Chapter 3
Game On
A/N: Sorry for the late update folks. I've been grounded from my computer until I get my grades up. Except for on the weekends. So, until then, get used to long update waits. Sorry. :(
"Go left! Go left!" Joey shouted
"No, go up!" Tristan corrected
"Watch out for that-!"
"Joey shut the hell up and let me figure it out!" Kayla snapped
"Right hook! Right hook!" Joey yelled. His warning had come too late. The screen flashed, and the words "Game Over" popped up on the TV screen.
"God dammit!" Kayla shouted, flinging the controller down on the floor. "This game cheats."
Yugi picked up the controller, and sat down on the couch. "Here, I'll show you guys how it works." He reset the game, and started up where Kayla left off. In a matter of minutes, he had finished the level with ease.
"Like I said, it cheats." Kayla muttered.
The gang had met up at Yugi's house after school, just like they had planned. All of them had packed their spare clothes with them, and had changed out of their school uniforms. They had alternated from watching movies, to playing video games, to playing duel monsters. Everyone had been exposed to Kayla's insane gamer rage. Just another side to her she kept secret. She was a video game addict.
"Alright, let's play multiplayer." Tea suggested. "Me against Yugi, Joey against Kayla, and Tristan against Ryou."
"Sounds like a plan." Ryou said.
The game had gone on for an hour, Tea surprisingly beating Yugi, and Ryou losing to Tristan. Kayla and Joey were both frantically trying to beat each other, their thumbs smashing into the buttons, and them both shouting at the TV when one beat the other.
In the end, Kayla had destroyed Joey's character.
"Yes!" Kayla shouted, shooting her fist into the air. "I win, Wheeler!"
"That's, what, three times now?" Tea asked.
"I let her win." Joey insisted.
"You said that back in Battle City Bro." Tristan said. "Face it. She kicked your ass."
"Whatever." Joey said, crossing his arms. "So what do you guys want to do next?"
"Hey, don't some of us still have homework to do?" Kayla asked, her gaze falling on Joey. "You were given extra time to get your book report done."
"That's right." Tea said, looking at Joey with her usual bossy motherly look.
"Alright! I'll do it, okay? Calm down." Joey gave in.
"I've got homework to do too." Yugi admitted. "Sorry guys, but I've gotta kick you out."
"No big deal." Kayla said. "I have to head home anyway."
"Mind if I walk with you Kayla?" Ryou asked.
Kayla shook her head. "No, not at all."
And with that said, the two left Yugi's house, and began their trek back to Kayla's.
"How long have you been in there Bakura?" Kayla asked.
"Just when everyone was packing up to leave." He said with a smirk. "See? I've been good."
Kayla laughed. "I don't think 'good' is the word you're looking for."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Oh nothing." Kayla said innocently. "It's just that you don't exactly border on the line of 'good'."
"Gee thanks." Bakura rolled his eyes. Ahead of them, they could see the lights in Kayla's apartment on, and the door wide open. "Was someone supposed to be home?"
Kayla looked ahead, her eyes widened. "No. Both my dad and Gavin were supposed to be at work."
"Then who's… Kayla, look!"
Looking ahead, they could see a dark figure exiting down the stairs. "Hey!" Kayla shouted. The figure jerked it's head towards them, and started running.
"Hey!" Kayla was about to start running, but Bakura put out his arm to stop her. "I've got this one. You head back inside and see if anything happened."
Kayla nodded, and the two split up. Bakura took off down an alleyway, and Kayla ran back inside her house, seeing the entire place trashed. Furniture was turned over, papers and broken glass scattered all over the floor.
She checked bother her father's and Gavin's rooms, and they were in the same condition.
Finally, she came across her own room completely destroyed. The only things that remained in their place was her duel disk and deck that sat on her vanity.
The one thing she noticed missing, out of her entire room, was the one thing she swore to herself she'd never lose again.
The Guardian Bracelet.
Her eyes widened, her mind running with frantic thoughts.
"Kaia!" Kayla shouted within her mind. "Are you still here?"
"Yes." The priestess answered within her mind. "Why? Is something wrong?"
"Somebody stole the bracelet! Bakura is chasing after him now."
"What? Go after him already!"
"I was going to! Geez!"
With that said, Kayla grabbed her phone, her deck and her Duel Disk. With everything she'd encountered last year, it set her mind at ease to have that with her. She dialed her dad's number, getting the voicemail.
"Dad, its Kayla. Somebody broke into the house. Call the cops. I'm with Ryou right now, just know that I'm ok. Alright?" She then hung up, heading off in the same direction Bakura had run off to.
In his pursuit, Bakura was led into downtown by the thief. Every chance he got, the thief would throw something in Bakura's path, trying to slow him down. But Bakura passed the obstacles with ease. His speed increased, and eventually, the two came upon a dead end in the alleyways. The thief spun around, looking for some way out, but Bakura blocked his path.
"It's over." Bakura said, crossing his arms. "Give up now, and hand over what you stole."
The thief backed up until he was against the wall. "How do you know I even stole anything?"
Bakura laughed. "So, you mean to tell me you just broke into a house for the hell of it? I'm not stupid. Though I must say, you are quite an amateur. You didn't even make an attempt to cover any of it up! Now, hand over what you stole."
"Never!" The man snapped, lifting up his arm, activating a duel disk. From the faint light in the alleyway, Bakura could tell that it was certainly different than the duel disk he'd come to know.
"Seriously? You want to duel for it? Come now, I doubt what you stole is even worth it."
The man reached into his pocket, and held his prize in the light. Kayla's bracelet. Bakura's eyes widened.
"So, judging by your reaction, I assume you take back what you said." The thief said smirking. "So what's it going to be?"
"I don't even have a duel disk."
"But I do."
Bakura spun around, seeing Kayla standing behind them with her duel disk on, her sleeves rolled up, and a fierce determined look in her eyes.
The thief's smirk grew. "Very well then. Let's duel. If you win, you'll get back your bracelet. If I win… well, I'll save that little surprise for later."
Kayla didn't like the sound of that, but at this point, she had nothing to lose. "Three words for you punk ass. Bring. It. On"
With those three words, the duel began.
None of them could even imagine what was in store for them.