Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Keeper of the Cards ❯ Dream of the Keeper ( Chapter 2 )

Hey again! here's the next chapter, its more of an explanation chapter and anything. Not muh that's interesting of life-threatening has happened...yet... but its gonna get more exciting...soon. Please send review and/or suggestions/ideas


stupid copyright stuff again. i don't own yu gi oh, duel monsters, the kaibas, blah, blah, blah, etc., but i do own Caliea Kaza and the title Keeper of the Cards (unless it's in an episode i don't know of)

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Chapter 2

As she finally climbed into bed to get ready for the first day at her new high school tomorrow, Caleia took one last look at her deck. Her mother had given it to her, but had never told her about how it has three blue eyes. She had pondered this before, when she found out that Seto Kaiba had three blue eyes, and only four were in circulation, but never asked about it. Now her mind wandered back to the question.

'But sleep now,' she thought to herself. 'You'll have enough to worry about tomorrow.' So she laid down and turned the light off. Her mind kept thinking and she couldn't clear it, however, and that kept her awake.

But a sudden wave of drowsiness swept across her, beckoning her to dreams.

She was dressed in the robes of the ancient Egyptians, like someone playing an Egyptian princess in a movie. (gee i wonder where this is going) Standing up, she looked around. This place was strange. There didn't even seem to be a floor or anything, just space.

Turning around, she saw two similarly dressed women appear and walk towards her. They all shared the same deep brown eyes, basically the same slim figure, and the same long black hair. Both the women had what looked like a glowing eye on their foreheads between the eyes, and a glowing sun--a sun with a star etched inside--on their upper chest. A bright glow seemed to radiate from them.

One of them looked very familiar, and as her eyes got adjusted to the light, Caleia could see why--it was her mother!

"Mom?" She ran up and tried to hug her, but fell right through. She looked back at her mother, who had turned around to face her, sorrow in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, Caleia, but I am only spirit now, and you cannot touch me. This is a great grandmother of ours, the first of our blood, actually."

"Hello," the other woman greeted. "It has been long since one of us has bore my name as her own, 762 years to be exact. There is not much time to explain what we must explain, so listen well."

"Our ancestors were the royal blood line in ancient Egypt. During those times, there was a game called the shadow games that they played. It's very similar to Duel Monsters, only that the monsters and spells were real. --Like the ones I've taught you to summon. Eventually it got out of hand---"

"And my father, the Pharaoh, saved us all. He had taught me to play, and had given me the cards, the cards in the deck that was passed on to you. I was his only daughter, and he declared me the Keeper of the Cards, to make sure that their magic would not ever get out of hand again."

"As time passed, she fell in love and had a child, but as her love's life was threatened if they stayed in the Palace, they left the child there with the Pharaoh and hid, visiting her only once in a year, and usually only your great grandmother would go."

"When I died--" she paused and took a breath, "the cards went to my daughter, but because my death was from the overexertion to summon all seven blue eyes--"

"Seven!" Caleia cried. "But there are only supposed to be four!"

"--but because my death was from the overexertion to summon all seven blue eyes," the princess continued to say, "my father took four of them out so that I would not have all seven. Now the deck only has three, and the four are out to the public."

"You see Caleia," her mother started, "This is a duty by blood. You are the Keeper of the Cards now, just like I was, and my mother was, and her mother before her, up to your great grandmother here, the original."

"But I don't know how to bear this task!"

"That is what this dream is for. Every one of my successors has had it."

"Listen, my daughter. This task has been given to you at an early age, the earliest since our great grandmother here. She was your age when she was appointed. If you so wish, and believe me, you'll want it, her spirit can bond with yours so that her memories, her knowledge, will be part of you, unlocked to you as you find the need for them." Taking her mother's word, Caleia nodded. The two women smiled, then Caleia's mother disappeared.

"Take my hand," her great grandmother instructed, "I'll start chanting, it's repetitive. Start chanting too when you get it." The chant was not hard to get, and soon Caleia was lost in it. In the distance she heard her alarm clock ringing, but kept her concentration. Suddenly she woke up, dressed in her PJs and in her bed. Could it all have been only a dream? 'It was,' a voice inside her mind said. 'But it was real too.'

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Ok, fine, that was a really stupid chapter, but does that help a little? I hope so Oh yeah, ummm, the princess Caleia doesn't talk except privately to Caleia occasion cuz her and the present day Caleia have bonded spirits 24/7, so she doesn't come out or change or take over and all that that the other Yamis may do, she's really, really a part of Caleia, more than the other Yamis.

and one more thing, I'm sorry if you started getting lost with Caleia's mother and the princess talking, but i was trying to show that they were telling the same story between the two, or something like that.