AU warning, in this timeline Marik stays in Domino to study as a transfer student)
"So... where are we now?" asked Wolfram looking around.
"It's not like this device tells me right away where we are, you know. I have to find something I recognize, we just got lucky in your world. Three again...maybe they're just more Moon Children like Misty's world...hopefully one is a senshi," said Rachel as they started to look around.
"Moon children?" asked the senshi.
"It's what I call people who have ties to the Moon Kingdom who are not senshi in this case," she explained, "Like Ash and Gary."
"Look for a sign that says the city name or something else that might be a clue like native animals," explained Seiya.
"It worked in Misty's world," added Taiki, as they looked for a place to eat as well.
"Then we had to walk a lot and I got all sweaty...which is happening again!" Yaten whined.
"Makes me wonder why Minako had a crush on you," said Rachel rotating her finger in her ear before she spotted something, "Well; I always wanted to say this...Welcome to the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!"
"Huh?"
Their guide pointed at a restaurant called Burger World, "We can get lunch there too. Burgers for everyone!"
"What's a burger?" asked Wolfram as they walked in causing some the patrons to give him a funny look.
"He's from a small village without fast food," Taiki lied quickly making them focus on their meals.
"Nice save," Seiya whispered to the tallest of the group.
Rachel went to place their order and had to restrain her surprise when she saw the person she was speaking to was none other than Marik Ishtar.
"I need seven burgers, one with no onions, three plain, we'll add our own ketchup and mustard, one with everything on it and one with only tomato, sauce and pickles and six medium drinks," she told him.
"That will 5500-yen miss," Marik told her, he didn't like the job, but his sister said it would be good for him.
Rachel dug out the money, glad Taiki had given it to her and paid.
"Thank you miss, your order will be out soon," he told her handing her the cups.
"Thank you," she said giving him a smile, knowing all too well about his past before taking the cups not noticing the device glowing in her pocket.
Most of the group handled their own drinks but Wolfram had to be helped, Rachel suggesting he have iced tea, lemonade or water since he never had soda before.
"What are these things even made of?" Wolfram asked poking his burger.
"The patty is made of ground beef now eat already, you eat meat all the time, so this isn't any different," Misty, who was starting to get annoyed with the blonde, slipping a plain burger into Rachel's bag for the cats.
"Not the first time I've seen someone have their first hamburger," came a new voice, making the group look up to see a girl with short brown hair and friendly blue eyes smiling at them.
"Any tips for making him shut up and eat?" snapped Yaten who had the shortest fuse at the moment.
"Well excuse me for being cautious," Wolfram snapped right back.
Rachel sighed trying to discretely pull out the device to check it finding that it was saying that senshi was right there.
"See ya later, Marik!" Tea called before walking away, clearly off for the day before the only one who knew she was a senshi could stop her.
Rachel let her head drop onto the table.
"What's your problem?" asked Wolfram who was finally about to take a bite of burger.
"We just missed her..." she groaned tempted shove the burger down Wolfram's throat but resists the urge.
A shadow fell over table making them look up to see the blonde Egyptian who caused the device to go off once again.
"My sister says she wants to speak with you, I just got off so once you're done we'll go," he said before heading to the back to change.
Rachel sat up and started to eat making the others wonder who this mysterious sister was.
"Who's that guy?" asked Misty, munching on a fry.
Rachel swallowed her mouthful before replying, "His name is Marik Ishtar, he's from a land called Egypt. He used to own an ancient magical item called the Millennium Rod and had a dark side or Yami that was born from his anger and pain."
"I see you know a lot about me," said Marik sliding in beside the group stealing some fries from Wolfram.
"Hey!" protested the other blonde.
"You weren't eating them," pointed out Marik smirking, "So he's really never had a hamburger before?"
Taiki shook out a some of his fries for the shorter blonde, as the others finished their meals, "He has not."
"We're complicated," added Misty.
"Are you sure we can trust him?" Seiya whispered to Rachel as they left the burger joint, "You said he had a dark side."
"I said he used to, if he was still dangerous Tea wouldn't be so friendly with him. Besides his sister wouldn't let him stay here if she wasn't sure there wasn't even the slightest chance of him hurting someone on purpose," Rachel pointed out.
"It's not nice to talk about someone behind their backs here. Sis told me you were from other worlds, so I guess that mean manners work differently," Marik theorized as they kept walking.
"I," Rachel started to contradict, "Was trying to explain to Seiya that you mean us no harm."
The ex-tomb keeper turned to look at the speaker giving an evil smirk, "How can you be so sure?"
"Easy, Tea," she replied not fooled at all, "Its highly unlikely that you would have gotten that job without, at the very least, a recommendation from someone who already works there and after what you tried to pull during Battle City you would have had to work hard to earn her trust."
"What did he do?" asked Misty.
"Not telling," Rachel replied, "Let's just say he made mistakes but tried to make them right."
Marik smiled gratefully at her as they reached the Domino City Museum, he really didn't want his past dredged up.
"Why are we here?" asked Artemis from Rachel's bag.
"Shut up Artemis, before someone hears you," Misty told him as they walked in.
"This is where my big sister works. She foresaw you coming," explained Marik, "She closed early so we won't be bugged."
"What is the deal with this mysterious sister we keep hearing about?" asked Taiki.
"She also had a Millennium item but hers could be used to see into the future," said Marik and Rachel making the pair laugh.
"Sis was right, you do know a lot."
"Welcome," said a new voice, a woman with black hair, blue eyes and tan skin walking into view.
"Hi Ishizu, it's nice to meet you," said Rachel casually waving.
Ishizu, as Rachel had called her smiled, "It's nice to finally meet you too, Rachel."
"I'm not the only one finding this a little freaky, am I?" asked Seiya.
"It is definitely freaky..." agreed Misty as Wolfram and the other Starlights nodded.
"There are freakier things, like the Millennium eye. It takes the phase "An eye for an eye" to a new place that it shouldn't go," said Rachel as Ishizu showed them to where she, Marik and their adopted brother Odion lived.
"Welcome home," the larger Egyptian greeted the other two.
"What are those symbols?" asked Wolfram pointing at Odion's cheek before he was Gibbs' smacked by Rachel, "Ow!"
"It's rude to point."
"I think you just wanted an excuse to smack me," he said rubbing the back of his head.
"You can't claim elder abuse since you don't look your age," Rachel teased.
"Elder?" asked Odion, "How old is he?"
"I think he's 83...I know he was 82 when Yuri first became king and the story took at least a year..." she mused tapping her chin as almost everyone else in the room stared at Wolfram in shock.
"You're kidding about his age, right?" asked Misty, "If he's THAT old then how old are his brothers?"
"Honestly? I have no idea they never said as far as I know but I know that Conrart and Gwendal still looked young when Conrart's father died from old age...so they're both over 100 years old..."
"That is insane," said Marik.
"He's not human, neither are those three," explained Ishizu, "Did you make up the rooms for our guests?"
Odion nodded, "To answer his question these are hieroglyphics, the written language of the Ancient Egyptians."
"Oh," said both Wolfram and Misty who had been curious too.
Wolfram was to sleep in Marik's room, Marik took the sofa after Rachel told him that Wolfram was a bit of a violent sleeper. The three lights got one guest room while the girls got the other. The time before bed was rather humorous since everyone got to see what Wolfram liked to wear to bed.
"Did you accidently buy Greta a too big night gown and chose to wear it yourself?" asked Misty, eyeing the frilly pink outfit.
Rachel, who was in the room brushing Kyubi's fur started to laugh, "Yuri's mom actually bought that one...for him! He wears stuff like that all the time to bed as far as I know."
"So, it's the fashion where he's from?" asked Yaten, sweat dropping at how frilly it was.
"No, most wear more old-fashioned night shirts for guys," replied Wolfram shrugging, "It's comfortable."
"So, the only one of us in a night gown is the only one who was born male," said Misty who was in pajamas as was everyone except Ishizu.
"Shut up!"
"I honestly like his nightgowns, I want some like them myself," Rachel admitted, shrugging.
"Thank you, Rachel." said Wolfram as the brunette scooped up her pokémon.
The next day the group were waiting outside Domino high.
"How can you be sure Marik will be with the girl we're looking for?" asked Misty as students started to trickle out.
"Because even if he doesn't hang out with her little group of friends they still work together so they would have to head the same way for wor-OMG!" Rachel started to answer before suddenly squealing.
What caused her squeal was a now startled honey blonde who had been holding hands with a brunette male with blue eyes, both now startled as were the rest of the group including Marik and Tea who was the only girl, another burnet with brown eyes and a strange single spike hairstyle, a boy with long black hair and green eyes. There were also two sets of twins, two had white hair though one's hair was spikier then the other, and two shorter males with spiky hair that was dark red at the tips them black with blonde bangs.
"Puppy shipping has been confirmed!" Rachel squealed jumping up and down.
"She's being weird again..." sighed Yaten.
"Puppy shipping?" asked the rest of the group.
"Is she talking about me and Seto?" asked the honey blonde.
"You two were holding hands," said the spiker white haired male who Rachel had started to glare at, "What are you looking at?"
"Are you Zorc or the Tomb Robber who was the only survivor from his village?" she asked getting in his face.
"I'm the Tomb Robber," he said looking her in the eye.
She smiled, "Ok! But you're still an Evil Snow bunny!"
This made the taller of the two spike heads crack up.
"It's not funny!"
"Sorry, Bakura, I couldn't resist," she told him scratching the back of her head.
"You know his name?" asked Seto.
"I know all your names, Ryou Bakura, Yami Bakura or just Bakura, Seto Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, Yugi Mouto, his Yami; Pharaoh Atemu, Tristan Taylor, Duke Devilin, and Tea Gardener," Rachel said pointing to each person in turn.
"You forgot Marik," pointed out Duke, who was casing similar reaction to that which Marik caused.
"Actually, they stayed at my house last night, so I already knew they she knew my name," replied the Egyptian nervously laughing.
"So, you told her our names?" guess Yami.
"Nope!" Rachel chirped, "I've known them for a while."
"We should continue this talk somewhere private," suggested Taiki.
As they walked to the museum the Starlights, Constellation Senshi and Rachel introduced themselves to the group of duelists.
"What kinda name is Wolfram?" asked Joey.
"A noble one unlike yours," Wolfram snipped before Rachel smacked him upside the head.
"That was rude. Joseph is name that has biblical origins which Joey is short for," she explained, "Seems you've not quite outgrown the nickname of "Little Lord Brat"."
"What? Who calls me that?"
"Sorry about Wolfram, he's ignorant of a lot of things," explained Seiya.
Seto raised an eyebrow, wondering what made these strangers so special, he noticed that both Yamis were giving them a similar calculating look. Once they were in a garden area in the back of the museum Rachel and Misty let out their pokémon.
"What is this funny looking duck?" asked Duke poking Psyduck.
Yugi was scratching Li'l Light under the chin, the Pichu smiling, "Does that feel good?"
"Cha!"
"I guess small creatures just love you Yugi," said Yami.
Ryou was telling off his Yami for looking at Staryu and Starmie's gems like they were worth something before Misty pointed out they were part of the pokémon's' bodies.
"So, Tea is one of these Sailor Senshi?" asked Seto, petting Kyubi who was on the table he, Rachel and Ishizu were having tea at.
"Yes, I have no control over who is chosen the only way to find them is this device Luna and Artemis entrusted to me," Rachel said, "Honestly, I have no idea what will happen, this world is different then what I expected when I arrived. I thought the Ishtar's would be in Egypt, both Yamis and the items would be long gone and you, Seto...well according to a movie that came out recently in my world you made a hologram of the pharaoh down to ever last detail of his hair which apparently took the longest."
Seto gave her a dirty look, "Really? People think I'm that obsessive? And you still haven't explained what "Puppy shipping" is."
"Sorry about that. Shipping is a term used by fan of shows including artists and fanfic authors when they want to say they like characters together in a romantic relationship but it's not official as far as they know. Some will even ship two characters who hate each other to their knowledge like you and Joey. Since you used to call Joey a mutt which is a term for a dog and a baby dog is a puppy and sounds much cuter they came up with "Puppy shipping"," Rachel explained taking a bite of a cookie, "We should get out of here before Sailor Pewter Fox shows-" she was cut off by a ball of golden light hitting Yaten in the back causing his star seed to appear.
"Yaten!" the travelers cried as he faded away.
"Don't cry, you'll be joining him soon enough!" said the pink haired senshi as she summoned a mechanical dragon.
"That's my Blue eyes plane!" cried Seto before he heard someone yelling for help inside the cockpit, "Mokuba!"
"Dragging a child into this is a new low!" yelled Rachel tearing across the yard to get to Tea as the others transformed.
"I can't do that!" Tea told her backing up.
"What happened to the Tea who stood up to Joey and Tristan when they were picking on Yugi? Who drew a symbol of friendship on her hand with her friends? Who snuck into Duelist kingdom to help support two of said friends? Who Dueled and beat one of the best female duelists in the world to help Yugi save his grandfather? And those are only a few of the things I know you did," Rachel pointed out to her, "This device says you are Sailor Virgo, I know it's scary, we're all scared! Even Wolfram! We need your help!"
Tea looked at her and nodded taking the device, her band appeared with a purple gem she held up her hand knowing the words already, "Virgo Zodiac Power...Make-up!"
Her costumes colors were violet-blue and salmon pink and her shoes were knee high boots with a rounded edge.
"Virgo Fairy dance!" she jumped high and spun in midair creating a dust that dissolved the cockpit window behind the boy, "Take my hand!"
Once Mokuba was in her grasp the newest Senshi jumped down and passed him off to his brother as the others finished off the dragon.
"Aim for her bracelets!" Star Fighter and Maker yelled, both upset.
It was Sagittarius who landed the blow, cutting of Pewter Foxes arms under the bangles killing her.
"Don't feel bad..." Rachel said, starting to cry over the loss of Yaten, "She willingly gave up her star seed and became this...she's nothing but a shell...A horrible, evil shell..."
"Why is the big deal about Star Seeds like Yaten's?" asked Wolfram, who felt that they had a right to know.
"The Star Seeds of most living things only last a limited time but the Star Seed of a senshi, what some would call a True Star Seed will shine forever," started Luna.
"Which is why Sailor Senshi can be reborn in different times, but when these are taken from their humanoid hosts the planets and stars they represent fade away slowly," Artemis continued looking down, "It happened to the girls we were the protectors of...I miss them...Sure Minako was nuts at time and I got hurt a lot, but she had such a loving smile."
Rachel picked up the white feline, "She certainly knew what dreams she wanted to follow and definitely the wackiest Inner senshi. We'll get her back...we'll get them all back...I know we will, we just have to keep pressing on."
After Tea had packed and Seto managed to do some creative hacking to explain her absence from school though Tea's parents were told out right. They left...after Rachel gave poor Yugi a hug that stuck his face in her chest.
"Stop acting like my mother!" Wolfram yelled at her before they left as Rachel laughed and the others wondered again what kind of mother he had.
TBC