When finals had finally ended, and I finally had time to do other things, which by then had started to pile up on me, I realized that this chapter was almost done. And I was hoping I could get it about before Christmas. Now that I actually had time to sit down and finish writing out this chapter, and my hopes came true, I got this chapter done before Christmas. So consider this my Christmas present to everyone. I hope you all enjoy it.

Chapter 11

Yugi and Sere had stopped in what looked like a small park area. Sere was standing near Yugi, watching all the people walk by, while Yugi, Sere took a glance at her brother and decided that it wasn't exactly Yugi who was there, but that other side of him. Some times she wondered if he even realized it himself or not, but that would be a worry for another day. She went back to watching the people walk by, while her brother just stood there looking at Joey's Red Eyes, with a serious and thoughtful look on his face.

Sere turned around at an odd sounding laugh, one that she didn't like all that much. Who she saw, she didn't like it even more. If she didn't know any better, she would say the guy almost looked like some kind of clown, with the way he was dressed.

"Who are you?" Yami asked, look up and over at the owner of the voice.

"Hello, Yugi. We've been looking for you." The guy dressed up like a clown answered in greeting.

"Who's 'we'?" Yami asked, the statement grabbing his attention.

'That's exactly what I'd like to know.' Sere thought to herself, walking over to her brother.

"You'll find out, if you walk that way." The clown answered, pointing to his left. "Fifty-three steps forward and into that tent." Yami and Sere looked to where the clown pointed, as the clown continued, "My master is waiting for you inside. It's in your best interest to go." Once the clown was done explaining, he disappeared by flipping behind a bush and was gone.

"Yugi, I don't know if this is a good idea." Sere said, trying to stall her brother as he started to walk toward the tent.

"I know, it could be a trap." Yami agreed, turning to look at Sere. "But what if the 'master' he was referring to is Marik?"

"But…" Sere started to say, but didn't know if she could change is mind about this. "It's just that I have a bad feeling about this is all."

"Don't worry; I won't let anything happen to you." Yami said, trying to reassure her. "You know, you don't have to come if you don't want to."

"No, I want to help out in any way I can." Sere said, following her brother as they walked toward the tent.

About half way to the tent Sere stopped when she thought she heard Tea call her and her brother's names. When she turned around, she discovered she was right, it was Tea, and she was with their grandfather. "Hey, Tea, Grandpa." Sere said, waving her hand at them in greeting, waiting for them to catch up.

"I'm getting to old for this." Grandpa mumbled as they caught up to Sere.

"Come on; let's see if we can catch up with Yugi." Tea suggested once they caught up Sere, not wanting to stop.

"What…?" Sere asked, turning around, realizing that Yugi wasn't there. She thought he had stopped too, turns out she was wrong. "I thought he stopped too. Guess he didn't hear you calling out his name like I did." With that said, the three of them went into the tent looking for Yugi.

Once inside the tent, all three of them saw Yugi walking up onto a stage, heading toward a tall box that was usually used for magic shows.

"Yugi!" Sere yelled out, trying to get her brother's attention. She was getting a really really bad feeling about all this. And just watching him walk forward, as if he didn't hear them wasn't helping any.

"It's almost like he's in a trance." Tea said, speaking her thoughts, she to had noticed the way he seemed to ignore them.

Not to long after that, Yugi walked into the box, as it closed up on him. After a couple more seconds the box fell away, and Yugi was gone.

"Yugi!" Tea called out as she went to the spot on the stage where the box was standing, not finding any trace of where Yugi could've gone.

"I don't like this." Sere mumbled to herself. "Come on, let's go and see if we can find where the other end of that box led to." Sere suggested, grabbing Tea and Grandpa's attention, as they agreed, leaving the tent behind and heading out back into the city and the crowded streets.

The three of them have been looking around for quiet some time, with no luck and with no clue as to where Yugi could've gone.

"I just don't understand what happened to Yugi." Tea said, as they continued to search for Yugi.

"He must have fallen into a trapdoor." Grandpa reasoned.

"Yeah, but what I'm worried about is where that trapdoor may have led him." Tea stated. "We have got to find him."

"You're not the only one that's worried, Tea." Sere said, worry obvious on her face. "I had a bad feeling about all of this before he even went into that tent."

"Don't worry, Sere, I know we'll find him." Tea said, trying to encourage Sere.

"Yes, and we'll check every square inch of Battle City until we do find him." Grandpa declared. Sere just nodded her head in silent agreement, continuing to walk with them in their search threw the city; she still couldn't help but be worried about all of this.

The search was starting to take to long in all of their opinions so all three of them had taken to running now. She was starting to wonder why it was taking so long to find him, or at least find a clue as to where he was. Sere was starting to get the feeling that they at least check half the city if not almost all of it.

As they were running around the city, Sere stopped dead in her tracks, not even bothering to look to see if the other two stopped or not. For some reason she didn't seem to care if they stopped or not. When Sere stopped, she looked down this one road off to her left. For some reason she got this strong feeling and urge to go down that road, so she did, following this feeling, hoping it would lead her to her brother.

Back with Tea and Grandpa, they had stopped to catch their breath, when they realized that they had lost Sere at some point.

"I wonder where and when we lost her." Tea asked, speaking her thoughts. "I hope we weren't running to fast for her to keep up with us."

"I don't know, but we've been over every square inch of Battle City trying to look for Yugi." Grandpa pointed out. "And we still haven't found a trace anywhere."

"We just got to keep looking for him." Tea said, a little worried. "And now we have to try and find Sere too." Just then, Tea saw someone running toward them. "Look, Mr. Moto, its Mokuba." Tea pointed toward who was running to them.

After some twists and turns down more streets, following the feeling she was getting, Sere soon found herself in front of a building. Sere tried to see if she could see in threw the glass doors to see if anyone was inside, but she couldn't see anyone or anything. But one thing she did know for sure was that the lights were off and that it looked like the building wasn't in use. So, she tried the door, and it opened. Sere walked inside and continued to follow the feeling she was getting, which lead her to the basement of the building.

When she reached the basement, she came face to face with a steel door with a question mark on it. Sere moved to the door, reaching for the handle, but when she tried to open the door it wouldn't budge.

"It's locked." Sere mumbled to herself. Then Sere looked up at the question mark on the door. "I wonder…" Sere mumbled as she reached a hand up to trace the marking with her fingers. Then her hand turned into a fist as she started to bang on the door, shouting, "Yugi, are you in there? Yugi?"

On the other side of the door, Yami looked toward the door, hearing Sere shouting on the other side. He wasn't the only one that could hear the shouting.

"Well, well, it would seem that someone has found us. It doesn't matter, that door is locked." Arkana said casually, looking from the door back to his opponent. "And besides, you won't be able to go back to your friends anyway. For you will not survive this dual."

"We'll see about that." Yami simply replied, as he turned his attention back to the matter at hand, namely the dual.

Sere didn't exactly get an answer to her shouting, but as she put her ear to the door to try and see if she could hear anything, she was rewarded with barely being able to hear some voices, they were soft, so she couldn't exactly make out what they were saying. Not unless they started shouting, but it seemed that only one of the voices tended to shout. To Sere, it sounded like there was a dual going on. But she did now know that Yugi was in there, for the voice that kept shouting every so often kept saying his name, the voice also seemed to be arguing who was the better one with the Dark Magician. With a sigh, Sere turned around and sat on the floor, while leaning up against the locked door, she had a feeling that this could take awhile.

As the time passed, and since she didn't have her ear to the door anymore, she could barely hear the shouting now, so she couldn't make out what exactly was going on. But waiting was all she could do, for she couldn't think of anything else to do to help, and even if she got through the door, and if she was right, then she could do nothing to stop the dual, if there was indeed a dual going on.

But after some more waiting, Sere could hear something from upstairs. As if someone was up by the entrance of the building. Sere looked up at the stairs from where she was sitting as she heard more than one person coming down the stairs. One of them sounded familiar to her, so she took a wild guess as to who it could be.

"Grandpa?" Sere said, hoping that she was speaking loud enough for those coming down the stairs to hear her.

"Sere, is that you?" Tristan asked, beating Grandpa to the punch.

Then after a couple of seconds after Tristan spoke, they came around the corner of one of the flights of stairs, to where Sere could see them.

"Sere, there you are." Tea said as the four of them ran down the last flight of stairs. "How did you get here?"

"Um…" Sere started to say, trying to figure out how to word this. As she thought, she got up to join them as they reached the bottom of the stairs. "Well, I sort of followed this feeling I had."

"But, why did you have to go off on your own? You could've told us to follow you or something?" Tea started to question, then a thought hit her. "Did we somehow loose you while we were running?"

Sere didn't know what to say to that so she just looked over her shoulder at the door behind her, and simply stated, "It's locked."

Tristan noticed what she was looking at and went right up to the door to try it for himself. "She's right, it is locked."

As Tea got closer to the door she stopped dead in her tracks. "Wait, listen. Do you hear the hum?"

"It's been going like that since I got here." Sere stated from behind them. "I think Yugi is in there dueling."

That comment got Tristan to start pounding on the door. "Hey Yugi, it's us!"

"Is that you in there?" Tea joined in on the shouting through the door.

"Yugi, we'll get you out of there!" Grandpa declared as loud as he could.

Sere just stood back and watched as the shouting and the pounding continued. "Guys." Sere said, gaining their attention. "If you have any ideas as to get that door open, then by all means, do so. Otherwise, all we can do is wait."

With that said, all four of them stopped, and started to think on how they could get the door opened. After some time thinking, Tristan just started going at the door with his shoulder. Sere didn't know if she should be surprised or not by the fact that Tristan was trying to get the door opened by brute force. All Sere did was just say as she watched Tristan continue to bang his shoulder up against the door, while the other three just stood back and watched.

After some time with that, Sere was starting to think that she should stop Tristan before he ended up hurting himself. But just as she was about to say something, the door opened with Tristan almost stumbling inside.

"Yugi!" Tristan said, as he came to a stop inside what looked like an arena sort of set up. Tea, Mokuba, Grandpa, and Sere all followed Tristan in. "You alright, buddy?"

"We're here!" Tea said, as she came up beside Tristan.

"Yugi." Grandpa said, this gaining Yugi's attention.

"Hey guys." Yugi said in way of greeting.

Sere walked past the group right up to Yugi, who was trying to help someone stand. Sere was guessing that was his opponent in the duel that he was probably having. "I'm sorry that I couldn't help." Sere said, not looking at Yugi. She wasn't too sure why she couldn't look at her brother when she said that, but she just couldn't.

"It's alright." Yugi answered.

"Are you alright?" Sere asked, after a moment, finally able to look at her brother.

"I'm fine." Yugi said reassuringly, trying not to worry his sister. That was the last thing he wanted to do, was to make her worry.

"What happened here?" Grandpa asked, as he finally took in the site around them.

This caused Yugi to look around the room. "Oh, nothing much." Yugi said with a smile, trying not to worry his Grandpa or his friends. Sere noticed that Yugi was trying to help the man in his arms to the ground gently, so Sere walked closer to her brother to help him out.

"Are you sure?" Sere asked, as the man was lying, on the ground, all Sere could do was hope he was somewhat comfortable there.

"Of course." Yugi answered, with that same smile that he used for Grandpa just a moment ago. Then Yugi looked back at the man they just helped lay on the ground. "He was just a little confused is all."

"If you say so." Sere said, not at all convinced. But she figured if he wanted to talk about it, he might want to say something without the others around, or at least, without Grandpa around.

Sere stared at the man for a moment longer, then turned her attention to the others and said the only thing she could think of right now, "I say we call it a day. After all that excitement, I think we could all use a rest."

With that said, they all left the building, Tristan running off to see if he could find Joey and see how he was doing so far. Mokuba went back to tell his brother that everything turned out fine and that Yugi was found. Tea walked with Yugi, Sere, and Grandpa back to the Game Shop. She stayed for a little while before she to left. Sere had this feeling that she just wanted to make sure Yugi got back home without anything else happening.

I don't think this chapter was as long as the other ones, but it will have to do. I hope you all enjoyed it. And I hope I can get another chapter out before next semester starts up. I make no promise though, my mom tends to find things for me to do even though I would much rather do other things that I myself would like to do instead. And apparently that includes doing anything in front of the computer. I get the feeling she sees it as me just slacking off.