In honor of me finally getting through that TEDIOUS duel between Jonouchi and Valon (AKA "Jou put that suit of armor back where it came from or so help me-") I've decided to post this chapter. This is also the longest chapter in this fanfic so far since I had no idea how to make it shorter without taking out scenes that I really wanted. Also, I don't think I should apologize for Lorna's constant swearing during this chapter because I believe you should know her by now.

"Lorna, you have to eat your breakfast..." Mrs. Muto pleaded, pushing a plate of omelets towards me that would usually look very appetizing, but that morning, I couldn't put anything in my mouth. I couldn't tell her why, though. In addition to the fact that it would only serve to frighten the poor woman, I honestly didn't know what I would say if I were asked to describe the nightmare that I had had the night before.

"I... can't..." I replied dismissively, giving her a smile.

"Lorna!" Grandpa Muto tried this time, sounding much more firm than the woman before him. "You're going to be having a big day today! You're competing in Battle City Tournament! And you can't do that on an empty stomach!"

"Mr. Muto... I'm fine -" I tried to say, but was interrupted by Yugi this time.

He stepped into the kitchen with his duel disk strapped to his arm, looking armed and ready to go into battle. "They're right, you know. You need to eat."

I bit my lip and looked away from Yugi, knowing that if I maintained eye contact long enough, he would be alerted of my distress. I didn't really want to tell him. Not yet. Not while we had bigger problems to worry about, namely Marik Ishtar. The last thing we needed was Yugi failing to defeat Marik just because he was caught up worrying about my messed up nightmares. "I'm fine, Yugi..." I said to the plate sitting on the table in front of me.

"Well," Yugi began. I turned my head around to see him making his way out of the kitchen. "I gotta get going to get an early start. I'll meet up with you later, okay?"

I nodded, feeling a bit anxious since I wasn't going to have anyone with me as I went around Battle City. However, I couldn't hide behind Yugi all the time, which sadly enough, was entirely possible -literally. Besides, it would be much easier to find duelists who were willing to challenge me if I wasn't hanging around the reigning King of Games.

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It took me a while to get myself out of the house so I could start dueling, as Mrs Muto and Grandpa Muto wouldn't let me leave the kitchen until I had eaten something. Unfortunately, my gag reflex kicked in every time I considered putting anything near my mouth. Thankfully, we reached a compromise when I agreed to put a couple of granola bars in my bag along with my phone, which now had all of my friends' numbers in it, and my ipod, which I never left the house without, whether I planned on using it or not. I was out of the house less than an hour after Yugi had left and it made me feel a bit better that Yugi probably wasn't that far away from me.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?" Mrs. Muto asked as she saw me off at the door. I could see hurt in her violet eyes and it had taken all my strength not let her come along. I wasn't sure who I would encounter in Battle City, but I knew Marik was not at all opposed to murder and I knew he would try to kill Yugi and his friends. I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I ended up putting her in danger as well.

"Sorry!" I said, cracking a small smile -or at least, I hoped I did. I searched desperately for an excuse to give her. "I-I'm meeting up with Téa and Tristan later! So... I won't be alone." I hesitated for a moment then wrapped my arms tightly around the older woman. "I'll see you after Yugi wins the tournament," I told her as I pulled away.

She looked considerably less upset after the hug and smiled warmly. "You could win just as easily you know!"

I giggled. "Against Yugi?" Ha! Not a chance!

I watched her put a hand to her lips, holding back a small laugh. "Be safe, Lorna."

"Of course!" I replied with a wave, twirling around and heading out into town.

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After about twenty minutes of walking through unfamiliar streets, I started to feel like going out on my own was a bad idea. However, after stumbling upon a road that was vaguely familiar from when I went out with Téa, I followed it to find myself in Domino City Plaza, the place where I woke up on fateful day. Today, however, it was more packed than I had ever seen it. There were a couple of duels taking place on opposite sides of the Plaza, each with its own crowd of excited bystanders.

I adjusted the strap on my shoulder bag as I made my way over to one of the duels. There was no harm in observing for a few minutes, I thought as I pushed myself through the crowd. Some part of me expected the two duelists to be people I knew so I was disappointed to find out that I knew neither of the two boys dueling heatedly.

It seemed like I had made it just in time to see the duel end. One of the boys, a very young one with bright red hair and a scowl on his face, had a bare field with no monsters and a lonely spell card, while the other, who appeared to be much older and was standing smugly at the other side, was surrounded by winged-beast monsters, the strongest one being a large, majestic looking bird, with red feathers on its body, golden feathers on its head and dark magenta feathers in its crown, wings and tail. It flapped its wings gallantly, beady eyes locked on the poor duelist who was just about to face its wrath.

"Crimson Sunbird!" the older boy hollered, extending his arm towards his opponent. "Attack his life points directly!"

It was the first time I had ever seen a holographic duel and I could feel my pulse speed up as the holographic bird raced towards the panicking boy. It looked so real! And for a moment, my heart dropped and I almost looked away, fearing for the boy who looked like he was about to die.

Keep it together, Lorna! I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself. I mean, how many times had I watched stuff like this on TV? I knew they were just holograms.

A holographic counter appeared beside the younger boy, counting down to zero as he dropped to his knees in defeat. His spell card disappeared along with every other hologram on the field and the victor stepped forwards, kneeling down to help the boy to his feet. "You did great, kid!"

The boy perked up, raising his head and looking at his opponent with glimmering eyes. "Really?"

"Yeah!" the older one affirmed and pulled the boy to his feet. He chuckled and scratched the back of his neck absentmindedly. "But... You still gotta give me your locator card and your rarest card!"

I rolled my eyes and turned around. Enough dilly dallying for me now...

Walking back to the center of the square, I felt very out of place. I needed to duel someone if I was going to get any locator cards, but I would much rather have had someone challenge me instead of actually trying to speak to other human beings. I looked around for someone to duel and felt my heart lurch when I found someone very familiar making his way out of the square. He was an average-looking teenager with shoulder-length russet hair. I couldn't quite place him in my memory, but he did exist there somewhere. Was he also from my world?

Hesitantly, I strode towards him swiftly before I could lose sight of him. Unlike the little girl I had seen a couple of days ago, he didn't seem to be aware of me and I wondered what exactly I would find when I finally caught up to him. Would I witness his death as well... just as I witnessed that little girl's death? The thought dug painfully into my gut and even though I was pretty sure I needed to follow this guy, I really, really didn't want to.

"Hey, you!"

I was snapped abruptly back to reality by a harsh voice, which, after a moment, I recognized to be that boy's voice -the one I had been following. I blinked in surprise at the boy as he examined me, most likely trying to see why I would be following him. Luckily for me, I had no explanation to offer him whatsoever.

"Why are you following me?" he asked, stepping closer to me so that the distance between us was now a little less than two meters. My mind struggled to find an answer to that question as my mouth opened and closed like a fish, waiting for the words to come through. The boy, however, decided to relieve me of the burden of coming up with an excuse by asking: "Did you want an autograph?"

Autograph? Who did this guy think he was?

"N-No... I ..." I sputtered pathetically. Great, Lorna. Good job! You could have gotten away with following him if you just asked for his fucking autograph! Now, you have to make up another excuse for why you were fucking stalking him. You dug yourself into this hole, Lorna, now figure out a way to escape.

The boy raised his right arm, which I noticed had a duel disk attached to it. "Did you wanna duel me?"

Thinking fast, I nodded my head. However, as the boy smirked and prepped his duel disk, I found myself wondering how much I actually thought before accidentally challenging this guy to a duel. If I lost, I would lose my only locator card and my rarest card and I couldn't afford to lose those in my first duel! It wasn't like I had much of a choice, though. It looked like I was going to have to duel him so I needed to trust my deck and myself. I mean, I was trained by Yugi -motherfucking- Muto and if Yugi thought I was ready for this competition then I was definitely ready.

I raised my right arm, turning on my duel disk and watching as it lit up, displaying my life points. Two things, which I believe were simulators, ejected themselves from the duel disk and placed themselves on either side of me, nearly scaring the shit out of me since I had no idea duel disks could do that. What if someone was standing over there? I couldn't help but imagine how many people would die due to irresponsible and careless use of duel disks. Thanks, Seto Kaiba. "So can you speak?" the boy asked, drawing his first five cards.

"Yes," I replied as red began to stain my cheeks.

"Good. You can go first."

?: 4000

Lorna: 4000

"Alright! Let's do this!" I said, drawing six cards and looking them over. I quickly put down my Sanctuary in the Sky on the duel disk, just like Yugi showed me. "I activate Sanctuary in the Sky!" Seemingly out of nowhere, the field began to fill up with mist... no, not mist -clouds. I could hear rumbling, like stones shaking and shifting and saw a temple rise up out of the ground on my side of the field.

"What does that do?" he asked, looking a bit unnerved.

I sneered at him, feeling smug with my lucky draw. "That ensures that every time you attack a fairy, I don't lose life points!"

He rolled his eyes and I almost marched up to that little shit and strangled him. "Oh, so you're one of those girls..." he said, sounding a bit disappointed, then he grinned. "Well, then, I'm going to win this duel sooner than I thought! Now get your turn over with!"

Giving the boy a dirty look, I looked down at my hand. "Then I summon Fairy's Gift in attack mode. Then I'll put down one face down card and end my move." Three small child-like fairies appeared on my side of the field, dancing and giggling amongst each other. They were sickeningly cute, and while they had 1700 attack, I sort of wished they were slightly more intimidating.

The boy scoffed and drew his card. He set one monster before shrugging and saying, "Your move."

I stared incredulously at the play. That monster was completely defenseless with no traps or spells to protect it. Did he want me to attack it? I drew a card and smiled. It was my Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen. I didn't need it just yet, but it couldn't hurt to set it down. "I summon Ancient Elf," I declared, as the elf pixelated into existence, violet cloak billowing in the wind, holding her staff at the ready. Yep, I could definitely get used to seeing my monsters like this. Before the boy could let out another scoff at the fact that I summoned yet another female monster, I declared my attack, starting with Dancing Fairy.

As the trio of fairies made their way over to the monster, it revealed itself to be some sort of flaming reptile... with a beak. "The fuck is that..." I murmured, watching my monsters pulverize it. Not wasting any time, I called out to my Ancient Elf. "Attack his life points directly, Ancient Elf!"

"Not so fast!" the boy hollered, interrupting my attack. He had a large, smug grin on his face.

I couldn't even question his exclamation before my attention was turned to my Dancing Fairy. "What's happening to my fairies?" Their soft bubbly laughter had turned into screams of agony and all three of them were burning alive. "What did you do?" I exclaimed, my voice betraying a sense of distress. Those were my fucking fairies!

"Guess you don't know my Jurrac Gallim's special ability!" he said with a snigger. "Any monster that destroys this card goes straight to the graveyard with it! That means your lame fairies are toast!" Fucking punny, you punk-ass motherfucker.

"Well, then Ancient Elf, make your attack extra painful!" I ordered, proceeding with my attack.

The boy waved his finger with an excited smile. "Ah ah ah! Wait! There's more!" More? This fuckwad had better not have something worse up his sleeve. "Since my Gallim was in face down defense position, I get to special summon my Jurrac Herra to the field!" A giant lizard creature -you know what? It was a fucking dinosaur, standing on its hind legs with a large bazooka strapped to its back. It also had 2300 attack. Well, I could now say goodbye to my locator card.

I scowled, looking down at my hand and trying to figure out what exactly I could do about this thing. I mean, with Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen, I could summon any fairy in my hand, granted I had no other monsters on my side of the field. However, the only fairy in my hand was Marie the Fallen One, which was definitely no match for Herra. The only other card being a trap which I definitely could not use. I sighed dejectedly since I couldn't put my Ancient Elf in defense mode and waited for him to make his move.

The boy summoned another dinosaur in the beginning of his turn, setting a spell or trap behind it. This one was smaller than Herra, thankfully; however it also had 1700 attack points. So, my Ancient Elf was doomed. "Alright! Guaiba! Incinerate her Ancient Elf!" I winced as the creature dashed towards my Elf and destroyed her. Well, it's name was fucking Guaiba. With a name so close to Kaiba, no wonder it was a bitchass, dickhead of a monster. Since Ancient Elf was a spellcaster, the Sanctuary in the Sky did fuckall to protect me and I lost life points. Welp... I was definitely off to a rough start.

Also, I would like to let everyone know before we continue that when duelists winced and ducked, they were in fact reacting to the special effects coming from those lethal simulation devices at our sides which occasionally liked to blast fucking tornadoes at my face. Like my hair actually needed powerful gusts of wind ruining it; it was already a mess since I never bothered to brush it ever.

The boy pretended to yawn and tap his foot impatiently at my incompetence. "Shoulda guessed that a girl would suck at this game." The fuck did he just say? "Any last words? I think I'll have you beat by my next turn, so why don't you hand over your locator card and rarest card now so you don't have to suffer a humiliating defeat!" He chuckled to himself, as though making a joke with the voice inside his head, who was probably also a dick. Just saying. "On second thought, you can keep your rarest card! I bet it sucks just like the rest of your deck! How did you even qualify for this tournament!" I don't know... I didn't tell him that, though. I mean, he didn't need more material to work with for his hi-fucking-larious derogatory commentary.

At this point, I was trembling with either silent rage or tears of pent up frustration; however, silent rage sounded a bit less pathetic, so let's go with that. How dare he talk about my deck like that? Yugi helped me make that and we worked so hard. This guy didn't deserve to belittle it like that! I opted not to answer him, simply focusing on the game. "I'm going to activate my spell card, Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen, which lets me special summon my Marie the Fallen One to the field, and I'm putting it in defense mode! Now, get your turn over with so I can show you just what my deck is made of!"

"Fine then!" he exclaimed, obviously irritated with my determination to win. Like hell I was going to surrender to this fucking douche! "Herra! Send her monster packing!"

I flinched slightly as Marie burned thanks to Herra's bazooka, which incidentally turned out to be a flamethrower, however, I refused to appear defeated. This guy was going down. I made a face and drew a card, suppressing the groan that built up in my throat at the monster I had managed to draw. Spirit of the Harp wasn't bad since it could protect me from his weaker monster, but it would be crushed easily by Herra.

?: 4000

Lorna: 3750

"Hey! What's going on with your life points?" he called out.

My life points suddenly went up to 3950. I let out a short laugh of relief. I had completely forgotten about Marie the Fallen One's special effect! "Remember that monster you just killed? Well, that gives me 200 life points in each of my standby phases as long as it's in my graveyard."

He narrowed his eyes and snorted. "Well, a measly 200 per turn won't save you from my monsters!"

"Whatever..." I mumbled, setting my Spirit of the Harp down on the field in face down defense position before ending my turn.

"That's all?" he asked, rolling his eyes. I nodded firmly. I was going to pay a hefty price in life points during the next turn, but I would be fine as long as I trusted my deck to give me the card I needed. "Okay! First, I'll summon Jurrac Velo! Now, Guaiba, destroy her face down monster!" Another dinosaur materialized right beside his other two.

I smirked as Guaiba headed towards my Spirit of the Harp, and even more so when he promptly lost 300 life points. "What was that about my deck being lame?" I asked, playing it tough, although I knew full well that Herra was going to beat the shit out of my monster.

"Whatever! Herra beat that fairy to a pulp!" he ordered, gesturing dramatically towards my monster. God, people actually did that? I mean, I thought it was exaggerated for drama's sake, but fucking hell, it was cheesy as fuck now that I was seeing it in person. However, I had to hold that thought as my Spirit of the Harp shattered in front of me and I had one more dinosaur to worry about. I shut my eyes tightly as Velo ran towards me. As expected, it didn't hurt, just that gust of wind, which made me want to tear my hair out in frustration.

?: 3700

Lorna: 2250

"You can end your turn now," I told him, trying as hard as I could to convey my grumpiness to him without sounding like a pissed off eight year-old.

As some sort of dickhead, shitface answer, he began to chuckle, increasing my irritation with each heave of his stupid-face breath. If that wasn't enough, he began to laugh heartily shortly afterward. I began to think back on what I had told him because, obviously, he found it so amusing that he was incapable of proper speech and that just pissed me off.

"H-Hey!" I cried out in outrage. "Stop laughing and end your fucking turn!"

Still, laughing, the boy dropped the cards in his hand, sending them flying about in the wind, and brought his now free hand to his neck.

"What are you doing?" I asked, trying not to sound nervous as I did so. My eyes trailed after his fingers which were rubbing over his neck slowly. "Stop it!" I reprimanded.

"Stop what?" he asked innocently. His fingers wouldn't stop though, and something red trailed down his neck and through the gaps between them.

Was that... blood?

It soon became clear to me that he wasn't rubbing his neck; he was scratching it, scratching his skin right off, thick, scarlet blood seeping through the tattered tissue "Stop it! What are you doing?"I shrieked. Why wouldn't he stop?

"StOP wHAT?"

"Not again! Not again!" I whimpered, covering my eyes with the card in my hand and backing away slowly. My heart was pounding in my chest, threatening to fly out, and I couldn't stop my breathing from becoming ragged and painful. Why did I keep seeing people die? Why did I have to see these things? Why wasn't it over yet? It was taking so long for him to die...

"lORnA!"

Please, leave me alone...

I've got a few things to say:

- Firstly, I thought you ought to know that CH6 has been changed from "Incendium I" to "Terra I" which is not relevant yet, but if any of you are interested in trying to figure out what's going on in this fic, it might be...

- Secondly, just for the ending of this chapter, I decided to finally change the genre of this fic from Adventure/Humor to Horror/Humor, since I'm starting to think i'm starting to go down a path that is more Horror than it is Adventure.

OH! OH! Before I forget! I wanted to answer a few questions that popped up in my reviews for you all!

1- To the guest reviewer who asked about Yu-Gi-Oh GX, I HIGHLY doubt any of my OC's will EVER make it there ahahahaha

2- Random capitalization "kINda lIkE THis" is supposed to be sort of warped speech, in case anyone wasn't sure what to make of it.

3- There is no confirmed love interest for Lorna as of right now. There might be, there might not be, but my priority is the story.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have a cooking competition to attend to...