Finally complete and the internet decided to run away -_-, but anyhow, I have my iPhone to get the chapter up and will be getting the next one up hopefully tomorrow, I have a deadline and it's appearing a lot faster than I wanted it to… But this is my problem, not yours so ENJOY THE CHAPTER! If you want to…

Chapter 4

Dreams

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Regan opened her eyes to a screaming, out of control, stampeding crowd. She looked down at herself and found she was wearing a simple t-shirt and a fancy jean mini skort with mid-thigh combat boots. "What the-"

She didn't get to continue as she heard a cry of a male child and turned to it for some strange reason. "Mommy!"

The boy ran up to her. Bewildered, she cautiously picked up the child that hadn't been killed by the rampaging crowd.

"What's going on?" She asked the child that seemed strangely familiar and put up an aura field, like she had before, around them as the crowd shifted towards them.

"We were about to watch Uncle Seto start the Opening Ceremonies for the Kinder's Tournament when a strange man appeared on the stage and let out a bunch of moving dead guys into the crowd."

"Moving dead guys…are you sure they were dead?"

The boy nodded. "Why else would their aura be so bare without a soul or a life force?"

Regan looked completely astounded at the child and not because of the walking dead corpses that he was telling her about. "Okay, random pop quiz time." She announced as she looked around looking for the presence she felt coming near. "What's your mother's name?"

"Regan Heartin Kaiba."

She did a take back, but she didn't comment on it. "Does Regan often throw random pop quizzes?"

"Only in dangerous situations to calm me and sister down."

'Of course, why else would I start something like this?' She thought to herself and then continued her questions. "What's your relationship with your sister?"

"We're twins." He beamed proudly.

'Heh, twins, lovely…but with whom though?' she looked around to make sure no moving fellows were coming their way. "What are you and your sister's names?"

"My name is Cloud Alexander Kaiba Muto and my sister's name is Terra Rose Kaiba Muto."

She turned her head away from the boy as she felt her face flush red. "Where's your sister?"

"With Daddy, Uncle Seto, Uncle Mokie and Uncle Atem; Aunt Téa is also with them on a big helicopter that was originally supposed to start off the tournament." Cloud told her and Regan ran her hands through his black, golden yellow and red hair.

"How old are you?"

"Seven years old and two months back on March twentieth."

"How old are Mommy and Daddy?"

"Twenty-four, but he'll be twenty-five in fourteen days."

"Oh God!"

"What's wrong mom?"

Regan looked down at him with a cheeky smile. "I forgot about something for his birthday. I'll do it when we solve our current problem." She looked to the skies again as a familiar sound of blades beating reached her ears. 'I have two kids at eighteen, with Yugi, what is this place?' Another noise popped into her hearing a lot closer than the helicopter blades. She jolted into reality and looked around them. There was groaning from of the dead closer to her aura shield and the sounds of people screaming had lessened dramatically as some of the fallen were starting to rise again. She clenched her jaw. "Okay this is really bad."

"What are we going to do to get to the helicopter?" Cloud asked in a fighting, but frightened voice.

There wasn't much of anything that they could do. Her shield was weakening and the highest thing that they would have a chance at getting to was the Clock Tower. It wasn't far thankfully, only about fifty feet, but it was still blocked by the dead.

Then an idea came to her. "I have another question in the random pop quiz, how fast can you climb a pole?"

"The Clock Tower, I shouldn't tell you this, but I hold the fastest record in the entire school and up to the second grade in the middle school kids."

"Excellent."

"Wait, why?" Cloud asked in confusion.

"Well while the dead are busy with the crowd that is left, we don't know if they can hear, smell, see or feel, so in order to show less attention we are going to climb to the top of the Clock Tower and then onto the helicopter without a sound and out of sight as much as possible, got it?"

Cloud nodded and Regan set the child on the ground just as the helicopter came into view in between the building and her shield failed.

"Run." She whispered into his ear and the two took off hand in hand.

They managed to get to the Clock Tower without being noticed which seemed too good to be true and Cloud started to climb the pole faster than Regan could have thought as the helicopter noticed where they were. She was about to follow when she heard her name being called by two very familiar voices.

"Regan, wait for us!" Joey and Tristan shouted at her.

"You dumbasses, hurry up before these things start a cult." Regan yelled at the two males as they reached her destination.

She heard the helicopter door opened and Regan looked up to see a much older Yugi.

"Daddy," Cloud cried as Yugi lifted him into the machine.

"Come on, they are running out of people." Seto stated as the chopper moved closer to the ground, but not low enough for someone to grab it.

"Climb," Regan ordered making Joey climb up the pole.

Tristan was about to head up when a dead guy noticed them. "Ah Regan!"

"Go dammit!" She hissed at him and sent the closest one down with a deadly, aura charged jump kick to the head. She heard its skull crack and the creature did not get up.

The motorcyclist climbed like his pants were on fire and left her with five zombies that had noticed her.

"Regan jump!" Seto yelled and she saw the helicopter at ten feet.

"Oh I hope that my gymnastics skills I learned are still with me in this fucked up reality." She prayed to herself and took a few steps away from the helicopter and towards the enemy. She turned around and ran as fast as she could and leaped for her life. She grabbed onto the landing gear and swung inside. The helicopter was way above the buildings when the door was finally shut. She somewhat sighed only to be tackled by a small brunette and Cloud.

"Mommy you're so cool, I didn't know you could do that and I thought I knew all about you." The girl exclaimed.

"Terra, your mom won the gymnastic finals in her graduating year." Joey replied with exhaustion.

There was an awe look on the two children as they looked up at her. The silence was broken from the cockpit as the helicopter jumped.

"Hey, what are you- ah someone get him off of me!" Someone shouted that she barely recognized.

"Mokuba!" Seto yelled as he moved unbelievably fast from his standing position. He opened the cockpit door and the pilot was trying to get a hold of the other driver, Mokuba. The only thing separating them was a cookie sheet held up by his feet. Regan moved the two children to where an older looking Yugi was sitting. Tristan opened the helicopter door while Seto and Joey grabbed a hold of the hungry pilot. They dragged him out of the cockpit.

"Throw him out!" Joey raised his voice.

"Wheeler, where else am I going to put him, on your lap?" Seto replied sarcastically and then they pushed him out of the helicopter.

Tristan quickly closed the door and jumped into the driver's seat were the last pilot was. She could hear him buckling himself up. Mokuba appeared out of the cockpit trying hard to compose himself. Regan blinked as she realized how different he looked. His hair was shorter and his childish features were gone. She looked around. Joey looked older and then she realized that eight and a half years had gone by. Tristan wasn't much different other than the fact he was flying a helicopter. She looked over to Atem and Téa. They both had age really well as they didn't look much different if any different than how she remembered, except for Téa look about six months pregnant. She turned her attention to Yugi and her heart almost stopped. His eyes weren't as big as they were, his features were sharp and his body very toned. It took all of her willpower to not show or send any information of how she thought of him. She turned her attention to the two children that were currently sitting on her and Yugi. How they weren't crying or look overly frightened, she didn't know.

"Were you bitten?" Atem asked urgently pulling her out of her thoughts and pried her eyes towards Atem.

"No why?" Mokuba asked checking himself.

"Because that is how this thing spreads, they bit you, you get infected and then turn into one of them." Téa replied.

"So we are playing a zombie game, lovely." Tristan replied miserably on the intercom. "Speaking of which, where is your family Kaiba?"

"Alex and Logan are already heading to the safe base with Roland, Mai and Sapphire-"

"You have a safe base?" All of them asked him.

'Who are Sapphire and Logan? Could Logan be Seto's son?'

"Compare to what this company deals with on a daily bases you shouldn't be all that surprised." Seto told them.

"So where is it?" Yugi asked and his voice was much deeper than before making Regan flush slightly.

"Away from civilization, but we should stop at my mansion." Seto answered and Tristan came out of the cockpit.

"Are you trying to kill us Tristan?!" Joey yelled. "Get back to flying the helicopter!"

"Relax; it's on auto pilot until we get to Kaiba's place which we should get there in about ten minutes." Tristan told him.

"Well then, will someone like to tell me what the hell is going on?" Seto demanded with his voice raised.

"Regan, you were on the ground, what happened?" Yugi asked her.

She looked at the floor, 'Okay older me, you have to have some memory of this incident before I showed up, please give it to me.' "Cloud saw more than I did," She decided to answer. "But from what he told me, someone showed up and delivered walking corpses."

"They weren't just walking dead guys, they were eating people." Joey stated. "I was on stage getting ready for grand opening for Kaiba's entrance when the guy showed up."

"Once again, Uncle Joey saved my life." Cloud sighed.

Regan finally got some images of what had happened before she woke up and found one memory that interested her. Her spirit friend was not so much of a spirit in the memory. "That would explain why Nile was acting funny this morning and wanted to do a couple of things instead of coming. Speaking of which, where is she?"

"I talked to her just after I got onto the helicopter." Terra answered pulling out a phone from her pocket. "She said she was packing up items from everyone's home and using shadow transportation to do so."

"Aunt Nile knew about this and didn't tell anyone?!" Cloud asked with a slight bitterness to his tone. It reminded Regan of Seto's as it was almost identical. "Why did you tell any of us?"

"I did, why you think we're in a helicopter, genius."

"I doubt that she actually knew that this was going to happen." Atem stated breaking up the little scrimmage. "I believe we were all sensing something was up, but as most tournaments go, we just passed it as it being part of the tournament. Nile must have been the tenth man and thought otherwise. I should probably go and see if she has everything covered, and make sure our friends and family are safe."

"You're not going alone," Téa told him. "As well we should tell her husband is here."

"What do you mean-" Joey started and Regan followed Téa's looked to find a grownup Ryou coming out of a shadow portal. "Holy shit, give us some warning would you!"

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you all," Ryou told them as Serenity and Duke came out behind him. "I was just getting out of a tight situation with these two. Also, Atem, Téa your daughter are still safe at Seto's mansion; I was just there before I had to find these two. Speaking of which, Nile needs some help transporting things to Seto's hide out. You can't deliver without an address."

Serenity walked over to Mokuba and the two of them sat down. Regan turned her attention to her other brother as she took note on how more relaxed Atem and Téa where than they were a few seconds ago.

"The destination is obvious for duelists who were awake during Battle City Finals." Seto stated.

"Duelists awake…. but that place was blown to pieces-" Atem started.

"To make the best place to get away and completely off the grid."

"Seto what are you talking about?" Regan asked getting frustrated at everything. There was too much going on and nothing was making any sense.

"Do you remember the Battle Tower which was the location of the finals for Battle City?"

"Yea, the one where it was blown up, with the blimp?"

"Yes, the bomb wasn't big enough to blow it into the ocean and back in the day the Dragon Slayers would have loved to get their hands on it. All the weaponry stored there was and still is stored there." Seto grinned. "Now, it's a hideout that I've been playing with since the dragon slayers made their appearance."

"So that's where we are heading?" Ryou asked and Seto nodded. "Then I will get the rest of the kids there."

"Cloud, Terra, you should go with Uncle Ryou, we'll meet you at the base shortly okay?" Yugi told the two children.

Regan turned to them and saw stubbornness in their eyes as they both shook their heads. She sighed. "If you stay then we can't get to safety faster and if we can't get to safety fast, bad things could happen. Come on, Ryou needs hurry up, we don't know how long the mansion will hold."

The twins looked at each other and they sighed and walked over to Ryou. Cloud turned to them. "Someday, I'll be able to transport myself."

She smirked. "Until then, enjoy the free transportation."

Ryou nodded and then a portal appeared behind him. "Off we go."

The three of them disappeared and Regan felt dread in her chest. She felt a familiar touch wrap around her shoulders.

"Ryou's got it covered." Yugi told her.

"I know, doesn't mean I have to like it." She pouted as Atem and Téa left.

00000

Yugi rushed into the hospital and didn't even go to the front desk as he followed the static in his mind; static coming from his girlfriend that he couldn't do anything about when the demon appeared. He went to the top of the building taking the stairs as he thought the elevator was to slow for him. In no time he was a the top, too worked up to feel the results of going up twelve stories and found Kaiba pacing back and forth in front of a room. He ran over and before he could ask what was going on Kaiba grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and shoved him against the wall a foot off the ground so he was eye to eye with him.

"Out of everything you can do, you couldn't protect the one person who needed it most!" Kaiba shouted at him.

"I wasn't expecting Dark Matter controlling the weather or the fact that he may have seen the future! I'm sorry I couldn't do anything,-"

"I don't care how sorry you are, it's your fault she is in the fucking hospital right now!"

"I know it is my fault. Just what that demon did was too fast for me to do anything, if it hadn't been for Regan in the first place we both be stuck in whatever state she is in now and never even known it was Dark Matter in the first place. But since I know, I'm going to find him and if I don't kill him first, he's going to fix this whole problem!"

Kaiba looked ready to punch him out, but Yugi's words were violently true. He was ready to give into such a murderous state of mind to bring the demon down. He was getting sick of everything the demon had done and he was going to make sure the demon was put down and never to revive himself and while he was at it, Yugi was going to find out where Zorc was hiding and make sure he was destroyed again.

"Just save something for me, like his neck, I wish to wring it out." Kaiba set him on the ground. "Now tell me exactly what happened."

Yugi told him what happened from the time they left the Kaiba Mansion all the way to when the helicopter showed up. He left out bits of conversation from within the truck, but he figured Kaiba had the story. When he finished, the CEO looked to be in thought. The thought was broken when the door that they had been standing in front of opened as a doctor and a couple of nurse left the room.

"What is the problem?" Kaiba demanded.

"Well, it's strange really." The doctor started and Yugi and Kaiba followed him into the room. Regan was hooked up to a couple of machines as the monitored several things Yugi could only guess at. "She's completely healthy, but yet she's in almost a comatose state, only she's not in a coma."

"So why do you rule that out?" Yugi asked him.

"Her brain waves are acting like she's still awake and moving around. Her heart rate was high like she was running and then it dropped to one where someone would be sitting. Her facial expressions along with the sudden subtle movements, is what really took our notice though. I think the best thing to say out this is that she's in a dream-like state, but not really dreaming, more like reacting something from the past or-"

"The future?"

"If such a thing was possible to see the future, then it could be possible. Has something like this ever occurred before?"

"No," Kaiba and Yugi both said at the same time.

The doctor looked at his watch, "I must be off to see other patients, if something comes up the nurse is just down the hall, just give a shout."

The doctor walked out and shut the door behind him. Yugi took a look at Regan who looked peaceful at the moment. "Now what?"

"What do you mean, now what? What we're going to do is find this demon and he's going to tell us how to fix this."

"Yes I got that part down!" Yugi snapped. "I meant until you do hunt the bastard down with your technology; we don't know if she's in some sort of danger in this state, whether it be some dream realm or not."

Kaiba turned to the window and Yugi grabbed a chair. He moved it next to Regan's bed side and sat down. Suddenly, the River's Puzzle lit. It blinded him for a moment and then when it died down, there was a video being streamed into the room. What Yugi guessed to be a helicopter, the camera panned across the area and showed what he could only guess were the main characters. He saw himself, along with Kaiba, Regan, Duke, Serenity, Mokuba, Joey and Tristan, only all of them were much older looking. "This is really weird."

"Maybe we should just watch until Dark Matter decides to give us the message to this." Kaiba said. "What did Dark Matter say before this happened? Seeing the future and such?"

"He said he saw the future and he knew that things were going to work his way." Yugi told him. "But, I don't see how this says anything along those lines."

"Neither do I which makes me wonder what kind of trauma he's going to put Regan through to make her join him."

00000

The helicopter touched the ground on the mansion's backyard. Regan watched Yugi open the helicopter door and everyone got out.

"Tristan, refuel the helicopter to its max. Mokuba, Serenity, and Joseph, stand guard here and help load things. Duke, Yugi Regan, follow me inside." Seto ordered. "After we get the main thing, we need food, water, medicine, cleaning supplies, and clothing."

"I thought your hideout had these things?" Joey asked.

"It does, but extra won't hurt while we wait for the helicopter to refuel."

"Seto, here before you forget, you need this to get into the vault." Mokuba said handing him his duel monster pendent.

Seto nodded and turned towards the house. Regan followed him into the mansion with Yugi by her side and Duke taking the rear. He led them into the basement of the house, which Regan was pretty familiar with and came to the mysterious wall she always wondered about as she'd go passed. There were two slots in the center of the wall separated by a blue square panel in the middle. Seto placed Mokuba's pendent into the first slot and then took the pendent off of his neck placed it into the slot. Then he turned to her.

"Regan, I need your key."

She didn't know what he was talking about and then the letter when she got her pendent came into mind. She reached for the latch on the back of her neck and for the first time, she took off the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon pendent. She handed it to Seto and he placed in on the panel. The square lit up a blue color and then there was a click.

He gave the pendent back and she put it back on as he removed the two card keys. The door opened and behind it was a room full of weapons. There were guns, crossbows, ammo, some sort of amour suits and other things she didn't even know what they were. The CEO led them in and pulled out some duffle bags from a lower cupboard and Regan could see more inside.

Duke whistled. "Unfortunate we can't stay here."

"Fill the bags; we don't have much time here. There are extra bags so when we are done here, we'll spread out in two teams of two. Regan, stick with Yugi and Duke you are with me. Nobody goes by themselves." Seto told them apparently ignoring Duke's comment.

Regan grabbed a duffle bag and started to quickly fill it with ammunition. She grabbed bolts and several types of bullets and what she guessed were grenades. When the bag was filled, she zipped it up, barely, and then placed it over her shoulder. "This bag's done."

"So is this one." Yugi said beside her with throwing a seconded bag over his shoulders. Both of the bags had a few gun barrels sticking outside of the bag. "Let's go."

She rushed out of the room with him and they ran to the helicopter. When they got out side, Regan dropped her bag. She was about to scream and run over, but Yugi held her as he placed a hand over her mouth. She struggled against him as undead beings crawled over the walls. Mokuba was screaming as several of them were on him. Joey was motionless on the ground as a few were on him and Tristan was pinned against the helicopter. She ceased her struggle as Mokuba reached an arm towards them. Serenity was nowhere to be found.

"Help me!"

"Regan, we can't help them if we did we wouldn't make it and even if we did, they would still turn into them." Yugi whispered in her ear as tears started to stream down her face and pooled where his hand sat.

"YUGI! REGAN! HELP ME THEY GOT SEREN-!" Mokuba screamed, but it was stopped as Serenity came out of the clumps of dead people and walked towards him not lively in the slightest. "YUGI! REGAN!"

Serenity dragged Mokuba away screaming their names by his leg.

"We need to get back inside. Pick up the bag." Yugi insisted.

All she could do was nod. Yugi slowly let her go and she followed his order and picked up the bag. He took her hand and they started back the house.

"REGAN!" Mokuba continued his screams.

She turned her head to him. "I'm sorry." She whispered.

Mokuba screamed and shouted as Yugi and she walked into the house. They closed the door and locked it but they didn't turn from the door.

"What are you guys doing in here?" Seto asked behind them.

She tightened her grip on the doorknob. "We couldn't help them."

"Help who?"

She didn't answer and she heard a few bags drop. There were quick steps towards the door and Yugi left her side.

"Get off of me, my family is out there!" Seto raged.

"Not anymore, the undead came over the walls." Yugi tried to reason.

"Get a hold of yourself. We are still alive, don't go out there just to die or turn into one of them. Do you think they would have wanted that?!" Duke raised his voice.

She turned to them. Yugi and Duke were holding Seto back from the door which they seemed to be having a hard time with. "Please Seto, they were our family out there too, but they are gone. We can come back for them after we are safe. Maybe even have a cure for whatever this is so they can come back to us. But right now, we have kids and other family members that need us and the things we bring to them."

"I will only agree not to run out there if we can come back for them."

"They shouldn't be able to get out of there." Yugi told him. "We'll come back."

"They never do." Someone said and Regan wiped towards them.

The mansion suddenly melted away into a dark room and Regan was standing along with Dark Matter.

"What was the purpose of this?!" She yelled at him. "Is this the kind of feelings you enjoy seeing, pain and suffering upon the face that you say you want to be with for however long it is you spawns of Zorc live for. If it is, your definition of love is so twisted that it makes genocide sound like a good topic."

"I was just showing you the future if you continue this path. One that gets your family killed. There was a reason why they never came for them. The hideout was overrun with undead and only you survived because you were unconscious when they sent you to a survivor ship for medical assistance. Not even your future children made it out as they hid when the island was blown into the depths of the ocean."

"That's a lie. No one would have let anyone else on that island or send me off to a ship for medical attention. If any of that was in the next eight years, there would be personal working in many different professions. Doctors and specialized medical licensed people would be on the top of that list along with medical supplies and agriculture for food and water."

"Why would I lie, you saw, I'm just sparing you the sight of seeing all your love ones get killed while you do nothing about it. But if you come with me, the future would be different."

"Yes the future would be different, the world would be in chaos and destroyed, not even giving the chance of seeing people survive and thrive in such a hellish world. If Hell on Earth is the only thing in the future, then I choose to be in Hell with my friends and family."

"Are you dense?!" He asked with a raised voice. "Are you willing to place all you family and friends through that; your own children with him?"

"No, if that's the future that was heading in the near future then I know exactly what to do to change it, I promise I won't let anyone go through such a thing in that life if it happens. Plus, I have faith in my family and friends that we will be able to live through it." She told him. "Now let me out, if this was a warning, I'm choosing to ignore it."

"You will regret it, and even if you manage to change it, it doesn't matter your future will be with me."

"Not today mother fucker." She hissed in anger.

Suddenly, her puzzle lit up in the dark and blinded her as she felt the warm presence of Yugi holding her hand.

00000

Yugi held his breath as the video they were watching was went white and then it disappeared.

"You guys need to stop bringing me to hospitals; I'm going to die one of these days because of it." Regan muttered and Yugi looked up at her.

He stood up and gave her a hug as she started to rise. "You were struck by lightning; you are going to end up in a hospital no matter what."

"Is that what happened?"

"Yes, but isn't what's making you cry." Kaiba stated.

Yugi shot him look, but he ignored him, like usual.

"You don't have to tell us everything right now. We saw some of it."

Yugi let her go and sat back down beside her and grabbed her hand again.

"How about we just head home and celebrate Serenity's birthday." Regan said as she squeezed Yugi's hand. "I'll talk about it on the way there. Then, Seto we will discuss what I promised to discuss with you."

"You don't have to tonight."

"I am or I will never, and besides. A promise is something I'm not willing to break."

Felt horrible writing this, did not want to write something like this, but I did. Anyway, I hope you liked it.

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