Episode Three: Monster Collector

Kaiba looks at the capsule he picked up from the floor. It's gold instead of silver and he wonders why.

"Load capsule!" Kaiba says as he puts it in the machine on his arm. A blast of light beams out of the machine and La Jinn appears in front of Kaiba. La Jinn floats a few feet ahead of Kaiba with his arms crossed, awaiting a command. 'I guess he's on my side, now...' Kaiba thinks, noticing that the monster isn't attacking. Kaiba points toward the stone tablet. "La Jinn, show me how to get to the Fortress of Fear!" Kaiba orders. La Jinn goes over to a place to the right of the tablet and looks toward Kaiba. Kaiba walks over to where he's standing. "What? There's nothing here," Kaiba says, a little upset with La Jinn. The genie stares at Kaiba. After a second, Kaiba figures it out. "There's something on the floor?" Kaiba wonders and bends down to examine the tiles. He runs his hand across the floor. "There's a trap door here!" he exclaims. He recalls La Jinn and lefts the door, then he jumps in.

'What is this? A sewer?' Kaiba wonders with a frown, noticing the water below his feet. He begins walking down the passage. 'I thought that building was surrounded by water. Does this passageway go under the river?' Kaiba notices a large rock in some shadows by the opposite wall. 'Isn't that what Blue-Eyes came out of?' he wonders and walks over to it. He kneels and looks it over. "It looks just like the ones in the board game..." he says and then reaches his hand out to touch it. Before he makes contact with it, he hears something and turns to see a Parrot Dragon racing toward him. He hurries to touch the stone and it starts cracking to reveal the Hitotsu-Me Giant. He orders a attack, but the Parrot Dragon is too strong and attacks the Hitotsu-Me Giant. Kaiba clenches his teeth in pain. 'Why do I feel like the one who has been attacked!' he wonders. Kaiba grabs a capsule from his belt and puts it in capsule loader, calling "Load Capsule!" La Jinn appears in front of Kaiba and he orders them both to attack, but Parrot Dragon blasts both of them and Kaiba stumbles as he tries to retain his balance, holding his aching side. 'When my monsters are attacked, I must feel it... That's the only explanation,' Kaiba muses. "La Jinn, blind him!" Kaiba calls. La Jinn blows magic dust in Parrot Dragon's face. La Jinn and Hitotsu-Me Giant re-enter Kaiba's capsule loader as he makes a run for it, putting the two capsules back in their slots in his belt.

After a few minutes of running, Kaiba makes it to the end of the passage and comes out on dry land. When looking around, he notices piles of small rocks and also some much bigger stones that resemble Stonehenge. 'What is this place?' he wonders and gets out the map. 'Is that a skull! That must mean this is a graveyard! 'Locate the place where the spirits sleep'... this must be the right place...' Kaiba thinks. Before 'the pathway he seeks' can appear, several zombie-type monsters come out of the ground. He summons La Jinn and Hitotsu-Me Giant, still not being able to call Blue-Eyes. Unfortunately, their attacks don't seem to be working very well. When glancing around, Kaiba notices one of those large capsules lying on the ground. He hurries to touch it, knowing it can only be something to help him. Masked Dragon comes out. "Masked Dragon, attack those zombies!" Kaiba calls. The new dragon lets out a fire-type attack and Kaiba's three monsters together defeat the zombies. The monsters re-enter the capsule shooter and pop out as thumb-sized capsules, which Kaiba puts back in his belt. He notices the path leading to a steep volcano-like mountain and follows it. When getting there, he walks up the steps on the side of the mountain and comes to a building with large pillars in the front. It resembles the Parthenon - before it was destroyed.

"This is the 'Fortress of Fear'! Give me a break! This doesn't look any more scary then Domino Library!" Kaiba begins walking toward the building when large walls come up around him. "How in the world am I supposed to get in!" he exclaims angrily. He glances down to see that the Blue-Eyes' capsule is now gold.

Hmm... I've ran out of finished chapters. Hopefully I'll have time to write more before all the episodes finish airing in the US. How many people are reading this fanfic, anyway? This is a short fic, so I can't build up fans. Can everyone please send some type of review? At least say something like "I'm reading it" or something! I want to know if anyone's out there...