I'm not gonna lie to all of you. I didn't make any revisions to this fic. Why? It's because I took the coward's way out. I was originally planning to make tons of revisions, but I realized later that what I needed was to revise myself. It's just that all of you wonderful Seto/Serenity authors (Kikoken, Seren147, Setine, Jieli, etc. There are too many to name!) were progressing so well and making such good fics, and I could never do that. I took so long in updating because I needed to find a way to fix myself. All the time I wanted to sit in front of this screen and some more, but I never could. I'm sorry that I can't provide you with a better fic; I'm sorry I couldn't have been a better author.
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Remember, we left off in Téa's room. Serenity had just realized that Téa had been snooping around in that oh-so-mysterious file of hers, and--O, wtf! I'll just give you the last scene!
"What the hell does she think she's doing?!" Téa asked with bewildered eyes as she read through the file that Serenity was trying so badly to hide. Well, she really wasn't trying to hide it, but she obviously wanted Téa or anyone else near it, nevertheless read it.
But that's not the point. The point is that Miss Téa Gardner didn't do so well when she looked and/or picked up that file to begin with... (But, who really cares about the ethical point? What we all want to know is why and to what did Téa react so wildly to. Heh...Let's find out...)
"This could ruin a lot of things." Téa scowled as her eyes scanned thoroughly through the contents of the file. 'Well, it might not really ruin a lot of things. I mean, with what you found out last night, this could be the better thing to do......'
Téa felt confused for a moment. She shouldn't have read the file, first of all. But now that she did, it was like she had no other job but to presume the pros and cons about what Serenity would guarantee herself if she decided to go through with what this file said that she was going to go through.
Téa was just about to consider asking Serenity what was it doing and why this file was in her possession, but, then, she heard the little click of the bathroom door opening. Thank Ra for that stupid old creaky door that moaned whenever somebody opened it, for if it wasn't for that door, Téa would've been caught in an extremely ill-fated situation. Serenity was coming out of the bathroom, and either out of sheer luck she's go to the kitchen for some breakfast, or she'd curse Téa's day and find her standing with that forbidden file in her hands.
"Dammit," Téa hissed as she fleetingly pushed the file, to the best of her memory, to where she first saw it when she first entered the room.
"Thank Ra," Téa breathed as she put a relaxed hand over her chest and sighed a sigh or relief.
But you know very well that victory and/or relief lasts scarcely very long in this fic....
Téa was still relaxing her breathing rate when she heard her bedroom door open behind her.
"Hey Téa? ¾Téa, what are you doing?" Serenity asked in disbelief as she came inside only to find Téa mumbling "Thank you," and putting her hand over her chest while pacing her breathing.
"Serenity, I was simply looking for my hairbrush, and I thought I saw a mouse for a second, but it was a false alarm. And I get really scared of mice, so naturally I'd freak out and breath uncontrollably when I see or ever saw one," Téa quickly obliterated a sweatdrop and lied as she turned around to greet Serenity, who obviously didn't look too happy.
"Ok....Umm, Téa?" Someone was a little doubtful about Téa's behavior. (But she'd ignore it for now, anyway.)
"Yeah?"
"Can I have the matching sweater to this skirt?" Serenity asked as she frowned upon looking at her outfit. Téa personally thought that Serenity looked fine. She was wearing a cute, baby pink skirt with a white pantyhose and spotless Mary Jane shoes. Téa thought that the outfit flowed together perfectly, but obviously, Serenity found the blouse that she had borrowed a little too tight. (Téa did have a rather slim upper body compared to Serenity, so Serenity felt a bit self-conscious whenever she felt the low neck of the blouse and the extremely tight waist.)
"Why? I think you look fine."
"That's nice, but I'd really prefer the sweater to this skirt, please."
Téa rolled her eyes at Serenity's awkward-thinking mind. "Fine," she sighed as she shifted her body to head towards her closet.
"Thank you." Serenity immediately turned towards her bed when she saw Téa fully turn her back to head for the closet. She didn't wanna seem rude and show Téa that she mistrusted her, but she just had to make sure....
Serenity quickly wanted to make sure that her file was still perfectly unharmed, so she hastily turned her head to the bunk that she had slept on the previous night.....And...... Well, to put it lightly, her jaw practically fell to the floor.
"Hey, Téa?" Serenity asked with a voice that slightly quavered.
"Yeah?" Téa replied as she grabbed the hanger at the back of her closet that held the matching, baby pink sweater.
"Did you by any chance look at the file that I was filling out last night?"
Téa's eyes widened. "Why Serenity, what....what....makesyouthinkthat?" She asked all too quickly as her once stunning sapphire eyes became tiny little nervous dots. Not caring about the sweater, Téa almost instantly turned around to see Serenity glowering at the file on her bed that had the paper that was supposed to be inside of the file resting on the top and outside of the file cover. Obviously, Téa had forgotten one minor detail about looking at the file: When you look at the inside of a file that was clearly prohibited to you, always remember to put the inside of the file, as in the contents of the file, back into the file cover.
"It's just a hunch," Serenity snapped angrily as she stared daggers at the opened file, lying there so that the whole world could've read it.
And just when Téa thought that her breathing was as normal as it could get, she felt her heart beating impulsively, and she felt her mouth grow aridly dry.
And what Serenity and Téa didn't realize was that there was a devilishly red, BIG beetle watching them with its two deep, black eyes. It was huge, but since it was pasting itself to a cobweb-filled corner of her room, the low light barely gave it a chance to be seen. But when you looked carefully as a glimmer of sunshine hit its antennae-crowned head, it almost seemed as if the little creature was smirking.....
Serenity felt like crying. Whom she thought was her one of her best friends had totally betrayed her.
"Now, Serenity..." Téa started nervously, "listen, about what's in that file--"
"Whatever was in that file was out of limits to you..."
"...And I'm sorry...but what you're doing isn't right...."
"Really? Well, the last I checked you didn't have a say in this."
Téa had tears forming in her eyes. Serenity had just spoken to her in the most bitter voice she had ever heard. It was worse than the deep guffaw of Maximillion Pegasus, and more spine-tingling than the evil whispers of Marik. It was her best friend talking to her as if she were the lowest thing alive.
"Why did you look in that file?" Téa looked up to see Serenity's face streaked with red. Obviously, a few tears had escaped from her eyes. "You had no authority under me to look in that-"
"You're questioning me? I really think you have no authority to do that when it's me that has the more important questions to ask....."
Serenity's mouth curved into a small smile. Her hazel eyes burned into Téa's conscience, and Téa's defiant glare was slapped off her face.
'Ask her about Kisara!' Téa's mind flashed, but Téa just didn't have the courage to look at Serenity that moment.
Serenity, still smiling, walked over to the bunk bed, reached to the very top of it, and she grabbed the file and the file cover.
"Serenity?" Téa asked, the silence ringing boldly in her ears.
"As of now, Téa, I really don't care what you have to say to me." Serenity quickly made for the door, but Téa had a few more words to speak to her.
"You're crazy if you're actually gonna go through with this!"
Serenity, touching the doorknob of her room, had a slight revelation that very moment. But was she, during this second of stubbornness going to listen....Take a wild guess.
"I thought that if you ever found out what was in this file, you'd be happy..."
"Why would I ever think that?!"
"Because, you're one of Joey's best friends." With that said, she opened the door, and quickly raced down the stairs into the family room.
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Her shoes pressing down into the shag carpet, Serenity grabbed her purse off of the coffee table.
She was about to go for the front door, until she felt her shoes step on something other than the soft carpet, something...plastic...
"What's this?" Serenity asked as kneeled down and the picked up the oracle from the ouija board off the floor. In mere seconds, her eyes had found the ouija board lying a few measly feet away.
"I'm not driving you to work," Téa's voice said from somewhere behind Serenity.
Her back towards Téa, Serenity stood up from her kneeling position. "I have money; I'll take the bus."
"Serenity, please..."
But Serenity had no time to listen. She brushed past Téa's shoulders and walked to the front door. Without so much as a single look back at the brunette, Serenity opened the door despite Téa's warnings not to, and she valiantly walked outside...
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"Can't we pass into the next lane?"
The traffic in this limo's lane had no movement. However, the traffic in the next lane was continuing on at a perfect pace. So why couldn't the limo simply move into the adjacent lane of movement?
The limo driver smirked. He knew that this was the one field in which he could toy with Seto Kaiba. Ever since puberty, Seto Kaiba had acquired the money to have a flowing supply of drivers his whole life. Therefore, taking driving lessons and learning how to drive were things Kaiba never had to do, or so the driver thought...
"Sir, excuse me, but I have told you that the white lines prohibit us from passing into the next lane," The driver explained incredulously.
"Are you blind?" Kaiba snapped at the driver. Kaiba had asked this question several times for he knew exactly what the single white line indicated, and that foolish driver was trying to toy with him.
Not a good thing on the driver's part.
Now this tone that Kaiba used was the first time that Kaiba ever used it directly to address his driver. Sure, there was that incident a few days ago where Kaiba and Serenity couldn't get to their meeting because of the traffic, but this time it felt so much more intimidating when it was he and he alone with the human dragon.
"...Sir..." The driver started fearfully, not daring to look back.
"You idiot! There's a single not double white line there, meaning that we can pass into the next lane. Possibly you're foolish enough not to know your rules as thoroughly as you should, or possibly, you're foolish enough to lie to me...either way, expect your last paycheck at the end of today."
Kaiba said it simply. This was practically something he did on a daily basis.
The driver, thankful that he was even gonna get a paycheck, wouldn't risk saying a single word in return. Hopeful that the traffic was gonna clear up and that Kaiba was gonna get into a better mood, he kept his hands firmly on the steering wheel and pretended like nothing had happened.
Meanwhile, Kaiba pressed a button and a black window separated the dragon from the one who was foolish enough to tempt him.
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Kaiba sat quietly for the next half hour, not really paying attention to anything. He should have been in work nearly two and a half hours ago, but this freakin' traffic prohibited him from doing anything.
His secretary should have been arriving to work soon. Hopefully
And when she came, he had to speak with her.
The conversation that they had to have was more important than any duel he ever had to fight.
This conversation could determine the profit that KaibaCorp could make.
And to think, it all rested on the shoulders of a seventeen year old girl...
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Calista Bolidaman drank her coffee with thoughts drowning her.
Last night she had received the news that the spirit of Kisara had bonded with another girl...
"Master, have you not sensed it?"
"Sensed what?" The blue eyes asked, knowing very well that they had sensed something, but all the while hoping that what they sensed was nothing but a false alarm.
Now, this meant that the girl would have to be ...cut out of the picture... for the spirit to be given to her.
"But who is it?!" Calista exclaimed as she banged her free hand on the table, causing the sugar bowl and other various utensils to rattle.
"Calista," Calista looked up to see her mother staring at her with confusion.
"Excuse me, mother..." Calista mumbled as she started to stand up.
"So, the spirit of Kisara has bonded with the girl?" the eyes snapped, scaring the hell out of the little raspy voice.
"I-I am n-not sure of that y-yet," the little voice tried to respond, "We might still be able to get the spirit out of the girl."
"Then that's what we'll do." The eyes seemed to have regained a flicker of malicious visions. The eyes became amused with vicious hope. They seemed too happy.
"Master?" the voice asked with confusion trickling in every syllable she enunciated.
Calista walked around the hallways of her house, her coffee cup trembling in her hands.
"I should be Kisara! I have the vivid blue eyes and everything!"
Wait, vivid blue eyes...that reminded her of something....
She remembered how just the other day, Serenity appeared to have these most unbelievable blue eyes that she had ever seen.
Calista thought about it for a second. Those blue eyes. Those eyes. The very color the prophecy had described about Kisara. Those eyes, that snowy hair, that pale, pale complexion that got Kisara abused so badly. Calista had vivid blue eyes, but not quite the hue that Serenity had that day. Calsita had pale skin, and her hair was so lightly-colored blonde that it might as well have looked white. "Nah...that twit knows nothing about the Egyptian background of Duel Monster---oh no..."
Serenity was the sister of the duelist Joey Wheeler.
Joey Wheeler was the best friend of Yugi Mouto, the duelist who constantly had the puzzle around his neck.
And Calista knew all too well what that puzzle signified.
And don't forget, Calista, what Serenity was warning you about....
"You-you must go! They'll hurt you as well, you're like me!"
Calista dropped her coffee mug to the floor. Her eyes were wide and stared fearfully into space. She could feel splashes of the hot java on her feet, but she was too numb to care.
"We will get the girl, and we will get that spirit from her, no matter what amount of force we must use."
Calista had a twisted smile form on her face.
"If Serenity Wheeler is the reincarnation, then it'll be all the more fun to eliminate her..."
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Kaiba was bored out of his mind.
Waiting.
It was killing him.
He was a man who needed to be occupied all the time.
And that's when he heard it. While tapping his fingers on the various buttons of his armrest, he heard it, almost taunting him.
At first it was a small, steady buzzing. But slowly, it was getting louder and louder.
Kaiba looked in the direction of this ringing pitr-patr, and was slightly surprised by what he saw.
It was that same, hideously red, huge, black-eyed beetle sitting happily on his windowsill.
How that bug got into the limo was a question for another chapter.
"Back for round two?" Kaiba asked, slowly pressing a button that opened up the window. He had no at the moment to fight with this nasty little vermin. "I'm gonna tell Isis to keep her filthy little lice to herself!"
The bug stared for a split-second directly at Seto Kaiba, but before he knew it, the bug flew out of the window into the next lane. And when the bug flew into the next lane, he landed right onto the window of the closest vehicle, which happened to be a bus.
You can only imagine how surprised Serenity Wheeler was when she saw this insect sticking to the window she was looking through.
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Sorry about the spelling mistakes! My spell-check system died a while ago.
So, should this fic continue being dormant? Or should I continue updating?
R/R! Thanks for your time in reading this fic.
-----Tootles,
----------Celestial Night
