Amber Mollari12/4/2007
Chapter 3: A business trip with a difference
At Duelist Kingdom
Amber was lying on her bed in her room, one of her favorite CDs
blasting out of the speakers of her laptop. She sighed to herself
more then anything; it had only been a week since she'd moved here
to her uncle's island. However she was getting a little bored and
none of her friends were on msn, she missed them already. Losing
herself in the music Amber began to sing along to her favorite track
on the album, something she would never ever do if she knew her uncle
was stood outside. A knock on the door made her
jump off her bed with a start; she rushed over to her laptop and
paused the music.
"Who is it?" she called out not
sure if she had imagined the knocking at the door. She smiled when
she saw her uncle's head pop round the door.
"You don't
mind if I come in do you? I wouldn't want to interrupt your
rendition of what ever it was you were singing to" Pegasus replied
chucking. Making Amber smile and blush a little at the same time, she
didn't like to let other people hear her sing. One of her worst
habits was singing badly in the shower, so she was grateful she had
an en suite bathroom here. "Don't worry you didn't sound that
bad, for once" he continued. Earning himself a pillow in the face,
from his niece.
"You know I don't like it when you listen
to my singing uncle" she replied trying not to laugh at the bemused
expression on his face as he picked up her pillow and threw it back.
"How many times do I have to tell you Amber, you can call
me Max." he smiled, before telling her what he came to tell her.
"Anyway I have an important guest arriving any minute now, I was
wondering if you would want to accompany me to greet him?" Amber's
ears perked up at the mention of an important guest, causing Pegasus
to laugh at the cat like expression on his nieces face. A small part
of him regretted never having a child with his late wife Cecilia, and
Leo wasn't able to. At least he had Leo's adoptive daughter Amber
though he consoled himself.
"Who is it? Whose coming?" she
asked jumping around excitedly looking for her shoes. She gave him a
pleading look begging to know the answer. Never being able to resist
that look since the day he'd met her, he held up his hands in
surrender.
"Well I'm sure you'll want to meet him my
dear Amber" he told her smiling, "It's my dear Kaiba-boy". He
found the expression on his nieces' face rather amusing. "You
never know if he likes you he might even let you see his blue eyes
cards" he told her teasing. Amber's eyes were full of mischief
at the idea of Kaiba coming to her uncle's island as a guest; her
thoughts were interrupted by her uncle waving a hand in front of her
face. She giggled.
"I am still on planet earth Uncle Max,
when he's arriving? Wait a minute" she realized her uncle had
told her he was meeting somebody to discuss a new game, but he hadn't
mentioned Kaiba's name "I thought that Duke Devlin person was
supposed to be your meeting for the next few weeks? What's going
on?" A rather confused expression on her face. She looked into her
uncle's soulful brown eye, his other covered by his long silver
hair.
"Oh did I forget to mention he was coming too? How
thoughtless of me", her uncle replied this time dodging the
impending pillow heading his way, and playfully bonking her on the
head with it. He looked at his watch, and ushered Amber to follow
him.
At the island
landing pad, Kaiba's blue eyes plane was just arriving and
proceeding to land. Looking out of the window, Kaiba was surprised to
see Pegasus had come to greet him personally for once. Not only that
but he wasn't alone. 'Since when did Pegasus have kids?' he
wondered to himself, 'hmm why do I even care' he chided himself.
Despite his annoyance at himself he couldn't help wonder if this
girl might hold some clue to the mystery of who the mysterious missRa
was.
As he disembarked from his plane, luggage in tow, and
briefcase in hand he noted the girl was whispering something to
Pegasus, and then ran back inside. The gesture struck him as a little
odd, but he didn't comment.
"Ah I'm so glad you could
make it my dear Kaiba-boy!" Pegasus exclaimed, before motioning for
one of his staff to help with his luggage. Kaiba relinquished most of
his luggage to the assistant but stubbornly kept hold of his
briefcase.
"Well what did you expect? I am here on important
business after all." He was about to ask about the girl, when he
decided against it but he wasn't sure why.
"Of course"
was the reply, "Of course you are Kaiba-boy. If you would be as so
kind as to let me show you to your room?" Pegasus asked. The over
enthusiastic tone to the man's voice putting Kaiba on edge.
"Hnn" was all he said in response. Pegasus raised an eyebrow
wondering what it meant, relieved when Kaiba-boy nodded. He motioned
to his assistant to follow with Kaiba's luggage, and the three of
them made their way inside the large house.
On the other
side of the island, the plane carrying Duke and his friends had just
landed. With Pegasus being pre-occupied greeting Kaiba his personal
assistant Croquet was waiting for them. He tried to hide his bemused
expression as the gang of five disembarked from the plane. Yami/Yugi
was leading the girl out by her hand, and Duke was looking rather
embarrassed by Joey and Tristan. Who followed close behind, still
arguing about who ate the last pack of peanuts from behind the bar,
and who was going to pay for them. Croquet couldn't help but wonder
how Mr.Kaiba was going to react when he bumped into Yugi and his
friends. It was no secret that the two didn't get along.
"Excuse me, but may I see your invites?" he asked the group of
friends. All of them except Duke looked at him like he was speaking a
foreign language. Duke sighed, and showed Croquet his ticket/invite.
The others quickly followed suit, finally realizing that was what
Duke was talking bout back at the airport in Domino. Satisfied that
everyone was accounted for who should be here, Croquet motioned for
the gang to follow him to where they would be staying.
Mean while Amber was
sat in her room, trying to resist pinching herself just to prove she
wasn't dreaming. She couldn't believe it was him! The real Seto
Kaiba, the teen CEO of Kaiba Corp, and not only that but he was here.
Trying to stifle a giggle fit she decided she needed to get a shower
if I she was going to be presentable enough to approach him. It had
been her dream for a long time to face Kaiba in a duel, especially
since it was announced he was the proud owner of three of the only
four Blue Eyes White Dragons her uncle had ever created. Not only was
Kaiba here, but her uncle had told her he's invited Yugi Motou to
accompany Duke Devlin. She'd heard many interesting things about
him as her uncles' game had taken off. Amber couldn't wait to
meet him and find out if any of the bizarre things she had heard were
real.
Humming the tune she was singing before her uncle had
interrupted she un-paused her media player and turned the volume up.
Happy it was loud enough, she crossed to her bathroom and decided to
have a nice warm shower.
Else where in the huge villa,
Kaiba was musing about getting a shower himself before settling down
to review the important paperwork he needed. He allowed himself to be
led down corridor after corridor, past numerous doors, before he was
finally ushered into a room. Not surprisingly it had a blue theme,
Kaiba smirked at the gesture.
"I hope you find the room to
your satisfaction my dear Kaiba-boy, I know my humble home isn't as
grand as what you are usest to" Pegasus
told him.
"I'm sure I'll survive Pegasus, besides I'm
sure you have somebody else to annoy?", Kaiba responded rather
curtly. He was curious as to whether or not Pegasus would give away
any details as to who the mysterious girl was. He was disappointed
however, when Pegasus agreed he had over things that required his
attention and left. Shaking his head, he laid his briefcase on the
desk, and had a look around the room he had been provided. Finally
satisfied that it wasn't bugged or booby trapped, he decided to get
a quick shower to refresh himself before doing a little exploring. He
was determined to find out who that girl he had seen talking to
Pegasus was. However Kaiba had no idea of the consequences such a
decision would lead to.
Croquet on the other hand had his
hands full with showing the gang their rooms on a different wing of
the large villa. For the sake of peace his boss had explained, Yugi
would be best kept as far away from Kaiba as possible. After all he
didn't want anything to get broken should any fighting break out
between Kaiba and Yugi, or worse still Kaiba and Joey. He'd just
shown Tea to her room, and practically had to drag Joey and Tristan
out of the room to stop them gawping at everything. Next room on the
way was Yugi's, who gave a polite thanks and went to get settled
in.
Swiftly moving on, Croquet successfully managed to get
both Joey and Tristan to their allocated rooms without much more
fuss. Although he was glad to finally be rid of their constant
enquiries, about the possibility of room service. That just left
Mr.Devlin who needed to be shown to his allocated room, which was
located just at the end of the hall. A fact Croquet was glad about.
They were already driving him round the bend and they hadn't even
been here an hour, how was he going to cope with weeks of them? He
could only guess.
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