Chapter Five: Surprise
Night had fallen over Domino. A few minutes before midnight, a black limo drove up to the curb a few blocks away from the park. The back door opened and Seto Kaiba stepped out, carrying a silver briefcase in his hand. He wore a blue duster, light green shirt and pants, and simple, brown shoes. "Stay here and don't move," Kaiba ordered his driver before slamming the door shut.
He dashed down the blocks and all the way over to the edge of the park. "All right, where are you," he muttered.
"Yoo-hoo!" a high-pitched voice called from within the park. "Over here, Kaiba dear!"
Kaiba crashed through the trees in the direction of the voice, snarling with rage. When he finally reached a clearing, he stopped.
He stood at the edge of the path through the park. On a bench right next to the path, the moonlight revealed a girl with blue hair and red eyes sitting with her legs crossed and her arms draped over the top of it.
"Seto Kaiba!" The girl smiled sweetly. "So good of you to come!"
"Where's Mokuba?" he snapped at her.
"Hmm, I don't know," she said, tapping her finger on her chin. "Perhaps I need a little something to jog my memory…"
Glaring, Kaiba set the briefcase down on the ground, snapped it open, and turned it around. Inside were bound stacks of yen.
"A-ha!" she cried with delight. "Now I remember!" She called out over shoulder, "Bring out the brat!"
From out of the trees, a guy and a girl dressed in black came out, each one with a tight grip on one of Mokuba's arms. "Seto!" he cried.
"Shut up, brat," the black-clad girl said, slapping Mokuba with her free hand.
"Get your hands off of him!" Kaiba yelled, almost running towards his brother.
However, from behind him someone suddenly grabbed his arm and pinned it down behind his back. "Ah, ah, ah, Monsieur Kaiba," a new voice said, "you wouldn't want us to 'accidentally' do somezing worse to your little brother, now would you?"
Snarling, Kaiba pulled his hand from the person's grasp and stood where he was. The person walked around in front of him to reveal himself as a teenage guy with blond hair, black eyes, and deeply tanned skin. "Zat's a good leetle millionaire," he said mockingly. "Now, zen…" He called out, "Susiros, ees eet all zere?"
Kaiba turned around to see the blue-haired girl excitedly counting the piles of yen in the briefcase. "Yep, pretty much looks like it," she smiled.
"Good," the boy said. He turned to the black-clad teens. "You may release him."
The two kids shoved Mokuba forward. He dashed away from them and into his brother's arms. "Seto!" he cried out as the two embraced.
Susiros walked past them, carrying the now shut briefcase in her hand, and rolled her eyes. "Sheesh, it's not like you were gone that long," she muttered.
"Thank you, Monsieur Kaiba," Resheph said as Susiros reached his side and set the briefcase down beside him.
Kaiba and Mokuba turned around to leave. Once they weren't looking, Resheph held out his free hand and a staff similar to the Dark Magician's appeared. He hid the staff behind his back and called out to Kaiba, "Eet was so nice doing business weeth you."
Kaiba turned around; before Resheph could pull out his staff and fire, however, Kaiba said to him: "I'd better not ever have to do business with you freaks again."
Resheph froze. Susiros slapped a hand over her mouth, her eyes growing wide.
Styx leaned over to Nox and whispered, "Did he just say the f-word?"
"Yep."
"He's screwed."
"Yep."
Resheph said in a strangely calm voice, "Ah'm sorry, what deed you just say?"
Kaiba glared at him. "I said I'd better not ever have to do business with you freaks again."
Resheph's eyes narrowed. His outline started glowing with fierce black magic, and black sparks started shooting out of his fingers.
Kaiba and Mokuba stared at him. "What the-" Kaiba began.
Resheph let out an angry yell, pulled out his staff, and fired it directly into Kaiba. Kaiba went flying backwards and slammed directly into a tree trunk; with another blast, black ropes wrapped around him and tied him tightly to the tree.
"Seto!" Mokuba cried in horror, dashing over to his brother.
"Oh no you don't!" Susiros yelled. She held out her hand and blasted a red ray of magic at Mokuba, sending him flying back and onto the ground, unconscious.
"Mokuba!" Kaiba yelled in horror.
Snarling like a wild animal, Resheph walked up to Kaiba and pointed his staff directly into his chest. "Ah was just planning on keed-napping you and getting ze leetle brats to come and rescue you…but no one, end Ah mean no one, calls meh a FREAK!"
Resheph raised up the staff-
-and suddenly got slammed by an invisible wall which sent him flying backwards and onto the ground.
"Resheph!" Susiros cried, dashing over to and kneeling down by her love.
Resheph slowly sat up and yelled out, "WHO DEED ZAT?"
From out of the trees came the Pharaoh. He folded his arms and glared at Resheph. "I'm sorry, Resheph, but you won't be destroying anyone today," he said. Showers of green, orange, pink, and gold sparks flew out of the woods, transforming into Joey, Tristan, Téa, and Spencer.
Resheph stared at them in horror. "WHAT?! How een ze world deed you brats find out about zis?!"
Another shower of sparks flew out of the woods, this one grey. The sparks came together and transformed back into Bakura.
"This is Bakura, Rishi," Spencer said. "He's got the others' powers as well, and he's a psychic who had a nice little vision of you and your flunkies meeting up with Kaiba tonight."
Resheph stared at Bakura in horror, crying out, "Anozer one of you?!" He then snarled and looked over at Styx and Nox. "GET ZEM!" he barked out.
Styx and Nox quickly rose their hands and fired red beams of magic out at them. The six soared up into the air and narrowly avoided being hit.
While Joey, Tristan, Téa, and Bakura soared forward to take care of the two of them, the Pharaoh and Spencer floated back to the ground. The Pharaoh turned and held out one hand towards Kaiba, creating a force field which burst up from beneath the ropes and snapped them off.
Kaiba stared at him. "What in the world is that?" he asked.
"It's called magic, Kaiba," Spencer said. He had gone over to Mokuba and was now kneeling down by his side.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Don't try making me believe in that fairy tale bull," he said.
"That 'bull' is reality, Kai, whether you like it or not," Spencer said. He held one hand up over Mokuba and shut his eyes. A golden light shone out, enveloping Mokuba within it.
"What are you doing to him?!" Kaiba yelled out.
The glow faded, and Spencer opened his eyes and stood up. "Chill out, Kaiba-I just healed your brother's injuries. He should be waking up at any minute."
At the moment that Spencer finished, Mokuba stirred and slowly opened his eyes. He looked up at the other three. "Seto? Are you okay?" he murmured.
"I'm fine, Mokuba," Kaiba said, taking his brother's hand and helping him to his feet. "I'm more worried about you."
Mokuba didn't reply. He stared past his brother in shock.
The other three turned around to find Joey and Tristan blasting a ray of green and orange into Styx's stomach, and Téa and Bakura blasting rays of pink and grey directly into Nox's back. The two henchmen crashed onto the ground and remained where they were.
"How did they do that?" Mokuba breathed.
"With magic," Spencer replied.
"Don't try to make my brother believe that insanity, too!" Kaiba yelled at him.
Spencer rolled his eyes. "Okay, fine-they did it with powers. Is that word good enough for ya?"
"Hmmph," was all Kaiba could say.
"You two should get out of here, quickly," the Pharaoh said, "or else Resheph will go after you again."
"Like I need to be told that," Kaiba said.
Spencer snapped his fingers, and the silver briefcase rose up from where Susiros had left it. He made a 'come over here' gesture with his hand, and the briefcase floated over to him. He took the handle and held it out to Kaiba. "Don't forget your cash, bro," he said.
Kaiba grabbed it from him and turned back to his brother. "Come on, Mokuba."
The two dashed through the trees and disappeared into the darkness.
In the meantime, Resheph had managed to stand up. He turned and glared at the four heroes who'd just taken down his henchmen. "Susiros," he whispered to his love, "give me ze potion."
"WHAT?! But Resheph, we don't have a chance to take them by surprise!" she cried.
"We don't need eh surprise after all, Susiros," Resheph grinned. "Since ze are already here, all we need ees to injure one ev zem end we've got en easy target."
Susiros smiled. "Aah, you're right. Well, let me take care of that for you." She took the potion out of her cloak and handed it to her beloved. Then, she turned and fired out a red beam of magic at the four.
The four of them soared up into the air and fired their own magic out at her. Susiros also soared up, barely missing the four beams, and the four of them ensued in a major battle.
The Pharaoh was about to soar up and join his friends when Spencer put a hand onto his shoulder. "Hold on," he said. "Look at Rishi."
Resheph was uncorking a glass bottle of purple liquid. He drank the entirely of the fluid and let out a small "aah" once he finished.
"I'm going to bet millions that that's the little surprise he originally had in store for us," Spencer said. "What does it do, though…"
At that moment, Bakura crashed down to the ground on the other side of the clearing and groaned in pain, clutching his right shoulder. Quickly, Spencer and the Pharaoh dashed over to him, and Spencer held out a hand over his shoulder.
While Spencer healed Bakura, the Pharaoh looked up at the sky and saw Téa soaring away from Susiros, who was firing beam after beam of magic at her, while Tristan and Joey soared after Susiros. Susiros finally got a beam to hit Téa's ankle; she screamed and fell down directly onto the spot where the Pharaoh and Spencer had just stood. Téa tried to get up, but the pain in her ankle prevented her from moving.
"Resheph, NOW!" Susiros yelled down.
Resheph turned and faced Téa directly. He grinned evilly and held out one hand towards her. A black orb appeared; however, this orb was different with a strange, violet hue.
Somehow, the Pharaoh knew that under no circumstances could that orb hit her.
"Téa, NO!" the Pharaoh cried out. He dashed towards her.
Resheph threw the orb.