Hey guys! I'm sorry I didn't post this up earlier. I just had trouble figuring out what's gonna happen next. I know most of what happens next, but the rest will go as I type. That's how I write my stories anyhow. I also have to be in the right mood depending on the story. Like when I decided to do Spirit World Duelist, it was during a depressing mood and I was anxious to write what happens next. Review please!
Slight hot wind blew against the faces of the three teenagers. Yami had taken off his boots, carrying them in one arm, and used his coat as some sort of head covering. He was thankful that he wore a tank top, especially since he was traveling through the desert part of this game. Joey took off his green jacket, since he was sweating up a storm, and threw it on the ground.
"Man, this is hot!" Joey complained.
"Ditching the jacket is a bad idea. We're in desert land. It can be used to keep the sun off your head," Yami suggested as Joey rose two eyebrows and stared at this jacket.
"I knew that!" Joey blurted out while his cheeks turned red. He wrapped the jacket on his head like a turban.
"Yugi, you probably need to use your jacket too. I'd hate for you to get heat stroke," Yami suggested with a slight joke at the end.
"You're probably right," Yugi agreed before taking off his jacket and wrapping it around his head. "Man, I wish we had water!"
"We might find an oasis nearby," Yami assured with a slight smile.
"I hope we don't start seeing mirages," Joey said.
"I'll let you know when you start seeing things," Yami smirked.
The three teens continually roamed through the desert sweaty and hot. Yami knew from experience that if him and the others became dehydrated, they would eventually die in this place. He noticed that Joey and Yugi were becoming tired and weary. There were times like these when he wished he had a camel to ride on. At least they would all get a chance to rest.
Yugi wiped the sweat from his forehead. Yami then noticed Yugi's and Joey's faces changing cherry red and not from sunburn. Yami knew he had to hurry and fast to find some water and shade to rest.
"I'm so hot!" Joey complained before letting out a sigh. "Can we rest?"
"If we stop, we'll become dehydrated," Yami said with narrowed eyes as Joey stared down at his feet. "We have to keep moving!"
"Yami's right," Yugi agreed.
The gang kept moving at their normal pace. Yami then felt a rush of wind hit his face. He gasped, then looked up in the sky to find a dark brown cloud ahead of the gang.
"WE GOT TROUBLE! SANDSTORM!" Yami warned as he grabbed Joey's and Yugi's wrist and pulled them up to a higher dune area. Above it showed a large bolder, where Yami quickly pulled his friends to. They all stood behind the bolder while Yami put on his boots and took off his jacket from his head. "Cover yourselves! The sand will rip your skin clean unless you cover every part of your body! Use this rock as a partial covering!" He dunked his head right behind the rock with his jacket covering his upper body.
Yugi unwrapped his jacket, and then dunked his head right next to Yami, using the jacket to protect his upper body. Joey copied what Yugi and Yami did, but lied on top of them to be sure he knew where they were. Joey also made sure his shirt was tucked in his jeans before the storm hit. It felt like a twisting tornado with the sound of sand buzzing in the trio's ears.
Joey never dared to move an inch and neither did Yugi and Yami. The Yugi twins held a firm grip on their hands, while using them to keep the jackets pinned down. Yami prayed and wished for his partner to be safe from the storm.
'Whatever you do, don't move a muscle!' Yami warned Yugi through their mind link. He couldn't risk talking verbally or have sand sink in his mouth and causing dehydration to himself.
'I'm not!' Yugi reassured.
Yami still couldn't remember ruling a kingdom in Egypt, but he did know a few things about Egypt. He knew how to survive desert storms and areas as if he had experience. He knew for sure it was because he once lived in Egypt and knew a thing or two about surviving the Sahara Desert. Yami was thankful that he still had some memories of that or him and his friends would be dead right now.
The storm lasted for quite a bit, but it eventually ceased. When Yami was sure it was safe, he removed the jacket and brushed some sand from himself. Joey and Yugi did the same before sliding their backs against the rock. They knew if Yami hadn't have warned them, they would've been buried alive. Yami climbed the bolder and looked out around the surrounding areas. There, Yami spotted a greenish area.
"JOEY!" Yami called out as Joey climbed up to join with his friend. "Do you see that?" Yami pointed to the green area to be sure he wasn't just seeing an illusion.
"I see it. It ain't no mirage," Joey assured as Yami smirked and gave a nod.
"Then let's go!" Yami declared before jumping off the bolder.
The trio walked side by side toward the direction of the green area Yami spotted. While they were all walking, they all felt a rumble below their feet. From the ground popped a giant worm with razor sharp teeth circling around the inside of its mouth. Joey began screaming like a girl by the size of that thing.
"OH CRUD! RUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!" Joey screamed before the gang split and the worm's mouth sank through the area the gang was once at.
"Is it just me or does that worm remind you of the Tremor?" Yugi asked.
"Worm Beast," Yami muttered before reaching for his San-Si Capsule, or was about to. The worm rose right behind Yami and Yugi and knocked them both to their sides.
Yami rolled down the dune to the foot of it. He peered at the top of the dune and noticed the worm digging itself into the ground. He then noticed his right arm was bleeding from the worm's attack. It also hurt painfully like a sprain. He got out his San-Si Capsule and launched it into the San-Si Launcher. He launched the monster, which appeared to be a giant monster with big arms and legs with claws and small horns on its back.
"Zoide, use poison..." Yami cried out before the worm rose right above the monster and ate Zoide M whole. Yami felt a jolt of pain throughout his whole body. "YAHHHHH!" Then coughed a puddle of blood.
"YAMI!" Yugi cried out, seeing his partner in pain. He knew he couldn't just stand here and let his best and closest friend die like this. He quickly took out his San-Si Capsule and launched it in his San-Si Launcher. "COME OUT TRIGAN!" He shot his San-Si Capsule and a huge bird with enormous wings spread. "Trigan, use eagle shot attack!" Trigan made a loud screeching sound before flying toward the worm, which shot in the air. The bird clawed the worm with its enormous feet claws and used them to break the worm in half. Green ooze spread everywhere and flooded the gang.
"At least we're cooled off," Joey said, cringing over the green ooze all over himself.
"YAMI!" Yugi cried out while running down the slimy dune where Yami's body was lying in the goo face-up. Yugi cradled the pharaoh in his arms. Yugi wiped the slime off Yami's face before shaking him. "Co'mon! Wake up!"
"Is the Pharaoh okay?" Joey asked from on top of the dune.
"He's just unconscious!" Yugi replied.
Joey ran down the dune and flipped Yami over his shoulders. Joey was thankful that Yami was a shorty and not as big as Tristan or Seto. The green goo from the worm was slowly dripping from the three teenagers.
"Co'mon Pal, let's go to the oasis we found and get cleaned off of this goop," Joey suggested as Yugi nodded and the two of them headed forth toward the green oasis Joey and Yami saw on the huge bolder.
It was not long before the two teens made it to the oasis and found a pond to wash off. Yugi washed Yami from the green goop, then laid him under a tree. He also treated the wound on Yami's arm from the attack from Worm Beast. Yugi, for some reason, never wanted to leave Yami's side. Yugi laid next to Yami while holding his unwounded arm. Yugi felt sleep take over as he laid his head on Yami's shoulder. The dry breeze actually felt nice against his hair, especially under the shade.
Later on, Yami moaned slightly, then found himself lying on the ground under a shady tree. He found Yugi resting his head on his shoulder. Yugi seemed so quiet and sweet when he slept. Yami didn't want to wake Yugi up, but he had a firm hold of the pharaoh's arm. Yami tried to think of some way to free his arm.
Yami used his other arm to tickle Yugi a little bit, then his arm was loosed. Yami slid his arm from Yugi's grasp, but not before a chuckle escaped him. He bent down and lightly kissed Yugi on his temple before quietly leaving him to rest.
Joey was at the pond taking a morning swim. Yami removed his shirt and pants to leave nothing but boxers, then dove into the pond. Joey found Yami swimming up and floating on his back before spitting water on Joey's face and leaving a smirk on his face.
"Why you..." Joey smirked before tackling Yami into the water. He squirmed through Joey's arms before ripping off a pair of briefs that were on Joey and swimming up to the surface, waving them in the air. "HEY! THOSE ARE MINE!"
"You want them..." Yami smirked before placing the stretchy part of the briefs on his thumb and using his other hand to grab the other end. He seemed to be using Joey's briefs like a sling shot. He released the back end and the briefs flew right into a bush on the other side. "Then go fetch them."
"WHY YOU..." Joey glared with his head boiling before jumping out to glomp Yami in the water, but he dodged the attack right on time. It was irritating the blond duelist that someone only 4'5 could easily dodge any attack and take his pair of briefs right from under him. He tried with all his might to attack Yami and get some revenge, but he was way too fast. "GET BACK HERE!"
"Why should I?" Yami asked mockingly while floating carelessly on his back as if he was barely moving an inch. "It's so much fun just to irritate you."
"You want irritation..." Joey growled before going out for the legs, but not before Yami dove back into the water and swam slickly to the other side of the shore. He climbed out of the water and walked to a nearby tree, then leaned on it. "YOU'RE SO UNFAIR!"
"I'm not unfair, I'm just that good. They don't call me King of Games for my good looks."
"SHOWOFF!"
Yami chuckled before grabbing Joey's briefs from the bushes and sling shot them back to Joey.
"I'm gonna get ya someday! Sooner or later!"
"In your dreams, Joey," Yami replied while rolling his eyes.
"How'd you even do that anyway, slip off my underwear? I didn't even see that coming."
"During the time I was playing Shadow Games, I challenged a life guard that kept trying to drown Yugi. How the game went was that we were to use our underwear as sling shots and whoever could slip off the other person's briefs or boxers and sling it the farthest in the least amount of time wins."
"I thought you never wore underwear."
"I did sometimes," Yami replied. "Yugi would change to underwear when he noticed he wasn't wearing any. I thought they were sling shots that could be worn around the waist. That's why I used them for the game."
"What the heck made you think they were sling shots?"
"Yugi was shopping and I happen to find some pairs of underwear at the girls department. They looked like sling shots to me. I mean, they were thin and could stretch..."
"OH GEEZ! YOU WERE LOOKING AT LADY'S THONGS AND THOUGHT... OH SHOOT!" Joey cried out, bursting into laughter. Yami was rolling his eyes the whole time. "I suppose you're right about one thing, they do look like slingshots."
"Hey guys!" Yugi cried out after waking up. He already had his shirt and pants off and was dipping into the pond. "Yami, I'm glad you're awake."
"Same here, Yugi," Yami replied before also dipping into the pond and both of them dove into the water.