The Action Starts

By Sailor Phoenix1997

Sara sat on a bench on school grounds while her cousins were rushing to find their way. She'd left earlier to get away and have a moment of peace. She felt the nice cool breeze on her neck. She sighed and quietly wished to herself that moments like this would last forever. The Millennium Summoner got nearly as hot as fire.

"What on earth?"

"'Ello love," said a boy. Sara turned towards the voice. He was obviously Austrailian. His hair was blond like sand and his eyes were blue like the ocean. He was roughly four or five inches taller than Sara and on his left arm was a Duel Disk.

"And you are?" The boy smiled a crooked smile and placed his deck into it's section.

"Call me Ryan girl."

"I'm Sara. And I'm not interested in a Duel." Ryan's smile got coy as Sara walked away.

"You won't have much of a choice. It's what the boss wants. Kissy." Sara froze in her tracks.

"I told you I'm Sara. I'm not KISARA!"

"Sure you ain't Kissy."

"Olivander sent you didn't he?" Sara demanded with her fists clenched.

"Your borther thought you'd remember him."

"I have no older brother!" Sara said. Faster than Ryan could reply Sara was right next to him with her fist in his stomach. He doubled over gasping for breath. "Next time you try to get near me with stupid jibberish like that again I'll do far worse." Sara turned away and stormed into the building. Ryan pulled out his cell phone and dialed up someone.

"It's definately her. The boss said we might have some trouble. But she's got one heck of an amount of spirit."

Sara shoved her shoes into her locker and slipped on her nicer school shoes. She slammed the dorr shut and growled under her breath.

"Morning Miss Bad Mood."

"Not funny Seto." Sara stormed off to class and sighed heavily as she rubbed her temples. Seto came in and took his seat.

"Something wrong?"

"Yea. I shouldn't have snapped like that. Sorry."

"All nighter again?"

"Kinda. And some nit-wit wanted to Duel me."

"Who?"

"Some punk Austrailian kid named Ryan."

"Do you know him?"

"No. When we lived in Austrailia we lived in the Outback near a speacialist in skin mutations."

"What?"

"Nevermind." Sara fiddled with her dolphin charm.

"What's that for?" Seto asked.

"This?" Sara asked pulling on her necklace. Seto nodded. "It's a sea animal charm. Humans might wear them for meer looks. Mermiads wear them to represent what animal they can communicate telepathically with." Seto's eyebrow went up. "It allows me to talk mentally with any type of dolphin."

"Oh. And that makes perfect sense."

"Any mermaid can take a necklace like this but only for a few it actually works."

"OK. One of these days you're going to have to sit me down with whatever book it is that mermaids learn all this stuff with." Sara reached into her bag that was a little bigger than normal today and pulled out a book nearly the size and thickness of her head.

"I had a feeling you might want to know all this stuff eventually. So I started brining this everywhere I went today." The cover looked like it was made of light blue coral and crushed seashells. Sara handed the book to Seto. The second she let go the book's wieght yanked Seto out of his chair. "You alright?" Seto groaned as he picked himself up.

"For the most part. Yea. I'm pretty sure I broke my fingers but other than that I'm fine."

"Is that book seriously that heavy?"

"Yea," Seto said as he slipped his fingers out from under the book. "On the upside my fingers are still intact." Sara picked up the book and set it on his desk.

"I have been carrying that thing all over the world so it would make sense that I'm a tad stronger with it." Seto sat down and opened the book. It's pages were yellowing and the binding was nearly ready to fall apart. There were different pictures of different royal families. One of them made him stop. It had a family with a father that looked like Sara's and mother with long black hair with hazel eyes. The son had black hair and his irises were red. THe princess looked exactly like Sara.

"Wow."

"Now that is wired," Sara said over his shoulder. The princess had a quiver of arrows over her back and wore the same dress Sara had worn in her duel against Akunadin.

"Definately."

"I've carried this around for years and I never noticed that."

"You never noticed a mermaid princess that looks exactly like you?" Sara smiled.

"Yea never noticed. Hold on." Sara looked closer at the picture. "That boy."

"What?"

"Olivander." Seto looked at the text but it was written in a mix of Latin and Greek.

"Can you read this?" Sara shook her head.

"You have to have some serious tech skills to read that." They met eyes.

"Noah."

"Who now?" Kiki asked as she and Kim burst into the door. They were both red in the face, sweaty and even from a distance smalled like pigs. Sara gagged.

"My little brother, Noah. Brunette. Violet eyes? Sound familiar?" Kiki shrugged and took her seat. Sara made a face like she was about to lose what breakfast she'd had.