Chapter 13 – The Kidnapper
It was a dark and starry night over the city of Domino. It was getting quiet and everyone was heading home, ready to sleep. The whole day, Yugi and the gang have been hanging out together, doing nothing but talking and laughing. It was nice they were able to do something fun and productive despite the problems they were dealing with. Something to lift up their spirits, even if it was only for a short while.
"What a good day today was," smiled Tristan.
"Ya said it Tristan! I say we should do this more often," laughed Joey.
"Still, despite all the fun we had, you think it was such a good idea?" asked Duke.
"What you mean?" asked Serenity in wonder.
Duke crossed his arms and sighed, "What I mean is that, should we really be relaxing while this Aeru is running around? I mean, I don't want to be a kill joy or anything, it just seems doesn't right…"
"The whole point for doing this was to ease Yugi and the pharaoh's trouble!" argued Tea, "They have so much to worry about and I think they deserve a little time off, just to help them relax and think more clearly."
"Thank you Tea" smiled Yugi as he looked up at the brunette and then faced all of his friends, "And to all of you as well. Though, I think the pharaoh needed it more. I just wish he could enjoy it…"
"What's wrong with the pharaoh Yugi?" asked Tristan.
"He has been quiet for a while now…I tired talking to him, but he told me something was really bothering him and it was just best if I enjoyed the day with you guys," explained Yugi sadly.
"That bad, huh? Damn man, what's with Aeru's problem anyways?" asked Joey angrily, "So what if the pharaoh took away the title from him? Doesn't mean he should just go after him and try to kill him or sumthin."
"Joey. You do realize the two of them are like 5,000 year old Egyptians and that they take this seriously," glared Tea. She focused her attention towards the ground and lowered her voice, almost like she was mumbling, "Aeru…those two are brothers and he is the only connection that could lead to the pharaoh's past…there's no reason they should be fighting each other."
"Hey now, everyone! We need to cheer up," said Serenity as she took a step in front of everyone and faced them, "I'm sure we didn't have fun today, just to be sad again. Whatever happens, happens. For now, we gotta enjoy the happiness we have now while we got it."
"Ya make it sound like it's going to be the end of the world sis," laughed Joey, only to see Serenity giving out a pouting face to him and placing her hands on her hips. Joey sweat-dropped and faced everyone with a smile on his face, "Serenity is right! We had fun today! No reason to get down at the moment! Will have plenty of time to worry things when it happens!"
"You're only agreeing because she is your sister," laughed Tristan.
"What's ya point!" yelled Joey as he raised a fist at him, only to hear a responsive laugh from everyone.
Yugi gave out a soft smile as he stared at his friends. They were doing so much for him and for the pharaoh. Everyone was right though, we all have to enjoy the little things they have now while we still can. Who knows what could happen. Still, he couldn't help himself but worry about the pharaoh. He knew if the pharaoh faced Aeru and won, he would lose his only possible connection to his past.
The gang continued walking down the street and were about to pass by Kaiba Corp. As they reached the building, they saw a black car pulling up next to the building entrance and a tall man in suit stepping out of it. He wore black sunglasses, despite how dark Domino City got. Yugi and the gang quickly stopped in their tracks and watched the man in the suit leaving the side of his car and running inside of Domino City. It wasn't too long until he came back out with a little boy with long black hair in his arms, heading straight towards the car in a hurry.
"Hey! Isn't that Roland?" asked Duke.
"With Mokuba in his arms?" asked Tea.
Yugi quickly rushed up and called out towards the man, "Roland!"
The man placed Mokuba in the black car and looked around, wondering who had just called his name. He saw Yugi running towards him with his friends following close behind and waved his hand at them.
"Mister Yugi and company. If only tonight was a good night to see you all, but sadly it's not at the moment," said Roland.
"What happened? What's wrong with Mokuba?" asked Tristan.
"I had received a call, hearing that young Mokuba and mister Kaiba were attacked in the building and that they must be taken to the hospital at once," explained Roland.
"Attacked?" asked everyone at the same time, completely shocked.
"The lady had notified me and told me to come to the building as quickly as possible. Ah, there she is with mister Kaiba. Excuse me for a moment," said Roland as he quickly raced off towards the lady that was carrying Seto.
The gang watched as Roland took Seto off the woman and carried him into his car. The woman had a worried expression as she stared at Seto. She then focused her attention towards Yugi and his friends and titled her head in confusion.
"Who are you?" asked the woman.
"Sorry. I'm Yugi and these are my friends," said Yugi as he introduced himself and his friends to the woman, "We know Seto and Mokuba. What happened to them?"
"I'm Michaela by the way," said the woman as she introduced herself back to them, "And the two were attacked by a man in a black robe."
"A man in a black robe?" asked Yugi.
Michaela nodded her head weakly, "Yes. His name was Revenant and he handed me some kind of black rod and a knight card."
Yugi had that shocked and surprised look on his face, "A black rod and a knight card?"
Michaela nodded again and saw Roland waiting for her by the car. She quickly bowed her head at Yugi, "I'm sorry, but I must be going now."
"May we come?" asked Tea, "We want to know more on what happened and see how the two Kaiba brothers will be doing."
"We can also tell you more information from what we know," added Joey.
"I guess it will be alright. I will be heading to the main Domino City hospital. I'll make sure to let the people at the front desk know you are friends with Seto," said Michaela. After that, she quickly ran into the car with Roland and sped away on the road.
"Well come on! Let's hurry and meet up with them!" yelled Serenity.
"Domino City hospital isn't too far ahead," said Duke.
The gang nodded in agreement and all ran as fast they could towards their destination. As they were running, two black robed duelists appeared in a nearby ally, watching their prey running towards the hospital. They looked each other for a moment and nodded. They opened a dark portal as they extended their hands behind them and walked inside of it, the vortex closing instantly behind them.
Yugi and the others quickly rushed into the hospital and towards the front desk. Yugi told the nurse that they were here to see Seto Kaiba and the lady gave told him that Seto was on the second floor and what room number he was resting at. Yugi nodded, thanked the nurse, and headed towards Seto's room with everyone following close behind him.
As everyone got to the second floor and reached Seto's room, they saw Michaela sitting down right next to his door. Michaela turned her head towards the gang and quickly got up with a light smile on her face.
"Yugi!"
"Michaela!" replied Yugi as he rushed towards her. He turned his head to face the closed door and then back towards Michaela, "What are you doing here outside of Seto's room?"
"Seto is not at his room right now. He is at surgery at the moment. He got a dislocated elbow, but the doctor told me he'll be fine," answered Michaela, "And I'm sorry Yugi."
"For what?" asked Yugi in confusion.
"When I heard your name, I was wondering why it sounded so familiar and I found out you are the King of Games and the one who won Seto's tournament. It's really an honor to meet you," smiled Michaela as she offered her hand towards Yugi.
Yugi smiled and took her hand, doing a formal handshake. Tea than noticed something and checked around the hallway, trying to find some kind of clue. Joey than raised his eyebrow, wondering what she was doing.
"Uh, Tea?" asked Joey.
"Where are Mokuba and Roland?" asked Tea.
"Don't worry. Roland is with Mokuba. He just got knocked out during the attack, but nothing too serious," replied Michaela.
Roland was sitting down next to Mokuba as he was resting on his bed, his arms crossed and his head slightly tilting down. Unaware to him, a tall blacked cloaked figure was standing behind him. The mysterious figure interlocked his two hands together, raising it above and swinging it across towards Roland's head. Roland groaned in pain and instantly fell down off of his chair and onto the ground unconscious. The mysterious figure than slowly walked up to Mokuba and picked him up with one arm.
"Sorry, Seto Kaiba…nothing personal."
"Michaela!" yelled a new voice.
Everyone turned to the direction on where the voice was coming from and they saw Seto slowly walking towards them with a white cast on his left elbow. Michaela had a big smile on her face as she quickly rushed towards him.
"Are you okay Seto? Do you need any help? Don't you need to rest or anything?" asked Michaela worriedly.
"I'm fine, Michaela and I don't need any rest. I just need to take a few painkillers and all is good. Remember, it's just my elbow that's messed up, not my legs," replied Seto. He stared towards his new guests and gave out a sigh of annoyance, "If it isn't Yugi and company. How lucky of me for you all to come here."
"Geez. If that is how ya are going to greet us, I'm glad we didn't bring ya any 'Get Well' gifts," said Joey.
"So what happened to you? We heard you got attacked at your building," said Duke.
"We heard from Michaela it was a black robed figure," said Tristan next.
"He was the same man that attacked the Kaiba Corp. the first time, Revenant Pacis," replied Seto. He then shook his head and shrugged his shoulders, giving out a cold laugh, "Why am I even telling you this? Didn't I tell you to mind your own business and that I was going to handle this on my own?"
"Same ol' Kaiba. You can defiantly tell he is getting better," said Tea as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Oh! I almost forgot! I got something for you Seto from Revenant. He told me to give it to you once you get better," said Michaela. She soon found out that she didn't have it with her and realized she left it in the car. She rubbed the back of her head and stuck out her tongue, her face glowing red in embarrassment, "I left it in the car."
"What?" yelled everyone in shock, except for Seto who just shook his head.
As everyone, mainly Yugi and his gang, were yelling at Michaela for leaving such an important item in the car and unprotected, Serenity turned her head behind her and saw someone passing by down the hallway, away from them. She couldn't tell who it was exactly, being so far away and walking down the hall in the shadow, but something in her told her to follow and she did.
"So anyways, what did Revenant say to you?" asked Tea.
"He told me that the Dark Millennium Rod is used to control this knight card and that two generals have already fallen, one of course was him. Next thing I knew, he vanished into this black mist," shrugged Michaela.
"Is that it?"
The voice was coming behind Seto and Michaela and everyone turned towards the direction of the new voice. Bakura stood there with his hands inside his coat pockets and had a wicked grin on his face. Joey, Tristan, and Duke quickly raised their guard up, ready for anything that was up Bakura's sleeve knowing how he was.
"What are you doing here?" asked Joey.
"Bakura…are you with Aeru or what?" asked Tristan next.
"Because if you are, you will have a lot things to worry about than a duel," yelled Duke.
"Relax you fools, I'm not with Aeru. I was never with him in the first place, so think of me as a temporary ally," laughed Bakura darkly.
"I suppose that's good, right?" asked Tea.
"Did you face one of Aeru's generals?" asked Yugi as he took a step closer to Bakura.
Bakura gave another laugh and pulled something out of his pocket. He held an exactly replica of his Millennium Ring with the exception of it being entirely black.
"Does this answer your question?" grinned Bakura.
"That's defiantly a Dark Millennium item," yelled Joey.
"Maverick, the fool I faced, is one of Aeru's four dark generals. He told me when all four knights and the Dark Millennium items that control them are together, they lead a straight path to Aeru," explained Bakura.
"So two down, another two to go then," said Tristan.
"Revenant also told me something else. He said "You may have won the battle, but the war hasn't even begun yet,"" said Michaela.
"A war huh?" asked Duke.
'A war?' asked Yami.
'Yami! You're here!' yelled Yugi excitedly in his thoughts.
'Sorry Yugi for not being around lately. I've just been thinking for awhile now. Lately though, I've been feeling something horrible going on,' said Yami.
'Like what?' asked Yugi in curiousity.
"Mister Kaiba!"
Everyone turned their heads to see Roland running towards them, rubbing his head as if he just hit with something.
"Roland! What are you doing here? What happened to Mokuba?" asked Michaela.
"What's going on Roland?" yelled Seto.
"Someone knock me out and took young Mokuba away! I tried looking for him, but I failed," explain Roland, giving out a sigh of disappointment to himself.
"Where is Serenity?" asked Joey as he looked around for his little sister.
Everyone noticed the young red head was nowhere to be found and began to get nervous. Seto was concerned with his own matter at hand worrying about his little brother. Bakura, on the other hand, seemed to be enjoying that everyone was panicking with problems they were facing.
"You looking for this young lady?"
"And this boy?"
Everyone once again turned their heads towards a new set of voice and saw two black cloaked figures. One was carrying a still unconscious Mokuba over his shoulder while the other one was holding Serenity in a hostage sort of way with his right arm around her neck. Joey saw light tears coming down her cheeks and his face quickly turned from worry to complete anger, including Seto.
"Release them!" yelled Joey and Seto at the same time.
"You want them?" asked the first robed figure.
"Then come and get us," said the second robed figure next.
The mysterious figure that was carrying Mokuba quickly moved him towards his chest and hugged him tightly, running towards the window and jumping right through it. Everyone gasped as they saw the figure jump out of the second floor window and saw he had landed the ground on his bare feet, completely unharmed as well as Mokuba. The second mysterious figure that was holding Serenity quickly carried her with his two arms and jumped through the hole his companion made and also landed on the ground, both he and serenity completely unharmed.
Seto and Joey as well jumped out of the window and did a roll as soon as they soon hit the ground and quickly got onto their feet. Everyone was amazed at what Joey and Seto had done and quickly headed towards the stairs to meet them. Bakura, with a grin on his face, just stood where he was and decided to watch them from where he was at through the broken window. As soon as everyone was together outside on the ground, Joey pointed his finger towards the two cloaked figures.
"Ya better release them or things are just goin' to get messin' between you and me!" yelled Joey angrily.
"Please, as if I would trust you on saving Mokuba, Wheeler," groaned Seto in annoyance.
"My sister is on the line rich-boy! Don't think I'm going to let them win!" snapped Joey as he glared towards Seto.
"That's why I'm going to duel them," replied Seto calmly, "Which one of you will be my opponent?"
"Neither of them. You will of course be facing me instead," said a female voice behind the two cloaked figures.
As the figured emerged out of the shadows behind the two, everyone couldn't help but gasp in surprise, mainly the guys. Bakura even gave out a whistle, surprised at what he saw and Seto couldn't think straight for a second. What stood before them was a young woman with long brunette hair with matching brown eyes. She wore a black robed figure, just like the others, but everyone could tell she had a very slim body and all the guys were thinking the same thing, she was completely gorgeous.
"What a babe!" yelled Tristan and Duke excitedly, ignoring Tea's death glare.
"Wha-wha-wha-wha-wha," stutter Joey, failing to make a least a complete sentence as he stared at the beautiful woman in front of him.
Seto gave out a cough to clear his throat and gave out his serious face, but there was still a slight blush on his face though that was hardly noticeable, "So, you're my opponent?"
"No," smiled the woman coldly, "I'm here for Joey Wheeler."
"Me?" asked Joey as he pointed a finger to himself in surprise.
"What?" yelled Seto, now completely serious, "You think I will let Wheeler here face you knowing what is at stake? I'm not trusting Wheeler to save Mokuba or his sister!"
"Why you-!" yelled Joey as he clenched his teeth together as he stared at Seto.
The woman gave out a cold laugh and waved her index finger at Seto, winking at him, "Sorry Kaiba. My target is Wheeler and besides, you already had your fun with Revenant when Michaela took your place. Once I'm done playing with Joseph here, then I'll gladly sink my teeth into you."
Seto growled in disapproval, but it seemed like everything was in place. Joey cracked his knuckles and his neck and stretched his legs as he found out he was actually going to duel. Once he was done stretching, Joey gave out a huge cocky grin up on his face and took a step towards the woman.
"I'll gladly take you on! It'll be nice to face one of Aeru's generals. I've hadn't got a good duel after the whole Dartz thing. Just got to let you know though, I won't hold back just because you're lady. Also, I'm going to make you pay for kidnapping Serenity and Mokuba, so be prepared as I bring twice the pain!" yelled Joey.
"Hahaha! That's the spirit! I just love to break toys like you! Let's see if little underdog Wheeler can beat me," laughed the woman.
"Joey," whispered Serenity softly as she was watching her brother from the other side.
"Don't worry Serenity! Joey will make sure to get you out of this mess!" yelled Tea, trying to support Serenity from afar.
"Ya can talk crap about me all you want, but when someone goes after my sister, you are just begging me to open a can of whoop-ass on you!" yelled Joey, "I'll make you regret your actions!"
"You better not lose Wheeler," growled Seto quietly as he walked away and towards the gang at the back, giving Joey his dueling space.
"Remember Joey! Think before you act! Knowing how this duel will be, she will probably go into your head and mess you up!" yelled Yugi.
"Got it Yug'! I'll make sure to keep a cool head!" replied Joey.
"Well than, shall we begin?" grinned the woman as she pulled out her black colored duel-disk out of her sleeve.
"Before we start, I would like to know your name first so I'll remember who I beat into the ground," grinned Joey.
"Aren't you the gentleman. Very well," smiled the woman coldly, "My name is Beatrice Valria, one of Aeru's four dark generals! There is something you should also know…," Beatrice slowly pulled down her collar to reveal a shiny black necklace around her neck, "I am the wielder of the Dark Millennium Necklace! Your fate had already been sealed before this match ever begun!"
End of Chapter 13
Next Chapter – Beatrice, the Beauty and the Beast Duelist
YES! Finally done! Sorry for keeping you all waiting for these past few months! Think of it as a late Christmas present from me to you all! I hope it was good and you all enjoyed it! The next part is the annoying part, but luckly there is no school so there shouldn't really be any excuses on an update, but remember, I got two other stories I need to update first before I work on the next one, but I'll still get to work on it okay? Okay! Anyways, leave a review! Good, bad, don't care! Please?