Chapter 23 - The Ancient Text

Seto and Adelinda entered the computer terminal where mokuba was busy translating the text on the Sun God Ra card.

"Mokuba, have you been able to translate all the test on the Sun Dragon Ra yet?" Seto asked, Adelinda close to his side. Mokuba away from the screen at them.

"I'm pretty close, but for some reason the network mainframe is still having trouble with the last few words." Adelind astood at Mokuba's left and Seto stood at his right. He smiled at her and she smiled back.

"Let's have a look."

"Right." Mokuba typed something and the image of the God Card appeared onscren, blown up so the text was easier to see. Seto's eyes widened.

"Ugh. Wait! This can't be!" Adleind alooked at him.

"Kaiba-sama?" she asked, concern on her face.

"I can read it!" Mokuba stared at him.

"You what?" Seto gaped at the screen.

"That Egyptian text is completely clear to me. I can read that paragraph as if it were written in Japanese or English. But I've never seen that language before in my life."

"Mokuba, is Kaiba-sama OK?" Adelinda asked worriedly.

"I don't know, Addy-chan. Hey Seto, are you ok? Nii-sama?" Mokuba asked, waving a hand in front of his face.

"Someone's toying with my mind. I'm not some ancient magician, I'm the CEO of Kaiba Corp." Seto fell to his knees.

"Hey Nii-san! Are oyu OK?" mopkuba asked. Adelinda ran over to him and gently took hold of one of his arms.

"Kaiba-sama, please say something."

"Seto!" Mouba said. Seto's face was still in shock. He placed one hand over his face and was breathing hard. "Seto?!" He shook it off.

"I'm fine..." he mumbled. Adelinda put a hand on his forehead to check.

"You sure? You feel feverish."

"I just got a shock." He pat her head. "Don't worry." And Seto stood up. Mokuba sighed with relief.

"Well that's good." Adelinda nodded.

"Yeah."

"Mokuba, why don't oyu take a break. I'll handle it from here."

"Uh, you sure?" Mokuba asked. Seto nodded. "OK. Hey Adelinda, want to check out some of the games I brought for my handheld?"

"OK." Mokuba ran off with her to get his handheld game console. Seto took a seat and stared at the monitor, a frown on his face.



"Attention duelists. Round one of the Battle City finals is now complete!" Roland announced. "The four remaining finalists are Yugi, Kaiba, Kay, and Marik. The competition will resume tomorrow when we land at our next dueling sight!" Roland announced over the PA system.

"Guess we're not dueling on the blimp anymore." Jounouchi looked at Yugi.

"Oh well, I was getting airsick anyway. I used up three barf bags." Kay grimaced.

"OK, Jounouchi, a little too much information there." Kristen nodded.

"I have to agree with Kay-chan on this one, Jounouchi." He shrugged.

"Hey, I don't like keeping secrets."

"You also don't like keeping that big yap of yours closed." Everyone laughed a bit, except for Jounouchi.

"Yeah, yeah, yuck it up, Kay. One of these days I'm gonna be the champion of one of the fancy schmancy tournaments." Kay put her hands on her hips.

"That's a lot of talk coming from someone who recently lost a duel in only ten minutes or so to Kaiba." Jounouchi winced and stuck his tongue out at her.

"He played the Egyptian God card, what I suppossed to do?"

"I don't know, find a way to crush it like a bug?" Kay offered, rolling her eyes.

"Watch it!" Cat stepped between them.

"Come on guys, stop bickering."

"Cat is right." Honda nodded. "We should go check up on Mai."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Let's go guys."

"Actually," they looked at Kay, "I don't really want to go."

"Huh? Why not?" Jounouchi asked, voice sounding a little testy.

"Yeah Kay, don't you want to be there for support?" Yugi asked.

"Look, I have somewhere else to be, ok? I'll visit Mai later."

"What's so important that you can't be there like a real friend?" Jounouchi demanded.

"Easy, man."

"No, Honda. I'm tired of her thinking she's so high and mighty and turning her back on us. Why, she's no better than Kaiba!" Kay glared.

"Watch what you say, mutt."

"Ya see?"

"LOOK!" She grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. "I'm just as angry as you are about what Marik did to Mai, but I have another friend in trouble. In case you've forgotten, let me give you a hint. It's Odion! And he might be in more trouble than Mai right now so put a lid on it or prepare to get a nice kick in the crotch." she released his shirt and stormed off.

"Dude, I think you really screwed up." Duke nodded.

"I'll say, she was even angrier than usual."

"do you think Kay will be ok?" Kristen asked. Tori and Alex nodded.

"You kidding?" Tori asked.

"She just needs a little time and she'll cool off."

"Let's go and visit Mai now."

"You're right, Cat." They walked off.

Kay walked into the room with Odion and noticed it was empty. Odion was sitll passed out. Kay sighed and walked over to him.

"I'm sorry this had to happen Odion." She bit her lip and took hold of his hand. "Why did Marik have to do this to you, Odion?" she cried, tears starting to run down her face. "You were always so nice, Odion, and Ishizu told me about your childhood." Sheburied her face in her hands and started to cry for her friends.

It just wasn't fair!

Kay didn't leave Odion for a while. Her eyes were red an dpuffy when she finally left. She went to her room and noticed that Alex, and Kristen were back and asleep. Tori and Cat had been able to get another room along with Shizuka and Anzu,

She took off her jacket and shoes and put her hair in a braid. With a small hiccup left over form her sobs, Kay crawled into bed and started to fall asleep.

It grew dark and after a few hours, Kay opened her eyes agiana nd sat up with a yanw. She noticed Adelinda wa snot in the room, despite the darkness and instantly grew worried.

"Where is she?" She looked at the clock and it was 1:27 am. Kay sighed and pulled her hair out of its braid then pinned it up in a messy bun and put on some socks before going out into the hall.

It was dark but some extra lights lined the floor so you could see where you were going.

She heard the roar of the engine and descended carefully into the darkness. And what was creepy was she thought she could hear monsters roaring, but that was surely crazy.

Kay peeked into Yugi's, Jounouchi's, Mai's, Ishizu's, and the extra rooms, but no sign of Adelinda. She even looked in Kaiba's room. Although she didn't know where Adelinda was, she decided to play a little prank and sprayed some of his clothes with her perfume, Eu de toilette Japanese Cherry Blossom, that she ran back to her room to get.

"Hee hee, I love being me." (I do that to Alex sometimes, HA! He hates it) She returned the perfume to her bag, taking care to hide it, and then continued down the hall.

Finally, she came to another room and walked in, seeing Kaiba typing like mad on his computer. He stopped to look at her for a moment and then went back to work.

"Shouldn't you be in bed?" he asked. She crossed her arms.

"Shouldn't you?" she asked. He rolled his eyes. "What on Earth are you doing?" she demanded.

"Not that it's any of your buisiness, but I'm translating the text of the Sun Dragon Ra." Kay walked to his side and looked at the screen.

"Pfft, can't you read it?"

"Don't bluff."

"You think I can't read it?"

"I doubt you could if Pegasus couldn't." Kay raised an eyebrow. Seto shrugged. "It doesn't matter. Ra will be in my deck along with Osiris and Obelisk and then I will crush any duelist who stands against me."

"Geez, Kaiba, could you give that speech a rest already?"

"Why are you here?" he asked.

"I'm looking for Adelinda."

"She and Mokuba have been hanging out in here and they fell asleep." She gestured with his head and Adelinda and Mokuba were laying together on their chair, covered with Seto's trench coat. Kay smiled.

"Aw, how sweet."

"I guess."

"Do you even have a heart?" Kay asked dryly. "I'm starting to doubt it."

"Who are you to judge?"

"I should ask you the same thing." He glared at her. Kay leaned against his chair and watched the screen.

"Having fun?" he asked sarcastically. She yawned.

"No, not really."

"You don't have to stay here."

"I'm awake, I might as well." Seto shrugged and continued typing.

"Suit yourself." Kay leaned against his head and he looked at her.

"You should go to sleep. You already translated the card."

"Not entirely. There's still mor ework to d-" she sighed and put a hand over his.

"You won't duel well tomorrow without some sleep. And I want at least a little bit of a chellenge should I face you." Seto stared at her hand on his for a second and pulled it away.

"Heh, it's funny to hear you as if you have authority over me."

"Please, women always know what's best." She ruffled his hair and Seto winced. "Especially for stubborn boys like you."

"Hey, cut that out!" mokuba woke up and rubbed his eyes.

"Huh? Seto..." Kay looked at him and Mokuba snapped out of his tired daze. "Seto, Kay, what are oyu two doing up? You both need some sleep. There's another round of finals tomorrow." Kay nodded.

"That's what I was trying to tell him but nooooo. Don't listen to the clearly smarter, soon-to-be-champion." Seto smoothed his hair and glared at her.

"Would you shut up? And I'm aware of the finals tomorrow, Mokuba. That's exactly what I'm preparing for. we're currently on course for Kaiba Corp. island. This is where the finals will end and the Champion will be crowne.d"

At this point, Seto took his trench coat and put it on and was followed out of the room by Kay, Mokuba, and Adelinda (who just woke up) to look out ahead where the blimp was being controlled.

"It's a fitting place for my victory and soon we will arrive at the very sight where our stepfather was last seen after I took over the corporation and left him with nothing." Kay stared.

"Their stepfather?" she wondered.

"The tower I built symbolizing the new era of Kaiba Corp. I changed it from a weapons company to a gaming company and that tower sitll stands as a reminder of my power. Mokuba."

"Huh?"

"Now do you understand why I've chosen this island for the conclusion of the finals? Because I'm finally ready to return to the land where our stepfather made his billions, for now, I too have built a mighty empire," Kay and Adelinda exchanged glances at this part of the rant, "and I've done it all on my own terms. And that's just how I'll win this tournament. With no help from anyone except for myself.

"It won't be long now, Mokuba before I prove to the entire world that there is no one on Earth who is superious to me!" He turned na dlooked at Kay. "And I'll knock down anyone in my way, and that means oyu, Yugi, and Marik." Kay smirked and walked up to him.

"Well, hon, I hope you don't get your hopes up too high, because I'm gonna send you spiraling right back down." Seto also smirked.

"Then bring it on."

"Fine, I will." She turned and walked away. "Come on, Adelinda.

"Ah, right." She followed her.

"Heh, as if she stands a chance." Mokuba looked up at Seto and then afte rKay and Adelinda, not sure how to comment on that.

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