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Hao and Yoh each kissed their lovers briefly and stepped into the Great Spirit, letting it swallow them completely. The rest of them sighed and sat down.

"What is going on?" Katie looked over her shoulder to see that the Patch had followed them. The Crazies looked at each other and shrugged.

"The Great Spirit obviously wants to talk to the Shaman Kings." Seto said calmly. The Patch exchanged very confused looks.

"The Shaman King has not been chosen." Goldva said. Meg laced her fingers together.

"I have a theory." She said.

"So tell it." Bakura said lazily, laying down on his back and closing his eyes. The rest of the Crazies relaxed similarly. Bo chose to lay his head in Katie's lap and his rear on Jeanne's and Jaz sat on Joey.

"I think that we have landed in some kind of alternate universe."

"This isn't an episode of Doctor Who." Yami said skeptically. The girls, including Jeanne, gave him a look.

"Mister thousands-of-years-old pharaoh should not be talking about impossibilities." Jeanne said. "And besides, Katie and Meg came from another universe besides ours, why couldn't there be others?"

"She has a point." Seto said.

"Oh. My. God." Katie said in a tone of disbelief. "The biggest skeptic in the group actually believes in this." She threw up her hands. "Armageddon has come my friends."

"Hardee har har." Seto replied sarcastically.

"You're kidding, alternate universes, impossible." Silva scoffed. Meg and Katie just gave him a blank look.

Yoh and Hao re-emerged from the Great Spirit.

"It wants to talk to you." Hao told Goldva. Goldva nodded and went over to the Great Spirit.

"Well?" Yugi asked the twins.

"You're right, it is an alternate universe, about three years behind ours." Yoh said.

"So before we met you." Katie clarified.

"A few months after." Hao replied, leaning down to nuzzle her.

"Which means the Hao in this universe…"

"Still wants to take over the world." Hao nodded his head soberly.

"We're also not sure how to get us back to our own world." Yoh chewed on his lip. "We'll be working with this world's Great Spirit to try to find a way back, until then we're stuck."

"Story of our lives." Bakura grumbled. Goldva made his way back to them.

"The Great Spirit has informed me of the situation." He said. "These people are to stay here until they can figure out how to get back to where they came from." He turned to the Crazies. "We'll set you up with lodgings for now, it is late and I am sure you will wish to sleep." The teens nodded, although it would be a long time until their nerves stopped buzzing enough to let them sleep.

In another part of the Patch village, the next morning, a younger, less powerful Yoh Asakura woke up. He was excited for this day; it was the beginning of the second round of the tournament, postponed after that messy business with Hao.

Hao, the thought of his twin made Yoh flinch. He was sure the battle between them had not killed him; he was too powerful for that. Yoh was sure that he would turn up, and exact his revenge for Yoh stopping him from taking the Great Spirit.

His oracle pager beeped at him. He read the message there; all tournament participants were to meet in the arena at 8:00. Yoh looked at the clock; it was 7:30. His first thought was that they didn't exactly give them much time to get ready and get there. His second thought was that Anna had not woke him up like usual.

He didn't really mind, lately he had been feeling more and more tired, but wasn't sure why, and Faust could find nothing wrong with him either. Thinking that was strange he got into his battle outfit, thinking that he was going to need to get it in a bigger size soon; he was beginning to grow. He clattered downstairs, Harasume in his hand, Amidamaru hovering behind him, to meet his friends.

"So what do you think this is about?" Horohoro asked. "There are rumours the tournament's going to be a bit different this time." Yoh shrugged and merely grinned in that easy-going way of his.

"Whatever happens we'll get through it, right?" He answered. His friends nodded, reassured by Yoh's confidence. They walked down to the arena, which was already thronged with many shamans. Whispers started when Yoh walked by, many were in awe of his defeat of Hao those few months ago.

The stares made him uncomfortable, he didn't like being scrutinized or looked on with such awe; he had just done what needed to be done. Anna was already inside.

"It's about time you got here." She said peevishly.

"Do you have any idea of what's going on?" Yoh asked her. She shook her head, eyes narrowed. Everything quieted as Goldva stood up with a microphone.

"Good morning shamans, welcome back to the tournament." He said. "This time we are doing something a little different." He waited for the soft murmurs to die away. "The Great Spirit has chosen the teams for this round." A roar of confusion, anger and disbelief rose up. Goldva waited once more for it to die down before reading off the members of the new team.

Horohoro was paired with Ryu and some girl that they didn't recognise. Ren was paired with Mari and Kanna. Faust was with Lyserg and Marco.

"And finally, Yoh Asakura, Iron Maiden Jeanne, and…Hao Asakura." Silence reigned at the last name. Yoh was the only one not surprised, he'd had a feeling something like this would happen. He turned to watch his twin, with that familiar smirk plastered on his face, make his way towards him.

"You can't get rid of me that easily Yoh." Hao taunted.

"I never thought I could." Yoh said evenly back. He worked on keeping the mental barriers he had taught himself to make in place, keeping Hao out of his mind. A brief, annoyed frown crossed Hao's features, and then was gone, the smirk firmly back in place.

"The little girl did not come to greet us." He said idly. "Think she's afraid."

"I'm not sure that anything scares her." Yoh replied simply. Before either of them could say anything else, Anna marched up and grabbed Yoh by the ear.

"Come on Yoh, you have training to do." She told him and dragged him out of the arena. Hao followed, looking very amused.

"Hao-sama!" A voice called. Hao turned to see Big Guy Bill running towards them. He sported a lovely purple-black shiner around one eye.

"What happened to you?" Yoh gasped, then winced when Anna tugged on his ignored his question.

"Hao-sama, you need to come see this."

"What is it?" Hao demanded.

"I'm..not exactly sure."


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