Chapter Three: Enough's Enough

The next day at Domino High, when lunch time rolled around, Kasuka once more left the classroom. Instead of rushing down the hallway, however, he casually strolled down it with a strange smile on his face.

After that kid had told him that, in fact, the spell was written incorrectly and it had to be said in another way to work, Kasuka had gone back home and thought long and hard while staring at the book, which had been turned to the page with the strength spell. Sure, the whole magic idea seemed a little ridiculous, but…was he really going to just take being some three guy's punching bag for another couple of years?

Finally, he nodded to himself and thought, Enough's enough…I'm gonna take those jerks down once and for all…

So, he'd looked down at the book and started with the first few steps. This spell required one to have a few certain items in his possession in order for it to work: a replication of a bull (picture found on the internet), a barbell (lightweight one borrowed from his father's exercise room), a photograph or painting of someone with incredible strength (painting found on the internet of Hercules), and some lemon peel (supposed to grant one with energy when smelled).

Now, with his items and recorder in his backpack, when he reached the corner he slowly peered around it. There the three thugs were there, waiting for him as usual.

He wasn't worried, though. This time, he was ready. All he needed was to make sure that he listened to the 'correct' version of the spell once, just so that he'd be able to say it right.

Kasuka knelt down and slung his backpack off his shoulder and down to the ground. He zipped it open and pulled the tape recorder out once more, taking care not to harm the items that went along with the spell.

"All right, you jerks," he murmured. "Once I've got this down, you're dead meat."

He hit the 'play' button. The kid's voice came out of its speaker: "To stop the forces turning my body and mind in terrible contortions, enhance my strength to monstrous proportions."

Kasuka felt a nasty, wrenching sensation inside of him. He dropped to all fours, with his glasses flying off his face and onto the ground. He started breathing heavily, sweat dripping down his face profusely. What…what's happening to me? he thought.

Suddenly, he saw that thick, curly black fur was starting to appear on his hands, which slowly became rather thick and heavy-set. His eyes widened in horror as the fur started crawling up his arms, tearing up his school uniform's jacket as his muscles started growing wherever the fur appeared…

From around the corner, the three thugs suddenly heard a low, growling sound nearby. The three turned and saw, to their utter shock, the shadow on the wall of what appeared to be a young man growing a couple of feet and gaining a large amount of fur all over his body.

"What the heck?" the brunette one said.

Finally, the creature's transformation appeared to be complete. The shadow slowly moved along the wall, heading towards the corner.

The three suddenly jumped backwards as the creature appeared. They slowly looked up into its face in fear as it loomed over them, its large shadow completely engulfing them.

"Oh snap," the blond squeaked.

A little bit back in classroom 2B, the kids still in the room looked up in shock as they heard a strange, booming growl suddenly flood the entire hall.

The six heroes, five of whom had been crowded around Yugi's desk talking and the sixth only sitting nearby enough to overhear them while reading his book, were especially intrigued by the noise. "What in de world was dat?" Joey whispered to the others.

From down the hall then came the sound of people screaming. Hurried footsteps of a bunch of kids dashed past the class doorway; one of the running kids pulled the door to Class 2B open and cried out, "Get away from here! There's some…some…thing wandering around the hallway!"

"Something tells me it's one of those 'special' things we take care of a lot," Yugi replied.

Kaiba snapped his book shut. "Wonderful. Insanity is just what I needed today," he muttered.

While their classmates ran out of the room and in the opposite direction of the noise, the heroes waited for a few moments, then got up and went directly towards it.

At the corner on the end of the hall, the teens came across a backpack, a tape recorder, and a pair of specs lying on the ground, along with what appeared to be black fur mixed with bits and pieces of a torn blue jacket, white shirt, and completely ravaged tennis shoes.

Joey picked up some of the fur and clothing remains and asked, "Geez, I feel sorry for whoever dis was."

Suddenly, from around the corner the teens heard the sound of glass smashing. Moving quickly, they turned the corner and saw the three bullies from the day before were sprawled out on the ground. They'd been battered and bruised profusely, with tears all over their shirts and jackets, dazed looks in their eyes and low, pained groans slowly coming out of their open mouths. A little bit further down the hallway was a window that had been smashed into pieces, with a few pieces of black fur caught in the shards.

Yugi knelt down by the brunette guy and asked, "What happened?"

The guy slowly turned his head towards him and replied, "Some…big, black thing…it came and…attacked us…" He groaned. "Whatever it was…it was strong…threw us around…easily…"

The guy laid his head back down onto the ground, too weak to talk anymore.

Yugi's Millennium Puzzle glowed and Pharaoh took over for them. He looked back at the others and said, "Come, everyone-we should take care of this creature, whatever it is, before it can harm anyone else."

"Should we do someting wit dis stuff?" Joey asked, pointing back towards the backpack, recorder, and clothing remains.

"Perhaps we should take it along with us," Pharaoh replied. "It could give us some hints as to what this thing was and where it went next."

Joey and Tristan gathered up the clothing remnants with fur and the tape recorder and shoved it all into the backpack. Once Tristan had slung it over his shoulder, the six teens made sure nobody was approaching, then transformed into six showers of various colored sparks and soared out of the shattered window and back towards the town of Domino.