Magic Act

Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, however I do own OC's and plot line.

Chapter Two

The Magic Show

"Come on Seto," Mokuba grumbled pulling me into an old theatre, "I want to get a good seat."

It was only five-thirty, and the show wouldn't be starting until six, but that certainly didn't deter Mokuba any, he was still as enthusiastic as ever. He pulled me down to the very front row; where there was six-reserved seats-and three of them were already filled.

"Yugi, Ryou, Tea," Mokuba greeted them enthusiastically letting go of me sleeve, and walking up to Yugi, "What are you three doing here?"

'So he didn't plan this?' I thought as Yugi, Bakura, and Tea turned to greet us.

"Hi Mokuba, Kaiba," greeted Tea smiling, "I didn't know you guys were going to be here."

"Yep, Miara gave me tickets last Friday and I promised that Seto and I would come," answered Mokuba happily as he took the seat next to Yugi, and gestured for me to sit down as well.

Yugi nodded, "She gave me a ticket yesterday when she was at the game shop."

"She gave me one too," replied Tea, "She said that she'd seen my performance at the dance studio and invited me to come to her show tonight."

"What about you Ryou," asked Mokuba looking around Yugi and Tea to see the albino, "did she give you a ticket too?"

Ryou nodded before replying uncertainly, "She said that she knew my Dad from some project they worked on together in Egypt, and invited me to tonight's show as a favor to him."

'She must be doing well if she can afford to be giving tickets away like this,' I thought looking around the theatre, it was only filled two-thirds of the way, 'Or maybe not.'

"Who else is sitting here?" I asked Yugi, noticing that the sixth reserved seat was still empty.

"I don't know replied Yugi shrugging, "Maybe Miara invited someone else."

I glanced at my watch, there was still fifteen minutes left till the show started. I leaned back against my chair and closed my eyes to think, 'She went through all of the trouble to specially invite Yugi, Tea, Bakura, and us what's she up to? ...Wait Mokuba said something about real magic earlier, maybe she's after the Millennium items? What am I thinking, that's nonsense, there's no such thing as magic.'

I was jolted out of my thoughts when someone rudely pushed past, stepping on my foot in the process. I opened my eyes to see none other then that mutt, Wheeler.

"Watch it Wheeler," I barked out as he took the vacant sixth reserved seat, 'Well I guess that answers that question.'

"Shut up Kaiba," growled the mutt, "Maybe you shouldn't fall asleep in theatres if you have a problem with people bumping into you."

Before I could reply the lights went out, I could hear a number of people in the audience screaming, and I could clearly make out the mutts surprised yelp of "What the hell?"

Mokuba tugged on my sleeve and pointed to the balcony in the back of the theatre just as a flash went off, to reveal that a woman was standing on the railing, dressed similarly to the Dark Magician Girl, except that her outfit was white and black, her skirt was longer, she had long brown hair, and her wand more resembled the one used by the Dark Magician of Chaos.

By now a spotlight was on her and most of the audience had begun to look up at her. She looked around at the audience and smiled, a second later she stepped off of the railing -- there were several screams and gasps before the audience, which was now full, realized that she was standing in mid air.

She closed her eyes and did what appeared to be a complicated gymnastics routine, still in mid air, until she landed on the stage with her back to the audience. Then she turned to face the audience and bowed, her long brown hair brushing the stage floor as she did so. The audience applauded her performance.

"I told you she was amazing," whispered Mokuba excitedly, clapping, "and that was just the opening act."

I nodded boardely, she hadn't done anything too great, just a few flips on a clear platform so that it appeared that she was walking on air, she might have even used wires.

"I'm Miara, and I'm glad so many people could make it to my final show here," she said smiling, "Now if you think that was amazing, then I've got a show for you tonight."

She walked to the center of the stage and calmly waited for the audience's applause to cease.

"Now for my first trick I'm going to make birds appear out of thin air," continued Miara.

As the crowd began to whisper amongst themselves about such a simple trick, she indignantly cocked her head to the side and asked, "Now really you don't think this is going to be that simple of a trick do you?"

With a wave of her wand, a flock of red and gold birds appeared above the stage and flew out into the audience.

Without thinking I reached out to touch one as it flew past me, thinking it to be nothing more then a hologram until my fingers brushed against it's soft feathers, 'It's solid!'

"She didn't do this last time," I heard Mokuba whisper next to me, as he too reached out to touch one of the brightly colored birds.

"Still think this is just any old trick?" Miara asked twirling her wand, as the audience applauded, "Now lets see...for my next trick I'm going to need a willing participant from the audience to assist me."

A number of people from the surrounding seats practically stood up in their seats trying to get her to pick them, including to my horror, that mutt Wheeler. Mokuba, Yugi, and Tea at least had more manners then that.

'Just barely,' I thought as they waved their arms in the air and yelled, thankfully they remained in their seats.

"Mokuba!" I whispered harshly, "Sit down, and act civilized."

Before he responded I heard Miara ask someone nearby, "How about you?"

Turning my head to see who she was talking to, I saw her crouched on the edge of the stage just in front of Mokuba and myself. Mokuba nodded his head eagerly and climbed up on stage before I could say anything.

"Don't worry he'll be fine," she whispered reassuringly, and winked. As she did so I dimly noted that her eyes were outlined with black makeup.

She then stood up and moved back to the center of the stage and asked Mokuba his name and age.

After he answered, she turned to address the audience, "Now I'm going to make Mokuba disappear right in front of your eyes, and reappear.

She snapped her fingers and what looked very much like the mystical box appeared next to them, "Now Mokuba if you'd be so kind as to step inside so that we may precede."

Mokuba nodded his head and waiving to the audience, stepped inside the box.

As soon as he was inside Miara closed the box, then stepping back whispered something under her breath, and with another wave of her wand the box appeared to explode on the stage, startling the audience.

Before I could react to what I'd just seen happen to the box Mokuba had gone in, Miara pointed to the back of the theatre with her wand, as purple smoke began to appear. Then a moment later another box appeared, just like the one Mokuba had entered, and just as the spotlight moved from Miara to the box, it opened and Mokuba stepped out grinning, and bowed.

And once again the audience applauded a spectacular performance.

As soon as Mokuba got back to his seat I scolded him for doing such a foolish thing, "You could have been killed! What if something had gone wrong? Do you think anyone would have noticed before you got hurt?"

Mokuba just shook his head and laughed, "Nothing was going to happen to me Seto. Miara made me practice for six hours before she would agree to let me perform in today's show."

"What do you mean let you perform?" I growled, 'He knew all along what was going to happen, he'd even asked to do it!'

"Okay I've got one more act to go," Miara called out twirling her wand, "so without further ado…"

And with that said music started somewhere offstage as the lights once more dimmed, before becoming a myriad of blue, red, and purple lights that made her movements almost hypnotizing as she moved in time with the music. After a while I realized that she wasn't the only one on stage anymore, there were two other people, who looked almost identical to the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl.

As the light began to return to normal the two girls bowed to the audience, and then stepping back to where the 'Dark Magician' stood, all three of them raised their wands and pointed them toward the ceiling, then startled by what sounded like a loud roar, I looked up, and saw what appeared to be a Dragon!

Looking back at the stage I saw that they were gone.

A moment later I realized that Mokuba was tugging on my sleeve.

"What is it Mokuba?" I asked realizing that most of the audience was leaving.

"Seto, didn't you hear me? I said the show's over," Mokuba answered staring at me surprised, "Now come on, Miara gave me two passes so that we can go backstage."

I edited this chapter because a reviewer told me that Kaiba seemed a bit out of charecter, so after re-reading it, I realized that they were right. Well I hope that this is a little better. ☺

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