Percy Jackson Trapped in YuGiOh?

by J.M.Weezy

What do you think would happen if Fem!Percy Jackson got stuck in Yugioh by the Fates? And what's this, who said anything about having a past life in Anceint Egypt that involved being MARRIED to the Pharaoh? She was Greek for Gods' sakes! Oh, and let's not forget Aphrodite's promise to make Percy's love life 'interesting'. *DISCONTINUED. REWRITTEN STORY, DREAMING OF REALITY, IS UP*

15. Chapter 15

I blinked looking at the smirking Kaiba and shook my head, ignoring him. I mean, it kinda makes since, Kaiba always has something figured out. So why wouldn't he smirk? Him, smirking? It's nothing new. I know Kaiba's in the Battle City Finals, so it I wasn't that worried about him losing this duel. But one with Noah? A bit worried. I mean, I was only starting the third season, in other words, I wasn't even this far in the season. We defiantly passed where I once was, but I did happen to skip a bit in the season, because the CD's were messing up so I didn't watch them, I only skipped only like two episodes a little further in the season. So I do know we all get out of here, and that's basically all the knowledge I have. But ever since I got here, who knows what I changed. Hopefully, not much.

Anyway, I need to focus. I gazed down at the sea below, then smiled dreamily at it, then focused back at the duel in front of us and took a deep breath.

Yugi gazed at me worriedly and tilted his head. "You okay Percy?" Yugi whispered.

I nodded and smiled. "Yeah," I whispered back. "come on we need to focus on the duel."

Yugi nodded, grabbed my hand, laced our fingers together and looked at the duel. I followed his suit.

"My move." Kaiba stated as he drew his card then smirked widely at his opponent. "Oh well, it looks like there's bad weather ahead. Because I activate this, my Heavy Storm Magic card."-A gaint whirlwind appeared and I grinned to myself.-"Time for my magic card to blow away all your magic and trap cards Lector! Which means, you're done powering up your life points."

"As your step-father's right hand man," Lector said. "I leaned to anticipate his every move. And that's exactly what I did to you, for I activate Imperial Order."

A man that looks like a king came out, held our his hand and a shield of some sort appeared in front of him. "Oh-no!" Kaiba gasped shocked and furious at the same time. I winced inwardly, really bad combination of emotions right there.

"Oh yes Mr. Kaiba," Lector shot back, making me roll my eyes annoyed. "for a mere 700 life points per turn, this trap card cancels out all your magic cards. You know what that means, don't you? Now, you can't use any magic or trap cards for the rest of the duel."

Kaiba bit back a growl and Yugi blinked. "That's not good." Yugi said.

I winced. "Talk about not playing with a full deck." I said with a bit of a flinch.

"And now," Lector continued. "the fun continues. I'll had 500 life points to my total with Solemn Wishes, and 350 more life points, with Life Absorbing Machine, then I'll sacrifice 700 to activate Imperial Order! Now with that taken care of, I can activate my ultimate weapon."

Kaiba looked at him with his normal emotionless face, but this one seemed a bit forced, like he was slightly panicking but was hiding it real well. "Go ahead." Kaiba deadpanned.

Lector pointed to the sky. "Satellite Cannon," Lector said, beginning his order. "begin firing sequence. When you took over Kaiba Corp., you destroyed all the missiles that your father and I worked so hard to build. So its quite fair that I use this missile to destroy you. Now, say goodbye to your facedown monster."

A beam of light hurdled down the sky at lightning speed and struck the highway in front of Kaiba. Then the reaction from the attack resulted in a hug gush of wind, upsetting the sea around us. That didn't sit well with me. Kaiba shouted something about his face down monster and I let go of Yugi's hand. I crossed my arms out, felt that tugging sensation at my stomach, and narrowed my eyes at the large waves crashing against each other.

I growled under my breath, and narrowed my eyes at the sea. Quickly, the sea began to calm down and go back to its slightly disturbed, but peaceful state. The low tides crashed into one another harmlessly and I grinned in triumph. I grabbed Yugi's hand again and looked at Lector.

"You look a little stunned to me Mr. Kaiba." Lector commented, I shivered looking away from him. It was just weird seeing a duel monster talk without moving it's mouth. Since Jinzo had a wide open mouth already, his mouth doesn't move from that state, so Lector's voice was just coming out of Jinzo's mouth like a speaker. It's quite disturbing actually to see.

"How am I supposed to stop a monster," Kaiba paused and looked up to the sky in worriedly, well a bit of worry actually. "that's up there?"

"You can't," Lector stated matter-of-factly. "orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 246 miles, my Satellite Cannon is virtually unreachable."

Yugi looked at Kaiba worried. "It can't be beat!" Yugi gasped.

"I never heard of a duel monster that can attack from outer space!" Joey said shocked.

I looked up at him, considering I was in the middle of him and Yugi. "Well," I said. "now you have."

"My Satellite Cannon is so high above the Earth's atmosphere," Lector continued, his bragging making me resist to shout at him in Greek. "that it's shielded from the attack of almost every monster!"

"'Almost?'" Kaiba echoed, then forced a smirk. "how do you know I don't have a monster in my deck that can reach it Lector?"

"Trust me Mr. Kaiba," Lector said. "by the time you summon a monster with the ability to attack my satellite, it will be too powerful to destroy. That's because it gains 1,000 attack points with each turn. At last, the mighty Seto Kaiba is about to lose everything he has. And it serves you right, after destroying your own step-father, and betraying the Big Five. Now it's time to pay the price for using others to get what you want. Even your own brother."

I blinked in confusion. "What?" I asked.

"What's he talking about?" Joey asked, then looked at me. "You know?"

I looked at him exasperated. "Joey," I said. "didn't you hear me just now? I literally just said 'what?' four seconds ago!"

Joey smiled sheepishly. "Sorry," he apologized. "I thought that was Yuge."

Yugi was a bit offended and I let out a giggle. "Hey," Yugi complained. "did you just say I sound like a girl?"

Now I was offended. "Hey," I huffed in annoyance. "this girl killed a bunch of monsters, and was offered immortality. Thank you very much!"

Yugi grinned at me sheepishly. "Sorry." Yugi said embarrassed.

I waved him and Joey off. "Eh, whatever." I shrugged. "I've told myself, and others have told me, I should have just been born a boy several times already.. and I agree sometimes."

Yugi raised an eyebrow. "Well I don't agree," Yugi said then wrapped an arm around my waist, pulling me closer. "I like you just the way you are."

Joey rolled his eyes. "Alright Lovebirds," Joey said, making Yugi and I blush. "focus on the duel."

We nodded silently and turned to the duel, but Yugi kept his arm in the same place. "You'll stop at nothing to get what you want Mr. Kaiba," Lector spat out. "even if it means deceiving the ones most loyal to you. Your treachery began when your step-father, Gozaburo, gave you 10 million dollars."-I choked on my spit right there. That would of been so useful for me at a couple of times!...-"To test your business skills."-I nodded in realization. That makes more sense...-"To increase the cash, you threatened a smaller company. He was impressed with your abilities and your cruelty. But that wasn't good enough for you, was it? You wanted more. Slowly, we all bought pieces of Kaiba Corp., to try to take over the company. But, securing the 51% we needed, proved difficult.. Then we realized, someone was leaking our plan to Gozaburo Kaiba. You told us that someone was your.. little brother Mokuba!"

Kaiba bit back a growl and I covered my mouth with my hands. That's horrible! How could he? Wait, this is probably a lie or something! Or it's the truth, but twisted at the same time! Ah focus.. and do not get mad...

"By turning on your little brother," Lector continued. "you forced Mokuba to run to your step-father, Gozaburo, for comfort. Of course, Gozaburo had his own plan. You see, Mokuba owned two percent of Kaiba Corp., exactly what Gozaburo needed to stay in control... Gozaburo was so ashamed he lost the company to his step-son, he ran away. Never to be heard of again."

"What's your point Lector?" Kaiba growled annoyed.

"You played us like fools. Mokuba wasn't the snitch, now was he?" Lector spat and pointed at Kaiba. "It was you, wasn't it Mr. Kaiba?"-Kaiba narrowed his eyes at him, but didn't say a word.-"You knew you father liked to think others were winning, so when they lost, they would feel so much worse. So you used Mokuba as a pawn. You began leaking information about your plan to Gozaburo, fooling everyone, including him, into thinking it was Mokuba. So your father let you gain 49 percent of his company, thinking Mokuba would give him the two percent he needed to stay in control. You knew better, didn't you Mr. Kaiba? You knew that your little brother would stay loyal to you know matter how badly you treated him."

I felt my blood boil, how dare he betray his own family like that?! I forced myself to calm down, it might not be true. "Your wrong," Kaiba snarled at Lector, with vemon dripping from his voice clearly, making me look at him in shock. "Mokuba was the only one I trusted. I knew together, he and I, could take our step-father down!"

I let out a sigh of relief, and let myself calm down all the way. "You used him," Lector insisted, making me clench my fist wanting to punch him or throw Riptide in his open mouth. "to achieve your own selfish goals. You toyed with your brother's emotions, and took advantage of his trust for you. Then you destroyed the very man who rescued from that orphanage."-I shrugged to myself right there, I didn't really mind Kaiba getting rid of Gozaburo, he was an evil man anyway.-"You never intended to run Kaiba Corp., with us as a team as you promised. When you became President, you took away our responsibilities. You used me, just like you use everyone, including your little brother!"

Kaiba clenched his fist. "Look Lector," Kaiba sneered. "life is a game, and if you can't win it. Don't play. Now let's duel!"-Kaiba skillfully drew a card.-"I summon Spirit Ryu! And speaking of waiting, watch this!"-I blinked in confusion. Where the Hades did he get 'waiting' from? Ah whatever, this is Seto Kaiba were talking about. Everything's strange with him...-"Spirit Ryu attack his Fairy Lily now, with Sonic Blast attack!"

Spirit Ryu let out a blast of wind that was traveling along the ground to Lily. "Have you forgotten Seto?" Lector cut in, taunting as well. "I activate Lily's special ability, by givin up 2,000 life points, I can boast her attack strength!" Lily's (the Fairy Lily monster) needle became larger and her attack points bounced up to 3,400

"Kaiba!" I shouted in worry.

"No!" Yugi finished, pulling me closer.

"Ah man," Joey said in shock. "Kaiba should have seen that coming! Now Kaiba's gonna lose the duel."

"Farewell Mr. Kaiba." Lector smirked, or well I'm asumming he would be smirking. But I can't really tell Jinzo's mouth doesn't move, which still freaks me out.

"Not so fast," Kaiba smirked, and I know for sure, cause his mouth actually moves! "It's time for Spirit Ryu's special ability. He gains an extra 1,000 attack points for every dragon I discard from my hand, and I have two!"-Spirit Ryu's attack's points boosted up to 3,000.-"Now I'll only loose 400 life points when your Lily destroys my Spirit Ryu."

Lily let out a blast from her needle and Kaiba's Ryu was destroyed. "I don't know what kind of game your playing Mr. Kaiba," Lector commented. "but with only 800 left, you won't be playing it much longer! This duel is almost done."

"Why did Kaiba let him get rid of that monster?" Duke asked shocked.

"Maybe the pressure's gotten to him?" Joey guessed.

I smirked to myself, way off Joey... "Not quite guys," Yugi said, since I refused to say anything. "I just figured out Kaiba's strategy."

"So," Joey said slowly. "he meant to do that?"

I nodded silently and focused my sea green eyes back on the duel. "Behemoth," Kaiba ordered. "attack his Fairy Lily!"

"No," Lector cried. "I don't have enough life points to increase her strength!"

"My plan worked," Kaiba said in victory, as Lily shrieked in pain from the fire and busted into pieces. "I forced you to give 2,000 life points last move. So you couldn't power up your fairy this move."

I smiled, despite the situation. "You see guys," Yugi began to explain. "Lector needs to give life points to activate his best cards, so he needs his life points to be high."

"My move," Lector said, shaking in anger or worry, I couldn't tell. "first I gain 500 life points thanks to Solemn Wishes, then another 350 life points from Life Absorbing Machine."

"Wait Lector," Kaiba cut in. "don't forget to give up 700 life points if you want to keep Imperial Order in effect."

"Oh," Lector said slowly. "I can't afford to give up that much, so I'll just destroy it."

The card faded of the field and Joey smirked. "Nice," Joey cheered. "now Kaiba can use his magic cards again."

"Awesome," Duke joined in. "now I understand Kaiba's game plan. If Lector can't restore his life points, then his whole dueling stragety is down the drain."

"Now," Yugi smiled. "Kaiba might win this duel after all."

"Might?" I scoffed. "he will, I know he will."

"Lector," Kaiba said, with an innocent tone seeping through his voice. "how did you expect to run Kaiba Corp., if you can't even control the numbers in a simple game of Duel Monsters?"

"Silence," Lector snapped. "I'm not done yet. I summon a monster in defense mode, then command my cannon to attack your Behemoth."-Another ray came down, destroyed Kaiba's monster, and Kaiba put his arm to shield his face during the attack.-"I'm so sorry I had to ruin your great move Mr. Kaiba."

Kaiba put his arm down. "Don't worry," Kaiba said then drew. "First I'll activate my Pot of Greed card. This allows me to draw two more cards, and then I'll summon the monster Possessed Dark Soul. Now Dark Soul, attack Lector's face down monster!"

Dark Soul let out a shriek and sent out a blast of fire, then Lector threw out his arm. "Stop right there," Lector commanded. "reveal Dreamsprite. By attacking this, you've just activate its special power. It can redirects any of your attacks to one of my other monsters. Just watch Mr. Kaiba,"-The monster glowed, and Kaiba's monster's attack was shot upwards when it hit Lector's monster.-"so I'll transfer your attack to my Satellite Cannon."

"Hold on," Joey said, wide-eyed. "his monster isn't stronger enough to reach that high."

"I'm untouchable," Lector bragged, making me get a small anime angry mark on my head from annoyance. "just one more turn and my Satellite Cannon will have 2,000 attack points. Just enough to wipe out your remaining life points Mr. Kaiba. I'll take a life point boost from my trap card and end my turn."

Lector's life points bounced up to 2,150 and the little needle on the power gage went up to the second line on the blue.

"That snake," Joey growled. "how come he didn't attack?"

"You heard him Joey," Yugi said narrowing his eyes at Kaiba's oppnent. "he's charging up his Cannon. For one final attack."

"That's cold." I stated, then blinked in confusion. That was new, don't recall ever saying that before...

"I'll take down your little space cannon." Kaiba vowed, anger clear in his cold blue eyes.

"Good luck," Lector scoffed. "most monsters can never reach that high."

"Ah man," Joey groaned, then turned serious, and to prove more emphasize, clenched his fist together. "does Kaiba have a monster in his deck that can reach that high?"

"If he picked it," I said, starting to grin at the thought about the dragon. He most likely DID pick it.. "totally.."-I narrowed my eyes at Lector.-"But who knows if he can summon it in time."

Kaiba looked at his deck and closed his eyes. "Alright," I heard him mumble then draw his card, he snapped his eyes open, and grinned wickedly at Lector. "Behold my most powerful creature!" Yep, he picked it AND drew it...

"What is it?" Lector demanded.

"You'll see," Kaiba shot back. "but first I'll play this in defense mode. Now, my Deck Master, show your special ability. At a cost of 500 of my life points, Lord of Dragons allows me to summon any dragon from my hand. Now's I'll sacrifice both of my monsters." Kaiba's life points dropped down to 300 and his two monsters dissolved in a whirlwind.

"What do you think you are doing Mr. Kaiba?" Lector demanded once again, making me roll my eyes.

"You're about to find out." Kaiba stated, placing a monster card on the duel disk. "I summon Blue Eyes White Dragon!"-The ever famous Blue Eyes White Dragon came out and I fist pumped the air happily. Yugi chuckled at my reaction and pulled my closer, making Joey glance at us weirdly, probably not used to 'us' yet.-"There's your target, go Blue Eyes! Take down his Satillite Cannon now!"

Blue Eyes let out a battle cry (roar) and flew up into the sky, making Lector shake with panic. "No!" Lector cried. "Do you have idea what this means?"

"I know exactly what it means Lector," Kaiba snapped back at him. "this duel's over! I know your Cannon only has attack points when it's about to attack. Otherwise, it was an attack power of.. zero."

"No!" Lector shouted panicking.

"That means," Kaiba stated. "if I attack, you lose everything. You should have known better than to challenge me, now my Blue Eyes finish him off with White Lightning attack!"-there was a blast then the sky started to look like a meteor shower.-"Looks like you won't be leaving cyber space anytime soon."

"Nice job!" Yugi shouted, smiling widely.

Joey fist pumped the air. "Kaiba wasted that freak!" Joey celebrated.

I scoffed. "That Lector never stood a chance." I grinned.

"No.." Lector said in pain (I guess), then collapsed to his knees. "I was so close from getting out of this digital dungeon."

Kaiba ran over and glared down at Lector. "Where's Mokuba?" Kaiba snarled.

Lector looked up at him. "You'll never see your brother again Mr. Kaiba," Lector said. "however I'll be back.." Lector burst into pieces (literally) and his voiced echoed, making me roll my eyes. Overdramatic much?...

Kaiba stared at the spot Lector once was and clenched his fists in anger. "Mokuba.." Kaiba muttered, then looked upwards, probably thinking Mokuba could see him somehow. "I'm coming Mokuba!" Kaiba vowed, making me flinch. It was his voice, it sounded so forced, panicked, broken-hearted, and determined. I'm pretty sure, that's never a good combination of emotions, and to top it off? Your most person you love is kidnapped. That's just makes it worse, and that's probably the cause too. In Kaiba's case, it is. And even though I would never admit it out loud, I feel sorry for Kaiba right now. I've been in a similar situation, with Tyson. I still remember when I thought he was killed when Charisse's ship blew up, and he was on board. But Poseidon saved him, but I know how it feels.

"Awesome!" Yugi said, bringing me out of my thoughts, and making me look at him with a smile. "Kaiba took down the last member of the Big Five!"

"Well Seto," Noah's voice echoed, making me automatically reach for Riptide, until Yugi stopped me. I looked at him confused, but he shook his head and tightened his grip on me. Then I understood, if I brought out a weapon, Noah might transport me to another spot in his world, and I rather not that happen. I casually moved my hand away and moved it back to its prevous position and listened to Noah's voice, after Kaiba said something anyway, which made Noah laugh apparently. "You may have won your duel, but you've lost something more important. Your brother."

A tunnel appeared in front of Kaiba. "Where is he?" Kaiba sneered.

"Here's a hint: Just look down." Noah said. Ironically, we all did as he said. And guess what? The broken part of the bridge, was back!

"The road's back." Yugi said shocked.

"So," Noah's voice said again. "proceed ahead and you may find him."

Kaiba took no hesitation. "Mokuba!" Kaiba called, starting into a sprint. "I'm on my way!"

"Kaiba!" Yugi shouted in protest. "you could be running into a trap!"

That made Kaiba stop. Kaiba turned and glared at Yugi. "Just stay out of this Yugi." Kaiba growled.

Now that, shocked Yugi. "What?" Yugi muttered.

"Who do you think you are?" Joey growled back. I closed my eyes and winced, knowing if that was Tyson in Mokuba's place, I would probably react the same way.

"This doesn't concern you Wheeler," Kaiba retorted at him. "it's family business!" I snapped my eyes open when I heard the retreating footsteps from Kaiba.

Joey grumbled under his breath. "Alright fine!" Joey shouted after him, doing this little weird arm movement. "Get your body taken away for all we care, you stuck up jerk! You needs him? We're better off better with out him, right Yuge, Shorty?"

"Goodbye," Duke joined him happily. "and good riddance Kaiba!"

"Hold on!" I interrupted. "We gotta help him save Mokuba."

"Yeah," Monkey Tristan agreed, while Yugi nodded in agreement with my statement, held me still for two seconds, let go of my waist and just laced our fingers together. "maybe if we help him, we might find my body."

"He's right," Serenity joined in. "following Kaiba might be the only way to save Tristan."

Monkey Tristan had a spazz attack from joy, but stopped when Duke walked over and grabbed him by the tail. "For all we know," Duke said, still holding Tristan upside down. "you could be Noah's pet baboon."

Duke then pushed him by the head making swish back and forth screaming loudly and flaring around everywhere.

"We can't let Kaiba go alone," Yugi decided, squeezing my hand then looking at Joey. "I'm going to go after him."

Then Yugi sprinted forward with me joining him quickly. I heard Joey exclaim in protest but continued running along Yugi's side anyway. I heard someone shout they were following us and I turned around quickly to see Tea grin behind me, running faster to catch up. I smiled back at her then faced forward once again. After two minutes of running we came to a double tunnel. We could left or right, which made us come to a stop in the middle.

"Well," I said. "that just figures."

"Agreed," Yugi grinned. "wanna flip a coin?"

"Nope," Tea said, then ran down the left tunnel. "he went this way."

"Tea!" Yugi called. "You sure about that?"

Tea looked at us over her shoulder. "I have absolutely no idea!" Tea shouted back to us.

I blinked. "Well," I said to Yugi, since he could only hear me. "that makes three of us."

Yugi and I sprinted after Tea, which made me frustrated. "Slow down!" I yelped at her. "Our legs are shorter!"

We caught up with her and soon we saw a light. I grinned in amusement. "Maybe there is always lights at the ends of tunnels!" I joked, making Yugi let out a chuckle.

"I hope that means we choose the right path." Tea said to us.

"Well," Yugi said, as were feet away from the light. "we're about to find out."

We ran through and ended up in front of some old mansion. I looked back at the glowing archway and pointed at it. "Ever heard never go into the light?" I asked raising an eyebrow at them as the glowing archway faded into nothing. "The reason, is because.."-I pointed at the abandoned building.-"it tricks you."

Yugi nodded at me and chuckled quietly while Tea just blinked at the building. "It looks like some kind of old mansion or something," Tea commented. "really old.."

Yugi walked forward and grabbed one of the bars, I followed him of course. Tea though? Not so much. "Percy, Yugi, be careful!" Tea commanded, making me roll my eyes. I don't see any traps Tea...

Yugi tightened his grip on the bar he was holding. "Whatever this place is," Yugi said. "someone really doesn't want us in there.. I wonder why..."

Tea came next to us. "Hey," Tea said to us. "do you hear what I hear?"

I pushed my hair away from my ears and listened closely. "Crying?" I muttered to them. "A baby crying?"

"Maybe it's a virtual nursery?" Yugi suggested.

I blinked at him while Tea widened her eyes. "Or what if," Tea said wide-eyed. "that baby's all in there alone. We have to get in there and find out."

I grinned wickedly, let go of Yugi's hand and stepped back a couple of steps. "That's where I come in." I smiled. Yugi opened his mouth to say something when I sprinted forward, jumped on to the wall, pushing myself upwards once, grabbed the top of the wall, then scaled my way up the wall. I sat just on the top for about ten seconds, then jumped down to the ground. I walked to the gate and waved at them from the other side. "Hi!" I grinned at them.

Yugi looked at me shocked. "When-Why-What-H-How?" Yugi sputtered.

I shrugged and started to undo the tangle of chain on the bars. "I'm a demigod," I said, working on the chain tangle. "we are trained to do this sort of thing."

I finally undid the tangle, pulled of the chain, threw it somewhere in the yard and opened the gate like a butler. "Welcome to the Jackson Manor." I said in a fake posh voice, making Yugi and Tea laugh. Then, surprisingly all at once, we all sprinted inside the building and started opening random doors trying to find that baby.

---

I had just opened my 57th door and grumbled under my breath. I ran down the hall and sprinted down another hall, accidentally crashing into Yugi. You see, we thought if we spilt up, we could find the baby. However, I didn't find anything and by the look on Yugi's face, neither did he. I stood, he did too, since we both were knocked over when I ran into him.

"Find anything?" I said, then blinked. "Sorry for running into you by the way."

Yugi waved it off. "Nothing, and it's fine." Yugi nodded towards the next hall and we both sprinted to it. "Tea!" Yugi called. "I still hear it, but there's not a baby in sight."

You see, we've been in every floor, this is the last floor there is and that's probably why it's the loudest. "It's getting louder." Tea commented.

I pointed down the hall to our left. "Let's go this way." We all sprinted down the hallway and there was four doors. Yugi opened one and looked inside, I opened mine and shook my head. No baby. I closed the door and ran to Yugi's side as he opened another door. Before I had a chance to look around, Yugi shouted in my ear.

"Hey!" Yugi shouted, most likely to Tea. "I found something."

I looked at him annoyed. "I did too," I said, then rubbed my poor ringing ear. "you have a very loud voice when you shout."

Yugi smiled at me sheepishly and kissed my cheek in an apology. Tea came in and walked to this crib like thing a picked up a raddle that Yugi found. "I'd be crying too if I was stuck in a creepy old house without a raddle." Tea commented staring at the raddle intensely.

"You know what?" Yugi asked, making me look at him. "I don't think there is a baby in this place at all guys."

"Then whose crying?" I wondered, then face palmed myself for being stupid. "Unless it's a digital sound file that's part of Noah stupid virtual world."

"Exactly." Yugi agreed smiling at me oddly, but in a good way. That much, I can tell you! I looked at Tea to see her still glaring at the raddle in her hands, probably thinking about Noah's plan. Why in the Hades he put us in this place, was probably making her frustrated too.

I gently pried the raddle from her hands and put it back in the crib. "We don't need you melting the raddle with your stare Tea." I joked, making her roll her eyes but smile anyway.

Yugi looked around some more then suddenly gasped. I looked at him oddly then followed his line of sight, it was a photo frame.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Look Percy," Yugi said walking over and picking up the photo. "it's a picture."

Yugi started to dust it off. "Who's in the snapshot Yugi?" Tea asked, making me look at her weirdly. 'Snapshot'?.. okay.. interesting word choice...

Yugi looked at the picture and raised an eyebrow. "That's weird." Yugi commented, making me blink.

"What's weird?" I questioned, then saw another door inside the room. I blinked at it, gestured for them to come closer, when I heard footsteps, I opened the door. I let out a small scream when I saw Kaiba, Mokuba and Noah. I mean, I never got to this part in the series! I wasn't really expecting Kaiba and Noah to be in the same room without anyone dueling or trying to kill each other! Tea gently pushed me forward and we all walked in the room, then they saw who was in the room and understood why I screamed.

"I-It's Kaib-ba," I stuttered, still trying to calm myself from my mini heart attack. "and-d N-Noah.." Calm down for Hades' sake! Stop your freaking stuttering! Just calm down.. and I'm calm.. kinda?...

I took a deep breath and blinked as Yugi ran up to Kaiba. It was then I actually realized how short Yugi and I were, compared to Kaiba, Kaiba was a giant and we were guinea pigs. And trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

Yugi held out the picture frame. "Does this thing mean anything to you Kaiba?" Yugi asked.

Kaiba took the picture from him and scoffed. "It's a trick," Kaiba said. "this is a picture of my step-father."

"Your step-dad?" I wondered out loud, as I was totally calm now and currently walking to Yugi's side. When I got there I continued. "With Noah?"

"Pay attention to the show, Seto," Noah snapped at us, interrupting our mini conversation. "I think you may find it will clear things up for you."

We all turned our attention to a memory of Noah's that he was projecting. Gozaburo's virtual past self opened up a drawer, pulled out a picture, then slid it to Noah's virtual past self. Who picked it up and stared at it in return.

"Whose this kid?" Noah asked bluntly.

I rolled my eyes at that. "Blunt much?" I muttered annoyed all the sudden. Yugi grabbed my hand, somehow, but effectly calming me down. I mean, come on, he wasn't even trying to calm me down this time! At least I don't think he was.. eh whatever...

"He is my newest acquisition." Gozaburo's virtual past self smirked. "He's name is Seto, and him and his brother will be coming to live with us. He's extremely intelligent, you could learn a lot from him. That's my plan. Seto will be here to constantly challenge you. My hope is, having him around will hopefully motivate you with your studies. After all, if I'm going to hand Kaiba Corp., over to you Noah, you have to prove to me that you have intelligence to run a company with this magnitude."

Noah's virtual past self bowed his head slightly, closed his eyes, and smirked a small smirk. "Alright," Noah's virtual past self agreed while opening his eyes. "father."

Tea gasped from her spot and Kaiba widened his eyes. "What did he just say?" Kaiba demanded angrily, scaring the Hades out of me. I jumped up and glared at the back of Kaiba's head, not that he really noticed, and if he did, he didn't care much.

"That's his dad!" Yugi stated shocked, making me switch off my glare mode and look at him.

"Not quite what you were expecting was it Seto?" Noah asked smirking at our surprised forms. "You and I being step-brothers, but it's all true. I am Gozaburo's one true son, and I was always supposed to inherit his empire. You were nothing but another one of my father's servants. Brought in just to motivate me! That's the only reason my father let rift raft like you into his house. To train me! And that's the story on how an orphan, with no class, became the president of Kaiba Corp."

Kaiba narrowed his eyes at him in disbelief and anger. "Not true." Kaiba growled at him.

That made Noah narrow his eyes as well, but his smirk grew widened than it was before. "Oh it's true," Noah retorted. "and now it's finally time for me to claim my place in my father's empire. Sorry, but I guess this means you're out of the job."

Kaiba clenched a fist. "Noah," Kaiba sneered. "your story makes no sense! If you really are Gozaburo's son, how come I never met you before? Answer that Noah!"

Noah closed his eyes in amusement. "Well," Noah paused dramtically. "that's part two to my story."

"Alert. Alert. Alert. Alert-" An automatic voice rang out an image of the rest of the gang being attacked by the remaining Big Five appeared. Noah shook his head at the image as if he expected this to happen and was disappointed.

"Sorry," Noah said in a fake apologizing tone. "but I have to deal with this. Don't move. I'll be back right after I deal with them."

"You're staying here!" Kaiba shouted as the image and Noah started to fade into black. "Understand?"

By that time Noah and the image was already gone. "The gangs in trouble!" Tea exclaimed running to the door and going through it, making us follow her (after I let go of Yugi's hand). She ran through the door and ran through another hallway that was similar to the one before. After five minutes of running, Kaiba surprising following us, we ran through the exit and saw the gang all around the pickup truck. That happened to be flipped over too. I looked at them to see none of them hurt. I mentally face palmed, They are anime characters that shouldn't be able to get hurt unless some slaps in the back of the head! Well, unless they ARE supposed to be get hurt.. Ah.. focus Seaweed Brain! I waved at them frantically, happy that they weren't hurt at all. Well, Duke did look a little tired. He probably flew of the back of the truck thanks to Joey's reckless driving. Not that I blame him, they were being blasted at while he was driving.

The others joined in at the waving (expect Kaiba, who just stared at us annoyed and walked calmly behind us) and ran faster towards them. "Hey everyone!" I called, making them all look at us.

Yugi smiled as we ran faster. "We found you!" Yugi cried happily. "Is everyone alright?"

"We're all fine." Joey shouted back as he jumped of the truck and landed safety on the ground, then held arms out.

"Awesome!" Yugi cheered as Yugi and I both jump and hugged him. Or at least tried too, Joey put Yugi in a headlock and wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started ruffling my hair. I was too happy to care.. this time anyway. "That's the best news I heard all day." Yugi finished being smothered by Joey's arm, that looked like was choking him. Which made me laugh as Joey's hand was messing with my hair, making me laugh harder.

"Those jokers never stood a chance." Joey told us still messing with us.

"I guess the action never stops." Tea said, making me try to sneak a glance at her to see her shaking Serenity's hand and Monkey Tristan bouncing happily.

"You can say that again." Serenity agreed, giggling slighty. Joey finally let us go and I glanced at Kaiba to see how he was taking leaving without Mokuba, to see him staring at that picture. His eyes actually narrowed and he started to glare at the photo, making me laugh quietly. With that stare his going to melt the picture!...

I stepped forward after I stopped laughing quietly. "Kaiba?" I asked, making him look down at me curiously, his eyes strangely not holding a glare. "Could Noah's story about you being his long lost step brother actually be true?"

Kaiba narrowed his eyes in anger. I flinched slightly at his stare. Maybe I should have let Yugi ask that. But come on! I was curious... "Noah's story is nothing but a group of lies made just to mess with my head Percy." Kaiba snapped. "The supposed conversation that he had with Gozaburo would have happened over six years ago. Which was when this was taken, based on the imprinted date."-Kaiba handed the picture to me and it was Gozaburo and Noah next to eachother, I blinked at it confused knowing something was wrong but couldn't figure it out.-"But look closely." Kaiba commanded me at the end.

I stared at the picture and remember how Noah looked when I just saw him, which made me gasp in realization. "Noah looks the same!" I blinked shocked. "So does that mean.. he hasn't like, aged for what.. six years?" It ended as a question making me feel kinda stupid, but didn't really mind it that much. Kaiba was silent, he turned and started walking down the road, us following him.

After about ten minutes of silence, Duke raised an eyebrow at Kaiba. "So," Duke started, making us all stop and look at him. "Noah's your step-brother Kaiba?"

"That," Kaiba snapped, glaring harshly at him. "is none of your business."

"But," Yugi intervened. "it does explain why Noah brought us all here."

"Yeah," Joey agreed. "he wants to prove to Kaiba's step dad he's the better son."

Yugi nodded. "So," Yugi continued. "to show his power, Noah teamed up with the Big Five."

"And he's holding Mokuba captive to weaken Kaiba?" Tea guessed.

That made Kaiba snap. "I've heard enough." Kaiba growled then turned to walk away. Oh no you don't!...

I quickly ran in front of him and spread my arms so he couldn't pass. Despite how small I was compared to him, he stopped but glared at him more than he glared at Duke a minute ago. "Don't you dare." I growled back.

"What's the problem?" Kaiba sneered at me.

"Going somewhere?" I asked glaring right back, knowing my eyes darkened to Duke eye color. "If so, that's the problem. Got it Dragon Boy?" Okay, not the best insult.. but hey! It was short notice!...

Kaiba gritted his teeth at me. "Step aside," Kaiba ordered me like I'm his servant, making me more angry. "I already told you geeks this is family business. This doesn't concern you."-Kaiba pushed me aside like I'm some sick animal, oh.. that got me mad.-"So move it!"

I ran back in front of him my eyes way darker than they once were. "Oh yeah?" I retorted a snarl clear in my voice, making Kaiba widen his eyes but the others didn't notice, well expect for Joey and Yugi.

"Just let him go Shorty," Joey told me as Kaiba and I kept our glaring contest on. "he's not worth it."

I rolled my eyes at Joey but focused on Kaiba. "You may be to self-absorbed to realize this," I spat. "but your 'family business' is the reason we're all trapped here!"-my glare softened-"Look Kaiba, I know what you're going through.. My friend, who consider a sister with all my being, was kidnapped right in front of me."-Okay not a total lie, just twisting the truth, ish...-"I couldn't do anything about it either. I know what it feels like Kaiba, but don't you understand we can help you rescue Mokuba?"-Kaiba scoffed then looked away from me.-"You can look away all you want Mr. Big Shot, but that doesn't mean your ears will stop working on you. So you listen, Mokuba is someone close to us too, and we want to help you rescue him from Noah. Can't you accept that? Or are you to wrapped up in yourself to care?" I finished with a cold snarl.

Kaiba eyes flickered at something and he turned around. "Why don't you worry about him instead?" Kaiba asked angrily, making all of us look at where he was looking and saw Tristan's body!

"Look guys," Yugi said. "up there!"

"Tristan!" Tea cried looking at him.

I shook my head at her, but Joey's is the one that answered before I could. "That's not Tristan remember?" Joey asked.

I walked next to Yugi, grabbed his head and glared harshly at Tristan's body, not realizing at all that Kaiba walked away from us. Yugi squeezed my hand and glared at Tristan's body well kinda glared anyway.

"It's the techno geek of the Big Five," Duke said. "Nesbitt, even though we kicked his nerdy butt in that duel. He still took Tristan's body."

Tristan (A/N: All five are in the Tristan's body. So to clear things up for you. "Monkey Tristan" is the real Tristan and when I just say "Tristan" I'm referring to Tristan's body, okay?) laughed, but it was familiar, a bit too familiar...

Then all five of the deck masters from the Big Five appeared behind Tristan. Making me gasp in realization, they all are using his body! "They all are using his body!" Tea spoke, literally speaking me thoughts.

"Give him back." Yugi demanded, squeezing my hand angrily.

"Listen Yugi," Gansley said. "There is only one way we will return your friend."-Tristan smirked and his voice changed to Crump's, who chuckled before continuing.-"But, believe me junior, the odds are in our favor." (A/N: That's was it honestly said, and every time Crump says that I keep thinking of Hunger Games.. does anyone else feel that way too, or is it just me?)

"Hey that's Crump!" Tea said, then wrapped her arms around herself shivering. "Sicko."

I sweatdropped at her then shrugged like 'okay then..' then went back to glaring at them. "What do we have to do to get Tristan back?" I shouted at him, my left hand going for Riptide.

"Why duel us," Lector said making me blink in confusion. "why and he's yours." Tristan's voice went slack and Nesbitt's voice let out a growl. They went quiet and I guess the five were talking in Tristan's head or something.

I looked at Yugi. "I know they meant you dueling." I said, making him smirk and nod his head.

"Good." Yugi said, and we both turned our attention back at Tristan or Lector in this case. Unless they changed anyway...

Tristan or Lector (unless they changed) walking calmly down from his spot on the mini cliff thing and stopped in front of Yugi and I. "Now," Gansley said, making me blink annoyed that they keep changing. "let's duel Yugi."

Gansley held out his arm and a duel disk flashed onto it. "You five are on!" Yugi shouted at them, then the Millennium Puzzle glowed. I heard the signature "Yu-Gi-Oh!" and Yami took Yugi's place.

"Let's do this," Yami said, starting his duel disk. "for Tristan."

"Hold it right there," Joey shouted as I let go of Yami's hand. "your math is a little of it you get my drift. Five on one is uneven, so count me in!"

"Are you sure?" Yami asked.

"Yeah no question," Joey replied. "you and me are a team Yugi. Now let's waste these five suits."

"Yes," Yami agreed smiling at Joey, making me swoon slightly. "and we'll save Tristan."

"Fine Yugi," Johnson said. "five on two." Then Tristan's face went slack again and the five were conversing in Tristan's head again.. I think.

I wrapped my arms around Yami's shoulder and put my head on his shoulder. Yami chuckled and wrapped his arms around my waist and put his head on my shoulder as well. "Good luck," I muttered to him. "please be careful."

Yami chuckled quietly, pulled back, and pressed a gentle kiss to my forehead. "I will be fine," Yami promised me as he let go. "don't worry Percy."

I felt my cheeks instantly heat up and I pulled away. I nodded and smiled at him, then gave Joey a hug. "Good luck Blondie," I told him when I pulled away. "be carefull, will you?"

Joey nodded and ruffled my hair. "Relax Shorty," Joey laughed. "don't make this sound like our final goodbyes, will you?"

My face went more red and I laughed nervously. "Sorry?" I said, but it came out more of a question. I walked to stand near Duke right when Tristan's face twisted to a smirk.

"Now," Johnson said. "since this duel is two bodies against one. The only way for justice to be served is for us to start out with 8,000 life points while you two begin with 4,000. Win, and you'll be reunited with your friend. Lose, and your bodies will belong to us.."-They switched control.-"Are you two ready to lose?" Gansley finished.

"No," Joey said bluntly. "'Cause, you're fighting the dream team, you five are going down!"

I blinked. "'The dream team'?" I echoed confused, as Joey started his duel disk. "Where did he get that from?"

Duke shook his head smirking. "With Joey," Duke said. "you never know."

I raised an eyebrow at him, but giggled quietly. "You sound like Tristan, you know that?"

Gansley ignored us. "Now let's get down to business," Gansley said, while the a bunch of cards appeared in front of Yami and Joey. "Now, choose your virtual decks. You'll need all the help you can get."-They soon both finished and Gansley smirk remained.-"Choose your Deck Masters."

Yami pulled a card skillfully. "I choose this monster," Yami said as the Dark Magician appeared behind him. "the Dark Magician!"

I did a little dance at the sight of Yugi/Yami's favorite card. It looked so good in person. The Dark Magician turned and smiled at me, like I was his long lost friend. He twirled his staff and waved at me slightly. I blinked confused and waved back, then glanced at the others to see if they saw that, they didn't.

"And I'll pick Flame Swordsman!" Joey shouted as the monster appeared behind him as well.

"Since there's five of us," Gansley said. "we'll be rotating our Deck Master monster. So we'll start with this, my Deep Sea Warrior, a strong investment. Now, stand back, I'll begin." Gansley drew and made this noise that sounded like a deep battle cry and grunt.

I stared at him weirded out. "What.. was that supposed to be?" I asked totally confused.

"First thing's first," Gansley said. "I'll play this magic card: The Legendary Ocean!"

"Oh-no!" Yami gasped, his eyes widening.

"Time to flood the market." Gansley snickered.

"Oh-no," Duke gasped. "run guys!"

Duke, Serenity, and Tea all ran to that cliff thing while I just stayed actually excited for the water. "And now I'll summon the Legendary Fisherman!" Gansley smirked as the water came to us, it went all they way to my knees.

"That's the card Mako Tsunami almost beat me with!" Joey said, then realized something. "hey, hold on, you have to sacrifice something first to summon that card. It's too powerful to summon to the field on your first move."

"With his magic card he can." Yami said annoyed, while I sat down in the water and felt my body pulse again, but this time, with power. The water surrounded my waist and traveled up my body, healing any bruises or injures I had, then evaporated off my body.

"Right," Gansley agreed. "it's all true. Legendary Ocean changes all my five-star monsters to four. I'm afraid, this lets me to summon any five-star monster to the field without having to sacrifice another monster."

"Be careful Joey," Yami warned. "as long as that card is in play, he is at a dangerous advantage."

"Don't worry Yugi," Joey said. "we'll dry up his ocean in no time." That made me pout slightly, but I understood they needed to get rid of the ocean. I was sad they had to do it, but I knew they needed to get rid of it or they could lose the duel. I would rather have them keep their bodies than be keeping the ocean on the field.

"You'll sink long before that." Gansley said bluntly, like that was going to happen. Which it wasn't, Yami and Joey were going to win, I know it!

"You take the next move Joey," Yami said. "and remember these Corporate Tycoons can't be trusted."

"Forget about it," Joey scoffed. "you and I are going to put these guys out of business Yugi. And it's all going to start right now! Watch this, I summon Alligator Sword in defense mode. That's all for now you creeps. But that's just the beginning, so don't get used to that body!"

"It's my move now," Yami said, drawing a card. "and I summon Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts in defense mode."

"And that's all?" Gansley taunted, then reached to draw a card. "Now.." Tristan's eyes suddenly went darker and his body froze, they must be switching! Soon, the color came back to his eyes and he drew his card. "Ready?" A different voice said, but I couldn't recognize it right away.

"His voice changed." Joey stated in a low voice. Wow, he must be getting irritated or something...

"Yes," Yami agreed. "they've switched control."

"Correct. I'm Crump," Crump, as I know now, said. "and I'm the expert in crunching numbers and crushing my rivals."-The Deep Sea Warrior disappeared and a new Deck Master appeared.-"Now, meet my good friend Nightmare Penguin, the last Deck Master you two will ever see."

I heard Tea make a noise between a squeak and growl. "Come on guys," Tea shouted at the 'dream team'. "I already beat this flipper-footed-freak and so can you!"

"Here goes," Crump said. "Legendary Fisherman attack Yugi's Mythical Beast now. Thanks to my Nightmare Penguin's special ability, my Fisherman gets a 200 attack point boost. It's all about the numbers boys, and your number's up!"

The Fisherman's attack points to 2,050 and destroyed Yami's monster. "And next," Crump continued. "I summon Catapult Turtle in defense mode."

Anger bubbled up inside me and I felt the water reacting to my emotions, before I could control what was happening. A stream of water shot up and crashed straight on to Crump's face. Crump sputtered in reaction and my mouth dropped open from shock. Yami snickered and winked at me in approval, while Joey snorted at the scene but held a thumbs up at me anyway.

"He played another five-star monster," Joey said his eyes narrowing at Crump, who suddenly wasn't sputtering anymore just glaring at me and the other two. "thanks to that magic card, he didn't have to make a sacrifice."-Joey wiped his eyes in an exasperated motion.-"Not good. We got to get rid of his Legendary Ocean card, or we're going to lose our bodies forever Yuge."

Yami's eyes flickered to Joey but didn't say anything. My eye twitched in annoyance at Joey and a stream of water hit Joey in the back of the head. Joey yelped at the water and held his head, and I bit my lip to keep from laughing.

Joey turned and glared at me. "What was that for?" Joey demanded, while everyone turned to me as well.

I smiled sheepishly at him. "First," I grinned. "I didn't mean to do that. But that last statement annoyed me, don't ask why."-I quickly added that part when Yami and Joey opened their mouths to ask why.-"But anyway continue."

I made a fist and the water evaporated from Joey's head and he nodded in approval then faced Crump. "Alright," Joey said. "you body snatchers better be ready to give back my friend now, cause you're all done! I play one card face down!"

"That's your big move?" Crump taunted, making me make a fist with both hands and take a couple of deep breaths so I wouldn't choke him with water.

"Now," Joey continued, and thankfully I was calmed by that time when he spoke. "I summon Cyber Harpie!"-I blinked in confusion. What? He usually don't have that card in his deck.. ah I got it! It must be in the honor of Mai! Oh Mai, we'll get you back...-"And next, I switch Alligator Sword from defense mode to attack mode. That ends my turn."

"And starts mine," Yami said, then looked at his hand, Joey's facedown then back at his hand. "I summon Mystical Elf in defense mode. Now let's see what you can do Crump."

Crump scoffed. "And now," Crump said drawing. "Say goodbye to your Mystical Elf. Behold, Legendary Fisherman destroy Yugi's monster with Harpoon of Doom!"

I snickered under my breath thinking something completely inappropriate. 'Did you just throw a harpoon at me?'.. ah, got to love YGOTAS.. oh gods, focus on the freaking duel!...

"Not so fast," Joey interrupted. "I activate my trap card Kunai with Chain!"

A chain came out of the card and wrapped itself around the Legendary Fisherman's leg, trapping him. "Excellent move Joey." Yami complemented.

Crump growled under his breath and Joey snickered. "Hey?" Joey snickered. "Why the long face? Don't tell me you're upset just because your fisherman got a little tied up. Here he comes right now,"-The fisherman appeared above the water with the chain wrapped around his leg.-"and thanks to my chain he can't attack, while my Cyber Harpie gets even more powerful."-The Cyber Harpie's attack points went up to 2,300.-"Oh well, and things were going so good for you too. Maybe now, you five freaks now who you're up against."

Crump or Tristan's eyes lost color and they went into a conversation. I grinned at Joey and held up a thumbs up. "Great move Joey." I praised, making him smirk back at me and turn quickly. I could have sworn that he had a dust of pink on his cheeks, but I was probably imagining it. I knew he thought of me as a sister, the way he acts toward me proves it. But that doesn't mean I can't make him blush if I complement him.

Suddenly, the color came back to Tristan's eyes. "I'll conclude by placing one card facedown in defense mode." Crump decided. "That ends my turn."

"Way to go guys!" Tea cheered from her place up there.

I turned just in time to see Duke grin down at us. "Soon," Duke said. "Tristan will have his body back."

"Yeah!" Serenity celebrated. "Awesome!"

I looked at the Monkey Tristan, but considering they were so high up it was a bit hard to see them. Monkey Tristan looked as if he was raising an eyebrow, thinking. He raised a hand, or is it paw? Ah whatever, he raised.. whatever you want to go with, then made a whole bunch of monkey noises.

"Uh.." Tea blinked a bit concerned. "I thought we turned that monkey switch off."-Tea leaned forward to Monkey Tristan.-"So, if that really is you in there Tristan, why do you keep making a bunch of weird monkey noises?"

Monkey Tristan stared at her weirdly, before blinking, then going crazy, probably freaking out. Just as quickly as it happened, Monkey Tristan stopped freaking out and stared down at us sadly and cooed depressed about something. It was actually quite sad to see.

"This is it Crump," Joey said, then drew a card. "Look out! Bingo baby, now, it's time for me to dry up your ocean Crump! Cause I activate the card Harpie's Feather Duster, this card sweeps away every magic and trap card on your side of the field, including your Legendary Ocean."-I cried anime tears when the water was blown away from me, and held out hand like a child saying 'Please, come back!' Then quickly shook my head, stood up calmly, stopping the tears and put my hand down and mentally scolded myself for acting like that. They had to get rid of the ocean!...-"Now, Cyber Harpie attack his Legendary Fisherman!"-Cyber Harpie let out a screech, kinda like a battle cry, then swiped her claw through the Legendary Fisherman, destroying him.-"Aw yeah! Watch this, Alligator Sword attac- Ah! Catapult Turtle is still in defense mode and has 2,000 defense points. My attack won't do a thing, now what am I going to do?.. It's still my move my Crump and I'm not down wiping the field clean of all your pathetic monsters yet. And my next victim is that facedown mystery monster of yours."

Que facepalm from me. "No Joey don't!" Yami quickly intervened as I removed my hand from my forehead. "It's too risky!"

"'Risk' is my middle name Yuge," Joey grinned, then smirked. "So check this out, Alligator Sword attack his facedown monster."

The card was destroyed but revealed to be the Magician of Faith. "Haha," Crump snickered. "You just activated my Magician of Faith's special ability. Thank you Wheeler, now I can bring back on magic card."

"What?" Joey demanded angrily.

"I'll give you guess on the card I choose," Crump said, then flipped the card revealing Legendary Ocean. That's not that surprising really, we all could of figured he would chosen that card... "Time's up."

"Ah no.." Joey groaned. "I was afraid of that. He picked his Legendary Ocean,"-Joey looked at Yugi guilty.-"sorry about that Yugi."

"You fools are making this way too easy," Crump chuckled, his smirk wide. "You're defeating yourselves."

"Calm down Crump," Yami snapped at him. "this duel is still on. It's my move,"-Yami drew his card and smirked wide at Crump.-"Alright Crump, it's time for someone to put you in your place."

I widen my eyes at his smirk and closed my eyes in embarrassment, feeling my cheeks heating up. I will not swoon, I will not swoon, no.. no.. no! Oh gods, I sound like an Aphrodite child trying to control themselves over an Apollo child.. And Aphrodite and Apollo both probably heard that...

"You bet I did, Ocean." A male voice erupted in my head, followed by his chuckling.

I rolled my eyes mentally and groaned mentally as well. "Well," I protested back, well inside of my head anyway. "It's true! Aphrodite's children, usually girls, all swoon over you and your male children!"

"And you don't swoon over me and my boys?" Apollo pouted.

I smirked despite the situation. "Nope." I replied back inside my head, popping the 'p.'

I looked at the duel to see Yami activating the magic card, Card Destruction and he had Kuriboh in defense mode. I sweatdropped to myself when I saw Joey grinning at Yami and telling him something. Did I really just miss part of the duel?..

"Yes." Apollo chuckled inside my head. "Yes, you did."

My eye twitched slightly. "Get out of my head!" I snapped at Apollo mentally. I heard him chuckle again then heard it echo, and I was thankful he left.

"Now," Yami continued. "it's time for us to redraw a brand new hand, right Crump?" Yami smirked and skillfully drew his new hand, while Joey and Crump followed this example. "I'm through, for now." Yami finished.

"Alright you brats..." Crump growled, before the color faded from his eyes again, then came back. "Crump has been dismissed, kids." A new voice stated, known as Johnson.

"They switched again." Tea said wide-eyed, while Monkey Tristan exclaimed angrily, steam coming out of his robot ears.

"That's their plan," Duke said. "and that's why they're winning. You see, this duel is beginning to take its tole on Yugi and Joey, but the Big Five keep rotating players to keep themselves fresh. This isn't going to be easy."

"Time to bring you to justice," Johnson said. "incase you don't already know. The name's Johnson, Legal Expert of the Big Five. My first order of business is to clear the field of this penguin if you don't mind."-The penguin disappeared and a giant Deck Master vaporized behind Johnson.-"Meet Judge Man."

I blinked. "Okay," I mumbled. "interesting choice for a Deck Master..."

Johnson continued, probably not even hearing me. "When you two lose," Johnson said. "you and your friends will be sentenced to spend an eternity here."

"You're the one going down Johnson," Joey corrected. "I beat you once and I can do it again."

"Yes," Yami agreed slowly. "but now we are up against all five of them."

"Now then.." Johnson drew, trying to create a strategy, so Tea took this time to be in shock.

"I can't believe all five are in Tristan's body." Tea stated still shocked, making me sweatdropp at her.

"My first manuver is called 'Clear the Courtroom,'" Johnson said. "it's Judge Man's Deck Master ability."

Judge Man's eyes glowed red and I blinked freaked out. "Ah no," Joey groaned annoyed. "not this move."

"Oh yes," Johnson retorted, holding up one finger. "first I'll give up 1,000 life points."-That mallet sound came again and Jonshon put a thumbs down and smirked at Joey and Yami.-"Procceed your Honor, prosecute their monster's to the full extinct of the law."

One by one, all of their monster's started disappearing. First Kuriboh, then Mystical Elf, then Alligator Sword, then Cyber Harpie. "All four of their monsters are gone." I said my eyes widening. This isn't good!...

"That's not all I've done." Johnson continued.

"What?" Joey demanded.

"Have you forgotten Joseph?" Johnson taunted. "Next, you both will lost 500 life points for each monster that I've crushed." Yami and Joey's life points dropped down to 3,000.

I winced. "Okay, ouch," I muttered. "that's rough.."

"Now that I've cleared the field of all your monsters," Johnson said. "it's time to work on your life points. I call Hysteric Angel to the stand. Now,"-Johnson looked at me.-"I think our spectators are going to love this next move."-Johnson moved his gaze away from me, to the others up there.-"Especially that little monkey boy up there, time to put his body to good use. Hysteric Angel attack Joseph's life points directly!"

The freaky 'angel' blasted Joey with a laser and Joey groaned in pain and held his stomach. "Okay," Joey groaned, glaring at Johnson weakly. "now I remember why I like lawyers so much.."

"If you love that one," Johnson smirked. "you're going to love this next one. Angel, use my Catapult's special ability to launch yourself at the defendant, Joseph Wheeler."

The 'Angel' did as she was told and Joey flew backwards and landed on his back. I quickly scrambled forwards and helped him up. "Joey," I mumbled to him helping him up, while his life points dropped 300. "You alright?"

Joey nodded weakly to me and I stepped back. "Are you sure you're alright Joey?" Yami questioned concerned.

"I've," Joey paused to take a pained breath. "been better.."

"Tell me Joseph," Johnson chuckled and smirked. "are you beginning to understand my dueling strategy or do you need a hint? I plan to destroy the weaker link first, then I'll concentrate on Yugi."

Joey wiped his mouth, there was a bit of blood, but not much. "Is this the part I'm supposed to be scared?" Joey asked innocently while putting his hand down. "Because, if you don't remember, I wiped the courtroom floor with you, in our last duel Johnson."

Johnson rolled his eyes. "Don't flatter yourself," Johnson said. "I play one card facedown then I play the magic card Altar of Mist. The prosecution rests."

"Good," Joey said impatient with Johnson. "about time, right this will help.. I summon Rocket Warrior, now here comes a move you might remember. Thanks to my Deck Masters special ability, I'll take a 1,000 points away from my Swordsman and transfer them to my warrior. Now, Rocket Warrior attack his Catapult Turtle."

Rocket Warrior flew around for a bit then destroyed Catapult Turtle. "Heh," Johnson snickered. "I activate Revenge Sacrifice."

"No!" Joey muttered wide-eyed.

"This card allows me to sacrifice the monster you just attacked me with," Johnson smirked. "so consider you Rocket Warrior dismissed. And I'll use it to summon a new monster, so please welcome to the stand Machine King. This mechanical menace gains a 100 attack point bonus for every machine monster in play, including it's self. The decision is final, you two don't stand a chance!"

"Alright Yuge," Joey said, glaring at the Machine King. "finish this guy."

"I'll try," Yami bit his lip and looked at his hand, then glared at Johnson. "It's my move, so here it goes."-Yami drew, looked at the card, then at his graveyard slot.-"First, I'll remove my Buster Blader from the game, in order to summon The Rock Spirit, but I'm afraid that's not all Johnson. I'll summon my Spirit to summon this, my Des Volstgalph."-Joey blinked at him like 'what?'-"Then I'll set one card facedown and end my turn."

Joey looked at him weirdly and I ultimately facepalmed. Okay, obviously Yami is either very stupid or he has a different plan in mind.. I looked at Joey to see him trying to warn him about the obvious trap, while doing so Tea, Serenity, and Duke talked out about Yami's trap and what the effects might be (Duke mostly doing the explaining to the other two girls). And Joey probably is not realizing that at all.. gods help me.. Yami should know what he is doing, he's the King of Games for crying out loud!...

Tristan's eyes lost color, then quickly came back, and he smirked. "It's about time I stepped in to rewire this duel. I am Nesbitt," Nesbitt, now I know, said. "now meet my Deck Master, the unstoppable Robotic Knight."

"It's him." Duke stated, angry and annoyed.

"He's the one who did this to Tristan." Serenity whimpered, well kinda whimpered anyway. She sounded a bit angry and sad at the same time.

"Prepare to lose," Nesbitt said, then smirked at Yami. "You look a little nervous. First, I'll rid the field of your facedown card. So sorry, but take this, Heavy Storm! It destroys all the magic and trap cards you have on the field."-A wind blew up Yami's card, Mirror Force, and Yami covered his face from the wind as the card shattered.-"Mirror Force was your facedown card."

"That's right," Yami said, but his voice was a little off, like it was strained or forced. I grinned to myself, realizing he was faking it, he must have another plan. "my plan was to reflect from Machine King right back at you Nesbitt."

Joey looked at him shocked. "Come on Yuge," Joey said, while I sweatdropped at him. Okay he either is faking along with Yami or he is really dense...-"That's the oldest trick in the duel book." Okay, currently the second one...

Yami looked at him. "It was worth a try." Yami said, his voice still strained.

"'Worth a try?'" Joey echoed. "there's way too much at risk to try a lame move like that Yuge."

"Tough break kid," Nesbitt smirked. "now it's time to dismantle you. Go, Machine King, attack now, disassemble his Des Volstgalph!"

Yami smirked and chuckled. "Thank you." Yami said, still quietly chuckling.

"What?" Nesbitt widened his eyes while speaking.

"Looks like you fell for my real trap, Nesbitt." Yami grinned.

"What trap?" Nesbitt demanded. "You have no other trap cards in play."

"Your obviously unaware of Des Volstgalph's special ability," Yami continued. "so allow me to explain. When you played your magic card, you increased my monster's attack points by 200, giving him a total of 2,400. And now, Des Volstgalph, attack!"

The dragon did what he was ordered and destroyed Machine King. "Lucky break kid." Nesbitt deadpanned, while I smiled widely when his life points went down 6,900.

"And my monster has one more effect," Yami smirked. "when my monster destroys one of your monster you lose 500 more life points."

Nesbitt's life points dropped to 6,400 and I resisted to run up and hug Yami. "I'm not impressed," Nesbitt deadpanned again. "500 points is nothing. I still have plenty of life points left."

I heard a snap of fingers and I turned to see Duke smiling. "Hey," Duke grinned. "I get it."

"Get what Duke?" Tea inquired.

"You see," Duke said, turning to her and Serenity. "Yugi just tricked Nesbitt to attacking him instead of Joey,"

"You mean because Joey is down to 300 life points?" Tea asked confused before gasping in realization.

"So Joey would have lost the duel." Serenity said shocked by Yami's actions.

"That's Right," Duke agreed. "without any monsters on the field to protect him, Joey would have been crushed by Machine King."

"So that's why Yugi set such an obvious trap." Monkey Tristan assumed, before making more monkey noises.

"Nesbitt was side-tracked," Duke continued. "so he forgot Joey."

"Nice one Yugi!" Tea called down to us, while I turned away from them to the 'dream team'. "Way to protect Joey."

Yami grinned at Joey and held up a thumbs up. "Your acting was keen," Yami grinned whole naturally. "that made it convincing."

I smiled at them and clapped my hands together. "Great job," I smiled. "do you two take drama class or something?"

I heard the other three same something as well, but Joey turned and waved at his sister when she said something to him. "Ah yeah," Joey said to her. "that was no sweat for me Serenity." Then turned very quickly.

"That won't work again." Nesbitt growled at Yami, then lost the color in his eyes, but it came back just as fast it went away.

"Alright you Corprite Creep-o-zoid," Joey said. "better luck next time, because to me, it seems you're out of monsters. Leaving your life points wide open, here it goes.. I summon Panther Warrior in defense mode. Now, I'll wrap this up by placing one card facedown. It's all you Yuge."

"Right, I know what I have to do." Yami said, then looked behind him at Monkey Tristan. "I'm sorry Tristan, but I must attack directly."

Monkey Tristan nodded at him then hid in Serenity's chest, who blinked in confusion and smiled awkwardly. "It's gonna be fine Tristan." Serenity promised him.

"Now, Des Volstgalph," Yami commanded. "attack his life points directly."-Nesbitt's life points dropped to 4,200, making me grin happily.-"I summon Big Shield Gardna in defense mode. That's all for now, Nesbitt." Yami finished with a bit of a snarl, making my grin turn into a smirk.

The Robotic Knight disappeared, but a new Deck Master didn't show up right away. "Alright," A new voice said. "time to get rid of Nesbitt and his pathetic robot. I'm Lector, and I'll be controlling this body for the remainder of the duel."

"Whatever," Joey said impatient. "less talking more dueling."

"Fine," Lector smirked and drew a little, raising the card. "I'll draw-"

"Not so fast!" Joey interrupted. "you, Lector, triggered my trap! Sorry Lector, but meet Drop Off, which sends the card you just drew to the graveyard." Joey finished with a triumphant smirk. I raised an impressed eyebrow. He's doing this good already? That's new.. I thought to myself, a little amused.

"Guess again," Lector's voice rang out. And, there it is.. I thought to myself, even more amused. A laser shot around the card, until it hit the middle and destroyed the trap card.

"No way!" Joey shouted, eyes wide with fury. "What gives, how did you destroy my trap card?"

Lector chuckled and the new Deck Master literally floated next to him. It was Jinzo. "Haven't you noticed the monster I've chosen to be my Deck Master?" Lector snickered.

"It's Jinzo," Joey gasped, making me roll my eyes smally. "My trap cards are useless!"

"That's right," Lector smirked. "because he'll destroy eacho one of 'em."-He placed a card in the slot.-"Now I play the magic card, Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two more cards." Lector drew and smirked to himself.

"Ha!" Yami suddenly shouted, scaring the Styx out of me for a second. Yami pointed at Lector and smirked to. "When you played a magic card, it triggered my Des Volstgalph's special ability! So it gains two hundred attack points!"

(A/N: Okay, um, this is awkward. But, I kinda have to stop here and start at completely different thing because I took my CD of this episode and stuff and left on my desk and watched Frozen for the first time. Then I left Frozen in my CD Player and left my Yugioh CD on my desk in plain sight. Big mistake on my part, my sister took, and won't give it back. And I know why now, she lost the CD herself. So, here's what I'm going to do, I'm going to start on the next CD and here's a brief summary, from what I can remember, happens in the CD that's missing.

Summary: Yami and Joey win the duel again the Big Five with an awesome card combo and the Big Five try to attack them, Noah intervenes, and Yugi, Percy, and the gang find Kaiba land and find Kaiba and Noah in a duel. The duel was could go either way, 'til Kaiba plays a card and loses his chance to beat Noah. Noah uses Mokuba against Kaiba and when Kaiba loses, Noah turns Kaiba and Mokuba into stone, pissing off Percy and Yami. Yami challenges Noah to finish Kaiba's duel and Noah accepts.

Alright, that's what I can remember, so onto the next CD, exactly at the beginning! Please, don't hate me!)

The gang backed up as the stone rock raised up in the air, with Yami on it, his deck strapped to his arm and filled with Kaiba's deck.

"Yugi's gotta be out of his mind to go with this duel." Joey commented.

I glared at Noah with fury in my dark emerald eyes. "No, it was stupid of Noah to accept. Ya-Yugi will win." I stated, my tone harsh and cold. I was tense and my hand was gripping Riptide, restraining from uncapping it and hurling it Noah.

"You're starting this match with only four hundred life points, thanks to your friend, Seto." Noah sneered. "Taking his place was a mistake!"

"Look, Noah!" Yami growled back. "You overpowered Kaiba using betrayl, then you used your virtual technology to turn him and Mokuba into stone!"-I looked at Kaiba and Mokuba's statues sadly. They had their arms reaching out towards one another, it made me so depressed and angry that Noah did that to them.-"If you think that makes you a superior duelist, you are sadly mistaken!"

"Believe what you wish," Noah commented, as orbs of white came to Noah's deck. "But as soon as I finish refreshing my deck with new cards, you and your friends will meet the same fate as Seto and Mokuba."

"Yugi's been involved with some major duels with some pretty major whack jobs before," Joey commented. "But I must say, this duel definitely takes the cake. Not only is Yugi almost out of life points, he has no monsters on the field! And Noah just merged himself with his deck master, Shinato!"

Monkey Tristan covered his robot mouth with his paw. "That means he can crush Yugi with one attack! I'll be a robot monkey statue!" He cried.

Shut up, before I decapitate you with Riptide! I screamed in my hand, clutching Riptide harder. I was already tense enough!

Tea looked up to Yami. "Yugi," Tea shouted, and Yami turned his head, indicating he was listening. "we're all here for you! I know you can save Mokuba and Kaiba and get us out of this place, now rip this freak!"

"Blah, blah, blah!" Noah interrupted, and turned his head back and glared at him. "Let's do this! So I can silence your cheerleaders and turn them into statues! Now, just to be fair, I'll let you go first!"

"Very well, let's duel!" He shouted, "You think you can control us like pawns, but I'm about to end your game! I summon Gazelle, King of the Mythical Beasts, in defense mode, to protect my life points!"

"Alright, Yugi!" Joey cheered. "Way to get a monster on the field!"

Noah just narrowed his eyes in amusement at Joey and I glared. "And, I'm afraid you're not the only duelist capable of drawing a monster card, so prepare to lose your Gazelle, Yugi. Behold.." Noah drew and glanced at his card, frowning annoyed.

Yami smirked. "Disappointed with your card?" He taunted. "I guess that means my Gazelle isn't going anywhere now, is it?"

Noah's eyes got that crazy look in them and I cringed, that's just creepy. "Well then," Noah sneered. "I guess your wrong because I can still destroy it!"-Noah's spread Shinato's arms out.-"Feel the power of Shinato!"

"No!" Yami gasped, and as six purple orbs appeared around Shinato. "What are those?"

"These six orbs combine to form the divine ring!" Noah smirked as the orbs began to spin quickly, forming a glowing white ring with a purple rim. "Now, Shinato, attack!"

The ring formed what looked like electricity and flew at Gazella and wrapped around him, and destroyed the beast. Yami growled under his breath in frustration as his life points dropped down to 200. My eyes widened when I remembered that Yami's Gazelle was in defense mode.

"What's this?" Yami said, wide-eyed, staring at his duel disk. "My Gazelle was in defense mode, which means I shouldn't have lost any life points." He looked at Noah accusingly, waiting for an explanation. I was doing the same.

"It seems Shinato's special ability has caught you off guard." Noah mused, and I growled silently. "See when my deck master destroys a monster that is in defense mode, you use have your life points."-Yami growled again, clenching his teeth together.-"But that's not the only thing that happens Yugi, it gets much worse. All those life points you just lost, get added to mine!" Noah's life points jumped up to 7,600.

Monkey Tristan began freaking out and Joey and I clinched our fists. "Like that guys needs any more life points!" Monkey Tristan exclaimed.

"Yugi's still gonna beat the virtual stuffing out of this kid!" Joey stated forcefully.

"If I don't get to him first, that is." I snarled under my breath.

"You're a fool to think you can defeat me," Noah smirked at Yami. "And now, you and your friends are going to pay the price. All because you're defending the honor of someone who didn't even like you, Yugi!"

"Kaiba and I have quite a bit in common." Yami retorted, casting a glance at me. "We both date back to a struggle that dates back 5,000 years. Percy as well."-The gang all turned to look at me and I swallowed, waving slightly.-"And Kaiba and I have another thing in common, something you know nothing about Noah."

"Really?" Noah sneered. "And what would that be?"

"He duels with honor and respect!" Yami snarled back, clenching his fist.

Noah's eyes widened in shock before his face twisted into a smirk. "Is that so?" He mused, his eyes closed. "And you think that makes you both superior to me?"

"It makes us human." Yami stated, matter-of-factly.

"Well you won't be human for long," Noah said. "Once I blow away what's left of your miserable life points, you all will be motionless objects! Do you honestly believe you can win this with only 200 life points left?"

"Yes," Yami said, determined. "I'll take you down some way, Noah!"-Noah smirked, amused.-"You'll see! Now, it's my move!"-Yami drew his card and placed a card upside down.-"I'll shall play this monster upside down and end my turn, Noah."

"Even your defense monsters aren't safe!" Noah sneered. "So, you just keep lining them up and I'll just keep knocking them down! My move."-Noah drew and looked a bit triumph. "It's time for me to play a monster who resides in the spirit world. I summon the spirit monster known as Yata-Garasu in attack mode!" Noah placed a card on the field and a giant purple - yes, purple - bird came out.

It only had 200 hundred attack points, that made me sweatdrop. Uh, what?

"A spirit monster?" Yami gasped.

"Yes, and I'll get to that in a moment, but first let me destroy your face down monster card!" The same ring that destroyed Gazelle appeared and raced toward Yami's face down monster. Celtic Guardian appeared and blocked the attack. Yami shouted, "Wrong!" in triumph.

"What?!" Noah gasped, his eyes wide. "But your monster is weaker!"

"Obnoxious Celtic Guardian's special effect protects him from all monsters with 1,900 attack points or more. And yours has 3,000!"

Noah stands up straighter and glares. "Well, I can still active the magic card known as Spring of Rebirth,"-The magic shows up on the field.-"This card grants me 500 life points for every monster that returns to my hand. So watch this,"-Yata-Garasu glowed and went back to it's card.-"Good bird. And now that Yata-Garasu is back in my hand, my Spring of Rebirth activates, raising my life points over 8,000."

"8,000." Joey muttered, shocked. "But Yugi's only got 200, this is crazy."

I frowned worried now. "Please, come on." I whispered quietly.

Yami frowned, irritated. "You broke the rules again," Yami growled. "you can't just call a card back your hand!"

"That's where your wrong," Noah countered. "when Maximillion Pegasus was designing the game of duel monsters, his travels brought him to the Mystical Orient. (sp?) Here, he learned of the legendary spirit monsters, beings with other worldly powers. So he based a series of cards based on the beasts and gave them the ability to return to their owners hand with every turn. How dare you accuse me of cheating, Yugi?!"

"My move," Yami commanded, ignoring Noah and drawing his own card. Yami looked at the card and his eyes widened slightly. Must be one of Kaiba's monsters, I thought to myself. Yami placed a monster upside down, sideways indicating defense mode, again. "I shall place this monster facedown in defense mode. Make your move, Noah."

"Nothing would thrill me more," Noah mused, drawing. "Now I shall summon my Asura, whose yet another spirit monster!"-Noah placed the card on the duel disk and Asura appeared on the field. Noah pointed at Yami.-"Now say goodbye to your Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, Yugi! Asura attack with Daggers of Demise!"-Asura's hands, which were six of them - six arms - filled with swords. Asura threw them toward Celtic Guardian and pierced him in the stomach, which he let out a pained wail.-"You mentioned earlier that your Obnoxious Celtic Guardian was immune to attacks from monsters with 1,900 attack points or more. Unfortunefully for you, my Asura only has 1,700 attack points, so say goodbye!"-Celtic Guardian burst into pieces and clenched his teeth in frustrastion.-"Now behold the special ability of my Asura, Multiple Attack!" The swords reappeared in each of the Asura's six hands.

I widened my eyes and felt my heart clinch with worry. "Looks like Asura is going to attack again." Duke said, placing a hand on my shoulder, like as if he was trying to calm me down. Not working though.

"Mutiple Attack gives my Asura the special ability to attack every monster on your side of the field in one turn," Noah smirked. "So, I'm afraid your facedown monster is about to go, leaving you defenseless. Now, Asura, wipe out Yugi's last monster with your Daggers of Demise!"-Asura threw the six swords and they stuck in the facedown card, and Noah smirked, while I felt my stomach churn.-"It's over, Yugi!"

Yami stepped forward, a triumphant smirk upon his lips. "Yes, it is, Noah." He agreed, and Noah gasped, shocked. "It looks like you've fallen right into my trap, attacking one of Kaiba's favorite cards, Cyber Jar!" The card glowed and revealed the jar and I grinned to myself.

"NO!" Noah cried.

"I'm afraid so," Yami shouted, his tone victorious. "Now all monsters on your side of the field are destroyed! And since you moved your Shinato to the field, your deck master is destroyed also and you lose the duel!"

Asura was sucked into a whirlwind coming from Cyber Jar and Noah restrained himself from getting sucked in too, crying out, "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!"

I grinned widely. "I knew he could do it!"

"Way too go, Yugi." Tea commented, smiling.

Monkey Tristan jumped on my shoulder, cheering, "Banana splits all around!" I chuckled, picked him off my shoulder and placed him on the ground.

"No!" Noah groaned, resisting. "I. Won't. Go!"-He glared at Yami defyantly.-"I activate my deck master's second ability! Reversal!" Shinato disappeared and the Cyber Jar stopped the whirl wind and burst into pieces.

"The Hades?!" I shouted, annoyed and frustrated. "What just happened?!"

"Where's Noah?!" Duke wondered, wide eyed.

"He's gone!" Tea gasped.

"What's the deal?" Joey muttered, confused, staring up at the duel.

"I thought that Yugi just won the duel?" Serenity wondered, confused.

"He did!" Joey stated, a bit confused.

Suddenly, a black hole type thing appeared and Shinato appeared and Noah appeared out of Shinato and fell onto the ground, grunting at the impact.

"I guess that Yugi didn't win the duel." Duke commented, glaring slightly.

"That brat!" I snarled under my breath, tense and on edge once again.

"But how you were you able to escape the destructive power of Cyber Jar?" Yami asked.

Noah got up fully, and glared. He looked at bit weak, and in pain. Not that i cared, he deserved it. "It's quite simple Yugi." Noah said. "Shinato has more than one power and right before he was destroyed, that power was activated. See when Shinato was targeted by another monster, it's power of 'Reversal' was activated, allowing it to leave the battle field and return to its original position on the side lines. In exchange, Shinato cannot be summoned back to the field for the completion of the duel."

"That means you can't use it to attack me for the rest of the duel," Yami concluded and started to draw a couple of cards. "Now, thanks to the second effect of my Cyber Jar we must both draw five new cards."-Yami and Noah began drawing their five quickly.-"Then every monster we pick must be summonded to the field. I summon two monsters, Sagan and Gamma the Magnet Warrior, in defense mode!"-Yami looks at Noah, glaring slightly.-"Now, you must summon every monster you have drawn, Noah."

Noah glares at Yami. "I don't have one!"

"Good, then it's my move." Yami said and draws. "So, I'll sacrifice Gamma the Magnet Warrior and Sagan. This activates Sagan's special ability, allowing me to add any monster with 1,500 attack points or fewer in my hand, so I'll take Big Shield Gardna! And thanks to my sacrifice, I'll summon this, Dark Magician in attack mode!"

The oh-so famous Dark Magician came out and I smiled widely. Yes!

Noah stepped back, frightened. "No," He whispered. "not him."

"And you have no monsters on the field to defend you," Yami continued. "You know what that means, Dark Magician, attack his life points directly!"

The Dark Magician held out his staff and a blast of negative energy shot out and knocked Noah backwards, dropping his life points to 5,100. And for a second, I could have sworn the Dark Magician nodded at me, smiling slightly. I blinked confused, then shrugged it off.

"Alright!" Joey cheered.

"He knocked off 2,500 life points, which only leaves 5,600 left." Duke smirked.

Noah raised his head, glaring harshly and growling quietly when I commented, "Still a long way to go though."

"Noah, I've cleared the field and taken a bite out of your life points." Yami smirked.

"Yugi," Noah snarled. "how dare you humiliate me like that?"

"Humiliate you?" Yami echoed, his tone going harsh. "It's you who humiliated Kaiba and Mokuba to prove your superior to your father!"

"I am!" Noah growled. "No one is better! I deserve to be rewarded for my unsurpassable power!"

"You must earn respect, not demand it." Yami retorted, his gaze stern. I nodded in agreement, I should know. "It's true, maybe you should have been recognized for your talents. And maybe you were treated unfairly."-Yami pointed at the large computer in the sky.-"No one should be locked away in isolation the way you were by your father. However, that is no excuse for how you've been treating us, Noah!"

Noah pointed at him. "Enough out of you, Yugi." Noah commanded, his tone cold. He drew his card. "Watch this, I activate my Next World magic card."-The card glowed and a giant carpet appeared on the field.-"Take a close look at this carpet, Yugi. You may recognize someone."

Then the Dark Magician disappeared and reappeared on the carpet, making Yami gasp, "My Dark Magician! What's.. What's going on here?" Yami's eyes were wide and looked slightly pained at the sight of his favorite card in trouble.

"It choses one of your monsters and allows me to summon one with the same number of stars," Noah continued, like Yami didn't even speak. "So, I choose this, Yamata Dragon!"

A green dragon appeared on the carpet, did I mention it had eight heads? "Holy Styx!" I cursed, jumping back, instinctly pulling out Riptide, but not uncapping it. "Hydra!"

"Whoa!" Joey gasped. "Get a load of that thing guys!"

Monkey Tristan hid behind my leg. "And it's even stronger than Yugi's Dark Magician!" He cried. "That dragon will devour it!"

"Dragon, attack him now, with Eight-Headed Flame attack!" The eight dragon ends leaned back and suddenly lurched forward, letting out a ray of fire towards the Dark Magician. Once the beam of flames touch the Dark Magician, he was destroyed.

Yami put up an arm to shield himself from any harm of the attack while his life points dropped to 100. "Dark Magician is gone." Yami muttered, anger and sadness in his tone at the same time.

"That's right," Noah grinned evilly. "And 100 of your life points transfer to me."-Noah's life points go up to 5,700 and Noah held out a hand.-"Now, spirit monster, come back!"-Yamata Dragon, or the freaky, messed up version of a hydra, in my own opinion, glowed brightly and returned to the card in Noah's hand.-"You remember what that means, don't you? My Spring of Rebirth magic card is automatically activated and add an additional 500 life points to my score." Noah's life points boosted up to 6,200.

I glared harshly at Noah as he chuckled. "Poor Yugi," Noah said with fake sympathy. "you have only 100 life points now. It's only a matter of time before you lose."

"That's it!" I snapped. "Yugi, don't listen to him, okay?"-Yami turned his head and his eyes locked his with mine.-"Don't let this kid order you around! So, do me a favor, and show this little brat his place! You understand me?!"

"We all need you, Yugi!" Tea shouted.

"Your right," Yami muttered, his eyes flickering to everyone.

Joey held up a fist. "We're all behind you, Yuge!"

"Everyone's counting on me," Yami muttered again, his eyes locking with mine again. I nodded to him and he nodded back, a silent conversation between us. A new determination burned within his violet eyes as he turned to face Noah, whose eyes widened and gasped quietly at the new confident Yami, and said: "The safety of all my friends depends on my victory, so let's get on with this duel! It's my move now!"-Yami drew, placed his card in his hand and drew another, placing it the duel disk.-"Now, I shall activate the magic card Swords of Revealing Light!"

"Big deal!" Noah commented, sarcastically.

"This wall of swords will prevent you from attacking me for three turns," Yami explained, smirking slightly as the swords landed all around Noah.

"Nice move, Yugi." Duke commented, smiling a little.

"Yeah," Monkey Tristan agreed, jumping up and down as I moved to stand on the left side of Joey, to get a better look of the duel. "You have Noah right where you want him!"

"He's got nothing on you." Serenity smiled.

"That's right," Joey agreed. "Now you have three turns to figure out a way to kick this guy's virtual butt and get us out of here!"

I didn't say anything, but I knew Yami knew that I was proud and happy he made that move. Noah glared down at us and I glared back at him, my eyes darkening considerably.

"Pay attention," Yami said, snapping us our glaring contest. "I summon Kuriboh!"

The cute monster came out of the card, doing a flip mid-air. "I'm shaking." Noah commented dryly.

"Kuriboh, attack Noah's life points directly, now!" Yami commanded and Kuriboh flew over, scratched Noah, and knocked his life points down to 5,900.

"Your pathetic little puff ball barely made a dent." Noah smirked and Kuriboh exclaimed angrily. I growled under my breath. Why does everyone diss Kuriboh!

"Your dueling tactics are beneath me," Noah continued, smirking still. "You can swat at me with that dust bunny all day, but I'm afraid it isn't going to help you. And as soon as your Swords of Revealing Light are gone, I'll erase you, Yugi. And since you seem to be a much better duelist than Seto, by defeating you, I'll be proving my power over him. Now, on with the duel."-Noah drew his card.-"I'll place one monster facedown in defense mode. Alright, Yugi, it's your move. Remember there's only two turns left, then I'm allowed to attack you."

"I still have time," Yami retorted as he drew his card. Yami looked at his card, thought for a moment, placed in his hand and picked up another card. "I'll summon Big Shield Gardna in defense mode and then I'll switch Kuriboh into defense mode. Now, go ahead and make your move, Noah."

"I will." Noah smirked. "First, I place this monster in defense mode and last, but not least, I'll place one card facedown on the field. Now it's just one more turn, then it's lights out."

"And I'll be ready." Yami said, drawing his card. "I'll place this card facedown and end my turn." A facedown card materialized onto the field.

"Well, Yugi. I think it is clear how this duel will end," Noah said. "on my next turn, you will lose this duel. Then you and your friends will be turned to stone!" Yami glanced back at us, worried.

I glared at him and shouted, "What did I tell you, Yugi? Don't listen to him! Put him in his pathetic place!"

"You can beat this guy 1, 2, 3, Yugi!" Tea yelled.

"Your friends still think you can win," Noah said, not even looking down at us, making my glare intense. "guess they're more clueless than I thought."

"Come down here and say that!" Joey shouted and held up a fist, I clenched my own fists in return. "Your just jealous because Yugi over here actually has friends and your just a spoiled little brat whose angry at the world because someone stuck you in a computer without no one to hang out with other than your sorry self."

"Joey.." Yami said, shocked.

"Well, he made his point and I think it's fair that I make my own." Noah raised his head and glared. "I've listened to your loud-mouth friends insult for too long now, so take this!" Suddenly a flash of blue and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Duke screamed and when the light died down, I saw Duke. But, he was stone.

I ran over and Monkey Tristan jumped on Duke's stone head and patted around. "No, that kid make a stone stiff of Duke too!"

I glared harshly at Noah and I swear I felt the air get damper, like as if it was going to start to fog. I wouldn't be surprised, I am getting pretty angry.

Noah laughed loudly, "Much better! That was so much fun I think I'll turn all of you into stone, one by one with each turn I take. What do you say?"

Joey clenched his fists. "I say, I'll rearrange your face, you little brat!"

"Silence!" Noah ordered, smirking. "Or you'll be the next to go! Since you all are all so confident that he's going to win, I've decided to put your fate in his hands. So with every turn Yugi fails to defeat me, another one of you will be turned to stone. You'll be frozen in time with a look of despair on your face."-Noah looked at the worried Yami smugly.-"Because Yugi failed to save you. And in the end, Yugi, you'll be left in a circle of motionless statues that were once your friends."

Yami smirked and began to chuckle. "What's so funny?" Noah demanded.

Yami looked at him. "Your nothing but a child." Yami said. "Six years may have passed but I'm afraid you haven't matured at all. You are a weak boy."

"I am strong!" Noah denied.

"Well," Yami smirked, pointing back at us. "not strong enough."

"Come on," Joey shouted. "you can still beat this lame-o!"

"That's right," Tea agreed. "so do you even think about giving you this fight, Yugi!"

"This can't be!" Noah cried in disbelief, making me smirk. "They still have faith!"

"Noah," Yami said. "you wouldn't be so surprised if you had been giving the chance of experiencing true friendship! You're just bitter."

"The only thing I need to know about friendship is how to destroy it!" Noah sneered and drew his card. "It's my move."-Noah placed his card in his hand and hit a button his duel disk.-"And now I activate my facedown trap card, Pyro Clock of Destiny!" Then the Swords of Revealing Light began disappearing.

"Oh-no!" Yami gasped. "My Swords of Revealing Light, they're gone! But, that's too soon!"

"True," Noah agreed. "but my trap card causes time to move faster. So they expire one turn sooner. Now, I summon the dreaded Otohime in attack mode. And thanks to my new monsters special ability, I can switch anyone of your monsters from defense to attack mode or vis versa, Yugi!"-Otohime began glowing pink and I was vaguely reminded of the Aphrodite campers. Noah pointed at Kuriboh.-"And I choose your Kuriboh, Yugi! So, your puff ball switches to attack mode."

I bit my lip. "If Noah attacks Kuriboh, Yami will lose." I mumble under my breath where no could hear. I shake my head, focus! He's going to win!

"Now I'll sacrifice Otohime and my facedown card, to bring back an old friend." From behind Noah, the freaky, messed up Hydra reappeared. And in unison, Yami and I let out moved backwards from shock, surprise, and a bit of fear.

"It's Yamata Dragon!" Yami shouted. Kuriboh just 'kuri'ed, staring up at the dragon bravely.

"The time is finally here!" Noah grinned evilly. "This duel has come to an end, my Yamato Dragon will wipe out your Kuriboh and your life points! Yamata Dragon, attack!"-Yamata Dragon let out beams of fire, heading directly for Kuriboh.-"Victory is mine!"

"NO!" I shrieked, my voice high-pitched with worry.

"YUGI!" The gang screams in unison.

"This can't be happening!" Serenity gasped.

"I win the duel!" Noah shouted in triumphant. "And you and your friends will be turned to stone, forever!"

The flames hit Kuriboh dead on and Kuriboh burst into pieces, smoke covered Yami and I felt my stomach churn. "I've proven my point," Noah continued. "See, Yugi? No one is superior to me!"

"You wish." Joey sneered.

"I'd like to beg to differ." I growled under my breath, tense, full of rage and angst.

"Yugi," Tea whimpered. "..You lost!"

"Not quite, Tea!" I smiled as the smoke cleared up to see Yami just fine, more or less, and no life points missing.

"Look," Joey continued. "He still has his life points!"

Noah gasped, stepping back in shock and Yami smirked. "What's the matter?" Yami taunted. "You look shocked."

"You should have lost the rest of your life points." Noah stated, his voice a bit weak from shock.

Yami chuckled and looked down at the field. "Take a closer look, Noah." Yami said. It was then I noticed a card, faced up on the field.

"You activated a trap!" Noah gasped.

"That's right," Yami agreed. "It's a card called Nutrient Z and since your attack was strong enough to wipe out 2,000 of my life points, I was able to activate my Nutrient Z trap card to protect me. So I received an additional 4,000 life points before your attack did any damage."-Yami's life points went up to 4,100 and then dropped to 1,800.-"You can't get rid of me that easily, Noah. Thanks to my cards and my friends."

"Thank gods." I muttered in relief. "But, geez. Activate cards faster!"

"But not for long, Yugi!" Noah sneered, then chuckled evilly. "Did you forget? Every time one of your turns comes to an end, I'll transfer another one your friends into stone."

"Noah!" Yami shouted in rage.

"Relax, Yugi." Noah smirked. "'Cause my turn is far from done! Next, my deck master's special ability kicks in, boosting up my life points."-Noah's life point went up to 8,200.-"And then I'll activate this, the magic card Sebek's Blessing, this raises my points from the many points you just lost. Giving me a grand total of 10,500 life points."-Noah's life points spiked up to said number and Noah closed his eyes.-"And now, my Yamata Dragon Spirit Monster will return to my hand."-Yamata Dragon glowed and did as Noah said it would do, return to his hand.-"I'm sure you remember what that means, don't you, Yugi? Spring of Rebirth activates. Strengthening me more." Noah's life points went another 500 making his total 11,000 life points.

"He's got 11,000 life points." Joey said, wide-eyed.

Meanwhile, Monkey Tristan was panicking. "How's Yugi ever going to get him to zero?!" He asked/cried, holding his head in his paws.

Yami clenched his jaw and glanced back at us, Duke, then his eyes landed on me. I could see the fear and worry in his eyes, which made me smile lightly at him. He really trying to protect us, it's his - our, actually - fatal flaw in a way. "Alright then," Yami said, drawing and placing a card on the disk. "I summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior in attack mode. Attack Noah's life points directly!"

Alpha raced forward and slashed Noah across the chest. "Hmm," Noah mused, amused. "I have so much power that I barely felt a thing." Noah's life points did drop to 9,600 though.

Yami clenched his jaw again. "Fine." He spat out. "Your move."

"Not quite just yet," Noah said and smirks. "I still have to keep my word, by encasing one more of your friends in stone now!" A ray of lightning flashes and I cry out in shock, hearing Monkey Tristan's scream. I turn to see him call out, "Don't let him win, Yugi!" right before he turned completely into stone.

"No!" Serenity cried. "Tristan!"

"I'll get you back Tristan." Yami promised and turned back Noah with a hard, fierce glare. "Noah, this must stop!"

"It'll stop when I win!" Noah shot back, a smug smirk on his face. "Then you all be trapped here."

"Look, Yugi's going to shut this place down, and then you can threaten whoever you want, Noah." Joey growled.

"Whoever I want?" Noah grinned sarcastically down at us. "I guess that includes your sister, Serenity. Fine, if Yugi doesn't win this turn, she's next!"

"ENOUGH, NOAH!" Yami roared in rage, glaring as hard as I am.

"There's still a chance to save her, Yugi." Noah said, calm and highly amused. "All you have to do is beat me, if not, too bad! Your friends will be a bunch of stiffs forever! Soon, I'll prove no one is better than me! My move."-Noah draws.-"And I summon the spirit monster, Inaba White Rabbit."-A white rabbit with pink/purple eyes appeared on the field, holding onto a rocket of some sorts.-"It has the ability to hop over all of your monsters and go straight for you life points."

"Oh, Hades." I muttered, as Yami said, "Oh-no!"

"White Rabbit attack him now!"-The bunny bounced a few times with the rocket and began flying around Yami, who locked around, trying to see where it was coming from. Noah looked at him amused and sang songed, "Behind you~"-Yami turned just in time to see the rabbit right before it struck him the back, making him cry out in pain. My chest clenched at the sound and I growled under my breath, my eyes going darker once again.-"White Rabbit return!"-White Rabbit did as it was told.-"As you know, when a card returns to my hand, my two magic cards give my life points a major boost." Noah's life points went up to 10,800.

"Whoa," Tea gasped. "This is nuts!"

Serenity grabbed Joey's shoulder, frightened. "Now what?" She asked.

"Relax, Serenity." Joey soothed. "Yugi can handle this freak."

"Alright, Noah." Yami said, drawing his card. "I place one card facedown on the field. Then I'll sacrifice Alpha the Magnet Warrior to summon Dark Magician Girl."-Dark Magician Girl appeared on the field, twirling her staff. She turned to me and gave me a little wave and I blinked, a bit shocked.-"And since I have a Dark Magician in my graveyard, she gains 300 attack points now! Go, Dark Magician Girl, attack Noah's life points directly!" Dark Magician Girl twirled staff, let out a huff, and sent out a ray of magic, which hit Noah across the chest.

"Hmph," Noah smirked. "That's your best shot? If you want to save Joey's sister, you'll have to do better than that."-He waved a finger back and forth mockingly and I grinded my teeth together.-"So, why don't you try again?"

"I can't," Yami said, weakly. "I have to end my turn."

Joey swallowed and held his sister, who whimpered quietly in fear. I glanced at her and then back at the laughing Noah. "Alright then," Noah grinned and held his hand in the air. "time to lose another friend! Goodbye, Serenity!"

Seeing the lightning, Serenity pushed Joey away. "Joey, get back!"

I lunged forwards to push her out-of-the-way, but was too late, she was already turning to stone. "Serenity.."

"Joey.." She choked out, looking at her brother before she was fully engulfed in stone.

"Serenity!" Joey shouted, hugging his little sister.

"Joey, I'm so sorry." Yami said.

"Ha!" Noah scoffed. "If you really cared, you wouldn't have let that happened. Now, time to bring back an old friend, you remember Inaba White Rabbit, don't you?"

Yami smirked. "I do, and I'm glad to see him again." Yami said. "His arrival has triggered my trap card, Dark Renewal!"

"And what is that?" Noah asked, annoyed by now.

"Once you summon a monster," Yami explained, smirking now. "Dark Renewal allows me to bring back a spellcaster back from my graveyard, but first I must sacrifice one of your creatures and one of mine! So why don't we get down to business, Noah? Say goodbye to your Inaba White Rabbit-"

"-No!-" Noah cried, when he his monster disappeared.

"-And I'll sacrifice my Big Shield Gardna! Now I can bring back a monster you destroyed earlier in our duel,"-the coffin lid opens and Dark Magician sits up.-"Dark Magician!"-Dark Magician flies out of the coffin and lands next to Dark Magician Girl, who waves cutely, while losing 300 attack points.-"Now, I have the power of two Dark Magicians on my side of the field, Noah. And it looks to me you have no monsters left to protect you."

Noah groaned, annoyed. "I'll place one card facedown and end my turn, for now." A facedown card appeared on Noah's side of the field.

Yami pointed at Noah triumphantly. "You have nothing to defend you, so your life points are wide open." Yami said, smirking or grinning, it was hard to tell from my angle. "It's about time I turn this duel around, so stand back, Noah!"-Yami drew and smirked more.-"Prepare to release me and my friends from your twisted game, because I activate Dark Magic Ritual! This magic card allows me to summon a dark magic creature once I make a sacrifice. So, I'll sacrifice this card, my all-powerful Valkyrion the Magna Warrior. Valkyrion, be gone!"-Valkyrion disappeared.-"Now, I shall summon my third magician, the Magician of Black Chaos!"

"Oh-no!" Noah gasped, stepping back in shock, once again.

"Oh, yes." Yami smirked. "This completes my trio of magical beasts that will combine forces to take you down! When put together, Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, and Magician of Black Chaos have over 7,000 attack points, almost enough to wipe you out!"

"He's got three Dark Magicians?" Tea asked, wide-eyed.

"That's right," Joey said. "But he's never had them all on the field at once. This is the break Yugi needed!"

"Noah! This is for my friends!" Yami shouted. "Magicians combine forces and strike his life points directly."

Then a thought crashed down on me. Noah has a face down card. Noah's facedown card. It could be a trap. Holy Hades, it is a trap!

"Guess again!" I suddenly heard before I could voice my thoughts. "I play a trap card, you just triggered my Chaos Barrier Field! So, my life points are safe but yours are in a great deal of danger. Watch closely as my trap card takes affect, pinning your weakest monster and your strongest monster against one another!"-Dark Magician girl disappeared from Yugi's field and reappeared in front of Noah.-"Now, Dark Magician Girl feel the wrath of your friend Magician of Black Chaos!" Needless to say, Dark Magician Girl was defeated.

"I don't believe it!" Yami said, wide-eyed.

"It's true," Noah smirked. "your big plan to defeat me just failed miserably."-Yam's life points dropped to 300.-"And all the life points you just lost goes to me." Noah's life points went up to 9,300.

"Now he's ahead by 9,000." Tea said, her tone shaky.

"Provo, Yugi." Noah said, clapping mockingly. "Provo. You put on such a great show, I see no need to continue. I'll transform your friends back to normal and we can end this duel."

Yami turned towards us and said to Noah, "Don't toy with me."

Joey turned back to his staute-fied sister and muttered, "Serenity."

Yami turned back to Noah. "I ask only one little favor, Yugi." Noah continued. "that you forfeit the duel and admit that I am superior to you. It seems like a small price to pay for your friend's safe return, doesn't it? For, Seto and Mokuba will remain as they are and stay with me."

Joey whipped around and shouted, "You slime ball!"

"Wait!" Yami snapped. "Watch what you say!"

"You'll be next." Tea warned.

"You can't play with people's lives like this." Joey muttered before looking back up again at them. "Yuge, you can beat this twerp fair and square and put an end to his little game!"

"What if I am defeated?" Yami asked, his eyes holding hesitation and fear.

"You won't lose, Yuge!" Joey said firmly.

"I don't remember asking your opinion," Noah snarled and raised his hand in the air and lightning flashed behind him. "So, say goodbye!"

Lightning flashed again and struck Joey, who screamed in pain, slowly turning to stone.

"JOEY!" I screamed, running over to him.

"NO!" Tea shouted.

"JOEY, NO!" I heard Yami scream as well.

I ran over and I could feel my stomach churning and my blood boiling. I looked and saw tears streaming down Tea's face, which made me even more made. I spun around on my heels and glared at Noah, my eyes the darkest I've had them. "NOAH!" I screamed at him. "You think you're so tough, don't you?!"

"Why yes." He answered like it was obvious.

"Well, you're not." I snarled. "Your just a weak, annoying, little brat whose a coward and throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way!"

Noah laughed. "You really think I care what you think of me, Persephone?"-He looked at Yami.-"I've already proved that no one is better than me, it's just up to Yugi to admit the same! And then I'll gladly reverse the damage that has been done."

"Well then I've got some disappointing news for you then," Yami sneered. "I'm still planning to win!"

"What?!" Noah shouted in shock. "You do?"-Noah recovered and pointed at Yami with an evil smirk.-"Then suit yourself! I tried to make things easier for you, but you choose the hard way."-Noah drew his card.-"So, I'll place one monster in defense mode."-A facedown monster in defense mode appeared on the field.-"And I place one card facedown. Now, since I can't lose, there's no harm and showing you the next card I'm going to play, so get ready!"-He flipped his card to where it was facing Yami.-"Tada! When your turn starts, I'll use Ground Breaking to bring back on of my spirit monsters. A little critter known as Inaba White Rabbit! He possesses 700 attack points, which is more than enough to wipe you out. So, once he attacks you directly, your finsihed!"-Noah put Ground Breaking in the slot.-"So make your move, Yugi!"

"It isn't just yet, Noah!" Yami said as he drew a card, and his eyes widening when he did.

"I activate my trap, Ground Breaking!" Noah cried, throwing an arm out dramatically. "This brings my Inaba White Rabbit right back to my hand."

"But not for long!" Yami retorted. "I activate Card Destruction! Now, you must discard your entire hand, including your White Rabbit and draw four more cards."-Noah did as he was instructed.-"It all stops here, Magician of Black Chaos, destroy his facedown monster!"

The card burst into pieces, and revealed Noah's Otohime. "Sorry, Yugi." Noah grinned. "But you just activated Otohime's special ability. Otohime, target Yugi's Dark Magician and force him into defense mode!"-Dark Magician was forced on one knee, his staff by his side, but he was glaring in frustration, that was obvious.-"Doesn't look like he's going to attack me anymore this turn. But since you managed to destroy one of my spirit monster cards, you triggered yet another trap card! Vessell of Illusion allows me to summon a monster, so Otohime, return now in defense mode! Your turns over, Yugi! And it looks to me like you only two friends left down there!"

Tea gasped and we looked at each other in unison.

Yami looked at us, worried and tense. "Percy, Tea."

"Soon, they'll be nothing but a former statute of their former selves!" Noah grinned, playing with the tips of his cards.

"In your dreams, you creep!" Tea shouted. "Yugi's gonna crush you and he'll set us all free, you got that?"

"Tea.." Yami warned.

"HA!" Noah scoffed. "I'll spare you and Persephone for one more turn so you two can witness Yugi's defeat and just to see how wrong you are about your friend."-He looked at Yami.-"Speaking of your defeat, I activate the magic card Change of Heart! It allows me to control one of your monsters, guess who is now mine?"

Suddenly, the Dark Magician disappeared and Yami shouted, "No! My Dark Magician!"

"And now your favorite monsters stands by my side, Yugi!" Noah taunted.

"Oh, come on!" I groaned, looking away. "That-That's just wrong!"

"And now, I'll sacrifice him along with my Otohime." Noah continued, like I didn't even speak. "Which allows me to summon the most powerful spirit monster of all duel monsters, Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi!" A black hole appeared and a man, with a flame for hair, rose out of the hole and laughed weirdly.

"Oh-no!" Yami gasped, stepping back.

"Then I'll play the magic card, Flaming Fist!" Noah announced as Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi's hand caught on fire like his hair. "This adds 200 extra attack points to my beast for one turn."-Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi's attacks points went up to 3,000.-"The end is just about here, Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi, destroy his Magician of Black Chaos, now!"-Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi punched Magician of Black Chaos in the stomach, which made the magician burst into pieces. The left out fireball, it Yugi straight on, and blown him on his back. I let out a yelp and ran forwards, only for Tea to grab my arm.-"It seems my spirit monster has destroyed all your monsters, and thanks to my deck master, an additional 700 life points are added to my total."-Noah's life points went up to 10,000.-"Now, I'll play Spiritual Energy Settle Machine. It lets me keep a spirit monster on the field after I discard one card from my hand."-I could see Yami trying to sit back up and I bit my lip.-"You may as well stay down, Yugi. It's all over."

"Shut up, you insolent, spoiled, little brat!" I snarled.

"Don't listen to him, Yugi! Get up!" Tea shouted.

"Silence!" Noah sneered at the both of us. Then, I felt a white-hot pain all over my body and I let out a yelp.

Then realizing, he was turning Tea and I into stone, just like he said he would. My eyes locked with Yami's and I choked out, "Don't you dare give up!"

---

Yami's POV

"Percy.." I choked, feeling pain swell in my chest, I let out a grunt and fell back on my back.

"Well, this should quiet things down a bit." I heard Noah say. "If you could speak now, Yugi, I'm sure you would admit that I'm the better duelist."-Noah's voice seemed to be getting distant, like it was echoing and I was alone in a room. Just black.-"You have no monsters in play, no cards in your hand, and no friends to cheer you on. Your all alone now, Yugi. There's no one left to support you!"

"That's not true!" Yugi's voice rang out.

I strained my eyes open and saw Yugi coming toward me. "Yugi.."

He smiled and held his hand out. "As long as I'm here, you can't ever be alone! Come on!" Yugi grabbed my hand and pulled me up, then a bright light emitted for our hands and we were suddenly in my soul room. "All you have to do is look inside your heart and inside your mind. And you'll see that all your friends are all right here!"

"But I don't see anyone." I stated, confused.

Yugi walked to a door. "Just look in here!" He twisted the handle and the door swung open. We walked into the unfamiliar room, and I looked around curiously. "I've never seen this room before, Yugi." I commented.

"It holds your recent memories!" Yugi explained.

Then Joey appeared. "Joey." Tea appeared beside him. "Tea." Tristan appeared next to her. "And Tristan." Duke appeared next to him. "Duke Devlin." And Serenity appeared next to Joey. "And Serenity."

Then suddenly a brush appeared on my shoulder, like a hand. I turned my head to see sea-green eyes and messy black hair. Percy walked to stand on the other side of Joey and smiled at me and Yugi. "Percy."

I looked at Yugi. "I think I understand now."

Yugi nodded. "As long as they're in our thoughts, they will never been too far away."

"Well put, pal." Joey grinned, making me look at him. "We'll be right here in your mind, no matter what."

"That's right!" Tea agreed. "You may not remember your ancient past yet, but you remember us."

Joey and Serenity nodded in agreement. I closed my eyes and said, "That's true. But I'm afraid I have nothing left to fight with."

"That's pathetic! Are you telling me future is in the hands of a quitter?" A voice sneered, I turned to see Kaiba and Mokuba coming towards me. "Kaiba. Mokuba."

"You can't let that little punk win this duel, Yugi." Kaiba insisted.

"I know."

"Then get back in the game and face him like a man. Remember, you have my cards too." Kaiba reminded, making me look down at my deck. "And with the power of my deck in your hands, you can't lose."

I looked at the deck and a thought occurred to me, it was long shot. But it was a shot nevertheless. "There may be still a chance that lies in Kaiba's deck." I said.

"Don't mess up." Kaiba ordered. "You've only got one shot left."

A hand touched my shoulder and I looked to the owner, seeing Percy. She smiled and said, "You can do this. I know you can. Now, go show that little, green-haired, brat what real dueling looks like, huh?"

My eyes shot open and I forced myself up into a sitting position. "I will save my friends, just watch me." I said, forcefully.

"You insist on humiliating yourself, don't you?" Noah commented.

"I won't stop until your defeated, Noah." I said as I draw my next card. "Now, I play Card of Sancity. So, we both have to draw from our decks until we hold six cards in our hands."

Suddenly, I was seeing the gang again.

"Yugi." Joey said.

"We're all here." Tea said.

"Now, draw six cards." Tristan commanded.

"One from each of us." Tea said.

"Though, one of us will have to share a card!" Percy giggled.

"Take this." Kaiba said, holding out a card.

Joey held his card with a wink. "Don't give up!"

Tea held out her card. "Here you go!"

Tristan held up his card. "This is for you!"

Serenity held out her card with both hands. "Hope it helps!"

Percy held out a card sideways with her index and middle finger and winked. "From Duke and I, give that brat a spankin' for us, will ya?"

Back in the duel, I stared at the cards. The hearts of all our friends are in these cards, I thought to myself. I looked at Noah. "I feel sorry for you." I said, staring at him intensely. "Thanks to the support of my friends, I'm about to defeat you. That is something you'll never understand. I play, Monster Reborn! It can revive any monster you sent to the graveyard, even Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon!"

Noah's eyes widened. "It can't be!"

I smirked to myself. "Oh, yes it can!" I said. "Remember, Noah, this duel originally began as you and Kaiba. You destroyed his Blue Eyes White Dragon so, I was able to bring it back! Now I activate this card, Polymerization! This allows me to fuse the Blue Eyes on the field with the two other Blue Eyes in my hand!"-The three Blue Eyes White Dragon fused together and Noah actually looked scared.-"Now, behold, the power of my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon! The strongest monster in Kaiba's deck. I'm afraid there's more. Next, I'll activate my Quick Attack Magic card! This lets my dragon attack right now!"-The Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon let out three rays of white electricity and destoryed Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi.-"That means Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi is no more!" Noah's life points dropped to 8,300.

"It's not over yet!" Noah shouted.

"Noah, you're wrong." I told him. "Thanks to the next magic card in my hand."-I held it up for him to see.-"Defusion!"-Noah gasped.-"It seperates my beast into three separate dragons, each with 3,000 attack points."

"No! Wait!" Noah cried, scared, looking at his cards frantically. "There must be something I can do!"

"You've been exposed for the frightened child you are." I said, my tone harsh and cold. "For Kaiba, Mokuba and all my other friends, My Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack! Wipe him out!"

Noah whimpered slightly and the Blue Eyes all let out their attacks. The ball on white electricity engulfed and I shouted, "This madness is over, Noah! And so is this duel!"

Noah let out a scream. "No! This isn't possible! I can't lose!"

"I'm afraid you just did, and my friends are now free!"

---

Percy's POV

I sucked in a breath and stumbled forward, feeling like my legs were asleep. "A-Ah!" I shouted as I fell.

Duke quickly grabbed my arm and steadied me. "You alright there, Princess?" He asked me.

I glared at him. "Fine, and don't call me that again."

He nodded and let go. "Noted."

I turned just in time to see Mokuba and Kaiba unfreeze. "Seto!" Mokuba shouted, running to his brother, who hugged him close when he got to him. "Is it over?" Mokuba whimpered.

"Well, looks to me that everything is back to normal around here." Duke commented.

I grinned. "Which means, Yugi won the duel."

Kaiba turned and glared at me. "What? What duel?"

"Your duel." Tea chimed in. "Yugi took over when you and Mokuba were turned to stone. He combined his deck with your deck."-Kaiba looked shocked.-"He beat Noah!"

Kaiba looked at his duel disk to see no cards and growled, "My deck!"-He looked up and glared at me.-"He dueled, using my cards?!"

"You have been defeated, Noah." A voice rang out, making me look up at Yami, who was speaking as the pillars of rocks began drifting down into the holes they made before. "Not just by me, but by all of us. For it was only the support of my friends I was able to win this duel. And the more you tried to destroy that friendship, the stronger it grew."

Noah dropped to his knees. "This isn't how it was supposed to happen at all.."

Yami began walking over. "Listen, Noah." Yami commanded. "You've been all alone in this virtual world for six years, and it's disoriented your mind."

I heard Noah make a sound of realization, he must realized that what Yami was saying was true. Then he mumbled, "No one will." Which I have to admit, confused me a little bit. Then he mumbled again, "My life was stolen." Oh, now that makes sense!

Noah snapped his head up and glared at all of us. "It's not fair!" He shouted. "I deserve to be the President of Kaiba Corp. and I would be if Seto hadn't robbed me of my life!"-Yami looked down at him intensely and Noah looked at him, his eyes showing that crazy glint again.-"I. Want. It. Back!"-Noah lurched forward at Yami.-"And I'll start by escaping the real world in your body! For now on, I'm you!" Then a bright light began to form between the two of them.

"No!" I shouted, running forward towards them, pulling out Riptide as I went.

I vaguely heard: "What? What's this? Who are you? Answer me! Your mind is full of secrets!" The light got bright and I heart Yami grunt a little bit and them he exclaimed, "What have you done?!"

"Let. Me. In!" Noah pressed, and Yami shouted out. The light engulfed them and then Noah was pushed away.

"What are you?" Noah said, shocked, but still glaring. "You're not like the others."

I, finally, go to them and uncapped Riptide. I stood in front of Yami and glared at Noah, "Try that again." I snarled, my eyes flashing. "I dare you."

Joey held up a fist. "Try touching me!"

Serenity looked at him wide eyed. "Stop it Joey, Percy!" Serenity said. "Violence isn't going to get us out of here."

I looked at her, reluctantly - I mean, like I was struggling to do it - and capped Riptide. I slide my pen into my pocket and stood on the left side of Yami.

"You have failed, Noah." Yami announced, his voice strong. "Now, it is time that you set us all free."

Monkey Tristan began to jump around, then jumped on my shoulder. "And give my real body back, Pronto!"

"So, you want your bodies back?" Noah repeated, then began laughing.

"You better quit laughing, or I'll start my next sword training practice and you'll be my dummy." I growled, Yami looked at me and shook his head. I looked up at him, a bit pleadingly. I really want to take a swing out of this brat, I mean, come on! He - for Hades' sake - turned me into stone! Yami shook his head, his gaze firm. I nodded back, a bit sad.

"Your bodies have been in the exact same place since you all got here." Noah announced, like I never even spoke. Oh, you little brat!

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Duke demanded.

"Stop the games, Noah." Tea huffed.

"Don't you get it?" Noah said, spreading his arms out. "There are no real bodies in my world. Everything is virtual, even you to!"

"I don't get it." Joey stated. That makes two of us, Blondey.

"I do," Duke said, making me look at him. "We're not only trapped in a virtual, we're apart of it too."

"Exactly," Noah grinned. "Your real bodies are strapped in Cyber Pods that are hot-hired to my virtual simulator. So, everything you have experienced here has only happened in your minds."

"So, that's why, everything feels so real here." Tea concluded. "Our minds are being tricked into feeling things that aren't really there."

"Of course," Kaiba realized, making glance up at him. "When the floor opened up, we didn't fall into a virtual vortex. We were knocked unconscious and put in your Cyber Pods."

A weird, purple smoke began to cloud over us and it vaguely reminded me of the Shadow Realm. I brought out Riptide and uncapped it, something bad was coming.

"You have failed me for the last time, Noah!" A loud voice boomed, as one cloud began to stretch out across us.

"That voice!" Kaiba yelled, looking mad and shocked. "It can't be!"

"Father, no!" Noah cried. "Give me another chance!"

"Too late for that!" Noah's real father and Kaiba's adopted father, snarled.

The cloud began to move back and forth widely and I tightened my grip on Riptide. "What's going on?" I muttered.

Then, a face, a very familiar face, came out of the cloud and Mokuba shouted, "Gozaburo!" in rage.

"Wait, not yet!" Noah pleaded. "Father, I need more time!"

"More time?!" Gozaburo echoed, his face full with disgust. "You had more than enough time to prove yourself! It's time for me to finish things off now! And that's why I digitized my own mind when Seto disgraced me by taking over my company. I wanted revenge, now the time has come!"

"So, you were behind this the whole time." Kaiba realized, looking at him with anger and mild disgust.

Noah smiled, like in awe. "Yes, he has. Right, Father? And he's going to give Kaiba Corp. to me!"

Gozaburo's eyes flickered to his son. "You had your chance, Noah." He sneered, and Noah stepped back shocked, and a bit crushed. "And you failed, son!"

Kaiba groaned in irritation. "Look, Pops." Kaiba growled, clenching a fist. "You had your chance also, and you failed when you lost Kaiba Corp.! To someone more fit for the job."

Gozaburo's eyes flickered to Kaiba. "You?!" He exclaimed, glaring harshly. "I taught you everything you know! Seto, you fool. You thought you can outsmart me?! It's about time you learn the truth on why I adopted you. After you beat me at chess, I thought you'd be the perfect person to motivate my real son, who was quite a slacker."

"Oh," I groaned, capping Riptide, before Gozaburo saw it, which he probably did already. "That's not right, not at all."

"How mean!" Serenity gasped.

"Noah needed to work more on his studies," Gozaburo continued, ignoring us. What, is that a family trait or something? "I thought Seto would give him the push he needed to some day take over Kaiba Corp., then Noah had his little accident and his body was rendered useless. I tried preserving his mind in Cyber Space, but I soon realized he'll be the same spoiled brat, unworthy of inheriting Kaiba Corp. So, I turned my attention to you, Seto. Thought maybe you could be my heir to my fortune. I pushed you to your limits!"

Noah stepped forward, enraged. "You gave up on your own son! And locked me all alone in Cyber Space!"

I looked at him, untense and sorry. "Oh, Noah.."

"Not at first," Gozaburo mused, making me glare at him. "I thought I could still use Seto to help you."

"Use me?!" Kaiba shouted, also very angry. "What did you plan on doing with me, Gozaburo?! Force me to play chess with your virtual son, to increase intellect?!"

Gozaburo looked at him. "No, not quite, Seto."

Kaiba clenched his jaw. "Then what?!"

"I had something much more interesting planned." Gozaburo smirked a bit.

Kaiba was just running on a very short fuse. "Enough! Would you just spit it out?!"

"Very well." Gozaubro complied. "Even if Noah could learn how to operate a multi-million dollar cooperation, he still lacked one major thing - a body. And that's where you came in, Seto."

I glared at him. "Oh, that's just sick!" I shouted.

"You were going to transfer Noah's mind to Kaiba!" Tea exclaimed.

Yami grinded his teeth together, I was doing the same as Gozaburo's eyes flickered to Kaiba. "Relax." Gozaburo brushed off. "That plan only lasted a short time. Noah's mind?" Gozaburo scoffed. "Why would I give you Noah's mind when yours was perfectly fine? So, I concentrated on training you, Seto. So you could inherit my empire, but then you stole it! Using the same technology I used to download Noah's mind into my computer network, I digitized my own mind! Retreating to Cyber Space, to plot my revenge."

"Well," I mumbled. "that's comforting."

"Then I built this place for my final plan," Gozaburo continued. "to take over your body myself!"

"Father!" Noah gasped. "So, you used me to trap them all here?"

"That's the only thing you did right!" Gozaburo shouted. "Now, I'll take from here."

"And I thought my family was messed up." I muttered.

"The fun and games are over!" Gozaburo shouted, again. What? Does he think getting turned to stone is fun?

"You snake!" Kaiba sneered.

"I can't believe you have the nerve to call me a snake!" Gozaburo said, glaring at Kaiba. "I was the most powerful human being on the planet, before you came along and stole that power away from me, Seto! Don't you realize that I treated you better than I treated my own son?!"

"Thanks, for nothing." Kaiba shot back at him. "I'll make sure you never regain your power."

"You're too late." Gozaburo announced as a orb appeared, displaying a satellite in space.

"What's that?" Yami gasped, staring at it.

Gozaburo chuckled evilly. "Just look, it's part of my newest plan." Gozaburo smirked. "This one of the many satellites that were placed in orbit when I was still in charge."

"What are ya going to do with that?" Joey demanded, confusion filling his tone.

Gozaburo chuckled again. "These satellites beam signals to every computer system on Earth, and connect them back to the underwater base that holds my super computer. No one on Earth will escape me, I will have access to every home on the planet."

"Please," Noah said, rolling his eyes a bit. "that has to be the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard."

"I'm surprised you feel that way, Noah." Gozaburo said, looking at him. "After all, the idea came from you, don't you remember, my son?"

Noah seemed to have a mini flashback. "No!"

"And so, Seto, I'm no longer interesting in taking over your body in order to regain Kaiba Corp.," Gozaburo said. "I've set my sights on bigger things."

"Lunatic." Kaiba deadpanned, and I nodded in agreement.

"You can believe whatever you want about me, Seto." Gozaburo glared. "'Cause once my plan works, I'll be the most powerful being on the planet once again! And no one on Earth will be able to stop me this time!"

I glared and clenched my fists. "Oh, yeah?" I challenged. "I wouldn't bet on that."

"Seto, Noah, this is about so much more than acquiring one company." Gozaburo said, ignoring me again. Okay, yeah, definitely family trait. "For when I'm finished, every one on Earth will become virtual. Time to digitize the whole world, and I will rule has the Cyber Ruler of the new planet Earth!" He started to laugh evilly has the cloud began to disappear.

"Get back her now!" Kaiba ordered, but it was too late, the purple cloud and Gozaburo was gone.

---

We were walking through a cave and I was walking next to Yami, while he walked next to Kaiba. I squeezed Yami's hand and he glanced at me, squeezing back. He knew I was worried for the others and he was too. Noah had told us he knew where an exit was and was leading us to it, it was supposedly in this cave. "My father's gone for now," Noah told us, glancing over his shoulder. "but you have to escape quickly and I know the way out, so follow me!"

"And why should we believe you, Noah?" Joey sneered.

"What choice do we have?" Duke shot back at him.

"There it is!" Noah shouted, running towards a computer at the end of the cave. "A possible exit!"-Noah looked at it and sighed.-"Never mind, this is one of several remote network stations built by my father. It can give us access to all the virtual programs and immediate exits, but it seems that my father has shut down the system and closed off every exit to keep us from escaping."-Kaiba narrowed his eyes, thinking.-"When he showed up after six years, he promised to help me. But he was lieing, my father was using me."

I looked down, remembering I was twelve thining my father was only using me to clear his name. I felt such shame and rage back then, but I understand now. I glanced at Noah with a bit of pity and sorrow. Poor kid, even though he is a brat.

Mokuba had a sympathic look on his face as well. "Noah," Mokuba said, cautiously. "Are you okay?"-Noah didn't say anything, just kept looking down.-"Noah?"

"You sure there isn't any other exits around here?" Joey asked.

"Yeah," Tea agreed. "Maybe there's a way out of here your not thinking off."

"I've had enough of this monkey business!" Monkey Tristan wailed. "I wanna wake up in my own body!"

Joey stepped forward, which means he was right behind me. "We got to stop your old man from digitizing the world." Joey said, firmly.

I nodded in agreement. "Yep," I said, looking at Noah sternly, even though he couldn't tell. "and we kinda can't do that from in here."

Noah chuckled. "Very perceptive."

Kaiba stepped forward, almost threateningly. "Every virtual reality program has more than one emergency exit system," Kaiba said, matter-of-factly. "so why don't you try thinking harder, Noah?"

"What's wrong, Seto?" Noah asked, his back still turned. "Don't you want to stay awhile? We won't be alone in this virtual world for much longer."-Noah turned around, swaying a bit as he did and laughing a bit evilly, making wonder for his health. Physical and mental.-"My father said he's bringing the whole world in here and that means I'll never have to be alone again! We all be one big, happy family!" Noah leaned his head back, eyes closed, and began laughing.

Mokuba stepped forward and began to shake Noah by the shoulders. "Noah, stop!" Mokuba insisted. "You have to get a hold of yourself. You're in danger too and we all have to work together now."

Noah opened his eyes and said, "Mokie, your right." But, child-like Kaiba appeared in front of Noah's face and said the same thing at the same time Noah did, Kaiba's child like voice draining out Noah's.

Mokuba gasped, let go of Noah, and staggered back. He stared at Noah and wiped his eyes, dismissing what he saw.

Noah chuckled. "Calm down, Mokuba." Noah soothed. "It's me."

Mokuba's eyes hardened. "I can see that, Noah." Mokuba huffed, and began walking over to us, standing beside me and Kaiba.

"Wait a sec," Noah said. "something has just occurred to me. There is one more escape route here."

"Where is it?!" Joey demanded.

"Tell me!" Kaiba ordered.

"Us!" I corrected, shoot a glare at Kaiba. "Tell us!"

"It's a doorway that I created and leads directly to the real world," Noah explained. "and I'm pretty sure that my father has no idea that it exists. You can escape and warn the world of his plan!"

"Then what are we waiting around for?" Joey demanded. "Let's go!"

"Very well, just follow me." Noah said, walking past me and going in the direction we came in.

Soon, we walked about a mile in that direction, taking turns every once in a while when Noah suddenly announced, "We're almost there, it's right up here!"

Yami, Kaiba and I all lagged in the back of the gang. Yami squeezed my hand and I looked at him questionably. Yami looked at Kaiba sharply. "Kaiba," Yami said, an edge to his tone. "something's not right."-Kaiba looked down at him indicating he was listening.-"I think Noah is lieing to us. He is not to be trusted."

Kaiba continued to look down at him, glancing at me ever so little. "Why don't you try telling me something I don't already know, Yugi?" Kaiba shot back at him.

Yami looked ahead. "If your so sure this is a trick, then why are you following him?" Yami asked.

Kaiba looked down at us. "I was always taught to keep my enemies close by." He answered, then looked straight ahead, walking a bit faster.

Yami and I stopped, staring at Kaiba. "Maybe Kaiba's wrong," A voice said, and Yami and I looked to see a transparent Yugi. "Maybe Noah is trying to help us now."

"But why?" Yami questioned.

I smiled a little, catching on. "His dad betrayed him, correct? So, Noah must want pay back or want to stop him, either way he should be on our side now."

Yami nodded, thinking it over. "Perhaps."

Yugi smiled at me. "If you think about it, Noah and Kaiba really have a lot in common. They both were mistreated by Gozaburo and they need our help to defeat him."

Yami nodded, smiling. "You two are right," He agreed. "we're all on the same team now. So, why don't you take it from here, Yugi?"

Yugi nodded. "Sure?"

I smiled at Yami. "Get some rest, that duel must have taken quiet a bit out of you."

Yami smiled at me. "I'll see you later, Percy." He said before Yugi and Yami switched control.

I smiled at Yugi happily and kissed his cheek. "Welcome back!"

Yugi chuckled and laced his fingers through mine. "Thanks, now let's catch up." He began running to the others, dragging me slightly, until I caught up to his speed.

We reached the game just in time to hear Joey question: "Alright, where's the exit already?"

Noah suddenly stopped. "There."

I looked up to see a doorway, like one of those old mid-evil time castle doorways. "That's it?" I muttered to myself, looking at it warily.

"Your freedom lies beyond this door." Noah announced, then turned to us. "Once you walk through, you'll wake up in the real world."

"I don't know about this, guys." Tea said, her voice full of fear as the doors opened and a bright light engulfed us.

---

No one's POV

As soon as everyone walked into the door, they were separated.

First, Mokuba was all alone. "Hello? Where is everyone?" Mokuba called, then looked around shocked. "Huh? They're gone. That's weird."-He looked to his right.-"Seto?!"-Hearing no response, he closed his eyes and sighed.-"I hope he didn't leave without me."

As he was saying that, Noah walked into view and then began running towards Mokuba, exclaiming his name.

Mokuba let out a noise and response and turned to face him. "What are you still doing here?" Noah asked, 'concerned.'

"Where else would I be?" Mokuba asked, annoyed.

Noah smiled. "They made it out already, come on!" When his back was turned, and Mokuba was following him, Noah thought: Hmm, your friends make think they're free, but they're really trapped in their own memories!

The scene flashed to kids playing at the square and Tea sitting on a bench with her hands in her lap. This seems oddly familiar, Tea thought to herself, like I've sat in this exact spot before!

Suddenly, hands covered her eyes and an old, gruff, but sweet voice exclaimed, "Guess who?!"

Tea yelped and head butted Grandpa Moto with the back of her head, making him yell out in pain and drop to his knees, covering his nose.

"Hey!" Tea scolded, holding her the back of her head and looking at Grandpa. "You scared me!"

The scene flashed again to where Tea was locked in the chair with a crate hanging above her. "Hey!" Tea shouted, pulling at the restraints. "I'm trapped! What's going on?!"

The scene flashed once again to Yami dueling Marik through his mind puppet. Yami glared and shouted, "You're finished, Marik!"

"Not as long as I have Slifer the Sky Dragon in my deck!" Marik shouted back. "Now, Slifer attack!"

Yami clenched his fist. "Buster Blader retaliate with your Dragon Sword!" Yami ordered.

Buster Blader began doing his attack when Marik yelled, "Jam Defender, intercept!" The said monster jumped in front of Buster Blader's attack and was sliced in half then reformed itself. Marik smirked. "Your attacks are useless. It's over for you!"

Yami dropped to one knee, his eyes wide. "Oh-no." He leaned down, his breath ragged. "I can't let Marik win my puzzle." Yami clenched his jaw in frustration and suddenly a thought ran through his mind: Wait, didn't this duel happen already?

Kaiba, that was observing the duel, clenched his fists. "What's going on?!" He turned away, his jaw tightening.

The scene flashed to Noah and Mokuba at the doors of an arcade.

"This is it, Mokuba." Noah said, walking through. "The door to the real world is somewhere in this arcade."

"Is inside one of these video games?" Mokuba questioned, running over to one.

"Yes." Noah lied, walking behind him.

"Where is it?" Mokuba asked, playing the game. "I can't wait to get back home!"

Noah smirked evilly at his back and thought, I'm sorry to say, you won't be going home, Mokuba!

The scene flashed to Percy in the corner of two shops. Across the street, there was a male duelist that looked Duke Devlin, with blonde Kaiba's styled hair, in a black muscle shirt and jeans showing his two locator cards off to his friends. Percy blinked behind her, looking for Hermes, who brought her there. She shrugged and walked into the open when a the male duelist across the street shouted, "Hey girlie!"

Percy turned and saw the guy running up to her. "Me?" She asked, stupidly.

"Yeah, you." The guy smirked at her like she couldn't do anything, especially beat him in a duel and Percy rolled her eyes and thought to herself: Oh, great another Daniel! "The name's Michael, and you want to duel?"

Percy smirked back at him, sliding her deck from her deck holder into her duel disk. "Percy Jackson," She announced and nodded her head. "and sure."

Michael walked to his side of the 'field.' "How many locator cards to do you have?" Michael asked her.

"Two, why?" She answered, confused.

"I have two, too." Michael said. "How about whoever wins gets both of the loser's locator cards and two of their cards?"

She thought it over quickly then nodded.

"Let's Duel!" They shouted in unison.

Right before Percy drew she froze, a thought crashing down on her. Didn't I already crush this guy?

The scene flashed to Duke, Serenity and Tristan, Monkey Tristan, running.

"They're gaining on us!" Serenity gasped as Duke pulled her.

"Wait a second, guys." Tristan yelled, catching up.

Duke and Serenity turned around. "Tristan, they'll catch up with us!" Duke shouted.

Monkey Tristan look at him. "Just take Serenity and run." He ordered.

"What about you?" Duke questioned.

Monkey Tristan frowned angrily. "I've got some unfinished business to attend to." Then he began hopping in the direction they were running from.

"Hold on!" Serenity cried out.

"Come on, move it, now!" Monkey Tristan shouted back at them.

"I'm moving it!" Duke snapped. "Here, Serenity, this way." He began leading her away, her not protesting.

"It's go time!" Monkey Tristan shouted as he spread his little arms out.

Duke and Serenity began to cross the street when a car, with Mai driving, almost hit them. "WHOA!" Duke shouted in shock and surprise.

Mai leaned out the car, annoyed. "Watch it!" She snapped. "Cross on green not in between!"-She looked at Joey, who was in the passenger seat.-"So, what was it you were saying?"

"Um, I'm not sure." Joey admitted. "Don't you feel like you've taken this ride before?" Joey suddenly closed his eyes and a memory of Marik sending Mai to the Shadow Realm flashed in his mind and his eyes snapped open in panick. Mai, no! Joey shouted in his mind, seeing they were at the beach. Something weird is going on.

Then Joey saw Mai out of the car, staring at the sunset, wind blowing through everywhere. Or maybe not. Everything seems to be alright and Mai seems to doing just fine.

Joey got out of the car. "Mai!" He grinned, walking toward her then another memory of Mai laying in her bed, unconscious, flashed in his mind. Wait, Mai's not just fine! I remember something..

Mai turned to him, the sunlight hitting her perfectly. "Hello, Joey."

Joey looked at her warily. "But you.."

"Listen," Mai interrupted. "why don't we just stop dueling and just settle down?"

"Stop dueling?" Joey echoed in shock. "For good? That's just crazy talk!"

Mai looked at him, her eyes hard but soft at the same time. "Joey, it's just a dumb card game."

Joey shook his head, groaning in annoyance. "Alright! I know this isn't real!"

The scene flashed and Tea snapped her eyes open, gasping.

The scene flashed again and Kaiba turned, realizing it as well.

The scene flashed again and Yami gasped, in anger and realization.

The scene flashed once again and Percy froze, dropping her cards in shock, realizing what was going on.

The scene flashed and Duke and Serenity looked around, gasping quietly, realizing.

The scene flashed again and Monkey Tristan yelled out in anger.

The scene flashed, for the last time, and the gang were all in a circle, where Mokuba once was.

---

Percy's POV

"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" Monkey Tristan exclaimed.

Duke looked down at him. "I don't know."

"I know." Yugi said as Joey held his head. "Noah must of tricked us!"

Joey let go of his head and glared ahead. "Let's find that punk, right now!" And then everyone looked around. "Where is he anyway?"

Tea looked around, noticing something. "Hey, Kaiba's gone too!"

"And Mokuba." I supplied, frowning in worry. Yugi grabbed my hand in order to comfort me and I smiled gratefully to him. He kissed my cheek in return.

"That scrawny little twerp double-crossed us again!" Joey growled. "I knew we shouldn't have trusted him. Now he's toast!"

"Wait, Joey." Yugi intervened gently. "We have to come up with a plan that makes sense!"

Joey turned and narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, and I already came up with a plan." Joey said. "We shake Noah upside down until he tells us the way out!"

"I'm going to have to agree with Joey on this one, guys." Duke announced, making me glance at him. "Only Noah knows where the exit is."

"And we're running out of time," Tea muttered. "'Cause pretty soon the whole world will be trapped."

Yugi looked down, conflicted. He thought to himself when I suddenly heard Yami announce, "That's not true. You still believe that there's still good in Noah, and there's nothing wrong with that."

"Well, no else-" Yugi started, and I squeezed his hand, and he glanced at me.

"I do." I muttered to him. "I still believe, if Luke still had good in him, so can Noah."

"Give them time, Yugi." Yami said, gently. "From what he's done, it's hard to believe he can change. Noah's acts are fueled by a rage deep inside, but we can help him see the light."

"I hope so, and soon." Yugi said, then looked at the others, back in reality. "Alright, lets figure a way out of here, so we can stop Gozaburo's plan!"

"But how?" Tea asked slowly.

I smiled a little. "Once were out, we can warn people of Gozaburo's plan."

Monkey Tristan began to talk but his monkey sounds kept interrupting him, I couldn't understand at all.

Duke looked at Monkey Tristan, who was on his shoulder. "Tristan, I couldn't understand any of that. You're almost all chimp now!"

I let out a yelp when a row of Skull Knights appeared behind Yugi and I. "Holy Hades!"

"It's Skull Knight!" Yugi shouted, wide-eyed.

"Joey, behind you." Duke said, his eyes widening as well. About four to six female monsters appeared behind Joey.

"Where are all the monsters coming from?" Tea shouted, panicked and scared.

Two giant rock type monsters appeared behind Duke and he turned and let out an: "Oh-no!"

About seven monsters with shields and swords appeared Serenity. "We gotta do something!" Joey shouted.

"Last I checked, running away was something!" Duke shouted back.

"But, we're surrounded!" Tea said, her voice filled with fear. "There's no way out!"

One of the monsters advanced on Serenity who whimpered in fear. Joey jumped in front of her and yelled, "Stop!" to the monster who began to swing the sword to him.

Yugi widened his eyes in panick. "Joey, no!" He drew a card and stared at it, then held it out. "Come forth, Curse of Dragon!"-The monster came out and let out a screech.-"Dragon Flame Attack!" Curse of Dragon destroyed the monsters and I smiled, realizing his plan. Very clever, Yugi.

Joey smirked. "Nice one, Yuge!" Joey said and drew a card. "It's my turn now! I play, my Axe Raider!"-Joey's monster came out and attacked, destroying the female monsters that were against us.

I smiled. "My turn!" I drew and smirked. "Come on out, Chiron the Trainer of Heroes!"-A centuar that looked much like the animated version of my Chiron came out and notched an arrow into his bow that he was holding.-"Attack with Flaming Arrow!" Chiron's arrow burst on fire and he let it fly into the giant rock monsters, making them burst into pieces.

A suddenly a new monster appeared and let out an attack directed to Yugi's Curse of Dragon. "NO!" I shouted. "Chiron, defend!"

Chiron jumped in front of Curse of Dragon and when the attack hit him, he burst into pieces. I let out a yell as a wave of pain flared through out my body. I clutched my stomach in pain and Yugi ran over to me. "Percy!" He gasped, wrapping an arm around my waist.

The same monster suddenly let out another attack and destroyed Curse of Dragon, making Yugi cry out in pain once again, holding his chest and gripping me tighter.

---

Joey ran forward, his duel disk in front of his. He looked back at us. "The coast is clear, go!"

We all ran in, Joey last and got in a little circle. Serenity brought her hands to her chest. "Are those monsters coming back?" She said, scared senseless.

"Don't worry, Serenity." Duke soothed. "It seems like we're safe for now."

As if on que, there were footsteps and Duke said, "Or maybe not."

"Run!" Tea yelped and her, Serenity, and Duke, with Monkey Tristan on his shoulder, began running while Yugi, Joey and I stayed back.

"Looks like our work isn't done!" Yugi said.

"Alright, let's do our thing, Yugi, Shorty!" Joey said as Yugi ran on the other side of me. So, basically I was in the middle. We all drew a card in unison and held it up, the cards glowing and the monster appearing out of the card.

"Black Luster Soldier, attack!" Yugi shouted as a Skull Knight approached. Black Luster Solider slashed at the Skull Knight, destroying it.

"Now, Axe Raider, attack!" Joey yelled and Axe Raider attacked, slashing through the opposing monster.

"Alecto!" I shouted, pointing at my target rock giant monster. "Attack with Screeching Dive!" Alecto flew into the air, then dove down in a 90 degree angle, letting out a loud, glass shattering screech. She spread claws out and sliced the rock monster in half, destroying it instantly.

The monster that destroyed Curse of Dragon and Chiron appeared in front of us, and I glared.

"Let's crush thing guy, Yuge, Shorty." Joey said, smirking ever so little.

I drew my card and held it out. "I summon, Alecto, The Kindly One!" Alecto, in all her animated fury glory, appeared, her arms spread out in front of her and talons sharp.

Yugi drew next and held his card as well. "I summon, Dark Magician!" Yugi shouted, and the Dark Magician appeared, giving me a nod, to which I nodded back.

Joey drew and held out his card. "I summon, Rocket Warrior!" The little monster appeared in front of Joey.

"Alecto, attack now with Screaming Talons!" Alecto let out a screech and transparent talons appeared and shot towards the monster.

"Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!" Yugi shouted and Dark Magician thrusted out his staff and everything went negative real fast.

"Invincible Attack!" Joey shouted, and little Rocket Warrior went that mode and shot forwards. All three attacks hit at once and there was a giant explosion, and we covered our faces from the blast.

"Attention! Attention!" Noah's voice rang out, making me look up at the sky, since that was the source of it. "Can you hear me? This is really important!"

"I know that voice." Duke muttered.

"Noah!" Yugi said, realizing who it was.

"Alright," Joey shouted, clenching his fist. "get down here, you little twerp!"

"This is a warning to all of you!" Noah said. "The virtual world you all are in is about to be destroyed!"

"Say what?!" Duke gasped. "I knew we couldn't trust him, but I never thought he'd destroy this place!"

"That little punk," Joey growled. "I'll give him the virtual butt kicking of a life time!"

Tea made a fist. "You better let us out of here, Noah!" She shouted.

I looked down, disappointed. "Noah.." I felt a clinch at my heart, the was all to familiar with what happened with Luke, him betraying me.

"I'm so sorry for the way I've treated you all!" Noah said, making me squeeze Yugi's hand and look up. "But right now the satellite is set to destroy the main computer system. When that computer system is destroyed, the virtual world will collapse. You must all escape before your minds will be lost forever!"

The gang gasped but I, however, let out a string of colorful curses in Ancient Greek.

"You hear that, guys?" Yugi asked quietly, squeezing my hand tightly.

"Yeah," Joey said. "this virtual world's about to go bye-bye!"

"And when it's destroyed, it's taking our minds with it." Duke summed up.

"Listen to me," Noah pleaded. "I can help! The only exit is in the Domino Arcade! Hurry, time is running out!"

"Can we.. trust him?" Tea muttered.

Serenity looked at her brother and I. "Can we?"

I bit my lip. "To be honest, I don't know." I said, then glanced at Yugi. "But then again, what do we actually have to lose?"

Yugi smiled at me. "You're right!"

Tea's face filled in determination. "Let's go."

"Alright," Joey snarled, holding up a fist. "You better not pull one of your dirty tricks, Noah!"

Then we became running towards the direction of the arcade. I lagged it a little, not really knowing where I was going. I mean, I could run faster than all of them, no offense to the gang, but I can, thanks to my demigod training from Chiron. When he makes you run, he makes you run.

Soon, after about two minutes of running, Joey exclaimed, "The Domino Arcade should be only two blocks away!"

"And the exit should be inside!" I huffed out, while pushing myself harder.

Yugi glanced back at us and shouted out, "Oh-no! Behind us!"

I glanced back behind us and let out a string of curses in Ancient Greek. Yugi stopped, making me stop quickly and everyone else stopped as well. "There's no way we'll be able to out run Gozaburo's monsters." Yugi said, making me nod in agreement.

"Alright," Joey said. "You guys go and we'll stay and fight!"

Serenity stepped forward. "No, I'm not going to go without you, Joey!"

"Just go, sis!" Joey said, firmly. "Tea, help my sister find that exit! Duke, you too! Percy, you're with us."

I got into position. "Wouldn't have any other way, Blondey." I smirked.

Duke walked over to Serenity. "Let's get going." He said.

Tea grabbed her arm and looked at us. "We'll meet you over there soon."

"Please, be careful." Serenity begged us.

Joey made a face and a cocky smirk. "Don't worry, Serenity! This won't take too long!"

Monkey Tristan had a similar face. "Yeah, we'll smash 'em!"

Then Serenity grabbed him and picked him up, making him get a sad, disappointed face. "Tristan, let's go." Tea ordered. "You're coming with us." Then they left.

Soon, after a lot of mini explosions and running later, we made it to the front of the arcade. A monster launched itself towards me and I placed my favorite god onto my duel disk. "Go, Poseidon!"

Poseidon came out and thrusted his trident into the monster and Joey grinned at me. "Nice one, Percy. Now, let's get out of this place!"

"Proceed to the stage immediately!" Noah ordered.

"Joey, Percy, you two go first. I'll be there." Yugi said, glaring at the monsters.

Joey nodded. "Alright, you better be right behind me." Joey ran onto the stage and disappeared.

I looked at Yugi. "Yugi, I-"

Yugi looked at me. "Go."

Looking at the determination in his eyes, I sighed. "Fine." I kissed him quickly, then ran to the stage. "Come on, Yugi!"

Yugi, after he ordered an attack from Dark Magician, looked back at me. "Right!" Then he began running to the stage.

I stepped onto the blue one and shouted, "Hurry, Yugi!" Before I lost sight of him.

I opened my eyes to see the top of the cyber pod, lifting up. I sat up in it, rubbing my eyes and turning just in time to see Joey run straight into the lid of the pod before it opened. Joey shouted in pain and clutched his cheek, muttering, "It sure is great to be in the real world!"

I laughed at him and got out the pod, stretching my muscles as I did so. "Yep, sure is, Blondey!"

I ran over to Yugi's pod, but he didn't open his eyes. He's in there!

I sprinted over to Mokuba and looked at the different screens, searching for him.

Pretty quickly, everyone joined me into standing next to Noah. I figured that out after he explained who he was.

"So let me get this straight," Tristan said. "If your Noah, where's Mokuba?"

"There!" Noah said, looking at a certain screen. "Inside the virtual world with Yugi and Seto - that's why I needed Yugi to stay back!"

"What?!" Joey exploded. "That's why he stayed back?! Because Kaiba didn't have enough brains to find the exit on his own?! Gah!"

"Seto is trapped in a duel in a duel with Gozaburo, you have to find him." Noah said, into the microphone.

"How do I do that?" Yugi replied, looking up. If your wondering how I knew that, I saw it from the screen he was on.

"I'll use the central computer to create a virtual shortcut so you can reach him." Noah explained. "He's at Kaiba Corp. head quarters."

Yugi nodded. "Alright!"

Then a door appeared in the arcade. "Go through that door and you'll find Seto." Noah ordered.

"Okay," Yugi shouted. "I won't come back without him!"

"So," Tea said. "I have a question: why are you trying to rescue Kaiba? Last I checked, you hated him."

"I was wrong, Tea." Noah said, his voice weak. "I was wrong to treated you guys the way that I did. I was jealous and angry. I'm sorry."

Joey looked down, looking sheepish. "I'm sorry too, for you know, everything I said about you."

"I deserved it." Noah replied.

"4 minutes until satellite attack." A female voice monotoned. "Evacuate now."

Noah looked back at us. "Everyone one should get back to the blimp immediately." Noah said. "It's not safe here now."

"Noah's right," Joey said. "come on you guys!" Then they all ran back to the blimp.

I placed a hand on Noah's shoulder, making him jump. He looked at me. "Percy, you sho-"

"-Noah, you are the only one who can get those three out of that virtual nightmare, you hear me?" I interrupted, swallowing. "Please, make sure they get back safe. And thank you."

Noah's eyes glistened with determination. "I know, now go to the blimp."

I nodded and ran off after the gang.

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I was pacing back and forth in front of the blimp, worry filling me completely. Yugi, Kaiba and Mokuba still weren't here. I was doing my best to block out the computer telling us to leave immediately, it only made me worry more.

"Where are those guys?" Joey asked, worried as well.

"We have to go before that computer blows and time is running out!" Tea said.

"Come on, Yugi." I muttered. I glanced and saw the missile flying through the sky, coming closer. "Please, Yugi."

We all got on the blimp, the stairs still hanging out, and Roland's voice said over the intercom: "Kaiba Craft Three preparing for take off."

"Wait, here they come!" Joey shouted, and I grinned.

"Hurry up!" I shouted to them.

"You can make it!" Tea yelled.

"Engaging rear-thrusters." Roland's voice said again.

Joey, Duke and Tristan stepped onto the last stairs and Serenity grabbed my arm to keep me from going.

"I'm not going to make it." Mokuba panted, slowing down.

"Guess again." Kaiba shouted as he grabbed his brother and threw him into Duke and then jumped on board in front of me. I let out a yelp and jumped back in surprise.

"Yugi!" I heard Joey yell.

"Joey!" Yugi shouted back.

"He's in!" Joey shouted and we all go inside the blimp, the stairs folding in. "Now, let's go out of here!"

I ran over to Yugi and crushed him into a hug. "Don't do that. Ever again, you understand me?" I growled in his ear, tightening my grip. He wrapped his arms around my waist, tightly. "You scared the Styx out of me."

"I'm sorry, Percy." He muttered into my ear. "I'm sorry."

"Just.. Just don't do that again." I muttered back, pulling back and kissing his cheek.

Then, the blimp started to shake and I yelped, clinging to Yugi as we were thrown into the wall. Oh, gods, help us! Please! I really don't like flying, don't like flying, don't like flying!

Pretty quickly, we speed out of the explosion and everything quieted down. We were in the top main of the blimp, looking down at the explosion.

"Noah may have been a spoiled brat when we first met him," Joey said. "but in the end, he turned out alright."

"Do you think his mind was deleted when the computer was destroyed?" Tea asked.

I scoffed. "Not a chance."

"Knowing him," Yugi said. "he saved his mind on a back up file."

Joey grinned. "Yep," He agreed. "I bet he'll be back."

"Me too." Mokuba said. "See you around, Noah!"

"Alright," Kaiba said, his tone harsh and cold, as always. "that little detour was a complete waste of my time and effort. So, let's move on and pretend that nonsense never happened. It's time for us to continue the Battle City Finals! Set up back on course, to Kaiba Corp. Island."

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A/N: First things first, DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING THAT I USE!

Alright, I'm finally done! AND I'M SO SORRY FOR THE LONGEST UPDATE EVER! I've had a very long couple of months, but I don't think I really need to sum it up. But, I will. Well, you understand the last week, me going to crazy to find that CD before I came up with this solution. Anyway, before that, my grandmother passed and it was hard on me, so I just never found the motivation to write anything. Sorry about that, and just to make up for it - I added an extra 5,000 words, give or take.

Anyway, hoped you liked the chapter, please don't kill me for taking too long or anything like that! Please review and stuff! ~J.J.