Jou: I AM NOT THE REASON WE CAN'T FIND SARAH!

Mokuba: ; Fushicho Hime, Jou REALLY didn't like that insinuation from you… Sayian Jedi, thanks for your support…

Pegasus: appears out of nowhere But you shall never find her! She is mine, all mine!

Sarah: cracks him over the head with a baseball bat That's what you think, Sucker!

Pegasus: XX

Mokuba: smirks You all right, Sarah?

Sarah: If I ever have to watch another Funny Bunny cartoon… shudders I need some comfort…

Jou: Gotcha covered, Sare! hands over a root beer, a bag of original potato chips and this month's Shonen Jump

Sarah: kisses his cheek Thank you, my guardian Jou. Anyway, on with Chapter Twelve: And The Thunder Rolls

Seto sat in his Kaiba Corp office, going over some figures. The production of Duel Disks was coming along better than he'd anticipated. If things kept going this way, he could have them in to stores in time for the holidays. Also, with Saya's help, he was working on a new Virtual Reality game. The game, called Spellcaster, had been Saya's idea. Seto smiled as he thought back to yesterday, the day she'd started making it.

Saya had been sitting at the coffee table in the living room, crayons and paper everywhere and her casted right arm resting on the table. She had a crayon in her left hand and was drawing away. She'd also been abnormally quiet. That really didn't bother Seto much- Mokuba had gone to play Capsule Monsters with a friend and he was getting some work done. But after a while, he started to get curious.

"What are you doing, Saya-imouto?" Saya looked up at him and smiled.

"I'm making a story, Sonkei!" she said happily. "Come look!"

"May… all right." Seto was about to tell her he'd look later, but changed his mind. He'd finished up the work he wanted to get done, so why not? He got up from his computer and took a seat next to her. Saya placed a stack of pictures in front of him, which he picked up and flipped through. Seto was amazed- for a five-year-old, she was a very good artist. If he didn't know better, he'd have thought that someone else, someone his age had drawn the pictures for her- they were that good.

As he looked through the pictures, Seto noticed that they needed no words to tell a story. Everything was there in the pictures… but just to be safe

"Saya," he said, "Did you really draw all of these." She nodded. "Wanna tell me about them?" Saya nodded again.

"It's called Spellcaster," she said, pointing at two figures. "The king and queen are having a big party for their daughter's birthday. Suddenly, everything gets dark and Daegal…" She flipped to the next page and pointed to a large black dragon. "Comes in and roars at the king and queen, turning them into glass." She flipped the page again, revealing a group of figures facing off against Daegal… one of which looked a lot like Seto.

"Is that me, Saya?" he asked.

"Yup!" She pointed at the person Seto had asked her about. "That's Seto, the Sorcerer of the Dragon…"

Wonder where she got that from? Sorcerer said smugly.

Shut it, Sorcerer. Saya pointed to another person, a girl with a tiger headed staff in her grasp.

"This is Koujo," she said "Sorceress of the Tiger." He finger moved again, this time to a boy… one that looked a lot like Mokuba and had a bird on his shoulder. "Moku, Sorcerer of the Falcon." Her smile widened as she pointed to the last person on the page- a girl with her brown hair pulled up into ponytail. "That's Princess Saya- her mommy and daddy are the king an queen." She flipped to the next page, showing a figure that looked like Yami. " This is the bad guy, Yamiko. He sent Daegal to try and capture Princess Saya."

"Why did he do that?" Seto asked, trying not to laugh. The thought of Yami as the bad guy was enough to do that to him.

"Princess Saya knows where the Sphere of Faith is," Saya replied. She went to the next page, showing a glowing white circle sitting on top of a silver base. "The Sphere is a great weapon- if Yamiko gets his hands on it, then the kingdom is doomed." Seto nodded.

"I see. So, Yamiko had Daegal transform Saya's parents so she would lead him to the Sphere." Saya nodded happily.

"Yup!" Seto smiled.

"You know, Saya-imouto… this would make a good video game."

Seto took Saya's pictures with him to work that morning and had his finest design team get to work on turning the pictures into a Virtual Reality game. It had been decided that the game would have five playable characters- Seto, Koujo, Moku, Saya and- for those who wanted to destroy the world, rather than save it- Yamiko. There would be a multiplayer mode as well, allowing up to four people to band together and save the kingdom. Saya's original stack of pictures had tripled by then, giving the design team more than enough ideas to work with. Still she'd promised there'd be more.

CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seto looked out the window- rain was pouring down and he could see bolts of lightning striking in the distance. He looked up at his clock- almost three-thirty. Mokuba and Saya would be home by now… or so he thought.

"Mr. Kaiba?" He looked to see his secretary standing in the doorway. "Sorry to bother you, Mr. Kaiba," she continued. "But Mokuba just called- it would seem that he has to stay after school to retake a test, but I guess Saya had already started walking home…" Seto was out the door and in his limo before she finished. The rain was pouring hard, thunder clapped constantly, followed by lightning. He knew how frightened Saya was of storms… he prayed she was all right.

"Saya?!" he yelled, rushing into the manor. "Saya, where are you?!" He doubted she could hear him over the thunder, but he kept trying as he ran up the stairs to her room. When he got there, he found the door open. When he looked inside, his eyes widened. There was a tent in the middle of her room, made with blankets tied to her bedposts, blankets draped over chairs, blankets clothes-pinned to her desk and blankets clothes-pinned to other blankets. Coming from inside the blanket tent was a tiny voice.

"Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques, Dormez vous? Dormez vous? Sonnez les matines,
Sonnez les matines, Ding, dang, dong! Ding, dang, dong!"

The song started over again as Seto looked into the tent. Saya was sitting under there with Seto-ryu and Moku-bear. In front of each of them was a small plate of strawberry cream and chocolate pocky and litchi, and a can of soda. (A.N: Pocky is a Japanese dessert- it's a cookie like stick covered with chocolate or strawberry crème. Litchi is a fruit grown in Southern China and there is a company that makes little gummies that taste like the fruit. Both litchi and pocky are REALLY good!) Saya had her crayons all over the place and was drawing on more paper.

"Saya?" Seto asked coming into the tent. "Are you all right?" Saya looked up at him and smiled.

"Hi Sonkei!" She showed him a picture she'd drawn. "Look! Yamiko has kidnapped Princess Saya and her friends are coming to save her! Is it a good picture, Sonkei?" Seto smiled- the thunder was rolling in the background, but it wasn't bothering Saya at all.

"Yes, Saya-imouto. It's a great picture."