"Yo Yug!" Joey calls.
"Hey Joey, what's up?" Yugi asks as they both walk to school.
"Have ya heard from Gabrielle or Maria lately?" Joey asks.
"No I haven't, not since they returned to America," Yugi tells him.
It has been almost a month since the Duelist Kingdom has taken place. No one has heard from their American friends since then, they hope they are okay in America. They soon make it to their school, their friends are standing out front, Tea, Duke, Tristan and Ryuo.
"Hey Yugi, Joey," Tristan says.
"Hi guys," Tea says.
"Hey guys," the two say.
"Hello Mutt," Duke says to Joey.
"Why you!" Joey growls.
"Seems I am not the only one who knows you are a mutt," Seto says, walking up.
"You wanna go Kaiba!?" Joey challenges.
"I can win any duel against you Wheeler."
As the two argue, a limo pulls up to the school. This causes everyone, minus Kaiba and Joey, to look over. Yugi and his friends watch as a man gets out of the driver's seat and they all look in horror, it's one of Pegasus's men. This causes Seto and Joey to stop arguing, they look in anger at the limo.
"Have a good first day," the man says as two girls climb out of the limo.
The group of friends, plus Seto, look in bewilderment, standing in front of the limo are Maria and Gabrielle. They are both dressed in Domino High School uniforms, holding very expensive bags.
"Have a good day darlings," Pegasus says, handing them their lunches.
"Bye Dad!" The two call as the door shuts and the limo leaves.
The group looks dumbstruck at them, Pegasus is their father!? When did he return and adopt them!? Maria and Gabrielle face their friends and smile wide, Yami (Who is a spirit right now) blushes when he sees Gabrielle's smile. Seto turns to hide his slight blush as the two walk up.
"Pegasus is your dad!?" Joey and Tristan yell. "After what he did!?"
"I have to agree with them," Ryou says.
"We will explain later," Maria says. "Oh and Duke? Dad wants to meet with you after school about your game."
"Right, thanks Maria," Duke says. "And it is nice to finally meet the two that Muto and Kaiba won't stop talking about."
Both Maria and Gabrielle blush when Tea takes their arms and volunteers to help them out at school. The girls head into the school with the boys right behind them, they are still hung up on the fact that Pegasus adopted the girls so suddenly. Tea helps the girls get used to their shoe lockers and takes them to the office to get their class assignments.
"Okay, Gabrielle you are in the same class as me," Tea says. "Maria, you share a class with Duke, Ryou and Seto."
"Okay, but how do schools exactly work here?" Maria asks. "Dad sorta explained to us."
"The teachers are the ones to change rooms, not us," Tea explains, trying not be weirded out by her calling Pegasus dad. "We also clean the school before we go home. We normally leave around 3 pm from classes."
"Okay, that sounds interesting compared to American schools," Gabrielle says.
"The only time we change rooms are for physical ed, home ed and science," Tea adds. "You are always with the same classmates, except gym are two classes together."
The girls nod and they soon go to their classrooms, which are next to one another.
"Good morning class," the teacher in Yugi's class says. "Today we have a new student. Please come to the front and introduce yourself."
Gabrielle stands up and goes to the front of the room, she smiles at everyone and bows.
"Hello, my name is Gabrielle Rosalin-Pegasus, I came from America," Gabrielle says.
Everyone welcomes her and she goes back to her seat between Yugi and Tristan. Yami can't help but watch Gabrielle as the lesson goes on, what is there about her that intrigues him so? As if seeming to sense she is being watched, Gabrielle looks over at Yugi and her eyes look up a bit to see Yami. Her eyes widen a bit and Yugi notices this as well.
"Ms Pegasus," The teacher calls.
"Yes ma'am?" Gabrielle asks, looking at the teacher.
"Can you tell us the answer to this equation?"
"Hmm...x= 6."
"That is correct."
Gabrielle looks back over at Yugi and Yami and smiles at them, Yugi smiles back while Yami looks in disbelief. She can see him?
In her class, Maria is sitting between Seto and Ryuo, she has a bit of a hard time concentrating as some of the boys keep on eyeing her. Both Ryuo and Seto notice this and are not too happy with how the guys are acting towards Maria. Seto catches himself and wonders why does he care if boys are looking at Maria? He doesn't really know her nor does he care about her. He growls and doesn't look towards Maria.
The first few classes go very well for Maria and Gabrielle. When lunch comes around, the group, plus Seto, take the girls to the roof for lunch so they can explain.
"Well?" Tristan asks.
"It was one week after we got back," Gabrielle explains. "I had applied to like five different jobs and the head of the foster care found out. She wanted me to give her most of my paychecks if I got the jobs."
"The woman was mean and just wanted money," Maria adds.
"When I told her no, she locked me in the isolation room. Anyway, I heard some commotion outside the room, I went to the door when it opened and Pegasus was standing there. At first I stumbled back, and was angry but something was different. The aura around him wasn't dark and merciless like before. There was more sorrow and compassion."
"He told the woman in charge that he will be taking us," Maria continues, so Gabrielle can start to eat. "She tried to argue since we are the oldest but he paid her well and we left. For the last month, we have been getting used to a home and Pegasus proved himself to us. He's actually really nice, he just wanted to bring the one person back that he truly loved. He just went about it in a horrible way."
"How do we know that he truly has changed huh?" Joey questions.
"He got the best eye doctor for your sister," Gabrielle says. "He wants to help Duke with his game, he donated money to Yugi's family's game shop, and he told the police about the coup that was gonna happen at Kaiba Corps."
The group goes quiet, so that's how all of that happened? Has Pegasus actually changed?
"That good enough for you?" Maria asks.
"Well, as long as he doesn't try anything like before again," Tea says.
"If he keeps away from trying to run my company, I will keep an open mind," Seto says. "I'm not doing this for him, I'm doing this because Gabrielle stopped the coup from happening."
The two girls smile and soon the bell rings to tell them to get back to class.
"Hey Yugi, can you stay here for a bit with me?" Gabrielle asks.
"Sure," Yugi smiles.
The others go on ahead, leaving the two alone for a bit.
"Yugi...I've noticed something," Gabrielle says, cleaning up and stands. "Something or someone is always with you and takes your place at times. He...who is he?"
'Yugi, I think we should tell her,' Yami says from in the puzzle, trying to stay hidden.
Yugi takes a deep breath and explains everything to Gabrielle, he expects her to call him crazy but she just smiles.
(After school)
"That was an interesting first day," Maria says as they leave.
"It was," Gabrielle agrees. "But I like this place."
"I do too."
Gabrielle looks back to see Yugi and his friends, once again she can see Yami next to the shorter boy. Yami's eyes lock with hers, suddenly it's like nothing else is around, it's just them. As Yami stares at her, something changes, her outfit changes to one he does not recognize. Suddenly the time is shattered when Joey yells out to Gabrielle.
Maria, however, moves to the gates to watch for the limo their father is sending. She looks over to see Seto on his cell phone, something about him is very familiar but from where? It's not like she lived in Japan before now. Seto looks over at her and their eyes lock for a moment, Seto feels something looking into her hazel eyes just like when he woke up that day. He forces himself to look away when a limo pulls up.
"Gabs!" Maria calls. "Our ride is here!"
"Coming!" Gabrielle runs up.
(Three weeks later)
"Dad sent us packages!" Gabrielle calls to her friend, no sister.
"Oh~ Packages!" Maria coos.
Gabrielle laughs as they take their own package. Currently, Pegasus is in Egypt again to help with digging. He said he'd be gone for a week at most and promised to send gifts. Maria opens her's to see a new journal and dress inside, she squeals with delight. Gabrielle smiles and looks at her's, inside is a dress similar to Maria's but as well there is a bracelet. Along with it is a note from their father.
"This bracelet was found in the tomb, the man who gave me the millennium eye told me to send it to you. I hope you like it, it matches your pendant well," Gabrielle reads aloud.
"It is pretty, must be real gold," Maria comments.
"It is beautiful," Gabrielle agrees, clasping it onto her right wrist.
She looks at it and smiles when it seems to glow a bit, something about this bracelet is very familiar but Gabrielle brushes it off.
"Welp, I have someone to meet up with," Maria says.
"You aren't going to take part in Duel City?" Gabrielle questions.
"Not this time," Maria says. "Well, I will be there, but not as a duelist."
Gabrielle watches her sister walk off very confused, she has been hiding something for a while now. Ever since they started school, Maria has been hiding something from her, Gabrielle shrugs it off. She will tell her in due time.
(In Domino City)
"Nice work Yug!" Joey cheers after he defeated the man who ganged up on Joey.
Yami Yugi smiles when he sense something, something familiar. He turns to see Gabrielle dueling another duelist, what catches his attention is the bracelet on her right wrist. Something about it is extremely familiar to him, it's like he knows who held it before Gabrielle.
"Hey! It's Gabrielle!" Joey smiles, running over to watch.
Yami smiles and follows his friend, he sees that Gabrielle has summoned her Amazon Hunter and Harpie lady.
'Yami, are you okay?'
"I am not sure, the tablets from the museum are still on my mind," Yami tells his friend.
'Maybe we should ask Tea what she saw, she did leave it after us.'
"You are right."
"Yes! I won!" Gabrielle cheers.
"Awesome job!" Joey cheers, giving her a side hug.
"Thanks Joey," Gabrielle smiles, taking the locater card and the boy's rare card.
Gabrielle smiles at Water Omotics that she just won, she has always wanted this card. She won't let her father just hand her certain cards. Gabrielle looks at Yami and gives him a big smile, Yami smiles back while Yugi nudges him a bit. Yugi knows that Yami has developed a crush on their curly haired friend. Yami glares at his partner before the group decides to split off. They do not want to have to duel each other until the finals.