A/N: Took long enough. *sigh* I now have a muse. Yami! Get your Egyptian
butt over here!
Yami: What the $%#^%^ do you want?
Callie/Mikey aka Circe-Me: Tsk, tsk, cursing are we? *hits Yami upside the head* Bad boy. Oow! Your hair hurts!
Yami: *smirks* It pays to have hair like this! My hair *is* sharp, no?
Me: *waves hand frantically* Just do your stuff!
Yami: *glares and clears throat* Circe doesn't own YuGiOh. (Thank Ra!)
Me: *sighs, not having heard the last part* Yeah. Or else it'd be(and already is, though not mushy enough)Téa/Yugi, Joey/Mai, Bakura/Callie (OC), Tristan/Serenity, Yami/Yami Bakura-
Yami: WHAT?! You evil witch!!!!!
Me: I'm okay about the witch part-Harry Potter is my Love!-but EVIL?! *grabs Yugi* Here. *hands him a mallet* It was custom made to withstand the hair. Get the Yami and you get the candy.
Yugi: Life-giving CANDY!!!!!!!!!! *runs after Yami, who's screaming his head off*
Me: And on with the show! *cartwheels around room*
***
Joey woke up suddenly in the night. He could see that Callie was out of her sleeping bag-"Don't tell me the girl's a night owl!"-and so he went outside to investigate. Luckily, it had stopped raining.
"Joey-kun! Did I wake you up? Gomen." Callie shivered in the cold. Her face was looking anxiously at Joey.
"Naw. I woke up by myself." He went over next to her. They looked back up at the stars.
"They're *green*. Geez, this place is creepy." Joey saw the green lights overhead (they're stars), making him feel very freaked out.
"Mmm." Callie nodded. "Can you tell me what happened to Serenity?"
Joey was taken aback. "Serenity? How do you know about-oh yeah. The broadcasts, right?"
Callie nodded. "Yeah."
Joey smiled. "After getting the prize money from Yugi, I could pay for her operation. Her eyes are better."
"Yugi! That's right! I have something I need to give him." She reached in her jacket pocket and handed three somethings.
Joey just stared. "These are the three missing cards from Yugi's Exodia! How'd you know he didn't have them anymore? Where'd you get them?"
"He never used them in a single duel after that duel with Kaiba. I found them on the beach." Callie looked at Joey seriously. "Will you give them to him?"
"Sure." Joey knew Callie had no idea how this made him feel. Before, he'd felt he'd failed everyone, including Yugi. Now, he'd given money for Serenity's operation, and Yugi's cards...
"Uh, Joey?" Callie sweatdropped at Joey's happy face. "What's wrong?..."
"Nothing's wrong! Of course I'll give 'em! Don't worry!" Joey put his hand on his neck and blushed.
"Arigatou, Joey!" Callie suddenly gave Joey a giant hug.
"What are you doing?!" Joey blushed hotly while Callie looked at him innocently.
"Dai Gomen! Did I make you nervous?" Callie stepped away from Joey.
"Uhh..." Joey was still blushing, while Callie stared at him with her big eyes.
~Wow, I think she's sort of naïve on that...~
"Don't worry, Joey, I was hugging you like a brother! Besides, Mai-san seems to have overtaken you..."
"NANI?! Hey!" Callie laughed at Joey's embarrassed expression and ran into the cave. And they went to sleep again.
*
"Yugi..."
Yugi slowly awoke, but he kept his eyes shut.
"Faker, I know you're awake..."
Yugi grudgingly opened his eyes and saw Callie staring straight at him, her face up close to his, and her hair piled up around them.
"Ohayo, Yugi-kun!"
"WAAHHH!!!! Don't DO that!" Yugi scrambled away from her to against the cave wall. She just grinned.
"Don't get so freaked out! I just needed to talk to you." Her face grew serious.
"I feel the oddest presence in here..." Her forehead glowed with what looked exactly like the Millennium eye (The Third Eye). (You know, when Yami Yugi had that on his forehead, and Pegasus's glass broke?) She swung her head to Jai's sleeping form.
"And in *her*." She glared at Jai. "I have an idea. When we want to talk about Davvlen or our world or anything like that, we should speak Japanese."
"Callie-san? Are you sure that's necessary?" Yugi looked at Jai also.
Callie shut her eyes. "Yes. It is."
Yugi knew it was definitely time to drop the subject from hearing Callie's voice.
"I'll tell everyone else-WHAT THE HECK?!"
His shout woke up the others. Except Joey, that is. He can sleep through anything.
But Tristan roughly shook him awake. "Look! Someone's closing the entrance. Our way out!"
Indeed, a great shadow was covering what seemed to be sunlight, and was hauling a big rock to cover up the entrance.
"Hey!" Bakura ran up to the figure in an attempt to stop him. In return he was punched hard in the jaw. He fell hard on the ground, sliding back a little. His eyes were sliding in and out of focus.
"Bakura!" Jai, Téa, and Mai cried at the same time.
"Who are you?!" Yugi shouted.
The figure refused to answer. It (for it could've been male or female, or something else entirely) just pointed to Jai, then immediately covered the entrance.
And then they were left in pitch black.
"Lights! We need lights!" Jai's newly disembodied voice shrieked in terror.
"Well, what d'you think I'm doing?!" Callie's voice resounded back in the darkness angrily. There was a small *skitch* sound, and Callie held up her hand for light. Her right hand had fire in it, in the shape of a small ball.
They all stared at that as she swooped down to Bakura.
"Are you alright? He didn't do anything else to you, did he?" Bakura smiled.
"No, I'm fine." His jaw had a small trickle of blood coming down. He winced at the pain in his jaw. Callie noticed.
"Liar." She flicked her left hand, and it had a small purple floating un- solidlike diamond in it. She closed her eyes and leaned closer to Bakura, which made him blush a little, and held the diamond close to his face. She started to whisper fast, in a language that the others didn't know.
The diamond dematerialized, and the particles flew to Bakura's jaw, seemingly healing it. The blood slowly faded away. Callie got up and turned away, her eyes shaded by her hair.
Bakura smiled, still blushing slightly. "Arigatou." He got up also. "I think we should get going."
As soon as he finished his sentence, a line of fire holders flared up on both sides of the cave, and kept flaring up (there were more) going deeper into and down the cave.
Callie acknowledged this by closing her right hand with the firelight and getting rid of it.
"It's a path..." Téa said. "Should we follow it?"
"Well," Yugi observed, turning to Téa. "I think someone trapped us in here on purpose. And now they're inviting us to somewhere...who knows where?"
Everyone nodded. Mai suddenly glanced at Jai. "Do you know why it pointed to you?"
"I -I don't know. What would it want with me?!" Jai certainly looked shaken up.
"Maybe it was out to kill-" Joey began, but his mouth was automatically covered by Tristan's hand.
"Shut *up*, Joey." Tristan had little angry marks appearing. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Waah! I'm scared!" Jai grabbed Bakura's hand for comfort, making him flush again. "Please protect me, Bakura." Bakura just squirmed uneasily in her grasp.
"Uhm, heh. I think we should get going." Yugi said, sweatdropping.
"Where?" Téa questioned.
"Where else, Téa? Into the cave."
Everyone gathered their sleeping bags and everything else.
They walked down the cave, with Yugi and Téa in the lead; Jai-hanging on Bakura *still*, and Callie next to them; and, coming up in the rear, Joey, Mai, and Tristan.
Yugi had told Joey and Bakura about only talking in Japanese when discussing Davvlen and their world. Joey had passed this information on to Mai and Tristan.
"Téa, I forgot to tell you. Callie says she felt this odd presence in the cave and in Jai. She said we should only speak Japanese when talking about secret stuff."
"Okay, but-Jai? Maybe she just doesn't like Jai...?"
Yugi shook his head seriously. "Her forehead glowed with the same markings that the Millennium Puzzle has, only without those two little things engraved under the eye. She was serious."
"Let me see." Téa stared at his Puzzle. "You're right. And after you battled the fake Kaiba, that appeared on your forehead while you made your vow against Pegasus."
"Really? That's the magic from the Millennium Puzzle, I guess." He paused. "Téa, remember that guy that sort of transported us here?"
"Do I ever! Yugi, Do you think he was sent by-"
"Davvlen? No doubt about it, Téa."
"And-Callie-she turned into Harpy Lady-and now-" Téa couldn't finish her sentence.
"Her magic is very powerful. And before, she defeated that-that *guy* like that."
Téa sighed. "If we need her magic, which you just said is very powerful, to defeat Davvlen, doesn't that mean he's as powerful?"
"Pegasus was even more powerful than all of us. But we defeated him, didn't we?"
Téa smiled a little shakily. "With the power of all of our friendship!" She grabbed Yugi's hand with her own, and clenched it. Yugi blushed, and she did, too, but they both ignored those facts.
"With friendship!" Yugi repeated and smiled, secretly hoping that Téa wouldn't do one of her friendship speeches again. They were genius and wonderfully spoken, but they were *so* long and even a bit annoying!
He was also hoping she didn't see the blush creeping on to his face.
"Hey! You, guys! Look, an opening!" Mai pointed at the long ray of sunlight that was coming from a little up the wall of the cave.
"Let's climb up there and check it out!" Joey said in response, and he began to do so. Tristan followed him too.
Bakura did also, after pulling away from Jai. ("Jai, you wish to get out, right? So let me go!")
Yugi was about too also, but when Joey and Tristan had gotten to the top, Bakura suddenly stepped on a rock that sunk down under him, making him fall. (He hadn't gotten up that very high, so he wasn't hurt too much.)
"NANI?!" There was a rumbling sound. And it was coming their way...
"Not again..." Téa put one hand on her head in despair.
"It's déjà vu." Yugi said abruptly. The rumbling was much closer now...
It was a giant boulder. "WAHH!! IT'S COMING THIS WAY!!!!" Callie cried, flapping her hands wildly.
She helped Bakura up, and they all started to run. Oh, and Joey and Tristan? They'd gotten to the top, remember? Well, what do you think they did.
Guess. Just guess.
"Joey?"
"Yeah?"
"WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO??"
"Um, well, we could..." Joey paused, and made a rash decision.
"We gotta jump!"
"NANI ?!" Tristan stared at him.
"YOU GOT ANOTHER PLAN??!"
Tristan scowled begrudgingly. "Fine. On the count of three. Ready..."
By then, the boulder had already gotten to them.
Joey glowered. "Aw, screw it! THREE!" And they both jumped. They ended up having to run on it, or be squished.
Meanwhile, Yugi, Téa, Jai, Bakura, Mai, and Callie were all running from the giant boulder. Meaning they were on the ground in front of it, not on top of it.
"Hey! Joey, Tristan, WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE??!!!" Yugi shouted when he saw them.
"What does it look like, Yugi? We're running!!" Tristan and Joey were running pretty quick, which made the boulder go faster.
Just then, Bakura tripped over a rock. He gasped. "Not again!" He fell down, slow-motion. "AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!!!!!!!"
And he was squashed under the rock with an odd popping noise.
"BAKURA-KUN!" Yugi and Callie cried at the same time.
"HATEFUL!" Mai and Téa shrieked together, meaning the boulder.
"Bakura!" Jai cried tragically.
"Do you think-? Maybe it's a balloon again, Téa!" Yugi shouted hopefully.
"Wait! Yugi!" Téa cried. Yugi swung back at the boulder (they had gotten away a little so he had the time and space to turn around) and punched it.
Of course, it *wasn't* a balloon, and Yugi had just enough time to get away before it got him like it got Bakura as well.
"It couldn't have been a balloon, Yugi! How d'you expect Tristan and Joey are standing on it?!" Mai yelled.
"Oh. Right." Yugi blushed at his stupidity.
"Wait! I have an idea! I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this but- FAIRY WIND ATTACK!" Callie spread her hands, and a great shooting force blasted the rock, which wasn't a rock at all, it was-
"A rubber ball?!" Joey cried as he fell off it with Tristan.
"It figures. Rocks don't come out of nowhere and attack you." Mai said logically.
"Obviously, we overstayed our invitation," Yugi said begrudgingly.
"Bakura! Bakura-kun! Are you alright?" Callie shouted. She ran over to him.
"Hnnn...Unnnghh." He made the same face as he did the last time he'd been run over by a not-real-rock. He was, of course, totally freaked out.
"Hey, you guys, check out this stone." Mai held a slightly glowing orange gem for them to see.
"It looks like you're holding fire." Callie stared at the rock. "Where'd you find it, Mai?" Yugi said curiously, taking it from her and letting it illuminate his face with orange light.
"Where the rubber ball blew up."
"So this thing came from the ball?" Joey took it from Yugi and inspected it. "It looks like the fire from the Flame Swordsman."
"We'd be rich if we sold it!" Tristan said, swiping it from Joey and holding it up to inspect it in the firelight. All the others fell over anime-style.
"Excuse me."
All eight of the teenagers turned around to see five people wearing long green-black cloaks. All of them were wearing black masks but one. Presumably the leader, standing in front of the others, he had blond hair, and he was sneering at them as if to say, "What's this icky gunk I found on my shoe? It's disgusting!" like he was a higher species.
"How dare you intrude on this property? And that gem is ours. You will NOT sell it. You will give it to *me*."
"Who said we were intruding? We're trapped in here!" Bakura said defensively.
"That's a likely story." Then he gave each a surveying look in turn. His eyes widened upon seeing Jai and Callie.
He gave an indignant gasp. "You have- How dare-!!" He seemed to retain his composure quickly. "We will fight you for the gem."
"Wait a second. We never wanted a fight!" Yugi said hurriedly.
"We will fight," he stated firmly. "For the gem." He grinned maliciously. "And for those two girls." He waved his hand to Jai and Callie. Callie took a defensive step in front of Jai, who was cowering. She wasn't a big fan of Jai's, but she didn't think it right for any of them to be hurt.
"NAANIIIIIII?!!!?" Everyone said at the same time.
"Yes. And if you lose, we take the girls and the gem. And you will not pass." He sneered. "If you win-which you shall not-you may leave. And you may keep the gem. And the girls."
"Is the challenge a fight? Or a duel?" Téa said. Jai gave a small gasp at the word "duel" and hid her face in her hands.
"A fight. We do not duel! The very cards are outlawed! How dare you propose such a thing!"
The others gave each other looks. ~So, cards are forbidden here, ne? I better not let anyone, especially Jai, see our decks.~ Yugi thought logically.
"Okay. We'll fight you." Joey said quietly. He put up his fists readily. He had experience in fights. Tristan, Bakura, and Yugi stood in ready stance too.
"Wait." The man said. "There are only four males." He waved his hand back to the others, who were waiting. "There are five of us. Therefore, we win by default." He folded his arms. "We shall take our prizes." He reached for the gem, and the ones behind him went towards Callie and Jai.
"Hey! Who said I wasn't fighting!" Callie escaped from the other cloaked men and squeezed from behind Tristan and Joey, who both sweatdropped.
"You are a woman! We don't fight women." One of the masked followers said triumphantly and grabbed for her again. She stuck out her tongue at him and ran away again. The others sweatdropped at her childishness.
"I'm not a woman. I'm only fifteen." She said matter-of-factly.
"You're a girl then! Now stop playing games!" One of the other people said exasperatedly.
"Well." She punched the man who had spoken hard in the stomach. "I'm a big girl!"
"*Oof!*" The man fell backwards. He got up quickly, but Callie kicked him right in the face, making a sickening *crack!* noise and sending him backwards, bleeding in the nose.
"Oh, yeah!" Callie grinned, winked and made a peace sign.
"Not too shabby." Tristan answered, folding his arms and smiling.
"Bad comeback, though." Said Bakura bluntly, putting his hands on his hips.
"Yeah, well, *sorry*." Callie threw back, doing the same. While they had talked, the remaining men had attacked Jai, Mai, Tristan (he's still holding the gem), and the blond one had snuck up on Callie from behind.
Jai screamed as Yugi blocked for her. Bakura backed him up by twisting the man's arm behind him and punching him in the chest. Then they proceeded to fight with him. They were both needed for the task, since they weren't much for fighting.
Joey, of course, helped out Mai. He kicked the guy *where it hurts the most* pretty hard! Tristan threw the gem to him, and he caught it, of course. After that, it was monkey-in-the middle until Joey threw it to Téa, who kept it away from the guy chasing her until Tristan knocked him out.
Callie, though, was all by herself. "Fighting *you* is my pleasure!" She held on to his arms to keep him from struggling and neck-chopped him. Then he kicked her at the legs. He punched her in the shoulder, but then her hair whacked him hard in the face. (Well, she has a lot of it, so it *would* hurt!)
"Stop!" He said, weakened. The others helped him up. "We-we let you through. Please follow us."
He led them further into the cave. Everyone else was congratulating everyone else.
"Where'd you learn to fight like that, Callie-san?" Yugi grinned.
"I learned Karate here, in Japan. And I learned some fighting in Egypt. Other than that, it's a natural born talent!" Her smile faded. "It's a much needed talent, too."
She uneasily perked herself. "Great job, mina!"
"Yeah...well, I wonder where they're leading us too." Bakura stared back at the black void behind them. "Well," he shrugged and said in Japanese. "We wouldn't have gotten anywhere when fighting against Davvlen."
"Hai. The best way to go is forward." Mai stated, in Japanese also.
Jai whispered to Téa. "What are they saying?" (She doesn't know Japanese!)
"Um, they're saying...it's cold in here!" Téa said hurriedly and unintelligibly.
"Oh. They're right. Bakura! Wait for me!" She quickly walked over to Bakura, who sighed, embarrassed again.
*
"We're here," the leader said weakly. He pointed to some lights up ahead. They all went to them.
A man holding a staff was waiting there. "Who are you?" His eyes fell past the cloaked ones to the teenagers. He smiled and pointed behind him a giant beautiful city.
"Welcome, to the city of India!"
***
A/N: CLIFFIE! CLIFFIE! YaY!
Yami: -_-;; She's hyper.
Me: Uh-uh! *hops up and down* CLIFFIE! CLIFFIE!
Yami: *rolls eyes* Well...since she's not saying so, I will. India does not belong to her. It belongs to itself.
Me: Since all my other chapters were *soooo* short, this one's extra long!
Yugi: *You see Yugi smiling licking a giant lollipop and waving bye-bye to you* I got my candy!
-Until next time-
Circe (Seer-see)
Yami: What the $%#^%^ do you want?
Callie/Mikey aka Circe-Me: Tsk, tsk, cursing are we? *hits Yami upside the head* Bad boy. Oow! Your hair hurts!
Yami: *smirks* It pays to have hair like this! My hair *is* sharp, no?
Me: *waves hand frantically* Just do your stuff!
Yami: *glares and clears throat* Circe doesn't own YuGiOh. (Thank Ra!)
Me: *sighs, not having heard the last part* Yeah. Or else it'd be(and already is, though not mushy enough)Téa/Yugi, Joey/Mai, Bakura/Callie (OC), Tristan/Serenity, Yami/Yami Bakura-
Yami: WHAT?! You evil witch!!!!!
Me: I'm okay about the witch part-Harry Potter is my Love!-but EVIL?! *grabs Yugi* Here. *hands him a mallet* It was custom made to withstand the hair. Get the Yami and you get the candy.
Yugi: Life-giving CANDY!!!!!!!!!! *runs after Yami, who's screaming his head off*
Me: And on with the show! *cartwheels around room*
***
Joey woke up suddenly in the night. He could see that Callie was out of her sleeping bag-"Don't tell me the girl's a night owl!"-and so he went outside to investigate. Luckily, it had stopped raining.
"Joey-kun! Did I wake you up? Gomen." Callie shivered in the cold. Her face was looking anxiously at Joey.
"Naw. I woke up by myself." He went over next to her. They looked back up at the stars.
"They're *green*. Geez, this place is creepy." Joey saw the green lights overhead (they're stars), making him feel very freaked out.
"Mmm." Callie nodded. "Can you tell me what happened to Serenity?"
Joey was taken aback. "Serenity? How do you know about-oh yeah. The broadcasts, right?"
Callie nodded. "Yeah."
Joey smiled. "After getting the prize money from Yugi, I could pay for her operation. Her eyes are better."
"Yugi! That's right! I have something I need to give him." She reached in her jacket pocket and handed three somethings.
Joey just stared. "These are the three missing cards from Yugi's Exodia! How'd you know he didn't have them anymore? Where'd you get them?"
"He never used them in a single duel after that duel with Kaiba. I found them on the beach." Callie looked at Joey seriously. "Will you give them to him?"
"Sure." Joey knew Callie had no idea how this made him feel. Before, he'd felt he'd failed everyone, including Yugi. Now, he'd given money for Serenity's operation, and Yugi's cards...
"Uh, Joey?" Callie sweatdropped at Joey's happy face. "What's wrong?..."
"Nothing's wrong! Of course I'll give 'em! Don't worry!" Joey put his hand on his neck and blushed.
"Arigatou, Joey!" Callie suddenly gave Joey a giant hug.
"What are you doing?!" Joey blushed hotly while Callie looked at him innocently.
"Dai Gomen! Did I make you nervous?" Callie stepped away from Joey.
"Uhh..." Joey was still blushing, while Callie stared at him with her big eyes.
~Wow, I think she's sort of naïve on that...~
"Don't worry, Joey, I was hugging you like a brother! Besides, Mai-san seems to have overtaken you..."
"NANI?! Hey!" Callie laughed at Joey's embarrassed expression and ran into the cave. And they went to sleep again.
*
"Yugi..."
Yugi slowly awoke, but he kept his eyes shut.
"Faker, I know you're awake..."
Yugi grudgingly opened his eyes and saw Callie staring straight at him, her face up close to his, and her hair piled up around them.
"Ohayo, Yugi-kun!"
"WAAHHH!!!! Don't DO that!" Yugi scrambled away from her to against the cave wall. She just grinned.
"Don't get so freaked out! I just needed to talk to you." Her face grew serious.
"I feel the oddest presence in here..." Her forehead glowed with what looked exactly like the Millennium eye (The Third Eye). (You know, when Yami Yugi had that on his forehead, and Pegasus's glass broke?) She swung her head to Jai's sleeping form.
"And in *her*." She glared at Jai. "I have an idea. When we want to talk about Davvlen or our world or anything like that, we should speak Japanese."
"Callie-san? Are you sure that's necessary?" Yugi looked at Jai also.
Callie shut her eyes. "Yes. It is."
Yugi knew it was definitely time to drop the subject from hearing Callie's voice.
"I'll tell everyone else-WHAT THE HECK?!"
His shout woke up the others. Except Joey, that is. He can sleep through anything.
But Tristan roughly shook him awake. "Look! Someone's closing the entrance. Our way out!"
Indeed, a great shadow was covering what seemed to be sunlight, and was hauling a big rock to cover up the entrance.
"Hey!" Bakura ran up to the figure in an attempt to stop him. In return he was punched hard in the jaw. He fell hard on the ground, sliding back a little. His eyes were sliding in and out of focus.
"Bakura!" Jai, Téa, and Mai cried at the same time.
"Who are you?!" Yugi shouted.
The figure refused to answer. It (for it could've been male or female, or something else entirely) just pointed to Jai, then immediately covered the entrance.
And then they were left in pitch black.
"Lights! We need lights!" Jai's newly disembodied voice shrieked in terror.
"Well, what d'you think I'm doing?!" Callie's voice resounded back in the darkness angrily. There was a small *skitch* sound, and Callie held up her hand for light. Her right hand had fire in it, in the shape of a small ball.
They all stared at that as she swooped down to Bakura.
"Are you alright? He didn't do anything else to you, did he?" Bakura smiled.
"No, I'm fine." His jaw had a small trickle of blood coming down. He winced at the pain in his jaw. Callie noticed.
"Liar." She flicked her left hand, and it had a small purple floating un- solidlike diamond in it. She closed her eyes and leaned closer to Bakura, which made him blush a little, and held the diamond close to his face. She started to whisper fast, in a language that the others didn't know.
The diamond dematerialized, and the particles flew to Bakura's jaw, seemingly healing it. The blood slowly faded away. Callie got up and turned away, her eyes shaded by her hair.
Bakura smiled, still blushing slightly. "Arigatou." He got up also. "I think we should get going."
As soon as he finished his sentence, a line of fire holders flared up on both sides of the cave, and kept flaring up (there were more) going deeper into and down the cave.
Callie acknowledged this by closing her right hand with the firelight and getting rid of it.
"It's a path..." Téa said. "Should we follow it?"
"Well," Yugi observed, turning to Téa. "I think someone trapped us in here on purpose. And now they're inviting us to somewhere...who knows where?"
Everyone nodded. Mai suddenly glanced at Jai. "Do you know why it pointed to you?"
"I -I don't know. What would it want with me?!" Jai certainly looked shaken up.
"Maybe it was out to kill-" Joey began, but his mouth was automatically covered by Tristan's hand.
"Shut *up*, Joey." Tristan had little angry marks appearing. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Waah! I'm scared!" Jai grabbed Bakura's hand for comfort, making him flush again. "Please protect me, Bakura." Bakura just squirmed uneasily in her grasp.
"Uhm, heh. I think we should get going." Yugi said, sweatdropping.
"Where?" Téa questioned.
"Where else, Téa? Into the cave."
Everyone gathered their sleeping bags and everything else.
They walked down the cave, with Yugi and Téa in the lead; Jai-hanging on Bakura *still*, and Callie next to them; and, coming up in the rear, Joey, Mai, and Tristan.
Yugi had told Joey and Bakura about only talking in Japanese when discussing Davvlen and their world. Joey had passed this information on to Mai and Tristan.
"Téa, I forgot to tell you. Callie says she felt this odd presence in the cave and in Jai. She said we should only speak Japanese when talking about secret stuff."
"Okay, but-Jai? Maybe she just doesn't like Jai...?"
Yugi shook his head seriously. "Her forehead glowed with the same markings that the Millennium Puzzle has, only without those two little things engraved under the eye. She was serious."
"Let me see." Téa stared at his Puzzle. "You're right. And after you battled the fake Kaiba, that appeared on your forehead while you made your vow against Pegasus."
"Really? That's the magic from the Millennium Puzzle, I guess." He paused. "Téa, remember that guy that sort of transported us here?"
"Do I ever! Yugi, Do you think he was sent by-"
"Davvlen? No doubt about it, Téa."
"And-Callie-she turned into Harpy Lady-and now-" Téa couldn't finish her sentence.
"Her magic is very powerful. And before, she defeated that-that *guy* like that."
Téa sighed. "If we need her magic, which you just said is very powerful, to defeat Davvlen, doesn't that mean he's as powerful?"
"Pegasus was even more powerful than all of us. But we defeated him, didn't we?"
Téa smiled a little shakily. "With the power of all of our friendship!" She grabbed Yugi's hand with her own, and clenched it. Yugi blushed, and she did, too, but they both ignored those facts.
"With friendship!" Yugi repeated and smiled, secretly hoping that Téa wouldn't do one of her friendship speeches again. They were genius and wonderfully spoken, but they were *so* long and even a bit annoying!
He was also hoping she didn't see the blush creeping on to his face.
"Hey! You, guys! Look, an opening!" Mai pointed at the long ray of sunlight that was coming from a little up the wall of the cave.
"Let's climb up there and check it out!" Joey said in response, and he began to do so. Tristan followed him too.
Bakura did also, after pulling away from Jai. ("Jai, you wish to get out, right? So let me go!")
Yugi was about too also, but when Joey and Tristan had gotten to the top, Bakura suddenly stepped on a rock that sunk down under him, making him fall. (He hadn't gotten up that very high, so he wasn't hurt too much.)
"NANI?!" There was a rumbling sound. And it was coming their way...
"Not again..." Téa put one hand on her head in despair.
"It's déjà vu." Yugi said abruptly. The rumbling was much closer now...
It was a giant boulder. "WAHH!! IT'S COMING THIS WAY!!!!" Callie cried, flapping her hands wildly.
She helped Bakura up, and they all started to run. Oh, and Joey and Tristan? They'd gotten to the top, remember? Well, what do you think they did.
Guess. Just guess.
"Joey?"
"Yeah?"
"WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO??"
"Um, well, we could..." Joey paused, and made a rash decision.
"We gotta jump!"
"NANI ?!" Tristan stared at him.
"YOU GOT ANOTHER PLAN??!"
Tristan scowled begrudgingly. "Fine. On the count of three. Ready..."
By then, the boulder had already gotten to them.
Joey glowered. "Aw, screw it! THREE!" And they both jumped. They ended up having to run on it, or be squished.
Meanwhile, Yugi, Téa, Jai, Bakura, Mai, and Callie were all running from the giant boulder. Meaning they were on the ground in front of it, not on top of it.
"Hey! Joey, Tristan, WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE??!!!" Yugi shouted when he saw them.
"What does it look like, Yugi? We're running!!" Tristan and Joey were running pretty quick, which made the boulder go faster.
Just then, Bakura tripped over a rock. He gasped. "Not again!" He fell down, slow-motion. "AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!!!!!!!"
And he was squashed under the rock with an odd popping noise.
"BAKURA-KUN!" Yugi and Callie cried at the same time.
"HATEFUL!" Mai and Téa shrieked together, meaning the boulder.
"Bakura!" Jai cried tragically.
"Do you think-? Maybe it's a balloon again, Téa!" Yugi shouted hopefully.
"Wait! Yugi!" Téa cried. Yugi swung back at the boulder (they had gotten away a little so he had the time and space to turn around) and punched it.
Of course, it *wasn't* a balloon, and Yugi had just enough time to get away before it got him like it got Bakura as well.
"It couldn't have been a balloon, Yugi! How d'you expect Tristan and Joey are standing on it?!" Mai yelled.
"Oh. Right." Yugi blushed at his stupidity.
"Wait! I have an idea! I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this but- FAIRY WIND ATTACK!" Callie spread her hands, and a great shooting force blasted the rock, which wasn't a rock at all, it was-
"A rubber ball?!" Joey cried as he fell off it with Tristan.
"It figures. Rocks don't come out of nowhere and attack you." Mai said logically.
"Obviously, we overstayed our invitation," Yugi said begrudgingly.
"Bakura! Bakura-kun! Are you alright?" Callie shouted. She ran over to him.
"Hnnn...Unnnghh." He made the same face as he did the last time he'd been run over by a not-real-rock. He was, of course, totally freaked out.
"Hey, you guys, check out this stone." Mai held a slightly glowing orange gem for them to see.
"It looks like you're holding fire." Callie stared at the rock. "Where'd you find it, Mai?" Yugi said curiously, taking it from her and letting it illuminate his face with orange light.
"Where the rubber ball blew up."
"So this thing came from the ball?" Joey took it from Yugi and inspected it. "It looks like the fire from the Flame Swordsman."
"We'd be rich if we sold it!" Tristan said, swiping it from Joey and holding it up to inspect it in the firelight. All the others fell over anime-style.
"Excuse me."
All eight of the teenagers turned around to see five people wearing long green-black cloaks. All of them were wearing black masks but one. Presumably the leader, standing in front of the others, he had blond hair, and he was sneering at them as if to say, "What's this icky gunk I found on my shoe? It's disgusting!" like he was a higher species.
"How dare you intrude on this property? And that gem is ours. You will NOT sell it. You will give it to *me*."
"Who said we were intruding? We're trapped in here!" Bakura said defensively.
"That's a likely story." Then he gave each a surveying look in turn. His eyes widened upon seeing Jai and Callie.
He gave an indignant gasp. "You have- How dare-!!" He seemed to retain his composure quickly. "We will fight you for the gem."
"Wait a second. We never wanted a fight!" Yugi said hurriedly.
"We will fight," he stated firmly. "For the gem." He grinned maliciously. "And for those two girls." He waved his hand to Jai and Callie. Callie took a defensive step in front of Jai, who was cowering. She wasn't a big fan of Jai's, but she didn't think it right for any of them to be hurt.
"NAANIIIIIII?!!!?" Everyone said at the same time.
"Yes. And if you lose, we take the girls and the gem. And you will not pass." He sneered. "If you win-which you shall not-you may leave. And you may keep the gem. And the girls."
"Is the challenge a fight? Or a duel?" Téa said. Jai gave a small gasp at the word "duel" and hid her face in her hands.
"A fight. We do not duel! The very cards are outlawed! How dare you propose such a thing!"
The others gave each other looks. ~So, cards are forbidden here, ne? I better not let anyone, especially Jai, see our decks.~ Yugi thought logically.
"Okay. We'll fight you." Joey said quietly. He put up his fists readily. He had experience in fights. Tristan, Bakura, and Yugi stood in ready stance too.
"Wait." The man said. "There are only four males." He waved his hand back to the others, who were waiting. "There are five of us. Therefore, we win by default." He folded his arms. "We shall take our prizes." He reached for the gem, and the ones behind him went towards Callie and Jai.
"Hey! Who said I wasn't fighting!" Callie escaped from the other cloaked men and squeezed from behind Tristan and Joey, who both sweatdropped.
"You are a woman! We don't fight women." One of the masked followers said triumphantly and grabbed for her again. She stuck out her tongue at him and ran away again. The others sweatdropped at her childishness.
"I'm not a woman. I'm only fifteen." She said matter-of-factly.
"You're a girl then! Now stop playing games!" One of the other people said exasperatedly.
"Well." She punched the man who had spoken hard in the stomach. "I'm a big girl!"
"*Oof!*" The man fell backwards. He got up quickly, but Callie kicked him right in the face, making a sickening *crack!* noise and sending him backwards, bleeding in the nose.
"Oh, yeah!" Callie grinned, winked and made a peace sign.
"Not too shabby." Tristan answered, folding his arms and smiling.
"Bad comeback, though." Said Bakura bluntly, putting his hands on his hips.
"Yeah, well, *sorry*." Callie threw back, doing the same. While they had talked, the remaining men had attacked Jai, Mai, Tristan (he's still holding the gem), and the blond one had snuck up on Callie from behind.
Jai screamed as Yugi blocked for her. Bakura backed him up by twisting the man's arm behind him and punching him in the chest. Then they proceeded to fight with him. They were both needed for the task, since they weren't much for fighting.
Joey, of course, helped out Mai. He kicked the guy *where it hurts the most* pretty hard! Tristan threw the gem to him, and he caught it, of course. After that, it was monkey-in-the middle until Joey threw it to Téa, who kept it away from the guy chasing her until Tristan knocked him out.
Callie, though, was all by herself. "Fighting *you* is my pleasure!" She held on to his arms to keep him from struggling and neck-chopped him. Then he kicked her at the legs. He punched her in the shoulder, but then her hair whacked him hard in the face. (Well, she has a lot of it, so it *would* hurt!)
"Stop!" He said, weakened. The others helped him up. "We-we let you through. Please follow us."
He led them further into the cave. Everyone else was congratulating everyone else.
"Where'd you learn to fight like that, Callie-san?" Yugi grinned.
"I learned Karate here, in Japan. And I learned some fighting in Egypt. Other than that, it's a natural born talent!" Her smile faded. "It's a much needed talent, too."
She uneasily perked herself. "Great job, mina!"
"Yeah...well, I wonder where they're leading us too." Bakura stared back at the black void behind them. "Well," he shrugged and said in Japanese. "We wouldn't have gotten anywhere when fighting against Davvlen."
"Hai. The best way to go is forward." Mai stated, in Japanese also.
Jai whispered to Téa. "What are they saying?" (She doesn't know Japanese!)
"Um, they're saying...it's cold in here!" Téa said hurriedly and unintelligibly.
"Oh. They're right. Bakura! Wait for me!" She quickly walked over to Bakura, who sighed, embarrassed again.
*
"We're here," the leader said weakly. He pointed to some lights up ahead. They all went to them.
A man holding a staff was waiting there. "Who are you?" His eyes fell past the cloaked ones to the teenagers. He smiled and pointed behind him a giant beautiful city.
"Welcome, to the city of India!"
***
A/N: CLIFFIE! CLIFFIE! YaY!
Yami: -_-;; She's hyper.
Me: Uh-uh! *hops up and down* CLIFFIE! CLIFFIE!
Yami: *rolls eyes* Well...since she's not saying so, I will. India does not belong to her. It belongs to itself.
Me: Since all my other chapters were *soooo* short, this one's extra long!
Yugi: *You see Yugi smiling licking a giant lollipop and waving bye-bye to you* I got my candy!
-Until next time-
Circe (Seer-see)