Chapter Two: Multiple Robberies
The seven teens stood in the center of Domino's plaza. The golden town clock chimed out the hour as various shoppers walked in and out of the stores, loaded down with bags and, on occasion, the little kids who were almost being dragged behind them.
"Are you sure she's here, Spencer?" the Pharaoh asked, looking around the plaza. "I don't see any girl who looks like a siren."
"I'm positive that she's somewhere around here," Spencer assured him. "All we need to do is find either her or any guys who are acting in very strange manners."
At that moment, the teens suddenly heard the shatter of glass behind them. They whipped around to see that an emo teenager had smashed right through the window of a music store with a hammer. While the people around him started to run away, he picked up a large speaker in the display window and started running off with it.
"Would dat count?" Joey asked.
The owner of the shop ran out of the front door and yelled at the kid, "Hey, what do you think you're doing?!"
The teen stared at the owner with glazed-over eyes. Then, to everyone's shock, he lifted up the heavy speaker and held it in just one hand above his head while he used the other hand to grab the owner's shirt collar and throw him onto the ground.
"Oh, yeah," Spencer replied. "That would count."
While the teen started dashing off with the speaker, there was suddenly the sound of more crashes around them. The heroes looked around to see that various other emo teens with the same glazed-over look in their eyes were running after the other one carrying armfuls of digital cameras, video game systems, big screen T.V.s, and even a motorcycle.
"Follow them, quickly!" the Pharaoh yelled, dashing after the emos.
The teens ran after them and followed them all the way over to a long alleyway. Standing right in the middle of it was a tough-looking guy that clutched onto a teal-haired girl's hand tightly. Behind them was a glowing white portal coming out of a silver custom-portal box.
The emo teens walked up to the guy and set their stolen goods onto the ground. The man gazed around at the stuff and nodded. "Excellent," he said. "This should be worth a good couple thousand dollars or so." He turned and smiled down nastily at the little girl. "And it's all thanks to you, my little siren."
The girl looked away. Tears stung her eyes.
"Melody?" Spencer called down the alleyway.
The man and the little girl looked up to see the seven teens at the other end. The man snarled and yelled out to the emos, "All of you take care of those kids!"
"Yes, master," the teens said in droning voices. They turned around and charged towards the heroes.
Spencer quickly held out his hand, and a staff like the Dark Magician's appeared above it. He grabbed it and used it to hold a few of the charging teens at bay.
Meanwhile, some of the others went around the staff and aimed at the others with their fists. Joey and Tristan, who were rather experienced street brawlers, started punching back at them. One other teen tried to jump onto Kaiba, but lightning-fast, he grabbed the teens' shirt collar and flung him onto the ground.
"Don't hurt them too badly!" the Pharaoh called out to them. "Remember, they're working under the siren's influence!"
Téa glanced down the alleyway and suddenly saw that the tough guy was busy picking up the stolen goods and carrying them into whatever place was beyond the portal. In the meantime, he'd forced Melody to sit down by the portal and wait.
"Guys!" she whispered to the Pharaoh and Bakura. "I think we might have a chance to get her!" She pointed down the alley at Melody.
The Pharaoh nodded and prepared to run through the street fight towards little Melody. Once the man had reentered the portal carrying the motorcycle on his shoulders, he, Téa, and Bakura dashed down the alleyway.
Melody looked up as she saw the three teens approaching her. "Miss Melody," the Pharaoh said, kneeling down and extending his hand out to her. "Come, we'll take you back home and away from that man."
Melody stared at the hand for a moment, then slowly nodded and took it.
When the three had turned their backs to the portal, however, the burly man suddenly reappeared through it. "HEY!" he yelled out.
The heroes tried to turn around, but before they knew what was happening, the man had grabbed the Pharaoh and Bakura and smashed them into one another. The impact knocked both of them out cold.
"No!" Téa cried out, looking down in horror at her friends. While she was distracted, the guy grabbed her by her shirt and flung her down onto the ground.
Téa slowly sat up and saw the guy grab Melody's hand and yank her towards the portal. Before they entered and the portal vanished, however, Melody looked back over her shoulder at Téa. She made sure the man wasn't looking, and then quickly blew Téa a kiss.
A stream of pink sparks flew out of Melody's hand. Téa stared at the sparks as they floated up to her and gave her a sensation which felt like a peck on the cheek.
A strange, warm feeling flooded through her. She shut her eyes as a pink glow engulfed her.
The Millennium Puzzle glowed and Yugi reappeared. He and Bakura slowly awoke and sat up. The other four guys finished up their brawl with the emo kids and now stared down at them as they lay on the alley floor, dazed and confused.
"Uh, are dey gonna be O.K.?" Joey asked Spencer, pointing down at them.
"In terms of the siren's effect, that should eventually wear off. In terms of our brawl…" He snapped his fingers and the teens glowed with golden light. Their bruises and scrapes vanished away. "That should do it."
He looked down the alleyway-and stared. The other three turned and saw with a jolt what he was looking at.
Yugi and Bakura slowly stood up and turned around. They, too, stared behind them in shock.
Téa had slowly gotten up as the pink glow faded away. Her clothing had transformed from her school uniform into a flowing white gown underneath a light pink vest with a stand-up collar, a white sash around her waist, and white slippers on her feet. A white comb with a jeweled pink flower had been placed into her hair.
The kiss had transformed her into a siren.