Sightshipping (Pegasus x Ishizu)
They never should have left those cave walls...the Egyptian Gods, he meant. He could feel it, the power of those tiny slips of paper inside a steel suitcase buzzing up through the metal and into his arm and mind. What had he been thinking? He couldn't have controlled this power if he tried!
Pegasus shook his head, trying to clear his mind. He set the suitcase down on the hotel bed and started to pace. He had always known this would be a bad idea. Even as he put paint to the canvas once more, something he had thought he would never do again after Cyndia, he had realized that there was a magic here beyond his imagining.
He glanced ruefully at the innocent steel suitcase on the bed. As soon as the cards had been printed, he had felt them buzz with life. The first time he had used it in a practice duel against a computer, he had blacked out. Shadi had showed him the doom he had allowed to be sent into the world. Of course, he had tried to destroy them first. They were only slips of paper, after all.
Or so he had thought until he tried to rip one in half, and found himself convulsing on the floor with a terrible static in his head.
No, they could not be destroyed. They refused to be, more like. So they had to be hidden, somewhere even he wouldn't know. He checked his watch. The head of the Egyptian Board of Antiquities would be here any minute. His sources had told him the curator knew about magic, and his contact with the person in question had left him believing that the God Cards would be safe in those hands. He only had to wait for him to get here...
A soft knock caught his attention. He glanced over towards the door. It could be the curator...but it could also be someone else. It wouldn't be the first attack he'd suffered on this trip. He let his Millennium Eye pierce through the wood, scanning the person outside...
Instantly, his magic thrust back to him. He stumbled backwards, shocked. The only meaning of that could be...
The door opened softly. Although Pegasus knew the shock was evident on his face, he couldn't quite stop it.
She was a young woman, no more than twenty, perhaps, with the softly bronzed skin of an Egyptian native. Her velvet black hair lay quietly across her back and down her shoulders. Calm brown eyes found Pegasus' only visible eye, and there were depths there that even he could not fathom. Her soft, unassuming beauty was sharply contrasted by the plain, canvas white dress she wore. More importantly, however, something gold gleamed around her neck...
"That's the Millennium Necklace, is it not?" Pegasus said.
She nodded.
"And you have the Millennium Eye," she said, speaking English with the hint of an accent. "I apologize for blocking your magic so roughly. I was...surprised. I did not know you had an Item."
Pegasus nodded slowly.
"You are the head of the Egyptian Board of Antiquities?" he said.
"I am," she said.
He nodded again.
"I'm Pegasus J. Crawford."
He extended his hand. She took it, and shook it limply in the custom of Egypt. She smiled quietly at him, her brown eyes still fixed on his in that unnerving manner of the Egyptians. So much eye contact here...it was enough to make Pegasus' head spin. Although, maybe his spinning head at this moment was due to something else...
"I am Ishizu Ishtar. I am pleased to make your acquaintance."
"Likewise," Pegasus said.
She was certainly not what he had been expecting. Not only was she female, a fact he had never guessed at from their written correspondence, but she held a Millennium Item. He wasn't sure of the powers of the Millennium Necklace, but she was obviously skilled enough with the magic to deflect his mind scan. That was something.
Light filtered through the blinds he had drawn over the windows, sending eerie shadows across her softly sculpted face. For just the briefest moment, he thought he was looking at Cyndia. He brushed the thoughts aside quickly
"So," he said, turning to the hotel bed where the suitcase lay. "I am under the impression that you can help me."
"I believe so," she said.
The briefest hint of apprehension flashed across her eyes.
"This is...truly the power of the gods, is it not?" she said.
"Unfortunately," Pegasus said. He unfastened the suitcase and revealed the three god cards. Ishizu breathed out.
"Oh," she said. "It is. How did you capture the magic so easily...?"
"Through misguided confidence in myself," Pegasus said ruefully. "I've tried to destroy them already."
She was already nodding.
"Yes, that would be impossible...to destroy them, I mean," she said.
Frowning, she reached forward to brush a finger across one of the cards. In doing so, she leaned past him, her rounded face coming just a little too close. He shifted away from her, angry at himself. Just because Cyndia was gone did not mean he could allow himself to be attracted. Not that he was attracted, no, of course not...
Ishizu nodded quietly.
"Yes," she said. "I can find places to hide these...are you certain, though?"
"What?" he said, surprised out of his own thoughts.
Her brown eyes made contact with his.
"Are you certain that you trust me to take care of them? Are you not able to hide them yourself?"
His eyes wandered down to the cards. It was true, he had money to spare for security on these. He had the land and connections too.
But...
He shook his head firmly.
"I can't keep them," he said. "Who knows...what might happen if I do."
Her eyes never left his for a second. Once a moment had passed, she nodded.
"Very well," she said. "Mr. Crawford, I admire your self-reflection. It is not easy to do away with power."
He simply looked away, not caring if it was rude. He couldn't bring himself to look at her anymore. Instead, he busied himself with closing the suitcase, and then handing it to her. Her fingers brushed his as she took the handle.
"Thank you," he said, still not meeting her eyes.
She bowed her head slightly, and without another word, she left. It was a long time after that before Pegasus moved again.
A/N: I can actually see this couple happening. I'm not always a big fan of Pegasus in relationships, but this could work out. Next is Sideshipping (Anzu x Shizuka).
