Chapter 3

The front door creaked open, Kaiba slowly pushing it open. He walked in carefully to Pegasus' enormous mansion. A giant, golden chandelier hung high above on the ceiling, and the walls had all sorts of gorgeous paintings on them. The walls were of vanilla paint, with the ceiling painted of the sky with fluffy clouds soaring above. There were small tables with plants and miniature statues standing all over. And this was only the entrance. The rest of the house was filled with similar items, each large room containing remarkable art. Of course, Kaiba had no fascination for any of this. He was interested only in Pegasus' room, which was up two stories of stairs.

Quickly, Kaiba rushed up to the third level of the house. He walked down a long hallway, with a few rooms on each side, none being Pegasus'. Seto would be able to recognize Pegasus' room. There would be a picture of Pegasus, and a king-sized bed that could fit at least three people. Knowing how self-absorbed the man was, Seto expected only the best and most expensive. Yet the only item of interest was Pegasus' wardrobe, which was supposed to contain his deck and the card that defeated the God.

At the very end of the long, candled hallway, Pegasus' overly gigantic bedroom sat clean and organized. A long dresser stood against the wall; his unsurprisingly king-sized bed was next to the end closest to the big window. Upon entering the room, to the right, was a bathroom connected to his room. In there was a walk-in closet containing many pairs of shoes and expensive clothes. A delicate shower and bathtub with pearly sinks sat in the bathroom, also clean and unmessy. Next to the bathroom entry was a fancy wooden desk with Pegasus' diary and a glass that used to be full of wine on top of it. And finally, while it seemed to be that last thing he noticed, the tall, also wooden wardrobe sat across from the dresser.

Kaiba saw the wardrobe and snickered, walking over to it and beginning to open the front doors on the top of it. He was stopped, though, by a laughing voice coming from Pegasus. Kaiba, cautiously, tip-toed to the window, which looked out into the backyard, to make sure nobody was coming. He would find not only that nobody was coming, but that Pegasus had truly lost himself.

"Mr. Pegasus, sir, please! Restrain your self!" one of his servants said trying to grab hold of Pegasus' arm.

"Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!" Pegasus yelled, practically rolling on the ground laughing. He had quite the dazed look in his eyes and his voice was of a higher pitch. "I'm my favorite cartoon! Guess who?"

Pegasus began hopping around the backyard like an inane rabbit, also making a face that was supposed to be that of a bunny. While he did fall every time he hopped, he unsteadily pulled himself up and began to hop again. Throughout all of it, he just kept laughing.

"Hop! Hop! Hop!" he said repetitively. "Now guess who?"

He then started walking around, though he really was waddling because of he had no balance on his feet, trying to impersonate some other cartoon he watched daily.

"La! La! La! I like to sing!" his voice cracked as he fell back to the ground. "Wasting away again in Margaritaville!"

"Please, sir, won't you come sit down?" the servant begged him.

Pegasus was obviously not listening, not that he could really help it by then. He began walking like a zombie, continuing to sing horrendously. He had probably the worst singing voice anyone had ever heard, and the fact that he was completely wasted did not help.

"This is the song that never ends! It just goes on and on, my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was. And they'll continue singing it forever just because..." he sang loudly. He sang it numerous times until the servant had had enough of such an annoying song.

"Mr. Pegasus! Enough!" he tried to tell Pegasus, but then Pegasus just started singing another song.

"My loneliness is killing me!" his singing continued with Britney Spears. He even attempted to do the dance moves to it, flailing his body around and slapping his rear end. "I must confess I still believe! When I'm not with you I lose my mind! Give me a sign. Hit me baby, one more time!"

Up on the third floor, Kaiba stood and watched a drunken Pegasus lollygag around the yard, making a fool out of himself. Seto wished he had the camera at that moment and used it as possible black mail for Pegasus. Kaiba finally came to the realization that he had been distracted by Pegasus' foolishness that he had forgotten he needed to grab the ultimate card from Pegasus' deck.

He returned to the wardrobe, opened the doors, and saw Pegasus' deck sitting by itself in the middle. It hadn't been used in quite some time, so it was no surprise that it was a bit dusty. Remembering what the hobo said, Kaiba grabbed the card on top of the deck and looked at it with amazement. This was indeed a powerful, God defeating card! Perhaps its strength was not quite as strong, but it had all the effects to bring them down, and with Kaiba being an excellent strategist, he would be able to put this card to good use. Kaiba slammed the doors to the wardrobe shut, accidentally sending the cards of Pegasus' deck scattering about the wardrobe. He put the card he had taken with his own deck and put it back in his pocket.

Seto walked to the window tempted to see Pegasus drunk again.

"Mr. Pegasus, look out!" the servant ran over to him and saved Pegasus from walking headfirst into the deep end of the pool. Once pulled away from the pool, Pegasus walked back over to his lawn chair and opened the bottle of wine sitting next to his cup. Like some kind of beer drinking contest, he began chugging it down. The servant was able to pull it away from him before he could finish the remainder of the bottle, but Pegasus began walking around aimlessly again. He then started strutting over to the bird cleaner, where doves were bathing at the moment.

"Hello, my friends! Come to papa!" He yelled, running over to the fountain. In great fear, the birds flew out of the pool of water and away from Pegasus. "No, my lovelies! Come back to me! Come back!"

Kaiba laughed, still not noticed by anyone in the backyard. Oh how he wish he had at least a picture now! Just a picture! It was hysterical to watch Pegasus as a drunken goat.

Pegasus ran faster, his balance still quite awful. When he was mere feet away from the bird cleaner, the birds long gone, Pegasus tripped and fell forward, his head smashing into the bird cleaner fountain. There was a loud, yet hollow, thump when his head crashed into it, water from the pool flying out from the impact. Pegasus laid there, motionless, knocked out like a rock.

"Oh dear," sighed the servant, walking over to an unconscious Pegasus, whose forehead was bleeding. "Not again."

Seto knew that they would be coming inside now. He walked away from the window, ran down the stairs, and slammed the door shut. As fast as he could, he ran away from the house, laughing from what he had witnessed and from the happiness of getting the card he needed.

He returned to his jet, the hobo leaned against it, waiting for him. Kaiba pulled the card he had taken and showed it to him. With satisfaction, the shadowed man pulled out the other card from his pocket. He handed it out to Seto, but as Seto reached for it, he quickly pulled the card away.

"I have but one last request," he told him. Kaiba put down his hand and listened. "Do not let your foe lose any life points until you play this card."

Kaiba raised an eyebrow.

"It's simple," the hobo explained. "If you wish to shock and make your opponent suffer, you will allow him to gain a slight early lead, then come back at him with full force after he believes he has already won. Trust me, he shall suffer, and he shall lose it all."

Kaiba's overgrown ego had gotten the best of him again. He found the hobo's request amusing and told him it would be done. Finally, his anticipation ended after he was given the one card that could stand against all three God cards.

"Now go," the hobo encouraged Kaiba to be on his way. "Make a flawless strategy that will take down your enemy. Let him feel the pain of the humiliation you have suffered from."

He wasted no time. Kaiba climbed inside his jet and started the engine. The hobo had run off, not wanting to get hit by the jet. Kaiba almost felt like thanking him, but did not and flew off to return home.

A storm rumbled harshly that night. Quietly, Mokuba walked down the hall of the tall business building, on his way to his brother's office. Mokuba had never seen Seto as happy as he had been that night in a long time. For once, he was smiling, even through dinner. He figured things must have gone well with Pegasus, though he was well aware of his brother's strong disliking towards the man. Mokuba, a bit timid at first, knocked gently on his brother's office door, which was locked. A few moments later, Seto opened the door, allowing his brother to enter.

"Hey, Seto," Mokuba greeted his brother. Though he was happy, Seto had locked himself in his office for the majority of the evening. "Whatcha doin', big bro?"

Seto sat back in his big black chair, looking through his cards. Mokuba looked over at him, watching him silently giggle as he looked at each card in his deck.

"Just thinking, Mokuba," he finally answered his brother's question. "Just thinking."

"Thinking about what?" he asked, his curious adolescent mind getting the better half of him.

"About tomorrow," he said. He put down his deck and stood up. "I need you to do me a little favor."

"Sure, bro," Mokuba automatically agreed. "What is it?"

"Tomorrow, Yugi and I, we're going to duel."

"Again?" sighed Mokuba, having seen several duels between the two.

"Yes, but I promise you it will be different this time," he assured his brother. "It will be the day the number one duelist reclaims his rightful spot, and the fickle is brought down to where he should be and should have been all along."

He had never heard his brother so confident. Sure, he had been confident in defeating Yugi before, but never like this.

"Ok," Mokuba said. "But what do I need to do?"

"Tomorrow morning, I need you to set up my new Dueling Dome at the edge of the city where the old light house used to be," he began. "Just set up the lighting and the field for the duel. Then when you've gotten my approval that everything is placed as it should be, then you need to go get Yugi. Wait at his house or something. He can't go far."

Mokuba nodded and then was sent out of the office. They would be leaving for home soon. Seto sent Mokuba to the limousine as he went back to his large business desk, turned off his computer, and packed his brief case. His deck was the last thing he took off his desk, looking at his two new cards before putting it away.

"This strategy is perfect," he said to himself. He smiled as he placed the two cards with the rest of his deck and put it away in his pocket. He turned the lights off and left the building, anxious for the next day to come.

It had been a long night. After awakening from a long sleep, Pegasus felt as if a truck had hit him. He wished to go back to sleep, but the severity of his headache prevented him from doing so. His head bandaged up, Pegasus slowly crawled out of bed, still quite drowsy, beginning to go downstairs to watch one of his cartoons.

On his way out, Pegasus had noticed one of his cards sitting on the ground next to his wardrobe. He knew that he hadn't touched his deck in months, so that something was wrong. He opened the wardrobe and saw his cards scattered about the large empty space. He quickly stacked them up and looked through them to see if any were missing. Pegasus was shocked at first to find one of his cards missing. He looked on the floor and in wardrobe to see if had misplaced it, but it was clearly missing. It then he remembered that the card missing was only card to his knowledge that had power almost equal to the God cards.

"Kaiba," he muttered to himself smiling. "Guess I will be seeing you sooner than I thought."

Like any normal adult, Sugoroku sat in his game shop, sipping on some coffee and looking through the day's newspaper. There was no news of particular interest, but he then came across an advertisement. It was advertisement, which many find a bore but this one caught particular interest of Sogoroku, for he was a retired archeologist. A new part of the Domino Museum was now up. Apparently, newly discovered information and ancient items were now being shown. Supposedly it was all about this God-powered fiend that threatened to destroy the world and live among the dead. Sugoroku suddenly had the urge to see it right away. Business was slow that day anyway, mostly because all the kids were away at school. Sugoroku switched the sign to closed, locked up and headed down to the museum.

The sun shined brightly in the sky in the middle of the afternoon. Seto had barely gotten a wink of sleep the night before, but he could not have felt any more awake. The excitement of finally defeating Yugi prevented him from sleeping. He even woke up especially early just to run through his strategy and cards once more. To him, everything seemed to be as flawless as it could get.

"Everything's set, Seto," Mokuba confirmed. Seto looked around the large, round dome to make sure the scene was set. He gave Mokuba a thumb up.

"Now Mokuba, go get Yugi. I'll be waiting for him," Seto sent Mokuba on his way as he gladly waited in the Dueling Dome for his rival.

After Mokuba had left, Seto pulled out his two new cards. Apparently he felt he would never get tired of looking at them. After all, in his mind, they were to be the keys to his victory.

My pride is reclaimed today, he thought to himself. But his will be killed.