"Tea! How much longer until we reach this 'great spot' o' yours?!" Joey whined.

"Not much further you big whiner," Tea said, rolling her eyes.

"Hey! You try carrying all this stuff," Joey said, motioning to the huge mountain of stuff on his back.

"It's not my fault that you and Tristan just had to pack thirty boxes of pizza for this one weekend out here," Tea said.

Tristan and Joey sweat-dropped.

"Hey! Pizza is VERY important for your information!" Tristan said.

"YEAH!" Joey said, backing his friend up.

Now it was Tea, Yugi, and Duke's turn to sweat-drop. Serenity simply shook her head and smiled. Tea then shook her head and continued up the forest path.

A few minutes later, the group burst into a clearing. It was beautiful! Lush green grass carpeted the area, and small white flowers dotted the greenness, plus, there was a great view. The trees cleared to show a beautiful view of mount Fuji. (A/N: Uh, can they see mount Fuji from Domino? Heck, is Domino even in Japan? ::Is obviously new to Yu-Gi-Oh:: Well, if they can't, or it isn't, just pretend that they can see a big mountain k?)

"It's beautiful!" Yugi exclaimed.

"I knew you would like it," Tea said smiling.

Duke suddenly turned towards back towards the forest with a puzzled look on his face.

"Huh? What is it Duke?" Yugi asked, looking at the black haired boy.

"I thought I heard something," Duke said, and started to walk towards the forest.

Curious, all the others dumped their stuff in the clearing, and followed the boy.

Duke made his way through the trees, and the rest of the group started to hear what he was talking about. It was very quiet, but it was there. It sounded like...crying?

As they went deeper into the forest, the crying got louder, until they came to a tree and the crying suddenly stopped. They all looked around, but couldn't see anyone. Then Yugi spotted a small hole at the bottom of the tree. It really was very small, but Yugi thought he, with his small body, could probably fit through. Getting on his hands and knees, the small boy crawled through the hole, and looked around.

The room beyond the hole was actually pretty large. It was about five feet by five feet. In the middle of the space however, was a small girl with her head resting on her knees.

"Hello there," Yugi said.

The girl quickly looked up, giving Yugi a clear view of her face. She had short, straight black hair that reached just past her shoulders, bloodshot gray eyes, and her pale face had tearstains on it. She looked American.

"W-who are you?" she asked in a fearful voice.

"I'm not gonna hurt you," Yugi said in a soft, kind voice. He reached a hand out to her, but she scooted away from it. "My name's Yugi."

She looked at his hand with wary eyes.

"W-why is y-you here?"

"I'm here because I heard you crying," Yugi said. He stretched out his hand even more, trying to reach the girl, but again, she scooted away. "I'm not gonna hurt you."

"How do I know you're not lying?" she asked angrily. All fear had vanished from her eyes and face, and suddenly she had anger, suspicion, and sadness in her voice.

"Well, I guess you have a point there," Yugi said, dropping his hand.

"Hey Yugi! Who's in there?" Tea's voice asked from outside.

The girl scooted even further away from Yugi, and the hole leading to the outside.

"It's a girl!" Yugi shouted back.

"A girl?" Joey asked. "Who is she?"

Yugi turned back to the girl and said, "That's a good question. What's your name?"

The girl looked at him for a moment, trying to decide whether to tell him or not, before eventually saying, "Cara."

"She says her name's Cara," Yugi shouted to the outside. Turning back to her, she saw the distrust in her eyes. "Why don't you come on out. Don't worry, my friends won't hurt you."

"And why should I trust you?" Cara asked.

"Because if you don't you're gonna stay in here," Yugi said, "and I don't think you want to stay here do you?"

Cara shook her head, and Yugi crawled out the hole into the open. Taking Joey's hand, he got up, and looked back. Cara slowly crawled out of the opening, dragging something behind her. When the girl got out Yugi saw it was a dark blue backpack. The young girl stood up, and they all got a chance to see her clothes.

She was wearing jeans that were so ripped, stained, and faded to know what color they originally were, and a turtleneck sweater that was in the same condition. Cara's face was so covered in dirt, grime, and tears stains that Yugi couldn't tell how old she was, but he knew she couldn't be that old, since she was a quarter of an inch sorter then him. Yugi then spotted a piece of green fabric that was wrapped around the girl's upper arm. It was seeping blood.

"What happened?" he asked her. Cara quickly looked at her arm.

"Tripped and fell into a tree that had a broken branch stub," she said. "The points went into my arm, and when I pulled my arm off I had this gash."

"When did it happen?" Tea asked.

"Just this morning."

Serenity walked towards the girl, but Cara backed away from her.

"Listen, I just want to take a look at that wound ok?" Serenity asked, smiling kindly.

Cara looked at her for a moment, then looked into her eyes, before walking towards the teen and stretched out her arm. Serenity untied the make-shirt bandage, and Cara winced slightly.

They all gasped at the wound, a large bloody gash on her arm.

"We need to take care of this," Serenity said quickly. "Come with me."

Serenity walked towards the clearing, and Cara followed her. The rest of the gang walked at a slower pace after her.

Joey's sister went to one of the packs, and pulled out bandages, white bottles filled with iodine, some cloths, and a water canteen.

"Sit down next to me," the young teen told Cara.

The small girl complied, and Serenity looked at the arm for a minute before saying, "This would be easier if you took off that sweater, I have an extra t-shirt if you need it.

"S'okay, I got it," Cara said, and pulled off the sweater, to reveal a plain green t-shirt beneath it, with a large rip along the bottom, probably the donator for the makeshift bandage.

Serenity quickly took one of the clothes, poured some water from the canteen on it, and started to wash the wound. Cara winced as she did this, but didn't make a sound. Once all the blood was cleaned away, they all found that it wasn't as bad as they first thought. Serenity then looked up at Cara.

"This is gonna hurt a little bit okay?"

Cara nodded in reply, and clenched her teeth. Serenity poured some iodine on another cloth, and gently washed the wound with that as well. Cara hissed slightly, but that was all. After that was done, Serenity wrapped it all up in nice clean bandages, and it was all finished.

"Thanks," Cara said, putting back on that awful sweater.

"No problem," Serenity replied, smiling.

"Now, why are you out here all by yourself?" Tristan asked.

"Yeah, did you get lost or something?" Tea asked.

Tears came to Cara's eyes, and she broke down crying again. Serenity wrapped her arms around the girl, and pulled her into an embrace. All the rest looked just plain confused.

"T-they left me here!" Cara said through sobs. "They just pushed me out of the car and left me!"

"Who did?" Serenity asked in a comforting tone.

"Mom and dad," Cara said, burying her face into the young woman's shoulder.

"They abandoned you?!" Tea asked, outraged.

Another sob came from the young girl in Serenity's arms, as did a nodding motion. Serenity just hugged the girl closer. After a few more moments, Cara's sobs subsided, and she pulled away from Serenity, wiping her face with the back of her hand.

"Do you know where your house is?" Yugi asked. "Maybe this was all just a mistake or something."

Cara nodded, and stood up.

"If you can get me out of this forest I can go home and see if they really meant to abandon me," she said. They all nodded, and packed up all their stuff. Cara's stomach then gave a large growl.

Joey smiled, and reached into his pack, producing a large slice of pizza, and handed it to the girl.

"Here ya go," he said with a smile on his face.

"Thanks," Cara said, and took the pizza. She ate it five seconds flat.

"Wow, you must be really hungry," Tea asked, as Joey handed the girl another piece of pizza.

"It's been a day and a half since I last ate," Cara said, wolfing down the new piece of pizza.

"A day and a half?!" Joey and Tristan cried at the same time with a look of horror on their faces.

"HERE!" Joey said, shoving four more slices of pizza into the young girl's hands. "You must be starving to death!"

"Actually, I'm alright, but thanks anyways!" Cara said, and shoved the new pieces of pizza into her mouth, eating them all in ten seconds flat. Everyone stared at her with wide eyes. "Alright, so I eat a little fast."

"A little?!" Tristan cried. "You may have just broken Joey's record!"

"What?!" Joey cried. "She wasn't that fast! No one's faster then me!"

"I wouldn't be so sure Joey," Duke said. "She ate those pizza pieces pretty fast."

Joey, Duke, and Tristan then started to argue about it, and Cara sweat- dropped. Just what kind of group had she fallen into here?

"Don't mind them," Tea said. "They're just weird. Men..."

"Hey!" Yugi cried.

"I didn't mean you Yugi!" Tea said quickly. "You're an exception."

Cara smiled, the first time she had smiled since her parents dumped her here one and a half days ago. This was going to be a fun trip...