Chapter two of my three chapters of apology.
Chapter 3
Flames
Regan spent most of the day in the dining room going through her cards as well as her brother's deck. Her deck was completely laid out on the table. It was still the same forty cards from the tournament and she knew she could still add up to twenty more cards, but a sixty card deck would be less strategic to get the cards she needed. She had already set out Seto's three Blue-Eyes and they were sitting like a dividing line between her deck and his. She gripped her ultimate dragon around her neck as she moved the card counterpart to the centre line as well.
"How's it going?" Atem asked as she jumped half a foot off the ground with a hand to her sword handle.
She let the handle go and turned back to the cards on the table. "Just trying to get this deck together and every time I think I have it, it just doesn't seem right."
"Have you thought about what the main monsters mean towards his deck, if you know the heart of Seto's deck then you can combine the heart of his deck and the heart of your deck together."
She looked at her deck and grabbed the three cards that made the heart of her deck: Dark Magician Girl, Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord, and Guardian Angel Joan and then placed them with Seto's dragons. "Now what?"
"Do you know why Seto is so obsessed with the Blue-Eyes White?"
"Wasn't that his past life's love or something?"
"The dragon was in Kisara's, which was the girl Priest Seto liked, Ka. The story ended tragically and Seto I think has been a stuck up prick ever since."
Regan grinned as she started to go through his deck. "Anyway, back on facts here, combining hearts of decks; how does that work?"
"Just by combining what you two have at heart and in theory it should to your command, just follow the simple rules and strategies that you are comfortable with."
Regan nodded and Atem left her. After another hour or so, she finally was happy with the deck and placed it in her deck case. The rest of the cards that she didn't use were separated into their owners' piles and then placed into Seto's case. She walked out of the dining room and was hit with an aroma of pizza. She followed the scent and found two boxes of pizza sitting on a table and everyone sitting on the sofa.
"Where did you find a delivery guy?" she asked them.
"We didn't, Tristan, Joey and Yugi went for a road trip when Joey remembered Capilano's Pizza when we drove by it." Téa told her.
"Did it just arrive?"
"Yea," Yugi replied as he picked up his food off the coffee table. "I was going to come and get you when I realized you didn't hear us come in."
"Sorry, I was building the deck and apparently tuned everything out, but now it's done."
"You need to take and rest; you haven't stopped for a break since they were taken." Joey stated suddenly.
She narrowed her eyes. "Well of course not! If your sister was in their position do you think you would be relaxing?! I'm not going to take a break until they are safely home." She grabbed a slice of pizza in anger. "Excuse me while I go and create some sort of plan so I don't get people killed that I care about!"
She marched off and headed for her room barely noting a few tears streaming down her cheeks. She was about midway up the steps when she noticed Yugi was following her from his aura.
"Regan wait, Joey didn't mean it like that." Yugi called up to her.
"Still, telling someone to take a break when their only family left is in danger is not something I take lightly." She told him reaching the top floor. She was about to turn when Yugi stepped in front of her. "Yugi…"
"When was the last time you slept?"
"I don't know; I'm not tired anyway." She told him as she went to go the other away around the staircase but he went in front of her again. "Yugi please, I need to create plans to back up other plans-"
Yugi placed a finger on her lips and used his other hand to wipe her fallen tears. "Then let me help you, you look exhausted and I can tell you are mentally and spiritually exhausted as well."
"Yugi-"
He shook his head. "We came to help and that's what we are going to do. Right now everyone down stairs is creating ideas on what they can do to help. Up here, we can create plans that everyone can follow on their own strengths and terms so we can all make it out alive and save your brothers as well."
She sighed in defeat. "Fine, let's look a map of Las Vegas, maybe we can figure out where the damn building is before Pegasus does."
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The door slammed opened and a raging Dragon Slayer came into the room grabbing Kaiba by the collar of his shirt. Kaiba couldn't help but grin at the look. "You son of a bitch, why didn't the vaults open?"
"Took you long enough, three hours and here I thought I gave you more than enough time at an hour before we would be having this conversation." Kaiba told him.
"Answer the question!"
"I don't know." Kaiba said with a shrug.
The Dragon Slayer tossed him into the wall, but Kaiba didn't even feel it. "You do know we still have our threat all ready to go whenever you don't corporate."
"Do you even know where she is? Because I certain don't think she is crashing at my house right now."
"We'll find her, don't worry about that little detail, your two cards opens all sorts of ways to find people, but not the ones that we really want unfortunately. Now, tell me why they aren't opening."
"I'm not going to make this any easier for you." Kaiba retorted.
"How about if you don't tell me, we shoot your brother in the head as you watch, we technically only need one alive to run Kaiba Corporation right?"
"Fine, I'll tell you why it's not opening." Kaiba growled before they could even move a weapon to his brother. "There is another member of the Kaiba family you are missing and he has the third key."
"There is another one of you running around?"
"Out of everything you know, you missed him, how incompetent do you have to be in order to miss that so very large detail."
"Apparently, a large buffoon," A female voice echoed into the room.
"Miss please your father would be furious if you were here." The Dragon Slayer turned his attention to the female.
"Someone has to do this job; he has other things to take care of." The woman said as walked up to Kaiba who he recognized from the tournament.
"You're Rose Phono."
"That would be me." Rose said with a smirk and patted his cheek. He glared at her. "Now how about you tell me a little more about this male family member; or I just might raise the stakes a bit. Say Roland and Alex traitors to our group."
Kaiba huffed.
"Or were never actually part of our group, but spies." Rose spat. "Under your loyalty the entire time, you sent them to join us didn't you?"
"Well after sending a threat through my office window with two of my workers inside, you really think I'm just going to stand by and do nothing. Nah, I get knee deep in the shit of my enemy to find out what they are doing in their home base." Kaiba retorted sadistically. "I know just about everything from the food you order in to the members of your group and one by one they will fall, that is, if they aren't torn to pieces by explosives first."
"You are one sick bastard."
"Sounds like you're calling the kettle black." Mokuba growled. "You are the ones that trying to conquer the world by force. How many people will die because if it?"
"We are trying to conquer to the world to free it from its certain destruction-"
"Here we go Mokuba." Kaiba sighed rolling his eyes.
"The only way to free its path is to place it all under one government-"
"Run by sociopaths and narcissists, who know nothing about politics I might add."
"And getting rid of all the trouble makers who don't follow the new leaders."
Kaiba snapped his fingers. "Now I know where I heard this, sounds like another religious cult, instead of a god it's replaced with an unrealistic idea about unity. Sorry to burst your bubble but humans are a strange being that have very different ideas from one another and many won't tolerate such bullshit. Especially, the major religions of the worlds, they might think you are getting rid of their religion."
"Would you shut the fuck up?!" Rose shouted.
"I'm just pointing out all the faults about this idiotic plan. Like how you would have to try and either over throw or bribe a hundred ninety-five countries, hundred ninety-six countries if you count that other one that is on the line of being a country, one of them being the United States of America, who has most of the population under a certain religion that the Vatican is based off of. Not to mention the other countries like England, France, Russia, Australia and Canada who don't follow blindly."
"Well it's a good thing if they don't bow to us, they are being left in smoke and dust along with all of the people inside. You know how it is, show an example of your power and then the rest will follow without question in fear."
"Who exactly is your father anyway, why would he even think about going after Kaiba Corp. there are so many military companies out there, mine isn't even a military company anymore."
"Hey, I'm asking the questions around here." Rose snapped. "Now tell me who the male family member is and where to find him."
"Thought we dropped that topic a long time ago."
Rose slapped him and he had to give it to her, it was a good slap. "Who is it?"
"You really think; I'm just going to give him up so easily? Find him yourself and who he is. I'm sure there is an article or two of him with Gorzaburo I'm sure."
Rose glared, but nodded towards the other Dragon Slayer and he left. "If you think your riddles will give you time for whatever rescue you are planning-"
"I don't need or want others to help me."
"Or planning an escape, your time in the living ends on Christmas Eve whether the vaults are opened or not. Like my friend said, we only need one." Rose gestured towards Mokuba as she leaned into his ear and whispered. "And I think he will be a lot more talkative when your life is hanging in the balance along with that little friend he has. What was her name, oh right, Serenity Wheeler."
"You are quite the fucked up little teenager, were you inbreeded?"
She smirked as she backed away from him, "I like this little thing we have going, I think I'll let you live until Christmas morning as a Christmas gift, that way the world can enjoy it."
"Would that be in your time zone?"
"Ha, of course not, it would be yours."
"Would you tell me what time it is now?"
"Which time zone?"
"Why don't you show me how smart you are and tell me both."
"It's five PM here and in your home town, mmm, ten AM Friday morning."
The woman left and Kaiba sighed and he placed his head on the back wall.
"What did she say?"
"That we are so screwed if our plan fails."
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Regan walked out of her room after attempting to sleep. She made it to the lying down stage then she heard the sounds of her laugh being repeated in the room around her, only sadistically and lusting for blood. It was early morning she guessed around eight. Well really not that early in the morning, she could hear some of her friends down stairs. She grabbed some of her clean clothes that she did bring and walked herself to the bathroom. She closed the door and undressed herself. She turned on the shower and jumped in after a moment remembering Téa's attempt to jump in right away. Téa had screamed at the cold water until it warmed up leaving all of them panicked outside of the door. She let the hot, steamy water soak into her skin as she just stood there. She placed her head on the wall and her hair from the weight of the water fell around her shoulders. She looked at it as was amazed at how long it had become. It had only been almost four months since she arrived in Domino and in only four months it felt like years had gone by. She did the things that she needed to do and in no time she was back at soaking in the water. She knew what she needed to do. The night before she apologized to Joey and he apologized to her and Yugi and her gave out the plan while they picked where they were going to be at.
Her thoughts were suddenly broken as sounds of screaming and shouting bounced through the walls. The reading suddenly hit her as there was way more people in the house and her head pounded as if it wanted more to read. She turned off the shower as she got out and grabbed a towel to wrap her hair in and a towel to wrap around her. She got them both on and quickly rung out all the water in her hair. The hair towel fell off just as heavy footsteps were outside the bathroom door. She read the aura of the figure on the other side and didn't recognize it was one of her friends. She slipped onto the toilet seat lid silently just as the door knob turned without luck. A second later, it was kicked in hiding her behind the door. A man came in with a hand gun and looked in behind the shower curtain as she slipped off the toilet seat lid without a sound. She went to leave, but her puzzle was still on the counter and the man looked towards the open window. She clenched her jaw and grabbed the toilet cover. Just as the man was turning around she smashed it across the man's face. The man dropped along with his gun. She put the toilet cover down and grabbed the gun before he could recover. She pointed it at him ignoring that fact that she realized she was only in a towel that just covered her.
"Stay quiet and don't move unless I tell you." She hissed and saw a knight slaying a white dragon on his sleeve. "Dragon Slayer."
The man stood up and careful put his hands up. She gestured him to move out into the hallway and he did as he was told. The man backed against the ring-around rail that blocked the hole in the floor and she glared at him as she put on her puzzle. 'Nile, what should I do?'
'I guess try to figure out why they are here or how they found this place.' Nile answered in her head.
'Yugi, what's going on downstairs?' Regan asked turning her mental connection towards her boyfriend on the first level.
'Dragon Slayers are down here, they're looking for you.' Yugi told her.
'Can you do anything about them?'
'No, they have guns pointed at us.'
'Is anyone hurt?'
'No, everyone's fine. They snuck up on us and Joey and Tristan were about to charge, but they didn't get to do anything as the guns were already raised.'
She sighed in relief. 'Give me a moment; hopefully I can fix this mess.'
'Don't do anything dangerous, please don't.'
'I'll do something, whether it's dangerous depends on who you talk to.'
'Regan!'
She winced at his yell and turned her full attention to the man in front of her. "Who are you looking for?"
"You, Regan Heartin." The man told her with a smirk.
"Nice to know you know who you are looking for, now how did you find me?"
"Your duel disk sends out a constant signal and the Kaiba brothers' keys give us quite a bit of access to the Duel Server."
She placed the gun up close to his chest. "Don't get cocky with me or I will put you in your place, thug." She backed away from him after she felt fear form in his aura. "Now, walk and head down the stairs."
The man walked and she followed without a sound just to make sure he wouldn't pull anything against her. They went down the stairs and Regan found her friends lined up along the wall with three other Dragon Slayers facing them.
"Did you find the girl?" The one in the middle asked not turning towards them. The man who seemed like the boss gave off a strange vibe that Regan couldn't even try to understand. He had brown hair from what she could see and wasn't very big, but tallish.
"Not exactly." The man that she had at gun point answered.
"What do you mean by that?" The middle man questioned as he turned to them with mysterious brown eyes.
"She found me."
There was silence between the three of them.
"What are you guys doing in my friend's house?" She asked them breaking the silence. "Do you know who owns this place?"
"We came looking for you and to bring you to a secure location." The middle man spoke and looked up and down. "Though, I'm not sure if we came at a good time or not."
"You came at an awful time." She hissed at him in rage.
"Maybe we shouldn't provoke her, she is a teenage girl and from the records she's dangerous." her hostage told the middle man.
"I have a deal for you four. I'll go with you, but you have to leave my friends alone."
"Regan, you can't-" Yugi started but she cut him off.
"Is that good for you?"
The middle man nodded. "That's fine."
"Good."
"Regan-" Yugi tried again.
'Don't worry, I won't be gone for very long, just give me a few minutes and when I leave start packing up and getting the vehicle ready. We move out when I get back.'
Yugi looked worriedly at her from his position on the floor. 'Just don't get hurt or worst, killed.'
'There's too much at stake for that to happen.' She replied and looked at the four Dragon Slayers. "I'm not leaving just yet; I want at least the three of you out of my friend's house. I need to change and grab my things."
"As long as you come quietly, I don't care." The middle guy said and put out his hand. "Gun please."
She handed it to him. He motioned at his men and they left. Then he did something she wasn't expecting. He put his gun away. "What are you doing?"
"We're all civil humans; I don't think I need to have a gun pointed as I don't think you are going to do anything if you already noticed the difference between them and me." He turned to her friends. "Well get up, I doubt you guys are going to do anything except pack, am I right?"
"Who are you?" Yugi asked him.
"Someone that is giving you guys an escape."
"And how do you expect us to trust you." Regan hissed. "We don't even know your name."
"Just call me Looker."
"You don't look like Looker."
"How are you comparing me to someone else and if you don't hurry up, the other Dragon Slayers get suspicious."
"Just from Pokémon," She sighed and turned towards the stairs.
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Yugi watched his girlfriend walk up the stairs and disappear to the second floor. Looker was standing with them and Yugi could tell it was taking all of Joey's and Tristan's will not to jump him. "Why are you helping us?" He finally got the nerve to ask.
"Because I'm not really part of the Dragon Slayers, I just disguised myself as a leader of this team and off we went." Looker answered.
"So what is your deal, if you're not part of the Dragon Slayers, what are you doing here?" Joey asked.
"Let's just say I heard a rumor and didn't want to stand by and watch the world fall to pieces because a certain someone failed to get their brothers back."
"How do you-"
"Yo, let's go, the faster I know that I can trust you the better, and if not well I guess things won't end lightly." Regan called coming down the stairs, dressed, and a backpack on her shoulder.
"Already to go?" Looker asked her.
"Yes."
'Hurry back, the SUV will be waiting.' Yugi told her through the link.
She looked at him and nodded. Looker pulled out his gun and pointed it at Regan and Yugi stiffened. Looker looked back at him.
"Don't worry; it's just for show for the others in the van."
Yugi didn't like it, but nodded as they walked out the door. Yugi went to the window and saw a large, white van sitting in the drive way behind the Explorer. He glared at the person in the front seat as someone opened side door and jumped out of the vehicle. Regan looked back towards him and then got in the vehicle. The Dragon Slayer got back into the vehicle and Looker hoped into the driver's seat. And before Yugi knew it they drove away.
"Oh Kaiba is going to be pissed when he hears about this." Joey said.
"About what; the fact that we just let Dragon Slayers take his sister, or the fact that all of her male friends just saw her in a very small towel?" Téa questioned.
Yugi grudgingly looked away from the window and turned to his friends behind him. "Let's pack up and get the car ready. We need to get out of here as soon as Regan reaches the drive way."
His friends split up and went to their own places to pack up. He went to his room and grabbed his already packed bag and made sure his spot was neat and clean. He grabbed his jacket and started to put on his jacket as he went down the stairs. He put on his boots and saw Téa outside with the trunk open.
"All good?" she asked him when he reached her.
"Not until Regan is back and we are finished with this Dragon Slayer nonsense." He told her as he placed his bag beside hers. He walked to the driver's door when suddenly a loud explosion was heard and Yugi froze before he could grab the handle. His head snapped towards the noise.
"What in bloody hell was that?" Bakura shouted from the house behind him.
Yugi turned to him. "I don't know; I'll check if I can see it from the end of the driveway. Tell everyone inside to hurry up."
Bakura went back inside. Yugi turned away and ran the best he could down the snow filled driveway. He looked but couldn't see, hear, or smell anything like the snow was suffocating everything.
"Yo, Yug, you see her?" Joey called to him.
Yugi turned and saw him at the SUV. "Nothing,"
"We are almost ready to go."
He looked down the road where the white van had gone. "Regan, where are you?"
The SUV drove passed and startled him as it stopped on the road beside him. Tristan was in the driver's seat.
"Get in Yugi." Tristan told him. "We are going to find her, she has to be around here and the snow is muffling the noise so she can't be too far."
Yugi nodded and went around to the passenger seat. He jumped in and Tristan drove off. Yugi didn't bother putting on his seatbelt as he looked out the window for any signs of the sound or his girlfriend. Smoke came from the trees on the left side of the road as they went passed the second house. Tristan drove slower and Yugi noticed there were metal pieces on the road like they had exploded from something. They drove another two hundred feet when Yugi saw the wreckage blending in with the snow like it was there during a bad storm. Yugi got out of the car before it was at a stop and ran towards the van that looked like a bomb hit it. He opened the van door and immediately took a step back in disgust.
"What is it Yugi?" Atem asked him walking towards him.
Yugi just pointed and looked away from the van. One thing he knew for sure with that one look, Regan wasn't in there. He looked to the ground and found smaller footsteps. Atem slammed the door shut.
"Words would have been just fine Yugi." Atem growled.
"Sorry, as you could see, I was a bit wordless." Yugi told him quickly as he started to follow the prints around the van finding another pair that were much bigger. But they went different directions.
"What's in there?" Joey asked.
"Burnt bodies, or at least what's left out of three of the Dragon Slayers." Atem answered.
Yugi looked around in the bush trying to locate his girlfriend or anymore of her footprints.
"Extra crispy knights, sounds like a dragon verse knight story." Tristan stated with a bit of triumph in his voice.
Yugi heard the door open again, but he wasn't sure as he saw a bright light head his way. "Duck!"
He dropped to the snow and felt a familiar energy fly over his head. He got up again and started to run into the forest where it had come from. "Regan!"
Another flash of light was thrown in his direction and he dropped to the snow again barely missing a very pointy branch. He got back up again. After dodging two other streams of light he finally found the source. Regan was lying on the ground unconscious. He ran over to her, but was rebounded and thrown to the snowy ground that had ice lying underneath as he slid. He took a look at what had rebound him and noticed that it was a clearer version of an aura shield surrounding her. The shield darkened in color in front of him and shot the same stream of light at him. He barely got out of the way before it hit a tree, sending it to the ground with a loud crack.
He clenched his jaw as he tried the mental link, but all he got before he even said a thing was a blasting headache.
"Regan!" He shouted as he stood up. He walked to the shield and made sure not to put force to it as he placed his hand on the shield. It went right through his glove as he felt the energy against his hand. "Regan!"
A light appeared in the snow just in front of Regan followed by his puzzle. The shield dropped instantly and his puzzle stopped glowing. He ran to her just as she jolted up and awake breathing heavily. He went to calm her, but she scrambled backwards and then held her head in pain.
"Regan…" He went to walk to her but she just shook her head.
"Please… stay there, just for a minute." Regan barely whispered as she got up with the support of a tree.
She buckled and Yugi couldn't watch anymore and caught her before she fell to the ground. Regan screamed slightly when he touched. He almost dropped her in surprise. He looked her over; even though she wasn't facing him he saw how exhausted she was. "What is going on in there?"
"Nothing that you should be worried about." Regan muttered while trying to stand, but failed.
"Obviously it's not nothing." Yugi insisted. "How can I help you if you don't tell me?"
"You can't help me; you wouldn't understand the problem to know how to help even if you could help."
Yugi wanted to press on the conversation, but they didn't have much time to waste. The Dragon Slayers would have figured something was up by now. "Come on, we have to go."
"Right my brothers need us." She said and finally stood up.
Yugi let her go to take a step, but she stumbled on the first step and Yugi caught her again. This time she didn't scream or flinch to his touch. "Regan get on my back, even if I can't help with your problem, I can help you get to where we need to go."
"I'm fine, just give me-"
"Regan, we don't have time, the Dragon Slayers could be sending someone else and leaving you here in the snow is not going to help your obvious exhaustion." He took off his glove, lifted her bangs and placed his hand on her forehead. She flinched under it, but he couldn't tell if she was just warm or really did have some sort of fever. "Please."
Regan nodded and got onto his back. She wasn't holding on very tight as he got up and scaled the slipper ice that the snow covered lightly. Once he finished the trek he met the rest of his friends in front of the van.
"Oh thank god you found Regan!" Téa exclaimed.
Yugi nodded and felt Regan shift on his back.
"The poor vehicle." Regan whined in his ear and got down from his back. She wandered, without a stumble, over to the van. "Why did you explode after hitting a tree, you're a GMC 2500, you're not supposed to do that."
Joey shook his head. "Anyway, where's Looker?"
"That's a mighty fine question," Tristan stated. "We checked the van, there are only three crispy knights in there and Looker wasn't in the driver's seat."
"Plus we found foot prints, but they led nowhere." Atem continued.
Regan turned away from the van. "He told me to run into the trees. I did and I guess whatever he did made this van go into pieces."
"So Looker was telling the truth." Ryou said as he turned to the SUV. "We should get going and hopefully not get followed by the goon squad."
"Nine forty," Regan stated suddenly looking at her phone. "We need to go someplace where they won't find us until we need to meet Pegasus."
"Got any ideas?"
"Yea I have an idea."
"Okay, let's go then." Yugi said and gave one more glace at Regan as he walked with her to her passenger door. He stopped her from opening her door and looked into her blue eyes. "Are you sure you are up to this, I was taking to Nile last night and heard you haven't been sleeping."
"Well I'm fine; I napped for a few moments just now." She told him. "And we are going to be on the road for another fifty minutes if we manage to miss traffic, so I'll rest on the way. Ok?" she asked softly and Yugi couldn't help but nod. He was twisted around her little fingers and both of them knew it.
"Fine," he opened the door for her and she got in. She placed her bag on her lap as he shut the door. He walked over to the driver's side and looked back at the van. Hopefully, the Dragon Slayers would clean up their own mess. He opened his door and got in. He buckled up his seatbelt and looked back at his friends. "Does everyone have everything?"
"Yep." They all answered.
"Did everyone go to the bathroom?"
"Yep."
"Good," he put the SUV into drive and drove off as Regan placed in the coordinates for their next location.
He hit the four sixteen after twenty minutes and looked over at Regan for a second. Her head was against the window and her eyes were closed, but she wasn't sleeping. He placed a hand on hers and squeezed it reassuringly. Forty minutes later, he got off the four seventeen and onto Nicholas Street. Buildings surrounded the SUV as he drove down the streets.
"Keep your doors locked." Regan said suddenly causing Yugi to looked at her as he stopped at a red light.
"Why?" Joey asked.
"It's not unheard of for people to open the doors and grab things and takeoff while at a red light. Same thing with windows, if they are down, people will reach in."
"I'm not sure if I should feel pity or disgusted at this knowledge." Atem sighed.
"Government priorities are all I have to say." Regan told him and then turned to look back at him. "Actually, maybe you can give some tips on how to run a country properly."
"They wouldn't listen to me, I'm eighteen."
"They would if they knew who you were."
"And then people would start to panic and then we would become either science projects or wanted people for a high price for someone who wanted to do their own things."
"He does have a point Regan." Yugi commented as he drove again and turned onto another road. He found a large looking castle like structure with a courtyard and a strange looking fountain in front of the setup.
~You have arrived at your destination.~ The GPS rang out.
He looked at the side of the road and found an empty parking spot. He paralleled the SUV and turned off the vehicle. "What is this place?"
"Parliament Hill and that fountain like thing is the Centennial Flame." Regan answered as she got out of the SUV.
Yugi looked funnily at her as she shut the door and looked at his friends. "Do you guys know anything about what she has in mind?"
They all shook their heads. He sighed and got out of the SUV. The seven of them walked across the street and up to the round fountain thing. It was a large dodecagon carved from marble that ringed around a red marble dodecagon with twelve copper shields in twelve sections. There were dates underneath the each of shields and in the middle of the flame there was the date 1867- 1967 scripted down in the center.
"So what's with the flaming fountain?" Tristan asked.
"It was to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the unity of the twelve provinces and territories of Canada from 1867 to 1967. Nunavut wasn't created until 1999 which is why there are only twelve and not thirteen." Regan answered. "The flame is so hot that the water still runs even in the coldest of temperatures. It's a symbol for unity for the entire country, it originally wasn't supposed to be a national monument, but because of it being so well known and visited, it sort of became on. I needed to see this before we left; this is going to sound cheesy, but this flame in the center of this circle shows the power of unity. Like us, the bonds we have, we have to protect it from others like Dragon Slayers who try and rip it apart. This flame reminds me that even when all seems lost, I need to get up and fight until all of us are safe." She looked away from the flame. "Is that the same with you guys?"
Yugi smiled as he nodded. "It's exactly as we think, which is why we came with you. We aren't at our full strength when we are by ourselves." She looked back at the flame and Yugi noticed all the coins in the fountain. "What are the coins for?"
"People throw them in for good luck. The money is later collected and given to a winner for some reward. I forget what's it called but it's given out every year to the person who has a great idea for helping disability people."
He pulled out a piece of yen from his pocket and threw it in. He was followed by each of his friends as they threw in their own coins.
"All the luck the better," Joey said. "Now, we have way too much time to kill, want to give us a tour of this place?"
"Sure!" Regan exclaimed. "But I doubt we can go very far inside the buildings."
He grabbed her hand and she led them on a mini side quest.