Chapter 2
As the two women was stood admiring the bike trying to think on which way to go with this, Pete snuck up behind them and looked over the same thing and then to the youngest member of their team, "Claudia, is there some secret admirer you have?"
She looked up to her older brother figure and shook her head, "No I don't Pete, in fact I haven't the foggiest on what's going on, I'm suddenly receiving a bike, a duel monster disk and a deck! I mean come on yeah I always wanted to play it as a kid but I never got chance." Myka stood back for a moment closing her eye's and pointing her index finger upwards to the sky, "Hold on a minute, you keep saying Duel Monsters and other stuff like that but what is it?"
At that moment Claudia's mouth dropped and her brown eye's widened in shock, "You don't know Duel monsters Myka? It's only the hottest trading card game in the world! There's this really cool website where you can go and people on line can trade you rare cards, or ask for cards, sometimes even sell them!"
Before Claudia could go any further a buzzing sound was coming from Pete, he took out a very old antique IPod and opened it up, on the other end was a deep sounding voice "Pete! Are you all still at the B&B? I need you all down at the warehouse, we have a ping and Claudia is on inventory duty today" He could hear the young teenager groan in the background, "No groaning young lady, wait…. She's actually awake and no one's had to drag her out of bed by the ankles?"
"Not today Gramps, Well at least I can see on how good this thing runs, catch you all down at the warehouse!" Claudia spoke excited, running back into the B&B to grab her rucksack, wallet and phone then ran back outside to see the other two older agents stood in front of the bike, Arms crossed and stern faces.
"Sorry Claud, were not going to let you ride this death trap, if anything I'm going to run it to you know….make sure it's safe." Pete spoke holding his hands out for the keys. Claudia's heart dropped, they wanted to take away her new gift that was meant just for her, "Pete… there's donuts in my bedroom." At that his eye's lit up and he ran into the B&B shouting "OH! Donuts!"
Although Myka was still stubborn, until she could see the sadness inside Claudia's brown eye's, "Please Myk's, I've never once received something this awesome in my life, please please please?" the older agent sighed, "Fine, but! You are telling Artie about this Seto Kaiba. Straight away" At that Claudia hugged the older agent, jumped on the bike and kick started the engine. A grin spread across the teenager's face "Oh to be able to feel the power between my legs again is good!" She slammed the helmet on and revved the engine up, "See you at the warehouse, oh and make sure Pete doesn't trash my room please" with that she sped off into the distance of South Dakota desert.
It didn't take long for the red headed teenager to get to the warehouse, as she was approaching, she saw the large iron door open and someone standing outside, she quickly sped to a halt in front of that person, he was rather large and round on the tummy, grey in the hair, small round glasses, his clothing was rather old fashioned but he stood there his arms crossed looking to the girl. She took off the helmet and grinned to him, "Hey there dino dude."
He stalked up to the girl and ragged the key's out of the engine and giving her a hard look, "You went and got a death trap!" Her face fell "No, I didn't, someone sent it to me as a gift,"
He turned around sliding the silver key's into his pocket, "Well you're not riding that damn thing stick to your precious Prius. Now move we've got work to do" he walked forward into the large old building that was currently Warehouse 13, sighing, the teenager managed to drag herself off the bike and into the warehouse out of the blazing heat of July's warm summer.
It didn't take long to get through the pass codes and retina scans to be in the main office of the Warehouse, Claudia went to the mini fridge she installed under her small desk and pulled out a bottle of coke. Artie stood over her with arms crossed, "Pete called me back after you left the B&B whining about some Donuts in your room and the fact that you've been receiving mysterious gifts."
She placed her rucksack on the table and nodded sitting down crossing her long slender legs, "Yup, In which I actually have some questions for you Artie," "For me? Listen Claudia if you have some random boy in your life sending you love gifts I get it but a Ducati for crying out loud! They are –" he was cut off when Claudia stood up, Anger slightly in her face, "Some boy? No Artie, you've got it all wrong in fact I think what you meant to say is some UNCLE! Has been sending me gifts."
Artie was taken back, his face went from anger to confused, "Uncle? What uncle?" Claudia stood up from her seat, raising her hands slightly "What do you mean WHAT UNCLE? Artie don't think I don't know that you knew about this, Does the name Seto Kaiba ring a bell to your puny mind?"
Artie stepped back, he looked around the Warehouse, he had heard that name somewhere before but couldn't place it, Claudia took this as him knowing about her uncle, "Artie! How many more lies are you going to tell me? How many more heart aches are you-" "I didn't know Claudia! Really I didn't! I thought after Joshua you had no more living blood relatives, the hospital had it down as your parent's being only children."
"Then why is this dude turning round to me now? Look!" she opened up her bag and poured the contents out, A duel disk, a Deck the letter with the contact number on it. She grabbed the letter and shoved it into his face, "it say's here, he's been searching for me for years, but I've been kept hidden ARTIE! I have a right to know!"
"He doesn't know anything Agent Donovan" Both of them turned around to see an African American woman standing there in a salmon pink suit, her hair up in a tight bun, black framed glasses and black purse been tightly secure to her body. "Mrs.F? what are you doing here?"
"I've come to try and explain to you Claudia about this situation, No Artie doesn't know anything about , these records was kept hidden even from him. Don't blame Artie for this one" Claudia couldn't believe it, she had a mutual trust with the current Warehouse caretaker, then realisation hit her, "You…it was you who stopped me from knowing my only Uncle?"
She slowly began to walk up to the African woman, but the woman never moved, blinked or flinched, "Yes it was, but it was by the orders of your father I kept this information a secret from you, until you was old enough to be able to understand."
"MY Father? But… he was just an ordinary business man…boring old accountant at that" Claudia had to sit down, this information was a lot to take in, "Yes he was, and that's how he wanted the rest of his life to be, but I approached him when you had just been born into the world my dear, I could sense something from you, a connection, so I pulled him to the side and told him about the destiny for you had, but he didn't want anything. He didn't want you to have any type of destiny at all and to be kept safe, especially from his older brother Seto Kaiba.
Mokuba was a young honest man, he made me a promise, that if anything happened to him and your mother that I keep you hidden from his brother. To make sure you followed what you wanted to do. But now that Seto Kaiba has found you, you have to make a choice Agent Donovan"
Just as Claudia angrily ran a hand through her red locks, the umbilical door opened up to Reviel Myka, Pete and also another man, "you want me to contact him and meet him don't you?" Mrs. Fredrick nodded to her, "And I will be with you when you do, but we are not going to do this on his terms Agent Donovan, we are going to do this on your terms, but I do suggest you begin to study and learn what he has sent you. I have a feeling this has something to do with the role he wants you to fill"
"Your saying he wants to duel me, but I have no idea on how to even play the game!" at this she noticed a smirk growing on the African womans face, "No, but Artie does." At hearing his name, Artie turned his attention to them, but began to shrink back when he noticed the look on his teenager's face, she slowly stood up "Artie knows duel monsters?" He slowly patted down the wrinkles in his shirt and stuttered slightly, "y..yes I know some… maybe have a slight impressive collection but… wait you going to make Claudia go through with this? I don't trust this man in the slightest! He could be trying to get information out of her about the warehouse"
"Arthur Nelson! I asure you that knows nothing about the warehouse, he just wants Claudia to inherit Kaiba Corp and run the business after he retires. So for now you are going to teach Agent Donovan about duelling, And I will contact to make arrangements on him coming to South Dakota as you know I can be quite persuasive" they all nodded to that, but when they was going to speak to the woman again they had noticed she disappeared into thin air.
Claudia leaned against the desk, "I so need to know how she does that…. If I'm ever going to be caretaker." "Caretaker? Claud your going to be a millionaire!" Exclaimed Pete walking over to attempting to hug the woman, but she pushed him off "Ew Pete germs!"
Artie walked over to his teenager, "Claudia you don't have to do this you know, you don't have to do anything that you don't want to do you know that…" she gave a sigh and looked to everyone in the room, "I know, but if this guy really is my uncle then I need to know, I … can't ask Joshua about him because…. He disappeared from Cern over a year ago and hasn't been seen since, and Claire was in a coma for over 15 years her memories of being younger are still fuzzy." She picked up the deck and looked over the top card, "So the only way I'm going to find out is by playing this game. Artie I've never asked you for much but please…. Teach me."
3 weeks passed by rather quickly for Claudia Donovan, almost every minute of the day, she had books in front of her, her laptop, duel disk to the side and studying each card in the deck her mysterious uncle had given her. Artie had shown the girl his extreamly impressive collection of duel monster cards, her eye's had skimmed over each one but her heart started to love the game, Artie said she was a natural at it, her skills had improved from day one where she freaked out about a giant ancient gear monster being on his side of the field compared to her puny wizard on her side. She had made many mistakes like trying to play trap cards face up on their first turn, trying to summon high level monsters instead of learning the rules and tributing to be able to summon a monster.
Even though the deck she had been given was just a bunch of crap cards thrown together, she kept them close, took care of them and even began making modifications to the duel disk. She didn't like the design at all, it was too big and bulky for her small arms. So one night she opened it up and began to see how it was all connected together, how it worked then began to input her own design methods.
That was the only problem Claudia had, give her some kind of machine and she begins to tinker with it until it's to her liking. In the end she had made it into a smaller compact duel disk that fit on her wrist properly without having to almost fall over, it still had all 5 slots for holding duel monster cards, deck holder, graveyard holder, basically everything but the design was in a smoother black polished duel disk.
Once she had played her Gagaga girl on that new improved duel disk, the 3D imaging graphics was more smother and looked more real than her bosses. She was rather proud with herself on the modifications and had promised to Artie she would make him a new one now that she understood on how the Duel disks are run.
On the last day of the 3rd week, Claudia was stood across from Artie her black lips held out a smirk "Oh Pooh Bear! It's over!" She showed him a green magic card with the name Smashing grounds on it, "I activate Smashing grounds meaning your Ultimate Ancient gear Golem is going to the graveyard and your life points are left wide open, Now Utopia! Finish gramps off!" With that the large yellow warrior's swords began to shine like the sun, and slashed Artie in a cross formation to take the last of the 1000 life points he had left.
Once the life point counter hit Zero, the holograms left the field and Claudia jumped in the air, "HA! That's the 10th time in a row Dino Dude I win." Artie let out a laugh and nodded wiping of dust from his brown jacket, "That you did my dear, you've improved so much from not knowing anything about this game to being a very skilled duelist, you've made me very proud." He pushed up his thin framed glasses up his nose and walked over to her giving the taller girl a pat on her back. "There's nothing else I can really teach you, you've mastered that deck all it is now is a waiting game for when Kaiba gets here, which should be any minute now."
At that, when those words left his mouth, the sounds of a chopper was heard above their heads, looking up they saw a man leaning out of it slightly holding onto the door, his face held a hardened look on it but when his eye's landed on Claudia they softened slightly, Shielding their eye's until the chopper was on the ground and the propellers was shut off they couldn't see anything in the dusty desert of South Dakota.
Until the sounds of footsteps reached the teenagers ears stopping slightly in front of them, "it's about time I get to see you Claudia Kaiba… My niece." She pulled her arms away from her eye's to see a tall looking man, wearing jeans, long sleeve purple top and a long white trench coat, his brown hair held grey streaks running through it, but them eye's, them brown eye's, she felt them staring right into her soul. Until she clicked onto what he said, "Excuse me fossil brain, but my name is Claudia Donovan….DONOVAN!"
He just grunted, "Trust Mokuba to take that woman's last name, enough chatter though but as you must know I am your uncle… Seto Kaiba."
He looked her up and down to see what she was wearing, black skinny jeans with a long sleeve Forrest green shirt, blue denim jacket over it, green converse and her hair tied back, her black signature make up was on her face, as well as some black lipstick.
His eye's then fell onto the duel disk on her wrist, "What did you do to my Duel disk?"
A smirk was then placed upon her lips, one that he recognised as his own smirk, "why I took that old tech and re-modelled it for something more 21st century dude, Now spill! I've been waiting three weeks to see you face to face, What .. do…you…want…"
Was the last words she spoke until she saw him with a duel disk, he slid it on his arm, "You're going to have to duel me to find out Dear Niece, Gramps can stay over there, otherwise he may just get hurt."
With that he powered up the duel disk on his wrist, and she stood backwards powering up her own, their decks automatically re-shuffled "Your on fossil head."
And with that The duel began…
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Well guy's that's it for the second chapter, I hoped you enjoyed reading it!
Wow Mrs.F was keeping Seto a secret from Claudia?
And now she's about to duel Seto Kaiba?
Curedream90~ and ArticDragonSlayer~ over and out!