So these two episodes are a big example of not writing scenes Lila isn't in. Since Joey's duel with Bonz won't change and we all know how it goes, I'm only going to be writing when Lila's around, which will probably cut out a lot of the duel. Hope that doesn't bother anyone. This will become more prominent in season two. Hell, I might end up doing entirely my own chapters to replace episodes that only focus on Joey's duels, if people would be okay with that. Haven't decided yet.
Also going to plug the poll again. Please vote, it'll be a huge help when it comes to writing the finals.
Anyway, enjoy.
Fourteen - Arena Of Lost Souls
It's the next morning and after a pretty rough night, Joey is the first to wake up. He whimpers to himself, the sound carrying over from his unconscious mind until a freezing drop of morning dew drops onto his face, waking him from his still half asleep mind. The rest of the boys are all still sleeping around him as he shoots upright and glances around, coming back to himself "A dream. Ahh! Kaiba, we'll see who eats the dog chow on this island," he gets to his feet, new determination running through him "Everybody, wake up!" The other boys are still groggy and even from the tent, the sole occupant can hear Joey's call. Lila yawns loudly, rubbing the sleep from their eyes as Yugi asks Joey what's wrong "Nothing's wrong. It's just a brand new day of the tournament, and I'm hot to find us a duel!"
"Well you don't have to yell about it," Lila hears Tristan scold as she steps out of the tend, sluggishly making their way over to join the boys, not sure where Tea's gotten to this morning until she makes her presence known, coming out from the bushes, her voice chipper in a way that shows she's been awake for a while "Hey guys, what's all the commotion?"
"Good morning Tea," the group look around, they were suppose to be meeting up with Mai this morning but there's no sign of her, something Joey calls out "She said she had to go, and to give you this note Yugi." That explains where she was so early in the day. She holds out a piece of paper to the spikey hair boy. As he takes it, everyone else ducks around him to get a peek at it as well. It's all smudged and red, making it look like it's been written using lipstick, which is possible, but luckily it's still legible, Mai reminding Yugi that she still feels like she owes him back the star chips he won back. Yugi's cheeks turn red while Tristan remarks in a blase manner "Kiss those chips good bye."
"I dunno. Maybe we really can trust Mai."
"Yeah," Lila shrugs "When you're not actively trying to antagonise her," she shoots Joey a pointed look "She's actually pretty nice and easy to get along with. I think dealing with pro league jerks like Rex and Weevil just kinda soured her personality towards tournaments is all."
"Well is we can't, we're still the team supreme. Right?" while the others all agree with him, Lila gives him a good natured, but exasperated smile as she says "Never call us that again." He just laughs it off and declares "Okay then, move out!"
"I wonder how many duellists there are left on the island," Bakura comments aloud as the group walk, not having run into anyone.
"Yeah," Lila nods "I mean if there's more eliminators like Panik, then who knows since unlike the rest of us, they won't stop after getting the ten chips we need."
"They shipped a couple dozen home yesterday."
"That many," Lila frowns, that sounds like a pretty decent percentage of the total competitors, weren't there only like fifty to sixty people when this thing started. The numbers are going down pretty quickly.
"And I bet even more have been eliminated by now."
"And some of them were really good players with powerful cards too. We could be next."
"Not a chance Yuge, those other guys just wanted the prize. You and Joey have a lot more at stake. Lila too since she's here to help you," Lila throws Tristan a smile for putting her with the two boys.
"That's true, we've got to rescue grandpa from Pegasus and Joey needs the prize money to help his sister. And the duellists we face today will be even stronger, 'cause they survived the first round," Yugi's words give Joey pause, both mentally and physically as he stops for a moment to think on them. Of course Joey's concern has Tristan taunting him, making Lila sigh and step to the side, knowing where this is going, for such good friends, those two don't half irritate each other "Careful what you say Yugi, you've got little Joey here shaking in his sneakers." Joey's also still on edge from his duel with Kaiba and the billionaire's taunting that followed, so even though Tristan's taunting is meant in good nature, it's enough to set the blonde boy's temper off.
"What? You think I'm a scared little puppy dog?" he takes a swing at Tristan who avoids and the two boys end up growling at each other with their fists clenched "Well if the collar fits." Thankfully Tea is there.
"All right, break it up," she puts hand on each boys' chest and pushes them away from each other, sounding like a babysitter scolding a pair of misbehaving kids.
"Hey, you just bring on any duellist. Then I'll cream 'em."
"Right," Yugi nods, glad his friend's got his confidence back "You gotta believe in yourself Joey."
"We do," Lila comments, nudging into the boy from behind making him stumble and laugh as he wraps and arm around the small brunette, who easily ducks away and the two end up running around the group laughing while the others watch, Tea shaking her head. Lila may call the boys idiots and comment on their silliness but she's also more then happy to join in too. It's why she gets along with them.
As the group carry on walking, Joey hears something in the bushes around them and it has him on edge "Did you hear that? I think we're being followed."
"I think you're getting a little paranoid Joey," Tea comments, not having heard anything and Tristan nods in agreement "You've been acting hyper ever since you woke up this morning. Man, what the heck is eating you anyway." Joey comes to a stop "I'm telling you, somebody's stalking us!" He shudders and runs off, Tristan asking where he's running off too "To stalk them!"
"He's probably just going to find somewhere to go to the bathroom," Lila shrugs "You guys wanna wait here or we gunna let him try and catch up?" There's a round of shrugs, no sense in one of the group getting lose so they all settle in to wait for the blonde to calm down and come back to them. Knowing Joey it won't be too long and they can get back to the tournament.
"Joey's been gone an awfully long time," Yugi remarks as he and Lila glance at the girls watch.
"You don't suppose he got lost?"
"No way. But he could have been challenged to a duel."
"I bet that's it," the group look at Tristan whose head drops and he actually looks a little ashamed "I must have got on his case a little too hard about being scared so now he's gone off to fight a duel all by himself."
"Okay," Bakura pipes in "Let's split up and try to find him." Tristan instantly takes charge and gives people directions for them to check out, sending Yugi and Tea one way, while he and the other two head in the other and they all run off to try and see if they can find any sign of their missing friend.
As the three of them run, they all call out for Joey but get no response, the two boys powering ahead while Lila lags behind a little until Tristan has to stop to catch his breath and she's able to catch up properly "There's no sign of him anywhere."
"Let's try looking over there," Bakura suggests, grabbing Lila's hand to help her keep up as they run in the direction he suggests. However the path doesn't lead them to Joey, instead it leads them to the waterfall where Yugi and Tea are looking, the four rejoining.
"No luck?" Lila asks but Yugi shakes his head and she sighs Dammit Joey where are you? They have no real other choice but to keep searching around until someone finds something. That somethings happens to be a tan wallet. Out of curiousity, Lila kneels down by Tea's feet and picks it up, the two girls looking it over while Tea calls for Tristan to come and see what they've found.
"Hey, that's Joey wallet," he says as he comes up behind the girls and gets a quick glance at the inside and Tea nods "With a picture of his sister, Serenity."
"Joey wouldn't let this thing out of his sight," Lila remarks "He adores Serenity."
"Yeah, his sister means more to him then anything," the other two boys come over to see what has the three of them stopping in their search "This is starting to smell like foul play." The two look around, they aren't that far from the water fall but the big thing is that Tea spots the opening to a cave and directs the groups attention over to it "Look over there!"
"A cave. I don't like the look of this," Tristan takes the lead while Lila shoves Joey's wallet away for when they find him and the group follow after the tan coat wearing boy as Yugi remarks "Neither do I." They head into the cave, unsurprising it's pretty dark but it's also really deep and they quickly move away from the light provided by the entrance. There's no sign of Joey but there's also no branching paths that they can see, so if he is here, then it's probable that he's just further inside. There's a loud squeak as bats flutter past and the girls shudder.
"What is this place?" in front of them is a pair of old looking, ornate coffins. They're propped up against the cave wall on either side.
"Be careful. It could be some kind of trap."
"What's up with those coffins?"
"No idea," Lila swallows as she eyes them nervously, even taking a step back "But I'm not touching 'em." Unlike the brunette, Bakura walks right up to one of them and puts his hand on the front, asking "Who'd leave them just standing here?"
"A lunatic?" Yugi glances to his creeped out friend and says to his less scared ones "I wouldn't touch those guys."
"Be careful."
"Don't be silly," Tea throws back with a small smile as she steps closer and tilts her head to the side as she rests her hands on the lid "It's just a wooden b-" There is a creaking and the chains no one had really paid any attention to on either side of the coffins starts to move and the two by the coffins look at them nervously. The coffins are pulled fully upright in front of them and Tea lets out a cry of fright as the door of hers opens on it's own and a skeleton falls onto her. She and Bakura both let out sounds of fright as they try and shake the, hopefully, Halloween props off of them before the other two boys step in and pull them off, all the while Lila is shaking her head, her eyes wide and just repeating the word nope, over and over again.
"That Pegasus has sure got a sick sense of humor," the group look at the skeletons on the ground in shock. Now they aren't on them, they can see that they aren't real, but they aren't like the cheap one you can get from the store, which explains why they looked so realistic.
"You said it Tristan," Yugi steps over to a still creeped out Lila and nudges her back to herself. She looks down and just shakes her head, saying "I would like to go home now."
"We will, we just need to find Joey first," Yugi assures her and takes her hand as they carry on down the cave, not noticing Bakura falling behind as they all speed up to try and get through quicker. This cave is seriously deeps, more like a tunnel with how it's just one straight and narrow path. Eventually though they have to stop.
"Still no sign of Joey."
"Yeah."
"Hey," Bakura looks back at the rest of the group "Where's Bakura?" The other three look back, finally noticing the white haired boy's absence. Tea looks back and frowns a little "We didn't take any turns, so where could he have gone?"
"I don't know Tea," then there's a loud scream and they all are relieved when they recognise it "Did you hear that?"
"Sounds like Bakura," thankfully they don't have to go looking for another missing friend.
"Bakura! This way!" however as he appears from the shadows, he screams again, calling for help and that's when everyone sees what he's screaming about. He's got one of those skeletons draped across his back. The rest of the group all scream and start to sprint away from him, clearly this cave is getting to them as Bakura shouts after them "Help! Get this thing off of me!" Eventually Tristan calms down enough to pull the prop off of their friend and throws it to the ground, and smashes the head with this foot, declaring to the rest of them "From now on, don't go picking up any hitchhikers." Behind him Yugi, Tea and Bakura are all laid out on the ground while Lila is sitting with her head tucked into her knees.
"Is it safe to open my eyes now?"
"You gave us all quite a scare with that skeleton Bakura," Yugi lightly scolds Bakura as he sits up and Lila chances a glance up, shuddering. Bakura offers an apology as he pushes himself up and glances over at the still shaking Lila. For a girl who loves Halloween, you'd expect her to have a better reaction then the rest of them, but she's just as freaked out as they are, if not more so, which makes sense since she can't watch scary movies while the rest of them have no problem.
"Never mind that. Because now we've got another problem," Tristan nods to the wall behind the sitting teenagers, so they crane their necks to see what he's talking about "Which way do we go now? Anybody got any ideas?"
"Gee, both ways look so inviting," Bakura chuckles at Tea's expression while Tristan feels the need to remind everyone just why they are down in this cave in the first place "Yeah, well is Joey got invited down one of those tunnels, then we need to figure out which one."
"Tristan's right. We need to find Joey now," the rest of the group all agree but no sooner have the other three got to their feet, then something else happens. Bakura takes a step and seems to activate some kind of pressure plate. He cries out in shock, making everyone look at him.
"What is the sound?" there's a slight rumbling coming from the cave behind them and Lila groans, not more skeletons and horror movie theatrics. She's spooked enough already.
"I stepped on a switch or something."
"Quiet now!" Bakura gasps softly realising the rest are trying to hear and covers his mouth.
"Listen. Now the sound's getting louder."
"I think it's coming this way."
"Then why are we just standing here?" Lila asks her friends, her voice shaky as she tries to swallow down her nerves. However everyone else seems pretty transfixed on the cave behind them "Just what's coming this way?" Then the sound's source makes itself known. It's a giant boulder rolling towards them. With a chorus of panicked yells, the group turn tail and run, not even taking a moment to pick a path, they just sprint down whichever is closest to them, eager to put as much space between them and the giant rock as possible.
"Why is that boulder chasing us?"
"'Cause we're down hill!" Bakura just loops apologies, as if he had any idea that Pegasus would have set up anything this insane. The group keeps running but the cave floor isn't exactly level and Bakura ends up tripping on an indent or a risen rock, the group can't quite see, and ends up falling to the ground and proceeds to get run over by the boulder.
"It got Bakura!" Tea cries as Yugi shouts that and Tristan yells "Don't look back!"
"Like any of us want to!"
"Keep running or it-" that's when the group see that the path they've been running down doesn't lead anywhere "Oh no! It's a dead end! We're trapped!" Tristan pushes a foot into the ground to slow his momentum and turns around "Since there's nowhere to run, I'm gonna fight!"
"Tristan you can't punch out-"
"A boulder!"
"I'm gonna try!" Tristan lets out a cry and throws his fist towards the giant rock... which then proceeds to pop, making every stare wide eyes and slack jawed "A balloon?"
"Yeah, and that's a speaker," Yugi points out the round speaker that much be what the rumbling sound was coming from "Somebody wired that thing for sound, and I'm betting it was Pegasus." Lila's breath come in short pants, making the boys look over to her while Tea heads back up the path to find Bakura, not seeing the other brunette's legs give out from under her.
"Lila!" Tristan yells, hurrying over to the short girl "You okay?"
"I die now," she then proceeds to faint, luckily the boys are there to stop her hitting the rocks. The hoist her up onto Tristan's back and follow after Tea, to see her crouched over a whimpering, shocked Bakura.
"Pegasus spared no expense to scare us half to death," Yugi looks to Lila, frowning, hopefully she'll be okay once the shock wears off "Still, at least we know which path to take now." The group continue to back track up the path and turn into the other opening to follow it down. Thankfully their aren't anymore forks in the path and all the traps seems to be behind them, meaning they have pretty much a smooth run.
Along the way they see light, which could either be a way out or a sign of people. Lila has thankfully come back to herself now and it able to walk with them and give Tristan's back a break. When they all get closer, they can see a duel field, a boy with a familiar mop of blonde hair on the podium closest to them and they call out to him, making him turn around. It is Joey.
"Yugi! You're really here!" from the other side of the cavern, a shades wearing blonde man with a flag on his head tells two of his goons to stop the group from getting any closer and they rush to follow his orders as Yugi asks "What kind of duel arena is this?"
"It looks like one of Tomas' Resident Evil games," Lila comments, shuddering, she hates zombies.
"Are you crazy, why in the world did you accept a duel in a place like this?" Joey turns around properly to face his friends "Yeah, like I had a choice. Those three creeps there ganged up on me and forced me into this crazy duel." The two circus reject looking goons step between Joey's podium and the gathered teenagers as Tristan tells them "This duel's over."
"That's no up to you, chum," the pinkish red haired one smirks, his voice sounding like he's put on a fake, over exaggerated accent that's a mix of English and Australian.
"I say it is," Tristan takes a step forward, causing the bigger of the two to get involved "You wanna stop it, you gotta get past me."
"My please," he then proceeds to run at the two smirking goons but out of nowhere something hits him in the forehead, knocking him off balance and letting the bigger of the two land a punch into his gut, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to hit the ground as Yugi calls out his name.
"Tristan, are you-"
"Hold it," the guy with the flag on his head calls out when Joey moves like he's going to jump down from his podium to check on his friend "Remember, if you leave the arena, you forfeit the duel, and all your star chips belong to me." Joey's calls out in shock while Tea shouts up "The duel is illegal anyway."
"Right Tea."
"Wrong Tea," he's not even smirking anymore, he's just looking at the two non duellists in annoyance "When he threw down his star chips, he accepted the duel." He then gives a small laugh.
"In that case Joey," Tristan wheezes as Lila helps him get to his feet, he did carry her so it's the least she can do "You're just gonna have to beat these punks. And if you're gonna need a little added motivation, try this!" He takes Joey's wallet from Lila and throws it at their friend. Joey opens it up and is greeted with the image of his sister "That's right Joey, your sister. You're duelling for her."
"Thanks, man," the two boys smile at each other in understanding.
"So what it's gonna be? you gonna cut and run dweeb, or you gonna part with your star chips the hard way?"
"Hey, I've had it up to here with your smart remarks. Spill! Who are you anyway?"
"Don't you know? They call me Bandit Keith."
"You're Bandit Keith?" Yugi asks, shocked. This is the guy Kaiba told them about. The one who lost to a kid Pegasus gave instructions to.
"I've heard that name somewhere before."
"Kaiba mentioned it last night," Lila reminds the confused girl "Remember, the intercontinental champion that lost to a little kid." There's a round of understanding noises and Keith grits his teeth, not liking the blase why that girl talked about his humiliation at the hands of Pegasus. As if he's a dumb amateur like her duelling friend.
"Huh. No wonder skull face there has outsmarted me at every turn."
"Which is why you ought to just pack it up and go home dweeb, 'cause I've given my little pal Bonz here the perfect strategy. You couldn't beat him with every card in your deck."
"Isn't back seat duelling against the rules?" Lila wonders aloud, sure she and Yugi occasionally pipe up to correct any mistakes, but that's only after Joey's already made them and they never tell him exactly what moves to make. He won't learn that way. She gets a dirty look from the black haired goon as he says "Nobody's gonna get inside Pegasus' castle except Bandit Keith and us."
"You fought your last duel, Joey. You're about to join the other zombies in this graveyard field," Lila takes the chance to peek around the goons and get a look at the field. Bonz has four monsters out, luckily she recognizes them all. Tomas isn't really as into Duel Monsters as she is, but he does play, mainly because of her constant nagging to have someone to play against and he likes to use zombie cards so she's pretty knowledgeable about them, having had to go up against them a fair bit. The giant pumpkin with tentacles in each monster is Pumpking, The King Of Ghosts. There's a creepy looking Clown Zombie and there's the green skinned rotting warrior Armoured Zombie. The scariest though the the decayed purple Dragon Zombie that's staring Joey down. That's one of Tomas' favourites and it's pretty strong anyway, forget when you add power-ups. Doesn't help that this graveyard looking field means all of Bonz's monsters are getting a bonus while none of Joey's do. They really need to start looking to find duel fields that suit them, rather then just letting their opponents pick "Come on, play your next card or rest in peace."
Joey looks down at the picture of his sister he has open on the console next to his field "Serenity. For your sake, I've gotta win!" He places a monster in defense mode.
"No! All your hopes and all your dreams will die right here!"
"Says you, geek! I'll keep my defenses up until I find a way to attack!"
"You know you shouldn't broadcast your strategy," Keith pipes in to throw Joey off "I what?" Bonz chuckles like the creepy little bugger he is "Especially when it's a losing one. Bonz has a special card in his deck that'll render all your defenses useless!"
"You gotta be bluffing. He can't possibly do that with one card," Lila winces, clearly Joey's forgotten her duel with the fake Kaiba. He managed and she's got a sneaking suspicion that Keith's talking about the exact same card.
"Oh yeah? This spell card can. It's called Stop Defense!" Joey groans. Looks like Lila was right.
"Stop Defense is big trouble Joey!" Yugi yells up and Bonz proceeds to explain the card to the more inexperienced boy "From now on, any card you try to play in Defense Mode will activate this card! And you still can't stop me from raising the ectoplasmic power of my zombies!" The pumpkin pumps something through it's roots and Bonz's zombies get bigger as their attack points rise "So noe, all that's left is to snuff the last monster you have standing. Deadly zombie breath," a brownish smoke swirls in the dragon's maw and fires at Joey's only defense, destroying it before the group can even see what it was in the first place. Keith laughs loudly.
"End of the road four you dweeb. You got nowhere left to run now."
"Don't let him scare you Joey!" Tea yells as Joey ducks his head, looking defeated. The monsters in front of him are just too strong and he doesn't have the head for strategy his friends have, it makes things look hopeless from where he's standing. Like he's let his sister down.
"Whatever he says, don't quit!"
"Quit?" that's not a word that really applies to Joey, he's more the go down kicking and screaming type "No way. I can't give up. Not while Serenity's counting on me," Joey draws "Go! Red-Eyes Black Dragon!" Joey's dragon appears with a screech and Keith has to do a double take.
"Red eye? Where'd this dork get a card that rare?"
"If all my defenses are blocked, then I'll just have to take to the offense. Red eyes, take out that overgrown pumpkin!"
"What do I do? His attack power if greater then mine."
"Inferno fire blast!" the molten orb smashes into the vegatable and shatters it and everyone cheers.
"Great work Joey," Lila shouts "That bye bye to the power up each turn! And since it was a zombie already, it can't come back either!" The creepy boy grits his teeth in annoyance, and it was all going so well, now he's down to eight fifty five.
"Minor setback Bonz. Don't forget, you still got more then enough attack power to polish him off for good."
"Yeah, okay boss. Go Dragon Zombie! Blow red eyes away!" the smoke turns Joey's dragon a sickly brown colour before destroying it as Joey calls out and Bon laughs "Even red eyes was no match for me." Joey's life points drop all the way to a hundred and fifty, that's not good.
"With that card wiped out, I'm all but done for."
"It's all over for you dweeb."
"Don't give up," even as Tristan says that, Joey looks down at his hand, no idea what his next move is going to be.
"Well, are you going to play or surrender?" as Bonz taunts their friend, Tea ducks between Yugi and Lila and asks if there's anything Joey can do. Lila frowns, when she gets in a situation like this against Tomas, she has her magic and trap cards to fall back on, but Joey doesn't really have a deck around those like she does.
"He's in a big jam Tea. Attacking the zombie army doesn't do any good, and that waiting card block all his defenses."
"Defense!" Lila says suddenly, making Yugi and Tea look at her "That's it! Joey there is a way! You've got a magic card in your deck that can turn this whole thing around!" Joey looks to his brunette friend in confusion.
"Heh. You've got to be kidding. Maybe your friend Yugi beat Kaiba but the strategy I gave Bonz is just perfect. Your friend is a goner!" Yugi joins in Lila's encouragement, he knows what she means and she's right "Joey, he's wrong!"
"You sure?" the two boys stare at each other, Joey seeing how serious Yugi's face it and nods "Ok yeah. Trust in the cards," he draws from his deck "Yeah, this is... the one." Joey looks at the card he's drawn and understands why his friends were telling him about this card. It's perfect, just what he needs besides "It's my only chance. Battle Warrior, in attack mode!"
"So it's the only move you had left huh?" Bonz taunts, thinking Joey was talking about the monster he summoned.
"And then I this magic card called Shield And Sword," Keith pulls back in shock, no way "Go! Offensive defensive flip!" The images of each monster on the field fuzz and flicker like a television having channel problems and Bonz's monsters start to slump down in place "My zombie's attack power has dropped to zero!"
"And my Battle Warrior's attack and defense points switched too. See?" now Joey's got a monster with a thousand attack points against a field of zero attack monsters, he's managed to pull off a victory, and without his time wizard "Smash those zombie freaks! Ultimate battle fist!" Joey's monster punches Dragon Zombie and it's head explodes like it's a character in a video game. And the zombie stays dead this time, while Bonz's life points plummet to zero "How could I lose?"
"You did it Joey!" the group all cheers.
"I did, didn't I?" and with pretty much no help too, sure Lila and Yugi reminded him about having the card he needed, but he was able to play it correctly without needing them to tell him how. He really is improving. Keith jumps up from where he was perched and walks away, throwing a "See ya around, loser," over his shoulder at Bonz.
"But wait, boss!" the other two also all after him but he ignores them until Joey calls out to him.
"Bandit Keith. Maybe next time, you'll have the nerve to duel me face to face, instead of hiding behind your creepy flunkies."
"Duel you face to face? You're hopeless dweeb. The game of Duel Monsters is all about keeping your opponents off balance. Winning the duel's all that matters, not how you go about it," Yugi and Lila glare at the blonde man, that's the exact opposite of how his grandpa taught them to play and it feels like an insult to hear him speak that way "We'll just see about that, Bandit Keith."
"Yeah right, I'm quivering in fear already dweeb," Keith laughs as he strolls out, followed by his flunkies.
"What a jerk."
"Guys look, I'm really sorry," Joey explains as he walks over to them "I didn't mean to drag all of you into this mess."
"Next time, don't be in such a big hurry to run off on your own," embarrassed, Joey scratched the back of his head at Tristan's words.
"Ah, it's all right. We know that is wasn't your fault Joey."
"Yeah. I mean as long as he won the duel, we can forgive him."
"Know something," Lila says, walking over to Joey, who looks at her curious "This means you've got the most star chips out of the three of us." Joey blinks and looks down at his and Lila's glove. He bet four which means... she's right. Lila's got seven, Yugi's got five and now he's got eight. Who'd have thought that would happen.
"I admit you had us worried at first."
"But you really can through this time."
"I got lucky, that all," Joey claims, not use to all the praise from his friends.
"It wasn't luck Joey. It was you determination, your trust in the cards and the promise you made to your sister. That's what helped you win.
"Guys," Lila speaks to the group, glancing around "Can we get out of here now. Please?" There's a chorus of amused agreement.
As the group all manage to back track, the straight line and lack of traps mean they are able to make good time and manage to get back to near the entrance quickly "Hey! Daylight!" They all race towards the opening, eager to get back outside into the sun, having had enough of caves for one day. But as they get closer, there's another rumbling and a shadow starts to pass over the entrance "Oh no! What's that?" Just as they get to the entrance, a boulder is shoved in front of it, blocking their escape.
"This thing weighs a ton," Joey complains as the group all try to push at the giant rock "I can't even get it to budge."
"Push harder! Come on!"
"Are we really trapped in here?"