Yu-Gi-Oh!

Reuniting Darkness with Light

Ch. 10: Jungle Island and Card Pregnancy

Everyone knew they had to go and rescue the other Duelists, so they the current took their 'ship' toward another location in Blue Pangaea City: an island. As soon as they arrived on the beach, Jessie returned her machine into her hand: because it's much too big to fit through the trees.

Tristan saw the volcano and sighed, "That's one crazy sight to see; a tournament with its own naturally formed lagoon, island, jungle, and volcano? Marcus should get out more." Joey said, "I hope this place has hot and cold running water, we need a bath, and salt water won't do us any good; there's no safety nets, sharks or Duel Monsters brought to life could easily pick us out of their teeth if we're not careful." Duke had to agree, "Yeah, our best bet is the jungle!"

Téa suddenly said, "Hey! A bottle!" Mai sighed as she asked her friend, "Of what? Of soda?" Téa plucked out a small glass bottle and pulled out the cork, inside was just a paper. Jessie sighed, "Too bad, I was hoping for a genie to come out of that bottle." As Téa unrolled it… POOF! The paper turned into a whole hand of 'Duel Monsters' cards, and a small note.

Téa looked at the new cards, they're all good ones. As for the note, Yugi read it off, "'return this bottle to 'Sam's Supermarket', 30 bucks deposit.' Every adventure or gift has to come with a joke or a message or a request."

Lilly sighs, "Let's get a move on, shall we." Mai says, "Wait, before we get going, how about we pair up first?" The pairs were set up by the girls; Yugi goes with Téa, Joey goes with Mai, Tristan goes with Lilly, Duke goes with Serenity, and yet there were no more left. But still, their journey to rescue their friends has to start…

They moved on, on foot, the next unusual place to find on Blue Pangaea City is its own natural jungles. Tristan is getting tired of getting branches in his face, "Hey, how about I be the guy in front of you to break the trail—— before it breaks me." They let Tristan go first. Suddenly, his world is turned upside-down and almost atop everyone else's! Serenity, keeping her cool, asks, "Isn't he breaking trail a little high?"

Joey sighs, "Dumb animal snares. Wonder if there are Duelists or Executioners in this jungle." Tristan groans, "Well, there's Duelists up here, too."

Joey puts his palm to his chin, "I wonder what the pretend natives are like, or what the Duel Monsters brought to life are." Yugi says, "Well, I hope they're not cannibals or headhunters." Tristan calls to his friends, "I hope they're orange pickers, I'd like to get down." Joey tries to calm his friend down, "Oh, come on, stop squawking. You'll fall off when you're ripe."

Tristan calmly complains some more, "I feel like a windsock." Lilly jokes to cheer him up, "Where's the airport? What's the direction of the wind?" Tristan asks, "Which way's north?" His Duel Phoenix replies, "To your left." Tristan answers, "Southwest for now. Can I get down now?" Téa laughs, "You will when you're on the ground."

Still joking some more, they still help him down from the snare. Tristan moans, "This is one of the worst experiences I've ever had since we thought I was going to remain as a robot monkey." Yugi calls to his friend, "You're saved; a pardon just came from the governor." Tristan sighs, "This is the sloppiest hanging I ever attended."

As soon as Tristan's head was close to the dirt, Joey held his buddy's ankle bindings in one hand and posed as if he was getting a picture taken after breaking a record of largest fish ever caught, "I wish we had a camera, then this would be a moment to share to generations to come, it's like the tuna club would love to get a sight of this." Mai's Duel Phoenix replies, "Honey, wish granted." FLASH! Mai's gadget produced an instant Kodiak picture of the humorous moment.

As Tristan was placed to the ground, with his butt pointing towards the sky, he sighs, "Oh, moments like these make me never say "bottoms up" again."

Joey said, "Put your weight on the tree, that way we can hold it down while we keep you right-side-up as we cut the rope." Tristan did so and sighs to relax, "I feel the blood rushing back to my toes, instead of my head, again." Joey used the wings of his Duel Phoenix to cut the ropes, "All done."

But as Joey let go of the tree, Tristan went flying as if the tree was a catapult launching a stone! Yugi got concerned but remained calm, "Ooo! That's gotta hurt!" Lilly worries, "Poor Tristan." Mai jokes, "Boy, he loves to travel." Joey runs after his airborne friend, "Come on; let's get him a Band-Aid."

Tristan begins to enjoy is catapult flight, but like most journeys, his has to end. SPLASH! And where else did it end but in a large river within this island's jungle. As he resurfaced…

Lilly's voice called out, "Tristan!" Tristan calls back, "This way, nurse! And bring my toy boats!"

As soon as his friends arrived, Joey sighed, "Alright! All those who hadn't had a bath, say "aye"!" Everyone else called out, "Aye!"

Téa places her hand into the water, "Is it safe to drink?"

Joey stepped back to add some thrust to a leap, ran for the water, and jumped! "CANNONBALL!" SPLASH! It took Joey several moments to rise to the surface, he sighs, "Man, this water is the best!"

Duke jokes, "Not anymore."

Tristan said, "Look up, it's Lilly!" Joey did so, as did the others. Yugi asks as he enters the water, "Where did Millie and Lilly get bathing suits?" Millie in a bright red one-piece bathing suit, while Lilly is in a plaid two-piece swimming suit, Joey asked himself, "Where'd they keep those?"

"Swan dive." Lilly performed a forward dive with her legs straight together, the back arched, and the arms stretched out from the sides and then brought together over the head as she enters the water. A few moments later, Tristan yipped! Lilly emerged to the surface, behind Tristan, massaging his shoulders.

Joey sighs, "Tristan, you lucky guy!" Tristan looks behind him to find Lilly, "Did you pinch me in the butt?" Lilly smiles, "Yep."

Yugi shouts, "Everyone, let's get out of the water!"

Tristan boldly said, "Not me, I'm staying where it's safe!" Joey points behind Tristan and Lilly, "It's Beastking of the Swamps!" Lilly looks behind her and Tristan and then notices the green slimy monster (Beastking of the Swamps; type: aqua-effect-Water/L: 4/A: 1000/D: 1100), she panics and leaps onto Tristan's shoulders for safety! Tristan could tell she became afraid and moved to get her out of the probable danger…

CHOMP! Tristan felt something nip at his butt! RRRIIIIIPPPP! Tristan and Lilly got out of the water.

Joey and Mai helped Lilly get off of Tristan, "We've got ya, guys." Tristan replies, "Yeah, but the Beastking nearly got all of me!" A few moments, while cautiously looking at the monster looking at them, Tristan said, "I feel a breeze." Lilly checked the back of Tristan's pants to see the damages, Beastking of the Swamps bit off the butt area of only his pants, revealing his white-colored underwear, with a slimy encircling of green goo.

Joey takes a look and gasps, "Well, I'll be darned; color television." Tristan felt his butt area and nervously blushes, "Really?" Duke takes a look as well, "Widescreen too." Yugi tries to joke, "If you had a rearview mirror, you'd be mortified just by looking at it."

If looks can kill, the Beastking of the Swamps is already a corpse; Tristan is throwing a horrible glare at it! "THOSE WERE MY FAVORITE PANTS! NOW YOU'LL PAY!" (You see Tristan disappearing from your point of view)

Tristan is beating the stuffing right out of the poor Duel Monster, while the others looked on, witnessing the action (you can tell from a rapidly-changing expressions on their faces every 2 seconds).

Tristan returned from his battle, unscathed, in his hand is a new card. He asks his friends, "Why are we wasting our time running away from these guys, when we could fight them and capture them." Millie asks him, "Like Pokémon?" Tristan nods to Millie, "Yep."

Suddenly, Millie grew to her teenaged form again! "Wow, I'm big again."

Lilly points behind Tristan again, he looks… it's just a man pulling a boat by a rope while he's in the water. Tristan was confused, "What the? The African Queen?" Joey got interested and recognized the fella pulling the boat, "Humphrey Bogart? Didn't he die in 1957, Mai?" Mai scratched the side of her head, "Boy, are we lost in time and space." Tristan swam towards Bogie, Yugi asks his friend, "What are you doing, Tristan?" Tristan answers, "To ask him for help, or perhaps an autograph."

But as soon as they arrived where they thought they saw Bogie… Jessie sighs, "This newly and super-fast grown jungle has given us real jungle fever. It was just a mirage." Yugi picks up something interesting, something that looks like an Oscar Academy Award but with a few Millennium Items on it, "What do you know? A Millennium Oscar." He found a label under it and read it out loud, "'to anyone to find this. He or she is free to have a second thought about this gift.'"

Joey asks, "Can I have that?" Yugi nods to his best friend, "Sure, I've already got one." Joey got curious, "You do?" Yugi said, "Yes."

Accepting the Millennium Oscar from his best friend, Joey said to an imaginary audience (it can be you, readers), "Friends, it is a great honor for me to accept this Millennium Oscar Duelist's Academy Award, and I'd like to say a few words."

A large roar was filled in the background; then came a big lion-like beast on two legs with a huge red mane (Super War-Lion; type: beast-ritual-Earth/L: 7/A: 2300/D: 2100) that is coming right at them!

Joey said his word (to us), "Have fun in Blue Pangaea City!"

Then he pulled out two cards from his Duel Phoenix, "Blue Flame Swordsman (type: warrior-effect-Fire/L: 4/ATK: 1800/DEF: 1600), attack Super War-Lion with Salamandra (Equip Spell)!" What appeared to be a powerful Samurai in blue armor, or a blue-armored version of the Flame Swordsman (ATK: 2500), came before Joey and unleashed a serpentine blue flame at the lion monster, turning it into a pile of cards, including War-Lion Ritual and Super War-Lion.

Back in the underground tunnels, the missing half of the Guardian Goddesses is having a few troubles with their own team of friends.

Melody sighs, "All that lies ahead of us is shadow." Rebecca bravely said, "Anything we've faced in the past has to be better than anything we've experienced back in those dungeons."

Suddenly, the crystal brooch on her chest glowed like the sun, lighting their way! Vivian was amazed, "Another one of your Inner Duelist Soul Powers?" Rebecca knew the name of it, "Priestess' Light; it's one of the new cards I've gotten back there, it's a Spell Card that reveals its user's opponent's facedown cards and use their own card effects them as if they were her own." Mokuba said to Rebecca, "Let's follow Rebecca, our future looks a whole lot brighter."

Brigit joked at Rebecca, "Hey, little cutie, can those large breasts glow any brighter?" Rebecca joked back, "It's the brooch, and it's already brighter than you, Brigit Horus."

Vivian says, "We need a map." Mari countered, "Or at least a good sense of direction. Because Seto Kaiba thinks we're going the wrong way."

Ishizu closed her eyes, "I think I can help Rebecca." Suddenly, a white symbol representing light appeared on her forehead. She opened her now glowing white eyes and said, "We're heading out the right way." Seto Kaiba (still shrunk from last time) asks, "Are you so sure about that?" Ishizu said to the shrunken Kaiba, "Relax, one of my Inner Duelist Soul Powers include the ability to divine the mapping of whatever location we're in. Right now, I know these tunnels like the back of my hand."

Judai said, "I hear moaning, someone nearby must be in excruciating pain." Everyone stopped so he can find the point of origin of the moans. Judai focused on the sound and followed it to Seto's deck! Judai pulled it out and it turned out that a few new cards popped out right out of nowhere from within!

Then a young woman dressed in brown ancient Egyptian clothes appeared from out of nowhere nearby Seto and Judai! She has long white hair, has an angelic face like Serenity Wheeler, pale complexion, and beautiful angelic eyes (Kisara, Human Soul of the Blue-Eyes; type: spellcaster-effect-Light/L: 2/ATK: 800/DEF: 600). Seto knew her well, "Kisara?"

Judai didn't understand, "Kiss who?"

Kisara laid on her back on the ground, Asuka went to find out if it's safe… then as she felt the stomach of Kisara, it began to expand all of the sudden! Kisara continued to groan and moan in pain, only this time it's louder… much louder!

Asuka jumped, "If she's Kisara the Human Soul of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, that must mean something's happening to her!"

Ryomi the Priestess appeared, "Kisara's just having a baby." Rebecca looked at the spirit of her Guardian Goddess with a surprised look, "She's pregnant?" Mokuba looked at his regressed brother with relief and surprise, "A pregnant Monster? Well, there's something you don't see everyday." Seto said, "I don't believe this, a pregnant Duel Monster wouldn't attack without a good reason, for example the Insect Queen." Brigit angrily looked at Seto, "Are you as smart as you were originally, Seto Kaiba? Help Kisara deliver the baby."

Seto whines out, "Why me?" Aditi said, "She's your monster after all, and she needs help."

Seto groans, "Fine." He gets to it, he places an ear on Kisara's stomach, felt the rather strong kick from yet to be born monster. Suddenly, Seto progressed back into his original form (his adult form)!

Seto said to the others, "Don't just stand there; help me! I never did this before!" Ishizu said, "I'll help you, Seto." She kneeled to her knees and got to Kisara's womb (which is now as big as a grown adult), "It's probable that she's having more than one baby." Seto placed Kisara's head into his lap, and then let her squeeze his hand, and her grip is as strong as steel, but Seto endured it!

Vivian asked, "I don't get it, why is Ishizu doing the messy part and Seto doing the calming?" Rebecca answered, "Because the Blue-Eyes White Dragon originally and only served Seto in his previous life. She is the human incarnation of that very dragon, she trusts him only." Melody said, "And besides we couldn't risk endangering the baby."

Vivian asked, "Does that mean we're going to have a bunch of Blue-Eyes White Dragons hatching here?"

Ishizu pushed onto Kisara's womb hard (with all her strength), Isis the Guardian helped out by empowering her owner with superhuman strength!

The operation was successful; Ishizu pulled out 11 beautiful babies, and Kisara's pain and suffering has ended (as well as having a normal stomach again)!

Rebecca smiles, "Not bad. These babies are born without a father, it's kind of sad."

Suddenly, the babies and Kisara all went into the decks of the Duelists! Seto looked at Kisara's card and three Blue-Eyes White Chick cards (Blue-Eyes White Chick; type: dragon-effect-Light/Level: 2/ATK: 800/DEF: 700) and the water that broke from Kisara turned into a light-like energy that flowed into the hand of one of the cloaked figures in this group.

That light mended a torn card in that figure's hand and the card is none other than…

Seto gasps! Mokuba asks, "What is it, big brother?" Seto points to the card, "It's a Blue-Eyes White Dragon, much like my three, but how can that be?" Rebecca came closer to the cloaked figure and removed the hood to reveal none other than… Solomon Muto (Yugi's grandfather)! But this time, he's much younger than before!

(A/N: If you don't know what he looks like when he was in his thirties or so, look on other websites and read "Shounen Jump")

Rebecca steps back, "Solomon Muto?" Mr. Muto nods, "Yes, Rebecca." Mokuba understands now, "You've been granted by the Seal of Balancéa and your Inner Duelist Soul Powers, is that it?" Mr. Muto nods again, "You're on a hot streak today, Mokuba." He brushes his spiky brown hair with his left hand.

Vivian and Sieg suddenly returned to their adult forms as they removed the hoods on the other cloaked figures! The others seem to be allies such as Pegasus (given a new regenerated left eye), Rebecca's own grandfather (surprisingly rejuvenated like Solomon), etc., even those who have thought to be dead; Cecelia Pegasus, Noah Kaiba (he's matching age with Seto), etc.

Cherona gasped at the sight of the teenaged Noah, "Sorry for treating you like a pervert earlier."

To be continued…