Yugioh: Season 1

Shining Friendship

"Yugi?" Joey asked outside of Pegasus' castle.

"Come on, Yuge." said Tristan.

"Yugi? Are you okay?" asked Paige.

"Why wont he answer us?" asked Tea.

"I've never seen him like this." said Tristan as they watched Yugi sit on his knees in front of the doors.

"He's totally out of it." said Joey.

"Well, he did lose his only chance to save his grandfather." said Bakura.

"Thanks for the reminder, Bakura and don't forget, he's my grandpa too." said Paige, causing Bakura to blush in embarrassment.

"Yugi....let us help you." said Tea.

"What is happening to me?" Yugi asked, thinking to himself.

[Flashback]

"Strike now, or I swear I'll take you down." shouted Kaiba.

"Kaiba, I've never backed away, and I'm not starting now!" shouted Yami.

"One minute I'm battling against Kaiba....."

"Yugi!" shouted Tea and Paige.

"The next minute, I'm battling with myself." Yugi thought. "Suddenly, there was this other presence inside of me, willing to do anything to win the duel, and it took everything I had just to hold him back, but that gave Kaiba the opening he needed."

"Aah!" Yugi cried out as he fell to his knees.

[Flashback ends]

"I let Kaiba win the match, but I had no choice." Yugi told himself. "That other presence might have seriously hurt Kaiba if I hadn't regained control, and now I'm afraid of what happens next time. What happens if I cant control it? What if this other presence hurts my little sister? No! I can't take that chance. And that means I can never duel again."

"Oh! We have to do something, Paige and Joey." Tea said.

"Yeah, all right. I'm going in." said Joey as he and Paige walked up to the elder Muto.

"No one can share what I'm about to do to my only brother." said Paige as she tries to lift him up by his arm. "It stays between all of us. Joey, help me stand him up."

"Sure thing, Paige." said Joey.

"Okay, turn him around to face me." Paige instructed Joey. "That's it....now I need to fix his head.....there we go and.....I seriously can't believe that I'm actually doing this, but here we go."

SMACK!

A red hand print formed on Yugi's left cheek as Paige tried to slap him out of it. "Yeah, that didn't work." said Paige as Yugi didn't react to her slapping him. "I'm never doing that to my brother again as long as I live."

"You must have slapped him hard to make a mark like that." said Tristan.

"Want me to slap you as well, Tristan?" Paige asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No, no....no need to do that." Tristan said, nervously.

"It's okay, Yuge." Joey said, lightly laughing. "You just lost a few star chips is all. Here, take a few of mine. I owe you big time for ever getting me this far. Take 'em."

Everyone waited to see Yugi's reaction to Joey's offer. "But what about...." Bakura started to ask.

"My sister?" Joey asked. "Sure, she needs my help, but gramps is in danger right now, we got to get Yugi into the castle."