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The Queens Gambit: Snippet Collection
Here comes the next snippet which would be the first scene of the first chapter of the fanfic I hope I write one day. Enjoy!
Snippet 2: Before Duelist Kingdom
On the day of her 15th birthday, Sehrazat Faizan woke up like any other school day.
More asleep than awake and with a groan.
She didn’t care that today was also her birthday, it was too earlier!
Why does school start this earlier? That was inhuman!
The dark blue-haired girl put her pillow over her head.
Any minute now Kihana would storm her room and drag her out of bed. She loved her best friend, but these were times when she wished Kihana and her family would live in their own house.
…Yeah, Sehrazat didn’t think that would stop Kihana either.
There!
She heard the familiar boom of her door open and she wanted to cry.
Today was her birthday, even a special one in her family, why couldn’t she stay at home and sleep?
Fuck, school!
“Rise and shine, your highness!”, sing-songend Kihana. She couldn’t be normal. Who was that happy, at this time?! “Today is your birthday, happy birthday my dear Sehra!”
Aww, at least this was cute.
It stopped being cute when Kihana gripped her blanket and left her in the cold morning air.
Sehrazat hissed like an angry cat and rolled herself into a ball.
Cold, way too cold!
Why were mornings so cold in Domino? How she missed the warm mornings in Lisabon!
Kihanan just tutted at her. The white-haired girl with the bluest eyes Sehrazat had ever seen was merciless. She gripped one of her arms and just let her fall to the floor!
“Hey, what was that for!”, Sehrazat shrieked offended.
The floor was even colder!
Kihana put her hands on her waist.
She was already wearing the Domino High School Uniform, her long white hair perfectly groomed into a ponytail, decent make-up which made her blue eye even more pop and her white porcelain skin glowing healthily.
“That’s the only way to wake you up, Sehrazat and you know it. We do this five times a week.”, reminds her Kihana.
Making a face Sehrazat stood up and has to control her worse not make an even worser face. She still reached only under Kihana’s breast.
Why was her best friend tall like a supermodel and she was small like a child?
They were now the same age, so unfair!
Only Sadiye, Kihana’s younger sister, was smaller than her! And that was because she really was a ten-year-old child.
Again, so unfair.
Pouting she followed Kihana to the dining room, where both their mom’s already were with little Sadiye eating breakfast.
Even if they all lived in Japan now, they still had a more wester-styled breakfast. With pancakes, cornflakes, bacon, and eggs, you name it.
That didn’t mean none of them had tasted the local cuisine.
For example, Sehrazat loved Ramen like she was Naruto from the same named Manga, but sometimes you needed a bit home.
They were all original from Egpyt, but Rahila, Kihana, and Sadiye’s mom, and her own mom Amira grow up in London, England.
Sehrazat’s Grandmother still lives there, like Kihana and Sadiye’s Grandparents.
Besides Rahila and Kihana, who were white-passing, all of them were black.
Sadiye was the first to note them.
“Happy Birthday, Sehra!”, shouted the ten-year-old, which gripped the attention of the two older women.
Her mother smiled and stand up from her sit. She opened her arms for her.
“Good morning, my little princess, and happy, happy birthday!”
Still tired Sehrazat let herself fall into her mother’s embrace. Ah, nothing to rise her spirits like her mama’s hugs! She was warm and smelled, like always after jasmine and sandalwood. Comforting and homey.
“Happy Birthday, your highness. Now you are finally 15.”, said Rahila to her and Sehrazat felt how her head was patted.
“Thanks aunty Rahila.”
They all sit down at the table and Amira signed wistfully.
“15 years already…I can’t believe time flew so fast. It was like yesterday you wear this tiny and I could pick up you whenever I wanted.”
“She still IS tiny!”, joked Sadiye and grinned at her.
Sehrazat looked at her angrily and bit into her pancake.
Kihana tutted her little sister, who shrugged her shoulder.
Sadly it was true.
Didn’t mean like Sehrazat liked to hear that.
“And you can still pick her up Amira.”, reminded Rahila.
Thanks, aunty!
Sehrazat bit harder into her pancake.
“You know what I mean.”, said Amira and then turned to her daughter. “Don’t forget, today IS a special birthday. Now you will be the Keeper.”
It took Sehrazat any amount of strength to not roll her eyes.
Ah, yes, she became now the Keeper of the mysterious Millennium Fragment which was in possession of her family since the times of the great pharaohs.
She never even saw that thing, because her mother keep it in a golden little box with Hieroglyphs written on it.
But nearly anyone treated it like it was something sacred.
Holy!
The dark blue-haired girl thought personally that it was too much. It was just some jewelry.
Yes, really older jewelry, but jewelry.
There was nothing special about it.
Or let’s say better she didn’t want to believe the stories her mother and grandmother told her.
They were just too crazy!
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The Queens Gambit: Snippet Collection
This snippet I dedicated this to my friend on Quotev Light guardian35.
Talking with you gave me back my motivation and I hope you enjoy the little snippet!
A little warning Kihana and Sehrazat Decks could change with time because I suck at Duel Monsters and don’t know anything about it so the nicknames they have in the Dueling World could also change. You will see what I mean when you read the snippet.
I made a base art for this chapter so go to my DevianArt or Tumblr to see it.
If you can see it this is the original link to the base: https://www.deviantart.com/yummehcrayons/art/FPD-Bags-n-babes-base-259082967
And to be sure here is what I made out of it: https://www.deviantart.com/empressofthesun/art/Off-to-Duelist-Kingdom-932075230
Snippet 3: Duelist Kingdom
Pegasus really had a lot of money to spend if he could book a luxury cruiser to bring all these duelists to the Duelist Kingdom. Or it was his.
Sehrazat admitted she was a bit overwhelmed.
All this because he wanted her Millenium Fragment? And nobody had a clue.
“I’m sorry.”, she heard the voice of her dear Partner.
Afya, the spirit of the Millenium Fragment, materialized at her side.
The once queen of all Egypt looked sorrowful with the same orange eyes as Sehrazat and…her mother at her.
Sehrazat was still surprised how both could be twins, only Afya was taller, had longer hair and her face looked more mature and beautiful.
“If only I had beaten Pegasus in his twisted game, then you didn’t need to make this journey to save Amira’s soul.”, said the spirit sadly and ashamed of herself.
“Afya, I don’t give you the fault her.”, Sehrazat reminded her darker half. “Only Pegasus and his freaky eye! We will get mama back! If we have to beat Pegasus at a children’s card game, then so be it. He won’t use the same trick on us again twice!”
Afya nodded determinedly at her partner and descendant.
“True words you speak child of mine. And if this didn’t work we can always beat Pegasus up. I would prefer this more.”
Now Sehrazat had to laugh, which earned her strange looks from the other duelists in the line for the boarding and a raised eyebrow from Kihana beside her.
She pointed at the air beside her mouthing the name she had given her ancestor. Kihana understood and let them be.
“I love how you are always ready to beat people up, Gran-Gran.”, she told full of affection Afya.
Her “Gran-Gran” puffed her cheeks up.
“I’m a warrior, no damsel in distress. I may not remember my life as queen, but I know I was born to fight not to play children’s card games!”
“And yet you are so good at it Gran-Gran!”
Sehrazat didn’t get a response, because it was now her turn to show Pegasus lackey her dueling clove to prove she could board the ship. Afya took this chance and retired back into the Millenium Item.
Probably to go into her soul room and train with her outstanding collection of swords. Yes, Sehrazat know that it was all mental, but still, holy Ra Afya had a lot of weapons in her soul room and can use anyone masterly.
It does make her feel humble.
After Kihana got the okay to board, the two best friends gripped each other hands and decide to look around the ship.
One of the lackeys told them as former Europa Champion and Number two in the classific they would have a Doppel bedroom for themselves, so they left their luggage there, so they could move freely around.
They wanted to check on their competitors. They needed to.
Knowing whom they were going against would help them greatly to win the tournament and get Amira’s soul back from Pegasus.
That’s how the stubble upon an interesting scene.
There was Mai Kujaku, an old acquaintance of the girls, in a conversation with two unknown boys.
One was a tall blond with a green jacket and the other was a short boy with the wildest hair they ever had seen. Tri-colored and starfish-shaped.
Suddenly Sehrazat heard Afya hiss.
“What’s wrong, Gran-Gran?!”, she asked worried her Yami.
“Look at what the little one is wearing!”
Sehrazat did it and had to control the gasp that left her mouth. She nudge Kihana so she could see it too.
The taller girl let out a silent curse: “What in the name of freaking Isis?!”
Right in front of them was another Millenium Item.
And not any ordinary, not that any of them was ordinary, it was the Millenium Puzzle!
The one who belonged once to the Nameless Pharaoh and Afya’s husband, as Sehrazat’s grandmother, told them in her stories.
No wonder, Afya was freacking out.
Both best friends had turned into statues.
What should they do now?
Afya was no help since she had to calm herself down. Kihana and Sehrazat looked at each other.
“We need to talk to the boy.”, suggests Kihana. “We need to know if the pharaoh is with him.”
“How are we going to do that?! Just straight up walking over to him and asking him if he has a spirit in his puzzle who possesses him sometimes? We would sound crazy, Hana!”, arguerd Sehrazat back.
“Do you have a better idea, Sehra?”
“…Not really.”
However, they didn’t need to walk up to the boys, since Mai turned around to walk away from them and saw the two girls.
The older girl blinked for a second, not believing whom she saw before she smirked.
“Well, well, if this isn’t a surprise.”, she said so loud that everybody, including Yuugi and Jounouchi, looked in her direction. “If this is not Sehrazat, the Amazon Princess of the Nile, and Kihana, the Lady of the Dragons. What are you girls doing here? I thought you had to take a break from tournaments?”
Under all the looks of the people, Sehrazat got shy and hide a bit behind Kihana, gripping her hand tight, while her best friend deadpanned at Mai.
“Hello to you too Mai, Mistress of the Harpies. Long time no see. How are you?”
Mai couldn’t answer since abruptly a lot of Duelists talked out loud.
“Oh my god, that’s really Sehrazat Faizan, the Amazon Princess of the Nile!”
“The Europa Champion?”
“The one whom anybody bet that at the world championships would bet Seto Kaiba?”
“Her or Kihana Schariq, the Lady of the Dragons. These girls are already legends!”
“Are they that good at Duel Monsters?”
“They are both incredible! You should have seen their Duel at the Europa championships! It was brutal!”
Sehrazat got even shyer and looked at the ground, while Kihana rubbed with her free hand her neck.
Of course, after Jounouchi stared at the two pretty girls to see if he was familiar with them, if they were such big names in the Dueling world, he turned to his best pal.
“Are these pretty girls, really such huge numbers, Yug?”, he asked.
Yuugi nodded.
“Yes, Sehrazat Faizan and Kihana Schariq were increbibal at the europa championchip. Their duel against each other was even transmitted in Japan. Sehrazat with her all-female monster-themed deck and her amazons only won by a hair against Kihana’s dragons. It was from start to finish nervewracking.”
Jounouchi let out a whistle, damn that sounded badass, while Yuugi looked at the girls.
He remember how he had watched their duel. As he had first seen Sehrazat on the TV something deep in him had reacted to her.
The boy still couldn’t figure out what.
She was a beautiful girl, no question, and even a bit shorter then him, but something in him had felt like he had know her, which was impossible of course.
Yet, seeing her in blood and flesh now, made the feeling tenfold.
It was then that Sehrazat looked up from the ground and their eyes meet.
Violette met orange.
And both felt like lightning struck them.
Unknown to them even their Yami’s felt it.
Yuugi felt a blush forming on his cheeks.
Sehrazat was so beautiful.
And these eyes of hers…so brilliant and unique…he had never seen orange eyes…nonetheless he felt he had looked into these eyes a thousand times…like he was coming home.
Meanwhile, Sehrazat had the same thoughts crossing her mind.
Yuugi was a short guy, but taller than her, and his eyes remind her of beautiful Amethyst. Eyes that she know, even if it was impossible, it was like she had found a missing piece of herself.
He was a handsome young man!
Mai’s voice broke the two out of their staring contest.
“What’s up with you Sehrazat, you aren’t normally this shy?”, said the older girl to her and raised an elegant eyebrow. “Not even a hello to an old opponent?”
She could practically feel how Kihana gave her a look too. Damn it was embarrassing!
She liked her lips and smiled a bit wobbly at Mai.
“It’s nice to see you again, Mai. So you are in this tournament too, heh?”
Yuugi felt a shiver down his back as he heard her voice in person. She had a pretty melodious voice.
It was like he know that she would have such a voice.
But how?
He didn’t know that his darker half was freacking out at seeing the young girl too. It was so weird, the spirit know he didn’t remember things, but he had a feeling he know this girl and he could sense a familiar presence of off her.
How could be this possible?
“You both may have defeated me the last time we saw each other.”, told Mai Kihana and Sehrazat. “But this time I will be victory. See you at the island, ladies.”
With that Mai left and left behind a Kihana who shook her head at her and a Sehrazat who mumbled: “Can’t we be just friends?”
Now, a lot of people didn’t think that Jounouchi was an observant person and it was mostly true, but he had seen how his best pal Yugi stared at this Sehrazat girl like she was some kind of goddess, not that he could fault him. The tiny girl was pretty, he just found her white-haired and taller friend hotter.
Else like a good best friend, he needed to help Yuugi. His pal would never talk to that girl alone, never mind ask her out or something, so he would play wingman for him.
With a grin, he gripped Yuugi by his shoulder and nearly pushed him to the girls. Yugi looked wide-eyed at him and mouthed what-are-you-doing to him.
Jounouchi ignored him.
It was for Yuugi one sake…and also he really wanted to speak with the white-haired girl.
She was a bomb!
Kihana raised an eyebrow at them and Sehrazat hide behind her again. She caressed the hand of her best friend to calm her down. Whatever happened, her Sehra seemed already crushing on the tri-colored-haired teen, if she acted this way.
Was this some kind of love at first sight?
That was adorable!
“Hey, ladies.”, greeted them Jounouchi. “I’m Katsuya Jounouchi, you can call me Joey and that’s my pal Yuugi Muto. I heard from him you both are number one and two in dueling from Europa! That’s really cool.”
Not only Kihana and Sehrazat were shocked, even Afya looked at this tiny boy and couldn’t believe it.
“You are the one who bet Seto Kaiba, wow, it’s an honor!”, said Kihana to them.
Sehrazat nodded rapidly.
Afya facepalmed at her descendant.
“O-Oh, thank you.”, mumbled Yuugi shyly.
The blue-haired girl took all her courage and stopped hiding behind Kihana. She wanted and needed to talk to Yuugi. Afya even gave her an encouraging nod.
“You were incredible.”, complimented Sehrazat Yugi, who blushed more at her words. “You were the first one even to summon Exodia! It was a spectacular duel. I don’t think I could have handled Kaiba as you did.”
“I reset that.”, hissed Afya in their minds. “The boy with the blue eyes white dragon fetish would have gone down hard and rough if we duel him!”
Sehrazat ignored her Yami/Ancestor.
“N-No, I saw how you duel at the Europan championship. You truely earned your first place. I bet you can defeat Kaiba too, Faizan-San.”, complimented Yuugi back to her.
He was burning like a house on fire, but he needed to say this.
Shy Sehrazat batted her long eyelashes and Yuugi thought he would die. If he did it would be a great death, with one last look at the prettiest girl he had ever seen.
“Please you can call me Sehrazat or Sehra.”
“Then please call me Y-Yuugi!”
“Yeah, and Jounouchi or Joey to me.”, said Joey with a huge grin.
Damn this two were adorable.
Kihana seemed to agree with him since she grinned at him and pointed her head at the two smaller teens.
“And I’m Kihana or just Hana. So Yuugi, you are wearing interesting jewelry. It looks like the one Sehrazat is wearing.”, directed Kihana their conversation to the question they needed the answers to.
However cute Sehrazat and Yuugi were with each other, needed to wait for this.
That’s when both Joey and Yuugi noticed the teardrop-formed golden amulet with an eye that hung from Sehrazat’s neck.
“It looks really like yours, Yug!”, said Joey.
“Another Millennium Item!”, gasped Yugi suprised.
“What you sure, men?”
It was Sehrazat who answered him: “Yes, my amulet is a Millennium Item. The legends say there are eight of them.”
“Is your one too, Yuugi?”, asked Kihana.
He nodded, still floored. Never would he have thought to meet after Pegasus eye another Millenium Item.
“Yeah, it’s the Millenium Puzzle.”
Of that answer, Afya had the strongest reaction. Sehrazat had to keep her face under control, which was hard since her Yami literally screamed in their shared mind.
“I can’t believe it! It is the puzzle! Is there my supposed husband’s soul bond, like your grandmother told us, Sehrazat? I mean I kinda feel something of another presence with little Yuugi, but whatever that is doesn’t want to talk and show themselves. How rude!”
Thankful the ship horn sounded, which meant that it was time to retire to their cabin. Sehrazat was thankful. One part of her didn’t want to leave Yuugi, no it wanted to talk more to him, but she, Kihana, and Afya needed to talk.
Thank the gods, that Kihana was with her.
She gripped her hand and gave the two boys her best brilliant smile. Joey and Yuugi turnend both red under Kihana’s beauty.
“Look at the time. We need to go, but we should totally meet up later guys.”
With a wave, she dragged Sehrazat in the direction of their shared cabin.
I could write the whole episode since there are no duels, but that’s for when I write one day the real story fully. I will write part two of it maybe in the next few days. But no promises, I could write something totally different.
If you didn’t know English isn’t my first langue and it is really stressful to write a whole chapter in it.
Making this snippet, writing only parts of the chapter of this fanfic I have planned is really more simple.
At last, I want to recommend three awesome YGO! Fanfic to you.
First: https://www.quotev.com/story/12353010/Yu-Gi-Oh-book1-Lost-PurposeKaiba-X-OC/1
Second: https://www.quotev.com/story/14369524/Rising-SunYami-Atem/1
Third:https://archiveofourown.org/works/35307301/chapters/87994396
Give them a chance and give the authors a review, they are really worth a read.
Have a nice day/night!
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The Queens Gambit: Snippet Collection
This snippet came pretty randomly to me, but I needed to write it. Hope you enjoy it! :D
Snippet 4: Ancient Egypt
She know her time on this earth was ending.
Yanara felt it in her old and fragile bones.
She should be thankful, that she lived through so much and reached this age.
70 years was not something that anybody reached in their land.
Yet, she wasn’t ready to go.
Why should she go?
In the world of the living, she was closer to her beloved death Atem, than she would be in the afterlife.
Even if it was a strange notion, it was true.
His soul was in the Millennium Puzzle for all eternity banded, he wouldn’t be there in the afterlife with all her other beloved people, her parents, her uncle, her Kisara, Isis, Mahad, and Mana.
Waiting for her.
Welcoming her.
It was the worst feeling.
Tired she rubbed her eyes.
Her second husband and cousin Seto and little, even if she wasn’t this anymore, Samira were the only one left of her family beside her children, grandchildren, and grand-grandchildren.
Yanara was so proud of her family, how she wished Atem had seen them!
But he never would.
It was so unfair.
“Yanara.”, she heard the whisper of her Ka.
Frowning she moved her eyes to the wall where she heard the voice coming from.
The winged Sphinx of Isis, her Ka, was only a shadow silhouette, but she would recognize her in any form.
Beside her…no this couldn’t be true…?
“Oh great Isis, my dearest goddess.”, she whispers roughly.
Indeed beside her Ka was the goddess she had always loved and prayed the most to. The goddess her Ka was bonded to. Making her one of Isis’s children here on earth.
“Are you here to take me to the death tribunal, my goddess?”, she asked sadly. “Has mine time come? I don’t want to leave this world knowing, HIS soul will stay here.”
Isis looked at her with the eyes of a mother who saw their child suffering.
“My dear Yanara, my dearest mortal child, I gave you part of me in form of your Ka, because I knew you would be something special. And indeed you were. You helped to make our beloved Egypt into a greater home for it’s people. You were a good queen and a good mother.”, Isis told her.
Yanara felt how a tear fall down her cheek.
“So you are here for me. It is time for me.”
The goddess came closer to her, the Winged Sphinx of Isis following her.
“Yanara, my child, do you so wish to be with HIM again?”
“More than anything in this world. I never loved someone, as I loved HIM.”, she answered desperately.
She felt how Isis wiped her tears away.
“Then listen to me my dearest mortal child. The evil HE defeated will be back one day. HE will need to face it again. If you really want to, then I will put your soul into your Millennium Item, as the price you will forget anything about yourself till HE will remember too. Do you understand me?”
The old queen nodded rabidly.
Yes, she would do it.
Anything for a second chance.
Anything to see him again.
In whatever form.
“Call for one of your daughters, give her your Millennium Item and make them swerve that they would protect it with their last breath and give this burden then to their daughter, and their daughter, till it is time for you to be again with your Pharaoh!”, demanded Isis from her.
It was not a difficult choice to decide which of her daughters would become the Keeper of her Millennium Fragment.
She called for her little Omorose-Hathor.
The last gift her beloved had giving her.
Who had never known her biological father.
Who was now a grown woman herself, awaiting the birth of her first grandchild.
Omorose-Hathor was like the mirror image of her father, the same beautiful violet eyes stared at her in shock, as she told her daughter what now would be the long-lasting duty of her side of the family.
Yanara knew her daughter would accept it.
That night one of the greatest queens of Egypt died.
She would be remembered as the wife of the Nameless Pharaoh and his successor Pharaoh Seto. The queen with the heart of a warrior and a soul of a goddess, who helped Egypt reach a new height of glory and prosperity.
And for Yanara self?
As she felt how her soul was banned into her Millennium Fragment, losing bits and bits of herself, she only had one last thought.
That she couldn’t wait to see her beloved again.
It was only a matter of time.
Can you tell I love Hamilton? If you don’t know what that is go and hear the songs! This musical is epic!
As you also read I decide to give Yanara/Afya an invented Ka which will be also a Duel Monsters card the Winged Sphinx of Isis. I didn’t find any card that was connected to Isis, or I’m just too stupid, so I made my own.
So do not steal, are we clear?
Also if you want to know the officially shipping name of Yanara/Afya and Atem/Yami it’s Infinityshipping, I just hope nobody else claimed it already. :D
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Infinityshipping
Here we have it the first pic of the Infinityshipping aka Yami/Atem and my OC Afya/Yanara.
I love the whole partner look they have going on :D
I hope that Infinityshipping no one already took it.
Hope you like the pic?
Have a nice day/night! ^^
The Queens Gambit: Snippet Collection
After the little heartbreak I gave you with the last snippet I thought it would be nice to write out the scene when Atem/Yami and Yanara/Afya meet again in modern times as spirits of their respective Millenium Items. ^^
Enjoy this snippet for the Infinityship :D
Here is the base I used: https://www.deviantart.com/akatsukimaychan/art/Yami-Yugi-x-OC-Base-Request-for-iba2001-527054166
And here is what I made of it: https://www.deviantart.com/empressofthesun/art/Infinityshipping-932421020
Snippet 5: Duelist Kingdom
Afya had a small smile as she looked around the cabin.
Sehrazat, Kihana, and Sadiye were sleeping peacefully in one bed, while Maja and this new girl Anzu shared the other. Jounouchi and Honda had each taken one of the couches for themselves and were having a snoring contest it seems and little Yuugi was curled up in the armchair.
It looked like “her kids” and the new ones felt comfortable with each other. She was happy that they made friends fast.
Softly humming she stroked Sehrazat’s blue locks.
Maybe with their new allies, they would have even more of a chance not only to get Amira’s soul back, also little Yuugi’s grandfather’s soul and the price money Jounouchi needed for his little sister’s operation.
That’s when she felt how the air was humming with energy. With old ancient magic. The kind she used herself.
She closed her eyes, yet didn’t stop her humming.
The once queen of all Egypt had wondered when the spirit of the Millenium Puzzle would talk to her.
They both had sensed each other when Yuugi and Sehrazat first met.
“So you decide finally to show yourself?”, she couldn’t help but use a huffy tone. She had tried early to talk to him, but he had refused to answer her. How rude! “I wonder for a second if you would stay in the puzzle for all the journey.”
The spirit of the Millenium Puzzle or as he called himself Yami admitted he did feel a bit bad that he hadn’t talked to his follow spirit early. He was just so surprised to encounter another soul like him, that he needed to think for a while. It didn’t help that the presence of the spirit of the Millenium Fragment was so…so familiar to him, even if it didn’t make any sense!
He had needed time for himself.
Yami had his hands in his pant pockets and looked at how the female spirit seemed to check on the new friends of Yuugi and also Yuugi and his friends too.
She seemed like a mother, looking after her flesh and blood to make sure they were all right.
Something deep in him twisted painfully, and a feeling of bittersweetness washed over him.
He wonders why?
That’s when his fellow spirit turned to him, fixing him with a regal expression, fitting for a great queen and orange eyes so sharp, that he had a feeling she could look right through him.
She was really beautiful.
Her long dark blue hair reminds him of the night sky and her unique orange eyes were not from this world. She had more womanly curves than her young partner, yet he could make out the muscles she had.
This was someone who could fight physically with any man and he had a feeling she would end up victorious.
Meanwhile, Afya had similar thoughts running through her head.
Little Yuugi’s darker half, was taller than him, his hair a bit wilder, and his eyes the color of the most beautiful amethyst. His face was serious, sharper, but oh so handsome.
Like the gods had sculpted it.
If she were a young girl she would have probably swooned, but she was an ancient spirit, a queen nonetheless, she swooned because of no one!
Even if such a fine specimen was before her.
“I apologize.”, he addressed her with a sinful-sounding voice, which made her shiver lightly. Since Sehrazat awoke her soul from her deep slumber, no one had gotten such a reaction out of her. What was happening? “I should have talked to you before, but I admit. I was quite in shock meeting someone in the same situation I’m in.”
Afya put a hand on her hip, fully aware of how the other spirit seemed to check her shapely body up thanks to her movement as she had intended.
Was she flirting?
Yes.
She couldn’t resist.
“You mean trapped in a Millenium Item, bonded to a young teenager and with no memory?”, she nearly purred.
Yami balled the hands in his pockets into fists. Her honeyed voice got to him and was it his imagination or was the room filled with energy?
Sinful, erotic, energy.
Well, he wouldn’t complain.
You didn’t meet such a beautiful woman any day.
“So you are just like me, what is your name?”, he asked her, making his voice drop more, delightful in seeing her shiver a bit and batting her long eyelashes at him.
“Afya was the name my descendant gave me. You may call me so…?”
“Yami.”
“Yami.”, she repeated purring like a cat and now he had to control his shivers.
By Afya triumphed glint in her outwordly eyes, he failed miserably. Well, two could play this game.
He gave her a smirk, which clearly affected Afya, and asked: “Descendant? Do you mean the young girl who wears the Millenium Fragment? I thought you don’t remember anything.”
“Apparently I was once a powerful queen of Egpyt.”, she started to explain, playing with a lock of her hair. Yami got the desire to run his finger into these dark blue locks. “Before I died, my soul was put into my Millenium Item and one of my daughters became its keeper. For thousands of years, her bloodline kept it safe, till it was Sehrazat’s turn. When she put it on, my soul awoke and here I am now.”
“I slept for such as long too.”, Yami’s eyes wander over the sleeping Yugi, and a little smile forms. “When Yugi solved the puzzle, it was like a was reborn into this world. I know my roots lay in Egypt too. Probably all Millenium Items are from there.”
He heard how Afya hummed, then the other spirit walked closer to him. Now they stood before each other.
She cocked her head in a flirty fashion, showing him her long elegant throat, and reached with one hand out to him.
Afya rubbed his shoulder and then slide with her hand his arm up and down.
If he was a weaker man, he would have gulped and turned red, but he wasn’t so he raised an eyebrow at her and wrapped one lock of her hair around his finger.
It was really soft and smooth.
“I have a feeling you want to make a point, beautiful Afya.”, know he was the one purring and Afya felt her knees going weak.
She licked her lips and had to keep a winning smile from her face as she saw how Yami followed hungrily this motion with his eyes.
“Mmh, we both are from Egypt, I was a queen once and we both feel the connection that the Puzzle and Fragment have with each other.”
“If you are pointing out the obvious that I was the pharaoh to your queen, my dear, then you don’t need to waste your breath. I already suspected it, when you told me your story.”
Afya narrow her eyes at him and stopped rubbing his arm. She came really close to his face, their nose barely touching.
“Then why didn’t you say so before and play dumb?”, she hissed offended. Was he only playing with her? “We may have been married once, but I am no one’s plaything.”
“I didn’t think that and for making you feel this way I am sorry.”, he apologized sincerely and put a bit of hair behind her ear. “I admit, this is new and exciting. I thought we would keep on flirting. I greatly enjoyed our banter.”
Yami had to fight the smirk at her bashful expression.
His queen was tough, he felt it in his bones, yet she was with him like a freshly fallen-in-love girl.
Mmh, his queen…
He indeed liked the sound of it.
Before she could answer him, they both heard a sleepy voice calling for her. It was her young host and descendant…which meant she was also his? Did he and Afya have kids? He needed to ask her the next time they were alone.
“Gran-Gran? What are you doing?”
Seems like Sehrazat, that was her name if Yami remembered right, couldn’t see him.
Afya gave him such a hot look, that he felt his knees go weak. That look promised more than delightful banter…he couldn’t wait.
“Nothing, child of mine. Do you want me to sing you a lullaby to fall back asleep?”, Afya asked her.
Something like a yes came from Sehrazat. Afya squeeze his hand, till she walked and sat then down beside her hikari, to sing her to sleep.
Yami decides to go back into his puzzle.
He wouldn’t disturb the two ladies with his presence.
Also, he had a lot to think about.
Other than when they were alive and know they had to marry, Yami and Afya seem to like each other already really much. XD
I want to point out that this two have a lot of sexual tension right now.
They aren’t in love with each other yet, they lust for each other.
Love needs time to grow and we already have love at first sight with the Dandelionshipping, Yuugi, and Sehrazat, so I decide the second time they fall in love would be a bit more…erotic. ;)
I hope you enjoyed this snippet!
Also to remind you:
Infinityshipping: Yami/Atem and Afya/Yanara
Dandelionshipping: Yuugi Muto and Sehrazat Faizan.
I just hope nobody else has claimed these names :D
Next
The Queens Gambit: Snippet Collection
I want to inform you that Atem is 18 and my OC Yanara is 20 in this snippet, you will know why ;)
Enjoy!
Snippet 6: Ancient Egypt
The queen of all Egypt had to suppress her giggles, as her beloved husband lead her by her hand through the palace. Atem turned to her sushing her playfully.
Gods, she felt like a young girl again. When she would sneak into the grand kitchen of the palace, to get some sweet treats from the cooks there, before the meals.
“Where are we going, Atem?”, she whispered amused.
Her husband squeezed her hand and gave her one of his devilish smirks, which always made her weak in the knees.
“You will see, my beloved.”, he answered. “I have a little idea.”
“Oh, sounds interesting.”
“It will be interesting, love.”
The tone of his voice was something Yanara know too well. A shiver racked her body and she started to get hot. When Atem used that kind of voice on her, that meant, she would find herself in a few minutes naked and screaming his name to the heavens.
She couldn’t wait, what idea he had!
They both stopped at the entrance to the war room.
Yanara blinked surprised as Atem opened the door and lead her inside.
“What are we doing here, my dear?”, she asked him wondering.
Meanwhile, Atem hugged her from behind and gave her temple a soft kiss. Oh, she could feel how eager he was. She bit her lip and snuggled more up to him.
“Do you know how incredibly beautiful you are when you are commanding our army?”, he whispered hotly in her ear. His breath made her shiver in delight. “So powerful, strong, and assertive. I have to control myself not taking you right there!”
The blue-haired woman gulped, oh she had an idea of what he wanted to do.
“Here?”, she asked out of breath.
“Here!”, Atem growled back and attacked her throat with biting kisses.
She let out a moan and forgot anything around them.
Priest Seto walked briskly to the war room. How could he forget the important papyrus rolls they needed?
He was normally not forgetful, he didn’t like that.
Kisara would probably say that it’s even for him normal to be a bit forgetful. It was just in human nature.
He didn’t like to argue with his love, yet he just couldn’t accept this aspect of him.
Seto had worked hard to be there where he was now, mistakes were unacceptable. However little they were.
The young man was so concentrated on barenting himself, that he didn’t hear the muffled sounds coming from the war room. If he had, he would have turned around and walked away fast. Not running, he would never run! He didn’t need to get traumatized like Mahad last week in the gardens.
Else, he didn’t and opened the door without a thought, only the next moment to let out something similar to a shriek and close the door hard and fast.
Oh by the gods it burned!
He clasped his hands on his face and wished this accursed image away from his mind.
Sadly it was literally now imprinted.
He didn’t needed to see THAT!
The pharaoh mounting the queen, both of them stark naked!
This would haunt him for the rest of his life!
He needed to find alcohol and fast. A good hungover would liberty him surely.
High Priestess Kisara was wandering the palace halls in search of her betrothed Priest Seto.
He had wanted to come to her room, to enjoy some time alone together, but he didn’t come.
That wasn’t like Seto.
Frowning she crossed her arms and asked herself where her fiance could be.
It was then that she saw her little sister, Priestes Samira, coming her way. The younger woman seemed amused about something if the huge grin on her was any indication.
“Samira, sweetie.”, she called for her sister’s attention.
Instantly the younger one run up to her and hugged her sister tight. Kisara was happy that even if she was 20 and Samira 15 her sister still was her little one and wanted her hugs and kisses.
“Hello big sister, how are you?”, asked the younger priestess.
“I’m fine, just looking for Seto. You don’t happen to see him?”
It was now that her sister let go of her and laughed really loud. Kisara raised an eyebrow at her.
“Why are you laughing Sami? I don’t get the joke.”
“Oh you will.”, giggled Samira. “I indeed know where Seto is. He is in the garden and drinking himself silly.”
That was odd. Her fiance wasn’t one to drink himself into a hungover.
“And I don’t suppose you know why?”
“Two words: Atem and Yanara.”
Kisara repeated the names of their pharaoh and beloved queen wondering, till it was like lightning struck her.
She facepalmed and Samira just laughed harder.
Okay, Seto admitted drinking this much wasn’t going to solve his problem, but well he was already deep into it, so why not continue?
If he wasn’t so hungover, he would see the flaw in the logic, but his logic said already bye-bye.
“Oh Seto, what are you doing?”, he heard the lovely voice of his Kisara.
He looked up from the ground he was sitting on and saw his beloved in front of him. She had her hands on her hips and was shaking her head. The full moon made her shine like a diamond and the stars reflected into her beautiful blue eyes.
“You are so pretty.”, he whined, which made Kisara blink surprised. She had never heard Seto whine before. “Pretty like the moon, no wait, prettier. I wish I could look at you all the time.”
Kisara crossed her arms and counted fast the bottles around him.
15.
Just like Mahad last week.
She only hoped Mana wouldn’t know about that little incident for a while. The magician would never let Seto live it down.
“Love, don’t you think that’s enough for today?”, she tried to reason with him.
Seto looked just with wide eyes at her and took a big gulp out of his bottle.
“It will never be enough.”, he said with a grim voice.
The white-haired woman let out a sign.
How was she going to fix that?
She loved the queen like a sister, but she really wished these two weren’t so… adventurous in their love life.
They already traumatized Mahad and Seto, who would be next?
In the end, Kisara managed to stop Seto from drinking himself to death and put him into bed like a toddler.
Then after she was sure no one was in the queen’s chamber, she walked up to her best friend, who was making herself bed-ready and blinking at her wondering, and said: “My queen, I love you and I respect the pharaoh, but if you both don’t stop having intercourse in any possible room or outside I will send at both of you my dragon.”
Yanara just made a face at her.
I hope you enjoyed this little silliness XD
Poor, poor Priest Seto and Mahad, both could use therapy XD
And I know in one picture I made with Kihana and Sadiye I said that Kisara and Priest Seto were never together but I changed my mind.
This two danced around each other for years, because Kisara thought she had to dedicate her whole life to Yanara, till Yanara told her she should follow her heart finally! She could be a good Priestess even with a romantic life!
So when they were both 19 they came together and fast the betrothal was official. They married at 20-21.
I’m still I bit unsure if Kisara and Priest Seto should have at least one child before things with Zorc and Thief King Bakura happen.
What do you mean?
Hope you enjoyed this snippet, until the next :D
The Queens Gambit: Prequel
The Prequel to the Queens Gambit. Who was the legendary Queen Yanara really? The heart of a warrior, the soul of a goddess, married once to the Nameless Pharaoh and then his successor Pharaoh Seto she contributed to making Egypt a better country for the people. Yet, what was she like? What did she experience? This is her story. Part of the Checkmate-Saga.
Prolog: Welcome to the world little one
Princess Renenet, the favorite sister of Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen, was in the worst pain of her life.
She swore by her beloved goddess Isis that nothing could hurt like bringing a child into this world!
“AAAHHH!”, she screamed in pain and gripped the sheets of the bed she was laying.
If she survived this she would never let her husband Teremun touch her again she vowed!
The midwives tried to calm her down, yet she had only bitter words for them.
Teremun, who was outside the chamber and heard how his beloved screamed and shouted and cursed his name, could only wince.
He agreed with her, he deserved whatever godly punishment was reserved for him.
His brother-in-law the great Pharoah of their land patted his shoulder, while his wife the queen had an emphatic look on her face. Even if she sometimes looked worried at the door.
Maybe she was thinking over again if she really should get pregnant too if her sister-in-law was in so much pain.
Then the three of them heard the loudest scream Renenet had ever made and then….the soft cries of a babe.
The blue-haired man let out a gasp and tears formed in his eyes.
Their child was there!
Finally!
And it sounded like anything was okay.
The door opened and a midwife walked out.
She bowed down low before them.
“Mother and daughter are in perfect condition.”, she informed them.
“A daughter!”, whispered Teremun happy.
A pretty little daughter, who would come after his beloved wife, he was sure.
The pharaoh and queen also seemed happy to have now a niece. A little girl they could spoil and one day would be a great older cousin for their future child.
“Lord Teremun, if you want to see them?”, asked the midwife.
“Of course, of course!”, he shouted exited.
Akhenamkhanen clapped him friendly on the shoulder again and Queen Amunet squeezed his hand.
He gave them a happy look and then was off into the room to greet his daughter.
A while later it was time for Akhenamkhanen to meet his niece. He had wished to meet with her and his sister alone.
Already his brother-in-law and his own wife seemed amoured with the little one.
Well, if she was anything like her mother no wonder.
Akhenamkhanen had a lot of sisters, thanks to his father having beside his wife a grand harem, but Renenet had always been his favorite.
Since he had seen her as a baby as he was a young boy, she had something on her that made people just love her. As she could older it got more potent.
He wonder if his niece would be like that?
He enter the chamber and nodded to the midwives and servants to leave them be.
This was family time now.
His sister was sitting up in the bed, looking full of love into the eyes of the little bundle in her arms. All the pain, screams, and curses seemed to be forgotten.
“Reni.”, he called her by her childhood nickname.
“Big Brother.”, she responded and gave him a small smile.
He smiled at her too and sat down beside her bed.
“How are you, my dearest sister?”
“A lot better now.”
“I assume you don’t want to castrate poor Teremun anymore?”
She laughed out loud and then shushed her little one who had woken up because of her laughter.
Akhenamkhanen looked at the scene before him, and a small smile formed.
“So that’s the little one who kicked you so much the last month.”
“Indeed she is.”, she answered and turned her daughter carefully around so he could look at her little face. “Meet your uncle, my heart.”
A little gasp left the pharaoh.
The little girl was beautiful. She had midnight blue hair baby hair, like her father and her eyes were orange, like her mother. She had chubby cheeks, a cute little nose, and full lips.
She would be one day a great beauty! He could already see it.
“Reni, she is absolute perfect. What’s her name?”
“Yanara.”
“The light? A fitting name for her.”
“Do you want to hold her big brother?”
That wasn’t even a question.
Careful his sister placed her babe in his arms and he cooed at the infant.
She was just so precious.
Yanara seemed to look him in the eyes and even gave him a gumless smile.
“You are going to be something special, aren’t you, little one?”, he cooed at her.
Renenet smiled at seeing her beloved brother bonding with her child. She wonder if her other older brother would come too. Akhenaden was acting weird for a few months now, but he wouldn’t miss the birth of his first niece, or?
“Reni?”
“Yes, brother?”
“What would you say about if I have a son, he and your Yanara shall marry?”
That was a surprising declaration.
Renenet blinked at her brother.
“You don’t have even a son right now and yet you want to already betroth him?”
“You know how important the bloodline is.”, he reminded her, gently rocking the babe in his arms. “I couldn’t imagine anyone better than your Yanara as a bride for my future son. I just have a feeling she will be something special.”
“She is already special, not because she is a princess or you have a feeling she will be, she is special because she was born into this world. It simple as that.”, told Renenet.
“Wise words you say, my sister.”
“I actually read them somewhere, only I don’t remember where.”
The siblings laughed together and little Yanara let out a little babble.
As a baby, she didn’t understand what was going on.
She just felt happy, safe, and loved.
Exactly two years later, Yanara, now a curious little toddler, meets her cousin and future husband the crown prince Atem.
In the arms of her mother, she adorable scrunches up her little nose and looks at the crying bundle in her aunt’s arms.
Her aunty Amunet looks at her eager, wondering what her niece will think of her son.
Yanara says just two words.
“Weird hair.”
Everyone present in the room sweatdrops.
Hi and welcome to the Prequel to my story The Queens Gambit, there is already a snippet collection for it, but I thought since I only suck at writing duels, I can totally write the backstory of my OC Yanara Atem’s wife and cousin.
Also, I love ancient Egypt and the memory world arc so there you have it.
My story how it goes down in history.
So to clear a few things up, I took of course some liberties, so I hope you are okay with them.
Later you will find some of the snippets here as part of the chapters. I will keep the snippet collection but the Ancient Egyptian ones go now here as full chapters :D
The last thing, I couldn’t find the name of Atem’s mother so I named her Amunet.
And the already special speech of Renenet is an hommage of the one Carla Jaeger from Attack on Titan did.
I like to put some references to other media in my stories.
Again, hope you enjoyed the prolog and we will see us next chapter, whenever that is .3.
The Queens Gambit: The Story
The most powerful piece in chess is the queen.
When this piece joins the game of Duel Monsters anything will change.
With two dragon sisters, a magician and her descendant, the queen will take her rightful place.
As it should have been.
8th Millenniums Items
Reborn!Kisara
Reborn!Mana
Queen!OC
QueenReborn!Oc
RedEyesBlackDragon!OC
Pairings:
Atem/Yami YuugiXOC
Yuugi MutoXOC
Seto KaibaXReborn!Kisara
Author Note: Hey and welcome to now the final and real Queens Gambit Story! :D The snippet collection is over and we dive right in into the Plot of YGO! I have to thank my dear friend Light guardine35 from Qoutev and AO3 for it. She offered to help me with the duels and now, the fanfic who is with me since I was a little girl and changed and transformed over the years can go online! I hope you follow along this ride and don’t forget about The Queen’s Gambit: Prequel, I will still write for it too since it’s Afya’s/Yanara’s backstory, but this FanFic takes priority. Again a huge thanks to Light guardine35 for your help and go and check out her own works! I think I can talk for both of us to say, to enjoy this story! And now on to it!
Chapter 1: Happy 15th Birthday!
On the day of her 15th birthday, Sehrazat Faizan woke up like any other school day.
More asleep than awake and with a groan.
She didn’t care that today was also her birthday, it was too earlier!
Why does school start this earlier? That was inhuman!
The dark blue-haired girl put her pillow over her head.
Any minute now Kihana would storm her room and drag her out of bed. She loved her best friend, but these were times when she wished Kihana and her family would live in their own house.
…Yeah, Sehrazat didn’t think that would stop Kihana either.
There!
She heard the familiar boom of her door opening and wanted to cry.
Today was her birthday, even a special one in her family, so why couldn’t she stay at home and sleep?
Fuck, school!
“Rise and shine, your highness!”, sing-songend Kihana. She couldn’t be normal. Who was that happy, at this time?! “Today is your birthday, happy birthday my dear Sehra!”
Aww, at least this was cute.
It stopped being cute when Kihana gripped her blanket and left her in the cold morning air.
Sehrazat hissed like an angry cat and rolled herself into a ball.
Cold, way too cold!
Why were mornings so cold in Domino? How she missed the warm mornings in Lisabon!
Kihanan just tutted at her. The white-haired girl with the bluest eyes Sehrazat had ever seen was merciless. She gripped one of her arms and just let her fall to the floor!
“Hey, what was that for!”, Sehrazat shrieked offended.
The floor was even colder!
Kihana put her hands on her waist.
She was already wearing the Domino High School Uniform, her long white hair perfectly groomed into a ponytail, decent make-up which made her blue eye even more pop and her white porcelain skin glowing healthily.
“That’s the only way to wake you up, Sehrazat and you know it. We do this five times a week.”, reminds her Kihana.
Making a face Sehrazat stood up and has to control herself to make a worse face. She still reached only under Kihana’s breast.
Why was her best friend tall like a supermodel and she was small like a child?
They were now the same age, so unfair!
Only Sadiye, Kihana’s younger sister, was smaller than her! And that was because she really was a ten-year-old child.
Again, so unfair.
Pouting she followed Kihana to the dining room, where both their mom’s already were with little Sadiye eating breakfast.
Even if they all lived in Japan now, they still had a more wester-styled breakfast. With pancakes, cornflakes, bacon, and eggs, you name it.
That didn’t mean none of them had tasted the local cuisine.
For example, Sehrazat loved Ramen like she was Naruto from the same named Manga, but sometimes you needed a bit home.
They were all original from Egpyt, but Rahila, Kihana, and Sadiye’s mom, and her own mother Amira grow up in London, England.
Sehrazat’s Grandmother still lives there, like Kihana and Sadiye’s Grandparents.
Besides Rahila and Kihana, who were white-passing, all of them were black.
Sadiye was the first to note them.
“Happy Birthday, Sehra!”, shouted the ten-year-old, which gripped the attention of the two older women.
Her mother smiled and stood up from her sit. She opened her arms for her.
“Good morning, my little princess, and happy, happy birthday!”
Still tired Sehrazat let herself fall into her mother’s embrace. Ah, nothing to rise her spirits like her mama’s hugs! She was warm and smelled, like always after jasmine and sandalwood. Comforting and homey.
“Happy Birthday, your highness. Now you are finally 15.”, said Rahila to her and Sehrazat felt how her head was patted.
“Thanks aunty Rahila.”
They all sit down at the table and Amira signs wistfully.
“15 years already…I can’t believe time flew so fast. It was like yesterday you wear this tiny and I could pick up you whenever I wanted.”
“She still IS tiny!”, joked Sadiye and grinned at her.
Sehrazat looked at her angrily and bit into her pancake.
Kihana tutted her little sister, who shrugged her shoulders.
Sadly it was true.
Didn’t mean like Sehrazat liked to hear that.
“And you can still pick her up Amira.”, reminded Rahila.
Thanks, aunty!
Sehrazat bit harder into her pancake.
“You know what I mean.”, said Amira and then turned to her daughter. “Don’t forget, today IS a special birthday. Now you will be the Keeper.”
It took Sehrazat any amount of strength to not roll her eyes.
Ah, yes, she became now the Keeper of the mysterious Millennium Fragment which was in possession of her family since the times of the great pharaohs.
She never even saw that thing, because her mother keep it in a little golden box with Hieroglyphs written on it.
But nearly anyone treated it like it was something sacred.
Holy!
The dark blue-haired girl thought personally that it was too much. It was just some jewelry.
Yes, really old jewelry, but jewelry.
There was nothing special about it.
Or let’s say better she didn’t want to believe the stories her mother and grandmother told her.
They were just too crazy!
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEHRA-CHAN!”
Sehrazat and Kihana flinched at the loud shout and the birthday girl couldn’t even look as fast, as Maja, the third in their friend group, launched herself at her and hugged her tight.
The blue-haired girl couldn’t even respond, since Maja’s hug was so strong that it squeezed the air out of her lungs.
“Maja-Chan, let Sehra breath, she is turning blue!”, came Kihana to her rescue.
The brown-haired girl let her go with an ups, but Sehrazat would have nearly fallen on the ground if Kihana and Maja didn’t catch her.
“I’m so sorry, Sehra-Chan!”, whined Maja, while Kihana checked on her.
Sehrazat just made a thumbs-up.
She could feel how nearly everyone in the schoolyard was looking at them.
Like always.
Maja was consistently over the top with her affection, but that’s why she and Kihana loved the other black girl.
The three were a bit infamous in Domino High, the only black girls, even if Kihana was white-passing and Maja half-Japanese, and their morning routine got them even more attention.
After Sehrazat could breathe again, Maja handed her a little gift box.
“Here is your birthday present, my dear Sehra-Chan. I hope you like it!”
“Thanks, Maja, that’s so nice of you.”, told her Sehrazat smiling.
Maja grinnend and rubbed her nose.
Kihana looked at her as she unwrapped her gift. A small gasp left her lips.
“Dark Magician Girl and Magical Hats! I searched for them everywhere, where did you find them?!”, shouted the birthday girl happily.
How long she had wanted these two cards for her deck of Duel Monster? She couldn’t remember and Maja found them and gifted them to her.
“Aww, makes me happy you are so happy! I found them in a cute little card shop named Kame Shop. The old grandpa who owns it was nice and he has a lot of good cards.”, explained Maja, rocking back and forth with her hands behind her back.
“We need to totally visit it!”, decides Sehrazat.
Maja raised a fist in the air and shouted a loud yeah!
“But not today.”, came Kihana, the voice of reason in their group. “You know how important your 15th birthday is Sehra. Our moms expect us back after school, no improvised trips.”
Both Sehrazat and Maja let out a gloomy sound and slouched over. Sadly Kihana was right.
The brunette was the first to gather herself.
“Is this again some of your guys’ weird family tradition? Reminds me of my Obaa-Chan and her demand that we always have Mochi after dinner.”, said Maja.
“Eh, you could say.”, answered Sehrazat.
It was forbidden to tell outsiders about their family affairs, even if Sehrazat didn’t believe one bit and would like to tell Maja, she respected this rule. Also, Kihana was there and would give her a headbutt if she told a thing.
Other than her Kihana believes this shit.
Sehrazat wonders sometimes if she was the weird one in her family or if the others were all the weird ones.
Stupid ancient jewelry and its stupid ancient legend around it.
It was then that the school clock sounded, meaning it was time to get to their classroom.
The three girl pals hocked their arms with each other and followed the long line of their school- and classmates into the building.
The school day was too fast over in Sehrazat eyes. Normally she would be happy, but she threaded what would her await home.
She so doesn’t want to participate in that superstition of her family, yet she didn’t have a choice.
So she had to say goodbye to Maja and follow Kihana home.
Arrived there her mother reminded her that they would go out for dinner today and then the ceremony would take place.
So she had to dress nicely.
Her mother had bought her extra a pretty white dress, with it she should wear her best golden jewelry.
After a shower and dressing up Sehrazat had to let out a sign.
She looked like a modern version of an ancient Egyptian princess…she really hoped no one she knew saw her like this.
Well, at least she wasn’t the only one. Her mother looked like a modern Egyptian queen, while aunty Rahila, Kihana, and Sadiye looked like priestesses.
Besides her little Sadiye whined to her mother that she wanted to wear her favorite red dress, she know the stories too, but she seemed only to half believe them.
Yet Rahila didn’t give her a choice and so not only Sadiye pouted, Sehrazat did it too.
Her mother tutted her and so she tried to smile.
At least they would eat well before the whole weird shit happened.
Since Sehrazat’s favorite food was Pasta, they would eat out in the best Italian restaurant in Domino.
The food, of course, was delicious and as her birthday cake came out, made out of chocolate and vanilla and everyone in the restaurant sang happy birthday to her, the birthday girl forgot for a second what would await her home.
Then it was time for her presents.
From Rahila she got the new CD from her favorite J-Pop Idol Mimi Kawaii! It was even a special edition, with an autograph and an exclusive poster.
From Sadiye she got a self-drawn book, with drawings of her and Sadiye having adventures together. Also, she gifted her a Kuriboh card, which was adorable since Sadiye used her own money to buy it. Everyone cooed at her.
From Kihana, who had a passion for sewing, she got a self-made bag with a large D and M on it for Duel Monster and a new card holder.
From her mama, she got a new dress in her favorite color gold which sparkled like the sun, with fitting shoes and new earrings, and a necklace.
Her granny had sent her money, which her mother gave her.
Sehrazat already know she would buy some new Duel Monsters cards from it.
All in all an awesome birthday.
If it wasn’t for one thing remaining.
“Long ago when the pyramids were still young, the great pharaoh played a game filled with obscure magic. These were the shadow games. But these Shadow Games erupted into a war that threatened to destroy the entire world. Until a brave and powerful pharaoh locked the magic away, imprisoning it within the mystical Millennium Items. His name we don’t know, he is only now as the Nameless Pharaoh.”, told Amira the story Sehrazat had heard 100 times or so.
She had to keep herself from yawing.
This was important.
Oh well, for her mama.
She just wanted to get over it.
They were back home. Currently in their dining room where now the table and chairs were missing and a little altar was placed. On it was a statue of the goddess Isis, lotus blossoms and the famous golden box of her mother.
Rahila with her daughter stood at the side, and beside Sadiye who seemed to wish to be somewhere else, listen to attentive Amira's words.
Amira stood beside the altar and Sehrazat was standing before her.
God, it sounds like they had a cult meeting or something similar. People would call them crazy if they saw them. Thankful the curtains on the window were closed and the room was illuminated by a lot of candles.
“The Nameless Pharaoh had a wife. This wife born our ancestor, the founder of the Faizan family.”, continue Amira. “The great queen gave her daughter a duty that till this day we handle. She gave us the 8th Millenium Item, the Fragment, which belonged only to the queens of Egypt. Sehrazat.”
Oh, dear.
She looked at her mother, who had raised her hands like a prayer, which made this even more sound like a cult meeting, and tried to stay impassive.
Even if she just wanted to go to bed.
“Sehrazat, my dear daughter. For thousands of years, we protect the Millenium Fragment from outer forces who want to use its power for evil. From mother to daughter, when reached the age of 15 the keepsake gets passed down. Now it’s your turn.”
Amira took the golden box in her hands and Sehrazat nearly forgot to hold her hands open, so her mother could place the box in them.
“You will keep it safe till it’s your turn to pass it down to your daughter or when the time will come that its power it’s needed again, then the great queen, our ancestor, told us one day the world would need it again the power of the Millenium Fragment. Fulfill your duty to our family, our bloodline, as all the other daughters before you.”
“I will, mother.”, she responded and stared at the box which was now hers.
So that was it?
Yeah, of course, nothing strange happened.
It was just a box with jewelry.
Nothing more.
At least this ceremony was over now.
Sehrazat was freshly showered and wearing her PJs as she retired to her room for the night. Yawning she closed the door after her.
Well, this birthday was over, she got cool gifts, had an awesome time with her family, eat well and now was the Keeper of a shiny little box.
The Box with the Millenium Item was sitting on her Vanity Mirror where she had it placed before taking her shower.
She frowned at the thing.
Till she had a daughter and she was 15, she had to keep an eye on it. Yeah, she could imagine more fun activities.
Stupid family tradition.
The blue-haired girl bet some of her ancestors got conned with this thing and the story and made anybody believe it to this day.
Well, she surely wouldn’t.
Mumbling to herself about stupid shiny boxes, she sat down on her bed and reached for her deck. She wanted to put the new cards in it and then in the cardholder, Kihana had made for her.
Just…something was bugging her.
She couldn’t explain it. It was something in the deeps of her mind. Something like a whisper.
Something said deep in herself to look at what was in the box.
Frowning she placed her deck on her bedside table and took the shiny box from the Vanity Mirror to her bed. She crossed her arms and sat before it.
“So, now what? Stupid shiny old box, what is so special about you?”, she said to herself.
Meanwhile, a storm was forming with lightning and thunder, and howling wind.
The blue-haired girl took the box in her hand and opened it. There laid this Millennium Fragment.
It was golden, tear-dropped formed with a big eye of Horus staring right into her soul.
She admitted it looked really…ancient.
And the eye was creeping her out.
“So you are the Millenium Fragment, heh?”, was she really talking to jewelry? What had gotten into her? “What is so special about you?”
To demonstrate, herself and anybody else Sehrazat decide to break the rule about not wearing the jewelry.
It was just a story.
She took it out of the box.
It was just a story.
The box was placed on her bed.
It was just a story.
Lighting illuminated its surface and reflected on it ominously.
It was just a story!
Sehrazat took all her courage and put it on.
Her heart beat so fast, that she could feel and hear it. Sweat has broken out on her body, but it was done.
The Millenium Fragment hung now from her throat.
The storm outside got more intensive.
“Heh, that’s it?”, she said with a wobbly voice. “It’s really just-“
The teenager couldn’t even end her sentence as some kind of energy flowed through her being. A golden eye appeared on her forehead and she throws her head back in a silent scream.
If someone saw this he wouldn’t believe his eyes, but the girl seemed to grow taller, her body taking more womanly curves, her hair reaching her bottom and her eyes becoming shaper.
Her mouth closed and she slowly put her head again forward.
She blinked her eyes a few times and raised an elegant eyebrow as she looked around the room.
“Well, this…this is surprising.”, Sehrazat or not said in a melodious sinful voice who belonged to a woman and not a young girl.
She raised her hand to look at it, studying it.
“Really surprising.”
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