The Challenge
Mokuba started to stir in his sleep and Kaiba rushed over to see him.
"It's her Seto, the girl hunter is Cecilia," Mokuba whimpered, " I saw her ring, it's the mark I saw on the girl long ago, it caught my eye but she managed to wheel around my question." Kaiba looked up to Cecilia and he finally understood why she had wheeled around his name question.
"Don't worry Mokuba Cecilia is here and I know exactly how to free her." Kaiba reassured his brother. "Lets move," Kaiba Yelled to Cecilia not being careful about his angry tone.
The door opened letting Marik and his men in.
"You like her don't you Kaiba," Marik raged as he walked in.
"Lets stay off that topic shall we? I need her to get a card from her father, after that you can go and win her back from the weakling." Kaiba said calmly.
"You have no clue do you Kaiba, you need her to run the card, and without her the card will cause you to lose the duel. Her value is tremendous when I stole her from Pegasus; he didn't even understand her worth. Now he'll give anything to have her back. As for a father…" Marik got cut off in his rant.
"Marik please," Cecilia almost cried.
"You spoke?" Marik was in shock.
"Duel him winner gets me," Cecilia said.
"I already have you why would I risk it?" Marik asked gently as to not anger the lady he treasured, which was actually talking to him.
"Because if you beat my only rescuer then you will have me entirely always no more messing around. Think Marik, I hate you but I am offering all of me if you beat him. One little duel Marik." Cecilia said putting no accent on 'if' so he would not even consider it a possibility that he might lose. She was beautifully persuasive and it was proven successful when Marik answered her.
"You will learn to love me my dear after I destroy this little brat that stands in our way."
"I take that as an excepted challenge," Kaiba said ignoring the remark about him and trying to move this along.
"Yes, I'll get some holograph projectors and be back to duel you in awhile Kaiba be ready to meet another person you can't beat," Marik laughed as he walked out.
"Are you mad?" Cecilia asked.
"You should have told me. What else are you hiding from me?" Kaiba asked.
"I will tell you when you win. It's a ownership prize duel so I can't help you unless he forces me to." Cecilia said.
"I wasn't expecting help." Kaiba said coldly.
"It was nice seeing you again no matter what the outcome." Cecilia whispered to both the boys as they looked to Odion who had just walked in.
"I'm sorry Miss, it is a pity that when you find him so many things are unexplained." Odion said to Cecilia, "Boys the Hologram projector is ready, I am to take you to them and Cecilia is to go with Jacks to get dressed for the duel. She will be there for your duel as a witness and so Marik can try to impress her, yet again." Odion explained to Kaiba and Mokuba.
Kaiba followed without looking back. Mokuba however looked at Cecilia as she put the hood over her face and dropped one single tear to the ground as she saw Kaiba walk away, maybe it was the last time they would meet or maybe it was the beginning of something, more.