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Chapter 3

Giant Camel Spiders

Date: Unknown
Time: Unknown

Seto Kaiba awoke to someone nudging his shoulder and calling out his name. He opened his eyes and quickly realized what happened. All the memories of Regan protecting him and his brother and then their attempt to escape from Brittney, the crazy psychopathic woman and then finally, when the laser hitting him. "Mokuba!" He yelled sitting up quickly.

"He's not here and neither are the others." A familiar voice said behind him. "Not even the items can connect to where we are."

Kaiba growled as he stood up and turned to the other figure. "Perfect, so we were split up and I just happened to get stuck with you."

"It would seem that way, Priest." The shorter man taunted. "Now were we actually sent here are we hooked up to pods?"

"We were sent here, Pharaoh Obvious. I wouldn't have just made up my rant because of some make belief technology. I created and tested it out myself; that was the laser that sends objects and people to the Virtual World." Kaiba retorted. Atem huffed and Kaiba rolled his eyes as he decided to look at where the hell they were. The temperature was warm and there was sand everywhere. There were cliffs that created a valley where it seemed that he had to go through it. He looked up and placed his hand up to cover the sun that was piecing his eyes. There wasn't a single cloud in sight and with the position of the sun it was going to be hitting noon in few hours. 'This looks a lot like Egypt.' He sighed to himself. "Have an idea where we are, you have been awake longer than I have."

"I thought you created this place that you would know." Atem replied.

"You do realize the Virtual World can be easily messed with, this isn't some game I created; your psychotic girlfriend's people did."

The so called pharaoh sighed. "Well from my own experiences I'd think this is Egypt."

Kaiba smirked to himself, 'Well I give myself a point.'

Atem looked at him. "I sometimes I wonder why I bother, you already knew where we were. Why did you ask me?"

"Because you know where we are best, I was just making sure of that, Pharaoh. Now move your two little legs and get us someplace. You know the way better than I do."

"I would have to bet that you know as much as I do." Atem replied kicking a scorpion away.

"Don't start on that,"

"Ah huh, you ever imagine Alex having long white-blue hair and deep blue eyes. I can imagine it, and if I think about it even more I would stick her next to a certain girl five thousand years ago and oh my-"

"Whatever, melt out here for all I care I'm finding out where the hell the little boss fight is." Kaiba snorted as he tried to ignore the image his companion was placing into his head and started to walk away.

"I thought you didn't know where you were going?"

"I found my inner map, now shut up and start walking, Regan will be pissed if I left you behind."

"Oh now you're afraid of Regan, please do tell why?" Atem asked as he followed him.

Kaiba sighed. He knew that Atem was giving him a hard time on purpose just so he could keep on task. "I don't feel like being on the other side of her aura spear she has going on, like I said before she's a bloody killing machine if she wanted to be, and I should know, I gave her the opportunity and she took it."

"Afraid it might come bite you in the ass later?"

"Not afraid, I know it will, some way or somehow and it probably won't even be her doing."

They went on silently for their walk into the valley. For what it should have been the Valley of the Kings, there weren't any caves that should have been there. Kaiba could be patient while they played this game, patience, though he hardly showed it when he was doing company work, was one of the only things that kept them from going completely nuts. He knew Mr. Pharaoh could hold his own and with the random snake or two that popped up the two of them quickly kicked them away without much care. The heat continued to rise and his internal clock back up to date told him it was still very much late into the night, but the virtual world time was telling that every half hour that passed, another hour was added.

After the aimlessness of walking for an hour, the heat of the world around them rose incredibly. Kaiba didn't feel overwhelmingly hot, even if he was in a business suit, it was white not black, so it ignored the rules of the sun warming his body temperature. His buddy on the other hand had removed his jacket to form that cape, which in his opinion was stupid usually, but it had its use to keep the sun off his back. His white muscle shirt that to Kaiba surprise; was extremely similar to the black one he and the pip squeak had. Also another surprise to Kaiba was that it didn't have a single moisture line on it, meaning Atem wasn't as warm as he thought.

"Hey look," Atem said and pointed ahead of them.

Kaiba looked away from space and to a boulder in the middle of the valley. "Wow, I don't think it could get any more obvious, and I thought you and the mutt were pretty obvious people."

Atem grunted in annoyance and they walked up to it. In front of it Kaiba saw a staircase leading down into the ground. Without much communication, they walked down the steps that were lit by torches on the wall.

After silently walking for a few minutes, Atem decided to break the silence, sort of to Kaiba's annoyance, "So about Alex."

"What about Alex?"

"Am I correct on my conclusion? I didn't know Kisara as well as you did so I might be mistaken."

"There might be a few similarities, but I wouldn't suggest bring it up. I hired her for her talent and her mouth is much harsher than any weapon could. Though if I did put to and to together, I could say her fighting spirit is similar to the power of my dragon, she can kill you before you knew you were dead."

"So I was right."

"I'm only saying what you want to hear, no sense on starting an argument that will probably be for someone's personal pleasure."

"You like her."

"How do you come up with that conclusion?"

Atem grinned as he placed his jacket on properly. "You don't compliment just anyone Seto, only people that you have some feelings for, like love or protective."

Kaiba snorted. "You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better."

"I will keep telling you that until you say it out loud and to my face saying that I was right."

Kaiba was about to retort when he noticed that they were at the bottom of the steps. He walked into the room to find a giant cavern with no hieroglyphs decorating the room. He was somewhat relieved, without the hieroglyphs it meant that there wasn't something dead living in it. There wasn't much to the room other than a door at the back of the cave in between two stone statues of giant camel spiders. A few torches were hanging off the walls to give the room light.

"I hope those things stay as statues. The last things we need are those things looking for something to eat. I remember Yugi was messing on YouTube and there happened to be a video of it eating a lizard. It wasn't pretty." Atem stated with disgust in his voice.

"Are you afraid of a bug or two Atem?" Kaiba asked with sly in his voice.

"No, I'm just not a fan of being food; I think that statement applies to you."

They headed towards the door on the other side when suddenly the torches went out. Kaiba went to grab his phone when the sound of skittering was heard beside him. "Pharaoh, please tell me that was you." He asked and he heard something else skitter in front of him.

"I was kind of hoping that was you." Ate responded from beside him to his right.

"You just had to open you big mouth about the fucking camel spiders didn't you." Kaiba scolded.

"I could just leave you here to fend off whatever is crawling on the floor. That is if you want me to." Atem teased.

There was a bang and then the sound of a large brick fitting into place from behind Kaiba. He had just about enough and final pulled out his phone for some light. He growled at the now sealed exit. 'Perfect, just fucking perfect.' "Good luck leaving now." The skittering went past him again. He pointed the light towards it, but there wasn't anything there.

"Hey get away from me!" Atem yelled and Kaiba flicked his light over the voice as it paused. "Ha!"

Atem's sword that he had managed to keep during their trip there was covered in green shit. Kaiba turned the light to where the sword was pointing and a camel spider was split in two. "Do you feel accomplished?"

"It didn't even stand a chance." The smaller man stated as he wiped the green spots off his face with his sleeve.

There was more skittering in the cavern on two different sides of the room. "We need to light these torches to see that the hell is down here." Kaiba told him as he looked around the room for the skittering creatures.

"With what, all I have a sword with some slime on it; there aren't any rocks down here other than those two statues."

"You dumbass, the walls are more than likely to be stone, strike the wall to create a spark."

"Oh right," Atem said and then nodded.

The two of them walked to the wall where the torch was seen. Kaiba grabbed the torch putting away his phone. It became dark and the skittering started to get close and then back away really fast. Atem struck the wall and sparks came off the wall. Kaiba placed the torch to catch the sparks. Another skitter touched his leg. He growled. "They are teasing us."

"Good, that means they're not ready to eat yet."

The swish of wind was felt near his face and the blade struck the wall again. 'Yes, because swinging a sword in the fucking dark is a good idea. Congratulations Seto Kaiba.' Kaiba thought in his head and the torch caught fire. He turned the torch to an oncoming skitter and saw something get some air towards them. He swung a leg out tripping Atem and ducked just as it missed his head.

"What was that for – oh." Atem asked painfully.

Kaiba looked at him and saw what the 'oh' was for. The flying object happened to be a three foot scorpion with ease and it just happened to land on the guy after hitting the wall. "Well at least you don't have to worry about venom to kill you, as they say, the bigger the better." He replied with high amusement as he stood back up.

"I'm glad you find this funny, but I should warn you, being on the ground has told me that this thing is a large diversion." Atem answered quietly as he tried to no disturb the arachnid. "There is something under the sand."

Kaiba went still as he tried to understand what the Atem meant. The ground slightly shifted up a bit under his left foot. "You need to move right now." Kaiba said sternly.

"Yea right, if this was the other way around with you on the ground with the giant scorpion on your chest and I said that you would have called me crazy."

"Move!" he raised his voice.

Atem pushed the scorpion up into the air just for it to meet Kaiba's foot and flew into the darkness with a loud thump and a large crack that Kaiba thought to be its exoskeleton. He could have let the poor fool die, but like he had said earlier, Regan would be pissed or even more so that little spirit that happened to be the fool's sister.

"Hey Kaiba, have you ever squished a giant bug?" Atem asked standing up.

"I squish Wheeler all the time do I not?"

"No I meant," He looked towards the ground.

Kaiba followed and saw a bump in the sand quickly rising as it headed towards them. Kaiba grunted. "In a moment I will."

The sand finally broke to a camel spider two feet wide and four feet long, about the same size as the statue and the bug that was sliced in two. Kaiba jumped onto its head while Atem jumped onto its body making its abdomen popped off and released green goo and a very familiar machine.

"What the-" Kaiba started as he reached it. The duel disk, being the familiar machine, moved away into the dark part of the cave with a glopping sound he thought to be only found in silly putty. Kaiba looked at Atem and made a dash towards the other torches on the walls. He lit the ones by the exit as a glopping sound rose. He turned back towards the noise and threw the torch to the other end of the cave and managed to light one of the torches on the wall as the other torch fell. It lit the room a bit more and Kaiba wished he had not thrown the torch to begin with. On the other side of the room was a horribly disgusting scene that reached to the top five things he thought was horrible and disgusting, just underneath Pegasus's empty eye socket at number two and Anubis at number one. Never did he want to see something like that again; the evil lord guy could have at least worn something to cover himself before materializing behind him. The goo of the camel spiders started to merge together with the scorpion and then they separated into two beings with two cloaks on. Something stirred inside of him that made Kaiba want to be sick, but he couldn't place the reason why. He shook his head at such a stupid thought and turned his attention to the creatures. "Who are you and what do you want?"

"Nic, nic, you want to go through this door behind usss?" The left one asked.

"Yes we do, but I have a feeling you two aren't going to let us." Atem said eying the right one.

"No we won't, you are food. Nic, nic." The right one answered as it placed itself in a pounce position.

The left one blocked its path with its arm. "Nic, nic, bossss said no food until game end."

"No bossss sssaid pointy hair boy not food, but preppy boy food. Bossss said to eat preppy boy. Nic, nic." The right one complained as it stood up straight again.

'Those voices seem familiar; even if they are distorted the right one had a female voice while the left has a male. I guess it doesn't matter anyhow I'm going to crush them either way.' Kaiba thought to himself.

"Nin, nic. Yesss preppy one food only after game. We will not lose with game or without." The left one said drooling green slim that looked as the same goo as before.

"Are you hungry?" Atem asked Kaiba with a side glance with disgust across his face. "I sure was before these two came along."

Kaiba grinned. "Can't take a little slime Pharaoh?"

"Ssso we duel then? Nic, nic." The right one interrupted.

"How can we- what?" Atem started and then a duel disk appeared on his left arm and Kaiba's left arm.

"We are always ready, but if we win I will not get eaten." Kaiba demanded.

The two creatures nodded.

"Do you two have names or do I have to refer to you two are slimy L and slimy R?" Atem asked placing his deck into the duel disk.

"Namesss, oh yesss hisss isss Cara and mine isss Ssscorn. Nic, nic." The right one known as Scorn answered.

"Alright Scorn, Cara you're on."

"Let's Duel!" All of them called out.

Seto Kaiba and Atem Muto VS Cara and Scorn

Kaiba-4000 Atem-4000

Cara-4000 Scron-4000

Turn 1: Kaiba H: 5 LP: 4000

"I'll go first." Kaiba announced as he drew his card. He looked at it and grinned. "And I guess I'll be finishing this duel quickly as well. I summon Lord of Dragons and I'll be activating two Flutes of Summoning Dragon which allows us to special summon up to four dragons. So you'll be meeting my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons."

A robed man in a dragon headdress appeared and blew two dragon callers. Suddenly next to him there were three white dragons and their mighty calls.

Lord of D. Spellcaster/Effect Attack: 1200 Defense: 1100

Blue-Eyes White Dragon Dragon/normal Attack: 3000 Defense: 2500

"And I also have a dragon to summon from my hand, Millennium Dragon come forth!" Atem called out as a gold dragon with black eyes and an Udjat symbol on its chest appeared. "And another thing, he gains 200 extra attack points for every dragon on the field.

Millennium Dragon Dragon/Effect Attack: 3000 Defense: 2000

Millennium Dragon started to glow and its attack rose an extra 800 points.

"Nic, nic, four dragonsss in one turn with over 3000 attack pointsss AAHHH!" Cara screamed nervously.

The scream made Kaiba cover his ears and then looked at his opponents smug. "I swear if there were any buildings around, I think they would have fallen." 'I think they are horrified, or if I could see their faces… on a second thought they can keep them covered.' "It's your turn Cara!"

Turn 2: Cara H: 5 LP: 4000

Cara trembled; Kaiba grinned at his assumption, and drew a card. "Nic, nic, I ssset thisss card in facedown defence position and ssset one card to end my turn."

Turn 3: Atem H: 4 LP: 4000

"My turn then," Atem stated as he drew his card. "I set two cards face down and then I summon Millennium Soldier in attack mode."

A golden armored man came out onto the field and it also had an Udjat symbol on its chest plate.

Millennium Soldier Warrior/Effect Attack: 1800 Defense: 1600

"I hope you didn't forget Millennium Dragon's other ability." Kaiba warned his partner.

"Kaiba, I'm not a novice player." Atem retorted and then turned to the field. "Now when another 'Millennium' type monster is on the field my dragon can deal effect damage equal to its attack. Millennium Dragon, take out 3800 of Scorn's life points with thousand year rage."

"No I sssend my Negative Decrease to the graveyard. Nic, nic." Scorn replied as it placed a card in the graveyard.

"And what does that do because I'm pretty sure that isn't a real card." Kaiba asked as he watched a barrier form around Scorn and the effect damage was absorbed.

"It's a real card in this world. It's a monster with 1500 attack and 1200 defense and it has an effect that if I discard it, it negates all effect damage for the turn. Nic, nic."

"I end my turn." Atem growled.

Turn 4: Scorn H: 4 LP: 4000

Scorn drew. "I activate Hinotama dealing damage to the preppy boy. Nic, nic."

It placed the card in the disk and three meteors came from the ceiling and hit just in front of Kaiba. He was thrown back and smashed into the wall which knocked the breath out of him. He got back up immediately as his life points lowered by five hundred.

"Are you alright?" Atem asked.

Kaiba nodded, but he didn't say anything as the three meteors were still in the craters in front of him.

Scorn set a monster in facedown position and two facedown backfields. "Turn end."

Kaiba-3500 Atem-4000

Cara-4000 Scorn-4000

Turn 5: Kaiba H: 0 LP: 3500

"I draw." Kaiba announced drawing his card. "I summon Hardened Armed Dragon giving boost to Millennium Dragon to make him 4000 attack points."

Hardened Armed Dragon Dragon/Effect Attack: 1500 Defense: 800

"Now you can take out one of them." Atem cheered.

"Go my two Blue-Eyes, take out their walls!" The two great dragons easily destroyed the two cards, needle worm for Cara and little chimera for Scorn. Due to needle worm's effect, Kaiba had to discard five cards from his deck.

"I activate my face down, Michizure, and I'm destroying your Lord of Dragonsss. Nic, nic." Scorn called out.

Kaiba growled at his monster being destroyed. "Blue-Eyes attack Scorn directly, White Lightning!" The dragon attacked with great success taking three thousand points off of its life point leave a thousand left. When the dragon came back Scorn started to laugh. Kaiba asked in confusion. "What are you laughing for?"

"You activated my trap Return Favor because I took direct damage, three thousand pointsss, ssso you take three thousand just to return the favor. Nic, nic."

A white beam of light exited out of the card and struck Kaiba knocking him back into the wall for the second time that day.

"Kaiba!" Atem shouted as the CEO's life points lowered to five hundred.

"I'm fine Atem," Kaiba replied with a grunt in his voice walking back to his position. "Now Armed Dragon attack Scorn to finish this."

The dragon went in for the attack, but it was blocked by another card.

"Nic, nic I activate my Defense Draw and it reducesss the damage to zero." Cara said as it activated its back field.

"Fuckers," Kaiba replied under his breath as his dragon came back to his side.

Kaiba: 500 Atem: 4000

Cara: 4000 Scorn: 1000

Turn 6: Cara H: 3 LP: 4000

"Nic, nic my go and I activate Card of Sanctity." Cara stated and placed a card on the duel disk. Kaiba drew six cards, Atem drew three, Cara drew three, and Scorn drew four. "I place one monster face down and another card set.

"I will not allow to you to activate the card, go Mystical Space Typhoon." Atem shouted.

Both monsters shrieked causing Atem and Kaiba to cover their ears.

Turn 7: Atem H: 6 LP: 4000

"Why the fuck didn't you use that card before?" Kaiba asked his partner.

"Well if I did, then I wouldn't have destroyed whatever they had hiding under there." Atem replied coolly and turned to the opponents. "Obviously that was an important card."

Kaiba shook his head, 'Whatever, even three thousand points of damage wasn't that painful, as real as these attacks are, I personally just want to find my brother at all costs and if taking the damage to get these things out of my face faster, then so be it.'

"I activate Millennium Dragon effect, target Cara and get rid of the all of its life points!"

Millennium Dragon rushed to the screeching creature and shot a beam of gold light at the hooded figure. When the beam died down Cara's hood was off and horrified the duelists. Under the hood stood a man that Kaiba hadn't seen in nine years and he was shook to the core. His face must have been a sight to behold as Atem was calling his name in worry, and a bit of pity. "Kaiba, what's wrong."

"It's …" Kaiba tried to answer but failed. The figure may not have been exactly as he remembered; the man was looking part bug with the help of Brittney to scare the shit out of him, and hell she did a good job. The man had straight black hair and was fairly tall. His skin was shelled like a bug and was a grey color with green eyes. He felt even sicker as the connection to why he felt like he recognized the figure came to a reality. "That man, he has the same face as my father, not the step one, but my biological one."

"Your father, but how?"

"Probably one of Brittney's tricks," He responded as he came back to his senses and grew even angrier at Brittney.

"Okay Scorn, take the hood off," Atem ordered and Scorn did just that. Under the hood was a woman that gave birth to Mokuba and himself, and Kaiba was not a happy camper. "That is the same woman Mokuba showed us, your mother."

"I swear when I find that fucking woman she is going to have a very unpleasant ending." Kaiba prophesized as he clenched his fist in anger. "Finish your move Atem, so we can find my brother and the others before they find something like this."

"Right, Millennium Soldier attack Scorn and end this duel."

The soldier ran and sliced the rest of the creature's life points away.

"We win now let us through!" Kaiba demanded as the duel monsters disappeared. 'I was done dwelling in the past, but it now seems this place is going to be a fucking nightmare within it. As soon as we get out of this place I can leave it as it was again, but until we figure out that damn project we can't leave The Dark Secret, what the hell is it?'

The bug creatures stood still and then a gust came through as the door opened. The creatures we apparently dust as the wind caught a hold on them and they blew back into the sand. "How ironic, from dust they came to dust they shall return."

"Kaiba are you-"

"Let's go Pharaoh." Kaiba interrupted and started to walk to the door. His companion followed behind him choosing the correct thing to do and not say anything. On the other side of the door was a white room with a simple table and a CD in the middle of the room. Kaiba picked it up and noticed there was a note attached to it.

"What does it say?" Atem asked.

"It says that when we come across a computer we play it so we can figure out another part of this clue." Kaiba answered placing it into his vest pocket.

"Fantastic."

"I just realized something."

"What would that be?"

"You're dragon has a serious overpowering issue."

"Oh you mean how it can get larger than your Blue-Eyes with just itself?" Atem said slyly.

"Yes, yes I do."

"Tough luck Kaiba, you can't change the rules of the card. You know that."

"Heh, watch me." Kaiba retorted and a bell rang through the room. A light started to shine from behind them and they turned around to see a door showing a building with an interesting pattern for the floor levels on the outside and a large river beside it.

"Well I guess we go through." Atem stated and the two men walked through to the other side.

The temperature was much cooler than the cave and certainly the exact opposite of the desert. There was snow on the ground and it was snowing all around them as cars passed on the streets and the bridge that was close by. Kaiba looked around and noticed a large looking tower with several castle looking buildings on the other side of the river that glowed in the coming evening. The river that separated the two land masses was mostly frozen over except for the rapids and a waterfall. The street signs were French and the courtyard of the building was full of people that were exiting for the night, but the building inside seemed to be full of life.

"Where are we?" Atem asked.

"I think this is the Museum of Civilization." Kaiba answered following his knowledge, but he wasn't sure.

"But that's in Canada."

"Yes it is, though by the age of these cars, I wonder what year it is. There is not one single new model, these cars are much older."

"Well there we go we answered our own question. We are in the past."

"No shit Pharaoh Obvious." Kaiba retorted, but he was ignored as Atem wandered to a random citizen. He started in Japanese, but quickly reverted back to English. The look the woman gave his was so priceless that Kaiba couldn't help grin like a fool. Atem came back with a slightly paled look in the winter snow. "So enlighten me what year it is."

"December 30, 1994." Atem replied, "Yugi wasn't even born yet."

"No but his mother sure is pregnant. Give it another six months."

"You're funny,"

"Why thank you." Kaiba replied and then someone caught his attention. "What are they doing here?"

"Huh?" Atem turned his attention to the three people that were walking in front of them. "Oh my Ra, it's a happy innocent little Seto Kaiba."

Kaiba didn't say anything as his mother, father and a younger version himself walked past him. They continued to walk by and paid no regards to the two duelists. He started to follow them when Atem grabbed his wrist. Kaiba turned to his rival in annoyance. "I'm following them whether you come or not that is your decision to make."

"I was just about to say that we should be careful, we may have to follow them to get to the next clue to the reason we are here, but that doesn't mean that we are being followed ourselves."

"Whatever, let's go see where this takes us."

The two followed the little old family that Kaiba use to know onto a city bus for five minutes over the Alexandra Bridge into Ottawa and then their final destination at the Fairmount Chateau Laurier on Rideau Street. Without hesitation, Kaiba followed them into the hotel to see what the psychotic bitch wanted to show himself and Atem.

A little 2 year old Seto Kaiba is probably one of the cutest things I have ever imagined, other than a baby Kuriboh.

Next up is heading over to what the others are doing, we know Kaiba and Atem are being stockers of the past, but where are the others? Next chapter is Lockdown, so stay tuned.

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