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Part Eight
Kaiba grunted in his struggle to open the door, but it still wouldn't budge. Delaney stood behind him and grabbed his waist, pulling with all her strength. Finally, the doors cracked apart, and after a little more strain were separated enough for the two of them to squeeze themselves inside. The door gave a loud bang as it swung closed behind them. Delaney and Kaiba heard more loud impacts as the angry dragons landed on the roof of the building.
They stood still, panting once again from fatigue and stress. They stood just inside the great doors soaked, muddy, and generally miserable. Kaiba looked at Delaney. Her black hair was stringy and matted to her head, and her arms were mud stained up to her elbows. Her clothes, what little was left after tearing her shirt back in the cave, clung to her skin, which had become pale and clammy. She dropped herself to her knees, still out of breath.
Kaiba shook his head, throwing off some of the loose water from his hair. Delaney shielded her face against the water that splashed in every direction.
"Keep the rain outside, will ya?" she asked.
He knelt on one knee in front of her. "Why, does it bother you?" he asked grinning. He could only imagine how bad he looked right now: his own pale, dampened skin, his still dripping hair spiked out in all directions, and his sopped clothes. In spite of all of that, he couldn't help noticing the affectionate look in Delaney's eyes. It almost seemed like she thought he looked attractive, even in this condition.
Yeah, right. he thought. Although, I gotta admit, she doesn't look so bad...
Their gazes held for…who knew how long? Delaney crawled on her hands and knees up to him. The weight of the water tugged down at her shirt, and Kaiba's eye involuntarily drifted down for a moment. He caught himself and tore his eyes away, looking away from her completely. He could still feel her nearness, and sickening waves of desire crashed over him. He looked back at her. She hadn't moved at all. He closed his eyes and leaned in to kiss her. Their lips brushed so slightly...
A deafening roar resounded in the chamber, and Delaney sat back on her legs, covering her ears. Kaiba cringed at the sound. Then another crash reverberated, and rocks and debris came crashing down around them. Delaney ducked slightly and covered her head. Kaiba grabbed her and pulled her close to him, taking a few sharp and heavy rocks against his own back. He looked up through the dust and saw that one of the dragons had gained the intelligence to kick a portion of the roof in on top of them. It roared ferociously, seething anger echoing in its vociferous call.
Delaney uncurled a little and looked up at Seto, true fear glimmering in her eyes.
"You have to get out of here," he said.
"What? What about you?" she asked.
"I'm going to try to see if I can fight them off," he answered.
"You ARE crazy! Come with me!" Delaney argued.
"If I do, we'll just have to keep running from them," Kaiba reasoned.
"Then let me stay and help you," she pleaded.
"I can't do that," he replied.
"Why not?!"
"I can't bear to see you get hurt."
"You would have relished the opportunity yesterday," she countered.
"Well, kind of a lot's happened since then, don't you think?" The dragons let out even more earsplitting roars. "There's no time to argue. There's a window at the other end of this room. Now go!"
Delaney turned around and sprinted off. He was right, there was a huge stained-glass window at the other end of the 150-foot room. A dragon on the roof over Kaiba's head stomped its foot down again, causing another shower of stone around him. It was almost big enough for the dragon to get through.
Come on, you can make it! he cheered silently. Delaney was only 50 feet from the window.
The dragon above Kaiba's head looked in through the hole it had created. It gazed evilly at him for a moment, then opened its massive jaws and prepared to attack.
The Dragon Capture Jar! he thought suddenly. He reached for his deck and nearly tore the card out. It burst out brilliant white light, which enveloped the dragon. The monster struggled and roared as it was sucked into the magical container.
One down, two to go, he thought. He turned back to look at Delaney, who was less than 20 feet from the window. All she had to do was break it. She was going to make it out!
The dragons had other plans. Right in front of her, the window shattered inward. Delaney fell to her knees, covering her head against flying glass shards.
NO!! Kaiba thought. Before any muscle could react, he was picked up and swept aside by an enormous white tail. His back hit the wall with more force than Kaiba knew was even possible, but his mind was not on himself. He fell to the ground and looked up, hoping Delaney had gotten past the dragon.
She still knelt on the ground. One of the gargantuan Blue-Eyes White Dragons stood in front of her. She looked up and started to tremble. The Blue-Eyes opened its orifice, and Kaiba couldn't see anything more. He shielded his eyes from the blinding light that radiated from the monster's attack.
He looked back and Delaney was on the floor. She looked so weak. She had only enough time to look up and back at Seto before she herself vanished in the same holographic dust that consumed the game's defeated monsters.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" he cried. Sorrow, despair, rage, fury, helplessness, and innumerable emotions raged through his mind in a fashion to rival the storm that still brutally raged outside. His teeth clenched and his hands balled themselves into fists.
No! She can't be gone! Not now! He stood up. Fury burned in his eyes hotter and more cruelly than he could ever remember. The storm outside with all its rage could not even begin to match the wrath inside his heart. Though now the outside had become the inside. The broken window and massive opening in the roof allowed the rain and the wind to assault his body shamelessly once again. The dragons had left, seemingly having received satisfactory revenge by seeing Kaiba as broken as he was now. His muscles had become so tense they sent sharp pain signals to his brain, but he felt nothing. Then his body went limp, and he fell to his knees, damp tears brimming in the corners of his eyes.
No, he thought, his heart suddenly hardening. I have to get her back. No matter what it takes. I have to get her back.
I love her.