Dimensional Warrior Girl: The Winter Tournament
Author: Chaos Valkyrie
First Conceptualized: October, 2003
Posted Chapter 08: March 12, 2004
Updated: December 23, 2005
Disclaimer: Do I look like Takahashi… hmm, I'd better go check… (five minutes later) Nope. Don't own.
Author Notes: Ah yes, here it is… Mwahaha. And no pesky duels to write! Yeah! Two more chapters of dueling freedom to go! Then comes Chapter 11… (shudder) I don't hate duels, they make the show go round and all, but its so much effort to write and develop decks and keep up the excitement… sigh.
Chapter Eight: Sky Dragon
"What do you mean the God cards have vanished!" Seto yelled into the phone. Mokuba's head jerked up from the magazine he had been reading. The caller winced and sounded almost apologetic.
"They've disappeared. I don't know why or how, the place hasn't been broken into. I checked the safe, they were simply gone this morning. Look, the others are coming over now, why don't you join us?" Yugi told him.
"I'll be there," Seto answered shortly, hanging up. "Mokuba," he started, looking over at his brother, "Call the car. We've got a major crisis on our hands."
Jenni smiled to herself as she and Fenris walked home through the park. She now had six cubes, thanks to the dino duelist she had met near Perks this morning. She kicked his dinos back to the Ice Age, winning his Serpent Night Dragon in the process. It was only Thursday and she was way ahead of her own schedule.
She had opted for leather today, wearing her new leather pants and jacket, along with the black tank Serenity had pointed out to her. A red scarf complemented the outfit with a splash of colour, winning her quite a few glances from the men she ignored as she walked through the park. Fenris seemed to be almost healed, no longer limping on his leg as they walked through the snow. The storm had seemed to clear off for a day, and she was glad for her sunglasses as the sun's glare bounced off the snow around her. She was a little saddened that Mai had not come out with them today, but she had left a note on the door saying that something had come up, and that the two could meet tomorrow.
Jenni was passing by the lake when Fenris stopped her. He was growling softly in his throat, staring at something she couldn't see. Curious, Jenni walked over to the shore, and Fenris began tugging her towards the rocks gathered at the far end. He pulled the leash out of her hands as they neared the rocks, almost pulling Jenni over.
Cursing, she scrambled over the rocks, following her dog. She entered a small clearing, seeing no trace of the furry creature. She turned around, noticing a crevice under one of the rocks. Sighing, she leaned over it.
"Fenris, are you down there," she yelled, hearing a faint bark in reply. She frowned. It didn't seem to be deep, but he sounded like he was extremely far away. Sighing again, Jenni lowered herself into the crevice.
She found herself in a small cave, with what looked like a doorway on one side. 'Fenris must've gone that way,' she thought to herself, shaking her head. She walked through the doorway…
And promptly fainted.
Yugi looked around at his friends, the people who had fought beside him through all these years. And yes, he even looked at Ishizu and Malik with friendly eyes. He sighed, running a hand through his tri-coloured hair as Mokuba and Seto walked into the shop.
"That's everybody," he stated, getting down to business. "Like I said, the cards were gone this morning when Grandpa and I came downstairs. The windows were all sealed, and the door was still locked. The safe was still locked. But you can look in there yourselves, and see what we found." Yugi opened the safe door, and Téa gasped as she and others saw inside.
The safe looked like it had been attacked from the inside. The other papers that had been inside were merely ash now, and claw marks were visible on the inside of the door. Malik looked at Yugi with concern.
"Have they come to life?" he asked.
Kaiba stooped, running his hand over the scratch marks in the steel. "It would appear that way," he answered quietly. His brother raised an eyebrow at him, for Seto wasn't one to usually believe such things.
"Guys, this is a major problem! How're we going to stop the God Cards if they've come to life?" Joey exclaimed.
Yugi and Malik looked at each other. No one really knew how to answer.
"Damn it, why do I have to keep appearing in strange places all the time?" Jenni asked Fenris, who simply wagged his tail at her. "Some help you are," she told him.
Jenni had awoken on a sunlit mountainside, where the trees were just beginning to turn golden with autumn's onslaught. Her jacket and scarf were now hooked over her arm as she looked around her. Insects hummed in the trees around her, and from where she stood on a rocky outcrop, she could see an abandoned-looking temple-like structure below her in the forest. Jenni was rather annoyed by this point. She was sick of these games and with being thrown around in different worlds without any choice in the matter. Grumbling under her breath, she led Fenris down the mountainside towards the temple.
Jenni and Fenris climbed over a toppled pillar and looked around the derelict courtyard. Ivy was climbing the cracked and broken walls, and piles of decaying leaves filled the dry fountains. She walked towards the open façade of the temple's main building, peering into the cool darkness. Leaves were piled about the interior, and she and Fenris gingerly walked inside. Jenni put her jacket back on – there seemed to be a definite chill in the air. She ran a hand over a broken statue of a dragon, pulling off some of the creeper that was threatening it. Walking forward, the ground started to crumble away below her. Pulling Fenris, she backed away as the ground collapsed, leaving a large hole. The rocks vanished into the deep darkness below.
Jenni congratulated herself on escaping yet another trap when she gasped. A pair of yellow eyes shone forth from the darkness, consuming her.
"Damn, damn, damn, fuck! Why does this keep happening to me?" Jenni complained, rubbing her temples. She looked over at Fenris, who was trying to nudge her awake. "I should become the spokeswoman for Ibuprofen," she told him sourly. He licked her face.
She was back in the park, lying in the snow in the middle of the rocks. It was nighttime, judging by the darkness as Jenni sat up. She was bitterly cold and sporting a grotesque headache. She felt something lying across her legs, and grabbed the something as she rose to her feet. Pulling Fenris' leash, she marched out of the park with him, not stopping until she reached the warmth and safety of her apartment.
"Next time," she told him as she unlocked the door, "I'm leaving you behind. Comprende?" Fenris said nothing, just walked to his bowl and gave her puppy-dog eyes. Her mouth quirked into a smile as she fed him. "You're absolutely worthless, you do know that," she said as she patted him on the head.
Downing some pills, she then turned her attention to the mystery item. It looked to be a sword, golden handled. Pulling it from its rather plain sheath, she noted that it was a double-edged blade, and very sharp. A soft electric hum passed through her fingers, almost like a cat's purr. She blinked, smiling. Something felt right about holding it. Reluctantly, she put the sword back in the sheath and pulled a small bag off the hilt. Opening it, she pulled out… a card.
"Hmm, Slifer the Sky Dragon," she read aloud.
End Notes: Hmmm, curiouser and curiouser. And no, I have not thrown in new Millennium Items… I have a completely different idea behind this, you'll find out more later…