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Shadow - Chapter 1

By Sofia

"Class we have a new student" The loud room falls somewhat quieter "New Student?" The one question prompts a wave of others "Is she a girl?" "Is she pretty?" "Wait what if it’s a guy?" Yugi Moto sits quietly amidst all the confusion, his mind elsewhere. "Hey Yugi! Man we getting a new victim!" Yugi smiles at his friend Joey, who looks please to have gotten Yugi out of his quiet state. "What if this 'victim' of yours turns out to be a pretty girl?" Joey takes this in thought "QUIET!!!" the teacher yells. Calm quickly spreads when everyone is finally seated they are shocked to see a girl already standing in the front of the class. Her eyes are on the floor "Class this is…uh…forgive me but what is your name again?" The girl hesitates for a moment as if she too has forgotten her name. "Julia" her voice takes a confident note her face looks up and a murmur passes throughout the room. The new girl is…beautiful. Beautiful doesn’t describe her fully. A perfect face with silver eyes. A wrap covers her hair. Her liquid gaze falls on four people in the room, Yugi, Tea, Tristan, and Joey. "Julia Maxamillion" the girl smiles when she meets Yugi's eyes. "Tell us a bit about yourself" Julia's smile darkens "There is nothing to tell" The teacher looks taken back "Oh…Okay then pleas take a seat there" The shaken teacher points a trembling finger at the only empty seat in the class, next to Joey. "Joey will you please help Julia settle?" Yugi laughs inwardly at his friend with his dumbstruck expression. Julia's eyes have the soft silver look in them as she turns to say hello to Joey. Far different from the dagger eyes seen by only Yugi seconds ago.

The four friends sit together during lunch. Yugi and Joey compare strategies, Tea listens, Tristan learns. "Battle city tougher than you thought?" Tea teases "Mind if I join you?" Julia's question stops Joey from responding, her presence making him even redder. Yugi smiles "of course" She sits next to Yugi "Ah Duel Monsters!" "Do you Duel?" Yugi asks "Sadly no. I can Duel an old friend and my brother taught me but I never got my own deck. When my parents forced me to come here I swore I would never plays. And lucky me! I came right in the middle of Seto Kaiba's tournament!" They all laugh "So you won't duel" Tea inquires. Julia shakes her head defiantly "nope!" "Good then maybe you could join me in watching?" "That would be great! But I can't this weekend a family matter came up…" "Okay soon then" "Soon" The bell rings and Julia smiles again "Thank you. This is the best conversation I've had since I arrived here" She turns and leaves.

Yugi wakes early, he hears Joey and the others waiting for him. He checks his deck. "Ready" he asks the spirit "Yugi I have a feeling something odd will happen. We must be careful. To many things have happen and Marik must attack us up front sooner or later." "Later would be nice" Yugi murmurs opening the door.

"Who wants a piece of me!" Joey challenges. Tea rolls her eyes "We aren't even there yet!" "Where's Tristan" Yugi asks "At the hospital visiting Serenity" "HE'S WHAT?" Joey explodes "Don’t worry he promised to meet up with us in half an hour" "A lot can happen in half an hour" Joey grumbles. "Ah!! I give up! I'll be at the dance machine t the arcade," Teas says trying to sound irritated. Truth being she had been itching to go back and try out new moves. "Meet you guys at the fountain in half an hour Okay?" "Okay by Tea have fun!"

Battle City is testy with the wins of both Yugi and Joey duelists are fidgety. And also there is something else. Hearing enough whispers Yugi can paste a story together. "A new duelist?" "A new duelist? Is that even possible?" "No one even knows if it is a boy or a girl" "What?" "Shouldn’t they be disqualified?" Duelist step wearily away from Yugi and Joey whispering stories. The two friends sit at the fountain "Not one approach even close to a challenge!" Joey complains. "Hey Guys!" Tea shouts running up, her cheeks pink from excitement "Let me guess" Yugi says with a laugh "You beat your own high score" Tea nods quickly to out of breath to speak. "Where the heck is Tristan?" "Right here bro. By the way Serenity says to visit her sometime" "Don’t even get me started" But Joey doesn’t even get a chance to. The crowd begins to part, people whispering "It's that duelist!" "The new one now ones seen…his…I mean her…its face!" The last part of the crowd separates, revealing, at last, the new duelist. But even then the new duelist is not completely identified. A black cloak disguises the person. Yugi can feel the duelist's eyes on him. "Yugi Moto" the duelist says sounding pleased. A gasp goes up "That's the first time it's spoken" someone whispers loudly. "It's a girl" the spirit tell him inwardly. "Could you see through to her face?" "No she is guarded by magic, heavy magic" "Malik magic?" "No a new magic I sense a Millennium Item" The person steps forward completely out of the crowd who closes after her like the Red Sea. Yugi gets up and meets her half way. The new duelist bows her head in reverence "I must thank you Yugi Moto" she murmurs "For what?" "You saved my brother. I am forever in your debt" "What do you mean?" "It will become clear soon" Yugi feels that behind the cloak the girl was smiling. Her hand comes out and takes his. Yugi shudders her hand is warm. "Welcome back Pharaoh" With that the girl turns and walks away, the crowd making a path for her then closing once she has stepped past them. "Wait!" Yugi shouts "what is your name?!" This time she doesn’t turn around, seeming to melt into the crowd.

Tea yawns, "Are we going to be here much longer you two?" "Not one challenge" Joey says half asleep "It was your idea for us to stay longer" Tea complains. Yugi smiles at the odd fight. "Let's go, Grandpa must be worried." "Hey Tristan wake up" Joey nudges his elbow into Tristan's rib cage "OWW!" "Let's go sleeping beauty" They take a usual short cut through a deserted road. "This is like them scary movies" Joey remarks "Joey!" "What you scared Tea?" Joey tries to spook her a few more times until Tea finally punches him, hard, in the stomach. "OW!" Tea smiles cruelly "Ha! serves you right" "Who taught you how to hit like that" "That my secret" A disturbing half laugh half shout causes them to stop. "I don’t like this" the spirit remarks switching places with Yugi. "I have the famous Yugi Moto in my hands" "Who are you?" the spirit demands. "Lord Malik will be pleased" the voice continues not phased by the question. "Malik I should have known. When will the coward face us himself?" The man cackles again "Once I present him to you of course" "HA" the spirit mocks "There are one of you and four of us" The man laughs again and steps forward. "A rare hunter" Tea says with disgust "That is where you are wrong Yugi Moto" The rare hunter snaps his fingers and the are surrounded by over twenty of Malik's servants, with no possible, peaceful, way out.