Ok first part of Legindary Hero's. i forgot how long this was.

thank you all for your suport. i hope i get lots of reviews.

anyway, part one, here we go.

Chapter 11

Getting into the virtual world wasn't as bad as Airi had thought it would be. It was more like her body had been connected to some sort a wire system and had been jump started. After the initial jump, she couldn't feel anything different, except that she was now standing up instead of sitting. She opened her eyes.

Airi found herself in a forest. The trees were so realistic and the grass felt soft under his sneakers. A dirt path was of to the side of the clearing she had appeared in.

"Got to hand it to money bags, he can make trees smell like trees." Joey said. Thankfully all the rescue party had made it in safely. Yugi was looking at a circular thing on his wrist, frowning slightly. Airi became aware of a similar disc on her own arm.

"There duel discs." Mokuba said, "They keep track of your life point and hold your deck while your in here." Airi flipped over her top card, relieved when she recognized her own cards.

"Thought you lost it on the way?" Yami said, appearing next to her, making her start in surprise.

"Will you stop doing that?" she glared side ways at him. He only smiled and disappeared. Though she was annoyed at him, she was glad Yami had made it in safely.

"So this place is like a video game." Joey said.

"I'm a little worried about these life point counters." Yugi said. "I know what happens in a video game when you run out of live points but what happens here?"

"Um, Seto never said." Mokuba admitted. "Did he say anything to you?" he turned to Airi.

"He hasn't said a nice word to me in over two years." Airi said. "Why would he tell me?"

"So we have no idea what happens to us if we run out of life points." Yugi didn't look to happy about this.

"So just make sure we don't run out." Joey said. "Piece of cake."

"Can we get moving?" Mokuba said, impatiently. "standing here isn't going to find my big brother."

Yugi still looked worried. Airi put a hand on his shoulder.

"We just need to duel our best and get out of here as fast as possible." she said.

"Your right." he said, taking a deep breath and heading out in front of the others. Airi was worried as well, though masking it. She didn't think losing took you back to the real world or Seto would have come out by now. But then Seto hated losing so that didn't mean anything.

They started walking down the adjacent path way. After a few moments they came to a rise over looking a misty valley. They walked down the path, descending into the mist. The farther down the air seemed to stale and lifeless. Finally when they had reached the bottom of the hill they found themselves in a grave yard.

"It's hard to believe that all of this is virtual." Yugi said, looking impressed as they walked through the rows of tomb stones.

"Well it looks real enough to me." Joey said, unable to hide the fear in his voice.

"Lets just get through this as fast as possible." Airi said, hating the cemetery as much as Joey did.

They had gotten about half way through until a scream from Joey made them turn around. The ugliest samurai monster was standing in front of Joey, who seemed about to jump out his skin.

"ZOMBIE ALERT!" Joey screeched, as the warrior was joined by the decomposing forms of a dragon and a clown. Airi instinctively pulled Yugi back behind her.

"Wait, these are nothing but duel monsters." Joey said, as all became aware of the numbers above the rotting corpses.

"Then get rid of them." Airi said, wrinkling her nose at the smell.

"Got ya covered." Joey said, "I just draw a card and . . . I really don't know what."

Yugi and Mokuba groaned. Remembering the blue prints of the game, Airi decided to find out if attacks were the same.

"Pay attention. I summon Victoria!" she said holding up her monster card. The Fairy-Type monster appeared in front of her. Catching on, Mokuba and Yugi summoned Ryuu Kaiser and the Dark Magician.

"ATTACK!" all three shouted. Each one of there monsters wiped out the disgusting creatures in front of them.

"So that's how its done." Joey said dazed.

Their troubles were far from over. The remains of the monsters instead of disappearing floated back together.

"There back." Mokuba said, shocked.

"Obviously." Yami said, appearing next to Yugi, ready to step in if things got ugly.

"I've got this." Joey held up his card. "Flamed Swordsman, sick those creeps."

as the monster appeared, Yami saw the numbers over the monster get larger.

"Yugi, tell him to stop his attack." he said sharply. Yugi and Airi saw what he meant.

"Joey call of your attack, hurry!" Yugi said, but it was to late. The swords man had sliced through the dragon, which had no trouble coming back. The sword man had no chance against the stinking breath of the beast.

"What is going on here? No matter what we do these things come back stronger then ever."

"True. But they still have a major weakness." Airi said

"You've fought monsters like these before Joey." Yugi said, "Remember down in those caves."

"Oh your right." Joey said. "I activate Shield and Sword." the monsters defense and attack points switched, making them powerless to attack. "It's all yours Yuge."

"Dark Magic Attack!" Yugi yelled and the Dark Magician took out the dragon and the samurai.

"Victoria Attack!" Airi sent her monster to wipe out the clown. Thankfully this time the zombies stayed where they belonged, gone.

"Alright." Everyone cheered. Airi looked around for Yami, but he had vanished again.

"Hey look at that." Mukuba picked up a card that had appeared at the spot where the monsters had stood. "What do you think it is?" he asked, handing it to Yugi.

"Must be part of some kind of scoring system." Yugi said, showing the card to Airi. It had gold coins printed on it with a number 5.

"I can't think of anything else it could be." she said shrugging. "You better hold on to it Yugi."

"Uh, guys." Joey said, making them turn. "My life points aren't going up."

"That isn't good." Mokuba said.

"I guess this whole game is considered a duel, so they wouldn't go up." Airi considered, not reassured by the thought and by the look on Yugi's face he was worried too.

A light giggling sound came from behind on the the stone crosses. As they came closer, they saw a little fairy peering up at them.

"What is that supposed to be?" Mokuba said.

""Hey, I think this is like one of those fairies that they have in video games to help the players out."

"Can you show us where we should go?" Yugi asked the little blue clad figure.

In response the fairy giggled and sped off in a different direction then the path.

"Quick follow him." Joey dashed off, with the others in close pursuit.

They ran through the trees trying to keep up with the little sprite. Joey ran ahead, but they caught up with him in a clearing.

"Where did he go?" Yugi said looking around.

"Disappeared, little sneak."

"Look at that." Airi pointed. Out in the haze before them was the clear image of a city. "That must be what he wanted to show us."

"How do we get down there?" Joey said, pointing out the cliff.

"Take the path, stupid." Mokuba said, as he started along it.

"Hey watch it midget." Joey said, fallowing close behind.

"I can't believe Kaiba could create all of this." Yugi said, as he and Airi started down the path way, a little slower then the others.

"Seto is a computer genius." Airi said. "Though I do have to say this place turned out better then it looked on paper."

"Do you think Kaiba is ok?"

"He better, or we came in here for nothing."

"Airi." Yugi gave her a look.

"Ok, that was a little harsh." she put her arm around his shoulders. "Don't you worry about Seto. It's going to take more then a few monsters to get him. You should be worried for the monsters."

Both laughed at that.

"Are ya guys coming or not?" Joey called back to them.

"Race you." Yugi poked her shoulder, before darting off to catch up with the others.

"Oh, no you don't." Airi sprinted after him.


The city they had seen was more of a town, but that didn't make it ever less impressive.

"I never know that virtual people could be so life like." Joey said, as they all walked down a busy street.

"Told you my brother was genius." Mokuba said proudly.

"Hey Joey, you want to try some of the food." Yugi said, pointing to something that looked like shriveled lizards on sticks.

"Yuck, good thing we ate before we came."

"Joey turning down food? That's something new." Yami said, again suddenly appearing next to Airi, and again making her jump.

"Will you stop that!" she glared at him as they continued as they kept going.

"Stop what?" he said, not losing his composure.

"Come on, you two." Yugi cut in, grinning at them both.

"Doesn't he bug you with this?" Airi demanded.

"Sharing a mind gives me a heads up." Yugi smiled a little sheepishly.

"You two are just . . oh, never mind." Airi didn't have time for this. She continued down the street, Yugi and Yami behind her. She stopped in front of a displays, the shelves showed off rows of rare cards.

"Hey Joey come look at these." Yugi called over to his friend, who was still making faces at the lizard barbeque.

"Wow." Joey said, eying the cards. "These may come in handy. We'll take it."

"I don't think that is how it works." Mokuba pointed to a sign under the cards.

"2000 Points." Joey's eyes were bugging out of his head. "But we must have scored at least that much fighting those Zombies."

"Sorry Joey." Yugi held up the card they had found.

"Five!" Joey was indignant, his expression causing Airi and Yugi to snigger behind their hands.

"Come on guys, we're here to save my brother." Mokuba reminded impatiently.

"Right." Airi snapped herself back to the task at hand. "We should ask to see if any of these people saw any sign of Seto."

"Good idea." Yugi said. "lets split up and meet back at the fountain in two hours."


"Any luck?" Airi asked Joey couple hours later. They were the first ones back to the meeting place.

"Nothin'." Joey said, "I spent a half our meditating with a couple of baldies, who would only tell me ta find my inner piece. Then I almost get eaten alive by some virtual dogs. If it takes much longer to find Kaiba, I'll go bonkers. You?"

"Had trouble with some punks in front of a club, but I set them straight." Airi was checking her nails calmly. "Nothing about Seto, though."

"Had trouble too huh." Yugi came up to them, Yami walking behind.

"Trouble?" Airi looked sharply at the two of them.

"Oh some miss understandings, nothing big." Yugi bushed the incident off. Joey seemed to buy it, but Airi knew there was more. She looked at Yami.

"A thug tried to take our points." he said, shrugging. "But he found out the hard way not to mess with us."

"Well thank you for looking out for Yugi." Airi said, smiling at him.

"Am I forgiven for earlier?"

"Not really, but I guess I could shorten the time I'm annoyed with you."

"How long will that be?"

"Lets see. I guess now is long enough."

"Thank you."

"So Yuge, did ya get anything on Kaiba?" Joey was asking.

"Nothing."

"Hey guys, I've got a lead!" Mokuba was back, looking excited. "An old woman I met told me that she saw a traveler with a prisoner heading towards a mountain range early this morning. There suppose to be some sort of temple at the top of the mountain."

"That has to be Kaiba." Joey said. "who else would wanna hang around here?"

After wandering through the streets the groups finally found themselves out of the town. They were all staring across a inhospitable looking desert at some mountains which looked just as imposing.

"Ya sure this is the right address?" Joey said.

"The old woman said that the only way to the mountains is to cross this desert." Mokuba said flatly.

"Crossing a desert doesn't sound too hard." Yugi said.

"That's what scares me." Airi said, eying the desert.

"So how do we get across?" Joey asked, but Mokuba was already running towards the mountains.

"Hey, wait up." Yugi dashed off after him. Airi and Joey looked at each other. Neither liked this idea, but it didn't look like they were getting much say.

"Hey wait up midgets." Joey yelled after Mokuba and Yugi as he and Airi chased after them.

They hadn't been walking more then five minuets when a sand storm decided to descend upon them with all its furry.

"I gotta hand it to your brother. Virtual sand tastes like real sand." Joey yelled at Mokuba as the groups struggled through the wind, using their arms to try and block the sand hitting them like bullets.

Mokuba's bandana gave him the advantage in keeping the sand out of his mouth and nose and his determination was keeping him at the front. Yugi and Joey were doing ok, but Airi was having a hard time keeping up.

"We have to go back, it's to rough." Yugi yelled, seeing how hard it was for her.

"No we can't." Mokuba said, continuing to push forward.

"Just go ahead, I'm fine." Airi yelled. "I can catch up."

"No." Yugi wasn't going to leave her.

"Yugi, take her hand." Yami said appearing beside him.

"What? I can't." If he put his arm down then the sand would get in his eyes.

"Trust me." Yami said, taking a firm hold on Yugi's shoulder so the boy could still use his arm to shield hims eyes. "I'm not affected by the sand. I'll lead you both."

Yugi nodded and once Airi had drawn level with him he took her hand, gripping it tightly.

It work for a few more yards. Yami was not affected at all by the sand going trough him, guess that was one advantage of being a ghost. He made sure that the two Muto's stayed with the others.

"Are you sure this is the right way pipsqueak?" Joey yelled at Mokuba over the howling wind.

"We can't turn back now." Mokuba yelled back.

Suddenly the howling reached a new level and a cylinder cloud came hurtling towards them.

"Sand twister!" Joey yelled the obvious.

"Brace yourselves!" Airi screamed.

In a flash, Yami had switched with Yugi preparing to take the impact. The second before the sand hit them, he pulled Airi to him, turning so that his back was to the storm, holding her tightly. Next moment, they were all engulfed in the wall of sand.


Next thing Airi knew she was laying on her back with Joey gently shaking her awake.

"Hey, your up." he said.

"What happened?" she said, sitting up, shaking her head to clear it.

"That twister bumped us back to start." Joey said, indicating the town the had just left behind them. She saw Mokuba was awake, sitting a little ways off. He was hugging his knees against his chest, not paying attention to any of them.

"He'll be ok." Joey said, seeing where she was looking. "I'm surprised we all made it out. Especially the little guys."

"Yugi?" Airi looked around. Her brother was laying close by. Yami, detached, was kneeling beside him. Airi was next to him in a flash, kneeling and pulling him onto her lap. Besides being unconscious, Yugi seemed fine.

"He's alright. I was able to ease the blow slightly, though we still took a hit." Yami said. "He should wake up soon."

"Thank you Yami, for protecting both of us." Airi said, looking up, a few tears of relief leaking out. Yami nodded. Airi looked at him closely. Even though he put up a noble front she could tell that the storm had taken its tole on him as well. "You better get some rest. We'll be alright."

He nodded, smiling slightly, before he disappeared. He could use some rest.

Not long after, Yugi's eyes opened. He sat up and looked around, realizing they were back where they started. Then remembering what had happened, he through his arms around his sister, thankful she was ok.

"Now whats the plan?" Joey said, looking at the desert with even more dislike. "We can't walk across it so what's the next option, fly?"

Mokuba said nothing, apparently too shook up from what had just happened. Airi walk over to him. He was staring at nothing in particular, shaking slightly.

"It's ok, Mokuba." she said, putting her arm around him. "Seto wouldn't have made it impossible to cross. Even if the Big Five did mess with it, they couldn't have redone everything."

"It will be ok." Yugi said, kindly, also coming up and standing beside him. "We'll get across."

A wheezing laugh fallowed this statement. All looked up to see a old man sitting in the shade of a portico, apparently laughing at their fool hardy attempt to cross.

"That no way to be crossing no desert." he cackled.

"Great now we have an audience." Joey groaned, then his face lit up. "Wait are you saying you know how to cross." everyone perked up eagerly.

"No, it's not me who knows. It's those Niwatori Chickens." the old man said, still looking amused.

"A chicken knows how to cross." Joey looked like this was some bad pun, but luckily he figured it out again. "Oh, you mean the Niwatori Card."

"Thank you, Mr." Yugi said, respectfully. "could you tell us where we could find that card?"

"Wish I could. But they can only be won, not got." the old man said.

"Oh, would you just tell us where to get this bird." Joey was losing patience.

"Rare bird, it sure is." the old man laughed, not hearing him right.

"I can't take much more of this guy." Joey moaned.

"Maybe on of the card stands has it." Mokuba seemed to have recovered slightly. He was standing now, Airi still had her arm around his shoulders.

"Yeah," Yugi said, looking excited. "One of them has to have it. Come on lets get going."

He and Joey dashed up the street towards the closest card stall. Mokuba and Airi stayed put.

"Are you going to be ok?" Airi asked.

Mokuba nodded.

"I'm sorry I lead you into that twister."

"Hey don't worry. We made it out ok." she gave him a little nudge. "Come one. Lets find that card before Joey scared the chickens into hiding."

Mokuba smiled. He couldn't understand why Seto disliked her so much. Sure she had dumped him, but still she was a nice person. They both ran to catch up with the two high school students.


"We've been to every card stand in this place and there is not sign of the Niwatori card." Mokuba said. They were taking a break from hunting down the bird at the fountain. Airi was using the water to wash off her face. Who cares if these people were virtual, she didn't want to look a mess. Yugi was sitting beside the fountain, racking his brain for something he might have missed. Joey and Mokuba were looking rather fed up with the whole deal.

"No wander its such a prized bird." Joey mumbled.

"Wait, prized. That's it!" Yugi jumped to his feet.

"Figure it out?" Airi asked, but he was already half way up the street.

"Yugi?" Joey was lost, again. Airi sprinted after Yugi, catching up with him in front of a an announcement.

"That's what the old man meant." Yugi told her, grinning. "It's a contest, we have to win it."

"I knew you'd solve the puzzle." she grinned at him. Joey and Mokuba finally caught up.

"Fame, glory, and the prized Niwatori card will go to the brave warrior who can beat our champion." Mokuba read aloud. "Challengers must sign up at the Shadow Colosseum."

"Alright, lets go. I always wanted to be a warrior." Joey said.

Airi frowned at the poster. Besides the card it showed who must be the champion. She looked impressive and, though she didn't know why, look slightly familiar.

"Airi you coming?" Yugi called. The rescue party was already half way up the street.

"Coming." Airi sprinted after them, shaking off her suspicions.

Not long after they were in the office of the Battle Commander. He was the last person Airi would have thought would be a Battle Commander. For one thing he looked more like a toad than a person. Apparently the others though so too. Joey's face did nothing to hide his shock. At least Yugi and Mokuba were able to mask it.

"One of you is going to challenge our champion." Toad Man said, looking at the four of them unconvinced. "I don't know. This town take it's gladiator matches seriously."

'As long as they aren't like the Roman ones were people get killed, I'm fine.' Airi thought.

"But if it's a shot at the champion you want." Toad Man paused again to catch a fly that had been annoying them with his long tongue. "Who am I to stand in you way." he finished, grinning at them.

"Didn't anyone tell you it's impolite to eat in front of people." Airi muttered. She saw Yugi twitch slightly, like he wanted to laugh at her comment, but was to polite.

Toad Man opened a cabinet and pulled out a what looked like a Halloween costume.

"Here, your Battle Mask and Combat Cape." he said, handing them to Yugi. Yugi stared down at the Pig face looking up at him.

"Is this really necessary?" he asked, looking up.

"Of course. If your going to lose all of you life point you might as well go out looking like a hero." Toad Man said.

"A hero?" Mokuba said, looking at the pig mask.

"All his life points?" Airi said sharply.

"Give that stuff to me, Yuge." Joey said.

"Why Joey?" Yugi said, looking confused.

"I'm not going to let you lose all your life points over this. Not you either Airi." he said, seeing she was about say something. "You two are here to save Kaiba. I'll fight the champion."

"But Joey you have fewer life points then any of us." Yugi said, not like the idea of his friend putting himself on the line.

"Then I'll just have to be more careful." Joey said, grinning. "and so will the champ once he sees the skill that I have."

"Ok. Good luck Joey." Yugi said, giving his friend an encouraging smile.

"Thanks Joey." Mokuba said. He was starting to like the blond idiot.

"Forget about it." Joey said, winking at him. "Being a hero is what I do best."

"Just be careful." Airi said.

Joey nodded.

The others fallowed Toad Man out into the arena. He went up the announcers box, while the others took their place on the front row.

"Ladies and Gentlemen." Toad Mans voice boomed out over the arena. "We finally have a brave warrior to challenged our champion. I introduce to you the Pig that packs a punch, Signor Porky."

Out of one of the entrances to the field, walked Joey. He was completely unrecognizable with the mask covering his face and the cape draped over him. The crowd cat called and booed him as he came out.

"They don't sound too impressed." Mokuba commented.

"With him looking like that, can you blame them?" Airi muttered. Still she had to give Joey credit for not showing any sign he was intimidated.

"You can do it Joey!" Yugi called out.

"And now, to introduce our undefeated champion. The Monarch of Mayhem, Madam Butterfly."

On the other side of the field, came several men barring a wooden chair came out of the other entrance to the field. Sitting in the chair was the Champion, in a read cape and her face covered by a butterfly mask. Airi again felt that she had seen the champion some place before.

"I knew guys could be dirty as pigs, but didn't know they liked to look the part." Madam Butterfly said, jumping off of her chair. She sized Joey up, a smug smile forming."Hope you duel better then you smell, you swine."

"You know what I like about butterflies? They don't talk." Joey snapped.

Both glared at each other.

"Lets Duel!" they said. Yugi, Mokuba and Airi cheered along with the crowd.

"I summon the Flame Swordsman!" Joey yelled, as his monster appeared.

"Have I got a girl for you." Butterfly Lady said, "Harpy Lady!" the winged lady appeared, flexing her talons.

"No way." Airi said, finally making the connection. "It's Mai."

"What?" Yugi looked at her shocked. "Are you sure?"

"Who else plays Harpy Lady on the first move?"Airi said, watching as Joey's monster's attack was deflected by the Mirror Wall trap card. "See, that combo is hers."

"Your right." Yugi saw it too.

Butterfly lady laughed at Joey's foolish move.

"My Harpy Lady really knows how to bring home the bacon." she said.

"Ok that does it." Joey yelled, "There is only one duelist who can be this annoying."

Mai didn't seem to hear his comment as she equipped her Harpy Lady with rose whip.

"Wait Mai!" Joey took off the Pigs head.

"Stop attack!" Mai commanded. The whip froze, barely touching the Swordsman, not making a scratch. "Joey? Is that really you?" she asked, taking offer her own mask.

"What are you doing here, Mai?" Yugi yelled, grinning ear to ear. He leaped the barrier and ran up the two competitors, Airi and Mokuba right behind him.

"Yugi, Mokuba, and Airi?" Mai stared that the girl in front of her. "Well I should have made the connection with the last name, and that hair coloring. Silly of me. But what are you guys doing here?"

"You first." Airi said, grinning. She and Mai had not been very close but they had meet at competitions before either had been well known and they got along well.

"I'm here testing this game out for some suits at KaibaCorp. I've been here since after Duelist Kingdom. Been a long week."

"Listen you could be in danger Mai." Joey said, looking serious.

"Yeah, those suits are holding my brother prisoner in this game." Mokuba added.

"Kaiba's in trouble?" Mai asked.

"Yep, he's being held across the dessert and we need the Niwatori card to get across." Yugi said.

"That's why I'm dueling ya." Joey finished.

The crowed around them started yelling, angry that the action had been interrupted.

"I know these crowds are fake, but I still don't want to get on their bad side."

"Well now that we both know your the composition now Mai we can't send either of you to get you life points down to zero." Airi said. She looked at the restless crowd. "But we need that card."

"Well I'm not so sure about crossing the dessert, But I'm fed up with this place." Mai said, looking over the stands.

"We still have to get that card or all this was for nothing." Joey pointed out.

"How good is your Harpy with her whip?" Airi said, giving Mai a sideways glance.

Catching what she meant, Mai grinned and winked.

"Get ready to go boys." she said, then called. "Harpy Lady, use rose whip!" the snake like whip captured its target better that Toad Man captured a fly.

"Got ya." Mai said proudly, holding the card.

"Alright, Mai." Joey cheered.

"Celebrate later." Yugi yelled, as they all bolted for the exit.

"STOP THEM!" Toad Man tried to call, but was hit in the face with the pig mask.

"Hope ya like bacon." Joey called.

The five of them made it out of the arena with out much trouble, but the shouting and pounding feet told them they were being pursued.

"Head for the desert!" Mokuba shouted, leading the way.

"Joey what are you doing?" Mai said, seeing Joey was stopping.

"Keep going, I'll catch up." Joey said, drawing a card.

"Come on." Airi pulled Mai along. "he'll be fine, he's not that hopeless."

They had reached the desert and were catching their breath when Joey came jogging up to them, looking pleased.

"What did you do back there?" Mai asked.

"Did some crowd control." Joey said, smugly. "Played trap hole. By the time they get around that thing we'll be across the desert."

"That was a smart move, Joey." Yugi said, beaming.

"Ya, well I have my moments."

"Few and far between." Airi commented, making her and Mai laugh.

"Can we just get going." Mokuba was impatient to get going.

The other three original members of the rescue party looked over the desert with dislike. They could see the sand twister faintly in the distance.

"Lets see if this card is as good as the old man said." Joey said. "Mai, will you do the honors?"

Mai nodded. Five pony sized chickens appeared in front of them.

"At least they don't smell that bad." Mai commented as she mounted hers.

"As long as they get us past that twister I'm fine with what ever they smell like." Airi said.

The journey was still unconformable on a whole but it beat walking. The chickens were able to pick out the best rout, which wasn't as windy.

"So Mai, you got payed to come here?"

"That's right." Mai said.

"Probably to make sure that everything will go well when they used it on my big brother." Mokuba said. "Still, they couldn't have counted on all of us."

The conversation was interrupted by the ground shaking. The chickens froze where thy stood as the ground started to shake.

"It's an earth quake!" Joey yelled.

"No it's worse." Yugi corrected as a large lizard like thing came out the ground in front of them. "It's a Sand Storm Monster."

"Ok, time to kick over this sand castle." Joey said, whipping out his Red-Eye Black Dragon. "Inferno Fire Blast." The dragon had no trouble in blowing away the pile of sand. The others cheered as the storm cleared up.

"Good job Joey." Yugi praised.

"Impressive." Mai said, smiling slightly.

"Is that all ya can say?" Joey said, but looked pleased all the same my her compliment.

"Hey guys look at that." Airi said. "That must be the temple that old lady told Mokuba about."

"Is that where their keeping Kaiba?"

"There can't be that many temples in this world." Yugi reasoned.

"Then that mush be it." Joey said. He spurred his mount forward. "Go Drumsticks!"

"Airi, Joey named his chicken." Mai said, giving the other female member of the group a look as they started out.

"Was that suppose to surprise me?" Airi said, smirking.

"It's a Niwatori Ladies." Joey said.

"What ever." Mai said.

A/N: so there it is. How was it? I hope it was ok. putting Airi in was lots of fun, thanks for you guy's suport. suggestions are still welcome.

PLEASE REVIEW and have a good week end. should have the next par up soon if all goes well.