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Chaos! Generation Next Book 3: Double Troubles

Prologue:

For two years after the creation of the new Millennium Items, the five children trained in both their powers and, part time, their dueling skills. Ra's search for the Shikon Jewel turned up nothing, even with Loki's help. The enslaved Souta continued to make his daily reports back to Ra and inform him of the new danger that his comrades were presenting. However Ra did not know the exact knowledge of the danger, for Souta was able to keep some secrets to himself. Still, Ra let him come and go as he pleased.

The whereabouts of Li Zhou remained a mystery, for he was silently waiting for his revenge on Bakura. And Yami's hair, which had suffered major damage in his duel with Ra had now grown back and was spikier than ever.

And through all this, the children were growing into early teenagedom. Now, we pick up their tale…

Chapter One: Unlucky Thirteen

Mokuba was moping around the mansion. Yesterday he started his seventh grade year in junior high, and he had become such a good duelist at the academy that he had been moved up to the high school level duelist grade. And worse of all, tomorrow was his 13th birthday.

"Mokuba, you should be proud of yourself," his older brother said behind him. "You're leaving behind the fo-pa of childhood. Soon you'll be a man."

"Whatever," Mokuba said. "It sucks being older than your other friends. I mean, I won't even be in the same building as Souta next year. And those high schoolers at the academy, they're snobs!"

"That's the way of the world. Have you trained with your Shield?" Seto asked.

"Yes," Mokuba sighed. Then, he looked at the gates, and perked up.

"I know that look," Kaiba said, "Don't even think about it!"

"It's Shippo!" Mokuba cheered. He jumped down from the window seat and rushed outside. It'd been a whole summer since he'd seen his best friend. He couldn't wait to have more crazy adventures with the kitsune. As he ran towards the front gate to let Shippo in, he noticed something different about him.

"Uh… Shippo?" Mokuba asked. Shippo was taller now! And… kinda muscular.

"Mokuba!" his deeper voice cheered as he initiated their secret handshake. On the final knuckle buster, Shippo's punch was a little too hard.

"Ow!" Mokuba yelped, shaking his hand.

"Oops, sorry. I've been training with Inu-yasha all summer. So, what's up with you? Have you trained a lot?"

"I thought I had," Mokuab looked at his puny muscles, compared to Shippo's.

"And I got a look at Souta's calendar when I stopped by his place on my way here. You're birthday is tomorrow! I can't believe I nearly forgot."

"Don't make a big deal out of it," Mokuba mumbled.

"But you're gonna be 13!" Shippo said. "Man, I wish I was 13. I'm only 12."

"Shippo," Mokuba said, "Shut up."

"Huh?"

Transition

"Where is he?" Rebecca complained. She tapped her foot on the ground as she waited for Mokuba to show up. The mall was opening up a new card shop, and she didn't want to miss it. Nothing but the latest cards form Industrial Illusions. These new ones were said to created by Pegasus's adopted son, who had created a stir in the art world.

"If I miss this promo sale, Moki's gonna get it."

"Rebecca!" called a voice. Rebecca looked and saw a girl coming towards her. "Rebecca," said the girl, grabbing her and hugging her, "It's good to see you my friend!"

"Uh, who are you?" Rebecca asked.

"Do you not remember me? Was the end of school so long ago?" she asked. Then, she took the flute out of her back pack.

Rebecca gasped. "Rin! Wow, you… changed."

"Really? I was certain the food in America was doing something strange," Rin said, "My feet would not fit in my shoes, and my shirts were growing smaller."

"Uh, I don't think it was the food," Rebecca said. She took Rin's arm and showed her to a window. Rin had the body build of a high school freshmen. Rin looked at her reflection in confusion.

"I look like miss Mai," she said turning around.

"Don't rub it in," Rebecca said, sneering. "Heh, what are you wearing under there?"

"Huh? Nothing. Why?" Rin asked.

"Okay, we're taking a trip to Vickie's." Rebecca said, leading her away form the store.

"But what about the new cards? I wanted some new Light Monsters." Rin said.

"Some, things are more important," Rebecca said. "Like preventing an eye injury."

Transition

"I'm leaving now," Souta called to his folks as he headed out the door.

"Souta, don't forget your chain." Kagome said. "Here, I put this really cool charm on the end of it so you can wear it around your neck."

"Did you get this from grandpa?" Souta asked his sister.

"Uh, no," she said, blushing.

"Who's been stealing my lucky pendants!" Gramps bellowed.

"Bye!" Kagome squeaked, running upstairs, "Babies are crying."

"They are not, you liar!" Souta yelled. Then he made a run for it, too. As he reached the bottom of the steps, he shook his shaggy hair out of his eyes, and took his glasses off. "No walking into that mall so I can get called Four Eyes." He turned and walking into a pole. "OOF! Blast it! Why didn't I eat my carrots when I was little!"

"There you are," said a voice.

"Huh?" Souta put his glasses and looked up, "Not now Bast."

"Ra wants to see you now," said the Cat goddess, "He's really ticked because you haven't been able to find him that Jewel."

"I've been all over the Feudal Era," Souta snapped at her. "They don't have it. Maybe they made a wish on it and it dissolved, maybe they burned it again. All I know is, Inu-yasha's still a half demon, and the Jewel's gone."

"That won't be good enough," Bast told him, as she grabbed his arm, and they turned into orbs that floated up to the sky.

In seconds they were in Ra's air fortress, circling above Earth. As Bast dragged the boy onto the bridge, and said, "I found him."

"It'sssssssss about time," Apothus remarked as he slithered about.

"Indeed," Ra agreed. "Now Set, my human associate and I have been concerned. I consider myself a patient being… But it has been two years and still you have not found the Shikon no Tama! What did that human do with it! You must know by now!"

"I don't know anything," Souta insisted.

"If you are lying to me, Loki, then I will make your life a living nightmare," Ra said, approaching him. He reached out, and grabbed Souta's collar, but then sparks went flying around his hand, and Ra suddenly felt a great sense of pain in his body. He snatched his hand back, and saw it burnt, the imprint of a rising sun in smoldering hand.

"Uh oh."

"What… have you done?" Ra hissed.

"It's this charm around my neck," Souta said, taking the chain out from under his shirt collar. "It must be working with the Chain… You can't hurt anymore," Souta realized.

"Oh, can't I?" Ra sneered, "CAN"T I!" he raised his arms, and they went ablaze. Then he threw the burning orbs at Souta. The boy covered his face, but nothing happened. The flames bounced off of him, and were sent off in Bast and Apothus's directions. The Cat goddess shrieked and ducked, while the Serpent used a magic barrier to absorb the attack.

Souta started laughing. "You don't have any power on me anymore. You can't touch me!"

"No, but can still see through your mind," Ra said. "And I can still hurt the ones you love."

"Huh?"

"If you dare to challenge me again, Loki, then I will burn that planet to cinders. Everyone man, woman, and child, including your niece and nephew, will become nothing but the remains of an ancient burial ground. Just like Egypt."

Souta hung his head. Beaten again.

"And form now on," Ra said, "I'm making sure such trinkets are never to you again. Bast, Apothus, you two will go to Earth and stay there, indefinitely to watch our rogue."

"WHAT?" Bast exclaimed.

"Masssssster, thisssssss isssssss cruel!" Apothus objected. "You would abandon ussssssss in a primitive civilization!"

"YAY!" Bast cheered. "Shopping shopping shopping! Cute clothes, yummy food! It'll be just like old times!"

"That'sssssss what I'm afraid of." Apothus said.

"And to make sure there are no mishaps this time," Ra said. He grabbed Bast's ears, and she yowled.

"Hey!" she yelled, "Why did you make me human!"

Apothus laughed and hissed in delight until Ra grabbed his tail and instantly it disappeared. "Mather , why did you make ME human!"

"These new disguises will aid you in your task," Ra said. "You will still have your powers, of course, and can change back whenever you wish. But I strongly suggest you keep your disguises and wath this boy closely."

"Aw man," Souta said, ticking his hands in his pockets.

"I am wise to your tricks now, Loki," Ra said, looming over him. "Remember, they will be following you, and I am always watching." He snapped, and Souta found himself standing on front of the mall. He gulped, and turned to leave, but then he saw Mokuba and Shippo coming. They'd seen him.

"Perfect." Souta sighed unhappily.

Transition

Rebecca and Rin sat on the edge of the fountain, their hands full of shopping bags. Rebecca glared at Rin as she said, "You didn't have to buy the whole store."

"I did not buy the store. Simply everything I liked there in."

"But this?" Rebecca asked her, taking out a grotesquely fluffy, pink, wind up rabbit. She squeezed it, and it said, 'I wub you!'

"Mrs. Hippy Hop is cute!" Rin said, taking the toy and cuddling it.

"What are you, five?" Rebecca asked.

Rin counted on her fingers, then said, "No, I am 13."

"Then why do you need such a disgustingly cute stuffed animal!"

"It reminds me of Shippo," Rin, "Soft, cute, and cuddly."

"Uh…. Not any more," Rebecca said as she saw the three boys approaching. Shippo stood out beside the two normal boys. Granted, Mokuba was the shortest, but at least his arms were slimmer than his legs.

"Shippo!" Rin called out. She jumped up and ran to him, hugging him tight.

"Hey Rin, what's up?" Shippo asked, unfazed. Souta and Mokuba stared at her.

"That's Rin?" Mokuba stuttered.

"Ahem," Rebecca coughed, then grabbed his ear.

"GAH!" Mokuba cried. She let go, and he looked up and down. "You're… good looking too."

"Hmph," she grunted, turning away from him.

"Oh great, what did I do now?" Mokuba asked her.

"Mokuba," Rin said, calling attention. "You have not changed at all."

"Don't remind me," Mokuba said. "Now I know how Yugi feels."

"But Yugi has pointier hair," Rin observed, "And his posture is much better, and-"

"Rin," Mokuba said, "Shut up."