Chapter 2

Yugi is normal version; While Yami refers to the taller version.

Ryou is referring to Little Bakura; While Bakura refers Yami Bakura.

When we got to the hotel we found out where Shadow had gone when he vanished. Shadow was standing in front of the hotel waiting for us. After the tense situation earlier Yaten's hands all of a sudden had long, sharp nails.

He looked at his hands and said, "What the . . . I got girlie nails!"

I looked at him and replied, "Duh, you have a lion in you!"

Yaten casually looked at his hands and said, "Oh yeah."

"How could you forget that Yaten!" I shouted.

"Very easily, I can't feel the cat's spirit within mine anymore!" he shouted back.

"Stop it both of you!" Seiya shouted. "We still need to defeat Shadow."

Unfortunately, when we looked to fight him, he was gone. Taiki got curious and asked how to get used to the feline within him. The first thing Seiya told him was, that when he jumps up into the air to avoid an attack and hangs there, he would know that the animal comes with wings included. He also said that, that is the time he would start learning more, and start getting used to his feline side. With the explanation said, Seiya and I decided to help Taiki and Yaten learn how to use the feline within them. Training had begun as Taiki and Yaten called out their nails and started learning to use them as a defense mechanism. Seiya and I brought them into parks, to train as well as in rural areas.

Once the training became fiercer, the two of them found out more of their abilities. Seiya told me that he was planning on launching a few attacks on them. I agreed to that idea but when Seiya told me that he was going to launch his triple fire tornado attack, I said,

"You do realize that if they are not quick enough to either jump out of the way or counter it, the attack will kill them, don't you."

Seiya replied in a cool, collected tone, "Sure I do."

I yelled, "Then why are you going to attempt it!"

"Because they are strong and I know for a fact that they can dodge it." Seiya replied in the same calm tone.

"Been training without me huh?" I replied in a teasing tone.

Seiya laughed and said, "I can't help the fact that you fall asleep too early."

"Why you…" I said as I started to chase him.

The next part of the training was where Seiya launched his Triple Fire Tornado Attack on them. Both Yaten and Taiki jumped and after the smoke cleared I didn't see them.

"Idiot! You killed them!" I shouted.

"Yo! Up here!" Taiki shouted down to us.

"Well, what do you know, there cats did come with wings included." Seiya said calmly.

"That was your plan all along wasn't it?" I asked angrily.

"Well…" Seiya started and then trailed off. "Fine, you caught me; yes I was trying to see the extent of what they can do." Seiya said after I gave him a death glare.

"They're probably wondering how to get down from there." I replied sarcastically.

"You do have a point there. Why don't you fly up and show them." Seiya said, grabbing my waist and getting ready to throw me up to them.

"Me! Why can't you do it?!" I said, while trying to break his grasp on my waist.

"You're more graceful in flight" he replied while trying not to laugh.

"That's very kind of you but still, I prefer to stay on the ground." I replied still trying to break his grasp and failing at it.

When I finally got out of his grasp I went up and showed Taiki and Yaten how to glide down. Following my example they managed to succeed. Taiki came over and thanked me for showing them how to get down. I said that it was no problem and we went back to the hotel. Seiya told Yaten and Taiki the next day, that we would teach them how to use their wings to fly and fight. The next day came and the flight training began as we headed for the skies. While we were flying over the forest though, we saw a girl with blond hair done up in what looked like two buns on top of pigtails. The girl was in serious pain and there was a dark haired man beside her, who looked worried. The four of us flew down to see if we could help. When we got to them we noticed the girl's back was glowing.

I immediately asked the man, "did an animal absorb into her?"

The man replied, "Yes, a golden tabby; which is a breed of tiger, I believe."

I said, "Just as I feared, the wings are trapped within her back. Yaten, I need you to cut her back open here, and here."

"Are you crazy? You'll kill her!" the man shouted.

I replied back to him in a stern tone, "No, I'll save her from the pain she's in! Seiya, Taiki, hold the man back!"

Yaten did as I instructed and was surprised to see no blood; just tabby wings, with white stripes, slowly falling out and unfolding. The pain the girl was in vanished and the man was let go to be with her.

"We must take our leave now, we have more areas to check and see if our help is needed." I said.

"No we don't." Seiya said to my comment.

I hit him and said, "Yes we do, remember?"

"Oh yeah, that task" he said as a cover-up.

"Smooth move Seiya." Taiki said under his breath.

The man and woman stood up and said, "Thank you." before heading off in the other direction.

There was no doubt in my mind that we'd run into them again, for I had a feeling that if the woman had an animal absorb into her then the man would most certainly come across the same fate. Not long after we continued on our way, we heard a man scream in agony. I flew at top speed to where the scream came from to find the woman crying and the man unconscious.

I asked, "What happened!"

She replied in between sobs "a black tiger pounced on him and then, disappeared inside him!"

"Does this animal have wings?" I questioned.

"I don't know." She replied.

Slowly the man came to and had a tremendous headache.

"Darien, are you okay?" the woman questioned.

"I'm fine Serena, just need to stop this throbbing pain in my back."

"Let me see." I said, turning him around.

Just then the wings folded out and were a beautiful black color. Darien went full feline. Having a hard time controlling it, he tried to attack Serena. I went full tiger and stopped him.

"You can't eat her; she is like you on the inside. Her feline side hasn't come out yet."

"But I'm starving." Darien replied.

"Here's some food, but you have to catch it yourself." I said, motioning to a clear stream.

Serena asked if there was a way we could teach them how to get used to the animal within them. I told her that we had taught Yaten and Taiki and we wouldn't mind teaching them. So, they joined us on our journey. The journey continued, and the training began once again; only this time, we were training Serena and Darien. We started with flight training since we already knew that they had wings. I flew up with Serena and Seiya flew up with Darien.

After they had the flight training down, we showed Serena, Darien, Taiki, and Yaten how to attack from the air. We had Serena use her Fire Loop and Darien used his Raining Thunder. Taiki used his Moon Beam while Yaten used his Earth Spirit. Once they each used their attacks, they felt ready to fight anything; just then, Shadow showed up to antagonize us and said,

"Oh look, trying to get more defenses against me. I don't think that you'll be able to defeat me no matter what you do."

I retorted, "You don't think, that's your problem. We will defeat you and I'm not being overconfident, like you!"

"You little witch, I'll kill you first!" Shadow said, angrily.

Suddenly he heard, "Raining Thunder!"

"What the… ahhh" Shadow said, as he jumped up; the attack just barely missed him.

Shadow then attacked Darien after seeing that he launched the attack on him.

Serena, being angry that Shadow attacked her Mamo-chan, went full feline shouting;

"Flaming Spirit!" as a being of fire stepped out of Serena and started burning Shadow.

Shadow vanished and as Serena started to fall from the sky, Darien caught her.

I said, "Darien, you'll be carrying her for some time considering she'll be out for three days. That was her strongest attack."

"I don't mind carrying her; I am in love with her after all." Darien said.

It's been three years since then; Darien and Serena now have a daughter named Rini. With all the attacks Shadow had been causing it was hard for them to take care of their daughter, because she always seemed to be in danger. For reasons unknown, Rini had an accelerated growth rate and was eight years old before long; making it easier on her parents since she could now run for cover by herself. When Shadow found out about Darien and Serena's daughter he devised a plan to kidnap and rid himself of one opponent right away, and also to get revenge for what Serena did to him. The plan was carried out, but didn't go as he had planned. He brought Rini to a cliff with her parents close behind, and threatened to drop her off the cliff. Shadow carried out his threat before Darien or Serena could react, and Rini went off the cliff. Feeling he'd finished the girl he vanished, vowing to come back for the parents later.

When Darien and Serena went to look off the cliff, Rini was flying. Evidently in a time of crisis, Rini found that she not only had a feline side, but wings as well.

"I guess we don't have to teach her how to fly." Serena said.

"That's good, but we still have to teach her how to attack from the air, and how to use her claws to defend herself." Darien explained.

"Mom! Dad!" Rini said as she came up and landed in front of her parents.

She gave them a hug before they led her to a forest area to train her. Meanwhile, at the park across from the hotel I was sitting on a bench thinking about ways to defeat Shadow when he appeared in front of me.

"What the hell do you want?" I said, with anger in my voice.

"Not much, just to fight you one on one." Shadow replied.

"I'd never win against you alone." I replied simply.

"Ah, I see you're afraid you won't win." Shadow said, with confidence.

"No, I know my limitations." I said, turning his smirk into a frown.

Without saying another word, he launched an attack on me. As dark energy came at me I said telepathically,

"I wish Seiya were here."

Just then, I heard "Elemental Cage!"

I looked up to see Taiki.

In seeing I had backup, Shadow attacked Taiki.

I got up and shouted, "Death Wind!" knocking Shadow's attack off its course.

"Damn." Shadow thought, "I attack one, and the other attacks me, I need to rethink my strategy." Shadow then vanished.

"Thanks Taiki, where's Seiya?" I asked.

"Seiya and Yaten were too far away to get here in time to help." Taiki answered.

"I think I'll take flight and go somewhere to sort out my thoughts. Thanks again for your help." I said, as I flew off.

In seeing me move on, Taiki went back to the hotel. I came down in another park area and noticed no one was there; so I landed and sat down to think. I suddenly felt evil energy and looked over to a tree where a tall man with gold and purple spiked hair was standing. I took my feline form and went to confront him. As I got closer and he noticed me, I started growling, which pinned him to the tree in fear.

He said, "What'd I do?" in a nervous tone.

"I sense evil energy from you and I plan on attacking you, before you can attack me." I said in a stern tone.

Suddenly the man split into two people. I continued staring at the taller one. I was about to attack him when a Siberian tiger blocked my way.

"Blade, what did I tell you about attacking innocents!" Seiya shouted.

"I'm not attacking innocents, this man reeks of evil energy!" I shouted back.

"Even so, he didn't try to harm you did he?" Seiya questioned.

"No, I was going to get the jump on him first!" I answered angrily.

The shorter one stepped forward and said,

"I can explain why you feel evil from him."

"Why should I listen to you? He obviously means harm!" I yelled.

"Blade, I'm going to take my human form and I expect you to do the same. Then we can get all of this straightened out." Seiya said sternly, going to his human form.

I took my human form but I was still suspicious of him. The short one stated that the tall one was his darker side, who uses shadow powers to duel other duelists and that the shadow power was what I was sensing.

I asked, "Is he trustworthy?"

"Yes, he means no harm to anyone; unless they are a duelist with evil intentions." The small one said. "Fine I'll trust him, but keep in mind; I'm keeping my guard up." I said, warning them.

The two people became one person again and Seiya asked,

"By the way, what's your name?"

The man answered, "my name is Yami, the little one you saw earlier is Yugi."

"Do you have any special abilities?" Seiya asked.

"Well, I can summon dragons and some other monsters from my millennium puzzle." Yami answered.

Suddenly a tall man with white hair stepped out of the bushes.

"Ryou!" Yami said, with surprise in his voice.

"Who's he?" Seiya asked.

"Someone evil!" I shouted angrily going to my feline form.

"Not again." Seiya said, returning to his feline form.

"Smart girl." Bakura said.

"Wait till I rip out your liver then we'll see how sarcastic you can be." I said angrily.

"Ooo, violent little vixen isn't she." Bakura said calmly.

Just then, I tried to attack him and again, Seiya got in the way.

"You're not Ryou, you're Bakura!" Yami said surprised.

"A little slow today are we?" Bakura stated.

Ryou came out of the bushes and said, "That's enough."

As he joined with Bakura and became one person.

"How many people are we going to meet that can split into two different people?" I shouted angrily. "Only Bakura and I can do this, that I know of." Yami said.

"Well this has been great fun, but I'm hungry so I'm going to get something to eat before I eat one of you." I said, returning to my human form and walking away; as the others stared in shock at how passive I was.

Not long after I left I heard a scream by the rock slope and decided to go investigate. As I flew over the forest, I saw a man in a long blue trench coat being pestered by Shadow. I swooped down and picked him up. I carried him over the forest to where Yami, Bakura, and Seiya were and set him down, before flying off in the other direction to prevent Shadow from discovering the others. Seiya saw what was happening and flew up to help me. When Shadow saw Seiya on his heels he vanished and left me alone.

We flew back to the group and Yami said, "I didn't know felines could fly."

"Well, normal ones don't, but the ones within us have wings." I replied.

When we faced the new person in the group, Yami and Bakura both said, "Kaiba!"

"Yes, it's me, that man tried to convince me to be allies with him." Kaiba said.

"You can't ever join him! He is our enemy and we must find a way to defeat him!" I said sternly.

Just then Yaten, Taiki, Darien, Serena, and Rini joined us.

"Hey guys, who are they?" Serena asked.

I said, "This is Yami, Bakura, Kaiba, Yugi, and Ryou."

"Nice to meet you." They all said at once.

I finally decided it was safe to approach Yami and Bakura. I circled both of them before Yami grabbed my arm and startled me, causing me to growl, and to scratch at him. His millennium puzzle activated and protected him from the scratch.

He then said, "Calm down, I won't hurt you." In a stern, but comforting tone.

Bakura took this as a chance to see how far I would go to protect myself. Bakura came at me with a sword and tried to strike me. I jumped into the air and brought out my wings.

I then cried out "Chill Touch!" as I flew down and touched him.

Bakura was an ice statue. I flew at him again with my hand cross bow and fired at him. Then Seiya jumped up and sliced it in half with his flame blade.

I yelled, "What the hell did you do that for?"

Seiya answered, "Killing him won't help your situation."

I shouted, "He attacked me first!" and then I flew off in a rage.

"You guys can take care of Bakura can't you?" Yami asked.

"Yes, why?" Seiya answered.

"Because I'm going to go find her."

"Why can't I do that?" Seiya questioned.

"Because it may do more harm than good, you're the one she's mad at, remember."

After thinking about it Seiya said, "Good point, I'll wait for your return."

Yami then called on his silver dragon and went searching for me. It didn't take long for him to find me meditating on the edge of a cliff. He then saw white energy surround me and fly at a scarred up tree, healing it.

Sensing him, I said in a sarcastic tone "So, did Seiya send you to talk some sense into me?" "Actually, I came on my own will." "I know Bakura made the first move, but he was testing your limits, seeing how far you would go to defend yourself." Yami replied.

"I don't care, he had no right. I could've killed him easily, by shattering his icy statue. Now

he'll thaw and be a real pest to me." I said angrily.

"I want to show you something." Yami said calmly.

"It better be worth it, or your fate will be the same as Bakura's." I replied defensively.

"Come with me." Yami said kindly.

Just as I grabbed his hand Shadow showed up and attacked me from behind, burning my back with dark energy. I screamed out in pain before I collapsed to my knees.

Angrily I shouted, "Eye Beam!" as my eyes started to glow a bright white and burned a hole in

his black silk shirt.

Yami called on his Blue Eyes White Dragon and attacked Shadow as well. Shadow had a minor cut and grabbed my arm throwing me off the cliff. Since my wings were singed by his first attack, I couldn't fly back up. Yami was facing off against Shadow, alone, and I couldn't do anything to help him. Suddenly, I was caught by a phoenix, and brought to safety. Yami noticed that Ryou, Bakura, and all the others were there to help us. Before Shadow vanished, he struck Yami hard, burning his shoulders and his back with his dark energy. Yami lay on the ground in serious pain. Yugi came out to stay by his side.

Using all my strength, I stood up saying, "This is my fault, and I'm going to fix it!"

I walked over to Yami and used the energy from my angel of the wind attack to heal him. Yami woke up as good as new and became one person again. Unfortunately, I had used my strongest attack and I would have to rest for four days, since I was already weak from Shadow's attack. Seiya picked me up and walked to the next town. He found a hotel and Seiya put me to bed. I woke up two hours later feeling groggy, but I wanted to get up and get revenge for what Shadow had done.

I started to fall, when I was caught and picked up by Yami, who put me back to bed.

"You need your rest." He said, as he covered me up and went back to whatever he was doing.

Being stubborn, I tried to get up again, only this time, I made sure I could stand up and walk. I tried to sneak out of the room; which I did successfully. I made it out of the hotel and into the forest without anyone noticing. I was still very weak so I was walking rather slowly. Shadow hovered above, waiting for the perfect time to destroy me. Meanwhile, Yami went to check up on me again, when he noticed I was gone. Without telling anyone, he went to look for me. As I continued to walk, my vision started to get blurry and I started to get dizzy. It didn't take long for my injuries to get the better of me. I collapsed, and blacked out. Shadow took this as his opportunity to strike when he heard,

"Kamehameha!"

"What the…" Shadow didn't get to finish before he retreated.

A man with unruly black hair walked up and said,

"What happened to you?" as he picked me up and carried me towards the hotel I had just come from.

He met up with Yami, who got the wrong idea in thinking this stranger, hurt me.

Before Yami could attack, I opened my eyes and asked,

"What happened? Where am I?"

Yami said with worry in his voice, "You wandered off and had me worried sick!"

The stranger spoke up, "A man was going to attack you when I showed up and attacked him from behind. He vanished, and then I picked you up and started walking to this hotel."

"So, you're not evil?" Yami asked.

"Of course not, my name's Goku, and I was just passing through." The stranger replied.

I fell back to sleep and the two gentlemen brought me back into the hotel. Yami put me to bed for the second time; only this time, I stayed. Goku said his farewells and headed off again saying that he'd be around. Shadow finally decided to sway Kaiba to the dark side, since his talents would be very useful to him. It would require a kidnapping when no one is around to see it. Shadow sent a dragon to take care of the matter; to scope out the situation. Kaiba, as usual, was alone, so the Midnight Dragon swooped down and grabbed him in such a way, that he couldn't call for help.