A/N the long awaited or maybe not update. I actually have the darn thing finished now and I am editing as this is posting. I will have it up by tomorrow at the latest (July 15, 2005) or you are all allowed to throw Kaiba at me to your hearts content. Just a thought.
Disclaimer…I still don't own Kaiba but I am finishing watching his tv series…does that count.
On with the production:
Kiri stared at the circle of light that appeared when she had screamed. The Master before her cursed and stepped back as a familiar tangle of bodies landed on the floor. Hyozanryu had landed on the bottom with the others piled on top in various painful looking positions. Kaiba settled to the side with a cold glare for the Master.
Kiri skirted along the wall then rushed toward Kaiba. She clutched his front leg and hid beneath his chest. Kaiba shifted slightly to ensure she was completely hidden and protected.
"Flute of Dragons" Yami commented as he walked over to the pair from the shadows. "Fitting."
The others were finally disentangling themselves and standing up painfully. Jonouchi glared at the two of them. "How come you landed on your feet" he pointed at them accusingly.
Kaiba spared him a disgusted look. "Because we are not puppies like you."
Hyozanryu laughed suddenly. "So Kiri is the 'Flute of Dragons'. I knew she liked me." The others all stared at him in total confusion. "She called me," he grinned.
Yugi sighed and shook his head. "I think she was calling Kaiba and you came along for the ride like the rest of us."
Hyozanryu gave Yugi an affronted stare, "why would she call that cold-hearted, arrogant bad boy when she could have me."
Anzu shook her head and sighed, "Some guys never get a clue, do they."
Honda looked at her confused, "why do girls go for the bad boys, anyway?"
Kiri turned and glared at Honda and the others, "would you mind leaving my love life or lack thereof alone and concentrating on the matter at hand, mainly the creepy dude over there with plans on doing some serious damage to us."
Kaiba shifted slightly bringing Kiri back into the protection of his body. He didn't want to take the chance of her vanishing again before he could put an end this battle. Yami and Kaiba stared at the Master where he had inched away from the group and stood near a mirror that pulsed ominously.
"Fools" he hissed "you shall pay for interfering with my plans." Creatures came shuffling out of the shadows in response to the mirrors pulsing call and surrounded the tiny group of fighters. Kaiba smiled murderously. Here was something he could legitimately take out his anger on. He tucked Kiri under his chest and protected her from the heat as he blasted the shadows with fire.
"When did he learn to breathe fire?" Jonouchi yelled and jumped back.
"He is a dragon" Anzu pointed out sarcastically.
Kiri contemplated the fight going on around her. She picked up a discarded stick the shadows had been using for weapons so that she could fight as well. She began to move out from underneath Kaiba trying to sneak up on the shadow currently attacking Anzu. Kaiba locked his arm down around her waist holding her firmly against his chest. "No" he ordered.
"But I want to help" she protested.
"You can help by staying put and letting me do the fighting. It is my job to protect you." Kaiba growled. Kiri stared at him in utter amazement at him. He flexed her claws and held her closer as he blasted the shadows with fire again. Kiri stayed put, shocked that Kaiba would even admit such a thing much less say it out loud. Yami smirked knowingly at Kaiba "admitting it finally." Kaiba gave him a disdainful glare before ripping through a cluster of shadows with his tail. The others were too busy fighting the shadows to pay attention to what else had been going on. The shadows kept crawling out of the darkness in a seemingly never-ending stream of bodies. They almost seemed to be waiting for something as they attempted to overpower the small group of fighters.
Kiri shook her head to clear her thoughts. "I thought you wanted a partner…" she trailed of and whimpered as another more powerful creature came shuffling into view. It looked like a walking monstrosity with shadows hanging off of it like lumps of hair moving and writhing. Kiri put a hand over her mouth to stifle her scream as it raised its head revealing glowing red eyes that seemed to project terror to its opponents. The rest of the shadows danced around it in glee like schoolchildren whose favorite toy had been brought out to play.
"Fools, you shall not defeat me." The Master raised his hand in triumph and laughed an evil mocking parody of mirth. "No single creature can defeat my Shadow Ogre. He grinned sadistically at Kaiba. "Although if you quietly hand over the 'flute of dragons' I shall make your death swift and (a mocking pause) relatively painless."
"Never" Yami answered him with cold defiance. Kaiba drew himself up to his full dragon height and stared down at the Master in disgust.
"What do you mean, no single creature can defeat you," Anzu demanded.
The Master glared at her, "Silence fool, I have no use for speaking with pawns."
Hyozanryu had moved to stand next to Kaiba presenting a daunting front of powerful dragons. Kaiba's eyes had narrowed in that cold calculating way of his that suggested he was already planning out his strategy to defeat his opponent with the maximum amount of humiliation possible.
"Well partner," the Pharoah asked calmly. Yugi nodded and the two joined hands only to shimmer and merge into one player, The Magician of Black Chaos. The cold look he gave the Master let everyone know that it was Yami's personality in charge of this player.
"So you figured it out, but it's too late to save you," the Master chuckled. He pointed at the party. "Destroy them all and bring me the Flute of Dragons, I have plans for her."
Kaiba shifted Kiri over to stand by Anzu. He raised himself on his hind legs fanning his wings out and roared his battle cry. Hyozanryu and Kaiba shimmered together and fire seemed to erupt from the ground swirling around the two like a lovers caress before completely hiding them from view. When the smoke cleared the others gasped as the Master howled in anger "how could you!"
A/N only a mild cliffhanger…at least you won't have to wait months this time to find out what happens next.