A/N: Akantha: ... You're all evil.

Me: Thankies!

Lyn: HEY! I resent that...

Akantha: Remind me again why I put up with this?

Lysane: Because it's your job?

Akantha: Yeah, and I'm not paid enough for it.

Lysane: ... Er, we're not paid at all.

Akantha: Exactly.

Lyn: ... Riiiight. Well, anyway...

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Yami and Mai were at the dueling platform. Yami was on the blue side, while Mai had the red.

"You know, Mai, you did promise me an honorable duel," Yami said, "so that means you can't do your perfume trick."

"You betcha I did," Mai reassured him with a smirk. "And I'm not using that stupid trick any more."

You know, Yugi thought, I really think she is going to give us an honorable duel.

"Let's duel!" Yami and Mai said together.

"I play Harpie Lady in attack mode!" Mai announced.

Reneey blinked. "Quoting Lynni -- 'Those harpies are, like, the only monsters cards in her deck, and yet she always manages to draw them.'"

"No biggie," Joey said, rolling his eyes. "Yugi's seen that card in action billions of times."

Mai ended her turn with a card facedown.

"I summon Gaia the Fierce Knight in attack mode!" Yami announced. "Attack her Harpie Lady!"

"Not so fast," Mai said, activated her trap card, Mirror Wall.

"What does that do?" Yin asked.

"Any monster that attacks gets its attack reduced by half," Mai explained. Now Yami's monster had only 1150 ATK.

"And next I use the magic card, Cyber Shield, to give my Harpie a makeover -- and raise its ATK to 1800. Now she can destroy your monster!"

Yugi's monster was destroyed, leaving him with 1350 LP.

"And this is the part where Tristan, Daddy, and me go off to save Mokuba," Reneey murmured.

"What?" Tristan asked, but was cut off by Reneey grabbing his coat, and her dad's collar, and dragging them both off.

"Have fun and tell them who wins," Reneey called over her shoulder, ignoring the struggles of Tristan and Bakura.

(Lyn: Yeah, she can drag both Tristan and Bakura off somewhere! Why? Because she's a fangirl!

Me: This is why you never anger the fangirl.

Lyn: Yeah. Pucca is living proof.

Me: Yeap! Like that one time on Pucca, where she was pissed off at Garu, so when he backed away and broke his leg, a big blue bell randomly came out of the blue and fell on top of him.

Lyn: The fangirls. We should be feared! D

Me: Yeah. But we should probably go back to the chapter now.

Lyn: -nods- Enough with the random authors' notes.

Akantha: Author's notes? Hey, DON'T YOU DARE -- (gets cut off by the story))

"Reneey, I demand you let go of me now!" Bakura hissed as he struggled from her death grip.

"Aren't ya mad that I inherited your death grip?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Ya see when we get there..."

"Reneey, what do you mean by save Mokuba?" Tristan asked.

Bakura suddenly looked thoughtful. "Mokuba.. has no soul... Correct?"

"Daddy.. trust me.. you have better luck with Ryou." Then she slapped him upside the head. "I mean, going after Mokuba? Ryou duels better than Mokuba, idiot!"

She sighed as she dragged them further into the dungeon.

"Wait.. what?" Tristan asked, alarmed.

When they reached the dungeons, Tristan's eyes widened. "Gee, Reneey.. I never know you were.. into this, with me..."

Even before Reneey could scream and hit him, he got a punch to the face and a kick in the gut from Bakura.

"Um.. Daddy.. don't kill him!" Reneey said, eyeing Tristan, whose face was withered in pain.

"Why did you do that?" Tristan coughed out.

"Keep your dirty mind focused away from my daughter!" Bakura snarled.

Reneey sighed and said, "Come on..."

When they reached Mokuba's cell, Reneey picked up the wire that Seto had been using to pick the lock earlier and tried her hand at it.

"Reneey, I didn't know you could pick locks," Tristan said, blinking.

"I can't," Reneey admitted, grinning. "I'm just mimicking the movies. Lynni can, though!" She giggled and added, "One time we got locked out of her house and she broke in. To her own house!"

She paused a moment before adding sheepishly, "Mostly because it takes sharp things to pick locks, and Lynni doesn't trust me with sharp things."

"Reneey, I can actually pick locks," Bakura said with a sigh as he took the wire and had the lock open in a few seconds flat.

The cell door swung open, and Tristan picked up the soulless Mokuba.

"Come on!" Tristan exclaimed. "Let's get back to the gang!"

As they were walking back up, Bakura was thinking. I can't get that soulless brat with Reneey around! I have to get rid of her for the time being...

Then he smirked. "Hey, Reneey."

"I'm still pissed off at ya for calling me Irina."

"Well, let me make it up to my daughter. There's this pretty card down that hallway there."

"... How pretty?"

"Really pretty. It's Spirit Shield!"

Reneey froze, then said all in one breath, "Yapeopleknowthewayoutcyalaterbye!" and ran off.

Bakura's lip curled. He knew that Pegasus wouldn't make her into a card, because the silver-haired creep was at the duel, also. Well, there was that.. and the fact that, while she was sleeping the night before, Bakura had sneaked into her room and given her a piece of his soul. Oh, yes, he would know immediately if anything happened to Reneey -- like having her soul trapped in a card, for example.

"Are we there yet?" Tristan asked wearily.

"Oh, we're nearly there," Bakura said with an evil grin that Tristan couldn't see.