Brood: Woah.....check it out.....Chapter 6!

Zutsokaki: What are you still doing typing this?

Brood: Do you really want me to threaten your life again....you machochist.

Zutsokaki: I never heard cynicism called that before.

Brood: ...............just......cease to be. Now here it is folks, Chapter 6!

Zutsokaki: What if I don't want to cease to be?

Brood: *uses a roll of duct tape on his face* Hey, thanks for the tape Yami Hikari!

Zutsokaki: MMPH!




CHAPTER 6




The young boy walked slowly in the direction that the girl he had met had pointed in. It was about 9:50 in the morning, and he was a little nervous. He wasn't sure what she wanted, but he wasn't scared at all. He wasn't sure what was in the direction she had specified.

As he neared the area she had pointed to, he heard a loud rumble and a flashes of light, and he ran towards it.

"HAHA! And my Emprezz Judge deztroys your Swordsmiztrez! Zat takes away all of your life points....and gives me your chips......"

/HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO STUPID!?!?!/

It was just then he understood why she asked him there. He was standing in another clearing, and there the girl was, standing on one side of the duel station. On the other side, there was a young man, yelling at her in French. She replied in French, then grinned. The guy looked down sadly and pressed a button on his console. The boy could just make out a small box forming, and then sinking into the console. Then a moment later, it rose again on the girl's side. She opened it up and took out three diamond chips, grinning and placing them in her glove.

"Zat is vat you get for betting all of your chips on just your first match, Montaux" She then looked at him. "It iz a zhame zat you will be leaving on ze very first boat 'ome tomorrow."

The young man, Montaux, hung his head and got down from his station. He then stalked off in the opposite direction. The girl jumped lightly off of her side and spotted the spectator.

She walked over and smiled at the boy. "I am zure you know vhy I vanted you 'ere, young man?"

The boy gulped and nodded. /What am I going to do without a dueling deck?!?!?!/

"Zen, zhall ve get ztarted?" Her eyes flashed like they did yesterday, and she motioned towards the dueling station.

The boy looked at her, then at the dueling station. Then he looked at her again. There was something in her eyes.........he balled his fists and looked at the ground. "OK! I'm not a duelist!"

Her eyes opened a little wider in mock surprise. "Oh? Really?" She turned to completly face him.

He shook his head. " I really hope you won't tell anyone! I mean no harm, honest! I came on the boat to find my brother, Seto. When he left me, I was so mad. It would be too long for him to be gone!!!"

"Oh....a ztowaway are ve.........Mokuba Kaiba....."

Mokuba's head shot up. "How did you know it was me!?!?!"

"Zere aren't many boys on zis island vith long scruffy black hair and older brothers named Zeto......" She smiled down at him.

"Do you know my brother!? Please, tell me where he is!"

"I am an....aquaintance of 'is. Unfourtunatly, I 'ave no idea vere he is at ze moment."

"Awww......man......" He looked her in the eyes. "What's your name?"

"Amoura." She opened her bag and pulled out some juice cartons. She offered it to him, and he took it gratefully. They sat for awhile, sipping juice. Then Amoura spoke again.

"You know now zat I cannot leave you alone on zis island....."

"Why? I think I've been doing fine."

"But I just gave you an example of vhat ozer duelists might do to you. If too many find out zat you aren't a duelist, vord vould get out all too quickly zat you aren't a duelist, but a ztowaway. And not just any ztowaway, ze younger brother of Zeto Kaiba 'imself! And you cannot find Zeto by 'iding all day from zem...."

Mokuba looked down at his juice carton and sighed lightly. "I guess you're right, Amoura. But what if some duelists come by us and want to challenge me anyway?"

"Zen I vill just 'ave to make an excuse for you, von't I?" She smiled down on him and stood up. "Vhy don't ve get moving now? Zere are many duelists out zere just itching to win zome chips....or lose zem...."

Mokuba stood up also. "But you already won another three! Are you a really good duelist?"

"I vould like to zink as much. I 'ave a few titles back 'ome."

"I saw your life point counter just before the station switched off. It read 4000. That other guy never touched you, did he?"

"Oui, Mokuba. 'E did....once.... But I 'ave life replenishing cards."

"That still means you kicked his butt!"

She laughed a little bit. "I zuppoze I did, Mokuba. But I 'ad an old score to settle vith 'im, so I vould show no merzy in any case."

Amoura then looked down at her bag and sighed. "Vell, Mokuba, if you are to be traveling wiz me zen you must know zomezing...." She reached into the bag and pulled a small thing out.

"OH WOW!"




It was already 2:00 in the afternoon, and Mai was in the thick of a battle. She was challenged when a foriegn guy walked up to them and motioned to Mai, and beckoned them all to a duel station just about one hundred feet from their camp. The battle was leaning towards Mai, with her life points at 3500. Her opponent's was at 400. It was more like it was breaking it's back in her direction instead of leaning. Her Harpy Sisters were doing their job well.

"GO MAI!! DO IT!!!" Yugi called encouragingly from the sidelines.

"Yeah Mai! Kick his tail in!" Joey yelled up to her.

"Doesn't it look like I'm doing that already?" Mai glanced down at them and then turned her head back towards the hologram deck, where her Harpy Lady was floating and screeching menacingly. She wore her Cyber Shields, and Mai had her Mirror Wall.

Her opponent was looking over his cards and then grinned. He then turned a card around and showed her a De-Spell card. He then directed it at the Mirror Wall, and then put his Launcher Spider in attack mode. He declared an attack on Mai. Mai glared and then quickly used a Negate Attack. He simply threw her a look of contempt. Mai drew a card and then used it. It brought one spell card back into play from the graveyard. She brought back Mirror Wall, much to her opponent's dismay. Mai then grinned and played her Harpy's Pet Dragon, her Harpy's Lady gaining another 300 attack points. She then attacked the Launcher Spider with her Lady, destroying it and taking his life points down to zero.

Mai grinned and waved merrily at the guy, him scowling darkly and taking two diamond chips from his glove. He put them in the Transfer Box and pressed the button. Mai opened it excitedly when it came up on her side. She took the chips and put them in her glove, giggling happily. The guy got down from his side and began to walk away. Mai looked at him, then jumped from her side. She ran in front of him and held out her hand. He smiled and shook it, then walked away.

"Wow Mai, you really kicked his butt good!" Yugi had run up to Mai, closely followed by the others.

"It wasn't really that hard to beat him. He had some good cards, but he just couldn't hack it against me." She flipped her hair and turned towards the woods again. Just then she caught Joey's eye. He gave her a thumbs up. They had been confronted by about five people already during the day, Yugi, Joey, Bakura, Mai, and Honda all having a duel just that afternoon.

Yugi, Bakura, and Mai all had five chips now, Joey had four, and Honda had six. Honda had gotten six because a daring young duelist had betted all of his chips on the match, and had lost when Honda had gotten a lucky draw and was able to bring out his Swamp Battleguard out with the Lava Battleguard. Joey had, the night before, agreed with Honda that before any one of them dueled, the other would hand over his Battleguard so they could both be in the deck.

Anzu was feeling bad because she didn't have a duel yet, and had said this.

"Don't worry Anzu! Everyone is just scared of your cute fuzzy creatures!" Honda was laughing, still in a giddy mood because of his chips. It was cut short by Anzu swatting him over the head.

"At least I didn't have to beat up a kid to get some chips!"

"Hey! He wasn't a kid! He was about fourteen!"




Seto walked through the woods, little Lisa still with him. The previous evening, she had connived him out of some rabbit, and then that morning had somehow convinced him that she could go with him on his journey. She was currently jaunting along happily, keeping her eyes straight ahead. Seto's seven diamond chips glinted whenever they passed under a patch of sun. Lisa had yet to have a duel.

He was still cursing himself for becoming so soft when the phone he yanked from his room on the ship rang loudly. Lisa stared at him.

"What is that, sir?"

"Hush girl. I'm going to answer it." He grabbed the phone out of his pocket and turned it on, speaking harshly into it. "What is it? Did you find Mokuba?"

His nervous nurse maid spoke. "Mister Seto sir, Mokuba's friend tells me that he never showed up at his house....."

"WHAT!?!?! He never was even there???"

"Uh...yessir, that is what I have been told!" Her voice quavered a little bit. "But sir, then why would Mokuba do that?"

"There is only one explaination for this at all. You should have kept a better eye on him and checked where he was going before he even left! Do not call again, I know where he is! He cannot be reached by you or anyone else but me now!"

"But sir! Then where is he?..............oh no! He isn't!?!?!?"

"He is. You are relieved of duty until further notice. I have no need for a nurse maid right now."

"Mister Seto.....but please! Could I stay on as a normal maid or cook or....." Seto hung up on her and threw the phone on the ground. He immediatly smashed it under his foot.

Lisa looked up at Seto and frowned. "Now why dinna go en do a thing like that?"

Seto glared down at her, mildly surprised that she did not quail under his gaze. "I had no use for it anyway. I only needed it to know where my brother was."

"Oh! So you have some missin' kin as well!" She smiled up at Seto, but he turned away and began walking again. She just started off again with him. "What did you say your name was? Kebby or something like that?"

"Kaiba. Seto Kaiba." He stared straight ahead as he continued walking.

"I like Kebby better." Seto scowled a little bit, but said nothing. "So, Kebby-kun, do you think you know where the fortress is?"

"..........Don't call me Kebby-kun....and............maybe I do...."

Lisa skipped ahead happily. "You really think so! It would be great to be the first ones there! But with so many people here, it's probably even been found already!"

Seto glanced at her. He had to admit that she was right......"STOP!"

Lisa immediatly stopped in her tracks. "What is it, Kebby-kun?"

Seto walked a little quicker and stood beside Lisa. "There's something wrong here. See how the leaves and grasses here look dryer than they should. In fact, the dry stuff is sort of arranged in a large messy circle. Most people wouldn't have caught this in time......like you."

Lisa spun around to face him. "Now just because I didn't see some dead leaves now doesn't mean that I am worth any less than you are!"

"Worth? Oh, you have no idea. But, you still don't get it, do you? This is obviously a trap." He took his spare coat and threw it onto the patch of ground. It was immediatly snapped up and into a net about seven feet high, swinging lightly. Lisa stared up at this in awe.

"Wow, Kebby-kun. You are good."

"Hm....well I suppose I should thank..."

"YES I GOT ONE!!"

Both Lisa and Seto turned towards the loud voice. There was someone coming, obviously drawn by the sound of the triggering of the trap. Seto grabbed Lisa's arm and they dove into some bushes closeby.

A young blonde girl walked out from the thicks of the forest and looked up at the trap.

"God damn it! All I got was some..........hey.......what's a coat doing in there?"

As the girl tried to figure out what Seto's coat was doing in there, Seto looked down at Lisa, who was watching the girl and trembling.

/Lisa......trembling? What's going on here? I do recognize the girl from somewhere...../ He looked down on Lisa again, and noticed that her whole face was contorted in fury. She suddenly darted out of the bushes and stood close to the girl.

"REBECCA!!!!!!"

The girl had turned around at the sound from the bushes, and noticed the little Irish girl. "You?! What do you want!? You shouldn't even be here!"

"Rebecca, I got cheated by you! I should have won that duel!"

"Heh. Well, my damn bad hand did work for you....in the beginning. But a win is a win, damn it."

"I demand a rematch! NOW! And what was that trap for!?"

"I would be happy to be the one to take you off of the island......and the trap......was so I could capture duelists and make them duel me in return for letting them down."

This made sense to Seto. He looked at the girl again and realized that he did recognize her as the American Champion. She also had eight chips. This seemed to be working for her so far. So Lisa suffered a crushing defeat to her......well, Seto didn't expect her to do much better this time. He stood up and walked over to the girls. Rebecca knew who this was easily.

"You're Seto Kaiba!"

"Of course. Can I have my coat back?"

"Only if you duel me."

"Lisa will duel you for it then. And....diamond chips of course."

Lisa looked up at him in shock. "But Kebby-kun! I don't think I could do it! I think I was just a bit hotheaded! I...."

"Hush right now. You can duel her and win. Just hand me your deck." Lisa obeyed him, and he looked it over. Rebecca watched them with mild interest.

"Are you going to duel me?"

"You hush as well, child. Lisa will duel." Seto reached into his pocket and put a few cards of his own into the deck, then handed it back to Lisa. "With these, you can win. Just think before you make any moves. And ALL of those cards I lent you come right back to me after the duel, win or lose." Lisa nodded and looked at Rebecca.

"Where is the closest duel station?"

"Just that way." Rebecca took down Seto's coat and walked to her right, carrying the coat with her. Lisa and Seto followed her. Soon enough, there was a duel station in sight and the two girls went up to the station sides. They placed their decks on the deck reader and then pulled out their ID's. There was a notice that appeared on the ID's that morning that told them when they dueled, they had to slide the ID into a reader on the dueling station, and input how many diamond chips would be betted. It was so Pegasus could keep track of the duels.

They glared at eachother, Seto standing on the sidelines with his arms crossed.

"DUEL!"



Bakura grinned as he peeked ahead. "Hey guys! There's a spring over here! It looks very clean!"

Yugi, Joey, Honda, Anzu, and Mai all ran up ahead to Bakura. They looked into the spring. It was surrounded by small purple and blue flowers, and some small shrubs. There was a large rock jutting out over the spring, low enough to kneel and reach the water.

"Yes, it does look really clean to me. And it's really nice here too!" Yugi looked into his clear sparkling reflection and knelt down.

Honda stuck his hand in the water, but snapped it back out quickly. "But it's really cold!"

"You know, it is kind of cold here anyway. It is supposed to be the middle of June, right?" Mai looked up, but her vision couldn't go farther than the leaves of the tree.

"You're right, Mai. It is a bit too chilly around here." Joey knelt down by the water and dunked his hands in, light shivers going up and down his body due to the coldness of the water. He splashed some of it onto his face, cleaning off a little bit. Bakura knelt down and did the same, water running down his face and onto his shirt.

"Do you think this water is good to drink? I really don't want to build another fire and have to wait on the water to be safe."

Anzu kneeled down and cupped her hands, catching some water in her hands. Then she sipped it. "Yes, it is fine. And it is really good also. We should fill up our canteens here."

Joey and Yugi filled the canteens, and Honda went forraging again. Anzu, Mai and Bakura all sat down and made temporary camp. Anzu unrolled her sleeping bag and sat down in it. Then she took out the last of her berries and munched on those, hoping that they wouldn't run out of food.

Bakura looked up suddenly, his eyes straight forward and his head tilted in one direction.

"What is it Bakura?" Joey turned his head up as well, looking at Bakura.

Bakura closed his eyes. "Don't you all hear that sound?" Everyone else tried, but all they could hear was the soft rustling of the trees in the light wind, the sunlight dancing around due to the ever shifting trees.

"Wait......I can hear something also Bakura!" Yugi tilted his head in the same direction Bakura did. "I think it sounds a bit like.....running water!"

"Yes, Yugi. I think we should check it out."

Mai spoke up. "What about Honda?"

"Then some of us go ahead to check it out, and the others stay and wait for Honda," Anzu said. "You guys can check it out. I'll stay here. I'll wash the pots and things."

"Are you sure you'll be fine on your own, Anzu?" Yugi's eyes darkened over with slight worry.

"I'll be fine, Yugi. You guys go check it out." Anzu turned around and pulled out the pot and some silverware. "I'll be fine! Go on now!" The others, who had hesitated a bit, went ahead and left, following Yugi and Bakura.

Anzu sat down on the rock and started scrubbing at the pot, humming a little bit. Then, something rustled in the bushes behind her. Anzu's head darted around and watched the bushes intently. Honda came out, holding another armload of berries.

"Hey, Honda! Are we gonna have to live on those or something?" Anzu grinned, relieved.

"Oh hey Anzu! You won't believe how many berries there are on this island! They are never seen from the paths, but when you go off of them, there is always one nearby!......Hey, where are the others?"

"They just went to check out a noise."

"And leave you here all alone?"

"I told them to. It was ok."

Honda sat down beside her and began to help her with the washing. As they waited for the others, they talked.

That was all interrupted when someone fell through the bushes and landing on their face. Anzu rushed over.

"Hey, are you ok?"

"Uhhh........yes." It was a boy no older than they were. He stood up. " I was looking for a duel. Would any of you be willing to duel me. There is a duel station in that direction." He pointed in the way that Yugi, Bakura, Joey, and Mai had gone in.

Honda rushed forward. "I'll duel ya! I'm ready!"

Anzu stopped him. "I haven't had a duel yet Honda. Let me!"

"But Anzu, do you honestly think you could win?"

"How on earth am I supposed to get more chips if you guys won't let me duel just because there is a risk of losing? There is always that risk." She stepped to him. "I'll duel you."

The boy sized her up. "Fine by me. Let's go." They followed the boy through the small thick of forest after picking up the small camp. They silently thanked the fact that they had taken their bags with them.

Soon enough, they were in an extremely large clearing, with a small section with small showers and another camp zone. There were about two hundred different duelists there right now.

Another area held about three duel stations. One of them had trees hanging over the sides of it, making the station 50% forest and the other 50% light, due to the fact that some of the station was in the light most of the time. Another had a small watering spring by it, a small sign by the station saying that the station was 20% water, 80% meadow. The other was shrouded by shadows from the trees, it being 60% darkness and the other 40% forest. There were duelist all gathered around the dark/forest station, watching a duel.

The boy motioned them over to the free forest/light station, Anzu and Honda following. There was a large flash of light from the other arena, and some of the duelists watching the fight cheered. There were some moans of disappiontment also.

Honda glanced over at the arena, but couldn't see who was dueling. He turned and watched Anzu and the other boy board the station sullenly. "Are you still sure you want to do this Anzu?"

"Entirely, Honda! I'll be fine!" She then looked over at the other arena where another creature was destroyed. "Honda! I can see the other duel from here!"

"Who is it, Anzu? Who's winning?"

"Honda......Bakura's winning."

"Bakura's over there?! Can you see the other duelist?"

"I don't recognize him. But I can see Yugi, Joey, and Mai close to Bakura's side of the arena! Man, does he have some creepy cards!"

Honda looked over in that direction. "I still can't see them. Oh well."

"I'm glad your friend is doing well and all, but are we going to do this today or what?" The guy glared over and crossed his arms.

"Of course we are!" Anzu put her deck down and the guy did the same, both of them inserting their ID's into the console. "How many chips?"

They boy held up his glove. He had seven in it. "I think three sounds fair."

Honda looked up at Anzu. "Anzu! You still only have three chips! What if you lose!?"

"I think three sounds very fair." She glared down at Honda and input the information.

"Anzu!"

Anzu ignored Honda and then stared at the boy.

"DUEL!"






Brood: Woo! It's time to duel!

Zutsokaki: Why are you going to wait until the next chapter for these duels?

Brood: It's going to be Lisa vs. Rebecca, and Anzu vs. Dude in the next chapter! *starts to open a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards* Hey, how did you get the tape off?

Zutsokaki: I have my ways.

Brood: *squeals in happiness* I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!

Zutsokaki: What is it now?

Brood: I got.....*gasps for air* A GATE GUARDIAN!!!!

Zutsokaki: You can't even use that without Sanga, Suijin, and the other one.....

Brood: Whoever said anything about USING it?!? *Puts in in a card sleeve and puts in in a high security vault*

Zutsokaki: ..................are you still listening to those songs?

Brood: You know I always listen to Yu-Gi-Oh! songs when I write....oh and hey, the next chapter may take alot of time to write! I will appreciate the waiting alot of you will do! And keep up with the great reviews!!!