Sorry for the delay, I had work to complete cause apparently that's why you go to university, is to do work :P. Anyway, I have the last chapter of Volume 5 right here and waiting to be read. So on this note, Enjoy!
Oh and I forgot to mention my friend TyranicFish helped me create a few parts in my game. :)

Chapter 6

Obstacle Hell

8:00 PM

Yugi sighed as he changed. He didn't have a good feeling about the obstacle course, no. He didn't have a good feeling about the rest of the tournament. It was supposed to be a fun tournament, not a psychotic, death scene memory to add to his list of horrible tournaments. He sat changed into his uniform pants and black sleeveless top in the dark challenger's room and wondered if he should bother entering tournaments anymore. They always seemed to end up with hell unleashed onto the earth. What good had this tournament done for anybody? Demons, death, destruction, his father, Jade entering the tournament. His thoughts paused on Jade.

It didn't make sense for her to enter or how she entered. She was not a top gamer, so how did she enter without anyone noticing? A picture of Devin flashed through his mind as something clicked. 'What is she and Devin planning, does it have to do with Regan? What about the rest of us, there has to be a reason why Devin placed her in where Atem and the others were and not at the round where the rest of us where? Unless, he knew about Lilith showing up, or maybe he didn't.'

He shook his head as he heard someone knock on the door. He walked to it and opened the door to see Regan standing at the door with a confused look on her face.

"What are you doing in the dark?"

"A good place to think," He replied with a smile not to worry her. "I was thinking of a few strategies to get to the end of the course."

She looked him over, but Yugi knew she couldn't find anything on his face or sense any hint of worry that he had a few seconds before. She sighed. "Okay, just be careful, there is still one demon prowling around."

"Speaking of demons, aren't you supposed to be with someone?"

"I can handle myself you know." She hissed in annoyance crossing her arms.

Yugi laughed a little at her actions. "Sometimes, I can't tell the difference between you and a cat."

Her frown left her face as it filled with surprise. "Wha… I …"

"I was kidding, a little." He moved her bangs and placed a kiss on her forehead. "Now, go before your brother throws his money around over nothing."

She shook her head. "Fine… but I think we need to have a discussion the differences between a cat and me."

"And you will see there are not so many differences, but that's okay. That's why I love you."

She smiled. "I love you too. Now go show them, King of Games."

Yugi watched her run from the hall and knew she would be in the stadium stands within a couple of minutes. He turned away and walked to the other end of the hall to wait for the host to call his name. After about five minutes he heard his name being called by Devin after Doyle was called. He walked through the doors and almost stopped in awe at what was ahead of him. Where the stage use to be, a tower from what he could see had about seven floors stood looming over everything and everyone. He couldn't see what was at the top and from where his friends and family sat, he turned to them as he stood by Devin, they couldn't either.

"Gentlemen, meet the Seven Floors to Heaven." Devin stated to them and then turned to everyone in the room. "The object of this is simple, get to the top and ring the church bell. The first person to ring the bell goes to the semifinals. There will be a little camera following you to keep track of where you are and everyone can see what is happening inside this course. Your courses are separate and only when you reach the top will you be in contact with each other, that is, if you get there at the same time. Now time to get this started!"

The audience cheered and Yugi walked over to his entrance while Doyle walked to his side to the other side of the obstacle course. The door was closed and Yugi couldn't see what was in the other side of the door. There were three lights on the door frame which weren't on.

"One your mark!" Devin shouted and the lights turned red. "Get set!" The lights turned yellow and Yugi got ready. "Go!"

The lights turned green and the door opened. Yugi ran into the dimmed room. Then, he saw that there was a hole a few feet from the door and he almost fell in. He jumped and grabbed onto the monkey bars with one hand that were above the pit. He sighed at the fact that he almost lost three seconds into the course. He put his other hand on the bar and saw a camera fly by. He swung and completed the monkey bars and landed on the other side of the twenty foot hole. He jogged farther ahead and saw a hole in the ceiling that a slide was coming from. He looked around and there wasn't anything else in the small room. So he climbed up the slide with ease.

When he got to the top he noticed the second floor was a rocky terrain. There was a rumbling sound and Yugi looked to where it was coming from. A barrel stared rolling towards him and he jumped over it. He ran forward noticing there were no holes and only barrels were coming towards him. He jumped over each of them and then came to where they were falling from and noticed a hole just large enough to crawl under, so he did. On the other end there was a wall with an edge of the third floor above. He walked over to it and tried to jump for the edge, but he realized that it was ramped upwards like a sonic game and it was several feet out of his reach. He took a few steps back as far as he go and ran at it as fast as he could run. He hit the ramp and ran up the wall. He launched himself and grabbed onto the edge. He grunted as he pulled himself up over the edge.

He lifted his head and ducked as a ball came at him. He quickly stood up and suddenly felt like he was in gym class as dodge balls were coming towards him, only that they were half as tall as him but they sounded heavy as they hit the wall behind him. Suddenly, the lights went off and all he could see were the glow in the dark death balls. He looked around dodging them looking for the exit but he couldn't see it. He took a deep breath and then he noticed a smell in the air. He sniffed and smelt salt water that reminded him of home and started towards it. He found the wall that the balls were being shot from and it was easier to avoid the balls as he watch them transition. When he was five feet away, the balls stopped and then ceiling opened and a rope fell with some knots in it.

He climbed it and realized he was enclosed in a small white area that somewhat blinded him due to him being in darkness before and it seemed to keep going. He climbed and when he finally got to the top he looked around he was on the top of a man made shear wall and found another rope leading to the ground where a rock wall lead to the fifth floor. He grabbed the rope and started to climb down. He was sure it was a repel rope, but he didn't know how to repel, so he just climbed down the stupidest way possible, walking down the wall. He slipped about three times before he got to the bottom and with each slip he could feel Regan keeping herself from yelling at him through their link. He ran across the room and climbed up the wall carefully. He was surprised how easy the obstacle course had been on the four floors, not that he found them too easy, but they were pretty simple. When he finally reached the top, he wished he didn't think of the course being easy.

The fifth floor had a mattress floor and a rope ladder that was ten feet long on a forty-five degree angle that lead up to another platform. He grabbed a hold of the ladder and set himself onto it. As soon as he went to climb, the ladder flipped over and he fell onto the red mattress. He got up again and stared at the ladder. He slowly got onto the ladder and almost fell over again if he hadn't stretched out like a bad push-up to keep his balance. He started sliding up the ladder and he was surprise it didn't flip over. That's when he thought too fast, suddenly he leaned to one side and the ladder flipped over. He held on. 'There is no way I'm losing here.'

He looked up towards his goal; it was only a foot away. He started to swing the ladder from a memory of a movie he couldn't recall and managed to get it back over again. He sighed as finally reached the top. He took a breather as he just sat there wondering what was on the floor above him. He looked ahead at where the next level entrance would be and nearly fell over from his seated position. Ahead of him were four big red balls that separated him from the two walls up to the sixth floor.

"How does this make sense?" He questioned as he stood up.

The balls were about five feet apart, but there was something off about them. He looked down and noticed the mattress floor was still there as if waiting for him to fall. He looked back at the balls.

'I'm not falling just to do that ladder again.'

He heard Regan giggle in his head and it made him feel slightly better that she was still watching his attempts to complete the obstacle course, for all he knew Doyle was a floor above him.

'Stop standing around Yugi.' Atem said in his mind.

He eyed the big red balls, he had remembered these things before, but he wasn't sure where, all he knew was the existence of the big dodge balls that were bouncy and he figured these were going to make him fly if he wasn't careful. He took a leap and barely landed on the first ball. He regained his balance as the ball tried to make go everywhere, but his wanted position forward. He jumped again and didn't quite get his landing so he just bounced the next one ungracefully and managed to land on his stomach and face. He held on until the ball stopped vibrating and stood up again. There was one ball ahead of him and then two walls that lead to the top. He judged his jump more cautiously and used the momentum of the last ball to safely land on the platform. He released the breath he didn't know he was holding as looked towards his next obstacle: two walls that were blank but led to the sixth floor. The smell of the sea was closer than before and he walked to the walls. He stood in between them and placed his arms out only to realize that they weren't very far apart. He jumped up and locked his feet and hands onto the wall to stop him from landing on the floor and started to climb up the wall.

He pulled himself over the side carefully and sat on the edge of the door way. In front of him looked like a nice little balance beam and water on each side. The sea water was so fresh here he thought of how nice it was going to be back home in two days with his family all back together again. He stepped forward onto the balance beam and felt something click under his shoe. The room groaned and then the water wasn't so welcoming. Crocodiles appeared and the walls suddenly had spikes reminding him of the Pharaoh's tomb so many months ago. He went into panic mode and started running towards the exit. The walls closed in fast and the crocodiles were apparently hungry as they tried to jump out and catch him. He jumped over one and stepped on another's head when he lost his balance and he had a feeling he would be reliving the face he was making if he got out of the sixth floor of Heaven. He glanced ahead and saw that his exit was leaving as a pole started to rise leaving the sixth floor. His panic face left as one of determination was planted as he ran to the pole ignoring the wall that was only a few feet away and the crocodiles waiting for him on the side that wasn't closing in. He jumped onto a jumping crocodile's snout and grabbed a hold of the pole, which was barely left in the floor, and used his arms to get the rest of his body onto the pole. He groaned as the pole stopped moving and slowly climbed to the top. He came to a closed dark room and saw a light underneath what he thought to be the door. He looked for a handle and closed his hand on it.

Without hesitation he opened it to the top of the obstacle course with people screaming and shouting excitedly and looked around. The roof of the obstacle course was surrounded by a safety rail. The floor was the stage as if it was raised to such great heights. He turned his head and saw the bell high in the air and a rope that led to the middle of the arena. He looked at what obstacle was in his way and found a slide puzzle on the door that was in the middle of a green wall that was blocking his view of what was behind it. He quickly did the puzzle, way more in his comfort zone, and the door opened to reveal a maze like structure behind. He walked in and the door closed behind him. He looked around and noticed that he was trapped. The walls looked light and there was one slightly off colour then the other green walls. He slid the off colored one and it moved with ease and behind it was a way to move forward. Yugi smiled in satisfaction at his ingenious mind and continued his journey into the maze. It wasn't long before he hit a snag. He tried to move a block but as soon as he moved it, it was moved back.

He waited a second and the wall behind him moved. He moved the one he wanted to move and it didn't come back. That was when a thought entered his games filled mind. Yugi quickly moved through the maze. He knew why the wall had moved, his opponent, Doyle, was also moving through the maze, a shuffle wall maze. He looked up and saw the bottom of the bell, but didn't let his guard down as he moved his wall piece and came to the center of the duel stage. He ran straight to the bell and pulled on the string just as Doyle came out of the maze. The bell rang loudly, drowning out the sounds of the crowd and his last worries about losing the game as well as not getting himself killed. Though he figured it was quite controlled, he still wasn't very comfortable about the crocodiles. The obstacle course shook and it started to lower itself onto the ground. Yugi turned to Doyle who was closer than before almost giving Yugi a heart attack.

He held out his hand. "That was a good match Doyle."

Doyle didn't say anything as he stared blankly at Yugi.

"Um, Doyle?"

The cameras suddenly exploded that were flying around them and a sickly grin appeared on Doyle's face.

'Ah, somebody want to go check Doyle's change room?'

'Why, you are with him are you not?' Regan asked cautiously.

"You wish I was Doyle." Doyle's form changed like Dark Matter's had in Regan's kitchen and turned into a guy much older, bigger built then Doyle ever was and had sharp pink eyes with sidewise cat pupils. "I am Catalyst, the one who will gladly devour every speck of your existence."

"I don't think my girlfriend, or my family, or my friends would like that very much." Yugi told him trying to keep himself together. The demon was twice his size in body built and easily taller than Kaiba. 'Can this thing go down any faster? I don't think I could put up another fight today.' Yugi called to his linked friend and girlfriend.

'What's up?' Regan asked way to calmly for him as he dodged a, two sizes bigger than a Yugi face, hand.

'I'm being attacked by a demon named Catalyst!' Yugi shouted as he decided to take the maze as the exit. He almost got to the maze when he was grabbed by his head and thrown across the room into a wall breaking right through it. He winced in pain as he sat up and watched the demon walk casually towards him.

"What? You like your meals tender or something?" Yugi questioned as he stood up.

"Or something," Catalyst answered with a grin.

Yugi dodged another attempt at his head being grabbed and ran back into the center. He looked at the rope and wished he could climb it, but he was too tired and sore to even think about attempting such a task. He wished he could use some of his powers, but from his attack that afternoon, it would be deadly to even try to use a little. He didn't feel a change in the rate of how slow the Seven Floors of Heaven were sinking into the floor. 'How ironic, I'm going to be in the floor on this seventh heavenly floor if this keeps up.'

Suddenly, the walls dropped around them. Catalyst looked even more pleased at the sounds of the crowd, kind of how Lilith was when she started to blow everything up. Yugi looked around; he still looked to be four stories in the air and wasn't going down any faster. He turned to his attack which just happened to lunged at him then and Yugi quickly rolled to the side. Catalyst turned with ease and started at him again. Yugi was just glad that the oversized demon didn't have any magic powers. Once again Yugi thought to fast as the bell rope that was at his feet started to wrap around his leg. With his split second thought the rope went up, flipping Yugi upside down and smashed his head off the floor. Even with his hair, he was in pain and his sight blurred for a moment as the demon started walking towards him. He folded himself up and grabbed the rope, hoping to untie his leg, but to no prevail. Then, he hit the ground as something cut the rope.

He looked at what cut it and found Regan's aura sword spinning to a stop on the ground not too far from where he was. He moved out of the way just as the demon came at him again. "Thank you so much Regan." he whispered as he started towards the sword. Just as he grabbed the sword, he dropped it as he was picked up by his waist like football.

"Hmm, I guess I will just have to eat your soul then." Catalyst sighed sadly and threw him over the safety rail.

There was a scream from the crowd as everyone panicking froze and then there was one shout that broke that silence.

"SETO!" Regan shouted somewhere on the third story sitting area where they were always sitting.

He sighed as the ground neared and then was shocked when he hit a cushioned landing instead of the cold, hard, quick death.

"This is the second time I'm saving your fucking ass today." Kaiba growled as Yugi was set on his two feet. "Do something for a change that doesn't require me to follow you around like a security guard!"

Yugi nodded and looked back up at the descending tower. "What about that freak show?"

"What about him?" Kaiba scoffed. "He's already taken care of, a nice little strike from Atem. No one even noticed, except for him disappearing into a shadowy mess on the floor."

"When?"

"After you decided you thought you could fly."

He rolled his eyes and was tackled by someone from behind he recognized as soon as he touched her arm. He felt her vibrate on his back and turned her around. Her face immediately went to his chest and she grabbed onto his shirt. He placed his arms around her and rubbed her back. He felt liquid touch his shirt and it sent a shiver up his spine. "Hey, there's nothing to worry about now."

"Dammit Yugi, once a day is enough, but twice in only a few hours is enough to make your girlfriend go into shell shock." Regan sniffed still hiding in his shirt.

"I guess it's a good thing to have a girlfriend that can fling a sword and cut a rope in the middle of the stage from the stands."

Kaiba growled ever so slightly.

"And a rival that won't let me die until he gets my title," Yugi looked up at Kaiba. "So I guess I have a Guardian CEO for the rest of my life."

Regan giggled as she came up and wiped the tears from her face.

"We'll see about that in the finals." Kaiba threatened and then he walked away. "Hurry up after you get your sword Regan, there is still that package that needs to be opened."

Yugi looked back down at Regan. "I guess your sword is still on the stage."

Regan nodded. "Yugi,"

"Yea,"

"Can I have some cuddle time with you?" Yugi was surprised by the question and Regan quickly explained herself. "There are two more days of this left; the demons are all accounted for, but I don't know what other magic tricks are going to appear, so…"

"Only," Yugi paused to have her full attention again. "If you say 'magic tricks' as if you were thinking all of this was a trick."

"You're so mean Yugi," Regan placed a sly smirk on her face, "Magic tricks."

Yugi smirked and walked Regan to her sword on the stage where Devin was now looking at the damage. Most of the stadium had clear out and it was a little unsettling for him. Yugi let Regan collect her sword as he stood next to Devin. "What are you trying to do here?"

"It doesn't matter." Devin answered.

"It does when the lives of others are in danger." Yugi stated angrily.

"Not anymore, there were four demons if I am correct, and all of them have been taken care of."

Yugi glared in his direction. "And what are you going to do about this mess?" He spread out his arms to gesture towards everything. "This was on live television if I'm correct, it's not like you can just pay everyone who watched it saying it wasn't real."

"Yugi Muto, you have won the game so you advanced to the next round. Stop asking questions that don't concern you anymore." Devin said with a hint of a threat behind his words. The sound of Regan placing her sword in her sheath was heard slashing through it. "You're wounded so you should head to either the infirmary or back to your room if you think your injuries are fine as they are, the day will start early tomorrow."

Yugi watched him leave without a word and felt Regan place her hand in his. When Devin was gone the room seemed even emptier, though there was just the two of them left in the entire room from what Yugi could tell.

"I don't like him even more now," Regan hissed. "What the hell is he trying to accomplish?"

"I don't know." Yugi sighed squeezing her hand slightly to comfort her. "But whatever it is, I'm sure we will find out in the next two days."

"I can't wait to leave this damn city."

He nodded and looked down at her away from where Devin had left. "So, shall we go open that package and then watch a movie or something?"

Regan looked up at him and happiness flooded into her eyes. "Yes, but we should get food, I'm hungry."

"Again, you just ate."

"That was almost an hour ago and between that and you being attacked by a demon, stress causes hunger."

"Well, I don't see why not, it's free food." Yugi said. "Let's head back then."

Regan nodded and the two of them walked back to their room.

When they arrived in the suite, Atem looked up from the couch at them and then pointed towards the Kaibas' room. "Yugi, I think Kaiba wishes to be alone with Regan and Mokuba as they open that box."

Yugi frowned slightly, but knew that he was probably right and turned to Regan. "Well, better not keep your brothers waiting."

She nodded and left him as she gracefully walked into the far bedroom on the left. Yugi turned his attention to a lonely Atem on the couch. He walked over and sat down. "Where is everybody else?"

"Out for a drive, they apparently just wanted to leave the city for a bit and check out the scenery. Téa is still here though; she is making food orders in the girls' room."

"Regan also wanted to leave the city, not that I blame her, this has become a shit storm."

Atem raised an eyebrow at him. "The tournament has been awful, but I wouldn't call it that, yet."

Yugi placed his hand on side of his head were a headache was starting to form. "I think today was just too much. It been a while since a tournament like this, even Battle City was safer."

"Perhaps, but the Orichalcos was more dangerous. At least people aren't dropping either dead or soulless on the ground everywhere you looked."

Yugi shivered at the thought and nodded.

"This is more about Regan's safety right?" Atem questioned, but Yugi knew it was a more of a statement.

"This tournament was fine with the demons until Lilith changed her target to her." Yugi admitted. "I don't know what is going through her mind right now, it was fine with us, and the challenges just grew as we grew. With her, the challenges started back up where they left off, like sticking a level one character in a level fifty dungeon. She has grown, but…"

"But she might not have grown enough." Atem finished with his voice full of concern. Yugi could tell his friend was remembering when his sister had died against a foe too great for her.

"She snapped after Kaiba caught me. I don't know how much she is going to be able to handle if something goes severally wrong over the next two days."

"She'll make it out. She has you after all, that's all she needs." Atem smirked. "Plus her stuck up brother, her other brother and all of her friends. She'll be fine."

"How can you be so sure?" Yugi asked.

"Because I had to deal with you."

"I hate you."

"No you don't."

"I can try."

The door to the Kaibas' room opened dropping Yugi's and Atem's conversation. Regan came out holding onto a box that was barely bigger than her hand. Regan didn't look at them as she walked into the girls' room. Yugi looked over at Kaiba who walked out.

"Did you go to the infirmary?" Kaiba asked flatly.

"No," Yugi replied sheepishly feeling the weight of his glare.

Kaiba rolled his eyes and walked over to him. "Where did you hit your head?"

"Wha-"

"Answer the question." Kaiba ordered fiercely.

"Back of my head." Yugi squeaked.

Kaiba placed his hand on the top of his head and used his other hand to start rubbing his wounded head. Yugi winced at the sudden movement.

After a moment, Kaiba took a step back. "You'll live." Then, he walked back to his room closing the door behind him.

"When the hell did he get a doctor's degree?" Atem asked.

"When did he get x-ray or CT vision?" Yugi questioned the question and then the girls' room door opened. Regan and Téa both came out in white fuzzy PJ bottoms and white tank tops.

Regan looked up and Téa. "We've decided to have a double cuddle time."

"And food will be here, and we get to take what we want as the hungry hippos won't be here when it arrives." Téa continued. "So the question is; what movie should we watch?"

Yugi turned to Atem and an idea flashed through both of their minds.

"What kind of movie do you want to watch?" Atem asked carefully.

"Something," Téa and Regan answered together.

"Insidious." Yugi and Atem said at the same time.

Regan and Téa looked at each other again and they shrugged.

"Okay." Regan smiled. "So what should we do while we wait for the food to get here?"

Yugi stood up, "Atem and I are going to get his room cleaned up."

"Alright, we'll knock when it gets here, until then." Téa looked down at Regan. "I think we are going to play a game."

"A game?" his girlfriend questioned.

The other girl nodded with a smirk and dragged Regan into the girls' room again.

"I wonder what game they are going to be playing." Atem stated.

"I don't know," Yugi sighed. "Is it okay to be slightly intimidated by their game?"

"Only slightly? I'm terrified."

Yugi shook his head. "We should get to setting up your room."

"Right,"

And the two of them walked into Atem's room to clean it up.

And the day of Remembrance has been completed… I could have left this chapter to go up Remembrance Day for those who are into the day. I know my university has the day off, so I will have the hour of silence as I write the whole day. And all weekend as I have a four and a half day weekend. Many more chapters to come, I have an essay to do but that is all!
So hope you enjoyed! Review please and etc!