Chapter Twenty
The Dark Magician seemed to be in pain but he also seems to have recovered somewhat to continue the fight. Yami feared losing his monster and losing the battle.
"I cannot lose him!"
Sethos was pleased to see the concerned expression on his face.
"Oh but you will! Just one more attack should do it! Attack Dark Dragon!"
The monster charges once again. The gang is frightened that Yugi will lose.
"I call Magical Hats!" Yami shouted just in time.
Four hats fall from the ceiling shielding the Magician. The blast hits only one of the hats. Once the smoke has cleared, Sethos sees the three hats on the field and looks annoyed.
"You protected your Magician!"
"That's right!"
"Yeah!" Joey cheered him on.
The gang jumps up and down with glee that Yugi wasn't defeated. Kaiba looks on in awe because he too has had memories of the game being played just like this. At battle city, he had the flashbacks to these stone tablets and how the game was nothing like the rules set up by Pegasus. It was beginning to haunt his dreams more vividly than before since that day. Of course he always chalked it up to being around Yugi and the loser gang for too long. But how can he explain how he even remembered that Dragon. And also how it was defeated before! 'But should I tell Yugi?' He thought to himself.
"Now you have to guess which hat my Dark Magician is hiding in!"
(The hat locations)
"Attack the center hat!"
The dragon blasted the center hat, nothing.
"My Magician is safe again!"
"But he won't be for long!"
(hat location)
'He's right, I can't win like this! I must come up with something, fast' Yami thought desperately to himself. 'If I don't help Yugi there's no telling what these freaks have in store for me.' Kaiba thought to himself.
"Yugi! I know how to defeat his monster!"
Yami looked over at the chained up Seto. The gang looked over shocked that Kaiba would do anything to help Yugi out. Yami was also having very little doubt to Kaiba sincerity, after all, he knows Kaiba as a rival as well and he knows he would love nothing more than for him to fail.
Yugi appears by his side with his hands on his hips ready to scold.
"Pharaoh! I can't believe you will doubt Kaiba like that after placing so much trust in him before!"
"It's not that Yugi . . . well, okay I will trust him."
"Tell me how!"
'What if he does know the answer!' Sethos wasn't sure if Seto was now drawing on his memories of the past, but he knew he couldn't take that chance.
"Silence him!"
Franco places his hands over Kaiba's mouth as Kaiba struggle to free himself.
"If Kaiba can tell Yugi how to defeat that freak then we gotta help!" Joey said to the rest of the group.
The gang runs over and tries to fight their way thru the demons to Kaiba. Kaiba removes his hand.
"The Blue Orb! Strike the blue orb Yugi!"
"The Blue Orb!"
"Don't waste any time Pharaoh!"
"I trust you Kaiba!"
Sethos didn't waste any time to call his Dragon's attack.
"Dark Dragon attack again!"
"I release Magical Hats and attack the Blue Orb!"
As Dark Dragon builds up to attack, the now uncovered Dark Magician uses dark magic attack to hit the blue orb. The Dark Dragon transforms into a Blue Eyes White Dragon!
"Stop Attack!" Kaiba shouts as the Dark Dragon, now a Blues Eyes White Dragon readies for the attack.
The Blue Eyes stop its attack, obeying Seto and settle near him.
"What is the meaning of this?"
Everyone stops fighting and all eyes are on the enraged Sethos.
"I remember that Dragon! The touch of evil that is in all of us, the evil that was in . . . "
Kaiba's mind flashed to the girl with the pale skin and long blue hair. He couldn't bring himself to say her name, mainly because he didn't know it but her face was clear.
"You can't control a Blue Eyes! Only I can do that and I end this duel now!" Kaiba shouted.
The Blue Eyes dissolves with a deafening roar
"This duel is over Sethos!" Yami shouted from across the room.
The Dark Magician dissolves as well. The room turns back into the blue colored room it was when they first arrive. The blue stone falls from the hands of the Elf into Yami's hands.
"I won't accept this! Everyone must die!"
Sethos builds up his power to kill these people who have made themselves his enemy once and for all. The Mystical Elf cast a spell sucking in Sethos increasing dark energy. As Sethos falls slowly to the ground, the Elf looks over to Yami.
"You all must escape while you can! I can only hold him for so long!"
The gang looks over and sees all the demons unable to move as well. They all take the chance and run out of the opened door. Yami grabs Kaiba and they make their way out, the door seals shut. Sethos is growing weak. He knows that if he does not escape she will drain him completely. He remembers the purple stone he acquired earlier before entering this room. He uses the Demonic Force Stone (purple) to regain power and fight off the Elf's attack. He builds up his strength and uses his dark power to knock her against the wall until she dissolves.
Once the gang is safe, they enter a pitch black room. They walk around trying to figure a way out. In the dark they can see a small light glowing near them and even following them.
"What is that light?" Yami pointed out.
Joey laughs.
"Oh yeah! It must be that case with the stone in it. I took it during all the commotion!" Joey laughed
"Wow! Good job buddy!" Tristan said impressed.
"Yeah I guess I did keep a habit from the old days!"
Joey sets it down and opens it, the white stone is glowing sharply now. He picks it up. Isis takes it and holds it up, they notice that the room is full of dark black oily looking creatures with sharp slime dripping teeth. They back off from the harsh light. Joey is practically shaking in his shoes.
"There is another door!" Isis said.
The gang breaks for the door staying with the light. The beasts were ready to attack but couldn't cross into the light. They now run into a green colored room that looks like a harem in an exotic palace. Although there are no women in sight. Kaiba couldn't take being shackled up and tried his best to squeeze out of them but failed.
"I Want out of these chains now!"
"Well what the hell are we suppose to do about that huh?"
'If it were left up to me, you would stay in those chains and in this creepy place forever.' Joey thought. He still hated Kaiba.
"Calm down Joey it's natural that Kaiba would want out of them. We're in danger and I'm sure he wants to fight."
Tristan runs over and jumps into the floor bed made of soft pillows and beautiful shiny smooth silky sheets.
"In the meantime we should rest a while."
"Tristan, I don't think we should let our guard down while we are here." Yami warned him.
"Okay fine. But."
He looks over and saw a dagger.
"Maybe we can work on those chains Kaiba, but you gotta say 'please'. " Tristan smirked.
Kaiba laughs disdainfully.
"Please! The thought of saying that to a low life scum–"
"Good! You said 'Please', now was that hard?"
"I didn't mean it like that!"
"Let's stop fighting and start on those chains." Yami said taking another dagger.
"Pharaoh, do you think I can come out and help Kaiba now."
"But Yugi."
"Don't worry, I still remember our talk, I just want to be closer to him, even just helping him remove the chains."
Yami chuckles.
"As you wish, partner."
As Tristan and Yugi work on releasing Kaiba from the chains a small voice is heard thru the walls of the room. Joey was the first to notice and looked around to locate the figure and hoping that it wasn't the freak.
"If you need help with those chains, I can remove them no problem." The dark oily voice said.
Everyone stops and looks around . . . nothing. This only served to make Joey angry.
"Who the hell is this! Come out!"
A seven foot tall man painted in white face and dressed in green robes as if he were a King appear thru the wall. He glided as if floating just a few inches off the ground. His long groomed beard followed down his chest to his stomach. The gang could actually see thru him as if he were bordering on the physical and the other world.
Joey jumps back behind Marik who was just as scared as he was.
"My name is Lo Pan!"
"How do we know we can trust you?" Isis said.
He points to Kaiba's chains and they drop to the floor. Everyone looks on in awe. Outside the door everyone begins to hear loud scratches at the door, then loud bangs if they are trying to break it down.
"I can get you out of this castle. But I don't have the power. You must give me the Green Stone that holds my soul."
"Can we trust him?" Yugi asked.
The banging is now louder as the metal begins to sink in.
"Either you trust me and I get you out or you face them. All I want is my soul back. I've waited more than ten thousand years."
"I don't know about anyone else but I'll take my chances with the floaty weird guy!" Joey said.
Isis takes the green stone out of the case and hands it over to Lo Pan.
"I cannot take it. Do you see that Green Dragon on the wall?"
Above the floor bed on the wall was a large green Dragon with its mouth open.
"Place it in the mouth!"
The door is only a few more bangs from being knocked down. Isis moves quickly to the Dragon mouth and places the stone in. The eyes light up green and a mirror appears in the middle of the room.
"Thank you! Now escape thru the mirror!"
"Go thru that!" Tristan asked worried.
"Don't waste time idiot just move!" Kaiba shouted.
Everyone hops thru the mirror.
On the other side: They exit the mirror outside of the castle. They look up to see the sun was setting.
"Hey he was telling the truth!" Yugi said happily.
"Yeah now we can take these stones and get the hell out of here!" Tristan said.
Joey was happy to be outside feeling the cool island breeze.
"That's right let's get on the ship and let's go!"
Tristan looks around noticing that something was missing . . . or someone.
"Hey guys, I hate to spoil the party but where is Tea!"
Lo Pan carries Tea thru a tunnel that closes up before Sethos and his Demonic crew could enter.
"I've been waiting for this moment for centuries! I finally have a body and now I can have sex!"
Tea fought as hard as she could but was unable to move.
"Put me down you big freak!"
"Oh and she's feisty too! Too bad I can't marry you but you will be in my harem forever."
"You're not gonna use me for sex you perv!"
Outside the gang run back to the front door but the door has completely disappeared as if nothing was there at all.
"The door was here!"Marik was surprised.
"How are we suppose to get to Tea!" Tristan asked worried.
Lo Pan takes Tea to another room with a bed and throws her on it. He's about to rape her. Outside the gang figures out how to get in.
"If I had a phone I could call my chopper and get the hell out of here." Kaiba said thinking of himself once again.
Yugi was shocked at Kaiba's selfishness.
"Kaiba! Tea is somewhere hurt or who knows what."
"And you expect me to care!"
Yugi was shocked to hear that.
"I never gave a damn about you or any of your stupid dorky friends!"
The crushed look on Yugi's face was too much for Joey to handle. As a friend if nothing else he wasn't gonna let that pass. He moves in front of Yugi protectively.
"Then why don't you leave, we don't need ya!"
Kaiba lets out a short grunt but stands his ground.
"Please don't fight guys. Let's just try to save Tea." Yugi said disappointed.
During all of his romantic dreams of being with Kaiba he had forgotten about his attitude toward him and his friends. 'Why won't he befriend us?' Yugi thought sadly to himself.
"Don't worry Yugi, Kaiba still has a lot to learn."
As they waited to come up with a plan, a bright light appears opening up a portal.
"Ah C'mon! Enough with the bright lights already!" Joey has pretty much reached his limits.
A dark-skinned woman appears dressed in dark grey robes and a crown above her head.