MAHAHAHAHAHA! I finished the chapter and… I just wanted to say I love you guys for reading all the way here, through the thick and thin, the good and the shitty beginning… I'll eventually get to those rewrites. I also just completed my first fanfiction. *YAY!~ Legend of Zelda: Expanding the Triforce, 31 chapters and Book 2 coming… soon…ish. :P Also, I have some originals that I have been working on in Fiction Press, just look up my name and you'll find the two of them. One of them has dragons and the other has… let's just say it has everything. Anyway, I leave you this master piece; I think it's a master piece...
Chapter 2
Night Terrors
"So a Speed Spell can be activated depending on the number of speed counters you have within a duel, right?" Ryou asked as he picked up a speed spell.
"That's right,"
"And these turbo duels are just based on multitasking between driving and playing the game, sounds rather dangerous." Regan replied cheekily with a grin on her face. "I love it."
"You can test it out in about an hour if you want to." Crow told her. "A practice duel wouldn't hurt a bit if we are going against these guys."
"None of these guys are dueling in a school uniforms." Jack argued with his arms crossed. "Not that you should be going out at all if these guys are hunting you down. You guys should let us do the tracking."
"Jack's right with both cases," Carly agreed nodding her head.
"They won't show their faces if there isn't something to look at." Atem stated. "We have to go looking for them before they strike us."
"Then a change of clothes, something that won't make you noticeable."
"These things aren't cheap." Yugi told her. "And we don't have any money on us."
"That's when you praise for having rich friends."
"I don't think I can access my account." Regan replied pulling out her debit card and looked at it. The date of expiry was June, 2013. "I think my card is slightly expired."
"And it would be bad if she tried to talk to her brother. Probably best to try and limit your knowledge of the future." Yusei added on.
She frowned. "What's wrong about seeing my brother, it's not like we have the butterfly effect here."
"Do you think he would believe you?"
"Well if this is happening in my present and this is the future, then he shouldn't even question it."
"Still probably best that you don't go over there, that group would probably keep an eye on his company and all of the accounts." Luna told her with her finger on her chin. "If it was me, I would be keeping an eye on everything that has to do with your family."
"She does have a point; we should try and limit our familiar surrounds that we used to know." Yugi told Regan.
Regan crossed her arms. She did trust Yugi's and Atem's friends, but they were hiding something and it was bugging her. "Alright, so who has money?"
"Jack's got cash," Crow announced pickpocketing Jack's wallet. His eyes widened. "What did you do win at a casino?"
"Yes actually, I was playing poker not too long ago and I would like to keep my winnings."
"I'll pay you back twice as much as you spend when this is over." Regan bargained.
Jack thought about it for a moment. "Alright, I can agree with that."
Regan rubbed the side of her head, a headache was developing.
"Are you alright?" Luna questioned with some concern in her voice.
Regan smiled at the girl, she was growing to like her along with Akiza it wasn't often that she had female friends to hang out besides Téa. "I'm fine, just a lot of things to take care of all at once."
"We can get the more expensive items such as the runner outfits." Leo offered. "Our family is also a rich one and I don't think our parents will really care if you pay us-"
"Leo, she isn't paying us back." His twin argued.
"I was kidding."
"So, when do we head out?" Akiza asked with some enthusiasm.
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"The chancellor managed to get to the food supply, but he doesn't know how much longer they can keep the route and the food supply clear." A student told Seto the message and waited for a message to take in return.
There were three messengers running about to different groups and he was mildly impressed that the geek squad managed to put together an elaborate system without most of their group.
"Tell him to bring as much food, water, cooking supplies, a freezer and fridge. People need food here and we can't risk being separated from it again."
"Shall I tell him you're here?"
"Doesn't matter to me, just hurry up."
"Yes sir." And the kid was gone.
He went over to the least annoying geek that was looking over maps and a laptop that looked a lot like his sister's. "Where is the group that is trying to get to the medical center, Téa?"
The girl didn't look up from the maps as she marked an X with a black sharpie. "They just arrived and are currently bringing as much as they can back, it's too dangerous to keep a hold there."
"I thought that part of the school was rather empty?"
"It was about ten minutes ago, now there are much higher level monsters that have took an interest."
"Contact them to bring down heating and cooling equipment as well as blankets or cots."
"Already ahead of you, it's only going to be a matter of time before someone cuts the power. I have also already asked the third group to ready the power generators to this single location. It's a good thing you hired some people that know what they're doing, Kaiba."
"Tell them that they should be prepared to face much higher leveled monsters on the way back from their tasks, I doubt whoever is behind this is fooling around with low level creatures anymore."
Téa gave him a look before repeating the message over the PDA. "I don't know how long the PDAs are going to last."
"Their battery power lasts more than a few hours-"
"That's not what I meant, they are going to block the signal to your satellite eventually, and probably about the same time they cut the power."
"Yeah, like that would happen." Seto replied sarcastically.
"That's what I would do. It causes a mass panic without power or communications."
"Think about these situations often?"
"More often than I would like," She answered. "Keeps me on par with the people trying to be assholes."
He didn't say anything as it would seem like a compliment no matter what he said. There was silence for a few moments before Téa put her marker down.
"How do you keep yourself together?"
"Excuse me?"
"How do you do it?" She repeated. "How do you keep yourself in a thinking position when the people you care about are gone? Yugi, Bakura, Atem and Regan are all out there somewhere where we can't go and rescue them. How do you keep going?"
"Missing your boyfriend?"
"Most of my family is missing, not just Atem." She replied slightly angered.
"You want to know how to keep yourself together?" Seto started as the room when dark and Téa's PDA pinged meaning it was out of service. There were several yells and shouts before he continued. "You do everything to keep together for them."
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Black and dark purple wasn't what Regan usually went for when it came to picking out an outfit; tight short shorts that were leather like and a zip up crop top that wasn't made to actually zip up very far. Neither was the arm cuffs that matched it, her hair placed in a low bun with hair coming over top of her shoulder, her bangs split to the side or the heavy makeup on her eyes. The only things that matched her style were the knee high boots and the new collar that hid her Blue-Eyes necklace. She turned in the mirror at the very tight clothing and back to the two girls that stood behind her. "I look like I was interrupted. Everyone will be looking in my direction not looking in the other direction."
"I don't think I would be able to recognize you on the street." Luna said tilting her head to the side. "I don't even recognize you now."
"Which is the point, you look fantastic and not you," Akiza stated nodding her head. "So our job with the clothing is done."
"I'll take your word for it." Regan replied feeling slightly exposed. "But perhaps more clothing, dress up as a guy maybe, it can't be hard if a princess did it."
"You're too feminine to do that and they would be expecting you to over dress. It's within your comfort zone."
"And this outfit is completely out of it. Don't you think that someone would notice?"
"This is only when you are walking about without your suit on. I doubt they would even think about you wearing a suit. And for the best results, stay in the shady areas to change, you'd fit in there more." Luna said. "But even that is a bit dangerous."
"Better with those punks than with Them." Akiza said snapping her fingers. "With that said there are still a few things that need to be taken care of."
"I told you, I'm not dyeing my hair, hence why I put my hair up so the blond pieces are covered."
"Dyeing it would have been better, but that's not what I had in mind this time."
"Akiza, why do you seem really scary all of a sudden?" Luna asked taking a step back away from the scary woman. Regan was about to book it when Akiza grabbed her hand and dragged her away.
"What happened to paying?"
"We already did that when you were looking subconsciously in the mirror for the last twenty minutes."
"You paid before I had even decided?"
"Yup," Akiza answered as they continued walking through the mall.
A few minutes went by as they got to the other side of the mall and Regan broke the silence. "So, where are you taking me?"
"Somewhere where I'm paying for personally and you aren't going to say no."
Luna looked around and her eyes grew wide. "Are you taking her there?!"
A dangerous grin appeared on Akiza's face.
"I suddenly regret the decision of not staying with the guys." Regan sighed.
"The guys couldn't help you change your appearance to save a life and yours depends on it." Akiza told her as she stopped in front of a shop that looked like a tattoo parlor.
"I'm not getting a tattoo."
"You're so picky." The older girl sighed. "Besides, that's not what we're here for, though a fake tattoo couldn't hurt."
"So what is it that we are here for?"
Akiza didn't say anything as she dragged Regan into the shop.
The person at the counter had several tattoos and piercings as he washed the countertop in boredom. "Ah customers, how can I help you three ladies?"
"We have a friend here trying a new style," Akiza answered him and placed an arm around Regan's shoulders. "She needs some adjustments and is extremely picky, think you can help us out?"
"A tattoo perhaps?"
"She'll think about it."
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Yugi was trying on a suit, but just like the other three outfits that were completely different from the next; they all made him look like… him.
"This is impossible, we've tried every type from hipster to business and the three of you all look the same as before, I don't get it." Crow exclaimed in frustration. "Please give me your secret."
"We don't have one unfortunately." Atem sighed as he played with a plaid shirt. "These skinny jeans make no sense."
"Bloody hell how did I miss it." Bakura exclaimed suddenly in a pair of slim pants with suspenders hanging from the sides and a long dress shirt. "There is still one type of outfit that we haven't tried and I think it will work."
"What type is that Ryou?" Yusei asked him.
"Skater,"
"Skater what?" Leo asked.
"It's a type of person, upper class usually don't know what they are and mix them up with gangsters." Crow told him.
"You have gangsters in this time?" Yugi asked to which Crow only nodded.
"Hurry up and change, we need a different shop."
Yugi was going to ask him about it, but the albino left in a hurry back into the change room. They left the store a few minutes later as a loud scream welcomed them.
"Akiza, you- fuck!"
"Was that Regan?" Atem asked with a bit of concern.
"We aren't far from the part of the mall where I think it came from." Yusei stated as he stopped moving looking towards where the scream came from.
"What part of the mall?" Yugi questioned anxiously. He was starting to go into panic mode.
"It was Regan if I remember correctly and she's fine." Jack told him. "She's probably just in a bit of shock, no need to go see why."
"Uh, wha, why?"
"So, what is this skater look you were talking about?" Crow asked not answering Yugi at all and placed an arm around the albino.
Yugi followed Crow and Bakura with an uneasy feeling in his step.
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"I really don't like you." Regan hissed at Akiza who just shrugged. She had finally managed to find her voice after the initial shock of the situation after half an hour of recuperating. Well, Regan thought she didn't need it, but according to the two girls in front of her, she was paler than Ryou's hair, so she sat.
"I only did this for your own good."
"There's a hole with a metal bar in my belly button!"
"It was the only piercing that you agreed with remember?"
"Akiza is right, it was something that you agreed with and it's going to keep you from being noticed by Them." Luna told her strongly. "It's just one piece to this style and you can cover it up when you don't want anyone to notice."
Regan thought about it before sighing. "Fine, you're … forgiven for this idea. Now what else is there?"
Akiza stood up and walked over to Regan and held up her puzzle. "We need to hide this, it's too recognizable."
"I can't just take it off, its keeps my aura in balance and it's hard enough to keep it off for an hour let alone several to find a solution for Them."
"That's a bit of a problem then for playing hide in plain sight. Are you sure you shouldn't stay in hiding, the boys are capable of hunting these guys down."
"They will only find me quicker in a single place; I give out that nice aura signature that is pretty easy to find when in a single place for a while."
There was silence between them. Regan really didn't like sitting still while her friends ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. But she would if it was the best idea. But They always found her. Always.
"Then how about keeping it on, but just not in the conventional way?" Luna suggested holding chains with many pendants on them, one of which looked a lot like her puzzle.
"You're brilliant." Regan told her and she blushed slightly.
Akiza bought the chains with the price tag in hand while Regan took off her puzzle and took Yugi's chain off of it. Memories of the day when he had given her a new chain hit hard and she wiped a tear away. Luna gripped her hand reassuringly, but didn't ask. She probably already knew what Regan was thinking. Regan placed the puzzle on the chain lock that was provided for pendants and attached the chains to her belt. The comfort of the puzzle reached her again like it had around her neck. She looked in the mirror and turned a bit and the two pyramids matched on each side of her and almost didn't recognize herself. She couldn't wait to be back in her old clothes.
"I wonder how the guys are doing."
"With Leo hanging with them… probably well if they want to be clowns."
Akiza came back in the room as she put her cellphone in her pocket. "The guys are done; we are going to meet up before we head out to the duel runner store."
"What time is it?" Regan asked her.
"I think it was about nine thirty."
"This store is still opened?"
"They will be with the right persuasion."
"Yusei goes there often at all times of the day and night when he needs to, they open right up for him." Luna explained casually. "They like Yusei's business."
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Yugi sat on the edge of the water fountain waiting for the girls to get back. Leo had finally calmed down enough about the idea of skateboarding to help them find their "perfect" skateboards for their outfits before they left the store. Yugi had no idea on how the thing worked and wanted to figure it out, but couldn't because they were still in a mall. He also wanted to pace as he really hoped Regan was okay. It had been about an hour since the scream. He played with the baggy jeans he wore and the large wireless headphones moved as he tilted his head to the sounds of people walking towards them. He looked over at Atem when he realized that it was a different group of people walking about the mall. The pharaoh had the same toque on that he did which kept their spikey heads, not so spikey. Bakura seemed quite comfortable in his newly acquired jeans and hoody that hid most of his white hair. Yugi wanted to just throw on masks and be done with it, but apparently masked figures aren't the best option for this city. He didn't need someone to tell him a lot of awful things had happened in the city, his senses were overwhelmed with the oozing pain and scars. His thoughts turned to Regan again as he thought about the city. It explained why she seemed dark and on edge since he reunited with her. The city was affecting her. Hopefully she would adapt like she always had.
Movement caught their attention and Yugi looked up to see Luna, Akiza and-. His jaw dropped. He had to check twice to make sure it was his girlfriend. She looked so different and much older. Makeup was on her eyes, her bangs swept to the side and her hair was up hiding any of the blond streaks. The only thing that gave her away was the simple green eyes that always looked at him the same way, this time she was blushing to the point where almost her whole face was red. He looked her up and down and noticed something he hadn't seen before.
Before he had time to ask Jack started up the conversation. "Where's the shrimp?"
"Standing right here," Regan answered unsurely still not exactly looking at anyone in particular. "Nice to know I'm not recognizable."
"Yugi, your jaw is still kissing the floor." Atem whispered in Yugi's ear and he immediately recomposed himself.
Yugi walked over to her and gave her a smile. "You look great."
"I feel exposed; I don't even have my swords on me," She answered before going up to Bakura and unzipped his hoody. He gave her a questioning look as she took it off of him and put it on, hood up and all. She looked more like herself with it. "All I need is sunglasses and I'm set, why can't I wear this?"
"Because now you look like you, it's weird." Akiza replied with a sigh. "Seriously, if this town wasn't paranoid of masked people it would be a lot easier to hide you since you won't stay in hiding."
Regan pouted and took of the sweater off. "Here… but I want my blades."
"Let's find you something so you can keep them on you." Yugi suggested and looked around as Bakura took his sweater back. "There, a bag store, we picked up bags there for these boards, I'm sure there is one for you."
"That's a nice thought, but it wouldn't exactly match my outfit. I'll just stick something together so they can be attached to the duel runner."
Yugi thought about it and nodded. She was right. "So, you have a new piercing."
Regan went redder than the ends of her hair. "They know I don't have any piercings except for my ears, so Akiza suggested getting one. They think that we are fending for ourselves, so having the money to get a piercing is absurd."
"Were you alright getting the piercing?"
"She was livid, but we told her not to move until her color came back." Akiza told him. "So, let's go get you guys some suits and call it a night."
"What happened about practicing?" Leo asked in a pout.
"Sorry Leo," Yugi apologize him. "But Akiza is right, we've had a really long day and I don't know about everyone, but the four of us need rest after using our abilities for so long."
"Speak for yourself, I'm perfectly fine." Regan replied crossing her arms. Yugi gave her a raised eyebrow. She faltered her strong stance leaning slightly to the left before correcting herself.
"Yeah, perfectly fine." Jack huffed as he turned around. "Let's go before someone has to carry you."
"It's just this headache that is messing with me." She grumbled and Yugi smiled slightly but was still worried. She never really complained about having headaches before. They left and quickly arrived at a shop downtown that had the owner standing there waiting for them.
"Yusei, you got some nerve calling me to open up the shop this late." The owner grumbled as he opened the door. "Seriously, why couldn't it have waited until the morning?"
"Somethings came up and it happens to be best to do these things at night for these guys." Yusei replied. "We don't want unwanted attention and a crowd might cause that."
"You know vampires aren't real right? I want to go back to bed."
"Sorry sir, we didn't mean to wake you." Regan told him politely as she walked by. Yugi followed her in watching the scowl leave his face.
"At least the people you are helping out have manners, now what do you want." The owner asked as he closed and lock the door behind Yugi.
"Suits," Yusei told him.
"For these four sizes… what color are your runners?"
"Gold, black and white." Atem started.
"Grey, white and black." Bakura went next.
"Crimson red and black." Regan told him.
"Blue, white and black." Yugi finished.
"You guys like black huh?" the owner observed.
"I like white more," Regan admitted.
"Are you racist?"
"Wah no, no, no, it just my type of shade."
"So, black, white and our runner colors," Yugi sighed breaking the awkward situation. "Do you have it?"
"Let me see what I got." The man smirked as he went to the back.
"He was messing around wasn't he?" Atem asked with a deadpanned tone.
"Yes…" Regan grumbled. "This stuff should not be started at this time at night."
There was a silent agreement between all of them.
"Are you sure we need these?" Bakura asked turning to Yusei. "It's not like we can't ride a bike in what we are wearing."
"If you want to fit in, you have to look the part." Jack answered. "You would put turbo duels to shame if you don't have a suit."
"Even Trudge had a suit, even if it was a uniform." Regan sighed. "Still, wouldn't it make us a bit out of place if we were being turbo duelists? They know we are duelists."
"Well, it would be a bit hard to find you guys if they were just looking for that." Leo piped up. "This city is a dueling city; so many people here are duelists alone."
"And, there's a world tournament coming up within the next week and a half." Luna added. "The number of Turbo Duelists in this city is growing as people flood here. You guys will blend right in as participants."
"Then, this is the perfect disguise!" Bakura exclaimed happily as the man came back carrying suits.
"I would ask," The man sighed. "But you are with Yusei so I don't feel like getting involved."
"You are a smart man good sir."
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The night passed as Seto looked over the island from the roof of the school. The rising sun glared its harsh glare as it pierced through the darkness that had covered his island. He needed some space from all those people so he volunteered for a lone watch of the school. His three Blue-Eyes circled the building killing anything that came near, which wasn't much after the first ten minutes of his watch. He needed this time to think out not only a solution to get his sister and her friends back into the present, he also needed to figure out who placed the attack. The source took place on his island and the monsters attacks becoming even more of a nuisance as the hours went by only meant that they were still here in character. There were over a hundred students that were enrolled here and he didn't think That group would make an exception of using a child soldier. If it was one of the students, it would have been one that made sure that they were always in constant contact with his sister. He wanted to doubt out the red dorm, but it also made a perfect mask for hiding out without being noticed. He could cut out the yellow dorm students, he knew that the yellow dorm was average in every way, but none of the geek squad hanged out anywhere near it. It didn't have much of a luxury location nor did the Mutt or Tristan hang out there. He also knew they barely slept there.
So that meant he had all of the staff that looked after the Red Dorm, both Blue Dorms, the Original Dorm and all the students that resigned in them. He also needed to look at all the staff members across the island and security members. If one of them had slipped by his security, it was possibly the same group of idiots he fired let in another. He started off with his sister's security guard, Melissa MacGowan. He knew her background and very little of it was comforting. She did her job too well and without hesitation to make sure his sister was well guarded. He wished more of his staff were like her, but it still bothered him that she didn't drop the guard when she was told and became the steady security member of the Original Dorm. The head of the dorm was Lyman Banner, but Seto knew of his research and doubted that he had any ties with Them. That wouldn't help the professor in any way. Then there was Mr. Croc, a manager of many talents, he was there looking for talent though and not any other business as far as Seto was concerned. That was the reason why he wanted to come to the island as a teacher. Seto needed a drama teacher and Croc wanted a wider background of teaching and talents. He didn't even know Regan and her group of friends were even going to attend the school. His thoughts turned to the students that resigned in the dorm. He could eliminate most of them as he doubted that they were being used to set this up. That left the two Aussies, the Spaniard, the Greek, and the British girl. He smirked as a bar joke came to mind for a second before he went back to being serious. According to his sister, they seemed like decent people and didn't have any menacing auras. The British girl knew a lot about medical treatment apparently.
His thoughts then turned to the doctors, Doctor Allison Templeton and Doctor Cynthia Albanched, one for the day shift and one for the night shift respectively. Both his sister and her buddies had in contact on more than one occasion. He sighed as he sat down. The list was too long for him to figure out who the culprit was if he included the students. He pulled out his cellphone and dialed in his wife's number. There wasn't a dial tone and he remembered that there wasn't any way for him to contact anyone off the island. He shoved the cellphone back in his pocket angrily. How the hell was he going to figure out who it was without any communications? He looked down over at the docks and noticed that his jet wasn't being guarded. He could take it and get back to his headquarters and run a background on everyone that was a suspect, but it couldn't be that easy, could it? He heard something coming from the roof top entrance and he stood up. He grabbed the hilt of the blade that he brought with him and quietly slid it out. The sword's lit up the blue sapphire as the color returned to the blade sparking out white flames on a gold center line. The door opened as he snuck behind it and it found the throat of his victim.
Professor Taylor Coral looked at it in shock. "I didn't realize there was someone armed to the teeth up here."
"This is a watch station, you expected a toddler to be standing here?" He asked back sharply.
"Sorry, that's not what I meant and didn't mean any disrespect." The teacher replied coolly. "How was the night watch, sir?"
"Uneventful and quiet." He muttered slowly taking the blade back as he saw Professor Layman Banner and Téa behind her. He let them up on the roof top. "And it better stay that way until I get back."
"Where are you heading Kaiba?" Téa asked him.
"I need a computer and there isn't any way to get in touch with anyone here." He told her bluntly. "If I come back and find out you guys lost the school in two hours after spending all evening and all night getting it back I swear."
"We will manage, Mr. Kaiba." Professor Banner reassured as the other two girls walked away. His voice dropped down to barely a whisper. "And a few of us are keeping watch for any strange activity."
"How many of you know that there is a snake on the island?" Seto asked him quietly. He didn't trust Coral along with the other two hundred people there.
"The Chancellor, Joseph Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Téa Gardner and the doctors all know about it."
"Why'd you tell the doctors?"
"Because I know they aren't behind this attack. They were busy with me during the incident helping with an experiment. Needless to say there was a lot of chatter going about and none of them have any ties to that group you are seeking."
"I'll take your word, but if it turns out to be one of the doctors…"
"You may do with me what you wish." The professor said honestly. "You should go before someone notices that you have left to do a thorough investigation."
Seto didn't say anything as he walked by him and one of his dragons came down next to him. He jumped on her back and the dragon took off towards his jet. He barely even got near the Red Dorm when lightning struck the ground in front of the docks. The sky took back its dark hue leaving the determined sun in the dust. He sighed as the dragon continued to the docks. What was going to pop up now? It couldn't get much worse. He stood corrected as the university knew it hated him greatly. Lightning struck the head of the docks and a large demon like creature appeared within the lightning. He gritted his teeth in disgust at the sight of it as it stretched its wings. There was a scream from below and he looked down to see a single student backing away from the scene slowly.
He dropped down next to him as the creature lowered his dragon's and the kid's monster by half of its attack points. "What the hell are you doing here by yourself?!"
"I was asked to bring this package down here for the next patrol. They said that it was going to help keep from anything from getting onto the island." The first year student said trying to get a hold of himself. "What the hell is it and why is it attacking?"
'More like from anyone leaving.' He thought to himself. "Who gave you the package?"
"I don't know," the kid started to freak out again.
"Who asked you to bring The Wicked Dreadroot card here?" Seto asked him again sternly. The young boy seemed to notice his existence again and looked away from the demon.
"I was on a patrol with the others on my team about an hour ago, and they came up to us and told me to bring this package. Look, I had no idea there was a card in there and it would attack. As for the person who gave it, I don't know they were in a cloak."
"And you didn't think that was suspicious?"
"No, all the messengers are wearing cloaks to hid themselves from monsters when heading outside."
"Did you notice where the messenger had come from or where they went?"
"They just disappeared when we went to discuss who would deliver the package; I lost to a game of straws."
"For the love of, I need you to go to…" He thought about which dweeb was best for this job. "Go find Tristan Taylor and tell him that the wicked gods have-"
"Wicked Gods?!" The boy squeaked and Seto resisted the urge to slap him silly.
"Yes, tell him and then gather the people who were on your patrol and bug Joey Wheeler about all the details, I'm sure with all that bombardment of information he'll majestically come up with a conclusion."
"Was that an actual order or sarcasm?"
"Both, now go before you're killed."
The kid didn't say anything else as he summoned Dark Zebra and took off on its back. Seto looked on as he went wondering if a duel type would ever be created where the monsters were solid enough for one to ride on; an action duel or something. He turned to The Wicked Dreadroot and sighed. He didn't have the patience to deal with the monster. He turned to his dragon. He could easily ride his dragon across the ocean to get to a place of communication. He jumped onto Blue-Eyes and the wicked god didn't attack as they flew away to another part of the island. He looked around and noticed that he doubted that the people on the roof couldn't see very far anymore as the dock disappeared in the darkness. He flew upwards only to stop before going too far. Oh yes the universe hated him greatly. Lightning streaked across the sky to outline another Wicked God flying around. He looked to where a bright but at the same time dark light was starting to form and noticed a black sphere over looked his island like the sun.
"The Wicked Eraser and The Wicked Avatar are here as well, just fucking beautiful!" he shouted in anger. He would go against them if it wasn't for the fact that they were using his school and all the people in it as bait if he did. The wicked gods were their own special kind of present from the universe to him. He turned the dragon around and flew back to the school building, whoever the messenger was had some real nerve to pull them out of thin air.
The day went on to Seto dealing with files in the headmaster's office of all the messengers and staff on the island. The laptops were long dead, but thankfully he had managed to go through all the students backgrounds before the laptops he managed to get a hold of died a powerless death. Téa and the British girl Fonda Fontaine had also helped killed computers and cross referenced with each other. He didn't want the help at first, but he wasn't going to admit it out loud that he did appreciate it. According to the clock on the wall, it was ten at night and they had spent fifteen hours of going through records without a break except for updates from messengers that were all sketched before leaving. There were three groups of three that kept switching in between times, but none of their sketches seemed to meet the patrol's messenger.
"So, after all those people, which of the teachers and staff that work inside the main building are we eliminating?" Téa asked as she stretched, probably the most movement the three of them had done the pass eight hours combined.
"Professor Banner, the headmaster and the two doctors." Seto answered her as he opened another file.
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"Screw the monsters outside; these files are going to kill us." Fonda sighed as she tossed a file onto the floor, along with all the others that had been tossed there earlier. "Seriously, you would think someone would have just told us if there was someone acting weird by now, it has been a whole thirty hours and no one has noticed anything."
"Well if you have noticed something over the past semester about some of the teachers and staff, please state their names now or forever hold your peace."
"How about we go back to the threats?" Téa suggested suddenly. "They were all signed with the name Rock. I'm sure some of these people have a name or have a background with their name being some form of rock."
"Then you might want to add the current president of the United States to that list." Seto grumbled in annoyance, he was getting tired and hungry. "Rocks are named after every possible thing and you can easily find a way to make a name part of a rock."
"We should still go through the files and separate them."
"Whatever…"
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and they didn't bother to wait as it was slammed open. Behind it was the kid Seto saw with the package and a panicked look across his face, which didn't give any indication if it was important or not.
"What do you want?"
"My patrol just realized something when we heard some of the female staff members talking about the black sun in the sky. The messenger was trying to have a deep voice, but it was most definitely female."
"Are there any female messengers?" Fonda asked him and the kid nodded.
"Only one, but she was injured and under medical attention during the time of the package handling," Téa answered.
"Is that everything?" Seto ask him and he shook his head. "Good, now find us someone to send up food within the next thirty minutes or I'll expel you personally."
"Y-yes sir!" the kid squeaked as he ran out of the room. The wind tunnel created closed the doors behind him.
"Idiot." He sighed rolling his eyes. "We have our refined search, let's find this bitch."
"Kaiba, there's just something that's bothering me." Téa voiced suddenly making him look up at her. Something about her tone scared him slightly.
"What is it?"
"When we find this chic, how are we to know that she can bring everyone back from the future? What if she's not even in control of that at all?"
"She has to be part of it." Kaiba snapped at her. He was also thinking the same thing and didn't appreciate the constant remind that he could be wrong in what he was going to say next. "They were taken on this side meaning someone opened a portal on this side. If she didn't leave, it means that this fucker can still open it."
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Regan sighed as she pulled around the corner with Yugi. The suits were in her opinion, one of the most comfortable things, but also most flashy things she had ever worn. The suit was skin tight and thin, but it didn't let any of the cold air through which she was surprised. It was also white mostly with black and red trims. Yugi's suit had a jacket like style to it and was dark navy blue with white and black trims. He cracked a reassuring smile as they turned another corner on the long highway. Regan really wanted to duel, but they found out quickly that as soon as one of them summoned an ace monster, other monsters were on them so fast that they seemed like they teleported there. Sometimes they actually did. Their search for any evidence or headquarters for Them came up empty and they refused to call anyone about their findings in case someone was listening in, which was also easily done from the Sector Security headquarters. A whole lot of hours wasted dealing with punks in the so called shady areas with no information. The only thing that came out of it was a lot of anger that was released out on the pricks that bugged her; it was a nice refresher and a good practice of hand to hand combat. Their runners came to a slow as they got off the highway and a sharp pain pulsed from her headache.
"You okay Regan?" Yugi asked her as they drove side by side heading back to Yusei's.
"I think so, this city has so much in it, and it's just hard to get use to even though we've been here for over thirty hours."
"It has been a while since we've been here."
"To tell you the truth, I thought this headache would go away once I got used to this place, but it seems like I'm not getting used to it at all. Like an organ rejection."
"You just haven't sleep well, you need to have a good rest in order to adapt better."
"Heh, I guess you're right. I wonder what's for supper."
"It better be something edible, Jack's idea of eggs and bacon this morning was horrifying." Yugi sent a shiver of terror her way jokingly.
She laughed. "They weren't bad, he did try and that's more than what I gave him."
"Are you warming up to him now?"
"Don't get me wrong he's like the biggest and dumbest asshole I have ever met, but he isn't a bad person. So yes, I guess I could say I'm warming up to him at the fact that he might just be able to help us. Just don't tell him I said that."
"Not a word… what about Trudge? Are you giving him a third chance?"
"Personally I don't think he deserves it. The shit he's put people through is a long list. But I will consider him a nice tool to use."
"That's a bit harsh… but I see where you're coming from. I did forgive him for those acts you know."
"I still don't like him, I don't really care if he has changed from being a jackass to a less of a jackass, he's still a donkey and I will gladly use him as he acts."
"You're really cute when you are like this."
"Why?"
"Because I don't believe that you haven't forgave him yet."
"He just pisses me off; I guess a lot like how Joey pisses off Seto. His very presence of existing reeks in … I almost want to say garbage, but it's not quite that low."
There was silence between them as entered the small circle of houses. Atem and Ryou were sitting on their runners as they chatted quietly when they stopped beside them. Atem's duel suit flipped the colors on his bike with the main color being black and the trims of his suit being gold. Ryou on the other hand, with his pale skin, looked a lot like a warlock with the black and grey that ran through his suit. It also had a very high collar like that of a vampire duke. All he needed was a cape and he was all set.
"Any luck out there?" Ryou asked them quietly.
"None, this city is big, but even with a grid map, none of the buildings look like something They would hide in. Not to mention the amount of thugs in this place, you would think someone would know, but none of them were lying. They don't know anything and are scared shitless of us and that group."
"We came empty in our cleaner section as well. No one knew anything."
"At this rate it might be easier to throw up a firework and let them come to us." Atem sighed, Regan felt a bit of depression come from him. "But as a military tactic that would be a horrible idea; there isn't very many of us and who knows how many of them. They would swamp us."
"That or we could get them to one spot and take them all out like fish in a barrel, but people would get in the way, not to mention the property damage." Yugi put in. "I think that's enough for tonight though, is everyone else back?"
"Jack and Yusei are still out, but everyone else is, Crow ordered pizza and it should be here any time now."
"I haven't had pizza in forever," Regan said almost drooling. "I hope he ordered enough."
"If not, then I guess we'll have to order some more." Yugi said with a smile.
She smiled back, but her head felt like bursting so it wasn't as bright as she wanted it to be. All she needed was some food, a practice around with no technology or magic, and a good night's sleep and she would be golden.
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The next morning, Regan felt like absolute crap, like a very oxidized iron bridge just ready to fall at the slight push of the wind. She got all the food she could ever want, she got her practice in and kicked Jack's ass in a game and she had more than twelve hours sleep. Her head pounded and the sun's light hurt her eyes, more than usual. She walked out of the bathroom after her shower and throwing up nothing to sit in a dark and warm corner with an over-sized sweater she found. She placed the hoodie over her head. She felt really cold even after the blazing hot shower. The nightmares were getting to her and affecting her body in response. Yugi asked her what she was doing in the corner and Regan told him she found a warm corner to sit and think. He shrugged and left her be. They had been all over the city, where were they? Regan shifted uncomfortably, why couldn't she have bought warmer clothing? Though it didn't matter really, she was curled up inside of the sweater like a ball and still she shivered silently. Nile popped out and sat beside her trying to warm her up with the spirit's own aura abilities, but it didn't seem to work very well. Maybe she had the flu.
"What's happening?" Regan asked her quietly as the rest of her friends got ready for their next outing.
"You might be coming down with the flu." Nile responded calmly, she seemed more real than usual. "But you don't have a fever and your cells aren't fighting any diseases."
Regan replied unsurely, "I've never felt so cold before in my life."
Nile stood up from Regan and the temperature dropped unnervingly, the spirit never gave off heat to make a major difference. It was possible Regan was over thinking it. "I'm going to get Yugi; he can warm you up better."
Regan didn't say anything as she dipped her head into the sweater making her existence disappear from outside of the sweater. A moment went passed before she felt Yugi's presence and she winced as he touched her. She didn't mean to, but sharp pain went through her head. It was slowly starting to resemble the time she had that parasite in her, but like Nile had said, she didn't have a parasite, bacteria, fungus, or virus in her.
"Nile told me you were feeling really cold, and I just happened to be sitting in the sun." Yugi whispered to her as he sat behind her and cuddled her curled up body. His body was much warmer than Nile's. She snuggled into him as much as she could. Her head pounded even more, but she didn't care. She was happy to be right there. "Better?"
"Better," She answered softly as she noticed the shadows were dancing around them. "Why did you summon the shadows?"
"I figured they would help make you feel safer. Is your headache still bothering you?"
"I think it's turning into a migraine."
"You should get some sleep."
"I don't want to." She told him stubbornly. She didn't feel tired.
Yugi wiped away tears that she didn't notice had fallen. "I'll hold you like this so you know I'm not going anywhere."
"You promise?"
"Not even if this place was raided." Yugi replied with a soft smile. His aura gave him away as she read his worried waves. He was scared for her.
"I'll try, for you."
"Thank you."
Regan closed her eyes and a few moments later she blinked them open to hear commotion happening. Trudge was yelling at Jack but she couldn't put the words into sentences only that their auras were strong with anger and fury.
"Have a good sleep?" Yugi asked her with the still soft smile. He hugged her closer.
"I fell asleep?" she questioned. Trudge shouted louder and she winced. She had a full blown migraine now and was still freezing. "Please make them stop yelling."
"Cover your ears so I'm not too loud." He agreed and she did. "Guys, stop yelling or take your argument outside."
"This doesn't concern you Yugi." Trudge shouted back.
"It does when my girlfriend is the one suffering from your yelling." Yugi replied back dangerously.
"It seems to be always about her, is she really that fragile that she can't handle a tiny headache or yelling?!"
"Trudge, she's had a headache since she got here, we can continue this outside." Jack told the officer, but his aura just flared up even more in anger.
"No, I want to know what her problem is, bossing me around and treating me like scum."
Regan felt her anger rise over her urge to find heat. He was pissing her off.
"It's not like you have given her much reason to treat you with respect." Yugi retorted in her defense. Regan got up from her spot next to her warm Yugi. Her hood fell off leaving the sunlight to glare and leaving her partially blind and in a lot of pain, but she tried not to show it. "Regan…"
"You really want to know what my problem is with you, Officer Trudge?" She challenged. "You accused me of not being who I said I was, you almost got me killed and in that action I was stabbed! You then come here and almost blow my boyfriend and my friends' heads off in a state of rage for their retaliation to your actions! And to top it all off, you continue to be a shit disturber, nobody wants to hear it!"
Trudge stared at her and looked scared out of his mind. His reaction changed to one of surprise.
"Now look what you did Trudge, she's bleeding." Jack growled as he charged passed the officer and into the bathroom.
She wiped under her nose to find blood coming from it. She looked at it more closely and noticed that her hand had a lot of excess aura on it. She must have built it up when she was yelling at Trudge. She tried to calm down and make it disappear, but it stayed. Jack handed her some tissues and she thanked him as she took the tissue and wiped the blood away. Suddenly, her vision pulsed as twelve extremely strong auras entered her radar. She stumbled backwards in surprise at the intensity and her vision blurred. Yugi caught her only making whatever was attacking her body even worse.
"Regan! Regan, what's wrong?"
"I-I don't know," She stumbled in between the shivering that caught her voice and her inability to breath. "There are… twelve people that just appeared… in m-my radar."
"I guess They found us." Yugi told the group.
His anger within his aura smashed Regan hard. She got out of his grip walked away from him. A wave of aura like a tsunami hit her as the others around her threw different emotions about. The next thing she knew, she was falling, hitting the ground and her feeling her own short, barely existing breaths before passing out entirely.
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Yugi felt an aura pulse from Regan as she pulled away. He didn't understand what it was and it frightened him when she suddenly collapsed. He quickly got to her and turned her over. He placed a hand on her forehead and it was freezing. It was like she was dead. Nile suddenly appeared in a solid looking version on the other side of Regan looking around frantically at her. He could hear the questions being fired at her and Yugi, but he let Atem and Ryou to attend to them as he took off the sweater he thought for sure belonged to Yusei. He was more concerned with Regan. Something had gone seriously wrong right when twelve people were waiting outside to do whatever they had planned. He placed his head against her chest and barely heard her breathing or her heart beat, and even that it was very quick and irregular.
"She's barely breathing and her heart beat is fast and irregular." He concluded out loud. "We need a doctor or something."
"I'm training to be a doctor," Akiza said suddenly, it was the only thing that actually came clean in his head. She knelt down beside him and checked her temperature. "Why is she so cold?" There was silence as Akiza checked Regan's eyes which were deep blue with very small pupils. "It's like she overdosed on something like codeine or caffeine."
"This isn't possible…" Nile finally said drawing the voices to a silence. "I swear to the gods above I'm going to kill them for doing this to her."
"Doing what to her?" Yugi and Yusei asked at the same time.
"Crow, lock all the doors and windows, we can't let them in." Nile ordered and the orange head nodded violently before heading to the door.
"I don't think that's going to help much if these guys are as cunning as you make them sound." Jack told her truthfully.
"What did they do to her?" Yugi asked her again. Regan's aura danced across her skin along with some shadow magic. That scared him even more and he thought he was as scared as he could be. The universe truly hated Regan and he.
"Something that shouldn't be possible, those bastards." Nile hissed as she grabbed the River's Puzzle. "They took the advantage of us being here with several strong auras and amplified the stream of the concentration to cause Regan to have an overdose on aura. They poisoned her aura."
"How can one overdose on aura? She wasn't absorbing any." Atem asked her.
"No, she was." Akiza stated. "When we chatted on the roof, she stated that because our auras were so strong, she was absorbing some, but not on purpose. I think it's the mixture of our presence and the city's history and her own survival created an instinct to have a bit extra on her in case she got hurt."
"And I bet they had someone listening in on that conversation and used it to their advantage. They did something to not allow her senses to stop when her storage was full." Nile replied angrily and hurt. "Dammit, how didn't I notice?!"
"This isn't the time to be blaming yourself, what can we do to help her?" Yusei asked as Crow came back.
"I don't know," Nile replied. She looked ready to cry. "The only reason you can even see me because the excess aura is flowing into the puzzle as the shadows are trying to stabilize her. But that's not going to work as I'm just a spirit. She can't continue like this for much more. How was she doing it for almost three days? How did I not notice?"
"Nile, concentrate," Bakura said kneeling down beside her. He cupped her face in his hands and made her look up at him. "You're the only who really knows anything about aura in this room. There has to be some way to expel the excess aura from the both of you."
"But there isn't anything Ryou," Nile answered shaking her head. Yugi's stomach dropped as Nile started crying. "I never knew of this actually ever happening."
"Then use theory," Bakura told her. "You can do this."
There was silence as Nile looked back and forth from Regan to Bakura and Yugi saw an idea appear on her face. "There is something, but it's going to leave me and her incapacitated for a while."
"What do you mean incapacitated?" Luna asked her, Yugi heard fear in her voice.
Yugi grabbed Regan's hand even though the excess aura was starting to burn him.
"I'm positive the puzzle is going to shatter if I do this so was soon as I release the energy, I'm locking her aura and any shadow magic she could use before so she won't destabilize while she's recovering, which more than likely is going to take several hours if not half a day. She also won't be able to absorb anymore aura and I won't be able to defend her until she puts the puzzle together. But," Nile sighed as she took Regan's other hand. "I don't even know if it will work and if it does, I'll most likely accidently kill her in the process. A total lock down like that will put her system in shock."
"You are going to have to take that risk." Atem told her. "Regan's a strong girl and when she wakes up, she can put your house together again."
Nile looked to Yugi and he nodded. He didn't like the odds, but it was that or both of them would probably die. He didn't want to know what would happen to a spirit if it died again.
Nile took a deep breath. "Everyone get away from her and stay down, there might be a wave of energy."
Yugi clenched his jaw but reluctantly moved away from Regan letting go of her hand. They all huddled behind the couch and Yugi peaked over to see Nile kiss Regan's forehead and held her in a hug. Yugi watched the aura transfer to Nile intensely before she disappeared abruptly dropping Regan in the process.
Yugi's hair suddenly stood on end and shouted. "Get down!"
They all ducked behind the couch and a massive amount of energy exploded shattering the windows. It calmed down for a moment as Yugi was the first to look over. Then a large explosion rang high above like thunder outside and colors rained down like ash. Yugi jumped over the couch just to see the River's Puzzle shatter on the floor and Regan not breathing.
"Regan!" He called to her. "Come on, don't do this to me."
Akiza plopped herself down on the other side and also quickly notice she wasn't breathing. She began CPR as Yugi sat there unable to feel anything. He wanted to help her, but he couldn't.
He heard Trudge say something and he turned to him. "What did you say?"
"She warned us, you shouldn't act so surprised." Trudge repeated louder.
"You son of a bitch, take that back!"
"I'm not making your life easier by lying to you. Shit happens and you are just going to have to accept it, even if it takes more than thirty years."
"She's not going to die like this, she wouldn't allow it. I won't let her!"
Trudge passed a look to Yusei, Jack and Crow and they all looked grim. They were hiding something from him. He didn't get a chance to ask as a gasp for air came to his ears. He wiped away tears as he looked down to see Akiza put Regan in the recovery position.
"She's going to be fine, as long as doesn't move for a bit. She's probably still in shock."
Suddenly, his attention was dragged away as loud banging came from the door. Yugi jumped in surprise as the door broke down and Yusei was running up the stairs.
Three guys managed to walk in before Yusei kicked them all back outside. "Get out of my house!"
"Akiza, is it possible to move Regan within the next two minutes?" Crow asked her.
"She needs more like half an hour." The female replied.
"We don't have that long." Yugi told her.
Another guy jumped through the window and grabbed Luna. "I have the Spirit girl- gah!"
Leo gave him an uppercut and pulled Luna out of his grasp. "Looks like they aren't just here for Regan, but anyone that has abilities they could use."
Bakura looked around at each of them. "I have a plan, but there are only eleven of us and twelve of them and we can't have Luna fighting just in case they planned it and Regan is out for the count."
"So there are really nine of us, I don't see the issue." Crow replied throwing the intruder out the door.
"Three of us are going to have to go against two of them instead of one, though I'm not sure if they are planning on dueling us or not."
"These guys have duel disks." Yusei confirmed throwing a punch. "So if taking on several, we should do it on duel runners so they can't blindside you."
"They have duel runners?" Atem asked him.
"Everyone has a duel runner." Jack replied as grabbed his helmet. "Who's dueling on the road and who's staying behind?"
"Yugi, Atem and Ryou should go along with Jack, Crow and I. The six of us can easily deal with double duelists." Yusei planned out.
"And Leo, Akiza and Trudge can stay here if more show up." Bakura replied.
"I don't trust Trudge to protect anyone." Yugi growled. "I should stay and-"
"That would ruin it, they are after us too." Bakura told him. "We have abilities that they want or they will kill us so it doesn't get used against them, we are perfect for drawing them away."
"But-"
"We'll stand guard outside," Akiza interrupted. "Leo and I are excellent duelists."
"So am I," Luna said suddenly. "If anyone gets passed them, then Trudge and I will duel them until Regan can be transported."
Yugi nodded and ran off to put on his duel runner suit. Within a few minutes the six runners were going out the door and the twelve people that had come went after them on black duel runners.
"Let's split into teams of two." Yusei suggested as his face appeared on the screen. "Crow go with Jack and head west. Yugi and Ryou go north and Atem and I will head east. Message if something happens."
Yugi nodded and jumped onto an onramp heading north of the city with Bakura. The road pieces moved as the four people behind them forced them into a turbo duel.
"Are you ready for this?" Yugi asked Bakura with a bit of uncertainty.
"I'm more than ready. They hurt Nile in ways that can't be explained." The albino answered angrily and determined making Yugi almost believe he was actually Yami Bakura. "I'm going to show them why you never piss off a pacifist."
I know, someone out there wants my intestines on a stick… Supernatural, what can I say. Anyway I hope you enjoyed it and if you want, review. I love reviews and most of the time I will get back to you whether you have questions or not. Follows and Favorites are also awesome. Until next chapter, lets the Turbo Duels begin!