A/N: Okay ya this is an odd chapter.. I really don't want to do that whole duel, because I don't know how to put Percy in that duel. I really don't want to make her verse a different person of the big five, so I am making her and Yami/Yugi verse one of them so I can get her duel out-of-the-way. I am going to do the ending though! ;) Um.. I am going to do like how the show does it because I am going to do Tea's duel in her POV (after Percy's and Yugi's duel) and switch like how the show does.. you'll understand... anyway thank you for reading this! If you did anyway...

(A/N: This is like near the end.. so yeah...)

I was breathing heavily and I was sore. I had many direct attacks, and earlier Gansley played a card which allows him to choose a player to not play any monsters for five turns, sadly he choose me. So here I am looking at my cards, trying to remember I can't play any monsters. I go to grab one of my favorite magic cards, when Athena covered my hand with hers.

"Percy," Athena says, through my mind, I might add. "I know I should have told you this before, but I wouldn't have helped then. My Deck Master special ability allows you to play any magic card during someone elses turn. So place this face down, it will be a big help."

I nodded and slid the card in the slot. "I place one card facedown," I said. "and since I can't do anything more, I end my turn."

"Time for my finishing move Yugi," Gansley said. "your life points have finally expired, and when I'm done with you Yugi, I'll attack Percy with my Rainbow Snake. Who better to deliver the final blow to Yugi then my favorite reptilian beast, Ruklamba The Spirit King free me from this prison by striking Yugi down now!"

"No! Yugi!" I shrieked when the pink blast got near Yami, I heard Yami and Gansley say something, but I was to busy running. Although I skidded to a hault when I saw a bunch of Kuribohs make a wall in front of Yami.

"What's going on?" Gansley demanded, the explosions cleared for enough time for me to see Yugi okay. What Yugi? Oh gods nevermind that... "I've had enough, I command you to destroy his life points!"

Ruklamba let out another pink blast, but the Kuribohs just kept multiplying and explosions kept happening as well. When the smoke cleared, Yugi stepped forward unharmed and there was only one Kuriboh.

Yugi looked at Kuriboh. "Nice job Kuriboh!" Yugi smiled, making Kuriboh 'kuri' affectively.

"How is it that you're still standing?" Gansley asked. "Your life points should be gone."

"My deck master saved me," Yugi said. "thanks to his special ability, Kuriboh formed a protective wall!"

I launched to Yugi and glombed him with a hug. Yugi let out a grunt of surprise then hugged me back.

"Don't scare me like that," I whispered in his ear. "I thought.."

Yugi nodded, pulled away, gave me a wink, then got into stance. I looked at Kuriboh and smiled.

"Thank you Kuriboh," I said. "without you Yugi would be-" I was cut off when Kuriboh flew forwards and started to rub against my cheek, like how when he was first chosen to be the deck master, how he rubbed his body against Yami's cheek. I giggled and wrapped my arms around Kuriboh. I noticed how soft Kuriboh was and laughed happily, I let go of Kuriboh and walked to my original area.

"Yugi," Yami's voice rang out, making me look at Yugi and the transparent Yami. "why have you taken over for me?"

"I just figured you could use a rest," Yugi answered, making me smile to myself. "you know, to recover from all those direct attacks. One more blast would've of destroyed you, so I jumped in."

"Thank you," Yami said. "you're very brave."

Yugi looked at Kuriboh again. "Don't thank me," Yugi said, making me smile even more. "you should thank Kuriboh, without his special ability we both would have been finished for now."

"That's true," Yami agreed. "somethings are more powerful than they first appear."

"You can say that again," I laughed. "Kuriboh turned out to be the most valuable monster on you two's side of the field!"

"So," Yugi continued. "getting him as our Deck Master isn't some trick that Gansley pulled on us in order to win."

Yami closed his eyes with a smile. "No, you're right," Yami said. "it was the heart of the cards that guided Kuriboh to us."

Yugi smiled at me happily, then turned and smiled at the spirit, when suddenly his face twisted in pain and started to fall forwards, but Yami quickly switched and caught the now transparent Yugi.

"Yugi," Yami said, right before they switched, then when he caught Yugi in spirit form, Yami looked at his half worriedly. "this duel has affected you too, let me finish this."-Yami looked at Gansley.-"Alright Gansley this duel's not done!"

"Your furry little powder puff blocks one attack," Gansley said as Yugi retreated to the puzzle. "and you think you've won? I'm afraid nothing could be further from the truth. Thanks to the Deck Master move, that you activated Kuriboh to defend yourself, you've introduced him to the playing field. That means I'm now allowed to attack your little fuzzball, and according to the Deck Master rule, if your Deck Master is destroyed, you lose the duel. And your Kuriboh is nothing compared to my serpent, so this duel is over!"

"Last I checked it was still on!" Yami retorted.

I got into stance and smirked at Gansley. "Last I checked it was my turn as well." I shouted "Activate magic card: Graceful Electrocution!" I finished, pressing the button of my duel disk and throwing an arm out dramatically.

"What's that do?" Gansley asked.

I smirked. "If you shut your mouth for a couple of seconds, I'll tell you." I said. "Graceful Electrocution allows me to short-circuit one player's duel disk of my choosing, but this electrocution is not a bad thing actually. This short-circuit in the player's duel disk allows that player to draw two cards instead of one in their draw, and gives them 300 life points. I choose Yugi for Graceful Electrocution to short-circuit!"

The card on the field glowed with bright blue electricity and shot a bolt of it at Yami's duel disk making his life points go up to 700. I smiled at Yami then looked at Gansley with a glare. "I end my turn." I stated.

Gansley laughed. "You think just because Yugi can draw two cards and has 700 life points you two can win?" Gansley asked. "You are sadly mistaken, my dear."

I shook my head and nodded at Yami, when he sent a nod of thanks to me.

Gansley looked at Yami. "Make your final pathetic move Yugi," Gansley said. "not that you have any options. All you got left is your puny Kuriboh, and what can he do?"

Yami closed his eyes then opened them with a glare. "Wait and see," Yami said, then smiled at Kuriboh and drew his two cards. "You like to do alot of talking Gansley, now it's my turn to give the advice: Misjudging the power of the small can be a big mistake. In business and in Duel Monsters. I guess they never taught you that on your way up the corporate ladder, so Kuriboh will just have to teach you this lesson the hard way. By eliminating you from this duel, then based on your own twisted rules, you will be trapped in this world for eternity."

"Your just bluffing." Gansley growled. "It doesn't matter what card you just drew!"

Yami scoffed. "Really?" Yami asked holding up a card.

"Is that Swift Gaia the fierce Knight?" Gansley asked before busting out laughing. "That's useless, remember my special ability, you can attack me with whatever monster you like, it still won't affect me. I'll just reflect the attack back to you, with only 700 life points to spare, you'll wipe yourself out!"

Yami smirked. "I wouldn't be so sure," Yami said. "activate face down card, behold the magic card: Rainbow Blessing! When this card is combined with Kuriboh a great power is released."

Kuriboh then became a rainbow Kuriboh and I smiled at the cuteness. "What?" Gansley demanded. "You expect to win with rainbows and fuzz balls? What kind of stunt is this?"

Kuriboh let out a 'kuri' and I stuck out my bottom lip at the sight. "Alright Kuriboh," Yami shouted. "form the Rainbow Arch!"

"What is he doing?" Gansley demanded, when Kuriboh formed a rainbow and landed beside Gansley.

"Maybe you should check your Deck Master rule book," Yami smirked. "but first I shall summon Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight in attack mode, and now to put you out of business Gansley! I'm afraid your monsters are not my targets, I'm aiming directly for your life points!"

"But how," Gansley demanded again, when Gaia was riding on the rainbow arch. "I've analyzed every aspect of this duel!"

"Well," Yami smirk grew as he spoke. "you've seemed to miss this one. Now my Fierce Knight attack, follow the path of the Rainbow Arch and attack his life points directly!"

"No," Gansley shouted. "this can't be! My Deck Master ability doesn't work on direct attacks!"

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah," I said. "we know."

Yami's smirk stayed. "Thanks to Kuriboh," Yami said. "I was able to figure out my weakness, prepare to be crushed my the compition."

Gaia got to Gansley and struck him with his sword. "You little brats!" Gansley shouted in pain. "I was so close to winning your bodies, and leaving this virtual nightmare for good!"

Gansley's life points dropped to zero and I ran over to Yami as he dropped to one knee. "Yami!" I yelped kneeling beside him.

"I'm glad that's over with," Yami said. "at least for now.. It's time to find our friends, there's no telling what kind of danger Noah put them in."-At that time Kuriboh came back and the rainbow on him had dissappeared.-"Thank you Kuriboh."-Kuriboh 'kuri'ed and disappeared, and Yami looked at me.-"Thank you Percy, if it had not been for your magic card I wouldn't even have drawn Gaia."

I looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry," I muttered. "I wasn't that much help in the duel, with all those stupid magic cards he kept using on me..."

Yami stood up and wrapped his arms around my shoulders in a hug. I hesitantly hugged him back and buried my face in his neck. "You helped me more than you know," Yami whispered to me. "you've helped Yugi and I, and we thank you."

I smiled to myself and pulled away. "Come on, let's find our friends!" I said, still smiling.

Yami smiled back, leaned down, then gently pressed his lips against mine, and before I could respond he pulled away. I huffed in mock annoyance, laced our fingers together, and blinked when I saw a door appear out of no where.

"Uh Yami?" I asked.

Yami looked in the direction I was looking and Yugi came out of the puzzle. "Looks like a passage way." Yugi commented.

I nodded in agreement. "Yep!" I agreed.

"Let's check it out," Yugi said. "we might find the gang."

"You're right," Yami said. "hopefully that's where it leads, our friends could be in great danger."

I walked to the door, tugging Yami with me and Yugi following. "Let's just hope we're not too late!" I said, before opening the door and walking inside. I let go of Yami's hand when I heard the door close behind us three.

I glanced at the door and sweat dropped. "I don't know if you two have seen any horror movies lately," I said. "but doors closing behind people by themselves is never a good thing."

(A/N: okay this is gonna be like the show where it has it in No Ones POV and it will be Tea getting to the duel and everything.. then when it goes to Yugi it will be in Percy's POV.. you'll understand as it goes! But it's starting with Percy's POV okay?)

Percy's POV

Lines, tunnels, Yugi, running, oxygen. That was all on my mind, we've been running down this hallway forever with no destination in mind. Yugi stopped running, leaned forward, placing his hands on his knees panting.

"Does this tunnel ever end?" Yugi asked frustrated.

I shook my head and stood straight. "I don't know," I said. "but it's worse than the rock climbing wall at Camp Half-Blood that's for sure!"

Yami came out of the puzzle. "It might," Yami said. "but only when Noah wants it too. You two mustn't forget, he is controlling everything around us."

Yugi bawled up a fist. "Noah can try to stop us if he wants to," Yugi said. "but we are going to find our friends, no matter what!"

"Right." Yami agreed, then I started to sprint forward.

"Well," I shouted over my shoulder. "let's go!"

I heard Yugi and Yami start running behind me, and I slowed down slightly so we were running at the same pace. When everything started to spin and swirl, Yugi and I both stopped, afraid we might get spilt up, I launched towards Yugi and wrapped my arms around his waist.

"What's going on?" Yugi demanded as hole appeared from under us.

No ones POV

Tea just finished climbing up the bridge and she groaned as she brought her first leg up the cliff. "This easily wins the prize as the worst day ever." Tea muttered as she pulled her body all the way on the cliff and fell to her back exashted.

"I need a nap..." Tea muttered as she panted.

Just a small one, Tea thought to her self already started to fall asleep. so I can get my.. energy.. back...

(A/N: Okay Tea's Dream!)

"Hey Yugi!" Tea said as she leaned forward talking to Yugi at school. "I had a dream that we were trapped in a virtual world and we had to duel these five old guys to escape!"

"uh Tea," Yugi said a bit confused. "this is the dream and when you wake up you'll need this card."

It was the Dark Magician Girl, which to Tea blinked at. "I will?" Tea asked.

"Yep," Yugi said. "it's the Dark Magician Girl. Remember, there was a broadway play about this card. You, me and Percy saw it a few years ago!"

The scene flashed to where Tea was looking at a poster. "We did?" Tea's voiced echoed.

"Well," Yugi's voice said sheepishly. "not really, but this is your dream so just go with it."

The scene flashed to where they were at a atturtorium. "Ladies and gentlmen," An announcer's voice said. "The Dark Magician Girl, and now the most powerful being to ever step foot on the broad way stage will choose a person from the audience to join her for her first number!"

It was then the Dark Magician Girl shot a beam at Tea and made her switch clothes like the ones the Dark Magician Girl was wearing. A staff appeared in Tea's hands and she started to fly around.

"Give our visiter a big round of applause!" The annoucer said.

The image of Yugi and Yami sitting with Percy in between in the audience flashed. Yugi was smiling happily and Yami was just smiling. Percy, however, was a different story. She was clapping and it seemed to be laughing happily.

"Thanks Yugi! Thanks Percy!" Tea shouted, before the image faded.

(A/N: okay Tea's dream is now over!)

"Thanks Yugi.." Tea muttered in her sleep. "Thanks Percy..."

All of the sudden a flipper came over and started to poke her in the cheek. Tea opened her eyes and let her vision focus on a penguin. "Who's there?" Tea asked groggy, then sat straight up when she saw the penguin. "Hey, I know you! I thought I was seeing things but I really was rescued by a penguin. Thanks for getting me out of that cave."

The penguin squawked two times, but it was a cute squeak. "Say what?" Tea asked confused.

The penguin turned around, waddled forward a couple of steps, then turned around gestured to follow. "I guess I'm supposed to follow you." Tea said as she got up.

The scene changed to where the penguin was waddling normally in front of Tea and she was scaling the cliff so she wouldn't fall. Just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder... Tea thought still scaling the wall

The scene flashed again to where there was no cliffs or nothing, they were just walking (waddling for the penguin) next to a river calmly. Tea looked ahead and saw a makeshift raft and about fifteen more penguins. "There are more of you guys?" Tea asked.

The penguin jumped on the raft and gesture for her to get on. "Well," Tea said. "what do I have to lose? Let's go!" Tea then got on the raft four more of them got on after and pushed the raft away, making her loose her balance and fall on her butt.

"Ow.." Tea groaned as she rubbed her sore bottom. (A/N: you don't know how weird it was for me to type that!) "Take it easy you guys.. Yep, I'm talking to penguins..."

The scene changed to where it was foggy and Tea (along with the other penguins) were still on the raft.

"Uh Mr. Penguin?" Tea asked. "can you squawk twice if we are almost there?"

The penguin squawked twice and they all dived into the water. "Hey don't go!" Tea cried then she looked around and blinked, there was thousands of penguins all around her. "You have got be kidding me.."-Tea looked forward and saw what looked green grass but also ice everywhere.-"Of all the places I could have gone, I had to end up on a raft ride a virtual Anatrica!"-The raft came near to the shore.-"Or worse, Planet of the Penguins!"

When the raft reached the shore all the way, Tea looked around confused. "Uh..uh.." Tea struggled. "Hi there, I come in peace? Uh.. take me to your leader?"-The flightless birds made a path and Tea looked up and saw more than two thousands stairs that lead to an ice palace.-"If I'm going to climb up two thousands stairs, there better be someone who speaks English!"

After a while of climbing stairs, Tea got a giant set of doors, which opened up for her and she walked inside, completely surrounded by penguins. "Hello?" Tea called. "Anyone in here?"

"Of course," A voice rang out. "open your eyes and look around would ya? You're surrounded by my penguin army!"

"I know," Tea shouted back. "I meant is there anyone in here without feathers and a beak!"

"There is no one here but us penguins," The voice paused. "Tea!"

"You know my name?" Tea asked.

"I know more than that," The voice said. "Tea Gardner, 5 foot 5, size 6 sneaker, I have all the numbers in my report, and I would say your number is up! Because I'm about to put the freeze on you!"

The voice laughed and Tea narrowed in her eyes in irritation. "Who are you?" Tea demanded. "And what do you want with me anyway."

"Don't me you forgot our last meeting!" The voice said, as about ten penguins moved and another penguin who looked like a Duel Monster was sitting on a table laughing.

Tea blinked. "I think I would have remembered you." Tea commented.

"Look," The penguin said. "things here are never what they appear to be, so when we met earlier, I looked a bit different. Give up? I'm one of the big five!"-The penguin jumped backwards, landed in the chair, and pulled out a book.-"I am Crump, former accountant of Kaiba Corp."

"Disguised as a penguin?" Tea asked.

"Yes, and I'll explain all that soon," Crump promised. "for starters let's do a quick run through you numbers. According to my numbers, there is a 100% chance we are going to duel."

"Me verses you?" Tea asked.

"Exactly," Crump said. "winner gets to leave this place, the loser is trapped here forever. Now, let's get back to my calculations, it says here you've dueled five times in your life, which gives you a 1% chance of actually winning this duel. It also says you eaten 216 slices of pizza!"

"Hey," Tea interrupted. "how do you know all this stuff about me anyway you Bird Brain!"

Crump laughed. "Finding facts and figures are my job," Crump said. "you would be surprised what numbers say about a person's life!"

"Look Crump," Tea said. "my life is none of your business!"

"I'm going to have to disagree with you," Crump said. "I need to know everything about you. So when I win this duel,"-Crump flipped two pages.-"I'll be ready, to become you!"

"No way!" Tea shouted at him.

"My partners and I don't have our own bodies." Crump reminded.

"So that's why.." Tea glanced around. "uh..."

"Yes," Crump said. "that is why I've taken the form of a giant virtual penguin and came to live my penguin brothers and sisters!"

The penguins inside the room started to clap their flippers and some squawked. "Why don't you stay here!" Tea asked, right before the clapping stopped.

"Because I need the real world Tea," Crump said. "and once I completely out duel you in my very own palace of ice, I can finally return to the world, disguised as you!"

"You listen to me Flipper Feet," Tea shouted at him. "I've had enough of this so I'm out of here."

Tea ran out of the palace and she ran into the forest away from the palace of ice. "You can try to run away Tea," Crump's voice surrounded Tea. "but the odds are against you!"

The forest because ice all around her Tea nearly slipped. "What's going on?" Tea demanded as the ice under cracked and she was now standing on a iceberg that was rising upwards, surrounded by the ocean. "This can't be good.." Tea muttered looking down.

"Nice try," Crump laughed, as he appeared across from her on his own iceberg. "looks like my iceberg dueling field is about to leave you cold!"

A duel disk appeared on Tea's arm and she looked at confused, then a bunch of cards appeared in front of her. "Before we start," Crump said. "we'll have to build our deck by choosing from this card database. Not that it matters what cars you decide to pick! The probability that you'll be victorious is slim to none!"

"How am I supposed to choose whenever I've never seen most of the cars before?" Tea asked herself. She looked at them and saw the Sage's Stone magic card. Tea gasped. That one looks sorta kinda familiar... Tea began clicking familiar cards. Good thing I spent all those hours watching Yugi and Joey duel... Tea thought to herself.

"Okay," Crump said as their decks appeared in their duel disks. "as for the new rules, it's time to choose your Deck Master, it can be any monster in your deck!"

Tea took her deck out and pulled a card. "I know exactly who I want to choose," Tea said. "so check it out!"-The Dark Magician Girl came out and did her usual pose.-"The Dark Magician Girl is mine, who's yours?"

"I've already taken the form of a Duel Monster known as Nightmare Penguin, you fool!" Crump said. "So I'll act as the duelist and the Deck Master, two threats in one! And once your Tea on ice, I'll be free to waddle myself to the real world!"

"Guess again Crump," Tea shouted doing this odd move (but kinda cool) to activate her duel disk. "It's time to duel Shorty!"

Percy POV

Well when the swirling stopped when were in a passage way with four doors all around us.

"Which door to choose?" Yugi asked he walked to a door, and I was already next to it. "If we don't choose one we are stuck here!"

"Don't touch it," Yami said quickly, stopping Yugi from going any further. "We have to test these doors for traps first."

Yugi dug into his pocket and I held up a hand out. "Wait Yugi!" I said, but it was too late, Yugi had already flicked the coin and a monster came out, reflecting the coin to land in front of Yugi and sadly the monster hit me too, making me fly backwards. I slid across the ground on my back and smacked my head on the ground when I stopped sliding.

"Testing doors is defiantly smart.." Yugi agreed, then they both looked over to my groaning form and ran over.

"Are you alright?" Yami asked kneeling next to me in spirit form.

I opened my eyes and glared at Yugi. "You couldn't have waited until I moved?" I grumbled, I held a hand up and Yugi grabbed it, then helped me to my feet. "You are so lucky I bathed in the River Styx..."

"It's true," Yami said. "we won our duel, but it seems a whole new game as just begun.."

I nodded and looked around. "And I have a feeling it's not a fun one either..." I trailed off.

No One's POV (Back to Tea!)

"Time to kick your feathered butt," Tea said as she drew a card, it was Mirror Force. Hm.. Mirror Force... Tea thought to herself. "To begin I'll place one card face down and then I'll summon Ancient Elf to the field! That's all for now Crump!"

Crump chuckled. "Now the fun begins," Crump said. "I'll start off by summoning my Giant Red Seasnake and he gets a little power boost!" The Red Seasnake's attack points went up to 2,000.

Tea gasped. "How did your snake get more attack points already?" Tea asked.

"Well," Crump said. "my Deck Master special ability gives a 200 attack point bonus for every water type monster on my side of the field! So now my snake has 2,000 attack points and that's a number you can't argue with."

"That's what you think," Tea snapped. "so are you gonna attack me or what?"

"Patience," Crump said. "us accounts are a cautious bunch. I wouldn't rush into anything unless the numbers are there to support it, and to attack now, I would have to ignore one important fact, your face down card! I'm more than 90% sure it's a trap! That's not the kind of risk a man in my position can afford to take! Of course, there is one way around that, I can activate the magic card Cold Wave!"-The face down card froze over.-"When Cold Wave is in effect, it freezes one magic and trap card for one full turn! Which means you Ancient Elf is a sitting duck, attack my mighty Seasnake!"

The monster did just as it was ordered. "Oh-no," Tea gasped. "my life points!" It was then a chunk of ice formed around to right under her knees.

"Opps," Crump said. "I forgot to mention, as each duelist life points decrease, his or her body with be incased in a block of solid ice! So get ready, for quite a chilly ending! Your mind will be frozen stiff for the end of time!"

A breeze blew through and Tea rubbed her arms. "Man it's cold.." Tea muttered.

Percy's POV

I was examing the doors when I heard a weak, shaky voice. "I can't take much longer..." Tea's voice rang out.

"Tea!" Yugi shouted.

"Where are you Tea?" I joined in, worry suddenly washing over me. "Tell us!"

"I-It's so c-cold.." Her voice said.

"Tea needs our help right now," Yugi said. "we have to find which part of the virtual world Noah sent her to!"

"Noah is just letting us hear her just to torture us," Yami said. "what a cruel trick."

"We have to break out of here and find her!" Yugi said as he ran to the door, which reflected him backwards. I ran over and placed my hands on his shoulders.

"Don't panic Yugi," Yami said from behind me. "that's just what Noah wants you to do."

"What about Tea?" Yugi insisted.

"Look above the doors." Yami ordered us.

I looked up at the doors and gasped. "A star?" I asked.

"Of course," Yugi said. "in Duel Monsters a star represents a card's strength!"

"Right," Yami said. "so I'd say behind that door a one star monster awates us."

I stood up, along with Yugi, then activated my duel disk. "And I bet if we can defeate it," I said, drawing a card. "we can get through that door way!"-I looked at my card and grinned it was a four star card.-"I summon Apollo of the Sun,"-a man that looks like Joey Wheeler but Marik's hair came out dressed in amour and twirled his sword.-"attack, see what's behind door number one!"

A snake like creature with only 300 attack points hissed at Apollo, then Apollo launched forward with his sword catching on fire and swiped through the serpent, destroying it.

"Wow.." Yugi muttered.

"Alright," Yami said. "we'll go in, but who knows where it leads."

"Hopefully to Tea." Yugi said.

(A/N: Okay this is kinda what Noah is doing to the Kaiba brothers... making them relive their memories.. so anything on here is just a memory, then other characters from the Percy Jackson series haven't got trapped in Yugioh, okay?)

We ran inside then the was a bright flash and we were suddenly running down a bus aisle. Yugi and I quickly stopped and looked around. "The Hades?" I muttered, looking at all the six grade students. "This is not Tea..."

I looked around until I saw a little girl with long black hair with her knees on the seat and her fists clenched like she was restraining herself from hitting someone. I looked behind her to a red-headed girl throwing pieces of her sandwich at the guy that looked like the animated version of Grover. Then it clicked. Oh my gods...

I widened my eyes, stumbled back into Yugi, who stumbled back into Yami slightly. "What's wrong Percy?" Yami asked.

I pointed at the girl with black hair and took a deep breath. "T-That's me.." I stuttered. "W-Well the p-past me a-anyway..."

"What?" Yugi asked, then poked my side. "Your right here!"

I grabbed his hand and walked to the past me's seat and point at her, it was defiantly me. "That is the past me!" I said. "Noah must have software that plays someone's memories, this is one of my most important ones I think.. It was right before I discovered everything about who I am..."

"I'm going to kill her..." My virtual past self mumbled. Yugi and Yami observed the scene with interest.

Grover's virtual past self tried to calm my virtual past self down. "It's OK. I like peanut butter." Then he dodged another piece of the animated version of Nancy's lunch.

That made my virtual past self snap. "That's it." My past self began to get up, but Grover's virtual past self pulled my virtual past self back down.

"You're already on probation," Grover's virtual past self reminded my virtual past self. "You know who'll get blamed if anything happens."

Another bright flash of light appeared and we were back in the hallway. "I should have decked her when I had the chance," I growled to myself, then saw another set of doors. "Hey come on! And you're doing the next one Yugi!"

Yugi and Yami laughed and they ran with me to the next set of doors. I just hope I won't have to go down memory lane..

"What's the matter Tea?" Crump taunted. "Got cold feet?"

"Real funny Crump," Tea said sarcastically. "you accountants are histerical."-Tea drew a card with a shaky hand took a shaky breath, which was horrible because you could actually see her breath.-"I-I place a-a monster de-defens-se mode."

"Sounds like someone got a case of the chills," Crump said. "you should really dress more appropriate for the winter dear."

Crump chuckled and Tea placed the monster face down on the duel disk. "Sorry," Tea snapped. "my tux was at the cleaners!"

"You've got spunk kid," Crump admitted. "too bad it will all go to waste when your mind is frozen here. Now then, let's see, this could take me some time. This card is good, but there is always these..."

"Hurry up Beak Breath," Tea snapped, not to be very rude, just mostly cold. "it's freezing, so just go!"

"I need to weigh the percentages before I make a decision," Crump said. "your Dark Magician Girl isn't much of a threat to me on her own, but you added other cards, she can become more of a threat!"

Tea gasped. "Add other cards to her?" Tea asked.

Crump's penguin face twisted into an odd smirk. "Of course," Crump said. "every duelist knows that fact. What's the problem?"

"There is no problem." Tea grumbled.

"Oh I get it," Crump said. "you forgot to form a strategy when you were picking all your cards!"-Tea didn't say anything making Crump smirk.-"I knew it, only an amateur would make that mistake. I'll keep you guessing by playing these two cards face down and I'll wait for your meltdown!"

Tea looked at the two face down cards. He didn't attack, Tea thought to herself. so that means he is probably planning something big!...

"Soon," Crump said, snapping Tea out of her thoughts. "my brain will be in that empty head of yours, and I'll finally be free!"

"You aren't flying the coop just yet, so chill out." Tea said as she drew a card. "I play Mystical Space Typhoon, this card allows me to destroy one of your trap or magic cards,"-A wind hit the one of the left and destroyed it.-"so say good bye to that one!"

Crump laughed. "You took my bait," Crump said. "you destroyed one trap card, only to fall victim to another!"-Tea gasped.-"It's called Driving Snow, when activated it creates a giant blizzard to blow away one of your face down cards! So get ready for the storm of the centery!"-a mini blizzard blew up Mirror Force and destroyed it.-"Cold enough for ya? Now you have nothing to stop my attack, so that means my Giant Seasnake is free to strike!"

"O-Oh yeah," Tea said, freezing cold. "it will t-take a l-lot more than t-that to fr-freeze me o-out!"

Tea shivered and breathed into her hands. "Isn't the weather wonderful today?" Crump taunted. "It's a pleasant negative sixteen degrees!"

Crump laughed and Tea grabbed a card but before she could pull it out of her hand, Dark Magician Girl placed her hand on Tea's. "Tea wait," Dark Magician Girl said. "my Deck Master ability allows us to communicate mentally, I'm here to guide you!"

Tea nodded at her. "Okay," Tea told her. "you have my trust,"-Tea looked at Crump and the Dark Magician did her movements like a puppet kind of.-"Now I activate this card!"-Dark Magician Girl and Tea both moved Tea's arm to place the magic card in the slot.-"Offerings to the Doom,"-a bunch of wrappings shot out of the card and wrapped around Giant Red Seasnake.-"Looks like I've got this duel all wrapped up, because my magic card allows me to get rid of one of your monsters, see ya snakey!"-The Giant Red Seasnake burst into pieces.-"Now for my face down card, I'll switch it from defense to attack mode! Reveal Fire Sorcerer!"

The card flipped and Fire Sorcerer emerged with flames in her hands. "Pretty cool right," Tea smiled. "and now, it's time to warm things up a bit."-Fire Sorcerer made a flame circle all around Tea, warming her up completely.-"Much better. Next I'll activate Fire Sorcerer's special ability by discarding two of my cards,"-Tea put two card in the slot to go to the grave yard.-"she's able to burn through 800 of your life points!"-The flames in Fire Sorcerer's hands disappeared and reappeared on Crump's flippers, who freaked out and put his flippers in his mouth to put out the flames.-"and don't think I'm finished with you yet Crump, Fire Sorcerer put that bird on the hot seat!"-Fire Sorcerer let out something like meteor shower, just with fire and hit Crump with one giant ball of fire. Crump got the 'x' eyes for a second and twitched, then returned back to normal.-"And since you lost life points, your old rule gets turned against you. How do you like being frozen?"

A chunk of ice went upwards to what is appeared to about the beginning of his stomach. "I absolutely love it," Crump smirked. "if you haven't noticed I'm a penguin! We like things on the cool side, or do you need a lesson on Antarctic birds?"

"Now that you mention it," Tea said. "I do have a question Crump!"

"Why do I get my good looks from?" Crump supplied.

"Not quite," Tea said. "I want to know why you're so obsessed with penguins!"

"Not that's any of your business," Crump said. "but when I was a young man these little flightless birds saved me from living a life of misery! You see, I was an only child and my parents were never around, they worked late and were too tired to spend any time with me! So to entertain myself, I would sit around and count things. Rips on the rug, dots on the wall paper, stars in the sky, what ever I could find, then while counting books on the shelf, I discovered a book about penguins! I learned that the mother and father would actually take turns sitting on the eggs, these birds had a bound with their children that I never knew could exist! So from then on, my life revolved around my two loves, numbers and penguins, and I devoted myself to both! As I grew I dreamed of a job that would combine my two great passions, and one day that dream almost came true! I climbed my way to the top of the Kaiba Corporation as the company's Chief Accountant and Number Expert, and I had an idea that would have tripled our profits, an all penguin theme park! So I brought my proposal to Seto Kaiba, that good for nothing punk shot down my dream, and once I'm free from here, I finally have my revenge!"

"But what does that have to do with me?" Tea asked.

"I told you I need a human body to escape from this cyber realm," Crump said. "you just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time! In the future, be more careful on who you hang around with! Of course, the odds of you actually having a future are slim to none, so let's continue this duel, so I can get out of this place already!"-Crump drew and smirked.-"Now I summon Flying Penguin, and thanks to my Deck Master special ability, it gains 200 attack points right away! But that's just the beginning, next I'll play Penguin Sword, raising its attack strength 800 more points!"

"That's not good," Tea said. "my monsters toast!"

"That's right," Crump agreed. " and now my Flying Penguin attack her Fire Sorcerer!"

Flying Penguin did his order and Tea widened her eyes. "That's my last defense!"

"And since you lost more life points," Crump said, as the chuck of us grew to Tea's mid-thigh. "the freezing continues."

"Y-Your s-sick." Tea stuttered freezing cold once again.

"It will all be over soon Tea," Crump said. "your life points are down 50% and with no more defensive monsters on the field to hide behind, you're out in the cold!"

"You w-wish..." Tea muttered.

Percy POV

Yugi and I ran through another door and I looked around annoyed. I was only annoyed because after two doors, I learned that every time I destroy a monster, we take a trip down my memory lane. So far we've done the exploding bus, when I first trained with Luke, when I bathed in the River Styx (that one was annoying), and when I first saw the Fates cut Luke's string, and now it was my turn to battle a monster from the door again.

"We don't seem to be getting anywhere." Yami commented.

"It's fr-freezing..." Tea's voice rang out again. "My l-legs are n-numb!"

"We're coming Tea!" Yugi shouted.

"We need to find a way out of here right now," I said. "besides I'm tired of all my blasts from the past!"

Yami looked around then stopped on a certain spot on the floor. "Yugi, Percy," Yami said. "look on the floor."

Yugi and I both looked at warily, then looked on the floor to see a coin that Yugi through earlier. "That's the same coin I threw at the door!" Yugi said. "We were here before, so that means we've just been running around in circles!"

No ones POV

"A little chilly are we?" Crump taunted as Tea rubbed her bare arms. "that's the least of your worries!" Then he began to laugh crazily and evilly.

Percy's POV

I looked around at the doors and started to tap my foot subconsciously. ADHD.

"This game's pretty easy," Yugi commented. "the stars above a door represent the strength of the monster behind that door, beat the monster and get through."

"There is a clue we're missing." Yami reminded as I walked over to stand beside Yugi, trying to shake off my ADHD.

"But what is it?" I asked them both.

Yugi put on a thinking face, then grinned. "I know," Yugi said. "maybe the stars represent more than just the strength of the monsters!"

"But what Yugi?" Yami asked.

"Well," Yugi said, turning and looking at the doors. "what if they are like directions for us."

I smiled in realization. "Yeah," I agreed. "Through the one star door first, then the two, then the three, then the four!"

"Yes," Yami agreed with us. "and the reason all of us have been going in circles is because we've only been battling against the monsters with one star!"

I grinned. "So let's try this door, since it's my turn." I said as I drew a four star card again. "Even though I don't want another blast from my past. I want to get out of here so they stop! So I play Hades' Soldier!"-a monster that looked like the zombie version of Jesse Anderson came out and spun his axe.-"Attack with Fierce Slash!"

A mud like monster appeared and Hades' Soldier slashed right through it.

"Well done." Yami complemented.

I sent him a thumbs up and walked to the door, then looked at them. "Ready for another memory?" I asked, they nodded and together we all walked into the bright light when the scene cleared. My virtual past self and my mother's virtual past self were carrying an unconscious virtual Grover.

I winced remembering this one. "I hate this one..." I muttered. Yugi grabbed my hand and laced our fingers together. I smiled at him and we all walked closer to the stumbling trio.

My virutal past self glanced behind herself and saw the monster sniffing Smelly Gabe's abandoned car. I snickered to myself remembering what happens to it.

Yami looked at the monster and went pale slightly. "Hey isn't that the monser-" Yami started

"The one you saw when you two first met me?" I supplied, when Yami and Yugi nodded, I continued. "Yeah it is.. and this is my very first encounter with him."

"Food?" Grover's virtual past self moaned, which made Yugi laugh slightly, and me snicker again.

"Shh," My virtual past self told him. "Mom, what's he doing? Doesn't he see us?"

Yami looked at me. "That's your mother?" Yami asked, which made me nod slowly not sure where he was going with this. "She is a beautiful woman."

I grinned with pride. "I know," I said. "she's just as beautiful on the inside too."

"His eyesight and hearing are terrible," My mom's virtual past self said. "He goes by smell. But he'll figure out where we are soon enough."

As if on que, the Minotaur picked up the car and threw it, making the gas tank explode.

"Not a scratch.." I snickered. "oops..." Yugi squeezed my hand and Yami placed a hand on my left shoulder, making me smile to myself.

"Percy," My mom's virtual past self said. "When he sees us, he'll charge. Wait until the last second, then jump out of the way-directly sideways. He can't change directions very well once he's charging. Do you understand?"

My virtual past self was confused. "How do you know all this?"

My mom's virtual past self twisted in sadness. "I've been worried for an attack for a long time. I should have expected this. I was selfish, keeping you near me."

I sighed and shook my head. "Not in the least," I said. "I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for her."

That confused my virtual past self even more. "Keeping me near you? But-"

There was a bellow of rage and I winced. Never liked that sound, never will...

The trio started to climb the hill higher, then my mom's virtual past self shouldered Grover's virtual past self on her and looked at my virtual past self pleadingly. "Go, Percy! Separate! Remember what I said."

My virtual past self hesitated, then sprinted to the left, turned, and saw the monster baring down at her. The monster lowered his head and charged, his horns aimed straight for her chest. Yugi gripped my hand tighter and Yami stood closer to me than before. I smirked at them amused, but went with it anyway. My virtual past self stayed in the same position for two seconds, then jumped out-of-the-way. The monster charged pasted, bellowed, then turned towards my mother's virtual past self, who was putting Grover's virtual past self in the ground.

My mom's virtual past self back down the hill slowly, leading the monster away from Grover's virtual past self. "Run, Percy!" she told my virtual past self. "I can't go any further! Go!"

My virtual past self just stayed frozen in fear, then the monster charged at mom's virtual past self. My mom's virtual past self tried to do what was needed, when the monster grabbed her by the neck and lifted her into the air.

I closed my eyes and winced. "I hate this part.." I muttered. "mom is okay.. mom is okay..."

"Mom!" My virtual past self shouted in fear.

My mom's virtual past self caught my virtual past self's eyes. "Go!" She choked out.

The monster roared and squeezed my mom's past self until she burst into gold dust. I flinched at the sight and buried my face in Yugi's shoulder and kept repeating: "I rescued her... mom is okay.."

"No!" My virtual past self shouted, catching my attention when I was okay. I was grateful I didn't have to explain why mom was okay to Yami and Yugi, I had already done it when I first met them. My virtual past self stripped off her red rain jacket and shook it around.

"Hey," My virtual past self shouted, running over the side of the monster, still waving the jacket. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!"

I face palmed, while Yami and Yugi laughed. "I can't believe I said that..." I muttered

"Raaaarrrr!" The monster bellowed at my virtual past self, shaking its fist.

I snickered. "Here is one of my Seaweed Brain ideas.." I smirked, making Yami and Yugi look at me oddly.

My virtual past self backed into the tree, still waving the jacket. The monster charged quickly at my virtual past self and threw his arms out so my virtual past self couldn't jump to the side.

So my virtual past self took a different route, my virtual past self leaped straight up, kicking off from the creature's head, using it as a springboard, turned in midair, and landed on its neck.

Yugi blinked. "How did you do that?" Yugi asked.

I shook my head. "Still to this day," I said. "I have no idea.."

We all watched as the monster, with my virtual past self still on it's back, hit the tree, then started to stagger around trying to shake my virtual past self off. I snickered to myself when I say my virtual past self hook her arms around the horns with a death grip.

"Why doesn't it just back up?" Yami asked.

I snickered again. "Cause," I said. "it only has one gear: forward."

"Food!" Grover's virtual past self moaned loudly, making Yugi let out a tense chuckle.

The monster wheeled around, pawed the ground and my virtual past self widened her eyes. My virtual past self gripped one horn with both hands and pulled back with all her strength.

Yugi widened his eyes when he realized what my virtual past self was doing. "Does it-" A snap interrupted him and I grinned to myself. "Does that answer?" I asked, making Yugi nod silently.

The monster shrieked, flung my virtual past self off to the side, making her hit the ground and smack her head a rock. She sat up slowly and gripped the horn for dear life.

I smiled to myself. "I still have that horn." I said.

The monster charged, my virtual past self rolled to one side and came up kneeling. As the monster barreled past her, she drove the broken horn straight into its side, right up under its furry rib cage.

The bull-man roared in agony. He flailed, clawing at its chest, then burst into a gold dust.

The scene flashed and the hallway was once again visible. "Hmm..." I said in amusement. "that was longer than usual..."

Yugi looked at me surprised. "Are you okay?" Yugi asked. "All the memories must be getting to you..."

I smiled at his concern and shook my head. "No, not really," I said. "well, besides them annoying me. But I keep reminding myself this is the past, and it turns out fine anyway. I'm here with you two, aren't I?"

Yami smiled at me and looked down the hall, making Yugi and I do the same. "Now," Yugi shouted as we sprinted down the hall. "let's find Tea!"

No ones POV

Tea shivered to herself, rubbing her arms quickly. "A-A big r-risk isn-n't," Tea stuttered freezing cold. "I-I ca-an't eve-en fee-el my to-toes!"

Crump chuckled darkly. "Advantage 254 of being a penguin," Crump said. "we have thermo-insaltated flipper feet! Let's get back to business shall we?"

Tea held up a card shaking and Dark Magician Girl grabbed Tea's hand with hers. "Be strong." Dark Magician Girl said to Tea mentally.

Tea looked at her and nodded, then looked at Crump the Penguin. "Alright let's do this!" Tea said, with a determined face.

"Doesn't matter," Crump said. "the sooner you make your move, then sooner I can make my move and freeze you over and win this duel. You're already knee-deep in ice and the worse is yet to come my dear! My all-powerful Flying Penguin is ready to swipe through you puny defense!"

Tea looked at her Deck Master. "No," Tea said. "if his Flying Penguin attacks, I'll be wide open, and if I place you on the field, he'll just destroy you!"

"So very true," Crump agreed. "and if your Deck Master is destroyed.. well then, you automatically lose the duel my dear!"

Tea growled to herself and placed a card on her duel disk. "I place one monster face down in defense mode," Tea said. "and then I'll end my turn Crump."

"An extremely desperate move, for an extremely desperate girl!" Crump taunted. "And my hand continues to grow more powerful, now take this! Flying Penguin attack! Ha! There goes your face down card! Now you're back where you started!"

"Not quite," Tea snapped. "you revealed my Skelengel, which allows me to draw one new card!" Tea pulled a card and looked at it shaking a little from the cold still. Magic Formula.. this may come in handy... Tea thought to herself.

"I ran through the numbers and calculation," Crump said. "and it's only a matter of time before you are trapped here forever, or my name isn't Adrian Randalf Crump III, a master in the art of number crunching, I must say. And best dressed penguin in the world!"

Crump made an odd face and Tea made a freaked out face. "You are a weird little bird Crump," Tea commented, before she drew. And I'm in the mode for a barbque! Tea thought then did draw her card and looked at it, biting her lip. What's this? Maha Vailo? No, he's not powerful enough, there's no way he'll beat flying penguin!...

"Tea," The Dark Magician Girl said mentally. "don't give up so fast, he has a secret skill that can help you!"

"Huh?" Tea asked. "What kind of a skill?"-a look of realization came to her eyes, and she looked back at the card. "Hold on! I remember this, Yugi once told me about this card!"

Flashback for Tea!

"You want to know which card is most like me?" Yugi asked Tea shocked.

Tea picked up a random card. "Wait I know," Tea said. "well I think I know. It's that purple guy with the big hat right?"

"Uh big hat?" Yugi sweatdropped, then a look of realization came across his features and he picked up the Dark Magician. "Oh! You mean my Dark Magician card! Well, even though it's pretty great, I don't think it's the one most like me."

Yugi started to shuffle through his cards. "Okay.." he muttered, before finding the correct card and holding it up. "Ah, here it us."-Yugi flipped it around so it was facing Tea.-"This is the one, pretty cool right?"

Tea leaned forward towards the card. "Maha Vailo?" Tea asked.

Yugi nodded. "He may not be as strong as the Dark Magician," Yugi said. "well not when you first look at him anyway, but if you look closer, you'll see a hidden power deep inside!"

Flashback end for Tea!

Of course! Tea thought to herself. It's hidden strength!

Tea looked at Crump determined. "I'm not done yet!" Tea shouted, making Crump gasp with another weird face. "Now I summon Maha Vailo in attack mode!"

"That's weak!" Crump commented.

"Just wait I'm not done," Tea shouted. "check this out! I activate Magic Formula, raising my monster's attack points by 500!"

"You must have failed all your math courses kid," Crump said. "cause it's still to short on points to defeat my Flying Penguin."

Tea smirked. "I guess you don't know about Maha Vailo's hidden power," Tea said. "he get's 500 extra attack points for every one of my magic cards!"

"No fair!" Crump protested.

"Oh it's fair," Tea said. "Maha Vailo attack his Flying Penguin with Scared Lightning, add this up Crump!"-Maha Vailo attack with lightning, destroying Flying Penguin and hit Crump at the same time.-"Extra crispy fried penguin anyone?"-Crump twitched then pulled an angry face, with an anime angry mark on the side of his head.-"We're safe, at least for now.."

Percy's POV

Running, tunnels, Yugi, and oxygen, were the only things on my mind again.

"I-I'm freezing.." Tea's voice said, making Yugi and I come to a halt. "I don't k-know how much l-long I c-can last o-out here!"

"We're getting close!" Yami said.

I grinned and nodded. "Yep," I said. "she's getting louder!"

Yugi and I started to sprint down the hallway again and I thought about our time limit. Time's running out. Yugi, Yami and I have to defeat more monsters to get through this stupid maze! We have to get to Tea, before it's too late!...

"I see another set of doors ahead!" Yugi said, right before we ran inside and looked around.

"We need the three star door!" I said, then Yugi found it and I backed away slightly. "It's your turn Bud.."

Yugi drew. "Yes," Yugi said then threw the monster on the disk. "Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight attack!"

"No," Yami shouted. "stop the attack!"

Yugi looked at him then at Gaia who already sent out an attack. "It's too late!" I shouted.

The attack hit a card and the attack was reflected back and luckily I jumped out-of-the-way quick enough so I wouldn't get hit. "Gaia!" Yugi shouted when Gaia was destroyed.

"That door has been armed with a trap card," Yami said. "look more closely, right under the stars!"

I looked up there and walked to Yugi's side. "Three face down cards." I said.

"Of course," Yugi said. "then that blast had to be a Mirror Force trap card."

"So," Yami said walking near us, while crossing his arms. "try again."

Yugi drew and placed another card on the disk. "I summon Gazelle!"

A monster came out and I pulled a creeped out face. "Oh that's it, he's freaky.." I muttered then inched behind Yugi.

"It looks like Dark King of the Abyss," Yami said. "a weaker monster."

"Awesome," Yugi said. "say good-bye."

"No wait," Yami interrupted. "another face down card is being activated! Now it's stronger!"

Yugi huffed in annoyance. "Then I summon Berfomet, then I'll use this, Polymerization! To form Chimera, now attack my Mythical Beast!"

I came out from behind Yugi and grinned as Dark King of the Abyss was destroyed. "Good bye!" I said cheerfully.

"Yes," Yugi cheered. "Let's go!"

Yugi and I sprinted to down the hall, I skidded to a halt and Yugi looked around a bit impatient. Once he found it, he narrowed his eyes at the door irritated.

"Patience Yugi." Yami said.

"I think Yugi lost his patience four doors ago." I scoffed.

"You must be very careful," Yami reminded. "this door has been stocked with five cards. Noah could have hidden just about anything behind that door."

"I'm taking this one." Yugi said, making me blink.

"Are you sure?" I asked, and gestured to my duel disk. "I have bit more cards than you do."

Yugi shook his head and smiled at me. "Nah," Yugi said. "I'll take it, I know you're getting tired of your memories flashing so I'll do this one."

I sent him a grateful smile and hugged him quickly. "Thanks.." I said to him, then turned to the door.

"Defeating a four star monster," Yami said. "with four face down cards is no easy task."

Yugi drew the Dark Magician and smirked. "This may do it." Yugi muttered.

"No," I said. "you can't risk him!"

"Okay," Yugi said and drew again. "then how about the heavy storm magic card! It destroys all magic and trap cards!"

I smiled at him. "Impressive." I commented.

"Nice work," Yami smiled as well. "now his monster stands alone, with no face down cards to protect it."

"Vaporize that freak Yugi!" I smirked.

"Four Star Lady Bug of Doom should do the trick," Yugi said. "it may seem weak, but watch this!"-The monster destroyed the lady bug, then the monster glowed with stars and busted into pieces.-"It automatically destroys all four star monsters!"

"Oh yeah!" Yugi cheered, fist pumping the air, making me laugh.

"Excellent move." Yami complemented.

"Thanks," Yugi said. "it's a good thing I had that little critter stashed in my deck."

I laughed again. "Well that little critter has the longest name I've ever heard of," I said, then smiled when I saw the passage way revealed. "but that's not the point, this could be the last door however, is the point."

I sprinted through the door and shouted over my shoulder. "Come on!"

Yugi sprinted after me and we ran into a ice cave. Yugi and ran to the ice and saw Tea dueling!

"Tea!" I shouted once we got near the glass.

"This doesn't look good..." Yugi muttered, then looked at her pleading and began to shout, making me cover my eyes quickly. "Don't worry Tea, we're right here for you! Be strong!"

I put my hands down and decided not to comment.

No one POV

"And now," Crump said. "I'll summon Bolt Penguin in defense mode and place one card face down!"

"Your little turkey only has 800 defense points," Tea said. "I can stuff it and roast it with one blast! So stand back Crump, Maha Vailo attack his Bolt Penguin now!"

Crump laughed. "All my calculations were right on the money," Crump laughed. "now I activate Revenge Sacrifice, good-bye Maha Vailo!"

A bunch of red ropes circled Maha Vailo and pulled him to the card. "No," Tea shouted. "not him!"

"Revenge Sacrifice destroys the monster you used to destroy my monster," Crump said. "and now I'll defend myself with this monster, the impenetrable Defender Iceberg!"

Out of the water a giant ice monster appeared in defense mode. "Check that out," Tea said. "it's like a giant ice cube!"

"Yes," Crump agreed. "a giant ice cube with 2,450 defense points, you'll never get past that! And don't think I'm done, I'll place this face down and summon Penguin Torpedo! This little bird is a real blast kid, especially when my Deck Master special ability gives it a boost!"-Penguin Torpedo then shot into the water heading straight for Tea.-"I almost forgot, it can attack your life points directly!"

Penguin Torpedo shot out of the water and hit Tea straight on. Tea cried out in pain and smoke erupted all around her.

"Tea!" Yugi and Percy shouted from the ice cave, not realizing Tea couldn't hear them.

"And since you lost another chunk of life points," Crump said. "you gain another chunk of ice!"-The ice grew up to her waist and she widened her eyes with fear.-"Yes, it's quite chilling isn't it?"

Tea drew a card with shaky hand. "L-Look Crump," Tea stuttered, more cold than before. "I'm n-not out ye-et!"

Tea looked at her cards and widened her eyes even more. These two cards won't help! Tea thought to herself slightly panicking. I'm out of moves!...

"There is one thing you can do Tea," Dark Magician Girl said mentally, as she moved forward. "move me out to the playing field, trust me, it's your last hope!"

"I guess I have nothing to lose," Tea said, Dark Magician Girl winked at her secretly. "I move Dark Magician Girl to the field!"

"Don't you realize if your Deck Master is destroyed you lose?" Crump asked, then smirked. "You must have a pathetic hand to make that move! Now watch and learn I activate Ocean of Regeneration, to bring back my old friend Penguin Torpedo! This magic card allows me to bring back one water monster from my graveyard for one turn! Penguin Torpedo, attack her life points directly again!"

The torpedo like monster repeated it's actions and Yugi and Percy pounded on the ice cave. "No!" Yugi and Percy shouted, still not noticing or caring Tea couldn't hear them.

The smoke cleared to have ice all around her body expect her arms and her head. "Suddenly I'm in the mode for a tall glass of ice Tea!" Crump laughed. "Soon I'll go back to the real world as a free bird!"

"Leave her alone!" Yugi shouted as he hit the thick ice weakly.

"Tea!" Percy shouted, a tear running down her right eye.

"She loses this duel," Yugi swallowed. "she'll be trapped here..."

Another tear came out of Percy's eye, she may have not known the gang for long, but each and every one of them, she considered a sibling and seeing Tea like this made her want to bawl her eyes out. "It's not fair," Percy muttered. "she's not experienced enough..."

"And she's losing badly..." Yugi finished making a fist against the ice.

"Tea can win you two," Yami reminded. "by trusting herself and believing in the heart of the cards."

Percy looked up, along with Yugi, and wrapped her arms around his waist in comfort, then Yugi wrapped his arms around her and held her close as they watched the duel, never once thinking the thought of pulling away.

I'm down to my last few life points. Tea thought to herself panicking more. and my Dark Magician Girl isn't strong enough to get past his defense, plus since she's my Deck Master.. if she goes, I automatically lose!...

"Tea," Dark Magician Girl said mentally, looking over her shoulder at her. "there is one card that can save us, it's the first card you picked.

Tea gasped and as she remembered it. "Wait," Tea said in their mindlink. "is it the Sage's Stone magic card?"

"Yes Tea," Dark Magician Girl said back in their mindlink. "that's the card you need to draw."

"But," Tea said, outside their mindlink. "it could be at the bottom of my deck for all I know..."

"I will help you draw this card!" Dark Magician Girl said in their mindlink. "To do this, I must invoke my Deck Master special ability and to call upon every monster in your graveyard Tea!"

Dark Magician Girl closed her eyes, then snapped them open. "Behold," Dark Magician Girl shouted, out loud I might add. "Dark Magic energies, please hear my call, enter our graveyard and revive the monsters within!"

"What's going on?" Crump asked as Dark Magician Girl brought out the monsters from Tea's graveyard in pink orbs.

"Tea," Dark Magician Girl said in their mindlink. "I've formed a soul circle with the four monsters in your graveyard, this allows you to draw four new cards."-Tea's deck glowed pink and four cards flew out of it floating right in front of her.-"The rest is up to you."

Let's see, Tea thought to herself looking at the cards. Did I draw the card I need? Tea then saw the Sage's Stone magic card and gasped. Yes, there it is!.. Tea grabbed the card and struggled to put it in the slot. Now to play it.. stupid ice...

Tea finally successfully put it in the slot. "There," Tea said. "did it..so exactly what does this card do?..."

Percy put her head on Yugi's shoulder when hot sensation hit her arm, Percy yelped in surprise and pulled out of the embrace looking at Yugi's duel disk. It was glowing!

"Uh," Percy said, making Yugi look at his duel disk and making him blink a couple of times. "what's up with your duel disk?"

A giant orb of pink light appeared out of his disk then formed the Dark Magician. "My Dark Magician," Yugi said. "but how was he summoned?"

The Dark Magician went back to his little orb, then the orb busted out of the cave and went to Tea. Percy looked at the now destroyed wall. "Well," Percy said. "that may help us out of here."

"The Dark Magician?" Tea gasped as the card appeared on her duel disk. "I have no idea where he came from, but I am not complaining!"

"How? But-what?" Crump freaked out. "My caculations told me I would win this duel! This just doesn't add up at all!"

"The power of the Sage's Stone magic card," The Dark Magician Girl said outside their mindlink. "bestoys upon me to call forth the Dark Magician from any near by player's deck."

"What it can't be!" Crump shouted.

"Double Dark Magic Attack!" The Dark Magician Girl shouted, before her and the Dark Magician let out two different colored blasts that went straight through Crump's defense monster and straight to him directly. Crump's life points dropped to zero, then he evaporated, like seriously evaporated into a white dust that went to the sky.

"Our task is complete." The Dark Magician Girl told her teacher, the Dark Magician. The two magicians nodded to each other before disappearing.

"Whoa," Tea said. "I won..."

It was then the ice chunk around here faded away and Tea collasped straight on the ground, unconscious.

Percy's POV

I watched as Tea fell, then I looked down and saw all water, and grinned gaining an idea. I made a fist, closed my eyes in concentration, then felt that same tugging at my gut. I opened my eyes and grinned wickedly at Yugi.

"Hey Yugi?" I said, as I looked down at my rising wave that was coming up to us.

"Yeah Percy?" Yugi answered looking for a way to get over to Tea.

I wrapped an arm around his waist and grinned at him again. "You better not let go!" I said.

"Wait what?" Yugi asked.

I pointed outside our cave wall and there was my giant wave and all it's glory! "That's our ride," I said then started to walk, tugging him with me, to the wave. "come on!"

"But Percy.." Yugi said a bit warily. "That's only a wave.."

I looked at him, unwrapped my arm, stepped on the wave and held a hand out when I didn't fall. "See?" I said, waiting for him to take my hand. "Don't you trust me? All you have to do is hold on and you won't fall, I promise."

Yugi nodded, grabbed my hand and hesitantly stepped on the wave. Yugi wrapped an arm around my waist, making me blush slightly, then I commanded the wave to go to Tea, which it did. Once the wave to us to our destination, Yugi and I hoped off and I made the wave fall back into the sea. Yugi looked at me and pecked my lips. "That was awesome!" Yugi said happily.

I smiled proudly at him. "Perks of being the demigod daughter of Poseidon." I said before kneeling next to Tea, wrapping an arm around her shoulders to help her up. "Tea?" I asked.

"Tea? Tea?" Yugi asked.

I huffed annoyed by this then made a little sliver of water from the ice hit her in the face to wake her up. Tea groaned after the water had hit her and I smirked triumphantly.

"Tea?" Yugi asked, kneeling next to me. "Can you hear me?"

Tea opened her eyes and focused on Yugi and I. "Tea!" I said happily. "You did it!"

"Percy, Yugi," Tea said her voice shaky. "I was almost a human ice pop!"

Tea wrapped her arms around us, which made us open ours eyes in shock. I knew Yugi only thought of Tea as a sister, but her nails were digging into my back, on that one spot opposite of my naval. Give up? My Achilles Heal. (A/N: I think that's where her Achilles Heal is.. not too sure, so don't kill me!) "I'm so glad to see you two!" Tea cried, digging her nails even further.

I felt pain hit my body and I squeaked quietly. "Me too Tea," Yugi said. "now that we are all together, I promise it will stay that way!"

I tapped Tea's back three times as a symbol of 'time out.' "Tea..." I gasped, my body flaring with pain. "nalls.. Achilles Heal.. pain... let go.. please!"

Tea gasped and pulled away from the hug and gave a teary, but sheepish smile. "I'm sorry." Tea said.

I smiled and waved her off. "Don't worry," I said. "I'll heal myself later and besides you didn't know!"

Still Percy's POV!

"Excellent dueling Tea!" I said, while we were walking in a ice land still.

"T-Thanks P-Percy!" Tea said.

Yugi shivered. "I-I'd give a-anything," Yugi stuttered, the cold starting to get to him. "for an h-hot choc-colate!"

"M-Me too!" Tea agreed, while I just nodded.

Yugi shrugged off his jacket/coat thing and placed it on Tea's shoulders gently as if she was his sister, which made me smile. "Here," Yugi said. "take my coat."

"You're a total life saver Yugi." Tea grinned. "Thank you."

"Sure," Yugi said, then looked at the ground. "no sweat..."

"Hey," I said, placing a hand on his arm. "you're worried about everyone else, aren't you?"

"Yeah," Yugi agreed. "I'm especially worried about Tristan and Serenity,"-Yugi looked at me with his soft violet eyes, making me melt slightly inside, but I guess it was a bit noticable because Yugi grinned at me secretly, then gained another worried face.-" they are just beginners, and if they lose a duel to the Big Five, they'll be trapped here."

"You're right," Tea said, turning to us. "but if I can beat one of those creepers in a duel, so can they!"

It was then Yugi started to hop in place, making his body do like a little dance, which made me bite my tounge to keep from laughing. What is he doing? I don't know.. but it sure looks funny!...

"Let's just hope they found each other," Yugi said, still doing his little hops. "and are trying to figure out a way to get out of this place.. Yeah, those guys always have each other's backs, I'm sure they'll be just fine."

"Of course they are." Tea agreed, and I finally started to laugh.

The two looked at me confused and I waved it off. "Sorry," I laughed. "Yugi's little.. dance thing made me laugh..."

Tea started to laugh and Yugi blushed bright red. I pulled out my key chain and gestured for them to get back. Once they did I threw it up in the air, stepped backwards, and watched as it grew into my duffel bag and landed right in front of me. I got down on the ice, flinched at the cold, considering I was still wearing my caprese, and unzipped the bag. I pulled out a dark blue jean jacket and tossed it to Tea. "It's not the thickest jacket in the world," I said when she caught it shocked. "but it's something..."

Tea smiled at me, handed Yugi his coat back, which he put it on quickly, then Tea put hers on quickly. I zipped up the bag, heaved it upwards, tossed it, and caught it when it shrunk into its key chain, then put it in my pocket in one swift movement.

Yugi grabbed my hand, laced our fingers, and pecked my lips. "Great idea," Yugi said. "even though it was a bit late.."

I laughed. "Sorry," I chuckled. "but your little... dance thing was amusing me, so I was a bit detracted."

Tea cleared her throat and we looked at her. "Are you two.." Tea paused and point at the two of us. "like together?..."

I blushed deep red and Yugi nodded proudly, while still blushing. "Yes." Yugi said.

Tea's eyes sparkled and she launched at us in a hug. "I knew it," she squealed. "you two are so cute! Congratulations!"-Tea pulled back and grinned at Yugi.-"You picked a good girl, nice choice!"-Yugi blushed and Tea looked at me.-"You picked an awesome guy Percy, I should know! Yugi is basically my brother! You two are just adorable!"

I laughed nervously and glanced around awkwardly, which made Tea blink embarrassed. "Sorry for embarrassing you two, but it is true!" Tea said then started to walk forward. "Come on, maybe we'll find something if we keep walking!"

I nodded and pecked Yugi's cheek, tugged him forward with me, so I could catch up with Tea. "Wait up!" I called. "We have short legs!"

After about ten minutes of walking I could finally notice the cold getting to me. I shivered and my teeth clattered. Yugi let go of my hand, leaving it cold, then wrapped that arm around my waist and pulled me closer as we walked. I smiled to myself and walked as close to him as possible, enjoying his warmth.

"Hey Yugi, Percy," Tea said, turning back to us, when she saw our position she smiled, then shook her trying to focus. "its some kind of doorway!"

"Well what are waiting for," Yugi said as he let go of me, making me pout slightly, then laced our fingers together. "Let's go!"

Together we all sprinted towards the door. "I wonder where it leads!" Tea commented right before we busted in the door. We ran into some kind of court room and the blonde, Joey, turned around. "Hey," Joey said shocked. "who let in the draft?"

"Can it be?" Tea asked looking at Joey in amazement.

"It's Joey!" Yugi said with the same tone.

"Hey Yugi, Tea, Percy!" Joey said. "Where you been?"

"Dueling, running, freezing," I answered as I shivered. "what about you?"

The sound of a mallet like thing coming down and the Duel Monster, Deck Master guy glared at us. "Order! Settle down," He said. "this court is still in session if you hadn't noticed."

Yugi and Tea got big eyes and I bit my tounge to keep from laughing at their faces. "You're on trail?" Yugi asked shocked.

Joey grinned at Yugi. "I'm dueling one of the Big Five," Joey said. "and your just in time to see me wipe the courtroom floor with him."

"I believe it's my move," The Duel Monster said, then looked at us. "sit down, you three are lucky I don't have you evicted from this court room."

"This doesn't look too good," Yugi said after we sat down, me between the both of them. "Joey has no monsters and it's this guy's turn."

"Come on Joey..." I muttered to Yugi and Tea.

"I summon Curtain of The Dark Ones," Deck Master said. (A/N: This is really Johnson of the big five, but she doesn't know yet so...) "then I reveal my facedown card. Activate Polymerization, to fuse together my Mystical Elf and my Curtain of The Dark Ones, meet Kamionwizard!"

I sweatdropped and chuckled nervously. "hehe.." I mumbled. "that thing is freaky..." Yugi grabbed my hand and laced our fingers together, then smiled at me.

"Next I'll play the card," Deck Master said. "Sinister Justice, this allows my fusion monster to attack the turn it was summoned, now Kamionwizard attack his life points directly!"

I flinched as the duel monster slashed at Joey with his weapon and went back to his original side of the field.

"Joey!" I shouted standing up concerned.

"Oh-no!" Tea and Yugi shouted in unison, and standing up in unison, freaking me out a bit. "Joey!"

Joey leaned forward on the rail and glared at the Deck Master. "Lucky move Johnson..." Joey said panting a bit, making me blink. Oh.. that's his name.. okay then...

"Joey's in big trouble," Yugi said, making Tea and I look at him. "as long as Sinister Justice is on the field, Johnson gets 800 life points for every time he attacks Joey with his Kamionwizard."

Joey looked at him over his shoulder. "How's that again?" Joey asked.

Johnson chuckled. "The spiky headed pipsqueak is right." Johnson said, making me grumble some colorful words in Greek.

"His life points are going up." Joey stated with shock seeping into his voice.

"And there's more," Johnson said. "I place this card facedown to seal your doom!"

"If it wasn't for that trap card," Joey said. "I would've won this duel, now that every time he attacks me he gets stronger and stronger. You planned this all along, haven't you Johnson?"

"Of course," Johnson said. "but I have far worse in store for you Joseph!"

Johnson became laughing and I felt my eye twitch slightly in anger. "Does every one of you laugh like a lunatic?" I inquired innocently.

"Ms. Jackson," Johnson snapped, making Yugi squeeze my hand protectively. "do you wish to be evicted from this courtroom?"

I only raised an eyebrow as everyone turned to look at me. "Really?" I scoffed with an amused smirk on my face. "Look Judge, I nearly blew up an entire school and did blow up a mountain, so do you really think evicting me from a courtroom is a good idea?"

Johnson looked away. "Very well then, idea dismissed." Johnson said, making me grin triumphantly, while he turned to Joey. "So far all the evidence points to your defeat, I find you guilty of poor dueling!"

"Oh yeah?" Joey said. "We'll just see, my move. Now I play this card, Panther Warrior in attack mode. Then, I place one card facedown. That's it for me, Judge."

"Hm.." Johnson hummed. "you're up to something, but oh well.. I'm not too worried. Because I have this card, ready Joseph? Reveal the magic card: Leading Question, this card adds 800 attack points to any monster that's made up of two other monsters, now my Kamionwizard is even stronger than your Panther Warrior."-Kamionwizard's attack points raised to 2,100.-"Wizard attack now!"

"Not so fast!" Joey interrupted. "You triggered my trap! Go Skull Dice! The higher I roll, the more attack points your monster loses."-The dice stopped on a six.-"Yeah!"-Johnson smirked slightly, then the dice began to spin frantically, the landed on a one, making me narrow my eyes at him.-"What? A one? No way!"

Yugi leaned forward along with me and I growled slightly, while Tea only gasped in shock. "Alright," Joey said. "I don't know how you did that, but I got my eye on you."

Kamionwizard attacked Panther Warrior destroying it. I narrowed my eyes at Johnson and gripped Yugi's hand tightly, which he did in return. "Now you have no monsters on the field," Johnson said. "and as for me, you remember my Sinister Justice card don't you? It gives me another 800 life points."

Johnson's life points raised to 1,800 and Joey growled. "Not again!" Joey complained.

"That will happen every time my Kamionwizard attacks your life points!" Johnson reminded.

Yugi and I jumped up. "Stop this guy!" Yugi shouted, while I just glared at Johnson.

Tea jumped up after us. Little late girlie... "You almost had him beat once," Tea said. "until he turned things around and whooped ya."

Joey turned to her and glared. "Gee," Joey said sarcastically. "thanks."

"Order in the court," Johnson said. "make your move."

Joey looked at his cards trying to find a strategy, and Johnson smirked at his silence. "What's the matter?" Johnson asked tauntingly. "Did Little Joseph use all his best monsters in the first five minutes of the duel?"

"No!" Joey shouted quickly, making me face palm in annoyance. You just gave it away that you did.. nice one...

"Well," Johnson said getting impatient. "make your move!"

Joey drew his card. "Alright fine," Joey snapped back. "I summon Swordsman of Landstar in attack mode, and then I'll play this, my Graceful Dice! Yeah, rise my Swordsman attack points with a high roll!"-the monster threw the dice and it landed on a six, which made Joey cheer, when it suddenly spinned out of control and landed on a one.. just like last time. Joey grabbed his head and made a funny face.-"AH! What did I do to deserve all this?!"

I bit my tounge to keep from laughing on the sight, but managed to glare at Johnson anyway. I knew it, he's cheating.. but how?... "I've never seen him have such terrible luck before," Tea commented, bringing me back to the real world. "poor Joey..."

I squeezed Yugi's hand and felt him squeeze back. I muttered some more curses about Johnson and glared, literally feeling my eyes turn a light emerald, but slowly getting darker.

"Oh Joseph," Johnson said, doing that stupid mallet thing. "it's my move now. Time to clear the courtroom of your monster."

"His Deck Master's special ability!" Joey gassed when his monster shrunk into a ball and disappeared, then Johnson's life points dropped to 800. "Ah!" Joey yelled, when his life points went to 600, making me flinch.

"Yes," Johnson agreed. "for the mere price of a thousand life points, I've left you defenseless. The verdict is in, you are finished! This case is coming to a close."

"It's not over yet Johnson," Joey said. "I place two cards facedown!"

"And so you do," Johnson said as he drew his card. "now..."

"Hang in there." Tea said slowly.

Johnson chuckled. "I play my Pot of Greed card," Johnson said, making me slid my hand into my pocket and pull out Riptide, leaned forward, placing Riptide on the railing and my hand over it, gripping tightly."ha! I bet you wish you have drawn this card, don't you Joseph?"-Joey growled under his breath.-"Now, I can draw two new cards, which is something you can do quite desperately."

Joey smirked. "Thanks to you, I can draw five new cards now." Joey said. "Because I activate, Gamble! Ha! You see, I have no cards while you have six! That's exactly the situation I needed for me to activate this trap card."

Tea looked at Yugi and I. "Gamble?" Tea question, making us look at her.

I nodded in conformation. "Yep," I said. "it's a risky card Tea. If it works, it can help Joey turn this whole duel around and it all starts with a coin."

Tea blinked. "And what exactly is so risky?" Tea asked again.

This time Yugi decided to answer, which I was grateful for. "Well," Yugi said, as Joey grabbed a coin from the railing that he took out of his pocket earlier. "Joey flips a coin in the air, and then he calls heads or tails, and if he's right he gets to draw five cards."-Tea 'oh'ed in realization, making me chuckled quietly.-"But if he's wrong, Joey's next turn gets skipped, and he can't afford to let that happen. It can cost him the entire duel!"

Joey gripped the coin, Johnson smirked slightly, and Joey flipped the coin in the air. Yugi and I gritted our teeth and tightened our grip on each other's hands in sync, while Tea gripped the railing with a death grip.

"Come on Joey!" Yugi shouted. "You can do this, you have a fifty/fifty chance!"

The coin fell downwards, and Joey caught it. "It's heads," Joey said right as he placed it on his palm. Joey quickly removed his hand and revealed the side, not that I could see what it was. "Come on.. Ah man! It's tails!"-Joey slumped forward defeated.-"Awah.. no fair..."

"No!" Tea said worried. "Not again!"

I gritted my teeth and squeezed Yugi's hand frightened, then gripped Riptide even harder. "This is bad.." I trailed off.

Johnson scoffed then Joey did this odd move and eventually pointed at Johnson. "Ah! It's still my move," Joey said. "and I reveal my facedown card Scapegoat!"

"Are those fuzzballs supposed to scare me?" Johnson taunted. "I'll have them dismissed from this trail in no time. Now, this ought to do for starts.. I'll play my Reinforcement of The Army magic card, allowing me to add a warrior to my hand, then I'll you Polymerization. You know why Joseph? To fuse together my Armaill and my One-Eyed Shield Dragon, meet Dragoness the Wicked Knight!"

"Wow," Joey said sarcastically. "big deal Johnson."-Joey turned serious.-"Your monster looks weak to me."

Johnson threw out a hand. "Time for my Leading Question magic card to kick in," Johnson said. "and power up my Kamionwizard as it takes down your first Scapegoat!"-Kamion attacked the orange Scapegoat and destroyed it.-"Now it will increase the power of my Wicked Knight as it tears down another of your Scapegoats!"-Wicked Knight slashed through the blue one and destroyed it as well.-"Two down and two more Scapegoats left."

"Not if I stop ya first!" Joey said, going to draw a card, but Johnson hit his mallet thing on the desk.

"Objection," Johnson interrupted. "your turn is skipped. You called 'heads' but you got tails Joseph."

Joey moved his hand to the side. "Alright then," Joey said annoyed. "go!"

"As you wish," Johnson said while drawing his card. "Now time to destroy one more Scapegoat!"-Kamionwizard's attack points went up, he attacked the pink Scapegoat, and destroyed that one.-"Now, last but not least, I'll power up my Wicked Knight one more and dismiss your last Scapegoat!"

Wicked Knight slashed through the red Scapegoat and destroyed the last one. "No," Joey said. "I'm done for!"

Johnson did that mallet thing again. "Case closed," Johnson said. "do you admit defeat?"

"No," Joey said angrily. "this duel won't be over until your life points reach zero Johnson. No way am I giving up!"

Joey then, for some stupid and odd reason, punched the railing. "Ow..." Joey muttered.

I winced. "Ouch," I said. "note to Joey, don't punch virtual railings."

Yugi smiled a bit at the sentence and Tea pretended to not have heard me. "That's right," Tea said. "don't give up. This bad luck of yours is bound to change, because it can't get any worse!"

Joey shook his head with a slight smirk. "Hey Tea," Joey said. "listen, as far as pep talks go, this is not your best work. I'm running out of options here."

I narrowed my eyes and bit my lip. "Okay let me give it a shot," I said. "well.. I usually don't give out pep talks, I usually have them given to me.. but here goes nothing. Joey, I know for a fact you can beat the court-obessed-pyshco-headed-freak, and so does Serenity! So do me a favor and get your head back in the game, and win this duel!"

Joey nodded and threw a thumbs up. "Good one for your first time." Joey praised.

I sweatdropped. "That's not focusing.." I muttered to myself.

"Yes Yugi," Yami's voice rang out behind Yugi and I, making me jump in surprise and look at him from the corner of my eye. Oh Yugi must have thought something, and Yami must have heard it.. "I agree. Much more. Johnson is controlling the outcome of Joey's moves, I've been sensing it from the beginning of this duel, this judge is cheating."

"I knew it," Yugi said, not that Tea payed any attention. "We've got to step in."

I looked at the both of them. "You two better," I said as I uncurled my hand around Riptide, revealing it to the both of them. "before I do."

Yami nodded and retreated into the puzzle then suddenly a white light started to come from the ceiling. "What's that light?" Tea asked.

The light went down and a body formed, it was Noah. "Wait a second," Yugi said. "that's Noah!"

I nodded in agreement and gripped Yugi's hand even tighter and quickly put up Riptide. Because I know that if I bring this out, Noah can very well vaporate me to some other place in his virtual world. And I am NOT leaving Yugi any time so...

"Master Noah," Johnson said shocked. "why are you here?"

"Silence!" Noah snapped.

"Yes sir." Johnson deflated.

"Noah?" Joey asked, well more like muttered, but you get the idea. "It is him.."

"Time out," Noah commanded. "stop the duel!"

"Eh?" Joey muttered.

"What the Hades?" I asked myself, not remembering this part at all.

"Noah," Johnson began to plead. "you can't sir, please! I'm only a few moves away from taking over this fools body!"

Noah glared at him. "You don't deserve that prize Johnson," Noah sneered. "not after what you just pulled."

"Huh?" Johnson gasped shocked.

"So," Joey said. "he is a cheater."

Noah turned his head to look at him. "Sad to say it's true," Noah said. "the 'Honorable Judge Man' is nothing but a fraud whose been cheating you from the very beginning. He's been using my virtual technology to tamper with your dice rolls."

Joey made a fist and I did too, my eyes going a deep emerald. "How about I tamper with your face!" Joey shouted. "Mr. So-Called-Justice! You big fat fake!"

"And I'll join you too..." I muttered darkly, Yugi only glared and squeezed my hand to calm me down, which worked.. a little.

"But Noah," Johnson pleaded. "I couldn't risk losing this! Please, you must understand me, I can't bear living in this virtual prison for one moment longer. It's torture."

"Your excuses bore me." Noah snapped at him, turning his head sharply to his servant. "I brought you five into my world with the understanding that would defeat Seto Kaiba and his little friends. But if you cheat I can't prove that I'm truly more deserving than him."

I could literally imagine Kaiba saying "Deserving? More than me? Deserving of what?" I nearly laughed at the thought but contained it anyway.

"For years I've lived in Seto's shadow," Noah continued, making me raise an eyebrow, my eyes going back to normal, but clouding with confusion. "always trying to prove I'm the better one. I should be the president of Kaiba Corp. not him. And it's about time that I prove to Gozaburo Kaiba he should have left the company to me."

There was a silence and Joey looked between him. "Eh, excuse me boys," Joey said. "if I could interrupt this quarrel for just a second, the defendant would like to speak!"

Noah looked at him annoyed. "Sorry, but this doesn't concern you." Noah said.

"Doesn't concern him?" I muttered. "It's his freaking duel!"

I was ignored by Noah, but Yugi chuckled and Joey smirked slightly. Noah turned to Johnson. "Johnson," Noah snarled. "it's time for me to do something I should have done the day I met you."

Johnson put on a horror face. "Noah," Johnson begged. "please don't!"

Joey's smirk grew. "Yoo hoo." Joey called.

Noah at him irritated. "What?" Noah asked exasperated.

"Look," Joey said. "I'm willing to forgive Judge Gruesome, as long as he agrees to duel fair and square! Noah, if he wins you still get to prove your strength and if I win, I get to prove Joey Wheeler doesn't sit back and let freaky looking frauds get the best of him."

"Fine," Noah said, then closed his eyes and looked away, smirking. Kinda like 'You don't know what you're getting yourself into, but I really don't care'look. "Well, good luck, and I hope you understand what you just did. The stakes of this duel still stand." Noah finished then left the same way he came in.

"Well," I said. "better than shadow travel."

Yugi looked at me confused, thought better of asking, then shrugged like 'I don't want to know', which made me grin. "Alright," Joey said, making Yugi and I look at him. "let's get on with this duel."

"You did hear Noah right?" Johnson taunted. "You lose, and I still get to escape, by taking control of you!"

"Yeah," Joey said, smirking still. "I get it."

"Then," Johnson said. "I guess you are as foolish as you look, because you are about to lose everything Joseph. And with your boy under my jurisdiction, your mind will be sentenced to wander this virtual universe without fail!"

Joey chuckled. "You've got me shaking in my boots your honor," Joey said. "you're real tough. It's too bad you can't cheat anymore Johnson."

"Touché." Johnson agreed, making me roll my eyes.

"Now,'" Joey said. "Let's finish this duel,"-Joey drew a card.-"well.. Lookie here. I think my luck is beginning to change now."

Joey turned his card around to reveal Pot of Greed. "Alright!" Yugi and I cheered, while Tea shouted "Yes!"

"Pot of Greed lets me draw two cards," Joey said as he drew them. "Sweet! These two bad boys here are just what I need, and now it's time to move my Deck Master. Flame Swordsman go the center of the playing field, so I can use you to attack this creep-a-zoid. But first I'll boast your power with Burning Soul Sword!"

"Not so fast," Johnson interrupted. "you need to sacrifice a monster for Burning Soul Sword to work."

I rolled my eyes. "Do you seriously think that he doesn't know how to work his own magic card?" I asked annoyed, making Joey grin in response.

"Thanks Shorty," Joey said. "first I have to sacrifice a monster, and then whatever creature is holding the Soul Sword gets more attack points, in this case that's my Flame Swordsman."

"I stand corrected," Johnson said. "but you seem to forget one major fact about your stragety that will prove to be most unfortunentant Joseph. Look at the field, you have no monsters left to sacrifice you fool! So your plan won't work!"

Johnson began laughing like a psycho and I resisted to throw Riptide in his mouth. As a sword. "I'm not through yet," Joey smirked, making me focus on him. "I still got this little number left, my Arduous Decision magic card!"

"Talk about risk!" I said shocked.

"If this doesn't work," Yugi continued. "he can lose the whole duel right now Tea!"

"But how?" she asked confused.

"Playing that magic card," Yugi said. "allows him to draw two new cards from his deck. That's when things get tough. Cause then Johnson has to pick one of those two cards, he chooses a monster, Joey can summon it. But if he chooses a magic or trap card, both cards go to the graveyard and Joey's turn is over."

Joey drew and held them out where the backs were facing Johnson, side by side. One in his right hand, one in his left hand. "Well, your choice." Joey said, still holding his hands out. "If you hadn't figured out yet, the outcome of this entire duel depends on this one move. And with Noah watching, you can't cheat! So that means our fate will be decided by chance."

Johnson smirked. "Your fate was sealed the moment we met." Johnson commented.

"Just pick a card Johnson," Joey smirk grew. "quit your stalling already. It's not a tough choice, there's only two cards. Of course, if you choose a monster, I can sacrifice it to power up my Flame Swordsman and blast away the rest of your life points."

"Yes," Johnson agreed warily. "but if I choose a magic or trap card, your Swordsman remains weak and I'll destroy it, thus winning the duel."

Joey was getting impatient now. "Come on buddy," Joey said exasperated. "what are you gonna do here? Choose, right or left hand, the time is now!"

Johnson widened his eyes and stuttered slightly, not getting anything out of his mouth. "Yeah Joey," Yugi smirked at Joey. "stay tough! Johnson is loosing his cool, he'll never be able to cheat his way out of this."

I smiled slightly. "That's true for sure." I said. "And plus, Noah won't let him."

"Come on! Pick a card already!" Tea complained, then turned to Yugi and I. "All this suspense is driving me crazy!"

I sweatdropped slightly. "Uh.." I managed, not sure what to say.

"Well," Yugi said, squeezing me hand. "if you can't take it Tea, just imagine how Joey feels right now."

We all turned to him and Joey's face was still stone hard and emotionless. "Let's do this," Joey said. "the more you put it off, the harder it's going to be. Just pick a card Johnson."

"Alright! Alright!" Joey shouted, nervous.

"Yeah?" Joey said. "I'm waiting."

Johnson pointed a shaky hand to Joey's left hand. "I-I pick your left hand." Joey stated, still a bit nervous.

Joey lifted his left hand higher than the other a bit. "Are you sure?" Joey asked, making Johnson deflate a little. "I mean really sure?"

That made Johnson smirk. "I'm sure," Johnson said. "that's an old trick but a good one. However I won't be fooled by your childish antics, you asked me twice if I was sure. Your hesitation proves I made the right choice."

"If you say so." Joey shrugged helplessly.

"I've spent years and years convincing lies were the truth," Johnson said. "so you have little chance at fooling me Joseph. I'm positive I haven't picked your monster card, so this case is closed."-He did the thing with the mallet again.-"Judgement in favor of me, now please show me the card in your left hand."-Joey suddenly snickered, making Johnson widen his eyes.-"No wait!"

"Yeah?" Joey asked, his face still smirking.

"I-I," Johnson stuttered standing up abruptly. "change my mind!"

Joey put his left hand down. "The right hand then?" Joey smirked, then flipped over the card, revealing Goblin Attack Force. "That's gotta hurt."

Johnson widened his eyes and let out a shaky gasp of shock. "Yeah!" Yugi and I shouted, while Tea shouted. "Alright!"

"You picked my monster card," Joey said, placing the card on the duel disk. "also known as Goblin Attack Force, so now I'm able to sacrifice my goblin, then add their attack power to my Flame Swordsman! Thanks to the powers of my Burning Soul Sword!"-The goblins disappeared in a white light, then Flame Swordsman's attack points went up to 3,300 and turned gold.-"Alright, now it's time for my Flame Swordsman to attack Dragoness the Wicked Knight!"

Flame Swordsman leaped forward slashed straight through Johnson's monster, destroying it. "No. This can't be happening!" Johnson cried not believing it as his life points dropped to down to zero, then did official go down to zero. "I never lose in the courtroom. I once convinced a jury that a man who was terrified of water stole a boat!"-I opened my mouth slightly offended by that, but didn't get to say anything because Johnson continued.-"How can I be outdone by some kid?"

Johnson started to burst into pieces, like an actual duel monster and then disappeared. Joey fist pumped the air. "Aw yeah!" Joey shouted. "Look out! Who's the man?"

Tea leaned forward. "Yeah!" She shouted as Joey ran over. "Way to go!"

"Alright!" Yugi shouted, letting go of my hand and fist pumping the air with both hands, making me laugh. "That was awesome!"

Joey high-fived Tea. "Sweet duel Joey!" I cheered.

Joey then high-fived Yugi, then ruffled my hair, then widened his eyes and looked around. "Wait," Joey said. "we still need to go find everyone else."

Yugi narrowed his eyes in agreement, making me sweatdrop a bit. Whoa, they all changed moods that quickly? Okay then...

"Yeah," Yugi agreed. "the other members of the Big Five are probably dueling them right now."

Joey turned and started to glare. "Did you say 'dueling them'?" Joey demanded. "Whose dueling?"

"They want to duel us all Joey," I reminded, making my eyes soften at him. "Everyone is trapped here."

"We are all in this." Yugi continued and Joey grabbed him by the collar, making me widen my eyes and grab his wrist.

"All of us?" Joey asked his rage starting to show, Tea shouted in protest and I growled threateningly under my breath. "That's not fair, Serenity's never dueled before! No!"

"We'll find her Joey," Yugi promised. "and we'll make sure she's okay, I promise."

"Let's get moving." Joey commanded, letting go of Yugi, jumping over the railing and sprinting to the door. "I'm coming Serenity!"

We all began to follow him. "Wait for us!" Yugi shouted beginning to sprint.

"Come back Joey!" Tea yelled. "Please!"

I laughed and ran faster. "Let's go!"

We were walking a done a cave thingy and I have to admit it was weird. It reminded me a bit of the Labyrinth, just more light and it was a bit wet..

I squeezed Yugi hand, which made him lace ours together. "Well guys," Tea said, breaking the silence. "the good news each one of us has defeated one member of the freak five. Three down, two to go."

"The bad news is," Yugi said, squeezing my hand. "we don't know where they are going to strike next."

"Or who they are going to strike next." Tea commented, making Joey frown in worry and sprint again.

"Serenity! I'm coming!" Joey called, we stopped, then sprinted after him and ran into a light. The scenery changed, they looked around confused and I noticed it was my old-new apartment.

I growled and stomped my foot in irration. "Really?" I shouted. "I thought this stopped!"

Joey looked at me confused. "What is this?" Joey asked.

I looked at him, letting of Yugi's hand and crossing my arms. "Apparently," I said. "Noah as the technology to replay my memories, and this is one of them."

A door opened in the room and the virtual past me and Paul's virtual past self walked in. Tea pointed at Paul. "Whose that?" she asked.

"My step-dad.." I answered, looking at them as they walked to my blue birthday cake. "well, his virtual past self anyway..."

My virtual past self was about to blow out the candles when the doorbell rang.

My mom's virtual past self frowned. "Who could that be?"

Joey looked at her with interest. "That your mom?" Joey asked, which made me nod. "She seems cool."

I grinned. "You bet she is."

Yugi looked at me. "So what memory is this?" Yugi asked.

I smiled at him. "My fifteenth birthday." I said.

My mom's virtual past self answered the door and gasped. Yugi, Tea, and Joey moved so they could see who it was. I stayed in the same spot, I already knew who it was. It was my dad's virtual past self. His virtual past self was wearing Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt and Birkenstocks, like he usually does. His virtual past self's black beard was neatly trimmed and his sea-green eyes twinkled. He wore a battered cap decorated with fishing lures. It said NEPTUNE'S LUCKY FISHING HAT.

"And who?" Yugi asked.

I smiled. "That," I grinned. "is my father, Poseidon god of seas."

"Wow.." Joey said, looking between us. "you kinda look alike."

I smiled to myself at the comment and looked at my mom's virtual past self. "Pos-" My mom's virtual past self stopped herself. She was blushing to the roots of her hair, which made me laugh. "Um, hello."

I laughed again and Tea let out a giggle. "Hello, Sally," My Poseidon's virtual past self said. "You look beautiful as ever. May I come in?"

My mom's virtual past self made a squeaking sound that might've been either a "Yes" or "Help." I laughed again and stepped next to Yugi.

Joey looked at me amused. "I think your mother's nervous." Joey stated.

I nodded in agreement. "And she looks like a tomato." I commented, making the boys chuckle and Tea giggle.

Poseidon's virtual past self took it as a yes and came inside. Paul's virtual past self looked between my virtual past self and Poseidon's virtual past self, trying to read their expressions. Then he finally stepped forward. "Hi, I'm Paul Blofis."

"Blowfish?" Joey asked, making me snicker to myself and gesture to the scene.

Poseidon's virtual past self raised an eyebrow as they shook hands. "Blowfish, did you say?"

"Ah, no. Blowfis, actually." Paul's virtual past self corrected.

"Oh." Joey sounded embarrassed making me laugh.

"Oh, I see," Poseidon's virtual past self said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish. I am Poseidon."

"Poseidon? That's an interesting name." Paul's virtual past self commented.

"Yes, I like it. I've gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon." Poseidon's virtual past self said, making me laugh quietly.

"Like the god of sea." Paul's virtual past self said, making me snicker.

"Isn't he the god of sea?" Tea asked.

"Yeah," I said. "but my mom and I didn't feel it was right time for him to know about everything yet."

The others nodded and looked back at the scene. "Very much like that, yes." Poseidon's virtual past self agreed, making all of us laugh.

"Well," My mom's virtual past self interrupted. "Um, we're so glad you could drop by. Paul, this is Percy's father."

"Ah." Paul's virtual past self said, though even as a virtual person, he still didn't look pleased. "I see."

"Awkward..." Joey commented.

I nodded. "Yep," I said, looking up at him. "It really was." That made them laugh.

Poseidon's virtual past self smiled at my virtual past self. "There you are, my girl. And Tyson, hello, son!"

"Daddy!" Tyson's virtual past self bounded across the room and gave Poseidon's virtual past self a big hug, which almost knocked off his fishing hat.

I laughed and pointed at Tyson. "That," I grinned. "is my sweet, little, cyclops, half-brother, Tyson!"

"C-Cyclops?" Tea stuttered, scared and shocked.

I put a hand on her forearm. "Don't worry," I said. "he's a good one!"

They nodded and looked at the virtual Paul, whose mouth was dropped open and was staring my mom's virtual past self. "Tyson is..."

"Not mine," My mom's virtual past self promised. "It's a long story."

"I couldn't miss Percy's fifteenth birthday," Poseidon's virtual past self said. "Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a woman today!"

I blinked. "I still don't know why he brung that up..." I trailed off confused with a sweatdropp, which made the laugh.

"That's true," Paul's virtual past self said. "I used to teach ancient history."

Poseidon virtual past self's eyes twinkled. "That's me. Ancient history-"

The sweatdrop got larger and I face palmed. "Okay," I said while removing my hand from my face. "that was obvious.." The others laughed again, and Yugi grabbed my hand, still laughing.

"-Sally, Paul, Tyson…would you mind if I borrowed Percy for a moment?" Poseidon's virtual past self continued.

Poseidon's virtual past self put his arm around my virtual past self and steered her into the kitchen, which we all followed. Once they were 'alone', his smile faded.

I squeezed Yugi's hand, hoping they won't have to hear all what happened.

"Are you all right, my girl?" Poseidon's virtual past self asked.

"Yeah. I'm fine. I guess." My virtual past self said.

"I heard stories," Poseidon's virtual past self said. "But I wanted to hear it directly from you. Tell me everything."

The scene swirled and we were once back at the cave, and I sighed in relief. "Thank the gods..." I muttered.

Joey looked at me. "Well that was odd." Joey commented.

"Yeah," I said, then glared ahead of us. "and Noah's going to keep doing that until he feels we should reach Serenity and the others."

Joey's eyes widened and he started to run forward. "Serenity!"

After about a fifteen minutes of running we slowed to a walk then walked in silence.

"No!" A scared shill scream broke the silence, making all of us freeze. It was Serenity!

"That sounded like Serenity." Tea said, with her hand over her mouth in shock.

Joey's face was frozen and his eyes held fear. I knew he was scared for his little sister, but was trying not to show it.

"Joey." Yugi said.

"What?" Joey asked.

"We'll find her." I promised.

"And we'll make sure she okay." Yugi continued.

"Serenity!" Joey called and began to sprint again, and we shouted after him in protest but sprinted anyway.

We ran for about ten minutes and we all ran in silence, all was heard was our feet hitting the floor and our breaths, until Tea broke the silence. "Does Joey have even the slightest idea where he is going Yugi, Percy?" Tea panted.

"I doubt it." I panted, still running next to Yugi.

"But at this point," Yugi continued. "his guess is good as mine."

"Hey check it out," Joey called, making me look at a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe their really are lights at the ends of tunnels... "That could be the way!"

We all ran through the light, and I silently prayed it wasn't a memory. Surprising, I was met with Joey bursting through doors and we were on top of a deck thing.

"Where are we?" Yugi asked.

I looked at him amused as I stood beside him. "My question exactly."

Joey leaned over his side of the deck thing and looked over. "Serenity!" Joey called, making me look down and Serenity Wheeler and Duke Devin. "Up here!"

Serenity looked up at her brother. "It's really you?" Serenity asked.

Joey smiled. "Of course," Joey said. "who'd you expect?"

Duke relaxed and smiled at us. "Yugi. Tea. Percy." Duke said relieved.

Yugi smiled too. "Hey Duke!" Yugi said cheerfully.

I waved with my free hand. "What's up?" I asked while smiling.

"Good to see you." Tea said putting her hand on the railing.

"Sorry to interrupt this touching reunion," A voice said, making us all look at a giant metal robot. I blinked and sweatdropped. How did we ALL miss him?... "but I have a duel to win and virtual world to escape."

"Just as we thought." Yugi commented.

"Right Yuge," Joey agreed, making me squeeze Yugi's hand, lacing our fingers. "he must be one of the Big Five."

Tea then noticed something. "Hey," Tea said looking at Duke. "where's Tristan?"

"Yeah." I agreed, tilting my head to the side.

"Wasn't he with you?" Joey asked.

"No," Duke said, looking down then began to glare at the robot. "Tristan he's... he's gone. He lost."

We widened our eyes. "Wow." I managed as I felt my spirits break, I might have not them all for a while, but each and every one of them (expect Yugi and Yami, who are more to me.. we are a couple, mind you.) were like my siblings, and I will treat them as such. And hearing what I just heard, didn't please me much.

"H-He l-l-lost?" Tea stuttered shocked.

"Wait," Joey muttered. "that means... oh-no."

Tea slumped down to her knees and looked down at the duel. "Tristan..." she mumbled depressed.

Yugi looked down, sadness filling his violet eyes. I felt my eyes go blue in sadness and I squeezed his hand weakly and wrapped my arms around him in a hug, which he did back.

"That tin plated creep is going to be strutting around in Tristan's body?" Joey said angrily. "No way. Come on!"

Serenity looked up at us with unshed tears. "He tried his best," Serenity said. "he was only trying to protect me, and now we may never get him back."

"Ah man..." Joey muttered.

Yugi pulled away from me, but kept a arm around my waist, keeping me close. "They need help." Yugi told Joey. "You should see if you can enter the duel Joey, to take Tristan's place and help them."

Joey nodded. "Good idea," Joey said. "alright, make room for me."

"Negative," The robot said. "intruders are forbidden to duel."

"Figures." I sneered.

"Okay," Joey said, looking down at his sister. "Listen up, whatever you do, don't give up Serenity! I'm here for you, and I know you can do this."-Serenity nodded with her eyes filling with determination.-"I'm going to be your guardian angel, way up in the stands. Got that?"-Joey's eyes softened.-"Now, show 'em what you got sis!"

Serenity's eyes softened too. "Thanks Joey."

"Go get 'em!" I encouraged, making Serenity look at me with a smile and nod.

"He's all yours." Duke said to her.

"Never mess with the Wheelers, Tin Man!" Joey shouted.

"I'm afraid it's too late for all of you." The robot said, while Serenity got up and went to her spot.

Serenity glared at him. "This ones for Tristan," Serenity said as she drew her card. "Now.."

"Yes?" The robot snapped impatient.

"Serenity," Duke said. "you already know everything you need in order to beat this guy."

"Right," Serenity said. "I sacrifice Lady Panther to summon Marie the Fallen One. Good.."

Serenity looked at her cards for a while, then her Deck Master floated next to her. "Serenity." She (the Deck Master) said.

"Is that you?" Serenity gasped, looking at her Deck Master.

"Fear not Serenity," The Deck Master said. "as your Deck Master, I carry with me a very special ability, the power of fusion. I have the power to fuse two or more of your monsters together, without the need of a Polymerization card."-Serenity smiled and looked at her hand.-"But, you have to discard one card first to activate my ability."

Serenity nodded and grabbed a card. "Now feast your eyes one this little number Nesbitt," Serenity said, making me look at the machine. So that's his name... "First, I'll dispose of this so then I can activate the special ability of my Deck Master."

The Deck Master opened her two eyes and spread out her arms. "Fusion vision go!" The Deck Master said.

"Goddess with The Third Eye," Serenity said. "fuse together Marie the Fallen One and The Forgiving Maiden to form St. Joan!"

"Impressive." Nesbitt admitted. "but I'm afraid your monster isn't powerful enough to take me on."-Then one monster began to glow, causing St. Joan to glow.-"This can't be. What's going on?"

St. Joan's attack points boasted up to 3,200 and the two monsters stopped glowing. "Awesome," Duke said. "Command Angel's special power kicked in. It raises the attack power of every Fairy monster on the field, including St. Joan."

"Thanks to Tristan's monster card," Serenity smiled. "we can still do this."

"Now," Tea said, pulling herself up. "her St. Joan has 3,200 attack points."

"Yeah," Yugi agreed. "but Nesbitt's Perfect Machine King still has more points."

I gritted my teeth. "St. Joan needs another power boost." I said.

"But how can she get that?" Tea asked.

Yugi leaned forward and looked at the duel closely. "Tristan's card," Yugi looked down at them and raised his voice a bit so they could hear him. "Hey guys! Listen, I think I know how you can do this! But you're going to need Tristan's help! Trust me on this!"

"How can Tristan help us?" Serenity asked sadly. "He's not.. with us anymore."

Wow, I thought with a sweatdrop. Way to make him sound dead... "No more conversation," Nesbitt interrupted. "make your move, now."

Duke looked down in thought, gasped out loud, looked at the facedown card Tristan left, and narrowed his eyes. "Now I activate my Deck Master's special ability." Duke said.

"What?" Nesbitt asked, shocked or confused, I couldn't really tell.

"Strike Ninja," Duke commanded. "do your stuff. Activate the card Tristan left facedown on the field."

"No!" Nesbitt shouted.

Duke put two cards in the slot for the graveyard. "Just gotta ditch two cards first," Duke said, making me bit my lip to keep from giggling at his word choice. "and hope Tristan left us something worth using, I guess it's time to find out now."

"This better work." Joey muttered to himself.

"Go," Duke ordered. "Strike Ninja! Raise his face down card!"

Strike Ninja did a series of hand motions and the facedown card raised itself. "He left his Rare Metal Soul!" I said, smiling a wide smile.

"Well," Duke said. "looks like Tristan came through after all. Too bad for Nesbitt, Rare Metal Soul raises St. Joan's attack points by one thousand!"

The card busted into pieces and St. Joan's attack points bounced up to 4,200. "That's impossible." Nesbitt denied.

"Now their attack points are tied." Joey commented.

"What happens?" Tea asked.

I rolled my eyes. "Just watch." Yugi and I said in unison, then smiled at each other.

Duke looked at Serenity. "Okay," Duke said. "do the honors Serenity, get rid of this rusty old pile of junk once and for all!"

"Alright," Serenity said, then turned to her monster. "Go St. Joan, and attack the Perfect Machine King now!"

St. Joan did the odd movement with her sword, crouched, wings appeared on her back, and charged/flew at Nesbitt. Who in return aimed a punch at the incoming monster, and both of their attack points dropped to zero.

"Since Perfect Machine King is his Deck Master," Yugi said. "he automatically loses the duel!"

"Yeah!" Joey celebrated. "Way to go sis!"

"You fools," Nesbitt bit said, as he began to be destroyed, just little by little. "I may be going offline, but I won Tristan's body."

"No.." Tea muttered.

"You can't do this!" Joey shouted.

"That isn't fair!" I protested.

"Let him go you creep!" Yugi yelled.

"Negative," Nesbitt said. "he's my ticket out of this virtual prison, I'm finally free." Nesbitt evaporated, but he was laughing though, in a creepy way. The holograms disappeared and Duke and Serenity collasped to their knees.

"That mechanical snake in the grass." Duke cursed, making me raise an eyebrow, already heading down the stairs to him.

"I don't believe it," Serenity said. "they have his body, and it's my fault."

Joey jumped down from the railing on an edge, then another, until he was on the ground, then ran next to his sister. "Are you alright Serenity?" Joey asked.

Serenity turned around and hugged her brother crying, which made him hug her back. "Joey," Serenity sobbed. "we won the duel, but why didn't that bring Tristan back?"

Yugi and I wrapped Duke's arms around our shoulders and helped him over to them, while Tea followed behind us silently. "I don't know," Duke said to Serenity. "but we'll get him back."

"I'm glad we're all back together you guys." Tea commented quietly.

"Now we just need Tristan." Joey said, and I bit my lip in agreement.

We all walked out of this strange garage we found and Serenity looked back at it sadly. "Poor Tristan.." Serenity sighed.

"Don't worry Serenity," I said. "the Big Five said they had him in some kind of holding area, we just have to find him before they take over his body."

"That's right Shorty," Joey said. "and then his mind will be trapped somewhere in cyber space. We have to get him back, now."

We walked around for a while until I heard a scream of surprise and fear. I stopped and everyone looked at me. (I wasn't holding Yugi's hand.) I looked at them, uncapped Riptide, and ran the direction I heard the scream.

"What's going on?" Joey shouted. "Percy!"

I turned my head. "Follow me!" I shouted back. "I heard something!"

So, we all ran and saw Mokuba, Tristan, and Kaiba, but Tristan was gritting his teeth and holding a sharp stick.

"Look," Yugi said, stopped beside me. "It's Tristan."

"And Kaiba," Tea said. "and Mokuba."

"Yugi," Kaiba said shocked. "Percy."

Joey smiled as we all came to a stop. "Tristan," Joey grinned. "I knew we would track you down pal!"

"Are you okay?" Serenity asked, her eyes flooding with relief.

Tristan's eyes hardened to a glare at us. "Why don't you kids run along?" Tristan growled, but it wasn't exactly his voice, it was Nesbitt's!

I held Riptide threateningly and stepped forward. "Uh," I said. "I don't think that's Tristan."

Joey looked at me. "What are you talking about Shorty?" Joey demanded.

"Wait Joey," Serenity said. "I think she's right."

'Tristan' chuckled. "Yes," 'Tristan' said. "I've taken over your friends body, and now that's over."-'Tristan' looked at Kaiba.-"I can take care of you! En Garde!"

Nesbitt, I just literally figured out, lunged at Kaiba, who side-stepped, grabbed a pole and held it out in defense. Nesbitt quickly knocked it the side and chuckled at Kaiba.

"Why are you doing this?" Kaiba demanded.

Nesbitt chuckled again. "Cause," Nesbitt said. "you need to pay for what you did to me. Goodbye."

Nesbitt raised his weapon to strike Kaiba, when I launched forward and blocked his attack with Riptide. I pushed him backwards, which made him stumble and hold out his stick thing.

"You want to play swords?" I taunted, twirling Riptide dangerously, my eyes going emerald. "Let's play."

Nesbitt snarled in irritation and launched at me, which made me block, twirl Riptide, while the weapons were locked together. When I did the twirl around him, I managed to shock him into going frozen for a couple of seconds. I got a couple of feet in front of Kaiba for protection. Nesbitt sneered at me and held out his stick and I twirled Riptide, when suddenly a robot monkey attached itself to Nesbitt's head. Nesbitt let out a yelp of surprise, fought with the monkey for a while, then pushed it off himself. The thing is when he did that, he pushed himself backwards and crashed through a wall, by himself, mind you.

The others came beside me and then Tea looked at me shocked. "Percy," Tea said exasperated. "that's still his body!"

I capped Riptide, put it in my pocket, and held my hands up in defense. "Hey!" I said. "He did that himself!"

Tea, Serenity, and I all went to the wall Nesbitt crashed himself into and some light turned on. It's kinda reminded me of headlights. We heard the sound of an engine, and Nesbitt's voice said: "Pardon me.". I quickly pushed Tea and Serenity and ducked down myself, I heard a whoosh! And saw two tires land in front of me, then I quickly stood up. Nesbitt almost freaking ran over us with a motorcycle!

"Seto!" Mokuba screamed as the motorcycle nearly landed on Kaiba, who jumped out-of-the-way just in time.

Nesbitt threw his arm out and snatched Mokuba, who screamed in protest. "Kaiba," Nesbitt said as he started to drive away. "I've taken something from you, so we're even now."

"Come back!" Kaiba shouted. "Right now!"

Nesbitt broke through something else and we all ran to where it dropped off into a tunnel. "Too late," Joey said. "he's gone."

"Mokuba!" I screamed, I heard another engine, I pushed Yugi and Joey to the wall and made room for Kaiba on a motorcycle to get past.

"What's with motorcycles trying to run people over?" I asked myself and moved away from them.

"What now?" Yugi asked.

"Kaiba's after the fake Tristan," Joey said. "so we gotta find where the real one is."

Serenity ran next to her brother. "Joey's right." Serenity agreed.

We heard a monkey sound and we all turned to that robot monkey. "It's that robot runt again." Joey commented as the little monkey did a happy dance.

We all walked closer. "I don't trust this little rat." Joey stated, as Serenity and I smiled at the little monkey.

"He's a monkey," Serenity said. "how dangerous can he really be?"

She went to go touch it, when Duke put out a hand. "Don't touch it Serenity," Duke warned. "for all we know this chimp can be a trap."

The monkey exclaimed angrily and Joey nodded. "Good point Duke," Joey said. "we should just take this guy apart."

"Yeah," Duke agreed. "we can just unscrew it's head and take out the bateries."

I sweatdropped as the monkey stepped back scared. "Uh.." I said to them. "wouldn't that be considered animal cruelty?"

"No way!" Serenity protested to her brother. "don't you lay a finger on him!"

"What's the problem Serenity?" Joey asked looking at her oddly like 'Why aren't you agreeing? It's the best idea ever!'

"This little guy risked his life to save Percy and Kaiba!" Serenity protested, I raised an eyebrow at that statement, but didn't comment.

"I guess that's a good thing." Joey admitted.

"And just look at him," Serenity kneeled down and put out a hand. "Hi...he's adorable!"

The monkey let out a cute squeal of happiness and launched itself into Serenity's arms. "Just do me a favor okay?" Duke said, making me look at him. "keep that thing out of my face."

The monkey exclaimed angrily again and Yugi squeezed my hand to get my attention. "Okay," Yugi said. "we got to get going guys. The Big Five might have Tristan's body, but his mind must be here somewhere."

The monkey started to point repeatedly at himself and Joey glared at it. "Zip it!" Joey yelled at the monkey. "I got my eye on you, you robot parasite!"

The monkey ironically glared back at him and Serenity moved to where the monkey wasn't facing Joey anymore. "Joey," Serenity scolded. "stop!"

I laughed to myself, went back to the hole in the building where Kaiba and Nesbitt found the motorcycles and saw something that made me grin. "Hey guys?" I called.

I heard them run over to me and I smiled pointed at my discovery. "I think I found something."

We were all driving along the highway on a green virtual pickup truck and I smiled to myself as Yugi looked around, sitting on his knees next to me. It was Joey driving, and the rest of us in the very back.

Duke smiled at me. "Good thing Percy found this virtual pickup truck." Duke said.

Yugi turned to look at Duke. "Yeah," Yugi agreed. "beats walking that's for sure and it should help to find-" Joey suddenly stopped the truck causing Tea to fall on the floor, and me to crash into Yugi, and Serenity to crash into Duke. Yugi and I blushed as held me close to him, and Serenity and Duke blushed as well, and then the monkey tried to attack Duke making him and Serenity separate quickly.

I popped my head in the little door/window thing and looked at Joey. Yugi leaned over the side and looked at him through the window that was rolled down. "Why'd you stop the truck Joey?" Yugi asked him.

"Look Yuge," Joey said. "what is that?"

I blinked, pulled my head out from the window thingy and looked up in the sky. "Oh," Yugi said in amazement. "wow."

I nodded in agreement speechless. Duke stood up and looked at the flying spacecraft that was going away. "It looks like some kind of rocket." Duke commented.

We stayed in the same spot watching the debree fall back to th Earth and land in the water, which really made me mad. I could hear all the screams of surprise from the fishes and them screaming of fear as they fled away.

"So what was that thing?" Tea asked.

"Some kind of virtual rocket I guess." Joey answered.

"Yeah," Yugi agreed. "but who do you think launched it?"

"The Big Five." Duke answered as if it was obvious.

"We're looking for Tristan remember?" Serenity asked.

I looked back at her and saw the monkey scratching the back of his head when suddenly Tristan's voice rang out. "Let's face it," Tristan's voice said. "I'm way better than that Romeo wanna be Duke Devlin."

Duke looked us confused. "Weird," Duke said. "I could have sworn I just heard Tristan's voice."

I nodded in agreement, and Tea looked at Duke and the monkey. "It came from him."

The monkey continued to scratch his head and the voice rang out again. "If I stay stuck in the robot monkey body for too long," Tristan's voice said, making all of us widen our eyes and Yugi and I inch closer to him. "I may start chow downing on bananas and bugs."

Yugi blinked at Monkey Tristan. "Uh?" Yugi asked. "Tristan?"

I blinked as well, resisting the urge to poke him. "Are you in there?"

The Monkey Tristan put his hand/paw down. "Did I just say that out loud?" Monkey Tristan wondered.

Joey came out from the mini door/window and snatched Monkey Tristan from Serenity. "Come here!" Joey shouted, glaring at him. "Who are you? I don't trust you one bit Ape Boy!"

Monkey Tristan sweatdropped. "Joey," Monkey Tristan said. "it's me!"

Joey shook Monkey Tristan's little body. "I think you're a spy sent by Noah!"

Soon enough we're driving down the highway again settled in the back on the truck. Serenity was in the left corner, Tea on her right and Duke on Tea's right. Yugi was in his own little corner and I was on the left of him on my knees and leaning my head on his shoulder. Monkey Tristan however, was a different story. He had is own little corner and was tugging on the leash Joey made him angrily.

"Hey, I'm a monkey!" Monkey Tristan complained. "Not a mad dog!"

Duke looked at him annoyed. "With the Big Five running around," Duke said. "we're not taking any chances."

"I'm telling you," Monkey Tristan said in the same tone, but with more plead in it. "it's me! Give some chimp some slack!"

I giggled and layed my head on Yugi's chest, who in return grinned to himself and wrapped an arm around my waist, pulling me closer. Duke looked at us oddly and blinked. "Are you like.." Duke paused. "a couple or something?"

I smiled and nodded, while Yugi nodded with pride shinning brightly in his violet eyes. "Yep!" Yugi said cheerfully.

"WHAT?" Joey shouted and slammed on the brake quickly, turned around and stared at us oddly.

"What's the problem?" I asked him confused.

Joey pointed at us. "How- But- You two-Why-When-WHAT?" Joey cried frustrated.

Serenity giggled to herself at her brother and Tea did the same at Joey's actions. I looked at Yugi confused. "Did you hear any question?" I asked. "Cause I didn't understand if there was a question at all..."

Yugi shook his head and looked at the sputtering Joey. "What's the question Joey?" Yugi asked.

Joey turned around and started driving again, but looked at us through the review mirror. "Why didn't you tell me Yuge?" Joey asked in mock hurt. "I would have liked to know who your first official girlfriend is!"

I blinked and laughed, while Yugi blushed bright red and smiled at him sheepishly. "Sorry," Yugi said. "I thought you knew.."

Joey shook his head and smiled at us and looked back at the road. "Congrats anyway." Joey said, not even looking at us.

"Thanks." I said and snuggled closer to Yugi, while the others who didn't know about us said there complements and Yugi said 'thanks' or 'thank you' to them as well.

About ten minutes later, Joey warned us he saw the road cut off and we all got ready to jump out of the pickup truck. Joey quickly stopped the truck and we all hoped out and Yugi and I looked out and saw Kaiba dueling now!

"Kaiba!" I shouted.

Kaiba turned around and looked at me. "Percy!" He shouted back.

"Shorty, Yugi," Joey said, catching Yugi and I's attention. "Kaiba's up against one of the most baddest Deck Masters."

I looked at the opponent's Deck Master and narrowed my eyes. "You're right Joey," Yugi agreed. "it's Jinzo!"

"And you know what that means," Joey said. "don't you?"

"I sure do," I said, trying to resist to growl my next words. "it means that Kaiba's trap cards are totally useless!"

"Oh-no," Tea said. "it's like playing with half a deck!"

A/N: I'm done with this chapter! Yeah! Anyway, thanks to all my reviewers, favoriters, and followers! I really like this chapter and sorry for all the authors notes in there I just wanted to clear a couple of things up... DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS!.. and that should be it..-J.J.