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Chapter 4
Them
Friday, April 20th, 2012
Almost two weeks had passed since the opening duel and Regan was enjoying herself. The school had better facilities than Domino High could ever have. Regan joined the cheerleading team and the gymnastic team again that year. This year she hoped that the team could make it into nationals after beating the district and then eventually into internationals. Téa decided to join the team as well for the dancing part and the two of them became co-captains for the cheer team. Between the two of them, they had all the points of what a cheer team needed down pat, gymnastics and dance.
Regan stretched as she waited for her least favorite class to end, health class. She had learned the things taught in the class enough to recite every single drug effect for the main street drugs and safe body building. It annoyed her that she had to take the class because she needed the final credit to get her high school diploma. In her old school back in Canada, they made students take religion for the four years they were in high school. Since she didn't have that, she had an extra elective. One was gym, which of course came with health class with Mrs. Coral and the other for next semester was media professions with Mr. Croc. She was looking forward to the end of the class as it was the last day of health class before they went to the physical stuff. Time practically slowed down in the last five minutes of class. Regan yawned as a squeak escaped her lips. Yugi smiled in amusement in her peripheral vision beside her. She pretended to care about the classroom setting. Mrs. Coral wasn't a bad teacher; she just wasn't very good at giving lectures almost like it was her first time. If there was an exam at the end of it, maybe Regan would have cared more, but there wasn't so she didn't.
Suddenly, the bell rang and she practically jumped of her seat and wanted to head out of the classroom door. It was the weekend and she had no homework unlike the weekend before. This weekend, she and Yugi had planned to explore the island in more depth.
"Ms. Kaiba, can you stay back a moment?" Mrs. Coral asked as some of the students started to leave.
Regan turned to Yugi, who looked at her in confusion. "I'll meet you outside of the classroom. This shouldn't take too long; I don't think."
Yugi nodded, "Alright."
He walked out and Regan walked down towards the pale, black haired woman at the front of the classroom. The two of them stood in silence as the students finished filing out of the room. When it was empty Mrs. Coral looked down at her. "How do you find your classes?"
"Fine," Regan replied.
"How do you find my class?"
"Well you are doing a good job from what I see; if that's what you're looking for."
"Oh," Mrs. Coral said in a sigh of slight relief. "It's just you always looked bored in my classes and as your brother is the owner of the school, I thought that I wasn't all that good of a teacher."
"No, that's not why," Regan said in surprised waving her hands in front of her. "I've just taken health classes like this several times within the last six years. It has nothing to do with your teaching skills."
"Oh thank goodness, this is my first time teaching. I just got out of college."
Regan blinked, she didn't expect her brother to hire a brand new teacher just out of college. She thought that perhaps she was a friend of Chancellor Sheppard and advised her brother to hire her for Duel Academy. "Well, I don't think you have to worry about me saying anything negative." Regan promised. "I look forward to what you have planned for gym next week."
"Thank you, see you next week, enjoy your weekend."
"You too, Mrs. Coral." Regan replied and headed out of the room.
She saw Yugi in front of the window looking out the window. Regan walked up to him and tried to find what he was looking at, but couldn't see what it was. They stood there for several minutes in silence when Yugi seemed to notice her.
"Erm, sorry, I was thinking didn't notice you were there."
She smiled. "That's alright, what were you thinking about?"
Yugi frowned as he turned away from the window and to her. "Nothing I should be worrying about right now."
Regan grabbed his hand. "Alright, so what do you want to do tonight?" He didn't answer her as they started down the hall. "You want to talk about it?"
"It's just…" Yugi didn't finish as he slipped back into his thought. "Not here."
Regan looked at him in worry, but he didn't seem to notice.
'What could be up with Yugi' Regan asked Nile mentally on their private link.
"Maybe he is worried about the peace of Duel Academy." Nile replied in her head.
'It has been two weeks of unsettling peace, I guess.' Regan guessed back gripping Yugi's hand a little tighter in reassurance. 'Though there are a number of things he could be worried about, three threats at once and two weeks of nothing. I can guess what he is thinking as we have been thinking about what could happen, but I wish he would share before he's like this.'
"Well, he might open up later when he feels like it."
'I hope so.' Regan sighed looking at the depressed Yugi. 'I don't like this side of him.'
They walked in silence back to their dorm. Nobody seemed to bother them as if they knew, like she did, that Yugi wasn't in the mood for it. The students stayed out of their way. When they arrived at their dorm, Regan was about to leave his hand to open the gate but Yugi kept walking dragging her away farther down the path.
She caught up with her hand and walked in step with him. "Yugi?"
"Let's head somewhere we can be alone." Yugi said without looking at her.
"Um, alright."
They continued walking into the forest until they found themselves stopping at the edge of the forest where the volcano started. Yugi looked around nervously before sighing as he calmed down a little.
"Are you feeling alright?" He asked suddenly.
Regan blinked in surprised. "Yea, um fine. What's wrong Yugi? You're acting strangely."
"The peacefulness of the island is disturbing. It feels like everyone one of our enemies is planning their moves before we can do anything and they know when they will strike. How can I protect you if I don't know what to protect you from?"
"I don't need protect-"
"You do!" Yugi snapped. "At least two of our enemies are after you and we know nothing about Lilith's plans. All three of them could be on this island right now and we have no idea who we should even trust. I have to protect you from them."
"Did my brother contact you and this is why you are acting like this? You know I can protect myself."
"You brother didn't contact me. This is my decision on my own from my own experiences. You have almost been killed several times and are wanted as some sort of object. This peace will eventually break." Yugi insisted. "I know you can protect yourself, but you can't do it forever and by yourself like you have been. I've tried to be with you and watch your back, but when it gets down to the final act; I am never able to do anything and feel completely useless when I see you in the conditions you have been left in. I don't think the next time will be as good of an ending that we have been lucking out on."
"So you're going to stress over options that may or may not happen?" Regan asked sarcastically. She wasn't in the mood to be babied.
"No I'm not," Yugi stated firmly causing her to become interested on what he had. "I have a feeling it's not the students, but a few of the teachers that are from one of those groups, maybe just one of each. I have no idea who the teachers could be working for whether it is for Dark Matter or Lilith, but I have deducted that one of them have a teacher in one of your classes. And I doubt they placed themselves as our gym teacher. She's too young and it would be hard to single you out in that class."
"That was my thought; Mrs. Coral is fresh out of college which is why she asked me to stay behind." Regan explained.
Suddenly a nearby bush shook. Their conversation ended as they waited a moment to see who was there. Then, Mrs. Coral appeared out of the bush with a travel pack on her back and an outdoor outfit on instead of her teaching clothes. She flushed slightly as she looked between the two of them. "Oh did I interrupt something. I didn't think anyone would be all the way out here."
Regan felt herself go red. "No, no, we were just walking around before going back to the dorm for supper. We were getting this section of the island cleared so we can explore the rest tomorrow."
"Oh, I see, anyway I'll be on my way now. I wanted to see the top of the volcano." Mrs. Coral replied as she went by. She scrapped by Regan with her bag as she went leaving the two by themselves once more.
"That was weird timing." Yugi stated breaking the silence of the open air.
"A just a little odd. We should head back for supper before we are late." Regan decided. "But seriously though, we are on an island in the middle of nowhere, where my over protective brother stuck me. I don't need an over protective boyfriend along with the over protective brother."
Yugi sighed taking a step back. "If that's what you wish, but please if something comes up keep me in the loop."
"Alright." She agreed and gave him a kiss. "I will and you keep me in the loop as well."
"Yes ma'am." Yugi joked taking her hand. "Come on, I'm hungry."
The two of them walked out of the forest and went onto the path. They passed a few students running passed them in a hurry away from the dorms. Regan gave a look over to Yugi and he shrugged. They stopped in front of the gate to their dorm when Ryou ran out of the building. Regan picked of waves of panic and relief from the man. Yugi opened the gate and Regan and he walked in.
"What's wrong Bakura?" Yugi asked turning to him.
"Oh thank god you're all right." Ryou breathed in as he stopped in front of them.
"Did something happen?" Regan asked worriedly as Yugi closed the gate.
"Someone broke into the dormitory." Ryou said as he started running again. "I'll meet you inside; I have to let everyone know that you're alright."
Regan and Yugi exchanged a quick glance before running after the white haired teenager. Once inside they were greeted in the entree way filled with the students of their dorm and a horrible feeling of dread. Regan tried to ignore all students' feelings of confusion and fear as they were making her feel dizzy. They looked shaken including Téa and Atem. Professor Banner appeared from upstairs with a frown on his face.
"What happened?" Regan repeated her question.
"Everyone please head to the living room, we need to have a discussion." Professor Banner ordered and everyone started towards the room. Regan and Yugi walked behind their fellow dorm mates. Regan looked around to see if there was any damage that was scaring even Atem, but didn't see anything. They walked into the hall and something Regan wasn't expecting reached her nose. She turned to the wall opposite to the dining room door and stopped in her tracks. Smudges that looked like letters were written on the wall, but she couldn't decipher it as the lights were out. She opened her aura a little more and sensed it was the smell she was smelling, blood. She turned to the other students who also stopped and realized two were missing. "Where are Laurus and Quirinus?"
"They are in the infirmary." Ryou answered. "Someone came in and was trying to snoop around in the rooms. So they interfered, but were attacked. The person wrote a message on the wall, but none of us were able to read it as Professor Banner turned the lights off in this hall and the surrounding rooms."
"Spyro, Téa and I found Laurus and Quirinus in front of the staircase." Atem said.
"Students please head to the living room; I can clear up some things there while food is served." Their dorm leader insisted.
"One guy did that to the two of them." Yugi whispered.
"Somehow, I heard that those two were professional crocodile wrestlers, they got money from it to go to school here." Spyro whispered back. "When Atem, Téa and I walked in we saw the intruder leave Regan's room and jumped right over us from the balcony and out the door. That's when Téa shouted that they were lying on the floor bleeding."
"Did they have anything?"
"No, but all of the rooms were destroyed leaving two very pissed off kitties." Renato answered.
"Yeah, Phoenix chased the intruder over the balcony from what I can guess as the cat ran towards the staircase hissing up a storm."
"Sounds like Phoenix." Regan stated to no one in particular. "But I didn't think anyone could just walk right in without someone noticing them."
"That's what we thought," Ryou stated. "But I doubt it was a student who pulled this off."
"Well I doubt it was a teacher, they don't know which student lives where especially with the Obelisk Blues; there are three dorms. What were they looking for?" Téa asked.
None of them could answer her as they went. They made it to the living room and were silent as they saw over the banister. Chancellor Sheppard along with two campus security members was standing in front of the lit fire place. The fire was warm as Regan sat in the chair as Yugi stood beside her with his arms crossed. Téa and Fonda sat in the smaller couch while Atem, Ryou, Renato and Spyro sat on the large sofa. Phoenix trotted down the stair case with Pharaoh. Regan watched in slight amusement as they rubbed against Chancellor Sheppard's legs and then separated. Pharaoh went to Professor Banner while Phoenix jumped on to Regan's lap. She didn't really pet him as he fell asleep on her lap.
"As you probably know two of your fellow students are in the infirmary. We are going to be doing a full investigation and from now on when you leave your dorm, you must leave in at least pairs until this is solved." Chancellor Sheppard said as he started to pace. "The other students in the other dorms will be told to keep an eye out for strange activity but will not be informed on what happened here tonight."
"Like the partner thing did any good for the Aussies." Spyro grumbled.
"On top of that a campus security member will be with you at all times just in case you can't get a partner or you need to separate."
"Does this include when we are in our rooms?" Fonda asked.
"They will only go into your rooms if you invite them, at night they will switch with the night patrol officers and be back in the morning."
"Will they be the same gender or not, because I wouldn't mind a good looking lady?" Renato asked suggestively.
"No, they will be the same gender as the student they are assigned too." Chancellor Sheppard answered shaking his head but Regan couldn't tell if it was pure annoyance or annoyance with a bit of amusement.
"Do you have any leads on who entered the dorm?" Regan asked.
"Not a person, so we are going to take statements on where you were and when you entered the dorm after classes." One of the Campus security members replied as he pulled out a notebook. Let's start with you Ms. Kaiba. Where were you after classes?"
"We are?" The other member asked confused. "They weren't here for the attacks though."
"Ms. Kaiba?"
"I stayed behind with Mrs. Coral for a few minutes and then went with Yugi to the edge of the forest." Regan answered wondering if there was some miscommunication between them.
"Do you have any alibis for Mr. Muto being at the edge of the forest during the time of the attack with you?"
"Are you saying that we could be suspects?" Yugi demanded.
"To be at the edge of the forest together seems a bit out the ordinary since you usually come back you your dorm right after classes right?"
"And we also happen to be dating." Regan hissed. "Going to the edge of the forest to chat isn't strange for a teenage couple."
"Do you or do you not have an alibi?" The Security member continued to demand.
Regan caught an exchange of looks from the Chancellor and the other security man like they had no clue what the other security guy was going on about.
Regan rolled her eyes in annoyance. She didn't like the feeling from the security member so she let her friends know through the link and then returned her attention to the odd campus security member. "Yes we do, Mrs. Coral, who is a gym teacher if you didn't know, saw and talked to us on her way up to see the top of the volcano. If you ask her she can tell you that we were there."
"There were also the two students from the Yellow Dorm that were heading to the gym building in a hurry." Yugi growled. "That's when Bakura found us as we were coming back for supper."
"Mr. Bakura is this true?" The security member questioned the albino.
"It is; they had no clue on what happened until we filled them in on what we knew." Ryou replied crossing his arms apparently not amused in the slightest. "Neither Regan or Yugi would have done something like this. How sadistic do you think they are? You already know that all the students in here didn't do it so why did you pick Regan and Yugi as you targets of aggression?"
"It's just procedure-"
Sheppard and the other security member looked ready to step in at the words when Atem opened his mouth first.
"Procedure my deck," Atem interrupted. "We all know you aren't going to ask the rest of us questions as you would have individually questioned us alone like a proper investigation on looking at potential suspects. Who are you actually working for because you aren't campus security, are you?"
"I don't think this is necessary right now," Chancellor Sheppard stepped in. "But you do bring up a good point."
"Yes they do," Fonda stated. "They always do, the last time something like this happened, it was on the news that the Kaiba brothers were kidnapped in Tokyo by a group called Dragon Slayers. Obviously there is something sinister still hiding in the background and it should be addressed right now."
"She's right, just about everyone that has access to the news over the two week period heard about the Slayers attack." Spyro added. "As a duelist, there is some strange stuff in this world that makes no sense and there are some that do. The Dragon Slayers were about taking weapon technologies that Kaiba Cooperation used to major in and during the Gamer's Trials Tournament there were several demons working for different people."
"Sir watch-!" Renato shouted suddenly when Regan felt the fear explode from the student. Regan turned to Sheppard just as the questioning security member placed a knife to the chancellor's throat while holding the man's collar as the other member of security fell to the floor hitting his head on the mantle of the fire place. The man was stunned as he groggily sat up.
"I wasn't expecting to be found out so soon." The campus security member holding their headmaster sneered in frustration. "Oh well."
"Jason what are you doing?" The other member asked in shock and pain. He didn't even move from his spot on the floor as he rubbed his head.
"Is everything they are saying true?" Chancellor Sheppard demanded as Phoenix jumped off her lap and started hissing at the bad security member and Regan pulled out her swords standing up.
"Shh, you are so loud." The security member named Jason complained. "Now if you excuse us, we need to have a discussion. Regan if you want to save you headmaster, I suggest you meet me at the top of the volcano at midnight or else your headmaster meets a painful death."
"If you think you can leave this room, you are sadly mistaken." Regan hissed placing her blades up for an attack without harming her headmaster. "Let Chancellor Sheppard go!"
"So that's where you have been keeping them." Jason said in amusement and then shook his head. "We are leaving whether you like it not, you can't stop me." Jason moved back into the corner of the room making Sheppard the only attack target.
Regan clenched her jaw as she thought about a strategy. "So, you are working for Them."
The man smirked as the corner wall turned into a black and purple circle big enough for the two men to walk through. Regan started towards them, but Jason was already in the portal and it was closed when she caught herself from running into the wall.
"What the hell was that?" Renato asked though Regan couldn't tell if he was surprised and frightened or surprised and amazed.
"That was the same magic Devon used when he started that shadow game. I recognized the signature when my hair stood on end in the audience." Spyro answered in amazement.
"Well that answers our old question about them working together." Yugi growled not paying attention to the two teenagers' excitement over magic. "Dammit!"
Regan turned her swords like two batons and put them in their sheaths and started towards the stairs. She heard Atem and Téa standing up from their seats.
"Wait," The other campus security member called as Regan heard him stand up.
"Are you with them too?" Regan asked stopping, but she didn't turn to him.
"No, I didn't even know Jason was working for anyone but the campus security. But before you go thinking that he didn't something to the two students from your dorm. He didn't do that to them. It was somebody else."
"And how do you know? He had a knife on him." Téa questioned.
"The same reason why Regan couldn't have even though she has two glowing sword things," The man explained. "He was with me having a discussion with the chancellor when Chancellor Sheppard got a message on the PDA about the two students. Jason was with me all day."
"So you really have no idea on who did that to Laurus and Quirinus?"
"None, but I'm still going to follow Sheppard's orders. No one leaves this dorm until your escorts have arrived."
"But we have to go find Chancellor Sheppard. We don't have time to sit around." Fonda argued.
"Children please," Professor Banner entered the discussion reminding Regan that he was actually in the room. "You need to eat so you have the energy to climb the volcano to save Sheppard. Plus, Jason said to meet him at midnight, it's only five."
"He said for me to go up there." Regan retorted. "And when someone asks me to go see them it usually ends up with Yugi, Atem, Ryou and Téa tagging along."
"Yo is everyone alright?" A Brooklyn accent filled the room as Joey and Tristan appeared above the banister.
"And Joey and Tristan." Regan added.
"Joey, Tristan what are you doing here?" Atem asked in surprised.
"Hey!" Spyro shouted grabbing everyone's attention. "The three of us would like to know what the hell is going on!"
Regan turned to Spyro and saw Fonda and Renato nodding.
"We live in this dorm as well and what effects one of us, it happens to affect all of us as there are only ten students and a teacher." Fonda said softer than Spyro's shouting.
Regan sighed in annoyance looking over to Yugi. She didn't want to explain such a personal matter to a group of people she probably shouldn't even trust and wasn't going to let her friends explain it either.
"It's rather personal so I'll just give you a quick, severely abbreviated version. Them are a group of people trying to take over the world by using some sort of unstoppable weapon. They go after legends and stories to try and create this ultimate weapon."
"And they are here why?" Renato asked.
"They kidnapped me a long time ago thinking that I could be part of this ultimate weapon and now they are trying to get Kaiba Corp for their weapon's development that isn't an active part of the company."
"So who have they teamed up with?" Spyro questioned. "Does it have to do with Devin in the Gamer's Trials Tournament?"
"Yea and his boss, Dark Matter needs to die." Yugi answered in one of the most serious voices Regan had ever heard as it sent a shiver up her spine.
"That seems simple enough." Fonda shrugged.
"It seems simple, but I have lost count of how many times we have tried to kill him." Tristan responded.
"More times than a cat that has nine lives." Téa sighed as she turned to Joey and Tristan up on the balcony. "As for are we okay, well our headmaster Chancellor Sheppard was just kidnapped by one of Them working with Dark Matter's shadow magic who was disguised as a campus security member."
"Well isn't that just fucking beautiful."
"Watch your tongue." Professor Banner warned.
"Sorry."
"Okay, you guys eat." The Campus Security member said suddenly. "I'm going to get the assigned members for you and I shall be back in about twenty minutes."
"Wait before you go." Yugi asked the man. "I want to know what was written on the wall."
"You don't-" He didn't finish as Regan glared also wanting to know. He sighed taking off his hat rubbing through his hair. He looked at it and then rubbed his hand on his pants in annoyance. Red blotches were left behind. "The person who wrote on the wall wrote: Each moment that passes, more blood will splash onto the walls and drip onto the ground."
Regan clenched her jaw.
"What the hell's that supposed to mean?" Renato asked.
"I don't know." Regan replied though she felt like it was a message to surrender herself to them. "And I don't want to find out."
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