Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Slave with a Hidden Power ❯ Return Home to Retrieve a Special Card ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4 Return Home to Retrieve a Special Card

With Seto's agreement, they were soon in the town and at Ryou's house to retrieve the card that his father had abandoned. It took Ryou some time before he found the book that had the card within its pages. Unfortunately, when Ryou opened the book he found the card inside to be blank. Ryou turned around with tears in his eyes and showed the blank card to Yami. Suddenly, he heard,

"Little master?"

Ryou whipped around to see a scaled warrior with a trident-like weapon walk out of the shadows and appear behind him.

"Deepsea Warrior, you're still here!" Ryou said excitedly.

"Of course little master, where else would I go. I never expected to see you again after I carried out the master's orders to hurt your brother."

"I forgave you long ago. I would've done the same if I were in your position." Ryou said before running over and hugging the monster. "How would you like to leave here and live in the palace and guard me? My father's in the dungeon and if he should escape I'd like to have you by my side to protect me from him." Ryou explained.

"It all depends on if it's okay with the pharaoh." Deepsea Warrior said as he raised his head to look at Yami.

Yami nodded his head and they left for the palace after Deepsea Warrior returned to his card. They got to the palace to find the servants running around frantically. Yami grabbed one of them by the arm and asked,

"What's going on?"

"Milord, there's a powerful king from another land coming to see you."

"I did not authorize this!!"

"Yes milord, but he really didn't give us much choice; you see, he has a very powerful army and the head councilman didn't want any harm to come to the city."

"Ishtar authorized this?!"

"Well, milord, he knows the king personally; evidently he has met him before."

Another servant ran by the pharaoh and said,

"Milord, the king from a distant land has arrived."

"Well, it's too late to send him away; show him in. Sarah, I'd like you to return to my chambers with Ryou and Yugi." Yami requested.

"Same with you Isabel; return to my chambers with Bakura and Malik." Seto asked of his slaves.

"Yes master." They all said before walking down to the chambers of each of their respective masters.

The king was shown into the throne room and shook hands with the pharaoh.

"Good afternoon pharaoh; I'm Pegasus."

"Well Pegasus, what is this important business you'd like to discuss?"

"I was hoping to purchase some slaves from your city here."

"And why are you looking for a slave from my city?"

"I'm simply looking for some slaves to be my personal servants."

Yami thought about this for a short time before replying,

"Very well, you may choose a slave from the north part of the city only."

"Thank you your highness." Pegasus said as he took his leave.

Back at Seto's chambers, Isabel was getting bored and decided to walk around the palace after seeing that the others were asleep. She stepped out of the chamber and with her eyes to the floor, headed toward the throne room not realizing that she passed Pegasus in the hall and he was looking her over. Pegasus turned around and followed Isabel to the throne room. As Isabel reached the throne room, Pegasus snuck up behind her and covered her mouth before grabbing her and heading to his chamber where he tied her hands behind her back and put her in a corner of his chamber.

"I think I'll take you off the high priests hands." Pegasus said to her.

"Mas-" Isabel tried to call her master but her mouth was immediately covered by Pegasus' hand.

Isabel glared at Pegasus before she suddenly had memories of what her first master did flood back to her and she had a look of terror cross her face before she started trembling almost violently. In seeing Isabel's terrified face, Pegasus was confused; he knew that he hadn't done anything but explain his plan to her and she went into a fit of trembling. Volcan sensed his master's fear and came out of his card to help her against whomever, or whatever, was terrifying her so. Pegasus backed up when he saw a duel monster come to life right before his eyes.

"What have you done to my master?!" Volcan asked angrily.

"I've done nothing to her. I only brought her here to become her master and to have her serve me." Pegasus explained. "I don't understand why she's so terrified." He finished.

"You idiot!! Did it ever occur to you that she wasn't treated well by her first master before she came to the palace?! Her master beat her repeatedly and took her deck away so we couldn't protect her! He finally made the one mistake of throwing her out of his house after a beating where the high priest found her and brought her back to the palace to clean her up! Then the priest left the palace with her and bought her from her master, who gave the high priest her deck, and he returned it to her and we were finally reunited!" Volcan explained angrily.

"Volcan, please, calm down before you set the palace on fire." Isabel ordered though her voice was shaky.

"Sorry master. Let's get out of here, shall we." Volcan asked as he picked her up and burned off the ropes that bound her wrists.

Volcan carried her back to Seto's chamber where he saw Seto looking around frantically and asking his other slaves where she went.

"Isabel's right here high priest, no need to worry." Volcan said as he entered the chamber with his master in his arms.

"Thank Ra, where was she?! Was she hurt?!" Seto asked as Volcan handed Isabel over to him.

"Pegasus took her to his chambers after she decided that she was bored and wandered the halls by herself. His plan was to become her master after he separated her from you." Volcan explained.

"Thank you for rescuing her and bringing her back to me. I don't know what I'd do if I lost her." Seto said as he held a sleeping Isabel.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you were falling in love with my master, who just happens to be one of your slaves." Volcan said teasingly before returning to the Shadow Realm grinning.

Seto blushed furiously as he brought Isabel over to her makeshift bed and lay her down.

'You know, I hate to admit it but I think Volcan's right; I'm falling in love with my slave' Seto thought to himself. "Oh, Ra why me!" He shouted.

"Um, Master, are you okay?" Malik asked shyly.

Seto sputtered for a bit before saying, "Yeah, I'm fine."

Isabel awoke the next day to find her master staring at her intently. When she saw how close he was leaning towards her, she screamed.

"What, do I have something in my teeth?" Seto asked her.

"No, it's just; I'm not used to waking up and seeing someone's face that close to mine." She answered.

"Oh, okay, let's go to breakfast." Seto said while taking her and his other slaves to the dining hall.

When breakfast was over, Isabel talked to Sarah and explained that she thought her master suddenly went loco.

"Isabel!" Sarah said surprised. "Are you sure it's not love? I mean Yami acts strange around me too. Just the other day, I asked why he was staring at me and he said that he was just looking at a bird that was sitting on the balcony ledge. I turned around and didn't see a bird anywhere near the balcony, let alone, on it." She explained.

"You didn't see how close the master's face was to mine when I woke up this morning. When I screamed he thought it was because he had something in his teeth." Isabel explained.

"Maybe you should ask one of your monsters." Sarah suggested.

"What good would that do?" Isabel asked incredulously.

"Maybe they know, I mean, Seto was telling Yami how Volcan brought you back to his chamber from Pegasus' chamber." Sarah stated.

"Hmmm, maybe I should ask him." Isabel said slyly.

"Isabel, time to return to the chamber" Seto called to her.

'Dammit! I'll have to wait until later to talk to Volcan!' Isabel thought angrily.

When Isabel finally did get to talk to Volcan, he refused to tell her what he knew and he claimed that she'd have a lot more fun if she found out herself. Meanwhile, Seto's behavior continued to become stranger and Isabel knew it was only a matter of time before he'd tell her how he felt. Seto knew he'd have to tell her eventually that he loved her but until the time was right, he'd wait.

Back with Yami, Sarah was having similar problems; Yami had a habit of staring at her with a glazed look that definitely said 'love' but he wouldn't admit it to her. Sarah had to bring him out of his trance more than a few times in which he would sputter some before making up something completely ridiculous. The two sisters started wondering who would be told first about the feelings of their masters towards them.

Besides Sarah and Isabel talking to each other, Yami and Seto were talking to each other as well, about when they should tell their slaves how they felt about them. They finally decided to tell the sisters at the same time and hope that their slaves felt the same way towards them. Little did they know that the sisters wouldn't be able to hear it because at the same time Pegasus and Keith were planning a kidnapping. Yep, Pegasus was still after Isabel and Keith had seen Sarah and she had interested him. The kidnapping went as planned and both girls were separated from their original masters to be with new ones. What Pegasus and Keith didn't expect though was the power the sisters had when they were together and that's where they made a mistake in being in the same room with the sisters. Isabel and Sarah joined hands and sent both Keith and Pegasus into the wall so hard that they made a hole with their bodies. Isabel and Sarah then blew the door off and headed back to their masters' rooms.

"Where have you been?!" Yami and Seto asked when the sisters found them both in Yami's room.

"We were kidnapped by Keith and Pegasus; we kinda had to throw them into the wall and they made holes in it." Sarah explained sheepishly.

"You broke a wall?" Yami asked slowly.

"Well, yeah." Sarah answered simply.

"Isabel, did you have to join with your sister and throw them?" Seto asked.

"Well, no, but it was self defense." Isabel said quickly.

"Riiight, and what did they do to get you to think it necessary to do that?" Seto continued.

"Took us from our original masters who have been hiding their true feelings from us." Isabel answered, seeing Yami and Seto turn crimson.

"Ah, so it's true." Sarah said slyly turning to her master.

"Um, no?" Yami tried.

"Nice try master, not working. Besides why would I turn a looker like you down?" Sarah said teasingly seeing Yami blush once again.

"I feel the same way about you master" Isabel said, turning to Seto and batting her eyelashes.

"We were gonna tell you honest." Seto said defensively.

"It's not every day you get your master to cower before you eh sis." Isabel said to Sarah.

"You got that right." Sarah agreed.

"Wait a minute!" Yami said, quickly regaining his composure.

Isabel and Sarah laughed before running out of the room with Yami and Seto following close behind.

"Is this what they mean by playing hard to get?" Seto asked Yami as they ran.

"I don't think so, but when I catch Sarah, she's gonna get it. Yami answered chuckling slightly.

Before the sisters knew it they were grabbed from behind by their masters laughing hysterically from their little escapade. They took their slaves back to their chambers and admitted what they'd been hiding from them. The pharaoh and the high priest finally admitted that they loved their slaves. Yami and Seto then told their other slaves that stayed in their chambers that they loved the sisters in which the others didn't seem to mind.

"It only took you a month to admit it." Sarah said sarcastically to Yami after he told Yugi and Ryou.

"Hush you." Yami said, tickling her.

Sarah laughed and teased Yami back before they had to go to bed. In Seto's chamber Isabel said pretty much the same as Sarah did to Seto and got pretty much the same reaction from him. They all woke up the next day and Yami and Seto told the council, who didn't agree with the idea of royalty falling in love with slaves.

"I'm the pharaoh, what I say goes, and I don't care if you don't like the idea!" Yami shouted at them.

"But, your highness, you can't just marry a slave it's not the way of the royals." Ishtar protested.

"Don't you tell me it's not right; Seto told me of your meeting with Malik and how you reacted around him; don't tell me that the difference in class has stopped you because I know it hasn't!" Yami yelled, seeing a faint blush arise to Ishtar's cheeks.

"I do believe that this meeting is done." Seto said, turning to leave the council room behind a fuming Yami.