Chapter 2: Prologue The Satiah Card Part 2
DIMENSION: MANGA (Saves the Day)
Note: I use Atem's name for the spirit with Yuugi so it's not confusing later on in the manga version.
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"Pegasus had right hand and left hand cards for the final battle," Mokuba said as he looked into the system. "One was for the prize money. Jounouchi used it. The other was to duel Pegasus."
"Somehow I don't think the girl card is a pile of money on a card," Seto Kaiba said. "What else?"
"Uh?" Mokuba looked further. "Maybe Yuugi won a card in it? Maybe there was a card with Jounouchi's prize money?"
"That's probably it," Seto Kaiba agreed. "So. Yuugi or Jounouchi might have the card I need. I can offer them a price. I doubt they treasure a card given to them from Pegasus of all people. Then, I won't have anyone in my business." He heard a sigh from Mokuba. "Let's go."
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Game Shop
Seeing Kaiba and Mokuba in the Kame Game Shop, Yuugi came down with Jounouchi who was visiting at the time.
"What the heck's going on here?" Jounouchi questioned as Kaiba looked at the cards. "What are you doing here?"
"We are looking for a card," Mokuba said. "Do you have an exclusive card you got from Pegasus?"
"You mean a card that proved who won Duelist Kingdom?" Jounouchi teased.
"Jounouchi, don't aggravate him." Yuugi came all the way over. "Grandpa doesn't hold my cards and you know it." Mm. Maybe that was a little aggravating too, but- He tried to kill us. He hurt Grandpa. Meeting him on an island where he was saving his brother was one thing, but him personally in the Game Shop again?
"Name your price, Yuugi," Kaiba said. "It's no use to you as it is."
"Wha-huh? Yuugi did get a card?" Jounouchi asked. "I didn't know that."
"I'm sorry but I wasn't given a card," Yuugi apologized, "Jounouchi was teasing you. Even if I did, I doubt I would have kept it."
"I don't blame you," Kaiba answered. "His little tournament cards looked like decoration, purely an honor piece and those aren't needed in a functional deck. Every card should have a purpose. Did anyone else get an exclusive card?"
"No, so you should get going." Kaiba was clearly irritated, but so was Yuugi. ///Yuugi: I can't believe he's here again. I don't like him here!////
///Atem: Yuugi. /// His Other Personality's more sensible voice came from inside of him. ///Atem: There must be a reason he is here for an exclusive card. Look at Mokuba./// Yuugi followed the spirit's command and looked toward Mokuba. He didn't look like he was there just for a simple card like his brother. ///Atem: He looks worried. Panicked. Mokuba doesn't speak over his brother, Yuugi, but perhaps a card truly is important in a different way he can't reveal in front of his brother?///
"Please, Yuugi?" Mokuba begged. "If you know anyone, please? This is really important."
"Mokuba," Kaiba scolded his brother. "Forget it. If Yuugi doesn't have anything, then it doesn't exist."
"But Seto, she's-"
"Mokuba," Kaiba warned him again. "Let's go."
"It's not right. They should be together." Mokuba hid his face. "She doesn't have anyone, Big Brother."
"Mokuba, enough," Kaiba said. "Let's go. Yuugi can't help. Nothing new."
"She doesn't have anyone?" Yuugi questioned them. That's not a normal phrase to use when talking about cards.
"That didn't make much sense there, isn't he looking for a card?" Jounouchi said looking toward Yuugi. "Hey? Pegasus liked making cards out of souls. Do you think they got something?"
Yuugi caught Mokuba's look. ///Yuugi: He won't say it in front of Kaiba, Other Me, but Mokuba must know.///
///Atem: Yes, Yuugi, I think you are right. Your grandfather, Kaiba and Mokuba might not be the only soul victim of Pegasus. Perhaps he hid someone in a different kind of card.///
"Wait a second." Jounouchi was figuring it out too. "Hey there, hang on, Kaiba. Is there a soul trapped in a card?"
"Your attention to detail is astounding," Kaiba said to him, sarcastically of course. "If Yuugi can't help, then Yuugi can't help. He doesn't need to know anything."
///Yuugi: Kaiba won't share anything else. He's acting like he's collecting important cards, but Mokuba's acting like it's a soul on the line./// Yuugi looked toward Mokuba.
///Atem: Test him, Yuugi. If it's a soul, use the word own or master. Try both. Mokuba is becoming a good person who believes. See what happens.///
"You, only. If I can get it back from who I sold it to." Yuugi would have to lie to make this work.
"Me?" Mokuba pointed to himself. "Me what?"
"Only you can own the exclusive card I got," Yuugi said casually, waiting to see his reaction.
"Yeah, you," Jounouchi agreed. "We don't trust Kaiba."
"Only you could own it," Yuugi said again. "Only you could be the card's master."
Mokuba glanced toward Kaiba and then at Yuugi. "No, it wouldn't be me. No one has the right to own that card. No one has the right to another."
///Yuugi: Bingo.///
There was no more guessing in the matter, and now that a soul was on the line, Yuugi's other self took over. "I want to know about the secret of the exclusive card. Is it a soul card, Mokuba? Tell me, and I promise I will find a way to get it back to you. You are right, no one owns the soul of another."
That actually made Kaiba laugh. "That's rich."
"I can't say for sure, but there's a chance," Mokuba admitted. "We are looking for an exclusive card that Pegasus made. It might not be it," he said to Yuugi, "but we have to try. It belongs somewhere, but not in anyone's deck."
"That is all I need to know. Kaiba?" Yuugi questioned him. "I will do my best to get that card to Mokuba. Once it is in his possession, he will decide its future."
"Fine," Kaiba said, not caring. "As long as I have it near. I don't care. Come, Mokuba. We have a business to run."
Mokuba waved with a big smile on his face. "Bye Yuugi. Bye Jounouchi."
"Yeah, take care." Jounouchi waited for them to leave. "Good kid. Bad brother. Smart call wanting to get it to him, Yuugi, but how you gonna get it back? What card did you get?"
"No card, but with the way they were speaking, I suspect they have a soul card in their possession and want to break it free. Without Pegasus' assistance, maybe there is another card that can free it?" It was hard to say, but if it was in any way important to him and his past, he wanted to know more.
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Kaiba Corp
Satiah waited in the dueling arena. Life ceased to be every time a game was over, but Mokuba had felt compelled to keep her company. Although he was older, he himself still seemed to desire a mother figure. Mokuba tried his best to explain where she had been. She rose from the monster stones now called cards that were remarkably small. He even showed her what they looked like.
The painted cards fit restlessly, harmlessly in his hand. How the world had changed. She didn't care how much it changed on the surface though, she only cared about one thing. The fate of the one who suffered with her. Good or bad, she had to know.
"You're so lonely," Mokuba said to her. "It hurts me to see how lonely you are."
Satiah understood those feelings. Mokuba had conveyed his past to her. About how he was left alone with his brother to be raised. She understood his brother more, and why he couldn't believe what was in front of him.
Every day longer Mokuba wanted to speak to her. She understood his need. Lacking his own parental figures, he was gravitating toward her. It did her no real good. If she didn't feel like her presence somehow helped the boy, she would have rather stayed sealed away.
"Satiah?" Mokuba questioned today. "Yuugi said he'd call soon. Maybe he has news?"
"It'd be great if there were news." Mokuba put his hands on the arena near her and laid his head down. A risky move that the child never cared or thought about. He only wanted to be close to her.
Satiah bent down. He asked such foolish questions yet he was so familiar, she tried to answer what she could. It still wasn't easy though. His modern day senses couldn't conceive of what her time had been.
"Why couldn't you have spoken up? Why didn't you tell anyone you had to carry a little girl to the tablet, Satiah?"
"The new King Atem was trying to save the world, Mokuba." No matter how many times she explained, he still didn't understand. "Everyone helped."
"You carried a two-year-old girl into a battle you knew you probably would never walk away in. I don't understand, and I never will."
"There are worse things than death." Satiah tried to comfort him. "There were countless things that could have happened that were so much worse." That she could not reveal to him. "During these trying times, during this battle, people sought out things to own. Things to claim, especially lives. Heba. Could not defend herself." Unlike the other brats.
Mokuba looked up toward her, with a shine in his eyes that said he might be finally understanding.
"In life, Mokuba," she said, not wanting to stir his mind into negative directions. "We have to make decisions. Hard decisions. If I let go of her and left her to chance, anything was a possibility. She may have died with me, but we may have succeeded and lived well again. Her chances were better with me." At least, they would have had a quick death. Over within seconds.
"I'll call Yuugi again," Mokuba promised her. "I'll call right now. Maybe he's finally out of the hospital?" He backed away and rubbed his eyes and tried to clean his nose. "We are going to get Heba back, and we are going to get you out. I promise we are." Then his phone rang. Mokuba answered and he left to the panel right away to turn it off. "I have to go, Satiah. I'll see you later."
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Kame Game Shop
"Yuugi!" Mokuba's voice urgently pierced the air as he stepped into the Kame Game Shop. "You said you have it?"
"Not so quick there, pal," Jounouchi confronted Mokuba. "Yuugi had to do a lot for that card. Nobody likes to give up a card. He had to apologize, grovel, beg-."
"Jounouchi," Yuugi said quietly. He didn't need to embellish the lie. He hadn't done much, but they still needed to take care of it. Dealing with the millennium puzzle and the fire that almost ended his life put him behind. Yuugi borrowed a rare card that had a shape of a person on it from his grandpa's shop. As long as he was very careful with it, it should work on Mokuba.
But Jounouchi grabbed it like it was a regular card. "But we still don't know the importance of this card," he complained to Mokuba. "We just want to know? Is it a soul trapped by Pegasus? Give us something. Not the whole details that your brother said is off-limits."
"No," Mokuba admitted. "Yes? Pegasus was involved, but not the same way as with me and my brother." He was quiet a moment, like he was trying to think of what to say. "I wish I could tell you. I should, but a promise is a promise. Kaiba's been keeping the end of his promise. But. She's just so . . ."
///Atem:Yuugi, switch places with me.///
Yuugi switched places with his other self, leaving him in command.
"Promises are important, Mokuba. Being true to those we promise is something we should all strive for. However, there comes a point when a promise may have to be broken. If doing the right thing inside one's heart is overwhelming you, for instance. Are you feeling overwhelmed to tell us?"
"You should see. Oh, you could see," Mokuba shouted at Yuugi. "Come down to Kaiba Corp. Seto said I couldn't let you interact." He held up the card. "He never said I couldn't interact for you."
"Translate what to who?" Anzu asked as she and Honda walked into the game shop.
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