A/N: Reading over the next few chapters...I've realised just how much of a sadistic bitch I am to poor poor Sophie...
~Ava
~XxX~
There were two files in the main folder, one labeled 'Kaiba, Seto-Patient 228: Mental Analysis' the second labeled with something to the effect to the original title. I stared at the names for a good while, but instead clicked on the one detailing the 'Death-T' thing.
Capsule Monster Chess
Mokuba, cheating his way through some game against Yu-no, Yami. Mokuba lost, Yami...trapped Mokuba inside a capsule.
Russian Roulette
Mokuba again, somehow free at the mansion...Kaiba had summoned them there...a poisoned meal...Mokuba falling prey to the poison...
Death-T 1
...Teá, a tour guide at the insanity I was reading through, light guns, no, real guns! Kaiba had hired hitmen and used real lazer guns!
"What?" I yelped, reading through the paragraph's worth of event breakdown. The people I had come to consider friends...they were all...demented. I scrolled on through, the file seemingly like a car-crash since I couldn't look away from it. My respect for Tristan quadrupled after reading the he single-handedly took the three hired hitmen down though.
Death-T 2
I'm sorry, was I supposed to believe that Kaiba kept that mutant face-melting guy who hit him with a ruler if he fell asleep under his employ? I slammed my forehead on the desk infront of me and when I reached the name of the thing that, I had now realised Kaiba was using to try to kill Yami, Teá, Joey and Tristan, I closed the window. Resolving to continue reading later, when I didn't feel like throwing up.
"Electric Chair Ride Of Death?" I sighed and almost snickered, "Honestly, Seto?" I stared at the other file for a moment...If I read it, would he try to kill me too? I shook my head, instantly against that idea. He wouldn't...I didn't know how long ago this whole 'Death" shit was...but now, I just couldn't imagine it. Plus, why would we all be hanging around together if they still wanted to kill eachother?
Patient-228: Psych Eval.
"Patient screams at...random intervals..." I recited the words on the screen quietly, feeling shaky, "In moments of lucidity...feels himself to be repeatedly killed by Duel Monsters?" I closed that window too, standing up so fast that the chair was pushed back to collide into the wall. "Nononono..." I continued like that for at least a minute, pacing behind the desk and every now and then glancing at the computer screen like it was a rabid dog. I had no way to describe what I was feeling...it was all so insane, so fast, so wrong, so... "ARGH!" I screamed angrily, smacking the Isaac's Cradle at the opposite wall and panting with unrealeased emotions. "THOSE IDIOTS!" I was yelling now, thankful that my screams weren't shrill, "SO WHAT? YAMI BREAKS FUCKING MINDS NOW? SETO DOESN'T CARE FOR HIS BROTHER? WHAT KIND OF FUC-ARRRGGH!" I sat heavily back down in the chair, ignoring it's protests and buried my head in my hands. I was crying, yes, I knew that. I felt shaky, sick, nervous and horribly, horribly confused.
I read the entire 'Death-T' rundown in one go.
~XxX~
I was still sitting in the chair, only this time I had pulled my knees up to my chin and was organising my rapidly-changing thoughts. The tears had stopped about five minutes ago, I rationalised my crying. It wasn't for any other reason than confusion and fustration. For the moment I was numb, and that has it's advantages, I was better at organising when I was numb anyway.
"He tried to kill them." I buried my eyes into my knees for a moment, "Yami...crushed his mind. Seto tried to kill them all." I paused, "all over this mother-FUCKING cardgame!" I heard my own shout and broke my stupor, literally leaping off the chair and sprinting out of the door, knowing the Duel Arena to be ontop of the building.
I almost broke the elevator button.
~XxX~
I was still running when I heard Noah's voice, seemingly omnipotent, call from the sky. He seemed to be halfway through something, but I had been too stunned to notice before.
"-You have three minutes before the missile is launched! You have to make it to the Arcade!"
I stumbled while running before regaining my footing. All the more reason to get where I was going. I skidded to a halt in a silver hallway, seeing the Duel between Father and Son at the other end. I stalked towards the end of the corridor, not caring about anything else for the moment.
"YOU!" I yelled at the top of my voice, glaring at Seto, about six metres above and infront of me, about to play a card. "GOOD GOD MAN. I SWEAR TO WHATEVER, IF YOU WEREN'T IN THE MIDDLE OF CRUSHING THAT BASTARD, I WOULD SMACK YOU SO HARD RIGHT NOW." My blood was boiling by now as Seto looked over his shoulder, placing the card down in attack mode.
"I thought you weren't coming Callaghan. A pity that you chose to contra-" Halfway through his sentence and I couldn't bare hearing him talk, why did I feel so...betrayed?
"WELL, I WAS ACTUALLY PLANNING ON GIVING YOU AND THAT MAN PRIVACY, SO YOU COULD BREAK HIM IN PEACE. BUT NOOOO," I took a breath, noticing that eventhough I was here to berate Seto, I was also insulting Gozaburo...and I was so mad I didn't care. "NOOOO, APPARENTLY, I COULDN'T DO THAT. BECAUSE I FOUND OUT SOMETHING. YOUR LITTLE. FUCKING. PLAYGROUND." I panted, regaining my strength and breath. There was silence for a moment before playing a card to crush the...I frowned, noticing for the first time, the Egyptian clown/golem thing that was Gozaburo's monster, it seemed easily felled by the Blue Eyes that was played...
"The missile's been launched!" Noah's voice sounded from the loudspeaker in the ceiling, I threw up my hands in absolute exasperation.
"Brilliant, I'm going to die with you people and I'll never get the chance to punch you." I said, not caring anymore. A flash of red prompted me to look back at the Duel Arena and freeze. "What. The. Fuck." I stated flatly, not even feelng shocked at the sight of a forty metre high, red...monster. "What the-" Four things happened very fast and almost simultainiously. The Gozaburo-monster dove for Seto, Yugi materialised from seemingly no-where and ran up to the control panel to pull a lever, Seto leapt to our level in time to avoid being hit and we all had to flee...my reaction time wasn't as fast as theirs however, leading me to feel a hand close around mine and drag me from my frozen spot. I stumbled into a run, feeling the hand let go as I sped up to a good run beside my frie-people I associated with. We broke into the outside, onto the roof and I felt the ground shake as we were chased. "OW! Damnit..." The walls behind us crumbled under the strength of the red monster and the three of us had to skid to a halt to avoid running over the edge of the building.
"What now?" Yugi yelled to the air, apparently the air was listening and had Noah's voice.
"Jump! It's your only option! I'll make an exit!"
"No fucking way, kid."
"No."
My cursing and Seto's bluntness were counteracted by three words from Yugi.
"We have to!" Yugi spoke before running and leaping off the edge. A millisecond's hesitation before I too leapt off the edge in a practiced swan dive, thankful that my mother had forced me into diving lessons at out local swimming pool.
I woke up in a horrible cliché.
It had all been a dream.
"Mokuba! Wake up!" Seto's voice forced me to open my eyes and actually get out of the pod I had apparently been placed in. I swung my legs out and stood shakily before glancing at the computer screen that dominated one wall of the room we were in. We had thirty seconds.
"Is he awake?" I barked, no time for my personal angst but certainly time to take some semblance of control.
"Noah!" Mokuba's voice answered me and I nodded, having not even looked at the three just yet, fleeing the room and knowing they were right behind me.
~XxX~
Four of us, running for our lives down a runway was not how I had wanted this day to end. I had the lead on the other three, reaching the blimp before it got too far off the ground and grabbing onto Teá's outstretched arm, hauling myself onto the stairs and forcing a smile for her. I finally glanced behind me, in time to see Seto throw his brother onto the blimp, bowling over Duke and Tristan in the process, he himself leapt over them and landed next to Teá, Serenity and I. Yugi was grabbed by Joey and pulled onto the blimp in time for the missile to hit. Of course, byt that time two of us with the same idea had already fled to the control room, me to see if there was enough power to outrun the blast, Seto to...hit a big red button.
"This thing has wings?" I stated dryly, raising an eyebrow and glaring at him.
~XxX~
A/N: Forgive the mountain of suck that is this chapter, I'm writing two essays at the same time. "This is not an assignment you can do the night before and get an A grade with." Challenge accepted Chimb, challenge accepted. XD
Yeah, I'm writing the next chapter too XD
Lightest ink? I CAN'T. YOU'VE DIABLED PRIVATE MESSAGING XD So I shall explain for everyone here.
Death -T was basically a theme-park built by Seto Kaiba for the sole purpose of killing Yugi and/or his friends due to two things, (A) Kaiba's the kind of petty idiot who take cardgames as SRS BSNS and hated losing, (B) Kaiba had already been defeated by Yami at said cardgame, Yami had proceeded to inflict the Penalty Game, "Sensation Of Death" on Kaiba, meaning that he basically felt like he was being repeatedly killed by Duel Monsters. The Manga actually has him debilitated and in a wheelchair for several chapters. If Yugi survived the levels of "death" he would Duel Kaiba. He did, and he won, inflicting another Penalty Game on Kaiba, crushing is evil side and making him vaugely normal. But the way that the entire volume went was terrible. He didn't care for Mokuba's safety and Mokuba tried to kill Yugi several times. Actually, in the first volume or so of the Manga, both the Kaiba's were little bastards.
Mina! HAR DE HAR HAR, I MADE NO SUCH BET. ¬_¬ XD
Mouzif? You made me laugh, thank you XD
~Ava