Hello Duelist! This is the Halloween Edition for Easter. Yes I suppose I will admit that it is a bit late for a Halloween addition, but hopefully when all is said and done I will have a Christmas chapter on Christmas… and now you are probably like "What the hell girl, this is Halloween on the last day of March, what are you doing for the next nine months!" Well I'll be writing chapters, it just so happens that by the timeline is set up in such a way the Christmas won't be around for a while, so do not be alarmed.
On another note, there is going to be French cursing that is rated on a higher plane of existence. It is translated in the chapter so you don't have to go and look it up, but if you want to I'm stopping ya. :P
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or its characters, only the storyline and my OCs so off we go!
Chapter 8
The Spirits of Halloween
Monday, October 31, 2011
"Oh my Ra, what is this madness?" Atem exclaimed.
Yugi turned to the door way and saw Atem wide-eyed and jaw dropped. He grinned, "What don't like my costume?"
"Costume," Atem started and then noticed what Yugi was wearing. "Oh yes, nice job, just… what in Ra happened here?"
"Huh?" Yugi asked and looked around to what Atem was gapping at. The room he had to admit was a complete disaster of boxes, bubble wrap that he would enjoy later, and wrapping paper. "Heh, my costume can in the mail yesterday and I opened it this morning… there were a lot of different boxes with the different items in them."
"So all of this was in that box that you brought to your room last night?"
"Yup, it's for the festival today."
"And the occasion is?"
"In North America, it is called Halloween where kids get dressed up and go out trick or treating after the sun goes down. The event was called Hallows Eve where the spirits come to earth again for the day. Costumes were to confuse and keep evil spirits and monsters away after dark." Yugi answered as he started to clean up his mess. "The festival is a public event, but you have to dress up in order to get in."
"I would like to go see what this festival is about, but I don't have a costume." Atem pondered. "You did a good job on the Silent Magician LV4 costume by the way."
"It only took me two hours to get my hair to cooperate and color it in that colored hairspray." Yugi answered proudly and then went back to the original topic. "Grandpa has got that covered. He is also going to the festival today and bought you a costume, I think you will like."
"What could Grandpa have bought me? But on the other hand what is he wearing to the festival?"
Yugi giggled as he grabbed Atem's hand and brought him to the living room. Grandpa was sitting on the couch with a box on the coffee table in front of him. When they went around the table Yugi noticed a hat over top of his grandfather's face. "Hey, Grandpa I brought Atem down."
His grandfather groaned and pulled his hat off of his face. "Oh hello you two, I must have fallen asleep."
"Are you dressed up as Indiana Jones?" Atem asked observing the attire the man wore.
"That is what other people will think, but I was the original, not Indiana. Here Atem I believe you will approve it." Grandpa replied and gave him the box on the table. "Oh Yugi I have something for you too."
"What is it?" Yugi questioned and Grandpa gave him a box from underneath the coffee table.
"It is a good thing that it is early in the morning, if you want to change."
Yugi and Atem gave each other a look, of course Yugi knew what was in Atem's box, but his was a mystery. They opened them up at the same time and both were speechless at the contents. They were both packed the same way with a gold eye staring up at them and white clothing underneath. They took out the identical gold crown and set it delicately on the table. Yugi pulled out the white clothing and underneath there was a blue strip outline in white. Both of them carefully emptied the box contents and looked them as they sat on the table.
"This is…" Atem started but he didn't finish. "Yugi, you also have it too."
"Surprise," Grandpa cheered. "Yugi knew about the one I got for you, but what he didn't know was that I also got one for him. Speaking of which Yugi you have something for your brother?"
"Oh yeah right," Yugi snapped out of his daze of amazement of his gift and his grandfather. He dug into his bag that was sitting beside the couch and pulled out a replica of the Millennium Puzzle. "You can't be ruling around your country without the symbol of the Pharaoh now can you?"
"Yugi, how- how did you-?"
"Well Yami, you're not the only one that has connections with the royal tomb keepers. There were several replicas created to keep the original safe." Yugi told him.
Atem took it and looked at it with distaste. "Was it made the same way?"
"If you are worried about sacrifices, then the only thing was sacrificed was time to create it."
The Pharaoh sighed with relief and smiled placing his contents back in the box. "Come on Yugi, we have some work to do before the festival."
"What," He looked up and saw a glint in Atem's eyes. "Whoa wait a moment, there is no way I am going wearing that!"
"I'm Pharaoh; you will do as you are commanded, mortal."
"Pfft, so am I if you want to take that route, I work long and hard on Silent Magician's costume there is no way-"
"I'll set this in his room, while you hog tie him and bring him upstairs." Grandpa interrupted as he walked up stairs holding both of their boxes.
In the end of the debate, Yugi ran up the stairs before Atem could attempt to find something sharp. "Fine you win, you win I'll wear the outfit and no there isn't anything wrong with it, it is perfectly A Okay!" He pleaded and a grinning Atem walking up the stairs behind him.
"That's what I thought; now I'll give you a shot on you attempting to put it on. If you fail not only do I have to fix it, you also owe me a duel later."
"Okay…"
*1 hour later…*
Yugi stood in front of the mirror in his room and looked at his reflection. He wasn't expecting it to look as it did, but now that he had it on, he was rather impressed and a little subconscious. "Thanks for the help Atem."
Atem nodded as he placed his hand on his chin as if he was trying to figure out something. Then he tasselled Yugi's hair to make it even spikier and messier than what it was. "There much better."
"Well if there was any doubts that might come with you being my brother, well I think we fixed that problem." Yugi sighed as he turned to view himself again. "Though, I feel rather exposed wearing this."
"You could wear tights…"
"Atem, I am not going as one of those super heroes that Nile has poisoned you mind with, which she got from Regan. All three of us need to have a long discussion on the new experiences and cultural differences."
Both of them were wearing the same design in clothing that Atem had worn when he was pharaoh. They had on a white kilt and top that was held together by a large, gold waist band and a blue strip that went in front and down the middle of the kilt and one in the middle on the back. There was a large sum of gold that they both wore that each of them knew would be an archaeologists dream come true to have such intact artifacts, there was one across their shoulders and collar bone, a choker that was identical to the one Atem wore on a daily bases, a bicep band on each arm, a gold and blue bracelet on each wrist, a shin wrap on each leg and a shoulder wing that held back their indigo cape off of their left arm. They both had the crown on their heads that surprisingly didn't feel weird on Yugi's head and they both had the shoe-like slippers that were fixed to be comfortable in Japan.
Yugi looked at Atem who nodded back and grinned. "You almost look as good as I do"
"We'll see about who has the most fans at the end of this day then, how about it, a game?" Yugi asked as they headed out of his room to go see his grandfather.
"Sure, but how are we going to pull this off?"
"Well there is going to be a costume contest, so just like that beauty contest last year we can ask them to create best looking person too."
"So, what happens if neither of us wins?"
"We'll just see who has the most wins out of the two of us." Yugi said and looked at the breakfast at the table; he didn't even notice they entered the room. They sat at the table and were shortly joined by Grandpa who held a coffee in his hand.
"Are you ready to go children of the gods?" Grandpa asked.
They headed out and started to walk to the school. With each step Yugi was becoming more and more excited. "I can't wait to see everyone else's costumes."
"Same, but I'm more interested on point of this festival is, I need to speak with Regan about Halloween, dammit I feel old." Atem sighed with his hand to his head like he had been dealing with idiots all morning. "Between you, Grandpa, Joey, Tristan, Téa, Regan and Pegasus, I should be update on everything that I missed and didn't learn while I was here to begin within a couple of more days."
Yugi chuckled lightly, "Well at least you don't look that old."
"I am glad that I am the same age as I left. I like when girls are goggle-eyed when I walk by."
"Nice job Yugi, now you just give him an ego boost that he really didn't need." Grandpa scolded.
Yugi was about to complain when he noticed that they were at the school. "Awesome we're here, now let's see if we can find anyone with all these costumes."
"Hey Pharaohs, Grandpa, we were wondering when you guys would show up!" A Brooklyn accented voice called from the clearing in the front of the school.
Yugi turned to the group, Joey was wearing robes and held a green Lightsaber, Tristan was wearing a blue, Spartan suit from Halo and Téa was wearing the Cosplay of Elizabeth Swann from the third movie of Pirates and the Caribbean. "Hey guys; didn't know if we were going to be able to find you in this crowd."
"Oh you think the crowd is bad here, go around back that is where the real crowd is, they got candy." Tristan told them playing with this helmet. "By the way, I never thought you could pull it off, but man looking at you two I would thought that you guys were the actual pharaohs today."
"Speaking of looking like a king, Yugi did you start using steroids or something?" Joey asked poking at his arm.
"No!" Yugi denied instantly, "I've been working out for a couple of months now, did you not notice a couple of weeks ago when you took off my shirt."
"No actually I didn't."
"Hey, nice outfit Gramps, off to go on an excavation sometime today." Tristan asked in a teasing manor.
"Nope, today is for the thrill of the suit." Grandpa told him with a determined grin that he used to do back when he gambled.
"Hey," Téa started looking around. "Did Regan come to school with you guys?"
"No, I thought she was with you three?"
"Well that's not good, not with two villainous people with minions running around looking for her, we should go find her." Joey stated. "Man, why do the bad guys always get the minions."
"Oh good; we're not late!" Someone yelled from the entrance of the school. "Hey guys."
The group turned towards the voice and saw Dark Magician Girl walking beside Jade dressed as a Natasha Romanoff, or Black Widow off of Iron Man 2, another movie that Regan just so happened to get them into and apparently The Avengers or something was being shown sometime next year, with a lot of the Marvel heroes. Out of his head, Yugi was stunned that a Duel Monster was present.
"Dar- Dark Magician Girl what," Joey stuttered. "What is she doing here?"
"I don't know, it is technically Spirit Day, so I wouldn't be surprised that there were duel monster spirits were running around also." Yugi managed to say as the two females walked up to them.
Jade looked at the six of them and then turned to Atem and himself. "I would bow down to you too, but that would be rather strange in this environment."
"I know they look exactly as the stone carvings in the photos," Grandpa told Jade in praise. "Told you, now they are the living proof."
"Not to be such a spoiler, but we need to figure out where the heck Regan is, there are a lot of crazy stuff that has been happening to us over the last month and the last thing we need is for her to get in trouble again." Tristan pointed out as the female magician hooked an arm onto Yugi's.
"Well, I call this pharaoh for a search partner; we'll meet back here in an hour to see if any of us has found your friend."
Everyone nodded and they split up into 4 groups of two: Joey and Tristan, Grandpa and Jade, Atem and Téa, and Yugi and Dark Magician Girl. Yugi searched the inside of the school, but felt like something was nagging at his brain that he couldn't figure out. Everyone met back in their original spot with no luck.
"Man, where could she have gone?" Joey asked for the group.
"Why do I have the feeling we have already saw her, but because she is wearing a costume we didn't recognize her." Yugi questioned. Suddenly he heard a shocked gasp and turned to find a priest and a vampire, "Kaiba, Mokuba!"
"Now that was not something I would have ever predicted Kaiba to ever wear, hell must have frozen over and we are about to get a swarm of angry demons." Joey exclaimed.
Kaiba was wearing the priest outfit he had received for his birthday while his brother was wearing the typical vampire costume, but Yugi wasn't sure if it was a costume because he looked natural in it.
"Hey you guys, nice costumes." Mokuba greeted. "I never really did see how you were an Egyptian Pharaoh, but now I see how, congrats I'm not bowing."
"Kaiba, what are you doing here, I thought you would be at the office or something." Tristan asked.
"Someone needed to watch Mokuba in this mess and unfortunately I had to wear this," Kaiba growled in distasted. "So how long has it been since this stunt been going on?"
"Well, about an hour and a half." Grandpa answered the CEO.
"Wait what stunt?" Téa asked.
"I think I know." Yugi and Atem replied at the same time.
Kaiba grinned as Roland came over to them giving Kaiba a black book bag that Yugi recognized. He held it out to Dark Magician Girl. "Alright Regan, you won the bet, considered yourself getting that book."
"Regan!" Téa, Tristan and Joey exclaimed.
The blonde nodded and took her bag from the CEO. "I guess that means I did a freaking good job at this Cosplay, the wash out dye was expensive enough."
"Let's just see how well, Yugi." Atem stated hinting towards him.
"On it," Yugi said as he took out his deck and pulled out two cards. He looked around and then summoned his most trusted monsters. Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl popped into existence from a portal that no one out of their group noticed.
"Yes Master," The two magicians asked together.
Yugi nodded his head towards the second Dark Magician Girl. "What do you think? Good, bad, complaints about Regan's costume idea?"
"It wasn't my original idea; Dark Magician is the one who gave it to me when you were in the tag team battle." Regan replied mimicking the original with her arms crossed and wand in hand.
"Oh my, I didn't think Mahad was right." Dark Magician Girl pondered.
"Of course I was right, I'm always right." Dark Magician scolded as he placed his apprentice next to Regan. "The only thing I have to say is that Ms. Heartin is shorter then Mana."
"It's Regan, REE-GAN, not Ms. Heartin it makes me feel uncomfortable." Regan whined.
Yugi shook his head in her response, but she still seemed to be missing something. Then his thought clicked. "Where is the River's Puzzle Regan?"
"I put it in my bag to trick you guys; I should probably put it on again. Nile is going to be furious that I forgot." She answered and took out the golden pyramid with silver ends. Almost immediately as soon as she put it on Nile appeared with an upset and angry look.
"How could you forget about me?"
"I guess when they aren't nagging in your ear all the time you forget that they are happily waiting inside of your bag."
Yugi saw Kaiba wince and turned his attention back to Regan and Nile.
"That was cold." Nile sighed. "Though I guess I deserve that from earlier, truce?"
The girl nodded.
"Alright, I'm heading over to the main even; I wanna actually enter the best costume contest, so you're either coming or you're staying doesn't matter to me." Joey told everyone and with a short pause everyone started to follow. Dark Magician left the group to go back to the Duel Monster spirit realm, but Dark Magician Girl stayed for her own reasons.
At the entrance four judges sat: two girls and two boys. "Hey guys, here to have fun and sign up for best costume?"
"Of course," Téa replied as Dark Magician Girl ventured into the park.
"Okay so you are to write your name, what you are dressed up as and then we'll snap a photo for matching purposes and the contest for best looking, which is divided between male and female, student body and public, which is also divided by kids and adults." The first judge explained.
"And is this contest voted by everyone?" Atem asked.
"Yes, so you can compare with friends and family to see who has the most votes."
Atem nodded and the second judge gave them each a piece of paper with the registration on it. One by one they finished and the third judge took their photos. As they entered the make shift park, the fourth gave them an orange band to wear. On the other side of the giant wall that separated the entrance of the school to the festival in the back and sides of the school, there were candy stalls, game stalls, and food stalls. Joey and Tristan shouted food and then they were suddenly gone.
"Scavengers," Kaiba muttered.
"Well I have duty at the candy stall." Regan announced. "Yugi, you to also signed up for it right? So let's go and get it over with then we can enjoy the rest of the festival."
"Oh, right." Yugi replied cheekily. "I forgot all about that."
Atem laughed.
"What's so funny, Atem?"
"Well if people know who you are and see you working with Regan they might think she's a hologram."
"I'll take that as a compliment." Regan stated.
"Take it as you wish." Atem told her. "I'm just going on what others might think."
"That's for the heads up," Yugi replied politely and turned to Regan. "Let's go."
For the next half hour, Yugi and Regan sold quite a bit of candy and Yugi gave out the odd autograph. One family that went by actually wanted a photo because of 'How cool and similar they were to the tablet that was in the museum and the card.' After the time went by and the next group took over they headed out to find the others.
"Oi, Pharaoh!" someone called out.
Yugi turned towards the sound and saw Bakura in a knight suit. "Hey Bakura, what's up?"
"I just got off my shift and went to look for someone to hang out with for the rest of the day, and then suddenly I saw Dark Magician Girl wandered by and – Hey Dark Magician Girl!" He exclaimed pointing a finger at Regan
She giggled. "Good guess, Ryou."
"Regan? Oh my then it must have been a costume I saw."
"Ah no, so far I'm the only one that has dressed up as her, that was probably the real Dark Magician Girl. By the way are you supposed to be King Arthur or are you one of the knights at the round table?"
"Oh so you do know about England's mythical kingdom of Camelot." He answered excitedly.
"Yes, I'm into that sort of thing."
"Oh really? I just figured that because you did tutoring with Kaiba, I thought you were more in the sceptical side."
"Just because I do tutoring at Seto's office doesn't mean I'm a skeptic, I'm a Libra, I see both sides, myth or not there is always truth in it."
Bakura nodded, "Shall we explore what events our school has created."
Yugi nodded, "Yeah and then we can find out where the heck everyone went to."
The three of them wandered about and eventually came to a haunted house.
"Oh wow, I wonder how scary it is." Regan asked and dragged Bakura and him to the area. A poorly dressed mummy was sitting in front of the door. "Hey, how scary is this haunted house?"
"Well that depends, which level?"
"There is more than one?"
"Yup, there are two of them, one for the kids and one for the ones that think their tough. I think it was you brother, Yugi, and Kaiba that actually just went in-"
"HOLY SHIT!" Someone yelled from inside.
"That would be Atem." Yugi put in.
There was a split second when someone else yelled, "PHARAOH, YOU ARE SO FUCKING DEAD!"
"And that's Kaiba getting pissed off because he just got the living hell scared out of him." Bakura added. "I wonder if he will be nicer now."
"That seems like fun we should go in and scare them too." Regan suggested happily.
Bakura and Yugi turned to each other and then back to Regan, "Ah, no! We like our lives."
"Ah!" Several people screamed at once including Atem and Kaiba.
Yugi's stomach turned suddenly and one look at Regan told him that she did not like the sound that was just made. A person dressed as a zombie came out of the house, running.
"Tex, there was something that literally just popped out of nowhere and then there was a flash of light and then everyone was gone."
"WHAT!" Regan, Bakura and Yugi yelled simultaneously.
"I don't know what happened and – Hey!" The zombie didn't finish as the three of them ran into the haunted house.
For something that was created by a class of high school students, the house was even scarier than the scary ride at Death T, with creepy music and the electronic devices that didn't need someone to work them popped out of nowhere making each of them jump in turn and a minor screech came from Regan when they entered the hospital wing. Suddenly there was a laughter that two of them knew wasn't part of the attraction. Regan stopped dead in her tracks in the middle of the hospital ward which made Yugi run into her and Bakura into him.
"What is it guys?" Their British friend asked.
"That laugh," Yugi explained in anger.
"Where is that bastard?" Regan hissed causing Nile to appear in worry.
Bakura jumped back about five feet. "Where the heck did you come from?!"
"I came from the River's Puzzle." Nile answered bluntly and changed her attention back to Regan. "We should get out of this room, if you haven't noticed Regan is as white as a ghost because of this place."
Yugi nodded in acknowledgement.
"What's wrong with the hospital?" Bakura asked as they continued their walk.
"Regan has a fear of hospitals." Yugi answered.
"Well that is rather a pity considering that she carries a Millennium Item, they tend to visit those more often than most folk."
"Let's stop talking about this and move on." Regan answered in a strained voice. "Where the fuck is the end of this room?"
"Over here." A new voice answered in the dim light. Yugi turned towards it in anger and went in front of his group. "Really, it is this way to a one way trip to either the Realm or the Afterlife. I'm being rather nice for giving you the option, Yugi."
"Dark Matter, what did you do with to the other people that were in here?" Yugi demanded.
"Oh you know; the usual." He answered with a shrug. "Still need to bring back my master so I had a game with one of the students in here, didn't last very long unfortunately."
"You sick bastard."
"I'm sorry, but technically my parents were married."
"Ta mere suce le penis d'animaux pour l'argent." Regan muttered next to Yugi causing Bakura to gasp in shock.
"That did you just say?" Dark Matter asked in confusion looking back at the girl.
Bakura popped out into view of Dark Matter. "Trust me, better for you to ignore the comment altogether." He turned to the girl. "Regan that was really inappropriate."
"Ryou, I'll say what I wish to say besides, he started it."
"Hm, you look quite familiar to the Thief King. Ah that is why they called me Bakura the original name for the Thief King because you're his reincarnate." The demon changed the subject making Bakura flinch. "I should probably spare you just in case, so Zorc doesn't kill me because of it. Damn one less body."
"Manga de le merde et morté!" Regan snapped. "What happened to Seto and Atem?"
"Oh those two, well, I guess they were in here as well. Probably having a blast in the Shadow Realm," Dark Matter said and threw a small box at them. "There's proof, I believe that's Kaiba's."
Regan picked up the box carefully off the floor and opened it taking out its contents.
"That is Kaiba's deck." Yugi answered as he saw her flipping through the deck.
Suddenly the deck was out of her hands and floating back to Dark Matter and he started to shuffle the cards. "It was fun, but now it's time to say goodbye Yugi. Regan don't worry too much, I'll come and retrieve you once Zorc has revived from the depths, after all you and Nile are still separated and needing to be one again. And then you shall be my wife."
"Va te faire metre, enfoiré!" Regan yelled and ran towards the demon.
"Ah Regan, what are you doing?" Yugi called to her as the girl hit the demon over the head with her wand. She grabbed the deck and Dark Matter blasted her back into Bakura.
"That hurt you know."
"Not as much as this is going to." Regan told him as she drew a card from the top of Kaiba's deck. "The one thing I know about these little kidnaps and shit you people pull off. Once you kick their ass, the people who were taking comeback. So I'm going to make sure that you are defeated, I summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
"And a card is going to do so much." He laughed, but it became nervous laugh when the dragon appeared in front of them. "What the-"
"Just another thing you don't know, I've been practicing with Nile to summon real monsters without a duel disk for the last week."
"But people can only summon their own monsters that are connected to them." Bakura stated.
"Doesn't have to be when the creature wants her master back." Regan told them, "So how about it, White Lighting Attack!"
The Blue-Eyes cried in anger towards the demon and blasted him with ease.
"Arg, until next time, Regan you will be mine!" Dark Matter yelled and then he vanished leaving a group of people about ten in front of them out cold on the floor.
Regan and Yugi rushed forward and found Atem and Kaiba starting to wake up.
"What the hell was that?" The CEO grumbled and looked up to see his dragon. "Blue-Eyes, what are you doing here?"
"Seto, Atem are you guys okay?" Regan asked them and both nodded. "Good, now let's leave right now or one of you'll have to carry me out."
Back outside
"Everyone should be okay in about five minutes, so the house should be able to be up running by then." Yugi told the two station runners.
"Thank you Yugi, nice to know it wasn't some alien abduction or something." The mummy replied and then they walked away to go help their peers.
"Well there is the event of the week; we should be free until next week." Regan commented making Yugi laugh. She turned towards Kaiba and help out his deck. "Here Seto, DM had it so I got it back."
Kaiba took back his deck. "I suppose that would explain Blue-Eyes, but you can only summon your own monsters why could you summon her?"
"Anything can be called upon under the right conditions, Blue-Eyes White Dragon was angry that you went missing, so Regan summoned her to beat Dark Matter and bring you guys out of the Shadow Realm." Bakura answered. "Though with what was coming out of Regan's mouth I don't think anything would have dared not to come to her side. She gets really mouthy when she's scared so I've come to realize."
"Yeah about that," Yugi turned his attention away from the confused Kaiba and Atem and to the smirking Regan. "I can only presume that is was French that you were speaking considering Bakura could understand you, but I'm Japanese who knows, English and Ancient Egyptian none of those three languages even collide with French."
"English collides with every language, hence why it is called the stealing language. The word croissant is French and Horus is an English translation." Regan corrected. "And let us not forget the word Tsunami."
"What did you say to him, I'm curious?" Kaiba questioned.
"Only three statements," Regan shrugged. "Ta mere suce le penis d'animaux pour l'argent, mange de le marde et morté, and va te faire metre, enfoiré."
Kaiba's eyes widened.
"Okay I got a man's genital," Atem guessed. "What did she say?"
"Your mother sucks animal cock for money, eat shit and die, and go fuck yourself, dickhead." The CEO translated making Atem and Yugi drop their jaws. "If you teach Mokuba anything like that first insult, I personally will wash out your mouth with bleach."
"Whatever, let's just go find the rest of the group, I'm sure they're missing us." Regan replied and started to walk away leaving everyone behind including Nile who decided to pop out of nowhere scaring Kaiba and Bakura.
"She teaches anyone under the age of sixteen and I'll be washing out her mouth." The spirit stated.
"I thought she got that from you?" Atem assumed.
"I wish, but sadly no. She must have picked it up from someone else."
"I'm going to see if five people managed to lose track of my brother." Kaiba announced and followed to where Regan had walked off to.
Yugi shook his head and the rest of them followed. After walking and Bakura introducing himself to Nile, they finally reached their original group with Jade and Regan in an argument.
"What part of going head to head with some demon is a good idea?"
"I never said it was, but I can't just turn a blind eye and allow him to have his own way." Regan retorted. "I don't know why you are so upset about it, everything went fine, no one got hurt, and Blue-Eyes finished the job."
"Still have that idea that you can actually summon real monsters." Jade laughed. "Regan, you're not a child anymore, you should stop pretending that you can do something your peers can."
Yugi was about to speak out, but Regan spoke first. "I happen to like my imagination, and if you think I'm making this up you should know that after sixteen years, you don't really know much about my character." She turned to Yugi with frustration written in her eyes. "Let's have a duel to show just how wrong my mother is."
"You mean right now, here?"
Regan nodded pulling out her duel disk from her bag and her deck box.
"Wait for me!" Someone yelled and Yugi turned to it to see Dark Magician Girl running over. "I wanna play."
"You can duel?" Joey asked.
"Of course and instead of Regan challenging Yugi, I want to play her in his place. So what do you say, Regan?" She answered and a duel disk appeared on her arm. Regan nodded in acceptance.
They separated and people started to gather outlining the duel field.
"Hey look, a Dark Magician Girl versus a Dark Magician Girl." A little girl called out.
"Duel!"
Regan Heartin VS Dark Magician Girl
Regan – 4000
Dark Magician Girl – 4000
"I'd like to go first." Regan announced as she drew her card.
Turn 1: Regan H: 5 LP: 4000
"First I summon The White Stone of Legend in attack mode."
The White Stone of Legend Dragon/Effect Attack: 300 Defense: 250
A white stone appeared onto the field and started to glow a white color showing off its power. Yugi became confused at the low attack strength let alone its position.
"What! Why in the world does she have that card?" Kaiba freaked.
"What do you mean?" Joey questioned is suspicion. "It's just a little white stone, what could be so great about it?"
"That little rock is not just some rock. When it is sent to the graveyard from anywhere, you can add a Blue-Eyes White Dragon to your hand from your deck."
"Oh," Joey sputtered out. "Hey Regan, did you forget to tell us you have a Blue-Eyes White Dragon in your deck."
"No I didn't Joey, but this stone is in here for a reason, let me show you." Regan replied. "I remove it from play to special summon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon."
Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon Dragon/Effect Attack: 2800 Defense: 2400
A red and black dragon appeared as it gave a mighty roar as it replaced the rock.
"Nice play," Yugi called out.
"Next I special summon Lightpulsar Dragon to the field by using Red-Eyes' effect."
Lightpulsar Dragon Dragon/Effect Attack: 2500 Defense: 1500
A blue and white dragon appeared next to Red-Eyes in a roar that equaled Red-Eyes in might.
"I still only see holograms." Jade sighed in annoyance.
Yugi turned to jade. "Well then get ready for you to be mistaken."
"She may be your friend, but that doesn't give you the right to go along with her fantasy." Jade rolled her eyes.
A snort was heard close by and Yugi found Red-Eyes in Jade's face. "Told you."
"I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Regan finished as Red-Eyes walked back to the playing field.
Turn 2: Dark Magician Girl H: 5 LP: 4000
"Wow two giant dragons in the first turn, I think I'm getting nervous." Dark Magician Girl exclaimed happily as she drew her card. "I summon Silent Magician LV4 in attack mode and then I'll set two cards also facedown to end my turn."
Silent Magician LV4 Spellcaster/Effect Attack: 1000 Defense: 1000
"Is that all?"
"Yup,"
"Alright then," Regan told her opponent.
Turn 3: Regan H: 1 LP: 4000
"I wonder if Regan is going to use that polymerization card in this duel." Tristan said to the group.
"She might, I want to see what she fuses together also." Atem stated and turned to Jade. "Do you know what she fuses together?"
"Not a clue, the few cards that I know of in her deck is some Dark Lord and an Angel; she brought at least one of them out every time she dueled." Jade explained. "I guess I really don't know much about her after all."
"You don't seem to upset about that." Kaiba commented on her lack of sympathy that Yugi also noticed. He turned back to the duel and was glad Regan didn't notice the conversation on the sidelines."
"I draw," Regan called out.
"Silent Magician gains a counter because you drew a card." Dark Magician Girl explained as the Magician's attack rose by 500.
"I activate the spell, Pot of Greed so I can draw two cards."
"And Silent Magician gains an extra 1000 attack for the two cards."
"No comment?" Kaiba continued in a threatening manner. "If you do I'm dying to know."
"If you are trying to scare me you'll have to do better than that. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to continue watching my daughter in a friendly duel." Jade replied so calmly, it sent chills down Yugi's spine in a warning.
"Now I'm activating Cost Down and sacrifice Lightpulsar to summon Guardian Angel Joan."
Guardian Angel Joan Fairy/Effect Attack: 2800 Defense: 2000
An angel appeared in Lightpulsar's place.
"Next I activate Red-Eyes' effect to summon Lightpulsar again." Regan announced and the said dragon appeared on the opposite side of Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.
"Three large monsters now, do you have any lower level monsters besides the pretty stone?" Dark Magician Girl asked in astonishment.
"Of course, but it seems like today my deck wants to show off a bit." Regan grinned. "Now, Guardian Angel Joan attack Silent Magician. The last thing I need is that magician growing up any more."
Guardian Angel Joan started to form a light in her hands and shot it towards the magician.
"Not so fast, I activate my trap card Magic Cylinder." The dueling magician announced as the card flipped face up.
"No you don't, because I also activate a trap, Seven Tools of the Bandit. And by giving up 1000 life points I can negate your trap and because I activated a counter trap and negated yours, I can special summon Van' Dalgyon from my hand. Come on out Van' Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord and destroy her second facedown!" Regan exclaimed in excitement as her life points dropped to 3000 and the large dragon entered the field.
Van' Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord Dragon/Effect Attack: 2800 Defense: 2500
Dark Magician Girl activated the facedown that was about to be destroyed. "I'm activating it before your dragon destroys it. My card is Negate Attack. This ceases your battle phase."
Yugi sighed in relief as he tried to keep his own excitement of the duel in check. Dark Magician Girl and Regan's back and forth assaults were more intense than he could have thought it would get. He looked around and noticed quite a crowd had gathered as the duel progressed.
"That was amazing, DMG!" Regan told the other duelist.
"You were not too bad yourself, DMR."
"What does that stand for?"
"Dragon Magician Regan." The magician laughed. "Now it's my draw."
Turn 4: Dark Magician Girl H: 3 LP: 4000
"Oh good grief they gave each other nicknames." Bakura commented as Dark Magician Girl drew her card.
"It's only to be expected, they are similar." Atem answered, "Which is why my sister and Mana got along."
"I sacrifice Silent Magician LV4 to summon Dark Magician Girl." Dark Magician Girl announced.
Dark Magician Girl Spellcaster/Effect Attack: 2000 Defense: 1700
"You just summoned yourself." Joey complained. "How is that fair?"
"Next I activate Sage's Stone which allows me to special summon Dark Magician of Chaos."
Dark Magician of Chaos Spellcaster/Effect Attack: 2800 Defense: 2600
A black Magician popped into existence and showed off his wand.
"Dark Magician of Chaos' effect activates and I place Sage's Stone back into my hand to activate it again. I now special summon Dark Magician."
Dark Magician Spellcaster/Effect Attack: 2500 Defense: 2100
"If that is all you are going to do," Regan judged as the purple magician entered the field. "Then all you are doing is postponing your defeat."
"I haven't said it was the end of my turn yet so watch, I activate Magic Formula and equip it to Dark Magician. I also give my Dark Magician of Chaos a Magic Formula boosting his attack to-"
"3400!" Regan exclaimed.
"That's right, now my Chaos Magician attack Red-Eyes."
"I don't think so, I activate my face down; you should recognize it you played it last turn, Negate attack."
Dark Magician of Chaos' attack was absorbed into the trap card.
"Nice job, I end my turn." Dark Magician Girl called out.
Turn 5: Regan H: 0 LP: 3000
"I draw," Regan called back and drew. She looked at the card in surprise. "Well it was a good duel DMG, but this game is over now. I activate Dark Hole."
A dark hole appeared and each of their monsters were destroyed.
"But why would you leave the field empty?"
"Who said anything about leaving the field empty? Lightpulsar's effect goes off which brings back Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon. And that means-"
"You can activate his special ability to bring another dragon to the field." Yugi finished with excitement.
Regan nodded at him. "Exactly, so I bring back Van' Dalgyon."
Van' Dalgyon came back to the field and stretched. "Ready when you are."
"It- he talked." Jade exclaimed.
"He also has an ego the size of North America." Regan replied. "Van' Dalgyon, Red-Eyes attack DMG with Twin Dragon Blast."
The two dragons fired a beam of power that fused together and attack Dark Magician Girl and her life points dropped to 0.
"An OTK!" Joey yelled happily high fiving Tristan. "Love to see you do that Kaiba."
"I have against you on several occasions and recently on the eleventh, a double OTK if I remember correctly."
"You only managed because of Regan's cards on your turn." The blond shot back.
Kaiba looked like he was going to retort when Regan and Dark Magician Girl came back as they skipped and laughed towards them. The people that were watching the duel started to dissipate back into the festival.
"I feel much happier now." Regan sighed in delight.
"Duels are always fun even if you are saving the world, there is still some joy in it to look back on." The duel monster replied with a smile. "I should probably head back now; make sure all the duel monsters that left are accounted for; you know those important little things."
Regan pouted. "Damn I thought we could hang out a little longer."
"Here, take this card and tweak up your deck a bit, and the next time that we duel I'll see if you have grown."
Regan took the card from Dark Magician Girl. Yugi smiled having an idea on what she was given.
"This card is you."
"Yup, so if you ever need some help I'll be there in a flash." Dark Magician Girl replied. "Have fun DMR, until next time."
And then his monster was gone.
Yugi turned to Jade. "I think you have something to say to her,"
"Alright," Jade walked up to her daughter. "You were right and it was not a case of your imagination, are we good?"
Regan nodded and gave the mother a hug.
Yugi's attention was snapped back to a low growl that came from Atem and Kaiba. In curiosity he dragged them away from the group. "What's wrong with you two, especially you Kaiba, I have never seen you so defensive about someone other than your brother and yourself."
"That woman," Kaiba started. "She's hiding something and I don't like not knowing."
"Well she is hiding the fact that Regan is adopted, but that isn't something to get over dramatic about." Yugi stated.
"No," Atem told him. "There is something else. Most people don't stand their ground towards Kaiba, let alone respond the way Jade did when Kaiba questioned her. It was just out of reason for her to act the way she did, almost like she knew something or had connections. Kaiba would act that way because he does have connections and he is, as much as this stings, all powerful and mighty, a regular citizen doesn't have that kind of upbringing to be all mighty against someone very powerful, even Regan's first approach when she defended Joey may have seemed like Jade's but she had respect written between the lines. Jade's… was almost dangerous if not threatening."
"Her answer was quite plain, but I see your point, that answer was dangerous even though it may not have seemed like it on the surface." Yugi thought out loud and turned his head to where Jade was standing. The woman turned to meet Kaiba's face and gave a look that said 'test me and you'll regret it' then turned to Téa who was asking her something. He turned back to Kaiba, "What else do you know about Jade that I should know about to find some answers."
"And I wanted your help when exactly?" Kaiba rhetorically asked.
"Kaiba, you want to know her hidden secrets, she certainly isn't going to give them to you and I am already welcomed into their home without question, now tell me what you know so I can solve this before it gets any messier than it already has." Yugi demanded making sure every word he said was not ignored. Kaiba seemed hesitant, but gave in after Yugi gave him an even more serious look.
"The first time I met Jade and Regan was about thirteen years ago, just after Mokuba was born, so I just lost my mother and about five to six years before we were at the orphanage. My father brought us to their home. I don't know why we were there, but we went to the door, Jade opened it. She hasn't changed much in thirteen years, really. Anyway, after entering, the two adults were talking very quickly and quietly in some unknown language that I still don't understand, because I can't remember the details that well. My father told me to leave the room with Regan and we played until there was yelling. Being the little aura bug Regan was and is she was about to figure out the problem, but I stopped her and then we heard:
*Flashback*
"The Debt is up, their mother is dead and now you pull this stunt!"
"But I'm just getting warmed up and plus what harm is it anyway, well besides an old friend coming to play?" The glee in the woman's laugh stabbed into his head.
Regan's toddler form stood up, but he shook his head at her and she stopped.
"One day they will meet up. And when that day comes, you will also face a change. One day when you become selfless like their mother; you will meet your end as well." His father told Jade in anger.
*End of Flashback*
"And then we left. In the vehicle my father looked either ready to start World War III or flood the earth in tears. That was the last time I saw those two until Regan's first day in Domino when I went to challenge you."
"Well that explains the hint of a smile from you." Atem commented in the pondering silence. "That is incredibly suspicious we'll get back to you on the pieces that we find, but knowing us, we will probably put ourselves in an uncalled for situation next week.
"Yes I suppose we've had our weekly death threat for the week." Yugi replied. "For now," he turned back to his family and friends. "All we can do is look and wait for someone to slip."
"Muto, Kaiba, here are the voting pads." A judge announced behind them. Yugi received a voting pad and started to look at who was on the list. "You have twenty minutes to vote in the twelve categories and any children under the age of twelve will be voting amongst themselves so don't worry about little kids not getting any prizes.
"Thank you," Yugi replied and the judge walked away towards the group that was still chatting away. "I only wonder where they got these PDA systems for the voting."
"Probably donated by a local game show or something." Kaiba replied as he looked at his system. "I wonder if it would be considered cheating to vote for myself."
"I doubt it, I know I'm voting for myself, they separated the ages thirteen to eighteen and then nineteen and above for the public." Atem stated. "How about this, we all vote for ourselves for best looking and for the closest looking to costume and then it won't be a disadvantage to any of us. Yugi are you still in this game that we started?"
"I wouldn't think about backing down now," Yugi replied to him and clicked his photo on the two categories. After the three of them finished their selections, another judge came by and collected the PDAs and wandered off to find anyone else finished with their voting. Yugi turned to Kaiba and Atem. "Well good luck Atem, may the best man win."
"Hey, don't think you guys are just having this contest amongst yourselves, I'm in this too, spikey one and spikey two, and you two are going down."
"Kaiba don't even think about bribing people; that would be against the rules." Atem scolded. "Now what are we to do until the contest begins?"
"How about we all go to that shooting range, I hear Tristan has a pretty good aim." Regan suggested out of nowhere scaring Yugi into a yelp. "Oh did I scare you?"
"Yes you did," Yugi commented trying to figure out if his heart was still beating, thankfully it was. "So the shooting range, is that around the stage hosting the contest results?"
Regan nodded, "Yea the stage is just over there." She pointed and Yugi saw the make shift stage that was being prepped. "And the shooting range is right across from it."
"Alright," Atem grinned. "Let's see how well you modern folk due against a Pharaoh."
Nile appeared in front of Atem's face making him step back a few paces. "Pfft, Pharaoh of Egypt, and you think that makes you a better marksman than me?"
"Well yes," Atem smirked. "I'm a man; you are a woman, let alone a spirit."
"Oh, I see." Nile said stepping back a few paces while Kaiba smirked at the two siblings; the spirit turned back to Regan and gave her one of those looks that knew that shit was going down. "Regan, would you mind if I took one of your two spots at the shooting range?"
"Heh, even if I said no I don't think that would stop you." Regan replied nervously and Nile's look deepened into a dangerous one. "Alright, I don't really care; have your fun showing up your brother, because I know I will beat him."
"Oh a double challenge, I accept. Let's go Kaiba, Yugi, you are in this too." Atem ordered and lead them to the shooting range.
"Hey Regan, you got them to go to the shooting range?" Tristan asked on their way by.
"Yes, and now there is the ultimate showdown happening." Yugi answered and the rest of the crew followed them.
"And Yugi, Pen name Nile is the victor of the shooting range." The student in charge told the group. "Who knew?"
"Certainly not me." Yugi commented as he received a regular sized chocolate bar as did Nile who was still in Regan's place. "Nice job everyone."
"Man that game was tight," Mokuba stated. "Between my brother, Regan, Atem and Tristan I couldn't believe that all four of you would actually tie."
"Yes and who knew that Joey was so bad at it." Kaiba taunted. "Matches just about everything else he does."
"Why you, I'll show you up in the contest, I can't wait to see your face when I beat you in numbers." Joey retorted.
"I guess then a lot of people like dogs."
"And if you win then they obviously went for your money you bribed them with."
"Mutt, I couldn't have gone to bribe people today even if I wanted to, I've been stuck with Mr. Rules over here all day." Kaiba told Joey rolling his eyes as he pointed to Atem. "So I guess your little conclusion doesn't equal the equation."
"Whatever Rich Boy," Joey muttered and then wandered off to a front row seat in front of the stage.
Yugi just shook his head at their rivalry and followed Joey's example and sat down next to him. Soon the all the chairs were filled and the MC was on the stage commenting on the festival and such, but after a few festivals, Yugi wasn't paying much attention the opening speech anymore. Only was it he was actually out of his head when he heard clapping and a curtain dropped to show the winners and their amount of votes out of a total of a thousand participates.
Best looking: Closest to costume:
Kaiba: 750 Kaiba: 640
Atem: 750 Atem: 640
Yugi: 890 Yugi: 500
Bakura: 500
Jade: 501 Yoko: 760
Taylor: 670 Ichigo: 740
Téa: 50 0 Regan: 998
Regan: 500
Yugi was amazed by the tally and he turned to Ryou. "Hey nice we tied on the closest costume."
"I wasn't excepting to win," Bakura started. "But I wonder who Atem's competition on the closest costume, I don't know anyone that is in that age group that would take away from his chances at a higher tally."
"Heh that would be me, Bakura." Mokuba replied. "I look like a pretty awesome vampire."
"Are you saying you lowered my tally because you also were in everyone's head in the best looking too?" Atem asked the younger Kaiba.
Mokuba nodded. "Of course who else is as good looking as I?"
"Well according to the stats, me, your brother, Regan, Tea, Bakura-"
"Okay yes so I see," Mokuba shouted in defeat as a sheet of the tallies for everyone on a sheet was passed to everyone in the crowd. "Whatever, I'm the best looking in my class year and that is all that counts, not you old sacks."
"I'm an old sack now am I?" Kaiba taunted and Yugi couldn't help, but laugh as Mokuba tried to explain, that he was the only one that wasn't an old sack.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to go home, after all the excitement I'm pooped." Yugi told everyone. "And Grandpa don't even think about saying you aren't because you are."
Grandpa was about to retort and then closed his mouth and nodded.
"I'm in with Yugi on this one, it will start to get cold and I don't want to be wearing this when it does." Regan agreed as she hinted at her outfit. "I have no idea how Dark Magician Girl does it, I'm mean it must get cold in Egypt at night, it is only common sense."
"That is where the palace comes into play." Atem explained.
"Palaces and Egypt sounds like fun, I'm going to bed, let's go Regan." Jade announced and practically dragged Regan away. "Oh and Kaiba, about our conversation, I couldn't care less about it, the final goal is just about ready."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Regan asked.
"Well, the final goal of finishing the semester you missed." Jade replied all too happily making Kaiba growl beside Yugi. Regan looked back at the CEO, then at him, and then back to her mother.
"Yeah, sure just about finished." Regan said with suspicion.
'Regan, be careful.' Yugi sent to her through the puzzle and then closed off his connection. 'What in the world have I gotten myself into? What is the final goal?'
And that is the end of Volume 2; Volume 3 will of course be posted on this story site thingy… so you don't have to go looking for Volume 3 anyways.
Jade has something hiding in the unknown, what could it possibly be? Kidnapping, possibly. Blackmailing, maybe… find out in Volume 3: Virtual Truth Virus (which is the next chapter… :D)