of its body.
As soon as the jet screeched to a final halt, the door opened, the stairway lowered, and a man with dark glasses skipped down the stairs. He crouched down as the engine finally died and looked at the damage on the underside. He tore his glasses off his face and threw them to the ground. Dammit, he lip-synced.
Hikaru and Witty exchanged looks as other people from the jet stepped down the staircase. They were all dressed in suits, like agents or bodyguards.
Witty looked from the window to the door to the side of the room. She saw a stairway lead down to the runway. She saw an image of her master wink as a tempting thought seeped into her mind. She looked at Hikaru. "Hey Hikaru," she said. "What do you think of hotwiring something bigger than the bikes?"
Hikaru looked at her. "Bigger?" She looked back at the jet. "Oh no," she said as a smile spread helplessly onto her face. "Oh no, Witty--what's that look in your eye?"
Witty cackled as the passengers of the jet left it to the aircraft maintenance. "You think you have enough magic to lift that thing into the air?"
Hikaru drummed her fingers on the windowsill. Her smile broadened.
Just as the maintenance crew ran out to the jet, Hikaru and Witty rushed out the door and Hikaru drew two cards from her pocket. Witty heard her chant the same words she had chanted before and two lights, like rays of sunlight, sprang out from the cards. Witty waved her hand over the wings and the jet's engine suddenly came to life. The maintenance crew was on the other side and when the engine suddenly started, one man ran around the other side to see the two girls climb up the stairs.
"HEY! You two come out of there! What are ya do'n?!"
One light from the cards formed into the Dark Magician Girl. She flew over to the jet and lifted the stairs to close the door. The angel from Change of Heart hovered between the man and the door as the others from the fix-up crew hurried over to join their companion, to see what was up with his shouts.
"Holy--" one of the crew began.
"What in the...?"
The two spirits guided the jet and turned it to face east, toward America. The wheels lowered and the engine roared. Hikaru looked out the window as her spirit guardians lifted the jet into the air and flew alongside it as it left Domino.
Witty tipped her hat to them in thanks.
Hikaru offered Witty a smile, then suddenly fell to her knees, her hands beneath her to brace herself from collapsing completely. Witty looked over at her worriedly.
"Hikaru? What's wrong?"
Hikaru shook her head. "Nothing. I think I just used a bit too much of my magic. I'll be fine in a minute," she assured her friend.
"You sure?" Witty asked.
"Yeah," she said. Thank you again, my spirit guardians.
You are welcome, Hikaru, Dark Magician Girl replied in her mind.
"So what now?"
"We try to find Yugi Motou when we land, and, well........" she trailed off.
"And what?" Witty pried.
Hikaru sighed, glancing out one of the windows as the sun faded completely and the stars became visible. "And then I really don't know......"
Witty looked at her for a moment, finally seeming to accept her friend's answer. She hoped that whereever this was taking them, though, it would also lead her to the one who stole her master's soul. She stared out the window for a moment, then glanced over at Hikaru, noticing that she had fallen asleep. Witty sighed and sat down herself, staring out at the sky until she, too, finally drifted off.
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To Be Continued. Well, there you go. Next chapter the girls reach San Francisco and have an unexpected run-in with some duelists that somehow escaped the Shadow Realm, and then meet up with the others. Oops. I think I said too much. A bit of one-sided Hikaru/Varon next chapter. Well, I'm gonna go now so I can get the next chapter of this up. Ja ne, minna-san!
Hikaru Shinatoru, Daughter of Shaadi and Dartz