Chapter 8:
*No One's POV*
*Pegasus's Castle*
"With Kaiba still reeling from his loss to Yugi, it's the perfect time seize control and bring this company's reputation back to what it once was."
"Patience, gentlemen," Pegasus says to them on the screen, raising his glass of wine. "Once I defect Little Yugi and his new partner Little Meiko, Kaiba's company will be ours."
"Of course, had you disposed of Kaiba as originally promised, we would have already assume power. But don't worry, we'll finish what you started."
"No," Pegasus tells them. "No one is to lay even a finger up on Seto Kaiba."
"But if he's able to rescue his younger brother, we'll lose our only tie to the Kaiba name."
Pegasus takes a sip of his wine. "Mokuba's future role as figurehead will not be jeopardized by his older brother's presence. Trust me, gentlemen. I have my own plans for Seto Kaiba and the technical knowledge he possesses."
His eye shines.
"Don't fail us."
"Gentlemen," he stands up. "Kaiba Crops is about to enter a new era of prosperity, and you are all about to become obscenely rich." He chuckles and then walks over to the window and smiles to himself, 'as for you, Kaiba, our partnership is just beginning.'
*Meanwhile*
Seto Kaiba come sin flying with his private helicopter. He's on a mission that he needs to do.
"I can't believe all my business associates would turn on me after a single defeat," he thinks to himself. "Than again, losing to Yugi has shaken my self-confidence, too."
*Flashback*
"You're a good duelist, Kaiba," Yugi, aka Yami Yugi, smirks at Seto, showing him the only card that can defeat him. "But not good enough to stop Exodia."
Exodia stands taller and mightier than the three Blue Eyes White Dragons. He makes his energy ball for an attack.
"Exodia, Obliterate!"
The attack destroys all three of them.
"You play only for power, Kaiba, and is why you lost, but you put your heart in the game, there's nothing you can't do."
*Flashback Ends*
"Maybe Yugi was right," Seto thinks to himself, narrowing his eyes. "But I can't start second guessing myself now. Not when Pegasus has kidnapped my little brother Mokuba. No. In I'm gonna face off against Pegasus, I have to rely on my old dueling instincts. That's the only chance I have of freeing Mokuba."
"Big Brother!"
"And once Mokuba is out of harm's way," Seto thinks again. "I'll unleash my wrath on the vultures who conspired to take over my company. If Pegasus thought I would just sit idly by as they dismantled my life's work, he was wrong. I'll see to it that they all regret ever crossing Seto Kaiba."
*Meiko's POV*
Now a part of this group for now, I've learned their names. Joey and Tristan are sleeping out of the tent where Tea sleeps in the tent. Ryuu-or what his friends call him Bakura-Yugi, and I couldn't sleep.
"Bakura, am I seeing things, or is your millennium ring actually flowing?" Yugi asked him as we are sitting on the ground in a circle.
They are sitting criss crossed while I have knees and my arms are wrapped around them.
"If it's not, than the three os u are hallucinating," he says, holding the Ring up.
"That's kinda spooky, don't think?"
"I like spooky things," I smiled, staring at it.
"It's almost like it's being tugged toward the castle."
"Pegasus's castle," Yugi says, amazed at the glowing piece. "Why would it do that?"
"Come to think of it," I realized something. "My Millennium Headpiece will give me visions of the castle when we arrived," I said, touching the side of my headpiece.
"Really?" Yugi asked surprised making me nod. "Maybe there's a connection?"
"I don know," Ryuu says, "but it did the same thing the day I've met you Yugi."
*Flashback*
"I had just been transferred into your school."
"Everyone, please welcome your new classmate Bakura," the teacher at he time says to the class.
"I was watching you guys play duel monster, when suddenly my ring started to glow and pointed right towards your millennium puzzle."
*Flashback Ends*
*Another Flashback*
"Surprisingly, later on that day, Meiko, you were walking out of school when it glowed again."
*Flashback Ends*
"Wow, Bakura," Yugi comments surprised. "Those pointers are somehow able to zone in other Millennium Items."
"But then why would it point to the castle?" Bakura asked.
"It's because of what's inside the castle," I answered. "Pegasus' Millenium Eye."
"That's wha took my grandfather's soul," Yugi tells us.
"My, it's all kind of scary, eh, Yugi and Emi? Pegasus grabbing souls with us, Emi getting visions, and I'll never forget when mine took us to the Shadow Realm," Bakura says to Yugi.
He nods his head in agreement.
