Chapter 15: Fighting

"No, how can you even be here? You're dead!" cried Natalie.

Mokuba opened his eyes. At first he wondered what she was talking about, then he looked up. A smile found its way onto his face. It was Seto! It was actually Seto! At least, he hoped it was actually Seto this time.

"Anything is possible," Kaiba hissed at her as he pulled her away from his brother.

Natalie stood there, still shocked that Kaiba was there, but regained her normal stature.

"You really think you can protect him from me?" Natalie asked him.

"He isn't the only one protecting Mokuba," said another voice.

Natalie looked to the doorway and found the rest of Mokuba's friends there.

"How did you all get here without my sensing it?" Natalie asked them.

"With a little thing we picked up in Egypt," Joey answered.

"Nothing else can counteract my powers!" cried Natalie.

"Nothing, except for the Book of Light," smirked Yami.

"What?"

"You heard him," said Joey. "That's how we got Kaiba back. He wasn't too happy to hear that you took his little brother prisoner. He also didn't like hearin' that you stole Kaiba Corp from his brother. In general, he wasn't happy that you even came into his brother's life."

"I was always a part of their lives," said Natalie. "Well, ever since they were adopted into my family."

"Natalie, none of this is their fault!" Noah cried at his sister.

"Father knew I was still around. He could have gotten me back, but no. He went straight for the orphanage to find him a new son! He always thought a man could run a company better. I will prove him wrong!"

"How can you prove anything to a dead man?" asked Kaiba.

Natalie glared at her older step-brother. She wasn't exactly sure about what to say to him.

"Wow, you actually got her to shut up," said Noah. "That's never happened before."

"Shut up!" she yelled, using her powers to throw the cage across the room.

"Noah!" cried Mokuba as the cage went through the wall.

At this, Kaiba stood defensively in front of his younger brother. He had apparently only heard about her powers until this very second. They told him she was powerful, but he didn't know she had powers like that. He still wasn't the one to believe in magic, but this he could see was plainly real. He was going to protect Mokuba from it at all costs.

Natalie turned back to all of them, smirking.

"Th...that doesn't..sc..scare us..." Joey stuttered.

"I'll bet it doesn't," she said sarcastically.

She saw that it had shaken everyone up a bit. Everyone except Yami. He only stood, glaring at her. Then, she turned her attention back to Seto and Mokuba.

Do you still think you can protect him from me?" Natalie asked him.

"You don't frighten me," said Seto.

"What does frighten you?"

"Nothing."

"That's what you say, but you know that isn't true. I know it isn't true. So why don't you tell us what frightens you, Seto."

"It's none of your business."

"You stole my business, and just to make it even I'll steal your brother's life. Then, there will be no one left from your family. You'll all be together again. Mokuba can finally meet his mommy. Then, you can all be a happy family like you, your mother, and your father were before Mokuba was born."

"We were still a happy family after our mother died."

"You weren't too happy, Seto. After your baby brother was born, you weren't the same happy person you were."

"It had nothing to do with him," Seto hissed at her.

Natalie smirked at them. Mokuba knew that smirk meant she was about to do something.

"Tell me. Why do you want to protect someone who doesn't even love you?" she asked

"What?" asked Seto.

"You heard me. Mokuba doesn't love you. He told me that himself. Isn't that right, Mokuba?"

Mokuba felt tears come to his eyes again.

"Mokuba wouldn't say that about his brother..." Joey trailed off.

"I can prove he did if you all don't believe me," said Natalie, snapping her fingers making a tape appear in her hands. Then, she snapped her fingers again, making a tv appear. "You'll see."

She stuck the tape in to the VCR.

"Please don't," Mokuba whispered to himself.

Instantly, the picture of Mokuba and Natalie in Seto's old office appeared on the screen. Everyone listened to what they were saying.

"What do you think about him now, Mokuba?" asked Natalie.

Mokuba kept on crying.

"I asked you a question!"

"I don't know!"

"I need a straightforward answer."

"I don't have one!"

"Everyone has their answer to what they think! Tell me yours!"

"I don't know right now!"

"Yes you do. Look inside your heart and find the answer!"

"I can't!"

"Yes, you can. It doesn't matter what you think about him now, Mokuba. He's dead. Do you think he cared about you?"

"N-no," answered Mokuba.

"Really? That's very interesting. What else? Do you really think you made him happy?"

"No," Mokuba sobbed.

"If you knew he was going to turn out the way he did, would you have wanted to go with him when Gozaburo adopted you?"

"Prob...probably not," he squeaked.

"Do you still love him?" Silence. "I didn't think so. Now get out of my sight."

That's where she stopped the tape. Everyone looked at Mokuba who was still trying to hold back his tears.

"Mokuba, did you really say that?" asked Seto.

"Yeah, but..." Mokuba started.

"See," Natalie interrupted. "He admitted to it. I didn't just make up this tape. Do you still want to protect him, Seto?"

Seto looked from his brother to Natalie, "I'll always protect him. No matter what."

Natalie was shocked. Why would Seto still want to protect a person who doesn't even care about him? Well actually, Mokuba did still care about his big brother. She was the one who made him say those things. She knew how much it would torture him. Nothing was going to stop Mokuba from caring about Seto and she knew it. Apparently, nothing would stop Seto from caring about Mokuba too. Well, just to torture the elder brother she could always torture the younger one. But this time she would torture him much worse than she had been. No one would be able to help Mokuba. Even with that Book of Light they wouldn't be able to do a thing.

"Mokuba, come here," she ordered.

Mokuba didn't go anywhere. He grabbed onto his brother tightly, hoping Seto would stop her.

"You're still my little slave, Mokuba, and I told you to do something!"

Still, Mokuba did nothing.

Finally, Natalie took out her whip and snapped it across Mokuba's hands, making him let go of his brother. Mokuba gasped in pain and held his hands close. Seto turned around quickly to see if Mokuba was all right, but just before he could do anything Natalie's whip wrapped around Mokuba's waist and she pulled him over to her, keeping him suspended in the air.

"I thought you knew better than to disobey me by now," she said to him.

"Let go of him!" cried Seto, starting to run towards her. She held up a hand and he instantly stopped.

"Man both of 'em are in trouble!" cried Joey.

"We have to do something!" cried Téa.

Then, Yami held up his hand. Natalie felt her powers weakening and had to stop holding Seto back. She felt her other hand going numb and was eventually going to let go of the whip. Instead of fighting with Yami's powers she decided to put Mokuba down. She used the rest of the strength in her hand to throw Mokuba to the floor, yelping in pain. With that, Yami put his hand down, and Natalie turned her complete attention to him.

"You don't know what you're getting into," she said to him.

"What I do know is that we're going to defeat you and you'll let Mokuba go," said Yami.

"If he makes it out alive. Even if you do defeat me, I'll make sure that Mokuba doesn't survive in this battle."

She looked back at her two step-brothers. Seto was hugging Mokuba as he cried. She smirked as Seto looked up, noticing her gaze. Then, she looked back to Yami and the rest of the gang, "You won't be able to stop me."

"We'll see about that."

"Okay, we'll fight."

She snapped her fingers, releasing a shadow creature for each person to deal with, except for Seto, Mokuba, Yami, and herself. She transported Yami in front of her as the shadow creatures lunged for his friends. They started running out the doorway and down the hall so the four of them were alone.

"Leave my friends out of this!" cried Yami.

"Fight me and they won't be harmed by my little pets."

"I can stop your shadow creatures."

"Try it and I'll kill Mokuba right here and now!"

Seto and Mokuba clutched each other tightly at her words. Yami didn't want to take the chance of losing another Kaiba brother so he reluctantly didn't do anything.

"Now, because I'm so powerful I'll let you fight me two to one..." she stopped suddenly, thinking.

"Actually, I think we can fight two to two."

"Two to two?" asked Seto.

"Who else is fighting?" asked Yami.

"Mokuba of course," smirked Natalie.

"What!" cried Seto.

"That's right, unless you'd rather see me kill him."

"You won't be able to lay a finger on him!"

"Seto, stop!" cried Mokuba. "She'll do it. Don't try and make her mad."

"Wow, it looks like Mokuba has learned something," she said. "Now you need to come over here with me."

Seto hugged Mokuba again and whispered to him, "I won't let her hurt you again, don't worry."

Mokuba wished he could have believed that, but she would hurt him no matter what. Seto probably knew that too, it was just a way to make him feel better, and it worked a little too. After a while, they were still standing there and Natalie was getting impatient. Next, she used her whip to grab Mokuba again to bring him over to her. Then, she threw him onto the floor again, much harder than she did last time.

"You still haven't learned that when I tell you to do something you do it!" she yelled.

Mokuba slowly got up, holding his right arm.

"Here are the rules," announced Natalie. "Each person has to fight one person. I get to choose them. I'll fight with Yugi, which means Mokuba fights with his precious older brother."

"I'm not going to fight him!" cried Mokuba.

Natalie struck him in the face with her whip, "Hush!"

Seto started for Mokuba but was stopped again by Natalie.

"You can't make me fight him," said Mokuba.

"I think I can," she smirked.

Mokuba saw the evil glint in her eyes. She started chanting a spell, red energy appearing in her hand. Once she was done, the energy shot itself into Mokuba. He made a cry like it hurt him, but it was over in a second. When he looked at Seto again, all the love and caring that was usually in his eyes were gone. He glared nastily at his older brother.

"Have fun," she told Seto.

"What did you do to him?" asked Seto.

"Nothing much," she sneered, looking to Yami. "And now let the games begin."

She snapped her fingers and Mokuba instantly tackled his brother to the floor. Yami watched on as Kaiba tried to hold his brother back. As he was watching, he was caught off guard by an attack from Natalie. He was thrown to the floor and laid on his back for a while. Suddenly, he felt himself being lifted into the air by Natalie's whip. As she held him in the air, she smirked at him.

"Always be on guard," she said before she threw him across the room. Yami got up, his arm sore from falling on it.

"Hit me with your best shot," she said.

Yami didn't know what to do. He thought and thought, but nothing came to him. Finally, he decided on something he could do. He stood his ground and closed his eyes. At first, nothing happened. Natalie was about to attack him when she heard a low rumbling around the room. Then, pictures, chairs, tables, and anything else was lifted into the air. She stood, shocked at all the things in the air. Then, a painting was flung at her, hitting her in the head. It knocked her to the ground, and a few more small objects were thrown at her. Natalie had had enough of this and used her powers to create a large sphere of energy around her. It grew larger, knocking everything out of its path. Everything in the air was thrown in different directions and the two Kaiba brothers were flung through the hole in the wall created by Noah's cage flew earlier.

Everyone and everything was knocked down, except for Yami. He was still standing, a force field of green energy around him. It had kept him safe.

"Your book gave you telekinesis?" she asked.

"Yes, it can come in very useful sometimes," smirked Yami.

"My book gives me some special powers also."

Instantly, Natalie was gone. Before Yami could even think to do anything he heard, "Behind you."

He turned around and she used her negative energy to power up the punch she gave to him. He tumbled across the floor. Almost instantly, he jumped back up.

"You have the power of invisibility?" asked Yami.

"Almost. I have super speed to surprise people with," she answered. "It can also be very useful sometimes."

Yami wasn't sure what to do. He had to think of something. If she could just move out of the way quickly, would he really be able to attack her then? He wasn't sure. If she didn't use her super speed, then it could be a little easier. If she did use it, it would make this fight tougher.

In the other room, the Kaiba brothers were lying on the floor on their backs. Seto was the first to get up. He was sore now, and couldn't remember what happened until he saw the other hole in the wall. Then, he remembered that he and his brother were thrown through it by something. His brother! Was he all right? He looked over at Mokuba. He was still on his back. Seto rushed over to him quickly and shook him.

"Mokuba, are you all right?" he asked while trying to awaken his brother. "Open your eyes, kid. Mokuba!"

Mokuba's eyes slowly fluttered open. He seemed a bit dazed at first until he locked eyes with his older brother.

"Mokuba," Seto smiled.

Mokuba smacked his brother's hands off him and got up instantly. He was still ready to fight.

"Mokuba, stop! This isn't like you. Natalie did something to you. Snap out of it!"

But it didn't work. Mokuba lunged himself at Seto again, pinning him to the floor. Seto knew from the first time Mokuba tackled him that he wouldn't normally be able to do that. Natalie had made him stronger in order to beat him!

Mokuba struck Seto across the face, snapping him from his thoughts. He looked up at his little brother, surprised.

"Mokuba, you have to stop this!" he cried, but Mokuba only hit him again. "Why would you want to hurt me?"

Mokuba looked at his older brother and said, "For all the times you made me hurt. For all the times you told me 'no' or ' I'm too busy. Maybe later.' For all the times I wanted to just spend time with you, but I couldn't. I'm going to teach you never to ignore me ever again!" Mokuba hit his brother a few more times.

"Mokuba, I never ignored you. I know I said I was busy a lot, and I know you couldn't always spend time with me because of it. I'm sorry."

"Sorry isn't good enough."

"Then what is?"

"When I destroy you."

Seto gasped. He had to snap Mokuba out of it. Just before Mokuba struck him again, Seto grasped Mokuba's wrist and stopped him.

"Let go of me!" Mokuba cried, but Seto refused.

Seto grabbed Mokuba's other hand and flipped him onto the floor.

"Mokuba, this isn't like you. I know my little brother is in there somewhere!"

"Get off me!"

"Mokuba, stop! Remember all the good times we had with each other! Think about the times before our dad died and the times after it! We have good memories, kid. You have to remember them."

"I remember how you hurt me!"

"Mokuba, look beyond those memories!"

"There's nothing but those memories!"

Mokuba's anger and frustration built up so much that he was able to throw Seto off him and attack him with all his might. Seto couldn't hold Mokuba back. It was too much for him! Kaiba was punched and hit many times from his chest to his face. Finally, Mokuba stopped. He got up off his brother and looked down at him. Seto was in a great deal of pain from all the blows. He could barely get up. The pain in his chest when he tried was almost unbearable. His head was spinning and he eventually fell out of consciousness. Suddenly, Mokuba snapped back to normal, not knowing where he was. He looked down and saw his older brother.

"Seto!" he cried, kneeling down beside him. "Come on. Wake up!"

Mokuba shook his brother, but he didn't stir. Then, Mokuba heard a crash coming from the room beside him and looked over quickly. Next, Natalie appeared beside him.

"Wow, good work, Mokuba," she said to him. "You really did a number on Seto."

"I...I didn't do this!" exclaimed Mokuba.

"Trust me. You did. All your anger, frustration, and sadness took over you. Your brother thought I made you stronger, but it was truly you who was that powerful. All the anger you felt towards my father for changing your brother, and the anger from people who spoke about your brother when they didn't know him helped make your blows more powerful. The frustration of feeling like you could never do anything up to your brother's standards helped you. Also, all the sadness from when he wouldn't spend time with you or told you he was too busy was there. All those feelings made your blows more powerful. You did this to your brother."

"I'd never hurt him."

"I'd beg to differ."

"Why would you make me do this to him!"

"Hey, I only helped you. You felt all those feelings long before now."

"I wouldn't have hurt Seto because of them!"

"No, but you would feel like harming something if all those feelings built up at the same time, and you did. Your brother didn't have to be your target. He was just simply there."

Mokuba turned away from her, tears streaming down his cheeks once again. He couldn't help it. She just made him attack his older brother! It was bad enough that she had to show Seto that tape, but now she made him hurt him! He loved his older brother and would never think of hurting him on purpose.

"Don't blame me," she said. "Blame your feelings."