Chapter 6: Misha's Bad Side

Misha returned to the castle, wondering how long this tournament would last. He remembered the promise to his brother, but already he could see boats taking off from the harbor…he guessed within a day or two, this would all be over and he could go home. Misha then looked at his bracelet looked ordinary from his point of view. He needed to know what it could do, he did a few hand gestures...but nothing happened; though the gem on the bracelet glowed a bit.

Misha walked on; he was just to the door when BAM! He felt as if he ran into a wall of some kind. He studied the area and reached out for the door, he grabbed nothing but air. Misha then looked at the bracelet and faced the eye in the direction of the door, keeping his palm open...with his free hand he reached out and felt something solid in front of him, he smiled deviously at this, he had to test it out.

Once in the castle courtyard he saw one of the security personnel walking by...he did the same hand gesture as he had before, sure enough it worked. Misha tried a few other hand gestures…he found that by clenching his fist he could freeze a person in his/her tracks, and by putting his hand together in an X shape he could put them in an invisible box. Misha then heard a voice laugh out; it seemed to be coming from all around him, it sounded like his laugh only in a much more hoarse tone of voice. Misha went back up to his room slightly shaken, that voice...whose was it? Misha went into the bathroom to wash up when he heard the hoarse laughter again; he looked in the mirror and then saw what had to be the most shocking experience in his life. Standing in the mirror next to him was a transparent version of him only a few inches taller, it winked at him. Misha whirred around and yelled, "HEY, who the hell are you?"

The transparent version of him said, "Misha, Misha, Misha...I've helped you get this far and understand your power more clearly, and you don't even recognize my voice. I'm the spirit of the Millennium Bracelet; I guess you could call me Misha too, since I don't remember my name off hand." Misha gave the transparent stranger a sly look and said, "You were that thing that took over my body last night." The stranger nodded and said, "But I didn't account on your mental defenses...I guess I deserved it, but now that you know of my existence...I guess you should let you know the bracelet can do much more than what you just learned, but what those things are you'll have to find for yourself." Misha went into an hour and a half conversation with this person, by the time they were finished it was time for lunch. He joined Pegasus in the Dining Hall; something inside Misha told him not to tell Pegasus of the spirit inside the bracelet. As Misha was taking a swig of his shoulder flask, one of Pegasus' men came in and told them a certain 'house guest' had escaped, Pegasus asked Misha to go out and find their 'house guest' and bring him back here.

Misha took one more swig of his flask and said, "Okay, seeing as I've got nothing better to do. I'll find your little escaped convict." Sad to say, but Misha didn't know who he was looking for, but he searched the island thoroughly. When he finally reached the harbor, whom should he see there but Yugi and his friends. It looked as if they were arguing with Kemo over some little detail; Misha came up behind them and said, "HEY! Is there a problem here Kemo? Perhaps you need a third party suggestion?" Yugi told Misha of the duelist who had his Star Chips stolen, when they had brought them back, Kemo had already shipped him out with the other eliminated duelists. Misha went into a shallow train of thought and said, "Can I see these stolen Star Chips?" Yugi handed them to him; Misha closed his hand around them and walked over to the side of the pier saying, "Now let me see if I get this straight? You helped a duelist in need, but seeing that he is already on the island. These Star Chips have now exceeded their purpose and are of no more use to him." Misha then opened his hand and dropped the Star Chips into the water.

Misha turned around and said with a smirk, "There that takes care of the Star Chip problem, now if you pardon me I have a prisoner to find." As Misha was about to leave he heard a voice say to him, "Long time no see Misha, still living in the past?" Misha turned around and saw Seto's little brother standing about a few feet from him. Misha said, "Mokuba…so you're the person I was sent out to find?" Misha turned to Kemo and winked, at that moment Kemo came up right behind the kid and grabbed hold of him. Everyone demanded that Misha let him go, Misha said: "I had orders from M.P to bring him back to the castle, now if you excuse me and Kemo…it's time we reported back with our prisoner." They kept badgering him about it though, right to the point where he said, "LOOK, I'M THE DAMN LAW OF THE LAND AROUND HERE! IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? TOUGH!"

Tristen then charged at Misha saying, "Well the Law sucks!" and brought back his arm to punch Misha, Misha retaliated by clenching his fist. Tristen's fist then stopped only a few inches from nailing Misha between the eyes, Tristen felt as if something was holding his are in place. Misha smiled and said, "Don't mess with the law man, under stand that?" Misha then threw his free arm forward; Tristen flew through the air like a rag doll. Misha looked at them and said, "Don't mess with me; I'm more powerful than by what you just see?" Kemo then came up to Misha and whispered something in his ear, Misha then said: "Well Yugi, from what I've just heard. It seems you have a challenger waiting for you at arena #197, follow me if you will?" Misha lead them to the arena, there they all got the shock of their lives. Because waiting at the arena was Seto Kaiba, Misha looked at him and said, "Um, I got to talk with the boss?" and with that took off for the castle.

Misha went right for the dining hall and said, "WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?!" Pegasus looked at Misha's facial expression and said, "I believe you just met Yugi boy's next opponent?" Misha scowled and argued, "What is he doing here, I thought you said Kaiba wasn't going to be here. And then out of the blue itself, he shows up here! All I have to say is you better have a good, and I mean this has to be the best explanation you've ever given me!"

Pegasus took a sip of his wine glass and said, "Misha, I knew that you would take it this way so I'll say that thought to your eye it may look like Seto Kaiba? It is actually only part of him, the actual Kaiba met a watery end so to speak." Misha shook his head and said, "Don't count him out yet, ever since I lost to him it's like him and I share a slight psychic link, and something in my marrow is telling me he's still alive." A giant television screen suddenly appeared from above Misha, Pegasus said: "Come and sit down Misha, the match is about to begin." Misha took out his shoulder flask and sat down, Pegasus asked: "What's in that flask anyway?" Misha smiled and said, "Oh, just a mix drink. Two parts fruit punch, a part Siberian Vodka. It's really, really good." Within the first few moves Misha started to notice a difference between the Kaiba he had known and this one, Misha just kept watching. Misha suddenly shuddered, as if he had sensed something going on behind the seams of this duel. He then asked, "M.P? Can we get in to your company's archives from here?" Pegasus nodded and pointed to a small phone jack in the wall behind them, Misha took a hand held computer from his pocket and plugged it in. Misha was in the company's archives searching for something, Misha said: "Where are you, I know you're in here some where?" Eventually he was in the Duelist Kingdom Tournament files when he said, "I know you're in here somewhere? Come out; come out where ever you are?" Suddenly Misha smiled and said, "M.P? My instincts were right, there's a hacker in the system. It's going to take me a while to stop him, but I can do it!"

Misha's fingers moved like crazy against the screen of the mini computer, Misha then found out where the hacker was. He discovered the REAL Seto Kaiba had survived, and more or less was help Yugi win the duel through the World Wide Web! Misha said to himself, "Okay Kaiba, let's see who the king of the hackers is?" In about ten minutes Misha finally disconnected with a smile on his face saying, "Nobody out-hacks Misha, NOBODY!" Misha just had enough time to see the end of the duel, Yugi won.

Misha heard what Yugi said to Pegasus, just then he felt the spirit of the bracelet trying to take over again, it said, "IS THAT SO!? WELL THEN YUGI, WHEN WE MEET? I WILL SHOW YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS LITTLE REMORSE!" Pegasus backed away from Misha, once again the spirit of the bracelet revealed itself to him. What is its purpose here, what did it want from Yugi? These were questions only time would answer.