Ch 7 Old Friends and Unanswered Questions

Sometimes fate plays it's own trick and sometimes you can't know what the slightest action will do. Does going back in time change things? Or is it merely something that's fated?

The motorcycle screeched up and parked in front of Kaiba's mansion the young woman who'd knocked over wanderer leapt off and started running up the stairs when Maddy exited.

"Leia?" Maddy said looking the other younger woman up and down. "What're you doing here?" maddy asked as she blocked the door.

"I have my own reasons for being here and I'm not going to bother sharing them with you, wheeler, now move" Leia said attempting to brush by Maddy.

"Is that right Kaiba?" maddy pulled out her deck and stuck it in her duel disk the machine shuffled it and the life point meter turned on going up to 8000 as her holographic projectors shot out. "Well your not getting inside without a duel"

"Fine, my monsters will win it for me," Leia says, her deck is shuffled, and she draws 5 cards. "Looks like lucks on my side, I'll go first if you don't mind," she continues, and draws without waiting for a response. "I'll set a monster, and set two cards and end my turn for now."

"Impatient as always" maddy drew her own cards black luster soldier, fusilier the dual mode beast, archfiend of gilfer, exiled force, and finally homunculus the alchemic being then drew for her turn sakretsu armor "I'll summon my homunculus and set this card, now homunculus attack!" the monster attacked it's body changing shape the whole way before bouncing off Leia's monster and sliding back across the field.

Sorry," Leia says, and the demon appears in the place of the face down monster. "That was my Back Up Guardian (0/2200)."

"Darn it all" Maddy groaned as her life points fell to 7600.

Leia draws. "I'll equip my Back Up Guardian with Rod of Silence-Kay'est," she says, and the demon grabs a rod out of it's frozen state. "Now I can summon Guardian Kay'est (1000/1800), in attack mode," she continues. "That'll end my turn."

"Guardian's well isn't that just prime" Maddy drew hyper hammerhead "I'll summon my exiled force and sacrifice them" the group of soldiers appeared then exploded "to destroy your back up guardian" the shards slashed apart the back up guardian.

"Fine, but before you do that," Leia says, and suddenly the Rod of Silence switches to Guardian Kay'est, just before the shards ripped the demon apart spraying blood and bone around the yard.

"Darn it's your turn go" Maddy said shaking her head at her cards.

Leia draws. 'Hmm, just what I needed,' she thinks. "I play Monster Reincarnation," the giant emblem appeared on the field and Leia places a monster back into her hand. "I'll summon Back Up Guardian in defense mode, and end."

"Great that monster is starting to annoy me" maddy drew grave keepers guard "good that's better I'll set this monster and end my turn"

Leia draws, and laughs. "Sorry, but this is where it ends, I equip Back Up Guardian with Holy Goddess Sword-Eatosu!" The demon grabs the sword. "Now since I have no monsters in my Graveyard, I summon Guardian Eatosu (2500/2000 + 300)!" The fairy appears, and is equipped with the sword. "Now, I play Raigeki!"

"Aww crap there goes all my monsters" lightning rained down disintegrating all of Maddy's monsters.

"Now, I use Eatosu's effect, and remove all your monsters in the graveyard to increase her attack points by the attack of all of them!" Leia says, and the fallen monsters appear, their souls go into Eatosu, increasing her attack.

"Wow your monster's up to 6300 not bad at all" Maddy says staring at the powerful fairy.

"That's right, now I equip my Eatosu with Gravity Axe-Grarl, and since it's the last card in my hand, I summon Guardian Grarl (2500/1000)!" The dinosaur guardian appears. "Now, both my monsters, direct attack!" The two guardians charge at Maddy, slashing her with a sword and an axe.

"Well too bad for your Eatsou I activate sakretsu armor destroying her!" Maddy says touching the control on her disk the card flipped up.

"Sorry, but a Guardian duelist is prepared for the worst, for example, my trap card, Guardian Force!" Leia shouts, and a wind blows away the Sakuretsu Armor Trap card.

"Damn it all" Maddy says as her trap disintegrates and the two monster hit her hard the slash from Eatsou trailing blood everywhere and the blow from Grarl putting Maddy on her back. Maddy slowly got up as the holographic blood and gore disappeared she shook and then dusted herself off. "That was a good duel Leia"

"Yeah, good duel," Leia, replies, deactivating her Duel Disk. "Maddy, just because our father's where enemies, doesn't mean we have to be."

"Of course not but a good duel is hard to come by" Maddy gave Leia a small grin "I had fun didn't you? Besides I wanted to be sure you where intent on this course of action in case you haven't noticed we're kinda in the past"

"Yeah, I haven't had that good of a duel, since, well, since I first dueled my dad really," Leia replies. "Yeah, I'm very sure so let's go."

They opened the door as another motorcycle suddenly roared into the yard jumping the stairs Yurikai smashed through the doors as Maddy and Leia dived aside rolling out of the way. Yurikai leapt off before the bike had stopped all the way wanderer stopped it and turned it off.

"You girl who is your mother!" Yurikai demanded of the woman she knew to be Kaiba's daughter.

"I have a name you know, its Leia, Leia Kaiba," Leia replies. "And that's my own business, unless you can beat me in a duel."

"Fine by me. If I win, you tell me the name of your mother," Yuri demanded activating her duel disk and shuffling her deck. "You can go first," She said harshly as the hologram projectors shot out and started transmitting.

"Fine," Leia says, and draws. "I'll set these 4 cards, and one monster face down in defense position, and play Guardian's Treasure," she says, and draws 2 more cards. "From now on, I draw 2 cards instead of one, and now it's your move."

Yurikai draws her five cards Baby dragon, Red Archery Girl, Mystic Horseman, Change of heart and finally Dian keto the cure master. "I set one card and I place a monster face down in defense position and that ends my turn," Yurikai stated as she placed mystic horseman and Dian keto the cure master.

Leia draws 2 cards. "I set another monster and it's your move again."

Yurikai draws her card earth bound spirit "I'll set another card and set one monster in defense position and send it back over to you," she stated as she placed earth bound spirit and set change of heart on the field.

Leia draws 2 cards. "This won't be very exciting if we play defense all day, so I play Raigeki! Your move." The lightning rained down on Yurikai monsters destroying them all.

Yurikai drew dark hole in irritated silence. "I set this card and set a monster in defense position. I end my turn," she stated coldly as she set dark hole and set baby dragon on the field in face down defense position.

Leia draws 2. "I play Dark Hole, with White Hole," all monsters are sucked in and smashed into nothingness but Leia's are spat back out by white hole. "Your move."

Yurikai drew "I activate a spell card Dian Keto The cure Master." the deity appeared holding his crystal ball and holding it out towards Yurikai her life points rose up "I also set a card and set this monster in defense position, I end my turn." Yurikai smirked wickedly as she set man eater bug and set call of the haunted.

Leia draws two. "Hmm, I sacrifice my monsters for this, Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!" The mighty white dragon appears with a roar. "Now, I equip my dragon with Wicked Breaking Flamberge-Baou," she says as she discards a card. "Now Blue-Eyes attack her set monster!"

"Ha ha ha, you activated my monster's special ability," Yurikai grins wider as her man-eater bug is revealed and annihilated by the dragon's burst stream of destruction.

"No I didn't, when a monster is equipped with Wicked Breaking Flamberge-Baou, flip effects don't matter," Leia responds.

Yurikai draws Wing weaver and mutters random and foul curses under her breath for her mistake. "I activate the trap card Call of the Haunted and summon Man-eater bug to the field. I then activate the spell card Change of heart and take your dragon. I offer these two monsters as a tribute to call forth my Wing weaver and end my turn." she smirked wildly.

Leia draws another 2 cards. "I play Monster Reborn, revive Back Up Guardian in defense," the demon appears. "Now I play Monster Reincarnation," she says, and adds a monster to her hand. "Premature Burial, revive my blue Blue-Eyes," the dragon appears again. "Now, attack, White Lightning!" The dragon attacks Wing weaver with his burst stream frying the fairy and then roaring as her ashes blew away.

"GRRR" Yurikai growls as she draws robbin goblin. "I set one this card and a monster in defense position and end my turn," clearly she was irritated at the fact that she wasn't drawing a decent card as she set her red archer girl face down.

Leia draws 2 cards. "I equip Blue-Eyes with Holy Goddess Sword-Eatosu!" The dragon grabs the sword. "Now, since I made sure I have no monsters in my graveyard, I summon Guardian Eatosu (2500/2000 + 300)!" She says, and the fairy appears. "Now, I play Double Magic, to get back Wicked Breaking Flamberge-Baou, and equip it to Blue-Eyes," the dragon grabs the giant sword. "Now, I use Eatosu's effect, and remove all your monsters in the graveyard from play to increase her attack!" The monsters appear, and their souls are placed into Eatosu driving its power up to 6750.

Yurikai draws enchanted javelin and breaths a sigh of relief 'this just might work,' she thought triumphantly to herself. "I'll set this card and end my turn," she smirked gesturing with her hand for Leia to continue.

Leia draws. "Harpie's Feather Duster," a wind blows away the face down cards. "Now, I equip Eatosu with Gravity Axe-Grarl, and sacrifice my Back Up Guardian for Guardian Grarl (2500/1000)!" The dinosaur guardian appears. "Now, Grarl, wipe out her last monster," the monster leapt across the field and smashed the archer girl sending shards of clam everywhere. "Now my remaining monsters attack her life points directly!" blue eyes stream of destruction burnt flesh from Yurikai before she was split in half by Eatsou.

Yurikai lay on the floor dazed the glow from her millennium item dazzling everyone for a second she climbed to her feet slowly. "Sorry about that leia was it? I haven't exactly been myself could you please tell me who your mother is?"

"I don't know" Leia said her eyes seemed to water gently but it could have been a trick of light as she turned away. "Father told me I would find out when I was old enough I guess that time hasn't come yet."

"I'm sorry to hear that, if he hasn't told you, do you know what happened to her." Yurikai said silent tears welling up in her eyes.

"She's still alive from what I understand working on a project for me till sometime later, but I think dad tells me that to sooth me."

"I I see" Yurikai stammered as Leia brushes past wanderer inside storming into the mansion she'd lived in her entire life.

I watched her stomp inside she was so much like Kaiba raised almost exclusively by him but there was a definite tenderness to her. She was just as hard but there was a softness to her as well that wasn't in Seto.