(OK, for those of you Seto Kaiba fans out there, I need to state this so
that I don't get flames and stuff from you: I don't hate him (And that's
not why all of this stuff happens to him) it's just how this thing goes. So
now that I've got that straitened out, I may as well get on with the
chapter. ^_^ Thanks!) [One final thing, thanks to halfcousin for all the
help on this fic ^_^ appreciate it!]
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Roars of sound echoed the hall . . .everyone was embracing themselves for the worst. Yami positioned himself in front of Tea; Tristan flexed his fists; Tea was dragging Kaiba off so that he wouldn't get hurt even more; Kaiba growled at the fact that he was too weak to fight. All anticipating the next assault . . .the deafening footsteps got closer then-
WHIZ!
A lighting ball struck the floor, imprinting a big crater onto the floor.
Tristan backed up into Tea, "That was a close one."
WHIZ!
Another one hit behind them, again missing everyone.
WHIZ! WHIZ!
Two other light balls flew in and boxed them in.
"Looks like we have no choice Yugi!" Kaiba yelled over the incoming footsteps, "WE NEED TO FIGHT!"
"KAIBA YOU'RE BEING RECKLESS!! WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT-" he drowned out. Something, or in fact someone was standing before them. Eyes of sapphire show though the darkness. In fact . . .there were six.
"USE THE KEYBLADE!"
"THE WHAT KAIBA?!"
"THE KEYBLADE YOU IDIOT! THE THING YOU HOLD OVER YOUR HEAD! USE IT ON THE BEAST!" A final light ball was beginning to form in the center of the shadows, the beast was revealed.
Yami was the first to speak, "A-a Ultimate dragon?"
Kaiba twisted away from Tea, "You've got to be kidding."
"Just see for yourself, Kaiba."
With gritted teeth he glanced around, "So it is." He whispered.
"So, it's like Serenity." Tea whimpered. 'If it's what I think it is, then I'm afraid Kaiba is going to have more trouble in this battle then the one that almost killed him.' "You may think I'm crazy guys, but I think that dragon . . .well . . .really isn't a dragon."
Everyone but Yami gave her strange looks, "HUH?!"
"Well, maybe there's a person trapped inside maybe . . ." she whispered to everyone but mostly aimed it at Kaiba, "maybe . . .it's Mokuba." Yami nodded, in order to except the idea. Kaiba, however, flinched at the name of his brother and went back gazing into its eyes.
"You really can't be serious Tea." Tristan said.
"Oh coarse."
Kaiba pulled out his card locket, 'If what Tea says is true then,' he looked back up at the dragon again, 'then I might have to destroy my own brother.'
-*
"Fools," Ansum chuckled to himself, "in seconds that dragon will destroy most of them. But just one." His fastened his eyes on Kaiba, "Seto Kaiba . . .he's the one I need."
Joey had no idea what he meant. '"He's the one I need." What does that guy mean? . . .wait! He said something about Kaiba . . .but I though he was dead!'
"Kaiba," Ansum turned to Joey, as though he knew what he was thinking, "is alive. Just weak and a weak mind is easily persuaded."
-*
Kaiba's eyes became deep blue, "Kaiba, you've been staring at the locket for a long time now. Something wrong?"
He instantly blinked back to normal, "No, no it was nothing." Kaiba went back to staring at the dragon, as though staring in the eyes of someone he once knew.
"KAIBA!" Tristan began waving his hand in front of his face. "EARTH TO KAIBA! ARE YOU IN THERE?" This time, Kaiba didn't reply . . .for there was no time to.
"AH! LOOK OUT!" the light ball that the dragon was forming was unleashed. Time slowed down for a few moments. The light reached all corners of the dark hallway.
"AHHHHH!" Everyone yelled until all was silent . . .an eerily peace.
-*
Ansum's heart was happy. "The end is near, keyblade keeper. You will soon fall as did Sora."
-*
The light soon engulfed by the darkness once more. The floor was covered with the bodies of the intruders except for one: Kaiba was the only one unaffected by the blast.
Kaiba gazed down at the others lying lifeless. "BIG BROTHER!" he turned his head, something was screaming his name within the obscurity; a voice familiar and calming but if what he thought was true was . . .no . . .was the dragon really talking?
"SETO!! YOU GOTTA HELP ME!" There it was again. Now a light bulb went off in Kaiba's head.
"MOKUBA! I'M COMING!" Hiking though the giant holes in the ground wasn't exactly easy, considering that he could barely stand to begin with. But with careful care, Kaiba made his way up to where the voice came from and sure enough him suspicions were true . . .the voice was coming from inside the dragon.
"SETO! I CAN'T HOLD ON!"
"MOKUBA!"
"SETO I . . ." their conversation was cut short. Now someone else had the nerve to interrupt, in the strangest way possible: something at just possessed the dragon.
"So Seto Kaiba we meet again."
"Ansum."
"Yes correct," an evil grin fell across the dragon's face, "I'm here to offer a deal with you."
"What kind of deal Ansum?" the human hissed.
"I can let your brother go you just . . ."
"What?"
"Need to do something for me: open your heart to me . . .let me possess you."
Kaiba scowled, "NEVER ANSUM! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT KIND OF DEAL?!" A scream filled the hallway; the dragon's body was beginning to melt. "MOKUBA!"
But Mokuba didn't answer; his soul and his body were both in too much pain to. His older brother couldn't bear the fact that Ansum was about to torture Mokuba to death, right before his very eyes.
"FINE!" Kaiba spat. "I'll play your little game. . .don't you DARE hurt my little brother or I'll SWEAR that you'll regret it!"
"You really aren't in any position to be making threats Seto Kaiba!" the room began to swirl round and round. In the black earth, the CEO saw a hand reach out from the bitter hallway. "Take it."
Kaiba nodded and grabbed the icy hand; the room stopped spinning . . .they vanished from the hall.
-*
"ugh . . ." Yami stirred; his eyelids seemed to be pasted onto his eyes. "what . . .the . . .heck . . .just happened?" he blinked, the room was a spiral of matter spinning around and round. Yami did notice Tristan though, who was over at the other side of the huge crater that lie in front of them . . .Tea was still out cold.
"YO YUGI! LOOK WHO I FOUND!" Tristan had noticed that Yami had finally woken up. With careful footing and with only a few falls, Yami made his way to Tristan who was kneeing over a small comatose dot: Mokuba.
Mokuba had a look on his face like he was having a good dream, most likely about his older brother; his warm disposition could only make Yami feel a bit more cheery then he was. "He looks cute when he sleeps, doesn't he Yugi?"
"Yes," Yami smiled for the first time in hours, "that he does."
The whispers of the two people above startled Mokuba's sleep. "u-ugh . . .' his big eyes opened, "Y-Yugi . . .T-Tristan . . .I . . ." he looked left and right. "Where's Seto?" the other two turned around also . . .but Kaiba was nowhere to be seen.
-*
Ansum laughed in a hardy evil way. "They really have no idea what's ahead of them do they?" his hazel eyes turned to an untied body behind him, scruffy brown hair dark blue eyes: Kaiba. From a distance, you might have thought that he was a soulless body, he was like a statue . . .didn't blink and stood still.
"Now Kaiba, this was much easier then fighting isn't it?" no answer from the shell, "Not answering are you? I guess you mean yes . . .now," Kaiba's eyes turned hazel, "destroy the one with the keyblade as for the others . . .I'm sure that you can find a thing to do with them . . .now go!"
Kaiba nodded and walked off into the shadows that painted the Great Hall.
-*
Yami was a bit puzzled, "Mokuba, I thought the last time you saw him, he was dead."
"I broke free from Ansum's control because I saw him again. But the last thing that I remembered was Ansum torturing me so that Seto would do something for him and it worked. After that I blacked out from all the pain Ansum caused me." Mokuba explained his story. Tristan and Yami both nodded in sync.
"Wait a minute."
"Huh?" both Mokuba and Tristan whirled around. Yami pointed into the clouds of fog that cover their path . . .clap . . .clap . . .clap . . .
"Something's coming this way . . ."
Clap . . .Clap . . .Clap . . .
"It's getting closer."
CLAP . . CLAP . . CLAP
A slight pause of the clapping . . .their next obstacle was standing right in front of them . . .it was . . .
"SETO!" Mokuba raced over and hugged around Kaiba's knees. 'Kaiba's standing there but there is something different about him . . .'
Kaiba lifted his face up to Tristan and Yami, 'HIS EYES!' Yami gasped. Kaiba's eyes were brown not his usual deep blue.
"Prepare to lose your keyblade." His arm wrapped its way over Mokuba's windpipe. "even if I must kill little Mokuba to do it."
-*
-*
Roars of sound echoed the hall . . .everyone was embracing themselves for the worst. Yami positioned himself in front of Tea; Tristan flexed his fists; Tea was dragging Kaiba off so that he wouldn't get hurt even more; Kaiba growled at the fact that he was too weak to fight. All anticipating the next assault . . .the deafening footsteps got closer then-
WHIZ!
A lighting ball struck the floor, imprinting a big crater onto the floor.
Tristan backed up into Tea, "That was a close one."
WHIZ!
Another one hit behind them, again missing everyone.
WHIZ! WHIZ!
Two other light balls flew in and boxed them in.
"Looks like we have no choice Yugi!" Kaiba yelled over the incoming footsteps, "WE NEED TO FIGHT!"
"KAIBA YOU'RE BEING RECKLESS!! WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT-" he drowned out. Something, or in fact someone was standing before them. Eyes of sapphire show though the darkness. In fact . . .there were six.
"USE THE KEYBLADE!"
"THE WHAT KAIBA?!"
"THE KEYBLADE YOU IDIOT! THE THING YOU HOLD OVER YOUR HEAD! USE IT ON THE BEAST!" A final light ball was beginning to form in the center of the shadows, the beast was revealed.
Yami was the first to speak, "A-a Ultimate dragon?"
Kaiba twisted away from Tea, "You've got to be kidding."
"Just see for yourself, Kaiba."
With gritted teeth he glanced around, "So it is." He whispered.
"So, it's like Serenity." Tea whimpered. 'If it's what I think it is, then I'm afraid Kaiba is going to have more trouble in this battle then the one that almost killed him.' "You may think I'm crazy guys, but I think that dragon . . .well . . .really isn't a dragon."
Everyone but Yami gave her strange looks, "HUH?!"
"Well, maybe there's a person trapped inside maybe . . ." she whispered to everyone but mostly aimed it at Kaiba, "maybe . . .it's Mokuba." Yami nodded, in order to except the idea. Kaiba, however, flinched at the name of his brother and went back gazing into its eyes.
"You really can't be serious Tea." Tristan said.
"Oh coarse."
Kaiba pulled out his card locket, 'If what Tea says is true then,' he looked back up at the dragon again, 'then I might have to destroy my own brother.'
-*
"Fools," Ansum chuckled to himself, "in seconds that dragon will destroy most of them. But just one." His fastened his eyes on Kaiba, "Seto Kaiba . . .he's the one I need."
Joey had no idea what he meant. '"He's the one I need." What does that guy mean? . . .wait! He said something about Kaiba . . .but I though he was dead!'
"Kaiba," Ansum turned to Joey, as though he knew what he was thinking, "is alive. Just weak and a weak mind is easily persuaded."
-*
Kaiba's eyes became deep blue, "Kaiba, you've been staring at the locket for a long time now. Something wrong?"
He instantly blinked back to normal, "No, no it was nothing." Kaiba went back to staring at the dragon, as though staring in the eyes of someone he once knew.
"KAIBA!" Tristan began waving his hand in front of his face. "EARTH TO KAIBA! ARE YOU IN THERE?" This time, Kaiba didn't reply . . .for there was no time to.
"AH! LOOK OUT!" the light ball that the dragon was forming was unleashed. Time slowed down for a few moments. The light reached all corners of the dark hallway.
"AHHHHH!" Everyone yelled until all was silent . . .an eerily peace.
-*
Ansum's heart was happy. "The end is near, keyblade keeper. You will soon fall as did Sora."
-*
The light soon engulfed by the darkness once more. The floor was covered with the bodies of the intruders except for one: Kaiba was the only one unaffected by the blast.
Kaiba gazed down at the others lying lifeless. "BIG BROTHER!" he turned his head, something was screaming his name within the obscurity; a voice familiar and calming but if what he thought was true was . . .no . . .was the dragon really talking?
"SETO!! YOU GOTTA HELP ME!" There it was again. Now a light bulb went off in Kaiba's head.
"MOKUBA! I'M COMING!" Hiking though the giant holes in the ground wasn't exactly easy, considering that he could barely stand to begin with. But with careful care, Kaiba made his way up to where the voice came from and sure enough him suspicions were true . . .the voice was coming from inside the dragon.
"SETO! I CAN'T HOLD ON!"
"MOKUBA!"
"SETO I . . ." their conversation was cut short. Now someone else had the nerve to interrupt, in the strangest way possible: something at just possessed the dragon.
"So Seto Kaiba we meet again."
"Ansum."
"Yes correct," an evil grin fell across the dragon's face, "I'm here to offer a deal with you."
"What kind of deal Ansum?" the human hissed.
"I can let your brother go you just . . ."
"What?"
"Need to do something for me: open your heart to me . . .let me possess you."
Kaiba scowled, "NEVER ANSUM! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT KIND OF DEAL?!" A scream filled the hallway; the dragon's body was beginning to melt. "MOKUBA!"
But Mokuba didn't answer; his soul and his body were both in too much pain to. His older brother couldn't bear the fact that Ansum was about to torture Mokuba to death, right before his very eyes.
"FINE!" Kaiba spat. "I'll play your little game. . .don't you DARE hurt my little brother or I'll SWEAR that you'll regret it!"
"You really aren't in any position to be making threats Seto Kaiba!" the room began to swirl round and round. In the black earth, the CEO saw a hand reach out from the bitter hallway. "Take it."
Kaiba nodded and grabbed the icy hand; the room stopped spinning . . .they vanished from the hall.
-*
"ugh . . ." Yami stirred; his eyelids seemed to be pasted onto his eyes. "what . . .the . . .heck . . .just happened?" he blinked, the room was a spiral of matter spinning around and round. Yami did notice Tristan though, who was over at the other side of the huge crater that lie in front of them . . .Tea was still out cold.
"YO YUGI! LOOK WHO I FOUND!" Tristan had noticed that Yami had finally woken up. With careful footing and with only a few falls, Yami made his way to Tristan who was kneeing over a small comatose dot: Mokuba.
Mokuba had a look on his face like he was having a good dream, most likely about his older brother; his warm disposition could only make Yami feel a bit more cheery then he was. "He looks cute when he sleeps, doesn't he Yugi?"
"Yes," Yami smiled for the first time in hours, "that he does."
The whispers of the two people above startled Mokuba's sleep. "u-ugh . . .' his big eyes opened, "Y-Yugi . . .T-Tristan . . .I . . ." he looked left and right. "Where's Seto?" the other two turned around also . . .but Kaiba was nowhere to be seen.
-*
Ansum laughed in a hardy evil way. "They really have no idea what's ahead of them do they?" his hazel eyes turned to an untied body behind him, scruffy brown hair dark blue eyes: Kaiba. From a distance, you might have thought that he was a soulless body, he was like a statue . . .didn't blink and stood still.
"Now Kaiba, this was much easier then fighting isn't it?" no answer from the shell, "Not answering are you? I guess you mean yes . . .now," Kaiba's eyes turned hazel, "destroy the one with the keyblade as for the others . . .I'm sure that you can find a thing to do with them . . .now go!"
Kaiba nodded and walked off into the shadows that painted the Great Hall.
-*
Yami was a bit puzzled, "Mokuba, I thought the last time you saw him, he was dead."
"I broke free from Ansum's control because I saw him again. But the last thing that I remembered was Ansum torturing me so that Seto would do something for him and it worked. After that I blacked out from all the pain Ansum caused me." Mokuba explained his story. Tristan and Yami both nodded in sync.
"Wait a minute."
"Huh?" both Mokuba and Tristan whirled around. Yami pointed into the clouds of fog that cover their path . . .clap . . .clap . . .clap . . .
"Something's coming this way . . ."
Clap . . .Clap . . .Clap . . .
"It's getting closer."
CLAP . . CLAP . . CLAP
A slight pause of the clapping . . .their next obstacle was standing right in front of them . . .it was . . .
"SETO!" Mokuba raced over and hugged around Kaiba's knees. 'Kaiba's standing there but there is something different about him . . .'
Kaiba lifted his face up to Tristan and Yami, 'HIS EYES!' Yami gasped. Kaiba's eyes were brown not his usual deep blue.
"Prepare to lose your keyblade." His arm wrapped its way over Mokuba's windpipe. "even if I must kill little Mokuba to do it."
-*