Chapter 5

Fiends of Forever: Invitation

(Last time)

Something cracking caught his attention. He looked down at the carpet as he saw the ground splitting. He followed the opening in the ground with his gaze as they landed on his balcony. He didn't want to move for being almost frozen and not wanting to know if he could freeze the same way all the objects had in his own room.

The doors burst open as wind howled into the night. The balcony was empty except for the height of an average person standing in the opening of his room and overlooking his territory.

(This time)

The shadowing figure followed the leading ice with his eyes. It took awhile for Kaiba to figure out what was going on. The invitation with the door open and into his room was not his openly, but rather forcing the invitation on Kaiba.

He slowly took his first step while Kaiba tried to focus all his energy on the advancing personage. But all he saw was the outline of a male figure that was slowly amiably walking towards his own bed that held his choice of comfort.

Trying to contain himself and maybe his sanity, he pulled his knees to his chest.

Please this is a dream.

A hallucination.

Anything but reality.

He snapped his eyes shut and turned his head forward and leaned his forehead on his knees in deep thought and complete commendation to anything that would come to his mind for an explanation.

Maybe I am just going insane.

That's it, I am going insane.

"Good one Seto." Kaiba whipped his head up at the sound of the voice. Everything in his room was normal. Not a speck of ice or frost was in sight. The whole place of objects and random pieces of software on his dressers and floor were defrosted and completely giving the aura of normal temperature.

Shivers of nervousness and dread slimed up his back as he twisted his shoulders for the feeling to escape through the blades of his arms. ((shoulder blades. Sorry I couldn't use shoulders again….it sounded weird))

He hated the chills and frankly, having them was not helping him.

Or his senses.

Kaiba turned his head to look at the menacing figure hovering beside his bed. He closed his eyes again denying the obvious.

"Resistance is futile."

Silence blanketed the room for a mere second before the voice spoke again.

"You know I, myself, don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every second of it!" The voice bounced into an echoing laugh as Kaiba tried his hardest to block out the mocking laugh.

It didn't work.

It sounded continuously off the plastered walls and covered marble halls. It seemed to fill the whole mansion as if a volcano erupted. But that wasn't the case.

The ground started to shake.

Kaiba stared in "aw" as the whole bedroom's lamps, expensive vases and hanging pictures fell from their places and shattered into a million pieces to the floor. He clenched his teeth as his whole work of trying to get the best plummeted to the ground in his room! He wanted to kill the man for doing this to him.

Doing what? ((to him you might ask?))

It was killing the inside of his soul quickly but slowly with pain more excruciating than the burning sun. It was killing the way he thought and killing the way he and Mokuba used to get along. Everything was being ruined by the male that was standing a merely four feet from his bed and himself.

Actually, you have to add another foot from the edge of the bed, but THAT wasn't the point! ON the inside it was destroying the living person he was, is, and going to be. It needed to be stopped.

It needed to be stopped now.

The laughter finally died down along with the earthquake. Kaiba was ok, but his precious pictures weren't. Tears ands rips were clearly shown through the canvases. The shards from the shattering glass of vases cleaved through the tough matt in the painting leaving it worthless.

Kaiba wanted to stand and finally end this by facing the shadow demon, but nothing would work with his body when he tried to make it obey.

Not this again.

Kaiba practically moaned in his mind while trying to figure out what to do. He was about to turn towards the figure when he spoke again.

Kaiba realized that it wasn't as clear as his language.

He has no accent.

None at all.

"Kaiba-boy. . . look at me."

Heat rushed to the tips of the brunette's ears and his blood boiled in his chest. "I told you before Kaiba….Now look at me."

The brunette refused to such a order or command. Nothing in the world would make him pledge to some lunatic that was stalking him in his home, mind, and world.

But who would go to such length to make his world a living he-

"Language Mr. Kaiba. You're not the only one with your thoughts anymore. You're not alone any longer. I'd just like to make that clear before I did anything else."

What was this guy talking about?

All Kaiba could register was: not, thoughts, alone, clear, I.

And all this meant was . . .?

I am going crazy and there is nothing to it.

"Kaiba-boy, I assure you that you are not going crazy. What you see is real. A figment of your imagination will just do if you want something else to believe."

The blue-eyed teen hugged his knees closer to himself as he looked straight ahead avoiding any contact with the stranger. And if that meant physical, mental or seeing contact, then it will stay that way.

"Seto look at me."

Kaiba narrowed his eyes in anticipation.

"NO one calls me by my first name besides my brother." His blood seemed to burn on boiling point from the stove baking oven.

Every second that clicked in the room seemed to intensify with heat with each minute that passed.

Seto hadn't realized it until now when he almost burst like a balloon physically and mentally.

"Come on Seto, you can't be that mad at me. I didn't do anything to make you mad in the first place." The sick and twisted stranger chuckled but contained it so it wouldn't erupt like an earthquake again.

That did it. He burst.

"Stop calling me Seto! IT'S NOT YOUR PLACE OR HONOR TO CALL ME THAT! AND I CERTAINLY DIDN'T GIVE YOU PERMISSION!" Kaiba stood up from his position on the bed. He didn't care if the shards of the vases crushed under his feet. All that mattered was bringing this male down to his feet.

The figure seemed to mince backward a few feet before responding to Kaiba's outburst calmly and unaffected.

"Is that all you can come up with, Seto-kun." He ridiculed Kaiba's statement before, but he seemed to take it a step further than the brunette would take.

"If I have to tell you again, you will be lying six feet under the ground by the time I am done with you!" The teal pooled ((you can insert eyes too)) male hissed while his eyes narrowed into slits.

The man chuckled before advancing on his so-called prey or rather experiment.

"Don't challenge me Kaiba." The voice spat out the name while Seto tried to search the face of his now made enemy. Nothing could be seen in the shadows of his own room and the jet black darkness that shrouded the two in the room together. "You have no idea what you are dealing with or the matter of who." A smirk could be heard from the fumed enemy.

The six foot male didn't know what to do. Even though the thought of being taller than this person, it was humiliating when he caught the famous Seto Kaiba speechless. The last word that he murmured seemed to run a chill up and down Seto's back. He didn't know who this was. Or what it was. The thought of not knowing chilled and almost froze the blood rushing inside Kaiba's veins. The only conclusion to come up with, was that Kaiba was no longer dauntless but intimidated by this being. The bitter taste of the ashamed feeling irritated him.

Kaiba sighed. He was discouraged and defeated.

A chortle was heard a few feet before him.

"What mess have you gotten into Seto-kun?"

Kaiba gritted his teeth. He hated being insulted, but what could he do? Sack a punch at him and hope it hits him straight in the jaw and run for it?

That was just plain pointless.

But he wasn't going to give up that easily.

He knew he couldn't win against this being or whatever it was.

Kaiba was about to remark back when the door burst open to his room.

He blinked at the oncoming light that animated the whole room. He shielded his eyes and turned towards the door. A loathing feeling slowly left his body to thin air as he stared into the frightened eyes of Mokuba. The little kid searched the eyes of his brother before he voiced, "Seto . . . are you alright? I heard yelling up here."

Kaiba opened his mouth, but closed it again as he watched his little brother slowly enter the room still wearing his costume.

Actually it wasn't a costume at all. He was till wearing his normal clothes from earlier today.

I guess he is normal. . .

"Onisan?" ((isn't there something like 'niisama'? or something…..i might need help with that))

Kaiba was about to open his mouth when his eyes spotted the Yugi-tachi group behind him. ((did I use or spell –tachi right?....got any clues?)) He frowned when he saw Joey as one of the, Seto growled softly in his throat.

"Is everything all right?" Mokuba took another step.

"Mokuba! Sto-" Kaiba stopped in mid sentence as he looked around the room. Everything was back to normal.

No earthquake happened.

No shards.

No shattered vases.

No ripped pictures.

Just a normal room with everything spotless.

But most of all . . . no other male.

"Big brother . . . Is everything all right?"

Mokuba was a few feet away from Seto before he turned to him.

"That's what I am trying to figure out." Kaiba sighed again as he looked back up at the whole group. Every single one had concern on their faces with pity held in their eyes.

"I don't need any of your sympathy." Kaiba turned around, strolled over to his closet, and went inside for a brief second. No one had said a word as they watched Kaiba with eagerness.

The brunette came back out and pulled a black coat over his shoulders at the same time.

"I am going out Mokuba. I'll be back later tonight."

Mokuba nodded before adding, "Will you be ok? Where are you going?"

Kaiba headed towards the doorway while Yugi's posse still blocked the entrance, "Yes and maybe the park . . . just a little walk will do . . . Mind moving Mutt?"

Joey narrowed his eyes while everyone moved out of Kaiba's way. He stood his ground right in the doorframe.

"Yes. What's the matter Kaiba? Looks like someone spooked the great Seto Kaiba? Was it my buddy Dracula?" Joey flashed his perfect white teeth along with some yellow fangs his way before smirking in his costume.

Kaiba sucked in some air and held it before letting it out. He pushed Joey out of the way without responding to the blonde's mocked insult.

Without a second look back at Mokuba or the gang, Kaiba took his leave down the hall and out of the mansion.

-

((Tea's wearing a princess costume, Mokuba: normal clothes, Yugi: bumble bee, Joey: vampire, Tristan: pencil))

"What was that all about?"

Mokuba shrugged at Tristan's comment and responded, "I don't know, but he has been acting weird lately."

"I can tell. Did ya see the way he took my insult?" Joey questioned Mokuba with an uncertain look in his eyes, "He just . . . took it. Not one word escaped moneybag's mouth while he passed me."

"Joey, could you go without one day before calling Kaiba a rude name?"

Joey shrugged, "No. Habit I guess."

"Something must have really spooked my brother for him to look that frightened."

"Frightened? You're telling me he was frightened?" Tristan beamed at Mokuba.

Joey stepped forward, "How could ya tell? I didn't see nuttin'! I was makin' it up a minute ago!"

"You could see it in his eyes Joey. Not in body or action." Tea chirped over the group, finally joining the conversation.

They all turned towards her.

"You out of all people, could tell?" Tristan asked.

"Yes."

"If you knew my brother like me, you could tell by the look in his eyes; but that doesn't explain why he left all of a sudden or why he was freaked out." Mokuba turned just in time to look out the window and see his brother walking down the street.

Chika: well I hope I updated good….i am terribly sorry it took so long….but thanksgiving held me up! All of you can kick me for not updating so soon….sorry!

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