Authors Note- I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh but I do own the original characters that I have created/will create throughout the duration of this story. I was up until three in the morning writing this because I just could not bring myself to stop! I have been getting a decent amount of views for this story and I want to thank you all for reading. Review, View and Enjoy!
A few hours later
Olivia turns the doorknob to her new home, anxious about telling her mother the news of her suspension. "Ok, I can do this. I didn't do anything wrong this time." Naijya, appearing out of nowhere soothes, "You will be fine" leaning against the black table covered in magazines and newspapers from different countries. Startled, Olivia jumps and almost trips over the weave-woven basket she made during her time in Africa. "You really need to stop doing…" Olivia pauses as she turns to see that the once mangled looking spirit now looks strikingly beautiful. As her once torn abaya was now completely clean and her long, chocolate brown hair is now falling graciously down her back; two of her golden blonde bangs are pointing out in opposite directions, while the others are falling and shaping her face perfectly. "What happened to you?" Olivia gasps, pleased with the sudden changes. Confused, Naijya turns to the mirror on the wall beside her and gasps at her appearance. "Oh my goodness, I do not remember the last time I have looked like this." Naijya states, stroking her bangs out of her face but stops when she hears a noise coming from upstairs. "What is that sound?"
Noticing the noise, Olivia shrugs her shoulders and grabs an umbrella from the closest next to the door and tiptoes up the stairs. Following the noise, she comes to a stop at her parent's door; 'please don't be true'. Olivia softly pushes the door forward to see her mother on top of the same man that was in the picture from the hotel. Angry, she runs to her room and slams the door but because she is tired so she just lays on her bed for a while and looks out her window. Suddenly, Naijya appears to her and says, "You should rest…you are going to become ill if you continue this way."
"My mother is screwing a man that is not my father down the hall and not to mention that I am talking to a 3,000-year-old spirit. Speaking of that…" she pauses, rolling off the right side of her bed and back to her feet. "In the stories that I am familiar with, the spirit was 5,000 years old. Are you sure that you were trapped for 3,000 years?" Raising her eyebrows slightly, she just turns back to the window and looks at the two streetlights across the street. "I suppose that it could be five thousand. After some time, the years started to just pass me by". "The reason I ask is because that makes more sense, I mean that's how the story goes" Olivia says pacing around the room, pondering the story that she was told every year up until the age of seven by her father. "What is this story that you keep speaking of?"
"Huh?" she asks freezing in place, "Your story. You have been mentioning a story about a spirit and how a name was the key to gaining the answers that they needed." Naijya elaborates in a deep, Libyan accent while turning to face her host. "Yes, I'm going to do it the same way my father used to do for me. Just to make it interesting." Nodding, Naijya sits on her bed and smiles; excited to hear potential answers from her.
"Long ago when the pyramids were still young, Egyptian kings played a game of great and terrible power. But these shadow games erupted into a war that threated to destroy they entire world, until a brave and powerful pharaoh locked the magic away; imprisoning it in the mystical millennium items. Now five thousand years later, a boy named Yugi unlocks the secret of the millennium puzzle. He is infused with ancient magical energies, for destiny has chosen him to defend the world from the world from the return of the shadow games, just as the brave pharaoh did, five thousand years ago." Olivia narrates, moving her hands in a fluid motion, "Duelist Kingdom, Battle City, Seal of Orichalcos and the final journey to Egypt were the four tests that Yugi and his friends were tasked with completing to help the nameless pharaoh retrieve his memories and more importantly…...his long lost name.
"The friends have had many trials and tribulations long the way. From Joey being possessed to Tristan falling in a pit of flames they have overcome everything that the shadow realm and villains alike have thrown at them. But on one faithful day, the four friends combined their memories to reveal the Ancient Egyptian symbols that were once the pharaoh's name…"
Olivia takes a breath after speaking for two minutes straight when she hears a loud, consistent banging from the room beside her; making the loose jewelry on her dresser bounce. Pursing her lips, Olivia pivots on her heals and runs to her closet. Searching through her closet hangers she grabs random outfits and throws them on the twin bed behind her. "What is it you are doing Olivia?" Naijya questions, abruptly rising from the bed as a coat hanger has passed through her, "what about the rest of the story?" Rummaging in her closet, Olivia is looking for shoes but instead finds a stripped, multicolored gift box in the very back of her closet. Confused, she opens the box and finds a pink LG ice cream smart flip phone, a black iPod Nano, two keyloggers, a 3G mini cell jammer, a white Casio Baby G spy camera watch, an HP Split x2 Windows eight tablet, flash drive, Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, chargers and her purple Royce leather passport holder.
"So that's where my spy stuff was…"
Evaluating some of the equipment she found, Olivia grabs her Nike team training bag and throws both the equipment and random clothes that are on the bed in it. "Olivia what is going on?" Naijya whimpered, scared of the scene that is playing out in front of her. "I'm not staying here" she sneers at the spirit, "I didn't want to believe that it was true; it was just Forrest playing me and the hotel lady got the story wrong. But this bitch is screwing around on my father who has been nothing but loyal to her and if she wants to do that she can do it by herself." Pacing around the room she sees her world map. The map has fourteen red dots spread out across the brown sheet to represent the countries that her and her family have traveled too. On the right side of the map she sees a developed selfie of her and her mother eating poutine three months ago, smiling. In anger, she tears the picture down from the wall and violently tears it into little pieces.
Panting, she stops and looks over to Naijya who is standing in the corner shaking and takes a deep breath. "I'm sorry, I…." but before she can finish Naijya interjects, "She is your mother." "It doesn't matter who she is! Does that mean my father doesn't deserve loyalty? I am so sick of people treating my father like a second class citizen after everything he has done for people! He does everything for everyone else and he can't even get loyalty from the one person that matters. It's like I'm the last person that gives a damn about him." Naijya flinches back from the tone in Olivia voices and utters, "you are a very angry person" looking away from her. Looking the spirit up and down she nods in agreement, "and you are just another thing that doesn't get me."
Scurrying around her room she grabs her back pack, changes into her black Nike full-zip fleece jacket, Hollister zipper joggers and her black Nike black high top sneakers and finishes packing her bags. Taking a last look at her room she closes the door behind her and walks down the hall toward the stairs. Suddenly she hears laughing from her mother's room and sees that her white door is slightly open. "That was amazing!" Duke Delvin announces through his own laughter, "we have to do this again". "Why don't we start now?" Serenity taunted, shifting her right leg over Duke's body; placing her entire weight on his lap and begins to kiss his neck. With tears beginning to fill her eyes she quietly walks away from the door. "I need to grab my passports" she states, walking down the stairs to their spare room. "Olivia please think this through…where are you going to go? What are you going to do for dinar?" Naijya pleads, holding her hands up as if to stop her from proceeding. "I have that part covered" she admits, getting on her knees in front of the air conditioning vent. "I have seen this before, the staff in the museum have referred to it as a vent? How will this help?" Naijya ponders, leaning in close to Olivia while tilting her head as if she were in deep thought. "Watch and learn".
Olivia unscrews the mini bolts on both sides of the vent and pulls down the flap. Naijya gasps as she sees twenty thousand dollars in cash, four passports and important paperwork regarding the house and every member of the family. "My dad learned this trick while living in North America. No one would ever think to look here." She explains, feeling a cheeky smirk appear on her face. "We haven't had to go through that before" taking the contents out of the vent/safe and shoving them in her backpack." Shaking her head Naijya asks, "I have a bad feeling about this". Quietly re-screwing the bolts in the door she turns to Naijya and quickly wipes her eyes, "don't worry I know what I am doing."
"I have no doubt about your capabilities, I only wonder why you decided to learn these things from the beginning."
"That is a story for another day" Olivia states, shutting the conversation down for the time being. "I just have to make a few calls and stops first, starting with my cousin" she continues, taking one last look at her bags. Remembering that she could be traced via her iCloud account she takes out her MacBook, iPhone and textbooks and replacing them with a brown fleece blanket that was on the couch, the money, her passports, tablet, spy stuff and some snacks from the refrigerator. Zipping up her backpack, she picks up her Nike bag and walks out of the front door. Olivia looks back one time to see her mother and Duke's figures in the bedroom window; causing her to run from the house, not taking a second look.
Running through her new neighborhood she passes traditional, middle class houses with shrubbery growing in their front yards and mini vans parked in their driveways. Olivia finally sees the bus stop shelter that has been badly damaged throughout the years with graffiti art and weather conditions. "This is dangerous Olivia" Naijya reminded one last time, hoping that it would urge her to turn back and go home. "For the last time that is not an option, if you don't like that you can leave" Olivia threated as she grabbed her pink flip phone out of her backpack, pressing different keys on the keypad.
Olivia Taylor – Wakey Wakey sleepyhead
Sky Wheeler – Who is this?
Olivia Taylor – You know who this is…Olivia! Your favorite cousin 3
Sky Wheeler – OMG! How are you? I haven't spoken to you in three days! That's too long!
Olivia Taylor – IKR! So what would you say about something better? A visit? Me coming to you for just a few days? You were telling me how you were back in Domino for some huge dueling event or something…
Sky Wheeler – Some dueling event?! (:0) it is the fortieth anniversary of the game of Duel Monsters and everyone who is anyone is flying in to be there. The school is taking all of the Obelisk blues and the top Ra yellows but the rest of us have are gonna have to freaking steal a boat to get there. Not me of course... some of my adoring fans in Ra got me and my friends some extra tickets so we can go. All they want is a shout out on my next video!
Olivia Taylor- (Typing) Lol! You mean 'anyone who is anyone?" haha. I guess when you have ten million followers on Pipeline and a 'unique' GPA like yours you have to wor.…
Sky Wheeler – Wait a minute, how are you getting here? Aunt Reni said that you weren't going to be able to visit until at least the end of the semester.
Rolling her eyes at the thought of her mother she replies, "what she doesn't know won't hurt her."
Sky Wheeler – There is no way my baby cousin is traveling all by herself. I'm serious it's dangerous out here for a girl like you.
Olivia Taylor – A girl like me?
Sky Wheeler – You know what I mean…I don't want anything to happen to you. You know I think of you as my little sister.
Olivia Taylor - That's why I'm coming to see you, so just be ready for me. I should be there in a few days, I have everything planned and under control.
Sky Wheeler – …Fine. But I will be texting you every hour until you get here. CALL ME when you get to the airport and I'll find my way there. I won't be meeting my dad until later that afternoon and it's a free day until the opening ceremony starts.
Olivia Taylor – Always overprotective…I will do that. I can't wait to see you.
Seeing the city bus approaching the bus stop, Olivia quickly finishes her text.
"I love you"
Sky Wheeler – I love you too livvie, stay safe. I mean it, you miss one text I'm calling Aunt Reni.
Olivia Taylor – Ok! Ok! Don't you have to be to class right now. Over here it is like ten o clock so there it must be eight a.m. So you are an hour late to your first class…RUN!
Sky Wheeler – That is ridiculous, I am not…I'll see you later!
After she reads his final text, Olivia sees the bus doors open up for her. Turning her phone volume all the way up she grabs her stuff and grabs the railing. Taking huge steps to board the surprisingly clean bus. "Saladin Airport please" she asks politely to the African-American bus driver wearing a white dress shirt equipped with a blue conductor with the words "city bus" written across the golden shield in the center of the hat. "Little girl this bus doesn't go that way and this is my last stop for the night" he states, taking a huge gulp of his energy drink. Not satisfied, she takes off her book bag and begins to rummage through it, "Child I don't have time for this…" the man remarks, clearly irritated. "Maybe this will give you time" she urged holding up one thousand dollars in ten one hundred dollar bills.
"You know what I think I have time for one last passenger, please take a seat anywhere." He grins, ushering her to the seats of the city bus. Seeing there is no one on the bus she walks to the far back of the bus and places her things under the seat. After counting the money, he walks to the back and offers her a bottle of water and a pillow. "You look tired and this is going to be a long ride." Olivia accepts pillow and takes a drink of the water, thanking him by nodding up at him.
"You don't know the half of it."
