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Chapter #15: Air Assault
*~*~*In the sky-Reader's POV*~*~*
"Oh no." Elaya muttered as her Scales did not find any trace of her sister.
"What's wrong?" Yami asked flying on her right on his Curse of Dragon.
"I'm not getting a signal anymore. Justi isn't telling me where the others are!"
"Just look where your magical spirit nonsense got us you two, we're lost thanks to your navigation system..." Seto said giving Elaya a dirty look.
"Shut up Kaiba, I'd like to see you try and find them without a compass!" Elaya shouted angrily over the wind.
"Both of you stop! This is no time to fight.our friends and family need our help, and this isn't the way to do it!" Yami yelled. He looked up for the briefest moments to see birds flying overhead. "Hey, look. A flock of birds." Yami pointed upwards in the direction of where they were. They were nothing more than specks of black in the sky.
"Question is: Are they friend or foe?" Elaya said as she looked up to see the birds in the sky. "Wait a minute.those are Skull Red Birds and they-" before she could get the rest out, a loud bird call was heard and an array of swords struck her Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress. Being 150 ATK points lower, the dragon cried out before breaking apart into tiny fragments of data. Without anything holding her up, she began to fall downwards into the virtual sky screaming for help.
"ELAYA!" Yami yelled. But before he could go down to save her, another array of swords struck his dragon. Even though nothing happened, the swords didn't allow him to move anywhere. "Curse of Dragon! Attack the Skull Red Birds!" A purplish ball appeared in the dragon's mouth and fired into the flock. Three birds were destroyed but there were more.
Kaiba, making his Blue Eyes nose dive at top speeds was trying to catch Elaya, knowing that Yugi was tied up at the moment. Finally, when he was at the right distance below her, he swerved his dragon to the right and she fell with a thud in his arms.
"Gotcha!" He muttered triumphantly as Elaya let out an 'ow that hurt' as she opened her eyes. She smiled nervously after realizing that Kaiba just saved her life.
"Nice.um.catch." Elaya said. "Thanks."
Kaiba just nodded and made his Blue Eyes fly upwards towards Yugi and the persisting Skull Red Birds. "Blue Eyes White Dragon! Attack the remaining Red Birds with White Lightning!" The dragon opened its mouth and let out an electric blue ball and hit all the birds on target.
Yami, recognizing the attack, looked down to see Kaiba with Elaya in his arms. "Good work, Kaiba!"
"Whatever." He answered. "Come on Elaya, summon another monster.I don't want to carry you all day you know."
"Fine." She said. She put her fingers on the top card of her deck and pulled it out.
"I call upon Pixie!" (1450/1100) A bright light shone from the card and a human being with spiky orange hair, red eyes, and long pointed ears, along with purple bat wings and a long purple tail appeared.
"A Pixie?" Seto asked. "That's just as weak as your previous monster. What's wrong with you?"
"I didn't summon her for fighting; I summoned her for her senses. The Pixie has excellent vision and hearing, so maybe, now that I can't reach the others from the Scales, we can find all of them by their voices." The purple Pixie came close to the Blue Eyes and motioned Elaya to come to her. Elaya carefully got out of Kaiba's hands and grabbed onto the Pixie's back. She wrapped her arms around the Pixie's neck and her legs around her waist.
"Pixie? I need you to isolate the sound of a young boy's voice. It's high pitched and should be in a group of people older than him. Okay?" The Pixie nodded and slowly said, "I.will try."
/ Wow, I didn't know these things could talk! / Yugi said to Yami.
\ I guess Kaiba made a few adjustments the last time we were here. I guess that Elaya is trying to find Mokuba's voice because is it the most distinctive. \
/ Yeah, after all, he's the youngest one there so it should be easy to find a younger voice in a crowd of older people. /
The purple Pixie shut her eyes and concentrated on finding the young boy's voice. Her ears began to perk up when she heard it. She began to recite what the young voice was saying. Even though her human language was broken, this time, she talked in perfect clarity.
"Where do you think they are Joey? Do you think that they're coming soon?" Pause. "I think so too. Yugi and Kaiba and Elaya are going to come.and then, my big brother is going to kick that ghost's butt in duelling because he's one of the best." Another pause. "Well, yeah. I guess that any one of them could beat that thing-but you're right Téa, I don't think that this ghost will play by the rules."
"That's Mokuba alright." Seto concluded.
"Which way is it, Pixie?" Elaya asked her flying friend. The purple Pixie pointed a slender finger with a long black nail straight ahead. "If that.is voice you.look for..then it is there.."
Yami nodded and soon they were off into that direction.
\\ This seems too easy Elaya. \\ Justi said. \\ I know Dieen and she is much smarter than this. \\
// Well, I do agree with you, but we don't know if a trap is going to be placed anytime now.so we'll all have to be careful. // Elaya answered nervously. [What if Dieen has more in store for us. What will we do?]
After a long period of flight, Elaya's Pixie stopped suddenly, causing Elaya to be jerked forward and to have Kaiba and Yami almost crash into her.
"What was that for? Is that thing out of her mind?" Kaiba shouted angrily. The Pixie, knowing that it didn't stand a chance in a battle with his dragon glared at him and spoke in a high pitched language that the dragon nodded to.
"Elaya, what is going on?" Yami asked.
"I don't know." Elaya confessed truthfully, "She just stopped. Pixie, what's the matter?"
The purple Pixie smiled and put her hand, palm down, in front of her and touched an invisible wall. She smacked her hand against it several times only to have it rebound back to her instantly.
"That's like the trap card Mirror Force." Yami contemplated as he sat on his dragon.
"We cannot go.any farther than this.in this direction." The Pixie said as she turned around. "There is wall.that no one can break.and it goes on forever." She again spoke in the high pitched language this time to Yami's dragon and it understood.
"If we can't go any further, and the others are in that direction.where do we go now, geniuses?" Seto asked agitated.
"Number one, Kaiba, Pixie only heard the sounds and followed them.she doesn't give a road map on how to get there. She just follows the noises based on how far or how close they are. Number two, if we can't go forward or backwards and if the other's voices are not coming from beside us, then we go down!" Elaya answered with her Pixie nodding along.
"Down?" the Pixie asked. "Hold on." She clutched Elaya's arms that were around her neck and shut her wings. The both of them spiralled downwards with Yami and Kaiba close behind. Pixie shouted something to the two dragons in that high pitched language again and they both came up beside her. They came to a stop when Yami's dragon called out. Elaya's Pixie fanned out her wings and slowly hovered over the ground. The other's dragons landed on the virtual concrete.
"Whoa.what a ride." Elaya said shaking her head, trying to rid herself of the dizziness. "Where are we?" Apparently, along the Mirror Force wall at the bottom, appeared to be some sort of carnival. It had only one attraction: a Fun House.
Yami smiled "I highly doubt that that name is true." Soon, both Kaiba and Yami got off of their dragons and made them return into the cards. Elaya's Pixie, however, dodged the light that was going to suck her back into the card.
"Pixie this isn't a battle! Stop dodging it!" Elaya cried, already pissed that she had the lowest LP in this 'game.' "Fine.just stay out then! I'll put you in defence mode." Pixies acted like toon monsters and avoided all attacks by moving away from them. The Pixie put her feet on the ground, closed her wings and walked up to the Fun House. It was kind of like a house of mirrors but with a lot more than just that. She tried to enter the House with them but she hit an invisible barrier again. Sighing out of defeat, she stood by the entrance way and watched as Seto, Yami and Elaya entered in without difficulty.
"Be careful." Pixie said as the three of them turned the corner and walked into a Mirror Maze.
*~*~*In the Dungeon-Reader's POV*~*~*
Dieen watched in her invisible form as the mortals that were stuck in her dungeon talk. The 'dungeon' was actually the card Nightmare Cage. She chuckled as she heard all the false hope the young boy had of escaping. [Foolish little brat. He thinks that he'll get out of here alive. Not if I can do anything about it...I need this bunch of mortals for power and I'm positive that the Pharaoh's Puzzle will supply me with much more than that. Regardless if they somehow manage to get out of here, I will be taking one of them down with me...I wonder if I'll have any volunteers.] She chuckled softly at the thought. [I want my sister's power-not to have the power of healing-but just for the essence of it. All seven of the Millennium Items have limitless power...and technically I have three of them already. Yami Marik and Yami Bakura are tucked away safely within the Shadow Realm at the moment..full of anger and hate for the Pharaoh himself. I've agreed that if I free the Shadow Realm, they would be second in command after me. And they've also helped me to find all of these weak spots to further my plan. It's great to be Queen of your own world.too bad my sister didn't have time to experience it] Dieen's thoughts were quickly broken by the sound of the human's chatter.
"Mokuba.are you sure that you can get us out of here?" Tristan asked.
"If I could I would.but the entire system's been corrupted. Usually, my brother would say, "End game" and it would automatically shut-down-but only to his voice. If he does say 'end game' then we-"
"-would probably be stuck in here forever?" Dieen called to them from outside the dungeon. "That would be fine by me.I'm always lonely."
Teresa ran up to the bars and yelled in Dieen's face "You are a sick twisted monster!"
"Why thank you.I don't usually get compliments like that often."
"How can you do this? Why are you doing this?" she asked her.
Dieen laughed. "Simple. Because I can." She slowly disappeared again with her laughter ringing out in their ears.
"Hey, Téa? Are you alright?" Joey asked. She had been awfully quiet this entire time.
"How can I be alright, Joey?" She snapped. "Yugi, Kaiba and Elaya are off wandering somewhere trying to find us, not knowing where they are going and we're stuck in here without anything to eat or drink.how can I be alright when so much is happening?" Her head sank below her folded legs. "I'm so afraid right now of what's happening..and what's gonna happen soon."
*~*~*Fun House-Reader's POV*~*~*
"Be careful." was the last thing they heard from the Pixie standing guard outside. Kaiba didn't think that she was going to be much of a guard with a defence status of 1100. Elaya told him bluntly to shut up and to not voice opinions unless they're good ones.
The 'Fun House' was indeed a maze of differently distorted mirrors in various colours and shapes. All they saw were reflection images of themselves repeating into the never-ending mirror reflections. As they were walking around aimlessly, not knowing where to go, it suddenly got very dark in the Fun House. Then, all the mirrors inside reflected an image of Dieen.
"Having fun now, are we?" She asked in a mocking tone.
"Enough with the games, spirit!" Yami said looking into one of the mirrors. "Just show us where our friends are and I'll duel you for the freedom of all of us."
"Once again, Pharaoh, I choose my opponent. You'll need to find them on your own."
"Give me back my little brother!" Kaiba yelled and in a fit of rage he took his fist and smashed it into one of the mirrors that held Dieen's image. In the split second before the mirror shattered, Seto saw an image of his brother doubling over in pain in a dark and mysterious room that was also filled with Yugi's and Elaya's friends and family
"MOKUBA!" he screamed as he watched his brother fall to the ground. Suddenly, the image of his brother disappeared.only to leave another mirror behind it with Dieen's mocking smile.
"Remember? I can transfer pain. Any damage inflicted on me goes straight to your loved ones."
Seto stared wide-eyed at the spirit in front of him. She shook her head, "You don't believe that any of this is real do you Seth-I mean Kaiba? Well, apparently, right now, your brother is crying and asking what happened. I would be honoured to tell him that his big brother just punched him in the stomach."
"Don't you dare!"
"Whatever you say.Seth." She smiled wickedly at them. "I'm surprised that you made it this far. Did you have fun free-falling dearest sister?"
Elaya didn't answer her. [So, it was her who made those Red Birds come out of no where and attack us.]
"Well, I must be off now.and remember have fun! After all, this is why things like this were built!" Laughing into a fit of hysterics, Dieen's image began to fade away. That's when Elaya began to tap her finger against the mirror. Over and over again she saw her mom looking up and around trying to figure out where the tapping was coming from. Finally, the mom stopped looking around and began to understand that the taps came at different intervals and for different amounts of time.
"Elaya, what are you doing?" Yami asked standing besides her looking into the mirror, staring at his friends and family. Elaya stayed silence until she saw her mom smile. Then, she stopped tapping and looked at Kaiba and Yami.
"Morse Code. My mom and I know it."
"What message did you send to her?" Kaiba asked.
Elaya smiled. "We are coming. Tell Mokuba that his brother didn't mean to hurt him at all. Don't worry, we're coming." She turned and they began to follow the maze again.
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Chapter #15: Air Assault
*~*~*In the sky-Reader's POV*~*~*
"Oh no." Elaya muttered as her Scales did not find any trace of her sister.
"What's wrong?" Yami asked flying on her right on his Curse of Dragon.
"I'm not getting a signal anymore. Justi isn't telling me where the others are!"
"Just look where your magical spirit nonsense got us you two, we're lost thanks to your navigation system..." Seto said giving Elaya a dirty look.
"Shut up Kaiba, I'd like to see you try and find them without a compass!" Elaya shouted angrily over the wind.
"Both of you stop! This is no time to fight.our friends and family need our help, and this isn't the way to do it!" Yami yelled. He looked up for the briefest moments to see birds flying overhead. "Hey, look. A flock of birds." Yami pointed upwards in the direction of where they were. They were nothing more than specks of black in the sky.
"Question is: Are they friend or foe?" Elaya said as she looked up to see the birds in the sky. "Wait a minute.those are Skull Red Birds and they-" before she could get the rest out, a loud bird call was heard and an array of swords struck her Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress. Being 150 ATK points lower, the dragon cried out before breaking apart into tiny fragments of data. Without anything holding her up, she began to fall downwards into the virtual sky screaming for help.
"ELAYA!" Yami yelled. But before he could go down to save her, another array of swords struck his dragon. Even though nothing happened, the swords didn't allow him to move anywhere. "Curse of Dragon! Attack the Skull Red Birds!" A purplish ball appeared in the dragon's mouth and fired into the flock. Three birds were destroyed but there were more.
Kaiba, making his Blue Eyes nose dive at top speeds was trying to catch Elaya, knowing that Yugi was tied up at the moment. Finally, when he was at the right distance below her, he swerved his dragon to the right and she fell with a thud in his arms.
"Gotcha!" He muttered triumphantly as Elaya let out an 'ow that hurt' as she opened her eyes. She smiled nervously after realizing that Kaiba just saved her life.
"Nice.um.catch." Elaya said. "Thanks."
Kaiba just nodded and made his Blue Eyes fly upwards towards Yugi and the persisting Skull Red Birds. "Blue Eyes White Dragon! Attack the remaining Red Birds with White Lightning!" The dragon opened its mouth and let out an electric blue ball and hit all the birds on target.
Yami, recognizing the attack, looked down to see Kaiba with Elaya in his arms. "Good work, Kaiba!"
"Whatever." He answered. "Come on Elaya, summon another monster.I don't want to carry you all day you know."
"Fine." She said. She put her fingers on the top card of her deck and pulled it out.
"I call upon Pixie!" (1450/1100) A bright light shone from the card and a human being with spiky orange hair, red eyes, and long pointed ears, along with purple bat wings and a long purple tail appeared.
"A Pixie?" Seto asked. "That's just as weak as your previous monster. What's wrong with you?"
"I didn't summon her for fighting; I summoned her for her senses. The Pixie has excellent vision and hearing, so maybe, now that I can't reach the others from the Scales, we can find all of them by their voices." The purple Pixie came close to the Blue Eyes and motioned Elaya to come to her. Elaya carefully got out of Kaiba's hands and grabbed onto the Pixie's back. She wrapped her arms around the Pixie's neck and her legs around her waist.
"Pixie? I need you to isolate the sound of a young boy's voice. It's high pitched and should be in a group of people older than him. Okay?" The Pixie nodded and slowly said, "I.will try."
/ Wow, I didn't know these things could talk! / Yugi said to Yami.
\ I guess Kaiba made a few adjustments the last time we were here. I guess that Elaya is trying to find Mokuba's voice because is it the most distinctive. \
/ Yeah, after all, he's the youngest one there so it should be easy to find a younger voice in a crowd of older people. /
The purple Pixie shut her eyes and concentrated on finding the young boy's voice. Her ears began to perk up when she heard it. She began to recite what the young voice was saying. Even though her human language was broken, this time, she talked in perfect clarity.
"Where do you think they are Joey? Do you think that they're coming soon?" Pause. "I think so too. Yugi and Kaiba and Elaya are going to come.and then, my big brother is going to kick that ghost's butt in duelling because he's one of the best." Another pause. "Well, yeah. I guess that any one of them could beat that thing-but you're right Téa, I don't think that this ghost will play by the rules."
"That's Mokuba alright." Seto concluded.
"Which way is it, Pixie?" Elaya asked her flying friend. The purple Pixie pointed a slender finger with a long black nail straight ahead. "If that.is voice you.look for..then it is there.."
Yami nodded and soon they were off into that direction.
\\ This seems too easy Elaya. \\ Justi said. \\ I know Dieen and she is much smarter than this. \\
// Well, I do agree with you, but we don't know if a trap is going to be placed anytime now.so we'll all have to be careful. // Elaya answered nervously. [What if Dieen has more in store for us. What will we do?]
After a long period of flight, Elaya's Pixie stopped suddenly, causing Elaya to be jerked forward and to have Kaiba and Yami almost crash into her.
"What was that for? Is that thing out of her mind?" Kaiba shouted angrily. The Pixie, knowing that it didn't stand a chance in a battle with his dragon glared at him and spoke in a high pitched language that the dragon nodded to.
"Elaya, what is going on?" Yami asked.
"I don't know." Elaya confessed truthfully, "She just stopped. Pixie, what's the matter?"
The purple Pixie smiled and put her hand, palm down, in front of her and touched an invisible wall. She smacked her hand against it several times only to have it rebound back to her instantly.
"That's like the trap card Mirror Force." Yami contemplated as he sat on his dragon.
"We cannot go.any farther than this.in this direction." The Pixie said as she turned around. "There is wall.that no one can break.and it goes on forever." She again spoke in the high pitched language this time to Yami's dragon and it understood.
"If we can't go any further, and the others are in that direction.where do we go now, geniuses?" Seto asked agitated.
"Number one, Kaiba, Pixie only heard the sounds and followed them.she doesn't give a road map on how to get there. She just follows the noises based on how far or how close they are. Number two, if we can't go forward or backwards and if the other's voices are not coming from beside us, then we go down!" Elaya answered with her Pixie nodding along.
"Down?" the Pixie asked. "Hold on." She clutched Elaya's arms that were around her neck and shut her wings. The both of them spiralled downwards with Yami and Kaiba close behind. Pixie shouted something to the two dragons in that high pitched language again and they both came up beside her. They came to a stop when Yami's dragon called out. Elaya's Pixie fanned out her wings and slowly hovered over the ground. The other's dragons landed on the virtual concrete.
"Whoa.what a ride." Elaya said shaking her head, trying to rid herself of the dizziness. "Where are we?" Apparently, along the Mirror Force wall at the bottom, appeared to be some sort of carnival. It had only one attraction: a Fun House.
Yami smiled "I highly doubt that that name is true." Soon, both Kaiba and Yami got off of their dragons and made them return into the cards. Elaya's Pixie, however, dodged the light that was going to suck her back into the card.
"Pixie this isn't a battle! Stop dodging it!" Elaya cried, already pissed that she had the lowest LP in this 'game.' "Fine.just stay out then! I'll put you in defence mode." Pixies acted like toon monsters and avoided all attacks by moving away from them. The Pixie put her feet on the ground, closed her wings and walked up to the Fun House. It was kind of like a house of mirrors but with a lot more than just that. She tried to enter the House with them but she hit an invisible barrier again. Sighing out of defeat, she stood by the entrance way and watched as Seto, Yami and Elaya entered in without difficulty.
"Be careful." Pixie said as the three of them turned the corner and walked into a Mirror Maze.
*~*~*In the Dungeon-Reader's POV*~*~*
Dieen watched in her invisible form as the mortals that were stuck in her dungeon talk. The 'dungeon' was actually the card Nightmare Cage. She chuckled as she heard all the false hope the young boy had of escaping. [Foolish little brat. He thinks that he'll get out of here alive. Not if I can do anything about it...I need this bunch of mortals for power and I'm positive that the Pharaoh's Puzzle will supply me with much more than that. Regardless if they somehow manage to get out of here, I will be taking one of them down with me...I wonder if I'll have any volunteers.] She chuckled softly at the thought. [I want my sister's power-not to have the power of healing-but just for the essence of it. All seven of the Millennium Items have limitless power...and technically I have three of them already. Yami Marik and Yami Bakura are tucked away safely within the Shadow Realm at the moment..full of anger and hate for the Pharaoh himself. I've agreed that if I free the Shadow Realm, they would be second in command after me. And they've also helped me to find all of these weak spots to further my plan. It's great to be Queen of your own world.too bad my sister didn't have time to experience it] Dieen's thoughts were quickly broken by the sound of the human's chatter.
"Mokuba.are you sure that you can get us out of here?" Tristan asked.
"If I could I would.but the entire system's been corrupted. Usually, my brother would say, "End game" and it would automatically shut-down-but only to his voice. If he does say 'end game' then we-"
"-would probably be stuck in here forever?" Dieen called to them from outside the dungeon. "That would be fine by me.I'm always lonely."
Teresa ran up to the bars and yelled in Dieen's face "You are a sick twisted monster!"
"Why thank you.I don't usually get compliments like that often."
"How can you do this? Why are you doing this?" she asked her.
Dieen laughed. "Simple. Because I can." She slowly disappeared again with her laughter ringing out in their ears.
"Hey, Téa? Are you alright?" Joey asked. She had been awfully quiet this entire time.
"How can I be alright, Joey?" She snapped. "Yugi, Kaiba and Elaya are off wandering somewhere trying to find us, not knowing where they are going and we're stuck in here without anything to eat or drink.how can I be alright when so much is happening?" Her head sank below her folded legs. "I'm so afraid right now of what's happening..and what's gonna happen soon."
*~*~*Fun House-Reader's POV*~*~*
"Be careful." was the last thing they heard from the Pixie standing guard outside. Kaiba didn't think that she was going to be much of a guard with a defence status of 1100. Elaya told him bluntly to shut up and to not voice opinions unless they're good ones.
The 'Fun House' was indeed a maze of differently distorted mirrors in various colours and shapes. All they saw were reflection images of themselves repeating into the never-ending mirror reflections. As they were walking around aimlessly, not knowing where to go, it suddenly got very dark in the Fun House. Then, all the mirrors inside reflected an image of Dieen.
"Having fun now, are we?" She asked in a mocking tone.
"Enough with the games, spirit!" Yami said looking into one of the mirrors. "Just show us where our friends are and I'll duel you for the freedom of all of us."
"Once again, Pharaoh, I choose my opponent. You'll need to find them on your own."
"Give me back my little brother!" Kaiba yelled and in a fit of rage he took his fist and smashed it into one of the mirrors that held Dieen's image. In the split second before the mirror shattered, Seto saw an image of his brother doubling over in pain in a dark and mysterious room that was also filled with Yugi's and Elaya's friends and family
"MOKUBA!" he screamed as he watched his brother fall to the ground. Suddenly, the image of his brother disappeared.only to leave another mirror behind it with Dieen's mocking smile.
"Remember? I can transfer pain. Any damage inflicted on me goes straight to your loved ones."
Seto stared wide-eyed at the spirit in front of him. She shook her head, "You don't believe that any of this is real do you Seth-I mean Kaiba? Well, apparently, right now, your brother is crying and asking what happened. I would be honoured to tell him that his big brother just punched him in the stomach."
"Don't you dare!"
"Whatever you say.Seth." She smiled wickedly at them. "I'm surprised that you made it this far. Did you have fun free-falling dearest sister?"
Elaya didn't answer her. [So, it was her who made those Red Birds come out of no where and attack us.]
"Well, I must be off now.and remember have fun! After all, this is why things like this were built!" Laughing into a fit of hysterics, Dieen's image began to fade away. That's when Elaya began to tap her finger against the mirror. Over and over again she saw her mom looking up and around trying to figure out where the tapping was coming from. Finally, the mom stopped looking around and began to understand that the taps came at different intervals and for different amounts of time.
"Elaya, what are you doing?" Yami asked standing besides her looking into the mirror, staring at his friends and family. Elaya stayed silence until she saw her mom smile. Then, she stopped tapping and looked at Kaiba and Yami.
"Morse Code. My mom and I know it."
"What message did you send to her?" Kaiba asked.
Elaya smiled. "We are coming. Tell Mokuba that his brother didn't mean to hurt him at all. Don't worry, we're coming." She turned and they began to follow the maze again.