Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Probationis Vitae ❯ Again ( Chapter 5 )

Again

AN: I'm sorry if it seems that I'm righting down my problems in my AN's but this is one of the few places I have to write it down. If you don't want to read it you don't have to. I'll put a `*' at the beginning and end of each so you don't have to, just skip to the second one.

*Okay, I'm rather depressed right now. I had party planned this weekend and invited five people and so far, one has said they could, one won't `cause their parents don't celebrate birthdays, one's parents won't answer, one is sick and probably can't come, and one's parents won't let her because she doesn't have a gift. The last one just pissed me off and got me really depressed because the only thing I want is to have my friends spend the night on my 15th birthday, it's not really what you'd call a party. And that is the update of my messed up life.*

Now, thank you to all those that managed to review since I last updated:

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Also-though I probably won't use most of it just yet-, just in case:

/…../ is Yugi to Yami.

//…..// is Yami to Yugi.

\…..\ is Ryou to Bakura.

\\…..\\ is Bakura to Ryou.

^…..^ is Malik (hikari) to Marik (yami).

^^…..^^ is Marik to Malik.

"~…..~" is someone talking on the other end of a phone, walkie-talkie, etc.

~*~*~*~Last time~*~*~*~

Selene looked startled at his sudden question but answered all the same. "I got it when I visited by mom's mom it Cairo soon after I ran away from home. My grandma gave it to me, said it was my mom's. She'd planned to adopt me herself, but she died of heart failure not long after." She said. Suddenly her eyes lit up and she seemed to have come to the same conclusion as Yugi.

Selene stood up, took off her chocker and took the pendent off the leather chord. Everyone watched as she handed it to Yugi who put it into the shape he'd been staring at earlier. It was a perfect fit. The lock clicked and slowly he opened the book.

~*~*~*~On with the story~*~*~*~

The first things they saw when they opened the book was two pictures on the front page.

"It's the Dark Magician," Yugi said, "he's probably one of the guardians of the book, but I don't recognize the second. It looks like a purple-haired faerie with six wings."

"It's the Wingweaver," Selene stated plainly and everyone looked at her strangely. "What? I may not play the game as much as you all, but I do know quite a few of the cards and what they do."

"What's so special about her? Why'd they choose her to help guard the book?" Bakura asked, curious despite himself, probably because it was usually only the Dark Magician guarding the artifacts like this.

"She's stronger than the Dark Magician. She has an attack power of 2750 and defense of 2400. She's also a light type meaning that any magic card someone uses that would power one up would probably weaken the other. A good thing if the other person only expects and prepares for one type or two very closely related types." Selene answered him. It made sense too, counter one's weakness by having it the other's strength.

"I wonder why they're here, though, and not on the front cover." Derek said, bringing this to everyone's attention.

"It's probably incase just anyone happens upon the book and key and opens the book, they can't use it because the guardians would stop them. It would save us a lot of disasters caused by careless fools." Yami said.

"What would happen if just anyone tried to open it past the first page?" Jake asked, eyeing the book warily. He and the others had seen and heard about enough strange and dangerous things to be rightfully scared of what could happen.

"Who knows, if they're supposed probably nothing will happen." Malik said, having lived among tomb keepers all of his life-however unwillingly-he'd learned about these types of things.

Jo gulped and said, "And if they're not?"

No one liked the grin on Marik's face as he prepared to answer the question, undoubtedly with very excruciating and gruesome detail, but luckily Malik cut off saying, "Well, a variety of things could happen. It could be anything from the page just refusing to move to a mild shock to a very painful and gruesome death."

"And how do we know who'll be able to open it safely?" Seto asked, almost afraid of the answer.

It was Bakura who answered this time. "It'll most likely be the masters of these two monster. We know who commands the Dark Magician," here he shot a look at Yami and Yugi, "but gods only knows who commands the Wingweaver. Probably only her master or mistress could call her off if she attacked."

"Damn, this thing is a heck of a lot more trouble than we first thought." Damien said and the other Venators nodded in agreement.

They sat in silence for a while before Yugi looked at the clock. It was nearly one, they'd been talking longer than they thought. He sighed and stood up and said, "Well, there's not much more we can do tonight. We might as well get a good night's sleep and figure everything out in the morning." After he said this he closed the book and took out the key and handed it to Selene who took it and pocketed it.

The others nodded in agreement, but there was another problem. "Where are we going to stay, it seems a little late to try and go back home now." Malik said, mentally wincing as he imagined his sister's reaction to him having spent the whole night out without telling her first. She was not going to be a happy camper tomorrow.

"You all can stay here. We have two guest rooms, the living room, my room, Yami's room, and grandpa's room. Yami and I can sleep in grandpa's room tonight since he's still out on his dig. Selene and Damien can take my room while Jason, Jake, and Derek take Yami's. The rest of you can decide who sleeps in the guest bed rooms and who sleeps in the living room by yourselves." Yugi said.

They all nodded and Yugi, Yami, and the Venators headed upstairs.

"Hey Yugi," Selene said just as he was about to head into his grandpa's room, "can I talk to you for a moment, alone." Yugi looked confused but, with one look at Yami, followed her anyway. She lead him back downstairs and outside before turning to him and saying, "I want you to hold onto this." And she dropped her moon pendant into his hands. He gazed at in shock for a moment before speaking.

"But Selene, isn't this your mother's. Why are you asking me to hold it?" Yugi asked, now more confused than before and trying to hand it back.

"I have a replica that I can wear. If those guys were after the pendant because it was a key then they're bound to come again. The replica isn't a perfect copy, but to anyone who wasn't looking carefully it would seem to be the original. That way if they do manage to get it or me, at least they won't have the key too." Selene said and pulled the replica out of her pocket, strung it on the chocker, and put it on instead.

Yugi sighed, knowing just how stubborn she could be, and put the pendant in his pocket, planning to keep it on him at all times so he would always know where it was. "But I wonder why they wanted you too. If they only wanted the key, couldn't they have just asked for that and be done with it. No offense, but what was the point of taking the owners necklace too." He said suddenly.

"Probably bait to lure you there. If my guess is correct they probably knew you'd come to save me, despite my protests, and would do anything to do so. C'mon, let's go inside, it looks like it's going to rain soon." And with that they both headed in, Yugi locking the door behind them.

Later on that night, Selene was sitting in Yugi's room alone, Damien was in the bathroom, when she heard the windows rattle. She dismissed it as the storm that had come up about a quarter of an hour before, but her gaze shot to it as she heard it rattle again. Maybe she was just being paranoid, but she could swear that she saw a shadow moving behind the blinds. She cursed under her breath, while blinds did do a good job of keeping you out of view from whatever was outside, it also had the distinct disadvantage of keeping whatever was outside out of your view too. Not good when you may need to know what was out there so you could defend yourself.

. Silently she crept off of the bed and headed to the window, preparing herself for whatever was revealed to her when she looked. Then she heard the window start to creak open, and she finally knew for sure that it wasn't her imagination. With the stealth of her nickname's namesake, a cat, she brought her hand up and yanked on the blinder's cord. Whatever she had prepared herself for, it wasn't what she actually saw and she couldn't help the small scream that escaped her lips at the sight before her before everything went dark and she knew no more.

~*~*~

Yugi and Yami had been lying in bed thinking about what had happened recently when they heard the scream. Quickly they jumped out of bed and, recognizing the voice as Selene's, headed to Yugi's room. When they got there they saw Damien, Jake, Jason, Derek, Malik, Marik, Seto, and Jo standing in the doorway with Ryou and Bakura quickly climbing the stairs. They managed to push their way through and the sight that greeted them froze them in place. The room was empty, the window was open, and there was no Selene in sight.

Selene had been attacked again, and this time it had been successful.

TBC…..

AN: I know this is shorter than the other two but it also came out a lot quicker. Please read and review, I appreciate all comments, criticisms, and suggestions. Thanks!

Also, I would like to credit this idea to Yugi Motou. Yugi had suggested I have Selene kidnapped and it worked so I don't want to take credit for the original idea. Thank you so much.