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[ceodragon]

WHO: Kaiba, Maggie, Alastair, Bruno, OPEN
WHERE: Random streets in the city.
WHEN: Wed. evening.
WARNINGS: Angst, violence against npc and pc, hallucination.
SUMMARY: Day 4 after Kaiba was hit by the fear gas. The hallucinations have proven that Mokuba is in trouble and he needs to save him NOW. Anyone not him is now an enemy and will be treated as

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[ceodragon]

"My brother," Kaiba finally answered them glaring angrily. The spoken affirmation of the hallucination gave it even more power. He heard him again, it sounded much closer. One of the nearby buildings, it had to be. That's why he'd run into two flunkies right here. He looked up at a sky-scrapper several blocks away. The windows were all dark to anyone else looking, but Seto could see the dungeon inside, just like the one in duelist kingdom...but different. It had an older theme, stone walls with a design he couldn't make out yet. That was where he needed to go, he would bring it down if he had to.

He could deal with how the wolf had managed to change into a paper man later. If he had been thinking, he wouldn't have done what happened next. "You can't hide him," he shouted again. With the destination known, he charged again which caused the paper man to react. The second Kaiba registered the trash can coming his way, his untested powers reacted. His deck moved on his will to create a shield just as he had seen Maggie make. If he had any of his right mind left he would never have used his deck, but it was what was available. It was so disrespectful to his cards.

Another sound that only he could here, this time the roar, came from overhead. Whereas before it could have been encouraging now it just sounded angry. When he came too, he could at least have consolation that his Blue Eyes weren't part of the shield.

[origamiguardian]

Maggie frowned. She could certainly understand frantic behavior over a sibling but she just didn't want him to hurt anyone else. She certainly knew of no one in danger in this area. In the end, Maggie was more of a follower than a leader, and her hesitation gave Kaiba the time to block the trash can and charge the building without restraint.

What would Sis do? Talk him down or hamstring him, and Maggie had neither the persuasive nor the aim to be able to do either.

In the end, he was charging a building. She followed him, commanding the usable paper back into her sleeve (and any stray nearby paper on the way; a newsstand might have been accidentally deprived of some of its wares), and at last an idea came to her as he approached the building. She shot out her hand, a stream of paper running forth into the ground, slicing into the pavement like a knife through butter, creating a broad rut in his path. She couldn't strike him directly with paper, but she could still try to trip him up.

WHY DO MINE KEEP GETTING LONGER SOB

[donttasemebro]

"Your... brother?" Bruno repeated with slight shock, suddenly wracking his brain for another bit of his world's recent history; that is, Kaiba's present. "You mean Mokuba Kaiba?"

Mokuba may not have been as big shakes as his older brother, but he had still been the Vice President of KaibaCorp and he was still a Kaiba. There was no way he could have been ported in without anyone noticing, and Bruno had done his comm check for the day less than an hour ago!

But before Bruno could say anything, Kaiba made a break for some nearby building right into the path of the paper man, and he pulled out his cards and... and they hung in the air on their own, just like the woman's paper had, blocking the can. They had the same power!? Well that explained how he had crumpled the paper animal apart, at least.

"Kaiba, wait!" Bruno said and bolted after him. He was faster than Kaiba, but he was also heavier and much, much stronger; if he tried to just tackle him to the ground he could break half his bones. He needed to do this another way. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the black-haired woman shoot some paper their way and Bruno guessed vaguely what she was planning. But in case it didn't work...

Bruno focused all his reflexes and leaped mid-dash, shooting higher and farther than an Olympic gymnast and sailing clear over both Kaiba and the brand new asphalt trip hazard. He twisted in midair and landed deftly facing Kaiba, between him and the building. By the time both feet touched the ground he was already in one of the martial arts stances Cassandra had taught him, taking a slow breath and focusing on everything he'd learned over the past few months about carefully controlling his strength.

Because you're awesome...also so late! orz

[ceodragon]

Kaiba should have known it wouldn't be easy. He slid to a stop just before the paper cut in front of him. Just as he was about to whip around on the woman, he felt Bruno jump over him in his path. He was still faced with the same issue of being surrounded and needing to decide who was the larger threat.

At this point, Bruno won as he was now in front of him. He responded to the other's stance by getting into a martial arts style of his own. They were still separated by the gouge in the road to he couldn't simply strike. All he had to think was that he needed a ranged attack, when his borrowed power took effect. If Maggie could send paper with enough force to slash through the ground, Kaiba could do the same with his deck. Except this wave of cards wasn't going through concrete it was going straight for Bruno.