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Chapter 8: My Freaky Valentine
ANUS POV…
The duel between the blonde and the evil lady had just started and I could already feel the dark pressure from the seal. It was like every nerve in my body was being crushed and set on fire.
"I am waiting for you to come to ya senses" the blonde said
He was apparently hopping that the girl would not join the seal, not get hurt. That was a stupid hope. This thing grabs on and doesn't let go.
"She's lost it" the food boy said "how can she side with enemy"
"It's all because of that Orichalcos thing" the nice smelling girl said
"Now one of them will lose there soul" the other master said
This was getting worse. The Seal was never a good thing that I could recall and it played on the suffering of people. This woman officially had a bad experience and now it was fueling it through hate. I am ashamed to be created from it. The very stone that fuels my being is turning people evil.
"NO YOU CAN'T DO THIS" the nice girl yelled. "Don't you see your letting that magic card control you Mai, you're putting your own life danger."
I looked up at my master; I could see the younger one appear also watching the duel. The boy said something and the master grasped the puzzle. The other master glanced at me then one of the others on the balcony called out.
"Hey pharaoh quit mumbling to your self down there will ya, in case you didn't realize this last time, nothing can break the seal of Orichalcos, once it appears it doesn't disappear until a soul has been captured."
I growled and then the same strange man said something directed to all of us.
"I hope you realize that you're little poochy down there is made from the Orichalcos, that's why it causes her pain, two forces are clashing with one another"
"And don't think your off the hook pharaoh" the sunglasses blonde said "as soon as the girls takes your friends soul, I'm taking yours"
I growled again and the other master was looking at me now, I was trying not to look back, I was trying to figure out a way to get the stone around one of their necks, if I could then I could break the seal with it.
The blonde had insulted the man and then said she was going after my master next. I stopped thinking when the girl said she had no soul. So the good half of her had been vanished, stuck in the seal. I looked up at my master, he was so in to the duel he wouldn't notice if I was gone. I got up and began to walk away, good thing the leash was cloth or I would have given my self away.
I walked to the side of the seal and stared at it. The presence was unnerving but I ignored the pain. I took a few running steps back, maybe if I got in their, I could give the blonde support and try to get the girls stone. Once I got back far enough I ran at the seal but a pair of hands stopped me by grabbing my harness. I yanked me back and I yelped. The person was my old owner, what was he doing here. I noticed the seal on his forehead and began to struggle harder.
"Hey pharaoh, you should keep a better eye on your pets"
The other master looked down where I was suppose to be then looked up at me being held by the man. I began to struggle and bark, trying to get out of his grip.
"Let go of Anu" he yelled.
The people on the balcony were looking down and the two in the duel were also looking at me.
"James, get the mutt out of here so I can steel this losers soul already"
My old owner nodded and my master kept yelling. He was walking towards us now.
"Make one wrong move and the dog gets it" I saw he had a knife in his hand and the point was aimed at me. The other master stopped and looked at the man angrily. I knew where they were going to take me ;to Darts. I remembered the seal so I consternated on the seal through out the room. There were five seals in the room, the one that was played and the four stones they had. I felt my fur shudder as I began to take my real form. Once the transformation was complete I turned with all my might and clamped down on the man's arm. I sunk my teeth in his arm and he howled in pain and dropped the knife.
He began hitting my face to try and get me off but I closed my eyes and held on. I could feel the blood in my mouth and the bits of flesh and I was disgusted. I felt him now trying to pry my head off. I lifted my teeth out of his mouth and he shoved me away. All the shaking he had down had just made my teeth slide through his flesh making a deeper hole.
"Why you little" he said clutching his bleeding arm. I had shifted into my husky form again because I no longer was concentrating on the seal. The other master was now standing next to me and I saw the puzzle glow, it took away some of the pain from the seal and I leaned on his leg and closer to the warm glow. He called out
"MIND CRUSH"
I saw my former owner fall to the ground, his arm still bleeding and his eyes were rolled in the back of his head. My master walked away and I followed him. When we reached the others, the duel had continued and the other master knelt by me. I could also see the younger one as well. The other master patted me on the head and said
"Don't wander off again like that ok, but a promise is a promise, so good job"
He smiled referring to the promise he made to me in the car. I smiled and shoved my head under his chin and rubbed along his neck. If I was a cat I would have purred. I let him stand and I lay down with my head on his foot. I turned back to the duel.
The blonde boy had just gotten attacked directly and I agreed with the food guy, this was something I couldn't watch. Then the food boy sad something I didn't think of. Would the blonde throw the duel to save the girl? My master seemed to think so. The pharaoh pulled out a card and looked at it as if speculating what to do.
I closed my eyes and began searching my memories. I couldn't bear to watch the duel. I went back to when I was created, the time the seal showed up. The magicians took the stones power and created us, a spell of creation, it was complicated and hard to perform but they did it and I was glad. But then the seal began to change every one in to vile people, our kind was born to hunt darkness but the very magic we were created from was dark. We were torn, by then there were the… the knights… that's it. The card my master was now holding was the eye of Timaus
I remembered the three knights, Timaus was one of them, they were turned into dragons when my first master, the king, went crazy after the death of his wife turned monster. So where were the other knights turned dragon, the statues, they had to be awaken. I went through a bit more of my memories and another one of my kind came to mind my partner, sky, the creature who had picked the daughter of the king as its master.
I backed away from my memories to glance at the duel, it was 4000 to 2oo. What the heck wasn't he the good guy, or something? Then I remembered what the food boy said. Would the blonde throw the duel? I barked at him as if saying he was stupid and he needed to win.
"The good news is, it's his turn so he has one more chance to turn things around"
"It's not like it really matters cause no matter what happens one of them will lose there soul"
The younger master had appeared and was having a conversation with the other master. I hoped they realized the secret to the Orichalcos. I placed my head back on my master's foot and sighed. This whole thing has just started and it already getting out of hand, what going to happen next I wonder.
I went back to my memories. To the time the war happened. The witch Narcissi had warned Darts of the Great beast but in return had been banished from the palace. The knight Timaus had helped her and in return when the king, Darts had gone mad with power, they, the three knights, had been turned into dragons. And then Darts threw a sword at Timaus's eye leaving him blinded.
I sighed again, Narcissi healed him but his eye was forever damaged. She summoned with every last bit of strength she had, the creatures from the dominion of the beast to aid us in battle. Timaus mourned for his lover after that. Then came with the battle the hardest challenge I had. To chose between the darkness I hade been created to hunt and the master I had sworn I would protect. I had overly chosen the goodness, my partner, the light. But it had left me scared and afraid. I had defied my soul purpose. Right when Darts was defeated with the Great beast, Narcissi came to me in her weak from. She saved me from the sinking city, she brought me to the out side world; to Egypt. And there I forgot about my pain with each passing century. Until now.
I lifted my head and sniffed the air. Someone new had shown up. I stood and looked to the gated doors. A man ran to the door. He had black hair piled on his head, strange black markings on his eye and a strange cube in his ear.
"Hey guys."
My master and his friends turned to him. He looked at me in confusion then looked back at my master.
"It's Duke" my master said
"Hey your right" the girl said
The food boy ran to the gates followed by the girl. I stayed with my master. The food boy started to have a conversation with the cube boy. The man took off to the side and I knew he went to go and find a way to get us out. I growled as the two twerps showed up. I saw my master turn back to the duel so I lay down again. Joey had just played a card that required luck to win. I rolled my eyes; if he pulls this off I will give him a big lick when he wins.
He picked the middle card and it began to rise up. Come on, come on. It had to him… Oh for the love of all things pure he pulled it off. My head shot up in shock. Ok he gets a big wet one when this is over.
He has saved his butt so far, let's see if he can do it again. He went to draw and I felt a warm glow flood my mind. I looked up expecting to see the puzzle, it wasn't. He was looking at his Timaus card. And it was glowing. So the blonde was the other chosen one. I wonder which knight he got. A small halo of magic appeared around my master and the blonde. A dazed look appeared on their faces.
I nudged my master's leg and his eyes closed then snapped open like he had been sleeping then just woke up. I nudged it again and he smiled so I turned to the duel. The blonde suddenly said
"Your about to meet my new friend Harmos"
So he got that knight, so I wonder if all three have been awaken yet. I knew now the blonde had just increased his odds of winning, as long as he didn't throw the duel he could win and even save the girl. I barked, the two friends behind me were doubting his ability but I didn't and neither did my master, he was even smiling, of course that could be the fact of how the hammer thing looked like. Na this is the other master he doesn't have a big sense of humor.
The woman's monsters had just got sucked into a tunnel. They also had weird numbers on their head, what did that mean. Ok back to my theory on the girl having a bad experience in her life, call that one a fact, she felt alone, like I did at one time, she wanted to know her purpose, like I had wanted but then I had Narcissi. She couldn't find her friends, she was too proud.
The girl suddenly became angry and drew a card, and then her dragon appeared out of the hole. My master suddenly cried out.
"Hold on, it's those numbers, Joeys hammer was created from time wizard I have a feeling it didn't destroy Mai's monsters at all but rather sent them into the future"
Ahh that explains it, I thought as the dragon growled. So let's see if Joey can beat them one by one. Again with the luck thing as the blonds dice cut the dragons attack power in half, again very big lick.
The girl was now shaking and saying over and over again that she had to win. Yep, she was having a flash back of her bad time. I looked up when I heard a grunt and saw one of the bikers jump of the landing, is he crazy. Then I saw his ring, it was a seal stone, so he had a crush on the girl.
He punched the seal and it shattered and blew up. My master and I were blown back, I landing on him. When the smoke cleared I got off of my master and looked back at the bikers. My master sat up and stood.
"Joey are you alright?" he said
The blonde was knocked out on the ground. The bikers were having a conversation; the blonde then stood up and faced my master. I stood in front of him and growled.
"I'll make up for this by taking your soul pharaoh" he said
I barked and he looked at me
"And don't think I forgot about you Kasbah, Darts wants you as well"
He then began talking to the master
"The power around my neck puts your puzzle shame" I snorted at this
"I don't think Anu agrees with you and she is the one who hunts magic"
He ignored my master and raised his stone in the air. It glowed and I howled as my nerves were lit on fire again. My master covered his face from the light as I backed into him trying to get away.
"Hey look" the food boy said "we're not locked in anymore."
I was at my masters feet with my eyes closed and I whined. I opened my eyes as he bent over me, placing a hand on my head he said
"It's alright Anu; he won't take you away from us"
I nodded and got up and walked over to the blonde, the other master behind me. I sniffed him as he stood up, the other two encouraging him to get up. He clutched his head shot up wondering where the girl was. He then screamed that he was going to get her back.
I didn't care any more when he stood up I charged at him jumping on him and knocking him back to the floor. I back to attack his face with my tongue. I was just so happy he was ok. Someone pulled me off him. It was my master. When the blonde stood up and wiped his face he smiled at me.
"Looks like someone is happy to see you" the girl said
My master let go of me and I ran around the blonde jumping in joy that he survived
"Thanks Anu" he said petting me on the head
Suddenly I heard a loud noise, it was deafening and it was right out side. I began to whine and the blonde asked me what's wrong. He looked up when the thing landed outside. I looked up to see… A DRAGON. What the heck. Two people walked into the room, he had stepped out of the dragons head, and ok this is freaky even for me.
He had brown hair and cold blue eyes, behind him was a…boy I think, and he had long black hair and grey eyes.
"Kaiba" my master said
"Great" the blue eyed one said and the boy said
"What are all of you doing here and" he noticed me "what's with the dog?"
The dice guy ran in with the twerps behind him and I turned to them, but I still kept the new two in my sight.
"Whoa it's a party, what brings you here" the cube boy said
"Certainty not the dweeb convention"
I growled. He did not just insult my master and his friends; if my master wasn't there I would have bit him by now. The blue eyes turned to me.
"So now you have two mutts in your group convenient"
Ok now he was insulting me, that's it, I bared my teeth at him. He just smirked and turned to my master.
"Any sign of Pegasus."
He did not just ignore me. I left my master side and walked up to him. He looked at me and said
"When did you get a mutt Yugi?"
"She is not a mutt Kaiba, she did attack someone a while ago and I am all the way over here, be careful"
"So you have a psycho dog, fitting" he replied.
That's it, I am biting him. I got ready to pounce when the boy said
"I don't know bro, she is kind of pretty."
I turned to the boy and wagged my tail, I walked up to him and licked his hand, he giggled and scratched me behind my ear, I leaned into the touch and my tail wagged even more.
"So" the cold one said
"I am afraid were to late" my master said
"That's right; believe it or not Mai Valentine got to him before we did she took his soul" the food boy said "with some Orichalcos thing"
"Orichalcos" the cold one said
"Kaiba" my master was speaking so I turned and walked back to him "have you experienced this card before?"
I stood next to the other master and eyed the cold one, he did smell like it. The boy spoke up
"You bet Seto just wiped the floor with someone who played it. He pretended to be Pegasus and then made us fly all the way to duelist kingdom to Duel him"
The cold one picked up from here.
"The he ran away"
I could smell two magic's on this man so I walked up to him. He sneered at me but I continued walking around him.
"Yugi what is your pet doing"
"she is smelling you, I think she smells the power you have come in contact with, Kaiba Anu is a creature called a magic seeker, that hunt dark magic and can sense all types of magic, she smells the Orichalcos on you and…"
My master stopped talking as I sniffed the cold ones deck. There was something in there, a power I remember from long ago, a knight turned dragon
"…something else" my master finished eyeing me.
"We came here to get some answers" the cold one was eyeing me now. "Who ever captured Pegasus is trying to take over my company and that's unexcitable… Why is your DOG SMELLING MY DECK?"
He was annoyed with me now and I smiled a little.
"Don't know" the food boy said "you got something in there that she noticed, something strange"
My master Whistled for me and I trotted back to him. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a card.
"Hold on, this card Pegasus sent us may be a clue" he said staring at it. "It seems to contain an image of a key"
The cube boy spoke up after my master said that, we all turned to him.
"Wait there was one door upstairs that wouldn't unlock even when I cracked the security system"
"That's it" my master said
"Take us there right now" the cold and bossy one said
The dice cube boy blinked and said
"Calm down"
calm down, calm down, this was no time to do such a thing, a dark power that nearly wiped out the world is lose and you want us to come down. I growled at this thought and food boy appeared in front of me.
"Who invited you" he was yelling at the cold one. We were here first you" I ignored him after this. My master and I walked over to the blonde who was still sitting on the floor, I nudge him with my nose and he didn't even move
"It will be alright Joey we'll rescue Mai"
He stood up and said
"Thanks Yuge, Anu"
We all turned and began to walk to the door that led to the inside of the building.
"What do you thinks up there" said the food boy
I really did think this was a good question, what did this human named after flying horses have hidden up there for us.
We walked around a bunch of hallways with the boy with a dice in his ear leading the way.
"How does any one find there way around this place" said food boy. I agreed, how they did, the dice boy lead us into a room and up to a door with a strange box on the wall. He said it was the door. I sniffed it; there was nothing magical of evil in there.
YAMIS POV…
We came up to a door with a security box on it, I was still think about when Anu was smelling Kaiba's deck, what was in there that she found so interesting, did he have the third dragon. Speaking of Anu she was sniffing the door then she back up to me. Nothing magical was in there apparently.
"Now we just have to figure out how to open it with a duel monsters card, any one got any ideas" duke said
I stepped forward and pulled out the strange card Pegasus gave me. I went up to the box next to the door and slid the card through a dent in the box perfect fit for a card to slide through. Two of the lights flashed and the middle turned green.
"That's exactly what I would have done" duke said
I rolled my eyes and Anu snorted from my side. The door opened and Joey and Tristan were afraid to go in the room, Kaiba walked by us and into the room Mokuba following him.
"Lets close the door and run" Joey suggested his idea was shot down by Tea.
Anu walked in to so I followed her, the lights turned on and I saw how the room was decorated. "No way" I heard Mokuba say. The room was decorated with toon duel monsters.
"This is weird" Joey said behind me
"Uh yeah and I would say border line creepy" Tea said
Kaiba added his comment then said we should hurry. I agreed with him but what were we looking for. Suddenly, out of now where Pegasus appeared much like duel monsters do when summoned with duel disks. Anu freaked out and stood in front of me growling.
"Pegasus?" I said
"Not quite" said Kaiba "it's a hologram"
The thing began to speak so Anu sat down still in front of me.
"Yugi boy, at least I hope it's you who found this room, by the way if you couldn't tell I did all the enterer decorating myself, pretty impressive is isn't" he said referring to the room
"This guy as got to get over himself" I heard Tristan Comment. I agree, he should.
"If your hearing this that can only mean the gentlemen who are after my soul were finally able to capture me so please listen closely"
I nodded, this was it, and the information we had been waiting for.
"This began when a mysterious man began trying to buy out my company"
"Hold on" said Kaiba "I got dragged into this whole mess because someone is trying to by up my company also" The hologram Pegasus continued
"But there's more, this individual posses an ancient power stronger than any I've seen and his name is Darts"
Anu growled at my feet and I asked
"Who's Darts"
"Who cares Yugi" Kaiba said
"You're in danger Darts plans to use my game to destroy civilization. He must be stopped and the key to taking him down is somewhere in this room."
I kept an impassive face on but inside my thoughts were all jumbled up. All the things that were happening. Who was Darts, I had heard his name before, early when one of the bikers said it, Anu knew who he was by her growl a minute ago and he wanted to destroy Civilization, why.
"Ever since my retirement began I had a lot of time on my hands so I began to further my studies of the ancient's Egyptian origin of duel monsters and I made an astonishing discovery. These creatures excised long before the pyramids were made"
I knew this story, Professor Hawkins told us
"In the city of Atlantis"
"And that is were this Darts character comes in, he's trying to resurrect the most terrifying beast ever to roam the Earth, the great leviathan. By draining the souls of man and beast in order to build up the strength of this unstoppable monster"
"yes, of course" I said remembering the first time we came in contact with the seal, the man had said the age of destruction was here, the earth shrouded in darkness and your very souls will help fuel the force the deviates mankind. The great beast was awakening from its sleep to finish something it started before. It all made sense now.
"If his plan works Darts will have succeeded in unleashing a truly devastating power. The likes of which have not been seen for 1000 years. YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE so I have created an exclusive card just for you Yugi boy; I have hidden this one of a kind card somewhere in this room, think statically now. Where can one find an extra card"
We looked around the room trying to think of where it could be. I spotted it, the perfect hiding spot so I yelled
"The pot of greed, in the game of duel monsters that lets you draw extra cards"
Tristan picked the jar up and reached inside it, he pulled out a duel monsters card. He looked at and his face fell, he said
"Oh yeah real special card, this things completely blank guys"
"Then it's worthless" said Kaiba
I narrowed my eyes. I wasn't so sure it was worthless, looks can be deceiving.
"Not necessarily" I said
The hologram began to speak again
"time is running out, my cute little duel monsters soon they'll be gone along with the rest of the world only you can stop save the poor creatures that made my game famous"
The hologram shattered much like a duel monster being sent to the grave yard and the lights turned back on.
"Talk about drama" said Tristan
I looked at Joey who was clutching his head
"Ahh man this can't be happening, why would Mai join the plot that would destroy the world, I am telling ya they brain washed her or something"
"Why don't you all wake up?"
We turned to Kaiba and I resisted the erg to roll my eyes, here we go again the whole I don't believe anything crap he was always spewing even if the magic hit him in the face he would still deny it.
"This is a hoax" yep there it is "all designed by Pegasus, there's no one traveling around stealing peoples souls with some magic playing card, it's the same nonsense that Pegasus pulled in duelist kingdom, think about it, he is trying to distract us long enough for him to take over Kaiba corp."
Anu stood and growled at him he turned to her and said
"Shut it mutt, that's all you are a mutt who your master believes is a magic hunting dog."
Anu bared her fangs again and I knew she wanted to transform for him just to prove him wrong. I held on to her leash as she tried to lunge at Kaiba.
"That's enough" I yelled "you should wake up, it is not always about you. There is something going on that is bigger than all of us. And you know it."
I pulled out my Timaus card and showed it to him, judging by the way he stood back and gasped he recognized it.
"That card, where did you get that"
I heard Joey draw and hold up his card as well.
"Same place I did" Joey said
"Kaiba you have one of these too don't you, that are why Anu was sniffing your deck"
Kaiba held up his deck and drew the top card he held out the card and said
"You're referring to this"
My card began to glow and I glanced at it. So did Joeys behind me and Kaiba's as well. Anu gave off a howl and I saw her form shift to the wolf form she had. Kaiba gapped at it, he blinked and stuttered
"That's… not possible"
I heard duke say something sarcastic but I ignored him.
"I believe the only way to defeat this great Leviathan is to use these three cards together, so trust what's inside your heart and join us"
Kaiba scowled at what I said and I knew he was unhappy about the truth in my words, but Anu shifting right in front of him was a bit of a push for him. We held up the cards and they formed a circle of light around us, Anu howled a bit at the magic coming off them.
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