Chapter 2

Seto had been walking for what seemed like forever. Every new region he examined carefully. For he knew this game inside and out. Seto turned forward and spotted someone ahead. Seto took a closer look.

It was a Lord of D. Seto smirked and walked over to Lord of D.

"Ok Lord of D, I imagine you're my assistant to get me out here?"

"Yes" Lord of D had an Italian accent. Seto gave a shrug to his default.

"Now we go to center of game?" Lord of D asked finally.

"No" Seto said looking up at the sky and spotting many winged-beasts, "I need you to do something for me." ************************************************************************
"Please say something!" Mokuba yelled out to the black figure. It just kept walking towards him. Now it was about 50 inches away from Mokuba and Mokuba could clearly see that it was a Penguin Soldier.

"Um, hello?" Mokuba asked it. It stood there for a while staring at him blankly. Mokuba moved closer to the Penguin Soldier. He attempted to touch him when the Penguin Soldier took out his sword. Mokuba stopped.

"Now I know who you are, you're a Penguin Soldier. Hey do you think you could help me get out of here and find my brother?" Mokuba asked with caution. The Penguin Soldier took his sword with 2 hands and slashed Mokuba deeply in the chest.

Mokuba lay there in pain. Mokuba clutched the wound ever so slightly. Mokuba sat up and instantly the Penguin Soldier's sword was at Mokuba's neck. Mokuba closed his eyes waiting for impact. After a while of waiting, the ground started shaking and roars were heard.

Mokuba opened his eyes. A white beam was trying to hit the Penguin Soldier. The white beam had hit the ground right in front of him. Snow flew in the air. Mokuba covered his head. He heard the sound of snow falling on something, but it wasn't him.

Mokuba looked up and saw a wing of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon hovering over him. Mokuba looked to the side and saw the majestic dragon staring down at him with its blue eyes. Instantly Mokuba hugged the Blue-Eyes's leg, because it was too big to hug the whole body.

"I knew my brother would come!" Mokuba looked up, but did not see anyone on the back of the Blue-Eyes.

"Huh? Seto?" Mokuba climbed up the Blue-Eyes to it's back and looked. No one was there. Mokuba started to cry softly. The Blue-Eyes's head sprang up. He sniffed the air.

"What is it?" instantly the Blue-Eyes White Dragon was in the air. ************************************************************************
"Aw man, we'll never be able to climb that cliff." Niomi turned around from the boulder and sat against it. Wingweaver walked over next to Niomi.

"Do not worry, young one, I shall fly us up the cliff." Niomi looked up. 6 wings appeared behind Wingweaver. Niomi now saw that Wingweaver had her wings held up behind her back.

"It will be much easier to fly to your friends." Wing weaver took Niomi by the hand.

"But I." instantly she was pulled up into the air and flung onto Wingweaver's back. Wingweaver's wings flowed in an organized manner. Wingweaver's feathers flowed gently in the easy wind. ************************************************************************
"Listen Strike Ninja, it's great that your helping me, in all, but." Strike Ninja grabbed Duke's arm once more. They stood upon a branch of a tall tree.

"We mustn't stall." Strike Ninja flung Duke right in the air to the next branch of the next tree. Duke was starting to get dizzy with this process.

"Wait Strike Ninja." Strike Ninja was about to grab Duke's arm again, "I think we should take a rest." Duke sat down on the branch as well as Strike Ninja. Duke stared out into the virtual world at the virtual sun. They had gotten out of the dark place that Duke had been some time ago.

"So you do anything for a life down her in the virtual world?" Duke finally asked.

"Yes, I kill." Duke turned to Strike Ninja. Strike Ninja did not stare back at him.

"But why?"

"Because that is what we have to do here. It is just like the early days of your kind, my friend." Duke nodded and stared back at the sun. Then realizing something, quickly turned back.

"Wait! This has got to be at least a few years later because your wearing clothes."

"Right you are."

"But that would mean that a few years have gone by, at least, but you were still made just a few hours ago." Strike Ninja finally turned to Duke.

"There are many things to this virtual world that you, your friends, and not even Seto Kaiba knows about." ************************************************************************
"So what are we going to do now?" Joey asked the FlameSwordsMan as they stopped at the ocean. FlameSwordsMan looked around. FlameSwordsMan pulled over a log that was on the beach.

"What are you doing now, FlamSwordsMan?" Joey asked as FlameSwordsMan took out his red sword.

"What we will need to do to get find your friends." Joey started to feel as if he did not want to tell Joey anything about the virtual world that they were in. ************************************************************************
"We are almost to the next section of the virtual world, Mai" said Cyber Harpie.

"What's that!" Mai pointed to an opening in the clouds. A Harpie's Brother appeared in the sky and Cyber Harpie stopped in mid air.

"Brother, out of my way!" Cyber Harpie called out to Harpie's Brother.

"What? So you could steal the show? I think not!" Harpie's Brother approached Cyber Harpie and Mai.

"I didn't want to have to do this, but." Cyber Harpie tossed Mai in the air and shot a blast at Harpie's Brother. Harpie's Brother looked around in the smoke. 'Where are you?' Harpie's Brother asked himself, examining the smoke around him. Into the smoke, Cyber Harpie appeared in front of Harpie's Brother and knocked him to the ground.

Cyber Harpie gained a little altitude. Just enough to catch Mai in mid air. Mai looked as if she was sick.

"No wonder you're my favorite card." Mai fell asleep on Cyber Harpie's back. ************************************************************************
Slash! Once again another tree was cut down to make a path for both Joan and Serenity. Serenity looked up at Joan who was focused on cutting another tree in their path.

"Um, St. Joan? Is it really that easy to cut down a tree in this virtual world?"

Joan stopped cutting down a tree and turned back to Serenity. She smiled.

"Please Serenity, call me Joan."

"Oh, ok. Joan is it."

"Well, this sword is very sharp and could cut anything with just a touch. So do your math on slashing with full power." Serenity stared at the sword and looked up at Joan, as if asking something.

Whatever it was, Joan nodded. Serenity, very gently, touched the sliver sword. Serenity returned her hand and looked at her finger. There was a red dot of blood on her finger.

"I told you, now let's keep up the pace, shall we?" Serenity nodded. ************************************************************************
"Um Stacy, you wouldn't happen to know where we are, would you?" Tea said, breaking the silence.

"Ah, like, yeah. I live here, I'm, like, supposed to know where we are. Duh!" Tea was now getting annoyed by Stacy. But she had to admit, she did need her. Tea just decided she would no longer talk to Stacy at all. ************************************************************************
"Uh oh" was the first thing Yugi said when Dark Magician and he came to a giant gorge with tall rocks in the middle.

"Do not worry, if we jump from that rock to those rocks." Dark Magician started pointing out rocks, "We will get to the other side." Yugi gulped hard. Sure Yugi had almost risked his life for Joey. And sure, when Merik wanted to take over the world, he had his life on the line as well, but this was so much more different.

"What if I."

"Don't worry, I will help you. Trust me." Yugi nodded. Despite the fact that Dark Magician was actually a card, there was never once a time when Yugi never trusted the Dark Magician.

Yugi took one look at the rock that was closest to him. He took one big leap at the rock. He landed on one foot and was balancing himself. He was about to fall over when he felt a hand push him onto balance. Yugi looked up at Dark Magician and smiled.

"Shall we jump to the next?" Yugi nodded. ************************************************************************
"Listen dude! You've been working on that gun for the past hour, you think you would get bored by now?" Cyber Commander looked up from his gun. Black rings circled his eyes. He had been up all night working on this one position of his gun, but had never seemed to get it.

"We need to stop fooling around and find the others."

"Listen human, I'm calling the shots here, and the only one who is fooling around is you. Now shut up and try to find us something to eat." Tristan stood there for a moment. Shocked at him being ordered by something that wasn't even real.

"Ok, I don't want to have to make you stop playing with your gun." Cyber Commander looked up, once again, at Tristan. A glare shot both their eyes.

"Are you trying to say you can beat me?"

"I'm saying I've probably fought more then you." Cyber Commander turned back to his gun and started arranging it again. Tristan was now mad.

"Ok, that's it!" Tristan ran at Cyber Commander and jumped at him. Cyber Commander accidentally pulled the trigger to his gun. The missile flew into the sky and blew up. Tristan turned to Cyber Commander. Cyber Commander just stared at the flares falling from the sky.

"Listen man, I'm sor."

"You're a genus human! And I thought you were all bronze and no brains." Cyber Commander smirked. Tristan was surprised.

"Well, that's what I've been trying to tell you people!" Cyber Commander shook his head and picked up his gun. ************************************************************************
The explosion was heard. Bakura turned from Petit Dragon to the falling flares in the sky.

"What was that about?" Bakura turned back to the little Petit Dragon. The dragon made a cute little sound and bit at Bakura's shirt. Petit Dragon started dragging Bakura forwards.

"You want me to follow you?" The Petit Dragon made the same noise again. Bakura shrugged and followed the dragon.

Hey! Didn't really get to do the question thing, so I'll do it now: Where are the duel monsters leading our heros? What do they want? Is there more then meets the eye? Find out and review!