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//Words// = Tea talking to the other through her Bracelet
/Words/ = the others talking back to Tea
Chapter Seven: A Father's Deception
(Theme song for this section I Just Wanna be with You by *N SYNC)
Marik walked the quite corridors of the abandoned mansion they were using as their hide out. The reason for its abandonment was because of the disappearance of one Maximillian Pegasus. It had been his home before his wife passed away and he used it only when he left to confines of his island.
Marik was rather restless and unlike the others could not sleep after their nights work. Therefore he had been roaming the corridors since about four something. It was not like he wasn't tired on the contrary he was almost dead on his feet, but now more then ever his mind would not rest. He was constantly thinking about the Sorceress and how he had kissed her. He loved her so much and unlike Seto he was willing to admit it. Yet she wanted noting to do with him. The dangerous fire that had been dancing in her eyes after he kissed her still haunted his mind.
Marik had no recollection of how long he walked or how many times he had passed certain paintings or objects. All he knew was that he walked and walked in constant thought. His thoughts were broken finally by the voice of Bakura.
"Marik! Hey Marik!" Bakura said in a loud whisper
"What?"
"I need to talk to you."
"About what?" Marik was both thankful and angry that Bakura had disrupted his thoughts
"The Queen."
"Huh?"
"Tea. Now get in here."
Marik followed Bakura back into the room he had just come out of. It was dark and gloomy just how Bakura liked it considering he was the darkness. The atmosphere even made Marik a little uneasy, but it wasn't anything he couldn't shake off.
"So why do you want to talk about Tea, Bakura?"
"I want her."
"What do you mean 'you want her'?" Marik eyed the tomb robber
"I mean I want her for my wife."
"What! Since when do you care about Tea or the Queen? Wait let me guess, you like her looks." An amused smile played across Marik's face well an annoyed looked appeared across Bakura's.
"Very funny Marik. I want her for the same reasons you want Ariel. Or should I say your beloved Isis." That wiped the smile off Marik's face, "Past memories hurt don't they Marik. I know what she did and still does to you. I also know how she now wants nothing to do with you nor does she remember the ancient bond you two shared."
"Fine you can have Tea." Marik was now seething inside
"What about this Johnny Steps?"
"Send him to the Shadow Realm if you like. I really don't care." Marik walked out of the room slamming the door behind him.
"Oh I will send him to the Shadow Realm alright and then Tea is mine."
Dinning Hall: 6:00am
Pegasus sat at the far end of a long table in the middle of an elegant dinning hall drinking coffee and in complete thought. How on earth was he going to get Ariel to believe she was indeed his daughter? She looked nothing like him and there was no way she would remember him because she was only a year old when he had put her in the orphanage. The only thing he could think of was to try and talk to her again.
"I will tell her at breakfast. That won't be for another two hours; which will give me enough time to get what I need. Thank goodness I kept everything here in a secret safe."
Pegasus was now standing at the window looking out over the garden that his wife had had planted the minute they got here. It was still exactly as it had been before she died. Even though Pegasus was hardly ever in the mansion he paid the servants to keep things exactly how they had been before Cecilia died and before he went looking for a way to bring her back.
"Don't worry my love the three of us will be a family again." As Pegasus looked out over the garden Kemo walked in with a newspaper under one are.
"Master Pegasus I have the morning paper just like you requested. Is there anything else?" "Thank you Kemo and as a matter a fact there is something else. Go to the room where we are keeping the girls and give them this message." Pegasus whispered something into Kemo's ear so no one else who happened to walk by could hear.
"Right away Master Pegasus." Kemo bowed and left the room.
Pegasus walked back over to his chair and picked the up the paper. Not to his surprise on the front was a story about the Egyptian Dueling Wars and the kick off banquet. Right above it was a picture of the five elite duelists. The caption under the picture read thus (from left to right) Yugi Motu, the King of Games; Seto Kaiba, the World Champion (Although tied for the title of King of Games); Ariel Granger, the Queen of Games; Joey Wheeler, the Intercontinental Champion; and Mai Valentine, the National Champion.
The article went on to talk about the other duelist who had showed up at the banquet such as Weevil Underwood, Rex Raptor, Bandit Keith, and Espa Roba. It reviled that the sponsor of the tournament was Industrial Illusions with the help of Duke Devlin's company. Also how Kaiba Corp. had sold thousands of the latest copy of their dueling disk to Industrial Illusions for the tournament. The article continued onto the social page but to Pegasus' disgust it did talk about the tournament any long. Instead the article turned to what the writer called the newest couple of the year: Seto Kaiba and Ariel Granger. Next to that article was a picture of Ariel and Seto when they arrived at the banquet.
This Year's Newest Couple of the Year
For months the hottest couple has been none other then the King of Games Yugi Motu and Tea Garner. But as of last night the newest couple is Kaiba Corp owner Seto Kaiba and Magical Imagery owner Ariel Granger. Although no one know for sure if the two are an actual item are sources are almost sure of it. Our exclusive sources informed us that Kaiba and Granger have known each other for many years as they both were at the Domino Orphanage together. Ariel was adopted at age thirteen and taken to England; shortly after Seto and his brother Mokuba were also adopted by the late Gozaburo Kaiba. For reasons unknown the two lost contact for several years but were reunited earlier yesterday afternoon when Granger put a halt to a business meeting at Kaiba Corp. Both are extremely good duelist Ariel holding the title of Queen of Games and Seto holding the title of World Champion, but tide for the title King of Games. All this reporter can say is that they make an excellent couple and from what this reporter has heard are most likely the only two who can handle each other. So the Ariel and Kaiba good luck! To those girls who were hoping to catch they eye of Seto Kaiba and to they boys who were trying to catch the eye of Ariel Granger better luck next time.
Pegasus slammed the paper back down onto the table; he did want his daughter to have anything to do with Kaiba. Pegasus put his head in his hands trying to think of a way to get Ariel to not like Kaiba.
"Something wrong Pegasus?" Marik walked in the room right after Pegasus slammed down the paper.
"Read this." Pegasus slide the article over to Marik and watched as Marik read the Social page. Marik's face became mangled with anger as he crumpled up the article and threw it on the ground.
"They won't be the 'Couple of the Year' once I have my say. Kaiba will not take her away from me again!" Marik slammed his fist down onto the table. Neither Pegasus nor Marik ever heard Gozaburo walk in.
"I see my son has managed to make both of you mad." Gozaburo picked the article up off the floor and read it, "Well, well if this isn't something. See what happens when our children raise themselves Pegasus. Seto goes against my wishes and falls in love with your daughter. And your daughter goes and falls in love with one of your enemies. Although I must say Ariel does have the cold Kaiba attitude about her."
"That is the least of our worries. What do you think is going to happen when every one realizes that the five elite duelist don't show up for the tournament?" Pegasus stated rather calmly
"Will just have to wait and see, but I have to go make sure our boys aren't dead. Well at least not yet." Gozaburo left the room
"Marik where is Bakura? I need to make sure he made all the arrangements for our little trip to Egypt this afternoon."
"I believe his had a meeting with Johnny Steps. For what reasons I don't know but I will go look for him and I will join you and Ariel at nine."
Girl's room: 6:10am
Kemo walked into the room that they were keeping all four girls in; it was a very elegant room that was the size of Ariel's back at Kaiba's mansion. Except the only furniture in the room were four large beds in which the girls were still sleeping.
"Time to wake up girls!" Kemo said rather loudly as he flipped the light switch which intently filled the room with light causing the girls to wake up rather suddenly.
The girls looked around at the surroundings and began to slowly remember what had happened the night before. Mai and Ariel who were the closest to where Kemo was standing leapt out of bed and ran straight for him, but Kemo saw this and knew just what to do.
"Don't even think about it girls." Mai and Ariel stopped about a foot away from Kemo who smiled and continued, "If any of you attack me or don't do exactly what I have come here to tell you your boyfriends are as good as dead. Now all of you are to be ready for breakfast by 7:50 when your dates will come and get you. If you look in the closet just over there you will find a dress for each of you. You are to wear those to breakfast." Kemo turned to leave but added, "Ariel your father will be here at 7:40 and you better be ready. That is unless you want something to happen to Mokuba or Kaiba. Good day ladies."
The four girls just stared at the door after Kemo left. They didn't know what to say nor did they want to go to breakfast with their so called dates, but if they didn't the boys would die or at least get seriously hurt.
"I can't believe them! First they kidnap us in the middle of the night then force us to go on mystery breakfast dates. If Yami and Yugi's life wasn't in danger I would of killed him where he stood." Tea's fist were clenched and she was breathing very fast
"There isn't anything we can do." Serenity sat back down on her bed trying to figure something out
"Oh yes there is." Everyone looked at Ariel, "We can escape when we are at breakfast. It can't be that hard."
"Good idea, but until then we better do what they want. The girls spent the next hour and a half getting ready. They also told each other who they had fought and what had happened. Pulse they begin to work out their little escape plan, which included saving the guys. Hey who says they guys always have to save to girls; it can be the other way around.
****** Bakura knocked on the door that lead to Johnny's room. He tried to keep his expression as normal as possible. It was rather hard though because they thought of sending someone to the Shadow Realm made him rather happy.
Bakura could here Johnny's footsteps as he approached the door.
"Bakura? Is something wrong?"
"No actually I would like to have a word with you. May I come in?"
"Sure." Johnny was feeling very uneasy he didn't like the tone in Bakura's voice. It seem to nice like it was forced, "What is it you would like to talk about?"
"I would like to talk about Tea."
"Tea?"
"Yes Tea. You can no longer have her Johnny I am claming her for myself."
"You can't do that! Pegasus promised if I helped I could have Tea!" "Yes well this has nothing to do with what Pegasus did or didn't say. It has to do with what I want and that would be Tea."
"You can't have her!"
"I thought you might say that." The last thing Johnny saw was an evil smile on Bakura's face then a flash of golden light. There was a rush of wind and scream then nothing.
"You did it didn't you?"
"Well you did say that I could send him to the Shadow Realm. Now he is no longer in my way."
"Bakura you are positively evil."
"Why thank you Marik. No if you don't mind I have to go get ready." Bakura walked passed Marik
Bottom floor of the mansion: 5:50am
Yami was the only one of the four boys in the room that was awake. From what he could tell of the room they were in a basement. The room had no windows and was made completely of cold cement. Long steel chains attached to their wrist chained the four of them, Joey, Tristan, Kaiba and himself, to the wall. Each sat on an old worn down mattress on the floor.
The memory of the night before came flooding back into Yami's mind and he became angry. It had nothing to do with the fact that he himself had been kidnapped; it was the fact that they had gotten to Tea as well. Yami knew Tea was capable of defending herself he had seen how much she had changed in the last year and half. The changes had ski rocked when she was reunited with the Millennium Bracelet and the sprite of her past life. Still Yami was very protective of Tea more so then necessary, but it was only because he truly believed he loved her.
Yami sat in deep thought try to figure out why they had been taken and how Bakura had again come back. As he sat thinking with his eyes closed a yellow light penetrated his eyelids. When he opened his eyes he saw the source of the light was the Puzzle. Yugi wasn't trying to get out; Tea was trying to contact him. One of the Bracelets powers was to communicate with all the other Item holders.
/Tea is that you?/
//Yeah it's me. Where are you?//
/It looks like I am in a basement. Joey, Tristan and Kaiba are with me as well. Where are you?/
//Some fancy bedroom that is rather large. Mai, Serenity and Ariel are here too. Yami do you have any idea why this happened?//
/No, but it involves the Rare Hunter, so I am assuming Marik is in on it and it also involves Bakura./
//Bakura? But I though he was gone.//
/So did I, but it seems we were all mistaken. Tea I need to tell you something about Bakura and his past, which sadly involves you./
//What is it?//
/I know you don't know much about you past yet considering you only recently acquired the Bracelet, but before Nefertiti became Queen she was a servant girl in my father palace./
//So I was a servant before I was a queen, well that is just weird.//
/I know but just hear me out please this is important. Bakura was a soldier in training before he turned to tomb robbing. Bakura and you were very close in your past lives. Your families were good friends therefore you two grew up together. Bakura's family was killed by some rogue palace guards well he was training one night. My father punished the guard but that was the beginning of Bakura's decent into darkness. After his family was killed he went to live with you and your family and Tea he fell in love with you. Then about three years later he lost you to me and that was the final blow. After you and I were married he left the palace and fell into darkness never forgiving me and planning how to get you back./ Yami fell into silence
//So you are warning me to watch out for Bakura because he might try to take me back.//
/Exactly Tea, you need to be careful. Use the power you have and the power of the Bracelet to help you./
//I will, listen I have to go someone is coming. I will try and contact you as soon as I can. Bye.// The faint light from the Puzzle disappeared and well as the light surrounding the charm of the Puzzle on the Bracelet. (Alexia: I forgot to explain this but the Bracelet has a charm of all the Items on it including the symbol of the Millennium Items.)
Tea pretended to be asleep as Kemo entered the room to wake them up.
About two hours later
The girls were all dressed up in the dresses they had found in the walk in closet. They were all wearing identical sundresses with flowing skirts that came to about their knees. The only difference was the color of each of the dresses: Mai's was a deep shade of purple, Tea's was a pastel shade of pink, Serenity's was a sun shade of yellow and Ariel's was a slightly dark shade of baby-blue. Although all four girls looked lovely they hated the dresses even Mai who loved the finer things in life and these were made of the finest material.
The girls sat on their beds no moved, no one talked they just waited. Mai had done the girls makeup and Serenity had done their hair. They were suppose to look their best so they had been given makeup and hair care products, none of them were thrilled. Then came the first dreaded knock on the door. The guards outside of the door opened it to reveal Pegasus standing there. Ariel Stood up as he entered the room her face was emotionless and her eyes were cold. Pegasus hugged Ariel but she made no attempt to return it.
"Shall we go have our breakfast Angel?" Pegasus held his arm out and Ariel took it. If she could have she would of ran for it but she knew what would happen if she did. It was only the thought of Seto and Mokuba that kept her temper in check. They left the room with out another word.
Two minutes later Duke showed up and took Serenity who looked like she could kill him. He was suppose to be her friend, so how could he do this to her? Just five minutes late Keith showed up looking a little beat up and still a little scared of Mai after what she had done the night before, but he was none the less thrilled. This left Tea all alone not that she cared. She was hoping that who ever her date was had forgotten, but it was too late there was a knock on the door. The door opened and Bakura walked in.
"Hello, Tea."
*******
(Theme song for this section: Fighter)
Pegasus led Ariel into the dinning hall he had been in earlier. Ariel saw how long the table was and hopped that they would be sitting on opposite ends of it. But her hope was dashed when she saw only one end of the table was set. Pegasus pulled one of the chairs back for her, she sat and he pushed the chair back in. To Ariel's disgust Pegasus sat down right next to her.
"You know you are as pretty as your mother was and she would be very proud of you."
"I told you never to speak of my parents again." Ariel stared right into his eyes and the look in them sent a shiver down his spin. They reminded him way too much of the look Kaiba's eyes had held the last time he had seen him at Duelist Kingdom.
"Ariel you need to know the truth about your parents and this will help."
Pegasus picked up what looked like a photo album and handed it to her. Not wanting to anger him Ariel open the book. The first picture was of Pegasus and his wife on their wedding day, the certificate was right next to it. The names were Maximillian Pegasus and Cecilia Pegasus, something about Cecilia caught Ariel's attention it was the fact that she looked so much like herself that it was scary. Ariel turned to the next page there again was a picture it was of Pegasus and Cecilia; Cecilia was lying in a hospital bed and was holding a little baby. On the right side was the birth certificate and it read Ariel Cecilia Pegasus.
"Your mother loved the name Ariel and I insisted that your middle name should be her first name."
A look of horror was now on Ariel's face as she continued to turn the pages of the album. There were only six more pages of the three of them together after that there were pictures of Ariel in the orphanage. Then there were picture from after she had been adopted and lastly there were newspaper and magazine clippings of her. Ariel set the album down and looked at Pegasus.
"You have my full attention." Her voice was cold
"Like I said before you have a right to know the truth now. Before I was the own of Industrial Illusions and the creator of Duel Monsters I was a painter. Your mother Cecilia was my inspiration and my favorite subject. A year after we were married we had you and it seemed like everything was perfect, but just over a year later your mother became very ill and died. I was devastated and I tried my best to take care of you but I was so broken and bitter that I couldn't. Three weeks after she died I took you to the Domino Orphanage I explained to them I was unable to take care of you. I also informed them that no one was to know your real last name nor were you to know that I was alive. I explained that I would send someone for you as soon as I could therefore you were not to be adopted.
"I spent the next four or five years first traveling then inventing Duel Monsters, but the orphanage keep me informed of your progress. I begin writing letters to you when you were about seven pretending to be your uncle who could not adopted you and I also sent you your first set of Duel Monster cards. I then established Magical Imagery in London were two of my old friends lived, Jacob and Amy Granger. Magical Imagery took about six year to get up and running to were I felt I could let Jacob take over until you were fifteen. I sent a letter to the orphanage explaining that the Granger would be coming to adopt you and you know the rest."
"Yeah I know the rest, but what you don't know is that the Grangers weren't exactly nice to me. You also took me away from my two best friends. So all in all you made me miserable as well as making my friends miserable." Ariel voice was colder then it had been in a long time. Now she was really reminding Pegasus of Kaiba and it scared him.
"If you are talking about Seto and Mokuba Kaiba you are better off without them."
"How would you know? You obviously don't care about anyone but yourself." Her voice rose a bit but she refused to give him the satisfaction of her yelling at him. Pegasus couldn't answer her so instead he looked at his clock and changed the subject.
"Well like I said before your mother would be very proud of you and so am I. And now I get to see the happiest day of you life."
"What are you talking about?"
"You are going to be married."
"WHAT?!?"
"Yes to Marik and you will become Queen."
"You have really lost it you know that! There is no way in hell that I am marrying that man."
"Well I see she still hasn't warmed up to me, but you will marry me. That is if you want Seto and Mokuba to live." Marik had just walked in the room and Ariel stood up, not out of respect but so she would be ready to fight.
"And once we have all the Millennium Items I will be able to bring back my beloved Cecilia and we shall be a family once again. All I have to do is use all eight Items and the technology that a acquired from Kaiba Corp."
"How did you get that information? Seto keeps very tight security around that information."
"Inside help."
"Who?"
"I was the inside help."
"Jackson! I can't believe you! Seto trusted you with that information! How could you?"
"Easily money, power and revenge. Pegasus offered me more money and power then I could have ever imagined. Pulse the chance to get my revenge on Kaiba. He always kept me in the shadows even if the project was my idea I never got any credit."
"You all will burn in hell for this." And with that Ariel made a b-line for the door but was momentarily stopped by a guard. Luckily her shoes were slip on heels, she quickly took one off her foot and hit him along side the head with it. Quickly taking the other one off she ran down the hall. Pegasus' Eye began to glow then died down just as fast and he turned to Marik.
"Marik please inform the Hunters and the guards that the girls have an escape plan. Have Gozaburo double the guard around the boys."
Marik's Rod began to glow and the Millennium Symbol formed on his forehead. Marik closed his for a few moments then reopened them.
"They are informed."
****** Outside of the mansion on the terrace were Duke and Serenity. They had been eating their breakfast in silence for the past twenty minutes. Serenity refused to look at Duke, she was afraid that if she did it would result in something that might put Tristan and Joey in danger. Duke on the other hand was not quite sure what to say to Serenity so he just looked at her. Serenity finally decided to break the long silence.
"Why did you do this Duke? I thought you were my friend."
"Because there was no other way for us to be together. Your brother and Tristan would make sure of it. They didn't want us together, but they don't understand we are meant to be together."
"Duke you're are or at least you were a great friend, but I never liked you like that."
"You have been brainwashed by that brother of yours to think that, but I know better."
"How dare you say such a thing! Joey would never do that to me!"
"Oh yes he would, but not to worry you and I will never be apart again. Once the mission is complete you and I will be together forever." Duke stood up and walked over to Serenity, took her hands and pulled her up out of the chair.
Serenity was doing her best to control her temper that was treating to blow any minute. Duke snapped his fingers and music started. He pulled Serenity closer to himself and they begin to dance. Serenity felt like she was going to be sick she was so mad, but the thought of her brother and Tristan kept her in check.
"You know Serenity you are so lovely." Duke ran his finger through her hair. Trying not to hit him she closed her eyes tight and tried to imagine she was back at home watching Joey and Yugi dueling very closely so she could pick up a few pointers. Or maybe shopping for a new outfit with Tea and Mai at the Domino Mall. It was working her anger began to subside that was until Duke did the unthinkable he kissed her. (Alexia: These guys are really stupid.)
Serenity's eyes flew open and there were now flames dancing in them. She shoved Duke off her whirled around grab and knife off the table and put it to Duke's neck. Duke tried to step around it, but Serenity cut him off each time well still holding the knife firmly in place. There was a noise coming from behind Serenity and when she looked over her shoulder she saw two Hunters running straight for her. Serenity kicked Duke in the stomach causing him to fall backwards into the bushes behind him. Serenity threw the knife down not wanting to run with it just in case. When the Hunters reached her she kicked each them in the stomach as well and ran. (Alexia: Who knew Serenity was that dangerous.)
******* Keith had taken Mai to the Sunroom, which was a lovely room made entirely out of windows. The sun always shown brightly in this room between the morning and afternoon hours therefore it was giving the name Sunroom. The view from the room was breath taking but Mai was determined not to like it. The Sunroom looked over a small garden and then out over a lake that was sparkling in the early morning sunlight.
Just like Serenity and Duke, Mai and Keith did not talk. Mai hated Keith more then ever now and Keith who was still a little scared of what she might do to him decided it was best if he didn't talk. Although he couldn't help but stare at her, I mean what guy wouldn't find it hard not look at her. This was getting on Mai's nerves.
"Would you mind keeping your eyes in your head and look somewhere else."
"I can look wherever I wish babe."
"Yeah well call me babe one more time and this knife goes into your neck. Got it? Good." "I would be careful if I were you. One word to Pegasus and your boyfriend goes bye bye. Not that it would be much of a loss."
"Your still sour that he beat you. But I would think it would be that hard considering you're a pathetic excuse for a duelist."
"I watch it if I were you." Keith was on his feet now
"Oh yeah and what if I don't. Are you going to throw some more empty threats at me." Mai got to her feet as well. She wasn't afraid of him in fact he made her laugh. Keith never had time to answer because the noise from the guards out side interrupted them.
"Two of the girls are already on the loose."
"Which one?"
"Ariel and Serenity." That put a smile on Mai's face
"Well that would be my queue to go." Mai went to pass Keith but he stood right in front of her, "Do you remember what I did to you last night? Well if you don't move I will do it again and even harder this time. NOW MOVE!!" Keith didn't need telling twice he jumped out of her was as she ran out of the room. The guards had left their stations so there was no one to stop Mai.
"Mai over here." Mai looked around and saw Ariel
"So what is the plan?"
"We are going back to the room."
"Why?"
"Tea is still there and she is with Bakura."
"Ah Shit! That is the last thing we need. But how did you find out?"
"My Necklace. Come on lets go maybe we will catch up with Serenity."
The girl's room just after Bakura entered
"You, but I thought you were banished to the Shadow Realm."
"I was, but you can't keep the darkness away forever. That is what I am the darkness and soon you will be too."
"I will never be yours!" "That is what you think, but the Pharaoh can no longer have you. You belong to me."
"I belong to no one most of all you." Tea knew she couldn't keep him back on her own. He knew how to use the full powers of his Item and she didn't. Tea needed another person with an Item to help her, but who? Yami was locked downstairs, that's when it hit her, Ariel. The small charm of the Necklace around her Bracelet begin to glow and so did Ariel's Necklace.
//Ariel! Help!//
/Tea is that you?/
//Yes its me//
/But how?/
//Never mind that! Just get back to the room quickly! Bakura is here and I can't hold him off on my own for very long!//
/We're on our way/
Without realizing it Tea had let herself be backed up to the wall by Bakura. This really wasn't looking good and now more then ever she wished she knew more about her Item.
"Call your little friends did we. Well they won't be much help to you now." Bakura was way to close to her she had to do something.
"Get away from me! I'm warning you! Stay away!"
"Or what you're going to hurt me? I don't think so." They were so close she could feel his breath on her face. So Tea did the only thing she could think of she punched him right in the face. Bakura fell backwards onto the floor and was shocked long enough for Tea to call on one of the other powers she knew. The Bracelet was able to put a protective shield around her. But how long it would last and how strong it was she did know.
"That wasn't wise Tea because now I am mad."
(Wow! Will the other girls be able to get to Tea in time because who knows what an angry Bakura might do. I know there was nothing about the guys but their chained up there isn't much they can do. Hope you enjoyed it!! NOW PLEASE REVIEW!!!)
QUICK THANK YOUS!!!
Kaz for yet another review!!! I am so glad you like my story and my original character. Her name is based on two of my favorite movie characters; Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid and Hermione Granger from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books.
Angel1355 for another review!!! I am so glad you are enjoying my story!! Don't worry about how late your review was I don't really care as long as I get one. ( I also completely understand the problem with brothers; I have a younger brother who is always causing problems. Enjoy!!!
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH!!!! I JUST PLAIN AND SIMPLY DON'T!!
//Words// = Tea talking to the other through her Bracelet
/Words/ = the others talking back to Tea
Chapter Seven: A Father's Deception
(Theme song for this section I Just Wanna be with You by *N SYNC)
Marik walked the quite corridors of the abandoned mansion they were using as their hide out. The reason for its abandonment was because of the disappearance of one Maximillian Pegasus. It had been his home before his wife passed away and he used it only when he left to confines of his island.
Marik was rather restless and unlike the others could not sleep after their nights work. Therefore he had been roaming the corridors since about four something. It was not like he wasn't tired on the contrary he was almost dead on his feet, but now more then ever his mind would not rest. He was constantly thinking about the Sorceress and how he had kissed her. He loved her so much and unlike Seto he was willing to admit it. Yet she wanted noting to do with him. The dangerous fire that had been dancing in her eyes after he kissed her still haunted his mind.
Marik had no recollection of how long he walked or how many times he had passed certain paintings or objects. All he knew was that he walked and walked in constant thought. His thoughts were broken finally by the voice of Bakura.
"Marik! Hey Marik!" Bakura said in a loud whisper
"What?"
"I need to talk to you."
"About what?" Marik was both thankful and angry that Bakura had disrupted his thoughts
"The Queen."
"Huh?"
"Tea. Now get in here."
Marik followed Bakura back into the room he had just come out of. It was dark and gloomy just how Bakura liked it considering he was the darkness. The atmosphere even made Marik a little uneasy, but it wasn't anything he couldn't shake off.
"So why do you want to talk about Tea, Bakura?"
"I want her."
"What do you mean 'you want her'?" Marik eyed the tomb robber
"I mean I want her for my wife."
"What! Since when do you care about Tea or the Queen? Wait let me guess, you like her looks." An amused smile played across Marik's face well an annoyed looked appeared across Bakura's.
"Very funny Marik. I want her for the same reasons you want Ariel. Or should I say your beloved Isis." That wiped the smile off Marik's face, "Past memories hurt don't they Marik. I know what she did and still does to you. I also know how she now wants nothing to do with you nor does she remember the ancient bond you two shared."
"Fine you can have Tea." Marik was now seething inside
"What about this Johnny Steps?"
"Send him to the Shadow Realm if you like. I really don't care." Marik walked out of the room slamming the door behind him.
"Oh I will send him to the Shadow Realm alright and then Tea is mine."
Dinning Hall: 6:00am
Pegasus sat at the far end of a long table in the middle of an elegant dinning hall drinking coffee and in complete thought. How on earth was he going to get Ariel to believe she was indeed his daughter? She looked nothing like him and there was no way she would remember him because she was only a year old when he had put her in the orphanage. The only thing he could think of was to try and talk to her again.
"I will tell her at breakfast. That won't be for another two hours; which will give me enough time to get what I need. Thank goodness I kept everything here in a secret safe."
Pegasus was now standing at the window looking out over the garden that his wife had had planted the minute they got here. It was still exactly as it had been before she died. Even though Pegasus was hardly ever in the mansion he paid the servants to keep things exactly how they had been before Cecilia died and before he went looking for a way to bring her back.
"Don't worry my love the three of us will be a family again." As Pegasus looked out over the garden Kemo walked in with a newspaper under one are.
"Master Pegasus I have the morning paper just like you requested. Is there anything else?" "Thank you Kemo and as a matter a fact there is something else. Go to the room where we are keeping the girls and give them this message." Pegasus whispered something into Kemo's ear so no one else who happened to walk by could hear.
"Right away Master Pegasus." Kemo bowed and left the room.
Pegasus walked back over to his chair and picked the up the paper. Not to his surprise on the front was a story about the Egyptian Dueling Wars and the kick off banquet. Right above it was a picture of the five elite duelists. The caption under the picture read thus (from left to right) Yugi Motu, the King of Games; Seto Kaiba, the World Champion (Although tied for the title of King of Games); Ariel Granger, the Queen of Games; Joey Wheeler, the Intercontinental Champion; and Mai Valentine, the National Champion.
The article went on to talk about the other duelist who had showed up at the banquet such as Weevil Underwood, Rex Raptor, Bandit Keith, and Espa Roba. It reviled that the sponsor of the tournament was Industrial Illusions with the help of Duke Devlin's company. Also how Kaiba Corp. had sold thousands of the latest copy of their dueling disk to Industrial Illusions for the tournament. The article continued onto the social page but to Pegasus' disgust it did talk about the tournament any long. Instead the article turned to what the writer called the newest couple of the year: Seto Kaiba and Ariel Granger. Next to that article was a picture of Ariel and Seto when they arrived at the banquet.
This Year's Newest Couple of the Year
For months the hottest couple has been none other then the King of Games Yugi Motu and Tea Garner. But as of last night the newest couple is Kaiba Corp owner Seto Kaiba and Magical Imagery owner Ariel Granger. Although no one know for sure if the two are an actual item are sources are almost sure of it. Our exclusive sources informed us that Kaiba and Granger have known each other for many years as they both were at the Domino Orphanage together. Ariel was adopted at age thirteen and taken to England; shortly after Seto and his brother Mokuba were also adopted by the late Gozaburo Kaiba. For reasons unknown the two lost contact for several years but were reunited earlier yesterday afternoon when Granger put a halt to a business meeting at Kaiba Corp. Both are extremely good duelist Ariel holding the title of Queen of Games and Seto holding the title of World Champion, but tide for the title King of Games. All this reporter can say is that they make an excellent couple and from what this reporter has heard are most likely the only two who can handle each other. So the Ariel and Kaiba good luck! To those girls who were hoping to catch they eye of Seto Kaiba and to they boys who were trying to catch the eye of Ariel Granger better luck next time.
Pegasus slammed the paper back down onto the table; he did want his daughter to have anything to do with Kaiba. Pegasus put his head in his hands trying to think of a way to get Ariel to not like Kaiba.
"Something wrong Pegasus?" Marik walked in the room right after Pegasus slammed down the paper.
"Read this." Pegasus slide the article over to Marik and watched as Marik read the Social page. Marik's face became mangled with anger as he crumpled up the article and threw it on the ground.
"They won't be the 'Couple of the Year' once I have my say. Kaiba will not take her away from me again!" Marik slammed his fist down onto the table. Neither Pegasus nor Marik ever heard Gozaburo walk in.
"I see my son has managed to make both of you mad." Gozaburo picked the article up off the floor and read it, "Well, well if this isn't something. See what happens when our children raise themselves Pegasus. Seto goes against my wishes and falls in love with your daughter. And your daughter goes and falls in love with one of your enemies. Although I must say Ariel does have the cold Kaiba attitude about her."
"That is the least of our worries. What do you think is going to happen when every one realizes that the five elite duelist don't show up for the tournament?" Pegasus stated rather calmly
"Will just have to wait and see, but I have to go make sure our boys aren't dead. Well at least not yet." Gozaburo left the room
"Marik where is Bakura? I need to make sure he made all the arrangements for our little trip to Egypt this afternoon."
"I believe his had a meeting with Johnny Steps. For what reasons I don't know but I will go look for him and I will join you and Ariel at nine."
Girl's room: 6:10am
Kemo walked into the room that they were keeping all four girls in; it was a very elegant room that was the size of Ariel's back at Kaiba's mansion. Except the only furniture in the room were four large beds in which the girls were still sleeping.
"Time to wake up girls!" Kemo said rather loudly as he flipped the light switch which intently filled the room with light causing the girls to wake up rather suddenly.
The girls looked around at the surroundings and began to slowly remember what had happened the night before. Mai and Ariel who were the closest to where Kemo was standing leapt out of bed and ran straight for him, but Kemo saw this and knew just what to do.
"Don't even think about it girls." Mai and Ariel stopped about a foot away from Kemo who smiled and continued, "If any of you attack me or don't do exactly what I have come here to tell you your boyfriends are as good as dead. Now all of you are to be ready for breakfast by 7:50 when your dates will come and get you. If you look in the closet just over there you will find a dress for each of you. You are to wear those to breakfast." Kemo turned to leave but added, "Ariel your father will be here at 7:40 and you better be ready. That is unless you want something to happen to Mokuba or Kaiba. Good day ladies."
The four girls just stared at the door after Kemo left. They didn't know what to say nor did they want to go to breakfast with their so called dates, but if they didn't the boys would die or at least get seriously hurt.
"I can't believe them! First they kidnap us in the middle of the night then force us to go on mystery breakfast dates. If Yami and Yugi's life wasn't in danger I would of killed him where he stood." Tea's fist were clenched and she was breathing very fast
"There isn't anything we can do." Serenity sat back down on her bed trying to figure something out
"Oh yes there is." Everyone looked at Ariel, "We can escape when we are at breakfast. It can't be that hard."
"Good idea, but until then we better do what they want. The girls spent the next hour and a half getting ready. They also told each other who they had fought and what had happened. Pulse they begin to work out their little escape plan, which included saving the guys. Hey who says they guys always have to save to girls; it can be the other way around.
****** Bakura knocked on the door that lead to Johnny's room. He tried to keep his expression as normal as possible. It was rather hard though because they thought of sending someone to the Shadow Realm made him rather happy.
Bakura could here Johnny's footsteps as he approached the door.
"Bakura? Is something wrong?"
"No actually I would like to have a word with you. May I come in?"
"Sure." Johnny was feeling very uneasy he didn't like the tone in Bakura's voice. It seem to nice like it was forced, "What is it you would like to talk about?"
"I would like to talk about Tea."
"Tea?"
"Yes Tea. You can no longer have her Johnny I am claming her for myself."
"You can't do that! Pegasus promised if I helped I could have Tea!" "Yes well this has nothing to do with what Pegasus did or didn't say. It has to do with what I want and that would be Tea."
"You can't have her!"
"I thought you might say that." The last thing Johnny saw was an evil smile on Bakura's face then a flash of golden light. There was a rush of wind and scream then nothing.
"You did it didn't you?"
"Well you did say that I could send him to the Shadow Realm. Now he is no longer in my way."
"Bakura you are positively evil."
"Why thank you Marik. No if you don't mind I have to go get ready." Bakura walked passed Marik
Bottom floor of the mansion: 5:50am
Yami was the only one of the four boys in the room that was awake. From what he could tell of the room they were in a basement. The room had no windows and was made completely of cold cement. Long steel chains attached to their wrist chained the four of them, Joey, Tristan, Kaiba and himself, to the wall. Each sat on an old worn down mattress on the floor.
The memory of the night before came flooding back into Yami's mind and he became angry. It had nothing to do with the fact that he himself had been kidnapped; it was the fact that they had gotten to Tea as well. Yami knew Tea was capable of defending herself he had seen how much she had changed in the last year and half. The changes had ski rocked when she was reunited with the Millennium Bracelet and the sprite of her past life. Still Yami was very protective of Tea more so then necessary, but it was only because he truly believed he loved her.
Yami sat in deep thought try to figure out why they had been taken and how Bakura had again come back. As he sat thinking with his eyes closed a yellow light penetrated his eyelids. When he opened his eyes he saw the source of the light was the Puzzle. Yugi wasn't trying to get out; Tea was trying to contact him. One of the Bracelets powers was to communicate with all the other Item holders.
/Tea is that you?/
//Yeah it's me. Where are you?//
/It looks like I am in a basement. Joey, Tristan and Kaiba are with me as well. Where are you?/
//Some fancy bedroom that is rather large. Mai, Serenity and Ariel are here too. Yami do you have any idea why this happened?//
/No, but it involves the Rare Hunter, so I am assuming Marik is in on it and it also involves Bakura./
//Bakura? But I though he was gone.//
/So did I, but it seems we were all mistaken. Tea I need to tell you something about Bakura and his past, which sadly involves you./
//What is it?//
/I know you don't know much about you past yet considering you only recently acquired the Bracelet, but before Nefertiti became Queen she was a servant girl in my father palace./
//So I was a servant before I was a queen, well that is just weird.//
/I know but just hear me out please this is important. Bakura was a soldier in training before he turned to tomb robbing. Bakura and you were very close in your past lives. Your families were good friends therefore you two grew up together. Bakura's family was killed by some rogue palace guards well he was training one night. My father punished the guard but that was the beginning of Bakura's decent into darkness. After his family was killed he went to live with you and your family and Tea he fell in love with you. Then about three years later he lost you to me and that was the final blow. After you and I were married he left the palace and fell into darkness never forgiving me and planning how to get you back./ Yami fell into silence
//So you are warning me to watch out for Bakura because he might try to take me back.//
/Exactly Tea, you need to be careful. Use the power you have and the power of the Bracelet to help you./
//I will, listen I have to go someone is coming. I will try and contact you as soon as I can. Bye.// The faint light from the Puzzle disappeared and well as the light surrounding the charm of the Puzzle on the Bracelet. (Alexia: I forgot to explain this but the Bracelet has a charm of all the Items on it including the symbol of the Millennium Items.)
Tea pretended to be asleep as Kemo entered the room to wake them up.
About two hours later
The girls were all dressed up in the dresses they had found in the walk in closet. They were all wearing identical sundresses with flowing skirts that came to about their knees. The only difference was the color of each of the dresses: Mai's was a deep shade of purple, Tea's was a pastel shade of pink, Serenity's was a sun shade of yellow and Ariel's was a slightly dark shade of baby-blue. Although all four girls looked lovely they hated the dresses even Mai who loved the finer things in life and these were made of the finest material.
The girls sat on their beds no moved, no one talked they just waited. Mai had done the girls makeup and Serenity had done their hair. They were suppose to look their best so they had been given makeup and hair care products, none of them were thrilled. Then came the first dreaded knock on the door. The guards outside of the door opened it to reveal Pegasus standing there. Ariel Stood up as he entered the room her face was emotionless and her eyes were cold. Pegasus hugged Ariel but she made no attempt to return it.
"Shall we go have our breakfast Angel?" Pegasus held his arm out and Ariel took it. If she could have she would of ran for it but she knew what would happen if she did. It was only the thought of Seto and Mokuba that kept her temper in check. They left the room with out another word.
Two minutes later Duke showed up and took Serenity who looked like she could kill him. He was suppose to be her friend, so how could he do this to her? Just five minutes late Keith showed up looking a little beat up and still a little scared of Mai after what she had done the night before, but he was none the less thrilled. This left Tea all alone not that she cared. She was hoping that who ever her date was had forgotten, but it was too late there was a knock on the door. The door opened and Bakura walked in.
"Hello, Tea."
*******
(Theme song for this section: Fighter)
Pegasus led Ariel into the dinning hall he had been in earlier. Ariel saw how long the table was and hopped that they would be sitting on opposite ends of it. But her hope was dashed when she saw only one end of the table was set. Pegasus pulled one of the chairs back for her, she sat and he pushed the chair back in. To Ariel's disgust Pegasus sat down right next to her.
"You know you are as pretty as your mother was and she would be very proud of you."
"I told you never to speak of my parents again." Ariel stared right into his eyes and the look in them sent a shiver down his spin. They reminded him way too much of the look Kaiba's eyes had held the last time he had seen him at Duelist Kingdom.
"Ariel you need to know the truth about your parents and this will help."
Pegasus picked up what looked like a photo album and handed it to her. Not wanting to anger him Ariel open the book. The first picture was of Pegasus and his wife on their wedding day, the certificate was right next to it. The names were Maximillian Pegasus and Cecilia Pegasus, something about Cecilia caught Ariel's attention it was the fact that she looked so much like herself that it was scary. Ariel turned to the next page there again was a picture it was of Pegasus and Cecilia; Cecilia was lying in a hospital bed and was holding a little baby. On the right side was the birth certificate and it read Ariel Cecilia Pegasus.
"Your mother loved the name Ariel and I insisted that your middle name should be her first name."
A look of horror was now on Ariel's face as she continued to turn the pages of the album. There were only six more pages of the three of them together after that there were pictures of Ariel in the orphanage. Then there were picture from after she had been adopted and lastly there were newspaper and magazine clippings of her. Ariel set the album down and looked at Pegasus.
"You have my full attention." Her voice was cold
"Like I said before you have a right to know the truth now. Before I was the own of Industrial Illusions and the creator of Duel Monsters I was a painter. Your mother Cecilia was my inspiration and my favorite subject. A year after we were married we had you and it seemed like everything was perfect, but just over a year later your mother became very ill and died. I was devastated and I tried my best to take care of you but I was so broken and bitter that I couldn't. Three weeks after she died I took you to the Domino Orphanage I explained to them I was unable to take care of you. I also informed them that no one was to know your real last name nor were you to know that I was alive. I explained that I would send someone for you as soon as I could therefore you were not to be adopted.
"I spent the next four or five years first traveling then inventing Duel Monsters, but the orphanage keep me informed of your progress. I begin writing letters to you when you were about seven pretending to be your uncle who could not adopted you and I also sent you your first set of Duel Monster cards. I then established Magical Imagery in London were two of my old friends lived, Jacob and Amy Granger. Magical Imagery took about six year to get up and running to were I felt I could let Jacob take over until you were fifteen. I sent a letter to the orphanage explaining that the Granger would be coming to adopt you and you know the rest."
"Yeah I know the rest, but what you don't know is that the Grangers weren't exactly nice to me. You also took me away from my two best friends. So all in all you made me miserable as well as making my friends miserable." Ariel voice was colder then it had been in a long time. Now she was really reminding Pegasus of Kaiba and it scared him.
"If you are talking about Seto and Mokuba Kaiba you are better off without them."
"How would you know? You obviously don't care about anyone but yourself." Her voice rose a bit but she refused to give him the satisfaction of her yelling at him. Pegasus couldn't answer her so instead he looked at his clock and changed the subject.
"Well like I said before your mother would be very proud of you and so am I. And now I get to see the happiest day of you life."
"What are you talking about?"
"You are going to be married."
"WHAT?!?"
"Yes to Marik and you will become Queen."
"You have really lost it you know that! There is no way in hell that I am marrying that man."
"Well I see she still hasn't warmed up to me, but you will marry me. That is if you want Seto and Mokuba to live." Marik had just walked in the room and Ariel stood up, not out of respect but so she would be ready to fight.
"And once we have all the Millennium Items I will be able to bring back my beloved Cecilia and we shall be a family once again. All I have to do is use all eight Items and the technology that a acquired from Kaiba Corp."
"How did you get that information? Seto keeps very tight security around that information."
"Inside help."
"Who?"
"I was the inside help."
"Jackson! I can't believe you! Seto trusted you with that information! How could you?"
"Easily money, power and revenge. Pegasus offered me more money and power then I could have ever imagined. Pulse the chance to get my revenge on Kaiba. He always kept me in the shadows even if the project was my idea I never got any credit."
"You all will burn in hell for this." And with that Ariel made a b-line for the door but was momentarily stopped by a guard. Luckily her shoes were slip on heels, she quickly took one off her foot and hit him along side the head with it. Quickly taking the other one off she ran down the hall. Pegasus' Eye began to glow then died down just as fast and he turned to Marik.
"Marik please inform the Hunters and the guards that the girls have an escape plan. Have Gozaburo double the guard around the boys."
Marik's Rod began to glow and the Millennium Symbol formed on his forehead. Marik closed his for a few moments then reopened them.
"They are informed."
****** Outside of the mansion on the terrace were Duke and Serenity. They had been eating their breakfast in silence for the past twenty minutes. Serenity refused to look at Duke, she was afraid that if she did it would result in something that might put Tristan and Joey in danger. Duke on the other hand was not quite sure what to say to Serenity so he just looked at her. Serenity finally decided to break the long silence.
"Why did you do this Duke? I thought you were my friend."
"Because there was no other way for us to be together. Your brother and Tristan would make sure of it. They didn't want us together, but they don't understand we are meant to be together."
"Duke you're are or at least you were a great friend, but I never liked you like that."
"You have been brainwashed by that brother of yours to think that, but I know better."
"How dare you say such a thing! Joey would never do that to me!"
"Oh yes he would, but not to worry you and I will never be apart again. Once the mission is complete you and I will be together forever." Duke stood up and walked over to Serenity, took her hands and pulled her up out of the chair.
Serenity was doing her best to control her temper that was treating to blow any minute. Duke snapped his fingers and music started. He pulled Serenity closer to himself and they begin to dance. Serenity felt like she was going to be sick she was so mad, but the thought of her brother and Tristan kept her in check.
"You know Serenity you are so lovely." Duke ran his finger through her hair. Trying not to hit him she closed her eyes tight and tried to imagine she was back at home watching Joey and Yugi dueling very closely so she could pick up a few pointers. Or maybe shopping for a new outfit with Tea and Mai at the Domino Mall. It was working her anger began to subside that was until Duke did the unthinkable he kissed her. (Alexia: These guys are really stupid.)
Serenity's eyes flew open and there were now flames dancing in them. She shoved Duke off her whirled around grab and knife off the table and put it to Duke's neck. Duke tried to step around it, but Serenity cut him off each time well still holding the knife firmly in place. There was a noise coming from behind Serenity and when she looked over her shoulder she saw two Hunters running straight for her. Serenity kicked Duke in the stomach causing him to fall backwards into the bushes behind him. Serenity threw the knife down not wanting to run with it just in case. When the Hunters reached her she kicked each them in the stomach as well and ran. (Alexia: Who knew Serenity was that dangerous.)
******* Keith had taken Mai to the Sunroom, which was a lovely room made entirely out of windows. The sun always shown brightly in this room between the morning and afternoon hours therefore it was giving the name Sunroom. The view from the room was breath taking but Mai was determined not to like it. The Sunroom looked over a small garden and then out over a lake that was sparkling in the early morning sunlight.
Just like Serenity and Duke, Mai and Keith did not talk. Mai hated Keith more then ever now and Keith who was still a little scared of what she might do to him decided it was best if he didn't talk. Although he couldn't help but stare at her, I mean what guy wouldn't find it hard not look at her. This was getting on Mai's nerves.
"Would you mind keeping your eyes in your head and look somewhere else."
"I can look wherever I wish babe."
"Yeah well call me babe one more time and this knife goes into your neck. Got it? Good." "I would be careful if I were you. One word to Pegasus and your boyfriend goes bye bye. Not that it would be much of a loss."
"Your still sour that he beat you. But I would think it would be that hard considering you're a pathetic excuse for a duelist."
"I watch it if I were you." Keith was on his feet now
"Oh yeah and what if I don't. Are you going to throw some more empty threats at me." Mai got to her feet as well. She wasn't afraid of him in fact he made her laugh. Keith never had time to answer because the noise from the guards out side interrupted them.
"Two of the girls are already on the loose."
"Which one?"
"Ariel and Serenity." That put a smile on Mai's face
"Well that would be my queue to go." Mai went to pass Keith but he stood right in front of her, "Do you remember what I did to you last night? Well if you don't move I will do it again and even harder this time. NOW MOVE!!" Keith didn't need telling twice he jumped out of her was as she ran out of the room. The guards had left their stations so there was no one to stop Mai.
"Mai over here." Mai looked around and saw Ariel
"So what is the plan?"
"We are going back to the room."
"Why?"
"Tea is still there and she is with Bakura."
"Ah Shit! That is the last thing we need. But how did you find out?"
"My Necklace. Come on lets go maybe we will catch up with Serenity."
The girl's room just after Bakura entered
"You, but I thought you were banished to the Shadow Realm."
"I was, but you can't keep the darkness away forever. That is what I am the darkness and soon you will be too."
"I will never be yours!" "That is what you think, but the Pharaoh can no longer have you. You belong to me."
"I belong to no one most of all you." Tea knew she couldn't keep him back on her own. He knew how to use the full powers of his Item and she didn't. Tea needed another person with an Item to help her, but who? Yami was locked downstairs, that's when it hit her, Ariel. The small charm of the Necklace around her Bracelet begin to glow and so did Ariel's Necklace.
//Ariel! Help!//
/Tea is that you?/
//Yes its me//
/But how?/
//Never mind that! Just get back to the room quickly! Bakura is here and I can't hold him off on my own for very long!//
/We're on our way/
Without realizing it Tea had let herself be backed up to the wall by Bakura. This really wasn't looking good and now more then ever she wished she knew more about her Item.
"Call your little friends did we. Well they won't be much help to you now." Bakura was way to close to her she had to do something.
"Get away from me! I'm warning you! Stay away!"
"Or what you're going to hurt me? I don't think so." They were so close she could feel his breath on her face. So Tea did the only thing she could think of she punched him right in the face. Bakura fell backwards onto the floor and was shocked long enough for Tea to call on one of the other powers she knew. The Bracelet was able to put a protective shield around her. But how long it would last and how strong it was she did know.
"That wasn't wise Tea because now I am mad."
(Wow! Will the other girls be able to get to Tea in time because who knows what an angry Bakura might do. I know there was nothing about the guys but their chained up there isn't much they can do. Hope you enjoyed it!! NOW PLEASE REVIEW!!!)