Chapter 40

Kaiba had known from the moment this duel had started it would only be a matter of time before someone asked that question, but even so he hadn't expected it quite so soon. As such he wasn't prepared to answer it just yet. Because answering it required explanations and explanations took time and time wasn't really a luxury they really had.

'So have you finished your turn yet or not?' Kaiba focused his gaze on the redhead.

'Yeah, I end.'

'Good. Draw,' he pulled the top card from his deck and added it to his hand.

'Hey Kaiba,' Mai's voice contained all the annoyingly taunting tones Joey's would have had, 'I thought you said you weren't deaf.'

'I'm not.'

'Then why haven't you answered your brother's question?'

'Just because I heard the question doesn't mean I have to answer it.'

'Maybe not normally, but in this situation I'm pretty sure you do.'

'Do I have to remind you that I'm in the middle of a duel right now Wheeler?'

'More like the middle of a gender crisis.'

'Like you can talk,' Kaiba glared at her.

'Hey I'm not the issue here; you're the one playing some girl's deck as though it were your own,' Mai's face pulled with a serious expression. 'So how long have you been living this double life for Kaiba? Did you always know you wanted to be a girl or was that something you discovered later on?'

'Shut up, we don't have time for this now Wheeler,' he gritted his teeth. 'What the hell makes you think it's that simple anyway? Just let me finish this duel in peace.'

'Fine, but the second it's over you and I need to have a very serious chat about this.'

'Whatever,' he turned his attention back to his opponent. 'First I activate my other face down card, Monster Reborn and I'm using it to bring back my Guardian Angel Joan. I'm also summoning my Fairy Dragon of the Garden in attack mode.'

A sleek, serpent necked dragon, no higher than his knee, appeared on the field before him. The pink scales which fell from the crown of its head down along its back, faded seamlessly into the silver tipped white of its legs, feet and underbelly. Its white blushed, gently curved face was almost seal like in appearance and its long, delicate, lacy wings were like those of a dragonfly. There was no denying that this was a very elegant dragon and with an attack of two thousand, it was powerful for a four star monster; there was only one drawback.

'I hope you weren't too attached to that Dark Magician, because it's about to leave the field. Angel Joan attack.'

'Nice move,' the redhead laughed as her field stood empty and her life points dropped to three thousand five hundred and his rose to six thousand nine hundred, 'my life points are wide open now.'

'I know,' Kaiba met her gaze, 'I end my turn.'

'What?' Mai's voice was once again loud and obnoxious. 'Your dragon could take a serious dent out of her life points, why aren't you attacking with it?'

'Fairy Dragons can't attack a players life points directly,' Mokuba shook his head.

'How do you know that?'

'This is Piper's deck remember and I've watched her play enough times to know what her favourite monster can do.'

'So she uses the Fairy Dragon a lot then?' She gave a smug half laugh. 'Like Kaiba and his Blue Eyes, next you'll tell me that she has three in her deck and she normally fuses them together to form an even bigger Fairy Dragon.'

'Err… yeah, actually she does.'

'And you lot thought she was Téa because…?'

'Its still a deck full of fairies Joey.'

Rolling his eyes, Kaiba turned his attention back towards his opponent, who had already drawn the top card from her deck. With only one card in her hand and no cards on the field, he knew there wasn't a lot she could really do. What happened next all depended on what she'd just drawn.

'Okay I play Zombyra the Dark in attack mode,' a cloaked, skull armoured, zombie like creature, with two thousand one hundred attack points, appeared before her, 'and with that, I end my turn.'

It was pretty obvious from the monster she'd picked that the redhead was utilising the weakness of his Fairy Dragon. Sighing heavily, he studied the two cards in his hand, Polymerisation and his second Fairy Dragon of the Garden.

'I lay one card face down, then play my second Fairy Dragon in attack mode,' Kaiba lay placed the cards onto his dueldisk. 'You're Zombyra has twenty-one hundred attack points, making it stronger than either of my dragons, but it's still vulnerable to an attack from my Angel Joan. So say goodbye to your poor excuse for a defensive monster.'

His Angel attacked, her life points dropped to two thousand eight hundred and his rose to nine thousand.

'I end my turn.'

'Good,' she grinned, 'I just hope this is a better draw. Huh,' she stared down at her new card, 'not what I'd hoped for, but not too bad, I guess. I play Gift of the Mystical Elf, which restores my life points by three hundred for each monster on the field.' As she said this her life points rose to three thousand seven hundred. 'I guess all I can do now is end my turn and prey you don't get another monster that can actually attack me directly.'

'Draw.'

He glanced briefly down at the card he'd just drawn, it wasn't his third Fairy Dragon; in fact it wasn't a monster card at all. Ignoring it, he continued with his move.

'I attack your life points directly with my Angel Joan.'

Her life points dropped to nine hundred.

'I end my turn.'

'Looks like I'm up again,' she laughed as she drew a new card. 'Ah, now this is more like it,' she grinned. 'I lay one monster face down and end my turn.'

'Draw.' Again, not his third Fairy Dragon, not that it really mattered at this stage. 'I attack your face down card with my first Fairy Dragon.'

'Thought you would,' she clapped her hands excitedly, as her face down monster was destroyed. 'See my defensive monster was Masked Dragon, meaning I get to play another dragon, with fifteen hundred attack points or less, from my deck and I choose my second Masked Dragon.' She quickly sorted through her deck and placed another Masked Dragon down on the field in defence mode.

'Fine, guess I'll just have to attack that one with my other Fairy Dragon.'

'I thought you might do that,' she poked her tongue out childishly, as her second dragon was destroyed, 'time to summon a new dragon and I think I'm going to choose my third Masked Dragon.'

'So your life points are safe for this turn,' he rolled his eyes. 'You won't be so lucky next turn. I use my Angel Joan to destroy your third Masked Dragon.'

'And I get to play my Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1 in defence mode,' she laughed again. 'Looks like just when you thought I was down for the count, my deck comes through for me.'

'You're bragging over one lucky turn?' Kaiba shook his head. 'I end.'

'Draw,' she slid the top card off her deck. 'Well what do you know, Pot of Greed, its always handy to have more than one of these in a deck,' swiftly she activated it and drew two more cards. 'Oh,' her eyes flashed excitedly, 'I think I'm going to enjoy this. First I activate Monster Reborn, in order to bring back one of my Masked Dragons, but its not going to be hanging around for too long,' she laughed once again, but this time it sounded much more arrogant and cruel than before, 'because next I sacrifice it, along with my Winged Dragon, in order to summon the one, the only, Blue Eyes White Dragon.'