Duke looked at the sleeping Nikki, it's been a couple days since she left the nurses office, but missed class due to pain that her shoulder gave her, as she put it. He didn't know what she did, she was sleeping, so she was probably up most of the night before because of the pain she had.
Rail was sitting at one of the desks playing a hand held game player Dorothy gave him, since he had nothing to do during the day when Nikki or he wasn't there. He seemed to hid something, and yet be like a complete child. Duke didn't take the time to figure the child out.
"Don't worry, no one's going to hurt you ever again, not over my dead body." he said.
The next day, Nikki was back in class, but everyone was gathered in the main room and watching a duel between a boy with silver hair, and another one with greenish hair. Nikki noticed that Sabrina wasn't there at all, she looked around twice as she held Rail's hand.
"Duke, where's Sabrina?" Nikki asked the dark haired boy standing next to her.
Sugar walked up to them and smiled, "Aunt Sabrina's at the duel, watching Uncle Zane duel." she said.
"Uncle Zane? Are they related?" Nikki asked.
"No. Aunt Sabrina loves Uncle Zane with all of her heart. I know they're meant to be." Sugar said placing her hands over her heart.
"Love? I don't know what that is." Nikki said looking a little confused.
"How can't you? Where you raised? On an island all by yourself?" Sugar asked.
"No, you know I was taken by Chronos when I was young, I wasn't shown love, only how to not depend on people other then my co-workers." Nikki said.
"Calm down, it was a joke. But love is a very powerful thing. It's that tightness in your chest when you're with that only person that you care the most for. It's those butterflies that are in your stomach when you're alone with that person, it's the reason you blush when they say something sweet to you." Sugar said.
Sabrina sat in the stands of the arena, watching Zane duel this Aster Phoenix kid, he looked like a little kid. Zane was putting up a fight, but that didn't seem enough. That Aster kid was one tough kid, it was like he knew he was going to win.
Sabrina tried helping by transforming into Cyber twin dragon, that way she could help Zane out more, but that didn't even help. She was running out of ideas, and Zane was running out of life points. She didn't know what to do though.
Zane had lost the duel, so they were walking through the park, Sabrina trying to comfort him. He seemed upset, but she stopped him, still holding his hand and looked up at him a small smile formed on her lips.
"You don't have to worry about what other people think of you, because to me, you'll always be number one." she said with her southern drawl.
Zane pulled the blonde close and started to kiss her, only to stop when there was a flash from a camera. There stood a man with a camera, he was a part of the press. This made them both mad and shocked. But he ran before they could take the camera, Sabrina knew they'd put lies in the magazine.
Back at the academy, Nikki, Rail, and their other friends were in the chancellor's office, and with him, was a woman with long blonde hair, a man with spiky brown hair and a man with graying hair. Nikki knew the two men, but not the woman, even though they shared the same face, and eyes.
"Nikki, before Sabrina left to go see Zane duel, she asked me, to have your mother, and her friends come to the school for some reason. They seemed to know why they were needed here." Sheppheard said.
"Nikki, this is your mom, Eve." Sven said putting a hand on the blond woman's shoulder.
"Is that really her?" Eve asked she voice was the calm and soft type.
"She has your eyes, and we already know that she has the same thing you have." he said.
Nikki noticed Train looking at her, she turned her head to the side a bit trying to figure out what he was staring at. He held his chine and turned his head in odd angles.
"Nikki, why does that thing look like it's suppose to be on your right arm, and not your left?" he asked.
Nikki flinched and grabbed her arm, "I just felt like wearing it that way. I have to make sure my arm get's back to a 100% before I can train again, and I have to make sure it stays in shape." she said.
"Alright, then let's see you lift your arm then." he said with a cocky grin on his face.
Nikki's cheeks turned bright red, since she was holding her breath. Then she let it all out, but didn't look at anyone. She didn't want them to know about her arm, Rail didn't even know, she didn't even know what to do.
"Well Nikki, what are you waiting for?" Duke asked.
"I can't." Nikki said.
"What? Why not?" Jaden asked.
Nikki tried not to look at any one, but she couldn't help it, they all had worried faces, and looked shocked about what she said. She felt her eyes fill with tears, she felt bad for trying to hid from them, but she didn't know how to tell them.
"Nikki, what's wrong, why can't you lift your arm?" Rika asked.
"Does it still hurt?" Keisie asked.
"Is something wrong?" Cassidy asked.
The tears finally fell, Nikki just couldn't fight it, her hold body but her left arm started to tremble. She fell to her knees. Duke and Rail were right next to her, everyone was shocked to see Nikki on her knees with tears in her eyes.
"M-my arm can't move. C-Creed did more damage than I thought. It's completely healed, but there must have been some nerve damage." Nikki sobbed as she removed the duel disk the best she could.
Everyone looked even more shocked when they heard that. Duke couldn't help but grabbed her arm, only to learn that it was limp, it was giving a slight shake, but only because Nikki was still shaking. He placed it back at her side, being gentle. He seemed upset, but knew Nikki hated to show weakness.
"I'm sorry. I should have told you earlier, but I thought it would only take only a couple more days to heal, but it didn't." Nikki said.
"There's nothing to be sorry about." Sugar said hugging Nikki.
"Your nanomachines are working hard right now, don't push yourself." Eve said kneeing in front of Nikki.
"What do you mean?" Nikki asked looking at her mother.
"They have to work hard to get those nerves up and working again, it should start to work again in a couple more weeks." Eve said.
"Rail, I have something for you." Sven said holding out a smaller version of Train's gun, Hades.
"What, is giving him a gun a good idea?" Sugar asked.
"Someone has to protect Nikki." Train said holding out his Hades.
In a clearing in the woods, Train had Jaden drink a whole cans of sodas, that they could shoot at. He looked green after that. First Train showed him how to work the gun's safety, and how to reload the gun. Rail seemed good at it, as he locked his elbows and made sure he had his feet shoulder width apart.
"Okay, aim for the middle of the can, and if you can try and shoot there twice." Train said.
Rail shoot the gun, then fired again ten seconds after the first. Sugar ran up, and looked at the can. She looked puzzled, as she jiggled it. It had two shells in it, but one hole. Train walked over, and his jaw dropped a bit when he realized that Rail could shoot in the same place. Only people with really good sight like him could do that, and yet here's Rail, a seven year old boy, doing it.
"Train, what's wrong?" Nikki asked walking over.
"He got both, into the same spot." Train said showing her.
Nikki took the can and looked it over, there were two shells, and one hole. He was right, but she didn't get how Rail could have get eye sight. She thought it might be possible that Rail is a clone of Train, but that couldn't be right. She had heard that only person that did the first cloning, now refuses to do it, because of what they turned the clone into, a bio-weapon.
"Rail, I want you to shoot this can, I want you to shoot right here, the opening that you drink from, while I'm holding it. I'll turn my skin to steel, but you have to be quick, I won't be able to hold it for long." Nikki said pointing the opening tab on the can.
"I might hurt you!" Rail yelled.
"I'll be fine, just do it!" she said.
Rail took the stance again, and shot the gun, he made it right into the hole. Of course it went through the bottom and hit Nikki, but she didn't flinch. She had turned her skin to steel at the right moment.
"Wait, where's Sabrina?" Rika and Keisie asked looking around.
"You're right. We'll have to split up and look for her." Alexis said.
"We'll split into teams of two, that way we cover more of the island." Eve said.
"Yes, it makes sense. Rail, you can come with me." Nikki said.
"Of course, I won't go with anyone else but Duke." Rail said with a big smile.
They all split up. They all were using their PDA's to keep in touch. Rika and Alexis had found Sabrina by the docks. So everyone was meeting there. Sabrina seemed upset for real. They didn't get why. Sugar seemed upset to see her aunt upset.
"Aunt Sabrina, what's wrong?" Sugar asked.
"It's nothing, Sugar. I'm just tired, that's all." Sabrina said getting up.
"No, there's more than that. Sabrina, tell us what happened." Nikki said seeing through the lie.
"I'd rather not talk about it right now." she said.
They all watched as the blonde walked away. They all seemed shocked that she didn't want to tell them what was wrong. Nikki frowned as Rail hugged her arm. He looked like he was about to cry, so she knelt down and patted him on the head, then hugged him.
"S-she's so upset. I-I don't want to see her like that!" he cried as his tears finally fell.
Nikki only hugged the boy the best she could with one arm. He settled down, and Duke picked him up. Poor Rail had used the last of his energy crying his eyes out. He fell a sleep on the walk back to the Slifer dorm. Nikki was a little worried as she watched Duke put him to bed.
"Something wrong, Nikki?" Duke asked looking at her as she held her left arm.
"No, just thinking, that's all." she said not looking at him.
"Are you sure. Where I'm from, you'll have nightmares for lying." he said leaning on the desk next to her.
"I'm fine, really." she said with a smile.
"I don't believe you. Does it have to do with your arm?" he asked looking at her arm.
"No, I just happen to be holding it." she said.
"I think it has to do with Sabrina." he said.
"It's not, really. I'm just having random thoughts that's all. Duke, you don't have to worry about me." she said.
"It is. I've made it my job to worry about you and Rail, you two are the first on my list of who to worry about." he said.
Sorry if it's bad, I hope to do better in the next part.