The Queens Gambit: The Story

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

Author Note: Big thank you to my friend Light guardine35 from Quotev and AO3 who helped me when I got stuck. You rock my world, cupcake. :D Do me a favor and read her stories, all right? Now, I know people are reading this story, but I don’t get enough reviews for it as it should be, so please, please, please give me a review. I’m open to criticism I’m not afraid, I just want some feedback. T^T Okay, I’m done whining. Enjoythe chapter!

Chapter 5: Off to Duelist Kingdom! Part II

Redone 29/08/24

All right, maybe staying hiding outside on the cruise ship wasn't the best idea.

Anzu had a problem now.

A really urgent now!

"I'm at my breaking point!", she whined and stood up.

"If we don't hide, we'll get in trouble!". reminded Honda.

"But I can't hold it. Where's the bathroom."

Honda seriously stood up and pointed proudly over the railing.

"Relive yourself over there!"

"You fool! I'm not a noy!", shouted Anzy angrily.

"Hey, guys keep it down!", hissed Maja, who had a sleeping Sadiye in her arms. "Some of us try to sleep over her and you don't want to wake up this little dragon, trust me!"

Before anyone could say something more a door opened.

They saw Ryou Bakura walk out of it and lean on the railing.

“Bakura-Kun? Is that Bakura?”, Anzu whisper-shouted to Honda.

Maja also looked curious over.

“I'm not Ba-sure-a.”, joked Honda.

Maja and Anzu sweatdropped in disbelief.

"What a lame joke.", grumbled Anzu.

"Totally.", agreed Maja, before she asked: “Is this Bakura a friend of yours?”,

“A school friend, yes.”, answerd Anzu.

Maja eyed him up and down and then grinned.

“He reminds me of a fluffy kitty…adorable!”

Now Anzu and Honda sweatdropped.

/*/

“I’m sooooo full.”, whined Sehrazat holding her belly.

It had been a stupid idea to eat all this food!

Kihana had to fight a burp. She was a bit green in the face.

“That’s the first and last time we do this.”, proclaimed Kihana. “My stomach hurts so much.”

Sehrazat could only agree.

The two best friends were out of their room in search of Yugi and Jonouchi. They together with Afya agreed that they needed to win the boy’s trust first before they could tell them all about Afya and Yugi’s lodger in the Millennium Puzzle.

If he didn’t know about the pharaoh already.

They would wing it as they go, was decided.

Kihana opened a door that would lead them to the exterior of the ship since they hadn’t found them inside.

Luck was on their side it seemed.

They did find the boys.

Yugi was sitting at one of the tables, while Joey was standing beside him.

“Hello again, Yugi and Joey.”, greeted Kihana for them as they walked up to the boys.

“Oh, hey, girls, how’s going?”, greeted Joey smiling back.

Yuugi and Sehrazat looked shyly at each other, he turned red, while she was bashful.

“Aren’t you two just adorable?”, cooed Afya in their minds.

“Shut up, Gran-Gran!”

The ancient queen laughed just.

“All good, with you guys?”, asked Kihana. Joey said the same, so she asked another thing: “So what were you up to?”

“Nothing much, just enjoying the cruise, and you ladies?”

“We were actually looking for you guys. Sehra wants to know all about your Duel against Kaiba, Yugi.”, told them Kihana.

Not only the boys blinked, also Sehrazat. That wasn’t really the reason, they searched for them, not that Sehrazat would mind hearing about it.

Sehrazat gave Kihana a look, but her best friend gripped just her shoulder and Yugi ones and pushed them nearly to the rail.

“Why don’t you two talk there and I will tell Joey about our adventure in the Europe Championship.”

“You really will?”

“Of course, Joey!”

The blond boy blushed and couldn’t help to celebrate internally. A pretty girl who was also a duelist wanted to talk with him and share her experience with him.

It was awesome!

Meanwhile, our two short duelists were clearly shy with each other. Sehrazat played with her fingers and Yugi rubbed his neck nervously.

“For the love of Hathor, child, Kihana gave you a chance to talk to your crush.”, explained Afya in their minds. “Take it! Ask the boy about his duel and form a connection.”

The blue-haired girl didn’t know what to say and gulped nervously. After what happened with…HIM…she was insecure about boys. Yet, she didn’t think Yuugi was like that…and if even Kihana played wingman for her…maybe she should give it a try.

So she took a big gulp of air and smiled at Yugi. The boy blushed seeing her pretty smile, wondering how a girl like her could have any interest in him. He may be taller than her, but he was short for a male and his baby face didn’t make girls swoon over him.

“Would you like to tell me about your duel with Kaiba, Yugi-Kun? I would like to hear it from you.”, she said, batting her long eyelashes at him.

Yugi just turned redder, nonetheless nodded rabidly. His heart was nearly leaping out from his chest.

He would do anything she asked if she kept looking at him like he was someone special to her.

Kihana and Joey grinned seeing how Yugi started to tell Sehrazat in all the details about this duel with Kaiba and how she seemed to swoon harder after every sentence. Sehrazat asked him then to elaborate something more and Yuugi felt in heaven.

No girl he knew was that interested and knows so much about Duel Monsters, that he could talk so freely with her like that.

After a few minutes the two of them stood really close to each other, looking unafraid into the eyes of each other, laughing and talking about Duel Monsters’ strategies and cards.

Both felt a connection forming, an understanding, that they had always longed for.

“Nice going, Hana-Chan.”, complimented Joey. “These two would have never talked with each other if not for you.”

“Why thank you Jonouchi-Kun.”, grinned Kihana.

Already the designer in her image what Sehrazat’s wedding dress should look like and what colors for his tuxedo would fit Yuugi best.

“Hi Yugi.”, said suddenly, someone.

They turned and saw-

“Haga-Kun.”, said Yugi.

Kihana and Afya both felt annoyed that the boy showed up.

It was going so well with Yugi and Sehrazat!

Sehrazat herself was a bit sad that her conversation with Yugi stopped, hopeful they could talk more after Haga left.

“I see you found some new friends. Even famous ones.”, continues the Insect-Duelist. “A shame you couldn’t participate at the world championships because of a technicality Faizan-San.”

Sehrazat waved her hand.

“Well, at least Kihana and I could join the Duelist Kingdom. This is more important than the world championship.”

Haga nodded.

 “The night breeze feels nice. Did you trade for any good cards?”, he turned to the tri-colored-haired boy.

“No. I'll duel using the cards that I brought.”, answered Yugi.

“I figured as much. Your deck contains the Exodia cards that you used to defeat Kaiba, right?”

“You know about that?”

“Can you let me see those legendary cards?”

“If the secret is out, I don't need to hide them. I'm in trouble since you know my strategy.”

Yugi moved back to the table to get his cards, Haga following. Sehrazat crossed her arms and joined them.

She mouths a thank you to Kihana for giving her a chance to talk with Yugi and her best friend winks at her.

Yugi rummages through the golden box which holds once upon a time the pieces of the Millenium Puzzle.

 “Here!”

With a smile, he hands Haga his five Exodia cards.

That’s the moment Sehrazat feels a tingle in her connection with Afya.

“What’s up, Gran-Gran?”

“The Insect-Boy gives me some weird, as you call, vibes! Be careful!”

And Afya should have the right feeling.

After admiring the Exodia cards and admitting that he couldn’t find a strategy till now to defeat them, Haga throws the card overboard.

“I fucking knew it!”

Yuugi, Joey, Kihana and Sehrazat look shocked at how the cards fall into the ocean below.

“No!”, screams Yuugi, trying desperately to reach them.

Haga just laughs and walks away with the words: “Now there's no one who can challenge me.”

“You Punk!”, shouts Joey.

“What a cockroach!”, hisses Kihana.

“My cards!”, cries Yuugi. “Grandpa gave me those precious cards!”

“Damn it!”

With this Joey jumps over the railing and into the ocean.

The three others are shocked.

“Joey! It's no use!”, calls Yugi.

“Are you nuts?!”, adds Kihana.

“Yeah, you can’t do it alone!”, say’s Sehrazat.

Before Yuugi can ask what she means and Kihana can grip her, already Sehrazat jumps overboard to help Joey with the cards.

“That was heroic and dumb at the same time.”, lectures her Afya, as Sehrazat shivers because of the cold ocean water.

“I know, but these cards are important to Yugi! What else could I have done?”

“You here to help Sehra?”, asks Joey and swims over to her.

She nods determinedly.

“I promise you, We'll get them, Yuugi!”, shouts Joey up to the ship.

“Joey, Sehrazat, they're not worth drowning over!”, cries Yuugi shocked.

He can’t believe that his best friend and his new friend have really done this.

But why? He doesn’t understand.

Kihana seems ready to jump herself down, as she screams at them: “Sehrazat Nefertiti Faizan and Katsuya Jonouchi, you both came this instant back onboard or so help you Ra, I will get you myself and it won’t be pretty!”

“Not till we have all of Exodia!”, contradicts Sehrazat and plucks a card from the ocean’s surface. “I got one, Joey!”

“Me too!”

“Joey, Sehrazat swim back to the ship!”, pleads Yugi.

The two ignore him and pluck each other another one. Joey thinks about how he can help finally someone he cares about and Sehrazat how she is glad that she can give Yugi back Exodia.

“That’s the last one.”, she yells cheerily.

She has three and Joey has two. Those are all pieces of Exodia!

“Now come back up, before I kick your ass!”, growls Kihana angrily.

Sehrazat and Joey would like to do that, but that’s when a strong current drags them both underwater

Yuugi and Kihana yell the name of their respective best friend and jump now into the ocean too. They each grab them.

“You are both crazy, you know that?!”, yells Kihana.

Suddenly they hear voices calling out for them.

“Big sister, Sehrazat!”

“Yugi, Jounouchi!”

Kihana thinks she is dreaming. On the ship is her little sister with Maja and an unknown boy and girl.

“Anzu!”, calls Yuugi to the girl.

The unknown boy unrolls a ladder down to the water.

“Are you okay?”

“Grab ahold!”, tells them this Anzu.

“Hurry!”

“Anzu, Honda.”, says Yuugi in disbelief.

After they swim back up to the ship and climb the ladder our four who took a dive have to catch their breath. Anzu, Honda, Maja, and Sadiye stand worried around them.

“You saved us.”, shudders Yuugi. “But why did you sneak on board?”

“We were worried.”, adminds Anzu.

“Because you'd be alone”, adds Honda.

“Thanks, everyone.”

“Sadiye Kisara Schariq and Maja Sayuri Maamoun, what in the name of Isis and Osiris are you doing here?!”, questions Kihana, and seems ready to explode.

“The same as our new friends, Anzu and Honda.”, answers her sister Nochchanlety. “We were worried and want to support you.”

“You will get so grounded when we get back home, Sadiye and I will not be sorry for you!”

“Big sister!”

“Why did you take the swan dive anyway, we just saw how one after the other jumped into the water.”, ask Maja wondering.

Sehrazat holds her three cards up and Joey follows her example with his two.

“Because of the Exodia-Cards!”, she says.

“We got them all, Yugi!”, tells Joey happy.

“You guys are crazy. Totally crazy. But thank you so much.”

Yugi takes the cards back from them. It is then that Joey turns sad and shakes his head.

“You should thank Sehra more, she found most of the cards. Alone I wouldn’t have found them all.”, gritted Joey his teeth in frustration.

“That’s not true, Joey!”, argues Sehrazat back.

The blond boy just shakes his head.

“It's always this way with me. I'm never able to help anybody. Not even my own sister, Shizuka.”

This shocks Honda, Anzu, and Yuugi, while our four girls just look confused.

“Shizuka?”, repeats Yuugi.

“Really? You have a sister, Joey?”, ask Anzu to be sure she heard right.

“You guys didn’t know?”, wonders Maja.

They shake their heads.

“That sounds straight out of a drama series.”, mumbles Sehrazat and wrings her hair out.

“Our parents divorced years ago when we were kids.”, explains Joey. “She lives far away with my mother. My sister's had really bad eyes since she was born. Eventually, she'll go blind.”

Yuugi gives him an empathic look.

“I'm sorry.”

“Thanks, Yug'. She sent me a message. The doctors told her that the time had come. Soon her eyes will be impossible to repair, even with surgery. But there are specialists in Germany who could perform an operation now before it's too late. They could save her eyesight. But... there's no way I can pay for the operation. I have to win. For her! Winning in the Duelist Kingdom, and getting the prize money, is the only way I can help Shizuka!”

“We'll both do our best, Joey!”, promises Yuugi. “You, for your sister. And me, for my grandpa.”

“It seems we all here are fighting for someone precious.”, musses Sehrazat with a sad look and grips her Millenium Item.

“Did Pegasus take someone from you too, Sehrazat?”, asks Yuugi carefully.

He knows this look. It’s the same when he thinks about how his grandfather lost his soul to Pegasus.

It’s Kihana who answers him.

“Pegasus wants all the Millenium Items it seems. With his, he took Sehrazat's mother’s soul and we both are here to get it back. That’s why we searched for you two in the first place. We had a feeling you would be in the same situation and become our allies. All because of your Millenium Puzzle.”

The Puzzle and the Fragment seem to glint at the same moment.

“Allies, I think we should be friends.”, says Anzu passionately. “We all are here to fight against Pegasus. With friends on our sides, it will be better.”

“Nice said, Anzu.”, praises Honda.

The four girls look at each other and then nod.

“Then how about we go to my and Kihana’s cabin? We need to dry and you guys need a place to sleep.”

Jonouchi's You Have Your Own Cabin could be heard from kilometres.

/*/

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 Yugi 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 friends, they would have even more of a chance not only to get Amira’s soul back but 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 Yugi 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 wondered for a second if you would stay in the puzzle for all the journey.”

The spirit of the Millennium Puzzle or as he called himself Yami admitted he did feel a bit bad that he hadn’t talked to his follow spirit earlier. 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 Yugi and Yugi 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 colour 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 topaz 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 Millennium 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, and 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 neck, and reached with one hand out to him.

Afya rubbed his shoulder and then slid 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 narrowed 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 children? 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 squeezed 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.

Next

To Belong

She was the weird foreign girl, he was the most useless Viking in the history of Berk. Together they were just Leandra and Hiccup. Two best friends who searched for their place in the world. Would their search for it unite or separate them?

I counted the votes on fanfiction.net and Quotev and we have a clear winner. Sides that allow pictures can already see Leandra’s dragon beside Toothless, the other one, well read the story. :D

Chapter 3

Leandra was glad that Gothi stepped out to watch the progress of the Dragon Training. She had stayed up late to make various ointments for the Night Furry and got so little sleep.

The black-haired girl was taking a cat nap on the mat where normal Gothi’s patients lay.

Was it wise?

Absolute not.

But the Spanish girl swore she would die if she didn’t catch some snooze. The whole morning had been hard on her and Gothi even more.

It was like the old Viking woman knew she hadn’t slept much and was making her work and learn more.

Her brain was not there today.

She really, really hoped that one of the ointments for the Night Furry would help him.

A sign left her mouth and she rolled herself to the side.

Leandra was asking herself how Hiccup was doing in Dragon Training. Being together with teens who didn’t like him and with his weird crush, was hard, she imagined. Well, besides the murders dragons who wanted to kill you.

Yeah, Leandra found Hiccup’s crush on Astrid freacking weird. The girl didn’t give him the time of day, never talked or interacted with him, and yet Hiccup crushed on her hard.

Just because she was the perfect Viking girl?

It was a weak reason.

On the other hand, the only other girl was Ruffnut and she was crazy.

No wonder Hiccup liked Astrid.

It’s not like he had many choices.

What about you?, whisper a voice in her head, that Leandra always ignored.

No, she wouldn’t think about this possibility.

She and Hiccup were fine the way they were.

Best friends forerver.

However, it still stung a bit that Hiccup didn’t seem to see her like a girl.

No one of their age rages did.

Not that Leandra wanted any of the Viking boys.

It just…would be nice to feel wanted sometime. Astrid didn’t need to do anything and anybody was armored with her.

Leandra was not vain, but she knew she was a pretty girl.

Her hair was strong, wavy, and black like the night, and she had big, pretty brown eyes and a healthy tan. She had a curvy body and probably the biggest breast size, for her age.

Her papi always told her she comes after her late mother, who had been the village beauty, with suitors left and right.

On the other hand here in Berk, they were other beauty standards.

And Astrid was all of them and she was the exact opposite of it.

Maybe that’s why no one found her attractive.

Again, not that she wanted any of the Viking boys, it just got on her nerves that even Hiccup, who know her like the back of his hand, never seemed to see her as a girl.

And no, that didn’t mean she wanted something from him.

No, no, no!

She didn’t want to lose his friendship, just for the tiny possibility of being more.

Friendship was more important than love.

Besides if she ever got the chance Leandra would return to Spain to her Abuela. Her dad could stay here on this miserable rock with his new Viking family, and she would get back home, where it was warm, colorful, and full of life.

She only would miss Hiccup and be in a relationship with him would be even worse if she would go back to Spain.

He could come with us, it’s not like he would be missed here, again this voice in her head whispered.

Angry she opened her eyes and sat up.

Leandra could never take a nap like this.

What was wrong with her brain today?

That’s what she gets if she doesn’t sleep her eight hours. This should be a lesson for her.

Grumbling she decides to make some more ointments.

This would keep her thoughts in check.

Today Gothi let her go home earlier.

This was good.

So she could join Hiccup and the Night Furry in the cove and her parents would think she was still with Gothi.

As she enters the cove, Leandra has to put a hand on her mouth to not let out the gasp she was about to make.

The scene before her.

She feels she can’t interrupt it.

It’s between Hiccup and the Night Furry.

They're face to face and Hiccup slowly extends his hand. The dragon growls at the hand, he isn’t ready to let Hiccup touch him.

That’s when her best friend turns his head away with closed eyes and again holds out his hand to the Night Furry.

Leandra’s heart beat fast in her chest.

Hiccup is showing the Night Furry a lot of trust. What had happened between the two that he risk getting his hand eaten by the dragon?

Yet, nothing like this happens.

The dragon bridges the gap and presses his muzzle against Hiccup's hand.

They stay for two heartbeats like this.

The black-haired girl has the feeling that the whole world turned upside down.

A dragon and a Human….touching each other in a nonviolent way.

Showing each other trust and understanding.

Leandra feels tears in her eyes.

It touches her heart in a yearning way. She wishes she would find a connection like this.

Then the Night Furry stops gives a little snort and flies to the other side of the cove, leaving an amazed Hiccup behind.

“Hiccup.”, she calls out softly to him. The moment is over, but she would feel bad talking louder. It wouldn’t fit now.

Thank god, Hiccup hears her.

“Leandra.”

“So you made friends with the Night Furry?”

Hiccup turns a moment in the direction of the dragon.

“Yeah, I made friends with Toothless.”

Toothless why Toothless?

She asks him this and he waves her over to him. Hiccup tells her what he experienced today with Toothless and wow, Leandra is just speechless.

Who would have thought that a dragon could be this sensitive and intelligent?

How she wished she could have seen it, but something in her tells her that it was good that it was only between Hiccup and Toothless.

They seem to share a connection with each other.

The two best friends sit on a log together and watch how the sun slowly goes down.

“I need to be home.”, signs Leandra sad.

“I need to meet up with the Gobber and the other recruits. We are eating together.”, he signs too.

The girl opens her pouch and shows Hiccup the ointments she made.

“Do you think you could get to Toothless and we can try out one of these for his wound?”, she wonders.

“We could try but I don’t know-“

The boy gets interrupted by a familiar screech.

But it can be!

The only Night Furry here is Toothless!

Who is suddenly staring at the sky and jumping up and down happily.

Hiccup and Leandra look in the direction where Toothless looks. Both want to pinch themselves when they see what got the dragon so excited.

It’s another Night Furry!

A Night Furry, who is fast closing in on the cove and lands gracefully before Toothless.

Both dragons cooed, snuggled their muzzles together, and lick each other.

Leandra and Hiccup’s chins meet the floor.

The Spanish girl grips Hiccup’s shoulder and shakes him.

“Hiccup! Hiccup! There is another Night Fury! Oh my lord, what?!”

“That Night Furry is a bit smaller than Toothless.”, analyzes the boy fascinated. “But the wings and the tailfin are bigger. I think it has brownish-golden eyes. It’s also a lot darker than Toothless, wow.”

Seeing how the two dragons do practically the equivalent of kisses for humans Leandra adds: “I think, that’s Toothless mate. He or she must have been worried sick for him. I’m glad they found each other.”

“He or she?”

“We don’t judge, Hiccup. Love is Love. End of story.”

It’s then that the other Night Furry sees the two human teenagers and stands protectively before Toothless. It growls at them threatening, but before anything happens Toothless purrs at his mate and it seems to calm it down.

Now it looks with big brownish-golden eyes curious at Leandra and Hiccup.

“Okay, I totally believe that these two are mates.”, agrees Hiccup.

They do act like a couple. That’s something new to learn about Night Furries too.

Meanwhile, Leandra’s eyes are transfixed, at the beautiful eyes of Toothless mate. They are like molted gold.

She never saw eyes like this.

The Night Furry stares at her in the same intense way.

Something deep and profound is exchanged.

Leandra can’t explain it.

It’s like she found a missing part of her soul.

A soul who reflects her own.

Like bewitched she walks closer to the Night Furries.

“Lee?”, calls Hiccup confused to her, but is ignored.

Toothless also grumbles questions to his mate, who is walking up to the human female and gets ignored too.

The girl and the dragon stop a meter from each other. Still looking into the other eyes. Leandra titles her head and the Night Furry copies her. Then she smiles and the dragon tries to mimic her.

“Hello.”, Leandra whispers to the dragon. “You are the most beautiful dragon I ever saw.”

It’s like the dragon understood her because it lets out a pleased purr.

For a moment Leandra checks the gender of the dragon.

Ah, it’s a she.

Of course, only a girl could be so beautiful!

Like Hiccup had done with Toothless, Leandra turns away and holds her hand out.

She waits for three heartbeats when she feels something scaly and warm touch her palm. Leandra opens an eye and sees that the female Night Furry closed the gap between them.

They stay like this for another two heartbeats before the girl Night Furry gives her hand a lick and returns to Toothless’s side.

Her hand is wet with dragon saliva, yet Leandra couldn’t care less, this was the most amazing thing she ever experienced.

“Lee?”

“Starchaser.”, she just says to her best friend. “I will call her Starchaser because her eyes are bright as stars.”

It’s night and Leandra can’t sleep.

In the end, they couldn’t try the ointments on Toothless since the sun was nearly down and she needed to be home, and Hiccup needed to meet Gobber and the others.

She stares in the darkness at the hand that Starchaser had licked. Somehow she manages to bond with the most beautiful creature on earth and for the first time in her life Leandra feels the hole in her heart dimmer.

The girl feels like she meet her soulmate. Who would have thought that it would be a dragon?

How she wishes to be in the cove and learn more about Starchaser.

They only had one big important moment together, but she knows nothing about her.

Leandra wants to know anything about her Night Furry friend.

Well, it’s not like she is alone.

Determined she stands up from her bed. Sleep is for the weak. In the darkness, she dresses in her dress and kirtle and, like always, uses her window to escape from home.

First, she checked if Hiccup was in his house, but not finding him there, she goes to the blacksmith stall.

Her best friend is really there and seems to work on something.

She makes the special knock they both agreed on she uses when he works so Hiccup knows it’s Leandra.

You don’t want to spook a blacksmith while working.

Could end in a bad accident.

“Come in.”, tells her Hiccup.

Couriers she watches him working on…something.

“What’s that going to be?”, she wants to know.

“Gobber told us a dragon who loses his wings and tail is a downed dragon. A death one.”, explain Hiccup. “So I’m making a tailfin for Toothless so he can fly again.”

“That’s awesome, Hiccup. I’m sure it will make him happy and Starchaser too.”

“Do you want to help me?”

“Just tell me what do to, partner.”

And so the best friends work together on the tailfin for Toothless. They get done with it before the sun rises. Both agree to meet up before Dragon Training and when Leandra needs to go to Gothi to visit the two Night Furries.

After they slept a bit, it was time again to wake up, but Leandra feels this time different. She is more excited than tired, even if she probably only slept two hours tops.

Hiccup and her meet up and take a chest full of fish for each Night Furry with them. Of course, he also has the tailfin for Toothless and Leandra her ointments.

They arrive at the cove where Toothless and Starchaser seem already to be waiting for them.

“Hello, Toothless.”

“Hi, Starchaser.”

“We brought breakfast for your guys.”, explains Hiccup to the two curious Night Furries.

The teenagers kick open their chests so that the fish spills out of the ground.

“Okay, that's disgusting.”, says Hiccup matter of fact.

“Yuck!”, adds Leandra with a wrinkled nose.

Toothless and Starchaser approach, settling in to devour the feast.

“Uh..we've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel.”

Hiccup could say he wanted to poison them since both Night Furries reacted with horrific screeches as they see the smoked eel.

“Throw it away, throw it away!”, yells Leandra to her best friend.

“No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either.”, reassures Hiccup the dragons, and the eel gets thrown in a random direction away from them.

Satisfied the two dragons begin again to eat.

Both best friends nod at each other.

They planned that Leandra should have the attention of the dragons on herself, while Hiccup tries to put the tailfin on Toothless.

“Eat up, you big cuties. Yes, that’s good. We only want the good stuff, right, right?”, Leandra cooes at them. “Yummy, yummy, fish for the two most beautiful dragons in the world. Yes, who is the best girl and best boy? It’s you two!”

Hiccup straps the prosthetic fin in place. The dragon tenses, slowly spreading his wings. The boy cinches the straps.

“There. Not too bad. It works.”, mumbles Hiccup pleased.

That’s when Toothless bolts!

Not only Hiccup is surprised and scarred a second later since he hangs for dear life on Toothless’s tail, but also Starchaser and Leandra watch the boys flying around the cave with big eyes.

“What the heck?”, shrieks Leandra.

This was so not the plan.

Starchaser grumbles, she seems to agree with her.

The little fly of the due stops as fast as it started and they land in the water.

While the females winces, Hiccup celebrates happily. Toothless shakes himself dry and wonders what had happen.

“Okay how about this one?”, asks Leandra and holding another ointment under Toothless and Starchaser’s nose.

It is a while later, still too earlier for Dragon Training and Leandra’s job. Hiccup is trying to dry himself in the morning sun, in the meantime, Leandra is trying with the Night Furries’ help to see which ointment could work for Toothless.

Till now, they reacted with disgust, growls, and hiccups at her ointments.

She hoped this one is a winner.

It isn’t since both let out big dragon sneezes.

Leandra signs sadly.

Only one ointment is left.

Starchaser sensing the distress from the girl she took a liking purrs at her and nuzzles her cheek. Even Toothless joins in.

“Aww, thank you two. You both are precious, you know that?”

Both Night Furries purr happily.

Hiccup can’t help but smile softly at the scene. It’s really adorable seeing Leandra interact with their dragon friends.

Also, her tanned skin and black hair seem to formally glow in the morning sun.

The boy frowns at his thoughts and shakes his head.

Why is he thinking about such things? That’s his best friend, it’s weird.

Besides, he likes Astrid. He always had.

“All right, last one.”, say’s Leandra and holds it out. “How about this?”

Again the dragons sniff at the ointment and this time…they only purr. They like the smell. It is really comforting and clean.

Leandra smiles.

“Then we have a winner! Okay, Toothless let’s try this out.”

And so Leandra smears the ointment on Toothless missing tail.

After waiting for a bit it seems to have no negativ effects on him.

Grinning Leandra turns to Hiccup and he gives her a thump up.

Together they are a step closer in helping Toothless to fly again.

The Night Furry won!

Give a warm welcome to our golden-eyed girl Starchaser, Toothless mate!

You know what that means ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Can you guess it? :D

Next

Making Waves

You are a young mermaid, not ready for your adult responsibility when you find a secret underwater tunnel that leads to a secret cove. You couldn’t imagine how your life was going to change because of it. HiccupXMermaid!Reader

Chapter 3: Mermaid, Human, and Dragon

You were just floating around on the surface of the pool in the hidden cove and staring into the sky. Sweetheart has made himself comfortable on a rock formation, taking a nap.

After the strange boy had left yesterday, you really thought that he would be back with his whole village to hunt you two down, but nothing happened.

You were glad!

It just didn’t make sense!

What was going on, in his brain? Why did he just leave? Why didn’t he return?

Why did you want that he returned?

Yes, he was very, very handsome and his green eyes have haunted you in your sleep, but you shouldn’t feel this way.

You should just be happy that the boy left you and Sweetheart alone.

End of story.

Yet you didn’t want that it ended like this.

You wanted to understand him. You wanted to understand these new feelings in you. You wanted to understand why you thought you knew him.

You signed out loud and dipped down in the pool.

Maybe being a bit underwater would help you.

Bored you braided some seaweed. You had no idea what do to with yourself. Or for what you could use the seaweed.

Still you braided.

You were so fixed on the braiding that you got something happening on the surface as a shiny little dagger floated down your side.

With a raised eyebrow you watched the dagger floating down on the ground of the pool.

Okay?

That’s when you heard a muffled voice saying: “Huh. Toothless. I could've sworn you had...-“

Yes, this was Sweetheart who swallowed something. Probably a fish.

“-teeth.”

And a land dweller was talking to him.

Could it be…him?

You felt how your heart started to race at that thought. You needed to check!

So slowly and carefully you emersed your head till your nose out of the water to see who was with Sweetheart.

Indeed, it was him!

The strange young man from yesterday!

You felt yourself blushing. You were closer to him now and…wow he had adorable freckles on his face and his eyes were still this brilliant forest green.

You hadn’t made them up. They really were so enchanting and familiar like you remember.

Currently, he and Sweetheart are sitting in front of each other, and…is this a regurgitated bit of fish on the boy’s lap?

Fascinated you looked at how the two seem to communicate without words.

Sweetheart wanted that the boy eats the fish and he did it with great discomfort.

You have to give kudos to the young men.

Eating fish with dragon saliva on it was something nasty! Not to copy.

The boy gave Sweetheart an awkward smile, which made you smile too, and… incredible Sweetheart tried to copy him.

You had to fight a giggle at Sweetheart’s smile. It was so crocky and adorable!

Amazed, the boy sits up and tries to touch him. Sweetheart just hisses at him. So the boy didn’t know that dragons didn’t like to be touched. They needed to come to you, not you to them.

Your dragon friend flaps off to a crash on the other side of the cove. You whine silently at it and hope he doesn’t hurt himself. But seeing how he blasts the mossy ground to a red-hot temperature and curls up on it like a giant puppy, shows you that all is good with him.

You need to stifle your giggles as you see how the strange boy sits now beside sweetheart waving innocently. Sweetheart tolerates his persistent presence until the boy tries to touch his damaged tail. The dragon snaps at him.

At least he doesn’t have a death wish and leaves Sweetheart be.

Mmh…could you maybe?

He is here, so why not.

Careful and silent you swim to the pool edge, where Sweetheart is sitting.

He titles his head cutely and wants to croon at you, but you make clear that he needs to be still.

So he does and just blinks at you.

When you are out of the water, you turn your fishtail into legs and stand up. You give sweetheart a pet and then slowly walk over to the strange boy.

He is sitting with his back towards you, minding his own busy. You can see he is enjoying the rays of the sun.

What was the best way to approach him?

“You came alone, why?”, you ask him directly.

Dancing around the subject is too troublesome. Just go for the kill shot.

Startled he twirls around with his head and gets so red in the face that you need a new word for the color seeing you in all your naked glory.

He gaps like a fish, then shyly looks at the ground.

You cock a hip out and cross your arms wondering.

Humans and their weird way how the handle nudity. What was so wrong with being nude? Why did they have the need to cover up something so beautiful like the body?

“Hello, I asked you something.”, you say to him.

You see him gulp, still looking at the ground.

“You…you are the mermaid. The…the one from yesterday.”, he stutters.

“Correct.”

Why should you lie if he knows?

He is still and plays with his fingers.

You sign.

Better address the elephant in the cove.

“Okay, what has you bothered so much?”, you start. “That I’m not a bloodthirsty mermaid or my naked tits and pussy?”

How he splutters makes you bit your lip to not laugh out loud. He seems overwhelmed with all.

You are not that evil to make him suffer more.

“You know what forget it. I’m [Y/N], what’s your name?”

He still doesn’t look at you, but he answers: “I’m…Hiccup.”

“Bless you?”

“No, that’s my name.”

Which kind of parents gave their offspring such a name?

Maybe he practically hears this question in the silence between you, because he rolls his eyes and explains: “Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn't do that.”

“So that is what you call yourself, Viking.”, you say astonished.

Now he makes the mistake to look up. He is still red, but you see how he tries only to look at your face. It’s sweet, but it’s not like you are ashamed of your body. Probably a human thing.

“What do your people call us?”, he asks curiously.

“Land Dweller and we are the merfolk or merpeople.”

“That… fascinating.”

You nod and then raise an eyebrow.

“You still haven’t answered me, why did you come alone? I was scared you would return with your whole clan to hunt down Sweetheart and me.”, you tell him truthfully.

“Sweetheart? He looks more like a Toothless.”, he rebukes with a frown.

“Only because he can retreat his teeth? You are not that creative.”, you fire back.

“Says the one who just calls him by a pet name.”, he counters.

You both stare at each other frowning, till you feel how your lips twitch and see how Hiccup’s does too.

Not a second later you both laugh.

The whole situation is so surreal.

Here you are with a human, Viking, probably the first time in the history of both your people talking and you both can’t agree on a name for a dragon.

Even thinking about it, it’s just crazy.

“I came alone because…I don’t want to hurt you two. Neither Toothless nor you. I told nobody of you both.”, he explains finally.

This…is actually good.

You sit down beside him, hugging your knees to your chest so he doesn’t see your breasts. Maybe that will make him calm down more.

“That’s really noble of you. I never heard of a land dweller who didn’t kill a dragon or mermaid.”

Hiccup doesn’t seem to share your sentiment. He rolls his eyes and huffs.

“That’s you, but if my people found out that not only I’m hiding a dragon, especially a Night Fury and a mermaid from them, they would call me crazy and banish me without a doubt.”

“Really just like that?”

“We have been enemies with the dragons for 100 years and your people have a bad reputation of singing Vikings to their doom, so yeah, the popularity award I wouldn’t win.”

“That’s just insane!”, you shout and can’t help to let go of your knees and raise your hands over your head. “Dragons are wonderful creatures, we have been friends with time since we can remember and my people don’t do that. Or at least we don’t do it anymore. When we first learned that land dwellers died because of our singing we are careful that no one of your people are near us when we sing.”

“Hey, calm down, all is good. I’m not thinking like my people. At least not anymore.”, he admits.

Like if you had agreed on, you both turn to Toothless, who is taking now a nap, hanging upside down from a tree like a bat. You coo at the dragon and Hiccup smiles a bit.

“These past days have been crazy but…I’m starting to see the truth.”

“And what is the truth?”

Now you look each other in the eyes. How you wished to dive into these pools of wonderful green.

“There…there is more than meets the eyes with dragons and mermaids.”, he whispers like he is telling a secret. “Maybe, no, we did judge to fast and didn’t try to understand you. And I want to understand.”

This really touches your heart. You feel and hear in his voice how sincere Hiccup is.

He wants to change, to learn, to understand.

“Then.”, you begin and hold out a hand for him to take. “Let’s be friends and learn from each other, Hiccup. I too want to understand you Vikings better.”

He gives you a crooked smile, which is not good for your already racing heart, and takes it carefully like you are something immensely precious, your hand in his.

Your small hand fits perfectly into his larger one. Like you are two pieces of a shell. You try not to think about it too much.

You shake each other hands.

And something beautiful is born, you can just feel it.

You don’t know how, but you and Hiccup end up drawing on the earth together.

Well he draws, you make nonsense.

Drawing was not really a hobby mermaids did.

While you two draw away, you talk with each other.

You learn from Hiccup that he is the son of the chief, the leader of the Vikings, and one day should take over. But in his father’s eyes, he was a disappointment, even if he wasn’t anymore so little as he used to be.

You tell him about your parents and your coven. How you are practically one big family. About the circle of elders who lead and made the rules, your coven has to follow. You needed to have a certain age and other merpeople had to vote for you to enter the circle of elders.

It was fascinating how different your societys worked.

What you had in common was that you both may be 18, actually been young adults, but in the eyes of your people you were a man in Hiccup’s case if he killed his first dragon and for you when you born your first child.

Yeah, neither of you was jealous of the other.

You couldn’t image killing a dragon like Toothless, it would rip your heart out and Hiccup found it so weird that he would need to father a child to be seen as an adult.

“So marriage doesn’t exist for your people?”, he asks again, after he explains to you the concept of marriage of his people.

You have given up on drawing and just watch amazed at how Hiccup is making a drawing of Toothless.

“Yes, we mate just. Sometimes for life, like my parents, and form our own family units.”. you tell him. “Most of my people stay with a mate for a short while, till the baby is a toddler, and then search for a new match.”

“You don’t believe in love for eternity. Having one person to share anything till your last breath?”

“Me personal or my people?”

“Both?”

“Did you really make it sound like a question, Hiccup?”, you try not to laugh.

He makes a face and adds some more details to his Toothless drawing.

“Also?”

You sign. You never really thought about it. You should go with that what you people believe.

“We believe in love. But the love of the family, of the entire coven, is more important than one between two merpeople. Only united we are strong. It’s not like that this love is frowned upon, my parents aren’t treated differently just because they are Mates.”, you tell him. “For me personally…never thought of that. I just know one day I need to find a mate to have a child if I want to be an adult.”

You weren’t ready to tell that you actually run away from your duty to your people since you didn’t feel ready to make this step. You guys got to know each other still, it was way too earlier to talk about something like this.

Before Hiccup could answer, you both felt Toothless behind you, staring down at the drawings.

Hiccup continued to draw like nothing was happening, while Toothless crooned at it.

What happened in the next minutes…you could only describe it as magical.

As world changing.

You were a silent observant of how this two, dragon and young men, got an understanding for each other.

How Hiccup reached his hand out to Toothless turning his head away, showing him trust.

And then…Toothless touching Hiccup’s hand with his snout.

They stayed like this for a few seconds.

You swore the world stood still and started to again as Toothless got away from him and Hiccup stared in awe after the dragon.

You walked up to your Viking friend, putting a hand on his shoulder.

“Dragons are amazing, aren’t they?”

He turned his head to you. You saw a flicker of the young boy he once was when the world was still filled with hope, magic, and unconditional love.

Somehow this was so familiar…

He nodded speechlessly.

Next

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

Shout out to my dear friend Light guardian35 once again for helping me tackle the writers block I had. Please read her stuff, you find her on Quotev and AO3. Also, I want to recommend you fanfic that I finished reading. It’s just part one of six stories but I rather enjoyed it, so give it a go. It’s The Coming of Shadows from DemonSessama.

Here is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41161380/chapters/103182777

Now I wish you all a good read with chapter 6! :D

Chapter 6: Welcome to Duelist Kingdom!

I used again a mix of the Japanese and English dub hope it's okay ^^

Redone: 30/08/24

The next morning we find Yuugi and his friends and Sehrazat and her friends all together sitting at the grand dining table Sehrazat and Kihana have in their doppel bedroom cabin.

After a good night’s sleep, our heroes are ready to tackle whatever Pegasus would throw at them in the Duelist Kingdom.

But first, breakfast!

Like yesterday evening, the girls just ordered the whole card again, only this time with breakfast food.

The clattering of tableware and laughter is heard.

Jounouchi and Honda had the fullest plates. It seemed they had a contest about who could eat the most and the fastest.

Anzu could only shake her head at them and turned back to Maja. The two girls had discovered that both of them liked to dance. Maja even took a course on belly dancing! Even if Anzu wanted to make a career out of that, it was nice to talk about it with someone who understood the subject.

Little Sadiye enjoyed her tower of chocolate chip pancakes and would encourage Jounouchi and Honda to eat more since she found it funny how the boys ate like pigs.

Sehrazat and Kihana were still full from the amount of food they ate yesterday evening, so they ate just a bowl of cornflakes each.

Yugi was the only one who apparently had finished eating.

He had taken out his five Exodia cards and was frowning at them.

On his left side sat Sehrazat, who saw this. She finished drinking her glass of orange juice.

“Something wrong, Yugi-Kun?”, she asked him worried.

“Even if you and Joey saved my Exodia cards, the ocean’s salty water seems to have damaged them pretty well.”, he told her with a sign and put the cards away. “I don’t know if the card reader will even register them.”

“So you mean, you can’t probably play them?”

“Seems like it. And trying them out during a duel is way too risky.”

Sad for him Sehrazat put a hand on his shoulder.

“I’m sorry, Yugi-Kun.”

“No need to be Sehrazat-Chan. It’s not your fault or Joey’s. Only Haga’s.”

He turned to face her to give her a reassuring smile. Both got lost in the beautiful eyes of the other and anything else seemed to vanish.

Kihana, who was drinking coffee, hid her smile in her cup. Damn, if these two weren’t adorable. They could give someone diabetes.

The two short duellists looked away from each other, with a bashful expression, but with a little smile on their lips. This connection they felt with each other… seemed to get stronger each time they interacted.

Not that one of them is complaining.

This feeling…they didn’t want it to stop.

It was new and exciting, yet so familiar and comforting.

“You will have to battle then without Exodia for your grandpa’s soul.”, said Sehrazat. “But I know you will manage Yugi-Kun, you are an extraordinary Duelist.”

Yugi felt his heart beat faster than it ever did. She had complimented him before on his duelling skills, yet it still made him want to sign dreamily that such a beautiful and sweet girl, who was such a brilliant duellist, thought this of him.

He never had experienced that.

She was Europe Champion which put her in a different league altogether.

And still, she made him sound like he was equal to her.

He wanted to tell her, how incredible she was, but his shyness prevented him from forming the necessary words.

It was then that he felt this strong voice in his head, the voice that normally comes out to help him in duels, encouraging him to take the leap.

His hand trembled so badly, yet he managed to reach out and put a bit of Sehrazat’s pretty and smooth blue hair behind her ear. Surprised she turned to him with wide sparkling orange eyes.

“You are the one who is extraordinary.”, he told her softly.

Yugi self did not know for sure if he was only referring to her duelling skills or if there was more…it just felt right to say it.

He felt it deep in his heart.

Sehrazat eyes seemed to fill with tears and got a soft edge around them.

Our two lovebirds didn’t note how currently anyone else was looking at them, stopping what they were doing.

Kihana and Sadiye seemed to have a quiet fangirl moment, Joey and Honda were nodding in approval, and Maja was softly cooing at them.

And Anzu?

Well, she was surprised for one. She had never seen Yugi interact with a girl like this. The second was that jealousy was raising its ugly head.

It… wasn’t fair…she liked Yugi too, but he had never looked at her like he looked at Sehrazat right now.

Like she was a goddess and he was her devoted follower.

Strangely, Sehrazat looked at him the same way.

It just…no it wasn’t supposed to be like this…!

The brunette opened her mouth. She needed to say something, anything, stopping this whatever that was!

There she felt how a warm hand touched her cheek and turned her head back to Maja.

The other brunette had a raised eyebrow and formally purred: “Now, now, Anzu-Chan, we were talking so nicely together. Let them be and concentrate on me, my beautiful ballerina.”

Anzu formally felt how the red rose in her cheeks and how she quite burned.

What?!

“Is Maja flirting with Anzu?”, said Joey to Honda loud enough so she could hear it too.

She had a similar thought running through her head.

“Seems like it, bro.”, answered Honda fascinated like an explorer who had found a lost civilization.

“That’s because she did.”, answered Sadiye in her deadpan tone. “She is pan.”

“Pancake?”, wonders Joey.

“Pansexual, you ignorant slu-“

“Sadiye Kisara Schariq, don’t you dare to end this sentence!”

“But he is being one, big sister!”

“I don’t care!”

This started a discussion between the sisters about when someone should curse like that, and at what age it was okay, while Joey and Honda watched on like they saw an interesting Ping-Pong match.

Maja took the chance to roll a lock of Anzu’s hair around her finger and wink at her, which made Anzu only blush worse.

The loud discussion brought Yuugi and Sehrazat out of their own zone. Both were more than confused seeing how the Schariq sisters nearly screamed at each other, Maja clearly making a move on a blushing Anzu, and Joey and Honda seemed like to enjoy a good TV show.

They looked at each other and laughed a bit embarrassed for their friends.

/*/

After they finished their breakfast and refreshed themselves our group of friends decided to get out of the cabin and wait on the main deck for their arrival at Duelist Kingdom.

It was a warm and sunny day, which was nice.

They enjoyed the fresh sea salt air and the warm rays of the sun on their skin.

Then after a while, it became visible.

The island is known as Duelist Kingdom.

Our group of eight all looked at it.

“Man, this Duelist Kingdom looks like a pretty big place, Yugi and Sehra.”, said Joey to them. “Finding your grandpa's and ma’s soul is not going to be easy.”

“Well, we gotta start somewhere.”, answered Yuugi simply.

“If I have to turn every rock around, I will do it. I’m not going without my mama.”, added Sehrazat.

“That’s the spirit, child of mine.”, told her Afya proudly.

While she was following the others to go to the gangplank which would make them step on the soil of the Duelist Kingdom, she talked with her Yami.

“Morning, Gran-Gran. Finally woke up?”

“Mmh, I see you all full of energy.”, noted Afya. “We will need all our powers to defeat Pegasus.”

“How hard do you think this is going to be?”

“I bet all my swords that Pegasus will do anything in his power to make this trip for us a living hell.”

“Even if he wants my and Yugi’s Millennium Items?”

“Men like Pegasus like to play with their prey before they kill it.”

Sehrazat made a face at the words of her ancestor.

Meanwhile, she followed Kihana down the gangplank.

Oh finally back on land! It was awesome.

Our group of eight huddled together and Sehrazat noted that Honda seemed out of breath. What did she miss while she talked with Afya?

“My heart almost stopped.”, panted the brunette boy.

“Way to play it cool, Honda.”, complimented Anzu sarcastically. “That wasn't suspicious at all.”

“Yeah, we totally didn’t look like we were trespassing.”, agreed Sadiye in her deadpan tone.

Ah, so the non-duellists had been worried they would be found out!

“All right! We all made it ashore- Ah-choo!”, sneezed Joey in their direction.

All shouted eww and Anzu and Maja could barely dodge the sneeze attack.

“Someone should give the boy a tissue.”, advised Afya.

It’s like Kihana heard her and calmly gave Joey one, which he took with a thank you.

“You would never have caught that cold if it wasn't for Haga.”, said Yuugi to his best friend.

“Speaking of our wormy friend, looks like he just slithered his way off the boat and is already looking to start some trouble.”, noted Joey. Our friend group turned in Haga’s direction. He was standing there, just grinning creepily. “That slimeball. I'd love to wipe that smirk off his face.”

“If you need help.”, volunteered Sehrazat encouraged by Afya.

“Attention all duelists, let's gather at the castle gate!”, called one of Pegasus’s lackeys with really pointy hair.  

Yuugi rightfully said that the castle had to belong to Pegasus, while Jounouchi motivated anyone to climb them up.

“This are a lot of stairs.”, heard Sehrazat Kihana mumble as they made their way up.

“Elevators are much sexier.”, found Maja.

This made anyone who heard it giggle lightly.

Suddenly Anzu stopped and said that she saw again someone named Bakura. Her friends and Sehrazat group looked all into the forest but there was nothing. Anzu admitted that maybe it was all in her head.

“Can we just climb up these stupid stairs.”, whined Sadiye.

As the youngest and shorted she was already tired of the stairs. Kihana decided to give her little sister a piggyback ride and our heroes made their way up again.

Unknown to them a certain white-haired boy watched them do that from the security of the woods.

“So my Millennium Ring was right.”, he thought nearly amused. “The damned queen followed her pharaoh into the next life. Well, better for me to get my hands on the Fragment too.”

An evil chuckle left his mouth.

Finally, our group of eight reached with the other duellists the castle.

“Whoa! Look who's here! The Japan champion Insector Haga and the runner-up Dinosaur Ryuzaki”, they heard one of the duellists talk.

Another responded to him: ”And that's Ryota Kajiki. He took third place.”,

“Since Kaiba isn't here one of those three is likely to win.”

“But I heard that Yugi, the guy who beat Kaiba, is here too.”

“Are you serious? I thought Kaiba was the best.”

“He was, but not anymore. Do you see the boy who stands beside the Europa Champion, the Amazon Princess of the Nile, Sehrazat Faizan? That’s Yugi Muto he is to be the kid to beat now.”

“Oh wow, even the Amazon Princess of the Nile and the Lady of the Dragons Kihana Schariq are here. This is going to be the most exciting duellist tournament ever.”

Yugi and Sehrazat got all shy, while Joey nudged Yugi and Kihana patted her head proudly.

The lackey of Pegasus with the pointy hair called out to them all from a balcony to gather around. It was time for Pegasus to explain the rules of the tournament.

“Boy, would I like to get just five minutes alone with that guy.”, grumbled Joey.

“Make it ten, so I can get a piece of him too.”, growled Sehrazat with Afya in her ear.

Pegasus finally arrived on the balcony and looked down at them as if he was some kind of king and they were his humble servants.

Both Yuugi and Sehrazat gave him looks that would have killed him in one instant if this was possible, but it seemed that Pegasus was just laughing at them.

“Welcome to Duelist Kingdom. I will now explain the rules. Duel Monsters cards must be used in all duels. You begin with 2000 life points, and direct attacks are forbidden. Battle using your strongest card decks. Everyone should have received a Dueling Glove and two Star Chips."

“So seeing all the security guards make it out to window just storming this castle and get mama back from Pegasus.”, told Sehrazat her Yami.

Afya was still for a second.

“Well, if we found a secret entrance, we totally could. But I don’t think we have this much time and a chance to do this with all these guards around us. And I’m not risking your life just for a hunch.”

Sehrazat put her duelling clove on, like Yuugi and Kihana at the moment.

Pegasus continued: "The wristband has ten holes where you can insert Star Chips. Insert your Star Chips into them. These Star Chips are proof that you are a true duelist. You will wager these Chips in your duels. The entire island is your duelling battleground. In this battle royal, only duelists who have ten Star Chips will be allowed to enter this gate. The duels will begin in just one hour. There is a 48-hour time limit. At that time, all duelists with less than ten Star Chips will lose and be forced off this island. Duelists, good luck!"

"So ten starchips it is, Gran-Gran.”

“So it seems like it, child of mine. How frustrating, I rather fight someone physically than with fucking children’s card games.”

Under the cheers of the other duellist, Pegasus turned back into his castle.

“The duellists have arrived. Yugi and Sehrazat have taken the bait, and the games are about to begin! Everything goes according to plan.”, he thinks gleefully to himself.

/*/

Our group of eight waited for the beginning of the tournament in a nice meadow.

They split up for a second into their original groups since they had to discuss a few things with their original friend group.

Not that they had any secrets from the other, just they needed to decide a few things.

Mainly Sehrazat group.

So while Yugi assured Jounouchi that he could keep his one-star chip, Sehrazat frowned at what Kihana said.

“I don’t like it but you are right.”, she said to her.

Kihana nodded and Sadiye and Maja agreed with a sign too.

Sadiye found the guys funny and was sad.

Maja really liked to flirt with Anzu and was disappointed that she couldn’t do it anymore.

The girls walked back up to their new friends.

“Hey guys, we think it’s the best that we split up for now for the start of the tournament.”, told Kihana, what they had decided.

Yugi and his friends were shocked to hear that.

“But why? Aren’t we a team?”, asked Anzu sad.

“Think about it, guys.”, said Sehrazat equally sad and looking longing at Yugi. “We would like to stay but we are four duellists. You know how long these duels can take, if we wait for everyone to have a turn we never will get all 10 starchips in time to participate in the final. And we four all in will give us a higher chance at getting the souls of my mama and Yugi grandpa back and the price money Jounouchi-Kun needs for his sister.”

Yugi looked longing back at her, but he got her point. He wanted to spend more time getting to know Sehrazat, yet he had to think first and foremost of his grandpa.

“I hate to say this, but they are right.”

His friends gasped, besides Jounouchi.

“No, Yug, is right if we are a smaller group we will get faster starchips.”, he agreed.

“Don’t worry you guys we will find each other again.”, promised Maja. She took from her backpack two Walkie-Talkies out. “I brought them with me so I and Sadiye could stay in contact with Kihana and Sehrazat, but this is perfect so we can meet up again with each other and check on each other.”

She handed one to Anzu.

“That’s smart Maja-Chan, so we really will be finding each other again!”, praised Anzu.

Maja winked and purred: “And whenever you just wanna talk Anzu-Chan, give me a call. It must be hard being the only girl in a boy group.”

The short-haired brunette blushes red at Maja’s flirty behaviour. Her friends tried their best not to laugh, but it was just too cute.

Anzu was spared to give an answer to that as the fireworks lit up the sky.

“This is it guys.”, says Sehrazat to them all. “No turning back.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it.”, tells her Kihana.

“Let’s get this show on a roll!”, yells Maja and raises her fist.

The others follow suit with a loud yeah.

“Good luck girls!”, wishes them Joey, while Yuugi nods.

Sehrazat smiles at them and Kihana gives them a thumbs-up.

“Good luck to you too, boys!”

“We will see you later!”, yells Sadiye already running in a random direction to find someone Sehra or her sister can duel.

“Sadiye! Wait!”, screams Kihana and runs after her.

Maja just laughs and follows them.

Sehrazat gives one last smile at the group.

Her eyes find Yugi ones and again it’s like it’s only them.

“I will see you on the other side, Yugi-Kun.”, she says softly.

“I wouldn’t want it any other way, Sehrazat-Chan.”, he answered her just as softly.

The blue-haired girl nods and with one last soft look, she chases after her friends.

It was time to get these starchips!

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Um, I hope you don't mind me asking but, do you have any plans to transfer the Isekai Chloe story to somewhere like AO3? I've read all your chapters so far (except 7 cuz I just found the newest chapter a minute ago) and it's kind of a struggle to read it on mobile.

Yes Isakai Chloe and my other stories are all avaible at Ao3, wattpad, fanfiction.net and DeviantArt. The username is always EmpressOfTheSun or EmpressOfTheSunWriter 😀

This is so beautiful, it feels my heart with joy seeing actual fanart of my OCs! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!

Mildly bored in RE and drew these characters made by the lovely @empressofthesunwriter