Chapter 17: Ancient Secret

Misha had been given a room much more comfortable looking then the one he had been in recently; he collapsed on the bed and said to himself: "This Marik knows how to treat his allies; I just can't wait to know where we're going." Hagane appeared sitting on the side of the bed and said, "Misha…don't be too care free, I sense many different things on this ship…Marik is hiding something from us, and if we don't find out what soon……it may be too late for us to back out of our deal with him."

"And what exactly would you want to do?" Misha asked, sounding as if he was more interested in his own personal pleasures than what Hagane had to say. "I want to you to sneak around tonight and find out what Marik is hiding."

Misha gave an unconcerned look and said, "I'm not going to risk my ass just so we can find some sort of secret Marik has…if any!" Hagane gave a stern look and as he disappeared said, "Fine…have it your way!" Misha suddenly jerked up into the sitting position, Misha looked frighteningly at himself and said, "What the hell is going on!?!" Misha then, as if by some invisible force, flung himself from the bed to the floor, from there his body started to military crawl across the floor to the door. "What the трахнитесь is going on with my body? It's as if I've lost all control of my movements." Suddenly Hagane's voice came to him, it said, "If you're not going to do this…then I'll make you!"

"ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT ALREADY…I'll do it!" Misha finally cried out. Misha suddenly gained back the control of his limbs and asked himself, "Since when has Hagane been that powerful?"

Later that night Misha snuck out, his eyes adjusted to the darkness more quickly this time, he searched the whole entire floor which his room was on…finding nothing Misha said, "Well I guess this was a waste of my time…well time to go to bed." Misha suddenly felt something jerk him from behind; he looked back and saw that his own arm had subconsciously grabbed the corner of the wall.

"You can't give up that easily Misha…I'm sensing that the power I seek is a floor or two below us, we must investigate further!" Hagane argued. Misha rolled his eyes and said, "Okay." In his mind he thought, "Hagane's going to be the death of me."

Misha made careful not to draw any attention to him as he made his way to the lower floors, about two floors down Hagane said, "Misha…we're close now, be very cautious for this area might be well guarded."

"No, really, you think!?" Misha snapped, lack of sleep starting to take its toll.

Misha then peeked over the corner of a hallway; two dark robed men were standing in front of a door. Misha snapped his fingers quietly and said, "Ah well, can't say we didn't try." But Hagane grabbed hold of the corner and said, "Yes, we didn't try…I can tap into the Bracelet's power to freeze the personal time of those guards, when I start it up again the hallway will still be empty and we'll be on the other side of that door."

The Bracelet gave a faint shimmer of light, after that all was silent.

"Well, what are you waiting for…get a move on!" Hagane ordered, Misha walked up and stopped at one of the robed men, he waved his hand in front of them. "Well that was simple…now to see what's behind door number one."

Misha stepped through, the room was pitch black. "I will provide light for us to see Misha…perhaps we'll be able to find what we're looking for." The Bracelet lit up with a crimson light, Misha saw a glass case in the center of the room…he walked up to it, inside was a card. Misha held the light of the Bracelet closer so he could make it out; it was a Dragon of some sort. But with 0 ATK & DEF points, "Now why would anyone one keep a loser card like that in a glass case?" Misha thought to himself, suddenly Misha could hear Hagane saying, "'The Winged Dragon belongs to me, and when all three are united, they shall reveal their secrets to thee.'."

Misha then saw his left hand reaching for it, he tried to pull it back…but he realized Hagane had taken control of it. "Hagane wait, Hagane don't touch it…Hello, Misha to Hagane can you hear me?"

Suddenly Misha's hand jerked back, "I'm deeply sorry Misha…I don't know what came over me, I just felt that card calling to me…and that I wanted to have it."

"What, that pathetic excuse for a level 10 creat—A LEVEL TEN, HOLY COW!!!" Misha blurted out, "That is no ordinary monster Misha, I'm very sure of it." Hagane explained.

Suddenly the bottom of the case lit up, Misha shielded his eyes from the light…when they adjusted Misha could at first only see streaks of color before his eyes. "I knew you'd be down here, so…have you figured out what you just saw?" said Marik. Misha was still blinking but responded, "Well, it's a Duel Monsters card…Dragon variety, but to give it a level of ten and no ATK or DEF points is just nonsense."

"That's because you need to sacrifice lower level Monsters to give it ATK and DEF points, it's a monster known as the Winged Dragon of Ra…one of the three Egyptian God Monsters." Marik explained.

Misha looked at it and noticed that it's picture did give it sort of a god-like appearance, "And where exactly are the other two?" Misha asked. "The other two are at already on the main land ready for a tournament known as Battle City…one is still in my possession, the other is in the hands of another." Marik replied.

"Misha…when we arrive in BattleCity, we must do all we can to get at those cards…I feel that for the first time I have a goal in this life." Hagane told Misha.

"Yeah, well easier said than done Hagane…because if these cards are as powerful as Marik says, then the duelists who possess them are going to be near impossible to beat!" Misha argued, "Don't you mean 'improbable'…because as far as I've seen, your deck makes the impossible seem possible." Hagane argued back.

Misha finally asked, "Okay…and what exactly is my role in all this?"

Marik stared at Misha from the corner of his eye and replied, "I want you to help me obtain the other two Egyptian God cards…you'll have the aid of my servants, but you'll have to win your own Egyptian God monster…for this one is mine." Marik told him, Misha gave a hand gesture of 'no worries' and said, "Don't worry about that…I know the one I want already."

Walking away he thought to himself, "And I know the group that'll help me achieve that…My Elite Five."