Chapter 2
With Mokuba's help, Emma had nearly reached her next destination. They where both standing in the elevator that led up to Kaiba's office listening to panpipe music that streamed in through speakers from each upper corner. Tea and Joey had also come along whilst Yugi and Bakura stayed to take care of the Game shop.
"You're lucky that Seto agreed to see you as he refuses to see anyone if its not important." said Mokuba staring up at Emma.
"I think even your brother will agree that what the letter contains is important." replied Emma.
For a moment the sound of panpipes was all that could be heard but was interrupted by the sound of somebody breaking wind, which was soon followed by an unpleasant smell. All eyes turned to Joey.
"What!" he asked. "It's a normal bodily function."
"That's gross." complained Tea as she held her nose.
The elevator stopped and the four of them got out and walked down the corridor that led round to set of huge doors.
"You should have come alone, you'd have had a better chance at being taken seriously." said Mokuba in a low voice so that Tea and Joey couldn't overhear.
"I needed them to come to help me find my way around the city once I'm finished here." whispered Emma back to the younger boy.
Mokuba knocked on the huge doors before he pushed them open and entered. They where greeted by the back of a big black leather chair that slowly began to spin round to face them. In the chair sat Seto Kaiba, who glared at the three people that accompanied his brother. His sapphire blue eyes scanned them all in turn, a look of disgust appeared on his face at the sight of Joey.
"So we meet again." said Kaiba through a forced smile on his face.
"Again!" exclaimed Mokuba. "So you two know each other already?"
"Let's just say that we had a brief encounter a couple of hours ago." the smile stayed on his face but was less forced than before.
"Very brief." agreed Emma remembering the limo. "I trust that your chauffeur has learnt from his mistake."
"I'd say that he has since I fired him for the whole incident." he saw a slight shock appear in Emma's eyes, before he continued. "I couldn't have him running down pedestrians and making my company look bad. But if I'd known you were one of Yugi's groupies, I'd have told him to put his foot down." An evil smile was now present on his face as he watched Tea holding Joey back as he tried to break free to get to him.
"I'm nobody's groupie." Emma stated as she placed her hand into her jacket pocket to retrieve the letter that was there. "Just the messenger."
Kaiba took the envelope that was being held out in front of him and tore it open. He unfolded the letter and quickly read it before tearing it up. "There your letter has been delivered, now please leave my office."
"What a jerk." mumbled Joey who was still being held back by Tea.
Emma just stood where she was. "So you won't help us?"
"Ishizu and I don't exactly see eye to eye, so I guess you could say that any help from me is out of the question." explained Kaiba.
"She warned me about this, so I came prepared." Emma drew out her deck from her jacket. "How about we duel, and if I win you agree to help?"
Kaiba laughed. "You wouldn't last two minutes against me."
"Don't be so sure." said Joey with Tea still holding his arms behind his back. "She drew against Yugi, an' last time I checked that's better than what you've ever done."
"What!" Kaiba was shocked at the fact that someone had been able to draw against his strongest rival. He opened the draw in his desk and pulled out his dueldisk and deck. "Let's duel!"
"I don't have a dueldisk, so we'll have to duel old school." she told him.
Ignoring her Kaiba clipped his dueldisk to his arm and walked from behind his desk to a painting of a Blue Eyes White Dragon that hung on his wall. Behind the painting was a hidden safe which he opened and took out a smaller dueldisk. "Here you can use this. It's the prototype for the new improved dueldisk that I'll be releasing soon. It's smaller and lighter than the current model, and as you can see this one has been personalized."
Emma took the dueldisk from Kaiba. She, Joey and Tea looked at the dueldisk to see a small diamond encrusted Blue Eyes White Dragon on it.
"Are those real diamonds?" asked Tea.
"They must be worth hundreds!" exclaimed Joey.
"They're worth thousands you moron!" snapped Kaiba. "They're the best diamonds that money can buy."
"I can think of better ways than that to spend money." muttered Joey.
"Except that the money wasn't yours to spend, was it Wheeler?" Again the evil smile of amusement spread across Kaiba's face as Tea held Joey back once more.
"He's not worth it Joey." she told him.
Kaiba watched as Emma clipped the dueldisk on to her arm. "If you manage to win this duel, that dueldisk is yours." he told her.
"One more thing," Emma began. "I'm not use to having an audience."
"Just stop whining and duel." said Kaiba as he activated his dueldisk which sent the holographic projectors flying across the room.
Joey, Tea and Mokuba moved to the side of the room and set themselves down on to a sofa ready to watch the duel that was about to take place. Both duellists had now activated their dueldisks, had 4000 life points each and drawn their first five cards.
"Ladies first." insisted Kaiba.
Emma drew one card from her deck. "I'd hate to whine some more, but I don't like my first hand which is why I shall play the magic card Pharaoh's Destiny. By playing this card it allows me to discard any cards that I may have on the field and in my hand, as well as half my life points so that I can draw a new hand of five cards." She discarded her cards and her life points dropped to 2000. After having drawn her five new cards Emma set a monster face down and ended her turn.
"I've never seen that card before." said Mokuba.
"That seems like a pretty gutsy move to make for a first turn." commented Tea.
"Try stupid." suggested Joey. "She's just done half of the work for Kaiba already."
Kaiba drew a card from his deck. "I play X-Head Cannon in attack mode, and attack your face down card." Kaiba's monster attacked the card and it disappeared leaving Emma's side of the field empty but her life points were safe as the monster had been in defence mode.
"You may have destroyed my card, but you activated its flip effect in doing so. And I think you'll regret doing that as Cardcaptor Sakura's effect allows me to add all of your cards on the field and in your hand in to my hand for one turn. Whatever cards I don't use are then returned back to were they where." Emma explained.
"Fine!" Kaiba growled.
"I haven't seen that card before either." Mokuba gasped.
"She was just lucky that Kaiba fell for that." said Joey.
"Whose side are you on?" Tea asked.
The two duellists meet at the middle of the duelling field where Kaiba reluctantly handed over his cards before returning back to their own sides.
Emma looked down at the cards she had been given. As well as X-Head Cannon there were: the trap card Negate Attack, the magic cards Black Hole and Polymerization, and not one but two Blue Eyes White Dragons. Horror began to take control of her as she stared at the cards. She knew Kaiba's deck contained the only three Blue Eyes White Dragon cards but she didn't expect to see two of them this early in the duel. She had to beat him, fast.
She drew her own card for that turn and stared at it for a while as she thought about what move to make. Finally she had decided. "You're lucky that I'm not allowed to discard or tribute your cards." She told Kaiba. "Now by discarding one of each of my monster, spell and trap cards and halving my life points yet again, I can summon Magical Life Force Sorcerer to the field." She discarded the cards, her life points dropped to 1000 and a green cloaked sorcerer appeared on her field. "His attack is 1000 points for each spell card that is in my graveyard, and since I have three in there his attack becomes 3000. And with X-Head Cannon still in my hand until the end of my turn that leaves your life points wide open to his attack." Her monster attacked which brought Kaiba's life down to 1000 and level with hers. She set Negate Attack before ending her turn and handed the rest of Kaiba's cards back to him.
"Stop!" Mokuba yelled. "This isn't fair, you're using cards that no-one has seen before."
"Keep out of this Mokuba!" Kaiba snapped at his little brother. X-Head Cannon had returned to his field and the rest of his cards to his hand. As he drew his card from his deck a smile began to appear on the corners of his mouth as he turned to his brother and said "That's nothing compared to what I have in-store for her."
Mokuba nodded in return to his brother. He had seen him turn duels around to his advantage many times before. He was unbeatable, nobody could out duel him. Well apart from Yugi anyway. Emma was good enough to draw against Yugi, but she hadn't been good enough to beat him, and Seto had always told Mokuba that a draw was considered as a loss.
Kaiba was about to make his move. "First of all I use the magic card Black Hole to clear all cards from the field." All the cards were sucked into a black vortex leaving the field bare and Emma's life points open to a direct attack. Kaiba was now baring an evil grin on his face. "And now I use the magic card Polymerization to fuse together my three Blue Eyes White Dragons to create Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
"She's toast." Joey informed Tea.
The three dragons that Kaiba had fused together formed a three headed version of itself which almost filled the office that they were in. "Lucky for you, I can't attack this turn with my fusion monster so now it's your turn."
"That dragon doesn't scare me." Emma told Kaiba as she drew her next card which she played straight away. "I play the magic card Ookazi to inflict 800 points of damage to your life points." Fireballs shot across the field towards Kaiba and his life points dropped to 200. "Next I summon Pikachu to the field in attack mode." A small yellow mouse appeared on her field. "Unfortunately I am unable to attack with him for the first turn he is placed on the field, so that ends my turn."
"Are you crazy!" yelled Joey from the sideline. "That monster has zero attack points."
Kaiba was just wondering the same thing. Emma had left herself exposed to defeat as there were no trap or magic cards to protect her monster or life points, and her monster was face up with no attack points so he didn't have to worry about any flip effects that would destroy his dragon. He drew a card to start his turn. "Now my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon will wipe out your life points." The monster began its attack.
"You've just declared battle with my Pikachu card which activates its effect." Emma saw a surprised look appear on her opponent's face. "Pikachu gains 500 attack points for every duel that I've ever played where it has been on the field for each one of my victories. Now, its attack points are revealed as 5000 which is 500 more than your dragon."
Kaiba watched in shock as his ultimate dragon attacked the small mouse only to have the 500 difference in attack points taken away from his own life points leaving him with zero. He had lost the duel.
"Alright! I knew she knew what she was doing." Joey shouted, punching the air above him.
"Yeah right." replied Tea, rolling her eyes.
Mokuba raced across to his brother who was still in shock from the outcome of the duel. "Seto are you okay?" he asked but didn't get any reply.
Emma approached the two brothers and removed the dueldisk from her arm. She held it out to Kaiba. "Here take it back. All I wanted was your help."
"Keep the dueldisk." Kaiba growled knocking it back to her. "You won it fair and square." He paused for a moment as he watched Emma clip the dueldisk back on to her arm. "As for my help, you will get whatever help I can provide. Just don't come to me with any problems about evil spirits that originated from ancient Egypt."
"Ouch!" cried Mokuba holding his head in his hands.
Kaiba dropped to his knees beside Mokuba so that he was level with his little brother. "What's wrong?"
"I'm just starting to get a headache that's all." Mokuba assured his brother.
"We'll show ourselves out." said Emma as she began to feel slightly uncomfortable intruding on this caring brotherly moment. She turned and pushed Joey and Tea towards the huge doors and out in to the corridor back to the elevator which they had ascended in.
They entered the elevator and the panpipe music played as the shaft descended.
"I'm going to return to the hotel." Emma informed the other two. "Can you please tell Yugi to meet me, in about one hours time at that pizza place that we passed on the way here." With her back towards them she was unable to see the jealous glare that Tea was making.