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Chapter 3

Crimson eyes flew open and the owner of these orbs abruptly sat up attempting to rid the images of his nightmare from his troubled mind. When his breathing returned to its normal pace and the sweating had subdued he turned to check that he had not disturbed his roommate. Apparently not as Ray was still snoring quietly in his sleep with his face turned towards Kai. With a quick glance at the clock, he rose from the bed and went for a shower to try and remove the thoughts from his head. Stripping off his sleepwear he entered the steaming shower and allowed himself to relax while under the torrents of water and steam. After ten minutes he left the shower and put on his clothes. Once he was ready, Kai silently slid out of the room and entered the fresh air he had been dying to experience. He decided a walk would clear his thoughts; so he let his feet lead him, not really having a destination in mind. He was so deep in thought that he didn't notice that a shadow was following him while he continued to wander aimlessly around.

Images flew through his mind as though teasing him, trying to get him to think about what he had dreamt.

DREAM SEQUENCE

Kai was standing in a room full of people, he could see his friends a little way off; talking to another group but their images were blurred. Everyone else was blurred apart from him and one other boy he did not know. He looked about sixteen – the same age as Kai – though he towered over others who were his senior in age. He had auburn hair but his bangs constricted his eyes from view. He seemed preoccupied; it was as though he was searching for someone.

Suddenly, with no warning, the room was shrouded in darkness, but still Kai could clearly see the other boy and it seemed as though for the first time; he could see Kai. Confusion was shown for a brief moment on his face before it was covered by his mask.

"What's going on?" he managed to croak out. You could tell that he was incredibly stressed about something.

Before Kai could answer someone grabbed him from behind and the same happened to the other boy. Kai was furious with himself for being caught off guard and began to struggle. He had lost sight of the other but didn't worry. He didn't know why he didn't worry about him, it was as though Kai knew that the other teen could protect himself. Suddenly Kai felt pain fill his senses. His eyes watered though no tears fell as he collapsed to what he thought was the floor. A foot entered his path of vision and he saw that it was about to connect with his head. But before the foot could make contact, Kai was jolted out of his fear filled sleep and back to reality.

END DREAM

Kai shook his head to try and rid the images from his already troubled mind. He didn't understand why there was another in his dream he did not know. Why? Without realising it, Kai had walked to the sea. He lifted his gaze to stare out across the vast emptiness as though willing his thoughts to follow the horizon and never return. He enjoyed the tranquillity and the sense of calm that the ocean gave him; it certainly was a change compared to Tyson and his loudness.

Kai lost himself within his thoughts, so much that he didn't realise that someone was watching and aiming for him. As soon as the ripcord was pulled, Kai took immediate action and launched Dranzer to deflect the oncoming blade. He looked up with a scowl on his face, daring the other to step out from the shadows. A figure emerged covered by a black cape so he couldn't be identified. Without a worded command, the opponent's blade streaked towards Kai's. On closer inspection, Kai could see that it was of a deep red colour which seemed to be much weaker than Kai, but looks can be deceiving so he kept up his guard. Dranzer slammed into the red blade and broke it into tiny pieces. Kai was confused but didn't show it on his facial expressions.

"Who are you?! What is it you want?" he demanded.

"Don't worry Kai. You will experience everything you truly deserve soon enough," the stranger replied. With these last words, he darted off before Kai could catch him.

Kai was incredibly confused by now so he decided to return to the hotel and kick the Bladebreakers into training. If they wanted to continue being the best then they needed to continue training. With one last glance to the bushes where the stranger disappeared, Kai left. But unknown to him, the stranger was watching him and a smirk was forming on his face. "You will soon be back where you belong, count on it."


Seto tossed and turned, trying to escape the nightmare his imagination had conjured up. Sweat poured down his face in rivulets and he began to murmur indistinguishable words. Suddenly he bolted up gasping for much required oxygen to try and calm his racing heart. He stumbled out of bed into the ensuite bathroom, turned on the tap and began splashing ice cold water onto his face. He was so preoccupied that he didn't hear the patter of feet behind him.

Bleary eyes looked towards his brother with a questioning gaze but when he saw how shaken up his brother was, his gaze sharpened and his features twisted into a frown.

"Nii-san?"

Seto whipped round. "Mokuba! What are you doing up? You should be in bed."

"Are you ok nii-san?"

"Yes I'm fine now go back to bed."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I just decided to get up and do a bit more work."

"But its earlier than normal for you to be up?"

"I went to bed earlier. Go back to sleep Mokuba, you've not had your normal amount of sleep. I'll still be here when you awaken or I'll be somewhere close by. Don't worry."

"Ok Seto."

Soft tempo of feet followed shortly afterwards signalling Mokuba had gone back to bed.

Seto breathed a sigh of relief. 'That was close, Mokuba almost saw me in a weakened state. I can't have him worrying over me.'

He decided to try and do some work to get his mind off the images he saw in his dream but they refused to leave. No matter what he did, they remained deeply etched into his subconscious. He grudgingly began to put his thoughts together if only for a moments peace.

DREAM SEQUENCE

'Someone had taken Mokuba!!! I had to find him! I was nothing without him!' Seto stormed into a hall full of people. He managed to catch a passing glimpse of the 'geek patrol' but didn't take much heed. Strangely enough, everyone's images were hazy but he again didn't pay much attention to silly details as he was more concerned about his brother's safety. Seto couldn't locate Mokuba anywhere in the room and the tell tale signs of panic began to creep through is icy exterior. Suddenly the lights went out, and his body froze in anticipation. This could never mean anything good.

Whipping around Seto noticed that he could depict another through the darkness. He was a strange looking teen with two-toned hair and crimson eyes. Seto didn't care who he was as long as he would help him locate Mokuba.

"What's going on?" Seto asked hoping that the other could tell him something he didn't know. However at that sudden moment he was grabbed from behind and out of the corner of his eye Seto could see the other teen was in the same situation as him.

All Seto's focus was put into defending himself but when he allowed himself a risking glance towards the other he was struck down and the darkness claimed its hold over him.

END DREAM

A shiver racked its way through Seto's frame even just thinking about the dream, so to try and calm his disturbed thoughts, a decision was made to step outside and rearrange his brain waves, taking into account his word to Mokuba that he would not stray too far.

He exited the room and made his way down to reception and out of the building where he bumped into someone. He didn't care and barged past them without a backwards glance though he did mange to hear a growl of irritation pass from the other and caught a glimpse of a whipping white piece of cloth from the corner of his eye. Eyebrow twitching in annoyance, Seto continued on his way.


Kai entered his and Ray's shared room and saw that Ray had managed to drag himself out of bed.

"Good morning Kai," said Ray while rummaging through his belongs to find a change of clothes.

"Hn. Are those losers up yet?"

"Not sure. Doubtful, especially Tyson."

With those words Kai left the room and crossed the hall to find the others still in bed. Max and Kenny were easily awoken but Tyson was the problem.

"If he's not up by the time I get back from waking Hilary then I'll wake him myself," threat implied within the growl. With this said he stalked out the room and knocked on Hilary's door and entered to find she was just rising. Shouts could be heard across the hall due to the others trying to wake Tyson but by the time Kai strode back in; Tyson still lay slumbering. Everyone backed away in anticipation as a vein appeared on the captain's forehead. Kai reached down and grabbed Tyson's wrist and threw him out of bed into the nearest wall.

"OWWWWW!"

With that accomplished, Kai gave Tyson a pointed stare and coldly told him, "Training in 15 minutes."

"WHAT! What about breakfast?!"

"Better hurry if you want breakfast then," with a smirk to his voice.

As Kai left the room he heard Tyson knock over Max and Kenny in a bide to get ready so that he could get at least some food to satisfy his large appetite. He inwardly laughed at his team's childishness and with a shake of his head thought 'How do I tolerate them?'

Kai walked into his room and found Ray ready so together they went down to breakfast to await for the chaos to begin when Tyson made his appearance.


"Kaiba is going down ….. he will look like the ….. dog, who does he think he is ….. best," is what Yugi awakened to this morning courtesy of Joey's grumbling in his sleep. He suppressed a small giggle at his friend's foolishness and focused his energy on extracting himself from his warm haven with difficulty.

Once he had arisen and was more awake, Yugi did the necessary cleanliness activities and decided that he would go for a wander while everyone else was still resting. He left his shared room and made his way down to the dining hall and saw only two other people present. One he realised was Ray and the other Yugi presumed was Ray's other team member that he hadn't met yesterday.

"Good morning Ray. Good morning," said Yugi with an acknowledgement towards the other, showing that he had not forgotten his manners even though the other teen was a stranger to him.

Ray looked up and saw it was Yugi and smiled in greeting. "Morning Yugi. Rest well?"

The other teen just looked towards Yugi as though saying who are you and why should I care?

Ray, realising the unfamiliarity, rectified his error. "Kai this is Yugi. We met him and his friends after training yesterday, and Yugi this is Kai; our team captain."

Yugi bowed in greeting while Kai gave a curt nod of his head and continued with his breakfast.

"Mind if I join you? It is only that Joey and everyone else is currently still asleep."

"Sure. We don't mind do we Kai? The others should be here momentarily too," replied Ray.

Just as Ray said those words, a crash could be heard and a tangle of legs appeared with Kenny and Hilary closely following behind. They both just took their seats as though this was a normal occurrence.

"Tyson! Get your foot out of my face!"

"Well why don't you get your elbow out of my stomach Max!"

A brief scuffle was heard and then both boys managed to arise and sit at the dinner table without any further problems.

Yugi just watched this with a stunned expression on his face. He didn't realise anyone could be worse than Tristan and Joey.

Both Tyson and Max sat there and said, "Morning Yugi," as though they hadn't just rolled into the dining room and interrupted breakfast.

The stunned look melted off Yugi's face and turned into rich, warm laughter which attracted stares from the Blade Breakers.

"Sorry, it's just that I didn't know anyone could be so like Joey and Tristan. This is the sort of thing they would do when coming down for breakfast."

The laughter gradually died down and everyone returned to their meal. Suddenly Kai stood up. "Training in five minutes. If anyone is late then they will have extra laps to run," giving Tyson a pointed look, and stalked off.

"What! Why did he give me the look there?!" spluttered Tyson through his eggs.

Ray, Kenny and Max all hid chuckles behind their mugs. Unlike Hilary who out-right told Tyson, "Because you're the one that is always late. Everyone else manages to be ready on time but no, not Tyson, he has to have another course of breakfast. You're worse than a pig."

With this said, she stalked out the room to go find Kai.

The remaining Breakers and Yugi all burst into fits of laughter at Tyson who was doing a very good impression of a goldfish.

"Guys stop laughing," Tyson whined, and then decidedly shovelled more food into his mouth.

As the laughter died down, everyone rose (except Tyson) to follow Kai and Hilary. "Come on Tyson! You heard Kai, get your butt in motion," said Kenny.

"You can come and watch us practise if you want," offered Ray, but Yugi turned down the offer.

"Maybe later on if that's ok it's just that I probably should be heading back to my room and rousing my friends," insisted Yugi.

"That's cool. See you later maybe," said Max while pushing Tyson through the door.

"Yeah BYE!" yelled Tyson through a mouthful of food and disappeared from view through the door.

The remaining Breakers waved goodbye also and left to go train while Yugi took the elevator up to his room to find Joey and Tristan still slumbering.

He gave a sigh of annoyance and decided to see if Tea was awake first as he would need her help in waking both of the sleeping beauties up. He gave a gentle knock and she answered the door.

"Hey Yug. I was actually just coming to find you guys. Are the morons not up yet?" said Tea in a cheery manner which slightly crept Yugi out.

"N-N-No," Yugi took a breath to calm himself down. "That's actually why I came to find you. I will probably need help to get them both up."

"Ok. That sounds like it should be fun," said Tea with an evil glint to her eye and barged straight past Yugi into the boys' room. When Joey and Tristan's slumbering forms meet her gaze, an evil grin spread across her face and she asked Yugi to go get her a glass of cold water.

Yugi did as was told without questioning due to his fear of Tea's wrath. She began with Joey and poured the ice cold water over him.

"AHHHHHH! COLD!" yelled Joey as he shot out of bed at a speed no one knew he possessed.

His yelling also woke Tristan from his dreams and he fell out of bed with a crash assuming that they were being attacked. He quickly manoeuvred himself into a defensive stance but on seeing it was only Joey, got up and went into the bathroom grumbling something about dumb blonds always being over dramatic.

"Joey! Shut up!" screeched Tea. "Hurry up and get ready before we leave without you and you miss breakfast!"

At the mention of missing breakfast, Joey abruptly shut up and quickly began to get dressed. Both Yugi and Tea sweatdropped and gave a sigh at the world. By the time Tristan finished fixing his hair in the bathroom, everyone was finally ready to leave.

"So what shall we do today guys?" asked Tristan.

"Well you know the group we met yesterday? I was thinking that we should go and watch them train. I want to see what it looks like to be a blading champion," said Yugi.

"Yeah sounds good," consented Joey, "Though, not before we get BREAKFAST!" and with those words yelled, he sprinted down the hall with Tristan following closely at his heels.

For the third time that day, both Yugi and Tea sighed at the lost causes that disappeared from view. Suddenly they heard a sigh behind them also, and turned around to see Mokuba.

"Hey Mokuba," said Yugi with surprise. "What's up?"

"Looking for Seto. He said he would stay close by so I'm assuming he hasn't wandered far. So while waiting for him I decided to go for some food," replied Mokuba. "Is that where you are going also considering I heard Joey's scream of 'BREAKFAST'?" he said with some amusement.

"How did you guess?" said Tea tiredly. "Better go and check that the two idiots haven't broken anything yet," while walking away.


"AGAIN! I know you can do better than that!" yelled Kai.

Tyson and Max launched into the dish again followed shortly by Kai and Ray. It was a tag team match to improve Tyson and Max's teamwork skills. Currently they were losing badly, Ray and Kai had cornered Max's blade and were double teaming him.

"Tyson where are you?! Go help him!" commanded Kai after giving a particularly hard slam to Draciel.

"Tyson!" yelled Max in anguish.

"Coming Maxie! Hold on!" rushed Tyson, urging his blade to help Max.

At the last moment, Driger and Dranzer pulled away and Dragoon hammered into Draciel with great momentum knocking him out of the dish, heading straight towards the group of duellists that had just came around the corner. The blade was heading straight towards Mokuba when BAM!


My first cliff hanger! yay!

I would like to thank my reviewers so far.

Miako6 - No sorry but I don't think its going to be Kaiba/Kai. Well at least not yet.

If anyone has any ideas I would like to hear them.

For all those who have read my fic 'Risen' it was only meant to be a oneshot. If you really want it to be continued ideas would be greatly appreciated.