Note: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! But everyone already knows that. Kazuki Takahashi does, and everyone knows that too.

Chapter 4

What is this stuff??

Yami and I walked on. We really had no idea where we were going, but we knew where to go, like we were being drawn there. I had something on my mind, but I hadn't asked Yami yet. I guessed now would be as good a time as any.

"Hey Yami, why did you taunt that Blue Eyes like you did?" I asked.

"Dragons are very sensative about there pride and status," Yami explained. "If you target that, you can usually take them down without them even putting up a fight."

We walked along a while longer until they came to a darker patch in the floor of the Shadow Realm.

"Yami?" I asked.

"Yes?" he replied.

"What is that?" I asked him.

He looked at where I was pointing. It was a big, dark patch of ground and it definetly didn't look friendly.

"Um, I don't know," Yami confessed.

I looked up at him. I was worried that it was something bad.

"Well, I guess there's only one way to find out," I said.

I, not doing the brightest thing in the world, walked right into it. It wasn't so bad. Until it got level with my chest. Then I knew that something was wrong.

"Yami," I cried.

"What is it?" he asked.

I looked back at him. Man, he was smart, he hadn't gotten in yet.

"I'm stuck, this stuff is like tar," I cried out to him.

Yami's eyes widened.

"Ooo, lookie what you stepped in," Yami teased.

[Yep, he has definitely been spending way too much time around Joey] I thought.

"Yami this is serious," I told him, the helplessness I felt now showing in my voice.

"I know that," he said, thinking franitcally.

I could feel the tar like stuff tightening around me. It was becoming steadily harder to breath.

"Yami!" I said once again.

Yami looked at me. Then, he unexpectedly jumped onto my head and landed on the other side.

"Yami, don't leave me here!" I yelled at him, my breaths coming in short gasps now.

"I won't," Yami assured me.

Yami closed his eyes. I wondered what the heck he was doing, but I trusted him. I wish he would hurry up. Then, out of the blue, a force, that sort of felt like a hand, tightened around me. I wanted to scream, but couldn't, I didn't have enough air. It was grasping tighter than the tar. I looked at Yami and saw his face tensed with concentration. Man, I sure hope he's doing this thing, and nothing else was. Slowly, the hand lifted me up and set me on Yami's side. It let go, and I sat there for a second, heaving for air. My sides hurt. I looked at Yami. He looked a little worn out, but otherwise okay.

"Are you okay Yugi?" Yami asked, looking down at me.

"Yeah," I replied, finally regaining my breath.

"Do you want to take a break?" Yami asked. "You had a close call."

"No, do you need a break?" I asked.

"Nah, I'll be fine," Yami told me.

"What was it that you did?" I suddenly asked.

"I don't know really," Yami confessed. "I think that the Shadow Realm allows me to unlock more of my powers. I didn't really know what I was doing, I just did it. It was like I knew how to do that all along. But I can't seem to remember how to do it now."

"That's okay, at least it worked when we needed it to," I grinned at the pharaoh, who grinned back.

We then continued onto the next challenge. Unfortunately for me, I was starting to feel, drained I guess. Anyway, we would have to work fast. Marik, and time, waited for no one. And that included me.