Here's the final chapter of the volume, super long too! Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 7
Dark Trail
Real World: Friday, November 4th, 2011
3:30 AM
Kaiba's night was becoming more and more interesting, most of it not in a good way. After getting a ride to the hotel, he followed his parents in curiosity up to their room. And like his majesty had said before, they were getting ready to have fun. He didn't stay long enough for them to be completely undressed let alone put on protection, but there was one thing he had known about that scene that he found so disturbing. Not that he had a problem with sex; he just didn't need to know what his parents did. But, Brittney placed it in for him and Atem to witness the beginning of Regan's life. Which was another thing he found disturbing and it had really nothing to do with the scene.
It was the fact that Brittney was showing them all these scenes of the past. If she was with her partners, then why didn't she hide that fact Regan was his sister and the fact that she was supposed to be their tool to take over the world. Maybe over the years she was losing the brain cells she had left and finally lost them all and showed the past events because she has nothing working in her head. He doubted that Jade would be very happy about them seeing all of her plans, not that he cared, when they got back, it would take all of his will not to kill the woman on site or set out a horrible newsflash about the woman to every news and magazine in the world.
He sighed inwardly as he watched Regan talk dirt towards the woman on the roof. Even after all the shit Jade put her through that she didn't know about, it was more than likely that she would forgive her to some extent. She may never go any farther than that, but that was way more than he thought Jade deserve. There was one thing he wondered about, his mother called Regan their judge, jury and persecutor and due to them going against their word they would die horribly after a few days of hell. Could the prediction come to pass? Kaiba shook his head to clear such thoughts away, he'd just have to wait and see; no reason to be anxious over it and if anything he would gladly rip their existence away.
"Does anyone need anything else before we head in?" Yugi asked taking him out of his thinking.
"How about we just imagine a door out of here?" Kaiba asked the short man.
"Sorry, but you have to get pass me before any doorway can be opened back to the real world." Brittney yelled her answer.
"Then how about you come down here and face us imagination versus imagination."
"That could turn out real well, it be like Shark Boy and Lava Girl only messier." Regan commented. "She knows who she's dealing with aura user, gamers, shadow users, a weapon's expert, six pissed off young adults and a thirteen year old."
"Not to mention a five thousand year old pharaoh." Atem added.
"I don't think she really knew that."
"She does now," Kaiba placed in his two cents and turned to Mokuba. "Mokuba stay here, this too dangerous for you to come in, Alex, stay with him and don't leave the hummer. Keep the doors locked and stay inside."
"What about Regan? I know this is still new, but I doubt you want her to go in there." Mokuba complained.
"Sorry Mokuba, I still have some questions that need answers." The girl replied. "If this was something thing that I could stand back and allow someone else to fight, then I would if it was for the concern of my and another's safety, but this is a duty that needs to be attended to."
"But what if you don't come back, either of you?"
Kaiba grinned as a two handed sword appeared in his hand. The blade turned a white color with a gold line in the middle of the blade and the handle had a blue sapphire. "We'll come back, even if I have to cut the whole damn building into splinters."
"Look at you, who knew the great Seto Kaiba would use a magically item." Atem teased as Kaiba he swung the sword around a bit it get the feel.
He placed it near the Pharaoh's throat, "You're right I am Seto Kaiba, and I do whatever the fuck I want."
"Hey!" Brittney called from up on the widow's balcony. "I'm supposed to be killing you, but if you want to leave Mokuba and Alex there that's fine, gives you a motive to get your asses up here. 'Cause if you don't, well…"
'Well what?' Kaiba thought to himself when she didn't finish. A wide grin appeared on her face and Kaiba felt something come from behind. He turned around just as the ground started to shake. The earth cracked threatening to take him off his feet and separated the group that were heading into the house from Alex and Mokuba. The crack grew larger until it was several meters wide and encircled the hummer. Then the earth stopped shaking. The only one that managed to lose their balance was Mokuba quite close to the gaping hole.
"Ah, Seto!" Mokuba cried as he stood back up and took a step back away from the death hole.
"Get into the vehicle!" Kaiba told him and Alex opened the door for his brother. Mokuba got in but the door was left open. Kaiba turned back to Brittney in rage. "I will make sure you pay for this, you skank."
"Excellent, that's the spirit. But I should warn you for every five minutes that pass and you haven't made it up to me this will happen." Brittney replied and the ground shook again.
Kaiba turned back to where Mokuba was and the fissure became wider as the space that the hummer was on became smaller. About a meter was taken away leaving what he figured was about two metres on the outside all around and another two in the middle. "Fuck."
"You have ten minutes; any longer your brother and guard will cease to exist."
"Let's get this bitch, I'm getting sick and tired of all this shit." Regan hissed quietly next to him. Her swords drawn and glowing dangerously.
"So am I," Yugi replied. "She's going to regret everything and I'm not going to hold back any abilities."
Kaiba ran ahead taking out the gate with two swings of his new sword. He heard the Muto twins and Regan behind him as he closed in on his old house.
"Leave it to you to pick the only item that anyone can use to concentrate their aura and probably the most dangerous to the user." Someone whispered with amusement in his ear.
'What do you want Nile?' He asked mentally towards the little voice.
"Well that's not very nice, I'm only here for a one on one lesson on how to use it without getting yourself killed." Nile responded still in his ear.
'I don't need your help.'
"Do you know how much aura you have and can waste before you pass out or incinerate? Do you know how much aura you're using when you release an attack? I doubt it."
Kaiba looked around as he opened the door for the others to enter. 'Where the hell are you?'
"Chilling in the puzzle, I'm just broadcasting. Regan doesn't even know I'm talking to you let alone the others."
'Fine, make the lesson a thirty second lesson. We don't have time for a class.'
"Hmp, well don't charge your weapons for one, and for two, if you start to feel tired or a lack of energy then stop using the sword; unless you can figure out how to absorb energy from a different source. These two cases are dangerous at your level, considering you aren't an aura user. When you are done playing with the sword you should use your shadow magic, that's your field."
'I'm not going to go on a debate that the shadow magic stuff is true or not, but the only thing that seems to get this gig going is that I can summon a monster. If it's so true that you think that I have magic, then why can't I do any of the stuff your brother seems to do with ease?'
"Well go find the Millennium Rod smartass, either that or you can at least acknowledge out loud and actually use them, and then you can start to grow."
'Yeah, let me get right on that.' Kaiba retorted.
"Whatever, just watch out for those two things and use basic slashes or sword technics, the blade will do the rest, bye-bye."
Kaiba heard someone seem to hang up a phone on the other end of the chat. 'God, sometimes, I wonder is Pegasus is less annoying.' He shook his head, 'On second thought, Pegasus is way more annoying even more so than Wheeler.' They continued through the house and followed behind Regan up to the second floor and realized the three people ahead of him had no idea where they were going. He moved in front of them as the blueprints of the house and spread out them out in his mind. "This way, heading into the wrong part of the house could lead to traps just waiting for one of us to go into the wrong room."
"Lead the way then." Atem told him.
They moved swiftly through the halls in silence. Suddenly there was a loud smashing sound behind him after a yelp from Yugi. Kaiba quickly turned around only to notice Yugi had taking a trip and took Regan through a perfectly fine wall. He looked down at the duel king, "Really?"
"You called for a demolition team?" Yugi asked.
Kaiba sighed and went to turn back towards their path when something plowed into him taking the breath out of him and created another hole in the wall.
"Seto are you okay, Atem what the-" Regan didn't finish as the reprehended one summoned Millennium Soldier and deflected a flying star.
"We have some company, I'll meet you three up there, just leave some markers." Atem said as pulled a star out of his arm and threw it back. There was the sound of someone being hit and then them falling to the ground. Atem looked at them apparently not noticing that there was blood dripping onto his clothes. "Go!"
Kaiba picked Regan up off the floor. Her limp was worse as she tried to stand on it. "Do you want help?"
"I perfectly fine, I was just favoring it for a second." Regan answered placing full weight on it. She barely winced but the pain showed through their link. "I'm good."
He didn't bother trying to argue and went through the wall. He noticed what he thought to be two ninjas and another down with a star poking out of his chest. The two standing ninjas were grappling with Millennium Soldier and Millennium Dame. Kaiba blocked the dead and pointed towards the steps. They walked towards it and Kaiba quickly got to the front of the shrinking group.
"Be careful." Yugi called back.
"Always am." Atem replied.
Kaiba started to lead Yugi and Regan up the stairs when the house started to shaking. He grabbed onto the rail to steady himself. Regan shrieked behind him. He turned to grab her only to find that Yugi had caught the girl. Yugi nodded at Kaiba. Kaiba sighed and the earth stopped moving. He turned his attention to Regan. "How bad is your leg?"
"It's fine Seto-"
"Bull, even your attempt to keep everyone from worrying about you is way off! Your quick reactions are slow and your balance is dead. Tell me how bad it is and don't try to say it is fine because I am the receiving end to that wound." He replied with an edge to display the pain that he kept getting drifts of. That didn't he cared how much pain he was feeling he had a large pain tolerance. Regan didn't and how she kept on going was beyond him. "Don't make me check it."
"And how are you going to do that?" Regan retorted crossing her arms.
He grinned evilly. And before she even saw it coming he raised the aura sword just close enough to her pants that the excess aura sliced through her pant leg. It dropped to reveal blood leaking from the bandage and down her leg. "That's how."
Regan looked shocked and annoyed at him. "Well I was trying to make sure everyone didn't have me to worry about because Mokuba and Alex are already in danger, but I hope you're happy that you get to see the wound. I told I was fine, you should have just trusted me!"
"Bleeding to death isn't fine!" Yugi retorted back. "You need help and hiding that fact isn't going to make the danger that you're in go away." Out of all the things Kaiba thought Yugi could do he wasn't expecting the one thing he did do. He picked Regan up and ran straight past him. "Let's go Kaiba! I still have no idea where I'm going."
"Yugi, what the hell are you doing?!" Regan yelled.
Kaiba got a head of them and started to run to the final stairway that led to the balcony.
Yugi responded, "There was an important reason you went through everything to see Brittney and I'm helping you do that without having to place yourself in any more danger."
They managed to get to the top of the house. They walked out and saw Brittney looking down at the body of water. Kaiba turned when he heard someone behind him and Atem came from up the stairs. The pharaoh nodded and Regan was released from Yugi's grip. Before she could go anywhere, Kaiba moved towards the woman in front of them at a medium pace.
"We made it Brittney, but since we're here there are some questions that I would like for you to answer before I kill you." Kaiba snapped.
"Cocky tonight are we, who says you could kill me?" Brittney turned around to face him.
"Glad I have your attention and I said I can and there isn't much holding me back except the questions I have."
"Then ask them!" Brittney shouted.
"If your so into this plan of trying to go for the big prize, wouldn't you have had to keep Regan in the dark? You wouldn't have dragged her here to see all of this or attempt to kill her. What is the purpose of this?"
"Let's say I couldn't handle it anymore, the lies, the murders, and the manipulation, what good has come from it? Take over the world, seems like an achievement but after these last couple of weeks, it has been nothing but fucking hell and then two days ago I was taking out of the project."
"This sounds like a prophecy come true." Kaiba responded without a care. "But when we first arrived to the warehouse you said you were completing the final goal. I don't see how this is accomplishing anything."
"Wouldn't you like to know? I may be out and want Death to take me, but I am going to tell you right now, whether I die or all of you die the task will be one step closer and I made it all possible because of tonight, I will have my gift waiting for me after I leave this place."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Yugi demanded behind him.
Brittney grinned with a sinister intention. "What is it supposed to mean, it means that you won't win in the end Yugi? Everyone will lose something, someone or everything. This simple meeting is creating the final setup."
"Why us though?" Regan asked as she stood next to Kaiba hiding any emotion that even he couldn't find.
"Regan stay back." Kaiba ordered.
"Brittney, why would you and Jade and Charlie, everyone in your group turn their back on their friends, their family? Money and power are powerful things I understand, but why? Why would you go against Takahashi, Isolde, and Kayama, they were good people and they were good to you?"
"It's called humanity. You leave the weak behind and if they have something you want then you take it from them when they are at their strongest to do the most damage on top of taking and threating what they treasure." Brittney explained. "And now I believe you have another question."
"I do," Regan started. "I still have an issue that a simple video explains that I'm related to Seto and Mokuba. There are thousands of people that have the same name as me, but throughout the night something has accrued to me. What difference does it make for you to tell me my heritage or that you left me in the dark with the idea that I was Jade's daughter?"
"You tell me, you're mart and I'm sure you already know the answer."
"The only thing I can think of it that you wanted me to view a different perspective of something."
"Close enough. Could you have ever believed that you could hate someone? I betting right now before this evening you probably had the simple view that you couldn't hate anything. Demon's, parasites, you name it you couldn't hate them, but now that I told you what was done, what you caused." Brittney pulled out a DNA sheet and showed it off. "This is the DNA testing sheet from your system Kaiba. Take a good look on who's on there and who matches with whom.
Kaiba took a look at the sheet. He growled at the fact that Brittney had went through his system. "I ran a DNA test a couple of days ago."
"Yes you did and you ran it against every person in the system." Brittney turned the sheet around to look at it herself. "DNA matches Takahashi as the father, Isolde as the mother, Seto Kaiba as the brother, and Mokuba as the brother. None of which are Jade Heartin, but you knew her name wouldn't come up. The only one who didn't know she wouldn't come up was Regan. Now you see girl, you were played. You were played by her for what, fifteen years. I can't imagine what you must be feeling, but I can guess. Hate, maybe guilt after all you caused this to your entire family and it was all because you were born. Must be a struggle to know that now. You thought you brought good, but all you did was cause pain. You're a monster, a defect in life, nothing more than a tool that-"
"Shut the fuck up, right now." Kaiba ordered with an edge to his voice and his blade at the woman's throat.
"A tool to be used by anyone, anything, and there is nothing you can do about it. Why you might be asking? It because that is you; you're a creature of mass destruction, the Living Death." Brittney continued not even flinching.
"No, she's not." Yugi was next to her now.
Kaiba almost removed his position to reflect it towards Yugi, who was in his opinion too close to her. 'Fucking Jesus Christ, why does this change my view on this picture?'
"She's human just like the rest of us. She hasn't brought pain, you have, she isn't a tool to be controlled, and she is her own person with her own thoughts. The fact that no one has succeeded in using her as a tool of destruction proves that. She has her own abilities, but that is what makes her different, amazing and out of your grasp."
"Brittney, you're right about one thing. I am the living version of death. I have the capabilities to bring people to their knees and suck their essence right out of them, but there is a difference between being the Living Death as you have called me, and a monster. That difference is the difference between you and me. Every single one of us on this roof would be considered defects in society, because each of us is a creature of mass destruction and right now two of them, I'm surprised haven't killed you yet."
"Hey, Kaiba is the one who said anything about killing anyone, I just give off an imitating presence or as my people called me long ago to reasons why they didn't piss me off was because I'm a living god."
"What now?" Brittney asked in confusion.
"Get your facts straight each of us is a descendent of the Egyptian gods." Yugi told her.
Kaiba felt a grin spread across his lips. "And you pissed us all off."
"Say what?!" Brittney started. Yugi and Kaiba pulled out their decks. "What the hell are you doing? You can't use your imaginations up here."
"Good thing we are using our imaginations then." Yugi replied as he pulled out three cards. "I summon Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon and the Winged Dragon of Ra!"
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon, show this bitch why no one fucks with my family!" Kaiba called and all six monsters came out around the house.
Brittney started to laugh hysterically. "So the Shadow Realm is a real place and you must be the shadow wielders, well how about I bring something from the past, but this time he isn't going to be able to be destroyed so easily."
"Wait, you can't!" Atem yelled in panic.
"I can and I will, this is a computer program and I heard he missed you so much, especially you Atem." Brittney retorted as she pulled out two small vials full of red liquid, "Dark Matter gave these to me, and I have to say he was attractive, I don't understand why you wouldn't go with him Regan. You would have save all this trouble for your friends and family if you did. But once again you went for the pain." She smashed the vials on the roof and the contents started to make a ritual circle. "I call for Zorcnecrophades. I think you have some revenge to deal out."
The wind picked up and Kaiba felt a shift in the air. They moved away from the circle being formed and the Egyptian Gods and the three Blue-Eyes growled as they went to the defensive.
"Regan whatever you do, stay away from Zorc and behind me. He hopefully won't even know you're here and if he does ignore what he says. He is manipulative and for a lack of a better description a bastard from hell." Yugi said behind him.
"Yea I got it, stay away from the demon and don't provoke him." Regan answered.
The sky grew dark and lightning streaked across its surface. A large bolt escaped the sky and struck the center of the circle. Kaiba was blinded for a second and then the light died he took a peek. A large purple creature with a serpent coming from its midriff stood in front of him. He turned to Atem in confusion. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Zorc bigger before?"
"What are you talking about bigger?" Regan whispered. "That thing is thirteen feet tall."
"He was bigger than the palace and much taller than the walls surrounding it back in Egypt five thousand years ago." Atem told her. "Maybe it's because this is a game, he could only be so big on top of this house."
"Why hello Pharaoh, I'm so happy to see you too." Zorc sneered. "Seto Kaiba and not so little Yugi as well what an honor it is to have you all here for me to destroy."
"How about you go fuck yourself and die?" Kaiba retorted.
"Someone's pissed, let's change the playing field and then we'll see how your mood changes."
The house started to shake again. Suddenly sand was under Kaiba's feet and everyone was a hundred feet off the ground and on a super large floating platform. His three dragons spread out and the three gods growled even more as Zorc grew to his original size.
"Okay, he's big." Regan stated looking slightly pale at the creature.
"Hmm, who's this?" Zorc asked looking down at them. A pillar of dirt sprouted out of the sand and lifted Regan up to his snake's eye level, another twenty feet off the ground.
Kaiba notice that she didn't make a sound as she was brought up there and he couldn't tell if she was holding her tongue or scared speechless. He glared at the overlarge reptile as the answer went through his head. It was a bit of both, more so holding her tongue, not that he could blame her there were several words he would probably say if he was the one up there, shot and in an ethical dilemma. "Zorc leave her out of this, she has nothing to do with you!"
"I'm curious to why she's here, who she is, and why you of all people are worried about her?" Zorc questioned.
Regan certainly didn't like her trip up, one it was unexpected and two, the sudden stop hurt her leg even more than what it was. The bandage was doing shit all and whatever hit her leg when she went through the wall made the wound deeper and possibly hit a heavy duty vein or multiple veins, she was lucky it wasn't an artery or whatever Brittney had planned would've happened. She didn't bother answering Zorc on his three questions. She kept an eye on the serpent that was observing her and she wasn't sure if she wanted to pet it or give it a taste of her aura swords, both were really tempting, so she decided to do neither for the time being. The snake came in fast for a strike, flashing its fangs, but stopped a few inches from her face. She didn't flinch at the act. Between her slow reactions, the mess in her head and trying to conserve energy, she probably wouldn't even mind being in a hospital which was one of the few phobias that she had, let alone a demon playing the flinching game. With her aura swords in their sheaths and around her hips, she crossed her arms in annoyance and watched the snake moved by like it was trying to find invisible writing on her.
"Are you going to answer the questions or are you just going to fall over and die so I don't have to waste my time fighting you?" Zorc asked looking down at the three males back on the platform.
"No, you're supposed to be the all-powerful one, how about you answer them yourself." Seto retorted and Regan groaned at his tactics.
"Really Kaiba, you just had start something." Atem yelled at the CEO.
Zorc's presence shifted slightly to one that she found Seto had when he was up for a challenge. "Well if you insist."
The serpent moved at an alarming rate and licked quite a bit of blood that was on her leg. She had her hand close to the handle of her blade and it moved away. She scrunched up her noise in disgust as the memory of the first time she saw Dark Matter.
"This is priceless," Zorc started to laugh and then he became serious again. "You're quite the interesting one; Dark Matter told me all about you. It was a nice update to the information that was from your past life."
"What did you see?" Regan asked carefully and calmly.
"Major events in your life, name, age, relationships, important dates of the last couple of months and everything that happened on your little exertion through this virtual truth. I wonder what would push you off your sane platform."
"I wonder what makes you think you can push me off my sane platform."
Zorc laughed in amusement. "You've got quite the tongue in your mouth, would you like to keep it there?"
"Would you like to be castrated of your snake friend?" She threatened. The snake apparently didn't like that as it hissed at her. She hissed back and the snake stopped in confusion. She felt a smile play on her face. She looked down from her sky high platform and noticed that someone was on the move towards her friends and brother. "Brittney don't you dare, get away from them!"
That caught the attention of the three gentlemen below and instantly turned to the woman. Seto swung his sword but it was met with Brittney's own blade. The two of them clashed swords several times with elegancy and grace. Brittney's blade slipped and Seto tripped her while she was distracted.
Zorc growled beside Regan reminding her she was still twenty feet off of a floating platform beside a giant demon that was the shadow realm when he was alive. His presence shifted into attack mode. The snake hissed and went to strike out Seto who was about to make the kill.
"Seto, look out!" Regan yelled, but she couldn't tell if he heard her. The snake struck ground but it seemed to miss as it started to recoil again. She needed to get off her pillar and help below by getting out of the way of the three gods and three dragons. Then a stupid idea walked into her head. 'This is going to hurt.' She thought to herself, but decided to do it anyway. She grabbed her aura swords and blasted to aura streams at Zorc. Not wanting to face his wrath, she booked it by jumping onto his snake friend. The snake went on a rampage. Regan dodged a snake bite by jumping off the snake onto the pillar wall and then onto the tail that came around to hit her off the wall. The ride was short as the snake appeared in front of her and shot a beam of energy at her. She instinctually sent a cross stream at it causing an explosion throwing her off. She landed on her feet and the pain from her movements came crashing on her. Her leg gave out under her and she fell to one knee.
"Slifer, Obelisk, Ra attack Zorc," Yugi ordered. The three gods attacked one after the other in a continuous pattern. Slifer and Ra attacked with beams of power and Obelisk grappled the large demon.
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack with white lightning." Seto told his three dragons who responded quickly.
Regan stood back up again and ignored the pain in her leg. She wandered over to Seto. "Did the snake get you?"
"No, but Brittney disappeared when it attacked."
Regan looked around and noticed Brittney wasn't on the sandy floor where he had tripped her. She looked back at Seto and saw Brittney behind him again, "Seto behind you."
A flash of annoyance and amusement went across his face and a tiny grin appeared on his face. He turned around with lightning speed and attacked Brittney. She blocked it with ease and the two of them were back doing deadly graceful movements. Regan felt utterly useless with Yugi and Atem battling Zorc and Seto battling Brittney. Suddenly the sky became dark and she looked up to see duel monsters flying overhead.
"It looks like we have some more company." Nile stated appearing beside her.
"Yes, and they aren't welcomed company either." Regan replied and pulled out her deck and duel disk. She put the machine on, placed the deck inside and drew six cards from it. "They are about to have a very bad day. I summon Dark Magician Girl, Guardian Angel Joan, Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon and Lightpulsar Dragon."
The five monsters appeared in front of her. She felt a sting go through her chest and she gasped. She placed all her weight on her good leg to steady herself as she clenched her chest.
"Do you want-" Nile started, but Regan stopped her from finishing.
"I'm fine; it was just difficult to summon five monsters at once and so close to that thing." Regan told her hinting towards Zorc.
"I'll summon this last one then." Nile said and took the card. "Come forth, Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of Beginning!"
The soldier appeared and nodded at his fellow members. Regan turned to Nile. "I'll keep track of DMG, Joan and Van'Dalgyon. Can you keep track of Red-Eyes, Lightpulsar, and BLS that way we cover more ground?"
"Only if you keep an eye on Seto, I don't want him to push it and well you can do something physical if need be."
"I was planning watching his back," Regan admitted and Nile smiled.
"Now, time to have some fun." Nile replied and ran off towards Yugi and Atem with the two dragons flying and the soldier running ahead.
She turned to her monsters. "Van'Dalgyon use dark lord blast, Joan use angelic stream and DMG use burning sceptre blast. We need to keep these flying monsters away from Seto and his Blue-Eyes White Dragons or the Egyptian Gods if they come over here."
The two females and dragon nodded and attacked the creatures closest to them. Her monsters were doing well taking out the flying creatures, but most of the creatures were barely over 1500 attack and if it was over 2000 Van'Dalgyon or Joan would take care of it before DMG was in range. There was one thing that she found surprising was that each time Guardian Angel Joan would destroy a monster, she felt a little better.
'Look at you glowing in the heat of battle.' Yugi said in the mind link.
'Cute, you're just trying to make all these monsters seem like nothing, which they kind of are actually.' Regan replied back as she took a side glance at Seto and Brittney's match.
'Yes, but no seriously, Guardian Angel Joan's effect is healing you like it does in the game. Take a look at your leg and tell me I'm wrong.'
'I doubt the effect healing my leg.' She grumbled and looked away from the battle and took a look at her leg. Sure enough the wound was closing but not at a fast rate. She sighed at the thought that she still needed to pamper it. 'The King of Games strikes again.' She mocked slightly.
Yugi didn't respond as Zorc fired a beam of energy at him instead of the monsters. Yugi dodged the attack. 'Too close.'
'That's a cheap shot, why would he be worried about you when he has six monsters ready to eat him for breakfast.' Regan asked moving out of Van'Dalgyon's way as he landed. Another cheap shot from Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon's tail hit Van'Dalgyon in the back. A sharp pain went through her chest again. She clenched her jaw as the Dragon Lord stepped on the little dragon's face. 'From this it seems just as effect to hit the monster as it is to hit the person.'
'You're right,' Nile answered joining the discussion. 'Which is why we've been blocking Kaiba's dragons from harm, we are trying hard not to distract him while Atem tells his dragons what to do. This also applies with the summoner, if the summoner is down then the monsters at out too, just like in Duel Monsters.'
'Wait a minute, you just said when the summoner is out the monster is out too.' Regan reflected as a realization came to her. 'Zorc protected Brittney when she about to be killed, from how the thing holds himself, he shouldn't care less about a human which means-'
'Brittney technically is the summoner of Zorc, his weakness, Regan you're a genius.' Yugi exclaimed.
'Thank you, I just hope Zorc doesn't know this default and he thinks he's undefeatable.'
The conversation died out as they went back to what they were doing. A new flock of flying monsters appeared that looked a lot stronger with monsters on their backs. She bit her lip as two landed in front of her. They weren't duel monsters so she took out her swords. One of them eyed the battle happening behind her. It started to move towards Seto and she slashed an aura stream in front of it grabbing its attention.
"Me first," she taunted it.
The creature apparently didn't like being taunted and club appeared in its hand while the other had a hammer. The battle didn't last very long for either of them. Steve's movements from the arcade were faster than theirs, but she didn't bother to test the blow that the creatures could dish out. She ran forward between them with her arms crossed and her swords charged and ran between them swinging her blades in the process right through them. Another creature landed in front of her and she released the energy at it splitting it in half.
"Regan move!" Yugi called out to her and she moved towards Seto and Brittney just as a foot from Zorc dropped where she had been standing.
"Where the hell did he come from?" Regan asked ridden another creature before it had a chance to swing its axe.
"While you were busy the platform started to shrink and moved the battlefield a bit closer together so there isn't much space for us humans to go anywhere while he and his goons attacked." Atem replied as the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons surrounded the other side of Zorc that the three gods didn't have. "Blue-Eyes use burst stream of destruction!"
She turned away from the battle to her own as another creature landed. Regan sighed as each one came, landed and then mutilated by her blades. She wasn't sure if she was getting tired and running on adrenaline or she was bored. It was a scary thought, but it quickly removed itself from the top of her head as Zorc's presence changed to one that was about to snap in a rage of annoyance.
"Enough!" The demon yelled and beams of energy shot from the snake like a machine gun randomly around him.
Regan jumped out of the way of one of the beams and accidently ran into Seto as he was holding back a strike from Brittney. Another stream of energy started in their direction and Regan realized Seto hadn't noticed it as Brittney looked like she was overcoming his defence. She tackled Seto to the ground just as the beam almost hit him. There was a scream and Regan looked back at where it came from. She quickly got up before Seto could offer her help and was stunned. Not only had the beam of energy from Zorc had hit her, the snake also had her in its mouth sideways with its left fangs were inside of what looked like her intestines. The snake shook its head in what she could only think of as bloodlust and its teeth were tearing up the woman's midriff. The only sound that entered Regan's ears was Brittney's screams. There was a sickening sound as the teeth sliced through the pelvis bone and Brittney flew a few feet before she hit the ground and a snap echoed the field. She skidded leaving a red trail as she went without a word.
Regan was horrified at the scene, but Zorc took her out of thoughts.
"What is the meaning of this?" The demon asked as he started to fade.
"You were summoned by the woman you just slaughtered. Since she no longer exists, then neither do you!" Atem answered with a high authority voice. "Be gone, and don't come back!"
Zorc looked down at the four humans. "For now I'll leave, but mark my words I'll be back and you would have wished I came back this way."
The demon disappeared with a dangerous laugh that sent chills down Regan's spine. She took another look at Brittney's dead body and Isolde's voice echo in her ear. "She will be your judge, jury, and persecutor."
Realization hit Regan hard as she fell to her knees in shock. She caused Brittney's death. It was completely indirectly, but it was her actions that caused Brittney to have that brutal ending. She felt Yugi's presence in front of her and she looked away from the roof top that they had been transported to and up to his face. He pulled her into a hug and she couldn't help but hug back and let a few tears slip from her eyes. But she didn't make a sound. She was a Libra for a reason and she knew that the judgement of Brittney's fate was more than fair. Making noise or crying was way too good for the woman that had destroyed many lives.
With Yugi's help she stood back onto her two feet as Seto came back from Brittney's body holding a blood stained sheet. She looked around and noticed all the duel monsters were gone so she turned her duel disk off and put it back into her bag and her deck in its box. They went down the stairs leaving the body behind. They left the house to find the earth around the hummer normal and Alex and Mokuba waving at them. Mokuba came running and gave his brother a flying hug. Regan smiled it the little piece of innocence that was so pure in her new found world.
She turned to Yugi noticing Nile and Atem were chatting a little ways off. "What's going to happen now?"
"Finding a way out of this place is the first thing and then after that, a new enemy, or at least that's how the pattern occurs."
"Wonderful," she sighed as a picture of Jade flashed through her mind; she closed her eyes to make it disappear into another section of her brain. She reopened them and found a drop of blood on Yugi's cheek. She wiped it off with her thumb. "No more blood."
Yugi looked slightly confused, and then he nodded, "Yeah."
The six of them piled into the hummer and Seto drove away from the house. Regan found herself being repaired again by Alex as she cleaned out the sand and rewrapped the wound that was much smaller and less dangerous due to her angel's effect. She silently sent a thank you to her monsters as she looked out the windshield for anything that was still trying to kill them or a way out. A white pathway appeared and above it had an exit sign with balloons handing from it and a banner underneath that said 'Congratulations, you passed!'
Seto drove into the path and it was dark on the other side. The land was pretty flat with pathways for vehicles to drive through and stones poking out of the ground in an orderly fashion. Seto stopped the vehicle and looked out his window. Regan looked over his shoulder and immediately got out of the hummer. She walked across the grass and knelt down in front of a stone for a silent reflection. On the stone she read the names on it and etched them out with her finger as she tried to make a connection. But she knew she couldn't stay any longer.
'Another time I will come and stay for a while, but tonight, there is too much to handle and if I stay any longer then these few minutes the grass might not like these salty tears that pour onto your graves.' She stood up and left the grave. Suddenly, she felt the hairs on her neck stand up. She turned around and noticed two apparitions in the dark. Nile appeared and nodded to them and they smiled. Then they were gone. She got back into the hummer and knew that they were back in the real world as her internal clock came online again. Everyone else, she guessed, knew this too and there was the sense of comfort that floated within the vehicle. They stopped at Alex's apartment and dropped her off. She said good night and Seto told her specifically not to come in that morning or else she was fired. The apprentice giggled and told him that he was funny. He just shook his head and Alex walked into the building. The drive was short to Yugi's, Atem's and her houses. Seto stopped the car outside of Yugi's house.
Regan felt Seto's eyes land on her. "Where are you sleeping tonight?"
She shrugged. She wasn't sure of that herself.
"You're staying with Kaiba tonight and I don't care if Jade has a hissy fit or not." Atem stated. "You need to have a good safe sleep, so what do you need before you head off?"
"School clothes, PJs, my binder, and a note saying I left for school early or I had an early cheer practice or something. That way she won't get mad. But how are you going to get into the house?"
"Nile has that covered." Atem grinned and pointed at her house.
Sure enough, Nile was standing inside the opened front door. Regan sighed figuring out what they were talking about after the battle. "Just stay quiet, Mo-Jade is a light sleeper and knows even if Phoenix is walking across the floor, which is why he sleeps in my room."
"Don't worry I got it covered, never underestimate the shadows." Atem answered and hopped out of the hummer and ran to her home.
She face palmed her face as she felt an overtired headache coming alone. She heard something tapping on her window. She looked and noticed Yugi and rolled her window down. "Are you going to be okay confronting Jade on your own?"
She nodded confidently. "Yea, after school I will speak with her. I won't let her know what really happened, but enough for her too see that she needs to cough up the truth."
"And what if she doesn't?"
"I'll get back to you on that one."
Yugi leaned over next to her ear. "Please be careful and if you need someone I'm there in a second." He whispered in her ear.
She looked at him and smiled. Before she could reply, Atem and Nile appeared again and Mokuba jumped in his seat and hit is head off of the ceiling.
"You two siblings know how to scare the crap out of someone." He grumbled.
"Wait you can see her?" Atem asked as he pointed at Nile.
"Yea, always have been, you said it a long time ago, you guys rub Shadow Magic onto me. The more I stick around you guys the more I get."
"Great now Mokuba will want to try something." Nile muttered.
"Well between the four of us and one spirit, it's not like he had much of a choice." Regan said. "Between being around Seto a lot, and recently me that's two people right off the bat one with a Millennium Item that spews Shadow Magic that comes from the Millennium Puzzle."
"Too much brain power," Yugi complained. "Let's talk about this another time and head to bed. Good night."
"Good night Yugi, Atem!" Mokuba called out as Atem placed her wanted items onto her lap.
"Good night," Regan said as Nile waved to the tricolored gentlemen and disappeared.
Yugi and Atem went into the game shop and Seto drove off leaving the area behind. They drove in silence and by the time they got to the Kaiba Mansion, Mokuba was out cold. Seto pulled up to the front doors and shut the engine off. Roland came running outside and looked surprised in Regan's direction. Seto opened the door to Mokuba's seat and undid the seatbelt and picked him out of hummer.
"Sir, do you wish for me to bring Master Mokuba to his bed?" Roland asked.
Seto looked from his brother to Roland and then proceeded to nod. Roland picked Mokuba up and Regan noticed how drained her brother was as the weight was lifted away. She could have sworn Mokuba was five hundred pounds from the way Seto's body relaxed. Roland walked into the home and as he opened the door the light created something to be shiny on his hip.
Regan felt her eyes widen. "You brought the sword with you?"
"Yes, and I expect lessons from you and Nile when we are free from this madness." Seto replied and closed the hummer door. "Come on, let's find you a room."
Seto led her to the second floor and down the hallway. He walked about halfway and across and one door down from the room that she remember as his room and opened the door. The room had the same candy violet as her room at home and was just as big as his room. She walked in and set her things on the desk that was at the end of the bed.
She turned to Seto. "You know you didn't have to do this."
"Get used to it, if this ends the way I think it's going to end, you might want to figure out where your cat's litter box is going."
Regan didn't give a reaction to his statement. There was only really three ways it could possible end and all three of them resulted in her moving in to the ginormous house. Death caused by her, death cause by Seto; or Jade hiding from society and eventually probably a suicide attempt to get what she wanted. But then there was the fourth ending. She stopped thinking before the idea formed.
Regan said good night to Seto and he left the room closing the door behind him. She sighed loudly and changed into her PJs. She wandered over to the large bed and slipped underneath the covers and instantly fell asleep into a land of confusion and the feeling that this one night had changed the rest of her life forever and there was a consequence waiting. She just didn't know if it was going to be painful and then good or good and then painful. She prayed for the first, but knew that if her prayer was answered she was going to wish for the second.
Tada, Volume 3 complete! Bet you weren't expecting half of it, if you were then congratulations you can read the future because I sure as hell didn't. :P Anyway next chapter is on the way, though it may come after exam week next week, I have some updating to do in Pokémon Rifts and Legend of Zelda Expanding the Triforce. Until next chapter, DJV-Trio-Blast is out!
Review, please and thank you.
Nile: While the author is sleeping, I would like to mention that her lovely boyfriend TyranicFish has some stories on FictionPress that he desperately needs some new readers and some good feedback.
Regan: Yes, someone who has worse luck then me in their story, maybe I'll go see Alex from Darkwater Chronicles and get some insight on how to deal with spontaneous stuff.
Nile: If you go, I'm bringing soap; she has a dirtier mouth than a sailor.
Me: I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!
Regan: its not that lat- (A puffball pillow cuts her off as it hit her face.)
Me: I sleep when I wanna sleep!