Chapter 5 – Mai & Joey

"Joey, hurry up. We don't have a lot of time you know." Mai ordered as Joey came dragging his feet over to her.

"Man Mai can't we take a break? We've been walking all morning." He asked her. Mai decided that they could take a break because she was also tired. So they both sat down on the grass and looked at the tranquil river they had been following. Joey looked over at Mai and watched as the wind blew Mai's hair over her face. Joey blushed at how he noticed how much of a goddess Mai looked. Who am I kidding? He thought. Like Mai would ever give me the time of day, all she wants with me is to duel till she wins and finding her car

"Joey? Is something wrong you look frustrated for some reason?" Mai asked with concern in her voice. Joey quickly looked over at Mai.

"Oh I was just wondering if we would ever find your car." He answered. "I'm starting to get tired of the great outdoors."

"Oh I don't know. It's been fun, kind of." She said while blushing. Joey looked at her with a confused expression.

"What do you mean 'It's been fun'?" He asked. That got Mai to blush even a deeper shade of red. In fact she was as red as a tomato. Fortunately Joey didn't seem to notice.

"Well I mean it's been nice getting to spend more time with you." She answered. Joey was taken aback by this answer. He couldn't believe that Mai just said she liked spending time with him.

"Do you really mean that Mai?" He asked out of curiosity. Mai looked up at him.

"Of course I mean it idiot." She answered. "I like you more then just a dualist you know. I care about what's in a person's heart not what's in his deck." I cannot believe I just confessed all that to him She thought to herself. Do I have a fever? I must have why else would I say all those things to Joey if I don't even mean it.

"But I do mean it." She whispered quietly to herself and luckily Joey didn't hear her.

"Mai, to tell you the truth I've also liked spending time with you." Joey answered. Mai looked at him with complete shock. Did he really say he liked her too? The two of them sat there staring at each other for along time when Joey broke the silence. "Maybe we should continue looking for the car?"

"Yeah I guess your right." Mai replied. They got off the ground and continued to walk along the river looking for the car. But in fact the two were only looking at each other.

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"There they are." Melene said as she finally found Mai and Joey. She watched them as they sat by the river and talked.

"God what is with these people and sitting down while talking too each other?" Chine asked as she came up from behind Melene. Melene turned around and watched Chine kneel down beside her.

"Did you complete the first task?" She asked. Chine nodded her head.

"The two of them are going to be sitting in that cave for a long time." She answered while laughing quietly to herself.

"Don't starting giving yourself a pat on the back just yet." Melene warned. "We still have the others to deal with too."

"So what are we going to do with these two?" Chine asked. "And what about the others?"

"Don't worry about the others." She answered. "I sent Assera and Laticia to handle the others right now and as for these two I was thinking..." She whispered something into Chine's ear. Chine smiled once Melene was done explaining her plan and then they both quickly raced off to carry it out.

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"So when we do find the car do you think well leave Misty Woods right away or give the camping trip one more chance?" Joey asked Mai.

"Well I don't know about you, but I for one would love to get out of these woods as fast I can." She answered. "These woods are really creepy and you never know when something unexpected will happen."

"I see." Was all Joey could think of saying. They continued walking neither one of them saying anything else to the other when they heard someone scream further up the river.

"You don't think it's one of our friends do you?" Joey asked Mai. Mai looked at him as if he was some freak of nature.

"Who else do you think it is Joey?" Mai asked.

"Okay I get your point let's go check it out." They ran further up the river until they came to the end of it. They were about to go into the forest to see who was in trouble when the ground began to shake and the two of them fell down a hole.

"Okay were the hell did this fucking hole come from?" Mai questioned. Joey sat up and rubbed his head as he answered.

"How should I know?" He answered. "It's not like I know everything."

"You two talk to much." A voice said from the opening of the hole. They looked up and saw two girls were staring down at them. The one girl who spoke had long scarlet hair tied up in a ponytail. She was wearing a long black cloak and seemed to have violet eyes from were they were sitting. The second girl had shorter hair that was a dark chestnut brown. She too was wearing a black cloak and had magenta eyes.

"Who the hell are you two?" Mai asked them. The two of them only laughed at her question.

"We are two of the members from the Dark Claws." The red haired girl answered. "You all had the pleasure of making fools of us so now we are getting our revenge."

"We've never even seen you before in our lives so what could we have done to you two?" Joey asked.

"Don't you remember? We were in the school yard fight with you and your other friends." Magenta eyes answered.

"Oh yah, you were yelling at Selene for kicking your girls' asses and then hanging them on the ceiling fan." Joey answered with a smirk as he remembered how angry they looked. Mai who wasn't there gave Joey a confused look.

"What are you talking about Joey." She asked.

"Well you know how you said I got into another fight. It was against those girls up there and we sure taught them a lesson..." He was interrupted by the girl with the ponytail.

"Yeah well thanks to you bastards we all got detention from the principal and became the laughing stock of the entire school." She answered.

"Well it's not our faults that you all insisted on fighting us." Joey exclaimed.

"We don't have time to waste talking to you losers." Magenta yelled. "We still have all your other friends to deal with so see ya!"

"Wait can't you at least tell us who you are?" Joey asked. They stopped walking and turned back to them.

"My name is Melene." The girl with the scarlet hair answered.

"And I'm Chine." The other said. Then they left them.

"Why the heck did you ask for their names?" Mai asked Joey.

"The girl with the ponytail was really cute." He answered. Mai whacked him on the head with her fist.

"You are unbelievable sometimes!" She screamed. "You can't think of dating those bimbo's when there the enemy you idiot!" Joey pulled his hands away from his ears and then answered.

"Calm down Mai I was just kidding." He answered.

"Oh," She said while blushing, "well it's not like I cared that much." Joey couldn't help but smile at Mai's answer.

"Let's not talk about this right now." He said. "Let's find away out of this hole and then warn the others before it's too late." Mai nodded and then the two of them started to try and climb out of the hole.