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Millennium Adventure
Hunt
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"King Malik?"
"What Marik?"
"It seems the prince was not in the castle, the men looked everywhere, but he was no where to be found."
"There are many secret passageways in this castle just as in ours. He escaped through one of them. Search every inch of this castle for one of those passages."
"Yes brother." Marik left to give the orders to the guards. They set off in different directions to find a passage that would lead outside the outer walls. Many passages were found quickly, such as the one that lead from the throne room to the kitchen and the one that lead from Dining Hall to a few bedchambers.
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"This is the only place in the castle not yet searched, Mokuba." The man who spoke had brown hair and icy blue eyes. He was very tall although not much older than Yugi and his friends. He was talking to his little brother, who was about fifteen. He had just become a soldier recently and always followed Seto, his brother.
"The passage must be down here than."
"Don't be too certain, someone could have easily missed something upstairs." The two of them were standing on the lowest floor only a few feet away from where the people that were in the castle were being kept. Mokuba walked over to a stone that stuck out from the wall and leaned on it to rest for a few minutes. To his surprise the stone moved and opened a passage. "Good work Mokuba, it's another passage to check."
The two brothers traveled down the passage. When they came to a fork in the passage they both traveled separate ways. Mokuba went right and Seto went left. Seto reached the end of the passage he was at and found that he was were the army had camped. He began to travel back hoping Mokuba didn't come to any trouble. Mokuba traveled down the long passage until he reached the end. He could tell he was far from the castle and thought that this would be the passage the prince used to escape. He traveled back to the intersection to find Seto waiting for him.
"Seto he must have gotten out that way. It's far enough from the castle for him to have escaped very easily.
"The passage I went down leads to our campsite, he probably didn't go that way. Let's go tell King Malik our find."
"Lead on big bro." They went to the throne room and were introduced to the king.
"Did you find something useful?" Malik said a little annoyed since the prince was not yet found.
"We found a passage that leads outside the outer walls, far enough for him to slip by unnoticed."
"Marik, get the soldiers ready to follow that rouge."
"Yes brother."
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"Let's rest, I'm exhausted," Anzu said. They five of them had been traveling most of a day without stopping.
"Yes I'm tired too, we should stop," Ryou said.
"Yeah we should," Honda said, "I can't believe Yugi can still go."
"Didn't you know, Yug's been an explorer since he was really young. From what I heard, he's gone twice this long before and he still wasn't spent."
"Really?"
"Yes I have. I guess I have been pushing you guys a little hard though. We can rest I guess. I'll keep a lookout."
"I just remembered something," Anzu said.
"What?" Honda and Jou said at the same time.
"We didn't bring any food with us."
"We what!" Jou shouted.
"Keep your voices down guys."
"Sorry Yug."
"And if you want food there's an apple tree somewhere near here. Come on, I'll show you where."
"Yeah food!"
"Jou, be quiet."
"Sorry." Yugi led them to the apple tree where they began to eat.
"Quiet," Yugi said suddenly.
"What is it Yug?" In response Yugi held up a hand for silence. They all listened closely, but only Yugi could hear something. He had extra good hearing.
"The soldiers are coming this way," Yugi finally said, "let's get away while we can." His friends took a few apples that they would eat later and left quietly. Not long after they left the soldiers of Marik came to the apple tree.
"They were here," Seto, who was an excellent tracker, said. He figured out that there was more than one of them when he saw their tracks.
"Do you know how long ago," a soldier said.
"Probably about five minutes ago."
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"There!" Yugi said as he pointed to a waterfall. They had been running in the shallows of a river for a while so they could hide there tracks.
"What do ya mean by dat," Jou asked.
"There's a cave behind the waterfall that we can hide in."
"How are we going to get up to the cave?" Anzu asked.
"Follow me." Yugi led his friends to some rocks that were relatively easy to climb. They made it up to the cave just before Malik's soldiers came. The soldiers soon passed and the five friends were safe… for the time being anyway.
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I hope you liked it
I know Mokuba isn't really that old, but I had to make him old enough to be a soldier
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