Yugi was fully dressed out on a balcony looking at the underworld city at night.

Such a confused landscape, Jungle city next to pairs, Egypt, and other building styles connected.

The confused twisted landscape made thanks to the parts of the city were built in the style of the noble house who controlled them. "It's like some twisted version of wonderland."

There was no big lights just simple street lights, so Yugi looked to the sky, it was starless, not even a moon, making pure darkness own the night.

Yugi looked at the blank black sky, "Such a strange thing sky, for a strange world." The sun then began to rise.

The sun began to rise it look just like earths. "Well now at least that's normal."

He then turned it was early yet alarms were going off after all this was the day of the trip to the tournament hall.

Yugi went to see his hand waking up from their rooms, well most of them.

Golem just stood at the end of the wall ready to go.

Yugi crossed his arms as he looked at them. "Come on guys wake up and get ready, our only chance of getting to earth is upon us, and we only have this one chance."

Lilly yawned as she stretched, "Why most we leave early?"

Rebecca rubbed her eyes, "I looked into that in a few ours the minor house are going to begin a race, the minor house who makes it to the island the tournament is held on first enters as the eighth team."

Neptune then walked in to the area full dressed, "and I don't want to be catch in that traffic."

In a few hours.

Yugi, Rebecca, Duke, Miho, Golem, Lilly, Yugi's mother, Neptune and many of the staff were boarding a large ship just for them.

Yugi looked to his step father, "Why are we going by boat?"

Neptune adjusted his tie, "Simple My dear step son, long before air travel was invented the house raced to the island. The order of arrival decides what order you duel in the first round. This tradition remains. When we make it to the island will decide how soon you and your hand will duel."

Duke saw a lot of small ships all racing while people on deck were dueling each other. "What is going on their?"

Rebecca then cleared her throat, "that is the minor house, they race to the island, but if challenge, their head most duel the head of the challenging house will on the boats in a duel. Where if you lose by normal means or fall down while racing at high speed you most return home dropping out of the race."

Yugi's mother then added, "And as there are eight minor house it's a many high speed duel tournament for the right to take part in the real one."

Miho blinked, "does dueling while moving at high speed sound just plan crazy to anyone other than Miho?"

Yugi looked to her, "It sounds kind of fun to me, But why not motorcycles?"

Rebecca looked to Yugi, "Yugi poo why on earth would anyone want to play a card game on a motorcycle?"

Yugi rolled his eyes as he got on board the ship, "Joey would love to try it."

As everyone got aboard.

Yugi stood at the front of the ship at the top deck below everyone was celebrating the tournament's arrival.

Yugi was up here thinking watching the minor house duel each other at high speed.

He watch as a battle ox jumped from one ship to another to slash the duelist, making his life points hit zero.

The losing duelist ship then turned around. Yugi could help but comment. "Sad little guy his tournament dreams end before even making it to the half way point."

He then turned when he heard foot steps to see Rebecca.

Rebecca grabbed his arm. "Come on Yugi poo it's a party, you need to relax."

Yugi removed his arm form her grasp. "I can't Rebecca this is the only way for us to make it back to earth. The only way to see everyone again. I mean if we fail this neither of us will see our grandfathers let along our friends again!"

Rebecca then point at him, "and that's why you need to relax Yugi. IF you worry yourself like this, you won't be in any mental shape to duel, let along win. It's a game you never use to worry about duels this much even when the fate of the world was on the line. Find that state of mind again Yugi."

Yugi rubbed the back of his head, stunned by her words. "I guess you're right, I mean things have just been happening so fast, I haven't had the time to stop."

Yugi and Rebecca then looked into each other's eyes and blushed as they moved closer till their lips meet in a kiss.

Yugi pulled the blonde into his arms and held her tight as Rebecca returned the kiss with as much force as she could, happily finally kissing her crush.

That is when Lily wanted out onto the deck and saw them. She then turned around to go back to the party.

Lily then found her mother and said. "Mom big brother is kissing his girlfriend Rebecca on the top deck of the ship!"

The mother of two then jumped for joy, "YES! GRAND BABIES HERE I COME!"

Duke who was drinking something that looked like wine. "A Team relationship! I hope that doesn't affect our chance of winning."

Miho then said. "Miho sees the only thing lowering our chance to win is Mr. Devlin getting drunky drunk!"

Neptune then said. "Don't worry Miho the only ones who duel on the first day are those who arrive in first second third, and the minor house that makes it. By now the first four noble house have surely arrived."

Duke then drank more, "so we're not dueling today giving me plenty of time to sleep it off. See Miho no problem!" He then finished the glass off in one go.

Neptune then left the room to go check on the new love bird.

When he got there he saw Rebecca happily in Yugi's arms as they watched a distant land mark.

Rebecca looked at it, "It looks like a mountain but it can't be the island, already, we aren't even half way there yet."

Neptune then spoke, "and on that you are wrong Rebecca it is the island, for the island is one large mountain. Mt. Infinity! A mountain so large to stretches up into the human world. The upper part in the human world is called Mt. Everest!"

Rebecca blinked in shock, "so what your saying is all the climbers who went missing on it, may have just stumbled into the underworld by mistake?"

Neptune nodded, "and as people are only here once a year they most likely died trying to climb down looking for help."

When they made it to the so called island. They saw it was truly just a mountain sticking out of the middle of the underworld sea.

The ship then sailed into a stream heading into a cave where they saw, a large locks system. As they got in Neptune saw a number flash it was the number seven. "And we have arrived seventh."

The lock then began to fill up making the ship rise slowly, till they came to a large dock half way up.

With the ships of the other house where docked. One looking Egyptian, one looking like something from the future, another like floating flames, one a dark black sub marine, one an old school pirate ship sailing a flag with a wind symbol, and looked to be made from one single large tree.

Neptune then spoke, "ok the other house are here, and.." He then saw a normal ship with a bone symbol arriving, "and this year's minor house his here the bones. They will be dueling third to arrive soon."

As their ship docked connecting to a floating duel stadium.

Yugi looked around as he saw an large lavatory slowly entering the docked area at some station to the right that looked to be connected what looked like a large hotel built into the save walls.

Neptune looked at Yugi's confusion, "the elevation is the modern connection between the human and underworld, used by the winners, past winners and human guest."

Rebecca blinked, "How would a human even know about this?"

Neptune then smiled, "Many devils who go up gain human friends and family besides any former human in the tournament's friends and family are invited as well."

Yugi's eyes widen as he spread his wings took flight in a mad dash. Forgetting about everyone and everything else as Yugi flow over to the hotel.

He landed at its front door and rushed in to the hotel lobby to see people getting off the elevator from the human world.

People by the names of Tristan, Joey, Mokuba Seto Kaiba, serenity, Tea, Solomon Muto, and Arthur Hawkins

Yugi was tearing up "guys." They all teared up and rushed to him. Sooner after Rebecca Duke, Miho Lilly golem Yugi's mother and Neptune all arrived.

They were reunited.

Now all Yugi's team had to do was win to make sure this won't be a final goodbye.

To be continued