Sara Gives Her All
By Sailor Phoenix1997
Sara could feeel that she was on a floor. But it was more familiar. Everything was. The texture, the smells, the furniture around her. Everything. She didn't want to open her eyes. SHe hoped she was merely on the floor back at home. And any second now her alarm was going to go off in her room and she'd rush off to school to be with Seto again. Then it would be a few hours of work then they'd go to one of their houses for dinner and maybe a movie. All Sara wanted to do though was stay put. But whatever had brought her there wasn't going to have any of that. SHe recognized the hand before the voice spoke. Alexander let his fingers tangle into her long hair and yanked her up.
"Is she really that important to you Kaiba?" Alexander's laugh reminded her of fingernails on a chalkboard. Sara opened her eyes. Everything looked hazy at first but she shook the fog away. Seto, Mahad, and Austin all stood at the doorway of the office and Olivander stood behind Seto's desk an smiled at her with a gleam in his eye that froze Sara to her core.
"Leave her out of this." Sara could tell by Seto's tone that he meant business and if she wasn't released in the next ten seconds or less he'd pull out the Millennium Rod and start using it in bloody ways. She struggled with Alexander's hand in her hair and snarled at him threateningly. Alexander pulled her closer to his chest.
"I don't know. I quite like having her this close to me." Sara could feel something hard under his shirt. It wasn't flesh or bone. It was cold like stone or metal. Just as cold as the Millennium Items could get when left alone for a few days. Sara almost gasped aloud as the peices came together like a puzzle.
"Where're my cousins, Kiki and Kim?" she demanded. Alexander chuckled.
"And what, my sweet little flower, makes you think we've got those two?" Sara jabbed her elbow into his stomach and reached down his shirt. She tore off a portion of it as she yanked the blood-red Millennium Rod from under his shirt.
"This is why! This is the Dark Millennium Rod. The evil half of what Seto carries now! One of the seven Dark Millennium Items that were created when their darkness was sealed away."
"I've heard enough little sister. Now. If you don't mind. I'll be taking my Rod now." The Rod flew out of Sara's hand and into Olivander's. "I wonder. Can the Millennium Rod stand up to the powers of the Dark Millennium Rod?" Seto wrapped his fingers around his Rod.
"As if. Let's try the Necklace versus the Dark Rod. That'll make things more interesting don't you think?" Olivander smiled and raised his left hand. Three long feathers like Sara's Summoner in Duel mode appeared. "Where did you-"
"Amazed? Don't be sis. You know me. I get what I must before a battle. And I shall take you up on your offer. WHen I win you'll follow your destiny and become the great Leviathan's mistress."
"More like when you lose you'll go back to your prison in the stars." Olivander's smile turned even crueler.
"I'll await you upon the roof." With that Olivander disappeared into a ball of fire. Sara snarled and looked over at the boys.
"Are you alright Sara?" Seto asked as he came over. Sara nodded and looked at the fire now floating away. Seto traced the crimson streaks in her hair. "How did that happen?"
"I hit my head thinking that an illusion was Olivander," Sara touched her Millennium Necklace and took a deep breath. Tears welled at the corners of her eyes.
"Hey. You OK?" Sara nodded and wrapped her arms around Seto.
"I'll be fine." Seto felt her shake in his arms and kissed her temple.
"You'll do fine. And if things don't look like they're going your way I'll step in alright?" Sara nodded.
Olivander stood on the roof with his arms crossed over his now bare chest when Sara and Seto came up.
"Finally you're here sister." Sara looked at what he was wearing. He had on a pair of black pants and a pendant around his neck with the Royal Seal engraved in gold and hidden behind an almost see-through blue crystal. The Seal bore a mermaid's tail and dragon's wings as a way to represent the union of the two races. "Are you ready? The Leviathan awaits."
"As does your prison! Millennium Summoner! Duel Mode!" The wing stretched out. "I Summon You! Almighty Duos!" The great swordsman appeared and growled at his foe. Olivander smiled at his sister.
"You never learn. I Summon You! Diabound!"
"Diabound?" Seto clenched his teeth as the giant beast rose from the concrete of the roof. "Whatever. I don't really care how many attack points your monster's got. I can beat it on my own."
"You don't get it little sister? There are no attack or defense points here. There's only the strength one has on their own. That strength is given to your monster making stronger."
"Whatever. Duos!" Sara gave him the signal to charge and he thrust his sword at Diabound. THe pale monster grabbed Duos and started crushing him. Sara grabbed at her chest in agony.
"Sara?" Seto said as he grabbed her arms. She looked at him a little shakily as Duos shattered.
"I'll be fine."
"Come now Kisara. You know I'm supirior to you in every way. So how about you just give up?" Olivander said with a sneer. Sara snarled.
"If you knew the first thing about me you would know I'm not one to give up without a fight! I Summon You! Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" The beast roared as it came to life.
"Sara are you nuts?"
"I know what I'm doing Seto. No need to get worried." Seto gripped his Millennium Rod tightly. "I'm going to try a little experiment that's been bugging me for a while now." Sara drew come from her pocket a card and placed it on the Summoner.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to see if magic and trap cards will work on the Summoner." The card appeared as a stone slab on the floor. "I think I'll activate the Trap Card, Dragon's Secret. It olny allows Dragons to fight on the field and destroys all others. That means Diabound is history." The pale creature shattered and Olivander grabbed at the pendant around his neck. He looked back up at Sara with his eyes glowing like red-hot coals.
"You'll pay for that little-"
"You call me 'sister' and I won't hesitate to turn into the Guardian. On second thought. I think I will upgrade. I Summon You! Mystical Elf! ANd I'll use the Millennium Scales to merge myself with the elf!" And in no time the Mystic Guardian stood ready for battle. "And now I'll activate two more cards. THey're called Cocoon of Evolution and Lightning Evolution. And now I think I'll use their powers on me." Dark clouds rolled into view as the cocoon wrapped around Sara. Seto shuddered. It looked even more groteque if it was even possible than it's hologram. A bolt of lightning shot down from the dark clouds and split the cocoon.
Sara shivered as she looked over herself. The dress was more of a silver color than white. But it was still split up both sides to her hips and had one strap over her left shoulder. The Duel Monster hadn't been able to show the back of the dress with the long white hair covering it. Sara could feel her hair on her bare backand bit on her lip. The tiara almost fell off her brow and into her eyes.
"Sheesh. Who's idea was this?" Sara asked as she pushed her hair over her right shoulder. "I am not in favor of this dress. What do you think Seto?" Seto stared at her and almost dropped his jaw. He mentally slapped himself and shook his head.
"You look great."
"Most appropriate little sister. To wear the ceremonial gown of coronation to your death," Olivander said sarcastically.
"And what're you supposed to be? Some sort of dieted sumo wrestler?" Olivander's body glowed crimson as his dragon appeared behind him. The great beast roared. But now Sara could feel it's emotion as the roar echoed in her chest. It sounded mournful and frightened. Her dragon roared in response. The type of roar that would make one feel protected and safe from all the troubles of thw world.
"Red-Eyes Black Dragon! Attack!" The dragon charged at Sara's and grabbed it by the throat with it's teeth. Sara grabbed at her own throat and gagged as her dragon roared.
"Sara!" Seto yanked off the end of his Millennium Rod and charged at Olivander. The black-haired boy smirked at the brunette.
"Seth. You never change." Sara's eyes grew wide as the air around Olivander's right hand started rippling.
"Seto no!" Olivander struck Seto in the chest, forcing him to drop the Millennium Rod and fly through the air into Sara. "Seto! Seto!" Sara called trying to wake him up. Her efforts were in vain as tears welled in her eyes. "Seto please wake up!" She placed her hand on his chest and felt a few heartbeats. She couldn't stop herself from crying.
"Who's crying? Can't be Mokuba. He hasn't cried in years. But. If not him then... Sara?" Seto could feel her legs under his head and her hand on his chest. He could hear her crying and feel her tears falling onto his face. "Sara. I'm fine. Listen."
"Seto!" He realized she couldn't hear him. He wanted to open his eyes and dry the tears that were still on her face. Tell her everything was alright. But he couldn't even twich.
"Seto wake up! Please!"
"He can't hear you baby sister." Sara set Seto down and wiped her eyes dry. "And to think. All this trouble could've been avoided if you'd just become the mistress of the Leviathan all those years ago."
"And give up the only person who I ever really loved? And who loved me as a person and not as a princess or a duaghter or a sister? In your dreams!" Her Blue-Eyes roared and swiped at the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. It grew two more heads and roared louder than before. The other heads bit mercilessly at the Red-Eyes. Olivander grabbed himself where the Blue-Eyes bit the Red-Eyes and howled in pain. Sara focused her powers over her dragon on herself. Her dragon wings grew in a flash of white light.
"I see you still have use of your wings."
"I wonder how much practice you've had in the stars." Sara took flight as fast as she could and soared into the darkening clouds.
"You'll regret this Kisara." Olivander grew two large black wings like those of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and took flight.
Sara flew dangerously close to the sea. The waves reached up to drag their Empress back to their depths and bring her away from her troubles. She didn't know how fast she was going anymore and she didn't care. Her mermaid senses told her she was around the Mid-Altlantic Ridge. Humans believed that it was merely a way to separate the Eastern and Western hemispheres but it was much more than that. Several years after Olivander fell the castle that Kisara and he had grown up in had been submerged with two brainless dragon guards. Both had an uncontrolable itch on thier side and an unending stream of fire coming from their noses. When they tried to scratch their itches they moved the earth over them. At least that's what the legends said. Sara had been told at a young age these ancient stories and hadn't quite believed them. And if they were true then Sara would be able to pass through the Ridge to enter the palace and find something to awaken Olivander from the control of the Leviathan.
She dove under the water and instantly her wings disappeared and her tail flashed as she swam towards the Ridge. True enough once she passed through two grand, gray dragons roared their disapproval. Her tail turned into her legs and she entered the palace. If one looked at the Czar's palace from Anastasia from the 20th Century Fox version they could get a nearly-perfect version of the palace that had served as Kisara and Olivander's childhood home. The second she opened the door she could've sworn she leard the laughter of children and the shimer of a long gown.
"No way. I must be hallucinating." She walked through the palace. Everything was beautiful and familiar to her. About seventeen paintings hung on the wall in the ballroom. One had Olivander's mother and father and him with a tiny baby girl in hsi mother's arms. They were all dressed beautifully in gold or black and the baby's blue eyes flashed like lightning. Fifteen of the others were like a timeline for the baby girl as she grew older. One had her hiding in her father's golden Czar cape when she was about seven or eight. The final one had replaced Olivander's parents with the princess Kisara and Seth with a tiny gril of around seven years old with bright blue eyes like her mother and rusty-brown hair like her father.
The other paintings had Court members but it was the final of the Royal family with the tiny girl that kept Sara's attention.
"So if Seto and I have a daughter is this what she's going to look like?" Sara asked herself as she traced the tiny girl's beautiful curled hair. Sara smiled at the girl as she walked through the rest of the castle. Sara walked into one of the bedrooms. Of course the bed was covered in blue sheets and beautiful designs of dragon scales and ocean waves. A painting of the room's owner hung across the room from the bed. The blue bow, lighter arrows, long white hair and stunning blue eyes were all that Sara needed to know that she was in Kisara's room. On Kisara's bedside was a small locket. It was shaped like a heart and a steely-blue color. Sara picked it up gingerly and opened it. The song that flowed out of it made Sara sit on the bed and think on how much Olivander must've loved his sister.
Once the song came to an end Sara placed the necklace around her neck and left the palace. The dragons roared in disapproval as she left.
"Make up your mind. DO you want me to go or stay?" Sara shot up from the water and started flying back towards Domino.
Olivander loomed over the still unconcious Seto.
"Well. It's been hours since she left. I suppose she's gone to have her memory erased. Perhaps she's finally coem to her senses after all these years. A mermaid-dragon princess like her deserves far more then you," he delivered a hard kick to Seto's ribs. "When she comes back, which I doubt she will, I do believe she'll want her family back." Seto could hear Olivander's taunting words. He could feel the cold stone of the concrete on his cheek. All he wanted to do was get back to wherever Sara was and just be rid of Olivander. "Still around are we? Why not just give up life already?" Olivander dug the heel of his foot into Seto's back.
"Leave him alone!" The clouds broke as Sara made her touchdown. Her wings vanished into her back.
"Ah. Little sister. You're finally here." Sara felt the locket under her shirt and took a deep breath.
"CAn you guess where I've been?"
"If I had to guess you've been out looking for a more suitable mate." Sara dropped her shoulders.
"Seriously? All these years and all you can think of is my mate?" Sara reached into her shirt and pulled off the locket. "Does this look familiar to you Olivander?" The black-haired boy looked at her with steely eyes but they turned into remembrance as he gazed on the locket. "It's the locket you gave to Kisara ten thousand years ago."
"What?"
"I went to the palace you grew up in. And when I found this I knew it could wake you up from the Leviathan's grasp." Olivander walked over and touched the necklace. Sara let go and stepped back. Another step and she would've fallen off the edge of the building.
"Unfortunately it's not the Leviathan that controls him anymore." Sara looked up. The voice sounded like Kim's but the woman had Kiki's slim, hourglass figure. SHe had dark blue hair that seemed black and perfect teal eyes. She wore a red cocktail gown and a black choker around her neck. She held in her hand a black pearl.
"WHo're you?"
"Now that's jsut rude Princess. Demanding something of your soon-to-be Empress." SHe wrapped her fingers tightly around the pearl and smirked. Olivander clutched at his stomach and colapsed to the ground.
"It was you! You released Olivander from his seal!"
"Correct. He was easy to manipulate."
"I asked you a question! WHo are you!"
"You may call me Miz'Aleana. But soon you shall call me Empress. Now that Olivander's served his pourpose I think it's time for a family's farewell." She crushed the pearl in her hand and let the wind take away the dust. Olivander grabed at his head and howled in pain. HIs entire body shook and turned red. Sara bent down and felt his back. It was red-hot like a pot that had been on a working stove for hours. Olivander shuddered and looked at the locket.
"Kisara. My only sister. I only wanted what was best." Sara smiled at him. Having little siblings herself she understood what he meant when he said he'd wanted what was best for her.
"Listen Olivander. I can take care of myself now. And I promise I'll rule justly and fairly." Olivander looked up at her with sad eyes. He pushed a strand of hair back behind her ear and placed the locket into her hand.
"I know you will. Tell that Kaiba boy that if he does one thing to harm you physically or mentally I will haunt his nightmares for all of eternity." Olivander's body turned to dust and blew away in a gentle breeze.
"Miz'Aleana!" But the woman was gone. Sara wiped away her tears with her dust-covered hand. Seto pushed himself to his knees and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "You alright?"
"Yea. And I heard every word here." Sara smiled and looked down at the locket in her hand. "He's just like an over-protective brother." Sara walked over. "BY the way. I've been meaning to ask you something."
Sara put the last of her clothes into a cardboard box as Roland walked in.
"Miss. Your parents have arrived." Sara nodded and looked at her now-empty room. SHe'd changed into a teal-blue Indian-style dress with black leggings and black flatts. "Are you ready?" She nodded. A platinum ring rested on her hand. It almost looked like a Blue-Eyes White Dragon with a sappire in two of it's claws next to a diamond in it's mouth. "I was rather surprised when I overheard Mister Kaiba tell his brothers that you and he were engaged."
"Yea. It surprised me too." ROland walked in and picked up her box and left. Sara said good-bye to the people who'd posed as her family for sixteen years before she got into the Kaiba Corp limo. She waved good-bye and smiled as they said their final good-byes. Once they were out of view Sara let a few tears go down her cheeks. "Good luck everyone. I love you. You were the best family an Empress could've asked for."
The limo came to a stop in front of the Kaiba mansion where a dozen maids and servingmen were waiting to take Sara's boxes into the house. Sara walked into her new home and looked around at the bright yellow walls and red carpeting. Standing at the top of the grand staircase was Seto. Sara ran up the stairs taking two at a time until she could jump into his arms. Seto let out a laugh and kissed her temple.
"A laugh from Kaiba? THis must be the end of the world." Sara looked in the direction of the voice and standing in the doorway of one of the bedrooms was Atem.
"How-"
"You said my Millennium Rod can draw spirits out of things. And so I got Atem a new body." THe Pharoah looked a lot like his ancient self but had on a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. "He'll be going aorund as Atem Kaiba. My cousin."
"Just like old times."
"DOn't push it Atem." Mokuba pulled his new cousin into the room where laughter echoed into the hall. "This family thing is going to take some getting used to." Sara kissed him full on the mouth.
"We can get used to it together." Seto smiled.
"And now we know who we're up against."
"Yea. Miz'Aleana's going to pay for what she did to Olivander."
A/N: Thanks for reading. THis is the final chapter of WOrld of the Deep. And yes. THis is the sequel to New from the Past. COming this CHristmas is Sara's first Christmas with the Kaiba boys and she's going to bring the fun back to this holiday for this family. Then It's Battle City. Keep and open eye. Phoenix out.