Sdrive: Well well, its time to start…THE TALKING CHAPTER! -Audiences boo's yet again- Oh well, it's needed! So ha! Well, hope you all enjoy, THE TALKING!
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All the duelists stood outside of the Battle Tower eagerly waiting for the bus to arrive. Mild conversations started but none of them lasted for more than 3 minutes. Finally they all heard a low rumbling and saw the bus approaching from off in the distance. The duelists, hot from the desert, were glad to see that the bus looked expensive and would most likely be air conditioned.
The bus came to a stop in front of them and they started walking on board. Seto Kaiba and Mokuba went on first and went straight to the back of the bus. Marik and the man in black went in next. Stephanie grabbed Sdrive's arm and pulled him with her towards the bus. They sat in the middle with Sdrive at the window and her at the aisle. Yamato, Nari and Mina went in next, they sat in front of Sdrive and Stephanie, Yamato at the window, Mina at the aisle and Nari across from them. Yugi and Joey sat together in the front with Tristan Tea, and Peace. Bakura sat with Peace and Mamimi walked towards the back of the bus. Donavan got in behind Yugi and Joey. The final duelist, a girl with brown eyes and hair that went down a bit past her shoulders got on. She was wearing a purple shirt with a denim skirt, she sat down next to the man in black. Sdrive couldn't shake the feeling that he had seen her before.
The two guards got on and sat down as close to the front as they could. The bus doors closed and the bus began to move. It went slow for a minute before picking up speed. Yugi, Joey and Ryou started up a conversation while Mina, Yamato, and Nari had just simply talked about things that had happened during the tournament. Stephanie leaned her head on Sdrive's shoulder and drifted off to sleep, leaving Sdrive to feel very uncomfortable. Kaiba and Mokuba were talking together, Mokuba telling Kaiba that he would win the tournament and Kaiba slowly nodded as he looked through his deck.
The man in black and the girl next to him seemed to be getting to know each other but it was hard to tell from where everyone else, minus the people in the back, were sitting. Marik was plotting on how to steal the Winged Dragon of Ra from Yami and not get caught by any of the tournament staff.
Sdrive waited until the conversation with Yamato, Nari, and Mina had died down to start talking to him through their mind link. 'We have to talk to the Spirit of the Ring as soon as possible about that time rift.'
'He seemed to be the only other one who sensed it,' Yamato agreed. 'He must have had something to do with it. The only problem is when we will get the opportunity to ask him.'
'I guess we will have to wait until we can get him alone.' Sdrive said.
'I figured that much, I'm worried about whether or not that opportunity will arise.'
'Only time will tell I guess,' Sdrive said closing his thoughts. He put his head back and closed his eyes, there was so much to think about, and not a lot of time left to think about it. The time for thinking was almost over, the action was about to start.
Sdrive opened his eyes and noticed that he had been asleep for about an hour. He looked out the window and noticed that the bus was heading towards a dock and a gigantic boat was sitting at the dock. The bus slowed as it reached the dock and the doors opened. Sdrive nudged Stephanie awake. "I guess we have to get on a boat now."
Stephanie stretched her arms, yawned, and stood up. "A boat?"
"Looks that way," he said pointing over to the boat.
The guards stood up and asked for the attention of the duelists. "Everyone, please exit the bus and immediately climb on board the boat. It will leave as soon as everyone has gotten on board." Everyone exited the bus and walked down the dock to the boat that was waiting for them. Sdrive took the chance to run over to Ryou and tap him on the shoulder.
"Oh, Sdrive," he said shocked. "What is it?"
"Yamato and I would like to talk to you when we get on the boat if that is ok with you."
"That's perfectly alright," Ryou said. "I can only wonder why you would need to talk to me?"
"Well, lets just say…" Suddenly Stephanie wrapped her arms around Sdrive almost choking him.
"What are you two talking about?" she asked.
"Oh, nothing really," Sdrive lied. "Me and Yamato just have to talk to Ryou, that's all."
"What about?"
"Well, its kind of a secret, just between us."
"Oh," Stephanie said. "Well, I guess that I will just leave you three alone then," she said looking down. She continued to walk towards the boat while Yamato walked up behind Sdrive.
"Why don't we board the boat first and then talk?" Yamato suggested. They nodded and then walked onto the boat. They walked around the ship looking for a quiet spot to talk. They went to one of the lower decks where no one was and decided to talk there.
Yamato looked at Ryou while Sdrive leaned back against a rail with his head up at the sky.
"Why don't we first start off by you giving up your charade Tomb Robber," Sdrive said.
"Excuse me?" Ryou asked nervously.
"You can quit the act," Yamato said. "We both know you are Bakura in control of Ryou's body."
Ryou's hair spiked up and the Sennen Ring melded through his shirt. "So, what is it you want to talk to me about? Hurry, before I decide to banish you both to the Shadow Realm and take control of your power."
"Now is not the time," Yamato said. "We know you noticed that Time Rift and we know that you had something to do with it."
"How could you two have noticed that?"
"Don't underestimate us," Sdrive said. "That seems to always be your mistake."
Bakura gave a snort, "Fine, yes I noticed the Time Rift, but it's not like I'm going to tell either of you what caused it or what happened during it."
"So then you were apart of it," Sdrive said looking down at him with a small smirk on his face. Bakura realized his mistake and swore creatively in Egyptian. "Now then, why don't you tell us the actions that transpired during that time."
"You will have to beat the answers out of me in order to get that kind of information." Suddenly there were multiple flashes of light and Dokara, Fuuten, Selaya, Ricenmei, Kyoshen, Isanai, Setsuna, Midori, Kaori, and Deruku were all standing together encircling the poor Tomb Robber. "Um…"
"Let me tell you something," Deruku said stretching. "I'm not in a good mood right now and I'd be more than happy to relieve some of my anger out on you."
"Now, there is no need to get nasty," Bakura said trying not to get the crap kicked out of him.
"Talk," Sdrive and Yamato said at the same time.
"Fine!" Bakura said snarling. "It was Sayora, she has a Sennen Item that has the ability to freeze time. She challenged me to a duel and I lost, happy now?"
"No, why didn't she take your Sennen Ring?" Yamato asked.
"How the hell am I supposed to know?" Bakura shouted.
This time it was Dokara who spoke, "I have a new tequnique that I have been dieing to try out on a target." Her aura started rising and Bakura gulped.
"Ok fine, she was after the Sennen Eye!"
"And how did you have the Sennen Eye?" Sdrive asked.
"I stole it from Pegasus in Duelist Kingdom right after he was weakened from his duel with Yugi."
"So it was you who stole the Sennen Eye," Yamato said glaring at him.
"Of course it was me," Bakura said snickering. "There was no one else on that island who would do something like that."
"True," Sdrive said. "So, anything else we should know about Sayora?"
"Not really," Bakura said starting to walk away, but then he realized that he was still surrounded by everyone. "What? I told you everything I knew."
"You're hiding something from us," Yamato said.
"So what if I am? I'm surprised you all think you are going to get anything else out of me. Be gald I told you this much. Now, if you please..." Yamato and Sdrive looked at each other. Sdrive sighed and Yamato nodded. There was another flash of light and only Yamato, Sdrive, and Bakura now stood. "Much better, I'll be seeing you all in the tournament," he said as he walked off laughing.
"He's got a point," Sdrive said.
"That we will be seeing him in the tournament?" Yamato asked.
"No, that we should be glad we got that much out of him. I wish we could have found out what kind of deck Sayora uses."
"What fun would that be?" Yamato said cracking a small smile.
"Yeah I guess," Sdrive said. He turned around and hung over the rail watching the water moving underneath him. "I want to thank you again."
"Are you going to get all mushy on me and start ranting on about friendship?"
"Well, I was going to," Sdrive said sheepishly.
"We have Tea to do that for us."
"That wasn't really nice," Sdrive said smiling a bit.
"But true," Yamato pointed out.
Sdrive blew out a sigh, "Yeah, I guess. Come on." They headed back towards the upper deck to join everyone else when Yamato spoke.
"You're welcome." Sdrive smiled and they walked up the stairs to the upper deck.
Stephaine was sitting on a beach chair next to the pool, she was in a blue bikini and looked like she was trying to get a tan. She opened her eye when she heard Sdrive and Yamato come from the upper deck. "Ryou just walked past me a few minutes ago," she said to them. "Did you three enjoy your talk?"
"Well, lets just say it was more informative than either of us could have guessed it would be," Sdrive said.
"Well thats good," she said. "You missed the suites telling everyone that the ride would be about an hour and a half before we arrived at our destination."
"I see," Yamato said. He turned to Sdrive, "I'm going to go look around the ship, wanna come?"
"On a normal occasion, you wouldn't even have to ask that question, but I need to go see a few people first."
"Yeah sure," he said. "Try to look out for Marik, I would hate to have to evacuate this boat because you and that fool decided to get into a magic fight."
"I'll try to keep that in mind," Sdrive said. Yamato walked off leaving Sdrive there to think. 'He's a true friend, and I'm glad he's on my side.' Sdrive waved good bye to Stephanie but she got up and hugged him.
"Don't get into any trouble," she said as she sat back down and resumed her tan.
"I'll try not to," he said to her. He walked off, his first priority was to find Mina and Nari. He searched for about 10 minutes until he found them at the boats arcade. It had everything from racecar games, to pinball machines, to shoot-em-up games. There was even Sdrive's personal favorite, air hockey, which was what Mina and Nari were engaged in. He stood by and watched them play. Mina was in the lead by one point, which was also the game point. Sdrive watched the puck go back and forth until Nari hit it on it's side sending it ricocheting across on the table through Mina's goal.
"Nice job," Mina said. "It's game point, and we are tied. Lets do it," she threw the puck onto the field and tried Nari's tactic but Nari knew it was coming so she was able to block it. The puck went back and forth, back and forth. There were a couple close calls for both of them but they still refused to let up. The puck went flying for Nari's goal, she slid out her paddle, letting it go. It hit the puck which caught Mina off guard, she decided to try the same thing but her paddle missed and the puck went flying into Mina's goal.
"Game point, I win," Nari said smirking.
"Nice move," Sdrive said to her.
"Thanks," she said. "What brings you here?"
"I needed to talk to you two," Sdrive said, his face serious now.
"What about?" Mina asked.
"Ok, promise you won't freak out." he said. They nodded and in a flash of light Selaya and Ricenmei were standing before them.
"How did you do that!" Nari asked.
"You've seen Yamato do it if I recall correctly," Ricenmei said.
"These are my incarnations, Ricenmei and Selaya," Sdrive explained. "Ricenmei is my logical side while Selaya is my sweet, happy side. They are going to help me put a spell on you two. This spell will help you fight off some of the powers of the Shadow Realm. It won't be able to make you imune from it, but it will give you a much better chance. Mina nodded but Nari looked confused.
"Why are you putting this spell on me as well?" she asked. "I'm out of the tournament."
"Because, Sayora might try to get you in order to get to Mina. Besides, you can never be too cautious."
"I guess thats true," she said. Sdrive, Ricenmei, and Selaya closed their eyes and started to chant in another language. Their aura's started to surround them and soon Mina and Nari began glowing as well. After a minute or two they stopped chanting and the aura died down. Sdrive said thanks to Selaya and Ricenemei and they dissapeared. He then turned to Mina and Nari.
"Hopefully that will help," Sdrive said looking at them. "I don't know how long it will last, the more time you spend fighting off the Shadow Powers the harder it will be to keep the spell active. Stay strong you two, I have other people I have to see now." Mina and Nari thanked Sdrive and he walked off in search of the next person. He did some more searching until he finally came up upon Mamimi. She was sitting in one of the on board hot tubs. He went into the bathroom to put on his swim suit. He got out and climbed into the hot tub with her. "Whats up?" He asked.
She looked up at Sdrive and then looked back down. "Nothing," she said quietly.
"So, who was it that you had brought with you? It seemed as though you had come alone."
"He was a good friend of mine, a very good friend."
"I see. Well, I'm sorry," Sdrive said looking down. "I had an expierience like that too. Listen, I need to know, what do you have?"
"What do you mean?"
"I know you have some kind of magical talisman, possibly a Sennen Item. I need to know about it. These finals are going to be tretcharous. What we had to go through to get to the finals, they were the elimantaion rounds, emphasis on elimination."
Mamimi looked down, "I know. Well, I guess I really don't have a choice. Grab my bag." Sdrive reached over and got Mamimi's bag. He handed it over to her and she looked through it. She pulled out a small crystal statue of a woman. "There is an anceint Sybil Spirit living in this statue. Her name is Sayo, I got her statue while I was in prison. Sayo will probably keep me safe from the everything that will happen."
"Alright," Sdrive said. He gave her a quick hug and then got out of the hot tub. "We'll get through this, and we'll get your friend back," he said. He went back into the bathroom, dried off and got changed. He gave a wave and left. He wasn't really sure where he was going next. He felt like going to see Stephaine, but he wasn't sure how to explain the whole magic thing. He was walking around a corner when he bumped into Marik.
"Well, if it isn't the duelist who betrayed the trust of his girlfriend," Marik taunted.
Sdrive glared at him, "Get out of my face. I promised I wouldn't start a magic fight so back off."
Marik just chuckled, "That means that you are weak." He held out the Sennen Rod and send a blast of Shadow Magic at Sdrive causing him to slam into the wall. Sdrive stood up, his aura glowing. "You don't want to make me angry. I've already put up with enough of your crap during this tournament."
Marik just chuckled again. "You don't stand a chance against me." He held up his Sennen Rod again sent off another blast of Shadow Magic. Sdrive rose up his shield and it protected him from Marik's attack. "You can't just hide behind that stupid shield," Marik said taunting. Suddenly a dark voice started laughing and they turned to see Bakura coming out of the shadows towards them. "What are you doing here?"
"My Sennen Ring led me towards you two," he said chuckling. "It deteced the magic attacks and I came to investigate."
"Well, as you can see, me and Sdrive are just having a friendly conversation," Marik said looking down at Bakura.
"Sdrive and I," Sdrive said correcting Marik's grammer.
"Once I rule the world as Pharaoh, there will no longer be any use for grammer," Marik said chuckling.
"Then that makes you an even bigger idiot than I first thought. And you looked pretty stupid to begin with."
"The boy just shot you down," Bakura said laughing at Marik.
"And you," Sdrive said turning towards Bakura, "You think that just by gaining the Sennen Items you will have all the power in the world. Your plot has just as many holes in it as Marik's."
"Oh, and what holes does my plan have?" Marik asked.
"You don't have an Egyptian God Card in your deck anymore. The Pharaoh has the Winged Dragon of Ra now, you're entire strategy has been killed."
"Don't be so sure, I've made some changes to my deck since Battle City. So don't go around taking guesses, it will be the death of you, litterely."
"Well, as much as I've enjoyed talking to raging psycho's, I think I will be going now," Sdrive said. He walked past Marik and went to Bakura. He put his index and middle fingers together and placed them on Bakura's head. He closed his eyes and concentrated for a few seconds. Suddenly there was a flash of light and Ryou was standing in front of them.
"Um...what just happened?" Ryou asked.
"I forced the Tomb Robber back into the Ring, he won't be surpressed for long, but I figure you deserve some freedom." Sdrive walked around them and Ryou followed. Marik just stood there watching them walk past him before he turned around and went on his own way.
Sdrive and Ryou walked up the stairs and they stood there for a little while. "I gotta get going," Sdrive said. "Do your best to keep Bakura under control."
"I'll sure try," Ryou said. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Sdrive turned around and went back to the front deck where he saw Stephaine pulling her shirt on. He walked over to her and waited for her to finish pulling the shirt over her head.
"Hey Sdrive," She said running over to him and hugging him. "Were you trying to get a sneak peak?"
Sdrive started blushing but shook his head. "No not at all," he said. "Hey listen, I've got to talk to you about the finals. They could be very dangerous."
"Oh, I'm not worried at all," Stephaine said. "I've got you to protect me after all."
"Um...rigth," he said blushing. "Would you be freaked if I started saying weird words?"
"No, why?" Sdrive started chanting what he had been chanting with Selaya and Ricenemei. After he was finished he looked at Stephaine and she was there with a confused look on her face. "And what does that mean?" she asked him.
"It's a spell, I used it to try to keep you safe, just in case."
"See, your protecting me already," she said smiling at him. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Sdrive said blushing a bit.
"I'm going to go down to the hot tubs now. Want to join me?"
"I just got out of them. I'm not in the mood right now, how about a rain check?"
"Ok," Stephaine said smiling. "I'll hold it to you." She winked and then headed to the direction that Sdrive had come from.
Sdrive sighed and sat down one of the chairs. "She didn't seem to weirded out when I mentioned that I was chanting a spell." He shrugged and sat on the chairs. He went through his deck and checked to make sure it was how he wanted it. He put it back in his deck box and closed his eyes. After about 10 minutes he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and noticed that it was Peace. "Hey Peace."
"Hey," he said sitting down next to Sdrive. "Where have you been?"
"Trying to get as many people as I can ready for this tournament," Sdrive said. "What about you? You going to be ok?"
"I'll be fine," Peace said reaching into his backpack and pulling out the Sennen Scales. "I've got these after all."
"True," Sdrive said. He looked up at the sky for a few minutes and then turned back to Peace. "Try to be careful in this tournament."
"Of course, you too man," Peace said.
"Definatly," Sdrive said. Suddenly they heard an announcement.
"We will be docking in 25 minutes, all duelists please report to the main deck."
Sdrive and Peace looked at each other and nodded. They got up and headed towards an upper balcony so that they could get a better view of the surroundings. They looked out to see a small island with a giant Coliseum in the middle of it. They headed back down to the main deck again and saw that all the duelists were standing around bored. A few conversations were going on but they were dieing out fast. Sdrive saw Donovan standing alone by the rail looking out at the island. He walked over to him and leaned across the rail. "Worried?" Sdrive asked.
"No, I feel confident with my abilities," he answered. Sdrive nodded and they looked out at the island. "I'm sure that Yugi appreciates your help."
"I'm sure he does too," Donovan said. "I think that the tournament finals will hold many mysterious, and hopefully the answers to them."
Sdrive nodded, "Yeah. So, how much do you know about Yugi?"
"I know about the Sennen Items. But if your wondering, I'm not the leader of the Magic Seekers or the Rare Hunters."
"How do you know about the Magic Seekers and Rare Hunters?" Sdrive asked.
"They were practically the only opponents I could face. I was hard pressed to find a normal duelist. However, I did have the pleasure of squashing that Weevil kid into the dirt."
Sdrive gave a small laugh, "I was wondering what happened to him, I had seen him at the cerimonies."
"Yeah, lets just say he wasn't too happy losing to me," Donovan said laughing. Sdrive gave a small laugh too and then he got serious. "Would you like a spell that might be able to protect you from some of the Shadow Magic in the tournament?"
"No," Donovan said. "It won't be needed. I've been around for a while and have had some expierience with magic. I should be fine."
"Ok," Sdrive said turning back to the island.
"I'm surprised, I thought you would have tried to make me reconsider your offer."
"Naw, I beleive you. Heck, I beleive anyone now adays who say they have had expierences with magic. Especially in a tournament like this. There are people who I never dreamed would be associated with magic of any kind that I have found in this tournament. So I'll just take your word for it and leave it at that."
Donovan chuckled, "You have a good heart Sdrive. I can see us being great friends after this tournament is over."
"I look forward to it," Sdrive said shaking Donovan's hand. "But why do we have to wait until after the tournament?"
"We should keep our focus on trying to stop the evil that plauges us, if we let friendship get in the way now, we won't duel our best, and possibily whoever is supposed to go on to finally face Sayora in the end won't make it there. I would rather carry out my duties first, and then let the true friendship come after evil has been vanquished."
Sdrive nodded, "You have a wisdom beyond your age," he said smiling. "I wish you the best of luck in this tournament."
"You too," Donovan said. Sdrive left Donovan after that and went to go stand with the other duelists. Yamato came walking up to him and they began a small conversation.
"Well, this is it," Yamato said.
Sdrive nodded, "Yes. The end of Sayora is finally approaching."
"Lets just hope that everything turns out in our favor." Sdrive again nodded. "Whats wrong?" Yamato asked.
"What do you mean?" Sdrive asked.
"You're not your usual energetic self. You're not letting what Yuko said in the hospital start to bother you now are you?"
"No," Sdrive said. "Its just that I wanted to be closer to Kelly than this. I wanted to be able to see her as soon as Sayora was defeated. But now we have to get back to Austrailia first before we can do that."
Yamato put his hand on Sdrive's shoulder, "She'll be fine," he said. "All you can do is your very best. She'll be proud of you no matter what."
Sdrive nodded and smiled, "Thank you."
Yamato gave a slight smile, "You're welcome."
"Attention duelists," the guards said. "We will be docking in 5 minutes. Please gather your things and climb the steps up to the colesieum, Princess Sayora will meet you there."
"Well, we're almost there," Sdrive said.
"I doubt that there will be any duels happening today," Yamato said. "The sky is getting darker, I'm sure that the duels won't start until tomorrow."
"I had the same thoughts," Sdrive said. They waited for the boat to dock and then all the duelists exited the boat. They made their way up the long flight of stone steps until they reached the colesieum. Tea had tried to make a joke about thinking she saw Ryou while walking up the steps but no one but Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Ryou understood what she meant.
Once they reached the colesieum they realized that it wasn't a real colesieum but a hotel shaped like one. The duelists entered the hotel and were impressed by the layout of the lobby. The floor was made out of blue and black marble, and off to the left was a priceless rug with a leather couch and leather chairs facing towards a plasma screen tv and stone coffee table.
"Dibs on the couch," Tristan said joking. No one was listening to him though. There were large stone pedistals that lead to and went down large hallways. Off to the right was a large foutain decorated with a variety of colorful flowers and spraying crystal clear water. There seemed to be what any person could easily consider a 5 star restaurant past the foutain. From what everyone could tell there seemed to be very expensive silverware placed on each of the tables in the restaurant. Bakura was in Ryou's soul room trying to figure out how much stuff he could get away with stealing without anyone noticing too much while everyone else was just wishing that they lived in something just a quarter as nice as the lobby and restaurant.
Sayora came out from one of the hallways in front of them and asked for everyones attention. "Welcome Duelists, here before you stands the best in the world. Each of you have worked hard to get here and judging by the faces I see, I can tell that the finals will be filled with gruesome battles for the title of the King of Games. To name a few I see Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba Corp. previous world champion, and supplier of the lovely Duel Disks you have all been using throughout the tournament. I see Yugi Moto, the current King of Games who has so far won the Duelist Kingdom Tournament hosted by Maximillion Pegasus and the Battle City Tournament which had been hosted by Seto Kaiba himself. Also I see Marik Ishtar who came in 2nd place at Kaiba's Battle City Tournament and Joey Wheeler who came in 2nd at Duelist Kindom and 4th in Battle City. There are a few other duelists here who have won some of the more minor tournaments, such as the Asian Tournament and the Continental Tournament. Both of which gave out exclusive cards to the winners, cards that the winners created themselves."
Yamato glanced towards Sdrive thinking. 'Didn't he use a card that neither me nor Pandora had known about?'
"I look forward to being able to see who the winner of this tournament ends up being," Sayora said. "I expect great duels but not tonight. Tonight is reserved for the feast! Thats right, we are having a special dinner party for every duelist here. Think of it as your congratulations for making it this far. Get to know some of the duelists around here, and then after you are done eating, you can all get a full nights sleep. The duels will start at 9:00 tomorrow, so you all have plenty of time to eat, and take advantatge of all the wonderful activites this hotel has to offer. Plus, you can get to have a great nights sleep. Your room number is on the plastic card that you received when you scanned your cards at the Battle Tower back in Perth."
Tea raised her hand to get Sayora's attention and Sayora nodded at her. "What about guests who are just here to watch the duels take place?"
Sayora snapped her fingers and the two men went to the computers behind the front desk. They typed on the key boards for a minute or so and then came back with plastic cards. They handed them out to Tristan, Tea, Mokuba, and Nari. "There will be 4 people to a room for a total of 16 people in 4 rooms minus the 4 visitors who will have their own room."
"Mokuba stays with me," Kaiba said sternly.
"I'm afraid not," Sayora said. "Only duelists are allowed in the 4 rooms."
"Then I'll sleep in the room with Mokuba and the the dweebs."
"Kaiba!" Tea said getting defensive.
"How are you going to get in and out of the room then if your card key doesn't match the door?" Sayora asked.
Kaiba started gritting his teeth, "I'll make it work," he said sternly.
"Chill out big brother," Mokuba said. "I'll be safe with Tea and Tristan, besides, you should worry about getting ready for the tournament."
"I don't like this Mokuba, I want you with me."
"You can count on us," Tea said. "Mokuba is our friend, we'll make sure that no harm comes to him."
"Yeah," Tristan said backing up Tea. "We wouldn't want our friend to get hurt, especially when you could sue us for everything we are worth."
Tea elbowed Tristan in his stomache again, "Thats not what I was getting at!"
"Sorry!" Tristan said clutching his stomach.
"Come on big brother, I trust Tea and Tristan, why won't you?"
Kaiba hesitated for a moment and then sighed in defeat. "Fine, but only because you trust them Mokuba. And because Tristan brought up a good point," he added as an after thought.
"Then it's settled," Sayora said smiling. "Now, lets get dinner!" she said pumping her fist into to the air. She walked over to the restaurant doors and swung them open. The lights instantly came on and a bunch of waiters were standing there waiting to show the duelists to their seats. Everyone got settled in and ordered their food. Yugi, Kaiba, Yamato, Sdrive, and Joey were all placed at one table. Yugi was sitting on the far end of the table. On his left was Kaiba and Yamato, across from Kaiba sat Sdrive and Joey sat across from Yamato leaving an empty seat at the other far end of the table. Sayora walked over to Yugi's table and stood next to him "Hello Yugi Boy. It's great to finally get to meet the Duelist Kindom Champion up close and personal," she said admiring him. "You are quite the cute one," she said. She walked across the table and sat down in the empty seat. "You all don't mind if I dine with you here do you?" she asked. "After all, this is the table of favorites is it not? You all hold the highest positions at this tournament so it would be my extreme honor to be seated with you all."
Sdrive muttered something that could have sounded like "keeping your greatest enemies close."
"What was that?" Sayora asked Sdrive with a completly innocent face as if they had all known each other for years and she was just curious as to what her friend had said.
"Oh nothing," Sdrive lied. "Just talking to myself."
"I see," she said. The waiters brought them their food at that point and she looked at it with great excitment. "I hope you all enjoy the exquisit food here, I have spared no expense to make sure that everything is absolutly perfect. She took a bit of the steak that she had pre-ordered for herself and squealed with delight. "Wow, I had no idea it would be this good, and I'm the one who hand picked everything that would be served here. Oh, I must thank you again Kaiba for your Duel Disks, they have made this Tournament so much more official like and much better in terms of holographic images."
"Well, I'm glad that you like them," he said smirking and taking a bite of his prime rib. He then noticed that Joey was stuffing down his food as fast as possible. "I should have guessed that puppies didn't have any manners."
"Hey!" Joey shouted at Kaiba with a mouth full of Mashed Potato's.
"You know Kaiba," Yamato said cutting a peice of steak. "It's the masters responsibility to teach the manners. I guess it just shows that you don't know any more than him."
"Yeah! Take that Kaiba!" Joey said pointing his fork at Kaiba. Kaiba looked up smirking at Joey which made Joey think about what Yamato had just said. Sdrive was struggling trying not to break into hysteria as Joey finally caught on. "HEY!" he shouted at Yamato. "Are you trying to say that Kaiba is my master!" Yamato just shrugged and put the cut steak into his mouth.
Sdrive was finally laughing as he spread a bit of salt on his Corn on the Cob. He was having a lot of fun watching everyone trying to out wit each other. He stopped laughing and took a bite of his corn when he realized that something didn't seem right. He looked across the table to see Sayora sitting there laughing at the past current events. 'She's acting as if this is a normal dinner with us, as if she's done something like this before,' he thought to himself. 'I'm having a hard time sensing anything dangerous from her at the moment. Sure I can sense her aura, it's incredibly strong there is no way to miss it, but it doesn't seem dark. The way she's acting is as if she doesn't have a care in the world. Here we are accusing her of being so evil, and yet, she seems like the nicest person in the entire world. Why is that, why do I seem so comfortable around her? Well, I can't let her get away with what she has done. It could just be an act. Even if it's not I have a mission. There are too many wrongs that she has committed and I must stop her. I just wonder why she seems so...normal?'
The dinner continued with an occasional bashing of Joey here and there from Kaiba and from conversations that had arrised from them beign at the table with the best duelists. Once everyone was done with dinner, Joey had finished first, dessert came. They all had some and it turned out to be extremely rich. Sayora had ordered a bottle of wine with her dessert and asked if anyone cared to share it with her. Kaiba, Yamato, and Sdrive all had some but Joey and Yugi held back. They were still a bit to unsure about whether or not they should be drinking at their age. Yamato and Sdrive couldn't have cared less how old they were and Kaiba mentioned that he had a bottle of wine whenever he went to a fancy restaurant. Sayora asked that everyone in the restaurant give a toast to the food and to the duels that were to come. Some of them glummly toasted while others toasted like usual. Sdrive noticed that Ryou had a bottle of wine sitting right next to him and that he wasn't sharing it with anyone else.
'I guess that didn't last too long,' Sdrive thought sighing. 'At least I gave him a bit of freedom.' He also took notice of the man in black and Marik both sharing a bottle of wine as well. He was quite surprised that Marik seemed to be acting civil. 'Must be the alcohol. I wonder how much he has had to drink anyway?' After dessert everyone went to their assigned rooms. Yugi, Yamato, Sdrive and Kaiba were all in one room. Peace, Stephaine, Mina, and Donovan were in their own room. Yuko, Ryou, Mamimi, and the unknow girl were in the other room. That left Sayora, Marik, Joey, and the unknown man all in the last room. Mokuba, Nari, Tea and Tristan were of course sharing their room.
Yugi and his room mates walked into the room and they all gasped, even Kaiba. The room was as big as the lobby. There was a fountain in the middle of room that was identical to the one in the lobby minus its smaller size. The rug seemed to be spotless as if it was just vaccuumed and never once walked on. The beds themselves were rather big. They were made to hold one person but there was still enough room to be able to turn on the side and not fall off. There were two plasma screen TV's on the wall, and there was a mini chandelier haning from the ceiling. There were stone pedistals on either side of the beds that held rather expensive looking lamps. One the other side of the room was a full bar filled with exotic wines from all over the world. There was also a mini fridge which was sure to be filled with many goods inside. There was a microwave on a mahogony wood table along with a coffee maker.
When they looked into the bathroom they noticed that it was smaller than the room but not by much. The floor was made of the same kind of marble just like the kind in the lobby. There was a tub that served as not only a regular bath tub but also a hot tub. There was a very nice looking shower stall on the other side of the bathroom, and there were candles on candle holders to give off a relaxing feeling. The sink was stainless steal and seemed to be newly installed.
"For someone who is expecting to steal everyones soul and never let them see the light of day again she sure didn't worry about not paying any expense to make it look nice," Yamato said.
"Even I don't have a room like this," Kaiba said looking around.
Sdrive who had always lived barely in middle class had his jaw to the floor. "Do you think Sayora will mind if we stay here a while after the tournament?" he asked.
Yugi couldn't say anything. It was too flashy for him, he wasn't used to this kind of life style. He felt like he would pass out from the fancyness of it all. And he thought that the foutain in the middle of the room was a bit overboard, borderline creepy. They all slowly walked over towards the beds picking out beds for themselves and not really saying anything. Sdrive felt the bed and was shocked at how soft it was. He climbed up on it and sighed. He felt as if he was in Heaven. The others decided to take his silent advice and try out the beds. They all had pretty much the same reaction. They just layed on the beds and listened to the fountain which turned out to be really relaxing and calming.
"I think I figured out how Sayora plans on winning this tournament," Sdrive said with softness in his voice.
"How's that?" Kaiba asked.
"She plans on us to be too comfortable to leave our beds and we will all be disqualified for not making it to our duels in time."
"Makes sense to me," Kaiba said. They all looked up at each other and then towards Kaiba. "I'm in a state of bliss, what do you expect?" he asked. They all stayed on their beds for a while before they finally decided to unpack their things and get stuff ready for the upcoming day. Yugi went to take a shower while Kaiba decided to try out the hot tub.
Yamato and Sdrive were standing at the window looking out at the small island. "I knew that the room would be big but this is crazy," Sdrive said.
"Well, we now know that she must come from a rich family," Yamato said. "She was just some random person to throw a tournament and had never been heard of before hand so the only way to have been able to afford any of this is to be from a rich family.
Sdrive nodded and then a asked Yamato a question that had been bugging him for a while. "She seemed too nice to be all that evil," Sdrive said. "Did you pick up on that floaty, not all in there personality of hers?"
"Yes I did, but don't forget, it could just be an act to get all of us to think otherwise."
"But I couldn't really since a dark aura around her at dinner."
Yamato sighed, "I know, I couldn't either. Nothing seems to make since. This tournament, Sayora herself, nothing. I think the stress is getting to all of us."
"Makes sense," Sdrive said looking towards the bathroom. "Just look at Kaiba, he's acting nice around us."
Yamato sighed and leaned against the wall, "Who knew that this was what we signed up for when we came here?"
"Not me, thats for sure," Sdrive said. About 30 minutes later Kaiba and Yugi had both left the bathroom and Yamato and Sdrive went in to shower and enjoy the hot tub. They got out after about 30 minutes as well and then got into some comfortable sleeping clothes. Kaiba already had 4 wine glasses out and a wine bottle from the bar. He filled them up and handed them to Sdrive, Yamato, and Yugi. They all sort of looked at him funny as if he had finally lost it.
"I'm feeling generous," he said. "The bed and hot tub put me in an extremely good mood."
"I don't really think I'm supposed to be drinking this," Yugi said looking down at the wine glass.
"Live a little," Kaiba said tipping his glass taking a sip. "Besides, if you really were some kind of Pharaoh in the past then I'm sure you had wine every night," he said smirking as if he was mocking Yugi.
"Technically, I wasn't really the Pharaoh, Yami was. Contrary to what I used to think I'm not the reincarnation of Yami."
"You realize that you sound so stupid right now don't you?" Kaiba said still smirking.
"One day you will beleive in your desitny Kaiba," Yugi said.
"Yugi," Kaiba said.
"Yes?"
"Shut up and drink the wine." Yugi silently complied and felt the sting of the alcohol go down his throat. He wasn't used to the taste but managed to finish it. Yamato and Sdrive had no problems and Kaiba obviously didn't have a problem with it. After they were all finished they climbed into their beds and listened to the foutain.
"Life at the top," Sdrive said absentmindedly. "Does it get any better than this?"
"Not really," Kaiba said. "And I should know." Everyone agreed and that was the last that anyone said that night. They all knew that they would all be engaged in tough duels in the morning and some of them would be back to being enemies, but for now they were going to live it up and relax. They layed in their beds and slowly fell asleep to the sound of the foutain running.
Sdrive: HURRAY, the finals are on their way! Don't ask how I got the idea of the rooms let alone the lobby, I guess I just took a bunch of ideas and combined them together. Well, I hope you all enjoyed the Talking Chapter, even though thats not what this chapter will be called. I'm almost pushed to name this chapter after the hotel, but I don't think that would do it much justice. On another note, I managed to fill the two chapters I originally had this going to be into one long chapter, which means that the next chapter is the begining of the finals. The bad news is since it is a chapter with a duel the chapter won't be appearing any time soon. I managed to get this chapter out since I wasn't too busy and it didn't have a duel that I needed to plan out. So the next chapter might be a while and even then, I think the next story I work on before this one will be Sky Top, I haven't worked on that in a while. So you will all have to wait a while for this. Please be patient, I'll try to post as soon as possible. Review time!
Zenryo: He is just an english spirit even though he isn't. But oh well, I didn't feel like doing him justice and I didn't know how else to get Sayora the Sennen Eye, so I figured a sneak peak of her deck before the finals would be the best way. -Rubbing head- oh, and thanks for the bruise.
High-Elf: Thank you for the compliment. The funny thing is that I couldn't really think of any of the cards in Bakura's deck when I wrote that. I really should try to remember some of them so I can write great duels. Lol. thanks again.
Peace Writer: Yes it was short, it wasn't meant to be long. I'm not going to get into a fight about Elma. We've already talked about that. Anyway, yes, if you look it says "Toon Spirit of the Breeze" which is also a card I created specifically for Sayora. Later on I will give a list of the cards I have created for her, incase there is anyone out there who can't figure out the difference. -Thinking- would Sayora use Mine Mine Mine?
Lucien: Card Captor Sakura is extremely good. The problem is that CCS and Chobits are both written by Clamp, making it all that much harder to decide. Also Yuko Ichihara is a character created by Clamp. I don't own her. What makes you think that Stephanie isn't all she appears to be?
Reaver: I doubt Sayora will burn for beating Bakura. But who knows...oh yeah, I DO! Well, I rather liked that chapter, Joey got made fun of once and powned twice. Bakura almost won...ok, so maybe he didn't, his closest win was with the Waboku. He knew that Sayora would attack, it would have protected him and then opened up the last slot for the Ouiji Board. But Sayora just outsmarted him. Oh well.
Sdrive: Well, thats all. I'm sad, I've lost at least 3 of my reviewers who used to review on a constant basis. Mina, Silver Dragon Iron Claws, and Otaku Sarri. I can guess Sarri's reasons, and I think Mina is too busy to review, not sure, but I don't have an excuse for SDIC. Who also is taking forever to post his sequel to Desert Shadow. -Glaring at SDIC- POST DAMNIT! Other than that not much else is happening. I want you all to be very proud of me though, I have, in advance, already figured out the entire seiries of duels, who will win, and what will happen, I just need to write the duels. But for reasons why it won't be updated right away, well go read above. Well, hope you all enjoyed it. Keep reviewing.
Power to the Hikari's