Princess of Games

Chapter Six – One Wild Day Equals… Hey, why is this Familiar?

"You sure know how to show a girl a good time." Yami said, as she and Pete walked into the motel room. "First a car chase, then a car crash, then a quick cash only shopping spree, and now a cheap motel room."

Pete glared at her, "Yeah a real good time." He said sarcastically, "Where you nearly get killed twice."

The room was small with two single beds and a small bathroom to one side, "Nice," Yami said, as she took off Pete's coat, that was covering her school uniform. "Now let's hope no body gets the wrong idea and think I'm a little kid with a grown man that is not kinfolk."

Pete was about to ask what she meant, when suddenly he understood, "Yami! I would never take advantage of you like that and you know it!" he said.

"Well I would hope so," Yami replied. "I am nobody's toy."

"That's why I asked for two beds, so people wouldn't get the wrong idea." Pete pulled some hair dye out of the backpack he bought in the quick shopping spree that they had, and passed it and a towel to Yami. "You go first," he said. "And besides you're 18, old enough to make your own choices."

"Yeah, but a lot of people think I'm younger, because I'm short," Yami said, from the bathroom, as she started to put the dye in her hair. "So what's the plan now? Because we can't stay here."

"Head back to Domino – it plain sight." Pete said, "And then try to get in contact with the others."


"They can't have gone far." Tristan told his boss, "We'll find them."

"What happened to my man in the van?" His boss asked. "The police didn't get him I hope."

"The police haven't got him - that much I do know - but he's not answering his phone either, the brats might have done something to him." Tristan said, remembering the Kuriboh. "I don't know how though."

"Whatever, they have fallen off the radar, now get yourself back to Domino," the boss said. "And set yourself up to kill Gardener when she tries get back home, and if Kaiba's still with her take him into custody, I need him for my plans to work."


Since Joey was with Tea and the kids, Seto asked Yugi to come with him when he saw Tollom Devon.

"Seto Kaiba, what brings you here?" Devon asked, "And is that Yugi Motou? I thought you two were rivals."

"In the duelling arena yes," Yugi replied. "Outside of it…"

"It depends what's going on." Seto finished, "And he's friends with my wife and brother, so I put up with him." That got a look from Yugi, but Seto ignored it. "However, we not here to talk about duel monsters, we want to talk about your daughter."

"What about Petula?" Devon asked "My little princess hasn't done anything wrong has she?"

"I thought I told you that I don't choose who my older son goes out with, that he's got every right to choose his own destiny," Seto said with an edge in his voice. "So why am I hearing that your daughter is giving Yami Gardener a hard time, in Peter's name?"

"I would have thought you would have been furious that your son was going out with a nobody," Devon answered. "But you are defending her, why?"

"It might have something to do with the fact that I've known her for years." Seto replied. "The twin's have also known her ever since they came to Domino."

"And they are good friends with her." Yugi said.

"How would you know Motou?" Devon asked, "Why are you here anyway?"

"Because Yami is my daughter, Mr. Devon," Yugi answered. "And know she has been attacked."

"And you think my Petula's behind it?" Devon said a little too quickly, "How dare you, think such a thing about my daughter!" Devon looked at Seto, "I can't believe that you're supporting his crazy idea, Kaiba, my Petula wouldn't hurt a fly – did you ever think it could be one of Motou's enemies that could be doing this?"

"I have," Seto answered. "But since most of Yugi's enemies end up becoming some of mine, I would know if they were on the move," Seto looked at Yugi who nodded, and then said: "The only person that's been threatening Yami lately is your daughter."

"I thought Motou's nut case friend broke out of the loony bin." Devon said, "It could be him trying to get at you Motou."

"Taylor's problem is with me, Devon." Seto replied for Yugi, "He would gain nothing by attacking Yami."

"And there is more than one person involved." Yugi added.

Devon looked from Yugi to Seto with angry eyes, "Well it's not my daughter no matter what you think."

"No it's you," Seto said, his voice icy. "Don't tell me you didn't think I would notice that you've brought the nineteen percent of Kaiba Corp, that doesn't belong to me or my family," Seto smirked at Devon. "And it's no secret that you want your daughter to marry Peter, so when you and Petula saw him with Yugi's daughter, you saw a threat to your plans, and you told Petula to get Pete to ditch her, not knowing that Yami and Pete had a history, which lead into what happened at the museum."

Devon stared at Seto angry, "You have no hard evidence saying I'm involved with the attacks on Motou's kid, Kaiba." He said

"Well I know your trying to take over Kaiba Corp," Seto replied. "And that you plan to use my son to do it - I can see your strategy from a mile away, but what makes you think Pete would cooperate with your plans, even if he liked your daughter, Devon?"

"What makes you think he won't?" Devon answered, "Peter is your heir, he needs an heiress wife, and you get a merger with my company on top of it - if Peter's smart he will take the offer."

"If you are so sure he's going to do that, why are you going after Yami?" Yugi asked, "Because killing her won't get him to go along with your plans."

"Devon's covering his bets, and wasting our time." Seto said, "Come on Yugi, we have heard all we need to, if Devon's smart he will call whomever he's got after Yami off, before things get out of control."


Tea, Atemu and Mai-Lee were crying in the living room of the game shop, when the phone rang, and rang and rang until the answering machine picked it up.

"Tea pick up the phone," Yugi's voice came though the phone's speaker. "Tea? Are you there? Look, Yami's vision about Kaiba, it has happened, we couldn't stop it. Tea please pick up, Kaiba wasn't Devon's only target."

Tea's head snapped around at that last comment and was about to pick up the phone, when Rebecca's voice stopped her.

"I wouldn't answer that if I were you." Rebecca said as she pointed a gun at Tea.

"Mum!" Yami called out, as she sat up in her motel bed.

Pete stirred in his bed and mumbled, "Yami? What's wrong?"

"I think I had another vision." Yami answered, as she switched on the light. "I think the Devon's are behind what's going on, only your father and I are not their only targets, and Rebecca going to threaten my mother with a gun."

Pete sat up, "Is there anything else?"

"Yeah in the beginning my brother, your cousin and Mum were crying and I don't know why!" Yami cried, "I hate this Princess of Games thing! You can't totally control your powers and I can't even access mine properly!" she looked over at him, "And to make things worse I have a bad feeling that if I don't figure out how to use my powers, everything that I've seen is going to come to pass, and there's jack all anyone can do about it!"

Pete climbed out of his bed and sat down on her bed, "We will figure it out, Yami." He said as he pulled her into a hug.

Yami resisted at first and then she buried her head into his chest and started to cry. Pete was shocked to say the least he hardly ever saw her cry, Yami always got angry and the person that she was mad at usually ran off with his or her tail between their legs.

After a while Pete pulled back and tilled her head up, and looked her strait in the eyes, "It's not going to happen, because we are going to stop it."

"Why are you so sure?" Yami asked.

"Because you would have not gotten those visions if the fates didn't think we could." Pete answered.

"And you believe that?" Yami said, meeting his gaze.

"Yes, I do." Pete replied, as he kissed her on the lips.

Yami didn't pull out of it, as Pete feared she might do, in fact she returned it strongly. When they finally broke it, they looked at each other surprised, "Where did that come from?" Yami asked confusion in her voice.

"I'm sorry," Pete said. "I don't know wh-" he was cut off by another kiss from Yami, "Where did that come from?" he asked her when they broke for a second time.

"No idea," Yami answered. "I just felt like kissing you again."

"Really?" Pete said as he kissed her again, this time gently pushing her onto her back as he did so.

Yami's answer was to pull him on top of her.


Tea couldn't sleep, as she felt Yugi's arms around her, she knew he wasn't sleeping ether.

"Yami's going to be right isn't she?" she asked.

"I hope so," Yugi mumbled. "Pete should look out for her. Tea, get some sleep, staying awake isn't going to help her."


A ray of sunshine broke though the curtains and landed on Yami's face, causing her to stir.

As she woke up, she was aware of a pair of strong arms clamped loosely around her, she turned slightly in the embrace and looked at Pete, who was still asleep, and remembered what happened a few hours earlier. She stayed that way for a few minutes, until she thought she heard someone whispering in the room.

Yami tried to get up to find the source of the whisper's, but a soon as she did, Pete's arms tightened around her protectively, so Yami couldn't leave his side. "Pete, let go," Yami whispered while giving him a nudge. "I thought I heard something."

Pete started stir, loosing his grip on Yami as he did so. Yami rolled out of bed, and then looked for the source of the whispering.

She found it was coming from her backpack, in the small case where she kept her duel monster cards. The monsters were talking to each other… and she could hear them.

"Yami?" Pete said, still half asleep, "What are you doing?"

"My cards," Yami answered softly. "I can hear the monsters talking to each other."

"What?" Pete sat up fully awake now. "When did that start to happen?"

"Just now." Yami replied, "Pete we need to get home."

"You might want to put on some clothes first," Pete said amused, as he got up and hunted for his boxer's, "I don't think you want everyone to see the view I'm getting right now."

Yami growled, and grabbed the pillow from Pete's hardly slept in bed, "If your not careful wise guy," she said playfully, as she thew the pillow at him. "This will be the last time you see this 'view.'"

Pete stopped what he was doing and pulled her into his arms, "I'll take my chance's." he said as he lent down and kissed Yami.

At that moment Yami felt like having an encore to what happened earlier, but she also knew that they had to get going, "Come on lover boy," she said, when they finally broke the kiss. "We better get moving."


Joey looked at the tired stressed forms of Yugi and Tea as they walked into the Game shop's kitchen, "I guess you two didn't sleep well last night."

"If Mai-Lee was in the same position you wouldn't sleep well either." Tea growled.

"Tea -" Yugi started, but Joey cut him off.

"No, Yug," he said. "Tea's right, Yami's going to be alright, she's not alone and chances are she is going to make her own way home first chance she gets."

"But what if the people that are after her, think of that, Joey?" Tea replied, "What if they set up a trap?"

"Kaiba and I spoke about that possibility," Yugi said. "As we go about our business today we have to be on the lookout for anyone that might be taking a little too much notice in what we are doing."

Joey understood that idea and nodded, "And if we see someone acting strange?"

"Call the Police, and tell them what's going on." Yugi answered.

"I thought money bags didn't want any cop's involved." Joey said, "'cause of the kids hidden talents."

"He doesn't really, but if push comes to shove, we are going to need all the help we can get." Yugi said.

There was a knock on the door, as Yugi went to answer it, Joey looked at the clock, "Hey kids hurry up," He called out. "I'm taking you to school today, as I head to work, so we got to get going."

Yugi walked back into the kitchen with Reyna, "Where are Yami and Pete now?" she asked.

"We don't know for sure." Tea said, as Atemu and Mai-Lee walked into the kitchen, "But you had better catch a ride with Joey, because the kids are been driven to school today."


Yami and Pete caught the morning train to Domino, looking nothing like a senior year school girl and the son of a billionaire - in fact they looked like pair of normal young backpacking lovers coming back form a romantic getaway.

This fooled the people that were looking for them - all for them but one.