Chapter 10 (Double Digits). I would like to thank the-writing-vampire for the idea she gave me. So Thank You.
I don't own Yugioh
"Speaking"
'Thinking and talking to sprits'
(Atk/Def)
Tea's Prov
We were walking through yet another forest.
"There aren't many duellists left." Yugi said.
"Yeah, how many do you think are left?" I said.
"Not sure, but I saw them ship off a few yesterday." Joey said.
"It's going to be even harder from now on." Bakura said.
"Yeah and some of them were really good players with powerful cards." Yugi said.
"Yeah, but remember they only want the prize, you and Yugi have something to fight for." Tristan said.
"Yeah, Joey for his sister and me for my grandfather. And from now on the duellists are going to be even stronger." Yugi said.
"Even stronger?" Joey said.
"Careful Yugi or my scare Joey away." Tristan taunted.
"What? You think I'm some scared little puppy dog!" Joey shouted turning to Tristan.
"Well if the collar fits!" Tristan said advancing on Joey.
"Guys stop it! Break it up." I shouted pushing them apart.
"Bring on anyone and I'll cream them." Joey said.
"That's right Joey you've got to believe in yourself." Yugi said, and I smiled at that.
'My Lady I sense three auras around and I think they're spying on you." Moon said appearing beside me.
'Ok thank you.' I said to her. Then focused in on the three auras as we stopped for a rest. I heard them talking about us.
"Cuz no one else does," One of them said they all laughed as he continued, "I want that one."
"If you want them tall, skinny and stupid that one fits the bill." Another said.
"Oh yeah you'll crush 'em." The third said, "So who are they anyway?"
"Keep your shirt on, I'm trying to see." The second one, who I am now naming Big said.
"I don't know the rest, but that little runt could be that Yugi kid." The third one, who I am naming Red said again.
"Yugi the kid that beat Kaiba." The Big said.
"Really?" The one who spoke first, who I calling Small said.
"We better tell the boss bout this." Red said.
"Right on," Big said
"Wait guys does that look familiar to you?" Small said. This caught my attention. 'Me? Why?' I thought.
"Yeah she does a bit." Big said.
"But where from?" Red said
"It'll come to use later, but in the mean time let's tell the boss what we know." Small said. I felt their auras leave. 'Why do they think they recognise me? I have to find out.' I thought.
"Hey guys I just …..Um need to er go. I'll catch you up." I said not thinking of an excuse, before running off after the three spying guys.
I ran after them when I saw them stop just past the trees in front of a rocky ledge, where the one the only Bandit Keith sat. So I quickly hide and listened in.
"Alright spit it out." Keith ordered.
"We found two duellist." Big said.
"One is just a stupid geek." Red said.
"But, the other is a good duellist. The kids name is Yugi." Small said.
"He's the one that beat Kaiba. Most say he will go to the castle." Big said.
"Yugi huh. Yeah I heard of him. He's meant to be a tough little guy. But that is if you believe his reputation." Keith said.
"Huh?" Small said crocking his head to the side.
"Yeah we've never seen this kid duel before, how do we know he's any real that good." Big said nodding to the others as Red continued.
"Right, presides no one is going to the castle apart from us as we have the best blooming duellist on the island helping us win."
"That's right. So if you wanna win you'll shut up and let Bandit Keith do your thinking for ya." Bandit said taking his glasses of smirking.
"Yeah, you're the brains, I'm the muscle." Big said. I heard all of them laugh. But stopped when Keith continued.
"You said you found two duellists?"
"Yeah some dweeb and Yugi." Red said.
"Right so let's take the dweeb out first, then deal with Yugi. Then we can get into the retched castle." Keith instructed, turning his head up to the castle.
"Boss I might not have the right to ask but why do you want in to the castle so bad?" Big asked. 'I can guess.' I thought.
"To get my revenge on Pegasus. He humiliate me in a duel, nearly as badly as before." Bandit said through his teeth.
"Before?" They all said.
"A few years ago I lost to someone else, but how she beat was a lot worse." Keith said clenching his fists.
"She?" Small said.
"Who was it?" Red said.
"Kaylian Paris." Keith growled.
I smirked at that. 'Oh yeah.' I touched watch feeling the disguise drop. I quickly put my hair up in a ponytail and slipped out of my hiding space.
"Who me?" I said smiling. Their heads snapped to me.
"Kaylian. I heard a rumour that said you were on the island." Keith said standing up. "So why you here?"
"This and that. So who are these boys" I said motioning to the boys I had named: Big, Red and Small.
"Sygore." Big said.
"Sid." Red said,
"Bonz." Small said.
"Pleasure." I said
"So Kaylian as you're here how about a duel so I can ruin your undefeated reputation." Bandit said advancing on me.
"Sure why not." I said walking over to the arena.
Bandit Keith vs Kaylian Paris.
Bandit Keith-2000
Kaylian Paris-2000
"I'll start, by playing Ancient Tool (1700/1400)." Keith said, "Your move."
"Ok." I said drawing, 'I've got Light Princess, Cyber King, The Royal Army, Cyber Queen, Cyber Prince and Sword of Truth.'
"Ok I summon Cyber King. You know Bandit Keith you never did realise how my cards relate to each other and help each other. So now I send Cyber Queen and Cyber Prince to the graveyard and you lose 1000 life points to each." I said smiling.
Bandit Keith-0
Kaylian Paris-2000
"Funny that's the same way I defeated you last time." I said laughing.
"No, not again." Keith shouted banging the card zone with his fist.
"Pathetic." I said.
"Boss you ok." Sygore said.
"Don't worry about it about it boss." Sid said.
"Yeah, she is said to be the best, better than Kaiba. And everyone says she doesn't know the meaning of the word defeat." Bonz said. I quickly jumped down off the arena and met Keith in the middle.
"True true. So Keith remember next time. Don't mess with the best."
I said then I twirled flipping my hair in his face and started walking away.
"Hey wasn't that what that girl said to Weevil after she beat him." Bonz said.
"Bye." I said quickly disappearing back into the forest. Once I was sure the no one could see me I tapped my watch again and I turned back into Tea. I walked back to the path to see the guys minus Joey.
"Hi guy, where's Joey?" I asked.
"Don't know, but he's been gone for ages. You do what you needed to do?" Yugi said. I nodded.
"Maybe we should go look for him." Bakura suggested.
"Could he be lost?" Tristan said.
"No, but he could have been challenged to a duel." Yugi said.
"I bet that's it." Tristan said.
"Let's split and try and find him." Bakura said.
"Right, Yugi Tea you go that way, we'll go this way." Tristan said.
"Right!" We all said running off.
A While Later
We had had been looking for quite a while, but nothing had appeared. We were now by a waterfall and cliff.
"Anything?" Tristan said.
"No, wait look." I said picking up a yellow wallet.
"That's Joey." Tristan said taking it.
"Yeah, look it's a picture of his sister." I said pointing to the red head in the photo.
"He would never leave this behind; he cares for her too much. This is starting to look really suspicious." Tristan said looking around.
"Look guys," I said pointing over to a cave behind the waterfall.
"I don't think a cave is a good sign." Tristan said. We walked forward into the cave.
"So what is this place?" Tristan asked.
"Careful it could be a trap." Yugi said. I stopped in front of a coffin.
"What do you think these coffins are for?" I asked.
"No idea." Bakura said going to another.
"Don't touch." Yugi warned.
"Careful." Tristan said stepping forwards.
"Don't worry." I said tapping the coffin which suddenly fell open along with the one by Bakura. As they opened two skeletons fell out.
"Ahhh!" Bakura and I screamed as they landed on use. Tristan quickly ran forward punching the skeleton. Yugi punched mine away while I punched it breaking it into pieces.
"That Pegasus has a sick sense of humour." Tristan said pushing the coffin doors so they closed.
"You said it." Yugi said following. We walked around the cave or what felt like hours, and still no sign of Joey.
"No sign of Joey anywhere. Hey wait were did Bakura go?" Tristan said. Yugi and I looked around to see that Bakura had vanished.
"We didn't take any turns, so where could he be?" I said looking back.
"No idea..." Yugi started but was interrupted by a loud scream. We all turned to see Bakura running towards us.
"Run!" Tristan and Bakura shouted. So we all started running, I looked behind to see if I could see what had frightened Bakura. I caught a glimpse of something white.
"Wait!" I shouted, "It's just a skeleton." We all stopped and Tristan threw the skeleton off Bakura's back.
"Er guys we have a problem." Tristan said. We all turned round to see two tunnels.
"Ok so which way do we go?" Yugi asked.
"No idea." I said.
From the corner of my eye I saw Bakura step forward then I heard a creaking noise.
"Er guys." Bakura said. Then I heard a strange crashing noise.
"Guys what's that sound." Tristan said.
"I think I stepped on a switch." Bakura said. I looked up a tunnel to see a boulder rolling towards us.
"Run!" I shouted, "Down there." We quickly took off.
"Why is it following us?" Yugi said.
"We're running down hill." Tristan said
"I'm sorry guys." Bakura said as he tripped.
"Bakura!" We all shouted.
"Guys it's a dead end." Yugi said as we came up to a wall blocking our way.
"Now what?" I said the boulder still advancing.
"I'll fight it." Tristan said turning.
"You're crazy." I said. Tristan then punched the boulder, but instead of running Tristan over it popped.
"It was a balloon?" I said.
"Yeah and speak. That what made all the noises." Yugi said.
"Hey guys." Bakura said catching us up.
"Let's go," Tristan said. We continued to wonder around the cave until we saw light just ahead.
"Guys look." I said and we quickly ran forward to see a duel arena and Joey on it.
"Joey!" Yugi and Tristan shouted.
I just managed to hear Bandit Keith growl, "Bloke 'em."
"What is this arena?" Yugi asked.
'Graveyard.' I thought.
"And why are you duelling here?" Tristan asked.
"No choice. These creeps forced me." Joey said
"Whoa. This duel is over." Tristan said turning to the others.
"No it isn't." Sid said.
"You're going to get past us first."Sygore said as they appeared in front of us.
"My pleasure." Tristan said running forward hand raised to punch. But instead Sygore grabbed his arm and flipped him over.
"Tristan!" Joey shouted turning round.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. Leave and you forfeit and your star chips our mine." Bandit explained.
"This duel is illegal." I said.
"That's right Tea." Yugi said.
"No your wrong Tea; the minute Joey put his star chips down he accepted the duel Sweetness." Bandit laughed.
"Then beat him Joey. And if you need any motivation try this." Tristan said throwing Joey the picture of Serenity.
"I won't give up." Joey stated turning back to Bonz.
I knew I should have been paying attention to the duel but something was wrong I could feel it in the air.
'My Lady are you alright?' Dark said appearing beside me.
'Yes I was just wondering.' I said back to her.
'What? My lady." She asked again.
"All of this. Could I have stopped it? Yugi's grandfather, Mokuba, Seto. It was never like this before. I know the game had to be invented or else My Pharaoh never would have returned. But still. Why? That all I ask.' I said back. 'Sorry I'm ranting.'
'It's alright. Shouldn't you be playing attention? Think the duels over. My lady.' She said fading into the dark shadows.
'Just like her name.' I thought turning back to see Bonz lose.
'Opps how long was I out.' I thought.
"Alright!" Tristan said pumping his fist up in the air.
"Nice work." Bakura said
"Joey won!" I shouted
"You did it Joey!"Yugi said next to me, as Joey turned sticking his thumb up.
"I did didn't I." he said smiling.
I looked over a Bandit Keith as his movement caught my eye.
"Later losers." He said walking off.
"Wait boss." Bonz said from where he was on his knees.
"Boss!" Sid and Sygore said running up behind Keith.
"Bandit Keith. Next time have the nerve to duel me face to face instead of hiding behind someone else." Joey said jumping down.
"Duel you face to face. Wining the duel is all that matter, not how." He said.
"We'll just see about that." Joey said.
"I'm shaking in my boots already dweeb, Haha." Keith said not facing Joey.
"Jerk!" I said, "Not true."
"Hey boss that's her, the girl that beat Weevil and said that weird line. The same line Kaylian said to you." Sid whispered to Keith so only him and his goons- and I- could hear.
"Really," Keith said to himself. "Well I'll see you soon Tea." Keith said looking at me smirking, and then left laughing.
"Hey guys sorry about all this." Joey said.
"Well don't be in such a hurry next time." Tristan said.
"It's alright. We know it wasn't your fault Joey." Yugi said.
"At least you won." Tristan said.
"You had us worried at first." I said thinking quickly.
"But you really came through." Bakura said.
"I got lucky." Joey said.
"It wasn't luck Joey, it was your determination, your trust in the cards and your promise to your sister that helped you win." Yugi said
Joey just laughed.
"Can we go now?" I asked.
"Yeah,"
"Sure,"
"Let's." They all said at once.
Near Exit
"Guys look day light." Joey shouted and we all started running forwards. "Guys what's that?" Joey asked. I looked forward to see the light turning to black, like a Luna eclipse. Then I heard it Keith's laughter.
"Bandit Keith," I growled speeding up; I could see him standing in front of the little light left.
"Stop for a sec boys." Keith said.
"What' I thought speeding up again. But before I could think about why Keith had grabbed my arm and yanked me threw.
"Close it." He shouted to the boys still holding me. Bonz, Sid and Sygore only just managed to close the gap in time to stop my friends escaping.
"No!" I shouted.
"No, you're coming with me babe." Bandit said wrapping an arm around my waist.
"Let go." I shouted
"No point you're coming to the castle with me. Your friends are stuck in there for life. Right now boy we need to talk." Keith said.
"Bout what boss?" Bonz asked.
"About you star chips." He said using his other hand to knock Sygore to the ground. Then taking his star chips.
"What's wrong?" Bonz asked again.
"You lost." He said
"I did what you told me too." Bonz said backing up as Keith took Sid's star chips.
"You lost so hand 'em over." Keith said. "Ten star chips. Not like I planned to get 'em but hey at least I'm in right babe." He said pulling me in to him more.
"You're a thief." I spat
"Sure I am." He said laughing, "Come on." And with that he dragged me into the forest.
A while later
"Can we please stop we've been walking for ages." I said pulling on him again trying to get away. 'Oh Ra this is the second time I've been kidnapped in the last week.' I thought.
"You can rest when we get to the castle sweetness. By the way what do I call you Tea or Kaylian?"
And finished. Hope you like. I know she been kidnapped again but I need her at the castle before the rest. Sid, Sygore and Bonz don't know her secret. They can't put two and two together. But Bandit Keith well… I put the very, very, very short duel between Keith and Kaylian in to show off how easily she can win. I hope you liked it. I'll write more soon. 3