Bill:*clears throat* "I will be writing the fic today! MMHAHAHAHAHAH! YOU WILL ALL BOW BEFORE THE NEW AUTH-"
BookDragon: *taps foot.* "Sorry I'm late Bill…"
Bill: *face white* "Er…there you are…I… er…got to change the wash!" *runs off*
BookDragon: "That's what I thought you said."
Chapter 13: Kaiba CORB…A safe house?!
"HEY! WHEN……STOP?!" Bill screamed over the roaring wind howling in Ann's ears, making her whip her head to him in surprise to him behind her, still clinging to the ladder as he carefully keep his body close to the poles to keep the air from whipping at him too much. It was hard to see him through the crazy of brown streaks her hair was causing, but she gathered that much from brief glances that she was allowed. Otherwise, she could only hear and watch his lips moving to complete get the question. When she finally did her watering brown orbs quickly lit up with understanding and her head whipped back into the hard wind and started screaming up to Calendae.
"WE…NEED…STOP!" Was all she heard of her own voice, but oddly enough Calendae seemed to understand her perfectly, and so with a single nod of her head the ladder just stopped. With a deep gasp of surprise Ann closed her eyes, feeling like she would crash, but instead the rattling of her own ladder calmed and slowed to a complete halt. Bill's didn't slow so nicely. Instead, it jerked to a stop and sent him flying off, so far off that he tumbled over the makeshift black iron rail and into the abyss below.
At first, Ann was sure Bill would flip back over the rail like some hilarious joke just occurred, but after seconds of waiting she realized her friend would be trapped in whatever was below in her own mind. Springing tears to her eyes until Calendae finally rolled her eyes and walked calmly to the rail and held out a firm arm. Blinking slightly ticked off that she rolled her eyes at her; Ann watched curiously when a familiar sound broke their breathing.
"Ssssshhhhhiiiittttttttt. OWFF!" and out of the sky Bill plummeted into Calendae's outward grasp and pulled safely back over the side and onto the floor like a rag doll. Calendae just watched him breath heavily on the floor, grateful he was alive, so was Ann of course. It was another thing she was saved from having life long guilt from. And Calendae seemed to know it. When she looked up from Bill Calendae's gaze was piercing her with a cocky smirk, then back to Bill with the same look.
"Don't tell anyone I never did you any favors." It was clearly a joke with such a grin placed on her face, but Ann didn't feel much like laughing at that moment. Bill gave her a small chuckle, weak but definitely glad to be alive and kicking.
"Is this our destination?"
"I suppose." Ann lifted her eyebrows.
"You suppose?" Calendae shrugged.
"Your mind may be based on mine but I'm not exactly _you_. Kakra is a good example." That was true. Ann found herself nodding at Calendae but watching Bill get up off the ground and go over to the bookcase, apparently curiosity finally got the better of him. A flare of anger arose but she immediately dowsed it, after all she _did_ let Bill in here after all. But still she had to do something.
"Haven't you ever heard of curiosity killed the cat?" Bill pulled out a nice blue book after reading the spine a moment, and looked back at her with a huge grin on his face.
"Yeah but he still had eight lives." He opened the binding humorously, and stopped dead when the pages started ruffling and a cloud of smoke started swirling, making the book shake violently. Bill's eyes widened with amazement rather than fear as suddenly, like in those holograms, a huge lizard head erupted from out of the pages, shooting upward as the head gained more height than all of them, looming over Bill, and finally stopped at the bottom of its neck was sitting on the paper. Behind its scaly green checks gleamed two marble size bright purple eyes, looking directly at Bill, and ignoring Calendae and its creator. Ann wasn't surprised. She had thought a lot about this stuff before Yu-Gi-Oh had existed, it was mostly what she read, so it was practically a given when she started reading. There was a paused breath, both from Bill and it, and then it bared a nest of teeth, all the size of knives and just as sharp. Ann's eyes widened a bit, surprised at the reaction, and almost panicked when its mouth opened wider and started to come down upon Bill's unprotected head, his astounded arrogant face for that matter. It started to come down, breathing huge gust of wind from its a gab mouth of thousands triangular teeth letting a bit of spit drip onto him, and start to sizzle on his flapping clothing. He didn't notice the shoulder blade of his shirt going up in smoke until Calendae quickly slammed the book shut. The head immediately wisped away like the smoke on Bill's shoulder, making him blink as well as Ann, just starting to hear what Calendae was saying.
"You are impossible! Would you have let that thing KILL you?!" She breathed at him annoyed, waking him up from the trance to her steaming face, then suddenly turned to Ann and elbowed her hard in the side.
"OW! What was that for?!"
"You didn't stop your dragon! It's YOUR creation! He would have been killed!" Bill's expression turned firry but his lips remained sealed, which was a bit strange for Bill's character. Maybe he knew she was right. Ann already knew that, so she only nodded and decided not to pursue the subject. Calendae's glare turned down a bit, but still she was slightly ticked off, it would take her a few minutes to cool off. It always did with Ann anyway.
As for Bill, he was dismissing that insult and now taking another look at the bindings intently, but not taking one off the shelf now. After a few moments he turned to Ann with a look containing both bafflement and surprise.
"I don't see any romance books here…" Ann snorted an annoyed grunt.
"You think all girls have to have the cuddly girly-girl side? I've had my experiences, and I'd rather not deal with it." Calendae turned a surprised glance to her.
"No love? Oh dear. That's a surprising thought. I have plenty of romance in my daydream section…" Ann didn't say anything; she dared not let her tomboyish mind travel to that door of her subconscious. It was only when Bill smirked and pulled out a very fluffy hot pink book and waved it in her face that Ann was suddenly confused.
"What is that?" Bill's smirk widened.
"You tell me." Without waiting for an answer he flipped the book open and instead of some dream boy came a fluffy white rabbit. It hopped onto the floor a moment and started to clean its ears when another dragon head busted from the open book and ate it, little spats of blood hitting his shirt disgustedly as the little white bunny let out a last squeal and that huge scaly checks started chewing on the remains. Bill immediately closed it with a pasty expression and carefully placed the book back on the shelf.
"I can't believe you could be so ruthless." Calendae's voice moaned as tears sprung to her eyes at the horrible sight. Ann shrugged.
"Hey, I'd never actually do a thing like that; it's just some of the stuff that pops to mind. Can we continue?"
"WHOA LOOK AT THIS!!!" Bill suddenly shouted, causing Ann to sigh as she turned to Bill about five feet off the ground on the ladder and pulling out a colossal size volume. Giddily he climbed back down slowly, being careful not to drop it, and landed safely back down with it, arousing Calendae's curiosity as Ann looked at the forgotten book. Bill quickly blew off the thick layer of dust like blowing out the candles on one's birthday cake, and read aloud the golden title on the leather bound novel.
"YUGIOH! NO WAY!" A grin so wide imbedded onto his face as he started to fumble with the large lock on the side, but it steadily turned to a frown as he found that he couldn't open it.
"Shit."
"I don't let people that easily into my dreams, especially those. You should know better Bill." His brown eyes turned hopefully to her face.
"Aw come on, let us read a couple…"
"No."
"Please?"
"No.
"With cherries on top?"
"NO!" Bill sulked. Ann ignored him and turned to Calendae, wanting to finish this annoying gallivanting, besides, she was starting to get a headache. She opened her mouth to speak but immediately closed it when her head shot up in the direction of the door.
"Uh oh."
"What?" Calendae's head turned back but her eyes where darting around in her skull like popcorn in a popcorn popper, making Ann more worried because she knew out of her own experience that that something was wrong. Before she could ask what again a loud buzzing voice crept into her head.
"SHIT!" Ann paused confused at it.
"SCREW THEM. LET'S GO!" That was Kaiba, but was he talking about them? It would figure, he had always been a slime ball. Ann grunted annoyed while Bill just blinked with some confusion.
"It figures, I'm glad you don't know them…Calendae?" She was gone. Blinking Ann turned to Bill's startled face.
"Where'd she go?" That set Ann worrying a bit more, enough to clamor back onto the ladder quickly.
"I think something wrong. You got to get back to your body, and I got to get back to reality. Get on a ladder."
"What about Calendae?"
"She can hang around in here as long as she wants. I'll just talk to her later…hopefully. Just GO already!" Bill jumped onto his ladder and started whipping back up the ramp as Ann's started to gain on his, twisting the laws of physics enough for Bill to notice.
"SCREW GRAVITY!" She heard him shout before the wind got too bad. Ann just clawed onto the wood and held herself steady.
They got to the door faster than before, making Ann wonder if she or he had done anything to speed up the trip, but she was too worried to ask. Instead, Bill just threw the door open and sprinted out onto the grass and was about to throw open the other door into his own mind when he remembered something. He turned and threw the book that he accidentally carried all the way back at her with a small smile and twisted the knob open and leaped into his own body again, leaving Ann throwing the book to the side of her own mind and somehow jumping back to the controls of her own in a spinning sensation.
When her eyes fluttered open she was watching the sidewalk flying underneath her. Blinking to remove the blurred spots she slowly realized it wasn't her feet carrying her, but someone else's. A bit dazed, but slowly getting use to the semi real world again, she turned to Bakura sweating but startled face and noted that he was carrying her. Why did this always happen to her?
"What's going on?" She asked him, but he was running to fast to spare any time to talk. He needed the time to actually breathe enough to feed his muscles, and only rolled his eyes at her and looked back in front. A bit hurt, Ann curved her gaze to what he was looking at, which turned out to be Kaiba running as fast as she had ever seen in her life with Bill slung over his shoulder. It was somewhat humorous to watch Bill being knocked around with his stomach being forced into Kaiba's shoulder blade, with Bill wincing not from that but probably the pressure Kaiba was putting on the back of his knee caps, most likely cutting off the blood flow. Ann would've started laughing if she wasn't in the same position, except facing the front of where they were going unlike Bill that was being carried backward. It was also that fact that he was yelling at Kaiba to run faster with his eyes wide in fright. This twisted her attention to what was behind them instead of in front of them.
She should have figured, practically right behind Bakura's back was his double gaining on him, almost close enough to touch him for that matter with Malik close behind him, Kakra was nowhere to be found but Ann suspected she was close by. He was too close for comfort, _way_ too close. It was even worse to know that Bakura was surely getting tired; having to sprint with at least a hundred pounds of extra weight on his shoulders was unbearable. Ann was surprised they weren't dead. If she could get off him and started running she would have, but he was too close and the moment she got off he would be upon her and she would surely be dead, but Bakura would be alive. What a horrible thing to think about when one just wakes up from a nice dream. Shaking her head Ann knew she would have to get off, so she started unhooking Bakura's fingers off her back to let go of her. He gave her a startled look and blinked at her a moment, as if saying not to. That was a weird statement coming from Bakura and she was surprised not to find herself in a panic, but now looking straight at Bill. He kept kicking his legs, like he was trying to tell her something. When he shouted as loud as possible, making Kaiba wince a moment because he was practically bellowing in his ear, was she heard the message.
"KICK THE SON OF A BITCH!" Not even thinking about it, Ann shot her leg backward without looking and hoped to god that she at least hit him as she slid of Bakura's back and grabbed onto his sweater to keep herself in pace. She was glad when no pair of hands grabbed her neck but immediately started to grimace at the sudden amount of work placed upon the muscles in her legs, suddenly reminding her of horrible never ending gym classes. All she could really do was keep pushing Bakura to go forward in front of her and gripping his sweater harder when they took sharp turns just to keep herself from falling. The minutes felt like hours, just trying to out run them, which she was now sure would never happen. T.R probably was use to this; steal tombs did mean you had to be fast didn't it? So why did they think they could out run them?
Because Bill was here.
Ann was practically sure that Bill was concocting some huge plan to get out of this fine mess in that skull of his, probably magical, now that he could do it in all. So she wasn't the least bit surprised when she finally saw Bill's head pop up above Bakura's and point his finger much like a gun right behind her and shouted something to make a huge blue light blast out from the tip of his fingers and crash right behind where Ann's foot had just been. She heard a surprised roar and the sound of acorns hitting the top of a person's car with the crackling of tinfoil to know he just tired to freeze them with some kind of ice blast. When she heard him scream damn it she knew it hadn't worked and watched intently as he flexed his finger a moment and tired to do it again, but instead ducked. A fireball about the size of a basketball sailed right over his head, a bit of the hair on his head started smoldering after it pasted. He didn't notice as he popped back up and launched another ice bullet thing. Ann guessed he didn't care much that they were in broad daylight and using magic openly. Hopefully it wouldn't hit or kill anyone else, but at this point she was being a bit more selfish than usual. Besides, it would probably come out sooner or later, even thought it would've been better later. But even if they didn't want them to know, there had to be some kind of this to erase this from there heads, yeah T.R could do it, know that she remembered, maybe he would after wards. Most likely. For know she had to worry about getting the hell out of there. So she started looking all possible exits where they could lose them, but Kaiba was way a head of them she soon realized because when they started climbing up a pair of familiar stairs she knew they were at Kaiba CORB. What a funny place to end up, Ann found herself thinking before she almost tripped on a step. At that moment she was almost sure she wasn't going to make it, that they would catch her and she would surely be dead. It seemed like it, but she got a sudden jerk from the back that regulated her balance that sent her up and running up the last few steps and into the sudden small gust she supposed to be a door being jerked open and ran the last few feet without getting caught into the door frame and out the other side when the door slammed behind them.
She ran into Bakura when he stopped and fell onto the ground laughing her head off at such a close death encounter, listening to Kaiba dump Bill onto the floor with a loud smack.
"OW! Hey watch it!" Bill yelled as Bakura collapsed to the floor in exhaustion with Ann rolling around on her stomach still laughing. Kaiba was looking at her like she was marked officially insane but she didn't care. He looked a bit relieved when she finally stopped her laughing fit and sat up rather reluctantly.
"How long will that hold for Kaiba?"
"Long enough to get security."
"Are you sure?" Kaiba glared at Bill instantly, causing him to gulp and take that as his answer. Kaiba then dug into his pockets and pulled out a black cell phone and started pushing numbers, ignoring both Ann and Bakura on the ground, and started talking furiously into the phone.
"I want a force of guards out there now." She heard a muttered "yes sir" out of the phone and supposed they would be here in a couple of minutes when Kaiba slammed the phone shut and buried it back into his pockets. There were a few minutes of silence when Bakura was finally able to talk.
"What do we do now?" he asked haft heartedly. Kaiba just looked at him a moment with one of those looks like 'you really don't know?' and finally said.
"We wait."
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