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"Hey, Téa?"

"What is it, Amber?"

Tea looked up from the dance routine she was writing to see her roomy standing in the doorway of her bedroom.

"I just checked the mail –" She cut herself off at this thought. "Seriously, who writes letters anymore? It would save everyone so much time and money to not have to check for mail all the time. Email is better, and it –"

"Amber?"

"Eh? Oh, sorry. Letter. Here ya go." She walked in and dropped the letter on Tea's desk. "It's weird, because it just has your name and our room number, and no actual address, so they must have just left it downstairs with the mail guy – hey, have you noticed how hot this new mail guys is? He's..."

Yeah, you totally don't have ADD. Tea smiled to herself about her room mate's innocence as she opened the letter. Then her smile turned into a frown.

"Tell Yugi: Tonight, nine o'clock, stand outside apartment building, bring Puzzle. No tricks. A.S."

"A.S..." she muttered.

"..And so then I'll go up to him and be, like, 'can you deliver this'? And he'll think I'm gone and he'll open it, and it'll be from me and it'll say...hey, Téa? Te-ah! Yoo hoo!" Amber bent her head to one side to look Tea in the eyes. "Problem? What did the letter say? Oh, god! Was it from the mail guy? What did he say? Can I read-"

"No, it was just some prank letter." Tea tossed it in the paper bin. Amber looked decidedly disappointed, and left, still muttering to herself about how to get the mail guy to ask her out.

As soon as the door was closed, Tea picked up the letter again. 'A.S.' could only mean Slater, which meant that this was Slater telling Yugi where to go for their next Shadow Game.

Téa gulped. Then Slater was already in New York; it had been about twenty-four hours since she had spoken to Yugi and the others, and Slater had already left at that time. He had probably arrived several hours ago and was setting up the scene for his next game with Yugi.

Tea wondered if they would arrive in time for tonight; she hadn't heard from them since yesterday; for all she knew, they were still in Japan.

After Yugi had thrashed Joey twice, the four of them spent the next few hours of the flight sleeping; none of them had slept more than a few hours last night.

Yugi was the first to wake. Looking around at the others sprawled on the floor in the limited confines of the jet, he smiled to himself. Remembering what he and Bakura had spoken of before Joey and Tristan had arrived with the chips, he took out the Millennium Puzzle. Almost without thinking, he started to put it together.

He couldn't imagine how it had taken him eight hears to first solve it; each piece seemed like a magnet to the ones that it fitted with, like they wanted to be solved and Yugi was merely an instrument for them to do so. As he had predicted, it only took him five minutes to put it together. He held it in front of him, mesmerised by it. He suddenly realised that he had never held just the Puzzle; it had always contained the spirit of Atem. This was the first time it had been in his possession without the Pharaoh.

He took out the chain which he had brought with him and fed it through the loop at the top. He placed it around his neck. Despite the added weight, he could have sworn that a weight had just been lifted from his shoulders.

The door knocked just as Téa and Amber were preparing dinner. Tea's hands were covered in chopped onion, so Amber ran around to answer the door.

"Hi, Yugi!" she exclaimed, delighted. Tea started silently fuming as her roomy gave her friend a big hug and invited him in. She wouldn't have been surprised if Amber had shut the door on everyone else's faces.

Tea ran to the sink to rinse her hands, and then turned to greet her friends, but was cut off by the fact that Tristan and Joey had already run into the kitchen to greet her with an enormous hug.

Laughing, she went into the lounge room to rescue Yugi from Amber with Tristan and Joey in tow. Five minutes later, they had crowded around the table, Tea making sure that she sat between Yugi and Amber.

They sat at the table and caught up for a while, before Tea and Amber got up to finish dinner. It wasn't until three hours after they arrived that Tea was finally able to convince Amber to go out, and the six of them were left alone.

"Yugi, listen," Tea said, as soon as the door had closed on Amber. "I got this about four hours ago; it's from Slater."

Her guests crowded around Yugi to read the note that Téa had handed him. They all looked up and stared at her. "We've got less than half an hour," Bakura said.

Tea nodded. "I would have told you sooner, but Amber..."

"Don't even start," Joey said. "We have to get ready to go."

Yugi clutched the Millennium Puzzle. There was no way he could lose to Slater; too much was at stake.

Tea touched his shoulder. "Yugi...I'm really sorry."

He shook his head. "Don't be. It's not your fault that this happened." He lifted his head to look at all his friends. "We've been in worse cases than this, and we've always pulled through. This is no different."

As the others murmured their agreement, Yugi found himself wondering, What does Slater have in store now?

"I've already told you; three days, absolute tops. I need to have access to the DuelDisk system so that I can track where Yugi and his little buddies are, since Mokuba will be with them. Make sure there are no faults in the system; I don't have time to waste while you're all fixing glitches."

Seto Kaiba had left for New York ten hours ago in a single person jet. He couldn't believe he was doing this; it was exactly what Mokuba wanted.

But then again, Mokuba needed to understand that playtime was over; he was part of KaibaCorp, and Seto needed to show him that his little escapades were not a joke. And how better to do that than by going all the way to New York himself; if it were a simple, laughing matter, Seto would have no problem with sending someone else to catch his wayward brother.

Kaiba had expected a response from the people back at KaibaCorp, but when none came after a minute, he become frustrated. "Did you hear me?" he asked.

There was a moment of static, and then;

"Hello, Seto Kaiba. Your staff can't hear you."

Oh, great. A hacker. "State your name and purpose."

"My name is Stephen Dempsey. I'm afraid that I have to ask you to turn around."

"That's not going to happen," Kaiba said matter-of-factly. "I have business in New York and you're not going to stop me from getting there, Dempsey."

There was a chuckle through the radio. "You don't know what you're getting yourself into, Kaiba. I really must say that it's in your best interests to head back to Japan."

Kaiba was unfazed. "I know perfectly well what I'm getting into; absolutely nothing. I'm not going to involve myself in anything more than taking someone back to KaibaCorp."

"This is your last chance, Kaiba."

"It doesn't change anything."

"So be it; it would be difficult for us to meet face to face at the moment, so I'll see you in New York."

Kaiba looked at the radar. There was absolutely nothing that the signal could have come from, but judging by the quality of the signal, this 'Dempsey' must have been close.

He pushed it away. Seto Kaiba was not going to be intimidated by someone like Dempsey. He continued his course for America.

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