A/N grounded...again so it might be awhile until the next up date. I do not own Yu-gi-oh but I do own Shannon and Ashen and the plot
I walked back into my house, "Shannon I'm back!" I yelled into the house hoping to get a response.
"Where have you been?" Shannon's voice came from the kitchen, I followed it.
"I had to talk to Isis about something," I watched her pull out something from the oven.
"Your mother called, she was pissed that I didn't know where you were." She pulled out two plates.
"Sounds like mother dearest to me, you know she has issues. Just be glad that you haven't met her. Thanks for cooking dinner." I grabbed two glasses, "what do you want to drink?"
"Water's fine. Your mom wants you to call her back." She took the plates to the table.
"Eh, I'll call her later. Oh, hey wanna come to lunch with me tomorrow?" I sat a glass and a pair of chopsticks at their spots on the table.
She looked up at me, "Sure, what time?"
"Around noon, I was invited by a kid named Yu-gi. He seemed nice and so did his friends." I picked up a fried shrimp and stuck it in my mouth.
"Sure. did you catch his last name?" she looked at me intently.
"Uh, no, he didn't say what it was. Why, do you think it could be the duel king?" I stopped eating. We had heard of the duel king, but never met him or seen him. We had heard stories of his alter ego that suddenly was no more when he stopped wearing a strange necklace. My father believed that the alter ego was an ancient spirit that has something to do with what ever is missing.
"I don't know; I mean how many kids in Japan could be named Yu-gi?" she started to shake her chopsticks, which had a shrimp trapped between them, at me. "Think about it, if it is the duel king it could be your chance to talk to him about the spirit."
I nodded, "Yeah, but Shannon I already have a hard time making friends, I'm not going to go up to a new one and say 'were you possessed by an ancient pharaoh?'"
She laughed slightly, "I can see your point." she finally at the shrimp.
I smiled, "Maybe when I know him better I'll ask."
we continued to eat then sat down to watch T.V. Shannon was curled up on the couch flipping through channels. I was sitting at the computer talking to someone.
"Ashen, why don't we duel, God knows we both could use the practice." Shannon stopped on a channel that had cartoons on.
"After I'm done, I'm talking to that guy that caught me hacking his computer." I smiled at that thought. It was a few weeks ago and I was hacking into a computer system that looked like a challenge, sadly I was caught. He IMed me after he shut me out and bitched me out, to my surprise though he stopped when I told him I meant no harm.
"Sounds good, I'll go get my deck." Shannon stood up.
"Can you grab mine too please?" I glanced a t her, "It's on my night stand in it's bag."
"Sure," she walked off and I went back to the computer screen.
KCSK- No hacking tonight?
AshenFyre- Nope, looking for plane tickets.
KCSK- Plane tickets? To where?
AshenFyre- To Egypt, Shannon and I are going to go see my dad.
KCSK- Sounds Like fun.
AshenFyre- Yeah. Well sorry I gotta go, Shannon and I are going to duel.
KCSK- Duel?
AshenFyre- Yeah Duel.
KCSK- I'm a master at duel monsters
AshenFyre- Maybe we should meet and duel.
KCSK- Maybe, I doubt your good enough though.
AshenFyre- you'd be surprised, but got to go g' night.
KCSK- Night.
I turned to Shannon, "this guy thinks he can defeat me in a duel." We both laughed slightly. She handed me my deck, we both started to shuffle.
Shannon sighed, "So this lunch tomorrow, with the duel king and his friends, any of them cute?"
I finished shuffling and laughed, "Actually the blonde that was with him was hot. I think he said his name was Joey." We both drew our hands.
"Ooo, a blonde; Who goes first," Shannon arranged a few cards in her hand. "Four Thousand points right?"
I nodded "You can," I looked at my hand: I had Graceful Charity, The All-Seeing White Tiger (3/1300/500) Bombardment Beetle (2/400/900) Monster reborn, and Kiseitai (2/300/800). I looked up at Shannon waiting for her move.
She drew, "I place one card face down and one monster face down in defense mode. Your turn." She placed the cards in the respective spots.
I nodded and drew Skull Dice, I thought for a moment, "Alright, I play Graceful Charity," I drew three cards, the only one worth keeping was Enchanted Javelin so I discarded the other two. "I place one card face down," I put Enchanted Javelin Down, "And one monster in defense mode," I placed The All-Seeing White Tiger on the field.
"My turn?" She smiled as I nodded.
She drew, "I place one monster face down and end my turn."
I drew Sword Stalker (6/2000/1600) this time, I wanted to wait before I put that one into play. "I place one monster face down," I put Kiseitai down, "your turn."
She looked at me suspiciously, "You're plotting something." She drew her card.
I smiled, "Always."
She flipped over her Whipped Tailed Crow (4/1650/1600) "I'll attack your face down monster."
"I'll play a trap, Enchanted Javelin, now I get 1650 extra life points, meaning I'm now at 5650." I flipped up my card, "But I still lose my All Seeing White Tiger." I placed the two cards in the grave yard.
Shannon glared at me, "I hate that card."
"I know, you done?"
She shook her head, "I place one monster face down, now I'm done."
I drew my card, Magician of Faith, (1/300/400) perfect, I had a great plan now. "I place one monster on the field." I now had Magician of Faith and Kiseitai down. Shannon had Whipped Tail Crow, and a face down monster, what worried me was her face down card, knowing her it was a trap. "Your turn." I watched her face for any sign of what she was planning.
"Okay, well I sacrifice my two monsters," she picked up the two cards and put them in the grave yard, "To summon Hyozanryu (7/2100/2800)." She placed her card down with pride. "And I'll attack your face down monster." She pointed to Kiseitai.
I smirked, "It's Kiseitai, and now it is attached to your Hyozanryu and every turn I get half of it's attack points added to my life points."
"I should have seen that coming," she groaned, "your turn."
I smiled, "That means I get 1050 points." I drew Soul Exchange "I place on card face down," I put it down.
Shannon (4000) drew her card, "I'll attack your face down monster."
I (6700) simply put Magician of Faith in the grave yard and picked up Graceful Charity.
"Your turn,"
I smiled wickedly as I saw what my next card was, Summoned Skull (6/2500/1200) my plan had just gotten better. "First I play Graceful Charity," I didn't pay attention to what I drew, it didn't matter, but I did discard my Sword Stalker and one other card. "Then I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Sword Stalker, then I play Soul Exchange to sacrifice your Hyrozanryu." That meant no extra life points, but hey I really didn't need anymore, "To summon my Summoned Skull, that leaves your life points open, and I'll attack with Summoned Skull."
She flipped over a trap, "Wabaku, No damage done."
I shrugged, "Then I'll attack with Sword Stalker."
Shannon glared and drew her card, "I place one monster face down."
"I'll attack with Summoned Skull." I watched her place the card in the grave yard. "And.."
She cut me off, "I know I know, you attack and you win, the end." She picked up her cards.
"Good job," I also picked up mine.
"I just couldn't get the cards I needed," she sighed.
"I hate when that happens." Isis's voice came from behind me.
"Ever heard of knocking?" I looked at her.
"Your father gave me a key to check in on you." Isis sat down, "you're becoming quite a duelist Ash."
"Thank you, now why check up on me so soon? You saw me just a few hours ago." I place my deck back into the bag.
"I won't lie to you. Your father called and left a troubling message. He said that you might be in trouble with that mixed with your request I felt that I should check on you."
I stared at her, "I'm not plotting." I stood up, "What anything?"
Isis smiled, "Tea please. So Shannon, how are you?" was the last thing I heard as I walked away. Great, now I had Isis snooping around, this was going to be hard, oh well.
"Come on Shannon lunch time!" I shouted as I pulled my hair back.
"Alright," she poked her head in my room, "ready."
We walked to where I had met the guys the day before.
"Well" I said messing with the dog collar I was wearing, "Lets hope they show up." I was feeling like someone was watching us.
"Yeah it would suck if they set us up." She sighed.
A "Hey Ashen!" was heard from across the street. I looked up to see Yu-gi.
"Hey Yu-gi!" we walked over to him.
"Yu-gi this is my friend Shannon, Shannon this is Yu-gi." I smiled, "where are the others?"
"Well, Tea had to work and Joey's saving us seats." Yu-gi started to walk, Shannon and I followed.
Yu-gi led us to a neat little restaurant, I saw Joey wave to us. Shannon leaned into me, "Damn, he is hot."
I nodded, "I know." We all walked over to there.
Shannon and I sat across from Joey and Yu-gi.
"So Shannon, do you bounce between places like Ashen?" Joey started things off.
"No, I live here, but I stay with her while her father's out of the country." She peeked over her menu.
"You're dad goes out of the country?" Yu-gi seemed interested.
"Yeah, he's in Egypt right now." When I mentioned Egypt they fell into almost a mournful silence. "Um, it's not a big deal," I became uncomfortable, and looked to Shannon for help.
"I also study Theater here, Ashen techs for our shows, we're getting ready to perform one soon." Shannon's voice chimed in, leave it to Shannon to save my ass.
"That's cool, what show is it?" Yu-gi sat his menu down.
"In To The Woods," Shannon also put down her menu, I assumed she was ready to order, I on the other hand continued to hide behind my menu.
Joey laughed, "Isn't that like a fucked up fairy tale?"
I finally put down my menu, "That's a great description!" I laughed, I started to relax more after we order and started talking.
"What do you guys do for fun?" Yu-gi looked at us with his big eyes.
"Well, I like Duel Monsters," I started off first, "Art, teching, and hacking." Shannon elbowed me, "OW!"
"She's joking about the hacking, I like Duel Monsters too and obviously drama."
The guys stared at us, "You like duel monsters?" Yu-gi asked, we nodded.
"Are you any good?" Joey asked his eyes darting to Yu-gi.
"Ash is good," she motioned towards me, "I'm not too good, but I'm getting better. I've never played in tournaments are anything." Shannon stopped to take a sip of soda.
"I've played in a couple of tournaments, nothing big like Battle city. " I played with my necklace, Yu-gi's eye's followed it.
He finally looked away, "that's a nice necklace."
"Thanks, my father bought it for me in Egypt," no matter what when I open my mouth the subject goes back to Egypt, I looked to Shannon for help again.
"It's the eye of Horus an ancient Egyptian god, the people believe it would protect them from evil." I knew she would change the subject.
Shannon smiled, "Why don't you guys come see the play we can hang out afterwards."
"Sounds good, how much are tickets?" Joey glanced at Yu-gi who nodded.
"I think it's ten dollars a person."
I zoned out while Shannon talked. Why was Yu-gi so uncomfortable with the subject of Egypt? Was it because of the spirit thing? I think it was, maybe this friendship with him was a bad idea. I said very little while we ate, Shannon talked a lot like she often does around a hot guy.
"We'll I gotta go to practice." Shannon stood, Joey stood as well,
"I'll walk you there."
Shannon glanced at me I smiled reassuringly, "Go head, I'll see you after work." They walked off. I glanced at Yu-gi, "Look I'm sorry."
"About what?" He looked confused.
"Making you uncomfortable, when we were talking about Egypt."
He smiled at me. "I wasn't uncomfortable, it's just I had a…good friend from there."
"The spirit," I whispered he looked at me in shock.
"How did you know?"
I explained to him about what my dad did.
"Oh, well, if there was something missing one of the former item holders would notice." He smiled again.
I shrugged, "I have no idea, but if I do get some information, I'll pass it on."
He nodded "Sounds good."
I headed home to get ready for work. Then went to work, go figure.