Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh!

Thanx for reviewing me Princess of darkness and me (luv the name) ! Yay, my first review ever! By the way I luv your Atlantasean (I think I spelled it wrong) story! And if anyone else did review, I didn't get it yet, so sorry if I didn't put your name down.

Anywayz, I'm not sure if I want to put Tea with Marik or Bakura ( I have a thing for bad ass guys...hehe, I don't know why I said that..gulp..) If you have any suggestions for which guy, feel free to tell me!

Hopefully this chapter won't be that boring as ch.2, I'm trying to put some humor into this one....like Goku w/Kame Senin. Don't forget to Reviewww! oh yeah, no tea bashing.

"Tea, Tea, how many times do I have to tell you to stop questioning my judgement?" said S (shalanelle) exasperatedly. "You'll be perfectly fine."

Tea was strapped to a belt (kinda like what those rock climbers wear), suspended on a rope that reached to the top of the cliff. She was clutching the rope about 25 feet high from the ground. "uh...are you sure that I won't get hurt if I do fall," said Tea nervously.

"Of course, of course!" said S trying to maintain a serious tone. "This is just some...oh, incentive for you to train even harder. Just remember you have to get to the top of the cliff.....Ready to climb?" (cliff is about 200 ft. high) "You do know that this extra 25 ft. jump is just so that I can light the rope."

"WHAT!" screamed Tea.

"Really now, you would take forever, resting, and whining, so this'll force you to go faster." S dipped the end of the rope in kerosene and oil and then lit the end with a match. "Up you go!" S said cheerfully.

"AAAAgh!" Tea yelled as she scampered upward, flames licking toward her.

Thus the torture went on and on, with each impossible tasks coming after another.

Tea: whining----crying----screaming----sulking

What had seemed like forever came to an end when Tea had just completed running across a mile of hot coals.

"Tea," said S smiling, "guess what...I think your training is complete!"

Tea: shocked---elated-----dancing around singing hallelujah

S: o___O

"Hmmm, you must be happy to see your friends again, especially those lovely purple eyes again," said S teasingly.

"What! W-What are you talking about?"

"Oh ho! Or is it the sexy Bakura you're thinking about," said S to a red faced Tea.

"I-I don't like any of them!" Like Bakura or Marik! thought Tea. What is she thinking? Although they both have very nice bodies...aagh, what am I thinking!

"When are you going to actually teach me how to fight," said Tea quickly changing the subject.

"Oh, I thought I told you, you already know how to fight," said S with a surprised look on her face.

Tea: x___x (anime style fall)

"You...you! Aagh I'm gonna kill you! You made me go through that stupid training for nothing! I don't care about getting controlling my ability, I though you were gonna teach me how to fight!" yelled Tea, diving for S's neck.

S frantically floated above the frothing Tea.

Tea jumps up and grabs S's neck. "hehe," said Tea, "guess this training is good for one thing.....Killing you!" Tea plunges downward as she tries to strangle S.

"K! K! I give! I'm sorry that I forgot," squeaks S as she tries to get out of Tea's grip. "Jeez! I didn't think you'd be that strong to jump up that high! Man, maybe I shouldn't have trained you that hard! Hey! Not that tight, if you try to kill me, how will you get back to your friends?"

Tea slowly releases S.

S: backs away slowly (doing the same thing that Tea was doing when she first met S)

"Anyways, I did teach you control of your emotions right?" said S tentatively.

"Yeah, by making me swim with the crocodiles whenever I didn't!" snorted Tea.

"See! See! That's something! said S. "But," S said, suddenly changing her expression into a serious look, " you will need this training and control...and very soon."

"I can't tell you anything more, but trust your heart and judgement," continued S.

Tea was silent. She was shocked by the look of worry in her mentor's eyes. "Everything will be okay," Tea said, hugging S in an effort to reassure her.

S gently disengaged from Tea's arms and said softly, "You'll be fine, but I think it's time for you to go back now." With that she waved her hand and Tea's eyes suddenly drooped.

"Wait-wait-w--zzzzzzzz," said Tea. The scenery around her dissolved into her bedroom and Tea gently plopped on her bed, the time only 4hrs. after her argument with Marik.

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Back at the Game Shop, right after Tea had left.

"Do you think we should go after her?" asked a worried Yugi.

"No, let the girl get her emotions out," said Mai. "Believe me, she won't want to see any of you after what this creep said in front of us." "She'd be too embarrassed," she added, shooting a death glare at a now silent Marik.

Marik was in a silent turmoil. He knew he shouldn't have said that to Tea, after all, she was always there for Yugi and her friends. It was just that it hurt seeing her spark of life in her eyes go dull and glazed after her parents death. He was trapped within his own game. He had treated her cruelly but now he could not go after her begging for forgiveness, it would look suspicious. Look at me, he snorted to himself. The great ancient being now being brought to worry over one of those mortals. Oh how low I have fallen.

Next to him was Bakura, standing nonchalantly with his legs crossed. During the whole argument he had said nothing. He knew that Marik liked Tea because he himself wanted Tea and recognized his own symptoms in Marik. However he was in better standing with Tea because unlike Marik, he just didn't talk to Tea, rather than trying to instigate a fight with her like Marik.

But do I want her because Marik wants her and I just don't like Marik or is it something else........wait, what am I thinking! thought Bakura. Of course it's because of competition, he thought to himself angrily.

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Later that day.

As the gang left the Game Shop to go home, Marik suddenly found his footsteps going towards Tea's house. Oh well, since I have nothing better to do, thought Marik, I'll just...just go check up on her. That baka might have hurt herself....uh....running that fast, he said to himself in an effort to reassure himself that he wasn't going there to apologize.

As he rang the doorbell he racked his brain, thinking of an excuse for being there.

I have to go the bathroom real bad....no, that's a stupid excuse....uh...your purse! That's it!

But no one answered the door. Hmmm...she's not there? wondered a now worried Marik. Oh shit, what have I done, he thought. God she's probably crying her eyes out and it's already dark. Damn me and my big mouth.

Racing down the sidewalk, Marik ran toward the payphone. Yugi! he yelled into the phone. Tea's not at her house. "What do you mean," cried Yugi. " She should be there, it's already 10:00 at night!"

"I mean she's missing you baka!" snarled Marik. "Get the others and look for her!"

Yugi quickly gave the alarm and the others arrived at his house with Marik standing on the doorstep waiting for them.

"Since when do you care what happened to Tea," said the normally silent Bakura.

Marik thought fast. " Because if something did happen to her, all you annoying people would annoy the hell outta me, whining about what happened to her," he said with a sneer on his face.

"Why you," Joey said, jumping toward Marik. Everyone grabbed onto Joey's arms and restrained him.

"Just go ahead and try mortal," taunted Marik. "I'll control you again and this time it'll be for good."

"As much as I'd love to smash your face in," said an angry Yami, "we've gotta look for Tea now."

Everyone quickly grabbed their flashlights as they ran out, calling out Tea's name.

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2 hrs. later.

"This is hopeless!" groaned a frustrated Yugi. "Let's just notify the police."

"Wait guys!" yelled an excited Ryou. He had gone back to circle Tea's house once more and spotted Tea on her bed, fast asleep. "She's in her house sleepin'!"

The group rushed over and saw Tea on her bed.

Ryou rang the doorbell several times.

"Wha-," Tea said in her sleep. "Gaah!, I'm back! But who's there at this time...........burglars!"

She crept around the back and took down the closest person from her. "Take that! and that! and that!" she cried, beating the person senseless.

The group whirled around as they watched in disbelief as Tea knocked Marik down and beat him unconscious. "Tea," they cried. "What are you doing!"

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Sorry this is the end. I'm too sleepy to continue. Hehe......hope you liked it. Nighty-night. R&R!