Chapter Four

Blue Eyes, White Lights

Review. Yes, it's just that simple. Please. ~DarkFoxPriestess

Aquarius stood on her side of the arena. She'd strapped her duel disk onto her arm and already had her deck in place. She wasn't comfortable being under the gaze of so many people. Kaiba however, seemed to be right at home.

"Are you ready?" He called adjusting his pose. His white trench jacket fluttered as he moved.

"Yes." She nodded unsure of herself.

"Let the duel begin!" The designated judge proclaimed.

"I'm so going to die." Aquarius murmured despairingly glancing up at the observer's box where Yugi was giving her thumbs up. She narrowed her eyes and gave him a glare, if it hadn't been for him she wouldn't even be in this situation!

Kaiba looked across the field at the woman in front of him. She definitely was attractive, but did she have what it takes?

"I summon Baby Dragon and end my turn." Kaiba stated. Aquarius studied her hand. "I place this card face down in defense mode." She stated placing the hidden Man Eating Bug in a slot.

Sure enough, Kaiba fell for it. He attacked and destroyed his creature as well as her own. This however left his life points vulnerable.

Aquarius smiled as she drew a card from her deck. Kaiba was fidgeting; he knew he was in trouble now. He hadn't thought that she really knew what she was doing. Now he found himself hoping that she was just lucky.

"You really think that'll work?" Mokuba asked Yugi.

"Aquarius may be new at this game, but she's a quick study. I think she's Seto's perfect match." Yugi commented.

"I'm beginning to see that. Tell me you have a plan on how to get them together. Seto's been so unhappy lately I can't handle his mood swings anymore!" Mokuba pleaded.

"Oh, I do indeed." Yugi smiled.

While Yugi threw himself into the explaining of his plot and of Aquarius's background the duel below them intensified. Aquarius had summoned a Harpy Lady and attacked Kaiba head on. Kaiba's life points dropped from 5000 to 3500. Kaiba groaned from the slash attack the creature had given him. This was ridiculous! He shouldn't be able to be beat by a girl! Time to make things difficult for the little she-wolf in front of him.

"I place these two trap or magic cards face down and end my turn." Kaiba stated as he smirked. Nothing like a little mind game, he thought with a small chuckle.

Aquarius stared at the arena nervously. Her life sized Harpy Lady floated nearby, yet Kaiba's cards had her a little preoccupied. She drew a card from her deck and looked up at the observation box and mumbled something incoherently.

"I don't suppose there's a way for me to gracefully bow out?" Aquarius questioned from across the field.

Kaiba smirked at the tremor in her voice. "Don't tell me you're getting nervous?" He called back.

"I didn't want to do this to begin with! I just learned how to play, all right? You've been doing this for a really long time!" Aquarius called trying to explain to him her situation.

"So you're saying you are an amateur? Why am I not surprised?" Kaiba mocked.

Aquarius's cheeks flushed red. "I place two trap or magic cards face down and end my turn, you cocky jerk." She stated still visibly flustered.

Kaiba's smirk widened. He'd finally gotten to her. However, he didn't much appreciate her call him names.

"I trigger my two trap cards. Wabooka, which gives me 500 life points back, giving me a total of 4200. The second card triggered is Card Dispose. Discard your hand, we get a whole new one." Kaiba smirked at the astonished look on her face.

Aquarius drew her five cards and could have shot Kaiba. All of them were high power monsters! She'd need to get another smaller creature on the field in order to get even one of them out there. That was assuming that Kaiba hadn't drawn a stronger monster to destroy her Harpy Lady. She hoped she had enough luck to pull through this.

She didn't have enough luck to last the round.

"I use Change of Heart to take control of your Harpy Lady." Kaiba stated playing the card.

Aquarius waited and winced for the virtual slash attack she had inflicted upon Kaiba only moments before. It didn't come. Aquarius looked up to see Kaiba with a smirk on his lips and an arched eyebrow.

"I'm not finished yet." He smirked as he took another card from his hand.

"I sacrifice your Harpy Lady and summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Kaiba proclaimed dramatically as her creature disappeared.

The large dragon appeared directly in front of Aquarius and let out a terrifying roar. Suddenly she felt that the virtual creature wasn't so virtual at all. Aquarius felt her world blurring around the edges as Kaiba attacked. The large dragon reared its head readying itself for an attack it wouldn't be able to make. Aquarius felt nothing as she fell forward in what seemed to be a faint. The duel disk slid off her arm and across the floor, landing at Kaiba's feet. Kaiba narrowed his eyes, Aquarius wasn't getting back up. Yugi rushed past him to see to his friend while Mokuba stopped by his brother.

"What'd you do?" Mokuba questioned as they stayed a few feet away from the crumpled form.

"I summoned Blue Eyes and when it was about to attack she fainted." Kaiba shrugged secretly getting a little worried.

Yugi slid on the floor stopping next to his friend. He shook her gently then with more force.

"Aquarius! Wake up!" He yelled now thrashing the girl's body frantically.

"Call a medic." Kaiba told Mokuba. Mokuba quickly did as he was instructed while Seto kneeled down beside Yugi.

"She's not responding." Yugi spoke frantically.

Kaiba nodded and shrugged out of his jacket. He gently put it over Aquarius's body. He checked her pulse, which was abnormally fast. Carefully he pushed back her eyelid to see that her pupils were incredibly large and fully dilated. She was barely breathing yet her body was freezing cold to the touch.

An EMS crew rushed across the floor. A large blond haired man knelt beside Kaiba and repeated the same movements. "Bring a stretcher!" Another person rushed onto the stage and helped the first place Aquarius on it. The blonde-haired person turned to face Kaiba. "She's in shock. What happened?" He asked as he slid the stretcher into the ambulance.

"She's never done this before." Yugi fretted as he and Kaiba moved into the ambulance. Yugi sat beside the official while Kaiba sat across holding the side of the stretcher with white knuckles.

"She was dueling." Kaiba stated glancing to the ashen face of Aquarius.

Aquarius's eyes flashed open; her face was contorted in pain as she grasped her throat.

"What's going on?" Yugi yelled as the blond rushed for objects in the vehicle.

"He's going to need to intonate! She can't breathe on her own, she choking." Kaiba stated hurriedly as the man came back with a straight razor and tube.

"You hold her down." The man instructed.

Pure terror filled Aquarius's eyes as Kaiba held her arms to her side. Kaiba stared deep into the violet eyes; he was leaning over her as she stopped struggling.

"Everything will be fine, Aquarius. I promise, I'll protect you." He spoke reassuringly his eyes displaying his sincerity.

"I trust you." Aquarius spoke her voice breaking as she went unconscious again.

The blond attendee rushed and made a small incision in Aquarius's throat and slid the oxygen tube inside. Her heartbeat slowed to a more regular beat. The vehicle came to a stop and a new team rushed, grabbing the stretcher. Yugi and Kaiba raced after the group. A doctor ran to talk to both men.

"I want her taken to the best private room, and all her needs taken care of. I'm Seto Kaiba and I want everything done right and correctly." Kaiba snapped out.

"I'm Doctor Robb, I'll be taking care of her. Tell me what happened and leave nothing out." The Doctor stated.