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A concept AU in which Dartz adopts Yuma after his parents vanish and basically raises him to be a loyal cult member. Was never continued past the first chapter.

Originally posted on tumblr on March 29, 2012.

Kattobingu, Master Dartz had explained to Yuma on the day they met, has no direction or meaning. It would have eventually lead him to nowhere. It also didn’t help his parents and look what had happened to them. They had vanished without a trace in some random region of the world. This in turn had ruined Yuma’s grandmother’s good health and because his sister wasn’t of age, both children became wards of the state and ultimately separated.

Kattobingu brought upon all this misfortune. Its bad enough that humanity had become evil and brought misfortune to others, now a belief in a meaningless word has to torment a child so young?

So when Yuma left the orphanage, he waved good-bye to his friend Mokuba and Mokuba’s older brother, Seto.

Fortunately, Master Dartz allowed him to keep the Key he had hidden from bullies and the Orphanage staff. Why should he take away the only keepsake he has of his parents?

(He didn’t tell the boy that he could sense a great power coming from the Key and thus decided to keep an eye on it. The boy being his latest underling was just a bonus.)

The boy named Amelda agreed to that sentiment as he clutched a burned action figure close to his chest.

The next boy Master Dartz took in, Rafael, nodded as he thought of the deck in his pocket.

The final boy, Valon, shrugged and said, “If it keeps you guys going, then why not?”

***

When Yuma was nine, Master Dartz decided that the boy needed to relearn how to interact with the world after getting lost in Paris while on an assignment.

He decided to start with the city the boy was born in: Heartland.