Chapter 42 here…have fun reading it…

Chapter 42: The Tower of Abyss, Aeru's Base

The gang was up in the air now, heading towards to Egypt. It was awfully crowd, because now, joining with them was Mako, Espa, Mai, Weevil, Rex, Mikey, and Vince. As for Seto, he was riding in his Blue Eyes White Jet Dragon and heading Egypt before them. After a few hours, Rafael, Valon, and Alister landed the helicopter to the ground and it gave a loud THUD as it hit the ground. Everyone got out and saw nothing, but sand, and boy, was there a lot of sand.

"Ah…its good to back home," smiled Marik.

"It sure is," said Ishizu, "But now is not the time to relax…we need to find Aeru's base…"

"Can't we just sit in the helicopter," complained Joey.

"Stop whinnying like a baby Joey," yelled Mai.

"I'm not whinnying! …Well…maybe…but it's too hot," cried Joey.

"Yeah…look at me! I'm already sweating," said Tristan putting his hand over his face to block the sun's light.

"No wonder…I…don't…want to…come…here," said Mako breathing hard, "Hot…too hot…"

"You'll get used to it," shrugged Mako as if the heat wasn't affecting him.

"But can't we just look for Aeru's base up in the air," asked Valon from the helicopter, "It would be much easier mates…"

"Egypt is a pretty big place," said Alister.

/Fools…even if we do go up in the air, it would be over crowded and we still wouldn't find Aeru's base/ thought Bakura the Millennium Ring.

Yami looked around hoping to find something to lead to Aeru's base, but of course, nothing. All he saw was nothing, but sand. Just then, Yami heard a voice. He quickly looked around and again, saw nothing.

"What's wrong Yugi," wondered Tea seeing him looking at the desert.

"I thought I heard something," said Yami.

"If you're beginning to hear something in the desert, then you're losing it Yugi," said a voice.

Everyone turned and saw Seto Kaiba walking towards them. Joey gave a small glare at Kaiba, but Kaiba ignore it and went up to Yami.

"When did you get here Kaiba," asked Yami looking at him.

"Heh, I was waiting for you slowpokes and now that you're finally here, where to we look," laughed Kaiba.

"You didn't answer my question Kaiba," said Yami getting a little annoyed.

"What's more important Yugi? How long have I been waiting for you? Or finding Aeru's base," said Kaiba also getting annoyed.

"Stop it you two," said Ishizu, "Save your anger on Aeru."

"Who said we were fighting," yelled Yami.

Everyone just stared at him and Yami rubbed his forehead.

"Sorry…the heat is getting into me," said Yami looking down.

"Heh…I told you that the heat will get to you," laughed Kaiba.

"Where should we start," asked Duke.

"The place you start first is nowhere," yelled a voice.

Everyone looked around trying to find the one who was speaking, but saw no one. Yami though had a feeling who that voice belongs too.

"You can never find us," laughed the voice, "So give up and let us win!"

"I know that voice," cried Mai.

Just then, a small wind came in and started to get stronger. Everyone covered their eyes so the sand won't get in their eyes and then the small sand storm stopped, a male wearing some king white and blue robe stood there in front of Yami and the gang smiling. He had long blue hair, a blue necklace with a star on it, and his eyes had a weird color. One eyes was gold, while the other was blue.

"It's Dartz," yelled Weevil and Rex.

"Thought I wouldn't see you again," glared Yami.

"Did you miss me pharaoh," smiled Dartz.

"Pharaoh," said Mako in wonder.

Dartz looked at the gang and gave a small laugh.

"So…I see you found the spirit guardians…good for you, but no matter. You will still lose pharaoh," smiled Dartz.

"Where is Mokuba and Michelle," yelled Seto.

"They are in save hands Mr. Kaiba…but you aren't…no matter where you look…you won't find our base," laughed Dartz.

"Not if we can help it," yelled Yami getting his duel disk on.

"Now, now, now pharaoh. Don't you think you're going a bit to hasty," asked Dartz laughing.

"Shut up and let's duel," yelled Yami.

"Our time will come…but right now…I want to see if you'll be able to find our base in time," laughed Dartz.

Another small sand storm came and then covered Dartz. As soon as the sand storm died out, Dartz was gone. Mako and Espa looked at each other in confusion wondering what Dartz was talking about, but Seto didn't care about the 'pharaoh'.

"…We need to find Aeru's base," said Yami.

"But where should we find him," asked Ryou.

"Maybe it's at the ocean," asked Rafael.

"Yeah! Maybe it's somewhere in the ocean near Egypt," yelled Tea.

"Or it could be somewhere in the desert," said Mikey.

"Which one is it," asked Vince.

"I'm checking the ocean," said Seto walking away heading towards his dragon jet, "And when I find, I'll won't come back to tell you block heads because for one thing, I'm not wasting my time to find you all and tell you where it is…"

Seto went in his jet and started the engine and then went away in the sky.

"He has problems," said Espa looking up in the sky.

Just then, Yami felt a strong pain in his head. He kneeled on the ground holding his head and crying in pain. Everyone went up to him wondering what was wrong with him and saw Yami screaming in pain.

"Yugi! Yugi! What's wrong," yelled Tristan.

"Pain…in my head…it hurts," cried Yami.

"Yugi! Please be ok," cried Tea.

"What's up with Yugi," said Weevil enjoying seeing the pharaoh crying in pain.

Yami then fell unconscious soon after and fell into Tea's arms. Tea blushed a bit, but quickly shook her head. Joey and Duke picked the pharaoh up and took him back to the helicopter and laid him down on the seat. As soon as they stepped back from him, they something glow in his pocket. It was bright gold glow with a shape of an eye and then quickly disappeared.

:Yami's Dream:

Yami woke up, lying on the desert floor. He quickly got up and looked around. All his friends were not with him and saw he was near the ocean. Yami got up and looked around and started to call for his friends.

"Tea! Joey! Tristan! Duke! Ryou! Where are you," yelled Yami. No answer. Yami tried again and called his other friends to see if they might respond back to him. Nothing. Yami sighed and then felt the ground shaking. He fell down to the ground and saw something emerging from the water. It was huge mountain with a temple on top, but that was all Yami could see. He walked slowly up to it trying to get a closer look, but before he could, there was a bright light.

:End of Yami's Dream:

Yami got up and rubbed his forehead. As he regained his sight, he gave a small turn and saw everyone looking at him. Yami had a confuse look on why everyone was staring at him.

"You fell unconscious buddy," said Joey.

"What happened," asked Marik.

"I think I found Aeru's base," said Yami.

"Where is it," yelled Odion.

"I think Seto's heading for the right direction. Let's head to the ocean and find it," said Yami getting up. Rafael, Valon, and Alister went to the control seat and turned on the engine. They were soon in the air and headed towards the ocean.

Later on…

They were up in the air and found nothing. Tristan was getting annoyed and soon after, everyone was.

"I thought you said you knew where Aeru's base was," said Joey looking at the pharaoh with a glare.

"I said nothing like that Joey. All I said is that Seto might be heading the right way and maybe we might, MIGHT, find his base at the ocean Joey," said Yami.

Just then, there a huge shake and everyone fell on the floor. The helicopter continued to shake and Yami managed to get up and walk towards the control room. Yami opened the door and saw the three bikers have trouble controlling the helicopter.

"Something is wrong…something is shaking us," yelled Rafael.

"Thank you for stating the obvious Rafael," yelled Yami feeling the helicopter continuously shaking.

"Hey! There's something in the radar," yelled Valon trying to have a good look on the radar. Yami went up to the window and looked outside and then hit his head against the window.

"You ok pharaoh," yelled Alister.

Yami rubbed his head and nodded, "I'm ok! I think…"

Yami looked outside and saw a Blue Eyes White Dragon outside and when Yami looked closer, it was a jet.

"It's Kaiba," yelled Yami and then hitting his head against the window again.

Rafael turned on the communicator and tried to find if he'll be able to have contact with it. Then managed to hear someone's voice, but the transmitter was weak. After a few tries, Rafael managed to hear the transmitter perfectly.

"What are you blocks doing here," yelled Kaiba from the communicator.

"We were about to ask you the same thing," yelled Alister.

"Something is pulling the jet down…or like, ripping the dragon to half," yelled Kaiba.

"Same thing to us mate! It's some kind of force that's not allowing us to move," yelled Valon.

"Were near! But we got to get away from this," yelled Yami rubbing his head. Joey came in and then soon fell on the ground.

"I'm ok," yelled Joey trying to get up.

"How about if I try this," yelled Yami.

"What," asked Joey.

Yami looked through his deck and pulled out none other than Timaeus and put his deck in his duel-disk. Yami quickly placed Timaeus on the duel-disk and a blue dragon quickly appeared outside the helicopter flying over the helicopter.

"Let me help pharaoh," yelled Joey. Joey drew his card from the top of his deck and placed Helmos on the disk.

Another dragon appeared and this time, it was a red dragon and was next to Timaeus. Seto looked up and saw Timaeus and Helmos flying near each other. Seto smirked and placed Critias on his duel-disk. A huge black dragon with a blue shape diamond or some sort on its head, came down from the heaven and flew above Seto's jet. Seto moved up next to the helicopter so they could be protected all three dragons. It started becoming a rough ride, but after a while, it calmed down.

"I think it's over," said Joey seeing the helicopter stop shaking. Yami looked across and saw a huge mountain in front of them with a temple on top. Joey also noticed the temple in front of them and couldn't himself, but gave a small chuckle.

"Brings back memories huh," said Joey with an angry tone in his voice just seeing the temple.

The helicopter landed on the mountain in front of the entrance with Seto's jet then everyone stepped out and looked at the temple.

"So…this is Aeru's base," asked Tristan.

"Reminds me of Dartz's temple," said Tea.

"Though it looks a bit different," said Yami.

Just then, a black pool appeared on the ground and then someone was coming out of the pool. It was Aeru! But instead, he looked a bit different. He clothes were some sort of Egyptian style. He wore a somewhat white shirt showing his strong muscular arms, some kind of red robe dress, and a purple cape with a gold piece on his shoulders holding the cape. He wore a black item on his head, like a headband, and had a gold bracelet on his arms.

"I see you found my home brother," smiled Aeru.

"It easy thanks to the help of the Millennium Items," said Yami glaring at him, "Plus…you look a bit different."

"Heh, thanks, I wanted to look nice when I defeat you," grinned Aeru.

"That's not going to happen bud," yelled Joey, "Now give me back my sister or else ya in for it!"

"Heh…then let's play a little game. There are rooms where you must find duelists called, the Abyss Guardians. There are 6 Abyss Guardians you must face. The sixth Abyss Guardian is my favorite one," smiled Aeru evilly.

"And whose that," glared Yami.

"You'll see, hahahaha. I'll be waiting for you at the top brother…have fun," laughed Aeru.

As soon as Aeru disappeared into the darkness, huge numbers of black duelists were right in front of them with two officers leading them.

The first officer had long spiky black hair and the second one had a spiky hairstyle similar to Cloud Strife's on Final Fantasy 7, but had a small ponytail at the end of his hair behind his head, and had green emerald eyes.

"Roy," yelled Seto.

"Maverick," yelled Marik.

"Good to see you Seto Kaiba," grinned Roy.

"We may have lost our knights to you, and you now hold the dragons, but you will not reach Master Aeru that easily," yelled Maverick.

Mako, Espa, Weevil, Rex, and Mai stepped forward and took out their duel-disk and inserted their decks in the duel-disk. It then gave a small beep and the five duelists gave a battle stance.

"Will hold them off," said Mako.

"You guys reach Aeru…will handle the REST," yelled Espa.

"Good luck you guys…including you Wheeler," winked Mai.

"Let's show them who we really are, Hee-hee-hee," laughed Weevil.

"No way they'll win against my amazing dino deck," grinned Rex.

"Dark Force," yelled Roy.

"ATTACK," ordered Maverick.

All the black hooded duelists attack the five duelists and began to duel them all. Before the gang could move on, Ryou's Millennium Ring gave a bright light and Bakura took over.

"You fools keep going," yelled Bakura, "I'm staying here and finishing off these punks!"

"…They look like they might need some help," said Marik looking at the duel, "You guys keep going, will stay here and help them out."

"You sure," asked Joey.

Marik nodded and headed towards the battle with Bakura next to him.

"I'll stay with my brother at all cost," said Ishizu running after him.

"I cannot leave Master Marik," said Odion, "Will block the entrance. All of you, good luck."

Yami and the gang nodded and ran inside the temple. Mikey and Vince looked at each wondering what they should do.

"Let's go with them…we have to duel them sooner or later anyways," said Mikey.

"Right…" nodded Vince.

The two duelists nodded to each other and went with them.

Meanwhile…

"Whose going to face who," asked Dartz.

"I already made my choice," smiled Aeru. Aeru looked at the black-hooded duelist and went up to her.

"I promise you…once you beat her…I'll give the Millennium Item to take you back in time so you can have him," smiled Aeru.

"I don't like this…but I'm only doing this…for him," whispered the female.

"Of course…just win one little duel…and he'll be all yours…little Serenity," laughed Aeru.

End of Chapter 42

Next Chapter-Abyss Guardian One: Serenity

I'm going to try to update really fast, and maybe try to update now and then. So, lucky you all! I'm working on Chapter 43 as we speak…well, not as we speark…well you know what I mean! Chapter 43 will be done as quickly as possible.