Chapter Five: The New Mistress
The seven teens followed the hypnotized men all the way to an old, gray farmhouse where they saw the young siren and her captor standing on the rooftop. The siren had been singing into a megaphone and the man had been watching the guys approach the farmhouse, but now the two watched as the heroes flew up and floated before them.
The burly man grinned. "So, you've come back for more, huh?" He shook his head. "You're a little bit late for that." He looked down at the ground where the hypnotized men were slowly starting to approach the farmhouse. "Pretty soon, I'll have an entire army of guys who, with some instructions from my little siren here, will become an unstoppable army that will help me gain domination over this pathetic, magic-less world! And not even you seven would do anything about it since you wouldn't want to destroy any poor, helpless humans under the influence of my siren's song."
"She is not your siren, bub!" Spencer cried. "Now release her immediately!"
"Of course I will," the man said. "After she tells them to do my bidding no matter what." He looked down at the girl. "Won't you, little one?"
Melody looked away. "Yes, sir," she murmured. She stole a glance around at the seven heroes. When her eyes fell on Téa, they lingered there for a moment. She noticed the girl had a sort of pleading look in her eyes, as if she was desperately trying to tell Téa something.
The Pharaoh looked back at the men who were approaching. "We must think of something we could use to take those men down without harming them," he said.
"Brilliant idea, Yugi," Kaiba said sarcastically, "but what powers could we use that wouldn't end up blasting those men to bits?!"
"We must think," he replied. "There must be something we could use to perhaps get those men off of that siren's influence."
A light bulb suddenly went off in Téa's head. "There is," she whispered in awe. Now she understood why the little siren had decided to transform her into one of her own kind.
She said out loud to the guys, "I've got an idea."
They turned and watched as Téa floated a little bit out above the crowd of men that was starting to gather. She zapped a small pink spark at her throat, letting it glow with magic pink light. She then spread out her hands and started to sing out her siren song in a loud, volume-enhanced voice.
All of the guys in the crowd turned and looked up at her. Men that had been slowly approaching the farmhouse now stopped and gazed in awe at this new, beautiful siren that was singing.
The burly man realized what she was doing with a jolt and rose his hands up to zap her with red magic, but when he suddenly really heard her gorgeous song, he froze. Slowly, his arms lowered back to his sides and his mouth dropped open. From behind his dark glasses, he stared at Téa with glazed-over eyes.
Finally, when she was convinced that all of the affected men of Domino were listening to her, she stopped singing and called out, "Can all of you hear me?"
"Yes, mistress," the guys replied in droning voices.
"Yes, mistress," the burly guy added. Melody looked up at him and grinned from ear to ear.
"Good!" She clapped her hands together. "Now, I want all of you guys from Domino to go back to wherever you were before you came here and return to whatever you were doing. Then you're going to stop listening to me and any other siren that tries to put you under her spell, okay?"
"Yes, mistress."
The male heroes watched in shock as the guys turned around and started walking back into town, their arms still stretched out in front of them.
Téa then turned around and floated up to the guy next to Melody. "As for you," she said, folding her arms "you have to let go of the little siren, let Spencer take you over to the police station in Kingrah, and have the cops lock you up in a prison cell. Is that clear?"
"Yes, mistress," he droned out. He floated up and over to Spencer, then held out his arms together, his hands clenched into fists, and said, "Cuff me, your majesty."
Spencer simply stared at him in shock for a moment. He quickly regained his composure and replied, "With pleasure." He zapped up a pair of magic-proof handcuffs which he slapped onto the burly guy's wrists.
Once Melody was absolutely certain that things were safe for her, she threw the megaphone down, ran up to Téa and hugged her around her legs. "You got it! You got it!" she cried out happily, jumping up and down. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Téa smiled and knelt down to the siren. "It was my pleasure, Melody," she said, ruffling her hair.
Spencer meanwhile had snapped his fingers and a portal had appeared which led into the city of Kingrah. "Come now, baka," he said, leading the burly man towards the portal. "Let's get you back home and into the nice, cold jail cell where you belong."
"If that's what the mistress wants," the man replied. He willingly stepped through the portal and back into the Dimension of the Gods.
Spencer looked back at the heroes. "You guys go back to the warehouse," he said. "I'll come over there with Melody's mother. See you in a few." He turned and stepped through the portal, letting it vanish behind him.
Téa gently took Melody's hand. "C'mon, Melody," she said, lifting up into the air, "let's go and wait for your mom to come take you home."
"Yeah!" Melody cheered.
She, Téa, and the other heroes soared up and off in the distance to the abandoned warehouse.