AN - Thanks to all of my reviewers. You have given me inspiration to carry on writing even though I have other things on my mind at the moment. Writing is official my escape now so keep reviewing please! Thanks to YuGiMegami for your millions of reviews. And to everyone else who reviewed recently.

I do not own YuGiOh (as I haven't done a disclaimer for ages. However I do own Lara).

Yugi, Ryou, Bakura, Serenity, Tristan and Tea took their seats in the main arena. They managed to get second row seats. The arena was laid with little duelling tables where no animation would take place throughout the tournaments first stages.

Meanwhile Yami, Mai and Joey waiting in the duellist collecting ring. They were given numbers and entered the arena as the crowd roared. Joey saw Serenity cheering in the crowd as he took a seat at his designated table. (AN - I am absolutely pathetic at writing about duels with actual points and moves etc so I will basically tell you the winners of each and a few match highlights!)

Mai and Yami sat at their respective tables. Their opponents soon joined them. Joey was faced with a very pretty lady who gave Joey a run for his money in a duel. He only narrowly won, mainly because he had spent the first half of the duel trying to look down her top.

Mai's opponent was a very young boy, who she toyed with for a while, letting him think that he was good, before gently finishing him off. She winked at him as he contemplated defeat and hand him a bar of chocolate, and he looked as if he was actually glad that he had lost.

Yami, ironically, was faced with the girl who Yugi had mistaken for him. "Nice hair" she commented sarcastically as she sat down." Yami took the attempted insult with grace, but showed no mercy with the girl, finishing her off quickly and humiliatingly.

This went on for six rounds until only two finalists remained. Joey lost out in the quarterfinals to a rough looking man with one eye covered by a patch. Mai lost to the same guy in the semi-finals. Yami was to face this man in the final. Joey and Mai took their seats at the side of the arena to watch as the final duel was played out in full animation, courtesy of Kaiba Corporation.

Yami made a good start, but was soon floundering in an amazing show of power from his opponent, aptly named One Eyed Mark. Mark appeared to have based his entire deck around dragons, all of which Yami defeated until Mark drew the powerful, Green Eyes Red Dragon and combined it with a magic card enabling the dragon to breathe fire. (AN - There probably aren't such cards but go with me here! Just imagine that it is true and possible!) Yami was stuck for ideas until he finally drew his Dark Magician. Using a new magic card that he had traded called Spiritual Waterfall (no such card but imagine there is!). He used his Magician to cast the spell enabling this card to be used, summoning a waterfall around the dragon, halving it's strength. He then attacked with his Dark Magician and finished off Mark, making him the winner. Mark look sullen at this, he was apparently not a good loser, and he stormed out of the tent through the side, ripping the fabric to make his own door.

Yami received the prize of a set of miniature Duel Disks and a couple of rare cards and found his way back to the others. They were all excited at his win, especially the rare cards in his hand. After looking at them he handed them all to Yugi saying, "These don't compliment your grandfather's deck, however they will make your new deck stronger."

Yugi was ecstatic about his new cards. He had totally forgotten the entire ordeal with the late Mr Quinn. The group went outside to the large space of field where they watched a firework display. Yami and Bakura were shocked at this; they had never seen fireworks before. They all marvelled at the spectacular show until it ended with a bang. Then they went and sat by the oak tree that had been their meeting place. They decided to wait a while before trying to leave, as the buses would be packed with people trying to get home. In about half an hour everything would be much quieter. Serenity was exhausted and had fallen asleep on Tristan's lap, much to Joey's annoyance. Joey kept whispering threats to Tristan in hushed tones containing words such as "try anything", "good intentions" and "hunt you down". (Hope you get the point there, basically Joey is telling Tristan that if he hurts Serenity Joey will kill him). Everyone was tired and it was getting dark. They made their way to the bus stop and boarded their bus just as it was getting dark. Most of them couldn't sleep because of the rocking motion of the bus. Serenity slept peacefully though, this time on Joey's lap. Yugi was too excited to sleep, instead he sat and talked non stop to Yami.

Tea was unable to keep sleep away any longer and she drifted slowly into a land of dreams. She slumped over onto the person next to her, Bakura. Looking down at her, Bakura realised just how pretty she really was. Gently he put his jacket over her shoulders to keep her warm and smiled slightly as her brushed her hair out of her eyes. He caught himself doing this and stopped abruptly, looking out of the window. What had he just been doing? Tea was a girl for goodness sake, and a good one at that! Had he been showing compassion? He shook his head and laughed inwardly. Of course not! It had just been so long since he had had a girlfriend. He missed the exciting nights, that was all. He shifted slightly in his seat, causing Tea to stir. But now that he came to think about it, Tea had been really nice to him that day. She hadn't blamed him for Yugi's disappearance. In fact she had reassured him that he wasn't to blame. Bakura was torn between two thoughts at this point. Perhaps Tea could help him to become a new person in this new era, they could become friends.maybe even more than friends. Or he could do as he always did and exploit her trust once he had earned it. Bakura decided on the latter thought. After all, he thought as the bus entered Domino, a leopard couldn't change its spots.

The bus stopped at the first stop to let Joey, Mai and Serenity get off the bus. At the next stop Tristan woke Tea and they wearily climbed off of the bus to go home. It was nearly midnight by the time that the bus stopped a short distance from Yugi's house. The four boys walked in silence back to the house, let themselves in, climbed the stairs and flopped into bed, falling asleep almost instantly. All except Yugi. Yugi lay down on his bed after locking all the doors and setting the burglar alarm in the shop below. He came back to his room and heard Yami snoring. Quietly he lay on his bed, fully clothed, but he felt something hard poking into his chest. Sitting up he pulled out the envelope given to him by Mr Quinn.

Silently he crossed to the seat by the window that was illuminated by a street lamp outside. Slowly he opened the envelope, imagining the rare and powerful card that he would find inside, and it would be all his until the time was right to tell Yami and the others about it. Pulling out a single duel monsters card he turned it over, expecting an immensely powerful monster to be staring back at him. Yugi was shocked to see that the image on the card was not of a fierce creature but of a person. She was pretty, with long blonde hair. Above her it read, 'The Mystical Maiden'. Yugi glanced at the attack and defence points at the bottom of the card. They were so low. The attack power was a mere 800, whilst the defence power was slightly better, at 1000.

"A throw away!" Muttered Yugi. Cards as weak as this were normally only used by Yugi as a distraction whilst he formulated a plan. He would play such cards in defence mode, and they would immediately be destroyed by the opponent, causing no harm to Yugi's life points. Despondently Yugi returned to his bed, placing the new card inside his deck as he did. Sighing he rolled over and drifted off to sleep, dreaming about Mr Quinn and all of the powerful cards that Yugi could have received, all of them far better than the Mystical Maiden.

AN - More action there! I need your thoughts now reviewers! Do you want another Yami dream because I'm in a good place to put one in now, but it isn't VITAL to the story! You tell me please!