Yay! Only three chapters left after this one!! Sorry for not updating for so long. School, ya know. Not much time to write.

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Chapter Nine: What to Do?

What'll we do? What'll we do?! ~ The Lion King

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An hour had passed since friends' arrival at the museum. Seto had gone off somewhere, leaving Mokuba in the care of the others.

Mokuba woke up. When he didn't see Seto, he looked at the others, confused.

"Yugi?" He asked in a voice barely above a whisper. "Where's my big brother?"

Yugi shrugged. "He said he needed to go get something. How are you feeling, Mokuba?"

"Sick. My throat hurts and my arm hurts," Mokuba replied, coughing.

"Go back to sleep, then. Your brother will be here when you wake up," Yugi said.

Mokuba nodded. Within five minutes, Mokuba was sound asleep again.

Marik and Ishizu entered the room. Rosa waved a sandwich cheerily at them.

"Hey, guys! Want a sandwich? The peanut butter and jelly ones are really good."

Ishizu smiled and shook her head. "No thanks."

"I'll take one," Marik said, reaching for the sandwich Rosa handed out to him. "Thanks."

Seto entered the room then, carrying a box.

"Mokuba was awake a little while ago, Kaiba," Yugi said, eyeing the box curiously. "He asked where you were, then he said his throat and arm hurt. What's in the box?"

"A get well present for Mokuba," Seto explained, sitting the box down next to Mokuba.

Mokuba stirred and woke up. "Huh? What's that, Seto?"

Seto smiled. "Open it and see. It's for you."

Mokuba carefully opened the box. He was immediately tackled by a small grey and white fuzzball that was wagging its tail furiously.

Mokuba's eyes lit up. "A puppy! Seto, you got me a puppy! Thank you!" Mokuba gave his big brother a one armed hug.

The puppy, a male husky, was jumping around, trying to lick Mokuba's face. Porthos watched the new dog curiously.

"I'm naming him Houdini," Mokuba said, smiling. "Houdin for short."

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"So what are we gonna do?"

The question hung heavily in the air. The truth was, they didn't know what to do. They couldn't just go back out into the city - Marik had told them the Juggernaut could flare up again at anytime.

"We have to stay safe," Rosa said.

"We can't stay here," Joey replied. "But I don't know if all our homes are still around-much of the city has been destroyed."

"Not to mention the Battle City Tournament rudely interrupted," Seto said.

"Something must be going on in the Shadow Realm. Shadow Storms cannot break through into the real world unless something in the Shadow Realm makes them," Ishizu said thoughtfully. She sounded worried.

"Maybe it was a big old mean Duel Monster bully!" Yamimon said from his perch on Yugi's head.

"That's likely," Marik said thoughtfully.

Bakura, who up until now had been Mr., Quiet and Invisible, spoke up. "If a Duel Monster is what caused it, how are we going to fix that?"

All of this discussion was making Yugi's head spin. "I don't know," he whispered. "I just don't know..."

Seto sighed. "Join the club, Yugi."

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The Thunder Prairie flew around the rubble of Domino City.

He was dead tired. He hadn't slept at all for almost two days. He looked around and up when he noticed the tall Kaiba Corp. tower.

'That'll do' he thought, flying up to the very top. With a sigh of content, he put his wing by his sides and closed his eyes. Soon he was fast asleep, and because of this, he didn't see the other Duel Monster's arrival.

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Tora Warrior had arrived in the real world at last.

He stretched his legs and wings, and then he walked over to the edge of the tower and looked down on the city.

"My, how cluttered the human world is," he mused. He glanced off to his right and noticed the Thunder Prairie sleeping on the roof.

'How did he get here?' he wondered. No matter. The little Thunder Prairie would not bother him, he was too weak and sound asleep anyway.

Tora Warrior laid down himself, waiting for sunset.

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The sun was at its highest point in the sky, even though it could not be seen through the thick have that still covered Domino City.

The inside of the Museum was cheerful, however. Even though they still couldn't decide what they were going to do, Yugi and the others were managing to keep a positive outlook on things. They were taking a break from wracking their brains for a solution.

Mokuba still had a pretty high fever, so he was lying down on his bed, Houdin resting next to him. Every now and then Mokuba would raise his hand and pet Houdin, but he could only keep it up for a few minutes before he had to lower his hand again.

Blue had peanut butter covering his glossy wings. Yamimon tried to help wipe it off, but only succeeded in making the mess bigger.

Joey and Rosa were dueling. The duel bounced back and forth for a while, but Rosa eventually won, much to Joey's frustration.

"AGHH!! Rosa, how'd you do that?! That Red-Eyes/Scapegoat combo is something I would do. How did you come up with that?"

Rosa shrugged. "I won the RRR tournament three years in a row."

Mokuba had drifted to sleep again, so Houdin and Porthos went over to help Blue and Yamimon with the chaos they were creating.

Only Bakura sat alone.

In reality, he was Yami Bakura. But the others didn't need to know that. So the Shadow Storm had delayed his plans. Big deal. He had never gotten to talk to Marik, but Marik seemed to have switched to the good side.

Oh well. He would rule the world anyway.

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