Chapter Five: Ballroom Blitz

Kaiba and Chelsea were in an elegant ballroom which currently was serving as a dining room. The maple floors were perfect for fine dancing, and highly contrasted the walls painted with elegant murals and the gold leaf ceiling with dark brown wooden beams and large, crystal chandeliers hanging down. At the moment, the floor was occupied by round tables, some large and some small, covered in white cloth. Waiters dressed in white shirts, black vests, and black pants went back and forth from the tables, carrying various trays of drinks and dishes underneath silver covers.

The C.E.O.s sat at a small, round table in the corner, far away as possible from prying eyes. Even so, just in case, the two had conjured up an illusion around them which made it appear to everyone else in the room that an older husband and wife were sitting there. Only she could see him in his white suit and blue tie, and her in an aqua, form-fitting evening gown.

"Ooh, this place is so romantic," Chelsea sighed, clapping her hands together as she gaze around the beautiful room. "How did you know about it?"

Kaiba shrugged. "I'm rich; I know about every place where only the crème de la crème are even allowed to near in this town."

She giggled. "Well, I'm quite lucky, then, to have met someone as high on the 'crème de la crème' ladder as you apparently are." Smiling, she placed her hand onto his and said, "Thank you so much for bringing me here. I've had a great time tonight."

He looked down at her hand on his. The strange warmth and tingling had started flowing through him again, and he felt the red tinge come back to his face. He quickly grabbed his napkin and rubbed it around his mouth so that she wouldn't see.

Chelsea smiled. "Are you blushing again?"

"No," he quickly replied, glancing away. He kicked himself internally for saying it so quickly; now she'd know it meant a yes.

"Hey, it's okay," she said. "You don't have to hide it. I kind of feel the same way about you, too."

He glanced back up at her and saw a sort of dreamy look in her eyes. "What same way?" he asked.

"You know…the same way," she said.

He stared at her in confusion for a few moments. Then it suddenly slammed into him with the force of a freight train. "Wait-what?!" he cried out.

At that moment, the doors to the ballroom suddenly slammed open. Everyone's head turned to see three people with wild, dyed hair dressed almost entirely in black leather standing in the doorway.

Chelsea gasped in horror and Kaiba narrowed his eyes. "Those three?!" he cried out.

Keigai let his outline and eyes glow with red light. He yelled out, "EVERYONE IN HERE THAT ISN'T A ROCKER, BEAT IT OR ELSE!!"

The other patrons screamed and dashed out of the place, overturning tables and sending plates, glasses, and trays crashing to the ground. Only Kaiba and Chelsea remained, glaring angrily at The Assassins. Kaiba snapped his fingers and the illusion around the two vanished.

The Assassins snarled at the teens that remained. Keigai looked directly at Kaiba and said, "Hey human, if you don't wanna end up like your rocking angel there is about to, then I suggest you leave."

"I don't think so," Kaiba replied. He pulled out his essence stone from under his shirt, held it in his palm, and cried out, "ESSENCE OF THE BLUE EYES, COME FORTH!"

The stone glowed and sent a stream of white lightning surrounded by a blue glow swirling up and around him. When it had vanished, he'd transformed into his Blue Eyes White Dragon hybrid form complete with white wings, white, hardened skin, fangs, and claws.

Chelsea stared at him in shock. "How in the world did you get that?!" she cried.

Being the calculating man he was, Kaiba had already come up with a false answer for this question: "King Spencer was able to create an essence from my card and transfer it into this stone."

"Cool!" she cried out.

"Big whoop," Keigai rolled his eyes. "It's three against one, mister-there's no way you can win."

Kizu clapped his arms together and spread them out. The tables, shattered glass, and trays went sliding to either side of the ballroom, clearing a space for a nice little brawl. Chelsea quickly got up as their table went moving away.

Keigai held out one hand at Kaiba and angrily fired out a beam of red magic at him. Kaiba spread his wings and took to the sky, sending the beam crashing into the wall and creating a hole in the center of a mural. He held out one hand and fired a bolt of white lightning out at the three rockers.

The three jumped away as the bolt seared a hole into the floor. Kizu held a hand out at an overturned table and flung it up towards Kaiba, but he slashed right through it with his razor-sharp claws.

Kataki swirled up another whirlwind around her and flung an extremely strong wind out at him. The force of the wind sent him flying back to the wall and practically pinned him there.

Keigai grinned and flew into the air before Kaiba, avoiding the wind Kataki had created. He sent a stream of magic out which wrapped itself around Kaiba's wrists and tied them together tightly, preventing him from blasting out any more lightning.

"KAIBA!" Chelsea screamed out in horror.

Keigai formed an orb of red magic in his hands and sneered, "Say bye bye, dragon boy."

An angry Chelsea soared up and right in front of Kaiba, her outline glowing with aqua magic. She spread her arms out and cried, "KEEP YOUR PAWS OFFA HIM!"

Keigai laughed. "Make me."

Chelsea took a deep breath. She opened her mouth and started singing out a high C note.

To Kaiba's shock, orbs of different colored lights suddenly engulfed Keigai, Kataki, and Kizu within them. From within the orb, Kaiba could hear Keigai yell, "WHAT THE-WHO TURNED ON THIS LIGHT?!"

Chelsea continued letting out the high note as she floated up behind Kaiba and snapped the magic around his wrist off with a spark of her own aqua magic. Without hesitation, he flung out white lightning at the light orb.

Keigai flew out of the orb and smashed down to the ground beside the other two light filled orbs which held Kataki and Kizu. Before he could get back up, Kaiba sent out a stream of white magic which wrapped itself tightly around the three rockers.

Chelsea stopped singing. The orbs of light vanished, revealing a bewildered and angry Kataki and Kizu.

Keigai laughed up at Kaiba and said, "You honestly think this'll be able to hold us?"

Suddenly, a clear force field formed itself around the rockers. "This will, I'm certain," a familiar voice replied.

The other heroes stepped inside of the ballroom, followed by Chiefs Eli and Liv of the Kingrah Police. The Assassins glared angrily at them.

Spencer smiled sweetly at the rockers and said, "Sorry, Assassins, but today is the day your music dies."