Okay, so I had this ready to update last night, but the stupid Error Message 2 thing kept popping up. Well, it still is, but I cheated my way around it! I've got two accounts you see, so I just went to the old one I never use (which wasn't receiving the error message) and copied the link from the content/chapter section of one of those stories. I switched the two story IDs and TaDa! Chapter Ten. Enjoy!

Cayannamon- Impressive timing with the review! Haha- and I'm glad you're interested to see how I plan on ending this. Hopefully that means you'll stick around until the end.

H-bomber- You feel sorry for Kisara? Haha- I don't, she's creepy. But no, the only romance is going to be one-sided. Do you really see Seto falling in love with an animal?

The Prime Director- Too bad Seto didn't have a rocket launcher on him when he was kidnapped. That might have been useful. And you'll be seeing the others in the future chapters. Actually, one of which will be in chapter eleven.

Chocomintkt- Lovable? No. Obsessive? Yes. And I like responding to reviews just about as much as I enjoy receiving them. *Hint

Aqua-Princess of Imagination- Nope. Life is never that simple. Haha- but don't worry, Seto and Mokuba will see each other again. . . eventually. Glad you enjoy the story!

AyaseFanGirl- I tried to make this chapter pretty long too. Enjoy!

Seto K4iba1- Picking locks with a paper clip is rough. I cut up my fingers trying to do so once and haven't made the same mistake since. Haha- hope to see you around, even after the long period between updates!

Seto's POV

Kisara had crawled in after me. She wasn't being too graceful, so I managed to keep up with her progress by by listening to her banging on the walls of the vent.

She hadn't gotten far. If anything, she was loosing ground. She was a dragon after all, and dragons were probably use to a space larger than three square feet. Her only advantage was the fact that I, like her, had

no idea where I was going. The basement was my goal, but I had yet to find a way to move any lower.

This had me reconsidering my plan. If I couldn't find a way down in the vents, I would have to do it through the normal part of the building. But that would have me risk running into Krin or Kara. Still, I knew the building better than they did, but I didn't have confidence in my ability to escape when there were three of them against me. But all they would have to do was block off the staircases and I'd be trapped.

I came to an intersection and stopped to consider. The last grate I had seen was over the computer lab, so that put me where? It wasn't centrally located. If I took the left path, it would take me to the edge of the building, then likely backtrack. I didn't like that idea very much, so I decided to take the path to the right.

I tried not to think about what I was doing as I crawled along. If this situation wasn't so serious, then I never would have forced myself to crawl through the single most disgusting place I had even been in my life.

The situation was important though. Mokuba was out there somewhere and I needed to know that he was alright. I didn't want my brother to be anywhere near this war Krin had spoken of, so we had to go into hiding far away.

A sudden crash from behind me helped to remind me of what exactly it was I was running from. It sounded as though Kisara had picked up some ground, and quickly. Maybe I should have taken the left path.

I shook my head to refocus and keep moving forward. She grow louder and louder until I was certain that she was about to catch up with me. It was a clear sign that staying in the vents was no longer possible. Yet I knew that getting out would be a problem. The grates were screwed closed from the other side, an issue which I hadn't occurred to me until in the process of escaping.

So when I reached one of the grates, I stopped. I took a second to gaze out to see where I was, and was glad to see it was the break room for upper level employees. Since I would have to jump out, I wanted to have a surface other than the floor to land on. A table would be fine, as it would cut my falling distance by a few feet.

I shifted until I had my back to the opposite side of the vent and my feet were against the grate. The position was incredibly uncomfortable since my body was over twice the length of the space I was in, but I was sure that this was the only way to remove the object blocking my exit.

I pulled my legs back as far as they could go, which admittedly wasn't very far, and kicked both feet forward with all my strength. All that resulted was a loud clattering sound that I knew would draw unwanted attention. And that left me with the only option of trying again. If I quit now, all that I would have accomplished would have been to inform the dragons of my exact location.

This time, I dented the metal surface. The dent was small, but I kept going, over and over until a screw finally fell to the ground. After that one came out, it was only a matter of moments before the other screws followed suit.

Sliding out, I made sure that there was something beneath me to prevent me from falling the entire ten feet to the floor. The last thing that I needed to happen was for me to land on my ankle and be unable to run. Landing on the table certainly hurt since I didn't fall very gracefully, but I shrugged it off and immediately moved out of that room.

Even though I was running from three dragons who were set on keeping me as their captive for the rest of my life, I couldn't help but feel a sense of calm rush over me as I stepped into the halls of KaibaCorp by myself. It had been so long since I had been able to be in a familiar location without supervision. As I ran through the halls, it struck me that I had never actually done any running inside this building. Before that moment, there had always been someone around, and running in the halls wouldn't give off the best impression. But now I was running for an important cause, and there was no one watching me.

I pulled open the door to the staircase, jumped inside, then closed it behind me. It was my goal to make it to the ground floor before any of the dragons figured out where I had gone. I didn't start my descent immediately, but paused at the stop to glance down all eighty floors. Releasing a sigh, I then started, seeing how long it was going to take me.

I didn't move at full speed. I knew that if I grew too tired too fast, then I would have no chance of out running the dragons if they caught up with me. So I kept some energy held back as I moved down the stairs. I was counting them as I moved, an old habit I had picked up as a child, and the growing number of them was making me anxious. There were just so many. How could I possibly hope to escape when I had so much ground to cover? The only thing that gave me some comfort was the fact that my pursuers would have to run too. There would be no flying in these small, enclosed spaces.

A crackle drew my attention upwards. I glanced up back to where I had started and saw white lines of electricity spreading out above me.

They were in the staircase.

That was when I began running with everything I had. I did have a small head-start, but I was tired and they weren't. I ran the math through quickly in my head to see how many more floors I had to go. I had run down four-hundred and twenty-four steps so far, and with thirty-two steps per floor, I had only made it thirteen floors.

I had no chance of getting out of here if I stayed on this same staircase. There was one more in the building, but I had no way of knowing whether or not the dragons had spread out or not.

"Seto! Come back here right now!" Came the shout from above me, and I recognized it to be Krin. I then made the mistake of looking back up to where he was, and I met his gaze. The phrase "if looks could kill" never seemed to apply more than that moment. Krin's eyes held murder inside them.

"Stop." He commanded as more lightning shot above his head.

I broke eye contact and continued running. I could hear him continue shouting above me, and I made the quickly decision to leave the staircase at a specific floor. All of the upper floors of KaibaCorp were laid out in the manner, but the lower ones were easier to get lost in. So I decided that the fifty-second floor would be my exit. I wasn't very familiar with most of the lower levels since I didn't often have a purpose for visiting them, but the security offices had been located on my goal floor, and I knew my way around that one in particular.

Krin was getting closer. His footsteps above me were growing much louder, and he hadn't pulled the lightning back in, so it was slowly hitting closer to me. By the time I reached fifty-two, I guessed that he was only about five floors away from me.

I slowed down when I reached the door. Then as quietly as I could, I twisted the handle and only opened the door enough that I could slip through. On the other side, I pulled the door closed very gently. Once that I was done, I took off running once more.

I didn't hear the door open behind me after a few seconds, and I took that as a sign that Krin hadn't noticed my leaving the stairs. But I wouldn't count on that to last. If I could hear him moving, then he would notice that he could no longer hear me.

Moving towards the nearest staircase, I passed by Roland's office. A couple steps later, I stopped. There were most likely guns in there, and that would certainly be helpful in my escape. Roland had always been prepared for the worst, so whatever he had inside that room would more than likely be of help to me.

So I backtracked to the room and opened the door. I didn't get inside when I heard a painfully loud shriek coming from behind me. I spun around quickly to see what the sound was coming from, and was met with a small group of some kind of beast I had never seen before. They were all very small, and they were covered with a red and orange hair. Their eyes were nearly as large as their entire face, but they seemed small to me in comparison to their mouths, which were all opened a wide as imaginable. The shrieking didn't stop.

It was loud enough that I knew it would draw the attention to this area. I wasn't sure how long I had before one, or all of the dragons appeared, so I moved into the office and closed the door behind me.

A fast scan of the office showed that Roland wasn't as organized as I assumed him to be. That, or someone had come in and ransacked the room in the past year. The room was a mess, and I didn't see anything on first glance that would be useful. I didn't look at the top of the desk, since that mostly appeared to be papers scattered around. But the drawers and cabinets were my first priorities. Roland's desk was one of the very large ones that had shelves and cabinets built onto it, so it nearly reached the roof. Aside from that, another wall was entirely covered with televisions that he had used to monitor everything that was happening inside the building. Those currently weren't working.

The screams outside suddenly were silenced. I didn't waste a moment before moving to the back of Roland's desk. It had to be positioned a little less than a foot off the wall to give the cords space to be moved around and reached. That bit of space is where I was going to hide.

I stepped over to the desk and took at deep breath before sliding into the space. It was a tight fit, but I forced myself to keep moving in until I was centered behind the desk. Then I waited.

My arms were pinned to my sides. I regretted not keeping one up near my face to cover my nose and mouth since dust filled my hiding place. Breathing was getting more and more difficult as I stood motionless. With every breath, I was taking more and more of the small particles into my lungs.

The door to the room opened. And when that happened, my breaths stopped altogether. I didn't move while I listened to the footsteps traveling through the room, but I was certain that the dragon in the room with me would hear my heart pounding and realize where I was. I could clearly hear the beating as it pounded through my head; every beat felt like it would be my death.

Eventually I had to breath, and although I tried to make the breath as quiet as possible, it sounded to me like a hurricane had just passed through the room. How could the dragon not hear me?

With that last breath, I brought more dust into my body, and almost immediately, I felt a sneeze building up. I squeezed my eyes shut and focused on trying to force it back, but it wasn't working. It continued to build up, threatening to give away my position.

What would they do when they found me again? I had no doubt in my mind that it would happen, but I at least wanted to find my brother first. The chances of them understanding my situation , well, there wasn't a chance of that. I had to escape, and I couldn't be found.

But one of them was in the room with me, walking around searching through the room. Would my hiding place be sufficient? How could it be? I was standing behind a desk. A five year old playing hide-and-seek would chose this location.

The footsteps traveled out of the room. I waited to hear if the door would close behind the intruder, but I never heard it. The door remained open, so I remained still. It was my guess that they were going through every room near the floor I had exited the staircase on. By leaving the doors open, they could mark where they had searched, and keep a closer eye on where I might be going. Any closed door would be a sign that I was nearby. They certainly were trying to make this difficult for me.

I continued to focus on repressing the sneeze that continued to build. Just because the dragon was no longer looking over the room I was in didn't mean that it wasn't close.

I started to go over my situation. If they searched the floors around me, then they would either find me, or they would start moving down. I couldn't let them get to the ground floor before me, but how could I beat them down? There was no way for me to know if they had placed one of them outside already. Leaving could result in walking right back into their hands.

But if I stayed inside, I would be found eventually. Neither of these choices sounded promising.

Maybe I could stay long enough for them to finish with this floor, then try to leave. There were only three of them. If they had one outside and one searching through the floors, then that would leave only one to guard the stairs. There were two staircases, so if I chose the right one, I might be able to get to the lobby. However, that was counting on the fact that they had one outside. I didn't know how they had divided up. I knew that Krin was inside since he had been in the staircase. I assumed that Kisara was inside as well. Kara could be anywhere.

Any choice would be a risk, but I decided that the safest option would be to wait just a while longer, then try to leave once more. The only comforting thought I could think to calm me down was that knowledge that they wouldn't kill me. And even that wasn't very comforting.

After several more minutes of silence, I began to slide out from behind the desk. Once out, I took the time to brush the dust off that clung to my clothes. Then I moved to the open door.

I pressed my back next to the wall beside the entry and peered around the frame. The hallway was empty. The small monsters were no where to be seen, probably scared away by the dragon's earlier presence. There was one less thing for me to worry over.

I took a cautious step out of the room. I stayed close to the walls, hoping to avoid any creaks in the floor. The dragon's might have excellent hearing, and I didn't want to increase my chances of being found.

As I walked through the halls of KaibaCorp, I remembered how I had moved through the streets of Domino just over a week ago. I had become quite good at staying hidden during the time that the beasts had taken over the world. Learning how to move silently and invisibly had taken some time, but I was grateful that I had learned those things. All I could do was hope that it would now pay off.

And for a while, it seemed like it had. I chose to go back to the same staircase that I had come down on. It was the closest to me, and Krin wasn't stupid. He would have found the other staircase by now, and most likely would have assumed that is where I would have gone. If I was wrong, then I was wrong. I had to chose one, and there was no going back now.

I stood beside the door for a full minute before entering. I listened carefully for footsteps or voices on the other side that might signal me to stay away, but I heard none. So, mustering every ounce of will I possessed, I opened the door.

It wasn't until the door was closed behind me that I realized I had forgotten the reason I had stopped in Roland's office. I had been looking for a gun, which would have made me feel much safer as I once more began to descend down the stairs. There was no chance that I would go back now though. I wanted out of KaibaCorp.

This time, I didn't run. I walked very slowly down the stairs. If I heard anything, I promised myself that I would start to run, but for now, I didn't want to give away my location.

It seemed like it took me hours to walk down the stairs. I knew that was my mind in a state of panic making me feel that way, but thinking logically wouldn't help. How could anything be logical anymore while monsters controlled the world? For all I knew, time really was moving as slowly as I was imagining. The only thing that kept me from truly believing that was the rate at which my heart continued to beat. If time had been slowed, then my heart beats would have had to slow down as well.

I had to stop again to consider two options when I finally planted my feet on the bottom floor of the building. There were two doorways here. One would lead my into the lobby where I would have the only choice to exit out the front door. I was sure that door was locked, but the key was most likely still at reception. However, they might be waiting for me there, or watching the front door. The main entrance lead to the street, which would be a very open space.

The second door lead to an alleyway. It was my preferred choice of exit, however, it was an emergency exit. I didn't know if the alarm would go off or not. There was still electricity running through the building, since I could still access the computers. Could I risk opening the door?

The alley outside was small. The dragons wouldn't be able to enter it unless they were in their human form. That might allow me to put some distance between myself and them, but there was only so long I would be able to move between alleyways. I would have to go out into an open space at some point.

Plus there was the fact that they still had the lightning as humans.

A door opened on one of the floors above me while I was trying to decide. I couldn't tell how many stories up, so I acted. I chose the door to the alley, holding my breath as I opened it.

The alarm went off. I slammed the door behind me, but it continued to sound. Just before I started running, the sneeze finally came, but in comparison to the blaring alarm, it wasn't noticeable.

I heard a familiar roar almost immediately and realized that I had been right in assuming that one of them had stayed outside. A Blue-Eyes was circling over the building, staring at the ground below as it did so. And once again, I stayed close to the walls, hoping that the shadow from the building might keep me hidden. But I had to get away from KaibaCorp. If they knew what the alarm meant, then soon, all three would be looking for me outside. I didn't think that I would be able to avoid all of them.

As soon as the dragon flew to the opposite side of the building, I took that opportunity to cross the alley and run across to the adjacent building. And I continued in the manner for a while. Every time the dragon, which I assumed was Kara, flew to other side of KaibaCorp, I moved my position. But as soon as I saw all three siblings in the air, I knew that I had to hide. And wherever I hid needed to be somewhere they wouldn't look.

By this time, I was about three blocks away from my starting point. Taking into consideration the knowledge that they would have to look for me in all directions, I figured that this was as good a location as any to search for a hiding spot.

There was a door on the side of one of the stores near me and I tried it to see if it was open. It was, so I stepped inside.

I locked this door behind me before looking around to see where I was. It was some sort of old butcher's shop, but larger than I would have imagined one to be. There wasn't any meat left inside, but I could see the hooks on the roof where meat would have hung from, the vast assortment of knives, and display cases in the adjoining room. It was clear what this shop had been.

I started to walk around and opening doors, just to see what I had to deal with.

I got distracted. So much so, that I didn't hear the footsteps coming up behind me until it was too late. I felt something sharp press into my back just before I heard, "Who are you and why are you here?"

Mokuba's POV

Choosing to rest in a small closet had been a good and bad decision. It had been good in the way that the odds of my being found were very slim. It was bad in the way that I barely fit inside, and it was far too small to lie down in. I had ended up sitting up with my knees pulled close to my chest. That position had been comfortable enough that I managed to fall asleep for a while. When I woke up, I decided that it was time to go find Seto.

Before I left the closet, I shifted very awkwardly until my head was on the floor beside the door. I closed one eye so I could peer through the crack. I was glad to find that daylight still shone through the windows in the other room, so I wouldn't run the risk of Kuriboh roaming the streets. Of course, he wasn't close to the biggest threat outside, but I was glad to have the one less thing to worry about. The second thing I was looking for was to see if anyone or anything had entered the office while I was asleep. As far as I could tell, nothing had.

So I stood up and left the closet. I looked out one of the windows before leaving the office. I could see KaibaCorp standing high above all the other buildings nearby. It wasn't too far away, maybe ten or fifteen blocks from where I stood. I could make it there within the hour if I moved quickly and carefully. I had no idea what I would do when I got there, but I would worry about that when the time came.

Once outside, I started towards my goal. I made sure to move slowly and quietly as not to draw attention to myself.

Since all I was doing was walking, there wasn't much to keep my attention. The city seemed quiet, which surprised me. There had to be hundreds, if not thousands, of monsters living here. Where were they all? I wasn't sure whether to take this as good fortune or something to be troubled over. But I didn't think about the reason the monsters might be staying off the streets. It was helping me out, allowing me to move faster, so I choice to think of it as good luck.

But without the constant fear of being caught outside, my mind started to wander. It traveled to the subject that had plagued my thoughts almost daily, to the one thing that I couldn't forget, no matter where I was or what I was doing.

What had happened to the world? The change had been almost overnight. Yugi had made the mistake of thinking nothing would happen when he tried to create the connection between the two worlds. He hadn't known that there would be no way to close the door once it was opened. Apparently, he had tried just about everything he had been able to think of to undo the damage, but it was far too late.

Was there a way to stop all of this? And if not, what would happen to the human race? If the monsters separated us all, then eventually, we would die out. How long would it be until there were only monsters left on earth?

I just felt like Seto would know what to do. I had always depended on him for everything. He was so smart, if he didn't know what to do, could anyone?

They were depressing thoughts, and I knew it. But there was no stopping them. How could I stop thinking them when everywhere I looked gave evidence of the monsters' invasion? Abandoned streets, boarded up buildings, the occasional beast; there was no getting away from it all.

I missed my old life. Sure, there had been some terrible times in there too, but at least I knew there was always a way out. This just seemed hopeless.

I broke the thought process to see how much further I still had to travel. Glancing up at the sky, I saw how much closer I was to KaibaCorp, but I also saw something that I hadn't seen before.

A dragon was circling in the sky, but not just any dragon. It was a dragon that I recognized easily because I had seen it so many times before. But no hologram could have prepared me for the beast above me.

Even from a distance, I could clearly see how massive it was. Seto's holograms hadn't been nearly as big. This beast almost made the card version appear cute. I had to stop moving because I was in complete shock. I hadn't expected it to be so intimidating. Not only was it huge, but I could even see its teeth bared in an obvious growl as its head moved from side to side. The claws at the end of each limb reflected the light, emphasizing how long and sharp they were. That thing had Seto?

Of course, I had no way of knowing what actually had Seto. It was just my assumption that the monster he had been hiding from was the one who had ended up taking him. For all I knew, it could have been any one of the beasts. However, since the Dark Magician took Yami, I figured that my assumption was a safe one.

It roared, and the sound filled the air for several seconds. It sounded angry, which might be the reason that no other monsters were out in the open. Maybe they were all hiding from that.

Then I started moving even slower, being extra careful to stay out of that thing's sight line. I stopped completely when the front door to KaibaCorp was in my sights. I now had to decide what to do next. With the dragon flying overhead, I wasn't sure how I was going to get to the building without being seen. And even if I got to a door, I had no way of knowing whether or not it would be locked.

A sound caught my attention. Was that an alarm? I could barely hear it from my position, but it seemed like it was coming from the building in front of me. How long had it been going off? Had it just started?

While I was thinking, I heard something else. Footsteps. I spun around to see where they were coming from and was met with a figure standing roughly ten yards away from me.

It was a man. He was tall, probably just under seven feet, and he had the whitest hair I had ever seen. He was glaring sharply at me, with a blatantly irritated expression.

Neither of us moved. I was terrified, both of this new presence, and of stepping out into the street where the dragon might see me. I hoped that he would choose to walk away, but my life was never that easy. Instead of walking away, he moved closer, crossing his arms as he did so.

"Have you seen a boy come through here?" He asked, his tone dangerously forceful.

I opened my mouth to answer, but I found that I was too afraid to form words. The best I could manage was to mouth the word no, but he kept moving closer.

"I asked a question." He said. It was clear that he was demanding an answer, but I still couldn't work out a sound.

I stared at him as he moved closer, noting how much more frightening his glare was with the shade of his eyes. They were a bright blue. Almost bright enough that they created a light of their own, and they were staring straight through me.

"Answer me!" He shouted, and as he shouted, a streak of white electricity shout out from his body. It hit the wall to the left of us, turning the bricks black.

Something in my head clicked just before I whispered, "I haven't." Keith had mentioned there being more than one.

I couldn't meet his eyes when he was standing directly in front of me. He quickly reached out to grab my wrist, an action which pulled a gasp of pain out of me. My wrists were still raw from the chains that had covered them over the past week, and he was squeezing with great pressure. I watched as he pulled my sleeve back to examine the red skin. He scraped his nails across the surface, and I had to bite down on my tongue to keep from screaming out.

"Do you know what our kind does to run-aways?" He asked.

"Brother! Did you find him?"

The shout made us both turn to see the source. It was a girl who was very similar in appearance to the man that held me. There was no denying the fact that she was pretty, but I was busy trying to decide if these were all Blue-Eyes.

When she saw my face, she frowned. "Oh. That's not him." She said, disappointment evident.

"No. He is just some run-away slave." Her brother answered. Right after he spoke, he threw me into the wall where the bricks had become black.

And once again, I didn't move. There was no where I could go. They were standing on either side of me, staring at me.

But a look of shock came across the girl's face. She cocked her head slightly while she furrowed her forehead in intense concentration. She pulled a hand up to her chin and parted her lips.

"Come here." She said.

I didn't move at first, but a glare from her brother had me walking slowly over to her. I wasn't sure what she was doing, but I didn't want to further upset the already upset man.

When I was within the girl's arm reach, she reached out and pulled me close to remove the distance between us. The first thing she did was gently pick up one of my hands. Her fingers traced the lines of my palms, then traveled up to my fingertips. She ignored the marks on my wrists, only focused on the shape of my hands. After feeling every inch of my hands, she brought her fingers up to my face. She put her thumbs underneath my chin and tilted it up so I was staring into her eyes.

"Kisara, what are you doing?" The other asked, but she gently responded by shushing her brother.

She continued tracing the outline of my face, moving from my jaw up to my cheeks. I could tell that her fingers were searching for the bones underneath my skin because she was only feeling the areas where the bones were slightly raised. And after that, she switched to feel my nose, tracing a line from between my eyes and going down until my mouth.

Finally, she moved all the hair out of my face and examined it as a whole. It was only a moment before she smiled. She pulled her hands away to clasp them together and place them underneath her chin.

"You're Mokuba, aren't you?" She asked.

I nodded once, feeling more confused than I had at the notion of the three dragons surrounding me. "How-?" I began, but I couldn't finish the question.

"You look just like your brother. Krin, doesn't he look exactly like Seto?" She reached out and put an arm around my shoulders to position me to where Krin could more easily look at me.

"I suppose they look similar. Of course, I didn't pay Seto quite the attention that you did, sister."

"Where is Seto?" I asked.

"He escaped to find you." Krin answered.

I groaned. "Figures."

Kisara giggled. "But Krin! This is good. If we hold on to Mokuba, Seto won't leave once we find him. He will be with me and his brother, so he will be happy." She pulled me closer to her in a protective manner.

"Because his happiness is what is important." Krin said. It was clear that he was being sarcastic, but he didn't argue with her logic. Instead, he added, "Take him to the roof. I'll stay with Kara and continue looking for our slave."

Kisara pulled me out into the street in front of KaibaCorp, not bothering to say anything else to her brother. She walked to the front door of the building and told me to stay as far away from her as possible. "And close your eyes," she added. "It might hurt if you look until this is over."

She stepped away from me, moving until she stood in the middle of the wide street. So I closed my eyes like she said, and just a moment later, a bright light shone through my closed eyes. I squeezed my eyes shut even tighter, but even that couldn't keep out the burning glow.

When the light finally died away, I slowly opened my eyes and was met with the real form of the Blue-Eyes. Her head turned to look at me, then she winked. While I was standing there, her tail came to me and wrapped around my waist. Seconds later, she jumped, and into the air we flew.

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