Chapter 2
Kidnapped
The next day Tyson as usual was running to school again, he fell half asleep after moving off the bed twice. What was worse is that he was starving. He couldn't stop by to the store and get some melon bread to eat.
He swooped in from opening the sliding glass door once the bell rang for class to start.
"Safe! No way Hilary you can assign me to bathroom duty today!!" As he looked at the rest of his class staring at him from behind when he noticed Hilary's desk was empty.
"Ummm, Tyson? I'm afraid Hilary is absent today." Miss Kenke assured him.
"No way! Absent! Woohoo I'm free for today!" Tyson jumped up and down with arms in the air.
Kenny smacked his face embarrassed and feeling guilty for Hilary being told such things about her from Tyson. Tyson went skipping to his desk to sit next to Kenny. That's when Tyson placed his back pack on his desk Kenny asked him.
"Don't you think it's kinda strange Hilary being absent two days in a row Tyson?" Kenny whispered to him. "It's not like her to miss a day at school or training day with us."
Tyson picked his nose, "So? She probably has a cold, she'll get over it, besides it's good she's not here, that way I can't get detention and her voice bossing me around as I practiced, besides! Who knows what strange stranger lurks upon to battle me in a beyblade match and try to steal dragoon away from me!" he said dramatically.
"What!? Are you serious! Since when are you ever being cautious?" Kenny whispered, this time without thinking pretty loudly.
The boys didn't notice on how the students and Miss Kenke was waiting for them to stop.
"Of course I'm not cautious! But it sounded pretty cool huh? All that in one breath!" Tyson was still talking.
"Tyson!" Kenny said exaggerated.
"Ummm….Kenny, Tyson? Can you please read the first paragraph in your science text book?" Miss Kenke interrupting them felt a little nervous when asking things like that to Tyson, who was so out of controls then the other students she had ever taught. "I should've listened to mother and be a doctor..." Miss Kenke mumbled to herself.
Hilary felt as though she was drowning inside. She didn't know how, but somehow, as she slept, she felt her body flowing down slowly like in water. She wanted to open her eyes, but couldn't. She felt somehow naked and didn't at all feel comfortable. Her eyes were kept close, but through her eye lids she could see she was flowing down below and notice the a shine of light brighten up at the very bottom, like sun rays shining down through the surface of the top, but this time down below in the ocean.
As she flows down slowly, she could feel the light rays shining up a warm feeling. And when she opened her eyes she saw herself down below, sleeping on a bed of roses. She flowed down to put her heads around her other self's face. Her body felt as cold as she looked closer and finally she was on top of her body.
What's happened? Why is my body here? Am I dead? Is that why I'm looking down at it? But why! I don't want to die! Not like this! Why!? What's happened to me!?
She could see that her body was suddenly sinking through the roses, like quick sand.
No!
She tried to grab her body, her arms, but that already sicken through, she held her face into her palms until the only part of her head sinking through as well and all she could do was dig through the roses, but only roses were lying in her palms.
No! I've….I've Disappeared!!
"What are you doing?" a voice said.
Hilary turned around to find Yugi looking down at her, or at least what looked like Yugi, he had his face and eyes, the same height, but his skin was darker, he wore a golden Egyptian crown that had an eye in the middle. His whole body was covered of white royal robes of white and dark blue. He wore a golden necklace and an amulet. The other necklace that stood out was a triangular large pendent, hung around his neck by a plastered brown rope, probably leather. He wore golden bracelets on his wrists and upper arms. And all he did was look down at her and say,
"What are you doing, Arianna?"
What!? Arianna? Who's that?!
And she looked down to find she was kneeling in a very small pool of water and their she saw her reflection. Her hair was curly and long, her face was the same but she was more beautiful then she has ever seen a face on a woman before. Her eyes were mighty ruby red and her lips with shade of purple and black. And the other thing that she noticed was that she was completely naked.
What's happened to me!!
Yugi dropped his chalk on the floor. All the students stare noticing he stopped writing the notes down for the next lesson. Yugi, wearing a suite with dark jeans, picked up the chalk, aware that his hand was shaking again. He tried to write but stopped and put the chalk down and turned to his students to say something. The High school freshmen students all stare in bewilderment as they notice their teacher not looking so well.
"Sensei?" a female student rose from her desk. "Are you alright?"
Suddenly the students all murmured to themselves and their class mates wondering what was wrong with him.
"Is he alright?"
"You think he's been drinking with the teachers?"
"No way man, that's not like them"
"Maybe we should call the hospital?"
"He's probably gonna blow soon."
"Someone get a teacher!"
Yugi closed his eyes and put his fingertips to his forehead.
"Class Dismissed." He said and soon the room was empty with mumbling questions lingering in the air.
He walked over to open a window and sighed letting the wind blow cleanse to his face. He felt a little better now, but he could have sworn heard someone scream. Although no one he heard was in the room noticed it. But perhaps he was working too hard. He decided to go home early for the day and call a substitute to take his place.
The rest of the night and morning he had been wondering about Hilary. He still scolded himself for the feelings he kept of her. But he knew she wouldn't carry such a heart for him. She was only fourteen years old. The misguided world went by as so did the day. When he got to his apartment he took a hot bath. Nothing though left his mind, and he dreamt of an old memory he kept deep inside. There he would remember the sandy desert, the cool oasis and shining white and gold buildings of Egypt. Where his memory lingered into the backyard where he there would be a pool of water, and many green trees full of fruit. He would remember well that it was a bright and glorious day and all around, excitement was lingering through the people's minds as they gather about in crowds.
There he stood, standing in the bright sun, watching with his servants and friends behind him. Two strong men dragged someone out by ropes tied to her neck, wrists, and waist. She was beautiful with long brown curly, wavy hair that brightens golden bronze into the sun. She was put in white and gold gown that shimmered glittering as people watched her being dragged. However this woman was different, she didn't struggle fighting the large Egyptians as they dragged her along. This woman was beautiful, but not Egyptian, her skin was white and shimmered like pearls in the sun as she sweated from the heat.
His heart ached and then pained much more. He put his hand to his chest and tried not to make a sudden flinch or emotion of pain. He had to keep a straight face that was his job as Pharaoh. But he knew he was put up to this, it wasn't like her to do such things, and somehow in his mind he knew the whole execution was a mistake.
She still kept a straight face as they made her bend down on her knees. With one gesture, she looked up at Yugi with eyes of not hatred, but guilt. Her red eyes were solemn purple, and her lips became brown from blood. He had known nothing, but of everything of her when she came here from Rome. Sweet perfumes of roses lingered to his nostrils coming from her. She reeked of roses and beauty, and when one of the large Egyptian raised a sword in the air, she looked at him with one last look, and this time he looked straight at her face, seeing not a goddess, but a fourteen year old girl with short brown wavy hair looking at him with tears in her eyes.
Hilary!!
He jumped from his place in the bath tub as he realized it was a dream. His heart was racing from the dream. The water was no longer hot but cold now, and he wondered what time it was. He got out of the bath tub and put a towel over his waist as he wiped away sweat from his forehead. The bath didn't help him at all. In fact, it made him feel worse.
Suddenly a large crash came from outside of the bathroom and he went out to see what it was. From his apartment, someone threw a rock tied to a piece of paper. He noticed his sliding glass door was shattered in the middle.
That must be where the rock came from, but how can someone just throw a rock like that from my apartment? I'm on the fourth flow; they had to have a really strong arm to do that!
He took the rock and untied the string to see the paper. He read it and gasped. He crumbled the piece of paper with through against the wall, bur of course that didn't help anything. He jolted to his room to get changed.
Tyson yawned. The day had gotten late so fast when he came home with Kenny to see his teammates Ray, Max and Kai. They discussed random things and practice beyblading, then they discussed about the strangers that came to them wanting a bey battle with them, all the boys wanted to know what was going, but once when Tyson came home, the three boys felt something was missing.
"Where's Hilary?" Max asked the group.
"Yeah, she hasn't been here for two straight days, it's not like her to not come." Ray said looking over to Kai.
Kai of course didn't say anything, but they all knew he wondered the same thing. Without Hilary, the group felt there was a hole in the middle of their friendship. Tyson scratched his nose.
"She's probably sick guys, no worries; I mean she'll get over it. Trust me, she'll come back tomorrow nagging on us again, no big deal."
Suddenly, a rock smashed though the Dojo's paper doors and landed next to Ray's palm. Kai stood up quickly opening the door to see who it was that thrown the rock, the day was dark and blue, no one insight.
"Who threw that rock!?" Kenny shrieked.
"Did you see who it was?" Ray asked Kai.
"No, he must have been a fast runner." Kai said closing the paper door.
Max took the rock and noticed a paper tied to it. He slid the paper off of the rock without untying it and unfolded the paper and read it.
'Ah guys!" Max shrieked. "You better come and see this!"
The boys huddled behind Max to see the paper.
"What does it say Max?" Tyson said looking over his shoulder.
Max read aloud, "We have your dearest Hilary, come by the city park next to the bench and clock pole if you want her alive!" Tyson snatched the paper to read it himself. "Guys this is serious! Hilary is in trouble!" Max said.
Tyson crumpled the paper, "Let's Go guys!"
They all ran out of the dojo and off to the park, their hearts racing furiously. Tyson didn't know why, but he was mad for some reason. It might be because Hilary must have been stupid enough to get kidnapped or held hostage or maybe it was those strangers again, giving them a reason to battle them, or none of them had any other options to make.
Once they got there, they noticed a person running the opposite of them, coming closer as he got to easier to see from the darkness of the park. Yugi ran furiously, his Egyptian purple eyes were massacre looking of raging bright purple. He wore a black leather jacket, a black tank top with a black belted collar, jeans and converses. Banging from his chest as he ran was a golden triangular pendent, with an Egyptian eye in the center, the pended was held by chains around his neck, he wore two different belts, one to hold his pants and the other hold extra pockets. He stopped in front of Tyson and the rest and panted. "Where's Hilary!" he ordered.
Behind Tyson, Ray and Max looked at each other confused. "Who are you?" Tyson ordered back. "Are you the one who send us this note?" Tyson brought out the crumbled paper from his pocket.
Yugi's eyes widen, "That note? Where did you get it?" he asked.
Kai suddenly gave a suspicious look.
"Hold on a second!" Kenny got himself in, "How do you know Hilary? And what do you know about this note?"
"Because," Yugi said as he took his note out of his back pocket, "I have the same note as well, with a threat about Hilary's life and saying to meet at this exact location!" his voice suddenly rose from his nasally stardom.
The boys could only look surprise, but Ray soon stepped in, "You've still haven't answered Kenny's first question, how do you know about Hilary?"
"Hilary was one of my students when I was a Teaching tutoring to family residences. I met Hilary when she was only in 3rd grade. I was a teacher to her for three years." Yugi explained, "How do you know Hilary?" Yugi asked suspiciously this time.
"Were her friends!" Tyson yelled to him.
"Then there's no reason to be talking in tones as though we were enemies." Yugi said sounding reasoning and wise. He closed his eyes from frustration though, the people that asked to be here weren't present and he was worried about Hilary.
"Then where is the guy who sent us this threat?" Max asked, sounding annoyed.
"My my, aren't we impatient tonight" a playful voice said. They all looked straight to the bench next to the clock pole, a man with blue spiky hair and swirly black and blue tattoo on his arms sat. He sat quite comfortably. He legs were crossed and his arms lied on the back of the bench. His face was scarred and half of it was formed by a swirly line of vinery black and blue. He had many piercings on his ears and one on his nose and another on his lip. He wore many jewelry, chained necklaces, bracelets, he wore a chained choker that was connect to his metal rings and blue and white striped tank top shirt with white pants and black belted boots.
When he looked up to look not at Tyson, but Yugi his eyes shimmered of silver. He sat up from the bench and brought his arms out.
"Welcome, I'm glad all of you came, I hope my message wasn't terrible, trust me I wanted you to come here to help me with a favor." He said peacefully.
Yugi's patients were running thin. "Where's Hilary!" he demanded.
"Relax Yugi," he said chuckling. "Your friend is safe and unharmed; she'll manage awhile once we get down to business."
"Who are you?" Tyson demanded.
"My name is Mar, Sorcerer of Shadows and Darkness."
"What do you want with us?" Ray asked impatient.
"I want you to play a game with me, all of you, play with me a shadow game."
Yugi's eyes widen. That's when he looked down at his triangular golden pendent.
"A shadow game?" Max wondered, "What's a shadow game?"
"Oh it's not so bad once you start playing it, soon you'll be having so much fun, you won't want to stop." A menacing voice cracked from the shadows. Yugi turned to look straight at the dark figure with the menacing voice, he knew who it was.
"Marik?" Yugi murmured, loud enough for the bladebreakers to hear him.
Marik came from the shadows; his jade green eyes shimmered under the street lights of the park. His white hair and dark skin was so obvious that he was a foreign person not from Japan at all. Tyson had a bad feeling about him, like there was something not real about him, his presence actually made Tyson's mouth dry. And for worse reasons, Marik wasn't at all too friendly either.
Marik wore his regular white hooded shirt with his golden Egyptian gold bracelets on his arms and gold earrings and necklaces. His pants were torn with ripped holes and somehow to looks enough modern wore black converses. Yogi became furious suddenly, this person was not his very friendly companion.
"You Bastard! What the Hell are you doing here!?" Yugi yelled, his mood suddenly changing.
Tyson didn't understand what was going on, but he was annoyed enough that these strangers that he never met, weren't the regular ones that wanted his bit beast, these were different people, with different auras and looks, and looked very much menacing then normal people, none of them seemed human enough to be challenged. He didn't want to admit it to himself, but he was very much afraid of these people.
Marik suddenly laughed out of nowhere. "It's good to see you again Yugi, no, Atem."
Yugi growled at the name. "What have done with her, where is she!?" he demanded.
"She's in no harm; you can see for yourself, she's over there." Marik pointed behind straight to the gap between Yugi and the Bladebrakers, where they saw Hilary a few feet away from them, tied down by wooden stakes punctured in the grass field, from her wrists, neck, feet and arms, Hilary laid there unconscious, she seemed to lay what looked like where Yugi was standing was pentacle. She was wearing the same outfit as yesterday when Yugi last saw her.
"No!" Yugi screamed as he ran to Hilary, but as soon as he got closer enough to stand next to her he was stung and push backwards by an unknown electric force that sparked around Yugi as he tried to get himself up from the forceful impact. "A barrier?" Yugi realized.
Marik started to laugh out loud at Yugi. "There's no use Yugi, you and the vermin children must play a shadow game with us. It is the only way to set her free."
Yugi got up and walked back to Marik, at first he thought of punching him, but that wasn't wise. "What do you want us to do?" he asked.
Kenny and Tyson and the rest of the team were confused and unsure what was happening. "What the hell is a Shadow Game!?" Tyson yelled out.
Mar started to laugh. "Why don't you explain the filthy human children of what a Shadow Game are Yugi?"
Yugi turned to look at Tyson and the rest. "A shadow game is not like any other normal game. Its game played with ancient darkness. One of which if one loses, they will suffer punishment for losing. It can be any game you want, but you must know the clocks will be turned once you accept to play. There is no way to escape the game, you must win, and if you lose, well your life will be over, that's all I can say."
Kenny gulped. Yugi walked away from Marik and went towards to stand next to Tyson.
"I can understand you challenging me to a Shadow Game, but to them, they know nothing and no experience to accept the darkness they will step in. I'll battle both you and Marik to Duel Monsters." Yugi said, making a plan easier for the bladebreakers to not suffer.
"Oh, I'm afraid we can't accept that, you see this shadow game will be only held by us. The rules are, I, Mar, will battle Tyson to a Beyblade Shadow Game, and you Yugi will duel Marik for the freedom of little Hilary. However if we both win, we keep dear little Hilary," Mar explained then paused.
"And you will give us the millennium puzzle Atem!" Marik said ecstatic. Yugi scowled at Marik.
"And if course, if the battle ends up uneven, let's say one of you win, but the other loses, that loser will battle again with the same opponent. Basically do a rematch you say." Mar finished explain the rules.
"And how is these "Shadow Games" you say, played with the rules bended a little, with Beyblade, if what you say we still can play the same normal game of Beyblading, then what parts of the game is bended?" Ray asked.
Marik grinned, his eyes went black all of a sudden, staring at Ray and the rest of the bladers, His grin went to a crooked smile that showed parts of his teeth having white fangs.
"You'll just have to wait and see, the game of Beyblading and Duel Monsters hasn't change, but the mind of the players will." He said confident.
"What is Duel Monsters?" Tyson asked.
"It's a popular card game back where I'm from; your town is popular with beyblading, while mine is popular with duel monsters." Yugi explained.
"But of course Yugi, once we win, your little Hilary will be quite useful to us." Mar said playfully.
"What do you plan on doing to her!?" Yugi demanded.
"Haven't you told her yet Atem? Of what she really is?" Marik asked. "Don't they know the reason she's so useful to us? Surely you've told them haven't you?"
Yugi didn't say anything. Tyson stared at Yugi. "What!? What didn't you tell us!?" Tyson yelled at him.
"Yeah what is he talking about!?" Kenny asked.
Marik started laughing again. "Oh Atem, I have to admit, you never once bored me. Go ahead and tell them! Tell them that their little friend isn't human!"
Max gasped while the rest of them were silent. Bewildered and unsure what Marik had said.
"What does he mean!?" Kai finally spoke. "What does he mean that she's not human!?"
Yugi felt guilty, "I was going to tell her someday, that was one of my reasons for coming to live here in this town, one of my reasons for assigning to be her teacher, I knew, but she didn't of course, she was reborn again after these 5,000 years have passed, how was I going to say it to her, in a situation she was in with herself and her mother, a situation that paranoid her about you Tyson, and the rest of you." His voice became low. "So many years, And here I am, used to be in the same situation she's in right now. Not knowing who I was or where I came from, not knowing my destiny to salvage and sacrifice for what I am now, and yet she is the one that needed guidance more than me."
"What do you mean?" Kai asked seriously.
"I mean, that long ago, Hilary was this beautiful goddess who placed herself as a human with god like powers. She came from Rome and was the savior of Egypt, and at the same time, the cobra who bit Cleopatra herself. She was a guardian who was close to the Pharaoh and his minions, and a warrior, it didn't matter if she was a woman or not, I, Pharaoh Atem was the one who welcomed her into Egypt's arms."
The bladers gasp. "A-Are you saying that you're this 5,000 year old Pharaoh that once existed?" Ray asked.
"Wait! That doesn't make sense! Shouldn't you be dead right now, I mean no offence, but you look a little too young to be Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, especially since it was 5,000 years ago!" Tyson exaggerated but was right.
"Your right, but it's also called being reincarnated, I was reborn into a young high school boy named Yugi Mutou, but now Yugi resides in heaven, so I take his body in return. Hilary however was reborn a different way." Atem looked back to look at Hilary. "She was never reincarnated, that means she was reborn into a new body of this era, but somehow still resides the soul of her old self, not of someone else. She was named Arianna the first time I saw her in Egypt, the goddess Arianna who skinned her god like powers to be a human guardian of earth. Arianna is still the same there, but she holds a different name, Hilary of this era."
"Are you saying Hilary hasn't changed at all, the girl that we always knew was really an ancient goddess she didn't know she was at all! That personality wise, this Arianna is just like Hilary!" Kenny tried to sum it all up.
"She is Hilary, it's just Arianna is fourteen years old right now, when she gets older just like as I saw her, she will grow out her hair, eyes will be red again and she'll be the goddess I saw and knew 5,000 years ago." Atem explained.
"And you haven't told her yet." Mar scoffed at the moment of Yugi's guilt just pleased him.
"Your friend has suffer so much, I need to ask you something?" Atem said seriously, he didn't look at Tyson, but he needed to know, for Hilary's sake, for Arianna's sake.
"Do you really see Hilary Tachibana as a friend still, or do you really see her now as something else? Something that your afraid or unsure of, that now that she is perhaps something you wouldn't stick your nose to know more. Or do you not care which ever way, as long as she is who she is, then that is what matters. Tell me, please, this is something that I don't need to know, but she does."
Tyson and the rest didn't say anything. Each of them felt unsure, they wondered after knowing this, will she be the same, or will she become so different that they either don't want know at all or she'll forget them. It was hard, because they all wondered on how she'll end up being after she wakes being unconscious. When she knows, is it really the worth? They felt disquieted by the lost of someone who can change so much, in truth they all thought of her annoying, Tyson wished more that she would disappear one day, and Kai felt as though he wanted to hit her someday, but not enough to damage her and leave her out cold.
Max did not know what to chose of Atem's reasonable attempts of what might happen between them and Hilary, but the thought of her suffering was enough for him to stay by her side. Ray felt the same, but the fact she wasn't human, depended on these god like powers she might still possess, and he wondered when he sees her with such ability, what would he see her now, and other people?
They all wondered unsure, thinking about the future happenings if the choices they make will be wise. Their lives was in enough business as it is, but dealing with something like this, with these kind of people, what did they know, on the other hand, how can they trust them that they are these Ancient Egyptian people and not a bunch of loonies. And what was the most of this is why should they trust this Atem in the first place, Atem or Yugi, which ever was in their minds, they know one thing, they couldn't answer just now.
Atem sighed. He was not feeling enough support from them, in the end, he would end up alone trying to stop this, and he guessed well in the end if they both lose, Hilary will be put into misery. Her new virgin body would be taken away, and somehow her powers will be brought out and stripped from her. She will suffer and be given a punishment that wasn't her fault, just like 5,000 years ago, where she was executed infront of him and he couldn't do anything to stop because he was deceived that she became evil. But he still had love for her. And he scolded himself once again, for just like those years ago, he fell in love with a woman who perhaps can never be with, no matter how hard he tried to keep them alone and safe, she would only give her virginity once, and only to him, whence her virginity is taken, the one taken it will be given absolute power, and he took it from her, and he can take it from her again, but he was in love with her.
And so was she, she was in love with him too. And just like him, she scolded herself for falling in love with an older man who perhaps she could never be with, and could never be loved by anyone else.
Hilary felt like she was in the water again, something inside of her was taken, but it freed her, somehow it taken away those tight chains that trapped her in this miserable and pure life she hated so. She opened her eyes to see Yugi on top of her, shirtless and she for the first time did not feel to cover her naked body. Yugi was now someone she could be with to touch and feel to love alone. He welcomed her in his arms, and he didn't mind to take the chance of whatever was standing in his way. This feeling, this dream, was somehow familiar. Hilary wasn't sure, but she didn't want this dream to end, she opened her body once more, for this she felt would be the last time she would be touched inside again.
A/N: ummm, hi, umm yeah my first cross over yu-gi-oh! And beyblade fanfic. Umming, I hope you guys like the first two chapters so far, chapter two was kinda longer, but it had a lot of stuff going on that needed to be explained. The battle of the two games will be next chapter, but Marik and this guy Mar really isn't the true enemy, the true enemy is about to come right after Hilary is rescued, that's all I can spoil!
In the mean time I have a Deviant Art account where I draw this fan fic, fan art and I'm still drawing more so, if you want to see, here ya go. sakuraxedward./gallery/