A/N: OH, YEAH, I'm also going to be giving the chapters NAMES so, I'll probably rope a few of you in to help me with titles. Actually, review and comment with title chapters huh? I'll credit you in that chapter's A/N.

NOAH'S ARC! (Not that one)

~Ava

~XxX~

I woke up as normally as a coffee-riddled wreck like me could with the Sun and my dresser's mirror conspiring against me to kill my corneas. I rolled over, but the damage was done, I was awake now; I rolled back over and glared at the digital clock on the plain metal side-table.

"6pm?" I said with a sigh, hoyking myself out of bed and stumbling to the shower, grabbing my discarded blouse on the way as I latched onto the doorframe to keep me upright while I staved off headrush. I ran a sink full of hot water and threw all of my clothing into it as I stepped into the shower, now knowing that the white dragon that served as the shower-head was called a Blue Eyes, I turned the tap and let the hot water drum away the rest of the fatigue.

~XxX~

Feeling fresh and once again smelling peachy-clean; I wandered down the corridor I knew so well now towards the main room to get something vaugely brunch-like, happening across a green apple I was two bites into it when Teá entered, I waved brightly to her, not verbally greeting her yet as she smiled and approached me, sitting on the sofa I had occupied only last night and grabbed my free arm to pull me down to sit next to her. I frowned.

"What?" I mumbled around a mouthful of Granny Smith as she smirked, that scary look in her eyes again, I felt the back of my neck prickle in apprehension.

"Sophie," she started, talking like you would to a spooked horse, "I am your friend, and as such I accept and know that you make your own decisions, having said that however," Teá sighed and smiled a little, "I want you to know that Joey, probably isn't the best person to have around when you're trying to say something." She laughed a little, "I mean, he isn't the sharpest when it comes to girl emotions, so you really don't have to worry about him finding out you like...him...without you telling him so-" I choked on my apple when she accentuated the him, knowing who she was reffering to but inwardly slamming my head against a wall. Was I that obvious now? I was spared more horrifying embarassment by the blimp jerking manically, throwing us both off the sofa; me into the glass table and Teá into the wall. We both got back up, wincing and prodding various areas of now bruised flesh.

"What the hell was that?" I hissed as I poked my right hip, feeling the burn of a bruise-to-be in it's place. Teá shook her head.

"I have no idea," she nodded to the table I had slammed into, "you're lucky that's toughened." I laughed a little.

"Yeah, instead of being impaled, I was just beaten up." Teá laughed at my comment before she grabbed my hand and dragged me off the ground, pulling me along behind her to the naviagtion room.

~XxX~

"So..." I started, "do you know how to fly this thing?" I asked Mokuba as I stood behind him while the rest of my friends looked around, out of the massive glass windows at the seemingly endless ocean like I had before realising that Mokuba was manning the most techy, important, looking read-outs, Mokuba snorted.

"Well, yeah, if I need to, but I let the guys bro hired do that job, I just make sure they do it well." He said as he glanced at a few flashing lights that meant nothing to me, but obviously seemed to mean something to the trained eye. I laughed and lightly shoved him in the shoulder.

"You're amazing kid. You can fly this if you need to." I laughed again, "Brilliant." I didn't realise that Kaiba was even in the same room until I asked a question and the answer came from my right.

"What...the hell is that?" I asked as a suspisciously ominous looking black tower loomed into view on an island in the middle of the ocean.

"That," I jumped a little at the voice, not expecting it, "is KaibaCorp Island, the tower is called Alcatraz." Kaiba answered as I quickly recovered from the shock to ask another question, this time directly to him.

"You have an island? Couldn't you have picked a nicer name?" Kaiba frowned at my question, a look on both his and Mokuba's faces that I wasn't sure I liked seeing, it seemed, distant.

"I named it the most fitting thing Callaghan." He said back shortly, "It is where KaibaCorp started after all." I frowned at that, looking back to Mokuba for an explanation.

"KaibaCorp wasn't always the world's number one gaming tech prducer and distributor, our stepdad used it to manufacture weaponry for the armies of the world." Mokuba looked over t his brother, who was paying no attention to us and was instead questioning the Pilot as to what the jolt was from earlier. "That is, before Seto took over the comapny and tore it down!" Said brother's head snapped round to look at Mokuba.

"Mokuba, that's enough!" He hissed, obviously not wanting all those assembled, (me included), to know of whatever it was that had transpired. Another jolt, harder this time, made us all lose our footing momentarily while another made us just scrape the surface of the water, I held onto the console to remain standing.

"What was that?" Teá asked, sounding annoyed that she had been thrown to the floor for a second time.

"Yeah! Can you say lawsuit?" Joey asked as Tristan complained about a possible sprained ankle, I shot a look at Kaiba, the only other one to have remained standing; just how he managed it without holding on to anything was something I glossed over for now.

"Is this thing breaking down mid-flight?" I asked, frowning as he shook his head.

" No.." He answered me before shouting at the Pilot to report as the screen that showed our location overhead flickered to life.

"Greetings Seto." A kid of no more than...thirteen maybe, with green hair appeared on screen, a smirk on his face to rival Kaiba's.

"Who are you?" He hissed at the screen, "What are you doing to this transport?" The kid smired again as the Pilot informed us that something was coming out of the ocean and we were trapped in a tractor beam towards it. Serenity clung to her brother.

"I'm scared Joey." She said, grabbing his arm and hugging him tightly as Joey laughed.

"Don't be sis," he petted her head affectionately, looking up at the screen, "Just who are you, ya little creep?" Once again there was no response as the blimp landed in an air hangar.

"I'm the rightful heir to the Kaiba Corporation, Noah! Something that I shall have back Seto." His eyes narrowed at the elder Kaiba brother beside me, who scoffed and ignored him. The kid shrugged, "very well, now if you will exit the blimp with your friends Seto, I can get to taking back what is mine." The green-haired kid emphasised the possesive word as Kaiba walked to the exit, the rest of us following. He frowned at us, mainly at Mokuba.

"No." He said flatly, "You're not coming, this is my problem which I can very easily deal with." His eyes narrowed at me next, daring me to say something against him. I said nothing, gritting my teeth instead. Greenie didn't seem to like this development.

"I'm afraid not Seto, your friends are coming too, whether you like it not." Turrets on the high walls swung round, firing bullets at the metal surround of the exit, those of us inside leaping out of the doorway. I froze on the right hand side of the door, trying to figure out why that didn't render me a weeping wreck on the floor, sighing and feeling that I was now enured to anything crazy after Marik, I growled, throwing my usual cowardice to the wind as we filed out of the blimp before Joey shouted.

"Yeah, we don't care what you say Kaiba, this is our problem now too." A protective arm still around Serenity as Mokuba pushed past me to get to his brother, a move I mimicked to get to the front when we were directed to a narrow corridor.

"Okay, any idea just what the hell that was about?" I hissed lowly to Kaiba as all of us were sheparded to a second room, this one seemingly one large, cube-shaped motherboard. He stayed silent, "I'll take your silence as as a 'no'." I sighed before being blinded by light.

~XxX~

AN: Sucky intro chapter, but then again, that how I feel about all these chapters XD

~Ava