Stardust Finex: Greetings, today, I present to you: Chapter 8! :D
Dark Mist: Yes, interesting, but can we get on with the story?
Stardust Finex: Chill out, Dark Mist.
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Chapter 8
Akari growled angrily at the computer monitor. The lavender-haired woman was not very pleased at the moment. She slammed her fist on the table. "Damn it! Marc Thomas* got the scoop about the card robbery before I did! That was gonna be MY story!" Akari groaned as she dropped her head onto her desk.
Haru noticed her granddaughter had her head down. Worried, the little old lady wandered over to Akari. "Dear, are you alright? You don't seem so well," she said, placing a hand on Akari's shoulder.
Akari shot up from her desk. She groaned, "There was an update on that museum robbery and Marc Thomas beat me to it! You know, a LOT of things have been happening around Heartland because of that crook. Whenever he commits a crime, a shadow always surrounds him and he like, instantly vanishes!"
The Holo-TV then blared, "We bring you an update on the museum robbery, live with Bekah Harris."
The said woman on the screen smiled. "Ah, thank you, Elijah. As of today, museum officials have released more footage of the crime from last night. The security footage doesn't have any good quality, but we were able to get an image of a strange pendent the thief was wearing," said Bekah.
An image of the thief's pendant came onto the screen. Akari and Haru gasped at the picture.
"YUMA?" shouted both women in shock.
"As you can see, the thief was seen wearing this necklace at the time of the crime last night. If you have seen a boy wearing a pendant like this one, call the nearest authorities NOW, before he commits another robbery! I'm Bekah Harris, and this is Heartland City News."
Kurai wedged through the attic window. Getting in and out of the window was not easy as he had expected. Hey, if you're commuting a heist, it's worth going through the trouble. The boy struggled to squeeze through, because it was small. He grunted, "Come on, stupid piece of glass! Open already!" Suddenly, the window snapped and whopped him, right in the butt. The boy felt his butt sting from the glass pressing against him.
"OWWW! GOD DAMMIT! THAT ******* HURT!" screamed Kurai. After some struggle, he finally fell through the window and fell onto the floor. "Ugh, damn window…" Kurai groaned, "at least it was worth getting my ass
whopped for a rare card."
Kurai searched through his pocket an pulled out the card he had stolen from Heartland City Muesuem*. The card was not just any ordinary Duel Monsters card, but a Number Card. "Number 2: BioDragon," he read. "What exactly can this Number do anyway?"
Suddenly, pounding feet could be heard below. Kurai realized who was coming. "Crap! That old lady and the devil woman must have heard me when that window whopped my ass! Shoot! What the hell am I-"
Akari poked her head through the attic stairs. She had a concerned look on her face. "Yuma, you have a LOT of explaining to do, young man! Why was YOUR Key on the TV?"
Her silence showed she wanted an answer.
"Well?" snapped Akari, tapping her foot.
Kurai tried to process what to say. He realized his cover had been blown. Quickly, he thought of a plan.
"Well, you see," his eyes gazed toward the windows, "I…. uhhh… gotta go, lady! Catch you later!"
The lavender-haired woman looked at her brother in confusion as he shifted towards the window. She said, "Yuma, what do you think you're doing? Get back here, RIGHT NOW!"
Kurai turned around. He stuck his tongue at Akari. "Not a chance!"
The boy took a great leap towards the window, and millions of shards of glass spewed onto the ground as he crashed through. Kurai rolled onto the roof like a ball. He felt a little queasy from the rolling. He crashed into the garden below. "Not good! I can't be here anymore! I know what I must do now!" He quickly got up from the ground and quickly ran off towards the streets.
Akari watched her brother run away from the shattered attic window. "YUMA!" she shouted. She grabbed a pair of shoes and carefully made her way over the broken glass. She frantically looked over the roof, hoping to find her brother.
"Rrghh! Where did Yuma go off too? All I did was ask him ONE question and he just goes off and crashes through a window!" cried Akari.
Suddenly, Haru ran up into the attic frantically, with Obomi following the small lady. "Dear, I heard a crash! What was that awful noise? It sounded like something was breaking!"
Akari shifted towards Haru, tears were streamed all over her face. "Yuma ran off!" she said, controlling her tears. "Ever since he caused trouble in school last week**, he's always been disappearing!"
Kurai ran and ran through the streets, guided by the lamp posts. He kept running for a while. His mind was racing, processing everything. "Stupid woman! She blew my cover! I guess it's time for phase two of my plan to start now!"
Meanwhile…..
Kotori was in her room, reading a magazine. She noticed it was getting a little dark in her room. She set her magazine on her bed, and walked towards the switch to her ceiling lights. As she made her way towards the switch, she heard a knock on her window.
"Huh? Who could that be?" wondered Kotori.
She opened her window, only to find nothing there. "That's odd, I swore I heard SOMETHING."
Suddenly, Kotori smelled a foul odor from outside. She held her nose. "Ugh! What the heck is that? It smells horrible!" For some reason, she felt really sleepy. Her eyes started to close as she fell onto the floor.
Kurai climbed through Kotori's window, and made his way into Kotori's room. He put his sleeping chemicals away and reached into his pockets. In his hand was a rock the size of a baseball. Just to be sure Kotori was out, Kurai hurled the baseball-sized rock at the girl.
She didn't move an inch.
Kurai breathed a sigh of relief. "There, you're finally mine, Kotori Mizuki," said the boy. He carefully slung an unconscious Kotori over his shoulders as he made his way out of Kotori's bedroom window.
Once Kurai was on the ground, he ran towards a bush. He reached into it and a burlap sack was pulled out of the bush. He carefully placed Kotori inside the burlap sack, and cut an airhole on the bag. He slung the bag over his shoulders, and darted towards the heart of Heartland City: Heartland Tower.
* Marc Thomas is a reference to Marc Thompson, Astral's English dub voice actor!
** Kurai had robbed the museum during the time when Yuma was sleeping on the park bench last chapter.
*** See Chapter 6.
Stardust Finex: Yes, my friends, Kurai finally has Kotori, or does he?
Yuma: Huh? Kurai what?
Anna: Yuma, we'll get her back!
Yuma: I hope so!
