Chapter Ten:

Disclaimer: Yugioh characters are not mine.

"Wow," Yugi breathed, "This place is amazing!"

Yami could only nod in agreement. The two had scaled a mountain upon Yugi's insistence to see the island for what it really is. Even though the two didn't get to the mountain's summit, they scaled high enough to see something that resembled a grand cliff, a waterfall, a desert, a jungle, a forest, and Ra knows what is going on with the dark and lighted regions that seem to have a sky of their own.

"Why do I feel like that area," Yugi pointed, "looks like space or some sci-fi, Star Wars thing, going on?"

Yami gazed in the direction Yugi pointed and his eyes widened at the strange bubble buildings, arches, and streets that seemed to bend and curve in mid-air. "I do not know what to say, aibou."

Yugi laughed. "I don't know which is more exciting, exploring this place or the actual duels."

Yami continued to stare at the place, awestruck. "Neither do I."

"Do you want to look for your friends, Tea?" Yumiko started as they decided to sit down at the cliff, dangling their feet as they ate the first of their sandwiches.

Tea shrugged. "Honestly? I'd rather not. Instinct tells me that we'll only be a bigger target running in a bigger group."

Matsuko nodded. "I don't want handicaps."

"Really?" Yumiko leaned in towards Tea, whispering, "What about that Yami guy?" she winked.

Tea immediately blushed, and Yumiko and Matsuko laughed.

"What does that Kaiba think he's doing?" Joey growled, "Giving me this…thing," he held a thong out in front of him in pure disgust as Duke and Tristan laughed full heartedly.

"Maybe he's looking to see you in them," Tristan snickered.

Duke bent over in laughter, holding his stomach as he did.

"You bastards!" Joey screamed, as he started chasing Tristan and Duke.

Rebecca sighed. "Why do I feel like I'm going to drown here or something?" she looked over the cliff and gulped as she saw the waves crashed against the cliff's spires.

Mai shook her head. "Just don't look down."

"We can always go into the jungle instead of walking around it," Serenity suggested. "That way we won't see the cliff or the water."

Mai and Rebecca looked at one another, shrugged and nodded. The three made their way into the jungle.

"Let's head to the city," Joey suddenly said after they finally stopped chasing one another around. "We'll probably see the others there, too."

Duke nodded. "Sounds good. We can also help each other survive."

Tristan didn't say anything, but followed the two. Wouldn't everyone be heading towards the city? He thought. Well, we'll have to face someone sooner or later I suppose.

"Yami?" Yugi pushed himself up and steadied himself on his elbow. "Shouldn't we try to meet the others, check out the city, or something?"

Yami shrugged, as he continued to watch the clouds above them. The two were laying down in the plains and staring up at the clouds. Both his hands were cushioning his head as he relaxed in the empty plains. "The point of this game is to survive, aibou. The cities should be a battleground right now since everyone is probably heading towards it, thinking that they'd check out the safe place."

Yugi nodded, as he lay back down. "All right, I'm going to take a nap then."

"I'll wake you should something happen."

Yumiko continued to pace between the cliff and the forest. Looking down the cliff, she noted that it looks more like a canyon. There is nothing but rocks and more rocks down the cliff, and nothing but trees and more trees in the forest. What a contrast, she thought.

"Will you just relax, Yumiko?" Tea laughed as she swung her legs back and forth as if she was on a swing rather than a tree branch.

"Chill, Yumiko," Matsuko added lazily, her eyes closed.

"Tea, I understand," Yumiko sighed, "sitting in a tree makes sense, but you, Matsuko. Do you want to die? You're lying next to the cliff! One wrong turn while you're sleeping, and its good-bye life!"

Matusko shrugged. "I like sleeping on the edge…"

"And I like to move around. I feel so restless." Yumiko sighed.

"Why?" Tea asked, curious.

"There's probably a bloodbath on the outskirts of the cities now," Yumiko frowned.

"Good for us," Tea nodded. "Nothing wrong with that."

"Don't tell me you feel bad for them…" Matsuko rolled her eyes as she turned on Yumiko.

Yumiko shook her head in exasperation. "Of course, not!" she said indignantly, "I just wish I could be there, but not there, so I can see how many teams are down and out and take that into account. I really hate how we do not know much other than be one of the last ten standing."

Tea laughed, shaking her head while Matsuko snorted.

"And this is the one who claims to be the nice one out of the three of us. All she wants is numbers!" Matsuko shook her head. "I'm taking a nap. Wake me later."

"Oh, dude!" Joey yelled, pointing at the scene before them.

Immediately, several duelists turned to them and grinned.

"Shit," Tristan shook his head.

"Idiot," Duke muttered.

"What?" Joey asked, oblivious.

"Our next victims," one of the guys in black grinned.

"Run!" Tristan immediately turned around and ran, Duke right behind him, and Joey following not long afterwards.

"Don't you think you two are enjoying yourselves a little too much?" a melodic voice suddenly startled Yugi up as Yami merely glanced to the shadow of a three women in front of him.

The three wore identical, tight fitting dresses that reached their knees. The dresses are simple with a single strap that crosses their chest and wraps around their shoulder. The three wore a white, green, and blue dress separately, their shoulder length hair matching the color of their dress.

"Don't you think that you're trying too much to be alike?" Yami raised an eyebrow. "Clearly, the three of you are not related." He noted that none of them looked like one another feature-wise.

The one that spoke up before shrugged. "It does not matter, does it?"

Yugi was already on his feet as he brushed off the grass on his pants warily. Yami continued to lay where he was. "True, I suppose."

The three smiled simultaneously then, and the one on the right in blue suddenly drew a card from her cardholder wrapped around her thigh. "Princess Curran!"

Immediately, a little girl in black dress and staff, followed by a rabbit butler appeared and whilst in midair, pointed her staff at Yami and Yugi. A bright light emitted and engulfed the spot.

"Why are we running?" Joey panted, although he continued to run.

"If we're going to face those two," Tristan answered, "do you really want to do it where someone else can come in and fight us right afterwards? It looks like people are heading towards the city. We don't want to be in that large group fighting people! It'll be a disadvantage, duh!"

Duke shook his head, and whacked Joey on his shoulder, causing him to trip a bit.

"What do you mean, if?" suddenly a voice yelled out behind them.

Tristan turned only to see the two on a Cursed Dragon and easily catching up to the three.

"You're already facing us!" the other guy in black and green yelled. "Dark Necrofear!"

A blue fiend suddenly appeared, carrying a broken baby mannequin as it rushed the three.

Tristan managed to fall to his right, just as the fiend attempted to side kick him with its sharp, purple thigh armor.

"Dark Assailant! Twilight Rose Knight!" Duke yelled, throwing the two cards out as the short, mini, knight immediately started attacking Dark Necrofear head on in the air while his Dark Assailant bent itself to attack his lower body with it's spiked hands.

"Thousand Dragon!" Joey turned set himself up so that the Thousand Dragon's roar took down Dark Necrofear and the Cursed Dragon.

The two riding the Cursed Dragon immediately fell as they lost the four hundred life points (as the Cursed Dragon took the 2000 attack points from Thousand Dragon). Tristan seeing their fall, immediately threw an Acid Trap Hole where they would land, taking another 1000 life points from them.

Quickly gathering all the gems from the monsters, (causing Joey and Duke to say, "Hey!"), Tristan immediately summoned the Demonic Roaring God Valkyurus. Throwing the large warrior right in front of the two who didn't even get the chance to get up nor roll out of the way, the God merely stretched out a hand that didn't even reached the two, and the battle was over. The rest of their life points dropped to zero in a matter of seconds.

Joey and Duke cheered.

"Nice one, Tristan!" Joey smacked him on the back.

"We should do something about strategy," Duke noted, nodding in appreciation for the battle at Tristan. "I had no idea what you were up to."

"Let's get out of here before more teams show up." Tristan nodded.

The three quickly collected their spoils and headed in the opposite direction of the cities. "We're lucky no one saw us and attacked right after the battle." Tristan muttered.

Unbeknownst to them, a pair giggled, and followed the three.

"That was a bit abrupt," Yami muttered as he managed to get up and jump back in time, whereas Yugi dived to his left.

"A warning would've been nice!" Yugi quickly got up and backed away from the three as he yelled that.

The one in green, standing in the middle, shrugged. "The battle starts as soon as we're in a certain vicinity of one another and either team draws a card."

The one in white to her right giggled. "You guys really are too laid back." Suddenly, her giggles abruptly stopped, and she drew a Natural Rose Whip and started attacking Yugi with the rose whip.

Before Yami could rush to Yugi's aid, a line of fire separated Yami from Yugi. Looking back at the other two, the girl in green had summoned a Fire Princess who is maintaining the fire between the two.

Yugi watched the girl carefully as he dodged from her whip. It is a good thing that he is small and quick on his dives and rolls. The girl is too far for him to do anything, but just close enough for him to throw something at her. "D.D. Warrior Lady!" he threw the card just in front of her, as the independent monster rushed her. The monster caught her by surprise as she took the hit directly. The slash made her fly back and took down her life points to 2500.

Yugi was about to follow up with another monster but a fireball suddenly flew at him. It caught his shoulder as he tried to dodge it, and he quickly patted the fire out as his life points took a hit to 3600. He looked up and saw that the girl in green had directed a fireball at him and was ready to throw another, and he is back to a defensive position.

By this time, the girl in white recovered and took out Yugi's Warrior with the 7 Colored Fish attack card.

Ugh, Yami thought, this is ridiculous. How many times can she use that damn Princess? He had been trying to dodge her area attack the whole time, and he had been forced to back further and further away from the girl. The girl in green firing fireballs at him isn't helping either.

"Princess Pikeru!" the girl in blue called out as a little girl almost identical to the other princess appeared, except in white and followed by a goat butler.

"Great," Yami muttered as he somehow dodge two area attacks and the fireballs. Finally, he got blasted back by the force of the two circle of lights combined, his life points dropping to 3000.

During his fly backwards, he quickly summoned his Dimensional Alchiemist, who warped himself and Yami at a straight angle where the Alchemist blast hit both the green and blue dressed girl. The blast, although weak, cleared through both, and even managed to partially hit the two princesses who immediately dissipated as they had no defense. Finally, a card he can use, he thought. He rushed to collect the gems, and summoned his Buster Blader who managed to slash at the girl in blue whereas the green girl dodged.

When Yami attacked the girl in green, Yugi took the chance to summon Maha Vailo who shot thunder at both the girl in white from afar and the girl in green. He followed up with throwing a Liquid Beast behind the girl without her noticing. So, when she dodged Maha Vailo's thunder attack, she stepped into the beast who suck away 950 life points. Yugi screamed, "Whiptail Crow," who then flew at her, taking away the rest of her life points.

Yami gathered up the gems that Yugi accumulated from his end, and smirked. "It's over." The two girls gasped when they heard the girl in white screamed in pain and defeat, and realized why Yami had been mainly dodging. "Lord of Phantasms!" Yami yelled.

The giant Lord emerged behind him, and readied a black chasm within his hands.

Maho Vailo and Buster Blade forced the two to run in one direction, away from the Lord, but still in front of him, and when the black chasm finally spiraled off, the after blast was more than enough to take the two out.

'Us being telepathically connected is somewhat cheating, isn't it?' Yugi thought to Yami, slightly smiling as they collected their cards and black gems.

'Hmm,' Yami shrugged. 'They did attack us without much warning. And it's not like we purposely talked to one another or anything.'

'True,' Yugi nodded. "Next time though," he said loudly, "let's make sure we don't get divided, and maybe you should add more lower level monsters on you or something."

Yami nodded, turning on the three, he smiled, "Thank you."

"Bye!" Yugi waved back at the three ready to cry girls as they walked away.

Yumiko caught her breath as she saw her chance and had her Banshee weapon card finish off the monster and the unaware duelist. Matsuko quickly wrapped up the gems that dropped, and took out the last of the duelist with her Axe of Despair, chopping him away. Tea's Key Maces retracted then and the three collected their spoils.

"What was that," Tea asked as they continued to walk the line between the cliff and the forest, "the fourth team we took out?"

"Yup," Yumiko grinned. "Lookie!" she held up her four new cards. "I love my Peacock!"

Matsuko growled, "Your Peacock does nothing! It just runs around the place distracting me!"

"It distracts them, too!" Yumiko pouted. "Maybe you don't notice, but it's the reason why you have a surplus of gems!"

Shaking her head, she sighed, "Don't you have something a little less annoying that gets us gems?"

Yumiko shrugged, "What if I do? It is what I draw, so deal with it!"

Tea, who have been walking in front of them suddenly stopped. Immediately on alert, ready to draw, Yumiko and Matsuko stopped what they were saying and looked on.

Mai, Rebecca, and Serenity were being backed by three large guys and their monsters to the cliff. The only thing separating them from the guys and their monsters were their own monsters.

Mai's Harpie Lady Sisters and Pet Dragon stood between the group, and were losing time fast. Luckily, they managed to take out the three bulky men's monsters before disappearing themselves. Serenity collected the gems, and immediately summoned Ice Queen. The 2900 attack monster called a blizzard upon the three men. Their life points slowly dropped as the blizzard went on. However, it didn't take them out immediately. One of them sacrificed himself, and summoned the Genesic Dragon. The might red and silver dragon appeared and was just about to rush them when Rebecca summoned her Millenium Shield just in time. The three men immediately yelled in pain and defeat.

"We were so close!" one of them punched the ground with his fist.

"No point in crying now," Mai scoffed, "Give us your cards!"

Growling, the three gave up their cards and stalked away.

"We were lucky," Serenity sighed in relief.

Mai shook her head, and nodded to where Tea, Yumiko, and Matsuko stood.

"Good duel!" Tea walked forward, and greeted them.

"Thank you," Rebecca said, slightly stiffly.

Both groups were on slight guard, just in case the other team decided to draw on them.

After a few moments of silence, "Let's just call this a truce," Yumiko finally started hands up. "Well?"

Mai, Serenity, and Rebecca looked at one another and nodded. "Definitely."

Both groups relaxed, and exchanged stories.

"Wow, you trekked through a jungle with two other teams?" Yumiko asked, wide eyed.

"That battle was definitely not fun," Mai shook her head, recounting the story.

Running along side one another, Serenity had turned back and threw Thousand Knives behind her to slow down their pursuers. Each knife took down one life point from the monsters hot on their heels and the duelists.

Rebecca's shield was draining fast, and her Ruby Dragon is having a difficult time going through the jungle. Mai's Harpie ladies flew and took lunges given the chance at their enemies, but the three were not able to do much damage without a clearing.

Serneity suddenly flashed a card she had at the two of them. Immediately, the three split up, and Rebecca summoned her Silent Swordsmen. With the three split up, the other two teams also split up, thinking to take out them individually.

Before they can do much though, Serenity summoned her Ancient One of the Deep Forest. The goat stood guard in front of her, and rammed anyone away from her. "Ice Master!" She screamed. The Ice Master summoned a single, large ice sphere concentrated itself in the center of all the battle. Mai and Rebecca had spread out to make sure that they huddled all their enemies, monsters and duelists, in a certain area, where the ice sphere now stood in the center. Before the duelists could run for it, the ice sphere suddenly exploded and took out everyone.

"Wow," Yumiko nodded, "skills."

Mai grinned, "Of course."

"It's getting late," Tea noted the dark sky, "Let's make for the city. If we run for it, we might be able to make it inside without trouble."

"Hopefully, most of the people are already in the city," Yumiko added.

"Well, we won't know until we go there, now would we?" Matsuko chimed in, "Let's go."

The two groups started making their way to the nearest city when a voice stopped them.

"Alliances are not encouraged here."

The two groups turned around to see four guys in a full on black vest and matching black pants.

"Aren't you guys in an alliance?" Yumiko replied.

"No," one of them grinned, flashing white teeth. "We're assassins."

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