Hey guys, I hope you enjoy my story. It's a little dragged on right now, but it'll get a lot more exciting as the chapters go.
I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or any of the characters…unfortunately.
Lost in the Outback
It was Saturday, Yugi and the gang were up in his room relaxing, it was the first day of summer break from school.
"Yugi!, Come here for a moment, I need to speak with you." Grandpa yelled through the house.
"Coming Grandpa!" Yugi called back, trotting down the stairs to greet his grandfather in the game shop.
Yugi walked in, finding his grandpa looking at a piece of paper.
"What is it grandpa?"
"Yugi, I've got an invite from a colleague of mine in Australia a few weeks back, I figured it would be a good vacation away for you guys and—"
"Who is "You guys?" Yugi asked, trying not to get his hopes up, but failing horribly.
Solomon looked up with a smile on his face, "I set up an archeological dig for us to go do, and I talked to your friend's parents already and got the okay from them to go, we're leaving Monday morning."
Yugi's eyes lit up. "Wow! I had no Idea! Thank you so much grandpa!" Yugi gave his grandpa a big hug and ran his friends to tell them the big news.
Solomon chuckled light heartedly as he watched his grandson bolt up the stair case to his friends.
"Guys! Guess what!" Yugi burst through the door.
"What is it Yugi?" Tea asked with a smile on her face, happy to see her smallest friend so excited.
"Grandpa, he got an invitation to go on a dig in Australia!"
The three friends glanced at each other.
"Yugi, your grandpa goes on those digs all the time." Tea said confused.
"yeah, whats so special about this one?" Joey asked.
"No, no, this one, all of us are going on with him, he got the okays from all your parents this morning." Yugi said excitedly.
The group yelled with excitement and left to go pack.
The weekend passed slowly according to the gang, but it came none the less. At 7 o'clock in the morning the gang and grandpa was on the way to the airport.
Once they arrived, it was nothing like expected. There was two small personal air planes, one was a three seater, the two pilots and a passenger, and another slightly larger one that can fit the two pilots and four passengers.
"Sorry guys, these planes will get you there guaranteed but, we will have to split you up.
"No problem, we can handle that." Tristan said in a half yawn.
Joey, Tea, Tristan and grandpa headed towards one plane, as the three kids boarded, Grandpa turned, "Sorry Yugi, you take this plane, I'll go in that one so you can ride with your friends.
Yugi thought for a moment, "Grandpa, as much as I'd like to ride with them, I don't want you to be alone, don't worry grandpa, ill see you guys when we get there." Yugi smiled tiredly.
"Yugi, are you sure?" Grandpa asked surprised.
Yugi nodded and climbed aboard the plane as grandpa did the other plane, and when he did, he found three sleeping teens and smiled at them. He looked out the window at his grandson in the next plane over. Yugi was looking his way also, and gave him a thumbs up. Grandpa did the same as he heard the engines rev up as they began to take off.
A few hours into the flight, Tea had woke p to find grandpa looking out the window.
"Mr. Motou?"
"Ah, Good morning Tea. How was your sleep?"
Tea sat up with a smile. "I was great, considering were on a plane." As Tea woke up more, she looked around and saw Joey sleeping, Tristan sleeping.. "Mr. Motou, where is Yugi?"
Grandpa sighed, "He didn't want me flying alone, and so he decided to go in the other plane instead.
"Don't worry Mr. Motou, he was only looking out for you." She reached out and patted him on the arm to console him.
"Thank you my dear."
More hours have passed, and they finally arrived at the dig location. It was in the middle of the outback, there were tents with radars and other tents for things they found so they can study them, off in the distance, and there were small cabins where they can stay.
"Wow, this place is amazing!" Tea said as she looked around, right away saw a kangaroo, a few large birds and what may be a wallabe, if she knew what a wallabe looked like, she'd know for sure, either way, it was adoreable!
"I wonder where the other plane is." Grandpa thought out loud, looking up at the sky, wondering where the plane carrying Yugi was.
" , we are a few miles off course, a strong air currant has carried us away from our track!" Yugi heard over the head set he had on.
Before Yugi could say anything, the plane jerked, an engine blew, causing the plane to loose altitude.
The plane crashed, in the middle of the Australian Outback.
It has been a few hours since Grandpa and the others landed, they were having dinner around a fire outside their cabins. "I wonder where Yugi is." Joey said thoughtfully.
"Well, let's not think the worst, I'm sure they pilot just made a mistake and needed to land to refuel." Grandpa said hopefully.
"That makes sense, I hope that's all that happened." Tea was cut short by one of the other archeologist that was running up.
"Dr. Mason, Dr. Motou, we just received a weak distress call from the second plane, they were losing altitude, that's when we lost contact with them." The Doctor sounded winded.
"What do we do?" Tea asked.
"In the morning, we will put the dig on hold, they can't be too far off course. Don't worry Dr. Motou, we will find the plane that Yugi was on, were going to send out a search party, I suggest you get some rest."
After getting the news, the gang went to the cabin, and at least tried to get some sleep, but with yugi missing, it was hard to sleep, thinking their friend was out there in the massive outback, lost and possibly hurt.
It was dark, he couldn't see anything farther than five feet in front of him. Face down in the dirt, Yugi tried to stand, but found it difficult, his ribs were most likely broken, and the pain in his knee told him it was most likely broken as well. He looked at his surroundings, the only reason he could see was because of a small fire ignited from the plane crash , he regretted looking towards the cock pit, the pilot was impaled by a tree branch and some glass. Yugi saw the gas leaking from the plane and knew he had to get away.
Painfully, Yugi began to drag himself across the red dirt ground to a tree that seemed like a safe distance away from the plane in case it were to blow up. About half way to the tree, Yugi heard growls and foot patters. Thinking of what it could be, he stayed still, trying to keep his breathing under control. A voice came from the back of his head, "Remember Yugi, if you're ever confronted by a wild animal, don't be afraid, try to make yourself as big as possible." It was something Grandpa had taught him when they were camping.
Yugi shook his head, 'That doesn't really help me at the moment grandpa, I can't even stand.' Then another thing came to mind, his grandpa also told him to play dead, most animals prefer to kill their prey rather than go for the already dead, it was another fact grandpa had told him.
Slowly, Yugi lowered his head and tried to calm his breathing as much as he could. He fought to stay still as a cold wet nose came into contact with his leg, Yugi heard rapid sniffing. He cracked open his eye slightly to see what was near him, he saw a rather large dog, it was a rusty red color, he recognized it to be a Dingo, one of Australia's most feared wild dogs.
The Dingo saw that this thing was injured, and bleeding, no threat to him or his pack. After a few more sniffs, the Dingo turned to his pack and made a yip type of sound and they continued their way home, or hunting, whatever it was that Dingo's do at night, Yugi didn't know.
When they were a safe distance away, yugi let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, and proceeded to the tree he had in his sights.
Looking around, Yugi wished he would have grabbed a blanket or two before crawling all the way over to the tree, the outback got cold at night, after Yugi's adrenaline died down, he began to shiver.
'I hope the pilot's distress signal got through to someone, if I'm not found soon, I could die out here.' Yugi thought as he looked up into the dark sky, although beautiful, the outback was nothing to mess around with, without proper equipment, one could be bitten by the most poisonous snakes, be hunted by Dingo's, get heat exhaustion or oddly enough freeze to death.
Hours went by, Yugi was guessing it was somewhere around 2 in the morning, the fire was still going from the plane crash and deciding it was the best thing for survival, Yugi dragged himself closer to the fire to be warm, unsure if it was still possible for the plane to blow, but after a few hours of the crash, if it was going to blow up t would have already, hopefully.
Making it to the fire, Yugi was warmer, falling asleep to the sound of the fire cackling.
"Please find me soon." Yugi called to the sky as a prayer. As he drifted his exhausted mind off to sleep.
End of chapter 1.
I hope you guys liked it, so far at least. Let me know what you think.