Chapter 8
Battle of a Feline's Fancy
Hey there reader! I worked really hard against my slight writer's block to finish this chapter for you! I hope you like!!
"Oh there he is!" Mokuba called out as he saw Bakura walk towards them. The others turned to Bakura slightly irritated at his taking off with no hint as to where he went.
"We were looking for you! We were wor---" Tea chastised sternly, about to go into full friendship speech mode
"uhhh let that wait Tea, ok? We have other things to worry about" Tristan interrupted knowing where she was going to take her speech to. Yugi looked up from the map
"Thanks to Mokuba we finally found the hotel" he said relief and fatigue evident in his voice
"Yeah! Come on it's this way!" Mokuba piped up, happy that he was smarter than everyone else; or so he thought. They all followed Mokuba, who sure enough led them to the deluxe hotel as promised.
"Wow its so..... Huge...." Tea whispered awed at the size of the hotel.
They checked in with the front counter. A dark skinned man answered to the impatient Joey who was ringing the desk bell like crazy. He eyed them warily with his dark almost back eyes
"How may I help you?" he asked rather snootily, at his tone everyone but Mokuba stiffened. Mokuba poked his head above the counter
"We have reservations for six deluxe suite quarters" he said sounding years older than he really was. The man at the counter raised a lone brow,
"Name?"
"Kaiba" at the name the man visibly became friendlier
"Ah yes! Your brother has already paid! Well welcome to the 'Tut's Palace'! Here are your keys! If you need anything just call room service and we will serve you any way we can! You are our honoured guests!" the man greasily smiled, trying very hard to be friendly. Yugi looked over at Mokuba a smile dancing on his lips
'That little sneak! He used his brother's name! What a kid!' he thought amusedly. Joey grabbed the keys
"Thanks dude" he said not bothering to try to read the man's name off his nametag.
"Hey alright!! My own deluxe suite!! An' I don't hafta share!! This rocks!!" Joey exclaimed ecstatic at the prospect of his own room, everyone else just rolled their eyes.
They unpacked in their respective accommodations and met again at an appointed time in the luxuriously decorated lobby. They were all there except Mokuba.
"What can be taking him so long?!" Joey whined, desperately wanting to go back to his room and hopping into his personal hot tub.
"Be patient idiot!" Bakura snarled grumpily. Everyone turned to look at him surprised that 'Ryou' would say something like that. He stared at them back with a 'screw you' look on his fine-looking features. Finally fifteen minutes later Mokuba showed up, but with a companion.
"Isn't she gorgeous?" Mokuba asked obviously taken by the beauty of the elegant white feline sitting contentedly in his arms.
"uhhh" everyone replied not sure what to say, Mokuba oblivious to them continued
"I named her Tiddles!! Whaddya think??!! I found her outside my room looking for food!! I'm gonna keep her!!" he exclaimed happily as he snuggled the cat close to him. Joey and Tristan came up and began to stroke her fur
"She sure is a beaut," Joey said
"Yeah!" Tristan agreed transfixed. Tea and Yugi exchanged worried glances
"Umm... Mokuba you can't keep pets in the hotel...." Tea attempted
"That's why I'm gonna hide her!" Mokuba argued defensively, not wanting to let her go. But the feline had other plans as she jumped lithely from Mokuba's clutch.
"Tiddles!!" he shouted out distressed, he ran after the fleeing cat.
"Oh no!" Tea moaned as they started after Mokuba.
The cat darted out into the crowded open market narrowly escaping being crushed by feet as she loped underneath them. A distraught Mokuba who was trailed by Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea and Bakura followed her.
The feline raced ahead and dashed into a shadowy alley. Mokuba pursued her into the alley, soon Yugi and the others caught up to him.
"Tiddles?" Mokuba cautiously called into the gloomy darkness.
"Whoa, this alley is dark-and creepy" Tristan murmured unaccustomed to the ominous shade after being in the bright Egyptian sun.
"Yeah I have a bad feeling about this" Yugi whispered nervously clutching his puzzle
'I wish that Yami were here with me' he thought sadly
'I'm here aibou, I'm never really away from you' a deep voice in Yugi's head responded
'Yami!' Yugi thought overjoyed to hear him again
'Yes' his dark replied
'But something is not right....'
'You feel it too?' Yugi asked puzzled
'Yes... I feel...... magic'
'Of course! That's what I feel too!' Yugi replied anxiously
'Well to be safe, I think I should take over for now' before Yugi could respond, Yami had seized control over Yugi's body.
Nobody noticed the transformation, nobody except Bakura.
'Hmm... The Pharaoh is in control.... This could prove interesting' Bakura mused darkly. Mokuba started forward but Yami stopped him
"Mokuba! Stay where you are!" he ordered, Mokuba a little frightened by Yugi's sudden personality change obeyed. The white cat walked out of the shadows surrounded by at least eight other black cats.
"Tiddles?" Mokuba whimpered uncertainly slightly nervous by the deranged but very human look in her swirling eyes. He gasped for he never noticed that feature before.
The cat yowled once and it morphed into a tall young woman.
Yami and Bakura stared in extreme astonishment,
Tea looked as if she were going to faint,
And Tristan and Joey looked on their jaws hanging open in disbelief.
"K-K-KK---Kara?!?!?!" Yami choked out, his heart had nearly stopped at the sight of his once dead lover. He continued to stare, his red-violet eyes wide with shock that slowly changed into a rapturous euphoric happiness.
'She is alive!!' Yami thought elated. But his happiness was cut short as she narrowed her sparkling gold-green eyes on him,
"I do not know this Kara you speak of, I am Baatzu" she said, her voice was like ice, her frosty hostility hit Yami with great force.
His heart dropped.
The other cats at her gesture transformed into dark-skinned dark-haired women. By the look on their faces, they were definitely not friendly.
Baatzu's eyes flicked down to Yami's puzzle, his hand involuntarily lashed up to touch it in a protective gesture, she also caught a glance of Bakura's ring. She licked her red lips hungrily, her lime-green eyes flashing with intent.
"Millennium Items...." she whispered in a malicious accent. Yami backed away from her slowly, when all of a sudden she sprung forward, a curved sharp rapier raised above her head.
She tried to sever Yami's head from his neck but he was too quick for her, and he ducked out of the way.
"Ugh" she grunted as she pulled her blade out of the limestone wall.
"Get the others!" she hissed to the other cat-turned women, they obeyed as they lunged at Tea, Mokuba, Tristan, Joey, and Bakura. Baatzu turned back to Yami who had grabbed one of the women and stolen her rapier.
"So you wanna fight, eh?" she laughed, and then she continued
"Your item will be mine. And you will, well die!" she chuckled at this as if it were funny.
Yami could not believe that this girl was Kara, no he refused to believe, but still this girl looked like Kara, and deep down in his heart he knew it was....
She swung her blade at Yami who blocked it, but with some difficulty.
"Give up, I will be victorious!" she hissed wickedly, her now amber eyes flickering with malice.
Yami's heart broke as he gazed into her ill-wishing eyes, eyes that when they last looked apon him were filled with immeasurable love, love for him.
Now they were just cold and vengeful, he grunted as he swung his blade to the side, aggressively causing her to lose her tight grip on her rapier.
The blade shrieked as it was flung onto the ground. Angrily Baatzu looked at Yami,
"You bastard!!" she growled furiously, she lunged at him her hands reaching for his throat.
She knocked him onto the ground; she was on top of him, her nails clawing at his throat.
Judgement clouded with rage at being attacked, Yami flipped her over so that he was now on top, he held her slender wrists against the ground; she thrashed about under his domineering strength and weight.
She was infuriated!
But she knew he was not going to release her if she resisted. With a heated sigh she forced her body to go limp under his burden.
Yami was surprised when she stopped struggling against him; he gazed at her, his heart stopping at her beauty, beauty that he thought he would never see again.
The familiarity of the pose they were in, started to influence him. Without thinking he leaned down and his lips tenderly touched hers.
Revolted that a man was touching her like this, Baatzu tried to wrench away from his unwanted kiss.
But he pushed on and forced her mouth open with his, she gagged as his tongue explored her mouth.
Yami savoured her intoxicating memorable sweetness as he pressed his way deeper in her mouth.
Because she was weakened, his kiss started to affect her; she slowly sunk into a pleasurable state of awareness as she accepted him eagerly.
With each stroke of his tongue a luminous shade of the rainbow poured into her soul, it was as if her essence was empty and colourless without his kiss.
Each caress filled her with intense ruby reds, dazzling emerald greens, bright sunny yellows, brilliant indigo blues, and radiant luscious purples.
She was on fire in a way she never felt before....or had she?
She felt his hands around her wrists loosen, but she didn't care as she explored his mouth, her soul was in flames and she was filled to the brim with so many beautiful colours.
But as quickly as she had been sucked into his dizzying spell, the sounds of the violent conflict around her, broke her out of it.
'No!! I cannot be doing this!!' her mind all of a sudden screamed at her, slowly being brought to reality she got increasingly disgusted as Yami teased her tongue with his.
She opened her eyes, shocking blue they darted frantically looking for something to rescue her.
Her free left hand inched along the ground, after a moment of doing this she felt a round rough shape of a rather large stone.
She choked as she tried to reject him; rage filled her as he shoved his tongue further then she would have preferred.
Her hand closed around the rock and she swiftly brought it to his head, with a loud 'THWAK!!!' he broke the kiss violently.
She kicked him off of her and leaped up into a standing position. She glared at him coldly for violating her like that; he looked up at her, hurt evident in his amethyst eyes.
When she gazed into his eyes, something in her soul stirred, as the result from something moving in her, her glare softened.
Afraid that Millennium Item possessor was going to see that, she turned shamefully away.
She spoke to the other women who accompanied her in the Egyptian dialect.
At something she said they all nodded and backed away from the person they were attacking.
With one last look at Yami she and the others took off and disappeared into the depths of the alley. Stunned the group just stared stupidly after them.
Yami got up and swiftly sprinted after them, he was determined not to lose her again. Without a word Bakura also broke away from the group and chased after him.
Yami ran long and hard, his feet pounding rhythmically onto the ground, he was breathing hard as he squinted his red-violet eyes to see his way in the dark obscurity, the alley twisted and turned, and finally he came to a dead- end.
"No!" he cried out as he pounded his fists on the hard sandstone wall.
A few moments of desperate beating later, Yami heard another presence behind him breathing hard. He turned to face the infamous tomb-robber better known as Bakura.
The slender white haired boy was bent over, his hands on his knees, gasping for air.
When he noticed that Yami's amethyst eyes were fixed on him, he levelled his dark ones to his light ones
"What?" he asked casually, his brown eyes flashing, daring Yami to answer.
Yami said nothing, he was higher than that, Bakura's mind games did not affect him in the least. Bakura looked around
"Looks like they're not here" he said trying to be cool about it, Yami narrowed his eyes at his rival's poor job of disguising what sounded like....concern?
"Why do you care if they're here or not?" Yami hissed coldly, suspicion evident in his frigid handsome face. Bakura eyed him up and down; if looks could kill Yami would have been dead by now
"That, great Pharaoh, is none of your concern" he sneered calmly, his voice matching Yami's iciness.
Bakura's chocolate brown eyes never left Yami's violet ones as he slowly turned to walk away.
Yami let out a sigh when the despicable tomb-robber left his presence.
He stole one last glance at the wall, when he was satisfied that there was nothing there, he turned and trailed after Bakura.
A pair of swirling feline eyes glowed curiously in the shadows; they watched the one named Yami unhurriedly stride away.....
Hoped you liked this! The next chapter will be up as soon as I type it up! Have a happy new year!
Peace out!
-magick-angel
Hey there reader! I worked really hard against my slight writer's block to finish this chapter for you! I hope you like!!
"Oh there he is!" Mokuba called out as he saw Bakura walk towards them. The others turned to Bakura slightly irritated at his taking off with no hint as to where he went.
"We were looking for you! We were wor---" Tea chastised sternly, about to go into full friendship speech mode
"uhhh let that wait Tea, ok? We have other things to worry about" Tristan interrupted knowing where she was going to take her speech to. Yugi looked up from the map
"Thanks to Mokuba we finally found the hotel" he said relief and fatigue evident in his voice
"Yeah! Come on it's this way!" Mokuba piped up, happy that he was smarter than everyone else; or so he thought. They all followed Mokuba, who sure enough led them to the deluxe hotel as promised.
"Wow its so..... Huge...." Tea whispered awed at the size of the hotel.
They checked in with the front counter. A dark skinned man answered to the impatient Joey who was ringing the desk bell like crazy. He eyed them warily with his dark almost back eyes
"How may I help you?" he asked rather snootily, at his tone everyone but Mokuba stiffened. Mokuba poked his head above the counter
"We have reservations for six deluxe suite quarters" he said sounding years older than he really was. The man at the counter raised a lone brow,
"Name?"
"Kaiba" at the name the man visibly became friendlier
"Ah yes! Your brother has already paid! Well welcome to the 'Tut's Palace'! Here are your keys! If you need anything just call room service and we will serve you any way we can! You are our honoured guests!" the man greasily smiled, trying very hard to be friendly. Yugi looked over at Mokuba a smile dancing on his lips
'That little sneak! He used his brother's name! What a kid!' he thought amusedly. Joey grabbed the keys
"Thanks dude" he said not bothering to try to read the man's name off his nametag.
"Hey alright!! My own deluxe suite!! An' I don't hafta share!! This rocks!!" Joey exclaimed ecstatic at the prospect of his own room, everyone else just rolled their eyes.
They unpacked in their respective accommodations and met again at an appointed time in the luxuriously decorated lobby. They were all there except Mokuba.
"What can be taking him so long?!" Joey whined, desperately wanting to go back to his room and hopping into his personal hot tub.
"Be patient idiot!" Bakura snarled grumpily. Everyone turned to look at him surprised that 'Ryou' would say something like that. He stared at them back with a 'screw you' look on his fine-looking features. Finally fifteen minutes later Mokuba showed up, but with a companion.
"Isn't she gorgeous?" Mokuba asked obviously taken by the beauty of the elegant white feline sitting contentedly in his arms.
"uhhh" everyone replied not sure what to say, Mokuba oblivious to them continued
"I named her Tiddles!! Whaddya think??!! I found her outside my room looking for food!! I'm gonna keep her!!" he exclaimed happily as he snuggled the cat close to him. Joey and Tristan came up and began to stroke her fur
"She sure is a beaut," Joey said
"Yeah!" Tristan agreed transfixed. Tea and Yugi exchanged worried glances
"Umm... Mokuba you can't keep pets in the hotel...." Tea attempted
"That's why I'm gonna hide her!" Mokuba argued defensively, not wanting to let her go. But the feline had other plans as she jumped lithely from Mokuba's clutch.
"Tiddles!!" he shouted out distressed, he ran after the fleeing cat.
"Oh no!" Tea moaned as they started after Mokuba.
The cat darted out into the crowded open market narrowly escaping being crushed by feet as she loped underneath them. A distraught Mokuba who was trailed by Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea and Bakura followed her.
The feline raced ahead and dashed into a shadowy alley. Mokuba pursued her into the alley, soon Yugi and the others caught up to him.
"Tiddles?" Mokuba cautiously called into the gloomy darkness.
"Whoa, this alley is dark-and creepy" Tristan murmured unaccustomed to the ominous shade after being in the bright Egyptian sun.
"Yeah I have a bad feeling about this" Yugi whispered nervously clutching his puzzle
'I wish that Yami were here with me' he thought sadly
'I'm here aibou, I'm never really away from you' a deep voice in Yugi's head responded
'Yami!' Yugi thought overjoyed to hear him again
'Yes' his dark replied
'But something is not right....'
'You feel it too?' Yugi asked puzzled
'Yes... I feel...... magic'
'Of course! That's what I feel too!' Yugi replied anxiously
'Well to be safe, I think I should take over for now' before Yugi could respond, Yami had seized control over Yugi's body.
Nobody noticed the transformation, nobody except Bakura.
'Hmm... The Pharaoh is in control.... This could prove interesting' Bakura mused darkly. Mokuba started forward but Yami stopped him
"Mokuba! Stay where you are!" he ordered, Mokuba a little frightened by Yugi's sudden personality change obeyed. The white cat walked out of the shadows surrounded by at least eight other black cats.
"Tiddles?" Mokuba whimpered uncertainly slightly nervous by the deranged but very human look in her swirling eyes. He gasped for he never noticed that feature before.
The cat yowled once and it morphed into a tall young woman.
Yami and Bakura stared in extreme astonishment,
Tea looked as if she were going to faint,
And Tristan and Joey looked on their jaws hanging open in disbelief.
"K-K-KK---Kara?!?!?!" Yami choked out, his heart had nearly stopped at the sight of his once dead lover. He continued to stare, his red-violet eyes wide with shock that slowly changed into a rapturous euphoric happiness.
'She is alive!!' Yami thought elated. But his happiness was cut short as she narrowed her sparkling gold-green eyes on him,
"I do not know this Kara you speak of, I am Baatzu" she said, her voice was like ice, her frosty hostility hit Yami with great force.
His heart dropped.
The other cats at her gesture transformed into dark-skinned dark-haired women. By the look on their faces, they were definitely not friendly.
Baatzu's eyes flicked down to Yami's puzzle, his hand involuntarily lashed up to touch it in a protective gesture, she also caught a glance of Bakura's ring. She licked her red lips hungrily, her lime-green eyes flashing with intent.
"Millennium Items...." she whispered in a malicious accent. Yami backed away from her slowly, when all of a sudden she sprung forward, a curved sharp rapier raised above her head.
She tried to sever Yami's head from his neck but he was too quick for her, and he ducked out of the way.
"Ugh" she grunted as she pulled her blade out of the limestone wall.
"Get the others!" she hissed to the other cat-turned women, they obeyed as they lunged at Tea, Mokuba, Tristan, Joey, and Bakura. Baatzu turned back to Yami who had grabbed one of the women and stolen her rapier.
"So you wanna fight, eh?" she laughed, and then she continued
"Your item will be mine. And you will, well die!" she chuckled at this as if it were funny.
Yami could not believe that this girl was Kara, no he refused to believe, but still this girl looked like Kara, and deep down in his heart he knew it was....
She swung her blade at Yami who blocked it, but with some difficulty.
"Give up, I will be victorious!" she hissed wickedly, her now amber eyes flickering with malice.
Yami's heart broke as he gazed into her ill-wishing eyes, eyes that when they last looked apon him were filled with immeasurable love, love for him.
Now they were just cold and vengeful, he grunted as he swung his blade to the side, aggressively causing her to lose her tight grip on her rapier.
The blade shrieked as it was flung onto the ground. Angrily Baatzu looked at Yami,
"You bastard!!" she growled furiously, she lunged at him her hands reaching for his throat.
She knocked him onto the ground; she was on top of him, her nails clawing at his throat.
Judgement clouded with rage at being attacked, Yami flipped her over so that he was now on top, he held her slender wrists against the ground; she thrashed about under his domineering strength and weight.
She was infuriated!
But she knew he was not going to release her if she resisted. With a heated sigh she forced her body to go limp under his burden.
Yami was surprised when she stopped struggling against him; he gazed at her, his heart stopping at her beauty, beauty that he thought he would never see again.
The familiarity of the pose they were in, started to influence him. Without thinking he leaned down and his lips tenderly touched hers.
Revolted that a man was touching her like this, Baatzu tried to wrench away from his unwanted kiss.
But he pushed on and forced her mouth open with his, she gagged as his tongue explored her mouth.
Yami savoured her intoxicating memorable sweetness as he pressed his way deeper in her mouth.
Because she was weakened, his kiss started to affect her; she slowly sunk into a pleasurable state of awareness as she accepted him eagerly.
With each stroke of his tongue a luminous shade of the rainbow poured into her soul, it was as if her essence was empty and colourless without his kiss.
Each caress filled her with intense ruby reds, dazzling emerald greens, bright sunny yellows, brilliant indigo blues, and radiant luscious purples.
She was on fire in a way she never felt before....or had she?
She felt his hands around her wrists loosen, but she didn't care as she explored his mouth, her soul was in flames and she was filled to the brim with so many beautiful colours.
But as quickly as she had been sucked into his dizzying spell, the sounds of the violent conflict around her, broke her out of it.
'No!! I cannot be doing this!!' her mind all of a sudden screamed at her, slowly being brought to reality she got increasingly disgusted as Yami teased her tongue with his.
She opened her eyes, shocking blue they darted frantically looking for something to rescue her.
Her free left hand inched along the ground, after a moment of doing this she felt a round rough shape of a rather large stone.
She choked as she tried to reject him; rage filled her as he shoved his tongue further then she would have preferred.
Her hand closed around the rock and she swiftly brought it to his head, with a loud 'THWAK!!!' he broke the kiss violently.
She kicked him off of her and leaped up into a standing position. She glared at him coldly for violating her like that; he looked up at her, hurt evident in his amethyst eyes.
When she gazed into his eyes, something in her soul stirred, as the result from something moving in her, her glare softened.
Afraid that Millennium Item possessor was going to see that, she turned shamefully away.
She spoke to the other women who accompanied her in the Egyptian dialect.
At something she said they all nodded and backed away from the person they were attacking.
With one last look at Yami she and the others took off and disappeared into the depths of the alley. Stunned the group just stared stupidly after them.
Yami got up and swiftly sprinted after them, he was determined not to lose her again. Without a word Bakura also broke away from the group and chased after him.
Yami ran long and hard, his feet pounding rhythmically onto the ground, he was breathing hard as he squinted his red-violet eyes to see his way in the dark obscurity, the alley twisted and turned, and finally he came to a dead- end.
"No!" he cried out as he pounded his fists on the hard sandstone wall.
A few moments of desperate beating later, Yami heard another presence behind him breathing hard. He turned to face the infamous tomb-robber better known as Bakura.
The slender white haired boy was bent over, his hands on his knees, gasping for air.
When he noticed that Yami's amethyst eyes were fixed on him, he levelled his dark ones to his light ones
"What?" he asked casually, his brown eyes flashing, daring Yami to answer.
Yami said nothing, he was higher than that, Bakura's mind games did not affect him in the least. Bakura looked around
"Looks like they're not here" he said trying to be cool about it, Yami narrowed his eyes at his rival's poor job of disguising what sounded like....concern?
"Why do you care if they're here or not?" Yami hissed coldly, suspicion evident in his frigid handsome face. Bakura eyed him up and down; if looks could kill Yami would have been dead by now
"That, great Pharaoh, is none of your concern" he sneered calmly, his voice matching Yami's iciness.
Bakura's chocolate brown eyes never left Yami's violet ones as he slowly turned to walk away.
Yami let out a sigh when the despicable tomb-robber left his presence.
He stole one last glance at the wall, when he was satisfied that there was nothing there, he turned and trailed after Bakura.
A pair of swirling feline eyes glowed curiously in the shadows; they watched the one named Yami unhurriedly stride away.....
Hoped you liked this! The next chapter will be up as soon as I type it up! Have a happy new year!
Peace out!
-magick-angel