The next chapter is up, had to split it to a 2 parter. This is the first part, the next part comes out probably next week. Maybe earlier if you guys are nice enough.
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Next time it's Part 2
Chapter 3- Oversea Panic
Part one: The Darkness Descends
Kaiser looked on with interest; the boy Zeo and the girl with the spirit were getting on the very ship the he intended to crash. He looked up and smiled at the gods for giving him an opportunity for revenge.
He was about to leave until he saw to familiar faces looking at him, one with contempt and the other with absolute boredom.
One was a giant, about 6'11 wearing an expensive looking suit and a top hat the hid his hair. He face looked like that of a statue, it showed only one emotion, disdain.
The other was a much shorter boy, making the giant seem even bigger. He was also wearing a suit, but his blond minifro was exposed to the world. He was about the 5'3 and had a bored expression etched on his face.
Kaiser looked at them and grimaced, he didn't like the fact that they were both here in front of him. He looked at the giant and asked "What are you two doing here, don't think I can handle a simple capture assignment?"
The shorter one laughed and said plainly "NO…"
Kaiser looked at the boy with a angry look, "WHAT WAS THAT KARASU!?"
The boy Karasu was about to say something, but then was stopped by the giant man. "Kaiser, we have come to help get rid of the boy who defeated you. If you lose again, it looks bad on the rest of us."
Karasu looked at the big guy and laughed again, "What Fortress said Kaiser; you make us look bad old man!" He then threw to Kaiser a familiar golden duel disk
Kaiser looked at the two men, wondering how they knew he lost. That is until he saw hovering above them a black bird with a small camera strapped to is foot.
Kaiser stared up to Karasu with a pissed off look, who had a big grin on his face. "Look at all of those kids down there, damn I want to go to school too."
Fortress looked at Karasu but his expression didn't change, "We will find that boy and eliminate him; understand you two? Kaiser gave out a grunt but nodded while Karasu gave him a "v" for victory poise.
All three men put on their golden duel disk and looked down on the unsuspecting boat.
Zeo went to board the ship with Hayley right behind him; she seemed to be just as excited as him. Although she didn't seem to show it with the cool, calm face she put up.
After showing the guard at the loading bay their identifications, they entered the ship and gasped in unison at what they saw.
The outer deck of the ship was big and spacious, with a duel arena and even a swimming pool. The ship looked more like a cruise ship then a actually transport ship.
Hayley face remained unchanged until a growling sound cold be heard coming from her stomach. She gave a small blush while Zeo chuckled.
"Why don't we check out the dining area, Hayley?" Zeo said with a smirk. Hayley looked at him with a stern look, but then her eyes soften up and said "Sure."
Zeo seemed to have lost Hayley in the crowd; she had gone straight to the buffet table and had just disappeared. He looked around at the huge spread and dining area that they were in. The room was lavender, with a huge light fixture in the center of the roof. The room itself was probably the size of a school cafeteria.
"How can they fit all of this into a ship, I wonder?" Zeo said while worrying he had lost the girl until he heard a familiar voice calling to him.
"Zeo, over here!" called Hayley while she sat in the dining hall next to a empty plate.
Zeo looked at her in disbelief as she ate up the entire plate of food, in which seemed like moments. "How the hell did she eat all of that, better yet where the hell did she put it?"
Hayley looked at him and smirked, she thought he was impressed with her neat but unladylike eating habits.
They both heard a chuckle and they turned to see it come from a boy with familiar silver hair.
He finished chuckling and said while looking at Hayley "Not much of a lady are you?"
Hayley looked at him with a cold stare, which the boy returned to her in spades. The room seemed to get colder all of a sudden with the two duelists staring at each other.
Zeo looked at them thinking he needed to stop this but then noticed an entity appear behind the sliver haired boy. He was taller than the boy, had big brown wings with a mask covering the bottom if his face. He had his long red talons pointing at Wild Panther Cub who was loudly growling at the two.
Students were gathering to the scene in droves, thinking they would see a duel happen. Some of the students sneezed and shivered as the room got colder.
In the ship's cargo haul, Kaiser stood there from where he was sitting looking death at the 14 year old boy eating a Fig Newton in front of him. Karasu had been eaten non- stop since appearing on the ship and the boy had no manners to speak of. He was also laying on the boxes like it was a futon. He had the golden duel disk as a pillow and was laying his head on it.
They were surrounded in a small grey room with nothing but boxes surrounding them.
Fortress with his non-changing expression, stopped leaning on a box and said "Split up and find that duelist." All three disappeared in a flash, but one of them returned to pick up a golden device that someone else forgot.
"These two are so alike it's scary" said Zeo with an sweatdrop on the back of his head.
Finally, someone said something between the two. It was the silver haired boy.
"Chill Harpie's Brother, we didn't come over here to lecture a girl on her poor eating habits, we came to challenge that boy over there to a duel" the boy said pointing to Zeo.
Zeo looked at the boy in shock and said "Duel me?"
The boy nodded and said "My name is Taichi Soma and you look like a strong opponent, so I want to duel you." He didn't want to say his duel spirit saw his duel and he wanted to test him out because he thought it would freak out his opponent.
Before Zeo could respond, Hayley shot up and looked at Taichi with an angry look, she looked like she really wanted to shove her fist into the boy's face. "Hold it, if you're dueling anyone today then it's me, you girly looking…"
Before she could finish her statement he smirked and turned his back to her and walked away.
"Well then, I guess my little challenge has been interrupted. I will challenge you again when the time is right and you don't have that baggage with you" Taichi said with a small frown on his face as he walked out of the dining area.
"Baggage…?" Zeo asked aloud while looking at Hayley. You couldn't see her face, but you could tell she was livid. The temperature around her seemed to drop rapidly, Wild Panther Cub even sneezed.
She walked toward Zeo and looked at him. Her cold stare had return with a vengeance and she said "sorry Zeo, but there is something I need to do. When I find him, I'm going to destroy him."
Zeo shuddered a bit, while Hayley left the dining room. The room seemed to get warmer, and the students that were staring at the incident went back to there eating.
Zeo left the dining room and started looking for Hayley. For some reason, he had an absolutely bad feeling about leaving her alone. The hallway he was walking through seemed vast and never ending while the flora designs was the only thing you could use to tell the how far you've come.
While Zeo was walking, he was suddenly stopped. He felt an ominous presence around him but didn't know where it came from.
He looked around to see a boy walking towards him; he was wearing a long sleeve red shirt with long black pants. His hair was blondish white and his eyes were a different color, one red another green.
As soon as the boy walked past Zeo, his gloved hand started to irritate him and throbbed with pain. Zeo fell to the ground holding his hand in anguish. The boy turned around and ran toward Zeo with a worried look on his face.
"Are you alright" he asked with the same worried expression.
Zeo looked up at him and nodded, for some strange reason his hand had stopped throbbing with pain. The boy helped Zeo back up and introduced himself.
"My name is Ziste Katsuya."
"The name is Zeo Marrow."
Both boys looked at each other for a moment and then started to laugh. They had been staring at each others weird features. Ziste asked "Do I look that weird to you?"
Zeo said "I'm the one wearing one glove in the middle of spring so; I have no right to call anybody strange."
Ziste laughed but then gasped "Sorry Zeo, I have to go. There is something I have to do but I'll catch you later." He waved and darted off down the hall.
Zeo looked down the hall and then started to walk again.
He looked down at his gloved hand while walking down a hallway. He didn't see where he was going, and it was too bad because he ran right into some one with a loud thud.
Kaiser was walking up a flight of stairs; he didn't need to hide because everyone here was either a student or a worker. He was short enough to pretend to be student.
He was wondering where he could find a duel spirit on such short notice but then heard a familiar sounding voice yelling to an unfamiliar one. He ran towards the source of the voices which led him above the ship to its deck. That's where he saw Hayley in a shouting match with Taichi.
They both where staring at each other again, while their duel spirits were also staring down at each other. Harpie's Brother and Wild Panther Cub both stopped staring at each other when they sensed danger. They both turned and spotted Kaiser looking at them and grinning.
"What are you doing here?" asked Hayley as she got into a defensive stance in front of Wild Panther Cub.
"I ask the question here, do you know where I can find little Zeo?" inquired Kaiser with a smirk.
Hayley could stare a hole in Kaiser after he asked that question "None of your business!"
Kaiser looked at her and propped his duel disk "Then I'll have to beat his location out of you."
Hayley looked at Taichi and said "I'll finish you off, after I have dealt with him.
Taichi looked at her and shrugged, but he thought "Let me see your skill close up, girl."
Ziste was walking to the cafeteria, to get something to eat. But when he walked inside, he had a dumbfounded look on his face. He saw a bunch of students surrounding a boy with a blond minifro. He had stacks of plates behind him and he was slurping up a bowl of soup.
"One more round please!" the boy screamed with a smile on his face. He then thought to himself "I think I'm supposed to do something, but I can't remember…"
He shot up and shouted, "Right, I'm supposed to find that Zeo guy who wasted Kaiser and defeat him." The other students looked at him with confused looks, while Ziste gasped at his statement.
"He's after Zeo, I won't let him!" he thought as he ran in front of the blond and said "I challenge you to a duel."
The blond stood up and said "The name is Karasu and you will regret challenging me." He took out his deck but then realized he left his duel disk in the cargo hall when he was laying on it.
Karasu flinched and asked sheepishly "Can I borrow a duel disk anyone?"
Ziste sweat dropped, he couldn't believe that this boy had something to do with his new friend.
When Zeo opened his eyes, he was laying himself on something soft. He put his hand in the ground but felt something soft. He squeezed it and heard a moaning sound. He looked down to see what he was touching and instantly his face turned bright red, with steam shooting out of his ears.
He was laying on top a girl and holding on to her chest with his gloved hand. He looked to see that she was still unconscious, so he jumped off of her in a panic.
The girl seemed to mumble something in her sleep "Come on Bishop; let me sleep five more…" Zeo started to shake her to try and wake her up; he needed to apologize for what he had just done to her.
The girl opened her eyes slowly, revealing to Zeo her ice blue eyes looking at him.
Zeo helped her up a bit and looked at the girl; she was a little shorter than him (about 5'3) with long black hair that curled at the ends reached down passed her butt. She was wearing a long sleeve blue blouse with an indigo skirt that reached to her knees and blue heeled short boots. For a girl her height, she had what you say is an average build.
The girl looked at Zeo and grinned "Do you like what you see?"
Zeo face turned bright red again, he shook his head furiously back and forth saying "I wasn't checking you out, I wasn't checking you out!"
She looked at Zeo and giggled, "My name is Hitomi Honda, and what's yours?"
"My name is Zeo Marrow, and I'm sorry for running into you."
"That's okay Zeo, My friends always say I should really watch where I'm going" replied Hitomi with a smile. She then got a sly look on her face and asked "Is that all you're apologizing for?"
Zeo face turned bright red again "No, I mean yes; I mean I'm really sorry!"
Hitomi laughed at Zeo glowing red face, and said "I can tell we're going to be great friends Zeo."
Zeo and Hitomi shook hands until a huge tremor rocked the ship. The sound of an explosion could be heard at the end of the hallway. They both fell to the ground while the lights in the hallway started to blink on and off.
"What's happening" asked Hitomi with a lot of worry in her voice.
"I don't know, but it came from that direction" said Zeo as they both ran towards the sound.
He came across Fortress, who had just destroyed a game and was about walk away carrying something with him. They were in like a gaming hall, which had many dueling simulation games.
Fortress turned from the burning machine to look at Zeo and Hitomi. He put down what he was carrying and looked down to Zeo. "Duel Me Now" was all he said.
Hitomi was about to ask why but was cut off by Zeo who had a dangerous look in his eyes. She saw he was staring at the golden duel disk.
Zeo looked at him with great determination and nodded "You're On!"
I want to thank all those who have reviewed, and to keep on reading my fanfic.
I want to thank Zastaln (Ziste), TakanoKyoei (Taichi) and xXDarkUmbreonXx (Hitomi) for their characters.
I want to say more but I'm supposed to be doing a finals paper, so I'll leave it with that.