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

Chapter Five

We seemed to be going at a pretty good pace. Yami and I had found something to talk about to pass the walking time. We almost didn't know it when we had come the the next challenge. Yami waked right into it, literally, and slid down into a sitting position. It was a big wall with ten tiles across and ten tiles down, though the bottom right corner piece was missing.

"You okay Yami?" I asked.

"Ow, yes," Yami groaned, standing up.

I looked at the wall. It seemed to be nothing. I squinted and then realized what it was.

"Yami!" I excliamed. "This is a big puzzle!"

Yami looked at it and he answered, "I believe you're right! One of those sliding ones too."

I looked at it a little more closely. Even though I knew it was a puzzle, and a sliding one at that, I couldn't tell what the picture was, and there wasn't a key. I could see a black circle, and a couple of other things, but nothing helped to tell me was it was. I reached up and pulled the one above the missing corner down. It still didn't give me any clue as to what this was supposed to be a picture of. I moved another piece to the right. Still nothing!

"Wait, hold on Yugi," Yami told me. "Look very closely at it. What does it look like?"

I looked again. Still, I couldn't tell what it was supposed to be.

"Yami, I can't see anything in it, what is it that you see?" I grumbled.

I was becoming just a little irritated.

"Look at your Puzzle, what do you see?" Yami asked.

He was trying to show me without telling me. I didn't know what he was talking about, but I did as he said.

"All I see is a triangle," I replied.

"No, what's on the triangle?" Yami questioned.

I looked again, then it hit me.

"The Millennium Symbol!" I exclaimed, looking at Yami.

He nodded and then said, "I think that's the picture on this puzzle here."

I looked at it again. By Joe, he was right. What was wrong with me? Usually, I'd see something like that. Well, come to think of it, I wasn't feeling all that well.

"Now, let's see," Yami pondered out loud. "If I moved this, would it do any good?" he slid a tile up. "Hmm..."

"Yami, move that one to the right," I suggested, pointing to one of the tiles.

Yami did as I suggested.

"I don't know Yugi, that doesn't look right," Yami stated, moving it back.

"Well, how about moving that one up and over?" I suggested again.

Yami, again, did as I had suggested, but said that he didn't think that it would work as he moved it back. I sighed.

"I guess I'll let you do it then, since I seem to be of no help," I stated sadly as I sat down to watch Yami work.

What was wrong with me? I'm usually good at these puzzles. I love them in fact. But it was like I couldn't think clearly any more. Not since I've been in the Shadow Realm. I mean, I was feeling a little tired. But I had been all day long. Of course, I never was any good in the Shadow Realm. I felt tired, maybe I should sleep while Yami finishes this puzzle. No, maybe I could be of some use.

"You okay Yugi?" Yami asked, turning away from the puzzle to look at me.

Wow! He's almost done. I guess I really am off my game today.

"Yeah," I lied.

As I've said before, I'm not a good liar.

Yami looked at me funny, then shrugged and went back to the puzzle. I watched as Yami quickly solved the rest of the puzzle, all without my help. Gosh I'm tired...