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Serenity was never quite sure when the whole ordeal began, but whenever she has a retrospection of it, she always starts off with the day she saw her grade on her math exam....
Yes, that was a day that was certainly full of many milestones.
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I never truly did consider myself the smartest in the class, but just looking at the grade I received on my Analysis test made me sigh in disappointment.
Wheeler, Serenity...67
I found it so stupid to reveal all the students' grades, which should've remained private, on a large billboard in the middle of the sophomore hallway. How humiliating was that?
I was probably only saying that because I got a pretty low grade...
It wasn't failing, actually, it was considered a D, though, and D's were not what I was used to. A's mostly, low, in the middle, still A's. B's in my not-so-strong subjects, and sometimes, on those fiendish pop quizzes I got a C...D's were very rare.
Well, at least it wasn't the lowest grade. The grade column, as I looked down it, showed that a few students had failed. I felt good about that, yes, I know, that's low. Feeling happy about someone's grade being lower than mine was nothing to be proud about, but hey! I'm only human, right? It's in human nature to feel better when you know that someone's below you somehow.
I decided to look at my friend's grade, she really wasn't much stronger than me in this subject.
It wasn't hard to find her name on the billboard; alphabetically, her name did come first.
...99.5
I was in awe for a moment. I stared at her grade, and looked down the grades' column again. She got the highest grade in the class...
"Serenity Wheeler," the voice on the intercom broke my thoughts, "Serenity Wheeler, please report to the office immediately."
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Seto Kaiba wasn't really paying attention to what the instructor wrote on the blackboard. It's not like what he wrote was important. Kaiba had the power to never pay attention in class, yet still get the highest grades, often breaking school records.
No use in denying it people, he was a genius. He often--actually, most of the time--he was found typing away frantically at his very glossy and expensive laptop. His little fangirls sighed with amazed eyes as they saw him look so damn good with his eyes focused on the screen as he darted his fingers faster than a bullet. They thanked the heavens that they were able to be in a class in which they were able to stare at him throughout the early minutes of homeroom.
The professor wrote in huge letters the word MAGIC on the blackboard. Today, his class would forget their normal history lessons on the detailed aspects of Mesopotamia, and focus on a completely new subject.
He turned around and stared at his class. Amazingly, his whole first period history class was all in, and there were still about seven minutes left in homeroom.
"Magic," the professor started, deciding to start his lesson a bit early today, "is a key ingredient in probably every ancient culture of this planet. Can any of you honestly name me a primitive tribe, cult, civilization...anything, that has not based magic or some sort of source of magic as a rudiment for a flourishing society?"
"I thought we were studying ancient Mesopotamia," Seto mumbled absentmindedly to himself as he continued typing. Yes, he was actually listening to the lesson today, but that was only because the sound of the word "magic" triggered a slightly amused interest in him.
The professor realized that no student was actually listening to him. Most of the girls kept giggling and passing notes back and forth, and the boys were having their own conversations about who knows what...
Then the professor's eyes fell on Seto Kaiba, top right hand corner of the room. He never felt that it was fair that Seto Kaiba never listened to him, yet still he received these unbelievably excellent marks on quizzes, tests, reports, etc.
With his eyes lowered at the sight of Kaiba, the professor prepared to ask a new question.
"Do any of you know of a culture that wasn't and/or isn't based on magic? I suppose that's a question that's too early to ask, so, I will ask you this: Do any of you believe in magic?"
Kaiba slowed his typing down a tad bit. Did he believe in magic? Oh, the answers he could've given to that question....
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"Are you sure this is for me?" Serenity asked the secretary as she looked at the letter that was just handed to her. "The principal wanted to give this to me?"
"Listen," The secretary spoke in a hoarse voice, "The headmistress told me to call the sophomore named Serenity Wheeler down to the office, and you're Serenity Wheeler, right? OK, then, the letter's for you."
"Ummm...thank you," Serenity mumbled as she took the letter and left the secretary's office.
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"Serenity Wheeler, this is new. No doubt you're in trouble now..."
As soon as Serenity had left the office, she heard the voice of her friend talk to her from somewhere behind.
"What makes you say that?" Serenity asked as she turned around and saw her friend smile at her from a few feet's distance.
"You just received a letter from the office. You never have to go to the office. I suppose you must've done something wrong for you to get that letter," Her friend explained as she came closer to Serenity. "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything," Serenity snapped defensively. "And just because I got this letter from the office it does not mean that I did something wrong."
"Necessarily," her friend muttered. "C'mon! You're keeping me in suspense here, open that letter!"
Serenity started opening up the white envelope, and carefully pulled out the single sheet of paper that was inside.
"Well, what is it?" The girl leaned over Serenity's shoulders, trying to read the paper. "Hey, it's a schedule?"
"Yeah," Serenity said tentatively. "Remember how in the end of last trimester they never gave me a new schedule? I think that this is the one that was supposed to be given to me." Serenity scowled. "And they gave me an elective for first period...See? I'm not in trouble."
"An elective for first period? Which one? Aren't you allowed to choose your own electives?" Her friend asked as she leaned in closer over Serenity's shoulders. Serenity shrugged.
"It's...Medical Science Seminar. Do you know where that is?" Serenity asked, knowing that there were only a few more minutes until class began.
The girl stopped leaning over Serenity and put one of her fingers to her lips. "Medical Science Seminar...Let's see...I think that the seminar classroom is room 104," she guessed more than explained.
"Room 104?! But, that's a whole different wing of the school!" Serenity knew that she had to get moving if she wanted to make it to class in time without getting a tardy. "Are you sure that's the room?"
"Positive."
Serenity cursed as she started running down the hallway, without even a single good-bye and/or thank you to her friend.
"You're welcome!" Her friend called back as the light gave a mischievous look to her radiantly azure eyes. "Wait...Room 104 isn't the seminar classroom, room 401 is! I'm in trouble..."
And that's when the girl started racing after Serenity, desperately hoping that she hadn't already reached the classroom.
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"Do you believe in magic, Seto Kaiba?"
The professor was once again trying to catch Kaiba off guard. Making Kaiba stand at his seat and address him, this professor was out to humiliate Kaiba. Yeah, like that was gonna happen. Little did the professor know that Kaiba was actually paying attention to the lesson today.
Kaiba hesitated with his answer, the professor thought it was due to the fact that he hadn't heard the question because he wasn't listening. But, actually, it was because Kaiba was trying to perfectly word his loathing for magic and the dimwits that believed in such idle things.
"Did you not hear me correctly? I asked do you believe in magic-"
But the very instance that the professor had enunciated the last syllable of magic, the door opened with a swift swooshing noise.
The professor, Kaiba, and all the other students looked to the door to see a young, auburn-haired sophomore standing with a face full of blush as she looked around the classroom.
A few of the boys looked up to whom they thought was a rather beautiful girl. Her shy look was appealing to them. One of her hands fidgeted with a lock of her shiny hair. She looked rather humiliated as she mumbled her quick, "Excuse me," and hastily left the classroom.
Sarah...No
Sheila...Not even close
The thing is, Kaiba recognized her the moment he saw her open the door. She was a friend of theirs, Joey Wheeler's sister to be exact. He was sure it was her, by her hair, her timid appearance, etc. But the thing was, Kaiba couldn't remember her name...
Shizuka? Wait, where did that name come from?
That name, Shizuka--Where had he heard it before?
Just thinking of this new name, the image of Serenity popped into his head. Why did Serenity pop into his mind as he thought this name? You'll see later in the story!
Wait Serenity! That's her name!
"Do you believe in magic, Seto Kaiba?" The professor's irritated voice broke Kaiba's concentration again. "Did you not hear me?-"
"I heard you the first time, you git. Now, if you'll let me answer the question..." He trailed off again, for the name Shizuka kept popping in-and-out of his mind. And for some abnormal, not-able-to-be-explained reason, just the thought of the name Shizuka made Seto feel like he should change the answer to the question...
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Serenity quickly walked herself out of that classroom as soon as she had seen a group of seniors occupying the seats. She remembered as she closed the classroom door behind her, she saw her friend leaning against a few lockers in the hallway. Serenity walked up to the lockers, angrily, and gave her friend a sharp look before stomping onwards.
"Serenity, wait!" Her friend immediately started apologizing. "It was a common mistake, I swear! You know that I would never try to hurt you, and I did try to tell you the truth but you run pretty quickly, you know? [The first bell rung with an annoying BUZZ] And look, it's not like I totally got off the hook. We both got a tardy, and this'll be your first, but god knows that I don't need another..." She said the last part in more of a whisper.
Serenity turned around to find her friend standing directly behind her with an actually sincere look of regret on her face. "Fine, I know that it was a mistake." Serenity smiled, "So let's get to class..."
Her friend sighed in relief. "Thank god." She started to dart her eyes playfully. "You know who was in that classroom?"
"Who?"
"Seto Kaiba-"
"How do you know?" Serenity hoped that she didn't humiliate herself in front of the high school's most popular guy, feminine wise.
Her friend ran her hand through her snowy white hair. "I can't believe you didn't see him! He was practically standing right in front of you!"
"But, you were standing pretty far away from the classroom...How could you have seen him?" Serenity knew that the position her friend was in when she was leaning against the lockers was no vantage point to see inside the classroom.
"I don't know---Come on! We're getting late for class!"
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Mai stared at the computer screen before her. According to this quiz she took during her technology class, she was a light fairy spreading joy and happiness and illuminating people's lives...
'Sounds like Shizuka,' Mai thought as she pushed her chair back. The picture her quiz provided for the answer was of a strange girl with a long, luminous gown on. Her hair was pretty long, too, also colored that certain blended shade of brown, like Shizuka.
Mai scowled. She remembered Shizuka: Her voice, her naive spirit, the feel of her hair when Mai and Anzu decided to tangle it using their magic...
Then, as Mai was having this little waltz down Memory Lane, something happened to her computer.
At first, it was a pop-up like any other. It made her screen freeze for a moment, and the contents of this pop-up were not visible, yet. Mai tried to X-out the annoying thing, but all efforts to do that turned out to be useless. And, like some pop-ups, the window this pop-up was using to contaminate Mai's screen was growing. Soon, the pop-up consumed the whole page.
Mai started to curse as she desperately tried to destroy this irritating junk, but when the pop-up finally had words on it, she felt chills.
To this day, whenever Mai thinks of that pop-up, she suddenly starts feeling cold, for what the pop-up declared in bolded letters was:
DON'T BRING HER BACK
And what scared Mai the most of this pop-up was the fact that, well, this pop-up had a background. And, well, this background was pink, pretty normal, right? But floating around on this background was the animation of a fairy with pink and green wings that had long, blended brown hair...
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Téa sat secluded from her friends today at lunch. At the moment, she was currently sitting at the most isolated table that was practically touching the little grove of trees the school hosted on its property.
Why was she sitting far away from her friends today? It wasn't because she wanted to be alone, actually, it was because Mai had passed her in the hallway and had asked her to sit alone at lunchtime. They were supposed to have a little rendezvous.
But, it was already a good fifteen minutes into the period, and Mai was still a no show. Téa was hungry, and she had some of those giant Pixie Stix as part of her lunch today. So you do the math.
She quickly opened up her brown bag and put one of her hands into the bag without even looking, feeling around for a large stick. But what she found...
She happily pulled out the thickest stick she felt in the bag, and as she pulled it out, she nearly screamed.
What she pulled out of the bag was a large, beautiful, crimson painted stick with a medallion that had a shimmering, eight pointed, glass star. In other words, she pulled out her wand.
And what happened next would've left any person spooked. As Anzu looked at her long lost wand, a pixie stick slowly pulled itself out of her brown bag, and it hovered barely a centimeter over the lunch table. Anzu felt goosebumps as she watched the jumbo pixie stick open itself up, and spill the orange powder that was its contents in a way that it spelled out I FOUND A CURE on the lunch table.
Anzu gasped as she jumped from her seat.
"Shizuka's coming back," she breathed as she couldn't help but smile. "She'll get to be a fairy again..."
"Which may or may not be a good thing," Mai's voice interrupted.
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Serenity Wheeler was rushing through the crowded streets on her bicycle this afternoon. Eager to get to her after school job, she pushed the pedals harder beneath her feet as she made a right turn.
As she saw a pothole coming up in the street, she made sure she could feel the helmet atop her head. Yeah, it was pretty stupid to wear a helmet at her age, but whenever she thought about this subject, she remembered a vivid memory that dealt with a teenage boy and a gory scene...
She was only eleven when she saw the saw of a crowd huddling over a boy who had lost a sufficient amount of blood due to crashing his bike because of a bad collision with a pothole. She keenly remembered the old women surrounding the impaired boy who hissed about things such as, "If only he had worn a helmet! His head lost all the blood, you know, and a helmet would've protected it!" Ever since that day, Serenity never took bicycle safety as a joke.
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Serenity noticed that she had become pretty engrossed today in that flashback. That pothole was long gone, and she looked around herself to make sure that she hadn't made any wrong turns. And sure enough, she looked at the street sign in front of her, and sighed.
The street she was on wasn't a street she normally passed, but the street she was supposed to be on was directly adjacent to this one if she just rode her bike a few blocks farther. In a way, she had kind of created a little shortcut.
So, she started to ride herself forward, but quickly, she noticed the crowded streets become less crowded as she rode past every block.
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She only had one more block to ride, and then the street would be in complete view.
So, she rode on further, but...
Serenity's eyes widened and she quickly started stop her bicycle as she saw a woman standing carelessly in the street just a few feet ahead of Serenity.
With her breathing increasing, it took every piece of Serenity's reflexes to stop the bike. She rapidly swerved the bike with every figment of strength within her, and she miraculously stopped the bike just about one inch away from the woman.
Serenity sighed all the anxiousness out of her body as she paced down her breathing and put a relaxed hand over her chest.
The woman, however, kept staring up at the sky like she was doing before Serenity had seen her. As she heard Serenity mumble curses to herself, the woman turned her head to face Serenity, and smiled simply.
"Ahhhhh, Serenity, I'm so glad that you could make it," The woman explained as the wind blew at her papyrus cape.
Serenity quickly opened her eyes. She stared deeply at the lady as she replied.
"Isis, were you expecting me?"
Yes, it was Isis who --deliberately-- made Serenity stop in the middle of the street. Her sapphire eyes seemed to have been glinting with an air of enigma. The breeze gently lifted a few strands of her sleek black hair. Those beautiful bangles that adorned her hair matched perfectly with the various golden jewelry that decorated her body. Her off white outfit snugly fit around her tan body. She started to smile kindly at Serenity.
"Yes, actually, I think that I need to talk to you," Isis explained, indirectly inviting Serenity to come inside the museum (Which serenity had just noticed was the building they were standing in front of.).
"Oh...-sweatdrop- well, I really don't have the time. I mean, I have to get to work--"
"But you have a good forty-seven minutes until you are considered late, am I correct?" Isis replied plainly. Serenity quickly checked her wristwatch, and Isis was quite right.
Serenity started to think of an excuse that dealt with her bike. Her brother often warned her about this type of magic that revolved around these "sacred" seven items. She thought she should've at least asked Joey's permission before she went to talk with Isis.
"I'll ask my personal bodyguard to watch your bike for you while you visit me," Isis said as she pointed her eyes to a large man standing at the main door of the museum.
Serenity was running out of excuses. "Umm...well...you see...."
"What we have to talk about is of great importance, at least, I believe it is," Isis supplied.
"Will I have to stay long?" Serenity squeaked.
"No. I believe the visit will be quite prompt."
Serenity bit her lip. "Well, then I suppose...."
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Surprisingly, Isis didn't guide Serenity through the main door of the museum. Instead, she led Serenity through a back doorway and down an ancient metal staircase.
Serenity trusted Isis, that was for sure. But she knew that Isis was a big player in this game of ancient Egypt and magic. She really didn't want to get involved in any sort of magic, but little did she know---....
'What if Joey finds out I was here? Does he know about this? Does anybody else know about this? Is this a trick or something?' That was just a mere clip of the nervous thoughts that zoomed through Serenity's mind as she followed Isis down a hallway.
This hallway was light green, and the only sounds heard were the footsteps of the two ladies against the mauve tiles.
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Serenity followed Isis quietly through a labyrinth of hallways when she saw through a door-less room a glimpse of a gigantic stone. Was that the stone she so often heard Yugi talk about? Serenity never got time to see, for Isis kept waling ahead while Serenity quickly tried to get a better view of the stone.
"Come now, Serenity," Isis beckoned quietly as she walked to the end of the hallway.
Serenity swiftly took to Isis's commands as she saw Isis stop at the second door to the left.
Serenity speedily walked up to Isis as Isis started to talk.
"I understand the dubious thoughts in your head Serenity, but I assure you that this is no joke." Isis stepped in front of an elaborate number pad that was kept on the door as a blue laser read the patterns in her retina.
"Did I do something wrong?" Serenity asked as the door opened.
Isis laughed softly as she gave Serenity a warming smile. "Nonsense. I called you here because of a gift." Isis ended by walking into the dark room.
"A gift?" Serenity asked as she followed Isis into the room, which had its lights turned on by Isis.
"Yes," Isis quickly replied from the middle of the room.
Serenity wondered how Isis got to the center of the room so quickly, but her question was replaced by sheer amazement as she saw what Isis was beside.
"Oh no--Isis, I couldn't!"
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I know, lame chapter.
Sorry once again for the long chapter! And I'm sorry if Isis seemed totally OOC this chapter.
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"Well, that's convenient," Serenity mumbled as she pressed the light above her head.........
As she looked down to see what was crawling on her shoulder, it was absolutely unbelievable to know how hard Serenity fought not to scream...
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