"Marik!" his mate cried as the older blond hissed in pain.

"Marik what the hell are you doing!" Seto snapped. It was area for him to lose to cool but, Marik of all Bio's…

The wounded wolverine grunted as he fought to keep his legs steady. "The brats right," Marik dropped to on knee, no longer able to maintain his height with such a deep wound. The worried cries of his confirmed he made the right choice. They many not like human for there own reason, but right here and now, if they wanted to get out alive there fates rested in the human's hands. "Will worry about our human-grudges later. Unfortunately the kid's the only one who can get us out of this mess." Struggling back to his feet Marik concentrated on shifting back to his feral form. More blood pour from his chest.

"Marik you can-"

A hand was placed over Marik's shoulder which was now covered in dark brown fur. "Thank you Marik." Yugi acknowledged sincerely. The Bio just grunted as his sharpened eyes shifted for signs of danger.

The opening of the beasts mouth caught Yugi's attention just in time. "Move now!"

Startled the other Bio instinctively leapt out of the was just as what appeared to be at explosion went off. The gazed on, bewildered that not only could they have been killed but the human, Yugi saved them.

Without realizing it the Bio all gather by Yugi while Yami took watch in a tree a feet away, glaring down at the teen.

As the dust cloud settled where the Bio's once stood now rested a massive crater.

"Jeez! What ta hell was dat!? A bomb?" Joey yelped.

"It could have been it's claws again," Kisara openly wondered.

"It was it's tongue." The distain was clear in Yugi's voice as the teen glared at the beast, watching it real back in said weapon.

"What? No way!"

"The end of it's tongue looks like a large, round wrecking ball. It projected it out like a missile." the teens answered Ryou.

"So how do toy expect us to beat this thing? Huh shrimp?" Bakura hissed.

Glancing around Yugi tried to remember his training and the elements one could use from the environment.

"Joey shift into your animal form and start running around the clearing in circles as fast as you can, and don't stop." Joey started at Yugi like he had grown a second head. How was that suppose to help them? "Seto I need up in the trees as high as you can go which still having a clear view of the clearing." The brunette arched a brown, confused. "Malik you need to remain here to guard Marik and Bakura."

"What?!" both stated growled.

However Yugi was unfazed. "Neither of you are in any state to fight. Mainly you Marik." Yugi could see a growing fire of betrayal burning behind Marik violet eyes. "Do not take this wrong Marik. I am grateful too you for saving me but what use could you be with those injuries? Please, just stay here and recover. You too Bakura."

Looking up, "Yami you'll stay with Malik. This thing can attack from multiple angles at once." Yami spat, showing his disapproval but said nothing. What could he say. His pack would no longer listen to him. And it was all the damned human fault!.

"Ryou, Kisara" Yugi faced the gentle looking whitette. "Turn into you're animal forms. You're going to help me bring this thing down. Ryou and Kisara started wide eyes at Yugi before wordlessly nodded there head.

Turning back to face the sleek-looking mutant beast Yugi took a deep breath. As he exhaled so did the beast.

"Now!" At his command Seto leapt for the trees as Joey shifted, taking off a second later throwing up small dust clouds behind him. Malik shifted into his cassowary, standing protectively before his mate and pack mate. Yami remained in the tree, ready to shift when needed though not moving. Bakura growled at being useless while Marik turned to his human form, sighing a she leaned back to help ease the pain from his wound.

Ryou and Kisara shifted into there lynx and chinchilla forms but remain but Yugi's side, awaiting his orders.

Said teen watched intensely as the beast watched Joey. Seeing the hyena move a bit too close his raised a claw to strike.

"Joey to the left!" Instantly the hyena pivoted to his left just as a slam sounded, throwing up a massive dust cloud. A moment later Joey burst free form the cloud.

"Bloody hell that was too close," he huffed as he picked up his pace though now opting to remain at the clearings edge.

Yugi sighed thankful the blond wasn't hurt. Turning his head skyward he just spotted Seto as the brunette anded on a branch a good fifty feet up. 'That'll do.'

"Ryou you're going to act as the bait-"

"Me?!"

"Since I've seen how fast you can go. Just follow my lead and you'll be fine." The chinchilla nodded, round ears draw back in worry though. "Kisara while Ryou's distracting it you'll be landing as many blow as you can."

"How will know where it is?" she question, concern for her pack mates lives.

Yugi just smiled. "That's one of the reason's Seto's up there," he said pointing a finger skyward. Still confused, though Kisara nodded having no choose but to trust the human. Another bang sounded as Joey just managed to out run another attack.

The dust clouds were getting thicker. Yugi smirked. "Seto!" he called out gaining said person's attention. "Do you see anything?"

Looking down Seto could make out there his Alpha, Bakura, Marik and Malik were. He could just see Yugi, Ryou and Kisara since the dust was starting to cover them. And he could just make out Joey running around him circles. If they weren't in a life or death situation Seto might have laughed at that. But he could see anything more.

"Other then you lot, nothing! What am I even looking for?" Honestly he could be down there help his mate.

"Concentrate! Watch the center area of the dust clouds for any movement. Any abnormal shifting in the dust's flow!"

'Of course! Brilliant!' Seto zeroed in on the massive dust clouds. Now realizing with his keen eyes only he'd be able to see something as small as dust movement from a vantage point like this. Seto silently had to praise the human for him clever thinking.

Focusing hard, not blinking Seto watched the cloud for anything at all. Ignoring Joey's actions and the activity of the other and his surrounding. He channeled all his seances solely towards the dust cloud center. His attempts were fruitfully rewards. There, twenty feet from Yugi the dust shifted to the sides, as if something was moving forwards.

"Twenty feet two your left!" Seto called, startling the other while Yugi's smirk broken into a grin.

"Ryou I want you to head ten feet in that direction then bank a hard right and book it to the clearings edge. Now!"

From above Seto watched as Ryou headed straight for the moving dust. 'What the hell is he doing?'

"Kisara the moment Ryou turned you need to rush forward. When I say to jump ready you claws and fangs." The lynx gave a firm nod, readying to bolt out into the fray.

'Eight feet… Nine feet… Ten!' Ryou quickly veered left and pelted for his for the clearing edge. Just as he turned he felt a gust of wind blow by him. He knew the beast must have tried taking a swing at him. That though only made him run faster.

Seto's eyes widened in awe as he watched a large area of dust be blow to the side. 'No way…' he gawked as the figure that was Ryou hightailed it to safety. However Seto quickly too notice that the dust clouds were shifting strangely before they started parting again. This time heading for Ryou.

"Ryou's it's coming!" Seto warned.

'Crapcrapcrapcrapcarp!' the albino chanted trying to go faster.

Yet what Seto didn't notice was when Ryou turned Kisara took off. It was Yugi's voice that caught the brunettes attention.

"Now Kisara!" The lynx roared as he unsheathed her claws. She was only airborne for a moment before her claws sunk into something smooth and mushy.

A burst of rapture consumed her as she began to slash at her pray wildly. She sank her fangs into something that was skinnier then what her claws dig into. 'Maybe it's one of it's arm?' Thinking this Kisara began thrashing, tearing at the grip of flesh her jaws held.

Through this all the beasts blood was flung about and bit of it's flesh clawed away. The Bio's on the ground only saw Kisara being whorled abound in mid air while above Seto watch in awe as the dust around Kisara revealed something bucking and spinning around. Seeming frantic.

"She's got it!" Yugi cheered. "Seto land beside Kisara's right! You'll break it's back legs if you do!"

Instantly eager to get back at the beast Seto jumped from the tree, knowing even if he missed he's still survive. But with Kisara's figure as his guide there was no missing.

Shifting into his komodo dragon form Seto pierced his claws an toxic fangs into the beast as his body slammed down above something clearly bigger then him but with the help of gravity Seto became three time heavier.

The sounds of reassuring snaps and cracks filled Seto and Kisara's ears at such close range. They felt the body of there target spasm before something like claws gripped around Seto's middle. The dragon hissed in pain before clamped his poisonous jaws around the 'arm' that clung him. Almost instantly the pressure around his middle lessened but did not vanish.

From there place Ryou, Yami, Malik, Marik and Bakura watched on in sheer astonishment as Kisara and Seto battle with there invisible enemy. A yipping battle cry drew there attention to Joey who charged towards the lynx and his dragon. His powerful jaws crunching the bone too what felt like an appendage while his body pinned another.

The trio hissed, growled and snarled as they clawed and teared when they could.

Deaf to the creatures cry none of them heard his shrill wails of anguish as the Bio's broke it down and ripped it around. Yugi watched as Seto's hind legs worked in clawing open a deep wound in the beasts side while Kisara unknowingly blinded tow of the beasts remaining three eyes.

Relocating his wooden spear Yugi approached there captured enemy. It shrieked and snarled, still trying to get free of the Bio's. Yugi locked his gaze with the beasts remain pupil-less, golden eye. His own reflection glared back at him.

Yugi has never condoned killing, but this thing had taken something far more precious from him then his valued humanity. It may not have been this particular beast, but it's kind was all the same in Yugi's eyes.

Sneering down the his prey Yugi lifted the spear, watching at the beast trying one last attempt to free itself. Though it was in vain. It was than all over when Yugi slammed his spear down into the creature's skull.

For a moment everyone heard the beasts blood curtailing screech. Joey, Kisara and Seto felt it's body convulse only for a second later everything went silent.

"Is it over?" Ryou question coming from his hiding spot.

At the moment, as if like the liquid forcefield the invincible enemy slowly became visible to everyone. All the Bio gasped at the thing that had nearly killed them. With it's appearance now visible so was the carnage they inflicted upon it and the blood they were now bathed in.

As if by some unspoken command everything turned to Yugi, gawking as they saw him with on hand on the wooden spear that now was buried deep into the beasts skull. It's round tongue tip lolled to the side, saliva still oozing from it's deformed crocodile-like muzzle. All six of it's appendages were either twisted at awkward angles of completely severed from it's body. Deep gouges blackened it's body all over as blood pool rapidly around it.

Yugi continued to glare rather hatefully down at the there dead enemy before sighed heavily. "We did it."

The Bio's sigh, relieved of there victory as some(mainly Joey) cheered on about a victory party.

At a steady pace the Bio gathered wood to cover the creature before lifting it, burning away it's body. They stayed for the whole two hour it took before cleaning up at a near by river, washing away all the blood. There own and there enemy's. Thirty minutes later everyone was a bored the jet and on there way back home to base.

Silence filled the air only broken when someone hiss or grunted in pain. Malik fussed over Marik's wound. Cleaning and bandaging him up. Seto patched up Joey while striped hyena Bio licked his mate's wounds clean. Bakura had tried to claim he was find and didn't need bandaging only for Ryou to, rather harshly, shove him to the floor and startle him. Affectively pinning him down so Ryou could work on his wounds. Bakura effectively shut up after treated Kisara while Yami himself had only a few scrapes a bruises.

Towards the back of the jet sat Yugi up against the wall as he attempted too wrap his wounded shoulder. Enough though it hurt Yugi tried to remain as silent as he could. He didn't want to appear anymore weaker then he already looked.

Sighing in frustration and silently cursing the making of ace bandaged Yugi pressed his back against the jet's metal walls. The cool temperature helped sooth his burning should.

Unknowing to him when he sighed in frustration the Bio's all turned to attention towards him. Watching as there human pack mate surrendered to the bandage wrapping Yami couldn't help but smirk at the teen easy surrender. Telling himself that the human was indeed weak and a liability to there pack. One luck fluke encounter with an enemy didn't constitute him as one of them.

As Ryou finished bandaging Bakura the darker albino of the two glanced around at his pack. He could stop the feel of growing anger or the itching irritation to shake them all. The kid just saved all there lives for Chris's sake! Didn't any of them care?

Seeing the eyes of his shift over to the teen before snapped back and then moment later to the teen again. It was like that they were shamed to even try to acknowledged the kid over there.

Growling Bakura rose to his feet, tired of his pack's coward-ness. Bakura was never one too show positive emotion towards another other then Ryou. He hated cowards, but even more so he hated being in debt to someone. Seeing this as an opportunity to repay the debt the white tiger Bio carefully made his way over to the teen.

Hearing the sound of approaching footsteps Yugi opened his eyes only to be greeted by Bakura kneeling down beside him.

"B-Bakura…?"

"I don't like being indebted to others," the other grunted as he retrieved the ace bandages as well as some antibiotics. Yugi watched on for a moment in shock before lightly smiling.

Yugi hissed slightly when Bakura applied the alcohol. Only to a moment later yawn down at the Bio.

'Was that my imagination or did he just apologies to me?' Looking a bit closer it was confirmed from the slight pink over the bridge of his nose. Yugi remain silent about it. Not wanted to, as they 'pull on the tiger's tail'.

It was only a few minutes later when Yugi was all patched up. Including his chest wounds and other cuts and bruises. "Thank Bakura."

The albino was silent for a moment. Fidgeting with the clothes he used to clear Yugi's shoulder and chest. The pink on his face deepened slightly as he averted his eyes. "Th-thank you. For s-saving my life." Bakura stammered, growling silently at such a weak appearance. "You didn't have to though." he grunted. Trying to rein back in from his embarrassing moment.

However the sound of Yugi's soft giggle drew his russet eye up to gaze upon the smiling face of one human, Yugi Moto. "Don't worried about Bakura. After all isn't that what pack mates do?"

The question throw Bakura for a loop. 'What pack mates do? He… He actually sees himself as one of us despite what we've done to him?'

"They look out for each other, no matter what. Like family."

The tiger Bio gawked in amazement at the teen, awed by his words. Something within Bakura warmed at the inkling though of the human being one of them. One of the pack. A smile. An actually, genuine, though small but still a true smile graced Bakura lips. A gruff yet soft chuckle that only Yugi would hear showed the teen the white-haired Bio accepted his words as he returned to the side of his smaller white-haired mate for the duration of the tip.

Yugi beamed. It was a start.

x.x.x.x

Me: Ohhh! Looks like Bakura is taking a liking to Yugi.

~Next time: Hathor is impressed. Yugi is praised by all the Bio-Beasts. Yami still hates Yugi.~