Title: Dragon Wars
Spoilers: None what so ever.

Disclaimer: Don't own Yuugiou, and never will. However, I do own the character Hitomi, the idea for Dragon Wars (game and plot), and the laptop I'm typing at, slow thing that it is.

Hmm. This pretty much follows Seto this chapter. Oh well, ne? I still like it. At the end I finally replied to the long overdue reviews. And thanks to mandapandabug, the second chapter is as it should be.

And I bet no one expected an update this fast, ne?

Notes:
'thoughts'
"talking"
Dog--bond shared
Cat--agility, defense
Rabbit--healing
Red-fire
Blue-cold
Yellow-energy
Purple-psychic
Green-gas

FIVE

Seto arched an eyebrow at Jou's silence. 'That answers that question then.' Inwardly, he was smirking. How fitting. In a way, the pup had accepted that he was a pup.

Then again, Seto was only going by Jou's silence. But why would he be silent if he had chosen a rabbit or cat? On thinking of it however, the whole 'Heart of the Cards' rants supported a mageclass that was based on the bond shared between the mage and dragon.

Which meant that Seto had basically created the dog class with Yuugi (and Jou, specifically) in mind.

Once again, he had to force that line of topic out of his head.

Fingers hovering above the keys with the Dragon Wars server open, he could tell that Jou was starting to become more nervous. Silence was deafening, after all.

With an inward sigh, he skipped down to CLASS and typed in PUPPY. Jumping up a space to the NAME bit, he typed in Moderator- and turned to Jou.

"What is your moderator name going to be?"

Jou just blinked. He then quirked an eyebrow. "Why do I need a new name? Moderatorform and Mageform are different?"

Seto shrugged. "Moderators can be mages, but mages can't all be moderators."

Jou nodded, a thoughtful expression on his face. "But then why did you want to know my...er...mageclass?"

Seto smirked and thought back to the bout of clumsiness from Khaki. "Because I've seen what happens when people don't expect their tails to be the length they are and are thrown off balance by it."

Jou quirked an eyebrow, but didn't mention anything.

Seto set back in his chair and cracked his neck, yawning in the process. Grabbing a paper and pen out of his briefcase, he wrote a series of numbers down and handed the slip to Jou. The only thing he said in way of explanation was very simple.

"On the login screen, insert this as your server and erase your username."

Jou nodded, understanding.

"We can work out everything then, right?" After receiving a nod in reply.

Jou walked away.

After Jou's departure, Seto just sat there for a few minutes before getting back to work.

He had to completely make up a moderatorform from scratch in the course of three hours. He wasn't going to be happy until he had created the form smoothly, from the way he walked, talked, all down to the way the light sparkled from fur, hair and eyes.

And he knew exactly what he wanted Jou's moderatorform to look like.

Jou looked over at the headpiece that sat innocently on his bed. If it weren't for the piece of paper in his hand, he would write his whole conversation with Sa-Kaiba off as a dream.

Well that, and the fact that when he had done as Kaiba had said, he had gotten a special message.

'ERROR 404'
'You have entered into the wrong server number. Refer back to your vender for details.'
'That is, unless you are a moderator, in which I shall be with you shortly.'
'After my laptop decides it doesn't want to BSOD on me. Damn thing.'

That message had made him outright laugh out loud. The CEO of KaibaCorp, the company in the lead with its technology, evidentially had a shitty computer.

What was even funnier was that Jou himself had taught the CEO about the dreaded 'Blue Screen of Death'. And taught as in the sense of yelling at his monitor in middle of computer class not to go Blue Screen. Of course, by that time, he was talking to a vivid blue screen.

Kaiba had managed to get the computer back up and running in under five minutes, with which Jou had had ample time in which to inform the other the horrors of the blue screen.

And here he thought that the other never listened to anything he said.

Seto ran his hands through his virtual brown hair, thin hands trailing down the sides of his face, then rubbing the vivid purple underneath his eyes.

He was tired, but damn was he proud.

He had just finished constructing Jou's moderatorform after many inner debates on what he should do. The finished product was very satisfactory.

Blond-almost brown hair was threaded with green, slightly longer that what Jou wore his own hair as. When the eyes were open, they had a green iris, the very outer edges tinged with brown, creating an image not unlike a sunflower. That was very subtle however. No one would realize that the eyes weren't just a dull matte. The clothes rendered onto the form were black, as were all moderatorforms, his embroidered in green.

The ears that sat erect on the moderators head were angular and golden, light cast off them with a pale yellow sheen. The tail, however was the thing that was radically different from any others in the game thus far. While it was as fluffy as Mokuba's 'Malign' form, it held a life of its own. When the form was in 'awake' mode, the tail would gently swish back and fourth, much like a cat's. When startled or angry, the tail would bristle, as would the hair on the back of the form's neck. The ears fell into a similar routine. Even now, in the 'asleep' mode, they twitched every so often.

Before, it was a conscious effort to move the ears and tail. If things went well, he would implement the changes to the rest of the characters in the game.

However, Jou's form would remain the best rendered.

Walking over to the form that seemed to hang limply as if someone held him up by the back of the collar, Seto inspected the form one more time, smoothing out rough pixels, making a few bits of embroidery more lavish in places it lacked. On a whim, he made the iris' slit slightly like a cat, though only on close inspection.

He quickly ran through all the expression that the form was capable, and froze the program at the 'SMILE' command. Getting closer and inspecting the look, he drew the skin above the nose up a bit for more natural look and created a subtle crease right under the eyes. He lengthened the canine teeth.

He let the program resume, and froze it once again, this time at the 'ANGER' command. He created wrinkles on the nose and made the form's eyes flare slightly green. The angular ears were already flattened back, the tail moving with a tense slowness, a deliberate taunt wave.

He continued the emotion program, letting it finish this time before starting it again, this time satisfied with the results.

Seto nodded before he stopped, realizing that something was missing.

He sprinkled a handful of freckles across the nose and placed a thin pair of glasses to frame the face.

And the moderatorform was done.

Tah-dah! Nothing much happened this chapter, but I think it helps a little bit. Maybe the plot will finally be introduced next chapter! Wow! Only cough five chapters in! ;

Review Replies (finally. These are in the order that they appear on the sheet. Organized by chapter. I bet people don't even remember what they typed from then... :sweatdrop:)

Chapter One:
Lady Geuna : They have no clue who's who. Guess that's kinda been figured out by no though, ne?
Esosa : Okies.
mandapandabug : ...it took me a minute to read that. ;D
marikandcloe : I don't know if I can write in RyouxBakura into this fic...but I might be able to try to give them a little time. No promises though...

Chapter Two:
None

Chapter Three:
Jen-chan: I have, I have! I haven't started up the sixth chapter yet though.
Kumori Sakusha formerly Saelbu I'm trying to update soon. The muse for this just came back. It's the Kinesics one that's on holiday now.
Lil Nezumi: Thank you. XD And yes, I'm going to continue this story. I like this one too much to abandon it.
mayu-kkg : Er...I'll try...

Chapter Four:
Kumori Sakusha formerly Saelbu : I guess the wait wasn't too much for that chapter to this, ne?
Lil Nezumi : My stories make people happy? Wow. Reviews make me happy... (grins)
Cross Hunt-s : Sure, here, yes!
Ranma Higurashi: Soon is here!
Jen-chan: (is glomped) Winamp skin? Where?! (gets bopped upside the head by DW-muses who scream 'Write!') And sorry for the long wait inbetween the thrid and fourth chapters. This make up for it?
Silver Wing tamer : Suspense is over, ne? Now to see Jou's response to his moderatorform, ne?
mandapandabug : THANK YOU for telling me about the chapters being messed up. I fixed it now. And now I'm updating, which is continueing it really soon... (grins)
Icy Flame : (glomps back) Here's another chapter to dine on. I try to be realistic because I hate it went people put them too much OOC. Plus I don't want the story to seem thin enough that someone could just push it over. (shrug) Hehe. Tails.

More fun in the next chapter! And I finally replied. XD

--Glue