Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Reunion ❯ They're Watching ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5: They're Watching

 

Justin held Din gently as Jiang Yue Ying poured hot tea into a chipped cup. Her long golden hair pulled back into a neat bun, there was also few strands purposely left in front of her face. Justin's face turned crimson when she placed the cup down in front of the young girl. She turned to the red-head and placed a hand on her head.

“Mocha-Chan, what's wrong?” She asked in a Chinese accent. Din curled herself into a ball, shaking her head. Yue Ying sighed.

“You'll have to tell us soon Mocha-Chan. Cobalt-San is worried about you.” She sat there in silence. Soon, there was knocking on the door.

“Password!” Justin shouted.

“OPEN THE FU**ING DOOR, YOU ASSHOLES! IT'S ME!” A voice screamed. Yue Ying looked relieved.

“It's Indigo-Sensei. He'll help Mocha-Chan talk.” Justin nodded as Yue Ying opened the door. Yugi heaved deep breaths in the doorway as Din picked her head up.

“Indigo-Sensei....”

`Don't...call....me...Sensei...” he panted, taking steps into the HQ. He looked around; not much had changed since a year ago. Yue Ying grabbed his sleeve.

“Indigo-Sensei I-”

“Yue, I just said; don't call me `Sensei'. Just call me Indigo. `Yugi' in public, though.” He repeated. She huffed somewhat impatiently.

“....Indigo-SAN (Yugi sighed but shrugged), Mocha-Chan won't tell us anything. Can you help?” Yugi nodded, walking to his little cousin.

“Din-Chan....” He asked gently. “What happened?” Mocha Viper continued to cradle herself, eyes on her relative.

“Something....Something ATTACKED me.....” She cried with fright. Yugi sighed; just the thing he DIDN'T want to happen.

“Who was it? Did you see their face?” She nodded.

“It-it was an Alter.” She said but it sounded more like a question. The rest of her sentences sounded like questions. She started hyperventilating. “She came through the reflection? In Yue Yings' room? And she spotted me? And she said she would make sure that I-I didn't interfere? And then she used this big circle that was, like, razor sharp? And it almost cut my neck? And I tried to defend myself with my Rapier? But she knocked it out of my hands?” By this point, Din was hysterical. Soon her sentences developed into distraught tears which turned into a hacking fit. Yugi grabbed her as she coughed, hollow and guttural coughing hinting a possible promise of vomit and blood from her throat. Allah, he hated when she got like this. So scared that such sickening noises came from her gullet. So scared she almost had a heart attack or heart palpitations.

His thoughts dissolved as she coughed a sticky scarlet liquid into her palm.

“Viper, calm down.”

“Altia is out to get her Inge.” Seto called, stepping into the HQ Main Room (As it was called) from the hallway. “You can't blame her for being scared stiff.” Justin stared at him.

“Hey, Cobalt, you've been nervous too lately. Is something wrong?” Seto just bit his bottom lip.

“It's....nothing.” Yue Ying quirked an eyebrow.

“Is it an Oracle situation?”

“Very much so, Angel.” Yue Ying nodded her head. `Indigo' turned his head to Cobalt.

“Talk to me.”

 

Altus looked in through the tea cup with a disgusted look on his face. All Indigo had been doing was consoling his cousin, receiving information, blah, blah, blah, made him sick. Could his simple-minded Alternate get anymore sappy?

Where had his zest gone? His passion to fight? His will to go on? He had it once. Oh yes, in their last encounter, a year prior to this one, he had been willing to fight for not only his life, but for the lives of everyone else who had been captured in `Operation Alternative/Original Recall'.

Where was it now, you might ask? Altus had no clue.

In one year, it had all disappeared.

And that.....Tea girl was to blame.

Staring into the mist that allowed an Alternate to view The World That Is, Altus grunted. The doors of the room opened suddenly as two familiar figures walked in.

Ah, Korjata and Altia. It was about time.

“Where have you been?” He asked impatiently. Altia bowed her head.

“My apologies, sir. It was a difficult search.” Korjata smirked.

“But we did it. You can be assured of that.” The Alternate didn't change his expression.

“I'd better be.” He retorted. Korjata flinched. Altia spoke up.

“Once Indigo the Noble is defeated, Seto the Powerful and Dinayah the Wise will be far too easy to defeat. And then we won't have to take on such repulsive forms when we enter The World That Is.” She grimaced. “Those DISGUSTING vomit tresses and sickly pale skin may drive me insane.” The taller No One kicked the young girl.

“Oh please. Try ending up as some tanned fat blob with balding pink hair who sounds like he's high.”

“Psh. You're both pathetic.” Altus scoffed. “I end up some pasty, black haired...THING. It's putrid.” He smirked. “But we won't have to worry anymore, now will we, dear?” He asked into a darker corner of the room.

No response other than a small moan.

“I thought not.”