100 Puppies and Dragons

Online

Sethos is online.

Joey immediately jabbed the message bubble and typed in, Jeez, I was starting to get worried.

The voice on the screen that spoke, however, was female, courtesy of his sister; when she'd bought him the game, she hadn't realized the package had been for female characters only. She'd apologized profusely when he pointed it out, but he'd been amused rather than annoyed, considering that the female characters had actually come with better equipment and more powers—something to try and lure more female gamers online.

He'd happily accepted the extra powers. Sure, a lot of people whined that it was giving girls an unfair advantage, but he'd always figured that girls would be more dangerous in a fight.

Sethos, the character he'd been meeting in-game a lot recently was male, and the deep baritone that answered him was so sexy and without the mechanical lilt to the words that he could only assume that the Draconian's voice was real. He was kind of glad Serenity hadn't been able to afford a headset. He was sure his male voice coming from the female character would have been a humongous turn-off, even if only for in-game partnerships to complete multiplayer quests.

No need to worry. I just got caught up in a project at work.

Joey shivered and bit his bottom lip, telling himself that it must be a side-effect of having a female character that made the man's voice so attractive. …Not that his character was unattractive either.

…Hello?

Joey jumped and hurriedly typed an answer. Sorry, got distracted. So, wanna go smash some fairies?

…Why do you like that game so much? The other man muttered, but clicked for his character to move toward the forest the game was held in. It's only a mini-game, anyway. Wouldn't you rather do a quest or something?

The blond snorted, typing, A serious quest should always be started and finished with a warm-up mini-game.

Sort of like sex should always be started with foreplay and ended with cuddling, puppy?

Joey let out a yelp and promptly fell backward in his chair. "GAH!"

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Seto raised an eyebrow and smiled a little. He wondered how long it would take his boyfriend to figure out it was him. It hadn't taken much to program his microphone to make his voice lower. Joey was cute when he was pretending to be a girl online.

The feminine character's voice screamed at him, SETO KAIBA I AM GOING TO MURDER YOU SO HARD YOU WILL DIE TO DEATH.

Seto flinched and threw his headphones away, rubbing at his ears frantically. "Ow-!" He paused, wondering how the blond had gotten his character to scream, before he realized what had been said. How had Joey figured out it was him-?

…Oh God. He'd called him puppy.

I WILL RIP OUT YOUR SPLEEN AND MAKE YOU EAT IT AND THEN I WILL YANK OUT YOUR GUTS AND STRANGLE YOU WITH THEM. YOUR DEATH WILL NOT BE SWIFT. IT WILL BE SLOW AND PAINFUL. ARE YOU STILL THERE? SETO KAIBA. SETO KAIBA. KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIII—

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Mokuba blinked as he heard his brother's door slam open and looked up from his video game as his door slammed open as well. "Seto-?"

"Please run damage control," Seto stated, promptly crawling under the younger boy's bed.

Mokuba scowled. "Joey found out you were the player he kept meeting up with, didn't he? Get out from under my bed and face the consequences. I told you it was a bad idea."

"Mokuba, please. He's going to murder me so hard I die to death."

The younger boy paused, then rolled his eyes. "I suppose I'll make him promise not to kill you. I can't promise that he won't maim you though."

"He's going to make me eat my spleen."