Kaiba was not a happy man, generally speaking his smiles were often considered smirks (Or rather, all his smiles were considered smirks) as he felt himself being and considered the dominant being in the room or general area. Perhaps it was a tad far fetch that Kaiba only wanted happiness for Mokuba and nothing else, he did enjoy the power he wielded being CEO of Kaiba Corp as well as his fame of being perhaps the coldest and best CEO on the planet. A man's ego was so much like a sponge, it would never stop soaking in all the waves of attention the rest of the world was making about him.

For the moment though his spotlight was shrouded and divided due to the red devil standing next to him on the stage. Pegasus always took the crowd's attention away, mostly because of his ridiculous attire and quirky character. Even Kaiba would looks focus of his work everytime this man dared to step into his office. He was all in all, well, in all honesty of Seto himself, goofy. He was not some diabolical madman intending to take over the world, he never was to begin with, but he was still a madman with a mind filled with things beyond strangeness.

"As I will now give make room for the man of the hour here, my personal friend, Mr. Kaiba!" Pegasus cried out loud. Seto glared at Pegasus for calling him "Friend" but ignored the overwhelming feeling of telling this man off in front of the world. It was hardly worth it, despite his better judgment telling him otherwise.

"Kaiba Corp has requested the best duelist from around the world to participate in this tournament. Already the last of the duelist are arriving by Helicopter now here on the airfield and several more are waiting to be picked up as we begin out travels on Kaiba Corp's blimps," Seto said, his voice cold and straight forward. He hated long press conferences as much as he hated decaf coffee. Coffee with no caffeine sounded positively wrong and stupid in Seto's ear. "Any questions will be directed to either Pegasus or Kaiba Corp Advisors, I will answer none and that will be all from me," Kaiba said as he walked off stage.

He ignored the blistering reporters, some even tried to run after Seto himself but face a wall of black suited men holding them back. He didn't care, he wanted to get away from the flashing cameras and annoying reporters as well as away from Pegasus. His mere presence would cause a headache to arise with Seto. He messaged his temples and decided to go see his younger brother at Blimp Five, he should be there already and somewhat unpacked for the long voyage ahead of them. Long? With Pegasus and the Geek Squad and God knows who else, it would feel as an eternity of hell on earth, or sky in my case Kaiba thought wearily.

Yugi and Joey sat crossed legged as each was deep in thought as they dueled one another with a various rules and scenarios. Currently Joey was only allowed to use half his deck, and Yugi was reduced to Two Thousand Life Points and both were only force to sacrifice every other creature card they drew from their deck. There were several Trap and Spell cards neither had seen before so playing by these rules certainly were not too farfetched to be seen during any duel and besides both agreed that duels such as these would bring new strategies and ways of overcoming all sorts of adversities and challenges.

"Argh! I give up! I think the half I threw out had all my good cards Yug!" Joey cried in dismay as he could not for the life of him figure out a winning strategy with the cards he had in his hand and on the field. Which was slowly being riddled down by Yugi's cards.

"It's alright Joey, you just got to have some faith in the Heart of the Cards and simply understand your weakness and try to figure out a way to stop me from abusing it," Yugi explained with a soft laugh. It was rather easy for Yugi that had both Silent Magician and Swordsman out on the field, both being level 4 and had possibly enough Attack Points each respectfully to destroy Joey in one more turn after Joey's Scape Goats were all gone, one left to be exact.

"Easy for you to say Yug, you ain't got half of your cards tossed in out of the game," Joey huffed as he drew another card. He sighed as he saw which card he drew and his eyes sparkled. Perhaps he wasn't out of this duel just yet.

"Well it seems Wheeler's luck had a changed for the better afterall, Hehe," Joey said with a wide grin and his face becoming rather goofy looking every time he was about to boast more about his skills of the best Duelist on the planet. He placed the card he drew into the graveyard, it was the second creature card he drew, and Yugi raised an eyebrow at his friend. He wondered how that was a good thing for Joey but he played his "Monster Reborn" card and Joey pulled out his legendary Red Eyes Black Dragon card out on the field. The fearsome Dragon looked angry and both could imagine clearly its mighty roar.

"And now those two cards I had waiting!" Joey explained as he revealed the two face down cards he had played turns ago, "MetalMorph and Dragon Nails! This will grant my Red Eyes a whopping 3400 attack power!" Joey said with a creepy smile as he laughs at his luck.

"Good combo Joey, now I see why you were angry, you had no way to use either MetalMorph or Dragon Nails without your Red Eyes," Yugi complimented Joey, who was in fact flexing his biceps as he was apparently celebrating his apparent victory. Neither Silent Swordsman nor Magician had enough Attack power, even with each turning to Level 5 this next turn. But Yugi had another plan in store for Joey.

"You know Yug, you probably should have put bigger handicaps on me so this can be fair with you only have half the lifepoints anybody would normally have, and Red Eyes take care of his Silent Swordsman" Joey said, his ego ever so bursting beyond the limits of any normal man. Seto would had been proud, if it wasn't Joey being the one egoistic. Seto would have rather asked Pegasus for a "play date" with dolls than admit or be impressed by this "Third Rate Duelist of a Runt" as Seto usually calls him.

"Well, it's my move," Yugi said as he drew a card. It wasn't a creature card thankfully so Yugi kept his card and gave a friendly smile to Joey. "I play Brain Control, and send my Silent Magician to attack your last scapegoat and with your own Red Eyes I'll attack your Life Points directly and drop you down to Zero Joey," Yugi said as he began to pack his cards back to his deck. "Good game!" Yugi added.

Joey was speechless as he mumbled something about "Not possible" or "No way" as he just could not believe his own trump card became Yugi's trump card and the very Dragon that had gotten him out of so many jams turned on him, he sighed in defeat and stretched out his hand towards Yugi. "Yeah, good game," Joey replied back sadly.

Yugi accepted the hand and both stood up with their decks in their belts, "We should try these duels once a day at least," Yugi added with a smile. Joey nodded as he walked over to the window and wondered when they were going to lift off already.

"Hey Yug, you wonder when we are going to lift off? I mean I wana duel already," Joey said somewhat impatiently.

"Well, the Helicopters have stopped coming so I imagine quite soon Joey, come let's go see where Tristan, Duke and Tea headed off to," Yugi said as they both walked out of Yugi's room and nearly smacked into Seto Kaiba.

By nearly, Seto already jumped back with astonishing speed, his face detailed very visibly his anger. It was like watching a volcano about to erupt. And both Yugi and Joey would had rather seen a Volcano erupt in front of them then a Seto Kaiba erupt in rage. The volcano would had been less deadly.

"What are you two doing here?" Seto growled out, his teeth gritting and his fists clenched. Yes, the volcano would have been the better choice.

"We're just going to food court, and we are staying in these three rooms next to Mokuba," Yugi replied, his smile wavering and his voice shakey.

"What's it to ya Kiaba?" Joey yelled back, his fist in the air. Yugi went for Joey's arm and tried to pull it back down.

Seto only sighed, he could already formulate how this conversation would end and would rather not experience it all. Besides he was tired and needed sleep, and noway was he about to get stopped by these two Goody Two Shoes. "Just stay out of my way," Seto grounded out as he walked past them and towards his room, or rather new room since he was about to make sure he was a far away from the dweeb patrol as possible.

Joey's arm shot out and grabbed his shoulder. Wrong move. "Now wait here Money bags, I ain't done with ya-ahhhh!" Joey cried out as he was flipped over Kaiba's shoulder and Kaiba dusted himself off. He scoffed and continued walking away. Yugi for his part stared wide eye and gapping mouth. He shook his head and quickly tended to Joey's side.

"Now, both of you. If you enjoy your life, do yourself a favor and never touch me again," Seto threatened. No, he promised.

"Come on Joey, we still have to find the others remember? And food isn't a bad idea either," Yugi said, hoping to avert his attention other than towards Kaiba.

"Yeah, ya probly right," Joey said, rubbing his head with his right hand, "Let's go find the others and get some grub," Joey added as he slowly stood up and walked down the hall with Yugi.

The hallways were dark and cold, nothing too uncomfortable and in fact it was a major improvement already for Kisara. Her room had a big window with a beautiful view of the sun. Her hands nestled in her pockets of her long jean skirt and her blue long sleeved shirt cover just about every part of her skin aside from her face and a small portion of her legs. Her scars were well hidden, and she probably would have gotten away with elbow length sleeves and a shorter skirt and not bring attention to herself but she would have not risked such a rare chance of someone spotting her scars. She quietly walked further down the hall before feeling a cold chill run down her spine, she spun around and faced a man she thought she only had nightmares off. The Dragon Lord, Lord Drake the betrayer of "The Family" stood before her. God, she was just having terrible luck this past week, possibly karma of enjoying the sun too much. His hair was spiked directly back, giving the impression he had large thorns growing the side of his head and the tips each were dyed a bright red, his black jacket had a single dragon that if he zipped up his jacket it would put both halves together and reveal a fiery red dragon of immense size and terror. His eyes were the color of fire, red ,orange and yellow but were currently covered by his shades that were bent into angles and seemed to curve inward near the edges. He was over a foot taller than her and she was sure one of his arms equaled both of her legs. His face turned towards Kisara and he barely gave her a second glance before walking past her. Kisara released her breath that she wasn't aware of holding but then Drake turned around to face her once more. His voice had a gravel and low tone to it and just made him sound that much like a dragon ready to breathe fire.

"You shouldn't put your faith or your talents into The Family, and if you happen to me our gracious leader once more tell him the Great Dragon sends his regards," Drake said before facing another direction and leaving Kisara alone with her thoughts.

Kisara clenched her shirt tightly and slowly let her back slide down the wall before hitting the floor and wrapping her legs with her arms to stop their shaking. Her arms began to shake as well. "The Family would destroy me if I ever uttered those words, how could that man betray the Family and yet be so confident enough to defy them again and again?" Kisara murmured out loud. It was useless to think like traitor so she would rather not try lest she begins to think like Lord Drake. She shuddered and quickly stood up, hoping that no one saw her. The Tournament will soon start and Yugi Muto will fall by my hands Kisara said, hardening her resolve as she walked down the hallway. Lord Drake was Cam Rider's target, not hers. A pair of eyes followed Kisara but the body walked the direction of Lord Drake.

Cam was curious, she was by far the best duelist in her own mind and wondered how Kisara was supposed to be the King of Games himself. She was brought down to her knees by Lord Drake with a few words and a stare through the shades. She shook her head in disappointment but Leader knew what he was doing or else why would she follow the man if he wasn't right? Her head slowly poke out of the side to see where Drake had went and as she walked forward a presence behind her made her stop dead on her tracks. She turned around to come to face to face with perhaps a man that Cam probably would have flaunted and blushed but the only feeling was fear and dread.

Seto Kaiba never smiled, and now Cam was seeing perhaps the most angry annoyed faces of all time. She quickly stepped aside and allowed Kaiba to keep walked down the hall. The man gave a scoff as he walked forward and barely gave her a moment's glance before returning to his walk. I am glad Seto Kaiba wasn't on Leader's list, or else I would be sorry for any duelist that dared cross paths with that monster, but extremely handsome and somewhat of a hunk, kind of monster Cam thought, she caught herself twirling her hair with her fingers as she thought about Kaiba's striking features and huffed at the realization, she could not believe she was degraded to the fourteen year old she was. By an angry looking Seto Kaiba as well! She gave a scoff as she walked down the hallway and continued her search of Lord Drake, Seto is just a hot hea-hot-hea- oh God he is hot Cam thought, her mind slipping before she mentally slapped herself. "I need to open a window next time I run into Kaiba, it gets strangely warm-argh!" Cam cried in despair.

A/N:
Hey =) I start college Today! Yippe _ Anyways I thought that I should at least give you something to read before I get swamped with organizing my schedule! (I did schedule most of my classes but a few were wait listed, which means I need to show up and see if I could get in) Enjoy reading! And review and comment if you feel the need to =)

Thank you guys for enjoying my story and I hope I can continue to bring smiles and enjoyment from you guys with my story. If you have any input about my OC's I will gladly enjoy them. Since I'm not a big fan with OC's (I don't why exactly, but OC's just give me the creeps sometimes in my story =P) But I'm just having Fun with Kaiba as he is ready to get another restraining order filled soon enough. Poor guy, he gets all the cute girls to fall for him, his life must suck xD