Chapter 4
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20/december 2005
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YUGI "You ready to write about amelda and the duel?"
ME "I am ready baby"
YUGI "Okay" um would it hurt if you included me in the story a bit more?" covers his eyes as he asks
ME "Sure"
YUGI (expecting a tennis ball to be thrown in his general direction) "Oh uh thankyou..."Could you also"...ME "Dont push your luck"
YUGI "OK" (looks away quietly)
Dislcaimer- Blah blah blah
Changed the rating to aviod the wrath of abusers!
Seto is extremely pissed off that Vivian is here, not only is she supposed to be working full time, she has interuppted him.
"What are you doing here?" He says very unhappily.
Vivian looks up, then she looks down and then at Mai.
"Well you see" she begins, continuing to look at Mai with those almond eyes of hers.
Mai rolls her eyes.
"I should have figured it out sooner" Seto says, realizing that the two girls had travelled to D kingdom together.
"Seto"..."Uh I mean Mr kaiba" "I really think you should listen to Mai she seems to know alot about this amelda and perhaps theres a slight chance you may not... win" She bites her index finger cautiously.
Vivian makes her words as soft as possible, she knows whenever talking to The likes of Seto Kaiba, tredding on egg shells when you speak is necassary.
Seto glares at his employee.
He knows that there is fair chance he could lose, nor does he have any idea who or what he is up against.
He breaths a heavy breath and proceeds back down to where Vivian and Mai are standing.
"Look" he begins, "I still dont know why you are concerned" "However if you have any advice on this Amelda I would like to know".
Mai was shocked, the independent Seto Kaiba asking for advice?
She hid her surprise well, disguising it with a triumphant smile.
"Ok then" she nodds.
Vivian seizes the opportunity to bring the two closer by initating that they speak inside the K.C aircraft.
Mai whacks Vivian on the shoulder.
Does she think Im completely braindead?
"I was thinking of doing the same thing" Seto smirks. Which sees a slight laugh from Mai slip out.
"Well excuse me" Vivian says, scrunching up her face.
"I guess you had better come inside" Seto suggests.
"I guess so" Mai replies cooley.
He leads the blonde up the stairs where they sit inside the luxury jet conversing.
Mokuba, who had been in one of the rooms on board, slowly peers his head out the door to See Seto talking.
Seto glances at a pair of light blue eyes looking with curiosity. He sighs casually and hints for his little brother to "come here"
"Mokuba" he says, "Tell Vivian to go back to wherever the hell it was she came from" "thanks".
Mokuba shrugs and runs out of the jet to tell the asian duelist to leave, more politely than his elder brother.
When he returns, he sits beside seto in one of the large booths.
Mai smiles at the raven haired Kaiba brother.
Seto clears his throat rather loudly subtly hinting fof Mokuba to leave.
"Aw man" the teenager groans.
He trails off into one of the rooms. "Bye Mai" he waves.
"Dont worry about me bro, ill be okay" He pouts sarcastically.
"Yes im sure you will be" Seto replies.
Mai observes the obvious bond that the two brothers have. She secretly wished to have a little sibling of her own to protect and share her inward thoughts with.
Mai didnt show any emotion towards how she really felt, about Seto, being a loner or even the way she knew Joey felt about her. The young woman managed to keep poised and cool, taking everything in her stride. After all that is what attracted so many and kept them coming back for more. Judging by Seto's coldness, she knew it was the only way to have him eating out of the palms of her hands...
"Aha Spot a green beatle" Tristan announces, punching Tea in the arm playfully.
"Ouch" the brunette yelps.
"Tristan there hasnt been a car on the road in over two hours" she says with a sigh which turns into a chuckle.
"Oops My bad" Tristan blushes with stupidity.
"Aww are we there yet?" Joey moans. Throwing his hands back and forth.
"hopefully sooner than later" Tea replies, looking out at the desert road they are driving past.
Tristan puts his hand on Tea's shoulder and smiles. "Dont worry Tea, Yugi will be fine".
"Yeah I know:" Tea replies, with slight reluctance in her voice.
Joey, bored out of his mind, pops his head out of the window and yells "Show us your tits"..
Tristan bursts out laughing.
"Joey" Tea sternly cringes, pulling her friend back inside the vechile.
"What?" Joey asks, shrugging his shoulders. "Its not as if theyre's anyone around these parts".
"Except Tea" Tristan jokes, sending the two into more fits of laughter.
Tea firmly smacks both of the boys on the head.
"honestly" she mutters. "boys"
After many hours of talking into the night, Seto and Mai realise that they have ended up talking completely off subject and are now divulging into more personal issues.
"You say you were an orphan huh?" Mai asks, letting her golden hair flop infront of her as she rests her hands on the table in between them.
Seto raises and eye brow. "Yeah" "Why?" he asks.
"Oh no reason its just..." Mai is led off by private thoughts of her past, when her parents were killed in a terrible car accident, leaving her alone in a huge mansion style house, with no one but the servants to look after her.
Seto leans in over the table, his blue eyes full of question.
"Are you an orphan?"
Mai pulls herself back into her seat and looks down at the carpeted floor.
She then looks up with a slight glaze in her violet eyes.
"Maybe" she replies. "Only i was not adopted into a corporation like a certain two brothers i might know"... Mai didnt trail sarcasim in her words, infact it was probably the most sincere she has ever been infront of another human being.
Seto rests his hands on his pants and breaths through his nose. "It wasnt as easy as it sounded Mai".
Mai is intrigued, how could being adopted into a wealthy family with a world of opportunities at your feet be difficult?
"Gozo boro was not a nice man" He says in slight angst. "Everyday was a nightmare when he was around" Seto's hold turns into a clench as he remebers the way his step father was towards him. Working him day and night without so much as an "I love you" or "Nice work son".
"Mokuba was well is my only family" "Not noah and certainly not him" Seto speaks with such hatred when he mentions Gozo.
Mai knew she wanted to help Seto, but she didnt know how. That was until now.
Being the more forceful of the two, Mai was never afraid to go after what she wanted. Many times she had received the things she had wanted, jobs, money, clothes, even a handsome Fianc'e while working on a cruise liner on the pacific...she knew Seto may be more of a challenge...
"Im my only family" Mai says, hiding tears and angst as best she could, it wasnt as if hiding her inner feelings was something new to the blonde.
"After I left the cruise ship I took up duelling mainly for money" she informs. "Then the success and thrill of winning felt so good" "I just kept going".
Seto nodded in agreement. He was somewhat interested in Mai's life, having no idea why, he sat back and listened a little. (A rare occurance for him)
"Then when My ex fiance came to take me I duelled him" "Saying that if he won I would take him back" Mai laughs when she remembers.
Seto is perplexed. "What was so funny about that?" he asks seriously.
"Lucky for me he was a terrible duelist" she replies proudly.
"Was he?" "Or were you just too good?" Seto blurts out, not really sure hwy he said those words. Something about Mai just lured him to say it.
Mai's eyes widen. Did he just give me a compliment?
"If I didnt know better Mr kaiba I would say you had just complimented me on my duelling" Mai tilted her head to the side playfully.
Seto smirked a little, at the same time admiring her Soft blonde hair dangling to one side, the way her lips moved when she talked and the powder finish on her eyelids..
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she shows
Don't wanna leave her now
You know I cant leave her now...Mai rests her elbow on the nicely polished table and places her chin in the cup of her hand.
"So now what?" she whispers...
Seto feels chills running down his spine. He's never felt such a sensation towards a woman like this before. Mai had done it again only he didnt know it at first.
Seto leans in aswell and stares at her. Mai slowly un does one of the buttons on her white cardigan tee, revealing a little more clevage. Seto cant help but look down, he is a man after all, a very attractive and alluring man.
Mai slides herself out of her seat and places herself next to Seto. She gently strokes his leg, not too sure how the CEO will take it.
Seto closes his eyes and grins a little bit. He looks at the blonde seductress with a devilish smirk, his eyes a radiant navy blue.
He grabs Mai by the hands and pulls her up, Mai happily follows as Seto kaiba leads her into his large room on board the aircraft.
He turns on the light, revealing a beautiful four post bed with a crushed velvet duvet. The floors are a dark black and the walls magnify the color of his eyes. The wardrobe seems to go on forever and the door on the side led to a neatly accomplished ensuite bathroom...
"I dont usually do this" He whispers, his warm breath blowing onto Mai's lips.
She grabs hold of his face and purses her rose red lips against his.
Seto closes the door with one hand, the other placed on mai's waist.
So discreetly he removes her skirt, she removes his long white coat. Bit by bit an item of clothing is removed until the two of them are lying ontop of the sort velvet bed nakedly.
"Thank you for your advice" he so passoinatley says.
Mai strokes Seto's brown bangs and replies with "You're welcome"...
The next morning Seto awakes with Mai lying on the other side of the bed. He cannot see her face through a mass of blonde hair.
He laughs quietly and pushes her hair away from the womans face. She stirrs, slowly opening each eye.
Her arms are flung out across the bed as she lets herself wake up and take the events of last night in.
"Good morning" Seto says, with his hand smoothing out her hair.
Mai then pulls herself up and throws her arms around the CEO unexpectedly. "good morning" she beams, clenching onto his toned torso.
Seto is thown back by this forward movement. "Uh yes" he says completely flustered.
Changing the subject Seto starts to talk about the Duel against Amelda. Mai removes her hands from his waist.
"Are you sure about this?" she asks.
"That little ex employee or whatever he is will not get away undefeated" Seto coldly remarks.
Mai moves off of the bed and starts to get dressed.
When they are both ready to leave, Seto goes in to wake mokuba.
"I'll see you there" he says full of fury towards this redhead maniac.
Mai takes a deep breath and nodds.
"Bye" she says, planting a kiss on his lips.
Seto runs his hands up her top half returning the kiss.
She then steps off the plane, fearing the worst for her love...
The arena is set. Only Mokuba and Mai stand by to watch the duel that could see Seto fall into the hands of the insane Amelda...The duel that could take Seto away from Mai forever...
Amelda stands on one side, with a tight blue shirt with no sleeves pressed against his skin. His jeans are black and also quite revealing. He has loud clompy boots that echo when he walks and his hair is a mess of red.
He looks at seto square in the eye and sniggers.
Seto stands tall in his long purple trench coat and black pants. His hair is tidy and he appears well groomed. He shoots a blue eyed glare at his oponent and hisses "Lets do this".
"As you wish Kaiba boy" Amelda snarls...
He pulls out an odd looking card with a funny green star on it.
Mai gasps, she knows what this card represents.
"I will now play the seal of Oricoucus" the ginger man announces.
Mokuba looks confused, Seto is hiding great fear as to what this card means.
"I have now sealed the duel" Amelda informs looking smugly evil.
"Evertime I play a monster onto the feild i earn an extra 500 life points" "Oh and i musnt forget" "Every fire monster I summon also boosts another 500 life points for me" He adds with a cocky grin.
Seto summons his cards only to have them destroyed by Amelda's Gorlag and transferred onto Amelda's side of the feild.
Seto widens his eyes and backs awayin shock.
"What the hell are you doing?" he yells, looking at his monsters glarring at him from the opponents side.
Amelda laughs. "Did i forget to mention?" "everytime Gorlag attacks your monsters, when they die they rebrith themselves straight onto my side of the arena" "Pretty cool huh?" he sarcastically winks.
Seto is furious. "Well you wont win so easy" he snarls.
He summons two BEWD dragons..triumphantly however sadly they are destroyed and sent to the opposite side yet again.
"My dragons" He cries.
Mai looks worried, Mokuba clenches on her skirt.
"There Seto' best cards" Mokuba pines.
"I know hun" Mai tries to comfort Mokuba but he is too concerned for the sake of his brother to be lifted.
"You're so predictable Kaiba" He smirks. "My pot of greed and Atonics flame proved that"
"What are you going to do seto?" Mokuba calls out from outside the seal.
"Yes tell me please what are you going to play?" Amelda asks rudely.
Seto pauses for a second, he turns around to see a worried Mokuba holding onto Mai for dear life.
Mai is just as worried as he is, but stands strong.
She hints for Seto to play another card. "you can beat him" She mouths from outside the barrier.
Seto glances down at his deck and grins when he sees Pitch Dark Dragon facing him.
"I My dark dragon in defense and another card face down" he announces smugly.
Amelda rolls his green eyes.
"Let me guess" "Crush card right?"
Seto is stunned that this Amelda knows so much about him.
"If you wanted to get to know me so bad" Why didnt you just ask for an autograph?" Seto sarcastically asks.
"Puh" "Im not a fan Kaiba far from it" Amelda spews.
"Im here to prove that youre a greddy little bastard just like your father"
Mokuba freezes. "You never mention Gozo boro and Kaiba being alike" He whispers to Mai.
Seto pauses in rage.
"What did you just say?" his words are full of deep demise.
"Noone compares me to my step father and gets away with it" "Do i make myself clear?"
Amelda crosses his arms and shakes his head.
"You run the same company that destroyed my family" "Dont you get it Kaiba?" "I never worked for you"...
Seto is more than a little annoyed.
"No instead you chose to play around with peices of my company"
Amelda yells back.
"That was nothing compared to what you did to me" "Youre whole family and your workers are nothing but..."
Seto interupts him.
"My family business has nothing to do with you".
Amelda shoots Seto a serious look of angst.
"Oh it does Kaiba" he coldly replies.
He holds up a burnt old action figure. Looking at it he feels his eyes well up.
"This is my only family now thanks to you" he cries.
Mai laughs. "Ive never seen that thing before"
Mokuba pulls a face. "what is that thing?"
Seto rolls his eyes, this guy was even loonier than he thought.
"You do realise you are holding up a plasric doll?"
Amelda is hurt by that abrupt comment.
"Trust you not to see beyond the obvious" He yells.
"This doll is the only memory I have left thanks to you"
He holds the doll against his heart and reminices about his past.
"Aw the boy loves his doll how cute" Seto says to Mokuba and Mai.
Mai folds her arms and stares with suspiscion at the redhead. Mokuba laughs along with Seto.
"It more than just a doll" He roars in rage.
"Alright already" Seto says, backing away a little more.
"You know why its so important to me Kaiba Seto?"
Amelda raises the doll in the air, letting a few tears fall down.
"Humor me" Seto replies coldly.
Amelda places the doll on his heart again.
"This is all I have left of my little brother Mikey" He says with such visible pain.
"This was his doll"...He then looks up above him..."It all happened seven years ago". "My brother and mother were captured by the tanks" "Taken hostage" "It was my Father who died trying to rescue them" Amelda smiles with tears when he remembers his little brothers love of action figures.
"We shouldnt have gone outside" "Mikey was such an adventurer, " I couldnt say no" "It was then that the soldiers took him" He looks down in despair.
"I never saw him again..or my Mom" He wept for a few minutes, before wiping his eyes and pointing his finger at Kaiba.
"K.C was responsible" He yells. "Gozo boro created the tanks to make money and now you run that bastards company".
Seto is slightly intrigued by Amelda's sad story.
"Look I am sorry for what that shit brick did to you" "If you win this duel I might help you".
Seto remains cool and staunch when he talks.
Mai just shakes her head doubtfully.
"It dosent matter who it was, the point is you run the company now and you must pay" Amelda screeches, he is about to summon another card.
Mokuba lets go of Mai and bashes against the seal of Oricoucus.
"My brother's innocent" He calls out.
"Mokuba wait" Mai runs after him to pull him back, but Mokuba moves ouyt of her grasp.
"My step father sucked" "We all know it" he yells. "But Seto took over Kaiba Corp to help people not destroy lives like Gozo boro did".
"Ha what would you know?" Amelda retorts angrily.
"Alot" Mokuba shoots back. "We grew up with no family in an oprhange for years" "And my brother will make sure that anyone who steps in our way will be sorry".
Seto turns around to hush Mokuba.
"Stop it Mokuba" "I can handle this" he informs harshly.
"I was just trying to help" Mokuba pines in his defense.
"Oh how cute" "A family spat" Amelda teases.
Mai is about to say something at Amelda when Mokuba starts to cry.
Mai wasnt sure how to handle a child, let alone an adolecsent crying.
She bends down and pats the raven haired boy on the back. "There there im sure he didnt mean it" She comforts..well tries to anyway.
"When you lose all of your life points" "You will suffer just like i Did" Amelda yells back in sheer revenge.
Kaiba looks at his cards..
"I have no cards to play" ," could it be the end?"
The room suddenly goes silent and Seto closes his eyes.
"Seto" Mai calls out...but the sound fades away when Seto starts to hallucinate...
All Seto can see infront of him is an image in stoney crystal. He is inside a bright castle.
Just then a blonde girl with fairy wings and a pink and blue dress comes floating down to meet him.
"Seto" I am Dark magician girl" "You have been chosen as one of the warriors to release the second dragon Critius"
"I must be dreaming" Seto says, although he can barely hear his words through mist and fog.
"This is not a dream" DMG says.
The next thing he knows, Seto is clenching the bronze sword which is stuck in the stone image of the Dragon.
"Release the sword" She comands.
Seto pulls the swords out of the stone image, immediatley the glass shatters and a mighty beast appears, roaring triumphantly.
Seto opens his eyes...He is back in Duelist Kingdom, opposite Amelda.
Mai and Mokuba both look towards him oddly.
"Why did you stop and close your eyes?" Mokuba says, wiping the tears off his face.
Seto dosent reply, he shakes his head in disbeleif of what had just happened. He turns his right hand over to see a card with a picture of Critius facing him.
"It wasnt a dream" he gasps.
"I take it you forfit Kaiba boy" Amelda smirks in hope that Seto will drop to the ground and admit defeat.
He laughs at Amelda. "You wish assface"
He holds up the Critius card. He could have sworn he heard it speaking to him. "Play the card" "Play it now"
Without further interuption, Seto summons the Mighty card.
Mai widens her deep purple eyes. "Critius?"
"You dont have that card" Amelda doubtfully groans.
"Oh yeah?" "Then whats this?" Set grins, as the mighty yellow dragon appears.
Amelda is taken back. "How the hell did you get that?" He asks, a little un prepared.
"Lets just say Im less predictable than you thought" He replies smoothly.
"Allright Seto" Mokuba cheers.
Seto, who is now down to 400 life points, uses the card, diminshing Ameldas points to 1900.
"Aha its not over yet" Amelda, grins, pulling out a magic card which will take Seto's life points down to Zero.
"Go" They both yell to their cards.
In a feirce explosion of lights and sound... The seal is broken and both life points are reducted to zero.
Amelda is thrown to one side of the arena, Seto to the other.
"Ah how could that be?" Amelda growls in anger.
"Oh no my magic card deminished 1900 of my life points leaving me with Zero aswell".
Mokuba runs to comfort his elder brother and Mai sits beside him.
Seto then pulls himself up off of the ground and dusts himself off.
Mai holds Seto's hand and winks at him.
"Well done" She whispers subtly.
Amelda can see the slight attraction between the two, he is not happy. Seto dosent deserve happiness, escpecially not her!
"dont get too close love birds" Amelda sniggers.
Mokuba looks up in confusion.
"My private life is mine" "I suggest we leave this duel as drawn and we never see each other again" Seto scowls.
"Oh no Kaiba" "We are far from finished" Amelda grins evily.
"Oh and Mai deary" "I would kiss goodbye to your blue eyed boy if i was you"
Mai raises her voice, "I know you would you gat prick" She says sourly at the redhead.
Mokuba's eyes are looking back and forth like someone who was watching the tennis at wimbledon.
Amelda folds his arms and laughs."Oh Im gay am I?"
"Lets go" Seto Says, leading Mai away.
"Oh before you depart" Amelda calls out. Seto spins around.
"Now what?" he grunts.
"There is something you should know about this pretty little girl over there" Amelda smiles at Mai.
"Dont you dare" Mai warns, holding out a fist.
Amelda rolls his eyes.
"Well come on now you did call me gay" "And i cant have that ruining my reputation now can i?" he questions, knowing full well that he is in control of the situation.
"Seto lets go now" Mai grabs Seto by the hand. Mokuba runs off behind them.
"So you havent told them about our little get together?" Amelda yells out, knowing that Seto will turn around.
"what?" Kaiba asks, looking at Mai.
Mai feels her face grow hotter.
She bites her lip. "Seto it was a year ago"
Seto's lips curl when he realises what amelda was talking about.
"you said i was the best you have ever had" Amelda scorns.
Mai looks to the ground embarrassed.
Seto has so much anger inside right now, he dosent know wether to hit amelda or confront Mai.
Mai runs over to amelda, furiously and slaps him in the face.
Amelda smooths his face over with his hand. "Oooh feisty" he hisses at her.
Mai can feel a slight tear forming in her right eye. She quickly turns around and runs outside. Seto stands silently, stiff and cold.
Mokuba pulls on his hand.
"Lets go Seto" he says, glaring at Amelda.
Seto flashes one last look at Amelda. This time amelda's cocky smile shrinks into a more fearful expression.
The look that Seto had just given him was not pretty. It even sent a shiver through the red head duelist.
"You're right "its not over" He bitterly says...
Ohh thanks for reading guys! tried to add a bit more romance this time. Yes yugi and the gang will be in the next chapter...Did you hear that Yug? YUGI "Yup yup" )
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