A/N. okay my second story. I don't own yugioh or any of the characters (though I wish I did :P) the plot isn't exactly mine either. See I was reading a trilogy called the Irish Trilogy by Nora Roberts ( she's a really good romance novelist) and I started wondering what if I yugiohised ( I love that word!) it? So quite a few things are different from the actual book. The only thing from the book is probably the myth but I changed a few things on that as well.
So here it is. There are three parts to the story but I'm going to load it up as one and write when it's part two or part three. Yami and Yugi are brothers in this so I suppose it's slightly AU. Second thing, I know Tea doesn't have a sister called Tatiana but I thought she ( Tatiana) would make the story more interesting.
Yami 22
Yugi 15
Tea 22
Seto 23
Joey 22
Serenity 19
Mai 22
Mokubah 15
Rebecca 15
Tatiana 19
Jewels Of Love
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Jewels Of The SunRebecca wandered around Domino Castle glancing around, she was so bored. Her grandfather had taken her to the castle several years ago, his tour of the castle was much more interesting than the guides the castle staff offered. Mokubah, her best friend sidled up next to her, in his hands he clutched a camera that probably cost more than the whole trip. He stared around the hall they were in.
CLICK! Rebecca swung around to see that Mokubah had just taken a picture of her. Rebecca gave him a small smile as she tried to stop herself from yawning. This guided tour of Domino Castle, the oldest building in Domino City was boring. Glancing around the room, Rebecca saw a tapestry that looked more interesting than the other art works in the room. She grabbed Mokaba's hand and dragged him over to it. The tour guide had seen her interest and walked over to give the children the story behind this particular wall hanging.
"Hello there." She started politely.
" This tapestry is wrong." Rebecca cut across her. She was staring at the tapestry with an expert's eye and a slight frown touched her brow. The tapestry wasn't like the others in the room. It colours were still bright and bold, it looked like it had just been made.
The picture in the sewn piece was strange. It had a man with long silver hair on his knees in front of a woman with soft pale blond hair that fell to the small of her back. The man was holding a big silver sack in one hand and the other pointed towards the sky, on the man's side the sky was night and the woman's was day. Were the skies met there were half a sun on the night side and half a moon on the dayside, the two half orbs met in the middle, making one complete orb. At the man's feet were thousands of diamonds, pearls and sapphires, the jewels surrounded the man and spilled over to the woman's side where they changed to flowers. The woman stood before the man, her hands clasped to her heart and her head turned away. She wore long pale blue dress. In the background there was a glimmer of the ocean.
"What do you mean?" the guide asked, slightly miffed that this little girl had found a problem with their exhibit. The girl was still staring at the embroidery through cool calculating, and stunning green eyes behind half moon glasses.
" This thing should be over three hundred years but it hasn't faded at all!" Rebecca pointed out. now the rest of the class had started to gather around them and stare at the hanging. Mokaba quickly took a picture of the tapestry.
"There is a story behind that piece of work. A legend. A myth, a curse" the guide lowered her voice dramatically. "Shall I tell you?"
the class all nodded and cheered. Rebecca also nodded and Mokubah gave an excited yelp.
"Very well. Long ago there was a young woman called Cecelia who lived in Ireland. She was very beautiful. She was the only daughter of a fisherman so he was naturally very protective of her. Soon the man grew weak and old. He knew he was dying. Cecelia stayed at home and looked after him."
the guide stopped and took a breath. The class held their breath.
" When her father was asleep, Cecelia took long moon lit walks along the cliffs by her home. She was very beautiful and caught the attention of many of the local young men as well as a few foreigners. But she also caught the attention of another young man, he was neither local nor a foreigner. He wasn't even human."
"Was he an alien?" shouted someone from the back.
The tour guide laughed. " No. He was a wind god. His name was Pegasus. He also had a Pegasus as a pet. This flying beast was very loyal and special. If you look at the tapestry you can make him out there by the moon." She pointed the shadow of the Pegasus out to the class.
" Pegasus fell in love with the young beautiful but sad woman. He started to court her and soon she fell in love with him as well. One night Cecelia's father saw her flying on the back of the Pegasus with the wind god. Scared for her he began preparations to send her to Japan. The wind god decided to ask her to come to the city of the clouds with him instead. He also decided to bring her a gift to win her heart. He flew his loyal pet to the sun and collected diamonds from the sun's rays with his magical silver bag."
" He lay them out at Cecelia's feet. ' These are the jewels of the sun. They are my hunger for you. Take them and me.' He told her. But Cecelia turned away from the young god and said she couldn't go with him. Angry and rejected, the god left her with diamonds at her feet. Slowly they turned to the purest white roses."
"On her voyage to Japan Cecelia met and married at her father's wishes, this castles prince. Years went by and when Cecelia was pregnant with her first child, Pegasus came back to her. He had gone to the moon and had collected its tears with his silver bag. He didn't see Cecelia as another man's wife. He saw as his. So the wind god laid them at his love's feet and asked 'come with me, these pearls are my longing for you. Come with me."
"Cecelia sighed and told him she now belonged to another. She turned her back on him and went to her husband. The pearls soon became moonflowers. The wind god became angry and his pride was damaged. He turned on his heel and left her. But sometimes love is to hard to just dismiss."
" Cecelia was now old. Her back was bent with age and her face lined. Her husband was dead, her children grown and bore children of their own. Pegasus plunged deep in to the ocean and collected the heart of the sea. ' Come with me my beautiful Cecelia. These sapphires are my love for you.'"
The guide took a breath to while she reached what she thought as the climax of the story.
" Pegasus didn't see an old woman. He saw his Cecelia still young and beautiful. Cecelia wept. She knew now how foolish they had been. She had doubted her heart and his pride had gotten in the way of him telling her his feelings. Telling him this she ran back to the castle. She told him it was all too late now. Pegasus stormed away, before he left his cast a spell in his anger and hurt. Neither he nor Cecelia could go home or see one another."
The guide looked at them all expectantly. The children and the teachers were silent. Finally one girl from the back piped up. "How do you break the curse?"
The guide smiled. She looked back at the tapestry and felt pity well up for the two lovers who couldn't confess their love. If you looked closely at Cecelia you could see tears in her eyes.
" There were many written answers to that question but I don't know if any of them are true, you see many people over romanticize things. So in truth no one knows how to break it." The tour guide smiled at them " Shall we head back to the gift shop?" she left leading the way.
Rebecca lingered behind with Mokubah; they both wanted another look at the art piece. They stared at the embroidery. She felt sympathy for the two. Suddenly the room went cold. Rebecca spun around and saw a ghost. Cecelia was wearing the same blue dress as she was in the drapery. Her eyes held tears that couldn't spill; her face was solemn and still. She was the age she was when she met the young god.
" Love meets love and accepts all three times over." She said before disappearing.
Mokubah not letting an opportunity like this pass by snapped a quick picture of the ghost before she faded away.
Both teenagers stared before their teacher came back and told them to hurry up or they won't be able to get anything from the shop.
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Yami wiped the glass counter containing some of the more extraordinary cards his grandfather had to offer duellists. He sighed as he worked. Professor Arthur Hawkins and his grandfather had decided to take a trip around the world before they decide to retire. So Yami was looking after the shop, his little brother Yugi and Arthur's granddaughter Rebecca.
Yugi had come down with a nasty cold and was now confined to his bed until he was well again, it meant his lost out on the history trip but Rebecca and Mokubah had agreed to take him notes and pictures.
Just as Yami wondered when the other teenagers were coming the shop door opened with a crash and the sent the bell tinkling madly. Rebecca was first in; she hurried up to Yami with a big smile and Mokubah hot on her heels wearing an equally big grin.
"Is Yugi still upstairs?" she asked, throwing her bag carelessly behind the counter and moving towards the stairs.
"Yep. Don't go bothering him, he still poorly." Yami told, absently tucking his dusting cloth in his back pocket. " And take your bag with you." He added chucking the glittering green bag.
Mokubah hurried after her. Then hurried back down and called to Yami. "Hey if you wanna go out, we'll look after Yugi!"
Yami smiled and decided to take a walk, and if he ended up by Tea's dance school, well that was coincidence. Right?
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Mokubah and Rebecca were sitting on Yugi's bed. He was sneezing violently into a tissue. Rebecca was just finishing telling Yugi about the ghost and the story.
Yugi sneezed again. "So you're saying some ghost asked you to help her?"
"Yeah."
"And have you been taking any strange drugs?"
" No! Yugi Dammit! Don't you believe us?" Mokubah asked.
"Well it's kinda hard to take in. you know first the tour guide tell you this story and then that ghost appears and asks you to hook up three couples so she can be with her lover."
When he put it like that it sounded really far-fetched. "I know, but it happened Yugi, you gotta believe us…" Rebecca hurried on.
"I do."
" But we have to help them! They've waited three hundred years!" Rebecca ploughed on.
"Becca, I do believe you. But who are we going to get to fall in love with, I mean its not like we can hook up our friends."
A mischievous look came into Mokubah's eyes. Rebecca saw this and shook her head.
"No Mokubah we can't if it back fires they'll never forgive us."
"Then we'll make sure it doesn't." Mokubah cried confidently.
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A/N: So there's my next story. Please review!