Hello again! I'm REALLY sorry that I haven't updated in awhile. I've been really busy with school, my birthday, and everything, so I haven't had much time two write chapters for my fics. But don't worry. I'm back now to continue the insanity. If you all couldn't tell, I was suffering from a minor case of writers block in the last chapter. That's why nothing too exciting happened. I promise I'll try to do better in this and other chapters, though. Now, I believe I have quite a few wonderful people to thank…

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Of Campfires and Pixie Sticks

Yami had "volunteered" to go into the woods to get some fire wood, and had yet to return.

"What's taking that baka so long?" Malik snapped, rubbing his hands together to try and keep warm.

It was pitch dark out, and all the group could see of each other was their eyes; most of which were narrowed.

"I don't know, but if he doesn't get back here in the next two minutes…" Bakura began in a threatening voice; but ended up sighing at the end. "… The idiot probably got himself lost."

To his right, Kaiba gave a growl of frustration, and his icy blue eyes flashed. "I don't know if I should be happy about this or not."

"What do you mean?" Mokuba asked from Kaiba's other side.

"Well, on the one hand, I'm angry about Yami getting lost because he's the one who would have had the fire wood, and I'm freezing my butt off; but on the other hand, I'm happy about him getting lost because I might actually get a chance for some sleep tonight," Kaiba replied.

"Well, we don't know for sure that he's lost," Ryou said, trying to find the silver lining on their rather large rain cloud.

All he got were skeptical looks in response.

"Ryou, I bet you anything that Yami's lost in the middle of this forest right now, probably hasn't found any fire wood at all, and is singing What I Like About You to a tree," Yugi said.

"Yeah, you're probably right," Ryou sighed in defeat.

"Oh this is stupid!" Kaiba exclaimed. "Why don't we just send one of us to go and look for wood, since it's clear that Yami won't be coming back anytime soon!?"

"Thank you!" Serenity said, exasperated.

"Okay, but who's gonna go?" Tristan asked.

"Well, since it was Kaiba's idea…" Joey began.

"For once in your life Wheeler, don't be stupid!" Kaiba exclaimed. "I run a company! I haven't set foot in a forest for about…actually I've never set foot in a forest, until now! You actually want me to go look for wood? I'd get lost like Yami!"

"That's the point," Joey muttered under his breath.

"Well, why don't you go and get it Joey? Mokuba piped up, glaring at the blonde. "Since you seem so eager to get wood, why don't you just do it?"

Joey blinked for a moment before narrowing his eyes at the younger Kaiba. He stopped suddenly when he heard a growling noise coming from where Seto sat next to his brother.

Muttering something to himself, Joey said nothing more, but rose and stalked off into the woods.

"We're never going to see him or Yami again are we?" Tristan asked Yugi.

"Nope," Yugi replied. "Well, I guess we could try to burn their bags and extra clothes to start a fire."

There was an awkward silence before everyone but Yugi burst out screaming, "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT BEFORE!?!"

Yugi blinked at them all in shock.

The next thing he knew, Kaiba and Bakura had run into the tent they were supposed to be sharing with Yami, and grabbed his bag with Barney on it, his sleeping bag that had Barbie printed all over it with hearts drawn around her face with a red crayon, and his stuffed pink caribou that had a pin on it saying, "Hello, my name is Fred"; and came rushing back to the circle where they all had been sitting.

At the same time, Marik and Mokuba had run into the tent they were supposed to be sharing with Joey and grabbed his Jimmy Newtron sleeping bag, his Adidas bag that had several Shrek stickers on it (mainly of Fiona), and his stuffed bright green monkey that was wearing a toga, and that had "Caesar" written on his forehead in red marker; and ran quickly back to the rest of the group.

"Okay, now does anyone have a lighter or some matches?" Bakura asked after throwing Yami and Joey's stuff into the middle of the circle.

The group shook their heads.

"Okay then, does anyone have two sticks we can rub together?"

Again, the group shook their heads.

Bakura was seriously starting to get annoyed.

"Does anyone here have a brain?!"

The same result as before.

"I can't stand you people!!!" Bakura shouted and stormed off into his tent to cool down.

"We love you too Bakura!" The group called after him, and a shriek of anger and frustration was heard from inside the tent Bakura had just entered.

"Well now that that's over; how ARE we going to light this stuff?" Marik asked.

"Uh, I found two sticks," Tristan said, holding his hands out so the group could see.

"Well, it's worth a shot," Yugi sighed, and took the twigs from Tristan's hands. Kneeling down towards the pile of baggage, the hikari of the pharaoh held one of the sticks vertically in the middle of belongings, and rubbed the other stick horizontally across the first stick.

The remainder of the group sat anxiously to the side.

"Come on, you can do it," Yugi coxed the sticks to try to ignite.

"He's talking to sticks…" Kaiba shook his head in disbelief at Yugi.

"Maybe we should have sent him with Joey," Serenity whispered to Tristan.

"I'm starting to think we should have too," He responded back.

The others nodded in agreement.

"Oh come on you stupid, worthless, piece of crap!" Yugi shouted at the sticks; rubbing them even more fiercely together in anger and impatience.

"Is Yugi shouting at his millennium puzzle again?" Bakura asked, returning to the group now that he'd calmed down.

"Not exactly…" Malik replied, giving Yugi an uneasy look.

Bakura came closer to get a better look at what was going on. "Hey! You guys said that you didn't have any sticks!"

"Yeah well…" Everyone started making up their own excuses.

"Worthless bakas…" Bakura muttered to himself.

Yugi suddenly gave a frustrated cry, causing the group to stare at him. Obviously, he hadn't been able to start a fire, because at that moment, he'd chosen to jump up, throw the sticks on the ground, and began to stomp mercilessly on them.

"TAKE THAT YOU STUPID PIECES OF WOOD! I'LL TEACH YOU NOT TO CATCH ON FIRE! YOUR DREAMS OF BECOMING PAPER OR FURNITURE ARE OVER! 'CAUSE BY THE TIME I'M THROUGH WITH YOU, THERE WON'T EVEN BE ANYTHING LEFT FOR MY DOG SPARKY TO CHEW ON!!!"

"Uh Yugi…" Ryou began hesitantly. "You don't have a dog named Sparky. In fact, you don't even have a dog at all."

Yugi turned sharply; his eyes glittering with malice, and faced Ryou in a split second.

"…On second thought, I'm going to go and write Sparky a letter telling him how much you miss him," Ryou said nervously, and ran as fast as he could into his tent.

"That wasn't very nice Yugi," Serenity spoke up, starting to sound oddly like Téa. "You scared your friend."

Yugi, noticing how much she did sound like the friendship witch, growled fiercely at her; a little bit of foam starting to come out of the edge of his mouth.

"…And I'm just fine with that," Serenity said hurriedly, and she also ran into her tent.

"Well that was rather stupid of her," Malik commented. "Yugi is one of the people she's sharing a tent with."

"I've got two words for you," Marik began. "Joey's sister."

"Oh yes, of course," Malik nodded in agreement. "I'm starting to see the resemblance."

"Aren't we all?" Tristan asked, twiddling his thumbs in boredom.

"Wait a sec; aren't you supposed to be on her side?" Marik asked, confused.

"Yeah well," Tristan began. "I'm also being honest, and honesty is always rewarded…"

He was cut off when Serenity came out of her tent, and whacked him over the head with her bag as hard as she could.

"…with pain," Malik and Marik finished for him.

"Exactly," Tristan said in a wobbly voice before passing out completely.

Serenity stuck her nose in the air, and walked back into the tent.

"Man, we're having one weird night," Kaiba remarked. "Of course, I don't think I should be surprised because I'm stuck in the woods with you people."

"I'll say," Bakura agreed, choosing to ignore the comment. "First Yami and Joey get lost in the woods, then Yugi blows up at some sticks as well as at Ryou and Serenity and thinks he has a dog named Sparky, then Serenity comes up and beats up Tristan, and storms off into her tent. And we STILL don't have a fire!"

"This just isn't our night is it?" Yugi asked, finally calmed down.

"No, I'd say not," Malik replied.

"Well, look on the bright side," Mokuba began positively.

"What bright side?" Bakura grumbled.

"At least we still have pixie sticks!"

"…Really?" Bakura asked, glancing at Mokuba.

The younger Kaiba got up, went into the tent he was sleeping in, and came back out a few moments later with two bags of pixie sticks.

"I can't see. Does he really have pixie sticks?" Marik asked; who was farther away from Mokuba and couldn't exactly identify the objects in his hands.

"Oh yeah," Bakura replied, a look on his face that most people who saw it would think he'd just won the lottery.

"Ooooh…toss one over here," Marik said.

"Do you care what flavor it is?" Mokuba asked, trying to tell what color the pixie sticks were in the dark.

"Nope, as long as it's still sugar, I don't much care," Marik replied eagerly.

"Good, because I can't tell which flavor is which anyway…" Mokuba randomly chose a pixie stick, and threw it at Marik.

Unfortunately, Marik missed and the pixie stick ended up hitting Ryou in the face, which caused him to scream and jump into Tristan's arms, who was so surprised that he jumped into Serenity's arms, who somehow managed to jump into Yugi's arms, who couldn't hold them all up and ended up colliding into Marik, who then crashed into Bakura, who got pushed at Mokuba, who rammed into Malik, who then fell on top of Kaiba, who ended up getting squished by everyone.

"Can't….breathe…" Kaiba choked. "Obviously you people have never heard of Weight Watchers!!!"

"I can think of someone who needs to go on a diet…" Bakura muttered, glaring up at Marik.

"Well, I can think of someone who needs to get their shoe out of my ear!" Tristan snapped.

"I'd be more than happy to Tristan, that is if someone would get their elbow out of my gut!" Ryou snapped.

"Well I'd move my elbow if a certain someone would get their armpit out of my face!" Yugi snapped back. "And would it kill this someone to wear deodorant once in awhile!?!"

In response, he got whacked in the head rather hard by a ticked off Serenity.

"Okay, whoever has their hand on my butt had better move it," Malik said in a threatening voice.

"That's not a hand," Mokuba's muffled voice snapped. "Now will you get your butt out of my face!?!"

The group was so intent on arguing, that they didn't hear Joey and Yami come walking up; each with an armload of fire wood.

"I told ya I knew how to get us back," Joey told Yami. "But did you believe me? Of course not! You said that I…" His voice trailed off as he noticed the scene that was unfolding before his eyes.

"Joey?" Yami tried to wave a hand in front of his face to snap him out of it, but ended up hitting him with a piece of wood.

Yami was quickly trying to apologize, when he noticed that Joey looked like he hadn't even felt it.

"Ooooh…are we having a staring contest?!" Yami asked, mistaking Joey's actions as a game.

"Yami…" Joey turned to face the pharaoh. "Tell me what you see in the middle of our camp…"

"Well, let's see," Yami glanced at the group for the first time. "I see everyone in a large pile with Kaiba on the bottom looking like he's about to pass out from lack of air."

"Good, then it's not just me," Joey shook his head at the sight before him. "What the heck could they have been doing?"

"Well, since everyone is in a dog pile, I'd say they were playing football," Yami remarked.

"Where'd they get a football? Or better yet, where IS the football?" Joey asked.

"They didn't have one," Yami answered.

Joey facefaulted.

"You mean that they played football…without a football?"

"Yep!" Yami smiled proudly at his solution.

Joey sighed and muttered, "I'm seriously going to smash his stupid puzzle…hmm…I wonder if I'd go to jail for murder or destruction of another's property?"