Chapter 4:
*Emiko's POV*
By the first night, my glove holds eight stars. The snacks that I brought from home along and some sea fish that Mako guy gave me as a thank you of the duel are almost gone.
I'm looking out to the ocean within the nightsky. Familiar thoughts from my childhood appears back in my mind. Why was I destined to be the owner of the Millennium Headpiece? Yami couldn't remember anything from her past. Shadi told me that I need to help her remember everything, but now something about Yugi has trigger something within Yami and me.
'Emiko,' Yami speaks, appearing next to me, 'do you remember when I told you that I vaguely remember that I had a pharaoh?'
"Yes I remembered," I replied. "Should we keep a closer eye on Yugi?"
'Yes we should.'
Suddenly, the headpiece gives me visions towards another location. My feet gets controlled to the location. Soon I found myself at an arena with half of it covered in darkness and a castle floating. A female around my age or older with long blond hair and wearing a white and purple outfit stands on one side the arena. Three Harpy Ladies are at her side and her life points are at eight hundred.
The way that this duel looks, it's not a good one. A monster from the darkness attack the Harpies in a scary way that made the woman scream.
"Bye, bye Birdies," a dark laugh fills up the darkness.
"My harpies….they're gone," the woman says in shock.
"I think you mean eliminated."
'An eliminator?' I asked Yami with my eyes big and wide.
'Yes.'
"Just like you. Now hand over all your star chips, you loser!" a figure appears as the dark cloud disappears. "What's this?" the person notices me with a dark smile and chuckles. "Another victim comes to Panik? It must be my lucky night!" he returns to the ground.
"Who are you?" the blond haired woman asked me, appearing down.
"My name is Emiko," I answered her, ignoring Panik's staring.
"Mai! Are you okay?" a very familiar voice calls out.
We look to see Yugi Moto running towards the location with four others that looks strangely familiar to me. Two of them I feel anger towards, but with the female it's stronger.
"You're too late," the one named Mai says sadly.
"Too late for what?" the short haired brunette asked.
"This sideshow freak giving you a hard time?" the blond haired boy asked her.
"That's right, just like Pegasus pays me to do. Root out all the dueling filth on this island," I glared at him from the side, "and dispose of it."
"Doesn't that make you a garbage man?" the brunette man asked, joking.
"This is no joke!" Mai says to the group. "Panik's one of the island's eliminators and if you don't get out of here he's gonna do to you what he did to me," she warns them.
"Eliminator?" Yugi asked, then turns to me. "What's that Emiko?"
"Look," Panik smiles, picking up Mai's dueling hand up roughly. "This is what she means right here."
"Get your filthy hands off of her," I speak firmly to him while glaring up to him and arms crosss over my chest.
"You shut your mouth little girl!" he almost screams at me. "Anyways," he chuckles darkly, returning to the group, "check out out her duelist's glove. Not a star chip left."
They stare at it in shock.
"But that would mean she's been disqualified," the female speaks.
"You're out Mai?" Yugi asked.
"I am. It happened so fast," she replies with her head down. "The way Panik duels, I just lost it."
'We should help out,' Yami says to me.
"Ha! She was one of my easiest victims yet," Panik chuckles. He simply laughs while pushing Mai forward.
"You creep!" the blond haired boy lunges towards Panik but his two friends stop him. "Move it! There's no excuse for pushing a girl."
"Calm down Joey," his white haired friend says to him. "I know how you feel, but that guy's more than twice your size."
"I can take him!"
'The kid behind him has the Millennium Ring!' Yami realizes gratefully.
"No Joey. Fists aren't the answer," Yugi steps in.
"Violence won't solve anything," I join in, stepping forward.
"I've dealt with a lot of bullies in my life," Yugi has his head bowed, "and I'm afraid there's only one way to deal with them."
He raises his head to look at me with a nod.
"You have to stand up to them!" we both said together.
