Here's the next chapter! This is where Mokuba goes to the next trial game, which I will try to make more challenging than all the other trial games. They need to be more challenging, because the item will be very VERY powerful. Review please!

Mokuba, Pharaoh Seth, and Mkalburti followed Alexandria and Atlas to the trial game, which took place in Dalor's territory. Pharaoh Seth changed back to looking 16 years old again, since he was sure that the mermaids weren't being brainwashed at this point. The women knew this would be very challenging and risky for Mokuba, but he was their only hope to being free and reuniting with their husbands. Mokuba was willing to risk everything to save everyone trapped in this Shadow Game.

Alexandria and Atlas did change into more appropriate clothing to cover themselves, or at least enough of themselves. They wore baggy men tops, from the previous men that were eaten alive during the trial game, that reached their knees. This was a great relief for Mokuba, since he was getting very disturbed by the naked mermaids. Luckily, he didn't have to explain to them why they should wear clothing like he did with Atlas when she was under Dalor's spell. The women already knew that he was disturbed just by seeing Mokuba's reaction from earlier.

There was a curtain wall of land in front of them that reached to the surface. The five mermaids reached to the top to where a huge mass of land was found. Pharaoh Seth and Mkalburti furrowed their eyebrows, feeling very unsure about being on Dalor's territory. Mokuba noticed, on the land mass, a gaping hole a few feet away from the edge of the mass of land. He smiled excitedly.

"I still think this is a bad idea!" Mkalburti said aloud.

"We'll never know until we try, right?" Atlas asked with a soft smile as Mkalburti closed his eyes and let a sigh escape from his nose.

"My next trial game is only several feet away! Let's go!" Mokuba said excitedly. Him and the others began growing back legs as they stepped out of the waters. The other four followed him to the hole and circled it, looking down at the bottom of the pit. "How deep is it?"

"Very! Though, you need to go inside to know what your next trial game is!" Alexandria instructed.

"I guess... here it goes," Mokuba said nervously as he bent his knees and tried to climb down on the wall of the hole, but there didn't seem to be a ledge for his feet to step on.

"You need to jump in! That's what Dalor had to do!"

"You expect me to jump in and-" Mokuba glared before Alexandria rolled her eyes, then pushed the boy into the hole. "LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-" He kept echoing through the hole until there was nothing left to be heard from him.

"What's in there?" Mkalburti asked.

"If I knew, I would've told you," Atlas replied.

"It's a good thing my reincarnate is not here," Pharaoh Seth smirked with folded arms. "More than likely, he'd have a fit."

Mokuba kept falling deeper into the giant pit. He was screaming aloud, knowing he was going to die. What was Alexandria thinking of pushing him off like that? Mokuba really didn't want to die now! He was only 12! He never got himself a girlfriend or got married to anyone yet! He never even got the chance to get laid! 'Wait... why am I thinking about getting laid?' Mokuba asked himself before splashing into the deep water.

Mokuba held his breath while swimming up to the surface, taking a huge gulp of breath. He looked around and discovered he was inside a small pool that was deep enough to catch him from his fall. He swam up to the ledge of the pool and onto stone ground to discover he was inside a giant dark cave. The blue gem on his necklace began to glow and he began having night vision eyes.

"Cool! I can see in the dark! Why didn't I have this before?" Mokuba asked himself, then walked deeper into the underground tunnel. "Guess I'll have to worry about that later."

Mokuba walked deeper into the cave, exploring it to find the trial game. He knew it had to be around this dark place somewhere. It wasn't like Dalor would hide the game and make it difficult for him to find it, would he? Mokuba thought about this more. Maybe this game was located in a specific direction to make it hard for the true warrior to find in case he ever decided to pass to Dalor's territory. Though, Mokuba wasn't quite sure. For all he knew, he could be playing it right now.

Suddenly, Mokuba a weird noise that sounded like gooey liquid. He narrowed his eyes to find the source of this noise. He looked left, right, and behind him, but there didn't seem to be the source of the sound. Mokuba followed where the sound came from, deeper into the tunnel, while making a gulping noise. He went inside a slightly smaller tunnel on the left and there he found black bubbly goo slowly growing and moving to Mokuba's direction.

"Oh crud," Mokuba responded before running from the goo as fast as he could, despite it growing slow. He ran through the tunnel, trying to find an escape rout. He kept running faster and faster to find an exit of some sort. Suddenly, he came to a dead end at the end of the tunnel. "Oh man. SERIOUSLY?" The black goo sound seemed to be making a louder sound. "At least I've got some time to think this over. How do I get out of here?"

Just then, Mokuba felt strong vines grabbing a hold of his arms and sinking him to the stoned ground. He kept fighting the vines off, but they were too strong. He couldn't even reach for his sword, which was bad luck for him. The vines seemed as if they had a mind of their own; as if the plant was alive. Mokuba fought with all of his strength to try to break free, to cut off from the vines.

"No! Please! HELP! SETO!" Mokuba cried aloud, trying to fight the vines. Two black vines slipped inside his ears. "NOOOOOO!" Mokuba screamed bloody murder while tears were leaking out of his eyes.

Mokuba's eyes popped open as he sat up from his bed, panting heavily. He was found in a man's skirt inside a Pharaoh's room chamber where only the Pharaoh himself slept. Mokuba felt confused and dizzy at the same time. This isn't right! Why would he be here?

"My darling, you should lay down and rest! The demons have still cursed you!" A familiar voice cried out, lying Mokuba down to rest. It sounded like Atlas!

"What's going on?" Mokuba asked, a hoarse voice coming out of his voice. "What's wrong with me?"

"The demons have placed a curse on you! Your throat is sore, you are as hot as the sun Ra, and are hurting all over! You must rest!" Atlas replied in a desperate state.

"I think you mean I'm sick with the flu," Mokuba corrected before coughing harshly and making a hoarse cough.

"Pharaoh, lie down! Please!" Atlas begged with tearful eyes as she lied Mokuba down. Why would she be crying about him being sick? "You're talking nonsense!"

"Get. Off. Of me!" Mokuba cried in pain as he pushed Atlas off of him and found himself falling onto the stoned ground. He felt blood oozing from his two ears, but was more worried about the moving vines behind him. He got got up and ran from the vines that were grabbing for him. "YOU GET AWAY FROM ME!" He pulled out his sword and cut off the vines as they began pouring out green liquid and slowly dying. "I can't believe that worked."

Mokuba began realizing that he could no longer hear the black liquid and instead only heard a ringing sound in both ears. He dropped on his knees, placing both hands on his ears to only feel blood from when the black vines crawled into his ears and gave him that hallucination. Fear overwhelmed Mokuba and tears began developing.

"I can't do this," Mokuba muttered, feeling the tears pouring from his eyes, covering them with his fists. "My ears hurt! SETO, WHERE ARE YOU?"

A loud screeching noise was heard and Mokuba began covering his hears, wishing for the noise to stop. While trying to block the sound, a huge sharp thorn the size of a football shot right from behind Mokuba and right onto his shoulder. He screamed in pain, trying to pull the thorn out before another huge thorn hit him on the middle of his back. He began running as fast as he could. Mokuba was trying to pull the thorns out, but everywhere he turned, some sort of man-eating plant was trying to kill him. It was worse than Little Shop of Horror, especially since it wasn't even funny.

Mokuba ran to the pool of water he landed from the hole, only to discover that it was taken over by enormous seaweed. The seaweed grabbed onto Mokuba, tying itself all over his little body and pulling him to the waters. He held his breath and fought against the seaweed. He used his sword to cut the plant only to find more of it tangling his feet and body. Mokuba was starting to wish he brought the golden apple, so he could breathe underwater.

All Mokuba could think about was surviving, nothing else ever mattered. He had to live! He had to beat this Shadow Game of life and death! His red gem glowed and Mokuba suddenly could break the sea weed like twigs. It seemed like the red gem stood for strength. Mokuba used his sword to cut more from the seaweed before swimming up to the surface and breathing in and out hardly.

"Oh my gosh," Mokuba said hoarsely as he limply climbed to the surface before a strong vine appeared from the wall and grabbed onto him by the ankle. "NOT AGAIN!" He tried pulling himself, despite all the pain he was enduring. His body was hurting him so much, he was screaming. Dark energy was growing inside him. Dark energy? Mokuba's eyes began to turn black and the vine suddenly turned to ash. "What is this?" Mokuba questioned himself while looking at his hands, which were filled with dark energy. All the killer plants were sprouting out toward him. "LEAVE. ME. ALONE!" Mokuba was grabbed onto from head to toe by the plants before letting out a painful scream, hurting all over his body from the wounds and cuts. Huge black energy released from Mokuba's body and killed every living thing in the dark tunnel. This lasted for a minute or two before Mokuba grew faintly tired and fell on his hands and knees before his whole world turned black.

Was it done? Was the trial game finally over?