Next Chapter: Gross Bugs

They all knew what happened with Yugi so they had their talk and they split up once again. And they happened to meet up with Tristan and Rikku and Tristan was rather happy that he got to know Rikku a little better yet she didn't say the stuff that she was from another dimension or else he would've freaked out.

As they were walking and laughing together they heard some one's familiar shouts. "Hey! Get back here!"

They all stopped as they watched a boy run away with a duel disk that seemed to be Joey's since he was running after him. "Get back here ya little thief!"

Tristan ran ahead first to see if he could help his friend but PJ got to it first. "I'll get it!" She ran over the bridge to the ditch as the boy ran and jumped on the railing with out falling. She pointed her hand and shouted, "DIEM WIND!"

Streaks of wind came and out a blew over to the boy who fell on his stomach and dropped the duel disk as Rikku jumped down from the bridge and caught the duel disk as she landed hard on her back.

The others came over to her to see if she was okay. "Here, Joey, " she handed him his disk.

"Thanks, Rikku," he smiled at her for a minute until he stared angrily at the boy. "AS FOR YOU LITTLE PUNK!"

The boy panicked and it looked like he was running away when PJ formed a sharp icicle in her hands and threw it.

"You threw an icicle...very smart PJ," Rikku complimented with a tone of sarcasm in her voice.

But the icicle did more than just fly through the air. It landed on the boy's shadow as he ran and he became non-moving. "Hey! I can't move!"

PJ chuckled, "That's because you're under my shadow snap spell. Now, what's the big idea of stealing Mr. Wheeler's duel disk?"

"Yeah, spill it you little weasel!" exclaimed Joey.

"I'm sorry but, I was forced to steal your duel disk Mr. Wheeler," the boy apologized.

Grandpa Moto leaned in, "And just who told you to?"

"It was a boy with blue crop hair and round buggy eyes."

Suddenly, Joey, Tea, and Tristan blinked together.

"A boy with a blue crop hair?" began Joey.

The picture of a boy with blue croppy hair came in their heads.

"And with round buggy eyes?" added Tea.

The picture of buggy eyes came onto the boy with the blue croppy hair.

They gasped, " Weevil Underwood?!"

"Yeah! That's him! " the boy nodded.

PJ grunted as she snapped and the icicle disappeared which made his shadow become free. "Just make sure you don't try to steal ever again. It's really bad you know."

Rikku leaned over to the boy. "Where is this Weevil Underwood guy anyway?"

"He's in the park right now, ma'am!"

"Great, we'll find him. Now get out of here kid or we're going to have PJ do something more awful to you with her magic!" threatened Tristan as the boy nervously ran away.

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"WEEVIL!" yelled Joey. "Where are ya, ya little bug-eyed freak! Come on out here!"

A hideous, almost weird sounding laugh came out of no where as a little boy like Yugi's age came out of the forest. "So you finally fought out my plan, huh?"

"Quit the small talk and let's duel!" Joey ordered as he held his arm with the duel disk in the air.

"Fine!" Weevil held his hand with his duel disk in the air as well. "Let's go!"

"Joey, are you sure about this? Remember, he cheats you know, " Tea warned him.

"I know dat but I'll show this cheater the error of his ways! Are ya watchin' Rikku?"

"I'm watching Joey," Rikku replied to him.

"A'right! Then let's do this thing!"

Their duel started as everyone unknown of the victor...odds are that it's going to be Joey.

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"Gross!" "Disgusting!" "Now I'm getting sick." Those were the words that Rikku would tell her friends as every time Weevil moved, he would bring out more and more disgusting bugs. Gross!!!

"Come on Joey! " cheered Tristan. "Beat this insect geek so he could say bye to battle city!"

Weevil grunted and looked over at Tristan. "Who are you, his pom-pom girl?"

Tristan immediately got angry as Rikku and PJ held him back. "What's that?! Come say it to my face!"

"Whoa!"

"Tristan, calm down!" Rikku stood back straight. "If there's anyone that's Joey's cheerleader it's Serenity who's with you right now, Joey!"

Joey became silent. Either he was thinking about what Rikku said or that he was trying to think of a new move. "Yeah, you're right!"

Rikku jumped up. "And I'll be a one of your cheerleaders too!"

He turned and smiled at her. "Glad to know you're on the team!"

Then the battle continued.

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After a long battle of winning which turned into start losing which eventually turned back to winning but then so on for awhile, Joey won his battle against Weevil Underwood. What joy!!

Joey punched his fist in the air. "Oh yeah!! That bug boy knew he was going down."

Rikku was cheering with him as PJ looked at Tristan who was confused. "Hey, what's wrong Tristan?"

"I'm confused. Joey," the blonde turned his head to the pointy haired. "Why did you pick a disgusting and gross monster like Weevil's Insect Queen when you could've chosen his more powerful Ultimate Great Moth ?"

"Why didn't I?" Joey repeated.

Rikku held her finger up. "That's simple. Joey would've needed Larvae Moth or the Cocoon of Evolution in order to have the Ultimate Great Moth. Other than that, it would've been just useless card in his deck just taking up space where a greater card is supposed to be."

"Wow, someone's coming pretty smart," complimented Solomon.

"Really?" Rikku scratched her head nervously because she wanted to compliment Joey again but he was standing right next to her and she would get quite embarrassed.

"Maybe Joey, did you have pity on Weevil?"

"Whaaa???!!" Joey's mouth opened up wide. "Why would I have pity on that little cheater?"

"Maybe because since you didn't want to take his prized monster," she continued.

"Oh come on Tea," PJ slapped her forehead in disgrace. "You felt sorry for that little boy? Why don't you go marry him or something?"

"Now that's just plain mean, PJ!" Tea fought back.

Joey, Rikku, Tristan and Solomon all laughed as Tea became more and more flustered.

"Ah, yes," Solomon stopped his laughter and wanted to compliment Joey some more. "I'd have to agree with Tea a little bit because if you did do such a thing, that kind hearted act is a action of a true duelist. A true duelist that may even beat my grandson someday."

Joey scratched his head in embarrassment. "Yeah right, Gramps. No one can beat Yugi. "

"If that's so..." Rikku grabbed onto Joey's arm. "Let's go find you one more duels so we can get you into the finals!"

Joey got excited that another girl was all for him. "Yes ma'am!"

AS they walked, something just didn't want to go away from Tea's mind. "PJ?"

PJ looked at her seeing what she wanted.

"How do you think Yugi's doing out there? In his duels?"

"You shouldn't worry about him, Tea. I'm sure Yugi's just fine!"

But as they were walking away, what they didn't know and what Pj couldn't sense was that a gang of rare hunters was following their every move.

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There's that one! Next is the one where Joey battle Mako Tsunami! And he hits on Rikku and Joey gets mad, tee hee.

All you Joey/Mai fan lovers: Don't flame me because this isn't a Joey/Mai fic, I obviously don't like those two together yet their FICTION so they're not real so no flames about that.