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Chapter 9: the challenge
YAMIS POV…
I stared at the glowing card as Kaiba suggested he was losing his mind. Joey told him his card was glowing to. Anu was still in her other, wolf form and stared at my card.
"It feels as if these three dragons are calling out to us" I said and Anu barked at my statement.
The glowing suddenly stopped and I feel back in step when the power I had just felt was gone. Anu was back looking like a regular husky and was sitting in front of me.
"I was told that fate had chosen three modern day warriors to release these legendary beasts."
I heard Kaiba growl and I looked up at him to see him yelling
"Chosen by fate, get real. I am the one who decides my fate Yugi not some fairy tail about mythical dragons and giant man eating monsters or magical hunting dogs."
I sighed in my mind and blinked at his denial.
"Be reasonable for once, the world needs us. We must do this as a team"
"Sorry, I don't do the teamwork thing"
I knew splitting was a bad idea, they could get to us easer that way. So I tried to persuade him.
"Listen"
"You geeks have wasted enough of my time already; I have a multimillion dollar company to run, play times over"
"Kaiba," I called.
Anu stood and ran in front of Kaiba growling at him, trying to make him stay it seemed.
"Get out of my way mutt" he said, she just barked at him
He kept walking his legs ramming into her, she tripped and jumped out of his way as he stalked past and Mokuba trailing behind. Anu slunk back to me with her tail between her legs and her ears pulled back. She growled once at his back then sat on the floor.
"We don't need him weighing us down anyway" Joey said as I watched Kaiba leave. I turned to him as he said
"With good old Harmos over here those hoodlums won't stand a chance"
"Some ones been back to there old self again, about time"
"It took me a while but I realized being bummed out about Mai is not going to bring her back"
Anu growled at Joey and we looked down at her, she walked over to Joey and shoved him closer to me than ran to the door edge barked and ran back. Like she was trying to say all three of us need to be together.
Tristan began talking to the two boys who had followed us in; I glanced at the card in my hand think about what Anu had just down when Tea said
"Now that we know who's causing this whole mess, what are we suppose to do about it guys"
She had a valid point, I just didn't't think I had the answer.
"We find this darts guy" Joey said "and his goon squad and rescue Mai"
Joey had a good idea but were where they.
"Unfortunately" said Tristan "they split with out leaving an address so that's not going to work"
"Uhh good point" Joey said
"Plan b and one"
I was thinking about what we should do when an idea hit me. We actually it was Yugi who gave mw the idea.
"Wait I know" I said "Professor Hawkins. He lives around here, he may have some new information that may help us" I said, they nodded and I turned back to Yugi
"Thank you Yugi for mentioning it"
"No problem, I remember grandpa telling me he lived out here"
"Good call, he did say he was going back home to continue his research on the lost city of Atlantis" Tea said
"Yes and I have a feeling his discovery is somehow related to our new enemy" I looked at Anu who wagged her tail at me.
"Something bugs me Yami" Yugi said
"What is that Yugi?"
"It's what one of the bikers said, he said Darts wanted Anu and he called her another name, Kasbah, what could this mean"
"Yugi remember what the professor said about magic seekers, they were created in Atlantis 10,000 years ago buy a magical stone that rained from the sky. They remember all there lives and can only have a master who has some magical ability that is good"
"Yes" she said, he looked like he was getting it.
"What if her master 10,000 was darts and the stone that rained from the sky that created her was the Orichalcos, remember what the other biker said, she had to forces clashing with one another"
"That makes sense"
I came back to reality when the others began walking out the door. Tristan was asking how we were going to get there, we suddenly heard and engine starting so we ran out the room and opened the windows; Kaiba was taking off in his blue eyes dragon jet.
"Flag him down or something quick, Tea said.
Tristan was yelling but I doubted he could here us over the engine and through the glass. His jet shout off and I sighed.
"Well, so much for that idea" said Tristan
Duke spoke up saying he had a car, Tea asked if we could all fit in there.
"The five of us could fit no problem and your dog, which you can explain later, can sit in some ones lap"
We turned to the two twerps who had hitched a ride with duke. Why they were here in the first place, dumb question it was those two we were talking about here.
"Hold on, I have got a spot for them"
ANUS POV…
We took and lift all the way down to the bottom floor and got in the dice boy's car, the two twerps us in the trunk and I snorted/laughed at them.
We were traveling through the desert and I was sitting in between the dice boy and the girl as it was the only space for me. I know I lived in Egypt a couple of times but I mean then I looked like a desert jackal then, it was cool when you didn't have all this fur.
The girl had the map and the food boy was questioning her direction skills. She yelled at him and I turned to him and growled
"Looks like Yugi isn't the only one Anu defend" said the dice boy having been explained who I was and what I was.
I snorted and looked around. Stupid desert. I looked at the other master and noticed he was staring at the blonde, then I saw the younger master appear and start talking to him, oh how I wished I could speak to them. He narrowed his eye like he was mad or frustrated at something.
I whined a bit and he looked up at me. He smiled and reached over and petted me on the head.
"I am fine Anu, do not worry"
The dice boy spoke up
"She seems to be really attracted to you Yugi, like she wants to make sure no harm comes to her owner"
I snorted; no harm will ever come to my master, not on my watch. I will never let my master fall to the darkness again.
I looked out at direction we were heading. The sun setting, I saw something black rising on the hill line. I howled and every one looked at me.
"What's is it Anu" said the girl
I mentioned with my head to the hills and she saw what I saw
"Is that smoke you guys"
My master leaned over and I noticed it was the younger one this time. He stared at it hard then said
"Let's hope not Tea"
Later, when the sun was down we drove up to a pile of blown up ruble, it was smoking, we all jumped out of the car and I began sniffing around looking for a human sent. My master was looking around to. Calling for some one named Professor Hawkins. Wait wasn't that the man that knew so much about me.
I smelt something and I ran to it. It was the girl. Rebecca, the smart girl. I ran to her and she patted my head as she called out my master's name in a sad weak voice, I helped her walk to my master.
"Yugi, they took him." She started to cry and she ran to my master "my poor grandpa" she wailed.
I walked over and nudged her again hoping she would stop crying.
"Its not fare, he didn't hurt any one."
"Were are going to find, I promise" him my master promised
I barked to encourage her and she looked at me. She sniffled and pats me on the head.
"Thank you Anu"
I smiled and licked her hand; happy she had stopped crying and had remembered my name.
"Thank you Yugi, who would do something like this" she was now softly crying but still distressed.
She led us to a small house on wheels type thing she had called a trailer. She had made some kind of drink and they were sitting around the room discussing the problem, I was standing and looking out the window watching for people.
"I still don't get it" the nice smelling girl said "who would kidnap the Professor?'
"It had to be darts" shouted the loud blonde "or his gang of thugs any way"
"Why, I mean the guy's just and archeologist" said the food boy
The dice boy spoke after this
"But didn't you guys say he made some big discovery"
This made sense, seeing as how he rediscovered my birth place
"Yeah" my master spoke "he found Atlantis"
I left my post at the window and went and stood by the table they were sitting at. My master turned to the smart blonde and said
"Rebecca, I've got and idea"
"What" she said still in her sad crying voice, like she was holding back tears.
"Remember that stone" my master said "the one I gave to your grandpa"
"Yeah I have it around my neck right here" she lifted up the necklace.
I growled and they looked at me, I hated that stupid stone it has ruined my life to different times. I back away back to the window and they returned to there conversation.
"Gramps told me to hang on to it"
"Maybe that's what Darts and his lackeys are after" said the food boy
"Then be careful" the smart blonde said she placed the evil stone in my masters hands and I growled again.
"Ok so now what" said the nice smelling girl
The dice boy said
"That's easy, we find out where this darts boy hangs out, we bust in and get Hawkins"
Wonderful plan I thought sarcastically, lets rush in head first eyes closed and hope for the best, all ending in disaster.
"But how" the smart blonde said "I don't think there listed in the phone book"
"She's right" my master said "besides he doesn't even have what they want which means they'll probably come back"
The blonde boy grabbed the side of his head at the truth in my master's words
"Great, so we just sit on our butts and wait"
"I still like my plan" said Dice boy
"If we're going to stay here I've got to eat" the food boy said
I rolled my eyes and snorted; the other master was standing by the young master and was watching me. I looked at him and snorted again, he smiled like he got what I was saying.
They began to cook food the two loud boys had demanded. I was lying on the couch under the window with my eyes closed thinking. They suddenly asked where the twerps were, I snorted and thought, let them wonder in the desert the world would be much better off.
I looked up as the master and the girl walked out of the door, I slipped out after them not wanting to be in the chaos that was the inside. The girl was talking to the master, saying she was scared, I lay down outside the door not wanting to intrude.
She pulled out a card and said they had left it behind and it came with a note. I heard him ask how far away Death Valley was: that didn't sound pleasant. She pointed the direction and said in car and hour. He apologized and I shot up.
"Sorry Rebecca but I have to go alone"
"Why?" she asked.
"I've put you and your family in an enough danger already"
She shook her head and told him to stop being silly, saying that none of this was his fault, it wasn't, it was Darts, and he was the one who went mad, not Yugi. He just asked her not to tell the others where he was about to go. I stood up and looked at him. Where was he going?
The two walked back in side and they didn't notice me standing to the side, when I door closed, I laid back down in front of the door, waiting for my master to come back out like I knew he would. I could here them in side eating and laughing, they didn't ask where I was, they probably thought I was hiding her napping somewhere. I just laid there and closed my eyes.
A bit later or a long time I was not sure but I heard the door open so I opened my eyes. I was laying right in front of the door, so my master would have to step over me. He almost placed his foot on me when I shot up and he gasped. I turned and sat in front of him as he sat on the grass.
"I will be back Anu, don't follow" he whispered
I whined a bit and he shushed me. I followed him as he climbed on to the smart blonde's horse. I whined again as the other master took over. He looked down at me and smiled.
"Stay Anu"
I sat and tilted my head, where were the two masters going. I watched him ride off to the place where the girl had said Death Valley was going to be. What was he getting himself into?
I suddenly heard some say Rebecca in horror, I turned and saw the lights flip on and I howled to get there attention. Maybe they could stop my master. They were still talking inside ignoring my howling. I barked a couple of times and the blonde ran outside.
He stopped when he saw me sitting there, I mentioned the direction they went with my head. He stopped and pointed so I looked and there was a man walking to us, I ran to him, it was the Professor.
The loud blonde and I reached him at the same time. He was injured and weak. Joey caught him and he clasped. I sniffed him and licked his hand. The others ran up and I jumped out of the way as the mans granddaughter ran up. She crashed into his arms and I looked back the way my master had run to.
YAMIS POV…..
I felt kind of bad for leaving Anu and every one behind but this had to be done, by me and Yugi alone, we couldn't involve anyone else. I reined the horse to go faster; I don't know how I knew how to ride a horse it just seemed like a subconscious thing.
"This guy must want to duel us right?" Yugi asked.
"Yes" I answered.
He smiled and looked forward and said
"As long as we have our Timaus card we should be fine"
"But he holds the seal of Orichalcos" I reminded Yugi, that was a factor we could not forget.
"Yeah but, we have something else over him, a belief in heart of our cards"
I smiled, it was true, we had put our soul into those cards, and this Raphael didn't understand that, he was after power.
I could see a man standing in the distance on a small plateau, a bridge connecting it. That's where I was headed, Raphael was waiting there.
Too be continued……
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