Okay guys, I will try to get through this really quick, because I know you guys are probably getting bored. This will be done soon enough, because I do want to start on my other stories. I'll also try to keep this as entertaining as possible. Review please!

Yugi and his friends looked to their right and noticed trouble very far out in the forest landscape. They knew that Judei's troops were facing trouble from those dragons overhead. Some of them were wishing to help them while the others knew the mission they had to do. Yugi sighed, feeling completely helpless he couldn't help his new friends. Yami could sense trouble in his partner.

"We need to keep moving!" Yami called out to the others.

Everyone kept moving toward the direction Mokuba wanted them to take, not being sure where they would be heading to. They all were rather riding on horses or on foot. Many of them were on horses, even riding behind the driver of the horse. Walking was becoming very tiring for almost everyone, especially Solomon and Professor Hawkins. Yami and Yugi were the only ones riding a dragon.

Tea felt extremely bored and tired. They have been walking or flying like this for almost a whole day, since the attack from the Dark Knights. She rode behind Tristan on the horse, trying to keep her head up and eyes open. She knew if she fell asleep now, she would fall off the horse. Not to mention leaning on Tristan for some beauty sleep felt extremely awkward for Tea.

"Man, this is boring, we've been doing nothing, but moving all day! When is that jerk going to attack us again?" Joey complained.

"Joey, suck it up, we're all tired!" Tristan snapped.

"You kids shouldn't be fighting, even if we are tired," Professor Hawkins rebuked.

"Sorry," Tristan and Joey apologized.

"How about we take a break?" Yami suggested. "We can still keep our guard up, but there's no sense in wasting more of our energy if Dalor attacks us again."

"Good idea, Pharaoh. Let's all rest for a little while," Solomon agreed.

Everyone stopped and Yami landed the dragon, helping Yugi off of it. Tristan climbed off the horse and helped Tea off. She was glad she could finally rest her eyes for a little while. She and everyone else sat down on the ground or lied down. Tea and Joey were lying on their backs, resting their eyes inside the tent, which was pitched up.

Everyone else made a fire and sat around it, talking amongst themselves. They joked, played, or just talked. Yugi just laid at his side, watching the green grass sway by the direction of the wind. He liked feeling the breeze and seeing the grass blow. He smiled and picked a piece of grass, playing and twiddling around with it.

Yami laid on his stomach at his partner's direction, resting his head on his folded arms like a pillow. Yugi rolled the piece of grass into a little ball before flicking it at Yami's nose, then it wrinkled. Yugi chuckled slightly harder by the notion, biting his bottom lip. Yami just smiled without a care in the world.

'The breeze must be nice huh?' Yami asked Yugi through his mind link, which he hadn't been using in a long while since discovering they were in separate bodies in this world.

'It is. I just wish this could last a while... this peace,' Yugi admitted through his mind link.

'We'll have a longer peace after this is over.'

'I know, but... this is the only time I ever get to... you know... see you as a separate person I can feel and touch.'

Yami sighed, then placed his hand on Yugi's upper arm connected to the shoulder, his thumb moving up and down. Yami showed a soft smile as Yugi looked directly at his face.

'I know and, in the end, things will turn out alright whether we are apart or together.'

'Yami...' Yugi said, then curving a chuckling smile. 'You know, we've been trapped like this for what? A week maybe and we haven't even used this advantage to hug once.'

Yami chuckled at the thought, then asked, 'What about when we were about to be attacked by that Cave-A-Ape?'

'I wouldn't really count that as a hug,' Yugi replied, rolling his eyes.

Yami showed a smirk, then him and his partner sat up at the same time. Yugi immediately embraced Yami, arms wrapped around his waist tightly and chin on his right shoulder. Yami wrapped his left arm around Yugi's neck and the other one right under the arms. Though, this did seem a little silly, Yami didn't mind this. He would probably never feel an embrace from Yugi as real as this one was.

Yugi was hoping his friends wouldn't start teasing him about this. After all, he had hugged Yami a bunch of times, but one of them was always in spirit form, so neither of them could feel the true warmth of the other one's body or smell the fabric of the other one's clothing. For Yugi, this felt like something personal he couldn't truly forget, even if it did only last for a second or two.

After about thirty minutes, everyone began packing up to continue on their journey. Though, in the middle of their packing, they heard a strange whistling wind in the distance. Everyone froze and looked around, while others continued packing their stuff. Nobody could guess where this whistling wind was coming from. It seemed to be heading from the Northern direction.

"I don't like the sound of that," Tristan said.

"Should we turn?" Joey asked.

"We should probably keep going," Yami suggested.

"It could be anything, Pharaoh."

"But we won't know until we face it head on."

"He's got a point!" Tristan agreed as Joey sighed.

Everyone climbed on their horses, this time Tea was riding her own horse with Solomon behind her. Yami rode on his dragon with Yugi riding behind him. They all took off on their current direction with the whistling wind growing louder and louder. Half of the group was trembling in fear from the noise, especially Joey. There was something not right about that noise that could almost be from a Steven Kings film.

That was when everyone saw a huge clouds of smoke ahead of them that was a mix of gray and black. Joey screamed, riding the opposite direction before slamming into a shield and falling back on his back with the horse galloping away. Everyone knew there was no turning around. They had to face this smoke, whatever it was. It could be anything from smoke to poison. There was alot of reason to fear the worse.

"This must be Dalor's attack, what are we going to do?" Tea asked worriedly.

"Defense is our best strategy!" Yami suggested, grabbing a San-Si Capsule and launching it from his San-Si Launcher. He launched out his San Monster Fog Bear. It was a white snowy bear with smoke surrounding it with large sharp teeth. "Fog Bear, fog release!" Fog Bear released a heavy moist fog that spread everywhere, making it hard for the gang to see one another.

"I think it's working!" Professor Hawkins commented.

"But I can't see where anybody is!" Tristan complained. "What if creatures start attacking us?"

"If there are creatures, they can't see us either. This is our only best strategy," Yami said.

"Unless they have a good sense of smell," Solomon pointed out.

"Or hearing from all the noise we're making," Yugi also noted.

"That gives me an idea!" Tea said as she took out a San-Si Capsule and shoved it in her San-Si Launcher before launching it. Nobody could see it, but Tea summoned out a dog-like creature with spiky needle-like fur and no eyes on its face. It kept sniffing around and hearing the sounds all around it.

Yugi watched from high above, away from the black-gray smoke and moist fog. He held onto Yami by the shoulders, his fingers tightly clasping around each shoulder blade. Yugi was hoping that there were no creatures inside the fog to harm his friends. Yami could feel the fear in Yugi and he couldn't help, but feel this same kind of fear in himself. All they could do is watch.

"Is there any way we can help them?" Yugi asked fearfully.

"We've done all we can do, Yugi," Yami said truthfully.

"There has to be a way to get rid of that smoke!"

"The real question is not how to get rid of the smoke, but who's unleashing it."

Yugi rose two eyebrows as Yami showed a confident smirk. He grabbed each side of the dragon's scales and pulled it back slightly. The dragon took a large gulp of breath and fired directly at the black fog. The fog was highly flammable and began spreading all over the area where the black-gray smoke was located. At least it didn't reach the foggy area where everyone was hiding inside! Yugi was very relieved of that.

The creature, causing the smoke finally showed its location as it shot a blast of black-gray fog, with some burning fire from Yami's attack, in the dragon's direction. Yami motioned the dragon to dodge it quickly before getting out his javelin and throwing it at the direction of the attack. There was a sound of the javelin sinking in through flesh and a roaring sound that was deep and foggy, just like the black-gray burning smoke. Yami shot out a smirk across his face, along with a dark chuckle.

"You think it's dead?" Yugi asked.

"Most likely not," Yami replied right before another smoke blast headed their direction. The blast missed from right above them. "See!"

"How are we supposed to kill that thing? You only had one javelin!"

"One is all I need!" Yami smirked as he kept his eyes focused on the location where he and Yugi were attacked. Yugi began realizing that the smoke was slowly clearing and more of the moist clear fog, caused by Yami's Fog Bear, began spreading more and more. The fire was also ceasing, since the black-gray fog was ceasing.

"Hey, I think I see something!" Yugi cried, pointing to a black cloud in the middle of the black-gray smoke that was clearing.

"Good!"

Yami took a deep breath, then motioned the dragon to fly down closer to the fog before getting out his bow and arrow. He pulled the arrow back, aiming it for the creature. He released and it hit directly at the black cloud creature. It roared again, but this time, it was attacked by Tea's San Monster in less than a mere second. Tea's dog creature wrestled the black cloud creature to the ground and ripped it to shreds until black goo began spilling from the creature and all over the ground. The black-gray smoke slowly, but finally did, disappear.

Yami returned the Fog Bear to its San-Si Capsule before landing the dragon in the midst of his friends. Joey was still lying on the ground from the hit against the shield. The rest of everyone else seemed okay, until a hard cough was heard. Everyone turned their heads and eyed Tea, who was trying to balance on the horse. At this time, she returned her San Monster, Spike Wolf, to its San-Si Capsule, after destroying Poison Cloud.

Tea began coughing harder and harder, trying to catch her breath. Yugi jumped off of the dragon in dire fear, running to Tea's side and helping her off the horse. After Tea was off, she dropped on her knees, still coughing until she paused, trying to catch her breath. What scared Yugi, more than the coughing, was the red liquid in Tea's hand. Everyone stared in pure shock.

"The San Monster must've breathed in the smoke when it attacked the creature. My guess is that the smoke was poisonous gas and because the creature sniffed it up and was poisoned, so was Tea," Yami muttered in realization.

"Tea, speak to me!" Tristan said.

"I-" Tea horsed before coughing and coughing, eventually sounding like a radio breaking down. More blood entered onto both of her hands. She felt weak and extremely dizzy. She eventually fell on the ground face forward.

"Tea!" Yugi cried out, picking Tea off from the ground, sitting her up, and then hearing that hoarse breathing. "Is there any way we can save her? Anything?"

Everyone stared at Yugi with such helpless eyes. Yami knelt down and quietly said, "we don't have medication in this world."

"But..." Yugi cried, tears leaking from his eyes before feeling Tea's hand on his cheek, turning his head to Tea's direction.

"It's okay, Yugi," Tea whispered hoarsely. Yugi shook his head, then held Tea close to him, his ear right next to his childhood friend's ear.

"No... it's not if I hadn't kissed you yet," Yugi sobbed, whispering so low only Tea could hear him. He didn't know if Tea liked him the way he did or not, but he didn't care. Tea was dying!

"This isn't a love story, Yugi," Tea said hoarsely, a soft smile curving on her lips.

Yugi, still holding up Tea with one strong arm, looked at Tea as more tears rolled down his cheeks. She began coughing again, one arm around Yugi's neck. She felt her lungs were bursting and wanted the pain to stop. It pained Tea to breathe, to think, to cough. Yugi helped Tea lean down as she was coughing more pain from her lungs. She put her coughing hand on the ground as her vision turned blur and closed her eyes.

Yugi sat Tea up again, trying to help her breathe and possibly live. Nobody could do a thing at this point. It was even painful to watch Yugi trying to help Tea live when it was obvious that the girl was going to die. Yugi felt helpless and seeing Tea in pain only brought him pain. She was breathing hardly and very VERY hoarsely. Every breath was like a cheese grater scraping the inside of Tea every time she breathed.

"Make... it STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-" Tea cried out before her body collapsed onto Yugi's chest, eyes wide open.

Yugi didn't have to deny it... Tea was dead.

"Tea goes to the graveyard," Mokuba said bitterly as Tea's holographic character was placed in a black spot on his right where a few of Judei's soldiers and two mermaids were placed in.

"Don't feel so glum, part of the game is to rid of your opponent's monsters and it seems that I'm succeeding. I'm taking more of your crew few by few. It won't be long until I win this game, dear Mokuba," Dalor smirked with threat and darkness in his voice.