Chapter 3: Band of Brothers
Kaiba with Mokuba start to approach the Rave Corp. building. As they approach the front door they notice a man standing there with a red duel disk around his arm and a suitcase in his other hand. His hair was standing up and brown colored. His eyes were equally brown. He wears the came coat that Kain wears. He looked to be at least six feet tall. Kaiba approaches the man but the man doesn't move. "I came to see Kain, now move it." The man laughs a bit and smiles. "Sorry, but not now. You have to earn it." The man hand Kaiba the case and starts walking away. "Follow me." Were the only words that the man said to them. "Seto, we might be walking into a trap. Kain has really changed since the last time we saw him." Mokuba warns Seto. Seto looks at the man and sighs. "I'm getting my friend back, even if it takes a duel." Kaiba starts to follow the man and Mokuba follows Seto.
Soon they stop at a basket ball court outside of Rave Corp. The man turns around and faces Seto. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Nicholas, Kain's body guard of Kain at Rave. Corp." Seto smirks and points at Nicholas. "Why would Kain send his body guard out here to duel me. If we are here to duel at all." "Of course you're here to duel." Says a voice from the shadows as Kain appears and walks out beside Nicholas. "Why are you doing this Kain? Your not acting yourself." Seto remarks trying to get his friend to come to his senses. "I'm not going to stop just because you've asked me too. Now if you would open that little red case there we can get started. Inside there is a tournament issued duel disk, a finalist entry card and the basic rules done in three pages for fast reading and understanding." Seto grunts and opens the case and removes his battle city duel disk and puts on the other duel disk. "I already know the rules." Seto says strapping in the duel disk. "Then the rules for this match shall be as followed. 8000 life points, no deck master, taking of the losers most valuable card is used, by force if necessary." Kaiba smirks as Kain talks. "Your actions might have changed, but your attitude hasn't a bit." Kain smiles back at Kaiba and snaps his fingers as a chair appears between Nicholas and Kaiba to the side and an other to the other side. "Mokuba you may sit to watch this duel if you wish, but I wouldn't stand so close to Seto, you might get hurt." Kaiba looks back at Mokuba and signals him to go sit down. Mokuba nods and does so as Kain sits in the other chair. "Let this duel begin."
Nicholas and Kaiba draw there first hands. "Kaiba you may go first." Kain says holding out his hand giving him permission to go. Kaiba smirks and draws his first card. "I'll play Graceful Charity." Kaiba draws three cards and discards two of them. "I'll play Treasure of Slashing Life. Now, I draw five cards and in the next five turns I must discard my entire hand." Kaiba draws five cards from his deck. "Next, I'll play Cost down. I discard one card from my hand to make all monsters in my hand two levels lower than they really are and with that I'll summon Luster Dragon #2 (2400/1400) to the field in attack mode." Kaiba discards a card from his hand to play Cost Down, then Luster Dragon appears on the field. "I'll lay two cards face-down and end my turn." Kaiba points to Nicholas and smiles. "Your move."
Nicholas keeps on a straight face and draws a card from his deck. "I'll play Pot of Greed to draw two cards from my deck." Nicholas draws two cards from his deck. "I'll summon a monster face-down and end my turn." Nicholas crosses his arms and nods for Kaiba to go.
Kaiba draws a card from his deck. "Luster Dragon. Diamond Fire Blast." Luster Dragon attacks and destroys Nicholas's Giant Soldier of Stone. Kaiba laughs. "That's the best you got, this is to funny Kain, please tell me this isn't your best you could put up against me. I'll play Lord of Dragons (1200/1100) in attack mode." Kain smiles at Kaiba as if his duelist had already won. "Play it this turn Nicholas. Its time to shut him up." Kain says not even looking at Nicholas.
Nicholas smiles a menacing smile at Kaiba as he draws a card. Mokuba stands up and looks at Kaiba. "Watch out Seto. He's got something planned." Mokuba warns Kaiba, but too late Nicholas shows then next card that he will play. "I'll activate the Magic of the Seal of Orichalcos." The seal appears around them as it drops from the sky and the marks also go to the head of Nicholas. "Next I'll play my Fiend Megacyber (2200/1200) in attack mode. Activating his special ability of when you have two more monsters than I do I can summon it without sacrifice. And with the Orichalcos in play, it will give my Megacyber a nice power bonus of 500 points." The Fiend Megacyber appears and with it does the Orichalcos seal. "Next I'll play Lightning Blade to give my Fiend Megacyber an additional 800 attack points. Bringing my monster up to 3500. Attack his Luster Dragon with the Lightning blade." Fiend Megacyber jumps up into the air and slashes the Luster Dragon in half and destroying it. "I'll activate Tyrant Wing to give my monster an additional 400 attack points, enough to lower the damage you would do to me." Nicholas laughs as the fiend Megacyber returns to the field. "Your soul will be my master Kain's soon." Mokuba tries to get to his brother but cannot get through the seal. "Seto, you have to win this, you always were able to beat this thing, you can do it again, I know you can." (Nicholas 8000 Kaiba 7200)
Kaiba draws a card and nods at Mokuba. "I'll play two cards face-down and switch my Lord of Dragon into defense mode. That will end my turn. Do your worst." Kaiba says smiling at Nicholas not showing any sign of fear.
Nicholas draws a card from his deck. "I'll play one monster in defense mode and have my Fiend Megacyber attack your Lord of Dragons!" Megacyber jumps up again and slashes Lord of Dragons, but another one appears. "I'll activate my trap card Flat Level 4 which allows us both to summon a level four monster or lower from our hands to the field. I choose Lord Of Dragons." Nicholas looks at his hand. "I'll summon Hyabusa Knight (1000/700 – 1500/700) in attack mode and end my turn."
Kaiba draws a card from his deck and smirks. "I'll activate my Flute of Summoning Dragon to special summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!" The flute appears in the hands of the Lord of Dragons and the Blue Eyes appears as he blows into it. "Then I'll play Polymerization to fuse them all together to form Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)!" Blue Eyes then grows two more heads as his attack points start to raise. "Neutron Blast Attack!" Blue Eye Ultimate Dragon attacks and destroys Hayabusa Knight. Kaiba smirks as the ashes of the monster blow away. "That will end my turn." (Nicholas 5000 Kaiba 7200)
Nicholas draws a card from his deck. "I'll flip up my Magician of Faith (300/400) to return one magic card from my graveyard to my hand. I choose Pot of Greed." Nicholas gets Pot of Greed Back from his graveyard as Magician of Faith flips up. "I'll play my Pot of Greed to draw two more Cards." Nicholas draws two more cards. "I'll play one monster face-down in defense mode and play my Raregold Armor on my Magician of Faith, making it the only monster you can attack." Kaiba smiles at his move. "Your monster will be destroyed next turn by my Lord of Dragons and your Megacyber next." Nicholas smiles and Kain looks at Kaiba. "Don't be so sure of yourself Kaiba boy." Kaiba gets a surprised look on his face as he looks at the card Nicholas is holding. "I'll play my Heart of Clear Water magic card." Nicholas says playing the card on Magician of Faith. "What does Heart of Clear Water do?" Kain laughs and stands up with his hands behind his back. "Heart of Clear Water is an equipment magic card that if the equipped monster has an attack of 1300 or higher the magic card is automatically destroyed. If it is under 1300 then the monster cannot be destroyed by battle damage or magic or trap cards, making it virtually unstoppable." Nicholas smiles and crosses his arms. "Go Seto."
Kaiba smiles and draws a card and immediately discards it. "My Treasure of Slashing Life has taken its full effect, but now I'll play Card of Sanctity." The face-down card on the field flips up. "Now we both draw until we each have six cards in out hands." Kaiba draws six cards while Nicholas draws three. "I'll play Pit of Greed to draw two more cards." Kaiba draws two more cards and smiles. "Now I'll sacrifice my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon to summon Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon (3000/2500)." Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon disappears and Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon appears in its place. "My shinny new dragon gets a power boast of 300 points for each dragon in my graveyard. I count six which gives him a new attack of 4800, but that's not all. "I'll play Monster Reborn to summon Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon back onto the field." Blue Eyes Ultimate appears again beside Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon. "My Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon might lose 300 attack points, but it was well worth it." Nicholas laughs. "You can't even destroy my Magician of Faith. What good are two monsters gonna do?" Kaiba grunts at Nicholas. "I end my turn."
Nicholas draws a card. "I'll play one card face-down and play Stop Defense on your Lord of Dragons." Lord of Dragons switches battle positions from defense to attack. "Fiend Megacyber attack his Lord of Dragons." Fiend Megacyber jumps up and slashes Lord of Dragons in half and destroys him. "I'll play one monster face-down and end my turn." (Nicholas 5000 Kaiba 4900)
Kaiba draws a card. "I'll play A Wingbeast of Giant Dragon and return my Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon to my hand to destroy all magic and Trap cards on the field." All magic and trap cards are destroyed reducing the Fiend Megacyber back down to 2700. "I'll play one card face-down and attack your Fiend Megacyber with my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. Neutron Blast!" Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon attacks and destroys Nicholas's Fiend Megacyber. "Then I'll activate my face-down card De-Fusion, separating my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon into the three Blue Eyes White Dragons that form it." The Blue Eyes Ultimate disappears again and three Blue Eyes White Dragons take its place. "White Lighting his two monsters." Two of the Blue Eyes destroy the Magician of Faith and the Princess of Tsurugi that Nicholas had. "My Third Blue Eyes attack his life points directly. White Lightning!" Blue Eyes attacks and hits Nicholas with a direct attack. "I play Polymerization to fuse my Blue Eyes White Dragons into Blue Eyes Ultimate once again and I end my turn." (Nicholas 200 Kaiba 4900)
Nicholas gets off of the ground slowly and straightens himself up as if nothing happened and draws a card. "I'll play Swords of Revealing Light to stop your monster for three turns and summon a monster face-down in defense mode. That will end my turn." Kaiba smirks at Nicholas. "I must say you have a cool head, but your just stalling."
Kaiba draws a card. "I'll pass my turn to get this duel over with sooner than later." Mokuba is jumping for joy knowing that his brother is going to win. Kain smiles and looks at Nicholas. Nicholas looks back and nods. Kain smiles and does the thumb across his throat signaling to finish it.
Nicholas draws a card. "I'll play Monster Reborn on my Fiend Megacyber." The Fiend Megacyber appears again on the field. "Now your starting to get on my nerve. I destroyed that thing turns ago, and now your playing it again against the same monster I destroyed it with. Your pathetic." Nicholas smiles and flips up his face-down monster Dragon Manipulator (700/800 – 1200/800). Blue Eyes Ultimate goes onto Nicholas's side of the field and faces Kaiba. "Whats going on? My dragon is turning against me?" Nicholas smirks at Kaiba's dismay. "My Dragon Manipulator can take over one dragon on my opponents side of the field for one turn. Your Blue Eyes Ultimate was your only dragon. It would have been better off as three separate dragons. Now your own monster will lead the way to your down fall. Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon Neutron Blast!" Blue Eyes Ultimate attacks and hits Kaiba. "Now the finishing blow will be given by my favorite monster. Fiend Megacyber attack his lifepoints directly!" Mokuba is now pounding on the seal trying desperately to get in. "Seto NO!" The fiend Megacyber jumps up and slashes at Kaiba.
The monsters disappear as Kaiba falls to the ground. Mokuba moves in as the Seal also moves in on Kaiba. Mokuba give the seal a few more pounds and manages to get in. "Seto, get out!" Mokuba pushes the just getting up Kaiba out of the seal as the Seal takes Mokuba instead of Seto. "Mokuba!" Kiaba yells as the seal takes Mokuba's soul. Kain stands up and claps his hands. "Bravo Nicolas. You've managed to toy with the best and defeat him with ease." Kain looks at Mokuba and sighs. "Its too bad, I really liked him too." Kaiba gets up and runs at Kain mad. "Your going to pay for this!" Kain catches Kaiba's hand and knees him in the gut. Kaiba falls to the ground, but Kain manages to slip out Kaiba's deck. "Let me see." Kain says going through the deck. Nicholas is now holding down the passed out Kaiba, just in case he is tricking them. Kain pulls out one card and slips it into his pocket. "No legendary dragon Kaiba. Too bad. Your Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon will do nicely though." Kain throws the cards all over Kaiba as Nicholas lets go of Kaiba and start to walk into the darkness with Kain and they disappear.
Later, Joey, Tristian, and Tea walk by and see the Kaiba brothers laying on the ground. Tea runs over to Mokuba and Tristian and Joey go over to Kaiba. Kaiba gets up slowly by himself and starts punching the wall as hard as he could with tears flowing from his eyes. Tea picks up Mokuba and walks over to Kaiba. "What happened?" Kaiba stops and looks at her. Kaiba wipes away the tears and tells them what happened to them. The appearance of Nicholas, the duel, and the seal taking Mokuba instead of himself. "Don't worry Kaiba. Now we both have a score to settle with Kain. One of us will defeat him." Kaiba stares at Joey. "No. Hes mine!" Kaiba says walking away with his little brother in his arm. With his free hand he picks up his cell phone and calls for his limo. In seconds its there and Kaiba gets in and they drive off to Kaiba Corp.