Final Game?

Disclaimer: I in no way own Yu-gi-oh or any of its components. I do however own Robin and this original plot.

I am so very sorry for the long wait for this chapter. Its all my fault, I decided not to work on the story over the Christmas because I write differently when I'm doing Christmas Temping compared to when I'm at University. So I'm sorry.

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Joey (Still Friday)

It was a still a lovely day but Joey no longer felt so good. He was walking with Yugi who he realised he could see through if he looked carefully, and the Witch who he wouldn't trust as far as he could throw her. She was one of the bad guys wasn't she? But Yami was acting weird; Joey was still shaking inside from how close that shadow magic had come to hitting him. And Robin had run away, well faded away really but it amounted to the same thing.

They were heading towards the "inner circle" whatever that was, and Joey still wasn't sure what he was going to do. He didn't think that Yugi had any idea either. And both the Witch and Yugi kept giving him sideways glances, he tried to stare at his hand without appearing to but he still couldn't see any glowing.

"We're here." Joey looked up; they were standing in front of a crypt. It was ancient, grey and cobwebbed. "I don't really want to get any closer than this." The Witch continued.

"Where are we going?" Joey asked.

Yugi smiled slightly, "Don't worry the Millennium Puzzle is on top of the building, not inside it."

Joey nods, thinking. "So how do I get up?"

Yugi looks confused and embarrassed, "I'm not sure. I didn't think about that."

The Witch sighs and rolls her eyes, "There's a staircase around the corner."

The boys stare at her. "Why is there a staircase on a crypt?"

"It's really well hidden, but it was added later. My guess would be whoever set this trap wanted to make it easier on himself when he came to claim the items."

"How do you know it's a him? Couldn't it be a her?" Joey asks wondering why it's always men who have this odd tendency to have mad evil plans.

The Witch looks at him strangely, "I can taste it in the magics. I worked with many who had Power, both men and women, and the two are as different as sun and shadow if you know what to look for. Don't you always know when you meet someone new that they are either a boy or a girl? There's no confusing the two."

Joey blushes red at this point. There had been times… The youngest of the Kaiba bothers sprang to mind, how could he have ever thought that Mokuba was a girl?

"You are procrastinating. Are you going to do this or not?" The Witch asks impatiently.

"You don't have to Joey. Not if you don't want to." Yugi puts in quietly. Pale as a ghost.

Joey shook his head. "Let's just do this. Where's the stairs?" The Witch points. The stairs were cleverly hidden, mosses and other weeds hid the steps well, but the stairs was still more like a ladder than anything else. Joey started to climb while the other two watched. When he reached the top Yugi just floated up with a look of intense concentration.

The Witch watched impatiently. "Can you hurry it up? The moon is going to set soon."

Joey turned round carefully and spied the three items lying in a pile. The Millennium Puzzle lay pointing towards him, that worried Joey slightly, and just beside it was a silver ball, further away there was a third item, a silver belt.

"So I just need to move the Puzzles right?" Joey said uncertainly. Yugi nods. "Okay so which item is Robin's Puzzle?"

"It's the ball." Yugi says, looking decidedly on the white side.

Joey picks up both of the puzzles, "Good, nothing bad happened." Yugi sighs in relief. Joey walks towards the stairs; he gets three paces when BANG! He hears a scream before something hits him sending electric shocks through his body and throwing him away. The Puzzles slip from his hands and he lands with a loud crash.

"Joey!" Yugi shouts, and comes running… only floating.

"What just happened? I thought…"

"Are you okay?"

"I think so…" Joey says, getting up.

Yugi's eyes narrows but the Witch strolls up before he can say anything else, "That was a nasty little trap wasn't it? I don't think the others will be very happy with us. The Empress in particular hates pain, and that shock wave gave me a horrid head ache, I can't imagine what it did to those not expecting it."

"Is that all the trap does? Just pain?" Joey asks.

"Umm… Joey… that's not all that it did." Yugi begins.

The Witch rolls her eyes; Yugi wasn't turning out to be very good at explaining things. The Witch buts in, "How does it feel to have an out of body experience Pup?"

"I'm not a Pup!" Joey responds, "Wait… 'Out of body'?"

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Tristan (Friday Afternoon)

Tristan was getting impatient, the day had crawled by but it was finally time to go. However escape wasn't quite that easy. Officer Richard was waiting by the door and getting past him unseen would be near impossible.

Tristan couldn't trust Officer Richard, adults seldom got involved in the gang's problems, except to cause them. And the Officer had done little to earn Tristan's trust, being grilled by him for most of the morning certainly hadn't helped.

Then the matter was taken out of his hands. Téa walked through the doors, and was greeted by the Officer. They started talking, about what Tristan couldn't hear, but it seemed they knew each other.

Tristan sighed; he didn't have a choice now. He walked towards the pair. Téa waved, and Officer Richard grinned in greeting.

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Yugi

Yami, the Empress and the Dancer were not happy. In fact they were livid. They had come practically flying in, sparking off dangerous energy bolts.

Not even moonset had slowed their fury, it merely made them unpredictable. The Witch was unhelpful, as soon as the moon set the Sisters seemed to forget their conflict, and while the Witch wasn't attacking anyone she also wasn't stopping her sisters anymore.

Yugi and Joey had scattered at first. Joey utterly confused and Yugi little better, but now there were conspiring.

Joey shivered. Yugi watched with concern but Joey shrugged him off.

Yugi and Joey do not manage to do anything before the threesome of Tristan, Téa and Officer Richard enter the scene.

The Witch's eyes lit up as they fell upon Téa. "Catch" she shouted as she tossed the Wand

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Téa

Téa caught the wand and an aura of power surrounded her. The Empress glared at her and fired a bolt of energy. Drop and roll right. Téa dodged, the energy missing her by inches.

Jump back. Téa jumped as a second bolt came from Dancer.

Now Run. She sprinted towards the crypt, the wand clasped firmly in her hand. The sounds of battle clashed behind her. The strange voice in her head instructing her how to dodge whenever she needed to.

She reached her destination, only barely out of breath. Now climb. The voice told her, fainter now. She clambered up the stairs of the crypt. She had a bird's eye view of the battle but she ignored it.

The puzzles were glowing, Yugi's purple-black, and Robin's silver-blue. Don't touch. The voice whispered in her mind. Grab the belt. And Téa listened, the belt didn't feel like silver; it was malleable for one thing. She put it on and the tightened the belt, sliding the wand into its slot.

Walk away quickly. The voice echoed now, and was conflicted, arguments occurred just beyond her hearing.

She walked, bouncing down the steps, then continuing to walk away from the battleground. At a predetermined distance the voice spoke again. Call the orb. "What?" Call the Lunar Puzzle. It will come. "And how am I meant to call it? Here Puzzle, come to me puzzle, come on little orby?" Téa said with heavy sarcasm. The voice remained silent.

"Fine!" She said, "Be that way. Come to me Orb or else!" Téa said firmly.

Nothing happened. Laughter echoes in Téa's mind that is not her own.

Téa assumes her no-nonsense prose, arms crossed, foot tapping and speaks one word: "Come" and finally the Lunar Puzzle rolls off the crypt, across the graveyard, and stopping just before Téa.

Téa picks it up, tosses it in the air for good measure, and slots it into its place in the belt.

The Trap collapses with a whoosh.

Robin appears in front of Téa and mouths "Thank you" before fading away again.