Here's chapter Two. Enjoy.

As The Night Begins

"Malik, why don't you quit talking to yourself?" She said sweetly. Malik was sitting alone in a corner, talking to himself, mumbling ugly death threats.

"How do I get myself into this?" He hissed at her, meaning to be heard for once.

"Simple..." Serenity said with a smile. "You're a Chicken-boy who can't stand to be called a chicken-boy."

"You are dead, girl!" Malik shot out at her, trying to jerk her legs out from under her body.

"God, five minutes and they're at each other." Joey looked over at them, worry clouding his face.

"That was the point, mutt." Mai tried not to let her own worry show.

"Don't call me that," Joey snapped at her, his face turning an ugly shade of red and purple.

"The truth hurts, Wheeler," Kaiba jeered.

"You would know, money-making, ugly, fat,JERK!" Joey lost his temper with Kaiba.

"Joey, on, don't..." Yugi struggled to find the words to say to stop them both.

"Come on, big brother!" Mokuba yelled.

"Mokuba, don't tell them to keep at it!" Yugi said, smacking himself in the head.

"You want the truth, dog?" Kaiba continued.

"STOP IT!" Tea hollered.

"The girl has a point...That's the death match, not here," Bakura said, pointing one hand toward the screen.

"They can't hurt one another, Bakura," Mai said as she turned to face the screens and see what he was pointing at.

"Coulda fooled me," Ryou said off-handedly, staring at the screen.

"GET OFF MY HAIR, FREAK!" Serenity's voice came loudly.

"Say 'Malik Ishtar is not a chicken. He is my idol.'" Malik seemed to be enjoying himself.

"Are you out of your mind!" Another jerk on her hair set her to reeling. "Ow!"

"Yes, now say it!" Malik smirked, obviously thinking he had won.

"This is amusing," Marik said in a light voice.

"No, it isn't. Come off it, Marik!" Ishizu hollered.

"Serenity is holding out quite well," Yami said, as if to reassure everyone on Serenity's side.

"That's my sister. When I get my hands on that mind-controling sleezball, I'll..." His voice broke off as Tristan set his hand on his shoulder.

"Whoa, dude." Tristan made a 'cool it' motion behind his back.

Serenity kicked out backwards in a very swift motion, connecting with the area straight between Malik's legs. "Let go!" She snapped insistently.

"Ow!"

"Serenity is fine!" Duke said, hoping that would calm Joey, who was struggling to get away from Tristan.

"I don't know...They are in there until seven tommorow..." Mai looked uncertain.

"What aren't they aloud to do, kill each other?" Ishizu asked.

"Pretty much," Mai responded miserably.

"I thought you said no abuse." Joey slipped right into his overprotective older brother mode.

"I forgot to write it in the rules," Mai said with a blush. Everyone around her preformed an anime faint.

"HOW could you forget THAT?" Joey practiticly yelled.

"I just hope no one dies..." Ishizu muttered sadly.

"They won't die...You really don't think that, do you?" Tea was panicing.

"Tea, shut up," Yami said, trying to hide his own worry.

"Look at this..." Marik said, his voice gleeful.

"You little..." Malik was still cursing Serenity out.

"Just stay off me," Serenity snapped.

"What the hell was that for?"

Serenity mocked a thinking pose. "I it be because you pulled my hair?"

"Say it or I'll do it again!" His voice was hard.

"Stay off me or I'll kick you again!" She seemed determined.

"You know what your problem is? Either you sit around and cry or you act really tough, like your all big and bad. If you would pick a definate personality, maybe we wouldn't all hate you so much!" Malik glared at her. "Make up your fricken mind about who you are!"

"Excuse me, you are the one they all hate! They like me, thank you!" Serenity stared him down. Don't they? She thought.

"Mai and even Tea seem to be aloud to do more stuff than you. They wander around, and you're always at someone's side, staying there, behaving. So tell me: Who's really wrong?" He smirked, his point brought across.

"At least I'm not a mutant, evil, good-for-nothing freak!" She said loosly, ignoring his last speech.

"That's it!" Malik grabbed a fistfull of her brown hair. "Mutants can fight, you know!"

"So can well-behaved little girls!"

"It's too much! Make them stop, Mai," Tea whined.

"She can't. Please quit whining." Ishizu's voice was stern.

"I don't whine!" Tea hissed.

"Tea, she's right." Yami was insistent.

"YOU'RE ALL SO MEAN!" Tea yelled.

"What do you know about mean?" Bakura quipped.

"Quit arguing!" Duke managed to choke out.

"Why, you scared?" Tristan asked mockingly.

"QUIET!" Yugi hollered. The whole group fell to silence.

"We go to a tourament, and just because you don't win, you act like animals toward one another. Those two are fighting it out, but can't you just leave each other the hell alone?" Yugi was panting, his small shoulders heaving up and down.

"Come here, Yugi," Yami said, coaxing Yugi to his side.

"I won! Get lost!" Said Serenity in a triupment voice.

"NO!"

Please reveiw. Second chapter all done.