Here comes the next chapter. This is pretty much the conclusion of the trial. I know it was pretty suspenseful. I was trying to make it out like that. Anyways, here's the rest of this. Review please!

Mokuba woke up with his head bounding continuously. He moaned and slowly sat right up. His eyes began returning to night vision again and there, in front of him, he saw a huge black glob slowly growing, only with no sound. Mokuba stood confused and afraid, why couldn't he hear that bubbly sound anymore? He quickly got up and some pebbles fell into the pool. There was no splash or the sound of it. Mokuba began feeling afraid.

"Hello?" Mokuba spoke aloud, to test if he could hear himself. He seemed to be hearing himself just fine, but why couldn't he hear anything else. He began touching his ears, which held dry blood from when the black vines launched themselves into his ear sockets. 'That must be why I can't hear! Am I deaf?' He felt sorely afraid. Not only was that black goo going to drown him possibly, or worse, but now he couldn't hardly hear anything at all.

Mokuba had to find a way to escape this horror mess. The item no longer mattered. He just wanted to go home; for things to return to normal. He felt so afraid, tears were pouring out of his eyes. He sat on his bottom and sobbed crying like a little toddler hiding in a dark corner from the boggy man. He was scared and helpless. He wished his brother was here to be with him and get him out of this mess. This situation was too much to handle alone.

"I'm sorry Seto! I can't do this! I can't be as strong as Mkalburti and Seth! I'm just too scared!" Mokuba cried as the black goo came closer and closer to him. After a long while of sobbing hot tears, he looked over at the black goo gaining closer and closer. Mokuba had to think of something to avoid the goo, but what? There was the water, but how long could he stay in there? Wait, the apple! Mokuba contacted his friends from the surface. 'Guys, drop the gold apple down here!'

'You're still alive? We were worried you died! You've been gone for at least 30 minutes!' Pharaoh Seth said with worry.

'I'm fine, just drop me the apple!'

The golden apple began to drop into the water as Mokuba swam to catch it, then ate it. He began to grow a tail, than swam deep into the water. At least he was safe from the black goo for now. He looked around and swam through different tunnels. They were all confusing and almost like a maze. Mokuba began wondering if this is what Yami's soul room is like. Yami did mention that it was like a maze.

Mokuba began searching through the different areas until he began growing exhausting tired. He had to find the item! It had to be around here somewhere! Where could it be? By this time, Mokuba was so tired, he could sleep in this tunnel maze.

There seemed to be a glowing light shining from a curtain tunnel behind a bolder. Mokuba swam over and pushed the bolder with all his might. Though, it was too strong. He pushed harder, and then the ruby gem on his necklace began to glow and he easily pushed the bolder out of the way. He then, entered the tunnel with the glowing light.

There, at the very end of the tunnel where the glowing light was coming from, was a small knife. Mokuba swam up to the knife and took it with both hands carefully. The blade was glowing with brilliant light and seemed to have a small handle. He took it with one hand, curiously wondering what was so special about this knife that could be used to cut steak.

Mokuba took the knife and swam from the tunnel, heading for where he previously was. It was a long time to find his way back around, due to the mazes. These tunnels were so confusing it's hard for anyone to find his way around here! Mokuba wondered how Dalor would manage to find his way here. Then again, he had been playing this game three times.

While trying to find his way around, Mokuba's waist slid against a sharp rock, leaving a straight cut as he made a bubbling cry and dropped the dagger. The blade then slowly reached its tip at where Mokuba was cut and pinched the wound. He cringed and took the knife, removing it from the wound.

Suddenly, the wound began to connect itself together and heal itself. Mokuba stared in shock of the wound healing. It seemed that this knife healed wounds instead of making them. He slowly, but carefully, began to reach the point of the blade inside his ear. He didn't want to dig so deep that he'd kill himself, but enough to where it healed his hearing.

After a small pinch, Mokuba removed the knife, then continued his search for the surface. Though, his hearing still didn't seem to change. Mokuba knew he didn't dig the blade in deep enough. He didn't want to really cut himself and make it bleed, even though this knife was different. Reflexes always were a pain.

It took almost forever before Mokuba reached the surface. The black goo was starting to find its way into the water while climbing up the walls. He had to find a way to escape this cave, now that he found the blade. There had to be a way! Mokuba then, remembered he could fly. The blue gem on his necklace glowed and he began flying in the air as his tail turned back into legs. Mokuba flew to the top and escaped without the goo reaching him. He finally escaped the hole.

Pharaoh Seth and Mkalburti both smiled joyfully as Mokuba landed softly. Their lips were moving, but no sound came out. Mokuba knew he never dug his blade into his ears deep enough. Mkalburti seemed to be talking to Mokuba, but only his lips where moving.

"I can't hear you. Those vines went into my ears and ruined my hearing," Mokuba explained before falling on his hands and knees in exhaustion. "The blade can heal by stabbing it. I was trying to heal my hearing, but I didn't sink it in deep enough."

Before Mokuba knew it, he felt the most horrible pain cut through his right ear. He screamed on the top of his lungs before Pharaoh Seth took him and stabbed the healing knife on the other ear. Mokuba was crying and screaming, covering both his ears as tears streamed down his face. Though, his ears started itching and acting weird and suddenly... he heard the sound of ruffling leaves.

"Can you hear us now?" Mkalburti asked as Mokuba nodded, then laid on the soft grass while panting.

"I wanna go home!" Mokuba whined, scared as anything. "I can't do this! I'm tired and I wanna go home!"

Mokuba kept sobbing and crying as Pharaoh Seth and Mkalburti exchange glances. Pharaoh Seth took Mokuba and sat him up. He looked up at the former pharaoh, who held serious eyes.

"You can't say that when you're facing danger! When Dalor throws everything at you, you get up and fight like a man! I don't want to find you crying and whining like a baby anymore! Where we were raised age 12 was when a boy became a man! Start acting like one and suck it up!" Pharaoh Seth said harshly as Mokuba felt taken aback by this response. This man held his brother's face and his brother's personality. This man was telling him not to cry or whine and start being a man.

"Y-Yes sir," Mokuba replied in a weeping tone. Just then, he felt a piercing slap across the face.

"I said start acting like a man! I don't want to hear any sound of your weeping!"

"Yes sir!" Mokuba responded in a more serious voice as Pharaoh Seth gave a nod.

"Good."

Mokuba slowly put his hand at the area where Pharaoh Seth just slapped him. Mkalburti walked up to Mokuba and said, "he doesn't want you acting weak when you're our only chance to save hundreds of lives."

"Seto never was like that... why is this version like that?" Mokuba asked.

"A relationship with a brother is different from a father toward his son. Your brother protects you from chaos, while my father taught me to face it and defeat it head on. A father teaches and trains his children while siblings support each other. You see how relationships play differently?"

"I guess, but you're his son, not me."

"Ah, but you are a replica of me with alot of my personality and quirks. At this age, I cried bitter tears and my father taught me that when I cry, to cry behind four walls, but never in battle. When I fight, I fight like a man, not a child."

"Aren't parents supposed to be more protective of their kids than siblings?"

"Yes, but protecting someone can be done by raising them right. It's something only understood once you have a child of your own."

"I guess."

"We best keep moving before Dalor knows we're here!" Pharaoh Seth informed the boys. They all took a bite of the apple and began swimming out of Dalor's territory. Mokuba carried the knife with him.

While the trio was swimming on their way out, all of a sudden, a giant sea monster appeared from under the water and lifted Mkalburti almost off the water and hit the water across from Pharaoh Seth and Mokuba. He was yelping aloud in the process.

"Mkalburti, are you okay?" Pharaoh Seth asked with worry in his eyes.

"I'm fine! It's you who should be worried about!" Mkalburti cried out as the two swam from the sea monster, which was huge and scaly. It had a lion-like face, razor-sharp teeth, a long tail like a snake with large and hard scales, and a fin surrounding its head like a mane.

"What is that thing?" Mokuba asked fearfully.

"It's a Leviathan!" Mkalburti replied while taking a San-Si capsule and shoving it in his San-Si Launcher to launch out his San Monster. Mokuba copied the same jester, trying to find a creature that could swim underwater, any kind.

Mkalburti ended up summoning a Flying Sea Dragon with a fish-like body with scales and wide wings as huge as an eagle, only more fish-like and scaly. It splashed into the sea and began jumping from the ocean, shooting a light sonic blast, from its mouth, at the creature. The blast was powerful enough to knock it to the ocean before the two creatures began to fight underwater.

"Here we go!" Mokuba said, finally finding a sea creature San Monster. He launched it from his San-Si Launcher. He summoned Squid Ninja.

"You didn't get any good sea monsters?" Pharaoh Seth asked with a glaring face.

"I didn't think it would be that important and I thought the land creatures were cooler," Mokuba admitted as Pharaoh Seth sighed while shaking his head. He got out a San-Si Capsule and launched it in his San-Si Launcher, summoning out Monster Fish Snake, which looked like a blue scaly snake with razor-sharp teeth. It swam underwater, slithering inside the deep waters. "Co'mon Squid Ninja, show 'em what you're made of!" Squid Ninja swam underwater to help fight the Leviathan.

The Leviathan circled around the water, fighting with Flying Sea Dragon, its razor-sharp teeth grinning. Monster Fish Snake bit the tail of the sea dragon, who howled underwater like it was possible, then sharply attacked Monster Fish Snake. Fortunately, Leviathan missed and the three monsters were at it on each other. They were quickly circling or slithering around the other.

The three creatures finally reached the surface with their fight. Flying Sea Dragon let out another light sonic blast at Leviathan as it dunked into the sea to avoid the attack. Just then, Leviathan swished its tail against Monster Fish Snake as Pharaoh Seth gasped as if he had the breath knocked out of him, blood sprinkling from his mouth.

"Father!" Mkalburti cried aloud.

"Do you think we'll have a chance?" Mokuba asked fearfully.

"I know we do! We can't give up now right?" Mkalburti asked as Mokuba nodded. "Say, where is your monster?"

Mokuba didn't want to answer, didn't want to admit it. His monster wasn't attacking because it was hiding... Mokuba was afraid.