Disclaimer: I don't own Pegasus. I don't own Yami(even though I want to), I don't own the whole frigging show. Heck, I don't even own a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards
yet! So, don't sue me, I'm just writing this for fun, capeesh?








~Chapter 6~




Night had fallen over Duelist Kingdom. Everyone's sleeping, most of them not very peacefully, for already obvious reasons. Anyway, like I was saying, everyone's
asleep, or at least trying to sleep. BUT. There's always that one oddball in every bunch, that has to stand out. Wondering who this is in this case? Well, to all
of you who guessed Pegasus...no. Good guess, since he's WEIRDER than odd, but no. The truth is, whoever was that oddball, was flying over head in the darkened sky
towards Duelist Kingdom, inside of a pitch black helicopter, which was making all those little noises that always catches your attention when it's flying over your
heads.

But, in this case, nobody was awake to hear it. Heck, nobody was even OUTSIDE to hear it. The only one who could hear it, was the one in the helicopter itself.

"God damn son of a--!" Seto Kaiba banged his hand against the monitor of the helicopters controls, trying to get to do two things--

1.To get the gas radar to work properly, since he didn't know how much gas he had left.
2.To get the helicopter to *shut up*.

And you can guess which person that was by now.

"Stupid helicopter, I KNEW I should have taken a boat, or plane, or even a CAR instead of this hunk of junk!" grumbled Seto, getting his now slightly sore hand back
on the controls of the helicopter. "I want to save my brother, not commit suicide here!" Seto let out an exasperated sigh, and he scanned his surrounding from out of
his tinted windows. Just ahead of him, was Duelist Kingdom, which was his intended destination. "Now all have to do is find a safe spot to land quietly."

Just then, the meter for Seto's gas tank finally stopped going nutso, and a sputtering noise came from the gas tank. Seto's eyes widened as he read the meter. Out of
gas. "Oh, damn, I should have filled it up more." Seto squeezed shut in fear, not wanting to see himself fall to the ground. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
he shouted at the top of his lungs, as he felt gravity take over, and plummet to the earth. "I should have taken the plane!!!!!" he shouted, in between screams, and
then started to scream again at the top of his lungs. He held tight to the controls for extra support, but soon found that his hands became much to sweaty, and his
hands slowly slipped off. Seto opened his eyes to slits trying to see why he was forced to let go, just to see him and the helicopter fall into a tree, somewhere close
to Pegasus's castle. Thankfully for him, Seto was wearing a seatbelt, so the impact wasn't so bad. Seto slowly opened his eyes all the way, feeling surprise and relief
all at once that he was still alive.

"I hate you." He said simply to the helicopter. He undid his seatbelt, and looked around himself. All he could see wear leaves. Seto squinted his eyes trying to get a
better look around. Seeing how it wasn't helping squat, Seto decided to open his door to get a better look.

As soon as he opened it, he felt cool wind sweep up him, and make his trenchcoat flap slightly. Seto's eyes widened in horror. Not only was he stuck in a tree of all
places, he was stuck in a very TALL tree. He was so high up, he could barely see the ground.

"I need a latter, badly."

Seto gulped a bit, turning his gaze away from the ground, and directly in front of him. There, he saw a castle window, barred up. He looked down slightly again, seeing a
series of barred windows on top of each other, and side by side.

'That must be where Pegasus keeps his prisoners. Maybe...Mokuba's in one of them!'

Feeling somewhat new hope, Seto frantically looked around himself for anyway to climb to a window, or at least the wall. He smiled a bit when he saw one of the branches of
the tree reaching out for one of the windows. Seto stepped onto the railing of the helicopter cautiously, and reached out for the branch with his fingertips...



Yugi's violet eyes snapped open suddenly. His vision somewhat still blurred a bit from just waking up and it being dark, Yugi sat up, and looked around, rubbing his eyes.

//Aibou? Are you ok? Why are you awake?//

/I...thought I heard something, Yami. It sounded like a scream, and a crash./

//Are you sure you weren't just dreaming it up, Aibou?//

/I don't think so. It sounded too real./

Yugi turned his head to the barred up window to his side after hearing a twig snap. "WAAH!!" He winced a bit when he heard a surprised scream come from above, and a blurred
flash of blue and a bit of brown rush by it. A few seconds after it went by, another crash was heard, and a screech of a cat was faintly heard.

/Still think I was dreaming?/



Seto collided with the not-so-soft earth right on his back, letting out a small pained groan hearing to small crack coming from who knows which body part. "Ow. Right now, I
wish I had a mattress under me." He whispered weakly, trying to get up. He tried supporting himself with his elbows, but fell weakly back onto his back. "God damn it. I REALLY
wish I went by boat." In one last ditch effort to move, Seto dug his fingers into the dirt underneath, and pushed with his legs to move himself backwards. He moved a few inches,
and found himself with his head now stuck in a bush. "Maybe, can hide myself here.." he muttered weakly to himself. Wincing even more, he continued to push himself into the
bush until his was fully hidden. "I'm safe...for now." He smiled weakly to himself, as he cold blue eyes rolled into the back of his head, and darkness overtook him.



* * *



/Yami, I KNOW something happened out there last night./

//Aibou...//

/No, seriously. Something bad happened last night, and I want to know what. Maybe somebody got hurt. I don't know, but if someone did, we have to help him!/

//Aibou, curiosity killed the cat. Right now is not the time to go exploring.//

/But what if someone got hurt? I know you don't like it here, and neither do I. You don't like Pegasus, and neither do I! I have a funny feeling HE has something to do with it./

//*sighs* I just don't want to see you get hurt, not like last time. You got really injured, and didn't heal for almost four days. I don't want that to happen again.//

/But I won't. I just want to see what happened. You'll be there with me, anyway./

//...//

/Yami?/

//..Fine. But I'm taking over when we do, ok?//
/Fine with me./

"Yugi, earth ta Yug!" Jou waved his hand in front of Yugi's face, and getting a small reaction from him, by his expressionless face turning into one of slight surprise.

"Huh? What? Sorry." Yugi apologized, blushing in embarrassment. "I was...you know."

Jou raised an eyebrow, and slowly nodded his head. "Right. Talking ta Yami again. But right now isn't a good time ta space out on us. Jose is coming over ta see how our work is coming
along, and to make sure that we're on da verge of fainting here working our butts off. If we're not, then he'll hurt us. And if your spacing out, then you know what happens then."

Yugi slowly nodded at his friend. He and Jou were the only ones of the group who were cleaning the dining room that Pegasus ate in, but were still not alone. Many other child slaves
were working in there, too. Dusting the mantle, polishing the floor and table, the usual.

"I won't be here when he comes," Yugi murmured.

"What?" Jou puzzled.

"Nothing!" Yugi said quickly, looking up at Jou with an innocent smile.



The darkness that enveloped Seto Kaiba slowly faded a bit, to be replaced with light that burned his eyes a bit. He squinted them, and small groan coming from his mouth. Day time, almost
eleven, if his skills of telling time by the sun were correct. 'I must have been out for a while. Maybe I can walk now, though...'

With a small grunt, Seto used his elbows to hoist himself up into a sitting position. He then stood up, to find that all the pain from last night's fall was gone. "That's the last time I
try and climb a tree again!" Seto looked around himself to see where he had fallen. He was a few feet from the tree where his helicopter clung to, but the castle walls were now out of
reach, hidden behind more jungle, and no more openings. "Damn." He cursed. Then just remembering something, he looked all around himself. "Where's my briefcase?" he wondered. He looked up
at the helicopter in the tree, with a frown. "Dammit!" he said, crossing his arms, "Why me? All I want to do is save my brother! Now I have to climb that damn tree again that obviously does
NOT like me!" He growled lowly to himself. "Then again, I need my briefcase." He sighed to himself, and looked up at the tree and helicopter again. "I'm going to regret doing this."




Yugi looked around cautiously, to make sure no one was looking. All of the slave children were busy working, and Panchito was busy talking to his brother, Jose, who was going to inspect the
children soon. Yugi could hear random words like 'nino' and 'golpear' which he had no clue what they meant, but by the looks of it, meant no good, and that they were speaking in Spanish(A/N:
Those actually are Spanish words. Ah, I love my sister's translator. It does English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. ^^) .

/Ok, Yami, I'm going./

//Be careful. I won't be able to take over until no one's around, because people will be suspicious of you.//

Yugi broke the link, then whispered to Jou, "Ne, Jou, cover for me, ok?"

Jou looked at Yugi strangely, then asked, "Why? What are ya going ta do?"

Yugi gave him a you-know-what-I-mean-so-please-don't-ask look. Jou raised an eyebrow, realizing what Yugi meant. "Ok, sure. But be careful."

Yugi half-smiled. "Aren't I always?"

"You weren't last time."

"I will be this time. I promise." Yugi then ducked to the ground, dropping his duster quietly. He looked around once more, then crawled to the door carefully. Making as little noise as possible,
Yugi crawled past Jose's feet. Yugi continued to crawl until he went against the wall. He stood up, and ran down the huge white hallway, making sure to slow down and hide whenever a guard went by.

/Ok, I'm a room now, the coast is clear. You can take over now./

//Ok, thanks, Aibou.//

"YU-GI-OOOOOOOOH!!!!!" Yugi shouted out, his voice growing deeper by the second. A flash of light, and his became Yami again.

Yami looked around himself, then exited the room Yugi had recently entered. Yami ran down the last hallway, and exited the castle.

//Ok, now which way, Aibou?//

/I think it's your right. I remember coming from that way before Panchito took us away from our cells./

Yami looked that way, and nodded to himself. He ran down there..



..Seto gulped, and jumped down from the large tree, briefcase in hand. He landed on his feet with a grunt, and fell on his knees. He felt the slightly painful vibrations course through his legs, but
stood up, ignoring them. He narrowed his eyes, "Now I have to find Mokuba." He ran to his left..



..Yami slammed right into a much taller man. He stumbled backwards, trying to regain his whereabouts. He looked at the man, and saw that he was a brunette, with blue eyes that made you want to shiver.
He was stumbling back as well, but what made Yami feel mad was that he was wearing a very similar outfit that Pegasus's guards wore, minus the trenchcoat having a big flare at the bottom. Yami narrowed
his eyes. He had never seen him before, but he knew that he would mean trouble to his Aibou and himself.

Seto stood up straight, and stared in front of himself at the man he had just crashed into He had the wildest hair he had ever seen, and crimson-violet eyes, which were narrowed in somewhat anger. He
wasn't sure, but he bet that he worked for Pegasus. He narrowed his eyes himself.

"You." They both said at the exact same time. Seto looked at the shorter teenager, and said, "What are you doing outside? Shouldn't you be inside?"

"My thoughts exactly." Yami said simply.

"Get out of my way. I don't have time for you." Seto growled.

"No way. I know what you'll do, and I won't let you!"

"Get. Out. Of. My. Way!"

"No."

"Ugh, this is going nowhere. Either get out of my way, or you'll be sorry."

"I think not. You'll be the one crying."

/Yami, what's going on?/

//We've been caught.//

/Oh, no! It's all my fault, I shouldn't have been so curious. Now we're in trouble../

//It's not your fault, Aibou--//

"Are you ignoring me, or what?!" spat Seto.

With a small jolt, Yami looked back up at Seto. He narrowed his eyes, with a small huff. "OK, how about we settle this with a duel? If you win, I let you by. If I win, you tell no one about this."

Seto scoffed, "I'm surprised you thought of that. But fine, we'll duel."

A few seconds later, a big stadium grew up beside them. A bit surprised, Seto stared somewhat wide eyed. 'Hey, didn't I invent that? What's that doing here?'

Yami didn't seem unmoved, since he simply walked up to one side, and let the small peice of metal rise, with him on it. "Well, what are you waiting for?"

Seto stared at Yami, then went up on the platform as well. Both of them shuffled their decks, and placed them down. "We'll start with 2000 life points each. Whoever runs out first loses."

Seto nodded at Yami, as he picked up five cards from his deck. He glanced at them. He then stated, "I'll go first if you don't mind." He placed a card down. "I call the Hi-tasumi Giant!"(A/N- Sorry if I
spelt that wrong. -_-') A shine of light, and the one eyed beast appeared on the field.

Yami looked at his cards as well. "Hmm...Winged dragon, guardian of the fortress! Fireball attack!" The big blue dragon roared as it appeared on the field, and a fireball came from it's mouth, destroying
the giant, and taking 200 life points from Seto.

Seto frowned a little. "Hmph. You may have won the first round, but victory will still be mine!" He drew another card from his deck, and smiled. "Saggi the Dark Clown, appear before me!"

Yami raised an eyebrow. "And you would play that because...?"

"Ever heard of magic cards, lame brain? I play Negative energy, raising my dark clown's attack power to 1800. Attack with dark light, wipe out that dragon!" Saggi giggled menacingly, and released from his
palms dark magic, and threw it at the dragon, destroying him, and bringing Yami's life points down to 1600. Yami gritted his teeth.

'Good move,' he thought, 'But not good enough.' He pulled a card from his deck, and ended up drawing a leg. 'I can't use this card.'

//Yugi, I'm just wondering, Yugi, why do you have that in your deck?//

/I'm not sure. Most of my cards were gave to me. I only got about a quarter of my deck by myself./

//I see.//

Yami snapped back into reality, breaking from the connection with Yugi. 'I need to put a monster in defence mode for now.' Yami placed down his Celtic Guardian card in defence mode, as well as the Mystical
Elf. Saggi destroyed the Celtic Guardian on Seto's command. 'I hope this time I get a powerful enough card.' Yami drew another card and smirked. "I call the Dark Magician in attack mode! Attack Saggi with
dark magic attack!" The Dark Magician appeared, and spread out his arm, and with a flash of dark light, destroyed Saggi, and wiped out 700 more of Seto's life points, bringing him down to 1100.

Seto frowned a bit, but drew another card. A grin formed on his face. "Your magician is about to become toast. Blue Eyes White Dragon!"

Yami gasped in awe as the dragon roared as it appeared, wiping out 500 more of Yami's life points.

/Oh my god, how does he have that? There's only four of those cards in the world!/

//Not only that's it really powerful!//

Hearing the distance call of Seto's voice, Yami snapped back into reality. 'How can I beat that? I don't think Yugi has any monsters that powerful in his deck. But...we have to try.' Yami pulled a card from
his hand, "Swords of revealing Light! Trap the blue eyes!" Swords fell from the virtual sky, and trapped the dragon, as it let out a roar indignantly.

Seto calmly drew another card, then smiled more. "Oh well. I still have Curse of Dragon for now."(A/N- I know, I know, Kaiba doesn't have that card. But it's AU, so maybe he has one now! :P Besides, I can't
remember all of his cards right now. -_-') He placed down the card, and the dragon appeared before him.

Yami drew another card from his deck. "Gaia, the fierce Knight!" The knight on his horse appeared, and on Yami's command, destroyed Curse of Dragon, bringing Seto's life points down to 800.

Seto gritted his teeth, but drew another card. "Did you think I only had one blue eyes, by the way? Think again!"

"Oh, no!" Yami called out, as the second blue eyes destroyed Gaia, and his life points fell down to a small 400. 'Oh, god, now it seems all so god damn hopeless.'

//Yugi, we mustn't give up!//

/But, what's the point? We'll just end up losing../

//We still got to have hope! Believe in the heart of the cards!//

/...Heart of the cards?/

//Yes, the heart of the cards.//

/What's that?/

//All the cards have a heart, which can decide the outcome of a duel. I know this, because it has helped me before.//

/...Really?/

//I'm not the type who would lie, Aibou.//

/...OK. Let's hope that the 'heart of the cards' will come through for us./

Yami held his breath, and closed his eyes tightly. 'Come on, heart of the cards...' Slightly afraid to see what he drew, Yami opened his eyes a bit. They widened as he saw what was laying in his palm. 'How...?
How did this get in my deck?'

//I don't think it matters much now, Yugi. Just lay it down! I have a plan.//

"Here it goes!" Yami shouted out, a small amount of sweat falling from his forehead. "I call the MIGHTY BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON!"

"W-what? How the hell do you have that?!" Seto sputtered. He shook his head. "No matter. We're even, you still can't win!"

"Oh, but I can! Mystical Elf, go into attack mode. Transfer you attack strength to the blue eyes white dragon!" Yami shot back.

"N-no!" Seto sputtered.

"Yes, and with my blue eyes attack power raised to 3800, he is stronger than your own blue eyes. Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack with White Lighting!"

Yami's Blue Eyes roared loudly, and a beam of white light emitted from his mouth, and hit on of the blue eyes, obliterating it, and bringing Seto's life points down to 300.

For the first time in a while, Seto felt warm tears form in his eyes. Seto wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and whimpered, "No. No! How can this be? How could I lose? I've NEVER lost! Fine, I give up. No point in
going on. I've lost, you might as well take me away, and turn me into one of Pegasus's stupid slaves anyway."

Yami's eyes widened in confusion and surprise. "What are you talking about? Don't you work for him?"

Seto looked up, with a frown on his face, "No way, I'd never work for him! Don't you work for him?"

"No chance in hell," scoffed Yami.

"Then...why are you out here? If you don't work for him, and your out here, why haven't you tried to escape yet?" Seto asked suspiciously.

"I have my reasons." Yami answered vaguely.

"Well, how do I know your not lying now?"

"How am I suppose to know YOUR not lying?"

"I'm not lying. I hate Pegasus, and the only reason why I came here is because he kidnapped my brother. Good enough reason for you?"

"I guess so. But I'm guessing you want a real reason from me, too, right?"

"No duh."

"Fine then." Yami sighed, "The reasons why I am staying are hard to explain, but I'll try my very best. First reason, is because I have friends and family still here, and I'm still planning on how to get them out in one
piece. The other, is because I have some...well, let's just say I have a bone or to two to pick with Peggy."

"I guess I can believe that. Sorry about before. By the way, my name is Seto."

"My name's..."

//Um, Aibou, how am I suppose to tell him your name? Because right now, I'm you, but later, you'll be you.//

/*sighs* Just tell him my name./

"My name's Yugi," Yami finally stated.

With a raised eyebrow, Seto nodded. "Well, nice. Um, meeting you, Yugi."

Yami nodded back. "I guess this duel was for the wrong cause. Since you still haven't lot yet, why don't we say we call it a tie?"

Seto thought for a moment. "That sounds reasonable. But, like I said, my brother has been kidnapped by Pegasus. So, I must go." Seto jumped off his platform, just as it started to go down, and started to walk away.

"Wait!" shouted Yami, "Why don't you and I work together? We both have something against Pegasus, so why not plan something up together on this?"

Seto looked back. "No offence, Yugi, but I'm more of the loner type. Besides, I'll be fine on my own."

Yami nodded. "Alright, I respect that. I hope you get your brother back, Seto."

Seto smiled a bit. "And I hope you find your freedom, Yugi." With that, Seto walked away, briefcase and deck in hand, as Yami's platform lowered to the ground.




~To Be Continued...~


A/N- I hope you enjoyed that! ^^ But right now, I'm officially on writer's block. -_-' Just warning you incase the next chapter takes a while to come out. And I bet some of you are wondering what happened to Seto's so called
'concussion', eh? Well, I at least know this-It'll be making a come back in later chappies! ^^ (Sorry Seto fans, please don't hurt me! x_x) Please review! Reviews make me happy! ^^