YUGIOH

The Times Between Darkness and Light

narr: I'd like to offer a special thanks to Nenya, who found someone that had the information on the first Japanese Yugioh Movie, allowing me to correctly write the details of a certain card for this chapter. Also thanks to Shaylo and Momochan....who tried to help.

Chapter 10.

The dream....the dream he dreaded the most. He always had dreams of Gozaburo Kaiba abusing him, messing with his mind, his life, his soul....but this was not one of those dreams. In this dream Kaiba wore a black trench coat, acting frighteningly close to the way he had behaved in the past.

He was using his security cameras to keep track of people getting rare cards, and seek out Yugi. Kaiba was determined to beat him. He had obtained a new darker way of gaining more power through his Dragons, and planned on trying it out on Yugi one way or another. Not only was he originally beaten by Exodia from Yugi, but now there was some other nobody claiming he could defeat anyone out there, because he had the rare Red Eyes Black Dragon card. Well, he certainly wasn't going to let that boast be thrown in his face like that.

So Kaiba began a duelist tournament of his own, and he put an invite on all the good duelist out there, which he planned on ensuring they come....one way or another. Those that tried to avoid the tournament, he sent his thugs to beat the crap out of and force them to come, or steal their cards for the insult. Those that lost in the tournament lost their best card.

Kaiba was certain he could win this time. Yugi showed up as expected, and Kaiba challenged him with some sort of new system that kept the cards suspended, floating in the air. Kaiba used some new kind of magic card, called the Chain of Wickedness and bound his three Dragon's together, like some kind of horrible death trap forcing his proud Dragon's in some kind of twisted bound ritual. Every blast from the dragons were to be instant destruction on his enemies, causing them to be a destructive 9000 attack in one blow, during the time they attacked.

Despite his new evil way of defeating his enemies, Yugi had somehow obtained the rare card this kid had....the Red Eyes Black Dragon. And even without bothering to use Exodia, he combined the Red Eyes with Meteor Dragon, creating Red Eyes Black Meteor Dragon with a 3500 attack strength. Yugi used it to attack the bound dragons, who still had their 3000 attack strength when they weren't attacking. Again Yugi preached about the heart of the cards, as it blasted his three Dragons down to nothing, breaking the hold on the Devil's Chain, shattering it as well.

Kaiba woke up in a panic, drenched with sweat. It was a horrible dream. He felt like the Dragons represented his soul, and he was using the darkness of his soul to bind and strangle them in a torturous hold. It also felt like this was somehow doomed to take place. And Yugi's chant on the heart of the cards even now was still echoing in his mind, even now crumbling his own beliefs on this game being of power, even further than it was yesterday.

He wasn't sure what was bothering him the day before....but after his dream, now he understood. Yugi's preaching had gotten to him, and had planted him with doubt. And the worst thing that could happen to a duelist was to duel with doubt on his mind, if he was doing the right thing or not. Kaiba turned over trying to get some more sleep, before morning. But the dream and doubts in his mind only caused him to toss and turn the rest of the night, restlessly.

Finally by 5am, Kaiba had gotten up getting almost no sleep at all. He went to his closet to get dressed and try to forget that night. But instead, he opened his closet to find a black trench coat in his wardrobe that looked just like the one in his dream.

He immediately called for the maid, and demanded to know where it came from. She simply shrugged and said, "Why Mr. Kaiba, it was in with the rest of the clothes you brought home yesterday."

"Listen to me....I know what I bought yesterday, and 'that' wasn't it!!" Kaiba snapped.

"Forgive me, Master Kaiba! I can simply throw it out...."

"No, I'll deal with it later." Kaiba snapped, deciding he'd call the store later, when he had the chance.

So, he took this morning to take his frustrations out on his stepfather's room. Mokuba had woke up hearing loud smashing noises, and snuck up to see what was going on. Kaiba had entered Gozaburo's old office room. He tossed his computer across the room, knocked over the heavier furniture....everything was a shambles.

Without a word, Mokuba left in a hurry from the area down to the kitchen so Kaiba wouldn't know he saw anything. And the more worried Mokuba was getting towards his brother, the more Yugi kept coming to mind. 'He said he'd be okay....he'd be better. Yugi never said he'd be in pain. This is all Yugi's fault!'

Kaiba now got showered and dressed, grabbed his suitcase and headed towards the door. Mokuba noticed and ran to him, saying, "Seto....you didn't eat breakfast, yet!"

"No time, I'll get something at work." Kaiba said, and left without another word.