One hour later (Game Time)...
"Hey, guys, check this out." Malik suggested, pointing a large bulletin board which they had just passed without noticing it.
"Huh? What is it, Malik?" Joey asked with a befuddled expression on his face with a hint of annoyance. They hadn't been able to find anything to do with quests for a while. Joey walks over to Malik and starts to scan the large metallic board in front of him. "What's this?"
"Can't you read, Mutt?" Seto interrupted.
"Yes b-I told you not to call me that!"
"It's a bulletin board." Yami mentioned. "You know, for quests it says." He added, pointing the obvious.
"Oh... Right... I knew that... I was just... testin' ya!", "So. Which one should be do..." Joey started to search through all of the quests on the bulletin board. They were only level six with only minimum training. They all knew they should so lower leveled quests, however they knew Joey loves a challenge. They braced themselves as they started to search through the quests; quests which had a good reward; quests which were easy, but challenging for them.
"Joey, what about this one?" Bakura asked pointing to a level forty quest, whilst chuckling to himself due to the fact he knew Joey would say yes.
"That's a gr-"
"No." Yami, Seto, Ryou, and Yugi yelled, glaring at Bakura and Marik who were constantly laughing.
"Aw c'mon guys!" Joey pouted, "What about this one? It's level nineteen but it only says that we need to take the Hunter's treasure."
"If I say no, you're going to keep nagging us, aren't you?" Seto grunted.
"Maybe..."
"Fine. It doesn't seem too harmless."
"Hooray!"
"Joey, you guys need to get some weapons and armour. That stuff won't last long. I'm a dragon so I don't think I can get any." Yugi mentioned.
"Yugi! This is a virtual world, expect the unexpected. You and the wolfy over there go search for somethin' for ya'selves."
"Hey, watch it!" Bakura growled, changing from his beast-type wolf form to his human-beast-type werewolf form; showing his teeth.
"Ahhh, Marik help me!" Joey pleaded, hiding behind Marik, the vampire, rival of the werewolf.
"Go ahead, Bakura." Marik suggested, grinning evilly.
"No fair!"
"Stop it!" Malik shouted, using his telekinesis to pick up both Bakura and Joey, holding them up in the air, away from each other.
"He started it." Bakura said.
"Anyway, guys. Let's split up. Meet at Malicious Mountain in two hours. Get your stuff then be there."
"Okay, me and Bakura will go to the beast-type place over there."Yugi said, pointing to the west.
"Me and Seto will go over there." Marik said, pulling Seto away and dragging him along.
"I'll go with Yami to the Drag'n Slayer place over there."
"So, Malik. I guess it's you and me seen as though the others have left." Ryou suggested.
"I guess so too."
Two hours later...
The group met up at Malicious Mountain, unsurprisingly, Joey and Yami were late. No matter who was with Joey, he seemed to ALWAYS be late. It's a mystery how he usually dodges the detentions at school for being late, even though he's not always late for school; usually about three days out of five. The gang were awaiting impatiently for them to arrive. They were ten minutes late.
The rest of them seemed to look all stocked up, and Yugi found items that were created especially for dragons. He wore a special helmet which started at the back of his head and reached towards his dragon nose. There was a small horn-like feature on the end of it which pointed up. At the sides of where it starts, there are two horns there. This helmet enhances his flame element power. (I'm just going to put this out there, the helmet looks like the helmet on MetalGreymon from Digimon, but the horn on the front looks slightly smaller.)
Malik had a new staff, it was much better than before. Also, he had bought new armour. His staff was an enlarged, aqua-blue rod which reached the top of his magician hat. His new staff had a sphere under the stretched part of the longstaff. His armour was a purple colour. He had an extremely tall purple magician hat which had lighter purple rings around them. It was the same for the rest of his armour, apart from his legs had a different pattern on them.
Ryou just wore simple iron armour, a chestplate, iron boots and iron legs. His sword was pretty sharp, despite the fact that it's more of a dagger than a sword. Even though it was strong enough to kill the odd monster or two, he still needed to have protection from his allies.
Seto had an amulet around his neck. He couldn't properly get hurt, because of his ghostly form, however he didn't want to take the chances, The damage still slightly went through when he was hit though. The amulet was a shining gold necklace with a dazzling blue gem inside. The amulet protected him from all beast-type creatures' attacks. Also, he wore special gloves. They intensified his ectoplasmic shots which now made them even more painful for those unfortunate creatures who dare to attack him.
Marik hadn't changed much, he just got his claws sharpened and his teeth sharpened too. He also managed to buy some new rings. These rings were a sharp, shining silver. It constantly glowed like the moonlight. The rings gave him extra strength and rage when killing his enemies.
Bakura had a chip placed in the back of his throat, this chip helped him to make his howl twice as powerful! It could throw people twenty feet backwards it was excruciatingly energetic and forceful. He also wore some metallic paw-boots. They made his claws extra long when activated and his punches extra mighty.
Thirty minutes later...
The sun was setting and the others had nearly given up waiting for the other two to regroup with the rest of the team. "Where the hell are they?!" Bakura yelled.
"Bakura, they aren't going to magically appear if you yell." Marik pointed out.
"I don't recall talking to you."
"You did ask."
"Quiet."
"No. Make me."
"Don't make me come over there!"
"Aw, what's wrong wolfy? Lost your bone?"
"Vampire, I know you're desperate for blood, but in a second I'm going to make you be begging for it when I'm done with you! You'll have a huge hole ripped through your neck like last time!"
"That's enough!" A strong tone boomed from the mountain.
"Huh?"
"I said, 'That's enough!'"
"Who's there?"
"You really don't recognise my voice?"
"Oh, hey, Yami! What took you so long?"
"Blondie over here decided that he was going to go to the all-you-can-eat buffet."
"Like normal."
"Exactly."
"I heard that!" Joey yelled.
Yami and Joey had managed to climb up from the side of the mountain, looking quite exhausted. Yami was close to collapsing whereas Joey looked as if he could go another four miles. Their appearance has definitely changed; they could barely recognise them!
"I'm guessing Joey didn't know what to choose so you chose it for him?" Ryou asked.
"Kind of. Joey wanted my armour. I said no, because we don't look unique. He bought it anyway."
"Typical mutt."
Joey just growled.
"Yeah, yeah. Keep growling, hound."
Yami and Joey were both wearing extra padded armour. The main colour was a sparkling white. The sub colour was a ravishing ocean-blue tint. Even though they wore the same armour, they had different swords and shields. Yami had a shield which had a black dragon on. Funnily enough, it looked exactly like Yugi. His shield was in the shape of a kite with a red background. Joey's shield was a circular shield. The emblem on his shield represented a steak with a fork sticking out of it; the background was a lime green. Their swords were mystical as they each had a different shape and colour. Joey's sword was a leaf-green which pointed up, like a cutlass. Yami's sword was coloured red and shaped like a flame.
"Let's go, but first we need to split up into pairs." Seto added.
"How come?"
"There's four caves in this large mountain.", "I'm going to put a strong creature with a weaker one, this way they're protected."
"Whatever." Joey said, rolling his eyes.
"Yugi, you are the stronger creature, go with Ryou. Protect him."
"Alright."
"Yami, you and Malik go together."
"Sure."
"Mutt and Marik."
"'Kay."
"Bakura and me.", "Remember guys, if you run into trouble send an SOS through the party chat."