A/N: Thank you for waiting so patiently! Anyway, since yesterday was Chinese New Year, me and Lyn were hoping to put up 5 chapters. As you probably noticed, we couldn't. TT But, today, we're gonna try our best to put up ten! No promises, but WE'RE GONNA TRY!
Oh, yeah, and we have only one character left to take! We need one more hater, people, so get those creative juices flowing and send us one last app!
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For ten minutes, the gang had been walking around looking for duels. All this time, Joey kept going on about how great it was that he had seven star chips.
"I swear," Reneey whispered to Lyn, "if he says 'I have seven star chips' one more time..."
"I'm not really sure you should be so overconfident, Joey," Tristan advised.
"Yeah, well, I got seven star chips and how many d'you got!?"
People thirty miles away might have thought that there was an explosion just then.
"OKAY! YOU HAVE SEVEN STAR CHIPS! WE GET THE POINT! I HAVE SEVEN, TOO, BUT DO YOU HEAR ME RANTING ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT IT!? NO! SO STOP -- BEATING -- THE DADBURNED -- DEAD -- HORSE! AND LEARN A LITTLE HUMILITY, IDGET!"
Lyn stood in front of Joey, one hand clenched at his collar, the other at her side with her fingernails all but digging the blood out of her palm. Joey seemed frozen in shock, and so did most of the others -- all except Reneey, who did look a little surprised but was also pouting because now she wouldn't get to go off on him.
Suddenly the anger slid off of Lyn's face and she let go of his collar, a look somewhere between disgust and regret on her face. Then she shook her head and turned away, muttering, "Jeez, it's Jay made over..."
And then she stalked off, bumping into Tristan's elbow and almost knocking Tea down. She didn't look back or apologize, but she didn't really seem angry, either.
Mokuba blinked and looked from Lyn to Joey to Yugi to Reneey before saying slowly, "Er.. I'm guessing that wasn't just about star chips?"
Reneey sighed. "Lyn doesn't like people who brag. A minute or two is fine, but when you go on about it for ages, well.. it's not pretty. It's best to leave her alone till she cools down."
"But what if she loses her star chips and gets boated off the island!?" Yugi objected.
Reneey shrugged. "She'll get back, trust me. She'll swim if she has to," she added with a grin. Then she looked around. "Hey.. where's Mokuba!?"
The gang looked around, but the younger Kaiba sibling was nowhere to be found. Mokuba had left to find Lyn.
"GODDAMN IT!"
"Lyn! Lyn!" Mokuba yelled as he ran through the woods and tried to search for her. Meanwhile, cries of "Mokuba!" could be heard from the gang as they tried to search for Mokuba. But just then he could care less, he needed to find Lyn. He couldn't really explain it, but in a way he had come to look up to her, like a big sister.
"Hey!" a voice called suddenly. "Where do you think you're going, kid!?"
Just then Kemo appeared from somewhere in the trees in all his pointy-haired glory and approached Mokuba with a smirk.
Mokuba froze, his mouth open. Oh, no!
"I.. well..." Then, in desperation, he pointed in a random direction and yelled, "LOOK!"
Kemo looked, and when he turned back, Mokuba was gone.
"HEY, GET BACK HERE!" Kemo yelled as he ran.
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Lyn was sitting on the branch of a tree about eight or ten feet off the ground with her head on her knees and her arms wrapped around her legs. It was times like this when she disliked her temper and her family the most. They weren't content with just making her miserable before, they even had to somehow impose themselves upon her emotions NOW. Well, at least she had finally figured out why Joey had always bugged her so much...
Mokuba's voice came through the trees; he was calling her name. Lyn closed her eyes and sighed. She really should go back, even though she didn't really know what to say for herself when she did.
Then Mokuba's voice stopped abruptly, and a crease appeared between Lyn's eyebrows. Was that someone else's voice she heard? But she didn't recognize it.. at least not off the top of her head... Maybe one of Pegasus's goons who were out searching for the duelists who had run out of star chips!?
She leapt out of the tree with practiced ease just as Mokuba yelled something. A few seconds later, the other voice -- and it was definitely another voice -- yelled something, too, and Lyn's eyes narrowed. She took off through the trees, hoping to find Mokuba before whoever the person it was yelling at him did.
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Mokuba was running as fast as he could through the trees and grass with that goon right behind him. He had to get away, he just had to!
Then BUMP! He tripped over a rock, which was horrible because it gave Kemo time to catch up. The pointy-haired goon picked him up, smirking, and said, "So you thought you could get away, huh?"
"Look out!" Mokuba yelled once more, again pointing over Kemo's shoulder.
"If you think that's gonna work again, then you're stupider than I thought," Kemo growled.
Then WHAM! A fist collided with the side of Kemo's head. Knocked off balance, he released Mokuba, who backed away with wide eyes.
Lyn's green eyes were wide and livid and there was something almost animalistic about her fury at that moment. "Didn't anybody ever teach you to keep your hands to yourself, scumbag?" she growled as she stepped protectively between Kemo and Mokuba.
"Maybe," Kemo said in response, his lip twisting now in a snarl instead of a smirk, "but those lessons never did seem to stick. You know, like the one about not hitting girls."
Lyn chuckled humorlessly and said in a lethal hiss, "Go ahead and give it your best shot."
"LYN!?"
"MOKUBA!"
The voices of the others were suddenly audible, faint and far off, and Kemo's eyes darted toward the sound. "If you hurry you can get away before you wind up with a load of angry duelists on your hands," Lyn advised mockingly.
"Or I could just take care of you and take the kid before they get here."
"I keep telling you to take your shot," Lyn said, and she smirked as she asked, "What, afraid of a girl?"
"HERE, WE'RE OVER HERE!" Mokuba yelled to the others, and at the same time, Kemo moved to take a kick at Lyn's ribs.
She sidestepped just in time, blocking low with her forearm, but the metal strap of Kemo's boot sliced into the skin as she did so. She aimed her own kick which Kemo also deflected, but apparently was too distracted by this to notice the follow-up punch -- at least, until it caught him square in the jaw.
"You made me bleed," Lyn observed with narrowed eyes, still not taking her gaze from Kemo. "You don't make me bleed and walk away."
"You don't attack Mr. Pegasus's security," Kemo shot back. "I can have you disqualified for this."
Lyn's lip curled. "I can have you in the hospital for this."
"GODDAMN IT!" Reneey growled out as the gang finally arrived. "Mokuba, if you make us go on a wild goose chase one more time -- and you --"
She turned to glare at Kemo. "WHAT'S YA BIG FUCKING DEAL, PICKING ON A MOTHER FUCKING CHILD!?" Hey, she couldn't take her anger out on Joey because Lyn had already done that, so Kemo was the perfect target!
Kemo took a couple of steps back; crap, there were too many of them...
"Lyn!" Tea cried suddenly. "You're bleeding!"
"Thank you, Captain Obvious," Lyn said scathingly, and it was in the split second while her glare switched to Tea that Kemo made his move, dodging past her and grabbing Mokuba. By the time she whirled back around, he was behind the dark-haired boy, holding him in a vicegrip with one hand wrapped around the side of his face.
Lyn must have sounded possessed as she took a step forward and growled, "Leave -- him -- alone."
"Back off, girl," Kemo said with an air of confidence even though he was trying his hardest not to sweat. "I can break the kid's neck from here before you've come two steps."
"The only problem is that you can't do that," Lyn told him, shaking her head but nonetheless not moving forward. "Pegasus and the Big Five need him, they'll kill you if you hurt him."
Kemo stared. "How do you know that!?"
"That's none of your concern. The point is that I can see through your bluff."
"Then why haven't you made your move yet?" Kemo asked with a smirk.
Then out of the blue, WHAM! A kick hit him in the chest. Kemo took a couple of steps back, but maintained his death grip on Mokuba.
"Listen up! I really don't like running, especially when it ruins my eyeliner, so I suggest you fuck off, drop the kid, and leave!" Reneey threatened all in one breath.
"Lyn, you're hurt!" Yugi said in concern, then looked at Kemo and added, "I'll duel you! And if I win, you leave!"
Both of the girls twitched, and Lyn scoffed before saying, "Please, I've had worse cuts from five-year-olds wielding plastic spoons."
Reneey blinked and asked, "Lynn... when is the gay clown dude comin'? So when that duel's over, say we beat the fucking hell out of Kemo here?"
"Either of you touch me again and I'll have you kicked off this island!" Kemo gasped out, having had the wind knocked out of him.
"There's this thing called water, idget," Lyn muttered.
"We can swim," Reneey finished. Then she paused and added, "Wait.. are there any sharks in that water?"
"Who the crap cares, exactly?" Lyn demanded, now switching her glare to Reneey. "He won't do anything, because Pegasus will be too curious to know how I know this stuff, and he can't find out if some idget with a grudge ships me off to Domino."
Kemo glared at Lyn and then looked back at Yugi, seemingly sizing him up, and laughed. "I don't duel, myself, but I'll find you an opponent. And if you win, these two little scum whores get to stay in the tournament.. and I might even consider letting the kid go."