After class, Tea, Tristan, Joey and Yugi were sitting in the living room in Grandpa's game shop. Joey and Yugi were duelling. Joey was losing, as usual.
"Can you believe that someone dissed Rex like that? Wow," Joey admired.
"I'm putting that article in my diary," Tristan stated. As everyone looked at him funny, he stammered, "Scrapbook, I meant scrapbook," and turned red.
"Uh Hun," Tea said sarcastically.
"Right," Yugi nodded comically. "Oh, and by the way. Joey, you lose!"
Not paying any attention, Joey looked at his wrist as his watch had started beeping insanely. "Geez, gotta run! I'm late for my doctors appointment! God, see ya Yug! bye Tristan, Tea!" Joey half stumbled, half fell out the door as he hurriedly jammed one shoe on. He took off, leaving three stunned faces.
Tea stared out the door. "Do you think he realized he forgot his-"
"My shoe!" Joey dived back in the doorway, jammed the shoe on his other foot and ran off, again.
"That was fast," Yugi commented as all three of them watched Joey run down the street, almost kill two people, barely miss a car and nearly flatten two more innocent passer-by's. Tea and Tristan nodded dumbly.
Tristan looked at the clock on the wall. "Ack! Gotta go Yugi! See ya Tea!" Tristan carefully put his shoes on, (possibly to make an exaggerated point), before racing out the door.
"Well, at least he didn't forget-" Tea was nearly flattened as Joey raced back in, AGAIN!!!
"Where's my deck?! I put it on the- There it is!" Joey grabbed his duel deck from the table, but in his haste, he knocked the cards all over the floor. As Tea and Yugi knelt to pick them up, Joey looked at his watch, he freaked out and nearly ran Yugi and Tea over. "NOW I'M DEAD!!!" he howled.
"Joey. Joey! JOEY!! Calm down! Grandpa can drive you! Hang on for five seconds!" Yugi cried as he desperately pulled on Joey's coat.
Half-an-hour later, Yugi and Tea sat at the park. Joey had been successfully dropped off at the doctors office, and no one knew where Tristan had disappeared to. "Well, at least THIS is peaceful," Tea sighed as she and Yugi sat on the park bench. They watched the park sit in perfect stillness, as the setting sun turned it into a fiery scene.
"Guess I better go," Tea said as she rose from the bench. "Gotta make dinner," she said with a small sigh.
"Yeah, guess you're right," Yugi smiled.
"So, see you tomorrow?" Tea asked.
"Yep! You bet! Let's check up on the advice column and see what they wrote!" Yugi laughed.
"Bye!" Tea called over her shoulder as she and Yugi walked in opposite directions. She could hardly wait till tomorrow.
As Yugi left the park that evening, he heard someone walking close by. "Tea? Is that you?" he asked uncertainly.
Out of nowhere, an extremely hard fist hit Yugi square in the face. His head reeled and he staggered backwards. Yugi groaned and clutched his face. An all too familiar emerged from the bushes. From his toque, to his purple hair, Yugi inwardly cursed his luck, for before him, stood a raging Rex Raptor.
"You wrote that article, didn't you?" Rex snarled, as he lifted the smaller boy off the ground. Yugi shook his head in denial. Rex let his right fist connect with Yugi's left eye. He threw Yugi to the ground where Yugi doubled over in pain.
"I swear, I didn't!" Yugi gasped.
"Liar!" Rex's other fist hit Yugi's right eye. Yugi sat down, hard. Eyes watering, he floated on the brink of consciousness. Suddenly, Millennium Puzzle around his neck started to glow. In a bruised Yugi's place, an unhurt Yami Yugi stood, eyes glaring daggers at a certain purple-haired dino-freak. Rex's fist came towards Yami's face. He caught it effortlessly. Same with the other. Standing with Rex's wrists caught in each hand, he brought his face close to Rex's. Then he spoke.
"Rex Raptor, if you EVER come near Yugi again, there will be serious consequences. I honestly don't want to punish you, but Ra help me, if you come near us I will." The words glided out in a deadly flow. They bore into a sneering Rex's brain, branding his mind with the simple, deadly words which froze the sneer on his face. One look into Yami's furious eyes, and he knew he wasn't bluffing. So, he did the most sensible thing. Turned tail and ran like hell. He ran from the anything-but-empty threat, away from the man with the dangerous crimson eyes, away from the boy Yugi and away from the beating he performed and the scar that would remain as a result, for the rest of his life. Yami Yugi watched Rex flee, satisfied that he left. Then he turned his thoughts inward, to Yugi.
"Yugi? Can you hear me?" he asked the boy.
"Yeah, thanks for saving me. I owe you one........." Yugi replied weakly. His head flopped onto his shoulder, too weak to support it's weight and his eyes closed.
"Yugi! No! YUGI!!!" the five thousand year old pharaoh yelled. In the real world, Yugi was sitting on the ground with two black eyes and some nasty bruises. Little did he know, help was on the way.
"Oh my God! Yugi!" she screamed as she spotted him. She picked him up, unaware of the blood seeping into her jacket, and carried into her car, where she drove him to Grandpa's.
"Yugi! Oh my...... Mai, thank God for finding him. What happened?" Grandpa asked worriedly.
"I don't know. I just found him in the middle of the park on one of my walks. Oh, is he going to be okay?" the beautiful blond replied, voice full of concern.
"Well, thank you for finding him. Thank you so very much. I guess we'll be taking him to the hospital. I'll see you later, mmm?"
"Yeah, I'll come back tomorrow, to see how he's doing. I hope he'll be okay. Bye!" Mai walked back to her car, wondering what Yugi, sweet, caring Yugi did to deserve that? And who of all people would want to hurt Yugi?
