Wolf and Leo: We own nothing but ourselves and this crazy-ass plot.

Capture!

Yoh and Hao were walking home from school like always. It was a crisp autumn day out and they were looking forwards to the weekend.

"So, how are things with your girlfriend now?" Hao asked with a smirk. The smirk grew when Yoh blushed.

"I-it's good."

"The sex too?" Yoh blushed deeper.

"That's none of your business onii-chan!" Yoh snapped. Hao roared with laughter.

He then paused and looked around. There was absolutely no one else around; no cars, no pedestrians, nothing.

"I think we'd better move a little quicker out of here." Hao said quietly, perturbed by the silence. Yoh nodded in agreement and they picked up the pace.

Suddenly Yoh cried out in surprise. Hao turned in time to catch him as his knees gave out. Yoh pawed weakly at his neck. Hao moved his hand and then gasped as he pulled the dart out of Yoh's neck. Just then something pricked Hao's neck. He roared in rage and swung around, trying to figure out who was trying to drug him.

He gasped as he was struck again by another dart. This one made him feel woozy, but he fought it. He picked up Yoh and shakily tried to keep moving. He grunted as another dart struck him in the back. His legs gave out and he sank to the ground, darkness slowly claiming him.

~~~~~***~~~~~

"Yoh and Hao should have been back by now, I wonder what's keeping them?" Katie asked as she typed at her computer.

"They could have gotten detention." Seto said, cuddling Joey.

"Yoh, detention?" Meg said derisively. "I don't think so."

"And anyways, if one of them did have to stay late for some reason, they'd call." Katie replied.

"So why don't you call them up and see what's going on?" Joey asked. Meg and Katie looked at each other sheepishly; they hadn't thought of that. Meg pulled out her cell phone and dialled Yoh's number. The phone rang, and rang, and rang. Meg gave Katie a worried look. Katie frowned and called Hao's number. He didn't pick up.

"Ok, something is seriously wrong, they both wouldn't just not answer their phones." Meg said, becoming slightly panicked. Katie growled.

"They've been taken." She snarled. "I just know it." Meg nodded in agreement. Kaiba got up and got out his laptop.

"We need to figure out where they've been taken then. I'll see if those shamans are at their house. If not, I'll use my pull to figure out where they went." Meg and Katie nodded. "You're just going to have to wait for a bit for information."

"And hope in the meantime that they're all right." Meg murmured.

~~~~***~~~~

Hao came to slowly, realizing he was lying against a cold stone surface. He lifted his head, still feeling woozy. He tried to summon the Spirit of Fire, but for some reason the Spirit of Fire was nowhere to be found. He blinked and gazed around the room he was in. There were no windows, the only light came from the barred opening in the steel door. Hao's heart sank as he realized he was a captive.

A soft whimper drew his attention to the other corner of the room.

"Yoh!" he cried, getting up and racing to his brother's side. Yoh moaned and opened his eyes.

"Onii-chan, I don't feel good." Yoh whined softly, curling up into a ball. Hao stroked his head. Yoh whimpered slightly when Hao touched the top of his head. Hao drew back and looked at his hand; there was blood on it.

"Yoh, you're...bleeding." Hao said in shock. "Wh-what happened?"

"I-I woke up, and they struck me over the head to make me pass out again." Yoh explained.

"Who?" Hao asked gently.

"It was Marco." Hao hissed in surprise. "Onii-chan, my head hurts." Yoh whimpered. Hao gently picked up his head and cradled it in his lap. He stroked Yoh's hair softly, hoping to soothe his younger twin.

"Where are we?" Yoh asked after a minute.

"I don't know, Yoh, but it will be alright." Hao said, hoping to any gods that were out there that it was true.

~~~~~***~~~~~

Katie and Meg paced the living room of the mansion, waiting for any type of news. Seto was on the phone, talking to some official. Meg bit her lip, looking over at Katie worriedly. Katie tried to give her a reassuring look, but it quickly dropped into a nervous frown. Seto snapped the phone shut. The girls looked at him expectantly.

"I have good news. Several persons fitting our descriptions of those shamans at the local airfield." He said. "They got into a chopper, which the officials say was headed overseas, to America."

Katie gasped.

"The Patch village." She said.

"The what?" Joey asked.

"The Patch were the officials of the shaman fights, figures they would get them involved."

"Well, how do we get there?" Seto asked. Katie grinned.

"I remember where it is from the anime." She said.

"Call up the rest of the guys." Meg said, with an angry gleam in her eye. "We're going to settle this once and for all."

~~~~***~~~~

Hao's head snapped up at the sound of their cell door creaking open. He didn't have time to think before hard hands grabbed him and forced him to lie on his stomach. His arms were wrenched painfully behind his back and handcuffed there. He growled in anger as Yoh whimpered in pain, getting the same treatment.

He was jerked to his feet and forced to walk. In the light outside the cell he could see that he was being held by Marco and Mikihisa. Yoh was held by Silva and Kalim. The two of them were led into the Patch ceremonial area, the cavern that led to the Great Spirit.

Yoh's entire family, his friends, the X-Laws and all the Patch were waiting. Anna had Amidamaru bound up in his beads. Once again Hao tried to summon the Spirit of Fire, to no avail.

"Don't bother." Kalim said dispassionately, noticing what Hao was doing. "We rejoined the Spirit of Fire with the Great Spirit." Hao's heart sank, he could see no way to get them out of this.

"Now is the time for this evil to be purged from the Earth for good." Goldva said. Hao and Yoh were forced to kneel. Anna moved forwards with the spellbook.

"Now, we will finish what we started a year ago." She said. "Too bad Yoh, you could have saved yourself from this." Yoh didn't answer her, just hung his head.

Anna flipped the pages of the spellbook, preparing to obliterate their souls. Hao turned his head to look at Yoh. Yoh had tears in his eyes, and Hao felt tears prick his own as they both thought the same thing.

'We never got to say goodbye.'

And then, the ceiling exploded.