Well between storm city for the last 3 days in a row the humidity has gone down and the temperature is agreeable with everyone… not that I had a problem with the temperature, but the humidity killed me, I don't wear shorts or skirts or skorts and that's all I wore for the past week it's horrible, my signature clothing style is socks, shoes, jeans, t-shirt and sweater or just a long sleeve shirt or the rare just t-shirt. GAH! And a trip off the grid for a bit would be why this chapter didn't go up. Anyway, here is the next chapter I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 5

Nightmares

10:36PM

The sound of the door opened behind Regan. She turned around getting rid of all the expressions from her face to see Yugi in a t-shirt and swim shorts.

"Hey the water's nice." She called up to him with a smile. She felt herself staring at him as he took off his shirt. She never really knew how well built he had become since mid-October with his shirt off until now.

"What?" Yugi asked as he noticed her staring at him.

"Nothing," Regan quickly responded and splashed some water up at him. "Come on in."

Yugi nodded with a grin and jumped in right next to her creating a tidal wave on top of her.

"Hey!" She exclaimed as he came back up again.

"Sorry,"

"Yea sure you are." As they swam around Regan felt the images poke at her mind again. "Hey Yugi?"

"Hm?" Yugi asked as he looked in her direction. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing really, just something about what Pegasus had said before the opening dance."

Yugi came over to her. "What about it; have you thought of anything about it?"

"Not exactly," She explained and told him about the incident at the bottom of the pool.

"That," Yugi paused in mid-sentence in thought, "I don't even know what that is nor have anything to say about it."

"Well whatever it was, I know that Pegasus isn't as crazy as my brother says he is. Or he is crazy and I am just as crazy as him. There is no logic to whatever that thing was down there."

"Well when has there been logic since you began the Millennium Item journey in September." Yugi stated with a smile, but then became serious again. "I just hope that if that vision is a future event, we can somehow stop Jade from being ripped to pieces if she shows up in the tournament."

"Me too."

They continued to swim a bit more in silence and then Yugi got out of the pool and took out a ball from one of the boxes in the room. "You wanna play?"

Regan smiled, "Yea no reason to be worrying about this now."

About ten minutes later, they were joined by Terry and his family, Joey, Mai, Tristan, Emily, Atem and Téa. Everyone was having a great time as they did what they wanted to do.

Then from nowhere one of Terry's kids, Kyle, yelled, "Ew!"

Regan turned to what he was pointing at and saw Joey and Mai in a hot tub that she didn't notice before, making out like it was the last time before one of them died, or both.

"Joey, there are under aged children over here still!" Regan yelled at him grabbing the blonde's attention. "Do kissy time after hours."

"Well grow up a bit Regan; it's not our fault that you aren't." Joey replied in between his kisses.

"Ah huh,"

She gathered Kyle and his twin brother Chris and whispered in the ears. They both nodded and hurried over to the toy boxes. Then she went over to Yugi, Téa, Emily, Tristan and Atem. "We need to take the water guns that the two boys are getting and fill them up so we can shoot those two over there."

They grinned evilly. In no more than two minutes after the idea was placed, the screams of rage and shock echoed the room. Suddenly, Seto barged into the room moments later.

"What the hell are you guys doing, I could hear you from down the hall!"

"Having fun," Tristan announced squirting water towards him. Seto moved slight to the right to avoid being hit.

"Well I'm sure there are several people that would appreciate having a good night's rest instead of hearing the screams from in here."

"Like you actually care, so lighten up and get some swim trunks on." Mai stated getting out of the hot tub with two super soakers. "Or else you are going to get wet the way you are."

Regan as well as everyone else paused and only the sounds of the pool jets and the water dripping off of bodies were heard. Seto looked like he was considering his options which both of them consisted of him of getting wet even if he hid.

"Fine, I'll change, but I warn you; I have excellent aim."

It was still quiet as the CEO left. Regan took her super soaker and shot Mai.

"Hey!" Mai yelled trying to block the water.

"I have good aim too, I figured if there are two then there has to be more." Regan stated as she stopped shooting the woman.

"Oh really, well you're looking at another, so I suggest you start running."

Both super soakers in her hands were aimed at Regan. "Nah uh, I go down fighting."

The two of them started a full out war and separated everyone into two teams. By the time Seto showed up, it was everyone against Yugi, Atem, Téa and Regan. Seto joined the smaller team. By the end of the hour war, the twelve rings of the clock officially stopped the water going through the air.

"So does your team surrender?" Téa asked as the other team relaxed in defeat in the pool.

"Yes, we're done, if we continue I think we would drown." Joey answered sighing getting out of the pool. "Okay I'm done, good night fellow roommates. I will see you tomorrow."

Everyone agree to that statement and followed Joey out of the pool. Regan changed in her brother's bathroom into her PJs and placed her puzzle back on giving her a sense of comfort to be with Nile again. She placed her bathing suit to hang with Seto's and walked out of the room giving Nile the short formed update with a view of what happened in the pool. She grabbed her little bag that held her swords and her dueling deck and disk and brought them out to her make shift bed on the couch in the main area. She placed the bag beside the bed as she sat down.

"Are you going to be okay out here?" Yugi asked and startled her in the silence.

'You should answer in a British accent.' Nile quickly stated mentally to Regan.

She didn't question and went with it. "Of course, if anything shall happen someone will hear as these walls are not thick."

"That's new, what's with the British accent and the Shakespeare dialogue?"

"It was Nile's idea for some reason." Regan continued in the accent, "Though I must agree on the speech being more complex and more amusing than simple English, Sir Yugi."

"Well I bid you farewell madam." Yugi said with his own British accent.

"And to you as well." Regan replied as he turned to his room.

He smiled and then closed his door leaving her in the dark, silent main room. She lied down and fell asleep almost as soon as she touched the pillow, but it was just on the outside as she had a discussion with Nile that ended with her falling asleep in the middle of it.

Regan woke from her dreamless sleep in the middle of the night to grunting noises and movement moving beside her. She reacted to the movement beside her by grabbing a sword from her bag and raised it before the person in a millisecond of reaction.

"Holy sharp object, Regan, it's just Joey." Joey stated in the darkness that her sword lit up a bit.

Realizing he wasn't a threat, she lowered her defense quickly. "What are you doing up?"

"Well I was up for a snack and heard someone grunting and groaning."

"So that wasn't you?"

"No, it seems to be coming from Yugi's room." Joey answered as she got out of bed.

The two of them walked towards the noisy door and opened it slowly. Regan lifted her sword and allowed it to glow her aura a little brighter for Joey and her to see. In the soft light the two of them noticed Yugi tossing and turning as he made strange noises like ones from a nightmare.

"This is like before on the plane. We have to help him." She told Joey as they walked over to Yugi's bedside.

"You mean the one that caused the injury?"

Regan nodded. "Yea and it happened in his sleep before the plane ride too."

Joey started to shake Yugi. But he wouldn't wake up. "How do you get him to wake up?"

"I don't know; he wouldn't wake on the plane either." Regan answered. "How are we supposed to help him?"

Then, Joey had one of his smart moments. "Couldn't your item help with this?"

"Yeah, yeah it could." She answered and looked down to her gold and silver object. 'Nile how does this even work?'

Nile appeared on the other side of Yugi's bed. "Place your hand on his head. Then you need to allow your soul to enter your hand and into his mind."

'Wouldn't that make my body unconscious?'

"Yes it would." Nile answered back as she realized what would happen.

'Well thanks for the warning.' Regan replied sarcastically.

"It's three in the morning give some slack to the spirit." Nile shot back.

Regan just shook her head and turned to Joey. "Well I'm going to try something that is going to put me out cold."

"What are you talking about?" Joey asked. "Wait, are you-"

"Yes Joey," Regan responded to the unfinished question. "I'm going to enter his dream."

Joey stood in silence. "Is it possible for me to come too or no?"

"That would be a no, this is going to be dangerous enough without involving Joey who we may or may not be able to travel with him there or get him out afterwards." Nile responded.

Regan shook her head at Joey. "No, Nile says it would be too risky because we don't know if you can come for the ride and be able to get to the destination or return afterwards. I know for sure that I don't have enough practice with this kind of thing yet. Hell this is my first time."

"Alright…" He sighed but he sounded concerned.

"It should be alright, I won't wander. I'll just enter the dream realm of his head and stop the nightmares."

"Fine," Joey stated after a few moments. "Just remember whatever you see in there isn't real. A nightmare created by someone is a created zone to scare the person. But it be careful, just because it isn't real there doesn't mean that you can't get kidnapped or something."

Regan blinked in confusion. "How do you know this information? And come again with the real and not real."

"In dream realm, nothing is real, unless you go past the fourth realm then shit hits the ceiling and usually can cause real damage. If it is in there which it seems to be, you need to be careful, I've had enough experience with soul stealing that your soul would be up for grabs if played properly."

"Oh the fifth realm, the one where things do damage to the body, I don't like it there very much."

"Yes that one." Joey answered. "And where I got this was from a book during math class."

"Okay, I'll keep that in mind now that you reminded me. If we aren't back before everyone gets up… think of an excuse."

"You don't have some sort of plan?"

"Of course I do." She said with a matter of fact tone. "Get back here safe and sound with Yugi." Not waiting for Joey to comment. She placed her hand on Yugi's forehead. 'Okay Yugi, you are going to have to let me in there to help you.'

She imagined that she let her soul journey down her arm and into her hand. She started to see blackness cover the corners of her sight, but she pressed on. She felt her knees collapse. Joey said her name as he caught her as darkness consumed her.

She opened her eyes to an overview of a black sphere type of room filled with the sense of evil crawling up and down her spine. Laughter followed afterwards along with screeches of some sort of creature with the clangs of bones on the floor. She looked down to realize she was floating and saw the commotion below. Her boyfriend was in the center of a group of skeletons with something observing like a lion circling its prey. Regan was stunned and didn't know what she could do for Yugi as he slashed out a sword at the proceeding threat.

The laughter started again. "How long will you last for Yugi? I can keep you here until you die or until you grow old and wither to nothing, so just give in."

"Giving in to the likes of you isn't an option. You won't succeed and you won't keep me here!" Yugi shouted batting a head off of one of the walking bones in anger. Three skeletons behind it also lost their heads to the first, but more skeletons replaced the missing in action.

"Suit yourself, Regan kill him."

Regan blinked in confusion wondering if the voice of the shadows had noticed her, but the 'something' on the ground was really what he was talking about as it move closer.

'I need to get down, I need to get-' Regan started to think then receive her wishes as she screamed in surprised as she fell.

With luck she distracted the creature and the skeletons, without luck on the other hand, Laughy had noticed as well and her tailbone hurt.

"Infiltrator – oh wait capture her and kill the boy."

"Regan, how did you get here?" Yugi asked.

Regan was about to answer as the creature turned their attention to her. Regan looked at the girl in front of her as chills danced up and down her spine and made her very uncomfortable. 'No wonder he was freaked out on the plane, this thing is me, or at least what's left.' "Yugi, we'll talk later, you deal with the skeletons while I make sure this one." She pointed to evil Regan. "Will help and then put down."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well this is your head, I'm sure you have some control over this place."

"Not really, the only thing I managed to do was get this sword." Yugi answered moving out of the still distracted skeletons.

Apparently they didn't have an invisible brain. Evil Regan went after the easier target of her existence. As she came closer, Regan jumped onto the doppelganger. "Sorry there can only be one of us and it's not you."

The creature hissed as it fell to the ground with the extra weight and bit her. "Get off of me." She said through clenched jaws.

Trying to ignore the pain in her bicep Regan taunted back. "You are as low as an animal, how about you fight with some dignity?"

Evil Regan growled breaking the skin.

"Ow, you bitch! This is how you fight." Regan yelled and punched her in the face.

The creature released her mouth of slightly pointed teeth that reminded Regan of a cat. Regan watched the blood drip off the corner of the other's mouth. In response, Evil Regan licked the blood from the corner of her mouth. Regan was in disgust and didn't notice the other one's foot and became aware of it as she kicked her into the air and into a bony army.

"See that's how you fight like a human." Regan yelled at the opposition as she stood up.

'Regan you are fighting your alter ego, why are you taunting yourself?' Yugi asked in her head.

'The more she tosses me around the more skeletons die and as a bonus, she doesn't try to kill you.' Regan answered thoughtfully to him.

"Ah, I get it now." Yugi stated out loud. "Just be careful, please, and don't get yourself hurt any more than what you have."

"You too," Regan told him and turned her attention to her alter ego. "Is that the best you got? I've seen better attacks from rodents."

"Is that so, then how about this?" Evil Regan asked throwing her arms into an aura sphere position.

'Perfect, this chic has the ability to do aura attacks.' Regan thought to herself as she started to run towards another group of skeletons.

The other version released a black and red sphere with excellent control over it as it shot towards her. Regan had to do a baseball dive into a group of skeletons in order to dodge the attack. "I can't even do these attacks, why is she able."

"Because she a fully trained aura user, you are not." The voice answered as she stood back up again.

"Yugi how goes the skeletons?" she asked trying to place where the voice had come from.

"Just about – done," Yugi answered. "This would be a good time for us to leave now and possible never return."

Evil Regan grinned, without her pointed teeth, and shot another aura sphere in her direction. Yugi was away from them so Regan turned her attention to the threat.

"Imagine your mind as a castle. A castle is very hard to enter and to go through because of all the walls, guards, and hidden traps. Have that imagined in your head and have a path that leads out of your castle." She told him as she kicked the other version away as more black and red attacks came at her. "You need to have a wall around your first defending walls, place a door on both walls but keep them closed. There should be room for visitors to enter the first wall outside of your courtyard and defending castle wall. At the gates you decide who is allowed to enter and who isn't. If you have an intruder get your guards to find and deliver them to your court, then you can banish them as you see fit."

In her description, Evil Regan noticed an opening on her and attacked with an aura kick. Regan felt herself get projected backwards and hit a wall as her breath was knocked out of her.

"How did you like that one?" The girl asked.

"What is with people and invisible walls?"

"Are you alright?" Yugi called out from his closed eyed position.

"Keep concentrating, don't worry about me I'm fine." Regan answered getting off the floor. She walked forward and ran into another invisible wall. She reached out her arms to find two more walls on the sides of her. "What the-"

"Invisible walls thanks for the idea." The voice said and laughed. "This may be a dream realm, but even in this far down you can be taken it's as physical here as it is in the real world."

She looked over to Yugi who was still concentrating.

"Oh he can't hear me; I am speaking from inside of this box."

"Yugi, Yugi!" She yelled as loud as she could, but he didn't acknowledge.

"He can't hear you either, he thinks you are still out there being told to keep looking."

Regan turned her head to see Evil Regan standing there with her mouth moving, but Regan couldn't hear what she was saying. "Why can't I hear-?"

"No you can't hear," The voice laughed. "This is lights out for you."

"What do you mean?"

"Just because you're here in spirit doesn't mean you can avoid the physical things that keep you alive, like breathing."

"What?!" Suddenly, the air around her started to become thin, like a vacuum sucking everything out of the box.

"Good night and so you don't have to suffer too much, I'll solidify the walls so you don't see him get ripped to shreds."

"You-" But she couldn't finish as her body collapsed without the necessary oxygen to supply its functions. The walls quickly turned to a metallic color as well as the floor and the ceiling. 'Yugi look out.' was all she could think to him as the darkness started to form and the sounds from outside world started to come back. A loud scream of blood thirst came from the Evil Regan and a splatter of a liquid hitting the wall of the box, creating an echo in her head. She gasped as she started to tear up. 'Yugi, I'm sorry!' and then she blacked out.

Yugi opened his eyes when he heard Regan tell him to look out. The evil version jumped at him just as a military man in a navy suit sliced the being in half with a blade creating a blood splatter on a metal box that he didn't remember being there before. About twenty other soldiers came from the darkness and the realm became warmer and started to go white. Four soldiers in cameo stopped by the box and a commander from what he could tell pointed at it. Yugi ran to the box and felt a jolt.

"Regan…"

The commander looked at him. "Is she safe?"

"Yes hurry, get her out of there!"

The four soldiers all looked to be generals from Japan, America, Canada, and Britain, but he wasn't entirely sure and they made the box disappear leaving Regan on the floor unconscious. The Canadian man picked up the girl Yugi had just asked to be his before he could move. The man walked over to him and Yugi took her in his arms.

"We will make sure there are no more intruders and report any at front gate."

Yugi nodded and soldiers disappeared like mist. It was completely silent as he felt blood trickle down his leg from a scratch on his thigh. The blood on his hand from a bite had started to mix with the blood that was coming from a bite on Regan's arm. It wasn't long afterwards that he felt her start to wake. He knelt down and placed her somewhat on the ground while still holding her up. Her eyes slowly opened and he gave a sigh of relief. Regan looked up and started to tear up.

"Hey no tears," He joked as she quickly wrapped her arms around his neck with her warmth on his chest.

"I thought, I thought you were gone." She whispered.

"It would take a lot more than that to take me away."

They continued to hug each other and then a soldier appeared in front of Yugi.

"There is nothing to report."

Yugi nodded and the soldier smiled and left them.

"Can we go now?" Regan asked in a hushed tone.

"Yes, yes we can."

Yugi jolted straight up in his bed,

"Yugi, you're back, what happened in there?" Joey asked holding Regan slightly up as she started to wake.

"A lot," Yugi said as got out of bed and helped Regan to her feet, but then she passed out falling onto him, "Apparently."

Joey sighed as he helped place her in Yugi's arms. "Next time something like this happens, I'm coming for the trip."

Yugi slightly laughed as he walked out of his room with Joey and placed Regan on her bed. He placed the covers over her and kissed her on the forehead. They walked over to the table, sat down and Yugi told Joey what had happened. "I'm still not sure how Regan knew about the defense system."

"I 'm pretty sure she doesn't either, it's just something that comes to mind when you talk about defense." Joey answered. "Do you think that weirdo will return?"

"Not in my head, though I think it has ties with Dark Matter or at least with Zorc. It might have been just trying to complete two things in one shot."

"There is always some tie between bad guys no matter where you go. It's like they have each other on ."

"The what?"

"The social network of villains, like Facebook only for villains, but I don't think it exists when good guys go looking for it."

"Yes, they just might be on such a network." Yugi laughed quietly. "But for now, I think we should just relax and think about the tournament."

"I'll relax when my world saving buddy doesn't have any more world saving to do or when things aren't trying to kill him." Joey said seriously. "I know you got it covered and I know all your friends are behind you, but whatever this new threat is, we don't know when they will strike or how fast this thing will kill just because we fell asleep."

"You're right we don't, but that's not going to let these things run my life or yours."

"You said it buddy, now I don't know about you, but I was supposed to grab a snack, but you were in trouble so I came to save your butt and now I'm really hungry. What about you?"

"You never are full, but I will gladly have some food." Yugi answered.

"Good, now I get to bug room service at four thirty in the morning." Joey grinned as he picked up the phone.

Well we are finally heading to the tournament; let's get the action going and no more of these little bumps in the path. Gamer's Trials Start!

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