Chapter 3: All Gone Wrong

Dartz glared at Raphael, who was kneeling before him. "Do not fail me this time. Kill her, and take the boy. He is needed, and my plans shall not be thwarted by my pathetic sister."

Raphael got to his feet. "Fine. I'll be back within the hour." He crossed the chamber quickly and was gone. Moments later, Dartz heard the sound of Raphael's motorcycle being kicked into life. Dartz's entire plan rested on getting the boy Seto. Without him, it was possible that his plan could fail. It had been foretold that he needed the boy when time had altered its course, and it was now time to see that the vision came to pass. He needed to move quickly, for events were changing for the worse. His alliance with Gozaburo Kaiba had turned into a competitive struggle for power. Dartz had only agreed to work with the man because he had connections with the entire world, and Dartz had thought that he would need those connections to get what he needed, but he had realized that Gozaburo Kaiba would soon betray him, and that he needed to find his own ways to succeed. It was sad to see that someone who considered themselves so enlightened had absolutely no idea what was going on. If the Kaiba thought that he could overpower Dartz, he had another thing coming.

Raphael kicked the motor of his bike, and it fell silent. He killed the lights, not needing to see the building before him to know that what he was about to do was child's play, and quite literally. He wheeled his motorcycle over to the side of the street that served as the parking lot of the orphanage and parked it, knowing that none of these morons would ever check out the street this late at night. It was raining, and had been for several long hours. However, Raphael was used to much worse weather than this, due to his checkered past, and he found the whole situation slightly humorous. He had been employed by one of the most powerful people – no, the most powerful person on the earth, a man named Dartz. He held the secret power of the Orichalcos within him, and this magic was even older than the 5000 year old Egyptian magic. In fact, the magic of the Orichalcos magic was 10,000 years old. It was finally time to purge the world from evil. Of course, it would take some time to begin the capturing of souls. And Dartz had made it clear that he needed the boy Seto for his plan to succeed. Now his brat of a sister had stopped reporting to him about Seto, and all was going wrong.

Later that night Mira lay in bed, thinking about what was to become of her life because of her brother. It simply was not fair. Of course she knew that her brother was far from fair and good, which was why he had forced her life to become what it now was, and why he had forced her to betray the person she had loved the most. However, she knew that she could never have let her brother hurt Seto. He was not to be used. She refused to believe that time had told her brother that he needed Seto to make his plan work. She didn't even know if his plan was the right thing anymore. If he was making her do these things to the people she loved, then maybe his plan shouldn't succeed. Maybe she was not meant to help him fulfill it but stop him from finishing it…

"Mira?" came a scared voice from beside her bed. Lightning lit the room for a moment, and Mira could see that it was Mokuba. The peal of thunder that followed made Mokuba start. "Can I get in with you? I'm scared."

"Sure Moku." Mira sat up and moved the covers back so Mokuba could climb in. She covered them both, the laid back down. Mokuba turned around to face her.

"Mira, I don't want you to go, even if you will visit us. I want you to stay here with us. Will you stay now?" he asked hopefully.

Mira struggled not to cry as she replied. "Mokuba, I can't stay. I really want to, but I can't."

"But you're my favorite person in the world other than Seto! You saved me from those bullies the first day I was here!"

Mira remembered that day. She had only been at the orphanage for a week. Time had told her brother that the brothers would be arriving that week, and he had sent her there ahead of time. She had seen them come in, scared and alone. She had been watching them, waiting for the right moment to introduce herself. She hadn't counted on Seto going inside to get Mokuba a drink and leaving him to play alone for a few minutes. She also hadn't thought about the many bullies at the orphanage who had been waiting to hurt the newcomers. They had gone up to Mokuba and had started teasing him. Mokuba told them to stop, but they didn't. They had made fun of him, and had taken his toy plane from him, and were holding it above his head so he couldn't reach it. Watching this had made Mira angry. Mokuba couldn't even protect himself. She marched over to where Mokuba was crying and had planted herself in front of the boys.

"You give that back right now," she had said.

"Or what?" challenged the largest one, who was holding the plane.

"Or I'll take you out," said Mira.

"Oooohhhh, I'd like to see you try," he laughed. That was seconds before Mira had tackled him, knocking the plane from his hand. The other boys fled, and the one she had knocked down, who was all alone, suddenly didn't look so confident. He ran off, glaring at her. Mira had turned around and handed the plane back to Mokuba, who was wiping his tears.

"Thanks."

"No problem. If they ever bug you again, let me know."

"I don't think so. My brother can protect me."

"Oh, okay. Where is he?"

"He went to get us some water. He'll be back soon."

"What's going on here?" Mira had turned around to see Seto with two glasses of water. He was staring at her like she was from a different planet.

"Seto, she saved my toy from some mean boys that tried to take it away from me."

"Oh. Thank, you, I guess."

"Sure. Hey, what's your name?"

"I'm Seto, and this is Mokuba. Who are you?"

"Mira."

From that day on, their friendship had grown until they were almost family. Now her life was once again being controlled by her brother.

"Mira?"

Mira was jarred back into the present. "I promise that everything will be okay Mokuba. You'll see. Everything will work out."

"Okay Mira." Mokuba soon fell asleep, but Mira stayed awake, wondering how she was going to deal with this mess. After a while, even she fell into a light sleep, but was disturbed by dreams of her brother and loneliness.