Pheonix: I am so sorry about keeping you all in the dark after the last chapter! Oooh! I am so mad at myself! GRRR! Darn school! But, if I'm going to be a professional writer, I have to learn. I'm actually in Honors English! My teacher last year told my parents that I did so well with the Greek Mythology unit that I could almost teach the class. I just did a bunch of reading on my own time when I started reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Cerberus: Enough woman! Get on with the dang story!

Pheonix: Have you a heart of stone man? And for those of you who want to know who is going to play Percy when I start Percy Jackson and the Olympians, I'm ready to tell you. It's *DRUMROLL* DUKE DEVLIN!

Kisara: Please review!

Gone with the Wind

By Sailor Pheonix1997

Seto took a step into the room and looked around, anywhere but the old man on the floor or the blood staining the carpet. But as his eyes wandered, Seto noticed that the trail led to the skylight, which had been smashed open and now glass lay on a wet area of the carpet. The mattress of the bed had been flipped across the room and a shelf leaned against it with Duel Monster cards scattered over the dry area of the floor. The closet had been completely emptied and a few of Yugi's clothes were torn and tattered. The wood of the closet bore strange markings that looked frighteningly like claw marks. The desk also had those exact same markings carved into the graffiti Yugi had drawn into the wood while bored. The lamp had been shoved to the ground and now rested in shards among the remains of the room.

"Is your grandfather alright?" Seto asked, not looking at Kisara or her grandfather. Jill stood with her paws spread out and was growling at the mattress.

"He's fine. I think he's just been hit over the head. But if that's the case, shouldn't he have woken up by now?"

"Possibly. But I don't think we're alone in here," Seto said as he moved himself to be in front of Kisara and her grandfather but Jill stood in front of him teeth bared and looking like lethal silver weapons. Kisara stood up and held her crystal aloft so the light would reveal any secrets the room held. Nothing new caught Seto's eye save for the fact that the blood on the walls was reflecting the light the way it would if it was wet.

"I don't see anything Seto-kun," Kisara said as she dropped her crystal and walked over to her dog. Once Kisara's fingers settled on the hide of the creature, the dog barked and reared up on her hind legs, snarling with a wild look in her eye. She jumped at the mattress and bit into something that hid in the shadows. A howl of pain ripped through the room, causing Kisara and Seto to cover their ears and move against the wall as the creature punched the mattress, sending it back across the room.

Jill had dug her fangs into the shoulder of an elegantly dressed carcass that was missing an eye.

"Isn't that-" Kisara said before the thing grabbed Jill and threw her into the wall and locked his one eye with Kisara's.

"It's called and Earl of Demise. It's not something we want to mess with," Seto said.

"Right. Jill! We'll need you to carry Jii-chan!" The dog stood up on the remains of Yugi's bed and shook her head before barking. Her fur turned silver and her eyes turned from deep brown to a light amber color. Her claws grew so that they looked like they could rip through steel without an issue.

"What just happened?" Seto asked as Jill moved her body under Sugoroku's and bounded out the exact way they'd come from.

"I'll have to explain later," Kisara said. "First things first, we have to keep that thing away from Jii-chan and until Jill comes back."

"And just how do you propose we do that?" Kisara smirked as the muscles in her legs tightened.

"That's a piece of cake for someone like me Seto-kun. Get out of here, I can handle this carcass myself," she said. Seto looked from the Earl to Kisara and grudgingly obeyed.

One leg went behind the other just slightly as the carcass before them drew a sword and pointed it at Kisara, making a garbling noise like he was choking on blood the whole time. Kisara's smirk broadened. "You threaten me with a metal weapon?" Her crystal glowed. "I attack with electricity, or haven't you heard?" She launched herself at the undead creature and somersaulted over the tip of his sword, landing lightly as a cat behind him and landed a well-aimed kick to the small of his back, sending him flying into the closet.

The creature stood up with one of Yugi's white boxer shorts hanging from one side of the head and a sock hanging from his teeth. A hanger hung from the ear and Kisara started chuckling to herself.

"Oh Yugi, only you," she said. The Earl raised his sword again and charged at Kisara. The girl grabbed it by the hilt and her crystal glowed so eerie shadows were cast over the walls and her hands began to glow. Tendrils of pale-blue electricity curled and twisted around her arms like eels and crawled to the carcass as Kisara's eyes glowed white. "Where's my brother!" she demanded. The creature responded with a gargle again before Kisara grabbed him by the throat and threw him into the wall, letting him fall onto the desk that collapsed under the sudden strain.

Kisara sighed as she kicked a piece of wood that had tumbled to her feet back to the carcass and desk. She stuck a hand in her pocket and turned to leave when she noticed the cards under her feet. She bent down and picked them up before looking at them.

"I watched the Battle City Finals. I know Yugi must have the Egyptian God cards with him or in here. But where are they?!"

"Kisara! You might want to come out here!" Seto called from the bottom of the stairs the lead to the kitchen. She looked at the cards in her hands again before putting them on Yugi's bed and heading down the stairs.

Seto stood at the bottom looking around the room that served as the dining room, family room, and kitchen all in one.

"What is it?" Seto nodded towards the room and Kisara peered inside the room that acted as the family room, dining room and kitchen all in one. Kisara smiled at the old table where she and Yugi used to play different board games and drink hot chocolate when it would rain or they'd play different card games, Kisara would learn them from Sugoroku and teach them to Yugi. She could almost see the ghostly images of her and her younger brother sitting there as ten and seven-year-olds playing Duel Monsters and the laughter that would fill the room rang in her ears, springing tears in her eyes.

"Are you alright?" Kisara nodded and dried her eyes.

"Yea, yea. Just a few older memories messing with me," she said with a quick shake to the head.

"Feeling sentimental?" Seto pushed Kisara behind him and almost snarled. Kisara grasped his shirt tightly in her hands and peeked out from behind him as the man from the previous night appeared from the shadows. "Thank you, Kisara, not only for saving me the trouble of hunting you down but also the issue of disposing of a certain carcass if you know what I mean."

"You sent that Earl of Demise to kidnap Yugi, didn't you!"

"Actually my dear, I sent another one of my underlings to take care of that little brother of yours." Kisara's eyes sparked – literally – at "take care of" and her teeth bared. "I left that Earl of Demise to handle any… irritations that would come up."

"And my grandfather was one of those 'irritations'?" Kisara spat. The man shrugged.

"Bait is always needed in order to catch bigger fish. Or bigger dragons."

"I am warning you, you pathetic clown! LAY A SOLE FINGER ON MY BROTHER AND I CAN PROMISE YOU, YOU WILL REGRET THE DAY YOU HEARD THE NAME BLUE-EYES!" Kisara screamed. She probably would've leapt at the man had Seto not held her back.

"Dear Kisara, I do wish you'd cease your mindless screaming, wouldn't it be a shame if something were to happen to little Yugi?" Kisara's face betrayed her sisterly worry for her brother. "But then again, there is a way to save him."

"What do you mean?" Seto grabbed hold of Kisara's arm.

"Don't listen to him, it's just what he wants," he whispered. Kisara's eyes hardened again as she stared the man down.

"Listen closely, any harm comes to my brother and you will regret it."

"If you want him back, come to where his fame began." The man retreated into the shadows and they began to envelop him like a blanket.

"Come back here!" Kisara shouted, bolting from Seto's grip and making a grab for the man's cloak but he was gone by the time she got there. A low snarling noise came from her throat as she straightened herself up. "Yugi," she whispered. She took a deep breath before laying a hard punch to the wall and creating a crater in the drywall. "That's twice now that I've failed him."

"You haven't failed him," Seto said, leaning against the doorframe. "No doubt Yugi's waiting for you to come and get him." Kisara lowered her fist and took another deep breath but Seto's instincts told him to remain quiet now.

"Where did Yugi become famous? Some sort of street corner or a beach or something?" Seto thought for a second.

"Well, Yugi beat me once at the Kaiba Corp headquarters but it's highly unlikely that he's there. There's also the Duelist Kingdom where he beat Pegasus."

"That must be it! Duelist Kingdom!" Kisara said running towards the door. Seto grabbed her wrist.

"What do you expect to do? March down there, demand to have your brother back and be done with it all by lunchtime?"

"That was the general plan, yes!"

"Kisara, believe me, I know these types of people, they won't give Yugi up so easily. If they know they've got leverage over you, they'll do whatever it takes to keep you under their thumb! I've been stuck there once and trust me, it's not a good place to be," Seto said grabbing Kisara's arm. Kisara sighed.

"What do we do then?" Seto sighed.

"First, let's go back to the house and let your siblings know what's happened. After that we'll come up with a plan."

"But what if-" Seto pulled the almost hysterical girl into his chest and held her gently as she wrapped her arms around him and sobbed silently. "I don't want to lose my brother. I have to apologize for what I did." Seto sighed and remained silent until Kisara's crying stopped.

"Alright now. Let's go back to the house." Kisara stayed in place, staring at the floor. "What's wrong?"

"In San Francisco, I watched the Battle City Finals and I knew that Yugi got all three Egyptian God cards. When I checked his room, they weren't among his cards. What if that man took the God cards when he took Yugi?" Seto sighed and thought it over for a second.

"Perhaps you were coming onto the situation wrong. For instance, these are the most powerful cards in existence. I doubt Yugi would keep them with all his other cards. Perhaps he hid them somewhere else. They have been stolen once before so I wouldn't blame him if he kept them in a safe in the Game shop or in the kitchen or something like that." Kisara's eyes lit and she darted up the stairs. "Hey!" She didn't respond until she burst into her grandfather's room and moved to the closet. She pushed a few clothes to the side to reveal a black safe with a keypad and a six-digit passcode.

"Hm. Let's see. 060499." A red light flashed next to the pad. Kisara shook her head and tried again. "100440." Another red light. "Dang it. 022870." Another red light lit up. Kisara tried 031341 but got another red light. She swallowed lightly, calming herself down before trying again. "071988." The red light flashed again. Tears lightly welled in her eyes as she went to press the 0 again. She took a deep breath and entered "081496." A green light turned on and an audible click echoed in the room as the door opened. Inside were the three Egyptian God cards.

Kisara collected the cards and sighed as she shut the door. She made to stand but bumped into Seto's legs. She hadn't noticed him coming in.

"I'm guessing August 14 is your birthday?" Kisara nodded.

"Can we go back to the house now?" she asked. Seto nodded, took her free hand in his and headed for the door.

Pheonix: Well, that ends this chapter. Hope you'll stick around with me and I also want to thank all of you for reading my stories since I started on Yu-Gi-Oh.