"Come on Kelly, wake up." Joey persisted as he gently shook her. "Shoot!"
He looked around quickly. He picked her up and began to walk back to the
apartment complex.
As he was ready to turn the corner, he noticed Micha walking out of the building with his dad to the parking lot. After seeing the car drive away in the opposite direction, Joey let out a sigh of relief. He quickly went to the building and went to their floor. He found her house key in her coat pocket and took her to her and set her on her bed. He took her jacket and armband off hoping that would possibly wake her up.
Joey sat on a chair that was in her room, watching over her. He sat there scanning over her face, which held a peaceful look. He flushed when he caught himself looking over her body.
'Oh my god, what am I doing? She is my best bud's sister; I can't be getting sweet on her. I just wouldn't be right.' He told himself as he tore his gaze from her to the window then absent mindedly, his gaze went back to her. 'There is something about her though. She looks like that girl in my dreams.' His thoughts ceased as the doorbell rang. He contemplated on what to do before finally settling on going to see who it was.
When he got to the door and checked through the eyehole, he groaned and opened the door.
"What are you doing here Wheeler?" Seto glared.
"Waiting for Kelly to wake up. Is that a crime."
"Why the hell are you doing that? I don't think you should be here if she is sleeping."
"Well, it isn't exactly my fault seeing as she passed out on the street and I had to bring her up here." Joey stepped aside as Seto let him in. "What are you doing here?"
"Checking up on her. Seeing if she was feeling any better." Seto told him. "How long have you been here?"
"15 minutes."
"Well, you can leave now. I'll stay here with her." Seto told him.
"I'm staying right here. She was with me when she passed out and I'm going to stay here till I know for sure that she is alright." Joey folded his arms over his chest. "Besides, it will be the day hell freezes over that I take orders from you Kaiba."
"Must you two bicker." Kelly's voice came from the doorway. She was leaning against the doorframe, looking at the tiredly.
"Are you alright?" Joey and Seto asked at once then glared at each other.
"I'm fine now. Just tired." She told them reassuringly as she tried to walk to them, but ended up falling. Before she could hit the ground though, Joey caught her.
"If you are tired you need rest." Joey told her he set her up straight. "You can't even stand."
"For once the mutt is right." Seto agreed. "You get some rest and I'll check up on you in the morning."
"Alright." She nodded. "And can you two do me a favor?"
"What?"
"Try to get along in my presence please."
Joey and Seto looked at each other and replied with an "Alright".
"Thank you." She told them as Seto left. Once he was out the door Kelly spoke again. "How long was I out?"
"25 mins." He told her as he led her to the couch. "Took me a while to get you here."
"Did my dad or your dad see you?"
"No, they left just as I was turning the corner to the building."
"That is good." She sighed and leaned her head back on the couch. She reached onto the end table and groped for a remote sitting there. She hit the power button and her stereo turned on. A soothing sound came on and a woman began to sing.
"Who is this?" Joey asked as he sat down on the other end of the couch.
"It is a group called Evanescence. They are a rock group back in America. I like this song a lot. It is called 'Field of Innocents'. It isn't on any cd, I just happened to find it on-line."
"So it is a burned cd."
"Yeah. It has about 10 songs on it. It could have held more, but I couldn't find anymore songs that I wanted on it."
"What all is on it?"
"The Doom Song from a show called Invader Zim, 19-2000 by Gorillaz, Engal, Du Hast, and Feur Fie by a German group called Ramnstine, Blurry by Puddle of Mudd, Don't Speak by No Doubt, Last Impression by Two-Mix, this song, and then Stan by Eminem." (This is an actual CD that my friend burned for me and yes I like all these songs. ^^ Especially the Ramnstine songs. Gotta love German rock. ^^ BANG BANG! Feur Fie!)
"M&M?"
"No Eminem, he is a rapper that is popular in the states." She looked at him giggling a little. "He isn't a candy."
Joey sweat dropped and scratched his head. "Could have fooled me."
Kelly swatted at him, which got them both laughing.
"I've actually only heard of about 2 artists on there except for Eminem whom you just told me about."
"Which ones?"
"Two-Mix and Ramnstine."
"Cool." She smiled and leaned her head back closing her eyes as came on as Two- Mix came on. "I want to thank you Joey. You are one of the first friends I've actually been able to see and do things with. I'm glad that you, Yugi, Tristan, and Tea actually want to be my friends."
"Who wouldn't want to be your friend Kelly? You are really nice and easy to get along with. You honestly come close to having the same personality as Yugi."
"Thanks Joey." Kelly looked up and smiled at him. 'Wow, I never really noticed how handsome Joey is. I mean, his rough exterior is to die for, but his personality is beyond amazing.' She admired. She never realized she was staring.
"Kelly?" He waved a hand in front of her face.
"Huh?" She snapped out of it and blushed for being caught. "Sorry, just thinking." She told him quickly and looked out her balcony window.
'Was it me or was she staring?' Joey thought to himself as he watched her.
* * *
Many more weeks went by with Kelly avoiding her father. She got luckily that he had stopped going over to Joey's house. Her hopes were finally lit when she found out after 1 month of not seeing him that he had returned to America. After about 3 months, Kelly had many new friends and loved her new home.
It was now 4 months since she had moved to Domino and school was out for the summer (I'm not really sure if they have summer breaks so I'm just guessing. ^_^;). Kelly was going on a long needed vacation, for Seto anyways, with Seto and Mokuba to France.
"Have fun Kelly." Yugi hugged his elder sister.
"Yeah and bring me back something." Joey smiled.
"I will." She laughed and picked up her bag. "See you guys in a few weeks!" She called out as she got into Seto's car.
* * *
2 weeks later..................
"Hey Yugi! You here?" Kelly called out as she entered her apartment. She was greeted with silence. "Huh, must not be here." She told herself as she closed her door and set the keys on the table.
Kelly walked into the apartment and dropped her bag.
"What the hell?!" She yelled. "What happened to my apartment?!"
It was in ruins. The couch was toppled over, lamps on the ground broken, tables knocked over, and all sorts of things. It looked like there was struggle in there. Kelly cautiously walked to the kitchen and saw a piece of paper on the table. She went over and read it.
Did you really think you could fool me girl? I was hoping to find you here, but I see I was wrong. So when you get this, get your sorry hide down to the abandoned warehouse down by the docks. If you aren't there, then you can consider your brother a goner.
The letter was left unsigned, but Kelly knew who it was right off the bat. Micha had come back.
Kelly nearly jumped through the ceiling when her doorbell rang. She carefully went to the door and looked through the spy hole. She sighed with relief when she saw Joey and Tristan standing there. She opened the door for them.
"Wow. Hey Kelly, didn't expect you to be back so soon." Tristan blinked.
"Yeah, some major problems came up at Seto's work so we had to come back." She told them.
"Hey, we were hoping to see if Yugi was here. We haven't seen him for a few days." Joey asked.
"Yeah, Mr. Motto told us that he had received phone calls from Yugi saying he was at one of our houses, but he was never there." Tristan explained.
Kelly fell to her knees her eyes wide. "No............." She shook her head. "He actually did it."
"Kelly? What is wrong?" The two asked worriedly.
"Who did what?"
"Micha.................he kidnapped Yugi." She said softly as she put the heels of her hands to her eyes when she started crying. "He was after me and is holding Yugi hostage till I go down there and give myself up." She cried.
"He what?!" Tristan and Joey bellowed.
"That jerk." Tristan punched his hand.
"Come on Kelly. We'll try to find some way to get Yugi back." Joey helped her up as the 3 entered the apartment. "Besides, I'm sure Yami would protect Yugi from Micha."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Tristan went into the living room and found Yugi's puzzle on the ground. "His puzzle is right here." He walked over to them and held out the puzzle to Kelly. "I think you should hold onto it till we can get Yugi back."
Kelly looked at the puzzle and an image of Yugi smiling passed though her head. She carefully took it with both of her hands and looked at it. She lifted the chain and put it around her neck.
"Thanks Tristan." She gave a weak smile.
* * *
Kelly walked into the warehouse confidently. She knew that Joey and Tristan were watching from outside the warehouse and would come in when the time was right. Then she knew Marik would be around too. Whenever she is some type of danger, Marik was always there. She didn't know why, but he was.
She looked around the warehouse until she spotted Yugi laying on the cement a head of her, unconscious. She ran too him and rolled him onto his back.
"Yugi? Yugi?!" She called to him. "Come on Yugi wake up." She pleaded as she turned him over. Kelly gasped when she saw his face and arms.
Yugi was totally beat up. His right cheek swollen, had a black eye on his left, and scratches all over.
"Oh Yugi." She laid his head in her lap and stroked his forehead. "I'm so sorry you got involved." She whispered.
"Leave him alone and lets go girl." Micha's voice came from in front of her.
"How could you?" She glared up at him. "You only wanted me! Why did you have to bring Yugi into this?! He did nothing to you!" She yelled.
"How else was I to get you out here? Of course I could have taken any number of your friends, but he seemed to mean the most to you. Now would you actually give up your own brother's life to live in freedom, or come back with me and let him live?"
Kelly glared at him; he already knew the answer to his question.
"Just as I thought. Now get up before I really get mad."
Kelly took the puzzle from around her neck and placed it around Yugi's neck. She then took her armband from her arm and placed it on Yugi's.
"Take care of him Yami and Karia." She whispered as she kissed Yugi's now non-swollen cheek.
* * *
"Can we go now?" Joey pleaded.
"Not yet. Wait till she gives the signal." Tristan whispered fiercely.
"I'm about to say forget the signal, let's just get them both out of there now before they get hurt." Joey argued.
"Do you want to get us caught? Shut up before someone hears us." Tristan put his hand over Joey's mouth.
Joey glared and folded his arms over his chest before turning his head towards the window.
* * *
"Get the hell up you-" Micha went over to her yanked her up, but stopped in mid-sentence when Kelly's face was not her own. "What the heck?! Who are you?!"
"You have no right to treat Kelly and Yugi like that." Karia fiercely glared at the man. "Especially when on holds the greatest power of all."
"What are you talking about? What power does these two migraines hold?"
"Something you will never lay your eyes upon. It is only for those who will protect the Pharaoh and his sister. No matter what form they are in with this life." Karia scowled. "Leave us alone from now on Micha McCarthy or you shall feel the wrath that 5 millina has imprisoned."
"You have gone nuts girl. I didn't raise my daughter to speak back to a man. Cut this act right now Kelly and you won't be hurt, that badly."
Karia didn't move an inch. Defiance was held in her eyes, unwavering. "You are not Micha McCarthy and have not been for the past 15 years." She stated.
Micha froze then smirked. "So I see you have figured it out."
"Of course, Macaleb."
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So there is another chapter. ^^ Sorry it took longer then I expected. ^_^; Tell me what you think and I'll get the next chap up ASAP. ^^
As he was ready to turn the corner, he noticed Micha walking out of the building with his dad to the parking lot. After seeing the car drive away in the opposite direction, Joey let out a sigh of relief. He quickly went to the building and went to their floor. He found her house key in her coat pocket and took her to her and set her on her bed. He took her jacket and armband off hoping that would possibly wake her up.
Joey sat on a chair that was in her room, watching over her. He sat there scanning over her face, which held a peaceful look. He flushed when he caught himself looking over her body.
'Oh my god, what am I doing? She is my best bud's sister; I can't be getting sweet on her. I just wouldn't be right.' He told himself as he tore his gaze from her to the window then absent mindedly, his gaze went back to her. 'There is something about her though. She looks like that girl in my dreams.' His thoughts ceased as the doorbell rang. He contemplated on what to do before finally settling on going to see who it was.
When he got to the door and checked through the eyehole, he groaned and opened the door.
"What are you doing here Wheeler?" Seto glared.
"Waiting for Kelly to wake up. Is that a crime."
"Why the hell are you doing that? I don't think you should be here if she is sleeping."
"Well, it isn't exactly my fault seeing as she passed out on the street and I had to bring her up here." Joey stepped aside as Seto let him in. "What are you doing here?"
"Checking up on her. Seeing if she was feeling any better." Seto told him. "How long have you been here?"
"15 minutes."
"Well, you can leave now. I'll stay here with her." Seto told him.
"I'm staying right here. She was with me when she passed out and I'm going to stay here till I know for sure that she is alright." Joey folded his arms over his chest. "Besides, it will be the day hell freezes over that I take orders from you Kaiba."
"Must you two bicker." Kelly's voice came from the doorway. She was leaning against the doorframe, looking at the tiredly.
"Are you alright?" Joey and Seto asked at once then glared at each other.
"I'm fine now. Just tired." She told them reassuringly as she tried to walk to them, but ended up falling. Before she could hit the ground though, Joey caught her.
"If you are tired you need rest." Joey told her he set her up straight. "You can't even stand."
"For once the mutt is right." Seto agreed. "You get some rest and I'll check up on you in the morning."
"Alright." She nodded. "And can you two do me a favor?"
"What?"
"Try to get along in my presence please."
Joey and Seto looked at each other and replied with an "Alright".
"Thank you." She told them as Seto left. Once he was out the door Kelly spoke again. "How long was I out?"
"25 mins." He told her as he led her to the couch. "Took me a while to get you here."
"Did my dad or your dad see you?"
"No, they left just as I was turning the corner to the building."
"That is good." She sighed and leaned her head back on the couch. She reached onto the end table and groped for a remote sitting there. She hit the power button and her stereo turned on. A soothing sound came on and a woman began to sing.
"Who is this?" Joey asked as he sat down on the other end of the couch.
"It is a group called Evanescence. They are a rock group back in America. I like this song a lot. It is called 'Field of Innocents'. It isn't on any cd, I just happened to find it on-line."
"So it is a burned cd."
"Yeah. It has about 10 songs on it. It could have held more, but I couldn't find anymore songs that I wanted on it."
"What all is on it?"
"The Doom Song from a show called Invader Zim, 19-2000 by Gorillaz, Engal, Du Hast, and Feur Fie by a German group called Ramnstine, Blurry by Puddle of Mudd, Don't Speak by No Doubt, Last Impression by Two-Mix, this song, and then Stan by Eminem." (This is an actual CD that my friend burned for me and yes I like all these songs. ^^ Especially the Ramnstine songs. Gotta love German rock. ^^ BANG BANG! Feur Fie!)
"M&M?"
"No Eminem, he is a rapper that is popular in the states." She looked at him giggling a little. "He isn't a candy."
Joey sweat dropped and scratched his head. "Could have fooled me."
Kelly swatted at him, which got them both laughing.
"I've actually only heard of about 2 artists on there except for Eminem whom you just told me about."
"Which ones?"
"Two-Mix and Ramnstine."
"Cool." She smiled and leaned her head back closing her eyes as came on as Two- Mix came on. "I want to thank you Joey. You are one of the first friends I've actually been able to see and do things with. I'm glad that you, Yugi, Tristan, and Tea actually want to be my friends."
"Who wouldn't want to be your friend Kelly? You are really nice and easy to get along with. You honestly come close to having the same personality as Yugi."
"Thanks Joey." Kelly looked up and smiled at him. 'Wow, I never really noticed how handsome Joey is. I mean, his rough exterior is to die for, but his personality is beyond amazing.' She admired. She never realized she was staring.
"Kelly?" He waved a hand in front of her face.
"Huh?" She snapped out of it and blushed for being caught. "Sorry, just thinking." She told him quickly and looked out her balcony window.
'Was it me or was she staring?' Joey thought to himself as he watched her.
* * *
Many more weeks went by with Kelly avoiding her father. She got luckily that he had stopped going over to Joey's house. Her hopes were finally lit when she found out after 1 month of not seeing him that he had returned to America. After about 3 months, Kelly had many new friends and loved her new home.
It was now 4 months since she had moved to Domino and school was out for the summer (I'm not really sure if they have summer breaks so I'm just guessing. ^_^;). Kelly was going on a long needed vacation, for Seto anyways, with Seto and Mokuba to France.
"Have fun Kelly." Yugi hugged his elder sister.
"Yeah and bring me back something." Joey smiled.
"I will." She laughed and picked up her bag. "See you guys in a few weeks!" She called out as she got into Seto's car.
* * *
2 weeks later..................
"Hey Yugi! You here?" Kelly called out as she entered her apartment. She was greeted with silence. "Huh, must not be here." She told herself as she closed her door and set the keys on the table.
Kelly walked into the apartment and dropped her bag.
"What the hell?!" She yelled. "What happened to my apartment?!"
It was in ruins. The couch was toppled over, lamps on the ground broken, tables knocked over, and all sorts of things. It looked like there was struggle in there. Kelly cautiously walked to the kitchen and saw a piece of paper on the table. She went over and read it.
Did you really think you could fool me girl? I was hoping to find you here, but I see I was wrong. So when you get this, get your sorry hide down to the abandoned warehouse down by the docks. If you aren't there, then you can consider your brother a goner.
The letter was left unsigned, but Kelly knew who it was right off the bat. Micha had come back.
Kelly nearly jumped through the ceiling when her doorbell rang. She carefully went to the door and looked through the spy hole. She sighed with relief when she saw Joey and Tristan standing there. She opened the door for them.
"Wow. Hey Kelly, didn't expect you to be back so soon." Tristan blinked.
"Yeah, some major problems came up at Seto's work so we had to come back." She told them.
"Hey, we were hoping to see if Yugi was here. We haven't seen him for a few days." Joey asked.
"Yeah, Mr. Motto told us that he had received phone calls from Yugi saying he was at one of our houses, but he was never there." Tristan explained.
Kelly fell to her knees her eyes wide. "No............." She shook her head. "He actually did it."
"Kelly? What is wrong?" The two asked worriedly.
"Who did what?"
"Micha.................he kidnapped Yugi." She said softly as she put the heels of her hands to her eyes when she started crying. "He was after me and is holding Yugi hostage till I go down there and give myself up." She cried.
"He what?!" Tristan and Joey bellowed.
"That jerk." Tristan punched his hand.
"Come on Kelly. We'll try to find some way to get Yugi back." Joey helped her up as the 3 entered the apartment. "Besides, I'm sure Yami would protect Yugi from Micha."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Tristan went into the living room and found Yugi's puzzle on the ground. "His puzzle is right here." He walked over to them and held out the puzzle to Kelly. "I think you should hold onto it till we can get Yugi back."
Kelly looked at the puzzle and an image of Yugi smiling passed though her head. She carefully took it with both of her hands and looked at it. She lifted the chain and put it around her neck.
"Thanks Tristan." She gave a weak smile.
* * *
Kelly walked into the warehouse confidently. She knew that Joey and Tristan were watching from outside the warehouse and would come in when the time was right. Then she knew Marik would be around too. Whenever she is some type of danger, Marik was always there. She didn't know why, but he was.
She looked around the warehouse until she spotted Yugi laying on the cement a head of her, unconscious. She ran too him and rolled him onto his back.
"Yugi? Yugi?!" She called to him. "Come on Yugi wake up." She pleaded as she turned him over. Kelly gasped when she saw his face and arms.
Yugi was totally beat up. His right cheek swollen, had a black eye on his left, and scratches all over.
"Oh Yugi." She laid his head in her lap and stroked his forehead. "I'm so sorry you got involved." She whispered.
"Leave him alone and lets go girl." Micha's voice came from in front of her.
"How could you?" She glared up at him. "You only wanted me! Why did you have to bring Yugi into this?! He did nothing to you!" She yelled.
"How else was I to get you out here? Of course I could have taken any number of your friends, but he seemed to mean the most to you. Now would you actually give up your own brother's life to live in freedom, or come back with me and let him live?"
Kelly glared at him; he already knew the answer to his question.
"Just as I thought. Now get up before I really get mad."
Kelly took the puzzle from around her neck and placed it around Yugi's neck. She then took her armband from her arm and placed it on Yugi's.
"Take care of him Yami and Karia." She whispered as she kissed Yugi's now non-swollen cheek.
* * *
"Can we go now?" Joey pleaded.
"Not yet. Wait till she gives the signal." Tristan whispered fiercely.
"I'm about to say forget the signal, let's just get them both out of there now before they get hurt." Joey argued.
"Do you want to get us caught? Shut up before someone hears us." Tristan put his hand over Joey's mouth.
Joey glared and folded his arms over his chest before turning his head towards the window.
* * *
"Get the hell up you-" Micha went over to her yanked her up, but stopped in mid-sentence when Kelly's face was not her own. "What the heck?! Who are you?!"
"You have no right to treat Kelly and Yugi like that." Karia fiercely glared at the man. "Especially when on holds the greatest power of all."
"What are you talking about? What power does these two migraines hold?"
"Something you will never lay your eyes upon. It is only for those who will protect the Pharaoh and his sister. No matter what form they are in with this life." Karia scowled. "Leave us alone from now on Micha McCarthy or you shall feel the wrath that 5 millina has imprisoned."
"You have gone nuts girl. I didn't raise my daughter to speak back to a man. Cut this act right now Kelly and you won't be hurt, that badly."
Karia didn't move an inch. Defiance was held in her eyes, unwavering. "You are not Micha McCarthy and have not been for the past 15 years." She stated.
Micha froze then smirked. "So I see you have figured it out."
"Of course, Macaleb."
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So there is another chapter. ^^ Sorry it took longer then I expected. ^_^; Tell me what you think and I'll get the next chap up ASAP. ^^