When we finally saw him we saw the three fish sticking out in a fire.
"Aw man I just love barbeque fish," Joey said.
"Smells good," Tristan agreed.
"Yeah I bet it tastes even better," Joey said as he ran towards it, laughing as he went.
"What makes you think that fish is yours to eat." Téa said furiously towards Joey.
"Hey trust me eat first ask questions later, your stomach'll thank me." he said, chuckling before moving closer.
"Joey! Oh he'll say anything to fill his belly," Téa said half amused half irritated.
"Some people have no self-control," Tristan said with his arms crossed and nose pointing in the air.
3…2…1…
"Joey save some for me!" he yelled jumping from behind the rock to meet him. Téa and I sighed simultaneously.
"I don't want to watch this train wreck I am off, good luck guys," I said.
"Mana," Yugi said looking up at me.
"Relax, I'll meet you back here in an hour alright?" I promised. "We have to get in that castle now we have little food even quicker."
"It does sound like a good idea," Téa said. "You sure you don't want one of us to go with you?" she asked. I shook my head.
"Keep these two in line, I'll be fine." I said walking back inwards to find an opponent. I didn't have to wait long.
"Hey, you wanna duel!" I kid yelled, I turned to look at him.
"Sure," I said smiling.
"Two chips?"
"Sure I have three," he said, we got into positions to duel.
"Ladies First," he said.
"Thanks," I said as I drew my cards. Prickle fairy, mirror force, elemental magician, fire sorcerer, bio mage I drew and got pot of greed. Ok good hand. "I'll kick things off by playing elemental magician in attack mode, and I also place one card face down. Your move."
"Alright." He said drawing a card. "I play alien warrior in attack mode now attack her elemental magician."
"Not so fast I play mirror force," I said activating my trap card forcing him to weaken his own monster to 900 attack points.
"I play one card face down and end my turn," he said.
"Alright my go," I said drawing gift of mystical elf. That could come in handy later. "Now I play one card face down in defence mode then I activate pot of greed allowing me to draw two cards." I said gaining the all-seeing white tiger and dreamstprite.
"Alright, I put my alien warrior in defence mode and play alien overlord to attack her element magician!" he said. My mirror wall bounced up knocking his alien overlord back and losing half its attack points.
"Sorry permanent trap, unless you know how to defeat it and you have the right cards," I said, before drawing. Yes fissure this could come in handy.
"Alright I flip over my face down monster revealing fire sorcerer now by discarding two of the cards in my hand I can take 800 of your life points directly. I place bio mage and my all seeing tiger into the graveyard taking his life points down to 1200. "I'll play two cards face down and attack your alien overlord," my elemental magician look out his monster making his life points drop down to 800. "I end my turn." I called.
"You're good I have to admit," he said smiling, drawing another card. "I play mysterious triangle this allows me to destroy your fire sorcerer and then summon a level four alien monster and I choose alien shocktrooper." Oh dear 1900 attack points I needed a powerful monster to beat that.
"Ok my go," I said drawing aqua spirit. No she was too weak. "I play dreastprite in defence mode and that will end my turn."
"On the defence, alright I play one card face down and then end my turn." He said. I drew again come on I need something good. Graceful charity sure that'll help.
"I play graceful charity," I said drawing three cards. Mystical space typhoon, Erica the water charmer and black pendant," Yes that would help, that would help a lot, I discarded prickle fairy and aqua spirit. "I summon Erica than sacrifice her to play familiar possessed Erica then by using black pendant I raise her attack points to 2350 attack points. I also play my mystical typhoon card to destroy your face down card then attack your alien shocktroper.
He looked at me shocked he only had 350 life points left, he sighed and placed his hand over his deck.
"Are you sure?" I said.
"Yeah, here take the star chips there yours now," he said as we were lowered back to ground he walked over to me handing me the chips. "Besides I still have one left." He said grinning.
"My greatest opponent yet," I said offering my hand, he shook it, before walking away. Smiling I checked my necklace watch, I had another 15 minutes before I had to be back I began a slow walk…
I saw them all waving at the ocean confused I moved closer. There was a man was swimming out into the ocean as the four of them watched him. I noticed the Spirit had returned.
"Wish he'd bring us back some fish." Tristan said.
"We'd have to duel him again," he Spirit said making the other three laugh.
"What happened?" I asked curiously.
"Forget about it," Joey said as we all walked away.
"But guys I'm getting seriously hungry," Joey whined.
"Not a problem we still have my great out door survival guide." Tristan said making the Spirit laugh. I noticed he had a rich baritone laugh that made me feel warm and safe… don't be stupid! I scolded myself.
"No way!" Téa said laughing.
"Yeah, Tristan eat all the pages you like," Joey said making us all laugh as we ventured back into the forest.
"Wow Yugi I can't believe you've already won six star chips, plus Mana's were almost there." Téa said.
"Ready to save you're Grandpa," Tristan said smiling at us.
"I wish I had more star chips," Joey said.
"Oh here take this," I said handing him two chips. "And don't worry about it remember our deal on the boat." I said winking at him. "Yug, I'll give you more tonight." I said smiling.
"Help!" we heard someone yell. We all stopped to listen.
"What was that?" Tristan said.
"Help me! Somebody please!" they yelled again. "Argh let go of me somebody help me!" we began to run to try and help this person and as we did we saw the guys with the weird hair that told us to climb the stairs to the castle earlier.
"We're coming," Tristan yelled. Spike turned around, we could see the kid in his arms. Tristan ran at him his fists ready.
"Let that kid go!" Tristan yelled.
"You heard him needle head, put the kid down." Joey said
"What do you think you're doing?" Yugi said angrily.
"This is none of your business," said the guy. "This duellist has lost his starchips – "
"That doesn't mean you can manhandle him." I said.
"But I didn't lose my star chips they were stolen from me, my cards too!"
"I don't care what lame excuse you have kid, you need star chips to duel and you haven't got any so your shipping out of here, those are the rules."
"But if he lost his chips he can take some of mine." Yugi said.
"Not allowed," he said turning to walk away.
"Follow him?" I suggested.
"Oh yeah," Tristan said.
We began to run behind him far enough so that he wouldn't see us, he was going to pay for this.
"Hey," Yugi yelled as we got close to the boat. "Hey you!"
"You again." The hair dude said.
"What did the guy who took your star chips look like?"
"Well I couldn't see his face it was covered with a bandana, but he was a little guy. Challenged me in the Meadow."
"He challenged you to a duel?"
"Yeah but as soon as I put my star chips and duel deck down, he snatched them up and ran off with them."
"You shouldn't be shifted off the island for that." Yugi said. "We'll get your star chips back."
"This boat leaves in exactly 30 minutes anyone without a star chip ships out."
"We'll get his star chips back by that time," Téa said, holding the collar of her top.
"We won't let you bully him out of the tournament," Tristan said.
"No we'll catch that little thief and bring him to justice, believe me kid you can count on us," Joey said.
"But who are you guys?" he asked I covered Joey's mouth before he could say something stupid.
"We're wasting time we'll be back in half an hour," I promised before running back to where we meet him, everyone else followed behind me. When we got back to the meadow we sat down for a moment.
"Ok we need to put our heads together," Yugi said.
"Add Joey's brain and you have to subtract one." Tristan said, as we sat down a kid jumped from behind the bushes.
"I've found you Yugi," he said.
"That must be the kid we're looking for." Joey said.
"That's Mokuba," I gasped.
"How did you know?" he said. "Well it doesn't matter. Thanks to you my brother's gone and Pegasus is trying to take over Kaiba Corp."
"Pegasus wants Kaiba Corp." Yugi said.
"You can't blame Yugi for that Mokuba," I said.
"He ran away because of Yugi and then Pegasus walked right in cause the Kaiba executives invited him to some sort of private meeting."
We'll help you," I said. "We'll help you beat Pegasus." The look Mokuba gave me next shocked me it was one of grief. I blinked, as I looked at him again his expression was normal. Did I imagine it?
"Let's get back to the boat before that boy is shipped away," Téa said.
"Hang on, if Pegasus captured Mokuba then we shouldn't take him to those morons, I'll stay here with him, you guys go." I said with one hand on his shoulder.
"That is a very good idea," Téa said.
"Thanks Mana," Mokuba said.
"No problem," I said warmly. As they left I spoke again. "You want to sit down there?" I suggested. Mokuba nodded and sat leaning against the large tree.
"Why did you guys want to beat Pegasus so much?" he asked me.
"Well he took my Grandpa's soul, so the only way to get it back as ridiculous as it sounds is to duel him. If we win Pegasus will release his soul. If not…" I said trailing off not wanting to think about it.
"I'm sorry," Mokuba said looking down. "Where is your mum and dad?"
"Well I guess Kaiba hasn't told you, I am not technically a Muto, Grandpa adopted me, Susan – Yugi's mum – didn't like that. You see he didn't call her to ask if she thought it was a good idea for Yugi. I think that's why she doesn't like me, because she has no control of me being there and maybe because she thinks with two of us, Grandpa will let things that happen to Yugi slip because we may need him at the same time. Yugi's dad's cool though, the first time he came back to visit he laughed and said 'I always wanted a little girl too.'" I said smiling at the memory, I looked at Mokuba his eyes were wide.
"What about your parents?"
"I dunno, I can't remember anything before I met Yugi and Grandpa." I said. Sometimes I felt guilty about that, but I suppose I can't really feel responsible for that. I was shock as Mokuba hugged me, but I hugged him back.
"How long do you think it'll take?" Mokuba asked me.
"I'm not sure but they won't be too long." I said smiling. "Don't worry Yugi's going to kick Pegasus's butt."
"Thanks Mana, you're really cool." Mokuba said smiling. We heard a rustling in the tree's beside us, pulling him from the hug I forced Mokuba behind me.
"Whose there," I demanded. "Show yourself!"
Kemo.
"Thought you could escape Mokuba," he sneered.
"Run!" I yelled to him. "I'll hold them off. Do it Mokuba!" I was relieved when he did it. I punched the closest suit and followed Mokuba. I could hear their footsteps behind me I tried to move faster. Suddenly large fingers were wrapped around the top of my arm.
"RUN MOKUBA RUN!" I screamed struggling to try and stop the rest of them from chasing him. I punched him in the face and ran after the other goons.
"You go after the kid," Kemo yelled to one of the goons. "Everyone else keep her under control!"
I felt multiple hands garb me forcing me to the floor as I watched the last goon run in the direction Mokuba travelled. "Tie her up, gag and blind fold," he said. "She's less likely to try anything."
"Don't you dare!" I screamed before they gagged me. I still continued to try and talk, squirming as they wrapped the ropes around me. Once I was barely able to move, Kemo smiled.
"Don't worry your friends know where to meet us." He said laughing. I groaned Yugi…
Yugi's POV
I sighed it was a shame that we were too late for the boy, I wished there was more I could do.
"Where's Mana and Mokuba?" Joey said I noticed a letter by the tree I walked over and pulled it off.
All of you meet us here when the sun begins to fall. Don't be late or you'll never see Mana again.
"Guys Pegasus he's taken them!" I said showing them the note.
"Oh no!" Téa said horrified.
"They'll pay for this!" Joey angrily, punching the tree.
"I can't believe we left them alone," Tristan regretfully, I looked down at the note again. Hoping my sister was ok…
Hi guys sorry I've been gone so long, I was in South Africa building so I have a good excuse, hope you enjoy! I thought I made more sense for someone to stay with Mokuba and not go to give the kid back his chips. I mean Pegasus kidnapped him why would they hand him back to the goons! Sigh, well they got him anyway.