Chapter Three: Alluring
The guys stared at the beautiful heroine-turned-siren before them. She also stared down at her new clothing in shock.
"Téa?" Yugi said in awe.
She opened her mouth to speak, but instead, a beautiful, wordless song came out of her mouth. She quickly slapped her hand over it and the music stopped instantly.
"Téa," Spencer said, walking down the alleyway towards her, "did Melody by any chance blow you a kiss before she was taken away?"
She nodded, keeping her hand over her mouth.
"Ah, that explains it," he said. "A siren's kiss also has powers, namely to transform others into sirens; and, while the siren song can only affect men, the siren kiss can only affect women."
Téa's eyes grew wide. She appeared to look at Spencer with question marks in her eyes.
He grinned. "Can you be turned back?"
She nodded again.
"Sí, don't worry," he assured her. "You just need another kiss from the same siren, that's all."
"I don't get it-why would dat siren turn Téa inta anodder one?" Joey asked.
"Let's not ponder over that right now," Spencer said. "We have to track down that little siren again." He shut his eyes, pointed his head towards the sky, and floated a little bit into the air again. His entire outline took on a golden glow again. Almost instantly, he yelled out, "Got it!" and floated back down to the ground.
"That was fast," Tristan commented.
Spencer shrugged. "It's easier to sense something out a second time. Now c'mon, let's go."
He dashed down the alley and started running down the street, with the other guys behind him. Téa, however, accidentally tripped on her long gown and let out a loud, musical cry.
Yugi saw her fall and quickly turned back around and ran towards her. "You okay?" he asked, holding out his hand.
She nodded, trying not to let out another sound. She took his hand and he helped her back onto her feet. Téa then hiked up her gown so that she wouldn't fall again and the two raced out of the alley and after the others.
Before they got very far, however, the two suddenly heard the sound of more footsteps behind them. When they turned around, much to their shock, a whole bunch of teenage guys stood crowded into one group behind them. All of them had the same glazed-over look in their eyes, and their mouths hung wide open.
The others, realizing that Yugi and Téa weren't with them, turned around and also saw the two staring at the crowd of dazed-looking men.
"What de heck is wit dose guys?" Joey asked, pointing at the crowd.
"Téa must have cried out again," Spencer said. "That siren song has some pretty far-reaching affects when it's not controlled."
"Then why aren't we all staring at Téa and drooling?" Tristan asked.
"Because the song's pretty connected to the siren herself. Controlled or not, it won't hypnotize someone that the siren wouldn't want to enslave at all."
Téa and Yugi slowly took a step back from the guys. In response, they took one step forward. They took another step backwards, the crowd took another step forwards.
"Téa," Yugi whispered to her, "when I say 'run', we're going to get out of here as fast as we can, okay?"
She gave a quick nod.
"RUN!"
The two turned and started bolting down the street, with the others quickly dashing forward as well. The crowd of men started running after all of them, trying hard to get to their new mistress.
The heroes tried twisting and turning around different streets and alleyways, darting behind the occasional dumpster or building when they came across one. No matter what they did, however, the men always seemed to find them again and continued with their chase after the alluring siren.
Finally, they took a turn down into one alley-and came across a brick wall at the end.
"This is…not good," Bakura said, gazing up at the wall.
Spencer looked back and saw that the crowd of guys were closing in on them. "That's an understatement."
"Oh, great-we can't hit dem wit magic, dere's no way we could just take down dis big crowd wit a couple of punches-SOMEBODY TINK OF SOMETING!" Joey cried.
Finally, Tristan got an idea. He held out his hands at the crowd and used his elasticity to stretch his fingers out and form a barrier against it. The guys started pushing and shoving against the barrier he'd formed.
Tristan felt one of the guys clamp down on his hand. "YEOUCH!" he yelled out, using all of his strength to not get distracted and put his fingers down.
"C'mon, man, shove em back! Shove em back!" Joey yelled.
Tristan complied and extended out his arms to push the crowd down the alleyway, but he could only push them out as far as the other end of the alley without losing a place for his fingers to sit on.
Finally, he couldn't hold that pose for much longer. The guys gave one last shove and pushed through his barrier. His fingers and arms retracted back and returned to their normal sizes as they charged down the alley.
"Oh, geez!" Joey yelled out.
Téa stepped backwards in absolute horror, with Yugi acting as a shield in front of her.
When the crowd was only a few inches away, Tristan angrily stepped forward and stuck one hand out at the. He screamed out, "All of you GET BACK!"
He suddenly felt a strange, warm sensation pass through him. Time appeared to freeze for a moment as he felt the warmth push down into the ground and separate out into different rays which spread out underneath the crowd.
The next thing he knew, arms with skin color similar to his own reached right out of the ground and grabbed at the guys' ankles. All of them went falling down and got knocked out cold. The arms pulled back down into the ground and vanished.
The heroes stared. "Tristan, what de heck was dat?" Joey asked.
"Limb replication!" Spencer cried out.
The others looked at him. "Limb replication?" Tristan repeated.
Spencer nodded. "The power to create more of one's limbs on their own body or out of the ground or in mid-air or…well, just about anywhere. It's usually paired up with body elasticity, so this isn't all that surprising."
"Some freaky body part creating power isn't all that surprising to you?" Kaiba said in disbelief.
"Maybe de 'freaky' part wouldn't be for Tristan…" Joey muttered.
A hand suddenly appeared by Joey's face and gave him a hard slap, then vanished. "I heard that," Tristan said, holding his hand out by Joey.
"A-hem!" Spencer yelled out before Joey could pounce onto Tristan. "Guys? The little siren? Remember her?"
"Oh, uh, yeah," Joey said, reluctantly pulling himself back from Tristan. "Ya still got her sensed out?"
"Of course," Spencer said. "Let's go."
The heroes cautiously stepped around the pile of guys lying on the ground. They dashed towards the end of the alley, turned the corner, and ran out of sight.