Mai opened her eyes slowly and looked around hazily to see her new surroundings. Everything seemed strange to her, she thought for a moment that she was back in her room, but her room was never as nice as this.

The bed she lay on was so comfortable and the room she was in was so nice, so well decorated, she thought she was in a palace.

The sun glistened through the nearby window. To her surprise, there was a man, silhouetted in the blistering sunlight. He was tall, but she couldn't quite make out whom it was. Her mind was still foggy; she had been asleep for over twelve hours.

The man then stepped out of the shadow and Mai looked at his face. It was Seto Kaiba, she recognized him straight away. Seto smiled at her and approached slowly extending his hand out to her.

"How are you feeling this morning?" he asked.

"You!"

Her memory was coming back. She remembered fighting those two guys and how Kaiba came out of nowhere and fought them off. The duel card, she finally remembered. She was after the last duel card, her relief suddenly turned to disappointment and then anger.

"You stopped me from getting that duel card. You don't know how important that is to me. You obviously drugged me and kidnapped me, carrying me off to your evil lair."

"What? Listen lady, if it wasn't for me those two guys would have fed you to the wolves. You're lucky I'm always on the lookout round here. It looks like they gave you a rough time, I hate men who mistreat a lady. And I didn't kidnap you, I saved you."

"Liar! I could have got the duel card, you bastard. Now those guys are going to get it."

"Looked like you were friendly. You know those guys?"

"We go way back. They've been tracking me for some time now as I've been collecting rare duel cards across the world and they were obviously lying in wait for me in that forest. It's near the temple, you see. The temple where the last duel card is. If I had that, I could finally be proud of myself. I would know that everything I've lived so far has been worthwhile."

"And has it?"

"Look Kaiba, you better get out of my way because I'm going to get that duel card whether you like it or not."

Mai got off the bed and walked towards the door but Kaiba grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"You're not going anywhere," he said. "You're in no condition."

"I'm perfectly fine. I could've beaten those guys if you hadn't interfered."

Mai suddenly felt weak at the knees and she collapsed into Kaiba's chest for second. But she soon regained her wits and stood up straight.

Kaiba laughed.

"And another thing," said Mai. "Don't think you're planning to steal the card behind my back. I would snap your neck if you came even close to it."

Kaiba laughed again. "Listen, I'm not interested in your stupid duel card. I just want to make sure you're ok. You see, I'm a gentleman. There aren't many left in the world today and I won't let an injured woman go back out into the forest alone whilst a couple of psychotic ninjas are chasing her."

"I don't need you, now let go of me. Are you gonna rape me or something? Let go!"

"You're crazy!"

Kaiba didn't let go. In fact his grip increased on Mai's arm and she winced in pain. After a while, she stopped struggling and Kaiba released his grip.

"I'm glad you've finally seen sense." Kaiba said.

"Big mistake, loser," said Mai.

She then swung back and caught Kaiba with a punch to the jaw, which sent him reeling backwards against the wall. Kaiba staggered to his feet and managed to catch up with Mai who was running towards the front door of the house. He took her by the shoulders and spun her round.

"What do you think you're doing?" Kaiba shouted.

"Sorry Mr Seto Kaiba, but I have important duties to attend to. Shame we couldn't sort this mess out, we could have made quite the couple."

Mai then leaned forward and put her hand between her large breasts. Then she seductively pulled out a tiny blue ball. Kaiba was too mesmerized to move. Mai winked at him and then dropped the blue ball to the ground before quickly heading for the door.

The tiny blue ball exploded and a purple gas came out. Kaiba coughed and covered his mouth, trying not to inhale it but it was too late. His knees buckled from under him and he fell to the ground with an almighty thud. He looked with blurry vision and could only make out the faint outline of Mai Valentine's sexy butt as she walked out the door.

Then everything went black.