Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh, wish I did, but do not. Again, I am just borrowing.
Warnings:
I am going to be using the dub names, mainly because I'm used to calling them by those names, sorry if this is an inconvenience to anyone, sorry again. Bakura (Yami Bakura) has come back because he was given a second chance at a happy life, and Seto Kaiba is not as annoyed by them anymore, since Egypt, you could say he is an acquaintance of theirs'. What else, oh yeah, Ryou and Bakura are in separate bodies. There will be OC's (original Characters) in this fic; I may also forget a few of the people because there are so many remember you have been warned of my forgetfulness. Alright, this is like a little spin off of my first fic, Neveralone, it's set a few days afterward, if you didn't read it, you won't be to lost but reading it could help.
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'..thinking....'-thinking
".speaking..."-speaking
lyrics- Song lyrics/ Flashbacks
Summary: Its been five millennia since the Evil One's destruction, now that she has returned it's up to the gang with old friends and new to stop her. And who's to say that love wont blossom along the way.
Darkness… gloomy shadows everywhere….
Visions flashed…. A village burning in unnatural flames, a sinister looking girl with crimson eyes, her magenta locks flowing in the wind, and a band of hooded females…..
…..Fear filled azure eyes flashed open, awoken from her horrid nightmare, Tea quickly rose from bed, massaging her head with both hands, still quivering from the dream, to try to rid herself of the shock.
'That dream again….' thought Tea trembling slightly in fear.
"TEA GET-UP! YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!" screamed Mrs. Gardner from the kitchen downstairs, bringing Tea out of her own thoughts.
"NOT AGAIN!!!" screamed Tea.
The brunet teen rushed round her room, trying to change into her uniform, brush her teeth, fix her hair, put her shoes on, grab her backpack, find her homework, all at the same time, which is very difficult. Quickly running out her room towards the stairs, her backpack half on and her brown locks half brushed, only to trip on an overturned rug as she reached the stairs, landing with a thud, twitching at the base of the stairs.
'This just isn't my day…' thought Tea.
"TEA! I'M NOT GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN! GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!" screamed Mrs. Gardner, bringing Tea out of her daze.
"OH NO! I'M GOING TO BE LATE AGAIN!" screamed Tea making a dash to the door.
The bell had just rung, and every student was in the seats, everyone but a certain brunet girl….
"Alright everyone… get out your history books and turn to page 120." said Mrs. Tina, though her students complied, they could not help but groan while doing it.
While the rest of the class was focusing on their work, a certain red-violet eyed teen continued to stare out the window.
'Atem… what's wrong?' Yugi asked mentally.
'It's not like Tea to be late… where is she?' replied Atem.
'Don't worry… I'm sure she's fine… she probably just slept in again.' said Yugi.
'I hope you're right.' replied Atem.
"Mr. Mutou … would you take out your book like the others and pay attention please." said Mrs. Tina, sending a disappointed look at her son, causing him to blush as he took out his book.
'My son the daydreamer…' thought Mrs. Tina shaking her head with a smile.
"Oh… I almost forgot… I heard we will be getting a new student today." said Mrs. Tina, causing her students to break out into a series of questions such as, "is it a boy or girl?"… "What is he/she like?"… and other such questions. "Enough…. she will be arriving soon… so... lets all get back to work… now… Mr. Wheeler… would you start us of by reading the first paragraph of this section…" said Mrs. Tina, making the blond cringe and groan.
Tea ran through the halls, good thing for her that the hall monitor was nowhere to be seen, trying to make it to her classroom. Passing room after room, each door closed, it was obvious that school already started, meaning Tea was in big trouble, the very thought of the detention she would have to serve made her cringe. Almost there, just one more corner, the principle walking in the opposite direction caught her eye, but that did not matter, all that mattered was getting to class. She ran towards the door, hoping that there was some chance that Mrs. Tina would be lenient with her punishment, why did she have to sleep in, was there anyway that today could get worse.
"Ok everyone… this is" began Mrs. Tina until she was interrupted by the door being slammed open and the sight of swirly-eyed Tea on the floor panting, no doubt from the run, making everyone in the room to sweat-drop. "Glad you could join us Miss Gardner… please take your seat I was just about to introduce the class to our new student." said Mrs. Tina, causing Tea's already present blush to deepen as she took the embarrassing walk to her seat.
-clears throat- "As I was saying…. This is Joan, she will be joining our class, and I want all of you to treat her with kindness and respect, no bullying or anything of that such manner… Joan… please take the empty seat by the door… now… let us continue with our lesson." said Mrs. Tina, turning her back to her students as she began to write on the chalkboard.
The girl looked normal enough, normal pink Domino High girls' uniform, normal shoulder length hair, the only thing different about her was the fact that both her hair and eyes were pink.
'She seems normal enough…' thought Tea, though there was something about her that just made her feel uneasy.
"… And that concludes our lesson for today…. Now we have about … three minutes until lunch…. So feel free to occupy yourselves until the bell rings…" said Mrs. Tina, retreating to her desk to finish the book she had been reading before class started.
Those three minutes were filled with mindless chitchat, which made the disguised queen happy that she had her book to shield herself from the brainless ramblings of today's teens, finally getting relief when the bell releasing them to lunch rang did she finally find silence as they stampeded out of her classroom.
-sigh- "Peace at last." said Mrs. Tina, continuing to read her book.
Nothing is scarier than a high school cafeteria, not only mobs of teens, mobs of hungry teens, and in this treacherous environment, Tea and Kisara tried to navigate themselves. After all that has happened, Kisara and Tea found that they had much in common and had become fast friends, and seeing as they were teenage girls, their conversations rotated around certain subjects.
"So… you haven't told me what happened on your date… you know… other than the monster attacks." said Kisara, trying to balance her tray of food and travel through the cafeteria without bumping into someone.
"Kisara… just because you're my best female friend doesn't mean that I'm gonna tell you everything… you don't tell me everything between you and Kaiba." replied Tea, also trying to balance her tray.
"Well… that's different… Seto and I are no longer a secret, meaning I could tell anyone, it would mean nothing… where as you and Atem are still confidential… I'm the only one you can tell, making it much more exclusive." said Kisara making a point.
"Sometimes I think you should be a lawyer the way you talk." said Tea changing the subject.
The two teens found their friends seated a group of tables at the far end of the room, everyone had already gotten their food and they were the only ones who had not. Everything seemed normal, Joey was stuffing his face, a few of their friends were chatting, Kaiba had brought work to school again, as usual, and the group of girls that sat at the table across from theirs were gawking at Atem again, making the vein at the side of Tea's head to pound. The teen could not help but grow angry, those girls were drooling over her boyfriend, and she felt herself begin to shake as the rage within her grew.
"Keep your cool… don't want to give away your secret do you?" said Kisara, snapping the brunet out of her trance.
"I know…. It's just… How would you feel if they did that to Kaiba?" asked Tea still glaring at the group of blonds.
"Well that's simple… I would wait till after school then use my power over wind to blow them into the next town." said Kisara with a smile as she and Tea sat down, next to their boyfriends of course.
"Hehe… remind me never to make you mad." said Tea with a smile making her friend laugh.
While the teens were enjoying their lunch, a redheaded woman adorned in blue was standing in a shadowed region of the cafeteria, in her hands a pouch. As time passed and more teens sat, the redheaded woman grew more restless, and as a group of students that passed, she dropped a glowing sphere to the ground and muttered words under her breath as the shadows around her seemed to grow.
"So… why did it take you so long to get to school?" asked Atem, slightly worried.
"Oh nothing really, my alarm broke, my mom waited until last minute to try to wake me, and this stupid nightmare I've been having kept me up most of the night." said Tea matter of factly.
"Nightmare… What" began Atem, until one of the most annoying and frightening things ever interrupted him.
"Hi Atem." said a girl from the table across from theirs'.
"Hello?" replied Atem, a bit scared.
"How are you?" asked another.
"Enjoying your lunch?" asked another.
Now I am not going to go on and on with this, just now that they would not stop asking questions, anyway, as they continued the vein that was pounding at the side of Tea's head continued to pound faster and faster until…
"WOULD YOU JUST GO AWAY AND STOP BUGGING HIM!" screamed Tea, attracting the attention of everyone in the cafeteria, replacing the anger with embarrassment.
"Smooth…" muttered Kisara to her friend, who was covering her face with both hands.
The girls decided to leave, one, because their lunches were getting cold, and Atem's psycho friend was freaking them out, spreading both peace and confusion throughout the table.
"Why does Atem get all the girls?" questioned Joey with his mouth full, a piece of…. something… still sticking out of his mouth, making everyone at the table sweat drop.
"I don't know…" replied Marik with a laugh, making everyone else join in.
"Who does that Tea chick think she is…" said one of the girls from before.
"I don't know… by the way she's acting you'd think she was his girlfriend or something…" said another with a laugh, giving the others initiative to join in.
"Yeah like that would ever happen… like he would pick her over girls like us…" said one.
"Yeah… girlfriend… more like obsessed stalker." replied another.
As the girls continued to laugh and walk away, they did not notice the slithering shadow behind them, only one seemed to hear something, no matter how faint.
"Hey… did anyone hear that?" asked one.
"Hear what?" replied another.
Though she did not have time to reply, because just as she opened her mouth, a beast appearing to be made up of silvery mist leaped out of the shadows and roared at the frightened teens, making them scream.
"What is that thing?!" said one.
The shadow creature gave them no time to answer, for in the time it takes to blink, it launched itself at one of the girls and actually passing right through her, a glowing sphere in its mouth. The girl collapse, the look of fear and surprise still present on her now soulless face, giving her friends another reason to scream in horror as they ran, causing panic to spread throughout the cafeteria.
Now Yugi and the others had heard the girls scream first, seeing as they were just at their table, and had already taken the initiative to hide behind an overturned table, in hopes that whatever it was did not see them.
"Woh… what is that?" asked Tristan, eyeing the misty monster, which was at the moment fazing through more and more teens collecting more and more souls.
"Looks like Soul Tiger… it's and earth type monster with no attack points." replied Kaiba.
"Who cares what it is how do we beat it?" asked Glacia.
"And not loose our souls in the process." added Duke.
"This may be difficult, it can pass through anything… making our attacks pretty much useless." said Bakura glaring at the ghostly tiger.
"But there's gotta be some way to beat that thing… we can't just sit here and watch it take out our classmate one by one." said Flora.
"There may be… but we just don't know what it is yet… and we can't just rush in without a plan." said Ryou in defeat.
"But we have to do something! And I for one am not gonna sit here and let that thing make a meal out of all these innocent people." said Sparks charging in, already transformed into her warriors garb.
"Sparks! It's to dangerous!" screamed Aurora.
The navy-haired teens warning fell on deaf ears as the blond continued to by pass her fallen classmates, each with the same soulless look on them, in order to reach the beast that caused all the trouble in the first place.
"Here kitty-kitty." taunted Sparks, cracking her knuckles in preparation for an attack.
This seemed to anger the ghostly tiger, because it abruptly turned to Sparks and growled its soulless crimson eyes filled with rage as it charged ready to steal her soul.
"Not today..." muttered Sparks glaring at the beast.
Bringing her hands together to collect enough electricity to produce an efficient attack. As the electric waves, pulsating between them grew her hands spread further apart, a ball of pure electricity forming between them. She was running out of time, the tiger grew closer and her attack still needed time to grow, maybe her rash judgment would finally mean her undoing, she closed her eyes tighter, hoping that with the more force and energy she applied to her attack, the faster it would form.
"Almost there…. Just a little bit more…" muttered Spark, the tiger merely inches from her.
"What is she doing?! Why isn't she launching her attack yet?" questioned Joey.
"It needs time to form… the longer she waits… the more powerful the attack... but… the longer she waits the more at risk she is." said Yugi.
Silence
"We just can't sit here and watch her loose her soul… we have to do something." said Flannery.
"There's nothing we do… it's too late." said Bakura.
"It's never too late… come on… we have to help her!" exclaimed Flora as she and the other elemental warriors leapt into action, quickly transforming to aid their friend, though they only had seconds to react.
'Almost… just a bit more… please… please… charge faster!' pleaded Sparks mentally as the tiger leapt at her.
Time seemed to pass slower than usual, the tiger growing closer, her friends rushing to help her, and her spherical electric attack nowhere near adequate size, this was it, it was over. A single tear slid down her face, what was she thinking, jumping into action without planning ahead, how could she be so stupid. Closing her eyes for her inevitable demise, her friends screaming her name echoing in her ear, this truly was the end. She waited, and waited, but nothing came, no horrific scream, no agonizing pain, no sign at all that she had lost her soul, what happened. Opening her golden eyes she saw something that shocked her, there was the soul tiger frozen in mid-air, barley not touching her face, a pink glow surrounding it. The misty cat flashed one final blast of pink light until it disappeared into nothingness, leaving a shell-shocked Sparks to stand there non-moving, eyes wide and mouth opened.
"Sparks… you ok?" asked Joey, who along with everyone else had decided to run up.
"Y-Yeah…" said Sparks, her voice quivering.
"What happened… was that your attack?" asked Duke.
"N-No…" said Sparks.
"Then who…" muttered Tea.
-clears throat- "I think I can clear that up for you" said a female voice from behind.
The teens turned to see a girl, her face hidden in the shadows of the dark cafeteria, adorn in the others warrior garb, the only difference was the cloth was pink, as was the aura that surrounded her.
"Who are you?" asked Atem.
"You already know me." was all the voice said.
The mysterious girl stepped out of the shadows, her soft-pink eyes and pale face framed by rose hued shoulder-length locks revealed, and hanging from her neck a glowing pink crystal.
So…. What did you think? Did you love it… did you hate it…. Neutral? I'm sorry it was a bit short...Whatever your view… please tell me in your reviews. Thank you for reading and reviewing…..