The Queens Gambit: Snippet Collection

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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About Kick the cat out of the bag

Hi guy's one of my readers on AO3, DSpaceZ, had an idea for a better and shorter name for the blog. It's Kickat. What do you think? Should we keep Kick the cat out of the bag or Kickat? Let me know in the notes! Or if you have a fanfiction.net account vote there!

Update 13/08/2022

The poll now is closed and you can't vote any more guys!

I'm sorry, but I hope you can accept my decision.

We have a name for the blog so go read the new chapter! :D

The Millennium Fragment

I can't believe I'm actually doing it, but since I was a little girl I was a fan of YGO! and I caved finally. This is my own created Millennium Item, the Fragment, only the queen could wear it. This means Atem mother and his wife wore it. Yes in my fanfic I'm working on since years Atem was married and even had children!

I will tell you it's power. The fragment is basically a shield. It creates a barrier of light which protects it's wearer from bodily and mindly harm. For example, if someone attackes the wearer aka. the queen the shield actives automatic and protecs her. But for example Pegasus with his eye can't only not read the mind of the wearer if he activ puts the mind barrier up. This takes some pratics. Since it belongend only to the queens it second power is that it can create a chanel to the puzzel. Wearer of this two items can talk telepathy witch each other and even visit each other spirit chambers. But the chanel only forms if both parties trust each other and let the other in.

What do you mean? Do you like it?

I choose the teardrop form since we all know how the Items were created, it's actually a blooddrop. Nothing more to say.

In the next day's a will upload some characters. The FanFic itself only exist in my mind currently and I change it always. Only a few things are secure. Also I suck at Duel Monster and wouldn't even now how to write an origanel Duel.

The only things I will ever post are probaly going to be snippets. But better then nothing. Like a said since a was a little girl this story is with me and I want to share it finally.

Also I draw this myself in paint, please don't steal the idea and the design.

Have a nice day/night you all!

About my fanfictions

Hello, my dear readers!

I’m sad that I have to make this announcement, but in my personal life, there will be some changes that will give me less time to work on my fanfictions.

So I decide, with a heavy heart, to put Isekai’d as Chloe on a Hiatus and concentrate on Kick the cat out of the bag.

When Kick the cat out of the bag is finished I will start on Isekai’d as Chloe again.

Just like a Magical Girl and A Hero’s Duty were already on sporadic updates, so they will go into hiatus too.

I can’t write for more than one fanfic now and hope you all understand and accept my decision.

I wish you all a wonderful day/night!

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

Anzu MazakiXReborn!Mana

Here we have the second chapter, I want to thank my friend Light guardine35 from Quotev and AO3 for their help when I got stuck on a scene. Hope you all enjoy this chapter. :D

Chapter 2: The Spirit of the Millenium Fragment

Redone: 29/08/24

When Sehrazat “woke up” again she had to look twice and pinch herself that she wasn’t dreaming.

No, she wasn’t.

How could this be possible?

She wasn’t anymore in her bedroom but in a room filled with toys from her childhood, a comfy-looking couch, a filled bookshelf and painted in soft golden colours.

What the heck was going on?

Was she kidnapped?

She felt how she started to sweat and her heart nearly leaped out of her chest. Sehrazat was more than afraid, she was terrified.

How could this happen?

The last she remembered was putting on the Millennium Fragment and then…nothing for a while.

“Wait a minute.”, she mumbled to herself. “Has this something to do with the Fragment?”

Oh, dear Isis, she hoped not, that would mean all the crazy stories they told in her family were true, yet it would be better than being really kidnapped.

“I need to get out of her.”, she told herself and looked for a way out.

Luck was on her side, there was a door which opened!

If she really was kidnapped then her Kidnappers weren’t that good.

Careful she looked around.

She was now in a corridor and before her was…a really, really creepy door.

There was again an eye of Horus who seemed to look into her soul.

Where by Osiris did she end up?

Suddenly the door before her opened slowly and Sehrazat wished she could run away.

Yet something kept her there.

Maybe it was a morbid curiosity then it was not normal not to react to a creepy door slowly opening alone.

“So you have awakened?”, said a melodious woman’s voice from the room behind the creepy door.

Okay, now would be good to run away, but Sehrazat seemed to have turned into ice.

The woman, the voice belonged to, stepped out of her room and…no that couldn’t be possible!

It was like Sehrazat looked into a mirror.

A mirror that made her look, older, taller, and hotter, with longer hair and sharper eyes even in her cutesy Dark Magician Girl PJs!

That was one sexy as-hell woman, Sehrazat bet any man or woman would get a heart attack at this beauty, it was just so weird and impossible that they both could be twins.

She didn’t have a twin sister!

And why would a twin sister kidnap her to this creepy place?

What was going on?

Her look-a-like frowned at her and then gave her a small smile. She holds her hands up in a non-treating way.

“You must be really confused, aren’t you? I understand this is new for me too.”, said the woman to her.

The blue-haired girl nodded slowly. She didn’t trust her voice.

“Why don’t we go back to your room? I will explain anything as well as I can.”

Did Sehrazat even have a choice? The corridor looked like was endless and she wouldn’t risk running away now. She had noted even how womanly her doppelganger was, she possessed some muscles too.

That was not a fragile flower.

This was someone who could fight.

She was reminded of her favourite card the Amazoness Paladin. Her doppelganger was just as beautiful, but you clearly saw that she was a fighter!

So she nodded.

The Doppelganger gave her a reassuring smile and stepped as the first one in the toy-filled room.

How considerate of her actually. Sehrazat wouldn’t have liked to have this woman behind her, so the woman turned her back to her.

She was showing Sehrazat some trust.

Well, she could at least hear out what she had to say. She couldn’t be that bad if she was attentive to her feelings.

….That was not Stockholm-Syndrom talking out of her she hoped.

So Sehrazat got back into the room she woke up and gave the woman a hesitated and mistrusting look.

The other one was sitting on the couch, still trying to appear as non-threatening as possible.

Yeah, she wouldn’t sit down beside her and stand where she was. The door she let open too, just in case she had to run away.

“Also.”, began the woman. “Please don’t freak out, but I’m a spirit. I have inhabited the Millennium Fragment for a good 3000 years. You put it on awoke me from my slumber. So you can see, I’m just as surprised as you are.”

Sehrazat blinked at the doppelganger.

One.

Two.

And three times.

“I can’t believe Granny’s crazy story is true!”, she shrieked displeased.

Now the spirit was blinking at her, while Sehrazat remembered what her grandmother told her when she was a little girl.

*/*

Sehrazat loved to visit her Granny after pre-school.

Granny always made her, her favourite food, made cookies, and told her amazing stories!

Her Granny was a tall woman, with long dreadlocks and a beautifully aged face. She may not look like a typical grandmother, but she was just as sweet.

The little four-year-old girl snuggled more up to her Granny, who held her in her lap and listened to her newest story.

“The Millenium Fragment is special not only because of its power, but the spirit of the great queen sleeps in it.”, her Granny told her.

Sehrazat looked with sparkling eyes at Granny.

“Like Sleeping Beauty?”

Granny laughed heartily and gave her forehead a kiss which made her in turn giggle.

“You can say it, but she is not waiting for Prince Charming to wake her up with a kiss. One day, the power of the great queen will be needed again. She waits in the Millenium Fragment for the right soul who will wake her up from her slumber.”

“How Granny?”

“When the time is right the chosen soul will wear the Millenium Fragment and awake so the queen’s soul again.”

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“Unbelievable, you are the queen?! My ancestor?! All these freaky stories are true?”, continue Sehrazat shocked.

How could she not if her whole world was flipped over in one instant?

The spirit frowned and tilted her head confused.

“I’m a queen?”, she asked surprised. “I’m your ancestor? I’m sorry, I’m a bit confused. The only thing I remember is that I know my roots lay in ancient Egypt what you tell me is new information. Though it makes no sense why my soul room looks like a palace.”

You know there could be a lot of things Sehrazat could ask the spirit, but she decided to concentrate on one thing.

“Your room looks like a palace?”

Her doppelganger just nodded.

“Huh.”

*/*

A while later we find Sehrazat sitting beside the spirit finishing to tell her what she knows of her family stories about the Millenium Fragment.

“So to recapitulate, I once was a great queen married to two pharaohs, one who is only known as the Nameless Pharaoh, who saved the world from the destructive Shadow Games. Then before I died my soul ended up in my Millenium Fragment and one of my daughters carried the duty to protect it and guard it against evil forces. She was the founder of your family, the Faizans. For 3000 years your family fulfilled this duty, now it’s your turn and you didn’t believe one bit of the stories and put the amulet on to prove a point. But so you awakened me, which I prophesized to my daughter, that I would be back when the right soul wore my Millenium Fragment and the world needed my power again. So that means the evil forces are back and I must be reunited with my first husband, whose spirit lives in the Millenium Puzzle.”

Sehrazat just nodded, while the queen shook her head.

“I can understand you thought this was all a made-up story, I’m here and I can’t quite believe it. I’m only a shadow of the person I once was, I can’t be sure what your family told for 3000 years is the truth.”, admitted the spirit.

“You really remember nothing?”, asked Sehrazat to be sure.

“No, not one bit.”

After that Sehrazat let out a loud sign. That wasn’t good that the queen had amnesia, not when it seemed the world was in danger again.

“You know what.”, started Sehrazat. “Till proven otherwise I think we can believe the stories my family told. We are clearly here together and you at least know you are a spirit bond to the Millenium Fragment. Better we can’t do.”

The queen agreed with a nod.

“Seems like you will be stuck with me for a while, Sehrazat.”, the queen said.

“You will need a name, I don’t want to call you Spirit or the likes.”, told her Sehrazat.

The queen was her ancestor, her 3000 times great-grandmother or so, and she was family. It wouldn’t feel right to not call her by a name. She was a human being.

“Do you have something in mind, Sehrazat?”, asked the queen curiously.

The blue-haired girl mummed thoughtfully and gripped her chin.

What would be a fitting name for a once queen of Egypt?

One of the names of other famous queens?

Should she go with something modern?

Then it hit her.

The queen had said she was only a shadow of the person she once was…

“How about Afya?”

Her ancestor put her pointer finger thoughtfully against her lips and looked up to the ceiling.

“Afya…Shadow…mmh, not bad. I like it. It fits me.”

“Then it’s settled.”, cheered Sehrazat and held her hand out to Afya. “It’s nice to meet you official Afya, I’m Sehrazat.”

With a laugh, Afya took her hand and shook it.

“The pleasure is all mine, Sehrazat.”

*/*

Like any morning Kihana was on her way to wake up Sehrazat. She mumbled happily a little song.

The weather was nice out there. So today they could eat in the schoolyard under the pretty cherry blossom trees.

Kihana loved this about Japan, the cherry blossom trees were so wonderful.

She opened the door to her best friend’s bedroom and started her greeting: “Good morning your highness, it’s time to wake-“

The words got stuck in her throat as she saw Sehrazat sleeping peacefully, a golden amulet with an eye of Horus around her neck.

She never had seen it, but her mother had told her what all Millenium Items had in common, so she would recognize them.

The white-haired girl couldn’t believe it!

“Sehrazat!”, she shouted so loud, that her best friend woke up from her slumber and looked confused around.

“Wha, Wha, What?”, comes still sleepy from her.

Kihana closed the door behind her and pointed an accusing finger at Sehrazat.

“Sehrazat Nefertiti Faizan, are you wearing the sacred Millennium Fragment?! You know it’s not allowed!”, reminds her Kihana waving her finger around.

Sehrazat sat up on her bed and rubbed her eyes. The girl didn’t quite catch what was going on, half asleep as she was.

“What Hana?”

Her best friend let out a loud sign. Of course, Sehrazat wasn’t “online” so to speak. She still had to power up her system.

The blue-haired girl never was a morning person.

Well, Kihana knows what to do.

She started to tickle Sehrazat.

“Wa, wa, wa?! Hahahahaha! Stop it, stop it, Hana!”, plead Sehrazat trying to get away from her best friend’s fingers.

But Kihana was merciless.

“You are wearing the Millenium Fragment!”, she repeated. “What are you thinking Sehrazat?!”

“Currently how to, hahaha, getaway, hahaha, from you!”

“Don’t sass me, young miss!”

“Please have mercy, hahaha!”

“Explain yourself then!”

With that Kihana stopped and Sehrazat took a big gulp of air.

“Maybe it’s better we go to the dining room, so I can explain to Mama and the others this too.”, said the blue-haired girl.

Her white-haired friend let out a sign but nodded. It would be better if anybody knew what was going on. Amira needed to know this. Sehrazat had broken a rule of their families and only her mother could punish her.

So the two girls made their way to the dining room, where the rest of their family already enjoyed their breakfast.

*/*

“You guys are weird today.”, said Maja to her two best friends and gave them a look.

It was lunch break at Domino High and thanks to the good weather they could eat at the schoolyard under their favorite cherry blossom tree.

Just Sehra and Hana wear so weirdly the whole day.

And the weird new amulet Sehra wore was giving Maja some strange vibes.

“A lot happened.”, answered Kihana shortly, picking her Bento apart.

Maja raised an eyebrow.

“We saw each other just yesterday, what the frick, could happen that you guys are weird?”

“The world turns upside down.”, sang Sehrazat a verse from Hamilton’s Yorktown.

“I believe it my whole life.”, said Kihana more to herself, yet Maja heard her. “But it’s still so unbelievable. How can it be?”

The brunette just blinked even more confused at her friends. Normally she was the one who said cryptic nonsense to make them laugh, that was so not Sehra and Hana style.

“Okay, I’m going to guess you are acting weird because of Sehra's new shiny amulet.”, guessed Maja.

Kihana's left eye twitched and Sehrazat nodded biting into her ramen noodles.

“Sehra!”, hissed Kihana. “Do you think this is a good idea? I love Maja, but we can’t drag her into this mess!”

It got weirder by the minute. In what kind of freaky situation did end up her friends and why can’t she participate?

Maja pouted.

“I thought we three were best friends forever? I told and show you how I can do magic, why won’t you trust me?”

Here Kihana whined and looked apologetic at her.

“It isn’t like that Maja-Chan-“

“It’s just Hana is still so fixed in our old family traditions that she doesn’t know how to handle this now.”, explained Sehrazat calmly.

“And you do Sehra-Chan?”

Sehrazat looked at Kihana. Oh, there they go having a silent conversation with their eyes. Maja wonders how the two do that. After a few seconds, Kihana let out a breath and nodded.

“As Aunt Amira said you can now decide who knows and who will not.”

“Oh, goody, so I get an explanation now?”, wanted Maja a confirmation.

“Maja-Chan, have you ever heard of the Nameless Pharaoh and the Shadow Games?”, asked her Sehrazat in turn.

She admitted she didn’t expect that.

“Yeah, my grandfather told me that there was once a mighty pharaoh who saved our land and the world from something evil called Shadow Games.”, said Maja. What was Sehrazat getting at? “Apparently you used real Monsters to battle each other in this game. It got out of control and somehow the Nameless Pharaoh put an end to this.”

“You know a lot.”, said Kihana surprised.

Maja shrugged her shoulder.

“In the village, where my grandparents from Egypt live it’s a folktale.”

“Cool to know. So Maja-Chan what would you say when I tell you that the Nameless Pharaoh banned the power of the Shadow Games into eight mystical Items called Millenium Items?”, wondered Sehrazat.

“Is this where now your amulet comes in?”, pointed the brunette at it.

“She is a smart girl, Sehrazat.”

Suddenly Maja heard this melodious woman’s voice and not a second later a spirit-like being who looked like Sehrazat, just older and hotter, materialized beside her friend.

Maja gasped for air and pointed at the spirit woman.

“You….You have a spirit with you?! Since when?!”

“You can see Afya?!”, shouted Sehrazat and Kihana shocked.

This “Afya” blinked rapidly at her, she seemed just as shocked.

The brunette got then a feeling in her belly that they would face many crazy adventures in the near future.

Really, really, crazy adventures.

Should she maybe get some alcohol?

She had a feeling these adventures would give them a lot of frustration.

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