The Blimps were certainly marvel invention of flight vehicles, Joey certainly was glad to be already lifted in the air by one. Though he could not express his joy through the deeply stuff mouth of his and did not wish to try in the events he might upset everyone in the table. Yugi, Tea, Tristan and Duke were sitting on the same table and enjoying their own snack as they rose higher and higher into the air in the blimps. There was already crowd in the cafeteria but that hardly stopped them from enjoying their meal. In fact Yugi and his friend had no issue finding an empty table, a perk of being the King of Games. Just about everyone in the Cafeteria respect Yugi and was in awe of the great duelist.
"Well Yug I can't wait to start dueling soon. In fact I plan on taking on the Zigfried guy as soon as I'm done eating here," Joey said after he swallowed another mouthful of food. Yugi had lost tracked of how many plates his friend had eaten and he rather found it easier to not count.
"Good luck with that Joey, I'm sure he would gladly accept the challenge since you were close of beating him once before, I remember from what Mokuba told me was that he was in Blimp number three so we have to wait for the rest of the Blimps to link up before you challenge him," Yugi said as he poked his soup with his spoon. His hunger somehow slipped away from his mind as he further grew deep in thought.
"Hello Yugi Muto," a thick voice brought Yugi back to the land of the living. Yugi and gang turn to face Gabriel, perhaps one of the only duelist in the world that had beaten Yugi in a fair duel. Yugi waved and offered the older man a smile.
"Hey Gabriel! I haven't seen you in such a long time, I hope things are well?" Yugi asked. Joey and Tristan though were not so certain with this man at all, anybody that had worked with Dartz was hardly good news, besides Mai but she was a different case and Joey knew that.
"Things have gone well, decent enough. Anyways I just wished to say hello you once more King of Games before I start dueling to face you once more Yugi. Best of wishes to you," Gabriel said as he walked away from the table.
"Good luck to you too!" Yugi responded back quite loudly.
The rest of the gang also stood up, since Joey was now done stuffing his belly, they each headed back out of the Cafeteria. An intercom spoke out loudly, "Attention Duelist! The other blimps have now began the connection process, we advise you to tread carefully as you cross between blimps and to return back to you blimp once the day has ended," The intercom stated and without missing a heartbeat Joey took off to the general direction of the connection halls leading to the other blimps. Yugi and the rest quickly moved after their friend in hopes of making sure that Joey doesn't do anything stupid. Which for Joey the gang knew they were about to get their hands full, well all but Duke who turned around to head to another direction.
"Hey Duke were ya'll going?" Tristan asked as he turned around.
"I'm a Tier Four duelist, I got to rank myself up to even consider going up against even Tier Two duelist, I'll see the rest of you guys once I ranked myself up," Duke said as he gave him a thumbs up and a smirk.
Tristan shrugged and continued to follow the rest of his friends after Joey. Duke slipped both of his hands down into his pocket and headed towards the lower level of the blimp, there were several more dueling areas for them and Duke wanted to get some experience dueling once more. He smirked as he shuffled his deck with his hands, he hoped Joey was ready for he was going to get a rematch soon enough.
Kisara sighed, she had no clue where that Yugi Muto kid was, and doubted it mattered until she was one of the finalist to take on the King of Games himself. She shifted into another hallway and noticed a pair of duelist walked towards her, she shrank back and dipped her head down as she tried to walk past them. Neither gave her a glance but kept talking to one another and ingored Kisara the entire time. She was relieved and she continued to move along the hallway. She noticed stairs and took them, she could duel some other time and defeating these lesser Teir duelist would be childs play compared to the challenge she was going to face.
The stairs led to what Kisara thought another part of the Blimp, she took no heed to the warning sign of "Employee's Only Sign" and walked downwards the stairs. It was not her fault that the last guy did not close the door well. She thought these stairs would never end until finally she exited into another hallway but this was much whiter and plain compared to the other hallways. She walked down the hallway but stopped upon hearing battle noises, her ear told her that it was a door across from her ledt. She turned left and gulped down a large amount of air. She reached out for the door konb and slowly turned the handle as she stepped in.
Her eyes widen upon seeing a duel in process, but it was not a Duelist versus Duelist but a Duelist versus Computer. Her eyes gaze upon the only other human in the room, the CEO of Kaiba Corp, Seto Kaiba himself dueling a computer. Though what was off was the fact there stood a creature so large that Kisara wondered how the computer was able to display the creature. Her eyes scanned to Seto's side of the battlefield and her eyes widen to perhaps the most majestic dragon, the Blue Eyes Ultimate White Dragon. Kisara took a step back and looked at the much larger creature that was about to face the Blue Eyes White Dragon.
The large creature was golden and had chains attached to each limb, it looked so much as a pharaoh or rather some ancient Egyptian god. Her mind raced trying to figure out the name of the monster than as soon as the creature attacked the memory sank in, "Exodia," Kisara murmured. Exodia's attack obliterated the Blue Eyes Ultimate White Dragon with ease, both to Kisara and Seto's disappointment. Seto's life points dropped to zero and strangely enough the young man did not seem fazed at the slightest. Kisara looked dumbly spot where the Blue Eyes White Dragon stood and strangely could not unfreeze herself. Move, before he- oh dear Kisara thought as she stared face to face with Seto Kaiba. She had heard of the man but never actually knew him. She knew all about his wins and losses, his deck and dueling style, but now that she faced the man up close all the information was lost.
"Do you have a reading issue or did you just ignored the 'Private' session sign on the door?" Seto asked coldly. His voice would have created icicles.
Kisara was taken aback by his sudden remark and question, "I, um, didn't see it," Kisara responded softly. Her cursed legs would not move from their spot and she badly wanted to go to a much cooler room. She feared that she might start sweating anytime soon, not something that she wanted this man to see her do.
"So you can't read, you're slow and blind? Step aside," Seto said as he moved past her, his coat flaring as he did so.
Kisara stood gasping, unbelieving of what just happened to her. She had been ridiculed, harassed, and picked on due to her hair color, pale skin and fragile state of body. She had never been insulted such as the way this Seto Kaiba had just insulted her before. Her face flared up with anger and as if her legs finally understood that it was time to move her legs turned her around and found herself walking past Seto and standing in front of the man.
"You are just going to walk away after talking to me like that?! Who do you think you are?" Kisara said angrily. She would turn to the other cheek when being joked upon about her hair but her intelligence she would sooner cut her long hair than let that happen.
Seto for his part only deepened his scowl, "Look girl, I do know what your problem is but I have a tournament to run. So run along before you make Seto Kaiba your enemy," Seto said, this time moving briskly away and entering to an elevator that Kisara never saw and the doors closed before Kisara could even try and stop the man from leaving.
"What a jerk," Kisara muttered as she continued her walk.
Seto closed his eyes and continued to breathe normally. He had never been this emotionally uncertain since, well, never. Her eyes burned into his memory and her wavy silver white hair long and desirable, his fingers ached to move through her hair. His mind mentally whipped himself back into thinking coherently and with sanity. Seto sighed, he did not accursed believe that he would be attracted to some girl before. Granted he had his eyes on a few once or twice, but he soon found them unappealing after a while due to either their own mistakes or Seto realizing that he was too good for them. But this girl was different.
She had the audacity of asking him questions and speaking so snarky as well. As if him being Seto Kaiba meant nothing to her, and certainly that was enough to make him severely annoyed. It was all that Seto could do and not make a bigger ass of himself, he left without even asking for her name. Which he doubt she would find the gesture anywhere near romantic and he doubted she would even give her name to him. Seto shook his head, he had enough of these thoughts, he would make certain to never cross paths with that girl ever again. Never would he, even if fate had plans on them meeting again Seto would defy fate again.
"Oh Kaiba-Boy! You're here just in time to watch me duel!" Seto heard as soon as he stepped out of the elevator.
Seto swore that somebody did not like him up there.
Cam had second thoughts as she approached the duel arena, not that she would win, but that possibly dueling on top of a moving blimp over twenty thousand feet in the air was not such a good idea. She gulped as she stepped forward and stood tall to face her opponent. Lord Drake, the self-proclaimed Dragon Lord. She scoffed at his title, but his eyes were certainly bizarre, it was as if someone painted the color of fire into his eyes and left it blazing. It unsettled Cam greatly, she placed her dueling arm in front of her, both duelist shouted the ceremony word, "Let's Duel!"
"I must say, the Family must be hurting for good duelist since I left, sending a child after me? You look like you still believe in cooties," Drake said, his sneer growing wider as he looked at his hand.
"I would like to have you know that I stopped believing in Cooties last year thank you very much, and I am fourteen. A teenager, not some child, and the family choose me because I was more than enough to handle you Drake," Cam spat out as she looked at her hand. "And I summon Mermail Abysslinde in attack mode and place one card face down, and I end my turn," Cam added.
Cam: 4000 Life Points remaining - Mermail Abysslinde Atk: 1500 Def: 1200 – One Trap/Spell Card face down
"Hm, an annoying girl aren't you? Well time to show you something that the Family never taught you and for you to see why I am the Dragon Lord," Drake said darkly. " I summon my Divine Dragon Ragnarok in attack mode as well and place one monster face down in defense mode, I also put one face down card as well and I end my turn," Drake added.
Drake: 4000 Life Points remaining - Divine Dragon RagnarokAtk: 1500 Def: 1000 – One Trap/Spell Card Face down – One Monster Face Down Card
"Huh, for a Dragon Lord, those are the sorriest looking Dragon I have seen, and what? Too scared to attack a little girl like me?" Cam said as she giggled at her next card she drew. "I attack with my cute mermaid," Cam said, her Mermail Absslinde went in for the attack and both her and Drake's Dragon destroyed one another.
"Well that was a rather pointless effort, or did you forget that you have to have higher attack points to actually win a fight?" Drake asked sarcastically.
Cam only grinned as she placed down her trump card, "With her special ability I am now able to summon Mermail Abyssleed, and I reveal my face down card, I play Hand Destruction," Cam said cheerfully. She placed two cards down to her graveyard and smiled happily. "I end my turn now,"
Cam: 4000 Life Points remaining- Mermail Abyssleed Atk: 2700 Def:1000
"Well, I guess we have a smart one here now don't we? Don't get your hopes too high kid, I reveal my face down monster card as Divine Dragon Apocralyph and I sacrifice one card to bring back any Dragon card from my graveyard, and I bring back Gatling Dragon from the graveyard!" Drake cried out, his Gatling Dragon emerged and upon coming out his Dragon attacked and destroyed Cam's Mermail Abyssleed, "His special ability allows me destroy a single monster per turn if I'm lucky, and now I send my Divine Dragon to attack you directly!"
Drake: 4000 Life Points remaining – Diven Dragon Apocralyph Atk: 1000 Def: 1500 ; Gatling Dragon Atk 2600 Def: 1200 – One Spell/Trap Card
Cam: 3000 Life Points remaining – No cards left on the battlefield
Joey stood triumphantly on top of the dueling platform, his face eager to beat the next duelist that dared come toe to toe with him. He heard Tristan and the others shout something to him but the wind blew hard and Joey couldn't hear them anyhow. But he wasn't fazed, he did not care who he was about to face, in fact he decided to turn around to see his challenger. His heart stopped.
"Well well Wheeler-boy, you certainly know how to have fun before a duel, now let us see if you can keep that smile of yours during and after this duel hm?" Pegasus said, his laugh sound so childish.
Joey's heart sank, his winning streak was about to come to a halt very soon, Or will it? This guy isn't half as scary without his Eye Thingy from Egypt anymore besides, Yug beat him once so I'm sure I can beat him too Joey thought. "Well Pegasus time to show you some Wheeler dueling style, and hopefully you won't cramp my style eh?" Joey said, his winning smile never faltering.
"Me cramping your style? Oh Wheeler-boy, you know how to make me laugh!" Pegasus replied.
"Let's Duel!" Both said in union.
A/N:
Sorry to leave you guys on a Cliff Hanger but I don't want to show you the duel to the end in one chapter, ;) I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, and Seto and Kisara did not meet under the best of circumstances but Seto had found this underlying interest in her so I hope this enough for you BlueShippers for now =)
Enjoy reading and leave a comment/review if you wish so. Chaio my lovely readers.
