It's me again. Chapter 18's here, hope you like it! Yami fans: not to much of him in this chapter, sorry!
Disclaimer: *see chapter 17
Chapter 18: Scourge of the Skies"So how did the raven get in?" asked Tristan.
"It probably flew into one of those windows up there," answered Yugi. "But there must be an entrance to this place somewhere."
Joey, Tristan, Yugi/Yami, and Seto were sitting in the cabin, trying to decide what to do now that they had reached the citadel. Tea, Serenity, and Mokuba were on the deck watching the sun set.
"Hey Joey!" called Serenity. "You're missing a beautiful sunset!"
"Be out in a sec, Serenity!" he shouted. Then he turned back to his friends. "Now where were we?"
Just then, they heard Tea, Serenity, and Mokuba scream. Everyone ran out on deck and saw the huge bird diving towards the boat. It pulled up at the last second and prepared for a second attack.
"Get inside the cabin!" yelled Yugi.
Joey grabbed Serenity's hand and pulled her towards the cabin. He pushed her inside and went back to get Tea. Serenity started to go after him, but Tristan held her back.
The bird hovered in the air before swooping down again. Its talons found Mokuba's shirt. Mokuba wrapped his arms around the mast as the bird tried to pull him off the mast and into the air.
"Seto!" he shouted. "Help me, big brother!"
Seto turned and saw Mokuba hanging on for dear life. He broke a piece of wood from the railing and charged towards the bird.
"Let go of him!" he yelled as he hammered the bird with the wood. The bird, distracted by the rain of blows falling on it, released Mokuba's shirt and turned on Seto instead.
"Mokuba, get in the cabin!" ordered Seto as he kept up his onslaught. Mokuba ran for the cabin, and the bird started to turn away from Seto.
"Come and get me, you pitiful excuse for a feather duster!" taunted Seto. "You're so slow, you couldn't catch a snail if it was standing right in front of you!"
"What's he tryin' to do, get himself killed?!" asked Joey.
"No," said Yugi. "He's buying time for Mokuba to get to the cabin!"
As a matter of fact, Yugi was correct. However, the bird took the bait and advanced on Seto again. As Mokuba reached the cabin door, he looked back. Seto was backing up, still swinging the wood, but the bird was closing in. Seto's insults had angered it. Suddenly, the bird's beak lashed out and snatched the wood from his hand. It then proceeded to crunch the wood into tiny pieces. Seto backed away, but the bird pinned him down with one large claw. He stared up into the bird's yellow eyes as it reared its head back to strike. Just then, a large piece of ice hit it in the eye.
The bird squawked in pain and surprise, releasing Seto as it stumbled back and pawed at its eye with one wing.
"Chill out, man!" said Joey as he readied another chunk.
"Joey, that is so lame!" said Tristan, throwing more ice from the cooler. "Yeah! Direct hit!"
Tristan, Joey, Tea, Serenity, Mokuba, and Yugi distracted the bird with ice while Seto slipped away to the cabin. Still being pelted with ice chunks, the bird rose into the air, circled once, and was gone.
Everyone filed out of the cabin.
"We did it!" said Joey, raising his fist triumphantly in the air.
He spoke too soon. Like lightning, the giant bird reappeared. It dove down and grabbed Tea in its talons. She screamed in surprise as she was lifted off the ground.
"Tea!" everyone yelled.
"Help!" she cried as the bird rose higher into the air. It flew into one of the citadel's windows.
"We've got to save her!" said Yugi.
"But how?" asked Tristan. "We can't even get into the castle."
Just then, the wall of stone in front of them lifted to reveal a large cave, half filled with water.
"You were sayin'?" said Joey.
"Well, here goes nothing," said Yugi. He steered the boat through the opening and into the cave, where it was soon swallowed by the darkness.
That's it for this chapter! You know the drill.