Ch 4. Trouble
Samantha and Yami would talk to one another occasionally but not very often. Yami wasn't sure about her, (shy is more like it) and Samantha, well, she's a hard person for any one to describe. Her personality is a strange one. Both Yami and Yugi saw this in the beginning. Nothing strange happened since that morning, or at least not for about two weeks.
School, the day was long as it usually was. But something wasn't right… Samantha hadn't come this time. Instead of first judgment, Yami and Yugi wondered why she hadn't been there. She had come everyday since two weeks ago. They tried to shrug it off, it worked for the most part, but for Yami, this was easier said then done. As the boys walked home, they saw Samantha sitting on her front porch… she looked deep in thought, or seemed to be any way. Yami walked closer to her, and noticed she had a faint look of fear in her eyes as she looked out into space. Yami bent down in front of her, tilting his head slightly. Samantha took no notice till he said something.
"Sam? A-are you alright?" he asked, she looked up at him fear still vaguely visible in her eyes. Yami jumped back just slightly,
'This seems familiar…' he thought, 'why dose this seem so familiar to me?' he pondered his thoughts, trying to find what his memories were trying to tell him…
"She knows where I am…" Samantha said snapping Yami out of his thoughts, her voice was in a very low whisper, frightened and broken.
"Who? Sam you're not making sense here." Yami said, almost freaked out by this sudden change in Samantha.
"I-I-I need to leave… she-she can't know where I am." She said in a slightly higher tone the before. Her voice more shaky and more broken, fear was now clearly pronounced in her voice. Yugi walked over and looked at Yami then the panicked Samantha.
"What's going on Yami?" he asked, Yami looked at him and shook his head…
"Sam… who are you talking about?" Yami asked again, worried. Samantha shook her head fearfully.
"I-I can't… I'm---I'm afraid that she'll find you too…" Samantha said quickly before she jumped up and ran into the house. Yami still wanted to know what she was talking about so he darted after her, Yugi reluctantly followed.
Samantha ran upstairs, and into her bed room… Yami, not completely aware of where he was, found her sitting on her bed fingering her jewel that she had around her neck.
"Yami… please, she wants me dead, and will kill any one that's near me in the process." She warned, Yami looked almost pale hearing that…
"I'm not going to let someone kill you Samantha! If she, who ever 'she' is, knows where you are, then stay with us so she doesn't know!" Yami said, Yugi ran in just as Yami said that and nodded in agreement.
"No!" she yelled " you have no idea what you would be getting your self into if you helped me!" she said beginning to loose her control in her voice. It was broken horribly, fear, worry, and warning written all over her face.
"Sam… you can't expect us to just leave you alone… you should know that. Remember when you first came to my school?" Yugi said, trying to calm her down. She nodded and shook her head at the same time.
" This is different, Yugi…" she said. Her eyes began to line with tears. Yami sighed, and put a hand on Samantha's shoulder.
"Sam… you don't know me and Yugi too well do you?" he said faintly smirking at Yugi.
"We can handle anything that comes our way" he continued, Samantha shot a look at Yami,
"Are you sure? Cus I doubt you've ever dealt with what I'm talking about." She warned, acting like her stubborn self this time. Yami and Yugi looked at each other and then at her and nodded. Samantha sighed as she nodded in reluctant agreement. Though when they asked again who she was talking about, she snapped at them with violent refusal. She was to spend the next few days over with both Yami and Yugi… she kicked them out of there own room forcing them to sleep in the living room.
That first night… and Samantha was sitting on the couch with a pencil and a pad of paper in her hands, she had asked for it a little bit earlier that day. Both boys were curious as to what she was doing, by this time ¼ of the paper had been used. Yami, who sat across from her on a recliner, watched her with intent. She looked up at him quickly over the paper, raised an eyebrow and looked back down at the paper. Yami tilted his head and walked over behind her, looking over her shoulder. She pressed the paper against her chest.
"I'm not done, go away." She said quickly still moving the pencil as it was closer to her. Yami looked confused.
"What are you doing any ways? You've been like this all day" Yami asked. She looked back up at him and sighed.
"Come here…" she said gesturing him to sit down. She flipped all the papers back over, reviling a drawing of a well detailed, Japanese dragon flying in the shape of the eternity symbol on the first page. Yami looked at it; his eyes wide open in amazement.
"You drew these?" he asked she nodded and flipped to the next page. This one had a tigress and three cubs playing with each other, this time it was just a sketch but was still in very good detail, the next was a dragon and phoenix fighting each other fire against fire. Next, a black unicorn with fangs and dragon wings fighting a white unicorn with bird wings. Then the one she was drawing sorta shocked Yami… it was him, she had drew him in an Egyptian style out fit, with wings coming from his back. She had sketched him sitting in the recliner but put a huge twist to the picture.
" I'm still not finished with this" she said as she began sketching again, putting more detail in the wings, and then started to draw a creature behind him, he wasn't sure what it was… not now at least.
"It looks finished to me… did you really draw all of them in this amount of time?" Yami asked, it seemed almost impossible that she could do that in 2 or 3 hours. She nodded
" It's a talent that I had since I was little. I guess I just got better at how fast I draw them… oh I'm sorry, I sound like I'm bragging." She stopped her self. Yami smiled.
"Nah, you're just talking about it. Besides I asked and you answered." Yami said reassuring her. She smiled and nodded.
"I guess your right." She sighed. Yugi walked over, he was in the game den at the time.
"Yugi you should check these pictures out. Samantha's pretty talented." Yami implied, Yugi walked over to look at the drawings, he looked in impressed awe.
"These are good…" Yugi complimented. " You like animals?" he asked. Samantha nodded
" I have all my life. I have a cat, dog and a few horses at my parent's house. We own a ranch." She said. She took the papers back and started to draw again, Yugi looked at the picture she was drawing then at Yami, giving him a smirk then began to walk away… scratch—scratch scratching came form the back door. Samantha sat up quickly and rushed to the door.
" Sam! What are you doing?" Yugi said in a harsh whisper.
" Samantha!" Yami whispered as he ran to her side. She nodded to them, as to say 'its nothing to worry about' then opened the door… standing at the porch, was the fire engulfed cat named Kristol.
Kristol looked at Samantha with relief and worry. Yami was a little surprised, though he has seen Kristol before, Yugi on the other hand, has not. Yugi stood there across form the room in bewilderment. And even more so when Samantha said her name.
"Kristol w-what's wrong? " she said putting her hands on the creatures face.
"I wasn't sure if she had gotten to you or not, you weren't home…" she said hastily
" But you followed my sent here." Samantha said pointing at Yami and Yugi. Then the two of them began talking in the same strange language that they had been the night Yami followed Samantha.
Samantha they insisted that I stay here, they wouldn't take no for an answer, even though she'd find my sent any way.
Kristol well then they'll soon know what they've gotten them selves into, cues she's coming here right now, she knows that both me and you are here.
Samantha so that's why you came out into public view, to warn me
Kristol yes, I had no other choice, she found me and I had to run.
Samantha sighed. And then turned to Yami and Yugi.
" You remember how earlier I told you someone was after me? Well you'll soon meet her unless you stay as far away from us as you can." She warned. Yami shook his head.
"No, you're not going to scare us with that," he persisted.
"Stubborn fool." Kristol told him.
" This being isn't human. She's my sister… and at the moment more powerful then me." She sighed. Yugi still stood shocked but shook it off.
" Yami? You were telling the truth?" Yugi said pointing at Kristol and looking at Yami. Yami nodded and rolled his eyes.
" Snap out of it Yugi." Yami said annoyed. But before the new it Samantha jumped onto Kristol's back and both of them raced off into the front yard then down the street. The boys ran outside,
" HEY!" Yami yelled, then suddenly Samantha and Kristol were stopped by a cat out of hell.
She was completely black, eyes were an amber color. Long black fangs maybe 4 or five inches showed through her upper lip. Her ears were red, and the resembled ears that would be on a dragon. Red dragon wings with yellow lighting shaped marks and gold claws at the ends. Her entire body was engulfed be gold and silver spikes, a middle row of silver running down her back and tail, a second row of smaller gold spikes adjacent from the middle row on both sides and then a 3rd row of more silver spikes placed in a similar fashion to the first and second rows. Her tail was thick and dragon like, at the end the rows of spikes extend to a longer length, the longest maybe 2 or 3 feet, these spikes were aliened just like a stegosaurus. Her paws were interesting, a normal set of retractable claws on each foot, but a second claw extended out of the top of each toe. Her front and back legs were lined at the back with golden spikes. Last she had yellow lightning shaped strips all over her body each was outlined with red.
The new demonic looking creature chuckled with defiant evil.
" Thought you could run Kristol? I had hoped you were smarter then that. But still you lead me to your shadow… how blunt can you get?" she snickered.
"Leave her out of this Agwana (pronounced U-gwina) … this is my battle not hers!" Kristol yelled. The so called Agwana laughed.
" This is her battle as much as yours!" she said.
" NO! She has yet to know all her powers leave her out of this!" Kristol defended, Agwana smirked.
"Doesn't know her powers yet tisk-tisk… you should know me better Kristol." She sighed sarcastically; Agwana acted like this was some sick game. To her it practically was. She turned to Samantha and grinned, white, gleaming teeth behind two black fangs.
" How are you Shadow of fire?" she asked grimly but with pleasure. Samantha growled at her, sending a glare
"How dare you! An unworthy creature like you, is never to call me by my title!" Samantha yelled.
" Oh… I'm sooo sorry Sammy girl. I won't do it again…" Agwana mocked, laughing devilishly before she sprinted past Kristol towards Samantha, pouncing at her with double claws stretched out. Samantha dodged her attack quickly missing just barely, but Samantha's judgment was soon altered… with eye-blinking reflexes, Agwana swung her deadly tail directly into Samantha's side. She made no sound… Agwana ripped her tail out of Samantha; blood splashed the ground, staining Agwana's tail, bright, thick, crimson blood. Samantha cringed and fell to the ground with a faint groan. Complete horror washed over Kristol's face. Yami and Yugi stood in the distance just as fear shaken, Yugi couldent move nor Yami. Agwana laughed amused.
"You thought you could take me on, did you? AH! Look at your self now!" she mocked, and then looked down at the pale, bleeding Samantha.
"Only fools dare to take me on… shadow" with that she smirked at Kristol and bolted off into the sky with her dragon wings bushing up what little dust lay on the pavement. Yami bolted to Samantha's side, Yugi somewhat jogged to the scene. By now Samantha was already unconscious, probably dead.
(This getting good? Well please R&R and tell me what you think so far. Thank you)