Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Slave with a Hidden Power ❯ Slave with a Hidden Power ( Chapter 1 )

Slave with a Hidden Power

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She was found on a back road by the high priest and she was severely beaten and unconscious. The priest, though he didn't know why, picked her up and brought her to the palace, laying her on a makeshift bed in his chambers. He tended to her wounds and noticed the silver collar around her neck showing that she was a slave to a master in the middle class. What surprised him though were the many scars from being cut on the wrists. He knew that in order for her to survive, the cuts would have to be attended to immediately after they were made. He noticed scars from a whip on her legs and a scar on her neck just above the collar that was very possibly made by a whip. He also saw fresh whip marks through the rips in her clothes; several being on her back, and sides. He was interrupted in his examination of the slave by a knock on his door.

"My pharaoh?!" He said after he opened the door.

"Seto, you were supposed to meet me in the throne room a half an hour ago." The pharaoh stated.

"Oh, sorry, I got a little side tracked." He apologized showing the pharaoh in to see the unconscious slave in his room.

"So, this is what side tracked you; you went to town and bought a new slave?" The pharaoh guessed.

"No Yami, actually, I found her dumped on a back road beaten and unconscious. I don't know why, but I felt compelled to bring her with me." He explained.

"Well, the gods wouldn't allow something like this to happen if there wasn't something about the girl that could be useful to us." Yami stated.

It was at that moment that the girl came to. The priest and the pharaoh watched her as she slowly lifted her head and whimpered at the pain she was feeling. She looked at the floor first and then at the finely furnished room that she was in.

'But I was thrown onto the back road behind my master's house." She thought, still looking around.

Suddenly, she started gasping for air as the pharaoh and the priest saw the collar glow white and start constricting around her neck. The girl knew her master was pissed and her vision started to get blurry as her air supply to her brain was slowly being cut off. The priest took the rod and aimed it at the collar; with one blast, the collar dropped to the ground and the girl took in big gulps of air. Seto noticed just then that the collar wasn't only cutting off her air supply, but it was also cutting into her neck. The slave rubbed her neck gingerly before looking at the collar, and then looking to where the blast that had freed her had come from. She was shocked when she saw the high priest and the pharaoh watching her, and immediately lowered her eyes to the ground, trying her best to bow even though she was in severe pain. As she heard the footsteps of the two men draw near to her, she refused to raise her head. The high priest put a finger under her chin and raised her head to look at him. He looked into her eyes that were a sparkling shade of aqua.

"What do you think Yami, should I take her as a new slave?" The priest asked feeling the slave tremble in fear.

"You can take her as your slave if you wish, but you first must go to her previous master and buy her from him; we may be at a higher status, but we still have to follow our laws." Yami answered.

"I will have her cleaned up, and her cuts bandaged, then I will head to town with her to buy her from her previous master." Seto said as he called in Anzu to take his slave to be cleaned.

Anzu came in and lead the slave, who was walking painfully to the bathing chambers.

"What's your name?" she asked softly as she helped the slave girl to slowly enter the water.

"Isabel." The girl answered quietly as she hissed at the pain of the hot water on her cuts.

"You'll be fine; there are many healing herbs in that water that you're bathing in, and they'll not only help to dull the pain, but they'll also help your wounds to heal." Anzu explained as she slowly cleaned Isabel's wounds and started gently cleaning her hair with sweet smelling oils.

When Anzu rinsed the hair, she was surprised to see the girl's hair was a beautiful shade of black with indigo streaks through it. After Anzu had Isabel dressed in an outfit with gold and silver trim, she added an armband on each arm. She brushed Isabel's hair out and wound some gold thread onto a few strands of black hair.

"The high priest will add wristbands and a collar to show that you are his slave." Anzu explained when she was finished and lead Isabel back to Seto's chambers.

"High Priest, Isabel is ready." Anzu said after she knocked on his door.

Seto opened the door to see a startlingly attractive young woman before him. He brought her into his chambers where he had two gold wristbands outlined in silver and sapphire with sapphires and emeralds scattered around them, and a gold collar with an engraving of the millennium rod in the front, outlined in silver and sapphire, with sapphires and emeralds scattered around it sitting on a pillow. Seto noticed his slave gazing at the pillow and said,

"Those will be added after we go to your master and I buy you from him."

Seto saw her shudder at the new information.

"Anzu said your name is Isabel, right?" he asked.

Isabel just nodded and kept her eyes to the floor. Seto walked up to her and grabbed her gently by the wrist leading her out of the palace and onto the streets. She showed him the way to her master's house and he knocked on the door as he noticed Isabel taking a step back, and fear growing in her eyes. The door swung open to reveal a big man that was dressed in peasant's clothes and was very well groomed; he looked down at Isabel and lashed out at her.

"Where have you been you dejected slave?!" He snapped at her getting ready to strike her as she recoiled.

Seto grabbed his wrist roughly and seethed,

"Don't you dare strike her! I'm here to make a deal with you."

"Then with all do respects mister high priest, come in." her master said while sending her a deadly glare. "What can I do for you?" he asked as the high priest took a seat.

"I'll get straight to the point; you can let me buy her from you." Seto said sternly.

"With all do respect, I do not wish to get rid of her, you see, I just barely broke her in." He said smoothly.

"What do you mean, 'just barley broke her in'?" Seto asked suspiciously.

"Well, you see, I just bought her two weeks ago for ten pieces of silver." He explained.

"I'll pay you five pieces of gold for her." Seto bargained.

The man's eyes went wide and he said, "Done! Here's the lout's deck." He tossed a deck of cards to Seto.

Seto was surprised, but he caught the deck and then fished around in his coin pouch for five pieces of gold. Finding them, he gave them to the man and left as quickly as possible. He looked down at Isabel who had her head down and her eyes focused on the ground.

"I believe these are yours." Seto said, causing Isabel to look up at him startled and to take the cards.

"Thanks master." She said softly putting her head back down.

Feeling the familiarity of his masters touch on his card, Mr. Volcano came out of his card causing Isabel to stop dead in her tracks, since he put a hand on her shoulder alerting her to his presence. Seto felt the halt and turned around to see a surprising sight; a duel monster was behind Isabel and she was talking to him. Seto caught bits of the conversation going on between the two; noticing how soft and gentle Isabel's voice was.

"Volcan, yo no llamo tu. (1)" Isabel whispered.

"Master, please, speak in English. I know you didn't call me, I felt your touch on my card and I had to see you again. Since that bastard master of yours took all of us away from you, I missed you very much; we all have." He explained.

"I know Volcan, but you must know; promise me you won't lose your temper?"

"Yes, I promise master."

"I've been bought again; I have a new master now, and judging by his attitude toward my other master, I feel that I can trust him not to cause harm on me unless I actually deserve it." She explained.

"Your other master beat you for no reason?!!!" Volcan shouted, his temper rising.

"You promised me you wouldn't lose your temper. In my previous master's eyes, the reason for beating me was because he was bored." She scolded Volcan; and then explained her previous master's reason for beating her.

The sound of someone clearing their throat brought the two's attention to the high priest.

"Aren't you going to introduce me Isabel?" Seto asked.

"Yes of course master; this is Volcan; he is one of my cards, and my friend." She said.

"Isabel, I'm glad to know him and to know how you think of me, but we should be getting back to the palace." Seto explained.

Isabel realized that the high priest heard her explain what she thought about him to Volcan and lowered her head in embarrassment before replying,

"Yes master" and calling Volcan back into his card.

They reached the palace and stopped in the throne room so that Seto could speak to Yami.

"Yami, I have succeeded in buying her from her previous master; but it seems that she has the power to call on monsters." Seto explained to the pharaoh.

"Really, well, this is startling considering slaves aren't supposed to have that ability." Yami looked down at Isabel, his eyes showing no emotion.

"It has also come to my attention pharaoh, that her other master was very abusive to her; he lashed out at her as soon as he opened his door and saw her. I've also heard that he would beat her for the simple fact that he was bored." Seto explained feeling Isabel grow tense.

"Seto, you know that it is common for masters to beat their slaves for whatever reason they see fit." Yami explained.

"Yes, but pharaoh, beating a slave because you're bored?" Seto questioned.

Yami thought for a moment and then asked,

"How often did your master beat you for disobeying him?"

"None." Came the quiet reply.

"Am I right in assuming then, that he beat you out of boredom all the time?" The pharaoh asked.

A nod and a visible shiver from Isabel told Yami that she was not a disobedient slave; but she was beaten nonetheless.

"Isabel, how old are you?" Yami asked.

"Sixteen." She answered shaking.

'That's two years younger than Seto and me.' Yami thought.

At this, Yami called a guard over and told him to go get Shadi. The guard left immediately and returned five minutes later with a man that wore a turban and a golden key around his neck.

"You called milord?" Shadi asked.

"Shadi, can your millennium key go into a person's mind and show memories?" Yami asked.

"No, it only shows the soul room of the person. Isis' millennium necklace can bring you into memories of the past." Shadi answered.

"Guard, go get Isis; in the meantime, Shadi, look into this girl's mind and tell me what her soul room holds." Yami ordered.

Shadi put his key to Isabel's head and turned it entering her mind. He came across a door that was dark blue and closed. He opened the door and carefully stepped in watching for any traps; there were none. All he saw in the room was a deck of duel monsters cards; the room itself was a gloomy gray and radiated innocence but a sadness also lingered along with fear. This confused him; it was very rare that a person that was innocent would have sadness and fear within their soul room at the same time. Shadi exited her mind and with a confused look on his face, he put the key to Yami's head showing him what he saw in her soul room. When the key was pulled away from Yami's head, he too, looked confused. At that point Isis entered the throne room.

"You called my pharaoh?" She asked.

"Yes, Isis I want to take a trip into this girl's past memories and see what happened with her previous master." Yami answered gesturing to Isabel.

"Yes my pharaoh. Who all wants to see?" she asked.

Seto, Yami, and Shadi surrounded Isis and her millennium necklace started to glow. What the group saw appalled them. Isabel's previous master had a whip and a knife and he was walking towards her as she backed away from him.

"Come here you stupid slave!!" He yelled at her; snapping the whip in front of her. "You are a special girl, and I intend on ruining any hope you have of living a long and happy life." He continued laughing cruelly as he brought the whip down on her back again and again getting her ribs, legs, and arms as she tried to defend herself.

After his beating with the whip was over, he took the knife and slit both her wrists as she lie on the ground in pain hardly able to move. They saw her master turn away and to their surprise, the skin on either side of the cuts on her wrists started glowing white and her wrists healed themselves. Her master turned back around with the metal collar in hand and snapped it around her neck taking the deck of cards that now lay beside her weakened body.

"This collar will prevent you from calling out for help from any of your pathetic cards. Not that you'll be able to call for them anyway, I will keep them in my possession, as far away from you as possible until the day you are either bought by someone else, or killed by one of my severe beatings." He explained, laughing cruelly. "Finally, I have someone to cure my boredom." He said as he walked away from her battered body.

It was then that Seto saw a faint symbol glowing white on her forehead.

"Look!" He said, as he pointed to the symbol on her head.

"That's the Egyptian symbol for hope." Shadi said, wide eyed.

"That explains why she has innocence, fear and sadness in her soul room." Yami stated.

"I noticed the scars on her wrists from being cut several times; but I couldn't understand how she could still be alive. You all saw the white light on her wrists when they were cut, didn't you?" Seto asked, receiving nods from everyone.

The group watched all the horrible beatings she went through until the day that she was thrown out and Seto brought her back to the palace. They all exited her memories and went about their usual routines. Seto gently grabbed Isabel's wrist leading her to his chambers where he placed the two wristbands on her wrists and picked up the collar from the pillow. Seeing the wary look in her eyes, Seto explained that she could still call on her monsters, even with the collar around her neck. He snapped it on and looked her over.

"You now can walk around the palace without anyone touching you against your will." Seto explained to her, opening his door.

"But master, I do not know where anything is." Isabel quietly protested.

"Don't worry, if you need to ask someone where a certain place is, they will tell you, no questions asked." Seto said gently.

Isabel walked out of Seto's chambers and down the hall. She found herself walking to the throne room where she quietly opened the door peeking in to make sure she wasn't disturbing anything important that might be going on in there. She saw to her shock, that the room was completely dark and there were monsters fighting each other. One that was following Yami's orders noticed the door cracked open and immediately went to seize the intruder. Isabel bit back a yelp of pain as he grabbed her harshly by the arm.

"What did you find, Chaos Mage?" Yami asked.

"Unhand my master!" a voice came from behind Isabel.

"Pajaro (2), return to your card, I didn't call for your help!" Isabel scolded quietly

"But master, you're in trouble." Pajaro protested.

"Only because my curiosity got the better of me; now go, I must take whatever punishment comes with disturbing a duel." Isabel explained.

Pajaro returned to his card reluctantly and Isabel was placed before the pharaoh as the throne room returned to normal and the monster holding her remained.

"Why have you come to the throne room?" Yami asked taking his seat on his throne.

"My master said that I could walk around the palace." She said, keeping her eyes to the floor.

"Chaos mage, you may release her, she is the high priest's slave." Yami instructed his monster. "Now, return to the shadow realm." He ordered his monster. "What did you mean by 'I must take whatever punishment comes with disturbing a duel'?" Yami asked her.

"Well, I've been whipped so many times by my previous master I got used to it being a daily routine." She answered.

At that moment, her previous master entered the throne room with a whip and declared that he get his slave back.

"Oh Ra no." Isabel whispered, backing up.

He went to strike her with the whip when he froze in place.

"How did you get passed my guards?!" Yami asked angrily.

At that moment, Seto entered the throne room and in seeing the man he walked over to stand beside his slave.

"Why have you returned? I paid you for her and yet you return to reclaim her!" Seto demanded an explanation.

"Your guards were easy to get passed after I whipped them long and hard. Now, return the angel of hope to me now!" Her previous master ordered.

Yami and Seto looked at each other, then at Isabel's terror filled eyes and then with one simple hand thrust forward Yami shouted,

"Mind Crush!!"

Isabel's previous master fell to the floor motionless. Both men turned to Isabel to find that she had collapsed to her knees shaking violently, and crying out of fear and dread of what could've happened if she weren't in the palace, and if a different man, a simple peasant, had rescued her instead. She knew one thing for sure, if it was an average peasant, he'd be dead and she'd be back with her previous master. Isabel was so caught up in her own thoughts that when she felt two arms wrap around her she cried out in fear, and tried to back away, until she heard her master saying soothing words to her and pulling her close to him.

"Shh, it's alright, it's just me, he will never return to hurt you again." He whispered to her.

Soon, Seto felt her stop shaking and her sobs had stopped. He looked down at Isabel to find that she had fallen asleep. Seto picked her up into his arms and looked at Yami saying,

"I'll be taking her back to my chambers now; she needs to rest since she's had a long and busy day."

Yami watched as Seto carried Isabel back down the hall and into his chambers.

"Seto my old friend, I do believe you're falling in love with her." He said, smiling to himself.

'If only I could find someone like that to care about' Yami thought to himself.

As if on cue, the guards came into the throne room pretty well dragging a girl with them. The girl was very beat up, much like Isabel was.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Yami said with a harsh tone while taking in the girl's features.

She had black hair with red streaks through it, but unfortunately, Yami couldn't see her eyes because they were closed since she was in pain.

"Well, you see sire, we found her lying on a back road outside a house unconscious. As you can see though, she is awake now and well…" A guard was explaining what had happened when the girl's eyes opened enough to see Isabel's previous master's body on the floor; seeing his body she nearly went hysterical and tried to get away.

It seemed that although she was in pain, she wanted to get as far away from the man's body as possible. Yami was intrigued by this and stood up from his throne to walk over to the girl his guards held.

(1.) The first six words in the second sentence of Volcan's answer explains what his master asked him in Spanish.

(2.) Spanish word for bird.