Me:I'm back yet again with the second to last chapter. Before we start, I will tell you that I don't plan on writing out any of the duels. Nothing against them, but I'm not that good at writing them out. So, if you are disapointed, I apologize. Really.

Valon:Geez aren't you a downer

Me:I just don't have patience to do that! I write Yugioh fanfics for the plot not the actual duels. If I do write any attacks and crap like that, it will probably be inacurate and shit and people would complain

Alister:Yeesh

Me:So there. Now I don't own Yugioh or its characters. I think you all know that by now. No flames please. But I like good comments and constructive critiscm. Thank you, and I hope you have enjoyed this so far.

Valon:Probably not, but keep reading!

Tea shifted in her sleep, having a feeling in her gut that something wasn't quite right. She had a feeling that she was supposed to be doing something right now. Opening her bright blue eyes, she gasped at what she saw. Joey was right there in front of her, with Bakura, which was kind of odd. But what bothered her most, was that he was dueling Valon!

"You think you can molest my friend in her sleep! That is sick man!" Joey yelled.

Tea tilted her head. What was Joey talking about? Valon molesting her? No, that would never happen, would it?

Valon rolled his eyes. "I didn't molest her, you git. I kissed her."

Tea's jaw dropped. There was no way, no possible way that Valon would kiss her. He didn't even like her that much. Did he? Standing up, Tea raced towards them. "Stop it you two, stop it! What is going on?"

Valon gave her a guilty face. "Tea, did you just hear that right now?" Tea frowned, her eyes cast to the ground with a conflicted look on her face. Valon took a step towards her, his left hand stretched out towards her. "Tea...I..."

Tea took a step back, the same look still on her face. "No!" was all she said. Valon's face fell, making Tea feel bad about what she did. He looked into her eyes. "I never wanted you to find out, but I knew you would never feel the same way for me."

Tea's eyes widened. "The...the same way?"

Valon closed his eyes, the sad face disapearing and a new one appered, making him look dangerous. He shifted his eyes to where Joey was. "Hey Wheeler, how about we settle this right now?"

Joey narrowed his eyes. "Right now?"

Valon nodded, the dangerous look on him still present. "Right now."

Professor Hawkins groaned as Raphaels's monster, Guardian Eatos hit him. He sank to one knee, feeling exhausted. He looked at Raphael with a determind look. He would not give up so easy. "I'm not through just yet," He told the blond. "I won't give up until you are gone."

Raphael rolled his eyes. "I wonder how many times I've heard that speech before."

Professor Hawkins stood up. "I play one face down and end my turn."

Raphael gave a small smirk. "Is that all you've got? You're even weaker than I thought."

Professor Hawkins gave a weak smile. "We'll see about that."

Raphael glared at him. "Now Guardian Eatos, attack his Barrier statue of the rocks!"

Professor Hawkins gave him a determind look. "Not so fast! I play Waboku, so I take no damage this turn and my monster remains on the field."

Raphael gave an approving look. "Good move, but let's see how long you can last before I take your sould." Duke had an uneasy feeling. The seal of Orichalcos had been activated a few turns ago and Raphael already had the upper hand. He was at 2400 life points, and Professor Hawkins only had 1000. The odds were not in his favour.

"Now that the seal has been activated, you have no chance at winning Kaiba-boy."

Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Spare me the doom speech and make a move already."

Alister looked appalled. "Fine, I will. I now summon Air fortress Ziggurat! And with it, I get a robot token."

"A robot token. How cute."

Alister glared at Kaiba. "Don't call it cute! You have no idea how special this is to me!"

"Let me guess, it reminds you of your baby brother who you couldn't look after."

Yami gave Kaiba a look. "Kaiba, that went to far. You're better than that."

Kaiba glared at him. "Keep out of this Yami. Mind your own buisnesse." Yami glared back, but kept his mouth shut, wanting Kaiba to win this duel so they could find Tea.

Meanwhile, while Valon and Joey were dueling, Bakura had snuck away inside the mansion. He had a feeling that everyone else was busy dueling, so he decided to look around for a bit. So far, he had found himself looking at some stone tablet, with pictures of an eye and a strange looking star on one of the carvings. He frowned, seeing as this was not Egyptian.

"What are you looking at?" Ryou asked from inside his ring

"I'm looking at this tablet obviously."

Ryou sighed. "I can see that, I think I know what that character means."

"You do? How?"

"My father is an archiologist. I believe that character means Atlantis, and that one means Leviathon."

"I've never heard of a leviathon."

"That's because noone has." A new voice spoke up. Bakura whirled around to see a man with aqua green hair and a yellow eye an a green eye staring at him. Bakura narrowed his eyes. "And who might you be?"

The man smirked. "My name is Dartz, leader of the Orichalcos. And you are?"

Bakura smirked. "I'm Bakura, the holder of the millenium ring."

Dartz continued his smirk. "You should come join my team. I sense there is evil and power in you."

Bakura laughed. "I have my own goals, I would never join your silly team. The creature I'm planning to awaken is much more powerful than yours."

Dartz raised an eyebrow. "How so?"

Bakura smirked. "He wil wipe out everyone on the stupid planet. No survivors."

Dartz pulled out a strange looking duel disk from the table behind him. "Then let the best evil win."

Bakura activated his. "May the best evil win."

"Joey! Valon! Stop it! This is ridicolous!" Tea shouted, trying to get the boys to come to their senses. Valon gave her a sympathetic look. "Don't worry love, when I win, you won't have to be confused about us being together."

Tea frowned at this. Valon was now spouting nonsense. "I don't want this! I want you both to end this duel and live!"

Valon shook his head. "Sorry love, only one of us can win and that will be me."

Joey growled. "No you won't you psychopathic freak! I will win and rescue my friend from this place!"

Valon smirked. "Will you really?"

"You bet I will. I alway's protect my friends!"

Valon played a card faced down. "You always seem to say that, and yet, you couldn't even help Mai."

Joey glared at him. "What did you say?"

"You eard' me. You couldn't help her."

Joey played another card face down. "THAT WAS THE LAST STRAW! You biker freaks brainwashed her!"

"Did we Joey, did we really?"

Joey paused, looking down at the ground. "I...I...I didn't brainwash her."

Tea spoke up. "Both of you enough! Joey, you did not brainwash Mai, she choose that herself. And Valon, will you please stop it!"

Valon gave her a look. "Who's side are you on? You are on my side right?"

Tea shook her head. "I'm on neither of your sides. This is ridicolous! I don't want two people I care about to fight."

Joey looked at her. "Tea..."

Tea felt the tears spring into her eyes. She just let them run down her face freely. "I...I want...you both to stop. I don't want more violence and I don't want to lose another person I love."

"PROFESSOR!"

Duke stared at the professor with wide eyes as the circle engulfed him. He smiled weekly at Duke. "Please, tell Rebecca I love her. And don't let anything happen to her. She may be a college student, but she's still a little girl."

Duke swallowed hard. "I won't let anything happen to her. I promise."

Professor Hawkins gave one last smile before his soul vanished into the seal. Duke closed his eyes, saying a prayer for him. He was about to challenge Raphael when the blond man had disapeared. Duke swore quietly to himself. He heard a blast come from another end of the hallway, he picked up the professors body and ran to where he heard the blast.

He felt shocked when he found Rebecca dueling Mai. Her life points were now at 800 while Mai's was at 2000. This did not look good, but the little girl seemed to be doing fine on her own. Rebecca looked to see who had come in and her face collapsed into grief when she saw her grandpa.

"GRANDPA!" She cried, and she tried to leave the duel, but the seal blocked her. Mai smirked. "Sorry sweetie. You can't leave until one of us looses. And by the looks of it, your time is just about up."

Never in his life had Bakura felt so defeated. Here he was, standing in defeat while the circle closed over him. He didn't even look into Dartz's smirking face, all he could see was Ryou's. He gave a tired smirk. "Well Ryou, it looks like I'm going to be gone for a little while."

Ryou looked creastfallen. "No! I don't want you to leave! I...I..."

"I what?"

"I love you." Bakura's eyes widened. He figured Ryou would hate him for all the stuff he had done to him, but he just quietly smirked. "I love you too." And that was the last thing Ryou saw before the green light took his Yami's soul away. Stepping in quickly, Ryou took control of his body and glared at Dartz. Dartz smirked. "Well at least I have one powerful spirit."

Ryou had an enraged look on his face. "GIVE HIM BACK! GIVE HIM BACK TO ME!"

Dartz shook his head. "Sorry, it doesn't work like that." He went clenched the pendent around his neck, looking into it to see how the other duels were going. Valon's duel interested him. Valon was turning out to be the exact kind of warrior he wanted. Smirking, he spoke into the stone, so that his warriors could hear him. "Stop your duels. We're done here for today. We will have other chances to get their souls."

Mai frowned and crushed the ground with her stone, breaking the seal. "It's your lucky day girly. I have to leave now."

Rebecca glared at her. "Get back here! I'm not through with you!"

Mai smirked as she walked away. "See you sweetie."

Alister glared a hateful glare at Dartz. He was this close to defeating Kaiba, when Dartz told him to stop the duel. Question that was running through his head, why? He glared at Kaiba. "I have to leave, but I will come back to take your soul! Mark me!"

Kaiba smirked. "Whatever coward."

Alister glared and then took off, his black and white trench coat flying behind him. Yami frowned. Why would Dartz want the duels to be stopped so suddenly? It didn't make sense.

Joey looked up in shock as Valon broke the seal. His eyes bored into Joey's wide brown ones. "I have to leave, but we will settle this once I return." He began to walk off, walking past Tea. He gave her one last look. "I'll be back for you too. And once we win the fight, you and I can be together without interruptions."

Tea just stared at him, horror written all over her face. She stopped watching Valon when she felt Joey wrap his arms around her. "TEA! YOU'RE SAFE! I'm glad they didn't hurt you."

Tea managed a small smile. "Me too. Where is everyone else?"

"I'm here." Both of them turned to see Ryou with tears streaming down his face. "The seal took Bakura. It should've been me."

Tea gave him a hug. "It's okay. We'll get him back. I promise."

"TEA!" Tea was immediatly surronded by her friends, all fighting to give her a hug. Kaiba and Yami stayed back. Even Rebecca mangaed to smile. "I'm glad you're back Tea. I missed you."

Tea smiled. "Where's your grandpa?"

Rebecca frowned. "The seal took him too. He fought to save you."

Tea swallowed hard, feeling sadness come up in her throat. Someone had died just to protect her. That sort of feeling could not be described. Yami came over and gave her a gentle hug. "I'm glad to have you back Tea."

Tea smiled bravely, Valons' voice still in her head. "Me too Yami, me too."

Me:I lied. I think this is the longest chapter.

Alister:It doesn't matter!

Me:T-T Anyway, there is one chapter left. Before this story comes to a close. I feel kind of sad. This was the first story I ever published.

Valon:Big deal

Me:-_- Please review