The Dragon's Purpose (Part 1)

DIMENSION: MANGA (The One That Saves the Day)

Kaiba's Home

Shizuka came from the guest bedroom Kaiba took her to. ///Shizuka: What's wrong with me? Why did I come to him at such an early time? Why do I feel compelled to stay?/// He wasn't a nice man. She heard him talking about the woman Yuugi had been dating. He called her an Egyptian whore. He never even treated Yuugi as a friend. Why had he gone to that restaurant at such a terrible hour? ///Shizuka: This man, he didn't even want to take anyone to a real hospital during the Battle City finals./// Shizuka strolled the house, trying to figure it out.

"Is Satiah here?"

She looked up from her confusion at Mokuba Kaiba, Seto Kaiba's younger brother. Wow, he wasn't that little anymore.

"Seto told me last night that Anzu had a spirit that got a body. Is it Satiah?" he asked her again. "Are you the spirit?"

Someone else was clueless too. Shizuka looked outward. There wasn't much to see. A blurry mess but she'd been so bent on getting to him, she didn't grab her cane. "No. I'm Shizuka Kawai."

"Oh yeah. Uh? Jounouchi's little sister." It had been a little while since they saw each other. "Hi. What are you doing at my family home?"

"I don't know." She'd be honest. "Your brother isn't a very nice man. I don't know why I came here. I just felt compelled too, like an itch that was bothering me the whole time."

Mokuba Kaiba touched her hand. "You should go home. I'll send a driver out for you in a second." Still, he was halfway quiet. "You were at our headquarters yesterday, Seto brought you in. You do keep following him, but he doesn't tell you to back off. I think he's fascinated with you too."

Fascinated? "Why?"

"You summoned the Blue-Eyes White Dragon," Mokuba Kaiba answered.

Oh. "I didn't do that. I just fell unconscious." The fear had paralyzed her. She was about to die. She tried to keep it together like Jounouchi tried to teach her, but she couldn't. She didn't live Jounouchi's life. She was just trying to survive in hers.

"I think you did. I think Seto thinks you did too," Mokuba Kaiba said. "Anyhow. That's why Big Brother is fascinated with you. I haven't figured out what the connection is the other way around though. Follow me." He led her through the house. "Did you see Satiah yet? I really want to see her. I haven't seen her for years. I was in elementary school last time. I wonder if she's happier now?"

"I don't know," Shizuka answered. "I heard your brother call someone a bad name for a girl last night." That didn't seem to motivate him into knowing. Probably because Kaiba does it a lot.

"Big Brother went to our Headquarters early. I don't think he even got sleep. He's like that when something is bothering him," Mokuba Kaiba warned her. "Did you want to go home, or did you want to go there with me?"

"There." No, home, but it popped out of her mouth. ///Shizuka: No matter what he does, I still feel compelled to stay with him. Why?///

"Fine then. I'll take you myself in a minute. If I have you, I'm bound to see Seto for more than a few minutes at least."

Kaiba Corp

"Stupid, Stupid, Stupid." Kaiba hammered away on the keys, doing company work but at the same time, not being able to believe in the stupidity of Pharaoh. "One act, one simple act that I know I could have caved her into sooner or later. No, he gives it all up. Nothing!"

Yet, there he was, still worried about him. Still offered the help last night. Still had been the one to call last night to straighten things out at the museum. He's such an idiot. "His body was even still at Domino Museum again from another exhibit." Set up before the Ishtar's were all killed. Domino museum of all places to awaken from his mummified corpse. ///Seto: It is not coincidence. It can't be.///

"I brought the dragon lady Shizuka Kawai to see you," Mokuba said from behind him.

"Fine. Take a seat." He didn't indicate to who he was talking to. As Mokuba went to the next computer, the issue came up that he knew would be coming from his little brother.

"Anzu had Satiah, right?" he asked. "Where is she now? Does she remember me? Does she remember being a card?"

Ugh. "I don't know. I was too busy trying to get her to do her duty last night. In which case she didn't." And Pharaoh didn't care one bit. Top notch idea when saving humanity from an unknown threat. Put friendship first. Just because she didn't want to hurt Bakura by sacrificing herself for Pharaoh, that was supposed to be the reason to give up on it? It's his power! He should be doing everything he can for it! Ridiculous.

"Seto?" His brother questioned again. "What are you going to do with Shizuka Kawai?"

He had no idea. As long as her instincts kept drawing her near, he wasn't going to tell her to leave. "She can just sit for now."

Shizuka sat down and just heard them clicking and clacking on the computers. She rubbed her forehead. She hated to be there, but she hated it more not to be. As cliche as it was to say, she had to admit she felt like a moth to a flame. It wasn't where she wanted to be, but it's where she was supposed to be.

She turned her head. There were probably windows, but she couldn't see out them anyway.

"Oh. We have to go pick up Honda from jail, Seto," Mokuba Kaiba told his brother. "He's apparently been trying to break into Kaiba headquarters? No joke? Do you know what that's about?"

"His little girlfriend ran off with me last night." Seto Kaiba gestured back toward her, not even referencing her name. "She still hasn't gone home. We'll settle the Honda matter in a little while, there's more important things than dealing with thugs."

I want to go. "I want to go." Shizuka could finally say it.

"Then go. Doors unlocked, head out," Seto Kaiba offered.

"I'll take her and we'll sort things out with-"

Shizuka didn't even scream. She didn't know how to react. She heard it. She heard a lot of things. A door opening. A shot. A scream. Another scream. A clanking of metal. Scuffling and-

"Shizuka Kawai, get a move on!" She recognized Kaiba's grip.

She ran along with him, his hand guiding her. What had happened? "Are you okay, are you shot?"

"Mokuba was shot, so I'm not okay! In there!"

She felt herself getting pulled and stopped. The sounds of the keys now sounded like an elevator. She heard the weakening sounds of Mokuba's breathing.

"Hang on, Little Brother, It's okay." Kaiba's voice. She had never heard it sound so panicked. Not for her brother. Not during any part of Battle City. None of it. "Damn it, who made it through my building? This is the highest security of any building out there in all of Japan."

Shizuka heard the doors open.

"Fuck every single one of you!"

Kaiba cursing out someone from the elevator. What was in front of her? She heard a struggle, the sound of metal and another gun go off. ///Shizuka: What's going on? I hate not seeing./// Mokuba was still on the ground. Silent.

She laid against the ground, when she heard Mokuba say something.

"Left. Phone. Give."

Left? She felt around on the left and found the shape of a phone. She went over to Mokuba Kaiba trying to be gentle as she found his hand, hoping she didn't hit his wound. He made a couple of sounds then gave it back to her.

It rang for only a little while. There was no answer. "Police." She couldn't feel the numbers out on the phone, there was no keypad on it.

"Not police. They can't."

"They can't what?" He stopped talking. "Mokuba Kaiba?" What's going on out there? There were lots of sounds now. Fighting. Scuffling. Shooting here and there. There were shouts in different languages, she couldn't understand them. She tried to stay on the floor near Mokuba Kaiba.

She heard someone come back to the elevator. She didn't move away from Mokuba.

"Get away from them now," she heard Kaiba yell to the person in the elevator. "Get away!" It wasn't a warning, it sounded like a plea. Desperate. Like he couldn't do anything. "Shizuka Kawai, attack with it! Attack with the Blue-Eyes before it's too late!"

What? "I don't know how to do that."

"Just say it! Just say 'I summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"

Then, it happened. This time, she was awake for it. She could hear it. Someone in the elevator screamed, and the scream was thrown out of the elevator.

"Attack, Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Kaiba's voice came again. She heard several screams and could feel extreme heat in front of her. Her whole body felt like it was pounding. Like it was all one big heartbeat. She felt someone else come in, this time, a presence she didn't fear.

"Stay down." It was Seto Kaiba. "Return to Shizuka, Blue-Eyes White Dragon."

Then, it was a miracle. Shizuka's eyesight, she could see everything! The world was crystal clear, better than the doctor's had ever done. Then, she saw the carnage. Mokuba was bleeding intensely and unconscious. She hoped. Seto Kaiba was right next to them, waiting in the elevator like he was ready for someone else to come. In his hand, he held the same kind of weapon Marik once held. It had the gold eye on it and a long stake.

Outside the door, ten people were lying on the ground, dead. There were four people standing and praying.

"You need to kill the dragon," someone said to him. Seto Kaiba didn't respond. "Kill the girl to kill the dragon, before it's all too late!"

Seto Kaiba still did nothing. He just remained with his little brother and her. Then, he held the eye staff toward the man. "Why do I have to kill the girl to kill the dragon? Why would I want to kill the dragon?"

Seto Kaiba seemed to have a power over them. He continued to ask questions, each of them answering like they were stuck in a trance.

She now knew why her life was in danger, but she still didn't understand what it meant. "What do they mean, Seto Kaiba? What is Ba?"