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Chapter #16: Upstairs
*~*~*In the Fun House-Reader's POV*~*~*
[It feels as if we've been walking for hours!] Elaya thought as her muscles in her legs began to tighten up. In reality time, they've really only been walking for 15 minutes. They were lost and occasionally Elaya would bang her head against one of the mirrors thinking that it was an opening.
"Look over there!" Yami pointed to a white staircase just left of where they were standing.
"You think that that's the way out of this maze?" Kaiba asked
"It is...every fun house first has the mirrors, then an upstairs and a slide to get down. Believe me; I went to a lot of carnivals when I was younger." Elaya explained. "Come on!"
They began to walk in the direction of the staircase with their eyes peeled for any traps or magic cards. There were none whatsoever.
\\ Why is this maze so easy to get out of? They're no traps or anything......Just mirrors..... \\ Justi said.
// I know....weird. // was all Elaya responded as they climbed the steps.
On the second floor of the fun house it was painted an eerie coat of blue. It was as if the sky was plastered on the walls. There were also these black stains on the walls that neither of them hoped was blood. That's when the floor began to vibrate...shaking back and forth. All of them almost lost their balance, but managed to hold on.
"That's odd." Elaya commented as the three of them began to walk on the shaking floor carefully. "Why are there pieces of furniture scattered around here?"
"Because it's the only thing that will shield you from me!" a manly voice said from the shadows in front of them.
"Witty Phantom! (1400/1300)" Kaiba declared.
The Phantom laughed. "I'm glad you remember me Kaiba. Although it was quite rude when your bratty little brother attacked me. Oh well, that won't happen now."
"Wait a minute; my Pixie has 50 ATK points more than you do. You're toast! PIXIE COME!" Elaya cried at the top of her lungs. They waited but the flying human didn't arrive. "Huh?"
It laughed again. "Remember when that Pixie tried to get in here the first time? She couldn't because there was a barrier between her and the entrance." The memory flashed through all of their eyes as they remember the Pixie walked into an invisible door. "That was because no duel monsters are allowed in this Fun House..well, except me of course. That leaves you completely defenceless against my assault." He let loose an attack and all of them went for cover behind the pieces of furniture that were lying around.
[But if we can't summon any monsters, how can we beat this thing?] Yugi and Yami thought. [Think, think, think!!!]
"Oh..is this going to be a game of hide and seek? Good. Ready or not, here I come!" The Phantom cried as he easily destroyed the desk that Kaiba was hiding behind. Before he could make a move, Witty Phantom grabbed him by the throat and attacked him, dropping his life points to 2600. He collapsed in a heap on the floor.
"Oh, no! Kaiba!" Yami whispered. Then it hit him. He knew how to get rid of the Phantom...although; he wished that he thought of it sooner to save Kaiba's life points. He was going to use the card that didn't allow duel monsters to get in.
"One down...two to go." The Phantom said mockingly as he eyed another desk that had Elaya hiding behind it. He destroyed it with ease and watched as Elaya backed up into the wall. The Phantom smiled. "This is going to be easier than I thought."
Just as he launched his attack, Yami stood out of his hiding place and shouted "I use the Trap card Mirror Force! Since you can't call off your attack, this card rebounds your attack right back at you! There may be a rule against monster cards not being allowed, but it doesn't mean that we can't use magic and trap cards."
"NO!!" the Witty Phantom shouted as the Mirror Force protected Elaya and destroyed him. Just like her Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress, the Phantom broke apart into a million pieces and disappeared.
"Thanks Yami!" Elaya exclaimed as she stood up. "Good thinking." Yami nodded and went over to Kaiba.
"Kaiba? Are you alright?" He asked his rival.
Kaiba got up slowly but didn't answer Yami's question. "I use Mystical Elf's Healing to increase my life points by 300." Now, his LP stood at 2900. "Now what?"
"Uh, let's keep walking..there should be an exit around here somewhere." Elaya suggested.
"Key word, 'should'" Kaiba noted sarcastically.
"Key word, 'shut-up Kaiba'" Elaya retorted back.
They walked ahead slowly, trying to keep their balance as the floor shook from beneath them.
"Over there!" Yami pointed to a black door. "Maybe that is the way out." They walked cautiously up to it, and expected the worse as Elaya turned the doorknob.
*~*~*In the Dungeon-Reader's POV*~*~*
All alone in the Nightmare Cage, the group huddled around each other to keep warm and to try and pass the time.
"What are we going to do?" Téa asked. "Yugi, Elaya and Kaiba are looking for us...and I'd hate to be a party pooper, but, what if they can't find us? What if their life points are already at zero? How do we know that they're alright? How do they know that we're alright?"
"Don't worry, Téa..This is Yugi that we're talking about. I bet ya that they're just about to come around that corner and save us." Tristan said trying to calm Téa's nerves. Everyone looked up towards the bars and realized that no one was coming.
"We just have to have confidence in them. I may not know what a 'duel monster' is, but Elaya has been in tough spots before, and from what I've heard, so have Yugi and Kaiba." Teresa said. All of them were swapping stories about themselves to try and pass the time...but she wasn't sure if she should tell them Elaya's story. Teresa didn't know if they already knew, or if they didn't have a clue.
"Right you are, Mrs. White." Grandpa said. "We need to have faith in them, and they'll have faith and heart in themselves."
"It's Ms. White. I'm not married." Teresa said.
"Oh.." They all said. She smiled when Joey's mouth made a perfect 'o' shape. "Are you divorced?" Joey asked. [I never knew Elaya didn't have a dad...] He thought.
"No..actually."
[Let's see...if Elaya's sixteen, and Teresa's turning 31 this fall, that means...that she got banged up when she was only 14? That's a little young!] Joey thought. Teresa smiled and said, "I know, the math doesn't add up, doesn't it? Elaya was..well...adopted." Since Téa and Mokuba already knew this information, they had no surprised expressions on their faces. Joey, Tristan looked really stunned while Mr. Motou simply nodded.
"How did Elaya...um..lose her biological parents anyways?" Tristan asked.
"House fire." Mokuba, Téa and Teresa said together. Teresa looked at the two. Téa spoke first by saying that Elaya told her already and Mokuba said that Elaya went to the same orphanage like him.
"I knew that I recognized you...you were that younger brother who stayed outside even when we drove away. Wait, do you mean that 'Kaiba' is Seto Morison?"
"Morison?!" Joey and Tristan said trying to stifle their giggles. Téa pulled their ears. "Never heard a last name before?" she asked.
"No! It's just that we never thought Kaiba could have another last name!" Tristan said.
"Yeah, but we use the name of our foster dad..Kaiba."
"I see. It's good to see you again." Teresa said hugging her knees. The Seto she remembered was quiet and overall nice and mannered. The stories that she heard confirmed the opposite. [I wonder what happened to him...]
*~*~*Outside the Fun House-Reader's POV*~*~*
As Elaya turned the doorknob, butterflies flew around in her stomach. [I hope that this is the way out] she thought. The black door crept open, its hinges squeaking, begging for oil. They were welcomed with some virtual rain as they looked on outside.
"Phew..good thing that it was the way out and not some doorway to hell or anything." Elaya said as she shielded herself against the wind and rain.
"Yes, it was." Yami said. "Will we be flying again?"
"I think so." She responded. "It's a pretty deep drop." She looked down to see nothing but the tips of trees. "Wow. I didn't know we climbed Mount Everest to get up here."
"I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Kaiba ordered as he drew that card from his deck, but nothing happened. "What?!" he asked angrily.
"I guess we're still on the Fun House's property, and that means that we still can't summon anything." Yami explained. "But we are technically outside, and that means that Pixie can come to us and give us a ride! PIXIE COME!" Elaya cried. They looked down in the clouds to see a shadow approaching. They soon saw the familiar wings and body as the purple pixie arrived in front of them.
"I couldn't..come before. The wall was in my way." She explained.
"Question Elaya: There is one of her and three of us. How will all of us take flight? Do you have an Elegant Egotist?" Kaiba asked.
"Of course. I use the magic card 'Elegant Egotist' to triple my Pixie into three!" Elaya cried. A white light shone from the card and made a sphere around the purple Pixie. The sphere then split into three parts and they all cracked in half. Soon out came the purple Pixie, along with a yellow Pixie with blue hair and a red Pixie with blonde hair. Their total ATK points rose to a healthy 2050.
"Problem solved. Hop aboard the Pixie Express!" Elaya smiled. The yellow Pixie took a reluctant Kaiba and the red Pixie took Yami. Soon they were off into the sky again hoping to get closer to their friends and family.
They were flying at top speeds over the clouds to rid themselves of the rain. The Pixies flew as far away from that Fun House as possible and that's when Kaiba tried to summon his Blue Eyes White Dragon again. The yellow Pixie that was carrying him threatened to drop him if he did so.
"There is no point." She said. "I carry you now. No point in another pair of wings. I am not strong enough for you?"
"I would rather fly with my own monsters and I refuse to talk to a virtual image." He stated coldly. The yellow Pixie rolled her eyes, talked to her sisters in their 'language' and they all nodded and laughed.
"What did you just say?" Kaiba asked the Pixie.
"I thought you say, I refuse to talk to a virtual image!" she answered as Kaiba frowned.
"Will you two stop bickering like an old married couple?" Elaya called over from her purple Pixie. "We need to find out where the others are! Pixies? I need you to isolate a young boy's voice. High-pitched and is probably surrounded by older voices."
"Why do you keep using Mokuba?" Kaiba asked.
"Because he's voice is probably the most distinctive amongst the others. If you want your Pixie to find someone else's voice, just ask her to." Elaya explained. "Pixie?" Yami asked the red one, "I need you to isolate an older man's voice." The red one nodded and looked at her two sisters.
"Kaiba, do you want to isolate anyone's voice?" Elaya got no answer from him. "Fine..yellow Pixie? I want you to find a teenage female's voice, okay?" They all nodded and shut their eyes. Just like before, their ears began to perk up and they began to recite what they heard. The yellow one recited what Téa said, the purple one recited what Mokuba said, and the red one recited what Yugi's Grandfather said.
"I wonder where they are now...I hope that they're all okay." The yellow one said.
"Don't worry Téa. We just need to have faith in them that they will come." The red one responded. There was a long pause before the Pixie's picked up what their designated voices said.
"Yeah." the purple one said. "You're right Joey. How long have we been here anyways? I wish they would come soon so I could see my big brother.."
"Oh, don't cry, Mokuba!" the yellow one exclaimed as she reached out and patted her sister's shoulder.
"That's them alright. Which way?" Yami asked. The Pixies, in unison, pointed in front of them.
"So we were going the right way the entire time?" Elaya thought aloud.
"I just picked up sound from where we left off." The purple one said.
"Well, let's keep going. They're bound to show up somewhere." Kaiba said. The Pixies spread their wings and followed the voices as they got louder and louder. Suddenly, the sky went dark, and Yami noticed a cluster of stars right in front of them.
"That looks like something out of my science textbook! It's as if it's another dimension..like a black hole of some sort." Elaya decided.
/ Hey, that reminds me of the Warp Vortex in Dungeon Dice Monsters! / Yugi exclaimed.
\ I agree. But will that take us where we want to go? \
The Pixie, almost reading his thoughts said, "The voices are strongest coming from that hole. Your people are in there."
"So, are we going in?" Elaya asked looking at her comrades.
"If Mokuba is in there somewhere, I'm going in regardless. Pixie, fly into the vortex!" Kaiba ordered. His yellow Pixie took off into it, only to be closely followed by her sisters.
"I guess we'll find out if black holes can transport people..." Elaya smiled but quickly lost it. She knew this wasn't the best time to crack a joke of any sort, but she didn't want to think of all the bad things that could be happening to the others.
The Pixies zoomed straight into the vortex only to be rebounded backwards away from it.
"The wall is still there!" the purple one shouted.
"Not for long!" Elaya declared. She finally found a way to rid the monsters of the Mirror Force that blocked almost everything...it was so simple, it was a wonder that she didn't think of it earlier. "I use the trap card, 'Remove Trap!'" The Mirror Force was shattered and soon, the black hole-or vortex-sucked them all inside its dark depths.
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Chapter #16: Upstairs
*~*~*In the Fun House-Reader's POV*~*~*
[It feels as if we've been walking for hours!] Elaya thought as her muscles in her legs began to tighten up. In reality time, they've really only been walking for 15 minutes. They were lost and occasionally Elaya would bang her head against one of the mirrors thinking that it was an opening.
"Look over there!" Yami pointed to a white staircase just left of where they were standing.
"You think that that's the way out of this maze?" Kaiba asked
"It is...every fun house first has the mirrors, then an upstairs and a slide to get down. Believe me; I went to a lot of carnivals when I was younger." Elaya explained. "Come on!"
They began to walk in the direction of the staircase with their eyes peeled for any traps or magic cards. There were none whatsoever.
\\ Why is this maze so easy to get out of? They're no traps or anything......Just mirrors..... \\ Justi said.
// I know....weird. // was all Elaya responded as they climbed the steps.
On the second floor of the fun house it was painted an eerie coat of blue. It was as if the sky was plastered on the walls. There were also these black stains on the walls that neither of them hoped was blood. That's when the floor began to vibrate...shaking back and forth. All of them almost lost their balance, but managed to hold on.
"That's odd." Elaya commented as the three of them began to walk on the shaking floor carefully. "Why are there pieces of furniture scattered around here?"
"Because it's the only thing that will shield you from me!" a manly voice said from the shadows in front of them.
"Witty Phantom! (1400/1300)" Kaiba declared.
The Phantom laughed. "I'm glad you remember me Kaiba. Although it was quite rude when your bratty little brother attacked me. Oh well, that won't happen now."
"Wait a minute; my Pixie has 50 ATK points more than you do. You're toast! PIXIE COME!" Elaya cried at the top of her lungs. They waited but the flying human didn't arrive. "Huh?"
It laughed again. "Remember when that Pixie tried to get in here the first time? She couldn't because there was a barrier between her and the entrance." The memory flashed through all of their eyes as they remember the Pixie walked into an invisible door. "That was because no duel monsters are allowed in this Fun House..well, except me of course. That leaves you completely defenceless against my assault." He let loose an attack and all of them went for cover behind the pieces of furniture that were lying around.
[But if we can't summon any monsters, how can we beat this thing?] Yugi and Yami thought. [Think, think, think!!!]
"Oh..is this going to be a game of hide and seek? Good. Ready or not, here I come!" The Phantom cried as he easily destroyed the desk that Kaiba was hiding behind. Before he could make a move, Witty Phantom grabbed him by the throat and attacked him, dropping his life points to 2600. He collapsed in a heap on the floor.
"Oh, no! Kaiba!" Yami whispered. Then it hit him. He knew how to get rid of the Phantom...although; he wished that he thought of it sooner to save Kaiba's life points. He was going to use the card that didn't allow duel monsters to get in.
"One down...two to go." The Phantom said mockingly as he eyed another desk that had Elaya hiding behind it. He destroyed it with ease and watched as Elaya backed up into the wall. The Phantom smiled. "This is going to be easier than I thought."
Just as he launched his attack, Yami stood out of his hiding place and shouted "I use the Trap card Mirror Force! Since you can't call off your attack, this card rebounds your attack right back at you! There may be a rule against monster cards not being allowed, but it doesn't mean that we can't use magic and trap cards."
"NO!!" the Witty Phantom shouted as the Mirror Force protected Elaya and destroyed him. Just like her Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress, the Phantom broke apart into a million pieces and disappeared.
"Thanks Yami!" Elaya exclaimed as she stood up. "Good thinking." Yami nodded and went over to Kaiba.
"Kaiba? Are you alright?" He asked his rival.
Kaiba got up slowly but didn't answer Yami's question. "I use Mystical Elf's Healing to increase my life points by 300." Now, his LP stood at 2900. "Now what?"
"Uh, let's keep walking..there should be an exit around here somewhere." Elaya suggested.
"Key word, 'should'" Kaiba noted sarcastically.
"Key word, 'shut-up Kaiba'" Elaya retorted back.
They walked ahead slowly, trying to keep their balance as the floor shook from beneath them.
"Over there!" Yami pointed to a black door. "Maybe that is the way out." They walked cautiously up to it, and expected the worse as Elaya turned the doorknob.
*~*~*In the Dungeon-Reader's POV*~*~*
All alone in the Nightmare Cage, the group huddled around each other to keep warm and to try and pass the time.
"What are we going to do?" Téa asked. "Yugi, Elaya and Kaiba are looking for us...and I'd hate to be a party pooper, but, what if they can't find us? What if their life points are already at zero? How do we know that they're alright? How do they know that we're alright?"
"Don't worry, Téa..This is Yugi that we're talking about. I bet ya that they're just about to come around that corner and save us." Tristan said trying to calm Téa's nerves. Everyone looked up towards the bars and realized that no one was coming.
"We just have to have confidence in them. I may not know what a 'duel monster' is, but Elaya has been in tough spots before, and from what I've heard, so have Yugi and Kaiba." Teresa said. All of them were swapping stories about themselves to try and pass the time...but she wasn't sure if she should tell them Elaya's story. Teresa didn't know if they already knew, or if they didn't have a clue.
"Right you are, Mrs. White." Grandpa said. "We need to have faith in them, and they'll have faith and heart in themselves."
"It's Ms. White. I'm not married." Teresa said.
"Oh.." They all said. She smiled when Joey's mouth made a perfect 'o' shape. "Are you divorced?" Joey asked. [I never knew Elaya didn't have a dad...] He thought.
"No..actually."
[Let's see...if Elaya's sixteen, and Teresa's turning 31 this fall, that means...that she got banged up when she was only 14? That's a little young!] Joey thought. Teresa smiled and said, "I know, the math doesn't add up, doesn't it? Elaya was..well...adopted." Since Téa and Mokuba already knew this information, they had no surprised expressions on their faces. Joey, Tristan looked really stunned while Mr. Motou simply nodded.
"How did Elaya...um..lose her biological parents anyways?" Tristan asked.
"House fire." Mokuba, Téa and Teresa said together. Teresa looked at the two. Téa spoke first by saying that Elaya told her already and Mokuba said that Elaya went to the same orphanage like him.
"I knew that I recognized you...you were that younger brother who stayed outside even when we drove away. Wait, do you mean that 'Kaiba' is Seto Morison?"
"Morison?!" Joey and Tristan said trying to stifle their giggles. Téa pulled their ears. "Never heard a last name before?" she asked.
"No! It's just that we never thought Kaiba could have another last name!" Tristan said.
"Yeah, but we use the name of our foster dad..Kaiba."
"I see. It's good to see you again." Teresa said hugging her knees. The Seto she remembered was quiet and overall nice and mannered. The stories that she heard confirmed the opposite. [I wonder what happened to him...]
*~*~*Outside the Fun House-Reader's POV*~*~*
As Elaya turned the doorknob, butterflies flew around in her stomach. [I hope that this is the way out] she thought. The black door crept open, its hinges squeaking, begging for oil. They were welcomed with some virtual rain as they looked on outside.
"Phew..good thing that it was the way out and not some doorway to hell or anything." Elaya said as she shielded herself against the wind and rain.
"Yes, it was." Yami said. "Will we be flying again?"
"I think so." She responded. "It's a pretty deep drop." She looked down to see nothing but the tips of trees. "Wow. I didn't know we climbed Mount Everest to get up here."
"I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Kaiba ordered as he drew that card from his deck, but nothing happened. "What?!" he asked angrily.
"I guess we're still on the Fun House's property, and that means that we still can't summon anything." Yami explained. "But we are technically outside, and that means that Pixie can come to us and give us a ride! PIXIE COME!" Elaya cried. They looked down in the clouds to see a shadow approaching. They soon saw the familiar wings and body as the purple pixie arrived in front of them.
"I couldn't..come before. The wall was in my way." She explained.
"Question Elaya: There is one of her and three of us. How will all of us take flight? Do you have an Elegant Egotist?" Kaiba asked.
"Of course. I use the magic card 'Elegant Egotist' to triple my Pixie into three!" Elaya cried. A white light shone from the card and made a sphere around the purple Pixie. The sphere then split into three parts and they all cracked in half. Soon out came the purple Pixie, along with a yellow Pixie with blue hair and a red Pixie with blonde hair. Their total ATK points rose to a healthy 2050.
"Problem solved. Hop aboard the Pixie Express!" Elaya smiled. The yellow Pixie took a reluctant Kaiba and the red Pixie took Yami. Soon they were off into the sky again hoping to get closer to their friends and family.
They were flying at top speeds over the clouds to rid themselves of the rain. The Pixies flew as far away from that Fun House as possible and that's when Kaiba tried to summon his Blue Eyes White Dragon again. The yellow Pixie that was carrying him threatened to drop him if he did so.
"There is no point." She said. "I carry you now. No point in another pair of wings. I am not strong enough for you?"
"I would rather fly with my own monsters and I refuse to talk to a virtual image." He stated coldly. The yellow Pixie rolled her eyes, talked to her sisters in their 'language' and they all nodded and laughed.
"What did you just say?" Kaiba asked the Pixie.
"I thought you say, I refuse to talk to a virtual image!" she answered as Kaiba frowned.
"Will you two stop bickering like an old married couple?" Elaya called over from her purple Pixie. "We need to find out where the others are! Pixies? I need you to isolate a young boy's voice. High-pitched and is probably surrounded by older voices."
"Why do you keep using Mokuba?" Kaiba asked.
"Because he's voice is probably the most distinctive amongst the others. If you want your Pixie to find someone else's voice, just ask her to." Elaya explained. "Pixie?" Yami asked the red one, "I need you to isolate an older man's voice." The red one nodded and looked at her two sisters.
"Kaiba, do you want to isolate anyone's voice?" Elaya got no answer from him. "Fine..yellow Pixie? I want you to find a teenage female's voice, okay?" They all nodded and shut their eyes. Just like before, their ears began to perk up and they began to recite what they heard. The yellow one recited what Téa said, the purple one recited what Mokuba said, and the red one recited what Yugi's Grandfather said.
"I wonder where they are now...I hope that they're all okay." The yellow one said.
"Don't worry Téa. We just need to have faith in them that they will come." The red one responded. There was a long pause before the Pixie's picked up what their designated voices said.
"Yeah." the purple one said. "You're right Joey. How long have we been here anyways? I wish they would come soon so I could see my big brother.."
"Oh, don't cry, Mokuba!" the yellow one exclaimed as she reached out and patted her sister's shoulder.
"That's them alright. Which way?" Yami asked. The Pixies, in unison, pointed in front of them.
"So we were going the right way the entire time?" Elaya thought aloud.
"I just picked up sound from where we left off." The purple one said.
"Well, let's keep going. They're bound to show up somewhere." Kaiba said. The Pixies spread their wings and followed the voices as they got louder and louder. Suddenly, the sky went dark, and Yami noticed a cluster of stars right in front of them.
"That looks like something out of my science textbook! It's as if it's another dimension..like a black hole of some sort." Elaya decided.
/ Hey, that reminds me of the Warp Vortex in Dungeon Dice Monsters! / Yugi exclaimed.
\ I agree. But will that take us where we want to go? \
The Pixie, almost reading his thoughts said, "The voices are strongest coming from that hole. Your people are in there."
"So, are we going in?" Elaya asked looking at her comrades.
"If Mokuba is in there somewhere, I'm going in regardless. Pixie, fly into the vortex!" Kaiba ordered. His yellow Pixie took off into it, only to be closely followed by her sisters.
"I guess we'll find out if black holes can transport people..." Elaya smiled but quickly lost it. She knew this wasn't the best time to crack a joke of any sort, but she didn't want to think of all the bad things that could be happening to the others.
The Pixies zoomed straight into the vortex only to be rebounded backwards away from it.
"The wall is still there!" the purple one shouted.
"Not for long!" Elaya declared. She finally found a way to rid the monsters of the Mirror Force that blocked almost everything...it was so simple, it was a wonder that she didn't think of it earlier. "I use the trap card, 'Remove Trap!'" The Mirror Force was shattered and soon, the black hole-or vortex-sucked them all inside its dark depths.
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