Disclaimer: *Sigh* For the eighteenth time, I still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, just this fic and my OC's.

A/N: Hello again people, here I am with yet another chapter of this fic, and I think I told you before, but I added some pairings to this fic, so in case your wondering the couples are going to be as follows: Yami/Amaya, Seto/Demi, Ryou/Maiyu (Yes you just read that), and maybe Bakura/Serenity, I don't know about that one yet. Anyway, please enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 18

Plan Of Action

"Come on baby." Maiyu muttered under her breath as she carefully jiggled the letter opener inside of the knob. "Just a little more - bingo!" She let out a sigh of relief as the door swung free, silently thanking her clever mind she made her way down the corridor, keeping a careful eye out for guards.

"Hey! You!" She whirled around, just in time to see a red-clad man running for her. Cursing silently under her breath she ran, the boy taking up the chase. There must have been some sort of silent alarm programmed on the door.

'Why didn't she I think of that?' She mentally yelled at herself. 'This is a gang building, of course there's going to be alarms!' Lost in thought, she paid no attention to where she was going until she rounded a corner and ran straight into to someone's chest, knocking her flat onto her back.

"Hello, little onna."

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"So what do you propose we do now Merrick, they will know about the girl's disappearance by now, their not stupid."

"I know Ryou." Merrick growled. "As I already told the second in command, I want the girl dead."

"Demi?" Ryou asked in puzzlement. "She doesn't pose a threat at all."

"Actually she does." He handed the white-haired teen a file, he picked it up and read it over.

"Numerous assault charges." He muttered, then looked up at the leader of his gang. "I can see why, she holds the potential to be a threat."

"Exactly, that's why I want that bitch dead."

"If I was to inject my personal opinion." Lakoa interrupted. "I'd say go after Wheeler's baby sister."

"To what point?" The navy haired woman grinned.

"She's little, but she's related to someone high on their little gang's social ladder, she'd know things about there plan of action." She smiled again, though her eyes held the cold air of a murderer. "After all, this is war."

"Fine." Merrick agreed, his attention shifting back to his second in command. "Lakoa, you be in charge of that, Ryou-"But what Ryou was to be in charge of was never know as I alarm went off, alerting them that someone had left a room that they weren't supposed to.

"The girl." Merrick smirked, knowing well of the young lady's intelligence, she was much like her sister.

"Fun." Lakoa added, a fatal smile on her features. "Lots of fun indeed."

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"Yami!" The gang leader turned around at having heard his name, and came face-to-face with the girl who had been like his little sister since Joey had entered the gang.

"What is it Serenity?" He asked, frowning at the panicked look on the young 14-year-old girls face. "What happened?"

"Maiyu's gone!" She yelled, her chocolate eyes filling with tears. Maiyu had always been like a sister to her. "Merrick must have taken her!" Despite the feeling of dread welling up within him, he forced himself to stay calm.

"It's alright Serenity." Her said. "Get you brother and the other's, tell them to meet in my office. Also, get Rei, she can help us." Nodding she looked up at Yami once more before taking off at full speed down the corridor, auburn hair swishing behind her.

Now that she was gone Yami could look up towards the sky.

"Please let her be alright."

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Maiyu looked up at the one that had spoken, and felt a red-hot anger well up inside her.

"Noah." She snarled angrily, the boy only smirked.

"Hello Maiyu, has it going?" He asked, in a fake friendly voice, her eyes narrowed into a glare.

"Terrible!" She yelled. "You filthy, disgusting, heartless, backstabbing-" Her tirade of insults was cut short as he held his hand to silence her.

"It was merely a opportunity I couldn't pass up." He smirked as he could feel the violet-haired girl's loathing radiate from her. "It wasn't that bad after all." He reached down and picked her up roughly by the arm, steering her back to the room which she had fled from when he saw Ryou appear in front of him, smirking at the look of barely surpressed terror flood the Maiyu's features.

"I'll take her from here Noah." He said with a menacing smile as the blue- haired boy handed to him.

"Have fun." He said, and walked away leaving her alone with the white- haired teen.

"Oh don't worry." He said in a low voice, his eyes fixed on Maiyu's face. "I will."

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"We have to go look for her!" Joey exclaimed, only just hearing the news that Maiyu had been missing since yesterday. "She's like a little sister to Serenity." Serenity, who was sitting quietly in the corner, nervously fidgeting with her hands, nodded curtly.

"Joey, you know as well as I do that we can't just fly of the handle and try to burst in there." Yami said calmly, his voice holding a firm note of authority. "I'd be suicide, and it would most likely cost not only our lives, but hers in the process."

"That's right Joey." Tea added. "As long as Maiyu doesn't do anything stupid, she'll be alright for a little while."

"Ya," Mai piped in. "At least for a few days, and that should be enough time. Amaya, what do you think?" The blonde said, turning her attention to the raven-haired third in command. She had been given the title the day after her fight with Yami, but she hadn't had to make any real decisions up until this point, and she was feeling a little uncomfortable with that power at the moment.

"I uh..." She squirmed nervously in her chair and picked at her chipped nail polish before looking to Yami who gave her a reassuring look. "I think that Mai's right. AS long as she doesn't provoke them, I don't think he would hurt her for at least a few days."

"Right you are Amaya." Yami's voice cut through the following mummer of voices. "Now, all we have to do is figure out how were going to get her out, and escape with our lives."

"I have an idea." Amaya suddenly interrupted, her clever mind already working out a way that might possibly work as all eyes turned to her. "Two of you that Merrick won't recognize pose as Daggers, and bring me and Yami in, after all, there looking for me." She took a deep breath and continued. "Once were in, me and Yami will look for Maiyu while the other two make you an excuse for where we are. After that, the rest should be easy." Yami considered it for a moment. It would be risky, but it just might work. He opened his mouth to say something when Serenity's voice cut through the silence.

"I want to the one to go in." She said, and everyone's head turned towards the small girl. "I can't afford to risk Yami getting hurt, he's too important." Joey was the first to protest.

"Serenity, you can't, it's to dangerous for you." He pleaded, looking into her nut brown eyes that were exact mirror images of his own.

"It's alright big brother." She said with her childish smile. "I'll be ok, I just want to help Maiyu, she's been like a sister to me since as long as I can remember." Joey opened his mouth to argue further, but she cut him off. "Just give me a chance, I promise I'll be careful." Finally, he could say no more. She was his little sister, and now matter what, he wouldn't deny her the opportunity to help someone that she cared about almost as much as him.

"Alright." He said quietly, them turned his gaze to Yami. "Whatta you think?" A warm smile flooded the gang leader's features.

"It'll be dangerous, but I think she can manage it." He stopped, a sudden thought springing to mind. "But we'll have to wait for Demi to get out of the hospital. If all of us are on the lookout for Merrick when the four of us go in to break Maiyu out, it would be very easy for someone to send in an assassin to kill her."

"I totally agree with that." Amaya said, giving a hard glare towards Seto. Kaiba, who had been silent during the whole meeting, met the girl's hard look squarely, and he smirked a little when she looked away after a few seconds.

"So we have everything planned." Yami said. "All we have to wait until Demi gets out of the hospital, which should be a couple of days, then we can get Maiyu out."

A/N:

Alright I'm finally getting some action in this fic! I'll warn you that it's going to be a fairly long two days until the breakout because I have to focus on Maiyu and Ryou and the bare starting of a romance between them. Anyway, as always, please R&R!