Chapter 3: - From the Light
It was Monday morning and Yugi and Yami were playing their least favourite game of avoid the press and the insane Duellists long enough to get to somewhere else.
Normally they could rely on Joey to cause a distraction long enough for them to get away, but with Joey and Ombre working and Kari in work, they were having to play the slightly modified version which normally involved Yugi going one way, Yami the other and confusing the hell out of the Duellists trying to follow them.
Using this version of the game, it took them two hours to take the thirty minute walk to the Museum.
Luckily most Duellists seemed to avoid the Museum like the plague so once they were inside it was safe.
"How many caught you?" Yami asked as Yugi arrived, five minutes after he did.
"Two members of press, four Duellists and a pack of fan girls." Yugi sighed, "You?"
"One member of the press, two Duellists and three fan girls, I tend to notice them faster then you do so I can get before they corner me." Yami replied.
The two headed straight for the back rooms, where the Egyptian Exhibit was and where Joey had mentioned they might find something interesting.
The place was deserted, a typically quiet museum on a work day, and Yugi and Yami found themselves strolling along to the exhibit instead of rushing.
Yami's calm attitude surprised Yugi, who had thought that if there was any possible link to his past, which there had to be for Isuzu to send it here, Yami would have been more excited.
They entered and Yami looked around, walking over to the sarcophagus first, confusion clouding his face as he read the sign, "The Tomb of Anubis, Egyptian Lord of the Dead."
Yugi watched Yami carefully, "What's wrong?"
"I think I should know him."
"Your memories coming back?"
"Kind of…" Yami sighed, "It's more like a feeling. I kind of recognise that dagger, and…" Yami shook his head, "It's frustrating."
Yugi smiled slightly, and wandered over to another room, where there were many carved and painted stones, all of which in Ancient Egyptian and while Yugi was taking lessons from Kari in it, he was not fluent yet.
Something caught his eyes and he froze, "Y…Yami!"
"What's wrong?" Yami was in like a shot, taking in the scene then staring at the object in the case. It was a reverse version of their Millennium Puzzle, in a light blue glassy stone material and the Millennium Symbol in gold, the eye's centre a red gem of some kind.
"It's called the Pyramid of Light." Yugi read off the sign as Yami examined the triangular tablet with the three Gods around the red gemmed eye. "It says it belonged to an evil sorcerer who tried to bring about the end of the world."
"Guess he failed." Yami snorted.
"Apparently legends say a brave Pharaoh destroyed him using the Mystical Dagger of Fate, the same Pharaoh who is said to have possessed…" Yugi trailed off.
Yami quickly read the end, "Our Millennium Puzzle."
"You must have fought with that man five thousand years ago." Yugi said.
"There's still so much I don't know…" Yami shook his head in annoyance.
Yugi went back over to the sarcophagus and tried to translate the Egyptian writing on it, "The… eye… that… sees…" Yugi read slowly.
Yami smiled slightly and walked over, knowing Yugi was trying but really needed more practise and a little more time with his tutor. The Pharaoh himself looked at the sarcophagus and smiled ruefully, "It says, "The eye that sees what's yet to come, it's vision shall be fulfilled, unless blinded by events predetermined, thus Light and Shadows both be killed."
"Nice." Yugi sighed, then froze as a bright light grew and engulfed them.
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Yugi opened his eyes.
He was stood, in open space, with the Pyramid of Light and the Millennium Puzzle high above him in the sky, but super sized.
He looked over to where two people were stood, Yami was duelling Kaiba, then Yami cried out in pain and fell to his hands and knees and Kaiba laughed.
Then a human with a jackal's head grabbed Kaiba…
"From the light comes the dark!"
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Kari was fast asleep on her sofa bed in her office, when Kaiba came slamming in unexpectedly at half past five o'clock Monday Morning. She'd come in because someone had broken into her office at four this morning and stolen some data on the DD2s and had fallen asleep while waiting for security to come back. Obviously they hadn't bothered… Kaiba had been away for a few days to speak to someone and Kari growled at him as she come round. "Ironhide."
"Go 'way!" She grunted at him, completely forgetting she wasn't at home or in the dorm and he wasn't Ombre waking her up for work, or Hermione waking her up for school, because she was actually concerning herself with burying her head in her pillow.
"Ironhide!"
Partner, Kaiba wants you up for some reason. Mana tried, but Kari had already sat up straight at Kaiba's ordering tone, and though she was about eighty percent asleep she gave him her best, I'm-awake-really look.
"Yugi and Yami Muto are coming to the Duel Dome later."
"And?" Kari asked, staring at him blankly.
"For a Tag Team Duel."
"Good luck." Kari replied, wondering what Kaiba was on about, and hoping he'd let her go back to sleep.
"Kari, you're going to be my Partner."
Kari stared at him, "You want me to be your partner against Yami and Yugi?" She asked incredulously, "I can't defeat Ra, Slipher and Obelisk any easier then you can."
"I can defeat the Gods easily, I just need a Tag Battle Partner." Kari frowned, she could sense something wrong with Seto, and she didn't like his icy tones. He hadn't been out and out cold towards her for almost three years, why now? "I'll give you a bonus towards Hogwarts Books."
"Seto, I personally think that going against those two is equivalent to… to a Brownie going against a Hungarian Horntail, even without the Gods, they are almost impossible to defeat." Kari said, "And no amount of Galleons towards Hogwarts supplies can convince me otherwise." Mana agreed with her.
"If you don't partner with me…"
"You'll what?" Kari asked more scornfully then she would have if she'd've been fully awake, "If you fire me, half the department will walk," She sighed, "I'll team up with you Seto, but I am NOT taking the fall when we lose."
"We won't lose." Kaiba replied, "Meet me outside the Main Entrance at four."
"Yes, Mr Kaiba, Sir." Kari replied. The moment Kaiba had left, she fell asleep again, but this time her dreams were filled with danger and trouble. She woke abruptly at six thirty before calling her PA in and finally realising what she'd agreed to… She logged on after getting her day's schedule, decided that nothing on it was more important then rewriting the data that had been stolen and sent a message to Seto while wondering who was going to get the duty of telling him that the data was gone.
She wasn't doing it. No way.
She liked living too much.
To: Kaiba Seto
From: Ironhide Kari
Message: Have you actually asked Yugi and Yami if they're willing to duel us?
Kari.
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To: Ironhide Kari
From: Kaiba Seto
Message: I sent them a memo.
Kaiba Seto.
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To: Kaiba Seto
From: Ironhide Kari
Message: Mr Kaiba, sir, they don't work for you.
Kari.
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To: Ironhide Kari
From: Kaiba Seto
Message: They have been informed and will be picked up from the Domino Museum at three, be ready to duel by then.
Kaiba Seto.
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Kari sighed and settled down to the day's work, if she could get it done by three then she'd be alright.
She picked up her mobile phone and it rang just twice before it got picked up, "Ombre? Hi. You know. Tried the Kame Game Shop first… should have known. I think there's something wrong with Se…Kaiba. I know. I'll be careful. I'll be home after the Duel. Ok, see you later, bye…"
Kari sighed and stared at her laptop, glaring at the work that now had to be redone, "Back to work then…"
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Yugi and Yami sighed as they waited just inside the Museum doors for the limo to pull up. They couldn't wait outside since the psycho Duellists hadn't left Domino yet but Yami wasn't sure this duel was such a good idea after the incident earlier. They both had a bad feeling about it.
A limo pulled up almost directly outside the museum, Mokuba was inside. "I was just on my way to pick you two up."
"Is Kaiba alright?" Yugi asked, concerned, remembering their dream/vision from earlier.
"I don't know. He hasn't been himself since he got back from his meeting with Pegasus, and Kari's worried about him."
"Well, let's get our Duel Disks and see for ourselves." Yami said, Yugi and Mokuba nodded and they piled into the limo.
They were quiet on the way, both to the Game Shop and to the Duel Dome.
Mokuba split up with them at the lifts, "Kari and my brother are waiting for you on the top floor."
The 'twins' nodded and entered the lift.
Only Yugi caught Mokuba's murmured, "Good luck, guys."
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Kari had slipped into something she felt a little more comfortable duelling in before meeting Seto out the front of Kaiba Corp.
Duel Disk on one arm and her bag with her laptop and deck over the over shoulder, she raced down from her office, locking her door on the way out, and getting there with half a minute to spare.
"Mr Kaiba, sir…?" Kari asked, worried at the slightly sadistic smile on her boss's face. "Are you alright?"
"Fine, just get in the car." Kaiba said as Kisara flew overhead.
Kari looked then bit her lip, "Not until you tell me what you did to Yugi's Grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"Ironhide!" Kaiba snapped, causing Mana, who'd followed her down from the office, to flinch.
"You're not acting like yourself and I'm not going anywhere with someone who I can't trust is who I think they are." Kari glared, "Did you forget about Polyjuice Potion?" She asked quietly.
"Fine, I ripped it in half, happy?"
Kari sighed and got into the limo, with Seto and Mana, which sped off at a stupidly fast rate of knots, reaching the Duel Dome in ten minutes.
"Seto, what's gotten into your driver?" Kari gasped as the screeched to a halt.
"Just get out." Seto replied.
Kari felt cold, She didn't know what to make of Seto's icy attitude or the strange magic she felt rolling off of him, but it was defiantly Seto who'd shared a car ride with her…
Kari scrambled out of the limo and followed her boss up to the Duelling Arena of the Duel Dome, Mana and Kisara following them both.
Yugi and Yami arrived just two minutes later, with Mahado and Boh, and they stood face to face, monsters at their right hand side and slightly behind them.
"I hope you brought the Gods, because otherwise this won't be any fun at all." Kaiba smirked at them as Kisara glared at Mahado.
"Mana," Kari called to her Duel Monster partner, "Please get Mahado to tell Yami that something is wrong with Seto."
The relay of thoughts passed between the Duel Monsters and Yami's eyes flickered from Kaiba to Kari then back again as Mahado passed on the message.
'Tell her we can see that, thank you …' Yami replied.
"Yami…" Yugi whispered, passing Yami a card, "I think you'd better have him back."
Yami looked quickly, "Slipher?"
"Something's wrong with Kaiba and…"
"Are you going to talk or Duel?"
"This duel isn't a good idea." Yugi said, looking at Kaiba.
"You're just scared that I might have finally come up with a way to defeat you."
"Kaiba stop and think for second, there's the presence of something far more dangerous then you can imagine!" Yami growled, finally sensing what was coming from Kaiba.
"Spare me the fairy tales."
"Seto, he's right." Kari said, watching her boss carefully.
"I've heard enough." Seto snapped, "If you three think you sense something dangerous then you're right, because it's me and my deck and in this match you Mutos are about to lose big time." Seto's head went up to the holoprojector room, which was moving, "Mokuba, seal all the exits!"
"If you say so…" If Yami, Yugi and Kari think this duel is a bad idea, why won't Seto listen? Mokuba shut off all the exits.
"Now, what do you say we get down to business already?" Kaiba snapped.
"Kaiba stop thinking about yourself for once and listen to what we're telling you!" Yami growled.
"You're in no position to be making demands, so shut up and duel." Yugi and Kari looked at each other and then all four Duellists shuffled their decks and activated their Duel Disks. "Tag Team Duel, the Duel continues until all of a team's life points are gone." Kaiba growled. "And may the best Duellists win."
"Who moves first?" Yugi asked.
"Me, Yami, Kari, you." Kaiba said.
All four Duellists nodded, "Let's Duel!"
Kaiba drew.
"I summon my Familiar Knight in defence mode, try to get past him."
"Very well, I shall." Yami drew, "I play Queen's Knight," She appeared on the field, "And now, say goodbye to your monster." Yami directed it to attack and the Familiar Knight blew up.
"By destroying your knight, I've activated its special ability, which allows you to play a new beast in its place."
"And you're being so helpful, because why?" Kaiba asked as he summoned Rare Metal Dragon, which had 2400 attack points.
"Because not only does it allow you to get another monster on the field, it helps me and my partner too." Yami grinned, "Allowing me to summon King's Knight, and through their special ability, Jack's Knight."
Kari growled, but she too was allowed to summon and summoned her Skilled Dark Magician and Yugi summoned Obnoxious Celtic Guardian.
"I play one card face down and it's Kari's turn."
"I sacrifice my Skilled Dark Magician for my Dark Magician Girl!" Mana was practically cheering, "And play a card face down, Yugi, it's your move."
"I equip my Obnoxious Celtic Guard with Luster Sword, raising his attack to 1900 and play two cards face down." Yugi looked at Kaiba, who took that as an end turn and drew.
"Looks like your luck ran out, I'll keep this card face down on the field until the time is right, right for me that is, and then nothing in your deck will make a difference. It's your move Yami."
Yami went to draw and Yugi sensed the energy run through his yami and Kari couldn't help but notice his reaction. "Oh no…"
"An Egyptian God." Yugi breathed, grinning. Boh was bouncy but Mahado didn't look happy.
Yami nodded, "I sacrifice my three Knights to bring forth my Ultimate Creature!"
Kari took a half step back, knowing all too well what was coming.
"Behold, the Egyptian God Card; Slipher the Sky Dragon!"
Considering the indoor thunderstorm that started up as Yami announced it, Kari decided either Seto had gone crazy or he had a plan as he smirked up at the clouds.
The huge red dragon arrived and curled around Yami and Yugi, glaring at those who dared challenge his masters.
"Your monsters are helpless against the divine power of Slipher," Yami growled, "Attack Kaiba's Rare Metal Dragon!"
It exploded and Kaiba's life points dropped to 3400 as Seto threw up an arm to shield himself.
"Had enough?" Yami growled.
"No." Kaiba growled, "If your turn is over, its Ironhide's move."
"Kari." Yami nodded to her.
Kari blanched, what was she supposed to do against a God?
"Two cards face down, it's your move Yugi."
"One card, defence mode, back to you Kaiba."
"Not only am I not afraid of your God card, Yami, but I'm going to force you to summon all three at once!"
Yugi looked surprised, and Yami gave Kaiba a look that Kari couldn't quite read.
"Thanks to my Obligatory Summon Magic Card, you have to bring out every Monster in your deck, that falls into the same category as the one on the field."
"S…Kaiba?" Kari asked. It was official, Seto was insane. Why the hell would he want Yami to summon the other two Divine creatures in his deck? No matter how strong their decks were, there was no way they could take on all three Gods… Seto didn't look at her.
"Fine." Yami said firmly, though looking a little confused, "I play two more Egyptian God Cards. Obelisk the Tormentor, and the Winged Dragon of Ra."
Kari bit her bottom lip as Yami grunted as the energy of the Gods shot off the Duel Disk, and solidified into the Gods and Yugi, Kaiba and Kari braced themselves against the ground shaking that almost always accompanied their holographic arrival.
All the monsters turned towards Yami, eyes wide as the Gods took form.
For a split second Kari wondered why that almost never happened when the Gods were summoned with Wand Magic, then she was staring at the three Gods and her mind was full of two words, repeated over and over again… "Oh shit."
"You've allowed me to assemble the three strongest and most feared creatures in Duel Monsters, Kaiba. A foolish mistake."
Kari's mouth dropped open as Seto started to laugh.
"It's no mistake." Seto claimed, "My entire strategy was to draw out your three Egyptian God Cards, so I can be the first Duellist to crush all of them at once."
"Huh?" Kari's jaw would have hit the floor, it wasn't possible… was it?
"Just how do you intend to do that?" Yami asked, disbelievingly.
"You're about to find out right now." Seto smirked, "Reveal Trap Card. Pyramid of Light!"
Kari's eyes widened, she'd thought that was an artefact at the Museum, in the exhibit she'd taken Ombre and Joey to see yesterday.
She could see Yami and Yugi's faces and realised that they recognised the name too… she just wondered if they could sense what she was sensing.
This wasn't good.
"Now, pyramid, activate!"
A bright blue light shot up from the card, and a blue blot of energy hit the ground, splitting into four and creating a pyramid shape.
The Duellist's attention was grabbed by the Egyptian Gods' cries of pain… the Gods… in pain? What the hell was going on?
"Looks like your so-called unstoppable monsters, have been stopped." Seto was still smirking as the pyramid closed, with sides of blue energy penning them in.
"Impossible." Yugi gasped, still staring at the Gods, who were now stuck on the outside of the Pyramid.
"See for yourself."
Obelisk was the first to try to reach inside, and was forced back by blue lightening, which then consumed Slipher and Ra.
"Your monsters are useless."
"But how?" Yami asked, worried and confused.
The three gods vanished from the playing field in an explosion… the Pyramid had destroyed them… or removed them from play…
Kari froze as her mind tried to translate the Ancient Egyptian being spoken by some unknown person.
Yugi's cry of pain caught her and Yami's attention; he was bent over slightly, his hands clutched to his chest, golden lightening playing over him. His Duel Disk had shut down.
"Yugi?" Yami asked, rushing over.
The golden energy surrounded Yugi, and Yami had to catch him as he fell unconscious and the energy drained into or was absorbed by the Millennium Puzzle.
"Yugi!" The Ancient Egyptian was still going, but Kari couldn't understand more then a few words, it was Palace language, Ombre obviously had never known it…
"Yugi… wake up…" Yami shook him.
Kari went to rush over but was stopped by Seto's look. She glared back at him, deactivated and dropped her Duel Disk, and rushed over. "Yugi?" She asked, putting her hand on the Puzzle, then her head went fuzzy, and that was the last thing she knew.
Mahado caught her as she fell and Mana rushed over to check her partner over.
She glared at Kaiba, giving him the dirtiest look she could muster and Kisara didn't do anything but look back.
"Yugi, where are you?" Yami asked, trying to sense his hikari inside the Millennium Item, "Kaiba, do you have any idea what you've just done?" Yami snarled, setting Yugi down and turning away from the Duel Monsters and the two hikaris to death-glare at Kaiba.
Seto looked shocked for a moment, then something descended on him, a cold mist that blocked out any concern for anyone other them himself, he laughed icily, "Well, lets see, I think I've just beaten you."
Yami stared at him, how… Yami looked back to Yugi and Kari, then tried to reach his hikari's mind… it wasn't there, not in his soul room, not even around Yami's or somewhere near there inside the Puzzle… He couldn't sense his hikari's mind, or soul… but… he had to be alright, he just had to be…
Normally they could rely on Joey to cause a distraction long enough for them to get away, but with Joey and Ombre working and Kari in work, they were having to play the slightly modified version which normally involved Yugi going one way, Yami the other and confusing the hell out of the Duellists trying to follow them.
Using this version of the game, it took them two hours to take the thirty minute walk to the Museum.
Luckily most Duellists seemed to avoid the Museum like the plague so once they were inside it was safe.
"How many caught you?" Yami asked as Yugi arrived, five minutes after he did.
"Two members of press, four Duellists and a pack of fan girls." Yugi sighed, "You?"
"One member of the press, two Duellists and three fan girls, I tend to notice them faster then you do so I can get before they corner me." Yami replied.
The two headed straight for the back rooms, where the Egyptian Exhibit was and where Joey had mentioned they might find something interesting.
The place was deserted, a typically quiet museum on a work day, and Yugi and Yami found themselves strolling along to the exhibit instead of rushing.
Yami's calm attitude surprised Yugi, who had thought that if there was any possible link to his past, which there had to be for Isuzu to send it here, Yami would have been more excited.
They entered and Yami looked around, walking over to the sarcophagus first, confusion clouding his face as he read the sign, "The Tomb of Anubis, Egyptian Lord of the Dead."
Yugi watched Yami carefully, "What's wrong?"
"I think I should know him."
"Your memories coming back?"
"Kind of…" Yami sighed, "It's more like a feeling. I kind of recognise that dagger, and…" Yami shook his head, "It's frustrating."
Yugi smiled slightly, and wandered over to another room, where there were many carved and painted stones, all of which in Ancient Egyptian and while Yugi was taking lessons from Kari in it, he was not fluent yet.
Something caught his eyes and he froze, "Y…Yami!"
"What's wrong?" Yami was in like a shot, taking in the scene then staring at the object in the case. It was a reverse version of their Millennium Puzzle, in a light blue glassy stone material and the Millennium Symbol in gold, the eye's centre a red gem of some kind.
"It's called the Pyramid of Light." Yugi read off the sign as Yami examined the triangular tablet with the three Gods around the red gemmed eye. "It says it belonged to an evil sorcerer who tried to bring about the end of the world."
"Guess he failed." Yami snorted.
"Apparently legends say a brave Pharaoh destroyed him using the Mystical Dagger of Fate, the same Pharaoh who is said to have possessed…" Yugi trailed off.
Yami quickly read the end, "Our Millennium Puzzle."
"You must have fought with that man five thousand years ago." Yugi said.
"There's still so much I don't know…" Yami shook his head in annoyance.
Yugi went back over to the sarcophagus and tried to translate the Egyptian writing on it, "The… eye… that… sees…" Yugi read slowly.
Yami smiled slightly and walked over, knowing Yugi was trying but really needed more practise and a little more time with his tutor. The Pharaoh himself looked at the sarcophagus and smiled ruefully, "It says, "The eye that sees what's yet to come, it's vision shall be fulfilled, unless blinded by events predetermined, thus Light and Shadows both be killed."
"Nice." Yugi sighed, then froze as a bright light grew and engulfed them.
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Yugi opened his eyes.
He was stood, in open space, with the Pyramid of Light and the Millennium Puzzle high above him in the sky, but super sized.
He looked over to where two people were stood, Yami was duelling Kaiba, then Yami cried out in pain and fell to his hands and knees and Kaiba laughed.
Then a human with a jackal's head grabbed Kaiba…
"From the light comes the dark!"
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Kari was fast asleep on her sofa bed in her office, when Kaiba came slamming in unexpectedly at half past five o'clock Monday Morning. She'd come in because someone had broken into her office at four this morning and stolen some data on the DD2s and had fallen asleep while waiting for security to come back. Obviously they hadn't bothered… Kaiba had been away for a few days to speak to someone and Kari growled at him as she come round. "Ironhide."
"Go 'way!" She grunted at him, completely forgetting she wasn't at home or in the dorm and he wasn't Ombre waking her up for work, or Hermione waking her up for school, because she was actually concerning herself with burying her head in her pillow.
"Ironhide!"
Partner, Kaiba wants you up for some reason. Mana tried, but Kari had already sat up straight at Kaiba's ordering tone, and though she was about eighty percent asleep she gave him her best, I'm-awake-really look.
"Yugi and Yami Muto are coming to the Duel Dome later."
"And?" Kari asked, staring at him blankly.
"For a Tag Team Duel."
"Good luck." Kari replied, wondering what Kaiba was on about, and hoping he'd let her go back to sleep.
"Kari, you're going to be my Partner."
Kari stared at him, "You want me to be your partner against Yami and Yugi?" She asked incredulously, "I can't defeat Ra, Slipher and Obelisk any easier then you can."
"I can defeat the Gods easily, I just need a Tag Battle Partner." Kari frowned, she could sense something wrong with Seto, and she didn't like his icy tones. He hadn't been out and out cold towards her for almost three years, why now? "I'll give you a bonus towards Hogwarts Books."
"Seto, I personally think that going against those two is equivalent to… to a Brownie going against a Hungarian Horntail, even without the Gods, they are almost impossible to defeat." Kari said, "And no amount of Galleons towards Hogwarts supplies can convince me otherwise." Mana agreed with her.
"If you don't partner with me…"
"You'll what?" Kari asked more scornfully then she would have if she'd've been fully awake, "If you fire me, half the department will walk," She sighed, "I'll team up with you Seto, but I am NOT taking the fall when we lose."
"We won't lose." Kaiba replied, "Meet me outside the Main Entrance at four."
"Yes, Mr Kaiba, Sir." Kari replied. The moment Kaiba had left, she fell asleep again, but this time her dreams were filled with danger and trouble. She woke abruptly at six thirty before calling her PA in and finally realising what she'd agreed to… She logged on after getting her day's schedule, decided that nothing on it was more important then rewriting the data that had been stolen and sent a message to Seto while wondering who was going to get the duty of telling him that the data was gone.
She wasn't doing it. No way.
She liked living too much.
To: Kaiba Seto
From: Ironhide Kari
Message: Have you actually asked Yugi and Yami if they're willing to duel us?
Kari.
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To: Ironhide Kari
From: Kaiba Seto
Message: I sent them a memo.
Kaiba Seto.
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To: Kaiba Seto
From: Ironhide Kari
Message: Mr Kaiba, sir, they don't work for you.
Kari.
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To: Ironhide Kari
From: Kaiba Seto
Message: They have been informed and will be picked up from the Domino Museum at three, be ready to duel by then.
Kaiba Seto.
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Kari sighed and settled down to the day's work, if she could get it done by three then she'd be alright.
She picked up her mobile phone and it rang just twice before it got picked up, "Ombre? Hi. You know. Tried the Kame Game Shop first… should have known. I think there's something wrong with Se…Kaiba. I know. I'll be careful. I'll be home after the Duel. Ok, see you later, bye…"
Kari sighed and stared at her laptop, glaring at the work that now had to be redone, "Back to work then…"
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Yugi and Yami sighed as they waited just inside the Museum doors for the limo to pull up. They couldn't wait outside since the psycho Duellists hadn't left Domino yet but Yami wasn't sure this duel was such a good idea after the incident earlier. They both had a bad feeling about it.
A limo pulled up almost directly outside the museum, Mokuba was inside. "I was just on my way to pick you two up."
"Is Kaiba alright?" Yugi asked, concerned, remembering their dream/vision from earlier.
"I don't know. He hasn't been himself since he got back from his meeting with Pegasus, and Kari's worried about him."
"Well, let's get our Duel Disks and see for ourselves." Yami said, Yugi and Mokuba nodded and they piled into the limo.
They were quiet on the way, both to the Game Shop and to the Duel Dome.
Mokuba split up with them at the lifts, "Kari and my brother are waiting for you on the top floor."
The 'twins' nodded and entered the lift.
Only Yugi caught Mokuba's murmured, "Good luck, guys."
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Kari had slipped into something she felt a little more comfortable duelling in before meeting Seto out the front of Kaiba Corp.
Duel Disk on one arm and her bag with her laptop and deck over the over shoulder, she raced down from her office, locking her door on the way out, and getting there with half a minute to spare.
"Mr Kaiba, sir…?" Kari asked, worried at the slightly sadistic smile on her boss's face. "Are you alright?"
"Fine, just get in the car." Kaiba said as Kisara flew overhead.
Kari looked then bit her lip, "Not until you tell me what you did to Yugi's Grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"Ironhide!" Kaiba snapped, causing Mana, who'd followed her down from the office, to flinch.
"You're not acting like yourself and I'm not going anywhere with someone who I can't trust is who I think they are." Kari glared, "Did you forget about Polyjuice Potion?" She asked quietly.
"Fine, I ripped it in half, happy?"
Kari sighed and got into the limo, with Seto and Mana, which sped off at a stupidly fast rate of knots, reaching the Duel Dome in ten minutes.
"Seto, what's gotten into your driver?" Kari gasped as the screeched to a halt.
"Just get out." Seto replied.
Kari felt cold, She didn't know what to make of Seto's icy attitude or the strange magic she felt rolling off of him, but it was defiantly Seto who'd shared a car ride with her…
Kari scrambled out of the limo and followed her boss up to the Duelling Arena of the Duel Dome, Mana and Kisara following them both.
Yugi and Yami arrived just two minutes later, with Mahado and Boh, and they stood face to face, monsters at their right hand side and slightly behind them.
"I hope you brought the Gods, because otherwise this won't be any fun at all." Kaiba smirked at them as Kisara glared at Mahado.
"Mana," Kari called to her Duel Monster partner, "Please get Mahado to tell Yami that something is wrong with Seto."
The relay of thoughts passed between the Duel Monsters and Yami's eyes flickered from Kaiba to Kari then back again as Mahado passed on the message.
'Tell her we can see that, thank you …' Yami replied.
"Yami…" Yugi whispered, passing Yami a card, "I think you'd better have him back."
Yami looked quickly, "Slipher?"
"Something's wrong with Kaiba and…"
"Are you going to talk or Duel?"
"This duel isn't a good idea." Yugi said, looking at Kaiba.
"You're just scared that I might have finally come up with a way to defeat you."
"Kaiba stop and think for second, there's the presence of something far more dangerous then you can imagine!" Yami growled, finally sensing what was coming from Kaiba.
"Spare me the fairy tales."
"Seto, he's right." Kari said, watching her boss carefully.
"I've heard enough." Seto snapped, "If you three think you sense something dangerous then you're right, because it's me and my deck and in this match you Mutos are about to lose big time." Seto's head went up to the holoprojector room, which was moving, "Mokuba, seal all the exits!"
"If you say so…" If Yami, Yugi and Kari think this duel is a bad idea, why won't Seto listen? Mokuba shut off all the exits.
"Now, what do you say we get down to business already?" Kaiba snapped.
"Kaiba stop thinking about yourself for once and listen to what we're telling you!" Yami growled.
"You're in no position to be making demands, so shut up and duel." Yugi and Kari looked at each other and then all four Duellists shuffled their decks and activated their Duel Disks. "Tag Team Duel, the Duel continues until all of a team's life points are gone." Kaiba growled. "And may the best Duellists win."
"Who moves first?" Yugi asked.
"Me, Yami, Kari, you." Kaiba said.
All four Duellists nodded, "Let's Duel!"
Kaiba drew.
"I summon my Familiar Knight in defence mode, try to get past him."
"Very well, I shall." Yami drew, "I play Queen's Knight," She appeared on the field, "And now, say goodbye to your monster." Yami directed it to attack and the Familiar Knight blew up.
"By destroying your knight, I've activated its special ability, which allows you to play a new beast in its place."
"And you're being so helpful, because why?" Kaiba asked as he summoned Rare Metal Dragon, which had 2400 attack points.
"Because not only does it allow you to get another monster on the field, it helps me and my partner too." Yami grinned, "Allowing me to summon King's Knight, and through their special ability, Jack's Knight."
Kari growled, but she too was allowed to summon and summoned her Skilled Dark Magician and Yugi summoned Obnoxious Celtic Guardian.
"I play one card face down and it's Kari's turn."
"I sacrifice my Skilled Dark Magician for my Dark Magician Girl!" Mana was practically cheering, "And play a card face down, Yugi, it's your move."
"I equip my Obnoxious Celtic Guard with Luster Sword, raising his attack to 1900 and play two cards face down." Yugi looked at Kaiba, who took that as an end turn and drew.
"Looks like your luck ran out, I'll keep this card face down on the field until the time is right, right for me that is, and then nothing in your deck will make a difference. It's your move Yami."
Yami went to draw and Yugi sensed the energy run through his yami and Kari couldn't help but notice his reaction. "Oh no…"
"An Egyptian God." Yugi breathed, grinning. Boh was bouncy but Mahado didn't look happy.
Yami nodded, "I sacrifice my three Knights to bring forth my Ultimate Creature!"
Kari took a half step back, knowing all too well what was coming.
"Behold, the Egyptian God Card; Slipher the Sky Dragon!"
Considering the indoor thunderstorm that started up as Yami announced it, Kari decided either Seto had gone crazy or he had a plan as he smirked up at the clouds.
The huge red dragon arrived and curled around Yami and Yugi, glaring at those who dared challenge his masters.
"Your monsters are helpless against the divine power of Slipher," Yami growled, "Attack Kaiba's Rare Metal Dragon!"
It exploded and Kaiba's life points dropped to 3400 as Seto threw up an arm to shield himself.
"Had enough?" Yami growled.
"No." Kaiba growled, "If your turn is over, its Ironhide's move."
"Kari." Yami nodded to her.
Kari blanched, what was she supposed to do against a God?
"Two cards face down, it's your move Yugi."
"One card, defence mode, back to you Kaiba."
"Not only am I not afraid of your God card, Yami, but I'm going to force you to summon all three at once!"
Yugi looked surprised, and Yami gave Kaiba a look that Kari couldn't quite read.
"Thanks to my Obligatory Summon Magic Card, you have to bring out every Monster in your deck, that falls into the same category as the one on the field."
"S…Kaiba?" Kari asked. It was official, Seto was insane. Why the hell would he want Yami to summon the other two Divine creatures in his deck? No matter how strong their decks were, there was no way they could take on all three Gods… Seto didn't look at her.
"Fine." Yami said firmly, though looking a little confused, "I play two more Egyptian God Cards. Obelisk the Tormentor, and the Winged Dragon of Ra."
Kari bit her bottom lip as Yami grunted as the energy of the Gods shot off the Duel Disk, and solidified into the Gods and Yugi, Kaiba and Kari braced themselves against the ground shaking that almost always accompanied their holographic arrival.
All the monsters turned towards Yami, eyes wide as the Gods took form.
For a split second Kari wondered why that almost never happened when the Gods were summoned with Wand Magic, then she was staring at the three Gods and her mind was full of two words, repeated over and over again… "Oh shit."
"You've allowed me to assemble the three strongest and most feared creatures in Duel Monsters, Kaiba. A foolish mistake."
Kari's mouth dropped open as Seto started to laugh.
"It's no mistake." Seto claimed, "My entire strategy was to draw out your three Egyptian God Cards, so I can be the first Duellist to crush all of them at once."
"Huh?" Kari's jaw would have hit the floor, it wasn't possible… was it?
"Just how do you intend to do that?" Yami asked, disbelievingly.
"You're about to find out right now." Seto smirked, "Reveal Trap Card. Pyramid of Light!"
Kari's eyes widened, she'd thought that was an artefact at the Museum, in the exhibit she'd taken Ombre and Joey to see yesterday.
She could see Yami and Yugi's faces and realised that they recognised the name too… she just wondered if they could sense what she was sensing.
This wasn't good.
"Now, pyramid, activate!"
A bright blue light shot up from the card, and a blue blot of energy hit the ground, splitting into four and creating a pyramid shape.
The Duellist's attention was grabbed by the Egyptian Gods' cries of pain… the Gods… in pain? What the hell was going on?
"Looks like your so-called unstoppable monsters, have been stopped." Seto was still smirking as the pyramid closed, with sides of blue energy penning them in.
"Impossible." Yugi gasped, still staring at the Gods, who were now stuck on the outside of the Pyramid.
"See for yourself."
Obelisk was the first to try to reach inside, and was forced back by blue lightening, which then consumed Slipher and Ra.
"Your monsters are useless."
"But how?" Yami asked, worried and confused.
The three gods vanished from the playing field in an explosion… the Pyramid had destroyed them… or removed them from play…
Kari froze as her mind tried to translate the Ancient Egyptian being spoken by some unknown person.
Yugi's cry of pain caught her and Yami's attention; he was bent over slightly, his hands clutched to his chest, golden lightening playing over him. His Duel Disk had shut down.
"Yugi?" Yami asked, rushing over.
The golden energy surrounded Yugi, and Yami had to catch him as he fell unconscious and the energy drained into or was absorbed by the Millennium Puzzle.
"Yugi!" The Ancient Egyptian was still going, but Kari couldn't understand more then a few words, it was Palace language, Ombre obviously had never known it…
"Yugi… wake up…" Yami shook him.
Kari went to rush over but was stopped by Seto's look. She glared back at him, deactivated and dropped her Duel Disk, and rushed over. "Yugi?" She asked, putting her hand on the Puzzle, then her head went fuzzy, and that was the last thing she knew.
Mahado caught her as she fell and Mana rushed over to check her partner over.
She glared at Kaiba, giving him the dirtiest look she could muster and Kisara didn't do anything but look back.
"Yugi, where are you?" Yami asked, trying to sense his hikari inside the Millennium Item, "Kaiba, do you have any idea what you've just done?" Yami snarled, setting Yugi down and turning away from the Duel Monsters and the two hikaris to death-glare at Kaiba.
Seto looked shocked for a moment, then something descended on him, a cold mist that blocked out any concern for anyone other them himself, he laughed icily, "Well, lets see, I think I've just beaten you."
Yami stared at him, how… Yami looked back to Yugi and Kari, then tried to reach his hikari's mind… it wasn't there, not in his soul room, not even around Yami's or somewhere near there inside the Puzzle… He couldn't sense his hikari's mind, or soul… but… he had to be alright, he just had to be…