Liz: PAR-TY, PAR-TY, PAR-TY!

Tristan: It's a dream come true! Hot girls, free food, live band, duels!

Joey: Who said food?!

Charla: You're gonna eat me out of house and home!

Seto: Ha inferior lowlifes!

Yugi: Kaiba, what are you doing here?

Joey: All right put up your dukes!

Seto: Calm down, you dog. I have to be here to keep an eye on the dueling platform, those things cost money and the last thing we need is bad publicity by drunken idiots messing with the wires and getting electrocuted, but I would ignore it if you get zapped.

Yami: Finally a duel!

Liz: Yes, the party is gonna be kickin'!

Charla: I've been practicing!

Joey: Great another rival!

Tristan: Joey the only people who could beat you are Yugi and Kaiba.

Joey: I don't care, oh now I'm sad…where's the food?!

Liz: We better start before Joey finds the food.

Joey: FOOD!

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Once again they all found themselves in Yugi's room, trying to figure out what exactly had unfolded the night before. "Yug," Joey said putting a hand on his friend's shoulder. "What happened?"

"Well after I walked Anzu home I came home to tell Yami something and he was sitting with his back to me, then he just shot up, and turned around. His eyes were lifeless and his voice distant. He said something about not being able to stand some sort of 'travesty' then tried to strangle me. I shoved him off and he got impaled by the corner of the table, let out an inhuman scream, then melted in to a purple sludge, then I passed out," Yugi said his face twisting into on of disgust as he told the story.

"Then," Yami continued where Yugi left off, "The sludge sank into the carpet and evaporated."

"That's some weird stuff there, man" Tristan said as he looked to the spot they claimed the slime had been. Not so much as a purple fleck of carpeting remained as if it disappeared into thin air; as if it had been a dream.

"It sounds kinda freaky," Charla said looking around nervously, "I'm sorry but I must leave, tonight is a big night," she said standing up and walking to the door, "Hey Yugi? If I have some free time I'll do a little research on this, it seems oddly familiar." And with that she left.

"You, guys, I gotta tell you something, something about Charla."

"What is it Yami?" Yugi asked looking at his former body holder with concern.

"Last night while she was singing I got this strange vibe from her, one of power."

"Like the kind the rare hunters had?" Joey asked leaning forward.

"No. I didn't sense any evil in it. It was like something that had barely been taped. Like the vibe I used to get from Kaiba before he got the millennium rod. It worries me a little bit but I can't figure out if it is harmful or not."

"Well I guess we'll have to keep an eye on her at the party, speaking of which I need to get a new outfit for it," Anzu said, she then looked to Yugi, blushed and looked away.

"Whoa ho ho, Yugi you dog!" Joey said giving his friend a nuggie despite the fact that his hair was blocking any contact with his skull.

Every one laughed but under Yami's light hearted face, his mind was reeling about the feeling his was getting from Charla and the ones he hadn't felt in a long time.

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Yugi couldn't believe the size of the mansion. He and Anzu were arriving late because of a wardrobe malfunction.

- "Come on Anzu," Joey called from the car, "Yug, go in there and see what's holding' 'er up!"

Yugi ran from the car to Anzu's front door and ran in, "ANZU! Hurry up they're gonna leave us," Yugi said as he ran up the stairs to her room. "Anzu?" he asked knocking on her door.

"Don't come in!"

"What's wrong?"

"I can't get the top to fit right."

"Do you need any help?"

"No just, give me a moment." Yugi could hear her muttering and struggling from behind the door.

"I'm coming in" Yugi said opening the door.

"NO!" but it was too late, there stood Anzu in a mini-skirt and bra with her tube top around her middle. She freaked out and tried to cover herself with her arms.

"Let me help," Yugi said adverting his gaze downward. He helped her get the front facing straight and tied the string in the back all the while not looking up at her.

"Thanks," she said and kissed him. He just stood there frozen then returned the kiss. "Let's go before they leave us," she said dragging him down the stairs but they were too late, the others were gone. "So how are we gonna get there now?"

Meanwhile in the car, "I feel bad for leaving them," Serenity said from her spot in the backseat.

"They needed some time alone, besides I had Mai, 'happen' to drive by five minutes after we left she's probably already picked them up."

And in fact she had. But, she was instructioned to take as much time as possible, which proved hard for the blonde speed demon.-

"You two head in, I'll try to find a place to park," Mai said sticking her head out the window.

"Ok," Anzu said as she dragged Yugi into the mansion. The inside was better than the out. Yugi could see clearly into five different rooms and see many shut doors upstairs. The main area was a fifty foot high room with stairs along the curved side of the wall to the second floor with a balcony and at least eight rooms. The room had a dueling stage in the middle with a stage over in the corner near the long line of windows. There were band instruments and a karaoke machine set up on the stage and people were dueling on the duel arena. On the balcony people were dancing and snaking on food, Yugi could see Joey's blond hair going back and forth between the tables.

In the next room Yugi could see the kitchen where there was huge buffet set up and a super long table with people sitting and eating. The three other rooms were not so full of people Yugi nor could Anzu see what was going on in them.

"No way!" Yugi heard some one cry from the dueling area. Both he and Anzu worked their way through the throngs of people until they could see the people dueling. There was Weevil Underwood and Tristan was dueling and Tristan had actually won. A booster pack of cards popped out of a slot in front of Tristan.

"Sweet! New cards!" Tristan said.

"No, No, NO!" Weevil yelled as he pounded on the dueling platform.

"Hey!" every one turned and there stood Seto Kaiba, "Don't do that you'll pay for damages if you break it!"

"Wow, she really did invite everybody," Anzu said looking around amazed. Weevil's side platform went down and awaited another duelist. Anzu finally spotted Charla walking towards the platform and she rushed over dragging Yugi along with her. "Charla!"

Charla turned around and opened her arms as if ready to embrace her, and then out of nowhere a larger stature teenage boy came up behind her and hugged her around the waist. She whirled around and playfully pushed him off then hugged him. He walked off just as Anzu and Yugi made it to her. "Who was that?" Anzu said as Charla hugged both her and Yugi.

"That was an ex and really good friend. He plays bass in the band," Charla said looking behind them. "Is Yami coming?"

"He said he would be here later, supposedly there was something he had to do," Yugi said, he hadn't had a good duel in awhile and was itching to play.

"Well, I gotta duel to win," Charla said starting to walk off.

"Hey, Charla, when did you start playing?" Yugi asked wondering how well she would do, Tristan wasn't a great duelist but he was more experienced than he assumed Charla was.

"After you guys told me about them I searched up rules and how to play. I've been playing for a few days. Which is probably better that I didn't rent due discs."

"Yeah, why didn't you do that?" Anzu said as they began to walk to the duel platform.

"Well think about how hard it would be to keep track of them, or to keep things from getting spilled on them. Plus think how hard it would be to find an area big enough to actually play, every thing works out better this way," Charla then climbed onto the platform and it raised her to the system board.

"Well, finally some one hot to duel against," Tristan said, "Great idea by the way with the whole booster pack thing, man."

"Booster packs?" Yugi asked looking to Tristan.

"Yeah, I had Seto rig them so that the winner of the duel gets to choose between a verity of booster packs, that way the winners gets more cards," Charla said sticking her deck into the automatic deck shuffler.

"I'll use my deck that Joey helped me put together the other day," Tristan said putting his own deck into the shuffler.

The decks were spit out and Charla won the toss up.

"Hmm, let's see," Charla said as she looked at her hand, "I set one card face down, then activate Final Flame, knocking you life points from 8000 to 7400, finally I place a monster in defense mode and end my turn."

"I activate Moovan Curry, gaining back life points," his life points went up to 7600, "Then I summon Spirit of the Harp," as he laid the card down a woman in golden garbs with a harp appeared and attacked her face down card.

"Ha, that was a Cyber Jar!" And with that a monster with a metallic jar shape appeared and a black head come out and eradicated both monsters, "Because f it's effect all monsters on the field are sent to the grave yard, then we each draw five cards and place any level four or less monsters on the field."

"Fine by me," Tristan said as he drew his five cards, "I lay Prevent Rat and Jinzo #7 in defense mode than set Dark Assailant in attack mode."

"Here is mine," Charla said as she drew her five cards, "I summon Darkfire Soldier #1 in attack mode and set Witch's Apprentice in defense."

"I attack you face down monster with Dark Assailant!"

"Did you forget about my face down card? Waboku!"

"Damn, my attack did nothing!"

"My turn," Charla said as she drew her card, "I activate Molten Destruction, which will raise all my fire type monsters attack by 500, which is good even if it decreases their defense by 400. But I'm not done; I play Monster Reborn and bring back your Spirit of the Harp. That's just step one, I sacrifice it and my Witch's Apprentice to summon Tri-Horned Dragon!" When she did this a huge blue dragon appeared on the field, it had a red underbelly and three horns coming from its head, and spines down its back.

"Woah," Tristan, Yugi, Anzu, and Joey said who had recently joined them from his eating spree. "How did she get such good cards?" Joey asked as he stared dumb founded at the monster in front of him.

"She's rich, she probably bought them," Anzu said amazed.

'I guess I'll have to duel her now' Yugi thought to himself, he hadn't dueled since Yami left his body and wondered if he was still any good.

"Now I attack your face down Prevent Rat with my Darkfire Soldier #1, then I attack with my Tri-Horned Dragon! Go! Attack his Dark Assailant!"

The monster was eradicated and Tristan's life points went down to 5850.

"You're better than I would have figured, I just don't duel enough, but I'll still finish this duel," Tristan said as he drew his card, "I end my turn."

"I place one monster face down and get rid of your remaining defenses." Her Tri-Horned took out his face down Jinzo #7 then her Darkfire Soldier #1 took down his life points to 3650.

"Hmm," Tristan thought as he looked at his hand, "I summon Moon Envy to attack you face down monster." A creature with one huge eye on its head and multiple others over its body appeared and was shattered.

"That was a Big Eye, and because of its effect I get to look at the top five cards on my deck and arrange them any way I want."

"Tristan, that fool," Mai said from behind them, "He left his defenses wide open."

"I activate Pot of Greed so I get to draw to cards from my deck, then I summon Darkfire Soldier #2 to the field." A charcoal skinned man in a yellow kimono appeared and his body burst into flames and his two katanas had sparks of fire licking the ends of them. "Now my Darkfire Soldiers attack his monster and his life points!"

Both warriors charged at Tristan's monster, but #1 got there first and destroyed Moon Envy while the other bypassed and attacked his life points directly.

"Now for the finishing blow, Tri-Horned Dragon, ATTACK!"

And with that attack the duel was over and Charla came out victorious.

"Good game Tristan, it was fun," Charla said as Tristan's side of the platform lowered, "So who's next?" There was a light murmur coming from the crowd then they went silent as metal gears were heard and the dueling platform lifted her opponent up. Charla automatically knew who it was when she saw the multi-coloured spikes.

"So Yami, I was wondering when you would get here."

"Well, I was wonder when you got so good at Duel Monsters?" he said stick his deck into the auto-shuffler.

"That's something you'll learn, I'm full of surprises."

"Let the duel begin!"

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Liz: Woooo! Cliffhanger! All the duels in this story will either be ones I pieced together from the show if it is two characters against one another or if their dueling Charla it's the deck I have on my Yu-Gi-Oh game and her deck is actually my deck.

Charla: I be good at Duel Monsters.

Yami: This should be an interesting match.

Liz: Here's a little FAQ for some things-

The Yu-Gi-Oh game I have is "Yu-Gi-Oh Eternal Duelist Soul"

Yugi will duel but I'm having trouble figuring out if he should be very good or not, because in the game he basically sucks, cause it's Yugi your going against not Yugi with the help of Yami. Help me out what should I do?

Yugi: I'm not that bad with out Yami.

Liz: Whatever please review! Or you shall be flogged!

Charla: Haha your funny!

Liz: I wasn't kidding.

Charla: Oh…can I help?

Liz: SURE!