Chapter 2 of Volume 4 complete, yay!
I graduated on Wednesday so I'm free so the summer… until I go to university in the fall. Anyway, here is the next chapter.
Chapter 2
A Canadian Tournament
6:30 PM
Yugi looked at Regan and she was partially conscience on his shoulder. He didn't want to move so he thought of her words, well one in particular: sacrifice. They almost lost their love ones several times over the last month; some because of Dark Matter and some because of the Dragon Slayers. Last night was an entirely new group that was planned right down to the minute. Brittney was killed because of her actions, but ultimately it was Regan's actions when she went to save Kaiba. His memory played back the final video that was played before they went to find Brittney.
*Flashback*
"Fine, we have a deal." Isolde whispered walking towards the helicopter. Little Seto was released and ran straight to Takahashi. The father met him half way picked him up out of the snow. There were whispers of 'its okay, everything will be alright,' coming from the man as he tried to comfort the boy. Isolde made it to Jade and gave a glare so dangerous and deadly it made Seto's death glares seem like lovely kittens of adorableness. "If you hurt my child or you break this deal I swear to every god that has, is and will be that you will all meet the worse deaths imaginable and just before you die your lives will be the most miserable fucked up days that you would wish you were dead."
"Yea, because imaginary friends are going to cause suffering and death," Charlie retorted with a sinister grin.
"You'll regret everything, whether you keep up your end of the deal or not, she will be your judge, jury, and persecutor." Isolde answered deadly as tears came from her eyes and kissed the baby on the forehead.
*End of Flashback*
It seemed like her mother's, her real mother Isolde; prophecy was correct, but how far would it go? Would it continue with Jade and that man named Charles. His thoughts turned to the tournament. He didn't know what was going to happen at the tournament. It could be just for fun, but it seemed every tournament he went to had some twist to it, and it was never the rules that got him. He hoped it wasn't going to be a huge twist like it was at the KC Grand Championships, but he had a funny feeling in his gut that it wasn't going to be so simply fixed like rebooting the system. The Battle City tournament came to mind of everything going to hell. There were too many variables that could twist out the fun of the really long tournament. From what he could remember it was a week and a half tournament. Who in the world would needs almost two weeks to run a tournament, Yugi didn't know, but there had to be a reason that it was going to be that long to play a few card games and whatever games were planned at the event. "We'll all get through this alive and I don't want to lose you either." He promised as he placed his entire heart into the promise.
They sat there for another five minutes and then Regan stirred. "I'm going to make a sandwich and then I'm heading upstairs to pack, I need to find someone to watch Phoenix while I'm gone."
"I'm sure there are several people not going to the tournament." Yugi answered as Regan lifted her head and moved closer to him. He blushed as his heart jumped.
"I think Ryou is staying, he said he had something to do here, somehow he found out about Zorc last night. I think Nile might have told him." Yugi was about to comment when Regan sighed. "Yea, she told him about Zorc and the night, last night. I wanted to bring him as a guest so he can have his friends around and keep him away from Dark Matter, but maybe him being here doing his research is a lot safer than him coming with us to Canada. For all we know this could be another stunt created by that demon."
"Bakura would be a good choice; he can stay here too and protect our city while we're gone. He may not look like it, but he is a master strategist and a really good gamer."
"Alright I call him and see if he wants too, must be lonely being in his room by himself each night."
"Perhaps," Yugi replied thinking. "But he is probably the bravest guy I know and he will do what he knows is right. So whatever he is researching is probably something to keep Zorc from saying hello again."
"Well I better make that call."
"I can stay and help you pack?" Yugi told her.
"No it's all right, you still need to get yourself ready for tomorrow." Regan answered.
They got up from the couch and she led him to the door. He opened it and was about to head out when something attacked his rational brain and he turned around to face her. He brushed her blond and brown hair behind her ear and kissed her. It wasn't long as his rational brain caught up and remembered that Kaiba was going to be a hawk over her. But then he didn't care as he broke the kiss. "See you at the airport tomorrow."
She looked stunned as she nodded and then she broke into a smile that wasn't filled with any sadness. He smiled back and left. As he walked or floated, he wasn't sure, across the street he was though of how stupid he was being back at her place. He walked inside and his grandfather greeted him.
"Did my grandson find love?" Grandpa asked.
"What are you talking about?" He questioned his grandfather.
"You are fluttering about and blushing madly, probably at something that you might be regretting." Grandpa answered chuckling.
Yugi looked around the room to make sure nobody else was in the room, including Atem. He walked over to his grandfather and whispered what he did.
"You kissed her! Ho, ho!" Grandpa yelled in excitement.
"Shhh, Kaiba probably has mics planted all around this place. But still I don't even know why I did it, but she…" Yugi tried to explain, but he couldn't find the words. He heard chuckling from behind him. Yugi turned around to see Atem smirking. "What?"
"Nothing," Atem replied and was about to walk away when Yugi found the question he wanted to ask him earlier.
"Did you get an invitation?"
"You mean this?" The Pharaoh answered as he pulled out an envelope. "I believe every high level duelist and gamers along with duelists and gamers from previous tournaments were invited. And before you ask I'm inviting Téa and Joey is inviting Tristan. Who are you inviting?"
Yugi had to think about that as Grandpa started to point at himself and jumped up and down. "Grandpa would you-?"
"Yes Yugi, I would love to go!" Grandpa answered before Yugi could finish.
"Well then I guess we better get ready to go then."
Atem, Grandpa and Yugi went upstairs to get their things together. As Yugi packed he realized just how strange the tournament was beginning to seem. He called Regan to make sure she got a hold of Bakura and to his relief she had. But what she told him added to his worry of a setup at the tournament. Yugi headed downstairs and noticed that Atem and Grandpa had already finished and placed his bag with the other two. He wandered into the kitchen as the scent of ordered pizza filled his nose. He passed his grandfather in the living room along the way and was grateful to find Atem sitting at the small table. He sat down and grabbed a slice of pizza from the box. He started to eat, but as more of the latest events started to click together, his stomach didn't feel like eating anymore.
"What's wrong Yugi?" Atem asked.
"Something is bugging me." Yugi confessed. "You said that the top gamers in the world are going to be there, either from last tournaments or just their high level record."
"Yes I did."
"Regan is a high level duelist and she has been for a while, but she didn't receive an invitation and Bakura is one of the top players in Monster World and half a dozen other games, but he also wasn't invited to the tournament. The only reason why Regan is going is because Joey was on delivery route and a cloaked figure handed him the invitation to give to Regan after the news report about her beating Celesta; which was being recorded by a little device that was floating about. It self-destructed before we could see who made it or what it was. She was going to invite Bakura, but Nile had told him about the incident apparently earlier that day and he wanted to stay behind and do some research and protect Domino for us while we're gone. This tournament I don't think is going to end very nice at all and I'm worried about who it will affect and how devastating the blow will be."
Atem thought about what he had said for a while and Yugi ate another slice as his stomach gave him trouble for not eating earlier. "You're right, there is something not right here. That hooded cloak with the late invite and the fact that Bakura wasn't invited means that this tournament might be under the control of DM. There are too many coincidences that have been happening way to close together. Though I'm not sure how they timed that Regan would meet up with Celesta, but it might not have been an accident that they did. Speaking of meeting up, where did Jade run off to? When I was outside a few minutes ago her vehicle still wasn't there."
"She went to Canada, which is also very curiously timed that I don't like." Yugi answered.
"So how is Regan getting to the airport?"
"She's being picked up by her brothers."
"Her brothers, when did Regan have brothers?" Grandpa asked as he joined them at the table.
"He doesn't know?" Atem asked raising an eyebrow.
"I thought you were going to tell him." Yugi answered and they both turned to their grandfather. "Grandpa, something happened last night and it's a long story so I hope you're comfy."
Between Atem and Yugi they managed to tell the trip that they had last night into Kaiba's virtual world and just about everything that happened. They paused at the end to let the old man have everything sink in.
"So what you've just told me is that Jade is not who she says to be and has a group of people looking to take over the world by using the Dragon Slayers to get Kaiba's company. Regan is really the sister of Seto and Mokuba and she was kidnapped at a young age because of her abilities and that they had this entire plan planned out before she was even born. And now that you found out this plan, they might have set their plan at a faster rate and they have planned out everything even up to this very moment and even farther into the future. And somehow your father being who he is got stuck in the middle and because of this entire plan is the reason why he left. But you have no idea if he's alive or dead because he was protecting his friends and family. And he I thought he was out gambling because he always has money in the bank giving to this household. Is that about everything?"
"And the fact that Zorc made a brief visit and knows everything between reading Regan's memories and the updates he gets from Dark Matter." Yugi replied.
Grandpa shrugged. "It seems like you have yourself in another mess that you need to get out of. I'm sure you can do it and I'll support you anyway I can, just one thing."
"What is that grandpa?" Atem asked.
"How in the gods above is such a sweat girl like Regan related to Kaiba and Mokuba!"
"Well you see you take a woman-"
"I know how, smartass." Grandpa scolded the Pharaoh. "I just find it strange that they are related, different upbringings do that to people I guess. What did you say about their bloodline Yugi?"
"Magic bloodlines, the first one being Egyptian which was probably from Priest, erm Pharaoh Seto being the father, Takahashi. And the second coming from Camelot, which was direct descendent being their mother Isolde, she was apparently a princess. Why?"
"Two powerful bloodlines, one of Shadow Magic and the other being a Pendragon, no wonder they could have easily given birth to such powerful children two shadow users and an aura user. From you description of Regan last visit to Canada, she has a lot of aura stored inside and it could only take a small amount of stress to make the bubble pop."
"What do you mean by that?" Yugi asked.
"Well with her puzzle, she has more access to Shadow Magic that she gets from your puzzle. On top of that her aura is not complete meaning if someone else other than herself took it off it would destabilize because she's had it stable for so long being with Nile, which is her other half. Regan needs learn to control her ability before that group of fiends get to her. Aura is powerful weapon as are the shadows, but having so much her aura could be manipulated to control her instead of her controlling it. Exactly like the shadows."
"But that's not possible for her aura to control her, its part of her as my aura is a part of me, it can control her. I understand if the Shadows were the one doing it, they are a living essence that only a few get to branch out of this realm into another and do what they do upon the earth. If she doesn't like it then the Shadows do what she needs to do."
"She?" Grandpa asked.
"Yes the Shadow Realm has a gender." Atem replied. "Please answer Yugi's question."
"This group of people may have enough of her aura over the years that they might have created a way to control her like a puppet, like the Millennium Rod can. If they use this device when she is still not completely a master and it does its own thing, like it has been doing ever since she solved her puzzle and even more recently they might be able to use it just before she matures into a full aura user. So when she becomes a full aura user-"
"The aura will be the one in control and not the user." Yugi and Atem concluded at the same time.
"Exactly."
"So how do you stop something like this from happening?" Atem asked. "My sister is still in that puzzle and they might be able to bend her aura if they get control of Regan, like you said they have the same aura, just split down the middle. They might be able to have two aura users as their weapons."
"The only way to stop them from doing what they are doing is either make sure Regan becomes a full aura user before they have a chance to use it or destroy everything they have. If neither of these is completed and they get a hold of her than the results you may not like and you certainly won't like the way to free her from such a curse."
"What do you mean, Grandpa?" Yugi asked.
"Whether you destroy the device or not either way in order to keep the planet safe is to kill Regan in the end."
"WHAT!"
"If you take out the device, the machine will die slowly and probably very, very painfully. But if you can't get to the main remote then you have to destroy the machine below." Grandpa said darkly as his voice was filled with seriousness and sadness.
"Then I will do everything I can in order for that not to happen. If I have to I will place a barrier around Regan in the Shadow Realm until we get this straightened out, then I will."
"I'm with Yugi on this one, if Regan leaves this world or becomes a weapon, it will all be in the favor of Zorc either way he will rise and not only will we have to deal with two fronts we would have lost a good friend and a sibling all for nothing. This whole thing seems way too dangerous for Regan and Nile to stay here if that is what is going on and is to happen."
"Well for now in order to prevent anymore capturing of her aura by their group, aware her of this and keep her away from suspicious people. Maybe moving to Kaiba's mansion would be the best for everyone including her. She can train there in peace and no strange people will be showing up." Yugi and Atem nodded at their grandfather. Suddenly his face lit up. "That's right I came in here for a reason, on the back on the invitation it says to have something formal to wear at the opening ceremonies."
Yugi gave his grandfather a blank face at the change of subject. It seemed their discussion was over so sighed as he picked up the phone. "Guess better make sure everyone else knows about the formal wear, including Kaiba."
He dialed up Tristan's house to get a hold of them. After arguing for several minutes with Tristan and Joey as they were bunking up together for the night, he finally managed to talk them into packing something formal. He hung of the phone only to dial in more numbers to call up Kaiba's mansion. At first he didn't think that anyone would pick up after the fourth ring, but to his relief Kaiba did. Yugi told him about the formal clothing and was about to hang up, but Kaiba didn't want to stop the phone call yet and told Yugi not to call Regan about the formal wear.
"Why, she needs to pack something or she may not be able to attend the opening ceremonies." Yugi commented.
~I have it covered, besides she's probably already asleep.~
"And you know this how?"
~She called before she went to bed.~ Kaiba stated and then proceeded to hang up the phone before Yugi could say anything else.
He sighed and placed the phone down. Yugi already knew that Atem told Téa while he was speaking to Joey and Tristan so he decided it was time to turn in. He left the kitchen said good night to Atem and Grandpa and then headed to his bedroom. He put on his PJs and jumped into bed. As soon as he touched his pillow sleep came over him like fog in the morning.
Yugi looked around to find himself in a dark void. Suddenly, he heard laughing that sent chills down his spine. "Who's there, what do you want?" he yelled out into the void.
The laughing became a dark chuckle. "You already know what I want, but you won't be able to stop me."
"That's a long list of things the people have been wanting lately, so if you think that you can get away with whatever you're planning then you're wrong. So who are you?"
"You will know who I am, eventually." The laugh called out from everywhere and nowhere all at the same time.
Then, skeletons started to wander out of the void with all sorts of different blades and weapons. Yugi felt himself start to panic on the inside and looked around for something to defend himself. He couldn't find anything and he took a step back away from the undead. He fell into something and he turned around to see what it was. Behind him was a skeleton and another set of armed skeletons a few feet away behind it. Without thinking, he grabbed the sword that the skeleton was holding and destroyed the creature. He looked around for an exit, but the mob had surrounded him, swallowing the light that was left that allowed him to see the mob in the first place. He swung his sword taking out several skeletons before the got a chance to use their weapons on him. Then, as he turned around a skeleton slashed him with a sword and caught his face with the blade and made him cry out in pain.
Yugi jolted straight up from his pillow, breathing heavily and in a cold sweat. He felt a sharp pain where the sword cut his face in his dream. He touched it and found it was wet. He looked at his hand and saw blood covering his fingertips. 'I must have cut myself in my sleep.' He thought as a sigh came across his mind calming his nerves down slightly. He got out of his bed and wandered to his mirror. He looked into it and stumbled backwards in shock and fell on his butt. He continued to look at in the mirror as he ran his fingers on the wound. It was smooth, easily two inches across his left cheek and thin, nothing he could have done in his sleep. It also was the exact place where the skeleton had took its sword to him. "Who the hell are you?!" he demanded in a whisper of anger, though he thought he heard fear slip in too.
"Yugi are you alright? What are you doing on the floor?" Someone asked from his door way.
Yugi turned to it and got up too fast as he felt light headed. He noticed Atem was at the door so he calmed down again. "Sorry, did I wake you?"
"Don't worry about me, what happened to your face?"
"It was just a bad dream and I startled myself when I saw myself in the mirror. That's how I got on the floor and I scratched my face." Yugi lied to him.
Atem didn't look satisfied, but just nodded. "Alright, I'll give you some space to think about it; by the way it's almost six, so I suggest you get dress because we are heading out to get Joey, Téa and Tristan, then to the airport."
He left and Yugi closed his door. He got dress into the clothes that he had left out while he was packing the night before. He placed on a pair of jeans and a white long sleeve shirt. He grabbed his book bag to make sure everything he needed was in there. He set the bag down and grabbed his deck belt and put it on. He put on a light coat, grabbed his bag, placed on his shoes and then walked out the door. He walked down the stairs and started to help Atem load the rental vehicle they had rented. When they finished Grandpa magically showed up saying they needed to load the van.
"Grandpa, we finished that two minutes ago." Yugi stated.
"Oh, so I see, okay then let's get going and get our friends." Grandpa answered and then he gave him a weird expression. "Yugi come here for a second."
Yugi sighed as he knew what it was about and slowly went to his grandfather. As soon as he reached the old man, he's cheek was being examined. "Grandpa it's nothing, I-"
"Who cut you with a blade?"
"I startled myself this morning and fell-" Yugi started and Grandpa looked at him with a look that meant he wasn't in the mood for the roundabout story. Yugi sighed. "I had a nightmare and I woke up with it this morning. It's nothing really."
The man looked at him with concern, but also sighed at the fact he wasn't going into any more details. "Alright, we have to get going or we'll be late."
They sat down in the van and Grandpa took off before he even had his seatbelt done up. They picked up Joey and Tristan up first and then a few minutes of driving later they picked up Téa at her place. As the drive went on towards the Tokyo Airport, Yugi was glad none of them had asked him about the wound on his cheek. They talked about what might be at the tournament, but nothing about it ever being something that might be their worst nightmare which also pleased Yugi to no end. When they got to the airport, the workers came up to the vehicle as they pulled into the parking lot where they were to leave the rented vehicle. The workers asked if there were any guests heading to the Gamer's Trials. Joey, Atem and Yugi all showed their invitations to the airport workers. They told Grandpa to drive and turn left to the designated sign telling where to drop off the vehicle as the private planes were waiting. They drove to the other end of the parking lot and found four planes waiting for the arrival of the invited. They got out of the vehicle, plane attendants came to the vehicle and placed their luggage on carts and led the way to the plane that they were going to be flying in. They were led to the third plane and saw three people that they knew very well. Kaiba was holding onto his usual briefcase while Mokuba had his backpack on and Regan also had a backpack on, but was holding onto a two by two by half a foot box. Regan noticed them and started to wave hello. As they arrived at the plane the attendants placed their luggage on the plane and Kaiba had his morning comment.
"Regan please tell me that you invited the mutt with your invite ticket."
"Sorry Seto, I didn't invite anyone he's an invitee." Regan replied with a shrug.
"Dammit, I wanted you to send him home."
"Is Mai here?" Joey asked ignoring Kaiba all-together.
"Yup, she's already in the plane." Regna answered happily.
Joey ran to the plane and up the stairs, "See ya guys." And then he slipped into the plane.
They stared blankly as an airport worker came up to them. "Ladies and gentlemen, the plane will be taking off shortly. Please board the plane."
"Okay, this should be a fun long ride." Téa said as they boarded the plane.
The plane was bigger than what Yugi though it would be. There were twelve seats in the main part and from what he could tell there was an entire area in the back of the plane for the flight attendants. The seats faced each other with a table in between each pair of four.
"Wow," Regan looked around the airplane like a kitten on its first shot of catnip.
"What, haven't been on a private plane before?" Kaiba asked and Regan shook her head.
Yugi followed Kaiba and Mokuba as they sat in the back of the plane and Regan sat in the window seat on the other side. He joined their table. "It's a good thing we have these tables, we need something to do for twelve hours."
~Ladies and Gentlemen, place on your seatbelts and get ready for takeoff.~ A pilot said through the intercom.
Yugi placed on his seatbelt and the plane took off without a glitch. A flight attendant came by and asked, in English, what they wanted to eat. Yugi noticed that she looked, and the others all looked like they came from North America.
"I'm fine for now." Kaiba replied half-heartedly.
Mokuba flash his brother a dirty look. "I'll have pancakes and he'll have some toast." Mokuba told her and pointed at his brother.
The attendant nodded and wrote it down on her pad. "And you two?"
"Just some buttered toast thank you." Regan answered.
"Same," Yugi agreed and the attendant nodded again as she wrote.
The woman was about to leave, but Regan asked, "This may sound strange, but can I have a latex glove."
The flight attendant didn't look surprised and gave her one from the medical kit. "Here you go."
"Thank you."
Yugi looked at Reagan as the woman walked to the next table and was surprised by her face expression.
"Yugi," She started as she placed on the glove.
"Yes Regan?" Yugi asked in confusion.
She didn't answer as she grabbed him by his collar and he squeaked as she pulled him down so his head was on her lap. He wasn't sure if he should be scared or not, but he felt his face go red.
"Regan what are you doing?" Kaiba asked with amusement. Yugi could picture the smirk on the CEO's face.
"Doing an examination," She replied as Yugi felt her arm move by his head. "Now hold still so I don't cut you."
"What do you – hey what are you doing with that?" He asked in shock as she pulled out her favorite weapon, one of the twin short aura swords from her bag. He watched it as Regan placed the blade really close to his the wound on his face and he noticed something was off about the blade. The sword wasn't a light show and then it dawned on him what the purpose of the latex glove was for. It stopped the flow of the aura from her hand to enter the blade. "Can I get-"
"No," she replied closely examining the sword and the wound.
As the seconds went by Yugi started to feel the power pressure starting to reform. "Regan?"
"Yes Yugi?"
"The sword is starting to glow again." He told her. Regan looked at the blade and immediately put it back in the sheath in her bag and put the glove in the garbage. She grabbed his collar again and moved him back into his seated position. "How did you get that on the plane?"
"They didn't check the luggage." She answered and then looked seriously at him that reminded him that she was related to the brothers across the table. "So between the time you left last night and six am, when did you get yourself cut with a sword?"
"It's a long story-"
"Well we got eleven hours."
Yugi noticed she wasn't going to take no for an answer. He sighed as he had a funny feeling she was supersensitive with her aura sensing which would explain why she wasn't in the mood for anything funny. She was feeding her emotions from his confused thoughts about last night's dream, and more than likely not on purpose. He explained what happened in his dream and opened a link to Atem for him to listen onto it as well. Regan listened intently with her arms crossed under her chest and it was then he noticed how confident Regan was. She wore a white low V-neck t-shirt and a pair of jeans with her black boots she wore on her first day of school. Just from the way she dressed he knew Regan was feeling even more confident to enter her home territory. Not like Vancouver which was several provinces away from her home. As he told the story he started to feel restless at the dreams meaning and she as well didn't looked relax and it became worse as he neared the end of it.
There were no words as he finished and Regan looked out the window in thought. The attendant came by with their food. Yugi nibbled at his toast and noticed Kaiba looked annoyed. The CEO sat up a bit taller and pushed the uneaten plate of toast in front of Regan into her arm.
"Hmm," Regan looked away from the window joining the rest of reality.
"If I'm stuck eating then you are too." Kaiba told her waving his toast. "So since we have so much time to kill, what happened after Nile left to find Yugi?"
Regan grabbed her toast and told the story, but she didn't put much emotion into it.
'Jeez, one car ride with the guy and she has most of his personality traits.' Yugi sighed to himself.
He felt someone pinch his arm under the table.
'If you want to think negatively keep them to yourself. I'm trying to come up with a day plan plus a way to figure out who your new buddy is.' Regan replied to him through the link.
'So that's what you are doing over there. And here I though Kaiba stole your liveliness and stuck Nano mites in your brain.' He teased.
'Yeah, yeah go talk to someone else; I'll come along shortly when your feelings aren't running all over the place.'
Yugi grinned. "I though you enjoyed puzzles."
Regan pushed him out of his seat. "I do when they aren't giving me a headache, mini Pharaoh."
"Alright," Yugi laughed and walked up the plane to give Regan some space.
He went to the next row and saw Joey and Mai in a serious discussion to his left and Téa and Tristan dueling in one game and Grandpa and Atem dueling in another to his right. He watched in interest as Atem defeated Grandpa with a crazy combination of Millennium Dragon and Millennium Soldier. He looked at the other duel happening at the table. Téa and Tristan seemed to have new stronger decks. Téa had a fairy deck with Angel 07 on the field with Tristan had a machine type deck that wasn't fairing to well against Angel 07's effect. In the end, Téa won the duel.
"I won!" She cheered.
"Nice job." Yugi congratulated and gave her a high five.
"I was going easy on her." Tristan responded putting his cards away.
Regan came up behind Yugi with a smile on her face. "Hey I have an idea, since this is a gaming tournament we are going to I think we need some practice at some games that might be there."
"Not a bad idea Regan." Joey responded from his table. "I'm in."
They all agreed, except for Seto and Mokuba, they were working on company work, or at least that was their excuse, but Yugi didn't push them. A flight attendant over heard them and set of some games on each of the tables, except for Kaiba's table, and they broke into groups to each of the tables. They played the games that included chess, checkers, backgammon, connect four, capsule monsters, battle ship, and various other board games. There were cards set out on each of the tables as well and Regan taught them a few games that Yugi never heard of, such as golf and hearts. They played for a bit and then it led to a large game of Euchre and then poker, which almost turned into strip poker, but Kaiba told them it was time to put the game away.
"Well that was fun, but I'm heading to bed for the next six hours. It would be easier to adjust to the time change." Regan said as Yugi and Regan were back in their original seats again.
"Why?" Joey asked as he and Tristan came over.
"Well when we get there it will be six in the morning on November fifth."
"Wait we left at seven in the morning on November fifth, how do we get there an hour earlier then when we left?"
"Well, we travel twelve hours from Tokyo to Toronto. Tokyo is thirteen hours ahead of Toronto so would arrive an hour earlier, get it?" Mai asked joining them.
"No," Tristan and Joey answered.
Yugi was also a little confused with it, but knew how it worked. Regan placed thirteen cards down on the table.
"See this card here?" She asked as she pointed to the last card of the row. "This is the time we left, seven am; these cards represent the time difference between Tokyo and Toronto. Now Joey, flip over flip over twelve cards to represent the travel time." Joey flipped over twelve cards and there was one still face down. "Now Tristan, if you take twelve hours and add it to seven am, what time is it?"
"Seven pm," Tristan replied.
"Now take away twelve hours as we are going backwards in the time zones as we are crossing the date line."
"It would equal seven am again."
"Now take away one hour for the card that isn't turned over."
"Holy Shit, six am! That actually makes sense." Joey exclaimed.
"Success we have taught them something." Mai said and gave Regan a high five.
"Congrats, who knew you could teach the dog a new trick." Kaiba stated though he wasn't very loud as Mokuba was already sleeping beside him.
"Kaiba," Joey growled.
"Come on boys, let's go get some sleep." Mai ordered and pulled them away.
Regan sighed and Yugi shrugged as he adjusted his seat to comfortable position. Even though he had only been up for six hours, he felt exhausted. He laid back and sleep took him quickly.
Once again he found himself in the void that he was in only a few short hours ago, but this time he wasn't alone. In front of him was a little girl sitting on the ground laughing innocently as she played with her back fully turned to him. The girl had long, brown hair like it was never cut before and was wearing a flower print dress. He was hesitant to talk to the girl, but he ignored his gut. "Hello, what are you doing here?" he asked.
"What are you doing here?" The girl questioned the question.
"Good question, can you tell me your name?"
"Regan." The girl replied. "What's yours?"
"Really, I have a friend named Regan and my name is Yugi."
The girl laughed. "Oh can we be friends, I want someone to play with me. It's lonely to play by myself."
Yugi knew that feeling all too well so he smiled. "Sure."
He walked over the girl and she turned around to face him. He took a step backwards as the girl licked her lips. She grinned and he saw pointy teeth in her mouth and her irises were blood red.
"Let's play a game, it's called predator and prey, I'll be the predator." Regan said and leaped towards his throat with unusual speed.
He duck and ran the opposite direction. He took a look back at his attack and notice it looked a lot like a younger version of Regan, only part demon. "This is not happening."
"It is happening," The demon child laughed with glee. "This is so much fun; I can't wait to catch you."
"Do you like, she's almost perfect for my master, but I think the teeth need to go, a bit of a turn off." The voice from before echoed the across void. "Insanity really does loosen the mind from interactions."
Suddenly, Yugi was forced to stop as a wall appeared in front of him that out lined the void as far as he could see. He turned around to find that the little girl didn't look so demonic, but like the baby he saw from the video Isolde gave to Jade. Her irises were still the color of blood, but the teeth were gone. The girl smiled with happiness that could have stopped a war, but then her face turned into one of hatred. 'Great, so a minion of Dark Matter wants to create a killing machine, why does everyone what to do that to her?!' He asked himself. 'This fucking sucks!'
The girl walked towards him and he took a step back onto to find the wall was closer than it had been before.
"Suck him dry of his aura and then his soul, Regan. We don't need him spoiling my objective." The voice ordered the girl.
Regan grinned hungrily and sprinted towards him. She leaped at him.
"No get away from me!" Yugi screamed.
"Yugi what's wrong?" Someone asked and then he realized he was back on the plane. He turned towards the voice and saw the child beside him.
"Ah!" Yugi yelled and fell out of his seat as he tried to get away.
"Yugi, stop looking at me like that, you're scaring me." The creature said with fear in her red eyes.
He blinked and noticed that is was really Regan with her green eyes looking down at him in fear and hurt. He took a deep breath and looked at the floor. "Sorry, I was having a nightmare, again."
"Yea so we've notice, you were tossing and turning somewhat and then you yelled 'get away from me' and now you're on the floor scared out of your mind." Mokuba explained in confusion. "And you scared Regan to death on top of it."
Yugi looked away from the floor and noticed everyone else was awake with startled expressions that had started to fade. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you guys up or scare you Regan."
"Yugi you're bleeding!" Mai exclaimed from her seat.
"Where," He asked as he was numb all over and he couldn't feel anything. He was really shook up from his dream as images of the little girl kept flashing in front of his eyes.
"Jesus Christ." Regan muttered and got up from her seat quickly and grabbed the medical kit from the overhead compartment. She knelt down in front of him and had an impossible to read look on her face. His puzzle also wasn't picking up anything from their link either, so he gave up on trying seeing if she was ok as he had a feeling that she was just startled. He watched her take out a few items and set them down in a neat little line. She picked up a clear bottle with clear liquid inside. "This is alcohol and by the looks of your wound it looks almost like a scratch or maybe even a bite mark so hold still so I can clean it; or it's going to hurt even more than it should."
She set the bottle down and picked up a wet nap and started to wipe the area of his neck and shoulder as she moved his shirt a bit to get underneath his shirt and what he could imagine was blood stained. She set the wet nap down and picked up the bottle and a cotton ball.
"Why can't you use peroxide? It makes bubbles and it doesn't hurt." Yugi asked her.
"There is none in here and besides, how are you going to see them?" She replied as she put alcohol on the cotton ball.
"Don't know, but its more comforting."
The instant she placed the alcohol filled cotton ball, he knew how much crap was really in there as it felt like he was getting beat up by Trudge all over again and there was no pain left for tomorrow. "Dammit this hurt!" He stated as he tried to pull away, but it only cause more pain. He clenched his jaw.
"I told you not to move." Regan told him as she placed some Polysporn on some gauze. She stuck it to the wound and then placed medical tape on it to keep it in place. "There all good. If you're careful and Atem has contacted people on how to use shadow magic as a healing tool, you should be able to heal without a scar and by the opening ceremonies, but if no help from the shadows, well it should heal without a scar, it's just going to take longer."
"Thanks." Yugi said as she tidied up the mess.
"Anytime."
She stood up and put the box away. Yugi stood up and noticed none of the plane attendants had come in to see what the problem was.
'That's because I shooed them away.' Atem replied in his head.
'Ah, that makes sense.' Yugi stated and then the intercom came on.
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