Chapter 3: Evolution

YUGI'S P.O.V.

"Hey Grandpa! I'm back!" I said as I entered the game shop.

Grandpa smiled and said, "So how is Joesph adjusting?"

I sighed and said, "From what I understand, it's been tough to get used to over the last month. I mean he has gone completely blind, and the doctors say the damage is irreversible. He has to learn a whole new way to read before he can come back to school and he has to learn traverse the streets with the use of a cane. He also been extremely disappointed due to the fact that they don't have a brail version of duel monsters. He has to give up his favorite game in the world."

He nodded and said, "That's too bad. Perhaps you can make a call to Pegasus and see about him making a brail version of the cards."

I smiled and said, "That's an awesome idea! Thanks Grandpa!"

He smiled and said, "Hey Yugi, I have a few earns to run. Would you mind watching the shop for me?"

I nodded and said, "Sure Grandpa."

He nodded and said, "I'll be back in two hours, so you'll have to do closing, alright?"

I nodded and said, "Consider it done."

He waved and walked out the shop door ringing the bell as he left.

I began organizing the shelves putting them in a nice clean order when my hands began to go through objects... Again...

I groaned out and said, "Yami, I think we need to talk about this power the puzzle gave me."

Yami appeared next to me and said, 'It is strange, but I suppose it's something you're suppose to learn to use.'

I sighed and said, "Says the spirit that can always walk through objects."

I put all my concentration in my hands and finally I was able to touch again.

Then I heard the shop bell ring. I

turned around with a smile and said, "Welcome to Turtle Game Shop, can I help you?"

Three people came in the door.

One was a girl around my age with dark brown hair pulled in a high ponytail and a long sleeved pink blouse.

There was also a guy who seemed a year or two older than me, he had short brown hair, had a blue shirt, and wore a pair of crimson shades indoors.

Then finally was the man...

The man who looked exactly like X!

He was bald and wore a dark green jacket and the both had the same kindly smile.

The only major difference between X and this man, was X could walk...

The man that sat before me was in a wheelchair and by the looks of it, he was stuck there.

The man smiled and said, "Hello Yugi. My name is Professor Charles Xavier and these are two of my students. Kitty Pride and Scott Summers."

I sighed and said, "Pleasure to meet you Professor."

Kitty tilted her head and asked, "Aren't you freaked out he knew your name?"

I shrugged and said, "I'm the top rated duelist in the world, most everyone knows my name. Why should I be freaked out?"

The Professor smiled and said, "Well you see Yugi, I have a special ability that allows me to read minds and communicate telepathically."

I smiled and said, "Wouldn't be the first time I've come across that, especially in Duelist Kingdom. So I assume you have a magical item that allows you to do this. Correct?"

He shook his head and said, "No, I was born with this ability, for you see I am a mutant as is Kitty and Scott." I

looked at them and said, "So they can read minds too?"

Scott shook his head and said, "Every mutant has their own unique abilities. Take me for example."

He lifted up his his shades a little bit and opened his eyes.

A bolt of red light hit a old poster in the back of the shop.

He put his shades back on and said, "Oops... Sorry... My eyes blast a powerful laser... Unfortunately it doesn't stop unless I wear these glasses."

I looked at the laser marks in the poster and said, "It's okay... Only a display nothing valuable..."

I looked back at them and said, "So you have powers...Why tell me?"

The Professor smiled and said, "I believe you already know why, considering you've already foreseen this day."

My eyes widen and I said, "So... I'm a...a..."

The Professor nodded and said, "Yes Yugi, you are indeed a mutant. You already demonstrated your ability to see into the future, but I like to introduce you to someone who shares a power with you."

Kitty stepped forward and said, "Well, here goes..."

She began fading down into the floor...

She was phasing through objects! Just like me!

The Professor smiled and said, "Kitty can phase through solid objects with ease, just lie you Yugi."

I couldn't believe my eyes as she resurfaced.

Yami are you seeing this?!

'I am indeed... This is incredible Yugi... I sense no magic from them whatsoever... This normal ablites for them...'

'Ah yes, Yami. I was wondering when you were going to enter the conversation.'

Yami ghostly form appeared next to me and said, 'So you are a telepath. One of the more powerful ones I see.'

The Professor replied, "If you don't mind, I'm going to make you a bit more visible to my students."

Scott looked at the professor and said, "Um.. Professor?"

Xavier put his hands on his temples and focused.

Then Kitty screamed out, "Oh my gosh! There's a Yugi ghost!"

Yami looked at them and said, 'You can see me?!'

The Professor smiled and said, "No I am simply projecting a mental image of you to them."

I looked at the Professor and said, "So... what does... I mean... how does this whole mutant thing work..."

He smiled and said, "Well you have great control over part of your abilities, but in some parts you're lacking. So I'd like to give you an invitation to my school, where I teach mutants to master their abilities and use them to help others."

I looked at Yami and asked, "What do you think Yami?"

He sighed and said, 'I believe it will help you learn control and I'm not sensing any lingering of shadows on any of them. So I believe we should go.'

Scott raised and eyebrow and said, "You said we?"

I nodded and said, "Yami and I are sort of a team. I been trying to help him get his memories back while he shows me how to be more assertive with myself. So if I go he goes, and honestly we'd both would be honored to attend."

The Professor nodded and said, "Excellent, now get your affairs in order by the end of the week and we will pick you up on Saturday."

I looked at him and said, "At the end of the week? Why then?"

He smiled and said, "Oh come now, you don't think you're the only mutant in Domino, now do you?"

I thought back and said, "There are three others, right?"

Kitty nodded and said, "Right-o Psychic man. See you at the end of the week."

The waved and walked out the door.

I turned the closed sign and looked at my hands.

I'm a mutant...

I wonder... Who are the other three?

I thought for a moment back to my dreams and smiled.

Yami looked at me and said, 'So you know who they are...'

I nodded and said, "Well it's going to be interesting when Kaiba finds out..."

KAIBA'S P.O.V.

"Seto are you okay?" Mokuba asked as I sat at my desk.

It was happening again, the delusion that been going on for the last month.

My arm looked like they were made from crystals again and sometime they would emit light.

It keeps happening when I seem to be at my calmest and when it does I put on a pair of gloves to make the delusion go away.

Even then I can see the light shining through.

I think I'm finally starting to snap under the pressure...

I looked at my brother and said, "It's nothing Mokuba... Just a small headache..."

He sighed and said, "Seto, that your excuse for everything. Now really, are you okay?"

I sighed and said, "I'm not sure Mokuba... I been well..."

The intercom buzzed and said, "Sir, they're are some people here to see you."

I pressed the button and said, "Do they have an appointment?"

She replied, "Well no, but..."

I replied, "No appointment... No visit. Now tell them to leave."

She replied, "I can't sir."

I said, "And why not?"

"The elevator just went out and one of them is in a wheelchair."

I sighed and said, "Show them in until the elevator is fixed then I want them out of here. Understood?"

She then said, "As you wish Mr. Kaiba."

The doors opened and three people entered my office.

The first was a bald man in a green dress coat who sat in a wheelchair.

He had a sense of dignity rolling off him like most CEO I've met but there was something more... Compassion perhaps?

Then there was a woman that looked no younger than thirty, with a dark skin and brilliant blue eyes. But what really stood out was her snow white hair which blended into her roots perfectly.

She must have a master hair stylist to pull that look off.

Then finally there was a teenager, no older then 14 with a dingy blonde hair and frosty blue eyes who closed the door behind them.

The man in the wheelchair smiled and said, "Ah it's a pleasure to meet the famed Seto Kaiba and his prodigy brother, Mokuba. I'm Professor Charles Xavier, this is Ms. Ouroa Daniels and one of my students, Bobby Williams*."

A professor huh? Why the heck does he want to talk to me?

He smiled and said, "Now Mr. Kaiba, I believe we have a matter to discuss."

I looked at Mokuba and said, "Why don't you go and check on the computer systems?"

He nodded and stood up to leave when the Xavier said, "Actually I wish to speak with the both of you."

Mokuba looked back at him and asked, "Why would you want to talk to me?"

He smiled and said, "Because I have an offer for the both of you."

I looked at him and said, "An offer?"

He nodded and said, "You see I run an exclusive school for those with special gifts... Gifts that are believed to be impossible... We train our students to use these gift to benefit mankind."

I smirked and said, "By how your talking it sounds like a school for people with powers..."

'Indeed Mr. Kaiba... It's a school for mutants, those who have evolved to the next stage in human evolution.'

I looked at him with wide eyes as did Mokuba.

He didn't move his mouth... and the echoes...

What the hell?!

The Professor looked at us and said, "You see, my mutant ability allows me to read your thoughts and communicate telepathically. I am a mutant as is Ouroa and Bobby. We all posses the X gene that made us evolve to the next stage in human evolution."

I looked at them and said, "You can be serious..."

Ouroa sighed and said, "You were right about him being a skeptic Charles."

He looked up at her and said, "That's why I brought you along."

She stepped toward the window and said, "My name is Ouroa, but..."

Her eyes began to turn white and her hair began to rise up...

Then I heard a clasp of thunder.

What? There wasn't a cloud in the sky!

How the hell did a storm blow in this quickly?!

Ouroa raised her hands and the sky began to clear.

Her eyes turned back to their crystal blue state and she finished what she was saying, "Most people call me Storm."

Mokuba looked at her and said, "You control the weather?!"

She nodded and said, "That is my ability..."

I looked at the Professor and asked, "You want us to attend this school for mutants... So you believe we're like you... You think we are mutants..."

Xavier nodded and said, "One of my abilities is to detect other mutants and you and your brother have shown the signs."

I glared at him and said, "That is preposterous! How in the world could we..."

"Seto!"

I looked over to my brother as he said, "I think he's right..."

I said, "What? You think you have powers?"

He nodded and said, "Just don't freak out..."

He walked over to my desk and grabbed my glass of water.

From the spot where he touched it frost began to build up until the glass was frozen solid.

He took his hand away and said, "I think I'm a mutant Seto..."

*I don't know his last name...

MOKUBA'S P.O.V.

"Mokuba..." Seto mumbled out as he looked over the solid glass of ice.

He looked up and said, "This isn't a trick... This isn't a delusion... You really did this..."

I nodded and said, "I'm sorry I hid this from you but, I didn't think you'd believe me..."

He set the glass down and looked at his hands.

"Does this mean..."

The Professor nodded and said, "There was no hallucinations, Mr. Kaiba... It was all real..."

I looked at him and said, "Seto... You have powers?"

He sighed and said, "Apparently..."

He pulled off his gloves and took a deep breath.

Then the coolest thing happened...

He skin began to turn into clear crystals, it covered his hands and part of his neck.

I said, "Whoa! You can crystallize your skin Seto!"

He looked down at me and said, "What?! I can only do my hands!"

I pointed his neck and said, "It going up your neck too..."

He pulled off the shoulder of his shirt and saw the crystal had made it way up his body.

He yelled, "What the hell?!"

The crystal retracted back into his skin like it was never there.

Xavier smiled and said, "You have a rare gift Mr. Kaiba. The ability to control your density is quite incredible, and with your incredible strength..."

Seto yelled, "YOU MEAN THAT'S A POWER TOO?!"

Xavier nodded and said, "In total Mr. Kaiba you posses three abilities; density control, super strength, and illumination. While your brother possesses two; cryokinesis and hydrokinesis."

Seto placed his head in his hands and said, "How... Why..."

Ouroa smiled and said, "I know it's difficult, but we are here to help... We want to teach you to use your abilities, so you don't cause harm to yourself and others..."

Seto looked up and said, "How can you..."

Xavier smiled and said, "Because we taught many others how to do so... Bobby for instants shares something in common with you Mokuba."

Bobby smiled and said, "Finally!"

Bobby placed out his hands and a ray came out onto the floor.

Once he finished blasting a miniature Blue Eyes White Dragon sat on the floor made completely out of ice.

I looked at him and said, "You can freeze stuff!"

He nodded and said, "They don't call me Iceman for nothing."

The Professor looked at us and said, "So... do you wish to attend?"

I looked at Seto, who still had a shocked look on his face and I said, "I do..."

He looked at me and said, "Mokuba... are you sure?"

I nodded and said, "I want to know more about what I can do..."

Seto sighed and said, "I'll have to create a decent alibi and let Roland handle the business affairs."

I smiled and said, "Thank you Seto! You're the best!"

The Professor smiled and said, "Excellent, now we will be leaving by the end of the week and I suggest you have your affairs done by then."

Seto nodded and said, "Fair enough."

Xavier looked at him and asked, "And if it is at all possible, do you think you can create alibis for two other people?"

Seto raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who and why?"

Xavier replied, "They are mutants as well, and well... They are in the same boat your in... Can't escape without the media noticing..."

Seto sighed and said, "I'll need names..."

Xavier smiled and said, "I believe they are friends of yours... Yugi Motou and Joey Wheeler..."

JOEY'S P.O.V.

"Serenity? Where you go?" I asked as I tapped my cane across the floor.

The tad bit of noise it made was annoying, but it did help me get around.

It made the weird room echo thing, where I knew where everything was.

As I clicked I found myself in the living room of my house with someone sitting on the couch.

I then said, "Serenity? Where are you?"

I heard her gasp and said, "Sorry Joey... I forgot you could tell which room I entered..."

I smiled and said, "It's alright, no harm, no foul."

She gave a small giggle and said, "Oh Joey... You still have your optimism..."

I smirked and said, "And what is that suppose to mean?! Do you think I would lose it!"

Serenity laughed hard and loud, with what I could imagine to be a big smile.

Finally her laughter died down and she said, "You know... For years, I had feared losing my eyesight until you did everything in your power so I wouldn't... But here we are now, the situation reversed only... I can't fix your eyes..."

I heard her whimper and I began to walk closer.

I said, "Listen Serenity... just because I can't see, it not the end of the world for me... So wipe up those tears... your big brother can live without sight... I promise..."

She turned her head towards me and the last of my room echo wore off.

She said, "Joey... you're the best."

I smiled and said, "And don't you forget it!"

She laughed and a knock came at the door.

The room echo returned as Serenity made her way to the door and opened it.

"Um.. Hi, may I help you?" Serenity said sweetly.

"Um, yes does Joey Wheeler live here?" A woman's voice asked.

Serenity replied, "Yeah... He's in the living room. Why don't you come in?"

"We'd be delighted to." A older guy's voice responded.

I heard the movement of gears as they entered the room.

The woman's size let me to believe she was my are or a little older, and the man...well he's in a wheelchair.

I said, "Serenity, who's here?"

The man then said, "Oh please forgive me. My name is Professor Charles Xavier and this is my student Jean Grey. We would like to speak with you Joesph in private."

I nodded and said, "Serenity, why don't you go for a walk for a while, get some fresh air. I'll be fine."

She sighed and said, "If you say so..."

I heard her footsteps as she walked toward the door and I heard it close.

I then said, "So Teach... What do you want to talk to me about?"

He replied, "Joesph, have you ever noticed how you can do things that seem impossible at times?"

I replied, "Like the room echo?" Jean asked, "What's that?"

I replied, "I know it sounds crazy, but when I hear noises that are bit louder than a human voice, it creates a echo... which tells me where things are..."

The Teach replied, "Exactly, now Joesph... You're what we call a mutant..."

I smirked and said, "A mutant? Why call me that?"

Jean replied in a echoed voice, 'Mutants are the next generation in human evolution. You, me, and the Professor are mutants.'

I replied, "So you two are mutants? What can you two do?"

She replied, 'Well both the Professor and I can read minds and communicate telepathically. But I can do a bit more...'

I began to feel my self float off the couch.

I tried to get down but there was nothing for me to grab or run on to.

I yelled, "OKAY! YOU MAKE STUFF FLOAT WITH YOUR BRAIN! NOW PUT ME DOWN PLEASE!"

She lowered me down back on the couch.

Teach then said, "Along with your echo room as you put it, you can run at inhuman speeds."

I smiled and said, "Sweet."

Teach then said, "Now I like to make an offer to you. You come with us to my school where I can teach you not only to use you mutant abilities, but teach you how to work without sight."

I looked down and said, "But what about my family?"

Jean replied, "They would be told you'd be going to a school that would teach you to advance without the use of sight."

I looked up and said, "I'm willing to go..."

Teach replied, "Excellent, we'll be leaving Saturday with the other new mutants."

I looked up and said, "Others? You mean there more from Domino?!"

He responded, "Yes, Seto Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba, and Yugi Motou will also be joining us."

I smiled and said, "Well I surprised you convinced Kaiba... He never believes anything without proof."

Jean replied, "Well when you come into your powers your whole perspective changes."

I smiled and said, "Well then I'll see you Saturday...Where exactly?"

Teach replied, "Domino Airfield. We'll be taking a private jet to Bayville, New England."