Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, but I do own this fic and my characters.
A/N: Well, here I am, back for the third and (hopefully) final part of chapter 24 Operation Breakout! Oh, and there is one more thing I want to address, although this doesn't apply to the fic yet. There is going to be character death in this story, it's a gang fic there has to be. I'll remind you again in the chapters that this applies to. Anyway, as always, read and enjoy!
Operation Breakout
Part Three
Amaya hissed slightly as sweat trickled into her wound, but managed to not let it bother her for the time being, she had other more important things to worry about.
"Amaya, Demi and Seto just returned, I have your position, I should be there in about five minutes."
"Alright, I'll be here, any news on the others."
"Serenity activated her tracer, but hasn't responded to our calls which could mean quite a few things, not all of them good." Amaya bit her lip.
"Is she alive at least?" She asked quietly, afraid of the answer.
"Most likely she is, she activated her tracer just a little after you did and that wasn't long ago." Yami answered. "So as long as we get there fairly quick, chances are we'll find her alive."
"Alright, hurry up then."
"I'm on my way Amaya, everything's going to work out."
"It better." She whispered, but Yami was already gone, leaving her to wait until she heard distant footsteps coming her way.
"Amaya, flick on your flashlight." Amaya reached around and pressed the button that would switch on the light. A few seconds later Yami came into view.
"Thank God your here." Amaya whispered, throwing her arms around her boyfriend causing Demi to have to strongly fight the urge to do something stupid like cat-call that would more then likely get them all killed.
"Let's find Serenity." Yami said as Amaya pulled away. She nodded.
"We should try to find her as quickly as possible, from what I hear, she's pretty defenseless." Yami nodded.
"She is, that's why we have to move quickly." Amaya nodded and followed into pace with the others, praying that Serenity would be safe.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Maiyu fell into pace with Ryou, following him in the darkness (The only light coming from his flashlight), for what seemed like hours.
"Where are you taking me?" She demanded, glaring at the boy's back although she knew he couldn't see it.
"I already told you, I'm getting you out of this building, it shouldn't be far now." A few moments silence before Maiyu decided to voice the question that had been on her mind since Ryou had mentioned it.
"What debt are you repaying by helping me?"
"Don't worry about it." She stopped dead, her arms crossed in a sign of defiance.
"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me, for all I know I'm walking into my death sentence." Ryou rolled his eyes.
"Before your sister was killed, she helped me out of a bad situation, and I decided to honor her memory by helping you, alright?" Maiyu fell silent, not entirely wanting to revisit painful memories of her sister at the moment.
Silence except for footsteps.
"Were here." He said suddenly, causing Maiyu to jump at the unexpected noise. "All you have to do is go down that hall and out the back door."
"So, you really were trying to help me, weren't you?"
"Yes." He whispered, forcing himself to meet her wolf-like emerald gaze.
"Then, I suppose I should thank you......a second time."
"Don't worry about it." He muttered, but Maiyu cupped his cheek and turned his face to meet hers.
"I hope for your sake that Merrick doesn't find out about this."
"I'll be fine, just hurry and get out of here."
"Thank you." She said, and turned away, through the door that lead to the hall that Ryou had told her about.
"Maiyu, one more thing." She turned around.
"Yes?" And before she knew what had happened, her lips were pressed against his quickly before she was pushed out the door.
"Now go." He turned away and slammed the door, taking his last look at the girl who he both hated and saved.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It had seemed like hours to Serenity before she heard any noise other then the steady rhythm of the tracer.
Footsteps. She froze, who was it?
Silence.
Footsteps. She had to try, she couldn't stand the loneliness.
"Hello?" She whispered into the darkness. The footsteps stopped. "Yami, is that you?" Nothing.
Suddenly with a wave of cold terror she felt someone grab her arms. She opened her mouth to scream, but it was covered before any sound could escape it.
"Scream, and I'll slit your throat sweetheart." The male voice said coldly, causing Serenity's already fearful eyes to widen even more.
The man who was holding her was Merrick.
He looked down at the sound of the tracer.
"Ah, a little tracking device I see." He muttered, fishing through her pockets and producing the flashing button. "Well can't have this can we, sweetheart?" He gave a dark chuckle and smashed the device under his boot.
And with it, Serenity's hope of living to see her brother again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Serenity........Serenity this is Amaya do you hear me?" She sighed in frustration as once again she received no response. "It's no use Yami, we must have tried a least 20 times already, I'm starting to get worried."
"Well, if you weren't worried before, you can be now." He muttered grimly, causing everyone's attention to instantly focus on him.
"What's wrong?"
"I just lost her on screen." He answered. "Which means that the tracer was most likely smashed." Amaya paled.
"And if it's smashed......." Yami nodded.
"Then someone's got her."
"Fuck." Demi muttered, clearly stating what was on everyone's mind. "Then we've lost all chance of finding her?"
"For the moment." Yami replied. Demi looked up at Seto would had remained entirely silent the whole way, his face carefully impassive.
'It's like he doesn't even care what happens to us all.' She thought angrily before Amaya's voice brought her back to the conversation.
"Well we at least have to try." She said. "After all, we can check where we last had a lead on her and see if there's any clues." Yami sighed.
"It's worth a shot, but we not like what we find." Amaya's stomach knotted at implication of her gang leader's words.
"She's alive." She whispered, more to herself then anyone. "She has to be."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Maiyu stood in the darkness for a moment, totally alone, but surprisingly unafraid.
'He kissed me......again.' She thought, absently raising her hand to lightly touch her lips. 'And he helped me escape........I wish I knew why.' She let her thoughts wonder for a moment before getting back into business mode.
"Alright Maiyu." She said to herself, her voice echoing off the walls eerily. "Time to get it together and get the hell out of here." She walked down the hall and Ryou had told her to do, her hands out in front of her in search for the door.
'There it is.' She thought joyfully as she felt her hand come in contact with smooth metal. She ran her hand over the surface until she felt the handle. Taking a breath she pushed the door open, revealing the glittering stars of freedom. She heaved a sigh.
"Home free." A click and the feeling on cold metal against her head.
"Or not."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Oh shit." Amaya cursed as she and the others bent down to take a better look at what remained of the tracking device.
"Looks like we have no choice." Yami said heavily. "We'll have to go on without her."
"What!?" Amaya exclaimed looking over at her boyfriend. "We can't leave her in Merrick's hands!"
"Amaya, as much as I hate it, I'm afraid we can't risk the whole mission for one person." He said, a look of utmost regret on his face. "Please, try to understand that we'll have to come back as we can, we can't do it now, we've been in here to long as it is."
"Yami-"
"Amaya, please, try to understand." Amaya's cobalt eyes met with Yami's and held them there in a silent gaze before looking away.
"Fine." She whispered.
"Amaya, it's not your fault you know." Demi said, knowing exactly what was going through her friends head and resting a hand on her shoulder.
"I know." She whispered, her voice becoming thick with tears.
"Come on, we don't have time for this bullshi-"
SMACK!
Seto's head was flung to the side with the force of Demi's blow, the girl shaking with fury.
"Just because your an emotionless son-of-a-bitch Kaiba, doesn't mean we all have to be!" Seto said nothing in response just began to walk away, his hand raised to touch the spot on his cheek that was burning with pain.
It wasn't often that Demi slapped, but when she did it hurt like hell.
"Demi...." Amaya stared at her best friend, speechless. She knew how strong Kaiba was and was amazed that Demi had just had the balls to slap the CEO of Kaiba corp. and live to tell the tale.
"Come on Amaya, we don't need to listen to his bullshit." Demi said, reaching out to grab her friend's arm and steered her forward, keeping a good distance behind Seto, Yami following speechlessly behind.
He couldn't help but marvel at the girl's fieriness and independence, even if she did a little out of control at times, but Yami privately agreed with Demi's decision.
This was a little girl's life on the line, not some nameless soldier, and in his opinion Seto had deserved what he got.
They four comrades walked in silence until they reached the door that Yami and Seto had found, and one by one exited the building, Yami taking to time to give one last look down the hall.
'Whatever happens Serenity, we'll come back for you, no matter what.'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Maiyu froze, cold fury welling inside her as she turned around to face her nemesis.
"Noah." She spat, her wolf-like eyes narrowing in hate. "You bastard."
"And where are we going?" He asked, a smirk plastered on his face.
"Away." She turned back and threw her body weight into a roundhouse kick that sent the gun flying out of the youths hands, followed by a hard punch to the stomach and elbow in the center of the shoulder blades that sent him to the floor. "Really, for someone with so much power in the gang, you really weren't much of a challenge.
She turned her back to leave when she felt a bullet just graze her cheek. She turned around, hate clearly written in her eyes as she leaned back into several back flips, carefully kicking the lock on the door as she did so. (A/N: Hell this girl must have been a gymnast or something!)
She landed and quickly slammed the door in the blur-haired teens face.
"Bastard." She muttered before breaking into a run and, using a garbage can as a stepping stone, jumped onto a low hanging roof. She watched in silence as Noah came running out of the building, looked for her for a moment, and went back inside.
She sighed with relief as she leaned against the wall, catching her breath as she made sure the coast was clear.
After a moment, satisfied that all was safe she nimbly jumped from the roof and made her way to the front of the building, ducking into shadows whenever she could.
Finally she caught sight of some familiar faces.
"Yami!" She rushed into the crowd, looking wildly around for her would-be baby sister.
"Where's Serenity?"
"Maiyu, I'm sorry we couldn't.......we lost track of her after you broke up." Yami answered, his hand reaching out to rest on her shoulder.
"Then she's still in there." Maiyu stated, her face the perfect mask of controlled calm. Yami nodded. "Then I'm going back for her."
"Maiyu you can't, we'll have to come for her tomorrow!"
"She'll be dead by tomorrow!" She replied, turning around to face the building again. "Yami, there's nothing you can say or do that can change me mind. Are you going to help me, or do I have to go in there with no weapons and no communication?"
Yami studied her for a moment before turning back to Amaya and nodding.
"Here, I don't you all that well, but I hope you pull this off." She said, handing her the communicator and bracelet along with a few guns. "Don't forget the knives in your boots."
"I won't." She said, loading herself up and turning to Yami. "If I'm not back in half an hour, leave without me because I'm dead." And with that she turned around and walked back into the building without a backwards glance.
She was going to get Serenity back or die trying.
A/N:
And thus concludes Operation Breakout! I hope everyone liked these chapters because I really worked hard on them, and am planning to work hard on the upcoming chapter 'Chapter 25 Search And Destroy' which is going to have a lot of action in it and should be fairly long. Anyway, as always please R&R!
A/N: Well, here I am, back for the third and (hopefully) final part of chapter 24 Operation Breakout! Oh, and there is one more thing I want to address, although this doesn't apply to the fic yet. There is going to be character death in this story, it's a gang fic there has to be. I'll remind you again in the chapters that this applies to. Anyway, as always, read and enjoy!
Operation Breakout
Part Three
Amaya hissed slightly as sweat trickled into her wound, but managed to not let it bother her for the time being, she had other more important things to worry about.
"Amaya, Demi and Seto just returned, I have your position, I should be there in about five minutes."
"Alright, I'll be here, any news on the others."
"Serenity activated her tracer, but hasn't responded to our calls which could mean quite a few things, not all of them good." Amaya bit her lip.
"Is she alive at least?" She asked quietly, afraid of the answer.
"Most likely she is, she activated her tracer just a little after you did and that wasn't long ago." Yami answered. "So as long as we get there fairly quick, chances are we'll find her alive."
"Alright, hurry up then."
"I'm on my way Amaya, everything's going to work out."
"It better." She whispered, but Yami was already gone, leaving her to wait until she heard distant footsteps coming her way.
"Amaya, flick on your flashlight." Amaya reached around and pressed the button that would switch on the light. A few seconds later Yami came into view.
"Thank God your here." Amaya whispered, throwing her arms around her boyfriend causing Demi to have to strongly fight the urge to do something stupid like cat-call that would more then likely get them all killed.
"Let's find Serenity." Yami said as Amaya pulled away. She nodded.
"We should try to find her as quickly as possible, from what I hear, she's pretty defenseless." Yami nodded.
"She is, that's why we have to move quickly." Amaya nodded and followed into pace with the others, praying that Serenity would be safe.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Maiyu fell into pace with Ryou, following him in the darkness (The only light coming from his flashlight), for what seemed like hours.
"Where are you taking me?" She demanded, glaring at the boy's back although she knew he couldn't see it.
"I already told you, I'm getting you out of this building, it shouldn't be far now." A few moments silence before Maiyu decided to voice the question that had been on her mind since Ryou had mentioned it.
"What debt are you repaying by helping me?"
"Don't worry about it." She stopped dead, her arms crossed in a sign of defiance.
"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me, for all I know I'm walking into my death sentence." Ryou rolled his eyes.
"Before your sister was killed, she helped me out of a bad situation, and I decided to honor her memory by helping you, alright?" Maiyu fell silent, not entirely wanting to revisit painful memories of her sister at the moment.
Silence except for footsteps.
"Were here." He said suddenly, causing Maiyu to jump at the unexpected noise. "All you have to do is go down that hall and out the back door."
"So, you really were trying to help me, weren't you?"
"Yes." He whispered, forcing himself to meet her wolf-like emerald gaze.
"Then, I suppose I should thank you......a second time."
"Don't worry about it." He muttered, but Maiyu cupped his cheek and turned his face to meet hers.
"I hope for your sake that Merrick doesn't find out about this."
"I'll be fine, just hurry and get out of here."
"Thank you." She said, and turned away, through the door that lead to the hall that Ryou had told her about.
"Maiyu, one more thing." She turned around.
"Yes?" And before she knew what had happened, her lips were pressed against his quickly before she was pushed out the door.
"Now go." He turned away and slammed the door, taking his last look at the girl who he both hated and saved.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It had seemed like hours to Serenity before she heard any noise other then the steady rhythm of the tracer.
Footsteps. She froze, who was it?
Silence.
Footsteps. She had to try, she couldn't stand the loneliness.
"Hello?" She whispered into the darkness. The footsteps stopped. "Yami, is that you?" Nothing.
Suddenly with a wave of cold terror she felt someone grab her arms. She opened her mouth to scream, but it was covered before any sound could escape it.
"Scream, and I'll slit your throat sweetheart." The male voice said coldly, causing Serenity's already fearful eyes to widen even more.
The man who was holding her was Merrick.
He looked down at the sound of the tracer.
"Ah, a little tracking device I see." He muttered, fishing through her pockets and producing the flashing button. "Well can't have this can we, sweetheart?" He gave a dark chuckle and smashed the device under his boot.
And with it, Serenity's hope of living to see her brother again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Serenity........Serenity this is Amaya do you hear me?" She sighed in frustration as once again she received no response. "It's no use Yami, we must have tried a least 20 times already, I'm starting to get worried."
"Well, if you weren't worried before, you can be now." He muttered grimly, causing everyone's attention to instantly focus on him.
"What's wrong?"
"I just lost her on screen." He answered. "Which means that the tracer was most likely smashed." Amaya paled.
"And if it's smashed......." Yami nodded.
"Then someone's got her."
"Fuck." Demi muttered, clearly stating what was on everyone's mind. "Then we've lost all chance of finding her?"
"For the moment." Yami replied. Demi looked up at Seto would had remained entirely silent the whole way, his face carefully impassive.
'It's like he doesn't even care what happens to us all.' She thought angrily before Amaya's voice brought her back to the conversation.
"Well we at least have to try." She said. "After all, we can check where we last had a lead on her and see if there's any clues." Yami sighed.
"It's worth a shot, but we not like what we find." Amaya's stomach knotted at implication of her gang leader's words.
"She's alive." She whispered, more to herself then anyone. "She has to be."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Maiyu stood in the darkness for a moment, totally alone, but surprisingly unafraid.
'He kissed me......again.' She thought, absently raising her hand to lightly touch her lips. 'And he helped me escape........I wish I knew why.' She let her thoughts wonder for a moment before getting back into business mode.
"Alright Maiyu." She said to herself, her voice echoing off the walls eerily. "Time to get it together and get the hell out of here." She walked down the hall and Ryou had told her to do, her hands out in front of her in search for the door.
'There it is.' She thought joyfully as she felt her hand come in contact with smooth metal. She ran her hand over the surface until she felt the handle. Taking a breath she pushed the door open, revealing the glittering stars of freedom. She heaved a sigh.
"Home free." A click and the feeling on cold metal against her head.
"Or not."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Oh shit." Amaya cursed as she and the others bent down to take a better look at what remained of the tracking device.
"Looks like we have no choice." Yami said heavily. "We'll have to go on without her."
"What!?" Amaya exclaimed looking over at her boyfriend. "We can't leave her in Merrick's hands!"
"Amaya, as much as I hate it, I'm afraid we can't risk the whole mission for one person." He said, a look of utmost regret on his face. "Please, try to understand that we'll have to come back as we can, we can't do it now, we've been in here to long as it is."
"Yami-"
"Amaya, please, try to understand." Amaya's cobalt eyes met with Yami's and held them there in a silent gaze before looking away.
"Fine." She whispered.
"Amaya, it's not your fault you know." Demi said, knowing exactly what was going through her friends head and resting a hand on her shoulder.
"I know." She whispered, her voice becoming thick with tears.
"Come on, we don't have time for this bullshi-"
SMACK!
Seto's head was flung to the side with the force of Demi's blow, the girl shaking with fury.
"Just because your an emotionless son-of-a-bitch Kaiba, doesn't mean we all have to be!" Seto said nothing in response just began to walk away, his hand raised to touch the spot on his cheek that was burning with pain.
It wasn't often that Demi slapped, but when she did it hurt like hell.
"Demi...." Amaya stared at her best friend, speechless. She knew how strong Kaiba was and was amazed that Demi had just had the balls to slap the CEO of Kaiba corp. and live to tell the tale.
"Come on Amaya, we don't need to listen to his bullshit." Demi said, reaching out to grab her friend's arm and steered her forward, keeping a good distance behind Seto, Yami following speechlessly behind.
He couldn't help but marvel at the girl's fieriness and independence, even if she did a little out of control at times, but Yami privately agreed with Demi's decision.
This was a little girl's life on the line, not some nameless soldier, and in his opinion Seto had deserved what he got.
They four comrades walked in silence until they reached the door that Yami and Seto had found, and one by one exited the building, Yami taking to time to give one last look down the hall.
'Whatever happens Serenity, we'll come back for you, no matter what.'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Maiyu froze, cold fury welling inside her as she turned around to face her nemesis.
"Noah." She spat, her wolf-like eyes narrowing in hate. "You bastard."
"And where are we going?" He asked, a smirk plastered on his face.
"Away." She turned back and threw her body weight into a roundhouse kick that sent the gun flying out of the youths hands, followed by a hard punch to the stomach and elbow in the center of the shoulder blades that sent him to the floor. "Really, for someone with so much power in the gang, you really weren't much of a challenge.
She turned her back to leave when she felt a bullet just graze her cheek. She turned around, hate clearly written in her eyes as she leaned back into several back flips, carefully kicking the lock on the door as she did so. (A/N: Hell this girl must have been a gymnast or something!)
She landed and quickly slammed the door in the blur-haired teens face.
"Bastard." She muttered before breaking into a run and, using a garbage can as a stepping stone, jumped onto a low hanging roof. She watched in silence as Noah came running out of the building, looked for her for a moment, and went back inside.
She sighed with relief as she leaned against the wall, catching her breath as she made sure the coast was clear.
After a moment, satisfied that all was safe she nimbly jumped from the roof and made her way to the front of the building, ducking into shadows whenever she could.
Finally she caught sight of some familiar faces.
"Yami!" She rushed into the crowd, looking wildly around for her would-be baby sister.
"Where's Serenity?"
"Maiyu, I'm sorry we couldn't.......we lost track of her after you broke up." Yami answered, his hand reaching out to rest on her shoulder.
"Then she's still in there." Maiyu stated, her face the perfect mask of controlled calm. Yami nodded. "Then I'm going back for her."
"Maiyu you can't, we'll have to come for her tomorrow!"
"She'll be dead by tomorrow!" She replied, turning around to face the building again. "Yami, there's nothing you can say or do that can change me mind. Are you going to help me, or do I have to go in there with no weapons and no communication?"
Yami studied her for a moment before turning back to Amaya and nodding.
"Here, I don't you all that well, but I hope you pull this off." She said, handing her the communicator and bracelet along with a few guns. "Don't forget the knives in your boots."
"I won't." She said, loading herself up and turning to Yami. "If I'm not back in half an hour, leave without me because I'm dead." And with that she turned around and walked back into the building without a backwards glance.
She was going to get Serenity back or die trying.
A/N:
And thus concludes Operation Breakout! I hope everyone liked these chapters because I really worked hard on them, and am planning to work hard on the upcoming chapter 'Chapter 25 Search And Destroy' which is going to have a lot of action in it and should be fairly long. Anyway, as always please R&R!