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YUGIOH,

ENTER THE STONER'S REALM

"Joey!"

He heard Mai scream, as he turned around to look at her, to slowly to escape the tree, then suddenly just as Mai came into view she crashed into his chest sending him flying back, away from the tree, he rolled over backwards until he fell into another tree, but he was alright, Mai had saved his life. Joey pulled himself to his feet, he couldn't see Mai, he ran over to where Tristan and Serenity stood, their mouths open in shock. Joey looked down at the tree trunk which he'd narrowly avoided being crushed to death by and saw a familiar lighting bolt of hair sticking out from under a branch, crushed.

"Tristan!"

He yelled, indicating at the log, his friend rushed to help him and they struggled to lift the tree, ignoring the man who had fallen into a bush nearby them.

Joey felt the log move, he gave it every ounce of strength he had and heaved at it until he was red in the face, slowly but surely they lifted it off the ground. And from underneath, Mai's head lolled out, blood trickling out of her mouth, Joey rolled the log over, panicking now, sticking out of Mai's back, was the same sharp branch that He had known was for him, Joey bent down and embraced Mai whispering to her;

"You're going to get better, you're not going to die, these stupid headset things send out a distress signal, someone's coming, just hang on, you can do it….."

"Joey…."

Mai struggled to speak, a single tear rolled out of her eye.

"What? Shhh Mai don't talk, conserve your strength!"

"Joey… I love you…"

Another tear rolled out of her eye and Joey watched the spark, the fire that had lured him to those eyes, die.

"No Mai, don't go! I love you too! Noo!"

Joey pulled her limp body off the branch that impaled her through her heart, he looked at the gaping hole and sobbed, putting his hand over her eyes, he gently pulled her eyelids down. As he did this he could swear an almost invisible figure swung a scythe into her leg, and the merest voice on the wind;

SHE'LL BE BACK, TRUST ME

Joey crouched for a second, stood and walked deeper into the forest as Mokuba and a strange teen in a hat ran into the now cleared area.

"What happened? Is the mime alright?"

The stranger asked, trying to make his voice sound gruff.

"My… my brother's girlfriend, a tree fell on her… the man…. He's fine."

Serenity turned and fled after Joey into the forest.

A tournament official stepped out from behind a tree.

"Someone's going to have to take her place in the tournament, we'll freeze her body so her family can cremate her or bury her or whatever. You, long and lanky.."

The tournament official passed Tristan Mai's entry tag.

"Congratulations you just got through to round 2 of the stoner realm; any of you can take her cards, including her brand new tournament card which will still continue to evolve as long as its duelled with."

The official dropped her deck-holder and bacg on the ground, threw Mai's body over his shoulder and walked off muttering;

"As if there haven't been enough deaths already."

Tristan looked at Mokuba, then at the stranger, his face was hdden by a neck bandana and a hat, there was something familiar about this boy, he watched the boy nod to Mokuba, then younger Kaiba ran forward and picked up Mai's bag and deck holder, he offered them to Tristan;

"Give them to Joey for the rest of the tournament at least."

Tristan thanked the two, and ran off after his friends.


(Somewhere in the forest)

Joey ran towards the big hill which loomed up in front of him, the layout of this island seemed very familiar to him; suddenly he found the trees thinning out around him, a light flashed out of a cave mouth which lay littered with shards of a smashed boulder. He ran into the cave as the light disappeared, following the tunnel he came upon a cave, bones littered the floor. He stopped suddenly as he heard a voice;

"You know the pharaoh is just going to defeat you don't you, he will return it to its rightful place, you are just helping his cause."

Then suddenly a strangely familiar female voice scythed through the air;

"Hah the pharaoh can not oppose me, his soul has been rendered by that stupid boy's, bumbling sidekick, I have heard that the puzzle sleeps in pieces at the bottom of the sea, where the pharaoh shall be trapped for all eternity, unable to live, unable to die. The human vessel will eventually waste away, the spirits had become to intertwined. It's a shame, though, but what can I do about it, huh, and he thought I was a fangirl!

It's Wind, god she talks a lot.

And you won't be able to tell anyone you've lost it yet, because of that loss, you're consigned to the side tournament until round 4!"

"Dear girl, I've got a feeling that you may just be helping along the will of the millennium items, they all transgress towards their rightful owners sooner or later."

The older speaker disappeared in a flash of light as Joey came storming into the room.

"Ok bitch, where's Yugi's puzzle?"

"Excuse me? Oh yeah, you lost it didn't you.

Wind laughed; "Oh yeah, ok, I'll…."

Behind Wind, a glow spread, fairly quickly, Joey could make out a pair of scales.. They seemed to be calling him.

Noticing the strange way Joey was looking at her, Wind stopped talking;

"Oh you like my newscales do you?"

She bent down to pick up the millenium scales, giving Joey a good view of an old-style duelling field behind her. He remembered this place…

"AH!"

Wind jumped back, her hand burnt on the millennium scales, she looked at Joey.

"They appear to want you."

She said.

"Ok, fine, I'll duel you for them, and if you win I'll also tell you wear that runts millennium puzzle is."

"And if I lose?"

"Then I get your deck and your brand new card."

"But you keep yours whatever?"

"You still get one card from my deck, but you'll probably want the one I got off uncle Shadi."

She jumped up onto the duelling platform, the millennium scales burning at her fingers as she set it down next to her;

"Come on. Ya wimp."

Joey ran to the other podium; "No one calls me a wimp and gets away with it!"

He shouted as he climbed up the ladder to the back.

"I'm going to beat you and get Yugi's puzzle back, then these bad things will stop happening to me and I can finally tell Mai I love her!"

"Ok, so you just goin' to bark or are you going to duel?"

"K', 'cos ya challenged me, I get to go first!"


(Next to a fallen tree)

Yugi sat down;

"I can't believe Mai's dead, I mean, people have gone to the shadow realm and come back, but I don't even think Yami can bring her back from the dead

Mokuba ran over to the mime;

"are you okay Sir?"

The mime struggled to his feet;

"I zink so, but zat bump on deh head has caused my… franch acsant to re-turn agan, but I em fine, ve shall upgrade oor cards, zen u can 'ave one oof mine."

"Uhm… Ok."

Mokuba followed the Frenchman back to the duelling field, in shock after what happened with the god card.

John showed Mokuba where to insert his baby blue eyes card, and out of a hopper came with it;

Baby Blue eyes 2

4 stars

Whenever Baby Blue eyes is on the field, this card gains an extra 500 attack points and an extra 700 defence points.

1500, 2000

Mokuba shuffled the 2 cards into his deck while John powered up his tournament card.

"Vell, u defeated moi, soo take one of my cardes."

John handed his deck to Mokuba for him to search through it.

"I'll take Pikeru's Circle of Enchantment"

Mokuba slid the card into his deck and walked off with Yugi to find a working field, shaken that he'd killed someone.

"It's all Joeys fault,"

Yugi muttered, "If he hadn't separated me from Yami, the seal would have remained intact and the Gods would be contained, we have to recover Slifer, with its power now returned it's only a matter of time before someone else gets killed."