Millennium Power Smooching (Part 3)

DIMENSION: MANGA (The One That Saves the Day)

Mokuba's Hospital Room

Satiah waited beside Mokuba. A nice boy when she was stuck in the card, she still remembered him fondly. If it wasn't for him, she would still be in that card. Kaiba never would have freed her. Mokuba kept reminding her of someone from her past. She just didn't know who. She breathed in worry, hoping he would be okay. That bandaged area didn't look good. "Mokuba?"

He opened his eyes. "Anzu?"

"No," she corrected him. "It's Satiah."

"Oh, you looked like Anzu. Sorry." Mokuba smiled. "Hello." He tried to sit up.

"Stay down." She examined him. He was about the age of Anzu when she first joined with her. How time had gone on.

"It's okay. I've got some energy." Mokuba continued to prop himself up. "It was a graze Big Brother said, but he was really worried. There was a lot of blood." He grinned. "They have me on a lot of medication. It helps with the pain, but it made me tired. I feel better seeing you again. I missed you, Satiah."

Yes. ///Satiah: Who did I know like him? It must have been someone. Was it Heba? No, she was a little girl. I'm sure of it. It could be anyone./// It could even be her he reminded her of, when she felt lost. All she could do was enjoy his presence. "I missed you too. I miss our conversations. Besides Anzu, there was no one to talk to for a very long time." Had he got better over time about missing his parents? "How have you been?"

"Running a billion dollar company," he answered. "It's been tough. Seto left at a time where he was changing technology like crazy. Kids were literally all thinking together to play and create duel monsters. Then, poof, off he went! He came back sometimes, but he hardly let me know when he did. I don't think he wanted to build my hopes that he'd stay. He kept going back to the afterlife, over and over. He just had to beat the Pharaoh, no matter what."

Talk about obsession. ///Satiah: Seems we were complete opposites with the afterlife./// He wanted to join it. She wanted to escape it. Even if it contained her memories. Honestly, probably because it contained her memories. To live in the afterlife as you did in life. She didn't want to know why she kept leaving to Bakura back then. She didn't want to know anything else. "Kaiba is here now. Someone must watch over you that isn't a doctor in order for him to leave."

"He's a good brother. I am really glad that the Pharaoh came back too," Mokuba said. "My brother can stay close by me again. I missed him."

"You're never alone, Mokuba." Kaiba walked in. "And you? You're a sneaky one."

"Hi, Seto." Mokuba waved. "I feel better. I've got some energy again."

"Since Satiah came?" Kaiba questioned.

"Yep. She always made me feel better," Mokuba said. "That's why she came to see me. We were good friends."

"Not like she's had a lot of practice," Kaiba belittled her. "Her friends include the lost cheerleading American and a dangerous ancient thief."

"She'll make more friends." Mokuba looked back at her. "I'm sorry about Heba."

"I am too. I think. She was a good girl." That name in her thoughts. ///Satiah: So many fractures I'll never know. I'd never want to know./// Torn. She felt torn when she was near Mokuba. The day she finally had to go to the afterlife, then at least she'd know who he reminded her of. - "There's." Her voice was stiff. Dry. Visions and screams passed through her. "What? There." She couldn't explain it.

"Satiah? What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Mokuba called toward her. "Don't cry. What's wrong?"

"I just . . ." Millions of voices just screamed in agony.

"Hey, have you seen my sister?" Jounouchi came into the room. "I've got to try and talk her out of being Kaiba's puppet. Hm?" He went over toward Satiah. "You okay?"

"She just started crying." Mokuba tried to move.

"No way, stay there, Mokuba." Jounouchi bent down next to her chair. "Hey, former Spirit Lady, are you okay?"

"Anzu." She moved away. "I'll see you soon, Mokuba. Get better. Okay?"

"It's insane." Atem watched the news footage as Satiah came back in. She had gone over to Anzu. She must have somehow known.

"Maybe there is another possible reason you coming back was optional," Kaiba said as he kept watching the imagery. "Maybe because it doesn't make a hell of difference. What is that power?"

Australia. The continent. Sinking. Millions of people on the continent were trying to figure out what to do. Islands were land that came out of the water, but for unexplained reasons, the land was sliding off, as if gravity was pulling down each pebble of sand. Rescue teams were being deployed to save as they could, but everything was simply falling like dominoes and getting buried in water. They were going back deeper and deeper.

Anzu held Satiah, both holding on together.

"It's sinking so fast, no one knows what to do," Kaiba said. "We aren't even fighting and were about to lose a whole continent if we don't do something." He asked for his private jet through his collar. "Go and watch, there's a driver coming for the private jet. I'm not leaving Mokuba."

Some people were getting interviewed on what they saw, before they were wiped out. That exclusive rare footage was being brought up. Atem pointed it out.

"Dragons? Can't be. They aren't summoned dragons I know." Kaiba tried to get in deeper on the video, but it was limited. "How are dragons destroying a continent?"

"I know those dragons," Atem proclaimed. "Yuugi, You know those dragons too."

"I? I think maybe I do." Yuugi looked toward Anzu, then back at Atem. "It can't be though. Right?"

In the beginning, when Atem first joined Yuugi, right before they met Ryou Bakura. Atem had barely escaped his soul being captured, and for a few minutes, lost Yuugi's soul. "It is."

"Imori." Yuugi's voice sounded weak. "I don't know what happened exactly. He stole the millennium puzzle and made me play a game for it back."

"Yes." Atem would fill in the pieces. "You lost and your soul was taken. I managed to escape by touching the millennium puzzle he'd been wearing. I risked my soul to save yours. Those are the Dragon Cards. They cost a person's soul in order to play the game."

"Talk about high stakes." Jounouchi entered the room again. "Mai's getting a little better. I calmed her down some. What am I missing?"

"The fall of Australia," Shizuka mentioned. "We need to help."

"The source is the game. We need to get to who is playing the game." Yuugi looked at Atem. "That won't be easy."

"That ancient and dangerous game could be played anywhere in the world." Even if he had the puzzle, he couldn't correct it. The death toll was falling into the millions. "I sealed it away." It was sealed into darkness, he made sure that no mortal could ever get to it again. "Whatever took it, is not mortal." He glanced toward Anzu and Masika, both clinging to each other. "I think they can hear it."

"Anzu?" Yuugi went over toward her. He placed his hand on her back."Anzu. We'll need to get going."

"Anzu still has some too, Yuugi." Masika had most of it, but Anzu still clearly had some of his energy too. They were holding onto each other for support. "They each have some of my power."

"I thought that was gone from Anzu?" Yuugi sounded worried as he tried to grip Anzu better. "Anzu? Anzu?!"

"They hear the screams of agony, from those who cannot save themselves. The power does that." Atem went over to Masika. "The emotions are amplified since they both hear it. Pull Anzu away and I'll pull Masika." It wouldn't end it, but at least they wouldn't hear that hell.

Atem had heard that hell before. Yuugi and he eventually broke the duo apart. Yuugi cradled Anzu sweetly while Masika just stood there. Drowning in her thoughts. "This is all I can do." He couldn't even take her from that feeling. ///Atem: I could hold her. Someone holding bodies next to each other, it makes them feel better./// They were extra sensitive to learning about themselves though and she only clung to Anzu. A body she knew well. It would be better to go slow.

"At the rate it's sinking, it won't be even two days before it's all gone. Maybe less," Kaiba said. "The private jet is ready, but even if you run for it. We don't know where to go."

"What can we do? What's going on?" Shiziku came over, almost tripping but she caught herself. Kaiba didn't bother her about it. "Kaiba?"

"If Australia was an animal, it'd be endangered and about to be extinct," Kaiba explained. "It's speeding up. Scientists can't understand it."

"But, it's all just land mass out of water. It's no different than where we live, how is it doing that? Other waters would be affected." She looked toward the monitor, probably wishing she could see. "What about other areas?"

"No, it has to be the land. It's being squashed into the ocean," Kaiba reasoned. "It's not the water, a force is pushing the ground down."

"There must be something we can do," Shizuka cried out. "Please? Kaiba? Anything?"

"The game can be played anywhere. Last time, it was played right within Domino City," Atem tried to explain.

"This isn't the way the game worked though," Yuugi pointed out. "It was only if no one played that the world would start to fall apart."

"That's it then." Kaiba leaned back in the chair. "Kids have one less continent to memorize in school if this continues. What the hell?"

Atem moved closer to the screen. Reports were coming back. "This is just vicious ." Parts of Australia that had been sunk, were starting to resurface. The land was being brought back up again, grain by grain. "Someone is toying with people's lives!"

News footage of the event was turned off. Most likely, to hide all of the . . . dead. "We need to find who is doing this," Yuugi said. "If we don't, they'll just do this again."

"How? Tell me just how you plan on doing that?" Kaiba complained. "For one, we don't know how to find- ugh. Jounouchi, let go of Shizuka."