Hi! And we're back with another chapter! I hope everyone is coping well with being in increased social distancing and all that. I'm starting to go a little stir crazing from being stuck inside for so long; I live with a couple people who are higher risk so I can't take any risks.

This episode is actually one of my favorites of this arc because Rebecca is such a little sass master and I've been planning how to do this episode for a long time. Making Christine jealous is surprisingly hard to write out. I hope you all like it!

*I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! I only own Christine, my OC. If you recognize something, I don't own that either.*

It took a few minutes for our large group to exit the virtual jungle. With the sun rising even higher in the sky, the temperature started to rise as well. Trying to be quiet about it, I made my hands cold again and placed them on my own head. The cold didn't last long on my skin, quickly melting. I really was melting.

"Nice win, Jounouchi." Honda complimented as we fully left the Amazon Trail. "You made it to round two!"

Honda then sighed. "And I owe Ryuji a steak, oh well." Betting with your friend's chance of victory? How mean, Honda! Mokuba dashed over to one of the large screens dotting the park just as Roland's voice appeared.

"Attention!" Roland's voice was crisp and clear even through the speakers. "The next two bouts will now begin!"

"Hurry up, guys," Mokuba turned and cried to us, "or we're gonna miss the next duel!"

That got our attentions and we moved to the screen as well.

"In Block B, we have Regional Champ, and self-proclaimed child genius: Rebecca Hawkins!"

Oooh! Rebecca time! "She'll face the model turned actress turned Kung-fu master turned duelist: Vivian Wong!" Oh boy…

"Not her!" Anzu whined. "I'm telling you that diva is nothing but bad news!"

I actually felt the annoyance creep up through my system again. I squashed it with a breath but knew it would be back. The only one who didn't seem to care was Grandpa, who quickly cheered.

"Ah ha!" Grandpa practically jumped in place. "Yes! It's another duel! I can't get enough! Let's go!"

"I guess someone's excited to be here." Jounouchi teased.

"I know you like dueling but if you don't calm down, you're gonna hurt yourself." Honda added on, to which Grandpa quickly ignored.

The old man grabbed the shoulders of his friend and practically threw himself in his face.

"It's been so long since I've been near the action." Grandpa gasped to Professor Hawkins. "I've just gotta – AH!"

The gasp of pain caught me off guard but the sight of Grandpa falling to the ground scared me.

"Told ya."

"Grandpa!" Yugi gasped, moving to be next to him. "Are you ok?"

I settled as well, not seeing any exterior wounds. He was clutching at his lower back though. Did he throw his back out? Professor Hawkins then settled down on the other side with a hand on his back, sliding it like he wanted to put something back into place.

"Ah." The man almost sighed. "It appears he has thrown his back out."

"Yeouch." I mumbled in sympathy.

"Poor guy." Anzu agreed.

"I'll radio for a doctor." Mokuba helpfully pulled out a walkie talkie like device and began to push buttons loudly.

"Just… relax, Grandpa." Yugi managed.

"Yugi…" Grandpa almost whimpered back. "Don't worry about me. You just go with your friends and enjoy the rest of the tournament."

"But I can't leave you like this…"

"Go on." Professor Hawkins interrupted before Yugi could argue any further. "I shall look after your grandfather. You all go and root for Rebecca."

"But are you sure, Professor?"

"I could stay with you all." I offered but the Professor shook his head firmly.

"My granddaughter would never admit it, but she could really use some support out there."

With only small objections, we were eventually moved away by the doctors assisting Grandpa. Since there was nothing left to say, we all headed off to where Rebecca's duel was. From the images on the screen earlier, it looked like a train station. Anzu and I poked around our map again and saw the main terminal wasn't too far from where we were, only a 15-minute walk. But since we ran, we made it there a tad faster.

The duel was already underway when we arrived. Vivian had a monster on the field and Rebecca did as well along with two cards face down.

"Check it out, guys!" Jounouchi cried as he dashed up the tunnel spanning the tracks. "I found her!"

Rebecca looked up at us as we dashed over to look out the windows down at her and the duel. "Yo, Beck! How's it going?" Her face grew even brighter when she saw Yugi.

"Yugi – Ah!" She tried to cry up at us but Vivian stopped her.

"Hi, Yugi-poo!" Vivian cried up to us. "I knew you'd be here to cheer me on, my little dumpling!"

Rebecca began fuming, flames near spouting from her ears, at the cries while I heard Yugi give an uncomfortable laugh from next to me.

"Whaaaa?" Yugi gasped, sliding away from the window.

"Not quite!" Rebecca snapped at her opponent. "Yugi's here for me!"

"Don't worry, pumpkin!" Vivian continued unabated. "As soon as I trounce this little twerp, it's all about you and me!"

Pumpkin? The annoyance came back quickly. I had to hide my clenched fists into the frame of the window.

Yugi gave that uncomfortable laugh again. Thankfully, Anzu gave an annoyed sigh at the words. I peeked over to see the other boys all coming over to congratulate Yugi with all the attention.

"Oh, man!" Jounouchi cheered. "You're my hero, Yuge!"

"So, what's your secret?" Honda added on.

"Umm…" Yugi managed through the tight head lock. "Natural charm?"

Anzu exploded.

"This is why Christine and I need more female friends!" She snapped at the boys before looking back to Rebecca. "Show no mercy, Rebecca! That glamazon has gotta go!"

Rebecca took the command and ran with it.

"So…" Rebecca spoke clearly and crisply. "You ready to dance?"

Vivian quickly returned her eyes to the younger girl, hardly looking afraid.

"Ah, I don't dance with preschoolers." Vivian clapped back.

Vivian was going to begin or continue her turn, I wasn't sure, but I was distracted with a poke to my elbow. I looked over to see Yugi looking out the window but glancing over.

"You ok?" He asked.

"Perfectly fine." I replied promptly in a deadpan.

He flinched back, obviously taking my words as the sign to back off. I wasn't in the mood to talk.

I wasn't jealous. I was just annoyed.

I looked back to the duel to see Vivian trying to attack Rebecca's Fire Princess with one of her monsters. The attack didn't connect.

"In your dreams, Viv!" Rebecca taunted. "I activate my trap card!"

Gravity Bind stopped every monster with more than three stars from attacking which was helpful for the situation but now she couldn't attack herself as Fire Princess had four stars. Perhaps she was just doing it as a precaution to avoid attacks. Or maybe to get a chance to activate an effect? "Get a load of this! First, I'm activating Marie the Fallen One's special ability from the Card Graveyard!" The monster appeared out of nowhere and blew golden sparks towards Rebecca before vanishing again. "Now I automatically receive 200 extra life points for every turn that Marie remains in the graveyard! And to finish things off, I'll activate the special ability of my Fire Princess! So every time my life points increase, yours decrease by 500!"

A full stalemate. Impressive Rebecca. With just three cards, she's stopped Vivian from attacking and can whittle her life points down a bit every turn. She played one last card face down before ending her turn.

I jumped when a Blue Eyes train sped through the station, just barely missing the monster cards played there. Jeez, no regard for speed, huh? Again, with Vivian's turn, I was poked again. I looked over to see Yugi again.

"You ok?" He asked.

He wasn't asking about my anger this time, I knew that. But about my jump. I gave him a smile this time.

"Just spooked." I replied. "Thank you for asking."

I was given a smile and a nod before he looked back to the duel. I then felt bad for the snap earlier but it looked like I was forgiven. If he asked about it later, I would apologize.

I still wasn't jealous!

I looked back to the duel just as Rebecca cut off another card type Vivian could use.

"As long as this trap remains on my side of the field, your spell cards are useless!" Rebecca taunted.

Just before the trap would have gone into effect, Rebecca quickly activated Scapegoat, giving her four extra monsters for protection. "Oh, well, I guess your storm blew over." People were obviously confused as to how this worked as Vivian's spell card was destroyed while Scapegoat wasn't.

"Hold on…" Honda mused. "Why didn't Scapegoat disappear?"

"That's because she drew Scapegoat first but played it last and then…" Jounouchi thought about it for a second before giving up. "No clue."

"It's simple guys..." Yugi chuckled as he went to explain. "The last card played in a turn always activates first, so the first card has no effect on the last, even though it was played first!"

"There's a term for that…" I mused aloud. "What was it again?"

"Chaining!"

I bonked myself on the forehead.

"There it is! I couldn't remember for the life of me!"

Yugi chuckled at my response before looking Honda who was asking for more clarification.

"Wait…" Honda leaned over. "So last is first?"

"Right." Yugi nodded. "And since Rebecca used Scapegoat last, it was unaffected by Imperial Order."

Jounouchi began nodding his head like it all made sense. I don't think he understood.

"Come on, man." Jounouchi tried to laud over Honda. "It's simple."

"Then perhaps you'd like to explain it to me again." Honda brought Jounouchi's head back to size with the simple statement.

Jounouchi gave a nervous chuckle at the request and said nothing. It made me crack a smile and laugh. He definitely didn't understand it. A shiver ran down my spine, which I originally chalked up to sweat, but was corrected when my boyfriend leaned over.

"How long do you think it'll take for Jounouchi to be mumbling aloud about how confused he is?" Yami asked teasingly. "I say only two minutes."

I gave a faux gasp.

"You'd bet against Jounouchi figuring it out?" I asked, lifting a hand to my chest. "I'm almost appalled."

"Come on, Mereret… Indulge me for a little bet."

"I know better than to get involved in bets with you."

Yami gave me a playful side eye and my defenses came right down. "Five minutes at most." Damn it. Yami's look remained as he glanced at his watch before looking away. He switched back with Yugi so that he could look over the duel again.

This wasn't going to end well for me.

"Okay, twerp!" Vivian snapped as I looked back down to the duel. "Playtime's over! Sure you may have stopped me from playing any of my spell cards or any monster that has more than three stars but… watch this! You can't stop me from playing Gyaku-Gire Panda!"

The 800 attack point Panda was no cuddly bear. His growl made it all the way to the tunnel where we were. It was creepy. The panda's special ability wasn't cute either. For every monster on the field, the panda got 500 attack points. Ok… 500 times 5 was… 2500 attack points. That made the attack power go up to 3300! That could beat Kaiba's Blue Eyes! "What's wrong? You don't have any hidden traps to stop me?" The panda then attacked one of Rebecca's Scapegoats. "And since my panda's attack points are greater than you Scapegoat's defense points, the difference comes out of your life points! One more attack and you're bear bait!"

She only had 900 points left now! That panda was ridiculous! But at least the attack point went down to 2800 with the one missing. It was a… little more manageable. "What's wrong, Beck? You got the sniffles 'cause my panda scratched out most of your life points with one swipe of his paw? How sad."

"Please." Rebecca snapped. "You think I care? No!"

"It's not like you can do anything."

"Guess again! First I'll free up my spell cards!"

Vivian definitely didn't like that. Rebecca then got her two hundred life points from Marie the Fallen One, lowering Vivian's to 3000.

"You're really starting to bug me, you little runt!"

"How sad."

Savage! Yikes, Rebecca! The blonde then played Token Thanksgiving, destroying the last three scapegoats but giving Rebecca 800 life points for each one, bringing her back to 3500. The panda's attack power dropped further, now to 1300. Vivian's life points dropped again due to Fire Princess, dropping to 2500. Rebecca then played Injection Fairy Lily, giving her 2000 life points to her to give her enough attack power to destroy the panda for good.

That was a lot of life point movement. What was it now? I stared down at the duel disks to see if I could see the numbers. Rebecca had 1500 while Vivian now had 900. Ok. This was reasonable.

"Oh, yeah!" Anzu cheered. "The Beck is back!"

We were one voice short for cheering so I looked for our loud blond. Jounouchi wasn't looking at the duel but at his fingers.

"So the first card's last?" Jounouchi was mumbling. "Then the last card goes first? I'm still lost."

I was poked in the arm by Yugi, who was holding up his watch.

"Two minutes." He simply said.

"That was not two minutes!" I whispered back.

Yugi nodded his head. "It was not! That was like four!" Yugi shrugged, holding his watch up again. It had been on a timer and Yugi's hand had stopped it just as Jounouchi began speaking his confusion.

It was exactly two minutes.

I gave a huff, rolling my eyes. "This is why I don't make bets with him! He always wins!" Yugi laughed at my groans of annoyance. I rolled my eyes again. "Fudge!" Yami came back out again, snickering in my ear. "Fine fine! You win." There was another moment of snickering before he wrapped his arm around my own.

"No longer jealous?" He asked in a low tone.

I forced my anger aside and focused on being calm.

"I was not jealous in the first place."

"Oh, really…"

I made the mistake of peeking over at him, seeing the same playful expression on his face. "It sure looked like you were very annoyed when those two were after…"

"They're after Yugi, not you!"

"But do they know that?"

My blush gave me away. "The only people who know about us are in this tunnel. Outside of here, Yugi and I are the same person."

"But you're not."

Yami smiled, tightening his grip on my arm. Damn it! I loved this! I returned the hold, hearing Yami hum.

Ok… Maybe I was jealous.

He stayed out, arm wrapped with mine, as the duel continued. We had missed a little bit as both of Vivian's monsters were gone and were replaced with a large woman in brown armor wielding two swords. Gravity Bind's effect stopped her from attacking so she must have been powerful.

"She can't attack with that thing!" Ryuji cried. "Dragon Lady's a seven-star monster!"

"That's strange…" Yami hummed next to me, immediately caught on the duel again. "What's she going to do with that?"

"Nothing good." I replied.

Yami hummed again, agreeing with me.

Of course, I was right. Every turn that Dragon Lady didn't attack, she got to destroy an opponent's spell or trap card. She, of course, destroyed Gravity Bind. Vivian then played Mystic Eruption card, lowering Rebecca's life points by 1000 simply because she lost a spell or trap card that turn.

"So, short stuff…" Vivian was beginning to taunt again. "see what happens when you party with the big girls? Maybe you'd have better luck playing a game of 'Go Fish'! But I think the funniest part of this whole duel is that you actually thought Yugi came here to see you!"

Vivian laughed while Anzu huffed down at her and my eye twitched. She was about this again?!

"Oh!" Anzu huffed. "Like he came here to see you?!"

Before I could even consider freezing something, Yami slid a hand up and down my arm soothingly. It was enough to calm me down though my face was a bright blush again.

Rebecca was obviously immune to the teasing now as she still had a smile on her face.

"If I were about to lose this duel, I wouldn't be laughing." Rebecca stopped Vivian's laughter dead. "This is where it all ends, Viv, for you that is. My move!"

Rebecca collected her 200 life points, lowering Vivian's to 400. The only thing in her way now was Dragon Lady. The blonde then sacrificed her two monsters to summon a monster near and dear to my heart, Guardian Angel Joan.

"Hey!" I cheered making Yami chuckle at me. "Don't laugh! She's my—"

I stopped dead when I saw Joan peek up at me under her short hair. She glanced around the tunnel for a moment before looking back to the duel. "Huh? Yami, did you see that?"

"See what?"

"See-!"

Joan wasn't going to do it again. I reluctantly sighed and waved away any further questioning. I did see it though! What was that?

"And since you got rid of my Gravity Bind…" Rebecca teasingly taunted. "Guardian Angel is able to attack!"

"Hold on!" Vivian tried to stall. "Even if you destroy my Dragon Lady, I'll still have some points left!"

"Trust me, I've done the math."

There is no doubting Rebecca when it comes to math. The girl then played Silent Doom, letting her summon a monster from her graveyard in defense mode. She used it on Fire Princess and I immediately knew what she was doing. I had to hold back a cackle to not scare anybody. Guardian Angel attacked, easily destroying Dragon Lady, and then activated her special ability. When Joan destroyed a monster, she gifted the life point equivalent of the monster's attack power. And since Rebecca's went up, Vivian's went down to zero.

She had won the duel.

"Way to go, Rebecca!" Anzu cheered down at her.

"Thanks, Anzu!"

I pulled away from Yami's arm when Rebecca started dashing up the stairs. I didn't think Rebecca would like to see our arms entwined like this when she was expecting Yugi.

"You should give Yugi control." I whispered.

Yami gave me a playful look.

"You won't be jealous?" He asked.

"No, I won't. What would I have to be jealous about?"

Yami chuckled, pressing a kiss to my cheek, before giving Yugi control again. The boy stepped around me to greet Rebecca as she ran full tilt into the tunnel.

"We knew you'd pull through." Ryuji teased a compliment.

Rebecca didn't listen at all. She simply ran for Yugi.

"Schoompie!" Rebecca cheered as she wrapped her arms around Yugi. "I won!"

There was no annoyance. No jealousy. I was fine.

Anzu was not. She growled so loudly I thought the panda had come back. I did laugh when Rebecca then taunted Vivian through the window, seeing Yugi's face so red he might have become a tomato.

As we left the station, Anzu pulled me aside. Her face was lit up in a bright smile. I immediately narrowed my eyes. Oh boy…

"That was so cute!" She chirped. "It's like he just knew and wanted to make you feel important!"

I hastily hushed her as Rebecca began looking around for the whispers.

"Don't say anything!" I hissed.

"Why not?! You two are so cute!"

My blush came back strong but Anzu didn't have time to tease me about it as we approached a tv with the results of the other duel going on. It looked like the detective duelist won, beating the duelist from… was it Texas?

"Check it out." Jounouchi said calmly. "The other match just ended, too."

"And according to Kaiba's chart…" Ryuji looked up at the screen as well. "Jounouchi's going to duel against whoever wins this match."

Anzu and I then got to the TV, seeing the man with the pink/purple suit and pink hair standing in front of a flower clock, calmly smelling a flower as he waited patiently for his opponent to arrive. Oh boy…

"Zigfried Lloyd will now face Fortune Salim!" Roland's voice appeared out of the TV screen.

Sadly, the opponent wasn't Fortune Salim, but Rex and Weevil who had stolen his clothes. What happened to the real Fortune Salim? There was no time to question that as Zigfried allowed the two to duel against him. Was he trying to prove something?

The duel was… rather quick. Rex and Weevil pulled out their most powerful cards but were defeated by Zigfried, who only played one card, Ride of the Valkyries. Now Jounouchi had to duel him.

Great.

Yeah! We're done! ...Hey, Bakura?

Bakura: Yeah?

Where are my donuts? I was hoping to have some.

Bakura: *Looks to the audience like in the Office.* I haven't seen them. Ask Marik.

Ok.

Bakura waits a couple seconds before sighing in relief.