Well here is Chapter 1 of Volume 4: The Gamer's Trials Part 1
Hope you enjoy and a reminder disclaimer for the story:
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or its characters, though I own the OCs, storyline and the cards that I create.
Chapter 1
Top Duelist in the Female Division
Friday November 4th, 2011
Regan got up at the regular time like every other school day, seven thirty. Even though she went to bed around two hours before, she was wide awake and just wanted to get to school, do some work to get her mind off everything that was actually important. Go through cheerleading practice so her mind was even more off from the night before and then while changing and in between classes she wanted to reserve for thinking about the night before and how she was going to confront Jade and make her tell her directly what the hell she was thinking at the time. She hoped that she changed her mind over the last few years, but the memories of the last couple of months betrayed her hope. Jade acted distant since they arrived in Domino. She was ill-tempered and short of any patience like she had other things to deal with that were no one's business except her own.
She sighed as she got dressed into her clothing that Atem and Nile had retrieved for her. Regan looked around the large room that was only small portion of the rest of the castle she was in. It was still the same, nothing had changed meaning her night last night wasn't a dream. It was all real and the only thing that made her actually happy about it was also the reason she was also completely decimated. She was the long lost sister of Seto and Mokuba Kaiba. She had a feeling that didn't happen too often in other families, but then again how often does a set up to take over the world by using an aura user and a really long and complex plan happen. The only thing that came to her mind was the movie Elf, but no one was trying to take over the world, it was just a cheesy Christmas movie that she didn't really care for.
She filled her book bag with the essentials of school and of course her multi-colored duel disk she got from Seto on her birthday after Yugi and her saved everyone from Dark Matter. Its color was completely custom colored with the main white color with a green outline, yellow arrows and purple card placers that were outlined in red and life point gauge was blue. She never knew when a duel would pop up in the city so she carried it along with her deck. It never was like that in her home country, but she wasn't complaining. She enjoyed the random duels that happened every once and a while, whether they were from her friends or strangers her record was undefeatable, unless if it was against Yugi, he won the two times they played. The second she got him down to fifty life points and then he played dark hole and then proceeded to play monster reborn to bring her Red-Eyes to the field to deal the final attack.
Regan walked out of her room and proceeded down the hall. She turned to descend down the steps to find Roland waiting at the bottom. She blinked in surprised and wondered if he slept at all. She walked down the steps. She paused and looked up at Roland. He looked neutral, but her puzzle picked up a mixture of worry and a bit of sympathy that came off of him. She replaced her thinking frown with a smile to make the man not notice her inner emotions and thoughts. "Good morning."
"Good Morning Lady Heartin." Roland replied with a bow.
She blinked in surprise, "Lady Heartin? What's with the fancy term?"
"Mr. Kaiba told me about the trip that happened last night. It's a pleasure to have you here, though I am sorry for how the events turned out."
"It could have been worse." Regan shrugged trying hard to minimize any worries the man had. "I guess Seto and Mokuba are still sleeping, the aura sword Seto brought home drained his energy quite a bit."
"They are." Roland answered. "Mr. Kaiba told me to make sure there was something for you to eat in the morning and then take you to school when you got up."
"He doesn't miss a thing does he?"
"Breakfast will be ready momentarily; the kitchen staff didn't know what you wanted so just say what you want." Roland told her as he led her to the dining room.
They walked into the dining room and noticed that one kitchen staff was waiting at the head of the table. The woman bowed and asked what she wanted. Regan didn't want to eat anything, but knew that it was probably just caused by her thoughts so she went for something simply and asked for a small bowl of frosted flakes. The breakfast was quick and the drive by Roland was silent. Regan asked for the tapes from last night to be played in front of her. When she finished watching them with great detail, she realized they arrived at the school. Roland handed her a bloodstained sheet of paper. She took a look at it and noticed it was the DNA sheet that Brittney had and Seto took from her corpse.
"Mr. Kaiba asked me to give this to you, for your talk with Jade." Roland explained as Regan placed it in her bag.
"Thanks Roland, I'm probably going to need this." Regan replied.
"Do you wish for a ride to your house after school?"
"No I'll walk home, but thanks you asking."
Roland turned back to the front and Regan left the limo. Her day went just the opposite of her plan. There was barely anything to do. It was Friday and even the teachers weren't in the mood to teach let alone the students wanting to learn. So her thought of being distracted from important business vanished and came to the top of her head for her to deal with. Another thing that she was not expecting was the fact that her practice was canceled and was rescheduled until Friday November 18th. So instead of waiting, she had to face her problem even sooner and she didn't want to. She didn't even really talk to her friends, not that Joey or Tristan was even at school, but Yugi and Téa gave her some space to think on her own.
By the end of the day she had only one way to address the issue and it was to approach softly, but serious. As she walked through the door into homeroom she was greeted with a large hug from Téa. In confusion, Regan looked at the future dancer. "What's with the hug?"
Téa didn't answer and led her to their corner where Yugi was. They sat down and Yugi sent a warm smile at Regan. She smiled in return. "What's up?"
"Just was wondering how you're doing after last night." Téa answered.
Regan gave her a questionable look. "How did you find out about last night?"
"Atem told me on our way to school when I asked why we weren't walking with you this morning. I'm not sure if I should be feeling pity for you or should be glad for you."
"So that's what the hug was for?" Regan asked and she nodded. "I guess it works both ways."
"Do you have any idea what you're going to say to Jade?" Yugi asked.
Regan shook her head. "The only thing I have covered is the approach, but words, I have no idea."
"I just can't believe that even for the two months here she was hiding her plans so well and played a parent so smoothly." Téa said.
"There were some moments mostly recently that her cover was not so waterproof. Even after what happened last night we don't know what the final plan is or when it's supposed to happen. And by her attitude, she doesn't seem to have much time left to complete her end, whatever that is."
"Do you want one of us to come with you?" Yugi asked after a silent moment.
"No, this is something I have to do." She answered and turned to her private thoughts. 'But why do I get the feeling these actions are going to bite me?'
The bell rang taking her out of her thoughts.
"I hope it goes well." Téa hoped flashing a smile.
Regan nodded and sent back a smile, but it was only skin deep. She already knew that something was going to happen. Regan walked home by herself and thought on how she would bring it up. 'What would you say if you were in this position?' she asked mentally to Nile.
"I suggest just point blank state your questions." Nile answered popping up beside her. The two walked in perfect rhythm. "You know how she reacts and move around touchy subjects so use your knowledge to your advantage."
'I wish I didn't have to do this. I almost want to be ignorant from the truth, it seemed simpler then.' Regan replied taking out the stained sheet from her pocket. 'This whole thing has brought more problems to plate then it has brought good and not just with Dark Matter and his stunt last night that almost brought Zorc to the real world, but also with the Dragon Slayers.'
"They don't know about you being Kaiba's sibling though."
'Says Brittney, for all we know they knew before Seto did.'
"Well if they did, they would have attacked you by now, your much less 'secure'," Nile used her fingers in quotations. "Than Kaiba and Mokuba are and they sure don't know anything about the River's Puzzle either."
'I still don't think that really tells me there are fewer problems at the table.'
Nile shrugged, "You have me, your bros and your friends to help you out and you can help them out when they need it. There is definitely more good then there is bad with this newest developing plot twist."
'We'll see about that after this conversation with mo- erm Jade.' Regan changed her words as her house was a few metres away, 'We're here.' Regan found Jade washing the window to her shop and she walked up to her, "Mom?"
"Yes," Jade responded and looked away from the window.
"I figured something out yesterday and I need you to confirm it."
"Alright, ask away."
"Why did you hide the fact that I wasn't your biological daughter?" Regan asked.
Jade looked at Regan like she was high off glue and insane, but Regan felt a wave a panic from her former mother. "I don't know what you're talking about, did one of your friends tell you're adopted." Jade brought her into a hug. "They might have been joking around, but if they weren't then I think you need to find better friends and if it counts I don't approve of Yugi being your friend or his gang-"
"Just stop!" Regan shouted in anger at her accusation and pushed away from Jade. "Tell me the damn truth now and leave my friends out of this."
"I did tell you the truth, you are my daughter."
"Liar! You and your group of lunatics kidnapped me when I was a year old. You aren't my mother and never have been. My mother was Isolde, and she gave me to you so you wouldn't kill Seto, Yugi's father or my real father, Takahashi, and her!" Regan felt tears start to fall onto her checks as the images from the videos replayed. "You destroyed my family-!"
"Regan that's enough!" Jade cut her off. "How could you say something so cruel to your own mother-?"
Regan snapped in rage. "Cruel! You went against your best friends for power. Power of all things! You aren't my mother even if you wanted to be your actions over the years tell your true nature of greed and because of it Kayama isn't around for his son probably because of you, Seto and Mokuba have been through fucking hell and back because you wanted to use them to get even more power from Gorzaburo's company, and then you wrapped me around your little finger to try and get me to do all your dirty work, your final weapon because of my abilities that I didn't even know what I could do with them." Regan pulled out the DNA sheet. "This is from Kaiba's lab."
"Where did you get this?" Jade asked.
"Brittney showed us and then Seto got it from her very dead body after she summoned Zorc and was ironically killed by him which destroyed him again."
"Brittney, I don't even know anyone named Brittney." Jade retorted.
"Bullshit, she documented the important details about your little scheme and I watched them last night and before school. You are a lying-"
Regan didn't get to finish as Jade slapped her across the face. Nile looked as horrified as she felt. Jade look like she didn't even cared anymore. "I said enough!"
Regan felt her feelings brake through her dam that she built to keep them at bay. Between Nile wanting to murder Jade and Jade's waves that she was done messing around, Regan just turned and ran down the sidewalk in tears.
"Regan get back here!"
"No, I don't have to listen to you!" She called back running even faster away.
When she was away from sight a good four blocks away, she turned into an alleyway. She fell onto the wall and slid down it hiding her head in her knees and arms. She cried letting out all the stress that had built up. She needed to let it all go and she didn't care if anyone saw her. Nile wasn't with her at the moment which Regan was grateful for and if she needed her she could just call, but she didn't. Regan never really thought of herself as someone who would cry over everything and anything, but with two times in one day, made her think otherwise. She realized she didn't care, so she just cried like there was no tomorrow to satisfy the need to empty her overfilled dam. When she finally calmed down she splayed out her legs in front of her and took several deep breaths. She took out her duel disk from her bag and put it on to observe it.
Then she heard someone walking down the alley. She looked up to see a seven foot man that looked like he weighed about three hundred pounds and two more of him came from behind him.
"I bet the Queen would love to have a custom design duel disk. Could you tell us where to find one?" The first one asked.
"Sorry I can't help you." Regan replied standing up.
"Then I guess that we'll have to take it from you then." The third one said as all three of them pulled out pretty heavy looking chains.
"Trust me gentlemen, I'm not one of your average school girls, I suggest that you leave before one of you gets hurt."
"Ha you're funny; what are your connections with Kaiba?" The second one asked clicking his chain off the ground.
Regan felt her rage build again. She was already pissed off, but they made her even more pissed as they mentioned Seto. She took a breath as she noticed someone hiding in the shadows before answering calmly. "I don't have any connection with him and even if I did I wouldn't be tell you pieces of dirt."
"Dirt, I'll show you who dirt is." The first one growled in anger and flicked his chain at her.
She defended herself by letting the chain wrap around the duel disk. The man looked shocked as she reefed on it making him fly forward. She right hooked him right under the jaw and knocked him out when it cut the blood circulation to the brain.
"I told you not to start anything." She hissed as the chain fell to the ground. The two other guys yelled in frustration and wiped their chains towards her. She ducked under the first one and jumped over the second on. She ran towards them and jumped onto a box giving her momentum to jump high enough to get onto the third guy's shoulders. The second one whipped his chain hitting his friend's face instead of her. The man fell and she jumped and gave a flying kick across the face of the last one standing. She landed on her feet as the last assault fell to the ground. "I warned them." She sighed as she grabbed her bag.
"Well, well that was amazing. I must congratulate you for taking out the Queen's bodyguards." A female said just in the shadows clapping slowly.
"Well I suggest you find professionals instead of scum who do your dirty work, Miss Queen." Regan said with her back turned to the female.
"So you knew I was the queen and not a random person." The Queen replied and Regan heard her walk out of the shadows.
"I knew you were there when I noticed someone in the shadows when those three showed up." Regan told the female and hinted at the three silent bodies on the ground. "You thought I was just some random person maybe an easy target for a follower when I was down, but when I pulled out my duel disk from my bag, your greed kicked in instead."
Regan turned around to find a peach hair female about seventeen years old with her hair pulled into a braid that circled her head like a crown with the rest hanging loose around her shoulders with a gold tiara on her head. Her eyes were a teal color and her complexion was fare. She wore a pair of jeans and a pink half halter top.
"So really, what kind of connections do you have with Kaiba?" the girl asked.
"None of your business and I would like a name." Regan demanded.
"Sorry my name is Celesta Silex and I'm the top duelist in the female division. My bodyguards call me Queen because I can be authorized to be the Queen of Games."
"There's a female division for duelist?"
"Yes there is, Dueling Judges take female duelists from tournaments and judge there dueling skills as a whole to other female duelists to get the top duelist. You, of course, have to beat the champion first in order to get her title. Girl, your disk looks so awesome, I'm the queen I should have it something like that."
"And yet you wanted to steal it and because you are the best is your reason to have it. Did you know Kings and Queens were assassinated for being so arrogant?"
Celesta flashed her duel disk on her arm. "If you want to be like that, how about you give me your name then we can duel to see this issue over."
Regan grinned at the challenge as she placed her cards in the disk. "I, Regan Heartin, accept your challenge."
"I doubt you'll win, and when I do I want your duel disk."
"And the world revolves around you."
"Duel!" The two of them shouted together.
Regan – 4000 Celesta – 4000
Turn 1: Regan H: 5 LP: 4000
"I'll go first." Regan announced drawing a card. She looked over her hand and found a nice strategy, though it might cost her some points. "I end my turn." She announced not placing anything on her field.
"Regan there you are, I've been looking for you." Someone said from behind her.
"Yugi what are you doing here?" She asked looking behind her and noticed her spikey haired friend.
"Nile came to my house and explained what happened, so I came to find you while she went to find Atem." Yugi explained and looked at the three men on the ground. "You did a lot for someone who has been gone for only half an hour."
"Sorry if I worried you and they started it… I warned them." Regan said and looked at the three males like they were the dirt that she had called them and then back to Yugi. "Are all males overly egotistic about themselves when they try to fight a girl?"
"Um… well-" Yugi started and then was interrupted by Celesta.
"So that's your relationship with Kaiba. You make friends with his enemies and look at their tactics to report back to Kaiba so he can demolish them, it's brilliant."
"Um, no." Regan and Yugi said together.
Turn 2: Celesta H: 5 LP: 4000
"Whatever, since you didn't put any monsters down or any facedown cards I can do this to you without any worries." Celesta said as she grabbed a card from her hand. "I summon Multiply Rabbit. If I have another Multiply Rabbit in my hand then I can summon it to the field and add its attack points to my other rabbit for the turn."
Multiply Rabbit Beast/Effect Attack: 1500 Defense: 1500
She placed two of them on the field. "Now one of my rabbits has 3000 attack points while the other has none until the end of the turn, but that's alright. Multiply Rabbit Attack her directly."
The rabbit hopped into the air and kicked Regan.
"I activate a monster effect from my hand." Regan responded ignoring the rabbit's attack as her planned slipped into motion. "When you attacked me directly and I have no other cards on the field, I can special summon this guy and also I can summon a token with the amount of damage as attack and defense points. So I special summon Gorz the Emissary of Darkness and a 3000 attack point Emissary Token." Two emissaries came onto the field one male and the other female both with blades that looked ready to do their job.
Gorz the Emissary of Darkness Fiend/Effect Attack: 2700 Defense: 2500
Emissary Token Fairy/Token Attack: 3000 Defense: 3000
"What are you serious? I play a facedown and end my turn." Celesta replied.
Regan – 1000 Celesta - 4000
Turn 3: Regan H: 5 LP: 1000
"I won't let you activate that facedown card." Regan said as she drew her card. "This duel is done; I activate Mystical Space Typhoon which destroys your facedown card."
A giant wind flew in and destroyed the facedown card that turned out to be Mirror Force.
"My Mirror Force," Celesta whined.
"Now I activate Dark Core by sending one card to the graveyard from my hand I can remove one monster face-up on the field, so say good bye to your Multiply Rabbit."
The rabbit was sucked into a dark ball and then it was gone. On Celesta's side of the field stood one lonely looking rabbit.
"Well, um," Celesta said looking at her empty field, minus the rabbit.
"Emissary, attack the rabbit and Gorz attack her directly." Regan ordered her monsters. The token wiped the rabbit off the field dealing 1500 points of damage to Celesta. The girl winced and went wide eyed when Gorz appeared in front of her. Gorz attack and threw Celesta against a dumpster.
"Ow, that hurt." Celesta said rubbing her head as the disks shut off and the monsters disappeared.
"Next time don't try to underestimate someone, you may get more than what you bargain for." Regan stated.
"Well I'm always prepared; I'm not leaving without your duel disk and a bit of information." Celesta replied as she snapped her fingers.
There was the sound of a chain hitting the ground.
"Yugi duck!" Regan yelled before turning around. The chain whipped through the air. "Do you ever learn?" She asked the one standing scumbag.
"Yea." He answered and whipped the chain in her direction. She let the chain wrap around her disk like before, but before she could tug on it, the thug tugged first. "I got you." He said gleefully with his arm around her neck.
"Not by a long shot." She gritted her teeth as the man's grip tightened around her neck.
"Regan!" Yugi exclaimed as she went to come to her rescue.
"Stay back or the girl gets a booboo." The scum threatened.
Yugi stood down and Regan saw her chance when the man's grip lessened. She kicked the man in the shin as hard as she could and then bit into the man's forearm hard, but not enough to break skin.
"Gah!"
Regan grabbed a chain from the ground and whipped it at the man's head. He went down with a thud. "Hm, the bigger they come the harder they fall."
"Where did the girl go?" Yugi asked.
Regan looked at where she last saw her. "I don't know where Celesta Silex went off to."
"Wait the female champion of duel monsters?!"
"Yea, you know of her? I thought she was just messing around or something."
"I wonder what will happen now that you defeated her." Yugi asked. "When I defeated Kaiba for the first time, it hit the news like a bee goes for a flower and then Pegasus announced a tournament."
"I don't know what's going to happen now. This duel was recorded in Seto's system due to the duel disks." Regan replied and noticed something flying over Yugi's head. She jumped and grabbed it and then released it just as it self-destructed. "What the hell was that?"
"I don't know."
She sighed at the fact that she should have a word with Seto about the matter, he was either going to be very proud or he was going to be angry that she interrupted he day off with Mokuba and the sooner the better before one of his workers got a glimpse at it and told the news stations. She didn't want to be famous, yet. "Up for a trip to where Seto is?"
"Sure, I called him and he said that he was heading to his office because someone called him there." Yugi stated and they ran side by side to Kaiba Corp.
When they got there, there were at least a fifty news trucks and reporters at their vans just outside of the office door, out on the patio where the Blue-Eyes White Dragons sat.
"Hey Seto, what's up?" Regan asked when Yugi and she found Seto and Mokuba at the doors of the office. The reporters still seemed like they were setting up microphones and cameras meaning they just arrived.
"Well minus from the anonymous phone call, one of the reporters said that someone sent a message to every news station most of them being worldwide to come here because I was showing the new female champion who will be attending the biggest tournament ever thrown." Seto responded.
"What are you showing them?" She asked cautiously.
"Well a few minutes ago, nothing, now a tape that shows who the new champion."
"Kaiba, you might want to review it before the reporters are ready just in case it was spam." Yugi stated trying not to show any attention.
Seto took out a pocket CPU from his pocket and tapped the screen a few times. He watched it and Regan watched the realization spread across his face. He looked away from the video and towards her. "You're the new champion?!"
As soon as he said that every news reporter turned at once.
"Yeah, that's why I wanted to see you." She whispered as she backed up slowly moving behind him. Mokuba pushed her beside Yugi, "Hey!"
"The first mob of reporters is always a classic, so enjoy." Mokuba grinned evilly and ran into the safe haven of the giant building.
The reporters came all at once. A FOX reporter was in the front of the pack. "Yugi Muto, you came along with our new dueling champion, what is your relationship with this girl?" The Fox reporter asked just before a CBC reporter shoved her back.
"You called Seto Kaiba by his first name, are you in a romantic relationship?"
"A video of the duel will be sent to your stations," Seto replied avoiding the question entirely. "You are on my property so you will only ask questions about the female duelist and the upcoming tournament. And well you can ask whatever you want for Yugi."
Yugi sent a dirty look towards the CEO and Regan, standing so close to Seto somewhat elbowed him and hopefully none of the cameras caught the action. Even if they weren't siblings, she still would have elbowed him. She realized then that they were actually pretty good friends and now siblings. Seto tapped his screen ignoring her action and then put the pocket CPU away.
"Who is the top duelist in the female division?" The reporter from Fox asked.
"I am… my name is Regan Heartin." She answered as the crowd got silent. "I am the duelist who defeated Celesta Silex."
"Ms. Heartin, in the video you are shown defending yourself from three thugs sent by the former champion, who taught you to fight?" The CBC man asked
"I prefer Regan not Ms. more simpler really, and as for the question, I've had training from a fighting trainer, though I prefer to keep violence to a minimum." She answered not wanted to tell the world that the great Seto Kaiba was her personal trainer along with Alex being her weapon's master.
The CBC man turned to Yugi. "The King and Queen of games will be determined in the upcoming tournament. Do you have any useful tips to any one participating in the tournament?"
"Try your hardest and have fun." Yugi answered calmly.
"Last question," The FOX woman started. "The tournament is being held in Toronto, Canada. Do you think that there will be any disturbances like other tournaments in the past?"
"Well it's nice that there's a home advantage." Regan joked and to her surprise most of the reporters chuckled. "But as for disturbances, we can only hope for none."
"Thank you for your time." The CBC reporter concluded and they reporters flew away.
She wandered over and sat on the steps of the building. "How do you guys deal with the media?"
"We don't, they are like vultures you throw the meat and they will follow to grab it, so you avoid the weird questions and feed the good questions." Yugi answered.
"I didn't even want this title; all I was doing was defending myself." She replied thinking over the duel again.
"Well you have it now so deal with it and don't lose your title either." Seto warned as he pulled out an envelope. "Did you find one of these in the mail?"
"No I haven't even been inside my house; I'm not in the mood to go see Jade either."
"Hm, I'm going to have to go kill the bitch for her actions."
"I got one." Yugi stated trying to invade the death thoughts from Seto. He pulled out the same envelope.
"I doubt I'm getting one anyway, if they came in today and they are from Canada that would have taken at least a week and a bit if they have their own postal service. Besides I've never been to a tournament anyway."
"Well after that news report you'll be getting one if you haven't received one already. Remember that you're an eight star duelist on the charts." Seto told her as Mokuba appeared from behind her. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but you should go home and get ready, the flight leaves tomorrow morning so I'll be picking you up with the limo."
"But I don't want to go home." She said crossing her arms, "At least not right now."
"Yugi… could you?" Seto asked.
"Regan you can stay at my place until you feel like going home, I'm sure Grandpa won't mind the extra company." Yugi told her.
She sighed and turned to Seto as one of the reporters' questions went through her head. "What other games do you think the tournament will be hosting if it is more than just one game?"
"Does it really matter what game it is, all I know is that I'm not losing."
"Unless it's against me that is." Yugi answered smugly.
"Do you always get to have the last word, Yugi?"
"I do when it comes to games." Yugi replied and pulled Regan away from Seto and Mokuba. "See you at the airport Kaiba, the invitation states no private forms of transportation."
"I know."
"Bye Seto, Mokuba see you in the morning." Regan called to them and the two brothers headed towards a limo on the side of the road.
They walked back to Yugi's place in silence. Regan thought it was weird that a tournament was being held at the same time Celesta was beaten. She disregarded the thought; the invitations were sent a week before the incident, there was no connection between the two. But it didn't settle her feelings that it could have been planned, especially with the fact that her life was planned out completely even before she was born. Talk about putting Destiny on a run for its money. When they arrived at the store Regan looked across the street at her home and noticed that the car was gone and the lights were out. "I wonder where she went." She asked herself before following Yugi into his home.
Grandpa was sitting on the couch with the T.V. on
"What are you watching?" Yugi asked as they sat down next to him.
"There's a special broadcast about the tournament you were invited too, coming up next." Grandpa answered.
The side door opened and Atem and Téa walked inside.
"What's up?" Regan asked them as they sat on the other sofa.
"Nothing really," Téa answered. "We got the news from Nile though; she's back in the puzzle again."
"They were so on a date." Grandpa mumbled very quietly with a hint of suspicion.
"So how are you-"
"Don't even ask, but sit tight, you're about to see the outcome." Regan interrupted Téa.
Atem and Téa looked at each other in confusion and turned their attention to the news on the T.V.
A reporter from Domino News came on the screen. "Good evening Domino City, today there was a severe boat collision on the Domino Pier today…" The reporter talked about the three boats that had taken part in the accident and how two damaged some warehouses. According to the reporter no one was killed but there were some injuries as she listed the people. As she finished, a male reporter sat down next to her.
"Have you heard about the Game Tournament coming up?" He asked her, "The Gamer's Trials?"
"Yes, there are few people that haven't. It is said to be the biggest tournament ever to be thrown."
"Well I have a special news broadcast from the CEO of Kaiba Corporation, Seto Kaiba, about a brawl between the top female duelist, Celesta Silex's goons and a random girl that seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or at least that what it was until it turned out like this."
The video came on to show her placing on her duel dick and observing it.
"Hey you're on T.V. Regan." Grandpa said excitedly.
Regan continued to watch as the three men approached and they had their little discussion. The 'brawl' broke out. The battle was apparently really quick and the scene turned to her pausing when Celesta walked out to confront her. Regan got up from her seat, walked out of the room and outside. She didn't need to watch what happen as it played out in her head even as she walked away. It was dark and cold when she got outside, but she didn't mind. Across the street the house was still dark with no vehicle in the driveway. She didn't know how long she stood outside, but she had a feeling that news report was long done. Yugi appeared from inside.
"She's still not back." Regan told him still looking at her home, watching for some change.
"You worried about her?"
"N- um yea." She answered looking at the ground. "Even though she's a bit of a greedy bitch, she's still human and she did take care of me for the last fifteen years, this whole thing seems so small."
"Jade and Brittney along with the rest of that group messed up two families that is not something small, she lied about your whole life, but I know where you're coming from." Yugi replied.
"I'm glad out of the two of us someone does, I don't even know why myself that I want to make sure she's okay." She replied unconsciously placed her hand on where Jade had slapped her. She felt tears start to weld in her eyes. "I should hate her, Seto doesn't seem to have a problem with hating and neither does Atem and I think Nile has a bit of resentment hiding underneath, but I cant."
"Don't worry about not having someone to hate, it's not in your nature to hate, which is what makes you, you. You have the ability to destroy anyone who dares to cross your path, to eliminate everyone you see unfit to live, but you don't because you can't hate enough to kill."
"How do you know?"
"Regan, I can't hate even if I wanted to, the whole light and dark separation five thousand years ago kind of does that." Yugi smiled with glee. "Not that I wanted to kill anybody. We should head back inside before they think we disappeared."
"Good idea." Regan smiled and they walked back inside and were met with an audience of blank faces and the television off. "What?"
"You're dangerous." Grandpa answered.
"What's that's supposed to mean?"
"Don't take it the wrong way, it's just that you can defend yourself extremely well… excellent dueling skills I might add."
"Thanks, I think." Regan replied and turned to head back out again.
"Hey where are you going?" Yugi asked.
"It's getting late and so I figured I should head home and get something for supper, if Jade comes home I'll avoid her, but I have a feeling she won't be."
"Well Yugi will be glad to walk you home." Atem said with a sneaky smile.
Regan and Yugi turned to look at him so she couldn't see Yugi's reaction. It looked like he was going to retort, but it failed.
"Sure," Yugi replied and turned back around and Regan saw a hint of red on his face. She turned quickly to the door as she felt her face go red.
"Okay, see you later." Grandpa called as they went out the door.
They walked across the street and into her home. She wandered to find a note sitting on the counter. She picked up the note which was written in English.
'What does it say?" Yugi asked beside her.
"It says that she went to Canada for a couple of days and left me quite a bit of money, though I probably don't need it."
"What do you mean by 'quite a bit'?"
"Ten grand Canadian, by the looks of it," Regan answered as she picked up the money that the note was sitting on.
"That's not quite a bit, that's like go buy an apartment kind of money. Ten grand is like seven hundred and fifty thousand Yen. What on earth was she thinking?"
"766, 798 Yen and it was probably just that, but I thought because of their plan in its final motion they would want me to be close by." Regan responded as she picked up her house phone and dialed Jade's cellphone. There was a vibrating noise that came from the living room. She followed the noise and found the cellphone sitting on the coffee table. She turned off the cell phone and set it back on the table. "Unless they want me to think that I'm being abandoned and it will make me feel angry which will eventually turn to hate."
"Are you alright?" Yugi asked moving in front of her.
"I…I don't know-" She didn't finish her thought as someone knocked on the door making her jump.
"Jumpy are we?" Yugi asked and lightened her mood.
She smiled and went to answer the door. She opened the door to find Joey in a mail suit with a piece of mail in his hand standing outside of her door. "…Hi?"
"Hi Regan, I was just doing some mail delivering and someone wearing cloak came up to me and told me this was for you and said to deliver it right away. So here you go." Joey said and gave her the letter he was holding.
She let Joey into the house. "Are you in the upcoming tournament?"
"Yes I am," Joey beamed. "By the way I saw you on T.V. on my run, nice job those guys didn't stand a chance."
"Are you talking about in general or just the goons?"
"The goons, they looked like they were the preps and you were the alley chick." Joey answered and looked at her to find a blank face. "But of course you looked clean and pretty, not dirty… your duel was epic… anyway, what's in the letter and be careful when opening it."
She wandered over to the couch and sat down. Yugi sat beside her and Joey stood in front of them. She opened the letter to find an invitation along with an id card and two plane tickets to Canada on some private plane. She set the items beside her and looked at the invitation. It was written in English and said. "You have been invited to the Gamer's Trials tournament which will be held November 5th 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All expenses paid and one companion of your choice for free, any other companions will have to pay for themselves. Transportation is included and no privately owned transportation will be allowed." She read the invite out loud for both of them to hear.
"I don't understand why they would have the invitation be delivered so late if it was for you, aren't you an eight star duelist?"
"She is which makes me a little concerned over what the tournament will actually be about." Yugi answered in thought.
A light bulb entered Regan's brain. "What did the hooded person look like? What did they sound like?"
"Um, I couldn't tell you really." Joey answered a little freaked over her questions. "They weren't short, but I'm not sure it they were female or male. Why?"
She looked at the letter remembering the little device she found above Yugi's head. "Because the person who gave it to you might have been watching my duel or maybe before that…"
"What made you get that idea?"
"Joey you don't know what happened last night, do you?" Regan asked him.
"I'm presuming sleep because that's what I was doing, but no I don't. I've been with Mai all day and then mail run started a couple of hours ago."
Regan pulled out the sheet of paper that had Brittney's blood stains on it and passed it to Joey. "In a short form of everything minus the videos Yugi, Atem, Mokuba, Alex, Nile, Seto, and I watched we were sucked into Seto's new kind of virtual world technology and it told us what really happened on why Seto's and Mokuba's lives were turned upside down and well they had this plan way before I was even born and that sheet of paper tells you why."
"You're Kaiba's sister!" Joey exclaimed and then it clicked in as his face darkened. "So today when you were in that alley, which was probably caused by an argument between you and Jade meaning, she denied everything that you said. Which she's the one who caused that bruise on your face, god Regan I'm sorry."
"Joey its fine,"
"No it isn't. That is not fine and neither is the fact that you were placed in this kind of position." Joey stated with seriousness and gave the sheet back to her. "I want to see the videos as soon as I can, got it."
"If you want to I guess." Regan sighed. "I guess you have the right to know about it as much as I do, I'll set them up over the tournament so you, Tristan and Téa can watch them. You guys might be able to get more from them in case we missed something."
"Thanks, well I better head out to finish my run." Joey announced as he headed towards the door.
"See ya tomorrow." Yugi called out as Joey left.
Regan sighed and placed her head on the back of the couch. "I'm getting tired of this, first Dark Matter and then you add Dragon Slayers to the mix and then yesterday Brittney which is a whole new group of people that we know nothing about looking for Dragon Slayers to do their work so they can use me. Now we have this tournament that may or may not be a trap."
"We'll get passed it like we always have, but you're right this tournament is not looking very friendly and I have a feeling I'm not going to like the ending of it." Yugi said in thought.
"Well I hope it's a happy ending, though for the past two months they haven't been boring. To tell you the truth without all this chaos, I think I would die of boredom. With order you need chaos so I guess this will never end." She laughed and Yugi joined her.
"So what are you planning then for this tournament?"
"Well I plan to find out who the culprit is, if there is one, and make sure they never mess with us again and made send out a word to other future enemies to watch their step." She yawned as she tried to stand up, but she became dizzy from exhaustion and fell back down. She placed her head on his shoulder. "I'm tired."
"Do you want me to leave?"
"No, just sitting here next to you makes the world seem like a much safer place."
She felt a tear escape and then felt Yugi wipe it away. "Hey no crying, everything will turn out all right in the end."
"But there always needs to be some sort of sacrifice that needs to be made before it calms down again. Brittney was killed and that ended the chaos last night, but what about now. Who will be killed? I don't want to lose anyone, I don't want to watch someone die in front of me again and I certainly don't want to lose anyone close, especially you." She answer as her eyes closed.
Multiply Rabbit: Beast/Effect 4 star 1500 ATK 1500 DEF
When you summon this card and you have another Multiply Rabbit in your hand you can special summon it and make it's attack 0 to give another Multiply Rabbit 1500 extra attack points until the end of turn.
Tada, chapter one complete and LOZ is soon to follow
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