Hey guys, JoBro-Fangirl here with chapter two! Anyway I said at the beginning of my first chapter that I wasn't going to have very many duels in my fic and what do you know, I basically start off the story with one! This chapter is going to have a lot of games in it, but if you like the games in the show, then you should have no problem with it! Now I really thought that the song I chose really fit Kaiba, but I found myself reading through it a second time and realizing that it also fit Damien in some ways, feel free to tell me your opinion! And I mostly used this song because my mind was blank when it came to finding songs for this chapter and all the other ones I tried didn't exactly fit like I hoped they would…
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! Nor do I own the song, Ahead of the Game from the Yu-Gi-Oh Music to Duel By soundtrack. The only things I own are my own original characters and the plot of my story.
Chapter 2
Amusement Park Humiliation
Not so fast!
You think you've won?
I'm here to say;
We're far from done.
Just you wait,
Then you'll see.
The games not over,
It's up to me.
'Cause I am ahead of the game,
And nothing will be the same!
I create the games we play,
Every detail is mine to say.
You might have luck,
You might have skill,
But when you lose,
You'll say that I have the will.
'Cause I am ahead of the game,
And nothing will be the same!
All my technology,
All my smarts,
My creativity,
Will rip you apart!
My liquidity,
A giant fell on his cheek
All my secrets
Hey I'll be on your cheek.
'Cause I am ahead of the game,
(when we're standing face to face)
And nothing will be the same!
(when I put you in your place)
'Cause I am ahead of the game,
(every detail on my mind)
And nothing will be the same!
(If you lay it on the line)
Cause I am ahead of the game,
And nothing will be the same!
(Oh when I put you in your place)
Cause I am ahead of the game,
And nothing will be the same!
Cause I am ahead of the game.
-Ahead of the Game; Yu-Gi-Oh: Music to Duel By soundtrack-
Aislynn stared down at the cards in her hand, sweat beading at the top of her forehead in frustration at how the duel was going. Once again, Damien had her backed up in a corner, but this time with no way out. She was down to her last 400 life points and miraculously, besides the fact that she had drawn the stronger monsters, Damien seemed to be able to defeat all of them with his weaker ones, something that made absolutely no sense. She had pointed it out to him earlier and demanded to know what was going on; he'd only smirked and told her that it was a secret.
She found herself glancing over at his side of the field several times, but he had no face down cards and had not put any down since the beginning of the duel. She was becoming suspicious of his motives, had he rigged the game just so he could win?
Earlier, after the start of the duel, they had made a bet that whoever lost would comply to the victor's wishes, no questions asked. She was sorely beginning to think that accepting his bet was a genuine mistake.
"What's wrong Aislynn? Giving up so soon?" Damien taunted.
"You should know after all of these years of taking care of me that I don't give up this easily!" She shouted, taking another card from her hand. The duel raged on for one last turn, in which Damien turned her 400 life points into 0 life points. Aislynn hung her head in defeat.
"I don't understand, I had the stronger cards, there's something you're hiding Damien and I want to know what it is!" she demanded.
"Tsk, tsk, come on now dear no one likes a sore loser." Damien teased, scolding her. They met at the bottom of the dueling platform, Aislynn's eyes afire with anger.
"You did something didn't you? There was no way you could've won with the cards you chose!"
"I did nothing my little lamb; you're just going to have to accept that you've lost. Now about our bet…" Just as he was about to make his demands, a few gasps were heard nearby, followed by shouts saying,
"It's Seto Kaiba!" Sure enough the icy CEO waltzed right through the door to their arena.
"S-Seto Kaiba!" Damien stuttered fearfully at the sight of the sharp-eyed child billionaire.
He arrived just after the duel had ended, smirking at the tourists who had enough sense to move out of his way. Seto Kaiba glared at the cheating filth in front of him, the one person who was dumb enough to hack into his computer systems all so he could win one measly card game. It wasn't like he was facing a regional finalist or anything, so why would he go through the trouble of hacking into his satellites to win a pointless duel?
"S-Seto Kaiba!" The fair-haired man stuttered fearfully. Kaiba chuckled at the man's insolence,
"Yes, I came all the way down here because I am of a mind to believe that you've been hacking into my satellite systems." He explained anger heavy in his voice. The ebony-haired beauty standing beside the man placed her hands on her hips, glaring at the fair-haired man.
"Oh really? So that's why he won." The man looked back at her as if he had no idea what Kaiba was talking about.
"Oh come on Aislynn, you really think that I would do all that just to prove that I'm better than you?" She stared at him unbelievingly,
"Yes, I do." She replied simply, "I think you've found the man who's been messing with your satellites Mr. Kaiba. Believe me, as long as I've known him, I wouldn't put it past him." She said snidely, nose turned up in contempt.
"Really?" Kaiba smirked, "I wouldn't have guessed. But instead of handing you over to the authorities' maybe you can redeem yourself by challenging me to duel monsters. I haven't played in a while so I assume it should be quite easy for you to defeat me. I mean if you're half the duelist you say you are…" Kaiba taunted, presenting a challenge. Aislynn glared back at the fair-haired man,
"Go on, like he says if you're such a fantastic duelist then you should win no problem!" Aislynn crowed testily. The man gritted his teeth angrily and narrowed his eyes into a challenging glare,
"You're on Kaiba! I'll beat you and prove that I don't need to malfunction a satellite to be a great duelist!" Kaiba chuckled in disbelief,
"So, you finally admit it…fine then, prepare to be very disappointed." He muttered before climbing up onto the gaming platform and removing his deck from the inside of his stark white trench coat, "By the way, what's your name? It's not like it's going to matter once I defeat you but I would like to know who's spirits I'm going to be crushing."
"It's Damien, Damien Duvall."
"Humph, well Duvall I just want to let you know that I hate sore losers, but I hate cheaters even more and that because you cheated in the last duel I'm definitely not going to go easy on you!" They both drew their hands and shouted in sync,
"Let's duel!"
Aislynn took a seat in the stands, silently watching as the duel progressed. So far, Damien was losing horribly. Kaiba had played out his infamous crush card virus strategy, so now Damien couldn't summon any monsters with 1500 or more attack strength without them being destroyed. She almost wanted to laugh, it was only the third turn and her fiance, who claimed to be a top duelist, was already losing. A younger, doe-eyed child with long ebony hair took a seat next to her then, a determined look planted on his adorable face.
"Don't worry, my brother's gonna beat that cheater and kick him out of our park! My brother's one of the world's best you know!" The boy boasted. Aislynn smiled, thinking him to be immensely cute. She was almost unable to stop herself from hugging him like one of her stuffed animals.
"I hope he beats him, otherwise I'm going to have to walk around the park with him bragging about how he beat a world champion duelist." Kaiba overheard her talking and smirked,
"Humph, it's not likely that that's going to happen, unless he has something in that deck that's actually worth using!" The younger boy beside her laughed at his older brother's snide comment, then turned around and introduced himself.
"Hey, what's your name? My name's Mokuba!" Aislynn smiled widely,
"Well hi there Mokuba, my name's Aislynn."
"Aislynn huh? That's a pretty name, whoa that thing is huge!" He exclaimed, gesturing to the giant diamond on her left hand, "Is that a wedding ring?" Aislynn twisted the enormous ring off her finger so she could show it to him,
"Well, sort of, it's supposed to be an engagement ring, but I think of it as more of a promise ring. It reminds me of the promise Damien and I formed two years ago, that when I grew up, we would get married." Mokuba raised an eyebrow, looking back and forth between Aislynn and Damien.
"You're gonna marry that jerk?" Aislynn looked at him, a little ashamed of herself as she looked back down at the jagged diamond in the encasing gold band. Those exact same words had been floating around in her mind for the past few months, why hadn't she left him yet? Was it because she still loved him? Or was it because she was afraid of him? Mokuba looked apologetic after a few minutes of silence.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, it wasn't very nice of me." Aislynn took the ring and placed it back on her finger, "Anyways, how old are you? Cause my brother's eighteen and he's available if you ever break up with your boyfriend!" Aislynn giggled at Mokuba's eagerness to hook her up with his brother.
"Well then I'm afraid he's too old for me, sorry but I'm only seventeen." She smiled apologetically. Mokuba's face fell,
"Aww man, oh well, I guess maybe when you're older." She chuckled unbelievingly,
"Huh, yeah maybe." Aislynn turned her attention back toward the duel, looking up at her fiance's challenger, Seto Kaiba. Seto Kaiba...she'd only met him face to face once. It was only about a year ago at the presentation of his new duel disk system. Her and Damien attended with the rest of the high society snobs, she had exchanged a few words with Kaiba but they hadn't introduced themselves, probably because of the fact that they basically already knew each other through the media. If her guess was correct, he probably didn't recognize her or Damien without all of their fancy attire. Judging from the things she'd heard through the media and her rich friends, Seto Kaiba was a child billionaire with a heart of ice and a determination to win at all costs. In fact, the few words he had said to her had been extremely rude, though she supposed that she was so shocked at the time that she had forgotten exactly what he had said to her.
Although, he was currently rescuing her from having to comply with Damien's wishes under false winnings, and he also had a brother who seemed to think he was the greatest thing in the world. But then again, he was only fighting this duel because Damien had to be an asshole and hack into Kaiba's satellite systems. If it were anything else she doubted Kaiba would even give a damn.
Duvall was a poor duelist, just as Kaiba had suspected. He hadn't even been able to form any good combo attacks with his magic cards and was already down to his last 200 life points. The crush card virus Kaiba had used had effectively lowered Damien's chances of winning and as Kaiba drew his next card, he knew without a doubt that it was all over for his opponent.
"Now I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon!!!" He shouted as the magnificent creature acknowledged it's appearance with it's signature battle roar. "Now my beast destroy his last monster and his remaining life points!" Kaiba shouted, the room reverberating with the commanding power in his voice.
Mokuba and Aislynn watched as the rest of Damien's life points were wiped out by the blue eyes' signature white lightning attack. The image of the powerful dragon was both frightening as it was beautiful and Aislynn stared in awe and fascination at the mighty beast centered on the playing field. In an instant the image of the magnificent creature vanished as the card was placed back into Kaiba's deck.
"Humph, I won, no surprise there, though I hoped you would put up some sort of a fight, I was wrong. Now get out of my park, amateur!" Damien was more than ready to comply with Kaiba's wishes, taking hold of Aislynn's wrist and trying to lead her out of the park.
"Come on Aislynn, let's go, he told us to get out remember? And besides, you still need to pay your dues for our bet." He smirked, dragging her through the park. Aislynn stopped in her tracks, unwilling to let Damien lead her any farther, "Hey what's wrong? He told us to leave sweetheart." She shook her head and glared at him angrily, thinking Mokuba was right, what was she doing with this jerk?
"No, I believe he told you to leave, and besides you cheated in that duel remember? And because you cheated our bet was immediately called off!"
"Yeah yeah whatever, just come on, we're leaving!" She finally pulled away from him, still glaring at him with eyes full of contempt.
"No, I'm not going with you, I'd rather be lost in this park than go home with you!" She shouted. Damien turned around, his own amber eyes full of loathing.
"No?" He asked, Aislynn's eyes flickered with fear of what he was capable of doing to her. Just as he was about to drag her out by force KaibaLand security stepped in and grabbed him from behind, nearly tearing his clothes as Damien struggled to get away from their painful hold. He glared back at Aislynn with eyes full of malice, muttering so only she could hear,
"You'll regret this my little lamb..." Aislynn bowed her head and sighed with relief,
'What am I supposed to do now? It's not like I brought anyone else with me...' Just then Aislynn was tapped on the shoulder from behind. She turned around and her face lit up when she realized it was Mokuba.
"Aislynn are you okay? Me and my brother saw everything, we thought he was going to hurt you so my brother called security." Her eyes widened as she looked over at the older Kaiba, leaning up against the wall with his arms crossed. Seto Kaiba, the person whom everyone called cruel and unjust rescued someone like her?"Anyway, I noticed you were all alone now that your boyfriend left and well since I don't have anything to do today I was wondering if you wanted to play with me!" Mokuba exclaimed excitedly with a huge grin on his adorable face. She smiled back, unable to do anything else,
"Sure, I'll play with you! I was kind of hoping someone would show me around, I think that I'm lost..." Mokuba giggled excitedly,
"Alright! Come with me, I have a game we can play! I'll show you around the rest of the park later!" Mokuba took hold of her hand, pulling her toward their next destination. Seto started to walk away, dreading the fact that he was returning to work,
"Mokuba, I'm heading back to KaibaCorp, call me there if you need me."
"Alright bro see ya later!" Just as he was about to leave, Aislynn stopped in her tracks,
"Mr. Kaiba wait!" She called. He stopped turning around to face her.
"What is it? I'm very busy." She blushed, intimidated by him,
"Um, I just wanted to say...thank-you." He stared at her looking into her eyes of bright aquamarine. They were gentle, with hints of fear and remorse, they stirred within him some instinctual need to hold her close and protect her. She stared back into his eyes of stormy cerulean blue. They always seemed so sharp with anger as well as cold and unfeeling. It was almost as if his past endeavors had caused him to be numb to his emotions. He finally broke her stare and walked away without a word, leaving her confused with her new found want to know what had happened to him to make him so cold and heartless. A forceful tug on her right arm was enough to pull her out of her thoughts and back to reality.
"Come on Aislynn, this way!" She giggled at the twelve-year-old's enthusiasm,
"Okay, I'm coming!"
Seto Kaiba returned to his work at KaibaCorp, unable to keep his mind off of the events at KaibaLand. Those beautiful eyes of aquamarine, they were almost the exact color of his favorite dragon. He could have sworn that he'd seen that girl somewhere before, but he couldn't think of where. She wasn't one of Yugi's cheerleaders, or else he would have recognized her immediately and not even given her a second glance. Was she famous? Had he met her at a rich party sometime in his life? No...she was dressed way too casually there is no way she'd be related to any of those snobs. He knew that high class society liked to dress their best, if she was within that group, she wouldn't have been caught dead wearing jeans. And she was way too nice, all the rich snobs he'd met in his life had been too involved with themselves to care about anything else, let alone babysit his little brother... But she had to be someone, she was too great a beauty to be a middle-class citizen. She had perfect, lily-white skin, which meant that she didn't go out in the sun very often, therefore she must be home schooled or attend a private school-
Kaiba shook his head, why was he daydreaming about some girl when he should be getting his work done!? He really didn't want another all-nighter, he had pulled one the night before and still hadn't gotten any rest, unless he had plenty of coffee, he doubted that he'd make it through another night with no rest. He shook her from his mind and went back to work, his fingers typing madly across the keyboard. He would just block her out with piles of work and gallons of coffee, just like he did everything else.
Mokuba had taught Aislynn how to play Capsule Monsters or Capumon as it was also known. Capsule Monsters Chess was like duel monsters in the form of a chess game. Mokuba taught her that the monster levels ranged from one to five and that if you have great strategic skills even the weakest of monsters can win you the game. Little did she know, she was facing a master capsule player, something she didn't figure out until Mokuba told her after she was defeated three times.
"Wait a second, you're a capumon world champion?" Aislynn asked, astonished. Mokuba scratched his head guiltily,
"Yeah...I was afraid if I told you, since you haven't played before, that you wouldn't play with me." He said sadly.
"Aww, I still would've played, how could I pass up the chance to kick the butt of a world champion?" She and Mokuba laughed together at her last statement.
"I don't think you'll be able to beat me yet, sorry Aislynn, but you kind of suck at this game. You need more practice." He snickered and she pouted, pretending to be angry.
"Hey, this is my first time playing, of course I suck, I hate chess, there's too much strategy involved." Mokuba got up and helped Aislynn to her feet.
"I'm sorry, let's go do something else then!" Mokuba grabbed her arm again and led her around the park. He wanted to buy ice cream and laughed when Aislynn insist she pay for it, saying that they can get it for free since he and his brother owned the place. He led her around the park where they rode almost all the rides and played the majority of the games until closing time. But for some reason, Mokuba had always avoided Death-T. She tried to get him to go in with her, but he refused and always avoided telling her what was in there when she asked about it. She was more than curious, but just didn't have the energy to explore it any further.
'Maybe some other time...' She thought wearily as she climbed into the limousine she called earlier to come and pick her up. She waved goodbye to Mokuba through the tinted windows and then faced forward, dreading the moment when she would have to face Damien back at home. He was always so scary when he got angry, he had never hurt her or anything, he was just very violent with his words, he'd say things that would leave you scarred for months and make you feel extremely guilty and it was usually over something minor or ridiculous. But this time, Aislynn wasn't going to stand for it, he could scream at her all he wanted, his reign of terror was at it's end.
Hi everybody and happy holidays! I'm so glad that I was able to finish this before the end of December! There was plenty of Mokuba in this chapter for those of you who adore the younger Kaiba, and even some glorious Kaiba banter! For those of you who don't really like the card game part of the show I apologize, I tried to make the game sequences as short as possible because I'm kind of bad at making them up! -_- Anyway thanks to all of you who are reading this and happy holidays! And remember, the best gift you can give someone this year is a review! XD