Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Slave with a Hidden Power ❯ Sisters? ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: Sisters?

He walked up to the girl and commanded her to stop struggling because the man before her was dead.

"Bout time someone killed that bastard." She said quietly but the anger was evident in her voice.

"Did this man beat you?" Yami asked.

"Yes, me and my sister. However, I was lucky enough to be sold to another master who I thought would treat me better. It turns out he was just as bad as my other master and he beat me constantly for things that were petty; or in other words, to keep him from getting bored." The girl explained, the entire time keeping her eyes to the floor.

Yami put his hand under her chin, raising her head so that she was looking into his eyes of crimson. Yami noticed that her eyes were a rare shade of light sea green. Yami was interrupted by the doors to the throne room opening and he let go of the girl's chin to see Seto walk in with Isabel at his side.

"Seto, I thought she was resting." Yami stated.

"Well, she woke up an hour ago and insisted that she get out of my chamber; so instead of letting her go out alone, I decided to come with her and keep an eye on her." Seto explained.

Isabel sensed something familiar and looked up to see the guards holding her sister who had her head down and was looking at the floor.

"Oh my Ra!" She whispered. "Sarah!" She cried out, stunned.

The girl lifted her head and the same shock shone in her eyes when she saw her sister standing by the high priest.

"Isabel! What are you doing here?!" Sarah asked stunned before wincing in pain.

The high priest and the pharaoh were confused at the sight.

"I was thrown on a back road behind my master's house when the high priest found me and brought me here; he had me cleaned up before we went into town and he bought me from my previous master, in a way, he set me free from his beatings and showed me not all slaves are whipped by their masters." Isabel explained, before looking at her master and asking,

"Master, may I go to my sister?"

Seto was shocked, but nodded his head, allowing her to go to her sister. Yami and Seto were both surprised when the sisters joined hands and a bright light surrounded them before fading and showing Sarah to be completely healed; and any wounds that were bandaged on Isabel were healed as well. The two of them hugged and pulled apart with tears in their eyes.

"I thought for sure that your master had killed you." Sarah said.

"No, he didn't, thank Ra that I was rescued from that life by the high priest." Isabel explained.

"I missed you so much." They said at the same time, hugging again.

"Yami, I don't think that we'd be able to separate those two if our lives depended on it." Seto whispered.

"Good, I had no intention of doing so, I believe that Sarah should be my slave; what do you think?" Yami explained before asking Seto's opinion.

"I agree, I can tell you're already attracted to her." Seto teased, looking at Yami.

Yami nudged him in the side before walking over to the two sisters and sending his guards away.

"Isabel, please return to Seto's side, I have to speak with Sarah." Yami said.

Isabel obeyed reluctantly and Yami brought Sarah to his throne to discuss his plans when Sarah's master entered the throne room looking very pissed. He turned a dial on a remote causing the collar around Sara's neck to start to constrict.

"No!!" Isabel screamed, reaching out to her sister.

"You idiot! You weren't supposed to let the twins reunite! The angels of hope and light are to be forever separated or they will be powerful enough to stop me from hurting them. I told my brother that I would keep this wench as far away from her sister as possible, and that is what I intend to do!" The man shouted at the pharaoh before tuning the dial over to a higher number, causing Sarah to fall to her knees as her air supply started to diminish.

Yami had had enough, and he used his puzzle to blast the collar and break it in half, causing it to fall to the ground.

"You shall never storm into my throne room again and call me by such a name, Mind Crush!!" Yami shouted in anger.

The man's body fell to the ground as his soul was shattered, and Yami ordered his guards to dispose of the bodies at once. Yami kneeled down next to Sarah who was taking in as much air as she could, and told her that she would be his slave, and that she would remain in the palace, where she would be close to her sister. Yami ordered Anzu to take and clean Sarah up and to send her to his chambers when she was clean. Before Sarah left the throne room, she looked back at Isabel with a worried expression, but she only received a nod and a smile from her, saying that it would be okay. Yami left to his chambers to get some wristbands and a new collar ready for her.

A while later, there was a timid knock on Yami's door and he opened it to see Sarah in a dress much like Isabel's with gold armbands on each of her upper arms and gold thread wound around a few strands of black hair like it was done on Isabel. Yami led her into his chamber where he put a gold wristband on each of her wrists that were outlined with silver and ruby, with rubies and diamonds scattered around them and then he put on the collar that had an engraving of the millennium puzzle in the front outlined in silver and ruby and it, like the wristbands, also had rubies and diamonds scattered about it. Sarah looked at herself unsure if she really wanted this life; but then she thought that even if she didn't want the life she was in now, she really wouldn't have a say in the matter. She looked up at Yami who smiled his approval.

"No one will touch you without my consent. If you don't want someone to hurt you, they won't be able to lay a finger on you; or a whip for that matter." Yami explained to her.

"Now, you can go see your sister, Seto's room is at the end of the hall on the left." Yami said while opening his door for her.

As Sarah walked down the hall, one of the guards reached out and grabbed her roughly by the arm saying,

"Well you're a pretty thing, how about we go to my quarters."

"Or, how about you get your hands off me you sicko!" She snapped at him.

"Now, now, that's no way to talk to a palace guard." He said, his grip tightening.

"It is when it's my slave that you are talking to." Yami's voice came from behind him.

The guard immediately let go of her while she rubbed her sore arm. Yami walked up to the guard and seethed,

"If I ever catch you touching my slave again, it'll cost you your soul!"

The guard shook nervously and stayed stiff until Yami gently took Sarah's wrist and walked with her to Seto's chamber.

"Seto, your slave has a guest." Yami said after knocking on his door.

Seto opened the door and Isabel nearly ran into her sister's arms.

"Sarah, how have you been the past four years?" Isabel asked.

"I started trying to resist my master when it came to the times he was bored. Unfortunately he ended up going upstairs and dragging me down. There once was a cute blonde boy that came into the shop while he was beating me, and he tried to stop him. All his interference earned him was a bottle to the head and a boot out the door though. I never did catch the name of the boy who tried to help me." Sarah explained.

"That is so weird, I had something similar happen to me; only, it was a boy with brown hair that was done in a strange way, it looked like a triangle on his head. Unfortunately, like you, I never could catch his name." Isabel informed.

"How were the two boys dressed?" Yami asked them.

"They were dressed in peasant's clothes, why?" Sarah answered.

"If the two boys are the ones I'm thinking about, then they're taking after your bad habits pharaoh." Seto stated.

"I wondered why Joe's head was bleeding when he arrived for his duties that morning." Yami stated after giving Seto a fake glare.

"I'm going to go get them, just to see if our suspicions are correct." Yami said before he went out the door.

Yami returned a few minutes later with two guards. The guards' eyes nearly bugged out at the sight of the two girls. They each recognized one of the girls they tried to help one week ago.

"Joey, Tristan, remove your helmets." Yami ordered.

Sara and Isabel gasped when they saw the two boys who removed their helmets. They each recognized one of the boys as one that tried to help them.

"Sarah, this is Joey." Yami said pointing to Joey.

"And that, Isabel, is Tristan." Seto said, pointing to the other boy.

"Nice to meet you." The girls said at the same time.

"Same here." Tristan said.

"Uh, yeah." Joey said, still stunned.

"Sara's my slave, and Isabel, is Seto's slave." Yami informed them. "And you Joey will be guarding Sarah when she walks around the palace; while you, Tristan guard Isabel, when she walks around the palace." Yami ordered.

"Okay!!" They both said, getting ready to run to the girls.

"But, not tonight, the girls need their sleep." Yami said while taking Sara's hand and leading her back to his chambers.

Joey and Tristan fell, anime style before getting up and going back to their duties with their heads down. Seto closed his door after they left and told Isabel that she should get some sleep while pointing to the makeshift bed on the floor. Isabel happily obeyed since it was a long day for her and she was extremely exhausted. She fell asleep almost as soon as she hit the bed and covered herself up. The same thing went on in Yami's room, but Sarah was not so easy to get to sleep; she kept waking up during the night screaming. Yami ended up carrying her to his bed and sleeping with her wrapped up in his arms to give her a feeling of security, which worked, and Yami finally got some sleep as well as Sarah.

The next day, Isabel, Tristan, Joey, and Sarah walked around the palace together laughing and joking around with each other. Joey came up with the idea of leaving the palace and going around the market place but that idea was shot down by the two sisters because what happened to them in their lives before their new masters was still fresh in their minds and they were in no hurry to go back to that life.

"We'll protect you, that's why we were ordered to walk around the palace with you." Tristan said gently.

"Listen, our old masters had friends that treated their slaves just as bad and they agreed to take us on if our masters were to end up dead or worse." Isabel explained.

"There's this friend of mine that is beaten constantly by his master, him and his brother. I hardly ever saw his brother but I saw Bakura very often." Sarah explained.

"Which is the exact reason that we should go into town." Joey said.

"Making plans without our consent?" Yami said walking up to them with Seto next to him.

"Master?!!" Both girls said at the same time.

"We didn't agree to go with them, we promise." Isabel said in a panic, afraid that Seto would beat her.

"Don't worry, we're not mad, we know that you disagreed with these two troublemakers." Yami said calmly.

"We also heard about your two friends Sarah." Seto stated. "We'd be glad to go into town with you two and try to get them out of that life, like we did for you." He finished.

"That would be great!" Sarah said before looking at her sister who had a sad look on her face.

"Isabel, what's wrong?" Sarah asked.

"I too have friends that are stuck in a life like mine was." She said sadly.

"What were your friend's names?" Seto asked.

"They were beat up just as badly as I was, sometimes worse. There were times that I would give my share of what little food I had with them since their master doesn't give them really very much food. Anyway, in answer to your question master, their names are Yugi and Malik. I warn you pharaoh, Yugi does look very much like you, unfortunately, during one of his master's beatings he was whipped at just the right angle to where the vision portion of his mind was damaged; he's not completely blind, he can see blurry images but that's about it." Isabel explained.

"How old are Yugi and Malik?" The pharaoh asked.

"Yugi is very short, even for his age, which is fifteen; Malik's the same age."

"We'll head out immediately." Yami stated.

They walked out of the palace and into the town to first find Bakura and his brother. As they were walking they came across a house that suddenly made Sarah cringe and move a bit closer to her master before stopping dead in her tracks.

"Sarah, what is it?" Yami asked.

"Bakura." She whispered.

Bakura looked up from his spot hiding just behind the corner in the alley and saw Sarah with the high priest, Yami, and four guards.

"Sarah, what happened to you? I haven't seen you for two weeks." Bakura asked.

"Sorry Bakura, the pharaoh is my new master. Why aren't you protecting your brother?"

"The master threw me out and locked the door so that I wouldn't be able to protect him from being beaten. I'm currently looking for a way back in so that I can help him." Bakura said angrily.

At that point he heard a blood curdling scream coming from inside the house; Bakura flew into a panic and tried harder to find a way in. With a sign from Yami, Joey and Tristan knocked the door down just in time to witness a whip coming down on Bakura's brother.

"No! Get away from him you bastard!" Sarah screamed, leaving her master's side to fight off their master, so that Bakura could get his brother out of the house and somewhere safe.

The man spun around with his whip and brought it down on her, striking her in the ribs before getting her on her right shoulder. Yami's eyes flashed a dark shade of red before he ordered two of his guards to take the man to the palace dungeons and to give him twenty lashes.

"But your highness, I was just whipping my disobedient slave." The man protested.

"You also whipped MY slave in which you will be put in the dungeon and tortured for the rest of eternity!" Yami shouted, his eyes still flashing with anger.

Yami then turned to Sarah and gently touched the wound on her side causing her to wince.

"Don't worry master, once my sister and I join hands, I will be healed." She said reassuringly.

"Sarah, I won't heal just you, I want to heal Bakura's brother too." Isabel stated calmly.

"Bakura, help your brother over here so we can heal him." Sarah said causing Bakura to look at her questioningly. "Bakura, trust me, you know you can." Sarah said getting Bakura to do as she requested.

Bakura brought his brother over to where Sarah and Isabel were and was surprised to see a bright white light surround all three of them and his brother came out completely healed.

"Ryou, are you okay?" Bakura asked.

"Yes, it's as if father never hit me in the first place." Ryou answered softly.

Ryou then noticed the pharaoh and immediately got to his knees and bowed. Sarah walked over to him and said,

"It's okay; we came here to get you out of this life. Come on, stand up, we have two more slaves to help."

"Okay, thank you." Ryou said softly, keeping his eyes to the ground.

The group continued on their way until they reached a broken down house and saw a tri color haired boy outside doing what looked like gardening.

"Yugi?" Isabel asked as she stepped toward him.

He turned around seeing a blurry image of Isabel and asked,

"Isabel? Isabel, what are you doing here?! Where have you been?! What have you been up to?!"

"Yugi, calm down, I'm here to save you from this life, I've been living in the palace with my new master, and I've been living a life free of beatings. Where's Malik?" She asked.

"The brat's inside; and just how do you plan to rescue them from me?" Their master asked, coming out of the house.

Yugi backed away only to have his master drag him back by the chain around his right wrist. Yugi whimpered, knowing what was to come and started to cower.

"I'll teach you to talk with friends instead of working like you're supposed to do you worthless slave!!" His master yelled at him bringing out a whip.

"If you touch him with that whip I swear I'll hit you so hard you'll wish that you were never born!!" Isabel shouted.

Her anger level was so high she started glowing white and the whip that Yugi's master once held flew out of his hand and embedded itself into the nearest wall. Yugi's master was the next to go flying and he hit the wall with such force, he left an impression.

"Come on Yugi, we've gotta get you outta here." Isabel said after she stopped glowing.

"Wait, we've got to get Malik!" Yugi shouted.

"Where is he?" Isabel asked.

Malik limped out of the house and showed himself to everyone; unfortunately, he was really beat up.

"Malik! What has my father done to you?!" Yugi asked panicked.

"What he always does, beat the snot out of me." Malik answered weakly.

"Sarah, I need your help, we've got to heal them both." Isabel said.

The twins joined hands with Yugi and Malik standing in between them as they worked their magick once again and healed them. Yami, although he was told of the resemblance between him and Yugi, was still shocked at the boy that was walking with Isabel.

"Hello Yugi." Yami said, looking down at the boy with kind eyes.

Yugi looked up only to see the pharaoh and quickly drop to his knees with Malik doing the same thing.

"Yugi, Malik, you may stand; like Isabel said, were here to help you." Yami said.

"H-how are you going to help us?" Yugi asked.

"Simple, we're going to bring you back to the palace with us." Yami answered.

"Yami, we should head back to the palace now then, because we do have the four slaves that we came for in the first place." Seto advised.

"You're right Seto, we'll head back." Yami agreed.

They all returned to the palace where the four new slaves were sent to the bathing chamber. When they finished in the bathing chamber and were dressed in new clothes with golden armbands on each arm, they were sent to the throne room to figure out who their new masters would be. The slaves found out that Ryou and Yugi would be Yami's slaves while Bakura and Malik would be Seto's slaves. After being assigned to their masters, they followed them down the hall to their rooms where they received collars and wristbands like the girls had along with headbands. Yami's slaves had headbands that had a ruby gem with a small diamond in the center. Seto's slaves had headbands with a sapphire gem and a small emerald in the center.