Whoo! New chapter! I wanted to update this before yesterday, but, as you can see, it didn't happen that way. I just finished this chapter and it was a little rushed since I was trying to finish it before she had to get off the computer.
But, I sent it right when she had to get off, so I was just a little slow xD

Disclaimer: I do not own "Yu-Gi-Oh!" or any of the characters! I only own this plot!

Now, read and enjoy!

"Uhh... how big did you say this zoo was again?"
"I only said it was a few miles large. I don't know the exact size of it... why do you keep asking?"
"Are you kidding?" I exclaimed, pointing to the zoo, my mouth agape, "The place is huge!"
Yami scratched the back of his head, looking up at the large, caged off structure, "I guess so. Are zoos not this big on your planet?"
"Definitely not."

I craned my neck to look up, the gate towering far over my head. The fences lining the edges of the concrete walls were chain link, and I could feel a buzzing through the ground.
"Say, Yami?" I asked, poking his arm, "Are those fences...?"
"Coated in electricity?" He finished, "Yeah. You'd be surprised how many people try to break in and wipe out a species for good."
I raised my eyebrows in shock, "What? People have actually tried that?"
"Unfortunately," Yami sighed. He patted my head, "Shall we go in?" I nodded, following him to the large front gate.
Two men stood outside the gate, wearing similar cop-like outfits. "They must be some of the security," I figured.

"Stop where you are!" one commanded, "This area is off-limits to- Oh! P-Prince Millennium, sire! I-I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you at first! W-we weren't expecting you... normally we're informed in advance..." He stumbled over his words, obviously skittish in the presence of royalty. The guard gulped, "Wh-what are you doing here?"
I was expecting him to give a casual response about how he just wanted to visit or something, but he decided to handle things differently.
He turned his head slightly towards me, smirking as he swiftly took my hand in his. He pulled me closer to him, "I came on the wish of my partner."
The guard gave him a shocked look before exchanging glances with the other guard, the two shrugging. "W-well, okay... we'll let you in. Th-thank you for the visit, Prince Millennium." The first guard spoke, but both bowed in respect. Once they rose, the other guard pulled out a small communication device. He spoke into it quickly before nodding to us two. The gate slowly opened, splitting in the middle and opening inwards.
Yami smiled down at me, "Shall we go in?"
I glared at him, pulling my hand away, "Yeah, whatever..."
"And I thought the teasing was over. Boy was I wrong."

Yami, still smirking, stuck one hand in his pocket nonchalantly, the book he brought with him from the library still tucked under the other arm, "So, where to first?"
I looked around me, seeing different pathways extending in all directions. There were many small buildings around me, instead of habitats. "Well... what are in these buildings?"
"Research labs, storage places for the food, files of each animal, things like that. I'm afraid that they're off-limits, even for me. Only the workers and my parents are allowed in there. The rest of the zoo is available to us, though, so just name an animal and we'll go see it."
I tapped my chin, contemplating, "Well... hmm. Surprise me."
Yami nodded, "If you insist." He looked around for a moment before pulling out his book. I tried to peek at it, but he strategically blocked my view. He flipped through a few pages before smiling and closing it. He then pointed to a path off to the right, "This way, Yugi. Our first stop is just up down path."

I walked beside him the way there, feeling a little strange to be in a zoo with only one other person. Granted, there were probably workers about, but still. It felt odd. "Ah," Yami exclaimed, pointing to a habitat, "Right here. Go on and take a look, Yugi." I turned to where he was pointing and walked over, resting my arms on the railing as I peered over.
I saw a four-legged animal, roughly the size of a dog, resting on a rock in its habitat. It had a long, stiff-looking tail, similar to that of a kangaroo's. It had a yellow-brown coat and multiple, thick dark-brown stripes down its back and tail. "I've never seen an animal like this before." I said, turning to Yami, "What is it?"
He stood beside me and pulled out the book again, flipping to a page and showing it to me. "On Earth, they called it a Thylacine." Sure enough, there was a black and white picture of the creature, followed by a description of it. Yami took the book back before I could finish reading and looked near the bottom of the page, "Apparently the last captive specimen on your planet died September 7th, 1936."
"How... would an author on Novum know that?" I asked.
Yami closed the book, "They wouldn't... unless someone took a trip to Earth to buy this book."

"Can I see that?" I asked, eyeing the book. Yami held it out calmly and I took it, maybe a little too eagerly, and began flipping through the pages. "Broad-faced Potoroo, Pig-footed Bandicoot, White-winged Sandpiper... I haven't even heard of most of these animals," I admitted silently.
"That's because they don't make it a priority to teach about extinct creatures in school," Yami said, "But, I don't blame them. Do you know how long it would take to go over every single animal in this book? Although, I suppose you could just shorten it into a one-day lesson about the stupidity of human kind, since almost all of them died due to human interaction."
"Oi," I said, poking Yami on the nose angrily, "That's my race you're talking about, mister."
"Don't be offended," he smirked, poking me back, "because, technically, I'm insulting myrace as well."

I rubbed the bridge of my nose, "Wait... you're a human?"
"Of course I am!" Yami laughed, "Did you really think that two different races could be so similar? Come on. Look at how much alike we are!"
"But..." I argued, "I remember you and your guards calling me 'human' and 'Earth being' and similar terms!"
"Oh, that," Yami said, "Well, to be honest, that was just to mess with you."
I rolled my eyes, "Okay, but what are the chances of us both being human? I mean, that universe is huge! How could two different planets have the same species?" I glanced down at the Thylacine in the process, seeing it let out a lazy yawn.
Yami leaned against the railing as I had done only a few minutes earlier, "Think about it, Yugi; what do you know about the placement of Earth?"
"Well..." I began, "I know that it's placed perfectly from the sun. Any farther and it's be too cold to sustain life, and any closer it would be too hot to sustain life."
"Exactly. The universe, believe it or not, is not just a mumbo jumbo of randomly placed planets and stars. It has order. There's more than one solar system, like where yours is located, and more than one planet like Earth. Planets like yours and mine are just created for the purpose of sustaining life, thus is why there are different ecosystems, for different species. It's only natural for our planets to have the same creatures." He stared down at the Thylacine, "The choices of the people on these planets, however... well, they vary. As you can see, people on my planet didn't take care of their home as well as yours has."
There was a look of guilt on his face as he stared out into the distance.

I moved closer to him and patted his hand, "It's not your fault. What happens is a joined effort of every single person who ever lived here. At least you actually managed to keep alive animals that we never did, and you realized you need to protect all these animals."
Yami chuckled, "It doesn't mean that we didn't let any animals go extinct, because, I assure you, we did."
"Like what?"
"Let's see..." he racked his brain for a moment, "Well, I know your planet still has them, but they went extinct here about seventy years ago... penguins, I mean. That's the first thing I could think of."
I couldn't help but let out a sad gasp, "What! Aw, man... I love penguins..."
Yami shrugged, "I've never seen one, so I can't relate."
"Oh, well," I smiled, "They're not as cute as pandas, though."
"Yeah..." Yami said slowly, "That's another animal I've never seen."
My mouth dropped open, "You're kidding! That's it. Yami," I began sternly, "I am taking you to a zoo back on my planet one of these days, okay?" Yami looked at me, blinking in shock a few times before laughing.
"I'm serious!" I went on, holding out my pinky, "I promise! Pinky promise!"
"Yugi, that's a bit childish, wouldn't you say?"
I shot him a glare, "Don't diss the pinky promise."
He raised his hands defensively, laughing, "Whoa... sorry. Alright, alright." He hooked his pinky with mine, "I promise."

I grinned, "Great! So, where to next?"
Yami took the book back from my hands and flipped through a few pages, "Hmm... how about the Toolache Wallaby?"
Wallaby... the word seemed familiar to me, "Hmm... isn't a wallaby a kangaroo?"
"There's more than one type of wallaby, you know," Yami pointed out, nodding towards the pathway.
"Oh, yeah. Right. Let's go then!"

As we continued to the next habitat, I noticed a few birds land on the fence nearby. "Wow, what kind of bird is that?" I asked, pointing to the birds as I tugged on Yami's shirt sleeve.
"Hmm?" He glanced over, "Oh, those are just some pigeons. They're really common and fly in here often, since they can fly over the fences." The birds had a bluish-grey head like all pigeons, but they also had a wine red breast and iridescent neck marks, along with dull black-grey streaks on their wings.
"I don't think I've ever seen such a colorful pigeon..." I mused, watching the birds hop along the fence.
Yami stopped walking, "Hang on a moment." He opened to the front of the book and used his finger to skim the lines before flipping to a page. "Nope," he turned the page, "That's not it either." He turned about three more pages before looking back up at the birds. "Well, no wonder. If I'm correct, those pigeons are Passenger Pigeons. The last one died in captivity on September 1st, 1914 back on Earth. Though, I'm not completely sure if it's the right bird, since this picture is in black and white." He handed me the open book, "What do you think?"
"The Passenger Pigeon?" I exclaimed taking the book and looking down at it. I skimmed the description before comparing it to the ones in front of me. It fit perfectly. "My history teacher spent about ten minutes one day talking about the Passenger Pigeon," I explained, handing Yami the book again, "They were hunted a lot in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. Since there were so many, they sold for cheap meat."

"Don't be shy," Yami said, nudging me closer, "Go ahead."
"Oh, no... I don't want to scare them away..." I said, trying to fight against him.
He gently shoved me forward and I found myself standing near the birds. One of the birds cocked its head at me and I slowly held out my hand, "Come on, little guy... I'm not gonna hurt you..." I highly doubted it would work, taking into account how skittish birds are.
I was seriously surprised when one hopped over onto my hand. I looked over at Yami, my expression a mixture of shock and happiness. He flashed me a thumbs up and I slowly walked back towards him, trying not to scare the bird that was now hopping up my arm. "Back in 1866..." I began, recalling my History teacher's rant, "a few people sighted a flock of passenger pigeons flying overhead. The flock was about one mile long and three hundred miles wide and it took fourteen hours for it to fly over. It was estimated that three point five million birds were in that flock... that single flock!"
Yami whistled, "That's a lot of birds. How'd they go extinct so fast?"
"If I recall correctly," I continued, "in 1878, there was this large nest of pigeons, where hunters would go and kill about fifty thousand birds each day, every day, for five months." I gave Yami a small smile, "At that rate, I'm not all that surprised they became extinct."
Yami looked back at me, his eyes full of pity, "I'm sorry to hear that."

I saw the pigeon climb to my shoulder and felt him peck at my hair. I gently waved my hand in front of it, hoping that would get it to stop. "Sorry about that little rant, Yami," I chuckled, "I didn't mean to just bombard you with depressing information. I swear, I can be such a nerd sometimes..."
He patted my shoulder, "No need to apologize. I found it all very interesting."
"So, I'm not making you uncomfortable or anything?"
Yami gave me a funny look, "Uncomfortable? Are you kidding? I'm having a lot of fun with you here, Yugi. I like to finally be able to talk to someone who doesn't address me as sir, prince, or your majesty. Finally, I can talk to someone who's not afraid to voice their opinion, who doesn't hesitate to treat me like I'm not royalty, but a normal person. Even if you did address me as prince at first, but you were pretty shaky when you first came here. But, I don't blame you; it's not every day you get to visit a new planet."
"Abducted," I corrected, "It's not every day you're abducted."
Yami laughed, "You're not still upset about that, are you?"
I shook my head, "No, I'm really not. I actually... well, I quite like it here."
Yami smiled, "Yugi, would you-" he cut himself off, "Sorry. Never mind."

Curiosity peaked my interest almost instantly, "What is it, Yami?"
"I... well, you said you like it here. What if... you stayed?"
I'm going to be honest, the question caught me a little off guard. "Yami... I-" the pigeon flew off suddenly, leaving a few stray feathers on my shoulder. I took it in my hand and looked back at Yami, "I do like it here. I like learning about another planet, I like spending time with you. I'm really enjoying my visit, but I have to go home, Yami. I have friends and family there, and they don't even know where I am. I hope you understand..."
He nodded, forcing himself to smile, "That's okay, I do understand. It was selfish of me to ask."
Even though he tried, he couldn't hide his sadness.
"I can come back, though, right?" I asked, "I may not be able to come here myself, but if you brought me here once, you can do it again."
"You'd want to come back?" Yami asked, as if he couldn't see why I'd want to.
"Of course I would! I could never forget about this place, and I'd be happy to visit anytime."
"Do you... promise?" Yami asked, sounding unsure.
I held out my pinky, winking, "Pinky promise!"
He smiled, completing the promise, "Thank you."

I pulled my hand back and smiled, "Anyways, we don't need to worry about any of this yet. I actually would like to stay for a few more days, if that's alright with you."
"You won't catch me complaining," he responded, turning back to the pathway leading to the next habitat we were going to, "Now, shall we continue?"
I nodded and ran to his side, brushing off the other feathers of my shoulder, "Uhm, I'm not going to get an illness from letting a wild bird walk on me and touching its feathers, am I?"
Yami knocked another feather off my head, "Don't worry about it. I'll have Ishizu give you something to take care of it."
I let out a sigh of relief, happy to know that it wasn't too big of a deal.

"Prince Millennium! Sir, I have a message for you!"
Yami and I peered over our shoulders, seeing a man running up to us. "Yes? What is it?" Yami asked as the man caught up.
"It's from your parents. They say to get home as soon as you can."
"They're home already?" Yami let out an angry grunt, "Alright, thank you." He turned to me, "Sorry, Yugi, it seems we have to cut this trip short."
"It's no problem," I responded.

A feeling of uneasiness arose in the pit of my stomach. "I have a bad feeling that whatever it is they have to say to Yami isn't good."
Guess I'd have to wait to find out.

I love making Yami tease Yugi. It's so fun, even if they're not a couple in this story xD

The research I did for this chapter was really depressing work. You have no idea! Seriously, so many animals have gone extinct due to human interaction (mostly due to excess hunting). I think all the stuff I looked up about Passenger Pigeons made me the most depressed. .
Oh, wanna know what's trippy? Okay, so the last captive Passenger Pigeon (Martha) died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Then, the last captive Carolina Parakeet died in Cincinnati Zoo on February 21st, 1918 in the same cage that Martha had died in.
I dunno. I thought it was interestingly trippy, but maybe that's just me. xP

So, review please? I really hope I didn't leave anything out in this chapter... hawh. :P