Millennium Power Smooching (Part 2)

DIMENSION: MANGA (The One That Saves the Day)

Kaiba's Mansion

Atem looked at the millennium rod. He hated what he was hearing. This was bad, real bad. "I broke this connection." It was the reason he had left in the first place. To break the connection once and for all.

"To yours," Kaiba said. "I told you. It's not yours."

"Then why would Atem even insert the puzzle to break the curse over in the afterlife?" Yuugi questioned. "This makes no sense."

A scream. Mai looked back at them all, frightened. Her eyes were wide. Her mouth hung open and she looked like she was terrified. "Two, it's the two!" Mai pointed to Atem, Yuugi, Anzu, and Satiah. "It's the two! Jounouchi!"

"There, there, it's okay. What is it, Mai?" Jounouchi stepped into the room and looked a little freaked too.

"Atem and Satiah have their own bodies," Anzu said to Jounouchi.

"Yeah. S-sorry. Um. Came over when I could move, 'cause heard the news. Didn't hear this news." Jounouchi gulped. "Um. Processing that in a second." His eyes narrow on Kaiba. "Kaiba, where is she?"

"Not far," Kaiba answered. "In her new room."

Hm? "What new room?" Atem asked. "Who?"

"My sister, Shizuka," Jounouchi answered. "She apparently wants to move in with Kaiba, against any good judgment and I am so mad about it right now, but I'm sort of-"

"Terrified."

"Yeah. That."

Terrified? Really? "Am I that terrifying?" Atem asked. He didn't look much different than Yuugi. He didn't look a terrible zombie.

"Yeah, um. Mai's dreams, Yuugi. Remember when I said she had dreams of the future?" Jounouchi gestured to them all again. "Twin Yuugi's, twin Anzu's? Ring a bell?" He held her closer. "It's okay, Mai. Mai?"

Mai was frozen. She was moving but only in trembles with rapid chest breathing.

"If her dreams were real. Fuck!" Jounouchi tried to bring her out of it. "Mai? Babe? Mai, speak to me."

"Sorry, they got their bodies last night," Yuugi said. "We didn't mean to traumatize Mai."

"Great job on the information sharing, Yuugi," Kaiba criticized him. "The power of friendship. Ooh."

"Like you should talk!" Jounouchi seemed torn between yelling at Kaiba or taking care of Mai. "Now why am I getting a call that my little sister is here living with you, what gives? I just had her living with Honda behind my back. You okay, Mai? It'll be okay."

"I'm glad you asked because I was just in the middle of ruining everybody's good day with some damning information," Kaiba answered. "Right now, your sister is sitting with Mokuba for me since, wow, I think I have information that is fairly important to share in person." Kaiba turned around and started typing on his computer. "This is what we got." On screen, the video footage played. "Mokuba, Shizuka and I were ambushed and my little brother was shot in Kaiba headquarters. People were coming at us on the elevator when we tried to get him to the hospital. Fourteen people. I fought how I could, but they weren't aiming at me. They were aiming at Shizuka Kawai. They know her gift as the dragon." He focused up on her image.

They all heard the audio where Kaiba yelled for her to summon it. Then, he said the words himself. He viewed outside of the footage again. "The Blue-Eyes annihilated some but look at those statistics on it. It was more powerful than any card could be. I took the opportunity to grab that ." He focused on the millennium rod. "That was the end of that. I killed them all for what they did to Mokuba! All but one to send my message not to bother me again."

"You used my sister's dragon?" Jounouchi asked.

"Yep, and with the extra ba and ka, there will be a hell of a battle when the time comes," Kaiba said knowingly.

"You know about ba and ka?" Jounouchi asked. "How do you know about that?"

"Seto Kaiba has gained some extra memories of his afterlife since he started visiting," Atem answered.

"Nyuh?" Jounouchi once again looked puzzle. "Whatever, but my sister is not yours, Kaiba. You're using her to drain her own energy to use it," Jounouchi accused him. "Mai, please snap out of it? I could really use some backup right now."

"Pharaoh." Kaiba looked toward him. "Summon the Dark Magician."

Atem looked at Jounouchi. "Summon the Dark Magician?"

"It's yours . Don't you get it?" Kaiba said. "I'm not shacking up with Shizuka because of feelings. I don't have those. She's connected to the monster that is connected to me. Summon the Dark Magician, your monster, and I bet the same thing happens."

Atem looked at Jounouchi again. It had never been that way before. A human controlling a human that controlled a monster?

"If I'm part of something to help, count me in," Jounouchi said. "Try it."

Atem gestured toward Jounouchi. Might as well try it. "I summon the Dark Magician!"

The Dark Magician appeared with his scepter, like the last time Jounouchi summoned him. His power level, there was an aura coming off of him Atem could feel. He was even stronger now. Twice as strong? No, more. "Jounouchi's life force."

"Plus yours," Kaiba pointed out. "He could destroy this mansion in a single shot."

"Jounouchi and I are put at risk to summon." Atem understood. The gods gave them power over another human that had a monster. They didn't get the monster directly, instead the power was amplifying by all the extra ba and ka. That was new, Atem had never even heard of it before. "Dark Magician, return to Jounouchi."

Dark Magician went away again.

"Neat trick. Great to help. Not so great knowing my sister is risking her life for this too, Kaiba!" Jounouchi yelled at him. "I don't care what she has, you can't claim her because she's got your favorite dragon card. Give her back."

"I'm not keeping her against her will," Kaiba said. "If I did anything to your sister I'm certain the Blue-Eyes would defend her. It's her protector. Just like the Dark Magician is yours, Pharaoh. Probably to watch out for the Dark Magician Girl."

"Kaiba." No. ///Damn it, Jounouchi didn't want Mai to feel uncomfortable about Mana.//

Jounouchi glared at Kaiba, but then switched it to Yuugi and then Atem. "I think she's too out of it to pick it up, which is good because I really didn't feel like beating anyone up today. Don't do that again, Kaiba. I need my sister and I need a doctor."

"Your sister chose to stay. Just like her big brother, she wants to help," Kaiba answered. "I'll get a doctor in here for your . . . whatever you call each other now." Kaiba called for assistance through his collar.

"What about Honda?" Jounouchi asked too. "Did you drop charges? You better have."

"Once everyone is gone from here, he can be sprung. This is it though, he better not try and come back to my property again," Kaiba warned him.

"My sister is not property," Jounouchi yelled.

"I meant the headquarters, my personal home and everything else." Kaiba was getting fed up. "Do we really want to spend the whole time on this? I'm not staying here to debate, I'm ready to go back to Mokuba."

"Jounouchi, we need more information," Yuugi said. "A millennium item popped up. We have to know more. Please?"

"Fine, for now." Jounouchi followed with Mai to the doctor that appeared. "I'll be back soon."

"Great. Now that the family trauma is over." Kaiba went back to his computer. "We've got one real sick situation here. And when I say sick, I mean fucked . Look at this." He pulled up several tabs on the computer, including the serial killer that had been in Death-T. "The most ruthless in the world. Do you know how many escaped and were never to be seen? It happens sometimes, but not this much." He showed the statistics on the computer. "Serial killers with the same kind of traits as mine had. Gone. Presumed escaped, yet no unexplained murders that happened again fit their MO."

"Where's Jounouchi?"

Atem turned and looked at Shizuka. She did look fine.

"Are you okay?" Yuugi still asked.

"Yeah. I? I need to find my brother." She hung onto the wall. "He's not happy with me."

"You're supposed to be watching Mokuba for me," Kaiba complained. "He wants more than a doctor to talk to."

"Satiah went over to him," Shizuka said, "so I came over."

"Masika?" Atem looked around. She sure could move quietly.

Kaiba's computer started to sound. "Incoming important world news reports? Not good." He started to go in a different direction of his work. "It only dares to interrupt my work when the same special reporting issue is covered by ten different countries."

Ten different countries?