Chapter 9. Piper v. Kaiba.
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The glass hit the wooden floorboards and shattered, making all three sisters look up. They had orbed in, much to Kaiba's surprise, with the slightly taller one holding the other two by the back of the collar. The three women. Or witches, as they so ridiculously called themselves. They one on the left, Phoebe, he remembered, whined at her sister, and Piper, the other, after practically yelling at her, clouted the middle one around the ear. Paige, her name was. When they heard the glass hit the floor, they looked at him, Paige let go of Phoebe and Piper gathered herself again after yelling at her sister. Kaiba stared at them, at first in disbelief that they had appeared out of blue lights in his living room, and then in anger that they had dared approach him again.
"Kaiba, we need to talk to you." Said Phoebe urgently,
"I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard that." He said sarcastically, he would have turned around and walked away, had they not been in his house.
"Look." Said Piper angrily, showing that she could be just as nasty as he could, "Cut the crap. You wanna know why we're here? Okay, I'll tell you, if you want it that bluntly. You have magic powers. Powers that are stronger than anything you have ever known, and if you don't learn how to control them you will hurt someone or a demon will find you and kill you." She fumed, Paige and Phoebe could almost see the steam coming out of her ears. Kaiba's eyes narrowed at this speech.
"How dare you come in here and try to tell me this garbage!" he said in a very low voice. He was seething with anger, but so was Piper,
"I will dare to go anywhere and tell you anything I like!" she snarled,
"Get out." He said,
"Make me." She said, "Go on, how are you gonna tell your security guards, to throw out three people who they never admitted into the building!"
"I have my methods." He raged,
"You may be able to walk all over everybody else Kaiba, but YOU WILL NEVER WALK OVER ME!" her voice could be heard the house over. Kaiba saw red, and was just about ready to hit her. He gave her his best death glare. He felt like he was going to explode, and for half a second, but no more, it felt like he had, his anger suddenly declined, but he had concentrated his stare on Piper, and an invisible force had hit her hard, sending her flying through the air and into the wall behind. She slid down the wall and groaned as she hit the floor. Her sisters looked at Kaiba with wide eyes and slightly dropped jaws. They quickly rushed to her side. Luckily she was conscious, but she too was looking at him as if to tell him; 'You did that. Believe me now?'
"Oh my God…" he said with what breath he had left. Something deep inside him was telling him repeatedly and convincingly, that he had done it, but on the outside he was trying desperately to deny it. "Show yourselves out." He said quietly, before walking out, and back to his office.
"Paige, Phoebe, calm down I'm fine." Piper said, trying to shake her sisters off her.
"Oh my God, did you see that? He attacked you! When I next see him I swear…"
"He didn't do it on purpose Paige." Said Piper forgivingly, "I made him angry, and it triggered his power. Did you see his face after I hit the wall? Remember when I couldn't control it? That's exactly what happened."
"Ardently." Said Phoebe.
"So what do we do now?" said Paige, biting her lip,
"We find Serenity, and see if anything's happening to her." Said Piper, she grabbed
Paige's arm, and said; "Orb." Paige obeyed.
Meanwhile, at Joey and Serenity's house…
Serenity sat in the window of her bedroom, staring out of it into the neighbourhood. She saw a happy couple with a pushchair walking down the road. She could only feel happy for them, and she smiled at them. She could feel the happiness and the love that they shared, even from where she sat. She could hear her brother watching TV downstairs, and wondered how the neighbours never complained about the volume being turned up too loud. She wished that she could find someone for her, but with Tristan and Duke constantly hitting on her, and Joey breathing down her neck all the time, she never got a chance. Everyone else in her class seemed to have had a boyfriend at one point or another, whereas she hadn't, and she felt like she was missing out because of it. She was quite content in this daydream, but she was brought out of it when she saw the reflection of blue lights in the window. She whipped around to see the witches she met at Yugi's. They had appeared out of nowhere.
"How did you do that?" she asked nervously, backing as much as she could.
"Hey it's okay Serenity don't be frightened of us." Said Phoebe compassionately,
"We just orbed in. Stop looking as if I'm gonna hurt you!" she said daftly, making her smile. She relaxed a bit, and came away from the window.
"Can you do that?" she asked, "Like, to anywhere in the world?"
"Yeah." Said Paige, "I'm half whitelighter, so that's one of my powers."
"Okay…" she said, confused, "why have you come to see me?"
"We have to tell you something important." Said Piper, who then told Serenity about being the reincarnation of Kisara, the spirit of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. She thought it best not to tell her about Kaiba being the reincarnation of Seth, and having powers too. That would have been too much. Phoebe meanwhile, was trying to sum her up, and used her power of Empathy to tap into her to find out what her powers were. She found that Serenity was very like herself; Empathy, – which she noticed was triggered – Premonition and Levitation, but also Partial Shapeshifting and Telepathy. Serenity finished listening to Piper and asked;
"Does that mean, that I have powers then?"
"Yes." Said Phoebe, "Empathy – the ability to read and manipulate other people's emotions and sometimes using their power against them, Premonition – having and planting visions of the past and the future, Levitation – fairly self-explanatory, Partial Shapeshifting – changing into people, or animals that are compatible with your Ka, and Telepathy – reading other people's minds." Serenity just looked at her silently, never blinking, "So, you're like me really. Passive powers, which require strength of mind and concentration, but we kick butt just the same!" said Phoebe. Serenity laughed,
"Are going to teach me or something?" she asked,
"Well now you know what your powers are, you'll be able to teach yourself, but I would advise that you let Phoebe teach you self defence." Said Piper. Phoebe gave her a weird look as if to say; 'eh?' "You might get attacked by demons and you need to be able to defend yourself." Piper finished.
"Well… Okay, if that's fine with you." Said Serenity, looking to Phoebe.
"Oh yeah that's okay." Said Phoebe quickly, turning away from Piper to avoid her death glare. Piper, who saw that she was taking this a whole lot better than Kaiba, decided to ask her about him;
"Hey, do you know Seto Kaiba?" she said. Serenity looked puzzled at her asking, but replied all the same;
"He's my brother's worst enemy, and Yugi's rival." She said. "Why?"
"We've paid him this visit too." Said Paige.
"Yugi said to us that he had some kind of potentially dangerous power, but wouldn't accept it. He won't take the Millennium Scepter either."
"We know, which is why we paid him the visit. He was still denying it, so I yelled at him, he yelled at me, he lost control of his power and sent me flying into a wall." Said Piper analytically.
"Oh my God are you okay?" she said.
"Yeah, I get thrown into walls quite a bit." She smiled.
"What power was it?" she asked,
"Particular Manipulation – the ability to increase or decrease the movement of particles to the extent where they stop in time or freeze, or vanquish the target."
"Oh my God, he targeted you!"
"No, he got angry and couldn't control it. I wasn't vanquished, just thrown back, but he needs to know how dangerous he is. Particular Manipulation is the hardest power to control."
"Any others?"
"Orbing, Electrokinesis, Healing, Shapeshifting, Telekinesis – moving objects by focusing your mind on them – and possibly more we don't know about." Said Paige, and started to tell her about the contents of his file in the Elder's archives.
"Poor Kaiba." She said sympathetically, "to have it all taken away like that."
"He'll remember in time." Said Paige.
"Thanks." Piper said, "for listening to us."
"No problem." She said,
"Work on the magic." Said Phoebe, "I'll contact you for your defence lesson."
She smiled brightly and waved to them as they orbed out again.
Back at the Kaiba Mansion…
"I am not letting you stay here by yourself while I work late all the time." Said Kaiba, addressing Mokuba,
"But Seto, I'm thirteen."
"And you're my little brother. Anything could happen." He said, thinking of the so called 'demon attacks' that had happened in the last few days.
"You haven't been worried before." He pleaded,
"Things have… been happening." He said carefully, "that's why I want you to have a babysitter."
"Can I choose?"
"Only if you don't pick one of the dweeb patrol." He said sternly.
"Okay… can I have Serenity?"
"The mutt's sister?" said Kaiba, emphasizing the word 'mutt'.
"She's not like the others, Seto. She's intelligent, responsible and sweet and she's my friend. If I can't have her as my babysitter, I won't have one at all." He said, showing the stubborn Kaiba attitude.
"Fine!" he said, giving in to his brother's request. "I'll ask her at school tomorrow."
"Yippee!" said Mokuba, "Thanks Seto!"
The next day…
Serenity stood next to her locker, getting her stuff for her next class. Everything so far had been good, and she was in a cheerful mood.
"Hey Wheeler." Said a cold voice behind her. She turned around to see Seto Kaiba himself, white trenchcoat and all, standing behind her.
"Hey Kaiba, can I help you?" she asked sweetly,
"I wanted to ask you if you'd like to be Mokuba's babysitter?" he said, slightly forcing the civil words out.
"Umm, yeah, if he's okay with it."
"He specifically requested you."
"Oh, okay, when?"
"For a few hours after school and some weekends. You'll be paid, of course."
"When do I start?"
"Tonight. Be at my mansion at seven." He said, before striding off down the corridor, trenchcoat following.
Seven o' clock…
Serenity arrived at Kaiba's mansion. It was huge, she wondered how two people alone could live in all of it. She walked through the huge gates and towards the doors. A maid met her half way, and took her inside. The interior was grand enough, but she was snapped out of her thoughts by a bounding Mokuba, who gave her a hug and took her to his private living room. They played on his Playstation for a bit, he won, of course, and she just smiled sweetly with each loss. She made him do his homework and they chatted for a while, before they heard the door shut and a familiar voice shout: "Mokuba, I'm back."
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