Chapter 5

Likeness

A/N: This chapter might be a tiny bit gory for some people. There's a mention of guts and stuff but I don't know how gory some people think gory is. Its just explaining what the weapons can do. Mina's weapon's description is actually quite gross for the squeamish. I mean I don't find it bad but some might, so I'm just giving a quick warning. Anyway Thanks soooo much to Magic Defenestration (I think that's how you spell it.) for reviewing!!! I hope you like it. Also, I might be changing the summary so you guys might want to put the story on Story Alert so you'll know when I update. Anyway thanks again!

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"Argh…" Mina moaned.

"Get up! Its 7:45! We have to get ready to leave. Credo's assistant Kimomo is going around telling people what to do to pack and she'll be coming to us at about 8:15. Get ready and change and stuff." Yugi shook her.

Mina groaned again into her pillow and covered her head. Yugi sighed. All around the cabin, the gang, Seto and Mokuba were getting ready to leave. Yugi looked around and nodded.

"She's always like this in the morning. I'm going to have to do this Mina. Its your own fault." He grinned before stepping away, his place taken up by Joey, Tristan and Mokuba.

"One. Two. Three!" The three boys yelled out in unison while pushing Mina of the side of the bed. She landed with a thump on the ground.

"Brace yourselves." Mai warned Serenity and Tea,

"WHAT THE HELL!" Mina was up and steaming.

"We're sorry! Yugi asked us to do it!" Joey told her, cowering in the corner.

"Oh! Blame me now!" Yugi retorted back to him.

A friendly argument started up between the two and Mina shook her head. She grabbed some clothes out of her bag and headed to the shower blocks. On her way out of the cabin, she passed Kaiba and gave him a dirty look. He, in turn gave her a glare.

Mina took a shower, this time remembering to lock her clothes up with her. She walked back into the cabin looking and feeling refreshed. Kaiba looked up from his packing to see Mina walk in. She was dressed in her usual fashion, black and red hair tied up in a high ponytail, swishing back and forth when she walked. She wore her black singlet top with the dragon on it, showing her navel, her usual tight black mini skirt, studded belts and leather boots. It was too hot to wear her studded leather jacket but it was packed up and ready to go with her wherever she went. To top the look of, she wore a black choker at her neck and her black and red dragon ankh was curled up on the whole length of her bare arm. 'She's back to her usual looks I see. Yesterday she wore jeans and a t-shirt. Wonder which one is better.' Kaiba commented quietly. Everybody else was changed and ready as well. Yugi in his usual blue and black get-up, Tristan in his brown jacket, Joey in his green one. Mai had her purple and white outfit on and Tea and Serenity opted to wear jeans and pretty tops. Kaiba wore his usual outfit as well. A black long sleeved turtle neck and black pants covered by his white trench-coat. Leather straps fitted around his arm and leg muscles nicely and a long metal cuff was placed around his left wrist going up to a bit lower than his elbow. On his right wrist was his own dragon ankh also coiled round like a snake up to his shoulder. 'Doesn't he ever get hot in those? My god, that's what you call showing off. Even when its way to hot to wear a light jumper, he goes and wears a turtle neck with a trench coat. Just to be big and powerful.' Mina snorted to herself

At that moment, the door opened revealing 3 people, one lady and two men. They stepped in and closed the door. They bowed slightly and the gang bowed back except for Kaiba who nodded his head curtly. The woman, Kimomo, nodded to the two men who stood at the door waiting for her. She walked into the middle of the room.

"Good Morning. Nice to meet you again. My name is Kimomo and these are my assistants. No doubt you have heard from others that I am here to advise you on what to pack on your journey. Make sure you listen carefully as this is the only time you will be told. You will not be taking your suitcases with you for that is obviously too difficult and unpractical to carry them around with you while you are fighting and dueling. So you will each be given a bag-"

She motioned to the man on her right hand side who walked forward and handed out a bag to each person. Each one was a black bag with a green trimming around it. It looked like it could hold 6 pieces of clothing and about 2 days provisions and nothing much more. Yugi looked at them quizzically.

"This bag will be where you pack your clothes. You will only need what you are wearing today, some warm items to keep you out of the nights chill and a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. Along with your undergarments, that is all you should bring. The rest of the space must be used up for the food and provisions. Each person will carry their own provisions, which are right here for you on the table. Every third morning, all around, there will be Credo's people giving out food for the next three days. After that they will leave for the food will attract the monsters. In the bags along with your clothes, there are also two small blankets, one to lie on and one to cover yourself up. Each one of you will have two and make sure you use them well for that is all you will get to protect you from the nights cold. The rest of your luggage and everything else will be transported with me to the castle where all your things will be kept safe and out of harm. Just leave them here and my men will take them out. Now there is one last thing to do. You must each take weapons to protect yourselves from the monsters. Yes, even the young one. We are doing all we can to make your lives as safe as possible. You will learn how to defend yourselves with them on your journey. I know that may look and be a bit old fashioned but they most certainly are not useless. We will not be handing out guns for they do almost no damage to the monsters. Instead we will be handing out objects such as knives, swords and staffs which have been specially made to deal specific hurt onto attacking monsters. Please take one now." She motioned to the man on her left who went around with a large tray filled up with weapons.

Mina carefully selected two knives and Joey and Tristan followed suit. Tea and Serenity took some staffs from the man and got Mokuba one for his size. Mai, Yugi and Kaiba all got swords. Kimomo left the room with her men to let them finish their packing. Mina dove for her bag and grabbed her clothes. She rummaged through them until she found her white tank top and her short shorts which had an camouflage design on it. She then picked out a pair of warm pants and folded them into the bag along with her favourite black leather jacket. She then grabbed the food provisions for the next three days and proceeded to eat breakfast from the assortment of food on the table. The rest of the gang packed their bags and joined her. As soon as their breakfast was finished, all of them pulled out their weapons to examine them.

Joey and Tristan had both chosen flick-knives that could be hidden perfectly in their shoe or sleeve. Each knife was sharpened so well that one touch could draw blood. The hilt of the knives shone silver and mahogany. The hilt was hard so as to be able to be hit onto someone's or something's jaw or head and cause enough damage for the attacker to back of. The blades glinted in the light but it wasn't a pure silver colour. It had a touch of metallic blue through it. Tea, Serenity and Mokuba had chosen staffs. The staffs were metal, coated with a wood painting to make it look like it could break. Instead, it was as hard as steel. As Mokuba turned the staff over to get a good look at it, his curious hands touched the claw design in the middle of the staff. Suddenly, a blade popped out of the side of the staff, startling him into dropping it. Slowly, he picked it up again and gingerly looked at it. Tea and Serenity did the same. Their blades were the same colour as the knives. Silver with a hint of metallic blue. The hid the blades back into the staffs and held onto them tightly. Mai and Yugi had both chosen swords. Not swords really but scimitars. The blue and silver blades were bent forward, meant for reaping heads of shoulders. The metal hilts were molded with a knob at the end of it allowing the user to hold onto it comfortably without it slipping out of his or her hands when the scimitar was swung. The two wielders sheathed their swords in the back of their bags.

Mina had taken out her two knives and was looking at it intently. They were three-pronged and deadly. The middle blade was the longest and the other two were placed next to it so strategically that if the blade pierced skin, it could hurt where most vulnerable. The prongs were also there to stop carelessness. If the wielder missed its target, even by a little, it could mean that the monster lived and so the wielder dies. So if this knife was thrust into a monsters chest and missed the heart, the other prongs could do its job and pierce the heart. Each silver and blue prong on each knife had a hook sticking out on each side. This was to be able to grab on to the monster of anything else such as other weapons, claws or flesh. Traditionally, these hooks were used to pull the guts out of the victim. The wielder would thrust the knife deep into the victims stomach and twist the knife so that the hook would get stuck into the organs. The wielder would pull out hard and along with the knife coming out, a tumble of organs, internal and external, would come out with it, leaving the victim to die in a very horrible way. Mina winced as she thought about its and doubted she would ever use that way. The hilt of her knives were shaped into a dragon roaring, coloured red. She inspected them all over for faults of any kind and liked what she saw. Mina spun them around in her hands expertly and sheathed them - one on each side - in her belts. They were at arms length, ready at any moment to come at if she was in the least bit of trouble. She looked up around the room and her eyes caught Kaiba's shape. She stared at him and blushed remembering again when they had bumped into each other.

Kaiba, on the other hand, had better things to do. He was busy inspecting his sword that he had chosen. He whipped it out of its sheath and it sung a dangerous song. The rest of the gang whipped their heads around hearing the sword clearing its sheath. Kaiba looked it over carefully, twisting it round and round, measuring it with his hand until it became like a natural part of his arm. He swung it back and forth listening to the air whipping around it. He inspected the metal of the blade, which again was silver with a metallic blue hint. The blade was long and sharp. 'I guess that the blue tint is the special chemical they put in the blades to help them pierce through the monster's hide.' Kaiba thought to himself. He stared at its hilt which was coloured a dark blue and had a jewel embedded into the end, just like the swords of old. The jewel looked to be a sapphire but it had a bit of white streaked through it as well. He swung his sword out gave a cutting strike to an imaginary foe. 'I guess all those Kendo lessons paid off. Minako must have done weapon work as well cause she looked quite at home with those things in her hands. Maybe its her martial arts background thing. Whatever.' Kaiba sheathed the sword back and hung it by the side of his belt.

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A bell sounded just behind them and the gang heard a man shouting. "10 minutes to departure! 10 minutes to departure!"

They looked at each other and grabbed their bags. They ran out into the pavilion and joined the mass amount of people there. An announcement was made on the loud speaker. After 10 minutes another bell sounded and the whole group of people turned to look at the buildings that they had spent the night in. Credo's voice sounded all around them and suddenly, like it was a hologram, the building disappeared. Gasps of disbelief could be heard all around and Mina turned to look at Yugi who only shook his head and shrugged. 'What the hell is going on here? First there's the magic 'ankh' that can turn into the thing that's most like you, then there's the duel monsters that can come to life and are real, then there is the building that we all slept in and ate in that disappears. I thought I could believe everything when we fought the Pharaoh and Asheba. Now this is almost too much. Its like Credo has some sort of magic. I hope not. I don't think I could take anymore of this magic thing. I was so looking forward to a normal life and perhaps a normal dueling competition with Yugi… but no I guess the Motos can never have a normal life.' Mina thought. The large group of people separated into the different parts of the forest and were hidden behind the trees.

As the gang walked along a path, talking about the incident that happened, Yugi turned to Kaiba. "Are you going to come with us or are you going your own way." Everybody stopped and looked at him.

" Mokuba and I will be going our own way. Far away from you and your meddlesome friends. Thank god I didn't have to spend more time with you than I had to.

"Why you ungrateful little - " Joey spat before Mai cut him off.

"Good we didn't want to spend any time with you either. You just did us all a favour by going off by yourself."

Mina knelt down gave Mokuba a hug. "Take care of yourself. Make sure your brother doesn't give you a hard time ok? If he does just come and find me and I'll give him a piece of my mind." She whispered in his ear.

Mokuba grinned and went to say goodbye to the rest of the gang. Mina stood up and looked Kaiba right in the eye and said softly so only he could hear. "You better look after him. Its not just you who cares about him, you know. All of us do. I think of him as a little brother and if I hear that he is - "

Kaiba cut her off. "You think I don't care enough of my brother to look after him properly. What about all the other times you've seen me? I would risk my life for him. You saw me risk my life for him. And just because you care about him doesn't mean I don't. I care about him more than you'll ever know. So don't tell me how to look after my brother." He growled quietly at her. She glared back. They stared at each other in the eye, both daring the other one to look away. Blue and brown fighting a small battle only they knew. Mokuba came back and grabbed Kaiba's hand. Kaiba's blue eyes snapped away from Mina's mesmerising brown ones to look at his little brother. They walked away following another path.

"What was that all about?" Joey asked her.

"What was what all about?"

"You know, both of you staring at each other like that. I swear, if anybody got caught in the middle of the glares, they'd die of fright!"

"Oh that. Nothing. Just saying goodbye." Mina smirked.

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"I'm hungry!"

"Yeah, me too. When can we eat?!"

"Joey! Tristan! If you two don't stop whining, we're going to eat you!" Tea snapped.

"But we're hungry and I… OUCH!!! Mai what was that for!" Joey yelled rubbing the back of his head where Mai hand had been two seconds ago.

"That's how to take care of two whinging boys. Just slap them on the head." Mai grinned and gave a high five to Mina.

"Yeah but that killed!"

"You better stop or she's going to hit you again." Yugi warned.

They all looked at each other for a second and burst out laughing. Their laughter was cut short by rustling in the bushes. They all turned around and waited in anticipation. Tea grabbed Yugi's hand. Out from the bushes stepped two men wearing khaki shorts and camouflage tops. They even had face paint on them. Yugi and Mina gave each other a look.

"We are the Camio Brothers!" One of the tow men shouted.

"We are the masters of disguise and of duelling! We call forth Yugi and Minako Moto to duel us so we can prove to you that we are the most powerful and stealthy." The other one called out.

"Um… ok." Mina looked at the others with a confused look.

"Is this a double duel?" Yugi called out to them also stepping forward.

"Yes it is. My name is Steve and my brothers name is Duke. So now we duel and we will win!" Steve yelled.

"Wait, how do you win?" Mina asked. "I mean, they havnt actualyy told us the rules here so um…"

"It was on the announcement last night." Duke told her.

"When? I didn't hear it."

"Yeah, you were in the shower." Joey said sheepishly before ducking behind Tristan to save himself from the look she gave him.

"Basically Mina, its like normal duelling. The moment the duel starts your ankh will project your life points behind you. You start of with 4000 and the usual thing applies." Yugi explained.

"Oh cool. In that case. Lets duel!"

The four people got into their positions and activated their ankhs.

"Ladies first." Steve called out to Mina.

"Thanks." She nodded and drew her five cards from the mouth of her dragon. Suddenly, its wings flashed open showing spaces where she could place her cards.

"I place two cards face down and call up Mystical Elf in defence mode!" Mystical Elf appeared in a flash of light and took her spot in the game.

"My turn!" Steve called out. "I summon Battle Soldier!" Battle Soldier stepped out of the light and into the game. He grabbed his gun by the side of him and took aim.

"Now me." Yugi cried in his deep voice. "I summon Winged Karibo!" Winged Karibo bounced out and gave his little cry.

"Last, but not least, me!" Duke shouted. "I place one card face down and now… come on out Underground Worm!" The ground shook and a worm jumped out from the ground.

"Ok. My turn. I summon Gyakuteno Megami!" Mina cried.

"Now! Out you come Lethal Soldier. Ok Battle Soldier, attack her Mystical Elf." Steve cried. Battle soldier ran forward until he came to shooting range. He then took aim and fired. A bullet shot from his gun into Mystical Elf's head. Blood spurted forward from the elf and she fell down dead, the blood from her head running down her body. Tea and Serenity covered their eyes while Yugi winced and Mina took a step back from her dead monster. Steve looked away before shouting "Ok now that that's done, Lethal Soldier attack her Gyakuteno Megami!" The Lethal Soldier ran forward with a knife in between his teeth. He grabbed it out and was about to stab Gyakuteno when Mina called out. "Not so fast. I use my Bear Trap to take your monster. Bear Trap grabs a monster with 2000 or less attack points and destroys it!" A huge trap surged forth from the ground and clamped onto Lethal Soldiers leg. Lethal Soldier cried out and suddenly got pulled into the ground.

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"You can't win!!!" Duke cried out. It was near the end of the duel and Mina and Yugi were on low life-points though Steve was low too. "Now that Steve and I have joined up using our magic card, you will never be able to beat our Stealth Goon which has 3000 attack points! How about you just give up? No? Ok well Stealth Goon, take down one of her four monsters that are on the field."

The Stealth Goon disappeared and reappeared right next to Mina's Silver Fang. It struck it with its machine gun and Silver Fang fell, howling in pain. Mina winced and then called out "You fell into my trap!"

"What? What trap? You don't have any trap or magic cards on the field! Ha, you're lying!" Steve laughed.

"Oh yeah? That was the 12th monster you sent to my graveyard. So now, I sacrifice my three remaining monsters on the field to call up - "

Yugi grinned and the others cheered. They knew what coming. Yugi quickly looked at his cards and thought up a strategy to help Mina. An imaginary light bulb came floating above his head and he got an idea.

" – FALLEN ANGEL!!!" Mina cried. The three monsters on the field glowed with a white light and then were swallowed dark tendrils coming up from the ground. From the tendrils Fallen Angel was formed. She shot up into the air and her black wings unfurled. He blonde hair was flying everywhere and the black belts hanging from her waists were lifting up due to the wind. The black clothes she wore added to the effect. She reached to her sides and unsheathed two swords. They rang clear in the silence of the forest. " For every monster in the graveyard, she gains an extra 200 attack and defence points. So adding the 12 monsters my graveyard, the three I just sacrificed and the 2800 attack points she already has, Fallen Angel now has 5800 attack points!" Steve and Duke looked on in horror. "But luckily for you, she cannot attack when she is called out and she must be put in defence mode for one turn." Mina nodded to Fallen Angel who glided to the ground, curled her eight wings up, and folded her hands across her chest, her swords standing up in the ground in front of her. Mina looked at the brothers and indicated to them to start their turn with a smirk.

It was the brothers turn because their magic card allowed them both to act on the same turn. They concurred with each other and came to a conclusion. They then placed three cards down and called up a 2nd monster, a Camouflage Charger with an attack of 2200, to the field. Their turn had finished. Yugi grinned.

"I sacrifice my Dark Magician and my Dark Magician Girl along with my Chaos ritual card to summon… MY MAGICIAN OF BLACK CHAOS!!!"

One of Yugi's most powerful monsters appeared from the grave that Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl disappeared into. He rose, tall and thin, with his dark sceptre. Then Yugi pointed to the Camouflage Charger. "Attack!" The Magician of Black Chaos nodded and lifted up his spectre. A black ball of energy collected at the end of the sceptre and then flew at full speed towards the large tank. It collided with it and a huge bang was heard. Smoke filled the air where the blast was sent and Yugi thought. Suddenly, while the whole gang was waiting in anticipation, he called out

"Just in case, I use my Jinzo Effect magic card. Its just like its name says. It has the Jinzo effect. It destroys every trap card. But there's one more thing. It only destroys traps on your side of the field."

Mina turned to Yugi and grinned. He smiled back and they turned their attention back to the duel. The smoke had cleared and the tank was in pieces and so were the three cards that the brothers had put out on the field.

"And now its my turn." Mina laughed maliciously. 'I love duelling. I love the feeling that you get when you know you're going to win. And I love the feeling that you get when you smell defeat. Ah well… this was really fun and they duelled well.' "Ok! Fallen Angel, come out of defence position and into attack!" Fallen Angel lifted her head, unfolded her hands and grabbed her swords from the ground. She swung her swords round and round and smiled, waiting for the command to kill. After all, she was a fallen angel. No one said she had to be holy and kind.

"Now Fallen Angel, would you be so kind as to destroy their Stealth Goon?" Mina asked Fallen Angel knowing her reply.

"It will be a pleasure" came the musical voice from Fallen Angel's mouth.

She ran at full speed towards the Stealth Goon. The wind picked up and her swords flared. One became engulfed in flames while the other in ice. As she reached the Goon, she slashed her sword out and two long marks appeared on the Stealth Goon's body. He was double her size, towering over her and she still hurt him. She slashed him again, this time the opposite way making to bloody crosses on his body. They were bleeding something bad but not hard enough to kill him. She then jumped up into the wind and unfurled her eight majestic black wings. The wind picked her up and brought her high into the air. Then she dived. As she did, she adjusted her swords until they were right in front of her. Closer and closer she got to the Stealth Goon until suddenly she stopped. Her swords were inside the Goon and could be seen on the other side of his body. He was gagging blood and his body was falling backwards slowly. Fallen Angel placed her feet on his shoulder and the momentum of them sent him falling back to the ground with her standing on his stomach. Nobody moved. Suddenly the hologram of the brothers' life points started to move. It spun and spun until it reached 0000. The game was over. The Stealth Goon gave one last twitch and lay still. Fallen Angel pulled out her swords ruthlessly and wiped of the blood on it onto the Goon's clothes. She then ran across too Mina. Mina gave Yugi a high five and the gang a thumbs up before swinging round and squealing. Fallen Angel and Mina hugged each other and laughed.

"Oh My God! I couldn't believe it. You were so amazing! And you can talk! Oh My God!" Mina squealed.

"Yeah, I can talk and you were really good too! Finally, I can talk to you. We've got such a close bond and now we're even closer!" Fallen Angel laughed.

She then turned to the Magician of Black Chaos who was shaking Yugi's hand and speaking to him in a quiet voice. She ran over to them, congratulated Yugi and turned to Magician. "Hey, you did great. Good work!" And gave him a hug. Magician gave her a stunned look and she laughed. She ran back to Mina who winked at her.

"You like him!"

"No I don't. But I do like Dark Magician. Him and his sexy purple hair. Hmm…"

Mina laughed.

"Hey, I'm kinda tired. Do you mind if I return to my card and get some shut eye?"

"Yeah no problem. Here."

A bright light shone and Fallen Angel was back into her card. Magician soon followed and Mina and Yugi jumped down to meet the defeated brothers and the gang. Tea ran up to Yugi and gave him a congratulatory kiss. Joey looked at Mina and grinned.

"You know, I never noticed how much you and Fallen Angel are so alike."

A/N: Hey you guys. I hope you enjoyed it. This, I think is the longest chapter yet. And to think I was having a writers block on it. Ha! Actually I thought up like 6 of the pages at church. Hey, I was bored and I had nothing else to do. (Actually I could have listened to the Archbishop's speech but I really couldn't do it. He started droning on. ) Anyway, some of the Duel Monsters in here aren't actually real. I kinda made some of them up k? Just in case you were wondering.