Thank You: Alliance THE
Response: Seto was adopted in this fic; Emma was just adopted before him. And I don't update because of lack of review, but because I'm very busy and this week has been horrible for me, so gomen (sorry) and I apologize for not updating, but if it makes you feel any better, this chapter is 13 pages long on Microsoft word with over 4,000 words (excluding author notes, etc.). And I broke up the description a bit if it helps! And arigato (thank you), encouragement is what I need after this week!
Blab Session:
1) The rest of this fic takes place directly after the Orichalcos/DOOM/DOOMA/Waking The Dragons season of Yu-Gi-Oh.
2) There is a duel in this chapter and that stats are always read as: (ATK/DEF), even if a monster is played in defense mode the stats are still read the same.
3) Arigato (thank you)! And enjoy!
After 5 Years
It was a beautiful and picture perfect morning. The birds were singing and flying: doing amazing air stunts. The sun was shining: painting different shades of colors in the sky. The sky however, was still a clear crystal blue. The clouds were wispy and swirled: creating various pictures with no distinct shape; it all depended on how you looked at it.
But unfortunately... none of the citizens of the city that were experiencing this beautiful morning didn't even notice the sun, the birds, or the sky. In fact, every single person was either glued to the front of a TV or looking up at one of the many screens that buildings set up on their side for the public to view. They were very big; in fact, they usually took at least 50-80 feet of the building's side, width by height or wider.
The only one moving anywhere in the city was a young boy... well he looked young, due to his innocent-looking violet eyes and his short figure. The movement he was doing you ask?
He was running... and fast, his black shoes clicked against the paved sidewalks of California with each step he took and his blue jacket fluttered in the breeze as he sped up full speed, almost tripping over the hem of his blue pants. His silver belts clanked against his stomach as he ran but he was used to it and quite frankly; he sorta liked it.
Have you figured out who this boy is? You probably have.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to introduce the King of Games, Yugi Motou! This boy is phenomenal, believe it or not. He's the master at a popular game called Duel Monsters, can beat anyone at any game, as long as it's a fair game, and is still in high school!
He panted and started to breathe heavily and was relieved when he saw three people, two of them boys and staring at the biggest screen that was at least 200 feet wide and 100 feet high. The third one was a girl that was also looking at the screen, but not as intently as the boys.
Yugi anchored his arm high into the air and waved it to and fro as he called out, "Hey, guys!"
Only the girl looked at him with her friendly blue eyes while the two boys just kept their hazel eyes glued to the huge screen, as if hypnotized.
"Yugi!" The blue-eyed girl cried back, giving him a friendly wave and matching smile as he stopped in front of her. He took a few minutes to calm down his unsteady breathing until he had finally began to breathe properly again.
"Hey, Téa," He greeted her, his insane black mane, tipped with magenta edged into his hair about half an inch wide almost seemed to topple off his head. The blonde bangs that hung in front of his hair-do framed his face perfectly along with his sparkling violet eyes.
"It took you long enough to get here," Téa teased him playfully.
"Sorry, Téa, but getting away from Rebecca isn't exactly the easiest thing to do," He joked, but still being deathly serious about Rebecca, his fan girl.
Téa began to turn red but kept her cool and instead, looked over Yugi's short figure.
"Hey, I thought that Duke was supposed to come with you?" Yugi shook his head, his mane of hair shaking.
"No, he was tired and wanted to sleep some more so he stayed," Yugi explained. Téa nodded and turned back to gazing at the huge and sparkling screen.
Different POV
Yugi's violet eyes traveled to the screen that the two hazel-eyed boys were staring at and when he did he stared at it questioningly.
"What's this about?" He asked, clearly interested; considering that the screen was currently showing a hand holding up Duel Monsters cards. Yugi right away knew what cards the hand was holding.
"It's about a new Gaming Corporation that's moving home (Domino) from New York. Apparently the present President is relatively young, about 18, if not 17," Téa answered, brushing a lock of her short brown hair behind her ear.
Here's Téa Gardner, a long time friend of Yugi since childhood. Many people would consider her as the 'cheerleader' of her group of friends, but she can't help it. She just wants to show that she supports her friends all the way.
"She's rumored to have technology even better than Kaiba's," She continued.
Yugi's violet eyes widened in shock.
"Are you serious?"
Téa nodded.
"Also, her company is starting yet, another dueling tournament, it's starting in about a week or two to signal the new 'rebirth' of the Winchel--their company name--corporation."
Yugi cocked his head to the side and turned his attention to the big TV screen where Yugi saw a girl with silver... or was it white? Hair and eyes that were covered with dark tinted sunglasses that left her eye color a mystery--but yet, still had an apathetic look to them that made her look quite different from anybody else that Yugi had ever seen. She wore a sleeveless white top with a navy lining starting from her shoulders that met in the middle and to the end of her shirt that made it look like a 'Y'. Her navy skirt reached just about an inch and a half above her knees and was given a little character with the silver belts around her waist. They were crissed-crossed; one leaning from the right side, sloping down to the left and was on top of the other one that slid down from the left side, down to the right.
"So, Emma, did you make all this technology or did your employees help you and you just tweaked it a bit?" The female reporter asked, over excited.
She wore a red suit that was perfect for a News Reporter, but her brown hair was overdone, stiff, and was dry so much to the extent that it began to limp.
The girl didn't seem to like her too much but she still answered.
"Courtney, my response does not mean that I don't give any of my employees credit for all the hard work that they've done, nor am I saying that I take all the credit. My answer is that I do make all of the technology, but my employees mostly give me suggestions on how to make them better," She finished apathetically and obviously bored.
Courtney smiled, revealing pearly white teeth.
"You're very smart, aren't you? To make all this technology?" She asked, giving a cheesy smile.
Emma just remained silent and answered slowly, "It depends..."
Courtney shrugged and was still continued to smile and grin.
"And you'll be giving us a demonstration on your newest invention that is going to be used in The D&W Duel Monsters Tournament, right?"
Emma nodded.
Courtney gave yet, another cheesy smile and turned to the camera.
"After this break, you'll get to see Emma Winchel, test duel one of her own dueling and life-like robots here, live, on CNN!"
The screen blanked out for a second before it turned into a soap commercial and immediately, everyone protested complaints saying that they wanted to see Emma duel.
"Wow! She's really famous isn't she?" Yugi gasped, amazed at everyone's reaction when the sappy soap commercial had commenced.
One of the hazel-eyed boys looked at Yugi, shocked.
"Wha do ya mean, 'She's really famous isn't she?', Yuge? Of course she's famous! She's one of the top 5 female duelists in the world!" The hazel-eyed boy exclaimed, his mass of blonde hair and blonde bangs falling over his face and fair skin.
Yugi blinked.
"She is? I never knew that."
Different POV
11-year-old Mokuba Kaiba watched the big silver roll-down TV in his older brother's office with intrigue and interest.
It was on the international news channel--CNN--where they were currently interviewing a strange girl that seemed familiar to him.
He was afraid to ask his big brother if he wanted to watch the test duel of her versus one of her dueling robots because they had said that she was rumored to have technology better than Kaiba Corp.'s. But on the other hand, he could just tell his older brother that he should watch to see what kind of tech they had and work on making something even better.
Mokuba thought about the idea and made up his mind.
Turning around, he set his gray eyes on his older brother's face, whose ice blue eyes were focused on the flat screen computer in front of him, but covered by his brown hair and brown bangs that carelessly fell over his forehead and eyes. His set jaw showed that he was doing something very important, but Mokuba figured that this was at least a bit more important than what ever his big brother was working on.
"Seto," Mokuba said earnestly.
Seto's ice blue eyes swayed from the computer screen onto Mokuba.
"What is it, Mokuba?" Seto asked icily, but not as icily as he would to anybody else.
"There's this girl named Emma Winchel on TV that has her own company that's said to have technology better than ours," Mokuba started, trying to cover his timidness as he gulped.
Seto set his attention back on his tedious work.
"It's probably just another wannabe company," He sneered and was about to make a move for the silver remote to turn off the TV with his fingers when Mokuba quickly added, "And her company is moving to Domino and starting a new tournament, inviting only the best."
This caught Kaiba's attention as he moved his hand away.
Looking at Mokuba with his blue eyes, he raised a thin eyebrow that was just barely visible under his brown bangs.
"Really?"
Mokuba nodded and he was almost sad when he reached for the silver remote yet again, but then, his next action shocked him, he raised the volume of the silver TV all the way to the maximum. A black broken line appeared and it flashed when Seto raised the volume, and just in time, the commercial had already ended and Emma was poised and ready to duel on one side of a dueling field.
On her left wrist was a white disk with black straps wrapped around her arm and a gleaming gold 'W' on top. On either side of the disk were two slots on top, obviously for the card deck and card graveyard, which were a navy blue color. On every section of the disk was a gray slot for the cards with red arrows, 6 in total, and slots beneath it for magic and trap cards.
On the other side of the dueling field was another person that looked like a young girl with authentic-looking black hair and sharp jade eyes.
On her left wrist was also a duel disk identical to Emma's own.
"Duel," Emma and the other person said simultaneously as the 'W's on their disks rose up.
They both inserted their decks in the hidden space under the 'W's.
The 'W's both fell down and their was a humming sound.
The 'W's rose again and both of the girls took their decks and put it in the designated space for their decks. They both drew five cards and the other person immediately took the first turn, also drawing one more card.
Opponent: 4000
Emma Winchel: 4000
"I place two cards face-down and summon Gemini Elf (1900/900)," She said, inserting the selected cards in the appropriate slots as Gemini Elf appeared.
They were two elves: one with tanned skin and blonde hair, a blue dress, boots, and matching gloves with a painted face; the other one however, had tanned skin as well, but red hair and a simple purple dress and boots.
"This is the beginning of your defeat, Miss Winchel," The two elves said smoothly, turning their backs against each other.
Seto and Mokuba stared wide-eyed at the two elves as Emma just stayed calm and collected and drew her card, not answering to their threat.
"I play the magic card, Cost Down, allowing me to summon Vampire Lord (2000/1500)," Emma said emotionlessly, yet in a firm voice as she played her Cost Down card. Two swords whipped out in thin air as they went and did their job, hitting two star level indicators dead on the card.
She sent the card to the graveyard afterwards along with another card in her hand according to the card's effect.
A man with sickly purple skin, green hair, and yellow cat-like eyes appeared. He also had a long purple cape that was tinted blue and black with claws on the back and a matching purple suit underneath.
He had appeared by means of a swirling vortex that had appeared on the tiled floor that was shaded with different blends of purple, blue, black, and red.
He smirked, revealing his sharp, white teeth and in a lustful and silky voice he asked Emma, "Shall I attack the twins?"
She nodded and he smirked wider.
Hissing like a snake, he charged at the twins and sank his fangs into their exposed necks.
Blood flowed down from the two elves' necks as they both gave painful cries and disappeared.
Opponent: 3900
Emma Winchel: 4000
Different POV
Mokuba shivered.
The hologram seemed so real and life-like; especially the blood and cries.
"My special effect now activates," Vampire Lord said in his silky smooth voice. "Miss Winchel will declare one card type and whichever she chooses, you must select that type and send it to the graveyard."
"And I choose a Magic type," Emma complied with his explanation.
Her opponent nodded, and removed her deck from her Duel Disk and fanned out her deck with a slick wrist flick of her hand.
After choosing one magic card from her deck, she immediately sent it to the graveyard.
"Now, I play Coffin Seller," Emma said.
"And that means that every time your monsters are sent to the graveyard, 300 points of direct damage are dealt to your life points." She turned to Vampire Lord and nodded to him, speaking without words.
Vampire Lord grinned, obviously understanding her and bared his fangs out again.
Emma crossed her arms coolly staring seemingly nowhere.
"It'll be my pleasure," He hissed and in a flash he was in front of Emma's opponent, sucking blood out of her, when he was finished her life points dropped to 3600 points.
"I'll finish my turn by placing one card face-down," Emma said, a long card hologram appearing behind Vampire Lord.
Emma's opponent was clutching her neck and recoiling in pain, but nonetheless, drew her card.
Opponent: 3600
Emma Winchel: 4000
"I summon Aqua Madoor (1200/2000) in defense mode," Emma's opponent said, as a man with his face covered with a mannequin mask popped out of a bowl of water that had suddenly appeared and disappeared afterwards. He had blue hair, glowing red eyes, and a green robe with a yellow collar. He sat down crissed-crossed, floating on top of a card with his face printed on it and his hands tucked into his sleeves.
"I end my turn," Emma's opponent finished.
Opponent: 3600
Emma Winchel: 4000
Different POV
Emma drew her card silently and glanced at her hand as she thought of what her next move should consist of. She finally decided and removed the cards she needed from her hand and played them.
"I also place one card face-down and then I'll summon Vampire Lady (1550/1550)," Emma declared, playing one of her main monsters used in her strategy on the duel disk.
Vampire Lady appeared the same way Vampire Lord had. She was relatively beautiful with pale blue skin, green hair done into a bun with two strands of hair in the front of her face, and yellow eyes that darted everywhere. Her purple dress had claws around her stomach and waist that hugged them and her matching purple gloves with golden bands on the wrists connected the purple and clawed shawl to her arms and hands.
Her red lips moved to form words as she spoke to Vampire Lord with a husky and identically lustful voice just like his, "It is very good to see you again, brother."
Vampire Lord nodded in agreement.
"Likewise, sister."
Vampire Lady turned to Emma.
"Miss Winchel, the usual?" She asked.
Emma nodded her head.
"Yes, but first I'll activate United We Stand to raise your attack and defense points by 800."
Vampire Lady grinned as her stats were raised to (2350/2350).
Vampire Lady didn't wait, she just charged at Aqua Madoor, slashing her pointy and sharp-clawed shawl at Aqua Madoor.
But just barely before she touched him, Emma's opponent raised her hand in protest.
"I activate one of my face down cards, Mirror Force!" She exclaimed as a clear dome formed around Aqua Madoor and the attack rebounded off the dome and back at Vampire Lady and Vampire Lord. They hissed at the light, raising their arms trying to block it, but failed and were sent to the graveyard.
Emma still somehow managed to stay calm as her opponent grinned and drew her next card.
Opponent: 3600
Emma Winchel: 4000
"I now summon Dark Elf (2000/800)!" Her opponent said, slapping her card face down on the Duel Disk.
A woman with tanned skin, black hair, and red lips with her eyes closed appeared. She wore very dark green robes with a golden tiara perched on her head and more gold on the collar of her robe.
"In attack mode," Emma's opponent finished.
Dark Elf opened her eyes, revealing them to be a dusty gray.
"With me on the field, Miss Winchel, and no monsters on your side of the field, you have no hopes of winning," Dark Elf said, standing tall and proud.
"I then play Dian Keto the Cure Master to raise my life points by 1000 so that my Dark Elf can attack!" She exclaimed as a man with green hair, wearing a blue robe with white lining and a red vest appeared. In his hands he held a translucent orb that shimmered in the light. He chanted a few words under his breath and her life points were raised to 4600, but then decreased back to 3600, following Dark Elf 's condition.
"I'll then switch Aqua Madoor to attack mode and have both of them attack your life points directly!" Emma's opponent declared.
Aqua Madoor thrust his hands out, which were white and scaly with long red fingernails as water sprouted out of the ground and made their way to Emma, while Dark Elfalso thrusting her hands outmade a dark ball of energy appear.
Both of the attacks aimed at Emma directly who was still silent, with her arms crossed and her eyes clearly bored, though her sunglasses took some of the effect away.
The attacks were just about to hit her when Vampire Lady (2550/1550) suddenly appeared, her hands holding a big and hairy axe and instead of lowering her life points, the attacks had no effect.
Emma's opponent stared at the monster and she turned her jade eyes to Emma and glared at her.
"What is the meaning of this?" She demanded.
Emma held up a card for her to see and spoke, "I activated my face-down card, Call of the Haunted to revive Vampire Lady and protect my life points."
Her opponent began to turn red with anger as she interjected, "But that doesn't explain why she was able to stop both attacks!"
"I also played my second face-down card, Axe of Despair, increasing Vampire Lady's attack points by 1000," Emma finished as if she her opponent hadn't interrupted her.
Her opponent growled and said reluctantly, "I end my turn."
"But you also loose 1800 life points for trying to attack me, but fail," Emma reminded her apathetically.
Opponent: 1800
Emma Winchel: 4000
Emma drew her card and looked up when Vampire Lord appeared in front of her from the swirling vortex that he had previously appeared from.
He hissed in anger when he saw two monsters on Emma's opponent's side of the field.
"This isn't right," He commented touchily.
"Oh no, I forgot about his special ability," Emma's opponent groaned.
"I now remove my Vampire Lord on the field from play to summon one of my most powerful monsters," She said powerfully, yet softer than usual, as she slapped a card on her duel disk.
Raising her hand, she exclaimed, "Vampire Genesis!"
Thunder erupted from the ground and rebounded off the ceiling. Sparks of fire and electricity flew everywhere as a loud growl shook the entire playing field. Red eyes glared from the base of the explosion as a large, over-muscular figure rose. Its violet skin glimmered in the fire's light and sharp fangs gleamed at Emma's opponent. The claws around the figure's shoulders and stomach connected it to the cape on its back with yellow claws that were very sharp. The cape billowed wildly in the gust of air the explosion had created.
It roared as it raised its arms. Its stats were revealed, its power matching with its gruesome appearance: (3000/2100).
Vampire Lady smirked at her relative and asked Vampire Genesis a question on purpose, to taunt Emma's opponent.
"Hello, cousin, I hope you are well?" She asked cunningly.
Vampire Genesis lowered his arms, and instead of letting them fall to his sides, he crossed them across his huge chest.
"Yes, I have," He said in a deep and mellow voice.
Aqua Madoor, and Dark Elf visibly cringed in fear at the sheer power heard only in his voice.
"Mistress," Dark Elf said in a whisper to Emma's opponent.
"I hope you have a plan to save us," She said hopefully.
Emma's opponent shook her head.
"No, Dark Elf, all I can do is this," Emma's opponent said sadly as she raised her right arm.
"I activate my last face-down card, Mystical Space Typhoon! And I'll use it to destroy your Coffin Seller!" She exclaimed, making a desperate attempt to save some of her life points and possibly, some pain.
A huge tornado miraculously appeared on her side of the field. As it spun and spun, again and again, sparks of thunder began to crackle and as it did, all the thunder targeted Emma's Coffin Seller.
The card broke into digital data pieces and Emma removed it from her duel disk and sent it to the card graveyard as her opponent did the same thing to her Mystical Space Typhoon card.
"Vampire Lady, attack Dark Elf!" Emma commanded.
Vampire Lady's eyes flashed as she appeared in front of Dark Elf in a millisecond. Once your eyes focused from the initial shock, Dark Elf had already been halved as she gave a painful gasp and crimson-red blood splattered on the floor.
Then, she disappeared.
Opponent: 1250
Emma Winchel: 4000
"My special ability activates and it is the same as Vampire Lord's," Vampire Lady added loudly.
"I choose another Magic card to be discarded," Emma said emotionlessly, knowing full well that her monster's special ability didn't matterthe duel was already hers.
Her opponent nodded sullenly, searched through her deck, and sent one magic card to the graveyard.
Different POV
"Why did she have Vampire Lady attack Dark Elf and not Aqua Madoor, Seto?" Mokuba asked, completely baffled at Emma's move where she could have just attacked Aqua Madoor and have already won the duelthat seemed like a more rational move.
"Probably to use both Vampire Genesis and Vampire Lady to attack and show their power. Also maybe to cause more pain, just like Vampire Lord had done to her opponent," Seto answered, actually showing interest.
Thoughts were rushing through his head:
How did she make the monsters talk?
How was she able to give them human attributes?
How did she make the players feel real pain when they received damage complying with how they received the damage such as monsters' different attacks?
Would her Duel Monsters Tournament overrule his prior Battle City one?
Why did she always wear those stupid and dark glasses no matter what the conditions were?
And why did she seem so familiar?
Seto's ice blue eyes snapped up as Vampire Genesis raised his massive arms and charged at Aqua Madoor who had already raised his arms and waved his arms just like a magician. Chanting a few words, he made a water geyser sprout from beneath his feet and hit Vampire Genesis who countered by using all his strength and punching the water away successfully and eventually hitting Aqua Madoor. Aqua Madoor was hit with such force that he was sent flying clear across the dueling field and banged against a wall.
If it hadn't been a 'hologram', the whole wall would have probably collapsed.
Aqua Madoor gave one last groan of pain before he disappeared in a burst of digital data.
"I believe Lady Winchel wins, W-Bot 935," Vampire Lady said snootily as smirked.
Opponent: 0000
Emma Winchel: 4000
Emma pressed down on the 'W' on her duel disk as an electronic voice said, "Duel: Emma Winchel VS. W-Bot 935; Winner: W-Bot 935'."
Vampire Lady and Vampire Genesis both disappeared from sight when Emma turned her duel disk off, knowing full well why Emma gave the duel up, even though W-Bot 935 didn't really deserve the victory.
She turned about face to leave the stadium afterwards.
W-Bot 935 looked up in surprise.
"Wait! Miss Emma! Why did you...?" She started to question when Emma cut her off in a whisper, "Accept the victory and ask no further questions."
Everyone was shocked, including Yugi and his friends and the Kaiba brothers.