Chapter 13

Reunion

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Yes, as you can see, there's plenty of love to go around. Specially for my Kaiba and Mina.

Mina groaned, head throbbing as she rolled over onto her back. Her arm touched something warm and she recoiled back. Kaiba. She rolled up onto her knees and leant over, watching him breath.

"Hey, Seto. Seto?"

Reaching a hand over, she gently pushed his shoulder back and forth.

"Time to wake up now."

"Unghhh"

"What an eloquent reply. I'm sure if you heard yourself, you'd probably have a complex. Now WAKE UP!" At those words she thwacked him hard on his chest.

Kaiba jerked up and coughed.

"OW! Damn it woman, I'm awake!"

"Good. I can't be here by myself."

Where is 'here' anyway? Mina stood, dusting of her skirt and looked round.

Kaiba propped himself up on his elbows and leaned back to look at his Mina, standing tall and scanning the surrounding area. He heard her give a little gasp and his body went into overdrive. Flinging himself up onto his legs, he scrambled up to her, panicked.

"What? What is it? What's – oh"

Walls rose around them, tall and imposing, reaching further than the eye could see. Their grey blocked out the sky and the view of anything else. No blue, no green. Just grey. On their left, the walls ran straight, on and on. To their right, a sharp corner turn. Behind them a straight run back. In front, a flat wall.

"A maze." Mina gasped. "We're in the maze that Credo said would be where his castle was."

"Crap."

"What'd you mean? We're so close to his castle."

"Yeah, or so far away. We could be right in the middle. We wouldn't know. Not when these walls are that high. And it could take us days to get through. Or we mightn't make it through at all."

"Shit. You're right. Oh! We have the pieces of the map that we won right? We can get through that way!"

"Mmmm. If they're the right pieces."

"Oh alright Mr. Negative. You think of something then."

Kaiba rolled his eyes and pulled up his deck. Pulling out a card, he flicked it over his ankh, light streaming from the card. Quickly his pushed Mina back and stepped out of the way. The walls shuddered as a worm, eyeless and hideous, rose from the card. It let out a roar, its foul breath nearly knocking Mina and Kaiba to their feet.

"The walls are probably built to stop people from cheating by flying over the wall. But I'm not sure if the floor is built that way. I don't think people are able to use their duel monsters to tunnel through." Kaiba turned to the Worm Drake

"Go down under the ground and if you can, find out how to get to the castle."

Mina darted forward, under Kaiba's arm and peeped up. "Or if not, see if there are people around here."

Kaiba nodded and the Worm Drake roared. Leaping up, body scrapping the walls, it burrowed deep into the earth, leaving a huge hole in its wake.

"We need to figure out how to get out of here. I need to find my brother and my friends. And you need to find your brother."

Mina pulled out her maps and motioned for Kaiba to do the same. Sliding down the wall, she sat legs curled up underneath her and spread the maps up around her.

"We gotta look at this like a jigsaw."

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"Look this is hopeless. There is no way we - "

"Kaiba look." Mina stood, pointing at the ground.

The ground shook, unbalancing the two. Bits of earth rocked and flew up around them, spraying them with dust. Earth began to pile up into a mound, like a geyser about to explode.

"Shit. Mina, move back"

Kaiba grabbed her hand and yanked her back with him to a corner of the maze. A second later, a gaping hole exploded from the ground, jagged yellow teeth surrounding the hole, a foul stench rising from it. The pink body of the worm flew up after it, landing on the ground with a bellow. The worm looked back to where they were, somehow sensing them though it had no eyes. It motioned its head to the left, moving slowly towards that direction.

Mina and Kaiba looked at each other for a split second before diving for the maps and their bags. Quickly they ran after the worm, following its flailing tail.

Hopefully it's taking us in the direction of the castle. And towards my brother.

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"The map says it's this way!"

"That's because you're holding it upside down you idiot! Why don't you leave the map reading to experts."

"What? To you? A girl? Girls have no sense of direction and have no ability to read maps. Guys do."

"Yeah, that why you were holding the map upside down. I actually meant Yugi could read the map."

Yugi squeezed his eyes shut and ran his hands through his hair.

We need to get to the castle as soon as possible so I can ram that Credo into a wall and get my sister back.

Mokuba slipped his hand through Yugi's and smiled wobbly.

"I'm sure they're ok. I mean, we're talking about my big brother and Mina. They'd beat up anybody who'd mess with them."

Yugi smiled. "Yup, you're right. Come on, grab the map from Joey so we can actually get there."

After walking for a week, defeating anyone who got in their way, the group had made it to the maze. They had stood in awe in front of it, the never ending walls cutting an imposing sight. But they had to go through, had to find Mina. They had decided that the best and probably only way of getting them back was to go ask Credo where the hell they were. So they ran through the maze, using the map as a reference. It had taken them almost another week but they had made it. They were about to make it out of the maze and to the castle. And not too soon. In the last 5 days, they had been ambushed by hordes of killer bees, a herd of dinosaur type cards and Joey had personally fallen into four different traps, leaving him bruised and moody.

Yugi sighed and trudged forward, giving a smile at Tea. She worried about him, about his mental state with his sister gone.

I'll get her back. I'll get her back…

"Yuge look!"

Yugi looked back at Joey and then to the right at where he was pointing. The walls stretched on, forever and onwards until they reached a break in the never ending grey. There, not 500 metres ahead, the group could see sky, blue and dazzling. Beneath, the green of grass and trees burned into their eyes. Finally just beyond was a castle, huge and imposing and for the group, a sight for sore eyes.

Yugi broke into a smile, one that hadn't come out in 2 weeks. "Come on!"

He began to sprint, Joey, Mokuba, Tea and the others at his heels. They ran, past a turn in the wall to their left and then a hook in the wall to their right.

"What the hell is that?"

Yugi jerked forward, nearly toppling over as the ground shook, sending loose rocks flying everywhere. He nearly growled, grabbing his Dark Magician card out of his pack and calling it out.

I knew it was too good to be true.

He placed himself in front of Mokuba and Tea while Dark Magician, Mai's harpy lady and Joey's Flame Swordsman stood in front of them, weapons at the ready. A roar echoed through the walls.

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"Jeez, how much longer?"

Mina and Kaiba had been running for half an hour, following the naked tail of the Worm Drake. Mina paused, panting while Kaiba leant against the wall catching his breath. Both jumped, startled as the Worm Drake gave out a roar of warning.

"Guess it was too much to ask to go unhindered through the whole maze. Get out Fallen Angel and get ready."

"Yeah, yeah. I'm not stupid you know."

It would be easier for me if you were. "On the count of three. One, two - "

"Dark Magician? Yugi?"

Mina gasped, knees wobbling slightly.

"Yugi!"

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Yugi braced himself as the roar got closer. Once he defeated whatever it was that came out of the corner, he would get to that castle and find out where his sister was even if he had to beat it out of Credo.

"Yugi?"

Yugi shook his head. It's a trap. Obviously they didn't want them getting close so they're going to play with his mind. Ass-hole.

I'm going to get there and destroy that creep

"Yugi!"

A woman came flying out from behind the Worm Drake, dark hair whipping around her face. Behind her, a man, tall and lithe walked, hands in pockets.

"Mina? Kaiba?" Yugi could hardly bare to believe.

"Big brother? BIG BROTHER!" Mokuba flung himself away from Yugi and into the man's arms.

Yugi ran forward, almost not believing until his sister toppled into his arms, out of breath and gasping. He buried his hands in her hair and held her close. She was here. She was really here and she was safe!

Mina pulled back from her brother, lifting up her head to smile and laugh at Joey and the rest. Resting her head back on her brother's shoulder, she sighed. Safe. Rising, she looked back and watched as Mokuba wrestled his brother to the ground while Kaiba gave one of his rare smiles that bewitched her heart. She closed her eyes, reminding herself why she said no and ran to Joey. Hugging each person in turn, the only thing she could do was laugh and smile.

Kaiba held his brother and watched at Mina ran from person to person, hugging and laughing. He wanted her hug again, he wanted to hear her laugh for him again. Groaning softly, he patted his brother's shoulder and walked towards Yugi. The only way he was going to get closer to Mina was to get closer to her brother. Once he did that, maybe, just maybe he'd learn to accept Wheeler. Mina was worth it after all…. Unfortunately.

"Yugi, you looked after my brother when I was gone."

"What else would we have done? We all care for Mokuba." Yugi looked at him incredulous.

Mina walked over and slipped her hands through her brother's, brown eyes boring holes into Kaiba.

Kaiba cleared his throat, noting the eyes of everybody else on him too. He didn't care for them. Only for girl in front of him. "Thanks. For looking after Mokuba and making sure he wasn't hurt."

Yugi smiled and looked at his sister. "Thanks. For looking after my sister and well, for not killing her. We were all afraid that you two would murder each other after the first 2 days."

"You don't know how close I was."

Kaiba nodded and began to walk towards the castle, hands in pockets, his brother at his side.

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