Chapter 2

It was now nightfall and Yami and Yugi stood together outside in the school yard. They had talked some more about the vision that Yugi had witnessed earlier and decided that if Pegasus wasn't prepared to listen to them then they would just take matters into their own hands and leave with as many people as possible in search of another place to shelter from the monsters. A few people had already gathered with them in the darkness as they waited for more to come.

In the little bit of light that the moon reflected down Yami saw another figure approach them. "Who's there?" he asked.

"It's me." replied a polite voice, and Yami knew instantly that it was Bakura. "Joey told me that you were leaving tonight and, if it's true, I'll like to come along."

"Of course." Yugi told him. "I'd have told you myself but I couldn't find you."

"You know me, always busy helping others." Bakura laughed quietly. "Preparing meals, caring for the sick and injured, building shelters, mending clothing, entertaining the younger children, you name it I've done it."

"Then it's a good job you're tagging along." Joey commented as he joined the group. "That way at least one of us knows what they're doing. Oww!"

Tea had jabbed Joey in the ribs. "Don't expect to just lie around all day like you do here." she told him. "We all have to work together to make this happen."

"Too true." Yami agreed. "Is Tristan with you?"

"He'll be along in a mo." Joey replied rubbing his side where Tea had poked him.

A couple of others joined them before Tristan finally showed a little while later. "I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news but, I've just had a couple of Pegasus' goons follow me about." he told them as he joined the group still checking back over his shoulder. "I think I lost them though."

"The sooner we leave the better." Yami said as he began to lead the others from around the back of the school to the front where the gates where, but he stopped as he noticed that Yugi hadn't moved from where he was stood. "Come on Yugi, we have to go now. We've informed as many people as possible about this."

Yugi took one last look around before he joined Yami's side and sighed. "I know, but I just wish that we could have told the Kaiba brothers and Duke as well."

"You know that they would only have told Pegasus of our plan and try to stop us." Yami too hated the thought of leaving others behind.

"Quick, stop them!" came a shouted order from behind the group. Pegasus' men who had been following Tristan had been made aware of the planned breakout from the school and where there to stop them all from leaving the grounds.

"Run!" Yami ordered. "To the gates, quickly!"

As swiftly as they could everybody ran as fast as their legs would carry them. The group was lead by Joey and Bakura who were running the fastest, followed by Yami, Yugi Tristan and Tea. The rest of the people were then blocked by Pegasus' group of those chosen to keep everybody else in line.

When they were almost at the school gates, Joey suddenly stopped causing the rest of the gang to bump into him as they failed to stop sooner. The reason became clear as to why Joey had stopped when they saw Duke stood in front of the padlocked gates which had brought their chance to escape to a halt.

"Pegasus will not be pleased that you all went against him." Duke said as he glared at them.

"I know that you're only doing as you've been told, but please don't get in our way." Yugi said as he made his way to the front of his friends. "There is something bad about to happen and …….." he was cut of by Duke.

"You can't explain how you know, but it's dangerous and will kill us all." Duke said mockingly. "Save it Yugi, because Pegasus explained it all to me already."

"And yet you're still being such a jerk." Tristan pointed out as he stood next to Joey. "If you continue to stand in our way, then that leaves only one thing for us to do." He cracked his knuckles.

"I'm with ya on that." Joey said as he did the same to his knuckles and the two of them charged at Duke with their fists ready for a fight.

Duke simply remained where he was as the two strongest members of the gang ran at him hoping to take him down so that they could continue on their way. But he wasn't prepared to let them do that and produced an electric shocker from under his waistcoat and zapped both of them until they fell to the floor in pain where they stayed paralyzed momentarily.

The rest of the gang made their way forward to help aid their two friends who were still unable to move, but only Yami continued forward to face Duke. "I know that you don't really want to stand in our way or seriously hurt us, so please stand aside."

Duke tucked the electric shocker back to where it had come from inside the concealed pocket of his waistcoat. He knew that Yami wasn't the type to throw punches, and would rather talk his way around things, so he didn't have anything to fear from him. "Don't push me to see just how far I would go to carry out an order from Pegasus." He warned threateningly. "I'll kill you if that's what it takes to stop you. That's how determined I am to not let you leave."

Yami looked round to see Joey and Tristan being held up by the other three, swaying as they both struggled to stay standing. Yugi still looked quite frightened from the thought that they wouldn't be able to leave after all He turned back to Duke and approached even closer to him. "For the last time I ask you to stand aside." His eyes narrowed and his voice became threatening. "I am prepared to fight you for our freedom if you don't."

"I didn't want it to come to this." said Duke as he took the first swing which sent Yami stumbling backwards, but was unprepared for the returning attack.

"Stop it!" shouted Yugi as he watched the fight break out. "You're supposed to be friends!" But still they continued to fight, with Yami taking a beating from Duke who was too strong for him.

Joey and Tristan both pushed Tea and Bakura away from them as they tried to help their friend with his fight. But they were still too weak from the electric shock and fell in a heap on the ground.

Duke now had hold of Yami by the throat and was about to hit him when he felt himself hit hard in the face. He released his grip and fell sideways to the floor from the force that had struck him. His mouth filled with blood, as his teeth had cut the inside of his cheek from the impact, which he spat out before he looked up to see just who had hit him. "Kaiba!" he said in surprise.

Kaiba stood between Duke and Yami, who was now on his knees. His white coat rebounded the light from the moon and as always it flowed out behind him. "You're meant to keep the peace, not fight amongst your friends."

"Pegasus told me to do whatever it takes to stop them." Duke explained from where he still lay on the ground and he slowly pushed himself up. "But now that you're here, we can stop them together."

"First of all you should already know that I don't do teamwork." Kaiba glared at Duke as he spoke. "And secondly, I couldn't give a damn about what Pegasus says."

"So you're not going to stop us?" Yugi asked as he helped Yami on to his feet.

"I over heard your conversation earlier." Kaiba replied but not answering Yugi's question. "And although I don't believe a word of it, with my past experiences of things that I can't explain, I always seem to have been told by you in advance of them happening. Therefore I would rather listen to you than that joke of a leader when it comes to the safety of my brother. So no, I'm not going to stop you from leaving this place."

"Just wait until Pegasus finds out about this! He won't take kindly to you betraying him." Duke snarled. "It seems like you too are abusing the power of authority that he gave you."

"That's a good one." laughed Kaiba. "But to betray him I would have had to have been loyal to him to start off with. And as for the authority part, well that no longer exists." he laughed to himself as he thought back to a little while earlier. "You should have seen the look on his face when I told him where to shove that lapdog role, it was priceless." He turned away from Duke and approached Yugi and the others.

Duke became angered at Kaiba's attitude and reached inside his waistcoat for the electric shocker. There was no way that he was going to let Pegasus down by letting the others get away, and stopping Kaiba as well would surely please him even more. He charged at Kaiba as he walked away.

"Look out!" Tea cried as she saw what Duke was attempting to do.

Kaiba turned to see blue streaks of electricity spurt from the device in Dukes hand, and then watched as he stopped running at him and doubled over in pain, clutching at his groin from being hit there by a small figure. As Duke fell to his knees he was zapped by his own weapon which was now held by his attacker. "Nobody attacks my brother!" he heard before he fell unconscious.

"Mokuba, I told you to stay over there out of sight!" Kaiba spoke to his brother angrily from moving out of the shadows where he had left him. But he was kind of relieved and even impressed about the fact that Mokuba had stopped Duke from carrying out his attack. He lightened his tone; "And what did I tell you about attacking someone when they're already down?"

Mokuba dropped the weapon and it broke as it hit the ground. He turned to face Kaiba and repeated what his brother had once told him. "Never kick anybody once they're down." he sighed. "Except if it's a rival company or Joey Wheeler."

"Hey!" Joey said as he pushed Bakura away and held his fist up towards Kaiba.

"Well now that you're standing, I suggest that you all get moving before the rest of Pegasus' goons catch up to you." He said as he removed a bunch of keys from Duke's pocket and unlocked the padlock on the gate.

"What about Duke?" Yugi asked Yami.

"It's clear that he's still too loyal towards Pegasus so taking him with us is out of the question." Yami said looking down to where Duke lay. "I think he would be happier here anyway."

"Perhaps you're right." Yugi sadly nodded and exited the school grounds which Kaiba relocked the gates behind him and threw the keys into the remains of a nearby building.

"There's not very many of you to go travelling like this." Mokuba said as he walked along side Yugi. "So would you mind if Seto and I tagged along?"

"Aww, are you two scared to be on your own in the big bad world!" Joey said in a childish voice.

Kaiba wasn't in the mood for retaliating but Mokuba made a rude gesture towards Joey which made Tristan and Bakura laugh out loud.

Yami slowed his pace and dropped back to where Kaiba was walking right at the back of the group. "Thank you for what you did back there. And I'm glad that you're coming with us."

"I can't stand to see people pick on others weaker than themselves." Kaiba told him. "And as far as travelling with you goes, Mokuba's safety is my only concern; don't interoperate that into anything else for my reason for being here. And don't even think about ordering me around." He picked up his pace and walked along side his brother.

"Monster alert!" Tristan told them all from where he walked at the front of the group.

They all entered the crumbled down entrance of a building until an Uraby passed by them. They kept very still and quite during the whole time that they were hiding until they felt that it was far enough away from them and safe to come out again.

"I think it just killed someone or something." Tea whined. "I saw blood on it's lips."

"Lucky for us it had." Bakura commented. "If it hadn't then it might of searched for us in that doorway."

"So where do you plan to go now?" Kaiba asked with his arms folded as he leaned against the crumbled down wall and looked at Yugi.

"I don't know." Yugi confessed. "Anywhere, just as long as it's out of the city." He began to feel uncomfortable as everyone had their eyes on him. Why didn't he think it through more clearly before he had made them leave?

"This is what happens when you don't plan ahead." Kaiba told them. "At this rate you all won't last very long."

"But we do have a plan." Yami spoke up and winked at Yugi. "We decided that crossing the river and searching in that direction would be the best thing to do on our way to finding a new place to settle." he said the first thing that came into his head to make them think that somebody was in charge. Otherwise they might start to lose hope and panic about what the future may hold if they really knew that he didn't have a clue what to do next.

"But the river's all the way across the city!" Mokuba exclaimed.

"It will take us ages to get there." Joey joined in with the complaining.

"Then you had better stop complaining and get moving." Kaiba glanced at Yami before starting to make his way towards the direction of the river. He knew that the Pharaoh didn't have a clue about where he was leading his friends.

One by one the others followed after Kaiba. Yugi and Yami were the last ones to move and walked side by side. "Thank you for helping me out and taking charge of everyone since we didn't think of a plan before we left."

"I think it's Kaiba who you should be thanking." Yami spoke quietly. "Even though he says that he's only here for Mokuba's sake I think that he's actually looking out for all of us."

"The pair of you always make a good team when you work together." Yugi smiled back at his friend.