Here's an update, I hopefully will have the next chapter up sometime today or early tomorrow moring… like 3 in the morning :P.

So I don't own the games mentioned in this chapter or Nerf, though it would be cool. Anyway, ENJOY!

Chapter 2

Rematch

10:00AM

Yugi woke up feeling colder than when he was sleeping. He looked and found that Regan wasn't there, but Téa and Atem were. He sighed and figured she saved him from her brother's wrath of killing him on the spot and looked over to the clock to see the time. He wasn't ready to get up yet and was hoping the darkness of the room wasn't lying to him. His eyes widened as jumped out of bed.

"Get up; we're going to be late for the semifinals." He muttered over to Atem and Téa.

"Yugi, I doubt we are going to be late, it should only be about seven in the morning." Atem grumbled. "I just checked a second ago."

"Well, guess what you just had Pharaoh, you just had a flash sleep. It's ten and the games start at eleven." Yugi stated in annoyance. "Check your watch if you don't believe me."

"What the-"

"Told you, now I have to get ready, see you before you leave for your game. Téa, make sure he gets up."

"Yes Yugi." Téa replied softly and then Yugi ran out the door. He ran passed Regan and Kaiba playing a Monopoly game that he would have to ask about later. "The semifinals are going to be starting in an hour!" He shouted and then shut the door behind him.

He got his grandpa up as he was also sleeping and started to go through his clothes wondering what he should wear. He pulled out his uniform and looked at it. With a grin he decided to put it on for good measure. He put on his navy blue uniform pants, a white dress shirt and the navy blue school jacket that seemed to jut out at his belt. He placed on a pair of socks and walked out into the main room as his stomach growled that translated to: give me food. Kaiba was just finishing putting the monopoly game away and Regan was nowhere to be found. Atem was sitting at the table eating some cereal. Yugi grabbed a bowl of cereal of his own and sat down beside him.

"Good morning Yugi." Atem greeted.

"Good morning." Yugi replied and turned to Kaiba. "What's with the game?"

"It was just a game." Kaiba retorted. "I suggest you get ready for the semifinals, because your crown is mine."

"You against me again?"

"Did you think it would be different?"

Yugi sighed. "No, I suppose not."

"What are you playing?" Atem asked him.

Yugi turned to him and swallowed his food. "I don't have a clue; I'll check afterwards." And then he switched to their mind link, 'When death isn't standing there.'

Atem smirked. "I think I'll get some milk."

Atem left the table and headed to the fridge. Yugi turned to the sound of a door opening and Joey and Tristan appeared out of their room. They wandered over to the kitchen looking a bit like zombies.

"Late night guys?" Yugi asked.

"No, someone cocooned us to our beds and we've been trying to get out of them since we got up around eight this morning." Joey grumbled in annoyance as he sat at the table with cereal. Atem and Tristan came back to the table.

"Who would cocoon you to your bed?" Atem asked. "Why wouldn't you just yell for some help?"

"We would have." Tristan groaned. "But we were also gagged and when we got them off we were already un-cocooned."

"Sounds like a personal problem." Kaiba stated in monotone and walked into his room.

"Prick," Joey muttered and took a bit of his cereal.

"So where are you guys going today?" Atem asked.

"Well, I want to see Yugi kick Kaiba's ass again. What about you Tristan, where are you going?"

"I want to see Jade get beaten and finally kicked out of the tournament. So I'll go to whoever is destroying her." Tristan answered.

"Oh yea, I forgot about her." Joey looked at the TV. "Looks like Atem gets the privilege to rip her apart."

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Yugi walked up to the second stage in the stadium and met with the hostess for the match. On the stage with the hostess were two machines that were hidden from the other. There was a score that read zero on the wall that blocked the view of the other machine and the table had five holes in it with a mallet hook onto the side of the machine. Kaiba came out of his tunnel and crowds cheered just as they had for Yugi.

He came onto the stage and looked down at Yugi. "Hope you are ready to lose."

"Good luck to you too." Yugi replied coolly and the hostess cleared her throat.

"Gentlemen, welcome to Whac-a-Mole for you chance to get to the finals. The object of the game is simple, first person to either have the most whack points by the end of the time limit of fifteen minutes or to reach the goal of two thousand wins. Each mole is worth only one point but the golden mole that will pop up once in a while is worth fifty and by once in a while it will only appear five times."

Yugi nodded as he looked down at his machine, he didn't know how fast they were going to pop up or how many at a time. The two contestants went to their machines and picked up their unchained mallets. There was a whistle sound and a single mole popped out of the hole. Yugi whacked it and a point was placed onto his score. 'Two thousand points, I think this is going to be the worst two thousand points in my life.'

Another mole appeared and he whacked it just as another appeared. He continued to hit the moles one after another and his points slowly crawled up to fifty. He hadn't missed a single one as they just kept popping up either one or two at a time, but soon as he hit the fifty mark things started to pick up. Moles started to appear three and four at a time and only stuck around for a second or two. He lightly tapped his moles so he could move faster from mole to mole. His points racked up in only a few minutes to two hundred points and suddenly a different colored mole appeared on his field. He grinned with joy when he hit it and his points jumped as he continued to beat his moles. As time went on, Yugi hit the moles and got each of the golden moles and his points climbed. Suddenly, a countdown started and the moles started to appeared and disappear twice as fast and he hit as many as he could. Just as 'one' was said he hit the two thousand points. The countdown stopped and before he could celebrate his victory Devin came up on the stage.

"Looks like we have a tie."

"A tie?!" Kaiba questioned almost in an outrage.

"Yes, and even if it wasn't this isn't the game that should even be set up for your match."

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked and he could hear Pegasus laughing in the audience. "Never mind, that was the game supposed to be."

Devin didn't say anything as a wall appeared behind him. On the wall there were Nerf melee weapons that didn't look quite like he remembered in toy stores. There were ten different weapons and each one was a lot different from the other.

Kaiba grunted as the two Whac-a-Mole machines were taken away. "So you want us to fight, are you sure considering our size differences are little different."

"A little, you're almost a foot taller than me." Yugi exclaimed.

"Then you should be happy Mr. Kaiba, you might actually beat your rival." Devin challenged. "This is a gladiator battle, you each chose a weapon and fight it out until either one of you gives up, or is at the mercy of the other. The Nerf weapons behind me have been modified so they weren't so protective and much harder. Though they weren't sharp, they will hurt if you do get hit."

"Who decides when one of us is finished?"

"Your hostess, she's a referee in gladiator sports that don't allow killing."

"Fine," Kaiba growled. "Who decides which one of us will get first choice?"

"You can choose first." Yugi told him.

Kaiba didn't say anything as he walked right passed the two hosts and grabbed the Vendetta Double Sword. Yugi picked up the Vantage sword and felt its weight in his hand. It was light, but heavy at the same time. He went to the marked spot on the floor that was lit up by an overhead light while Kaiba went to the other lit spot on the floor. The lights dimmed as a fence appeared around the stage and the basic Mortal Kombat music started to play. He watched a grin appear on Kaiba's face as if he got a great idea that Yugi would immediately would reject as being anything good. Yugi took a deep breath as he relaxed his sword a bit. He had a feeling this fight was going to be more about him accidently falling asleep next to Regan instead of him trouncing Kaiba at every game they played. There was a shout of "GO!" and Kaiba charged at Yugi so fast his heart skipped a beat in fear.

The CEO brought down his four foot double sided blade on him and Yugi brought up his sword blocking the attack. Yugi placed his hand onto the flat of the blade and pushed up against the attack. Then he noticed the pressure was lifted a bit and saw Kaiba separate the rod into two separate blades. Yugi dropped the block and rolled to the side as Kaiba swung at him to his right.

"Get back here!" Kaiba shouted as he turned on him.

"How about I don't?" Yugi told him as he continued to dodge the attacks. He didn't want to go head to head with his opponent, not that he could, Kaiba was way better than he was, plus he was trained. Yugi had whatever experience he picked up in the minor moments of holding a sword. He gritted his teeth and started to plan as he noticed Kaiba leaving himself open, barely, every four moves into his sword dance. He moved in and struck across his chest the blade. Kaiba looked to be in pain as he took a step back. Yugi charged in. He didn't really know where his sword skill that he was using came from, though he had a feeling it was from being with Atem. He came in for a third strike, but Kaiba used one sword to throw the attack off to the side and the other on Yugi's open side.

A jolt of electricity came from it and Yugi wasn't pleased as he jumped back from another attack. He shook his head to clear the sudden pain that was lingering at a low rate and slowly disappearing. "Hey Kaiba?"

"What Yugi?" Kaiba growled as he charged at him again.

"This is exactly like the first round of Death T."

"What's your point?"

Yugi grinned evilly as he slipped his sword through his defenses. "Poke bitch!"

Yugi jabbed him and Yugi winced at Kaiba's reaction as the CEO almost dropped his swords. Kaiba grabbed where he was jabbed and then he glared daggers at Yugi. Yugi didn't back down and ran up to him with sword ready to swing. The three blades met in the middle and then split apart just to meet again. Yugi didn't have a clue how he was keeping up, all he knew is that he needed to win just so he could find out what Devin had planned. Yugi blocked attack after attack. He could feel himself starting to get tired of blocking Kaiba's ruthlessly strong attacks and barely got a few attacks in of his own. The only thing he had on him was the fact that when he did attack, he hit. But even that didn't matter as Kaiba kept coming with even strong attacks and more creative moves.

Yugi went to defend against another attack, but Kaiba turned to a different attack and knocked him to the ground. Yugi rolled out of the way behind Kaiba and onto his feet. He swung his medium size sword and struck him in the back. Kaiba turned to him, but Yugi was ready and disarmed one of his swords, sending it flying behind him and out of his vision, and then tripped Kaiba onto the ground which sent the other sword out of his hand. Yugi held out his sword at Kaiba's neck. The CEO looked from the sword and then back to Yugi.

"Are you kidding me?" Kaiba sighed and lied on his back.

"This match is over!" The hostess yelled and cheering arose.

"The winner is Yugi Muto; he will be heading to the finals." Devin shouted into the microphone.

Yugi offered his hand to Kaiba to help him up, but he just slapped it away as the fences dropped and stood up on his own. Yugi shrugged and turned to Devin, but he was almost out of the arena and was heading to the arena Atem was in.

"Congratulations, you're game will be tomorrow." The hostess told him.

Yugi nodded and headed out of the room. He walked into the challenger's room, realized he didn't bring anything and then left again in amusement. Surprisingly, Kaiba was waiting for him in front of stadium entrance.

"Hey Kaiba, good fight."

"Yugi, did you notice the number of semi-finalists?" Kaiba asked him ignoring his greeting all together.

Yugi thought about it, but he didn't know and shook his head.

"There were six of us."

"How did that happen?"

"How do you think it happened?" Kaiba growled. "But that doesn't matter; the point is how is Devin going to fix that problem?"

Yugi also didn't know the answer, but his brain did come up with one after a moment. "Could Devin go against the odd one out?"

"It is possible, but who is the odd one out?"

"I don't know, maybe it will be whoever Devin doesn't want in the finals I suppose… maybe we should check the other games, Atem is supposed to be going against Jade right?"

"Yes…" Kaiba pulled out his phone and started to look something up on it. "It seems like Atem and Regan are both still in their games though, Atem seems to be just about finished in his game."

"Then let's go it's not far from here."

"And why should I go?"

"Because Jade will be in arms' length?" Yugi said though he started to question his thinking process.

"Let's go then, Mai, Joey and your family members have already headed back to the room, they are going for a swim." Kaiba marched down the hallway at a rapid speed and Yugi was barely keeping up as he walked beside him.

They walked into the arena and wandered around the stands to find two empty seats. When they finally found one Atem took out another one of Jade's pieces.

"Jade sucks at games." Kaiba stated. "Why the hell is she even here if she is losing this badly?"

"There's something off about this and I don't like what my instincts are telling me." Yugi sighed as his stomach started to twist. He sensed something, but he couldn't point it out.

"Atem can handle it; it's just Jade after all."

"I guess so…"

Yugi looked back at the game. Everything seemed to be going smoothly and then it was over. Atem was just about finished the game and Yugi still didn't feel right. He shook his head and clapped for his friend to cheer him on. And then, Atem went limp as he fell out of his chair with a loud thud leaving the audience in silence.

WTFHITWJH … yes I made this up last night. (What the fucking hell in this world just happened is what it means :3)

Hope you enjoy the cliff hanger.

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