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~Chapter 5~
~Attacked~
Yami no Bakura could feel the pull of dark energy strengthen as he made his way towards his destination. He looked from side to side, hoping to spot
his target. His ring glowed in anticipation, mirroring his own emotions. He slowed his walk, feeling the energy reach it's peek. I know he's here
somewhere, thought Yami no Bakura, I just have to figure out the exact area. He closed his eyes, and started to 'reach out'. He could see
every movement made, every sound, every smell. He saw green...he saw yellow...he saw...Him! There!
Yami no Bakura snapped his brown eyes open, and looked up towards the sky. He heard a faint cackle, and a blur of green whiss by. It flew off into the distance, and the power faded away.
"That was him!" he whispered angrily to himself, "He escaped!" He clenched his fist, cursing at himself. Trying to calm himself, he thought, No matter. I'll be able to recognize his energy pattern next time he's around. Yami no Bakura smirked, looking up in the direction the green man had fled. We'll meet again. Oh, yes, we will.
The next day...
Yuugi smiled. Jounouchi thought it was because his best friend understood the math problems, but he was wrong. Yuugi had no clue what the square root of 6598
was, but that was beside the point. Yuugi was happy because of what happened yesterday.
Even though he wasn't able to control all of his gifts just yet(like the webs; what would he use them for?? And the strength; not only was he not able to control it either, but he didn't want to in the first place; he didn't want to actually hurt anyone!), but he was able to design a good looking costume, even with the low amount of materials he had at hand. He thought he had done a pretty good job on it, and was proud of himself; his costume was even stored away in his backpack. But, he still wasn't quite sure if he could handle himself in battle.
//I'll help you there, aibou,//
/How?/
//I could be in control of your body if you wish,//
/W-what?? Why can't I?/
//I never said you couldn't. All I am saying is that I wish you not to get hurt, and if I help, there will be less of a chance that you will. But, it's your own desition; you can do this on your own if you wish.//
Yuugi's smile faded a bit. /...Actually, it *would* be nice not to be alone in this.../
//*smiles* Thank you, aibou. I promise I won't let you down.//
Yuugi broke the connection, and started to pay more attention to the math lesson. On one hand, it would be great to have Yami no Yuugi help him. But, on the other hand, didn't this make him seem a bit...weak...?
Yuugi sighed to himself; oh well, he'd figure this whole thing out later.
Yuugi drifted away for a moment, letting his senses dull a bit. He wasn't even aware the bell had rung, signaling it was time to go to the next class.
"Yuugi!" Jounouchi shouted to his friend. "Come on, we're going to be late for English!"
Yuugi blinked, bringing himself back to reality. He looked up at his tall blonde friend, and smiled. "I'm coming, Jounouchi-kun, don't worry."
Yami no Bakura still had control over Bakura's body. Right then, he was in Mr.Parker's English class, in disguise as Bakura. He acted innocently and shyly, the perfect double
of his omote. He mentally chuckled; no one knew the truth of his sceme.
He looked around, and took in his surroundings. Mr.Parker wasn't here yet, but written across the chalkboard in kanji was 'Free Time!'. Heh. Foolish mortal. Didn't he realize that chaos would insue if he left the class alone for even five minutes? Especially the one the spirit of the ring of was in? Yami no Bakura hadn't expected much more.
Yami no Bakura saw Jounouchi, Yuugi, and Kaiba all together at one table. Let the chaos insue.
Yuugi rolled his violet eyes. Dear god, what was to become of him? Jounouchi and Kaiba were arguing. Again. At first, it seemed pretty normal, but now they were insulting each other's
dueling skills.
"You couldn't duel your way out of a paper bag, mutt,"
"Speak for yourself! You're the one with the paper bag over your head! Which by the way, is really a good excessory for you, Kaiba,"
"You wouldn't be able to recognize style if it hit you over the hit with a duel disk!"
"Grr! Big words, cape boy!"
"At least I'm not dog boy."
"You creep, I should--!"
"Please, stop fighting!" shouted Yuugi.
"Stay out of this," hissed Kaiba, "I don't need your input."
"Hey, don't talk to Yuugi that way!"
"I don't need your input either, poodle,"
"Poodle??"
"Please, Kaiba-kun, Jounouchi-kun! Stop it!" Yuugi blasted, way louder than he wanted to. He slammed his fists on the desk, cracking it down the middle.
Jounouchi and Kaiba became silent. Jounouchi's eyes were bugging out of their sockets, while Kaiba was more well kept together, but still looked thoroughly surprised. "H-how did you do that?" Jounouchi stuttered.
Yuugi blushed tomato red. "Um, weak wood?" he gulped, then shifted his gaze to the side. "But please, don't insult each other like that. Can't you settle your dispute in another way?"
Jounouchi suddenly smirked. "Good idea, Yuugi," he said, then pointed at Kaiba. "Kaiba, I challenge you to a duel!"
Kaiba laughed cruelly. "Me? Duel you? Why should I?"
"Why shouldn't you?" Jounouchi raised an eyebrow.
"Give me a break, mutt,"
"Oooh, so now you're afraid of the scruffy old mutt, huh?" challenged Jounouchi.
"Now you're pushing your luck."
"Alright, I understand, poor Kaiba's too afraid he'll show me up," Jounouchi continued, hoping his trick would work. "Too bad. I was really looking forward to kicking your butt."
Remaining as calm as possible, Kaiba simply stated, "I'm not afraid of some chihuahua, and you know it."
Yuugi sighed, covering his face up with his hands. Good grief.
"Then prove it," Jounouchi challenged.
"Fine, I'll duel you, just to get you from nipping at my ankles, dog," Kaiba hissed.
Jounouchi grinned triumphantly, as he pulled out his dueling deck. "We'll see who's the dog, Kaiba,"
Kaiba got out his deck as well, and placed it to the left of the crack in the desk. Yuugi uncovered his violet eyes to watch the duel. Hopefully, Jounouchi wouldn't get humiliated again like he did in Duelist Kingdom.
The two drew five cards from their decks, as the duel started. A crowd started to form around the three, to get in on the action.
"I place one card face down, and put my armored lizard on the field in attack mode," stated Jounouchi.
Kaiba smirked. "Your first mistake, pathetic dog."
Yuugi watched the duel continue intently, as Jounouchi's lifepoints went down, as did Kaiba's. Jounouchi's dueling skills really had improved recently, and it was showing. He might even have a chance of beating Kaiba! Yuugi smiled for his best friend; that would be really impressive.
Yuugi continued to watch, slowly drifting back into his own world. He saw everything that was happening, but all sound fell on deaf ears; all his heard was this faint ringing sound...
The ringing slowly turned into buzzing. Then, it started to vibrate in his skull. Yuugi frowned, wondering what was making that sound. Then, he realized it; it was his danger sense, warning him of something! But what?
Yuugi started to look around himself, to see what might hurt him; he didn't see anything around the group of people and himself.
Jounouchi noticed Yuugi's strange behavior, and looked up from the duel for a moment. "Yuugi? What's wrong?" he asked.
Kaiba blinked, looking up too. Yuugi narrowed his eyes, and directed his attention to the window. His eyes widened.
"Yuugi--?" Jounouchi tried again.
"Everyone, get down!" Yuugi shouted, startling everyone.
"Wha--?" Jounouchi sputtered, grabbing his deck protectively, Kaiba mirroring Jounouchi's movement.
"Now!" spat Yuugi, knocking Jounouchi to the side, and off his chair. Everyone else dived for the floor as well, from the unknown terror.
A green figure collided into the window, glass spraying everywhere. Yuugi guarded his and Jounouchi's heads with his muscular arms, which were then covered by his school uniform. The glass shards clattered to the ground, making a tinkling sound like a bell going off. Kaiba ducked underneath the desk and covered his face with his coat-covered arm, while the rest of the class were laid out on the floor, covering their respective heads.
After the glass had settled, Yuugi looked up, and gasped. The man from his dreams was there! The man with the cackle and the green mask, with the horrifying yellow eyes...
The sounds of exhaust and powered engines filled the air, blocking out almost all other sound, except for the Green Goblin's voice. "Kaiba!" he hissed, looking down at the crouched figure of the CEO under the desk.
Kaiba looked up as well, a surprised look on his face. "W-what?" he stuttered, the fear that didn't show on his face echoing in his voice. "What do you want with me? Who the hell are you??"
"Me?" Goblin pointed to himself mockingly, "Well, I'm just a concerned tourist taking out the trash of this city!" He cackled maniacally out loud, reminding Yuugi of his dream, sending a shiver down his spine.
Kaiba's eyes widened, as he tried to back away from the looming figure of the Green Goblin on his glider. Gobby didn't let him go far, though, as he flew towards the teenage genius, and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. He lifted him up in the air, knocking the desk backwards. The rest of the students let out a scream of fright, trying the back away from the flying desk. Kaiba kicked his feet in the arm, trying to find the ground. "Let me go!" He shouted.
"Oh, I will, Seto Kaiba; off the building, very soon!" Goblin cackled once more, as he flew out the broken window, and towards the top of the school building, clutching onto the screaming CEO.
Jounouchi's chocolate brown eyes were wide with fear and disbelief, as he sat up and watched Goblin fly out the window. "Oh my god," he whispered to himself. All of the students had cleared out of the room, or were still trying to, all very afraid. Jounouchi felt bad for Kaiba; as much as he hated that guy, he didn't want him to be killed! Jounouchi bit his lower lip. "Yuugi, we've got to call the police of something--!" he said to his friend. Silence. He looked beside himself for the short boy, but found that he had disappeared. "Yuugi?"
Yuugi ran down the school hallways towards the boy's bathroom, bumping into panicked students as he went, panting hard. He had his backpack held tightly in his hand. The
same thought kept on racing over and over again in his head, Hand on, Kaiba-kun, I'm coming!
Kaiba was in a panic; Goblin wanted to kill him! But why? So many thought raced in his head at once, as he flailed around in Gobby's grip, as the evil man continued to fly
up the very top of the school building. "Stop! Stop this!!" he shouted out to Goblin.
"Don't worry, Kaiba, it'll all be over soon," said Goblin evilly.
That didn't comfort Kaiba very much. He continued to kick and punch and arms and legs out, struggling to make the Goblin let him go. He gritted his teeth, glaring into the piercing yellow eyes of the mysterious man's mask. "Why are you doing this?" snarled Kaiba.
Goblin looked down at Kaiba, the anger in his voice contrasting to the insane look on his mask. "Revenge," he hissed maniacally.
"What did I ever do to you??" Kaiba asked, enraged.
"That doesn't matter now," answered Goblin, his tone now calmer, "You should be more worried about your fate than anything else, kid,"
Kaiba narrowed his cold blue eyes at Goblin, but said nothing more. Goblin soon reach the top of the building, and landed on in the middle of it. He jumped off of his glider, and walked towards the edge of the roof. "Let's see," Goblin pondered, "What should I do? Should I wait to throw you off, to let you keep to your thoughts until you're insane with waiting for your death, or just throw you off now and get it over with? Decision, decisions,"
"You're sick!" snarled Kaiba, his shirt collar still in Goblin's grip, as he tried to kicked at Goblin once more.
Goblin chuckled. "Oh, I know, isn't it grand?!"
"And insane!" Kaiba's eye widened.
"Well, it takes one to know one, Kaiba," Goblin countered. He reached the end of the building, and dangled Kaiba's body over the edge of it. Kaiba glanced over the edge of it below him, but immediately wished he hadn't; they were both so high up, that the fall would crush him. If it didn't, than the traffic going by surely would. Kaiba also saw a crowd of people gathering, and heard police sirens in the distance. Kaiba gulped, fearing for his life. "Now, Kaiba, any last words?" sneered Goblin.
Kaiba glanced back at Goblin, and narrowed his eyes, enraged at the evil man. He spat on Goblin's left eye piece, then snarled, "You're a monster, and I hope you rot in hell!"
Goblin growled angrily at Kaiba. "You imbecile!" he snarled, "If I wasn't going to kill you know, I'd kill you!"
"Look in a mirror, greeny, and see who's the real imbecile around here," smirked Kaiba, masking his fear for his life.
Goblin roared. "You die now, Kaiba!"
Yami no Yuugi, now in control of Yuugi's body, ran up the stairs of the building as fast as he could, which was actually pretty fast, all the way to the top of the building. He
got to the top quickly, and slammed the door at the very top of the building open, and gazed at the Green Goblin holding Kaiba over the edge of the building. His eyes widened
as Goblin shouted out, "You die now, Kaiba!"
Goblin dropped the CEO over the building, now cackling insanely. Kaiba started to scream loudly as he plunged to his death. "No!" Yami no Yuugi shouted, as he dashed to the edge of the building, in a desperate attempt to save Kaiba. In one of part of his mind, he was telling himself over and over again that he was insane for even thinking of going after Kaiba, but another part of him(Yuugi) told him his had to.
Goblin continued to laugh madly, unaware of the costumed teenager coming up from behind. Yami no Yuugi reached the edge of the building, and jumped off of it, following Kaiba. He heard Goblin shout out in surprise, just before the sound of wind rushing by him caught his ears.
His heart pounded as his body sped up, since it was lighter than Kaiba's, towards the owner of KaibaCorp. Yami no Yuugi gritted his teeth, as he came up beside Kaiba. The teenager had his eyes shut tightly, and was still screaming. Yami no Yuugi grabbed Kaiba's body, and hugged it towards his own. He lifted his left arm up in the air, but stopped. Yami no Yuugi closed his crimson-violet eyes part way. Ra, please let this work, he thought to himself. Just like on the TV in Yuugi's soul room, Yami no Yuugi brought in his middle in ring fingers tightly into his palm. He heard a soft thwip! sound, as a stream of while sticky webbing shot from his wrist. He aimed that web towards the edge of the roof of the building, in which it stuck to the metal lining like glue. Both bodies stopped falling abruptly, bounced a bit, but were suspended in mid-air. Yami no Yuugi let out a sigh of relief. Note to self-- remind Yuugi to have a heart attack later,
Kaiba was then aware that the air rushing by him had stopped, and that something was holding his around his chest. Kaiba had stopped screaming, and then cracked his eyelids open.
Kaiba then became confused; what had just happened? He looked to his side, and was surprised at what he saw.
What was holding him in the air was a very short boy. He was surprised by his size, but was even more surprised at what he was wearing. The boy had a purple mask covering from the middle of his forehead to the bridge of his nose, with black webs spread across it. There were holes for his eyes, which showed determined crimson-violet eyes. He wore a purple leather spiked neck choker around his neck, and wore a black leather, sleeveless shirt with the same design as his mask down the middle of it, just underneath gold buttons. He had a purple spider on the left side of his chest, it's legs reaching out in all directions. He wore a belt, as well with the same purple and webbed design as the middle of his shirt and his mask, with a gold buckle in the middle. He also wore black leather pants, purple patches on his knees, also with black webs on it. His boots were purple and webbed, too, reaching up to his ankles, his pants tucked into them. He wore purple webbed gloves, and spiked purple bracelets just above the gloves. He had nylon purple webbed fabric wrapped around his left arm, just below his shoulder, showing off his well build muscles. But, what was strangely familiar about this boy, was that he wore a puzzle around his neck, and had wild tri-coloured hair to boot. But, despite his appearance, Kaiba for some reason felt safe in his arms.
Kaiba muttered the first name that came to mind. "Y-yuugi?"
The boy rep(lied) in a deep, masculine voice, "You must have me mistaken for someone else, I am not this Yuugi you know. But, you may called me...Yami Kumo." It felt odd for Yami no Yuugi to lie like that, but he knew that he had to.
Kaiba stared blankly at Yami Kumo. "Dark Spider? That's your name?" he frowned.
"Dark doesn't always mean evil as you can see. Why else would I be saving you?" questioned Yami Kumo.
"I...guess," Kaiba said slowly, trying to register what was happening. It was then he noticed that they were both being held in mid air by only a thin string of some sticky substance, making a lump form in Kaiba's throat. "Oh god," he cursed, now gripping tightly onto the short hero. "Either you're off the bloody deep end for relying on a some thread to keep us from a horrible death, or you know what you're doing. I really hope it's the latter."
Yami Kumo smirked. "Don't worry, we're safe for now, but I think we should go on ground, don't you?"
"Wow, you figured that out all by yourself?" Kaiba said sarcastically.
"Hey, I can always just drop you, you know," Yami Kumo shot back. Of course he wouldn't do that, Yuugi wouldn't let him, but Kaiba didn't know that.
Kaiba shut up, and just nodded. Yami Kumo looked back up, to see that high up back on the roof of Domino High, the Goblin was glaring down at them hatefully. "What does that guy have against you, Kaiba?"
"No clue," blinked Kaiba, but then he frowned. "Hey...how do you know my name?"
Changing the subject hastily, Yami Kumo proclaimed, "Hold on tight!" Kaiba obeyed as Yami Kumo let go of the rope-like thread. Kaiba started to scream again as they free-fell towards the city streets, but stopped when Yami Kumo let loose another strand of webbing, and catapulted them upwards. "Are you insane??" Kaiba shouted.
Yami Kumo didn't answer, and instead concentrated on not hitting his head on the roof. He flipped in the air, letting go of the webbing as soon as he was higher than the building, Gobby snarling angrily at him. Yami Kumo then landed behind Goblin, Kaiba still in his arms. It was then Kaiba noticed how much shorter the mysterious boy was; at least a head! Kaiba couldn't help but stare; the saying 'great things come in small packages' came to mind.
Yami Kumo let Kaiba go. "Kaiba, get out of here, now! It's not safe!"
Kaiba narrowed his eyes. "Hey, just because you saved my life doesn't mean I have to listen to you."
Yami Kumo glared at him. "Kaiba, if you want to live to see you're little brother again, you'll leave!"
Kaiba's eyes widened. "How did you--?" he sputtered, but then looked down with a chuckle. "I see where you're going. Fine, but you haven't seen the last of me."
No kidding, Yami Kumo thought, rolling his eyes as Kaiba ran back down the staircase towards the rest of the building. Yami Kumo looked ahead at Goblin.
"Damn you, why is it always that some punk always gets in my way?!" Green Goblin snarled angrily, calling on his glider. He hopped onto it, and advanced towards the teenage hero. "No matter, at least now I'll be able to squash one bug..."
Spider-man groaned inwardly as he swung on his white webs back towards Domino High. Still no sign of the Goblin! At this rate, Goblin would take over half of Europe by next week! And it was all because
he couldn't track down the green terror. He mentally hit himself. Not only that, but his skipped his class to search for him, so he wasted his time. Smooth, Spidey, real smooth.
Spider-man was about half a mile away from the school when he noticed a green figure and another shorter figure on the school rooftop. "What the--?" he muttered to himself in awe. Could that be the Green Goblin? What was he doing there of all places? And who was that other guy? Wanting his questions answered, he sped up as fast as he could towards the beginning battle ahead of him.
~To Be Continued...~
A/N: *cackle* I got this chapter out sooner than expected! :D I've been writing it non-stop...you guys better appreciate it, even with the cliffy! :P Bah. Don't worry, you'll get the next chapter soon...
after I get some reviews. Reviews for energy! ~_^ So, see ya later! 'Til next chapter!
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