Ello everyone! Here's the next installment. Now that graduation is over and college in the future, I have the summer to make a good dent in my recent lack of updates. Hopefully, I'm able to make some progress…somewhere…somehow…

I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Harry Potter. By now, I would think you know who does…

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Monsters so far…

Yugi: Dark Magician, Kuriboh, Celtic Guardian

Seto: Blue Eyes Baby Dragon

Hermione: Cyber Harpie

Tristan: Thunder Kid

Joey: Baby Dragon, Flame Swordsman

Alex Brisbane: Dark Blade, Pitch Dark Dragon

Tea: Dark Witch, Happy Lover

Chapter 10

"Did the dispatch find Seto yet?" asked Mokuba. He was sitting at Seto's desk at Kaiba Corp; a take-out from Burger World was on the desk, along with three phones and a laptop.

Roland took a sip from his soda, "They said they would radio in when the storms on the island improved. It's too dangerous at the moment and they're taking shelter."

"Oh…"

"Jameston said that the phone Mr. Kaiba called from was owned by someone called 'Gardner.' Do you know anyone by that name?"

"You mean Tea? Yea, I know her. You remember Tea, Roland. She was one of Yugi's friends on the Battle City trip."

"Oh…yes. I vaguely remember her begging to be allowed on the blimp…"

"Well that means Seto's not alone out there. Wherever he is, Tea's with him!"

"Unless, she died and he used her phone," Roland took a bite from his chicken sandwich.

Mokuba threw a fry at him, "I was trying to think positive, Roland! Positive thinking only!!"

"Sorry…" Roland was going through a department report, when he suddenly he put his soda back on Seto's desk, "Well. This is certainly interesting."

"What is it?" asked Mokuba.

"Apparently, some of the parts to the new dueling system are missing. According to this report, tens of thousands of dollars worth of technology has mysteriously disappeared."

"How could that be?" asked Mokuba, "that stuff is kept under lock and key!"

"It means employees are stealing from the storage areas."

"Only those who work on creating the duel-disks and those who work on updating the systems have access. That's most of the tech department."

Mokuba groaned, "Aw man! The tech department is huge! It'll take forever to go through everyone!"

Marik flopped down onto the couch in his house in Domino. Ishizu and Odion were checking up on the Egyptian Exhibit in the museum, so he was 'instructed' to unpack his stuff or find something worthwhile to do. So, the young wizard pulled out the Millennium Rod and set it next to him. A moment or so later, Set appeared in spirit form.

"You think they're ok?" asked the priest.

"Who do you mean, Odion and Ishizu or Yugi and the others?"

"Well, I was referring to Seto and the others, but both."

"Well, I'm worried. Stupid Voldemoldy's been pretty quiet and stuff…too quiet. Like something's gonna happen real soon. As for Yugi and the others, Yugi's been through so much he can pretty much weasel his way out of anything. He's overcome Pegasus's Millennium Eye, helped me defeat my darker half, got rid of Dartz and stood up to who-knows how many Death Eaters."

Marik could tell Set was still worried so he added, "Besides, I heard that a rescue team was sent out to where the plane crashed. They'll be back in no time at all!"

"So where's this unbreakable stone?" asked Joey, squinting from the sun's light.

Tristan pointed over to the left, "it's right there."

"So now what do we do?"

"Destroy it of course," said Alex. "That is what the riddle told us to do."

At that moment, a small glass-like figure materialized in front of the stone.

"Puny little thing, isn't he?" asked Tristan, smirking.

"Well, now he's gonna be even punier than ever!" Joey laughed, summoning his Flame Swordsman. Tristan also summoned his Thunder Kid and they both launched an attack.

"Oh yea!" Tristan and Joey slapped a high-5. "That runt is down!"

"Let's hope so," said Alex.

"Well, never hurt to make sure!" said Joey, and running with Flame Swordsman, he commanded his attack, "Charge!!"

"Joey, wait!" cried Alex, "Slow down!"

"Ah, quit your worryin'! I've got this taken care of!"said Joey, "Now, Flame Swordsman! Finish him off!"

Tristan slapped his forehead, "Kinda hard to do with you in the way!"

Joey's eyes bugged out, "…Good point..."

Tristan sighed, "Only you could screw this up…come on, he's made of glass!"

The little glass creature then grabbed Joey's shoulders.

"Nyeh! Take that!" Joey punched its jaw. With a victory whoop, he ran back to the others. "Did you see…I cracked his jaw!"

Tristan didn't seem impressed, "So?"

"I weakened him!"

"Whatever. Let me show you how it's really done," Tristan said, moving forward, but Joey stopped him.

"Oh no you don't! This one's mine!"

"We already saw what you could do, Joey. Now let a real man take over."

Joey glared, "So I do the work and you come and steal all the glory!"

"You call blocking your attack work?"

"You're on the same side!" cried Alex, "Act like it!"

Joey released Tristan from a headlock, "Okay, okay."

"Ready?" asked Tristan, "On three!"

"Three!"

However, before the monsters could attack, the sun was now shining right into their eyes.

"The sun is too strong," said Alex, "It's hard to see now!"

The creature then started to glow. A beam of light then came from the center of its body and was fired at the group.

"I should have guessed this!" exclaimed Alex as they ran for cover, "That creature is able to absorb the sun's rays and turn them into a laser beam! And since we're above the clouds, the sun's rays are even stronger!"

Joey grimaced, "Oh man! What's our back-up plan?"

The creature then destroyed the boulder they were hiding behind.

Splitting up, the monster fired at Tristan and Thunder Kid, who were standing at the stone. It nearly hit them but…

"Oh man!" said Tristan, "That blast could have hurt me. Good thing it put a crack in the unbreakable stone…WAIT! It put a crack in the stone! Joey!"

"What! A little busy here!"

"I need you to do something. Take your finger and put it under your eye…then pull down."

"Like this?"

"Thanks! Now you're officially a distraction!"

Before Joey knew what was happening, he and Alex were being chased by light blasts of all sizes.

Up at the stone, Tristan and Thunder Kid were using the cracks that the glass creature had set in the stone to make one big crack. However, it wasn't working too well.

"Joey! I'll take it from here!" Tristan waited to get the creature's attention. "Hey, chandelier boy! Let's see how good your aim is!" By taunting the monster, Tristan was able to get some more holes and cracks in the stone.

"Is that all you got? C'mon!"

By standing in front of the first crack, Tristan was slowly getting a bigger and bigger hole in the unbreakable stone.

"What does he think he's doin'?" said Joey.

"One hit and he's done for!" exclaimed Alex.

Yugi and Seto were still resting in the cave. Tea was sitting by the entrance of the cave, looking out at the clouds around her. A moment later, Hermione came out, and sat beside her.

"Did they wake up yet?" asked Tea.

The witch shook her head, "No. Yugi's still asleep, and Seto hasn't moved since the guys left."

"I don't mean to pry or anything, but are you alright? You seem a little spaced from everyone."

Hermione nodded, "It's a multitude of things. My parents were murdered…" Saying this brought tears back to her eyes, "…I'm most likely at the top of Draco Malfoy's hit list, I left all my friends behind in England, my best friend is wanted by a tyrannical wizard bent on nothing but destruction, and now I'm stuck in a crazy game where I may never get out again, and all hope lies in this pendant."

Tea gave her a sympathetic hug, "I'm so sorry about your parents." After a moment's pause, "Why did you leave your friends behind though?"

"The Death Eaters – the bad guys – were able to get past all of the precautionary security set up for my parents, and they were still murdered, most likely because of my friendship to Harry Potter. I don't feel safe there. Even Hogwarts – the safest place for me – wasn't able to keep Death Eaters out."

"Harry Potter…didn't we meet him over Christmas break?"

"Yea, he and I were staying at the Kaiba Manor."

"So where are you going to live?"

"Well, I'm going back to Japan with Seto, so I guess you could say I'm moving in with him. In the fall I'll attend Domino High to keep up the appearance of a foreign exchange student."

"You're moving in with Kaiba? I didn't think he was that compassionate." Tea leaned back against the outer wall of the cave.

"Well, we've both been through a lot together," Hermione twiddled her wand between her fingers. "He saved me from Malfoy twice – both times Malfoy was trying to kill me."

"Hermione, why is this Malfoy guy trying to kill you?"

"I'm still not sure. His father works for Voldemort, and I guess as a way to initiate Malfoy among the Death Eaters, he has to kill a Muggleborn."

"Muggleborn?"

"A Muggleborn, or as they call us, Mudblood, is someone with non-magic parents. My parents were both dentists, not a shred of magic in them."

"Why'd he pick you though?"

"Well, in Hogwarts, I was the top student in our year, putting him at number two. I guess second best to a Muggleborn isn't acceptable in his house. This year though, Yugi, Seto, Ryou and Marik were all considered Muggleborn, even though of the links back to Ancient Egypt. Seto is extremely gifted and smart, and he knocked Malfoy even farther down to third."

"…Oh, I see. I guess you came from a funeral by the way you're dressed."

Hermione glanced down at her black suit and nodded, "Seto went with me, in case something was to happen. Thankfully, it was a peaceful ceremony. It seems almost unreal that I'll be spending more than vacation time in Domino, but at least I'll have friends there. Hopefully Death Eaters aren't following us back, and Voldemort's defeated soon."

"So are you and Seto…together?" asked Tea, glancing back at the cave. When Hermione nodded, Tea smiled, "Well, welcome to the club, Hermione," said Tea, getting up, "When we get to Domino you can meet Duke, Mai, and Serenity if she's there. Duke owns a game shop by Yugi's place, Mai's out of school and she pops around from time to time, and Serenity is Joey's little sister. We're all one big family of friends. When you throw the four of us (me, Joey, Tristan, and Yugi) with Ryou, Marik, and Duke, Mai and Serenity, you get friendly chaos."

"Sounds wonderful," Hermione smiled.

"Well, if there's anything you need once we get to Domino, you let me know," Tea smiled, "Let's go check on the guys."

Hermione followed Tea back into the cave. Yugi was still fast asleep. Tea put her hand on Yugi's forehead to make sure he wasn't ill. She then noticed the bandages on Seto's right hand.

"What happened to his hand?"

"It was a cursed quill," Hermione explained, "one of the professors at Hogwarts, Professor Umbridge, would make students write lines for detention. But she made them use her special quill. When you use it, the message is written on the parchment – without ink- in your blood. And then, the same message is cut into the back of your hand. The more you use it, the worse your hand gets. They're called Blood Quills. Eventually your hand would heal once everything was over, but his hasn't healed at all. It keeps opening up in blood every now and then."

Tea was shocked, "They allow this at Hogwarts?"

"No, but as the High Inquisitor, if anyone stood up to her, she would make sure that they were either punished, or fired. It didn't help much that she admitted to being a Death Eater."

"My goodness…how long was the detentions?"

"As long as she kept you there…Seto's first one was from around six – right during dinner – until at least three that morning. I never saw him come back into the common room, it was so late. Even Ron and Marik, who sometimes stay up late to get their essays done, were asleep before he got back."

At that moment, Seto groaned and blearily opened his eyes. Wincing, he sat up against the wall of the cave.

"Have a nice nap?" asked Hermione, sitting beside him.

"Peachy…" Seto rubbed the back of his head, feeling the bruise the monster in the last challenge delivered to him.

"Hey – the guys left in such a hurry, they left the instructions behind!" Tea went outside to retrieve the scroll. Seto followed her out of the cave to take a look at it.

"Can you read it, Kaiba?" she handed off the scroll.

Seto took a look. It was written in hieroglyphics, like the other riddles, but he felt able to read this. It must be because of my relation with the past, he thought. Just like how I was able to read the text on the Winged Dragon of Ra card. "Yes, I can read it.

"The Trial of Light and Shadows

Once a day, an unbreakable stone appears in the valley of light.

To achieve the impossible,

Fight with a power that is greater than physical might."

"Something's not right though…" Seto frowned, "This is only half of the riddle."

"Half?" asked Tea, "But this is the only scroll! Where's the other part of the riddle?"

"Light and shadow…" Seto said aloud, "Light and – that's it. The rest has to be read in the dark."

"The dark, but why?"

"It's called the light and shadows trial, but it only speaks of the light. If we take this into the shadow, the shadow part of the clue should appear." Seto took the scroll into the cave.

Yugi was waking up. "Hey guys. Is that the riddle?" he asked.

"Uh huh," said Tea, "the others went off to solve it, but they only got part of the instructions."

When Seto opened the scroll in the dark, new hieroglyphics were lit in a bright green glow.

"So, what's it say?" asked Hermione.

Seto scanned the text, "Great…the others are doomed. If Wheeler screws it up…c'mon."

The glass creature was still trying to get rid of Tristan, who's last insult was "I hear your gran was a china cabinet". However, one of the light blasts was a little too close and it grazed Thunder Kid's shoulder.

Tristan gasped in pain, but looked at the unbreakable stone. It was time. The hole was big enough to destroy the entire rock.

"Hey Joey!" he called, "Be a distraction for me!"

"What! No, are you nuts!"

"Oh come on! Help a guy out!"

Joey grumbled, but started teasing the creature, "Nyeh nah neh nah nah!" He immediately took off to avoid the next round of fire.

Tristan meanwhile, turned to face the stone, "Okay Thunder Kid, let's do this! Attack the stone!" The monster's round of electricity was strong enough to take the already-fractured rock and completely demolish it.

The glass creature stopped its attack and began jumping up and down in a frustrated manner.

"Hey, good job, Tristan. You broke the rock!"

"Amazing. He had the creature crack the rock so he could use Thunder Kid to destroy it. Brilliant!" said Alex.

Tristan grinned, "Thanks – don't forget talented and charming!"

"Not to mention funny. But hey – looks aren't everything, eh Tristan?"

"Watch it Wheeler!"

"Nyeh hah ha hah!" They then noticed the creature's peculiar attitude.

Joey grinned, "Looks like our buddy's got his glass undies in a bunch. Let's put him outta his misery!"

Hiding behind a slab, Joey and Tristan charged up to the monster. The glass critter attacked the slab, but wasn't able to destroy it.

"Two good ideas in one day. That's a new personal record for you Tristan! Now Flame Swordsman, sick em!"

With the creature destroyed, Joey pumped a fist, "Alright! We passed the test!"

Just then, the rubble from the unbreakable stone started to move, and a new monster rose from the rocks.

The other four were descending down into the Valley of Light.

"According to the riddle," said Seto, "Once the creature of light is destroyed, a new more dangerous creature is born."

"We have to find the others before it's too late!" cried Tea.

"It's too late. Look!" Hermione pointed down where the new monster was standing. Then they hurried to catch up with the others.

"Hey! What's the deal!" said Tristan, "I thought we cleared this challenge!"

"Obviously we were wrong," said Alex. The creature raised its two swords and began to attack. The three boys were able to block the monster, but barely.

"He's too strong for our monsters!" said Joey.

The others finally reached the bottom.

"They're in trouble," said Yugi, "Loading capsule. Come on, Dark Magician!"

Loading his favorite monster, Yugi activated his Duel Armor to battle the creature, while also letting Yami take control

Battling the monster seemed to look like a draw.

/Yami, he's the same as us. We must be equal in strength!/

/Perhaps we should try dark magic…/

"Go Dark Magic Attack!" The light from Yugi's scepter seemed to work. The monster knelt down in front of the remains of the unbreakable stone and then didn't move. A chest came out of nowhere and began to glow.

"Flame Swordsman, end this!" said Joey.

Flame Swordsman raised its sword but Seto pulled out his own weapon and blocked the attack.

"Kaiba, what are you doin'?"

"You don't need to attack to win. It's already over," said the CEO.

Tristan was confused, "It is?"

"See for yourselves," said Seto, putting his sword away. The glowing chest popped open. Yami removed the armor and gave control back to Yugi.

"The second part of the riddle explains it all," said Seto," We already passed."

"We did?" asked Alex, "You mean there was more?"

"The part you read only described the first part," said Tea.

"So what was the rest of the riddle?"

" 'When light is extinguished

The true test begins

For a creature of darkness it brings.

But only the righteous and peaceful shall pass

To earn the endowment of wings.'" said Seto.

"When the chest appeared, the monster was no longer a threat," said Yugi. "So Seto stopped Joey's attack to prove we were peaceful people."

"Very good…" said a mysterious voice. "This challenge was a test of your character, and should you have attacked you would have failed. But by choosing the higher path, you have proven your worth once again."

"Who are you?" asked Yami, taking control again. "How do you know so much about this place?"

"I am a friend. I oversee these trials. Congratulations, you have achieved level two."

At that moment, the second section of Hermione's pendant lit up. She looked down and took the amulet in her hands, "He's right, we did pass this trial."

"Three trials remain, and the most difficult tests are at hand."

"What happens if we fail a test?" asked Joey.

"You will be trapped here until the next warrior comes along."

"Then what happens after we pass these trials?" asked Seto.

"You will have proven yourself a true king and the power you deserve shall be yours."

"But we don't want power!" said Yami.

"But there are those who do…and you must claim this power before they do..."

"Well, we got our wings," said Tristan, "Now what?"

"I'm guessing we go through that big doorway in the sky," said Alex.

Gozaburo looked at the gold capsule sitting on his desk. Taking it in his hands he looked out a window facing town. It's only a matter of time before the greatest power on Earth belongs to me!

"First it was the desert…then a floating island…now it's a lava-covered wasteland. What's next a jungle full of food?" complained Tristan.

The rock Joey and Tristan were standing on gave away and if it wasn't for Tristan and Seto to grab his arms, he would have fallen into the lava river below.

"Joey! Tristan! Watch where you're going!" said Yugi, "You could have been killed."

Joey stayed on the ground, "Man, I need a vacation…"

"Why vacation when you've got a twisted life-threatening game?"

"Way to make me feel better, Kaiba."

"Anytime, Wheeler."

"Nyeh…I want out, so you guys chill here and let ol' Joey Wheeler handle this one!" Joey took off, "I won't come back without a clue!"

"That's impossible!" Seto shouted after him, "You're always clueless!"

Joey was wandering up a path, muttering to himself, "Each one of these annoying challenges started off with an annoying riddle…now where's this one's riddle? I'm sure this challenge is no different." Out of the corner of his eyes, Joey saw something large and black coming toward him and he had barely enough time to drop to the ground.

"No way! It's my good buddy Red Eyes Black Dragon!"

The dragon turned around and started to make another pass at Joey, its claws ready to grab him.

"Hey, this is how you treat me…after all we've been through?"

The Red Eyes opened its mouth and sent out a magic blast toward Joey…

Joey started running from the attacks. Tripping on a pebble on the ground, he slid into the wall of the mountain. Joey looked down at his capsule shooter.

"I can't…" he said to himself, "I can't hurt him…c'mon Red Eyes! Don't make me do somethin' I'll regret!"

Red Eyes came closer and closer, but didn't leave a scratch on Joey as it passed.

"Weird," said Joey, "He doesn't want to hurt me either!"

"Guys, check it out!" Tea pointed across the lava river, "There's the clue!"

"Too bad it's on the other side of a lava pit," said Tristan.

"Leave that to me," said Hermione. Summoning her Cyber Harpie, she instructed her to retrieve the clue. When she received it, she handed it off to Brisbane. "What's it say?"

"To gain the prize of thy desire

Locate the peak that spits fire.

The Blade of Chaos thou must release,

To bring about everlasting peace."

"I don't think a 'peak that spits fire' should be hard to spot," said Alex, "It's pretty obvious that we're talking about a volcano."

"What about the blade of chaos? How do we release it?" asked Tea.

"Let's not talk about it, and just start climbing that thing," said Seto.

After scaling part of the volcano, Tristan sighed, "I like how Joey conveniently disappears right before we learn we have to scale Mount St. Helens."

"More climbing, less complaining," said Seto, "didn't you learn your lesson last time?"

"C'mon, Kaiba, people don't fall into lava pits twice in one day!"

The part of the volcano Tristan then grabbed on to gave away and he fell down towards the flowing lava.

"Tristan!"

"Argh!" Tristan managed to grab onto a rock on the way down. However that rock also came loose, and he continued to fall. Lucky for him, he touched a capsule monster. Before he knew it, Tristan was on the back of Thunder Dragon.

"Hey guys!" Tristan said, riding his monster, "I think I found the easiest way up this thing. We should use our monsters, instead of climbing this thing."

"Sounds easy enough…"

Yami activated his Duel Armor to fly to the top while Seto rode his dragon. Dark Witch and Cyber Harpie carried Tea and Hermione while Pitch Dark Dragon took Alex to the flat upper area of the volcano.

Near the top was a sword stuck in the rock.

"Look!" Hermione pointed to the peak, "It's the Blade of Chaos!"
When they landed on the flat area under the sword, everyone looked up at the Blade of Chaos.

"Who's gonna go up to the top? Draw straws?"

"No Tristan, we're all going!" said Alex.

"No. It's much too dangerous," said Yami. "Since Kaiba and I have armor, we'll go to the top."

"The rest of you stay here," said Seto, as the two went up to the sword. They were very close when a blast of dark magic hit the rock and sent the two flying. Yami looked to where the blast came from.

"Is that who I think it is?" he asked Seto.

The businessman peered at the shadowy figure, "Yep…it's Wheeler."

Joey looked like he was wearing 'Red Eyes Armor', and had a malevolent grin on his face.

"Joey!" exclaimed Yami, "What happened to you?"

"What does it look like?" asked Joey, "Don't play dumb with me! It's the same thing that you did. I merged with my favorite monster! And now that I've got a nice power boost, I'll finish this game without you dweebs!"

"Dweeb!" Tristan shouted, "Who're you calling a dweeb, Joey!"

"Easy," said Tea, "Joey's not like that. He must be under mind control or something."

"Snap out of it Wheeler," said Seto, merging his sword with his Blue Eyes Baby Dragon, "We don't have all day."

"Give me a break, Kaiba!" snapped Joey, "You're just jealous 'cause I'm stronger than you! And now I'll prove it!" Joey sent an 'Inferno Fire Blast' toward the others, who scattered to avoid the blast, but was still in the vicinity to be hit.

"Joey, listen to me! You're not in your right mind! You have to fight whatever it is that's controlling you!"

"Save it, Yugi! I'm through listening to you!"

Joey sent massive attacks toward Yami, who was blocking them with his staff.

/We can't fight our best friend, Yami! We just can't!/

/I'm sorry Yugi. He's not giving us much of a choice!/

"I'm sorry, Joey!" Yami sent Dark Magic attacks toward Joey.

"So that's how it is….fine." Joey and Yami continued to fight.

"Fight it Joey!"

"Face it, Yugi. The Joey you knew is gone!"

Wait! Thought Joey, I don't want to do this! Something happened when I was with Red Eyes on the path. I can't fight my best friend! Gotta break free!

Hermione slowly opened her eyes. The blast knocked everyone off their feet. Tristan, Tea and Brisbane were starting to come to. "Oh no!" she cried, "The Blade of Chaos is sinking into the volcano!"

Seto ran toward the sword, but Joey blocked his path. "Oh look," the blond taunted, "Another hero!" He waved his staff at Seto, sending his dark magic toward him, but Seto deflected it with his glove and continued on his way to the sword. Joey then flew down closer to Seto. Before he could block Joey's attack with his sword, Joey struck him with his own staff. Seto tumbled down next to Tea.

"Seto!" Hermione ran over and knelt down next to him as he began to come around.

Seto coughed as he sat up, "Well…that could have gone better."

Joey, feeling Seto was no longer a threat, set his sights on Yami again.

"He's distracted," said Tristan, "That's our chance to pull out the sword!" Everyone but Alex ran up to the sword and began to tug it out. However, despite the four people yanking up on the handle, the Blade of Chaos continued to slide into the volcano.

Joey flew down to them after propelling Yami away. "You never learn, do you?" Making a swiping motion with his staff, the four fell back down the peak and landed in a big pile.

"Someone's on my arm!"

"Can't help you, Tristan, because someone's on top of my leg."

"Sorry, Tea," said Hermione, "Ouch! That was my hair!"

"Sorry!" said Tristan.

"If you all don't get off me," said Seto in a very low and threatening voice from the very bottom of the pile, "I'll take this sword and impale someone with it…" That got everyone moving real fast. Seto looked up at Joey, and shook his head, "There's got to be a way to defeat him."

Meanwhile, Joey was able to temporarily overthrow Yami. Raising his staff for a finishing blow, something made him stop.

"What's going on?" cried Joey, "Why can't I move my arms!"

It's me, said Joey from inside his mind, there's no way I'm letting you hurt my friends…I mean I don't like Kaiba…but that doesn't mean you can go all kung-fu on him…it's time to end this. YUGI!! I don't know if you can hear me, but you've got to attack me!

/Pharaoh! Did you hear that?/

/It sounded like Joey…wanting us to attack him!/

/He could get himself hurt though!/

/Perhaps, but he wants us to. It might be the only way to break him free!/

Seto also seemed to hear Joey's plea, but didn't act like he heard anything.

"We've got to get to the sword," said Hermione, "or we'll all be stuck here!"

"Not on my watch!" Joey's controller was able to shake the good Joey off as he flew down right in front of Hermione. "Haven't you guys learned that you can't possibly defeat me?"

No one's invicible, Wheeler," said Seto, standing in front of Hermione, sword drawn, "Not even you."

Joey tried to slash Seto with his staff, but once again, the good Joey began to take over long enough for Yami to send a wave of Dark Magic at him. The blast hit dead-on.

In a flash of light, Red Eyes Black Dragon separated from Joey and flew towards the group, ready to strike. Seto struck Red Eyes with his sword and the dragon went down.

Alex ran up to the peak, but the sword had already gone completely into the rock. He fell to his knees, "…it's over…we lost!"

"No!" cried Tea, "Now we're never going to get of here!"

"Think…again!"

Everyone turned. Joey, weakened from Yami's blast, climbed up onto Red Eyes' back. In the middle of the dragon's back, was a sword, different to the one that fell into the volcano.

"Look!" said Alex, "it's another sword! Perhaps that is the real blade of chaos!"

"We didn't lose yet!" Joey grabbed the hilt of the sword and began to tug. With black magic coming from all angles out of the dragon, the sword was released.

"You're ok, pal," said Joey, as Red Eyes flew into Joey's capsule shooter. Joey put his favorite monster on his belt with Flame Swordsman and Baby Dragon as the third section of Hermione's amulet lit up.

"We did it, thanks to Joey!" Yugi cheered.

Part of the volcano disappeared, revealing another bright doorway.

"We're half finished now," said Hermione, "only three trials left. Let's say we go and get this one over with!"

"I'm with you!" said Joey, leaning on Tristan for support, "Let's blow this wasteland!"

"What do you think will be next?" asked Alex.

"I can't believe it…" said Joey.

"Wow…" said Hermione, "This is…different."

"I completely called it in the last challenge!" said Tristan.

Who would've thunk they'd end up in a jungle full of fruit?

Monsters so far…

Yugi: Dark Magician, Kuriboh, Celtic Guardian

Seto: Blue Eyes Baby Dragon

Hermione: Cyber Harpie

Tristan: Thunder Kid, Thunder Dragon

Joey: Baby Dragon, Flame Swordsman, Red Eyes Black Dragon

Alex Brisbane: Dark Blade, Pitch Dark Dragon

Tea: Dark Witch, Happy Lover

Well, that's the end for now. The purple button is a master secretary. However, he's kind of bored. Review if you would like and he'll recieve his paycheck! Thanks for reading!