Duelist Kingdom
By: Chibi Pyro Duo
Chapter 7A
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The dark robed figure sat in the darkness of the room. "STRIKER!" barked a rough commanding voice.
The black-headed fifteen-year-old Egyptian lowered her head more as the harsh voice of her Mistress Nightmare berated her.
"Guards bring forth those two girls she brought home last week." Two masked and robed figures in the back of the room got up from their kneeling positions and walked out of the room.
The room was filled with a momentary silence. River and Rain were shoved into the room a few moments later and shoved to the ground into a kneeling position in front of Nightmare's throne.
The rough voice of Nightmare asked, "Do you River and Rain agree to help our kind as fellow Rare Hunters, and to help bring down all who oppose us?"
River looked up at Nightmare and yelled, "YES!"
Rain kept her head down and politely squeaked out a "yes"
Nightmare smiled, "Rena, you and Rain shall partner up and attack one of this girls friends." A hologram picture of Serenity Maxwell popped up in the middle of the room. "These are your three targets." A picture of a gray-silver haired and brown eyed man popped up, replacing Serenity's picture, "Gideon Greymane." A girl with multihued blue hair and ice blue eyes' picture popped up next to Gideon's, "Karumi Fox." And the third picture was of a girl with hair and eyes, "And Mamono Kaiba. You shall be able to find information on each of their dueling strategy in this packet." A packet was thrown at each Rena and Rain's feet, "Pick one of them and defeat them."
Rena asked, "What do you want us to do with them after we defeat them?"
"You, capture them, then use them as a sacrificial offering for Obelisk." Rain lowered her head so that Nightmare could not see the fear I her eyes, "Be gone!" yelled the villain.
Rain, Rena, and River got up to leave, "River you will stay." River got back into a kneeling position. Rena turned around to leave while Rain waited a moment before getting a meaningful glance from River. She backed out of the throne room.
Nightmare's beady black eyes beat there way into River's soul, "River, I want you to cosplay as one of this girls inner circle," a picture of Yuugi Yasha replaced the former three victims pictures.
River dared to say, "Mistress, may I ask why you are attacking these two girls?"
Nightmare sighed, "They both posses powers which could be our downfall, 5 others posses these same abilities. Now go."
"Yes mistress."
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Gideon and Karumi sat in a café, "I'm glad Ren got better." Gideon blew some of his silver gray hair out of his face.
Karumi took a sip of her drink, "Yeah me to, I was depressed that her and Mamo, had company stuff to do today."
Gideon smirked, "At least I'm here"
Karumi rolled her eyes, "Yeah"
They ate their food, "Gid, what happened in that dome?"
Gid took a sip of his drink, and ran his fingers through his hair nervously, "It was dark, no light anywhere, so I just kept on running. I ran into a duel monster. I think it was Neo the Magical Swordsman."
Karumi interrupted in excitement, "Then what?!"
Gideon looked at his blue haired friend in annoyance, "Then he led me to Ren's duel. She had just sent her finishing attack at the girl who had attacked us. It took a minute for my vision to clear. I found that red eyed guy, he was holding Ren."
Impatiently Karumi interrupted again, "Do you think he was going to hurt her?"
Gideon gave her a frustrated look, "No, he said he wanted to help her."
Karumi gave a puzzled face, "Really?"
He sighed, "Really."
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Rena knocked on the graffiti door. The devilish purple eyes answered again, "What do you need my Shadow Child?"
"I need guidance. I must take out one of these three targets." Rena showed him the pictures of Greymane, Fox, and Kaiba.
The purple eyes glowed with the black blue of the Shadow Realm, "Cartoons are fun and games, but no laughing matter, autumn is indeed the middle fling, while blue winter sheds the easiest path."
-Riddles again?? Why can't he just say it. Someone's hard, ones easy, and one could go either way.- "Thank you Prophet." Rena stepped away from the door in a bow.
The Prophet quickly called back, "Shadow Child."
"Yes Prophet.", asked the Striker in annoyance.
"How did your last task proceed?"
"Oh I found two out of the three people you sent me to find." She nonchalantly flipped her short hair.
The prophets eyes widened, with a panic in his voice, "No, one task must be finished before the last!"
"Oh, Oh, very sorry Prophet very" –Sorry that you're starting to sound like my mother- "I shall finished the last before I precede with the next set of instructions." –This guy is crazy- "Good bye, and thank you." She bowed again and stepped back more quickly to avoid more questions from the senile old Prophet.
Rena backed out of the alleyway, leapt onto a rooftop and started back to her headquarters. The prophet closed his door and a dark glow surrounded the run down house.
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River was looking in the mirror and smirked. Another day another suckers born. She pulled on a lilac wig cut in a bob style. She frowned then ripped it off mussing up some of her black bun.
-River, are you doing this again?- asked a small child-like voice.
River sighed as she put on a blonde wig that went to her shoulders, -What are you going to do if I say yes Chibi-chan?-
-Cry- Some whimpering and sobbing sounds could be heard in the background.
River rolled her eyes hoping to any deity alive that she wasn't like that when she was ten years old.
She smiled at the red wig she had on. She put in her black contacts and set off to find this Yuugi Yasha.
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Sweat pored down her face in concentration. Heavy labored breathes indicated the amount of stress –You can't hold me off forever!- A sharp pain jabbed into her chest.
The sweat matted white hair stuck to her fair skinned skin. With a half scream and a whimper, the haunting voice that had plagued her since her birth sank into the darkness.
Coffee colored eyes snapped open with a panicked look. She lifted up her hand and examined it. Her eyes snapped to a mirror, where she saw her own reflection.
She sighed gratefully, grabbed a towel, and headed off to the showers "I won't be able to hold her off forever." She shut the door.
-Very well said Rain-
A female scream pierced throughout the night.
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The black haired Egyptian continued to jump rooftops until she landed in the park.
The cherry blossoms were in bloom, the sun was shining, the birds chirping. It was going to be a rotten day.
Azumi jogged through the park with Bakura by her side, "If Bakhu takes over the world, what do you think will happen?"
"Most likely total chaos and destruction."
"Good or bad thing...." Azumi was not able to complete this thought. She collided into someone.
"What the hell?!" yelled two female voices in unison.
The person Azumi had collided with had gotten up and brushed herself off, while Azumi had done the same.
She looked at the black haired girl and mumbled a sorry, and pushed her way past the girl.
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Rena felt something pulling at the inside of her shirt. She lifted up her black jewel pendent (standard issue to all Rare Hunters) out of her black shirt and watched it struggling to fly over to Azumi.
Rena narrowed her already narrowed golden eyes at the black haired, white tipped girls head, "How is the Shadow Realm, this time of the year?"
The girl stiffened and turned around with her crimson red eyes in a cold hard stare.
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Azumi glared at the tanned girl, "Why which side are you working for?"
The golden-eyed girl tilted her head in confusion, "Side?"
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Rena starred at the girl with braided hair in confusion.
"Don't play dumb who are you with, Psychotic 11 year old or Miss Yuugi Demon Darkness."
Rena got a questioning look on her face, "Who?"
The seventeen year old rolled her eyes, "Bakhu or Yasha?"
Another puzzling look was sent to the red eyed girl, 'I haven't heard of any of players. I am with the Rare Hunters."
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Bakura looked at both Azumi and the new player in his game of chess. It seemed that either the new girl couldn't see him, or they were both ignoring him. He sighed, he sensed a catfight coming up, better to lay low.
Azumi raised an eyebrow, "Who?"
The golden-eyed girl smirked with pride, "Nightmare's Army."
Another questioning look was thrown at the short haired fifteen year old, "So your not with the Pharaoh or Bakhu?"
"No!"
"Oh..."
"So do you wanna join us?" the tanned girls golden eyes light up with excitement.
"Huh?" –Is this girl crazy?-
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Rena was getting giddy, "You got Shadowic powers!"
"You mean Shadow Powers?"
"Duh" Rena rolled her eyes.
The red-eyed girl put her head in her left hand, "Listen this sounds great and all but..."
"But what?" asked the golden-eyed girl disheartened.
"But my place is o no ones side, good day." Azumi shook her head. –What a crazy girl!-
Bakura smirked, sensing the danger was over, –Even crazier than me?-
-Hell no!-
Bakura smirked grew.
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Rena looked furious, "Damnit I lost another one!" she lowered her head and headed back towards Nightmare's warehouse/headquarters. It was worth a try.
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Azumi continued to run along side Bakura through another path in the park. Bakura commented –That was pleasant.-
"Slightly disturbing," a new male voice and body joined Azumi and Bakura running.
Azumi jumped in surprise, "We have a rule, we don't scare the spaz."
Brad smiled, "When was the rule established?"
Azumi glared at the boy with red eyes, "Since now."
The three continued to jog out of the park and into the heavily crowded streets of Domino, "What are you going to do about this new player in this twisted game of life?"
"Observe and join a side at the last second," the white haired tomb robber blew some of his spiky bangs out of his eyes.
"Sounds reasonable." Azumi flipped her braid over her shoulder.
"Although it is quite interesting that the girl didn't know about Yasha or Bakhu," the tomb raider put on his best serious face.
"I'm sure Yasha doesn't know about this Nightmare, or she would have mentioned it." Brad was huffing and puffing from not being in shape.
"The good guys have a tendency to tell strangers anything." Bakura started to float off the ground.
"True" Azumi glared at Bakura.
"But the evils gloat before they succeed." Brad pulled Bakura back to the ground.
"If both sides shut their mouths things would be a lot more interesting." Azumi flipped her braid over her shoulder again in annoyance.
All three felt the dark enticing presence of Shadow Magic, and whipped around to look at an empty alleyway. They walked down it and stopped at a graffiti covered brown door.
"Shadow Magic?" asked Bakura.
Azumi looked at Bakura, "Yasha, Bakhu, or Nightmare?"
"Neither" Brad held out his millennium rod.
The brown haired boy drew the knife out of the rod while Azumi fiddled with the ring, while Bakura got into a defensive fighting stance.
The door of the house creaked open, and purple eyes sat in the darkness, "Shadow games will rule all no matter which side is chosen. The demon offers strength in numbers, the red and green strength is their sacrifice, while the bad dream remains constant." The door closed and Azumi, Brad, and Bakura looked at each other, then at the door, then back at each other.
Azumi stared at the door, "That was strange."
Brad put away his knife, "Only slightly"
Bakura studied the door, "He seemed familiar."
The Shadow Realm disappeared for the time being and the two neutral unknown Shadow Guardian and one Guardian Spirit walked down to the pizza parlor to grab a slice.
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AN: I just want to say I hate Quick Edit, it needs to die I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how I could get astrics to come up, and I just stopped and realized it was stupid and found something else.(sigh)
(looks sheepish) sorry everyone, I promised that the rest of the characters would be introduced, but I lied. But I story graphed the next chapter and they for sure are going to be in the next one.
I had a lot of ideas for this chapter and I felt that I should break it off into two parts so that the readers didn't have to wait as long. See I was thinking about you guys .
I felt that their needed to be a development in the Nightmare story plot, and to learn more about Azumi and Brad in the conflicts.
Pheonix Tammer: Sorry once again, I promise, I already I have an idea for your character , don't be do mad please.
Mamono: (blushed) thanks for the praise (beems) You've been one of my favorite reviewers so far . Angel does need to take Hostil Takeovers 101, but I'm making her basically a minor villain in the story, just to create some conflict within the characters that's not trying to destroy them (kind of like Seto)
Bakhu: thanks, sorry about the whole brothers spirit being banished ;
MTG: Thanks (beams) you're one of my favorite reviewers to . I'm glad you understand I have another life, and I'm also glad you like the new writing style. It has really helped a lot.
Starkistune: Thanks I'm glad you liked your character.
Yokokaru-chan: Sorry it took so long to get River-kun in the story, but as I said it took a while to get all the characters in (I'm still putting characters in ::sigh::
Yami Nocturna: Yes you can e-mail me it's Brainiac410aol.com, good thing to, cause I'm planning on you dueling soon Oops I've ruined the surprise. You're the only one who noticed how Yasha seems a little attached to Bakura (Awww.... Does Yasha have a little crush) Sorry Yuugi was a little out of character, but it's basically a business front that she puts up. Everyone has those kinds of masks right? Yes Yami is yours, no one else.
Magicman/Smokegirl: Gid has always trusted Mamo to a degree, but he trusts her more now. I had to make it believeable right (Gid doesn't like any other Kaiba's though, besides Mamo is related to Mokuba not Seto ) Wow you and Yami Nocturna are batting two and two, you see my forshadowing when no one else does. Good job (oops did I just let something out again) I'm glad you like all the Prophesies, it's getting harder and harder to write cryptic though.
Thank you everyone for your reviews, I love you all BTW if any authors that have not given me their decks for their character want to let me have their decks feel free, my e-mail is Brainiac410aol.com, put the subject as Deck.
Chibi Pyro Duo