"Mr. Moto? Are you here?" Corey yelled as we entered the small game store.
A short elderly man came down a set of stairs behind a glass case. He had grey hair that stood up at random, and he wore what resembled a Jewish Yakima.
"Ah, well if it isn't the Argent kids again! It's been awhile since I saw the twins. How have you two hot shot been lately?" Mr. Moto asked warmly.
"Busy as always Mr. Moto; sorry we haven't been in for a while. How have you been, you seem to be getting around better. Did you get your back fixed?" Caleb replied.
"Ho, Oh you kids I've told you two I'm still a spry young man! I feel like I could run 10 miles!" Mr. Moto replied and began stretching from side to side.
"Hey, is Yugi here today? I wanted to see if he could look over my deck before I go to the Academy tomorrow." Corey asked hopefully.
"You know what my boy I think he's upstairs with friends. Let me go get him, he'll like to know you're here." Mr. Moto climbed up the stairs.
I went to look in a glass case at the other side of the store when Mr. Moto returned with Yugi and his friends behind him.
"Hi guys! Hey Corey, it's been a while since I saw you." Yugi said with a sincere smile.
"Yeah, I've been getting ready to leave for the Academy tomorrow so I wanted to come get some cards and see if you could look over my deck… Hey! You're Joey Wheeler right?" Corey asked excitedly.
"Sure am kid! The one, the only, jumpin' Joey Wheeler here! Best friends with the king of games himself, runner up at duelist kingdom, and duel city!" A taller blonde haired boy exclaimed striking a superhero pose.
I laughed behind my hands and noticed the tall brunette male and a shorter brunette female standing on the other side of Yugi.
"Well if you're Joey that must make you two Tristian and Tea?" I asked walking to stand beside Corey.
"Huh? You look familiar? Did you go to our school?" Tea asked.
"No, no, I finished school early." I said awkwardly
"No she's one of the Argent twins that own that mining company, they have the building taller than Kaiba's!" Tristian said.
"Yeah… that's us. This is the other half of the company, my twin Caleb." I said pointing to Caleb who was inspecting something in a case.
"Wait, Argent? You two are also tag team duelist. I've heard you're really good!" Yugi said with a gleam in his eye.
"Yup they are! They are the best tag team duelists in the world. They haven't lost a tag team duel in 2 years!" Corey said matter of factly.
"Is that so? Well me and Yugi can take them! What do you say Yug? Let's show them who the best really is!" Joey said overly excited.
"Oh, come on Joey. They don't want to duel you guys, they don't even have their duel disks." Tea scolded Joey.
"We have an arena reserved at Kaiba Land! You guys should come with us!" Corey was practically jumping up and down.
"Corey it's your day, if that's what you want to do, then I'll do it. It's up to Yugi and his friends if they want to come with us." I told Corey. "We have plenty of room, and we have no set plans, if you want to come with us you're more than welcome to. I'll admit taking on the king of games sounds like a good challenge." I said with a smile and kind of hoped they would say yes. I needed to have another girl around; being stuck with two boys gets a little rough.
"Well I've always said I need more girlfriends!" Tea exclaimed.
"Heck yea! I could go for a Kaiba Land hotdog!" Tristian said rubbing his stomach.
"Well what do you say Yug? Want to take them on?" Joey asked confidently
"Well, I guess I can't say no. It would be fun to have a duel without the world being at stake." Yugi said
"That settles it! You kids have fun; I'll be here when you get back." Mr. Moto said and grabbed a broom.
We all walked outside and headed to my Escalade.
"Umm… are you sure you have enough room for all of us?" Tea asked I little concerned.
"Oh just wait till you see the inside! And don't get the inside dirty, my sister will make you buy her a whole new car." Corey said and I gave him a dirty look.
They opened the doors and all of the sudden I was getting flooded with questions by Joey and Tristian who were impressed by the size of the inside and wanted to know what year, style, and trim it was. They went on and on and I just laughed. All the boys got in the back and I told Tea to sit up front with me, keep the girls together.
"Thank you for letting me sit up front, I don't think I could take all the guy talk that is going on back there." Tea said with gratefulness.
"No thank you for sitting up here, I don't think I could focus on the road if I was being bombarded with questions! I don't have a lot of girlfriends so I like having typical girl conversations when I get the chance." I said with a hearty laugh.
Tea laughed with me and we talked about typical girl things, make up, clothes, movies, good looking actors.
"What's that tattoo on your arm?" Tea asked looking at the long tattoo that was on the outside of my right arm running from my wrist and almost all the way to the elbow.
"It's like a family crest, but it's more like a collection of Norse symbols. Our family bloodline has been traced down to some of the first Vikings, and these are some of the symbols that can be traced back." I explained holding my arm out so she can take a closer look.
"Wow they're beautiful! The intricate detail and colors are stunning!" Tea exclaimed having me turn my arm.
"People are against it, but because our parents are gone we allowed Corey to get his tattoo not too long ago. Everyone with the Argent name has this tattoo; it really is a family crest." I continued
"Wow! Oh there is a cheap parking lot if you turn up here, but its quiet a walk." Tea said and pointed to the next intersection.
"We have the money we'll get valet. Plus I want my car to be monitored. Corey isn't completely wrong about my obsession with my vehicles." I said and turned into the valet lane.
"Oh, man! We're here already! Dang Kenz what were you driving?!" Joey asked surprised
I pulled in to the valet parking lot and everyone started getting out of the car. I gave the valet men a very stern lecture about my car and that if I find the smallest scratch I would make their lives a living hell. I might have flashed the red wolf eyes to give them a good scare while handing over the keys. I think it worked because their heart rates jumped and they began sweating.
"Man Kaiba upped the prices since the last time we were here guys!" Tristian moaned in anger. "Yugi you're luck being the King of Games you get to these places for free. Kaiba just doesn't like Joey and took his passes away!"
"Shut up Tristian!" Joey yelled practically in my ear.
"Alright guys here are you platinum passes." Caleb said as he was walking back towards the group hold out wrist bands.
"You didn't have to do that we could have paid for our own." Tea said while grabbing a ban.
"No, this is on us. This is the last day with Corey and if this is how he wants to spend it then we will pay for everything." I said putting on the band. "Don't worry; we don't have a lot of friends to spend our money on so let us do this for you guys; for your kindness."
"Oh, thanks but I get in for free already." Yugi said handing back the wrist ban to Caleb.
"Here I got this." I said and took the ban. I started scanning the crowded and found the perfect person. I saw a young kid, maybe 8 years old who had so much excitement running through him he was literally jumping up and down. It must have been the first time to the park because the family was taking group pictures and pictures of everything around them. I walked back up to the ticket booth and bought 3 more platinum passes and walked to the family.
"Hi, I'm sorry to bother you but I accidently bought too many passes and I can tell it's your first time here so I thought maybe you could use them." I said and extended the wrist bans out to the father so he could take them
"You're serious?" the mother looked at me with tears in her eyes. "Madam, you have no idea what this means to us." She grabbed my arm and we walked away from the kids a few steps. "I didn't know how I was going to tell our son that his sister and I couldn't go in with him and his father. We can only afford two passes. You see it's his birthday today and this is what he wanted to do. My husband recently got laid off and we've struggling financially." She had to stop because tears were streaming down her face. I grabbed her hand and tried to console her.
"Does your son like duel monsters?" I asked kindly
"He loves duel monsters. That Yugi Moto kid is his idol." She said wiping away tears.
"Come to the Blue Eyes arena at 1:30, I think he'll be surprised." I said and smiled
"1:30, I'll make sure we're there. Thank you ma'am, oh what did you say your name was?" She asked now shaking my hand.
"Kenzi" I replied
"Thank you, Kenzi, you're truly and angel" she said and walk back to her family.
I returned to our group and explained what happened and that I invited them to watch the duel since it's the little boy's birthday. By the time we made it through the gates we only had about 40 minutes until our reservation at the arena. We decided we would slowly make our way to that end of the park and see if there is anything that catches our eyes. The park was full of beautiful flowers and well-groomed shrubs. We got stopped a few times by young kids who recognized Yugi; it was interesting to be on the other side of the fame for once. When we arrived to the building the arena was in we saw the duel a head of ours was still in progress so we decided on ice cream and enjoying the sunshine. We sat around a fountain of different dragon duel monster spraying water into a large pool. Kids were running around in the water and dodging the sprays. We all talked about each other. We told them the story of our family starting the mining company. We showed them the tattoo on our arms that is our family symbols. They told us stories of saving the world, and the pharaoh that lived inside the millennium puzzle. We were in the middle of explaining the different symbols on our tattoos when we hear a voice calling out to us.
"Hey Yugi! Hi Guys!" yelled a ravened hair teenager who came jogging threw the crowd.
I didn't recognize the teen at first and neither did my brothers, so we waited for someone to introduce the young kid. The kid was fairly tall about 5'8" with long raven hair and violet eyes. When he got closer there was something familiar about him; like I've seen his picture somewhere. The closer he got the more I could smell the happiness coming off of him. The kid was practically bathing in the smell of happiness, it was kind of infectious. I felt happier as soon the smell hit my nose. Great thing about being a wolf you smell people's emotions or chemo signals; happiness, depression, anxiety, anger, etc.
"Hey Mokuba! Long time no see!" Yugi exclaimed waving back to the kid.
"What's up short stuff, where your brother?" Joey asked Mokuba
"He's working of course! He runs a company you know Joey." Mokuba said very matter of factly
"Everyone knows that! It's all the guy talks about!" Joey said mockingly
Everyone started laughing and Mokuba took notice to us three completely lost on what was going on between them.
"Who is this?" Mokuba asked the group.
"These are our friends Mokuba. Kenzi and Caleb Argent, and their younger brother Corey. Actually Corey is heading to the Academy tomorrow." Tea answered.
"Argent… Argent… Argent… That name sounds familiar…" Mokuba said pondering.
"They're tag team duelist!" Joey exclaimed "We're here to see how good they really are! Me and Yug here are going to duel them as soon as the other duel hurries up!"
"Huh, now that you say that I remember hearing about you two, but it seems like I have heard about you for another reason." Mokuba said still thinking hard.
"We own the largest mining conglomerate in the world." I said answering his question.
"THAT'S IT! I remember reading some magazine articles in Seto's office." Mokuba exclaimed.
"Seto? Wait that makes you Mokuba Kaiba!" Corey said with equal excitement as Mokuba.
"Yup! Sure am, Seto's my big brother." Mokuba said proudly
"Hey guys it looks like the duel is finally over let's get going." Tea called to us.