November 10th: - 1971 Words
Seto could be oblivious to things going on around him when he was engrossed in work, in fact he regularly had to be dragged out of whatever schemes or schematics that he was working on at the time in order to eat or sleep, it was something Mokuba had gotten rather good at over the years.
However when a Blue Eyes White Dragon burst into the air high above the Kaiba Corp building and settled on the roof without even acknowledging him, the CEO felt that he should probably deal with the problem as it was inevitable that he would be blamed for it as, apparently, everything that went wrong with Duel Monsters was his fault.
Or rather the fault of his company, but since it was his company, even if he hadn’t been incredibly protective of the huge gaming corporation, it would have been classed as his fault.
He knew it wasn’t Kisara. He had no telepathic link to this dragon like he did his partner monster, a fact that would make communicating with the huge white dragon that was currently sitting, according to the security cameras, near the helicopter pad and was giving the machine an odd look, slightly more difficult.
A knock on the door distracted Seto from his thoughts as he put his computer into sleep mode, ready to head up to the roof. “Come in.”
Mokuba walked through the door, talking with someone on the phone, a frown on his face. “No, we haven’t seen any red Dark Magicians and all our cards, except our decks, are in the safe.” Mokuba chuckled slightly, “Yes it is a big safe.”
“Mokie?” Seto asked, getting confused, “Who?”
“Joey.” Mokuba said, “Wanted to know if we’ve had any trouble with any Duel Monsters in the last couple of days.”
“Trouble with any Duel Monsters?” Seto gave his brother a look that clearly stated that he thought Wheeler was losing it, not that he’d ever been convinced that the group he ‘put up with’ at Hogwarts were completely sane.
“Apparently Yugi and Harry got kidnapped by a red Dark Magician.” Mokuba shrugged, “Who took them to the Monster World. Joey and Ya…Atem followed but Joey headed back for a few hours when Hermione came through and threw a hissy fit at him.”
“Yugi and Harry got kidnapped by a Dark Magician?” Kaiba gave him a disbelieving look.
“Hey, I’m just passing the message on.” Mokuba shrugged at the look, “If you don’t believe me…”
Kaiba held out his hand for the phone. Yugi and Atem had managed to get into some pretty unbelievable messes before, but getting kidnapped by a Dark Magician?
Mokuba chucked the phone to his brother, who caught it and put it to his ear before he gestured for his brother to follow him out of the room and asked, “Wheeler?”
“Hey Kaiba.” Joey sounded tired, “I heard Mokuba filling you in. Everything alright your end?”
“You can’t seriously be telling me Yugi got kidnapped by the Dark Magician.” Kaiba replied, not wanting to talk to Joey about the Blue Eyes on his roof. “I thought their Dark Magician…”
“It’s not either of their Dark Magicians that kidnapped him.” Joey sounded exasperated, “Yuge picked up a red version of the Dark Magician during the first Battle City but never used it because it was trimmed.”
Seto tried to think back to the first Battle City. He’d kept a close eye on all of Yugi’s duels during that tournament, convinced, rightly, that if anyone was going to get their hands on an Egyptian God Monster it would be the King of Games.
He didn’t remember Yugi playing against another Magician deck, but then Yugi had dropped off the face of the earth for a few hours. It was quite possible that he’d won the card in question then.
“Yugi actually got kidnapped by a Dark Magician?”
“Are you feeling alright?” Joey actually sounded concerned, which was something new for the CEO who had often heard that tone used when Wheeler was talking to Mokuba.
“Fine, mutt.” Seto snapped, feeling uncomfortable. He and Wheeler had never really gotten along, the fact that the CEO had forever been winding the street punk up for year had something to do with that. “What are you doing here if Yugi’s in the Monster World?”
“Hermione made me come back for a couple of hours.” Joey sounded half amused, half irritated. “Humans can’t stay in the Monster World for very long and Atem and I had been there almost twenty four hours. Atem’s still there though.”
Kaiba just snorted, well aware that they’d have had to knock Atem out before they’d get him to leave considering Yugi was in danger and wondering if he was going to need a new pair of rivals by the time this was over.
“I take it something drastic happens if you stay too long?” Kaiba asked, wondering if the appearance of the Blue Eyes on his roof was related to Yugi’s kidnapping.
“You turn into a Duel Monster.” Joey’s matter of fact reply took a moment to sink into Kaiba’s mind.
“What?” Kaiba demanded in a dead pan tone, expecting it to be a joke.
“You turn into a Duel Monster.”
Kaiba had to refrain from face palming. Only the Mutou ‘twins’ could get into trouble with a trading card game.
Not that it had been just that for years now, but the point still stood.
“What does this Magician want?” Kaiba asked, as he stepped into the elevator to the roof, well aware that money was probably the last thing on the creature’s list, and Mokuba followed, having kept up easily with his older brother.
“As far as we can work out, he wants to rule Mahado’s kingdom and he’s trying to use Yugi and Harry to get it.”
“What? No Millennium Items? No elaborate plan?” Seto asked, honestly surprised considering the luck the Mutou twins had with villains.
“No. Just kidnapping and ransom.” Joey sounded semi-amused by Seto’s reaction. “Of course we don’t know what else he’s planning but…”
Seto rolled his eyes. “I’m going to be irritated if I don’t still have two rivals left at the end of this. Now if you don’t mind, I have a dragon to deal with.”
“A Blue Eyes?” Joey took his silence as confirmation, “Kisara did send one of her sisters then.”
“You knew there was a dragon on my roof?” Kaiba growled.
“Easy Rich-boy.” Joey chuckled, “I did think Kisara had sent one of them over when only three of them came to the palace. I mean, you’re her favourite human, of course she’s going to be worried.”
“Get off the phone.” Seto growled. “Don’t call until you have news.”
“Jeeze sorry.” Joey sounded nowhere near apologetic. “Pass the phone back to Mokuba would you?”
Seto passed the phone back to his younger brother as the doors slid open and he stepped out to find the Blue Eyes turn to look at him.
“I take it there’s a reason you’re on my roof?” Seto spoke, stepping, almost instinctively, into place to shield Mokuba, in case this was, though he didn’t expect it to be, an enemy.
The Blue Eyes considered him, before spreading out to soak up the sun, ignoring the CEO’s protest when she knocked over his helicopter.
Mokuba, who had put down the phone, promising to call Joey back once the dragon issue was dealt with, winced at the crash and moved to one side so he could see what was going on for himself.
Both Kaiba brothers were aware that Duel Monsters could, and would if they felt like it, talk to anyone, as long as it was relevant. Boh would, after all, quite happily babble on at anyone who was willing to listen, and Aylth had spoken to him during the Kaiba Land Asia Tournament, when Hermione had sent her to get help.
The trick was working out how to get them talking.
“Hey.” Mokuba stepped around his brother and walked up to the Blue Eyes, who gave Mokuba an amused look. “I know Kisara sent you because of Medan,” Mokuba said, glancing at his older brother and trying to ignore the look Seto was giving the damaged helicopter, having no idea how they were going to get it off of the roof for repairs, “But you can’t really stay here.”
I don’t see the problem. The Blue Eyes sounded a little irritated, After all, I’m supposed to be guarding you and your brother. This is where I should be, should it not? Besides it’s warm here.
“You’re scaring my staff members.” Kaiba grouched at her, well aware that, if this Blue Eyes was like Kisara, once she’d set her mind to something, it would take a considerable amount to bargaining to make her change her mind.
So?
“So you can’t stay here.”
If you’re here, I’m staying.
“I do have security. It isn’t like some Duel Monster could suddenly storm into my office and attack me.” Seto pointed out, “And even if it could you can’t fit in there. How exactly are you going to stop an attack?”
Your windows are made of glass. The Blue Eyes pointed out. They’re easy to break.
“No.” Kaiba growled at her. “No breaking my windows.”
“I don’t think Kisara would like it if you shattered our windows.” Mokuba pointed out.
Kisara wouldn’t care as long as you two are safe. The huge white dragon gave a draconic version of a shrug.
Kaiba pulled out his deck, drew the top card and smirked, showing it to the dragon. “Why don’t I summon her right now and we’ll ask her?”
No need for that. She’s very busy right now looking for your friends. The Blue Eyes got up quickly, agitated, amusing Mokuba, But I do need to stay close. Her orders.
Mokuba thought about it. “Hey Seto, how much work do we have to do that actually needs us in the Kaiba Corp building?”
“I have at least one more meeting to deal with, plus I’m still sorting out the distribution of all the jobs Ironhide used to take on on top of all her own duties.” Seto said, still having trouble with that weeks after they’d returned from Hogwarts. He hadn’t realised how much Kari had done for him until she hadn’t been around to do it any more. “But it should only take a couple of hours.”
“I have an idea then.” Mokuba nodded, “How about I stay up here and work on my laptop with… what is your name?” He asked the Blue Eyes.
Elise.
“I’ll stay up here with Elise and work on my laptop on a couple of things and you can have your meetings and then we can go home. She won’t disturb anyone there because she can hide in our backyard.”
“That doesn’t solve the ‘she won’t fit in the house’ problem.” Seto pointed out.
“No,” Mokuba admitted, “But at least we’d have less distance to run. I don’t know about you, but I don’t fancy running up several flights of stairs if someone’s chasing me.”
“They wouldn’t get past security.” Kaiba repeated, though he wasn’t actually certain of that himself considering that there had been many people do that successfully over the years. It seemed like every time he got better security there was someone just waiting to break through it.
We didn’t think they’d get in the Game Shop either, but Medan had a back door no one was aware of. Elise pointed out.
“Fine.” Seto grouched, “Mokuba can get his laptop, I’ll deal with these last few meetings and then we can go. Happy?” He demanded of the Blue Eyes White Dragon who looked, if it was possible for a dragon to do so, smug.
Exceedingly.
However when a Blue Eyes White Dragon burst into the air high above the Kaiba Corp building and settled on the roof without even acknowledging him, the CEO felt that he should probably deal with the problem as it was inevitable that he would be blamed for it as, apparently, everything that went wrong with Duel Monsters was his fault.
Or rather the fault of his company, but since it was his company, even if he hadn’t been incredibly protective of the huge gaming corporation, it would have been classed as his fault.
He knew it wasn’t Kisara. He had no telepathic link to this dragon like he did his partner monster, a fact that would make communicating with the huge white dragon that was currently sitting, according to the security cameras, near the helicopter pad and was giving the machine an odd look, slightly more difficult.
A knock on the door distracted Seto from his thoughts as he put his computer into sleep mode, ready to head up to the roof. “Come in.”
Mokuba walked through the door, talking with someone on the phone, a frown on his face. “No, we haven’t seen any red Dark Magicians and all our cards, except our decks, are in the safe.” Mokuba chuckled slightly, “Yes it is a big safe.”
“Mokie?” Seto asked, getting confused, “Who?”
“Joey.” Mokuba said, “Wanted to know if we’ve had any trouble with any Duel Monsters in the last couple of days.”
“Trouble with any Duel Monsters?” Seto gave his brother a look that clearly stated that he thought Wheeler was losing it, not that he’d ever been convinced that the group he ‘put up with’ at Hogwarts were completely sane.
“Apparently Yugi and Harry got kidnapped by a red Dark Magician.” Mokuba shrugged, “Who took them to the Monster World. Joey and Ya…Atem followed but Joey headed back for a few hours when Hermione came through and threw a hissy fit at him.”
“Yugi and Harry got kidnapped by a Dark Magician?” Kaiba gave him a disbelieving look.
“Hey, I’m just passing the message on.” Mokuba shrugged at the look, “If you don’t believe me…”
Kaiba held out his hand for the phone. Yugi and Atem had managed to get into some pretty unbelievable messes before, but getting kidnapped by a Dark Magician?
Mokuba chucked the phone to his brother, who caught it and put it to his ear before he gestured for his brother to follow him out of the room and asked, “Wheeler?”
“Hey Kaiba.” Joey sounded tired, “I heard Mokuba filling you in. Everything alright your end?”
“You can’t seriously be telling me Yugi got kidnapped by the Dark Magician.” Kaiba replied, not wanting to talk to Joey about the Blue Eyes on his roof. “I thought their Dark Magician…”
“It’s not either of their Dark Magicians that kidnapped him.” Joey sounded exasperated, “Yuge picked up a red version of the Dark Magician during the first Battle City but never used it because it was trimmed.”
Seto tried to think back to the first Battle City. He’d kept a close eye on all of Yugi’s duels during that tournament, convinced, rightly, that if anyone was going to get their hands on an Egyptian God Monster it would be the King of Games.
He didn’t remember Yugi playing against another Magician deck, but then Yugi had dropped off the face of the earth for a few hours. It was quite possible that he’d won the card in question then.
“Yugi actually got kidnapped by a Dark Magician?”
“Are you feeling alright?” Joey actually sounded concerned, which was something new for the CEO who had often heard that tone used when Wheeler was talking to Mokuba.
“Fine, mutt.” Seto snapped, feeling uncomfortable. He and Wheeler had never really gotten along, the fact that the CEO had forever been winding the street punk up for year had something to do with that. “What are you doing here if Yugi’s in the Monster World?”
“Hermione made me come back for a couple of hours.” Joey sounded half amused, half irritated. “Humans can’t stay in the Monster World for very long and Atem and I had been there almost twenty four hours. Atem’s still there though.”
Kaiba just snorted, well aware that they’d have had to knock Atem out before they’d get him to leave considering Yugi was in danger and wondering if he was going to need a new pair of rivals by the time this was over.
“I take it something drastic happens if you stay too long?” Kaiba asked, wondering if the appearance of the Blue Eyes on his roof was related to Yugi’s kidnapping.
“You turn into a Duel Monster.” Joey’s matter of fact reply took a moment to sink into Kaiba’s mind.
“What?” Kaiba demanded in a dead pan tone, expecting it to be a joke.
“You turn into a Duel Monster.”
Kaiba had to refrain from face palming. Only the Mutou ‘twins’ could get into trouble with a trading card game.
Not that it had been just that for years now, but the point still stood.
“What does this Magician want?” Kaiba asked, as he stepped into the elevator to the roof, well aware that money was probably the last thing on the creature’s list, and Mokuba followed, having kept up easily with his older brother.
“As far as we can work out, he wants to rule Mahado’s kingdom and he’s trying to use Yugi and Harry to get it.”
“What? No Millennium Items? No elaborate plan?” Seto asked, honestly surprised considering the luck the Mutou twins had with villains.
“No. Just kidnapping and ransom.” Joey sounded semi-amused by Seto’s reaction. “Of course we don’t know what else he’s planning but…”
Seto rolled his eyes. “I’m going to be irritated if I don’t still have two rivals left at the end of this. Now if you don’t mind, I have a dragon to deal with.”
“A Blue Eyes?” Joey took his silence as confirmation, “Kisara did send one of her sisters then.”
“You knew there was a dragon on my roof?” Kaiba growled.
“Easy Rich-boy.” Joey chuckled, “I did think Kisara had sent one of them over when only three of them came to the palace. I mean, you’re her favourite human, of course she’s going to be worried.”
“Get off the phone.” Seto growled. “Don’t call until you have news.”
“Jeeze sorry.” Joey sounded nowhere near apologetic. “Pass the phone back to Mokuba would you?”
Seto passed the phone back to his younger brother as the doors slid open and he stepped out to find the Blue Eyes turn to look at him.
“I take it there’s a reason you’re on my roof?” Seto spoke, stepping, almost instinctively, into place to shield Mokuba, in case this was, though he didn’t expect it to be, an enemy.
The Blue Eyes considered him, before spreading out to soak up the sun, ignoring the CEO’s protest when she knocked over his helicopter.
Mokuba, who had put down the phone, promising to call Joey back once the dragon issue was dealt with, winced at the crash and moved to one side so he could see what was going on for himself.
Both Kaiba brothers were aware that Duel Monsters could, and would if they felt like it, talk to anyone, as long as it was relevant. Boh would, after all, quite happily babble on at anyone who was willing to listen, and Aylth had spoken to him during the Kaiba Land Asia Tournament, when Hermione had sent her to get help.
The trick was working out how to get them talking.
“Hey.” Mokuba stepped around his brother and walked up to the Blue Eyes, who gave Mokuba an amused look. “I know Kisara sent you because of Medan,” Mokuba said, glancing at his older brother and trying to ignore the look Seto was giving the damaged helicopter, having no idea how they were going to get it off of the roof for repairs, “But you can’t really stay here.”
I don’t see the problem. The Blue Eyes sounded a little irritated, After all, I’m supposed to be guarding you and your brother. This is where I should be, should it not? Besides it’s warm here.
“You’re scaring my staff members.” Kaiba grouched at her, well aware that, if this Blue Eyes was like Kisara, once she’d set her mind to something, it would take a considerable amount to bargaining to make her change her mind.
So?
“So you can’t stay here.”
If you’re here, I’m staying.
“I do have security. It isn’t like some Duel Monster could suddenly storm into my office and attack me.” Seto pointed out, “And even if it could you can’t fit in there. How exactly are you going to stop an attack?”
Your windows are made of glass. The Blue Eyes pointed out. They’re easy to break.
“No.” Kaiba growled at her. “No breaking my windows.”
“I don’t think Kisara would like it if you shattered our windows.” Mokuba pointed out.
Kisara wouldn’t care as long as you two are safe. The huge white dragon gave a draconic version of a shrug.
Kaiba pulled out his deck, drew the top card and smirked, showing it to the dragon. “Why don’t I summon her right now and we’ll ask her?”
No need for that. She’s very busy right now looking for your friends. The Blue Eyes got up quickly, agitated, amusing Mokuba, But I do need to stay close. Her orders.
Mokuba thought about it. “Hey Seto, how much work do we have to do that actually needs us in the Kaiba Corp building?”
“I have at least one more meeting to deal with, plus I’m still sorting out the distribution of all the jobs Ironhide used to take on on top of all her own duties.” Seto said, still having trouble with that weeks after they’d returned from Hogwarts. He hadn’t realised how much Kari had done for him until she hadn’t been around to do it any more. “But it should only take a couple of hours.”
“I have an idea then.” Mokuba nodded, “How about I stay up here and work on my laptop with… what is your name?” He asked the Blue Eyes.
Elise.
“I’ll stay up here with Elise and work on my laptop on a couple of things and you can have your meetings and then we can go home. She won’t disturb anyone there because she can hide in our backyard.”
“That doesn’t solve the ‘she won’t fit in the house’ problem.” Seto pointed out.
“No,” Mokuba admitted, “But at least we’d have less distance to run. I don’t know about you, but I don’t fancy running up several flights of stairs if someone’s chasing me.”
“They wouldn’t get past security.” Kaiba repeated, though he wasn’t actually certain of that himself considering that there had been many people do that successfully over the years. It seemed like every time he got better security there was someone just waiting to break through it.
We didn’t think they’d get in the Game Shop either, but Medan had a back door no one was aware of. Elise pointed out.
“Fine.” Seto grouched, “Mokuba can get his laptop, I’ll deal with these last few meetings and then we can go. Happy?” He demanded of the Blue Eyes White Dragon who looked, if it was possible for a dragon to do so, smug.
Exceedingly.