Afterlife

chapter one

It was pretty late, about a hour until midnight.
The lighting strikes in domino city.
  Seto Kaiba, the CEO of kaibacorp is sitting by his desk in his office, working with some papers.
The lightnings had stroked out the electricity and the only light Kaiba has, is from outside when a bolt of lighting shows up, and the small flashlight from his cellphone.
He only has some few papers to sign, before he will take his portfolio and call the driver and get home.
Home to his extremely big bed. And home to his little brother Mokuba.
Seto is about to sign a paper when he notices how the light from his cellphone starts flashes as the flashlight was about to turn off.
"What?..." he says while he is checking the battery to his white cellphone. 5%.
"Fuck...." he grumbles and turn off the flashlight on the phone. 4%.
"Now what?" He sighs and has some more paper to sign before he can call it night.
Seto Kaiba takes one of the paper and tries getting some light from outside by holding the paper angled against the big window behind him.
"Come on..." he begs and starts reading the moment a flash hits outside and lights up the room.
The task takes a hour to fulfill, but he managed to sign each paper.
He dust off imaginary dust from his sleeveless  white coat. Then he takes his silver metallic portfolio there he keeps his deck and duel disc, into his left hand and take up his phone into the other.
The completely black screen is staring at him, without a sign of life.
Kaiba grunts and press his thumb hardly at the button on the phone, below the screen.
The phone is dead. The battery had hitted zero.
Kaiba glances out through the window.
  In one moment the sky was completely dark, and in the next second it lights up from the bolt of lighting.
Kaiba could stay over at his company and sleep on some couch. But then Mokuba would be disappointed the second he wakes up without seto being home and be able to eat breakfast with him as they always do.
And the last thing Kaiba wants, is making his dear little brother sad.

With determined steps Kaiba is walking outside, on the streets.
He takes long, quick steps.
The sky feels damped, as it's about to rain.
The city is spooky silent.
And weirdly dark.
The only sounds and lights comes from the flashes who strikes, rhythmically.
And the sounds from Kaiba's feet when he takes steps on the hard ground.
Suddenly Seto jolts of the feeling of a single raindrop who fallen down from the black sky, running down on his nose.
He stops his tracks and is looking asking upwards.
Then he sees how the whole sky opens up and heavy raindrops pours from the sky and soaks Kaiba in no time.
Kaiba grits his teeth and starts running.
His breathing starts speeding up and splashing sounds reaches his ears from each steps he takes while he is dashing through the city against his big mansion.
After a long running he finally sees his white mansion there Mokuba probably already sleeps in his bed.
Even if he wishes to get out from the rain, he dreams of a warm bath before he climbs into his bed.
He is passing a big tree while he is running against his mansion.
A happy smile spreads on his face. Then he notices in the corners of his eyes, how a lighting strikes nearby.
The sound "Kreek" reach his ears.
Kaiba wides his eyes terrified and is slowly turning his head against the sound.
He notices of the tree beside him has got on fire by being hitted of the lighting.
And how one thick tree branch falls quickly against him.
"GAAAH" Kaiba tries protect himself by holding his arm with the metallic portfolio in front of his face.
But suddenly everything gets completely dark, and silent...

The CEO lays down below the tree branch, with blood leaking out from his backhead.
Some coworkers had noticed the tree was on fire and called on help from the mansion.
None of them had seen their boss, bleeding below the branch. And without breathing.

The next thing Kaiba know, is how he suddenly sits up in a different place, without his portfolio, gasping.
Seto caress his backhead.
"Ouch...where am I?" He asks himself and starts looking around.
He sees no houses or buildings nearby. Only mountains.
Seto raises a brow.
"How did I end up here?" He questions himself and is looking up at the sky.
He wides his eyes surprised of seeing the mint green sky with darker green wreaths.
Seto gasps and stands up.
  The next thing he notices is the black ocean, nearby, in front of him.
And how someone dressed in black, standing on a tree boat, row against him, without using the paddles with his own hands. The paddles strikes the water on their own power.
Kaiba feels how a shiver runs down to his spin when he sees the boat decorated in parts of skeletons and how the dark, hidden person comes closer, and closer.
He starts taking a few steps backwards. Knowing deep down he doesn't want to meet that person on the boat.
The person dressed in a black coat with the cowl up, which hidden his face with a shadow, reach out his arm against Kaiba the second his boat touches the ground.
Kaiba stares nervously and frightened at the skeleton hand's whose index finger points against him.
"Seto Kaiba, I have come to collect your soul" a familiar voice speak up.
Kaiba shakes his head.
"No! There must been some kind of mistake...." he says.
The person hidden below the cowl sighs and takes out a white scroll from his pocket and rolls it out and starts reading.
"Seto Kaiba, 19 years old, CEO of kaibacorp, dead by being hit of a tree branch"
Kaiba's heart starts beating panicking. That's his name and information.
But how could this weird person know that?
And, there is no chance, he is dead.
"Well?.." the reaper says and interrups Kaiba's thoughts.
"Are you going to come in peace? Or I have to force you?"
Kaiba snorts.
There are no chance he will follow the reaper in front of him and leave Mokuba alone.
"You can forget about that... let's duel about my fate... if you win.. I will follow you...and if I win... you let me go back to my brother and live" Kaiba challenges the reaper.
A smirk spreads on the reapers human face.
Then he nods, agreeing to Kaiba's challenge.
Suddenly two duel discs shows up, one on the reapers arm, and one on Kaiba's left arm with his ordinary deck, set in the duel disc.
"Let's duel!" The reapers says and draw five cards with his hand who isn't a skeleton hand, but looks more human.
"I draw a card" he shouts.
"I summon 'Gazelle the king of mythical beasts' in attack position... then I fusion it together with 'berformet' and create 'chimera the flying mythical beast' with 2100 attack points" reapers says.
"Then... I set a hidden card and end mine turn" the reaper says and put down a hidden trap- or spellcard.
Kaiba bites his bottom lip.
He knows he has seen that tactic before. But, from where?
"My turn!" Kaiba shouts and draw a card.
He examines his cards, he has already draw a 'blue eyes white dragon'. Now, he must get it out in play by sacrifice two weaker monsters.
"I summon 'peten the dark clown' in attack position and set two hidden cards and end mine turn "
the reaper starts grinning as he knew what Kaiba was up to.
"My turn! I draw a card and set another hidden card, then I will attack your monster"
The reaper swings with his skeleton arm and points against Kaiba's monster with his whole arm.
"'Chimera the flying mythical beast' attack his ' peten the dark clown'"
Kaiba grins the moment he sees the other monster is about to attack his monster.
"Got you! I activities mine trap ' crush card virus'" he says which makes the big screen with his hidden trapcard flip up and reveal itself.
The reaper smirks.
"Then you have wrong..." he says which make Kaiba gulps.
"I activities mine spellcard ' mystical space typhoon' who destroys your trapcard and neglect your trapcard's effect...and my monster kills yours" the other person says.
"How!?"Kaiba asks surprised when he sees his 'peten the dark clown' gets destroyed and how his life points goes down from 4000 to 2400 in a blink of an eye.
Kaiba grits his teeth angrily.
There aren't many who knows his tactics. It feels as he knows this person from somewhere...