Ok, that last chapter… blah. Short, I know. I'm so sorry. (smiles and introduce THIS chapter) So, this is the REAL chapter, the one that I started two years ago, apparently, and just finished. So enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT!

It was the next day. Strangely enough, Terra couldn't remember anything that had happened in-between her leaving the classroom and her arriving the next day, except that she had eaten tacos for dinner last night.

It was before class, so Terra was watching Yugi and Joey duel. Tea stood beside her, explicating the rules of the game, even though Terra had politely snapped that she already knew how to play.

"Now I summon Dark Magician Girl to the field!" Yugi said, smiling. "Since Dark Magician is also in play, she gets an attack bonus!"

"Yeah, but you forgot that you played your Dark Magician in defense mode, Yugi!" Joey informed him. "And since Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician are together—"

The two cards started niftily making out.

"—his defense goes way down! And so now, Flame Swordsman, attack the Dark Magician!"

The Flame Swordsman stood, gave out a guttural cry, and ran clumsily towards the Dark Magician, chopping off the top of the magician's hat. The Dark Magician turned all glittery and stuff and then dissipated into thousand of firefly-like shards of glowing light.

The Dark Magician Girl crossed her arms and pouted cutely, the Flame Swordsman smirked, and nobody questioned how the holographs were working since they were just playing on two desks put together.

Bennen-sensei walked into the classroom with a spring in his step. "Howdy-doo, buckaroos," he exclaimed. He was met with acclamation and raucous cheering from Yugi, Tristan, Joey, and Tea, which ended only when he seated himself comfortably in the chair behind his desk. "Terra, may I speak with you?" he asked.

"Ooooooh," Terra's new friends, well, oohed. "Somebody's in trouuuuble," Yugi added.

Bennen-sensei waved their comments away with his hand, literally. They bounced off the way and were then absorbed into Yugi's hair. "She's not in trouble," he told them. They quieted at the non-drama, but soon grins lit up their faces as they realized this would probably lead to drama.

Terra approached the teacher's desk. "Did I do something wrong?" she asked, despite the fact that Bennen-sensei had just said that she wasn't in trouble.

Her teacher shook his head. "No, Terra, but I'm curious to know as to what you brought for show and tell?"

"Show and tell?" The words echoed hollowly in Terra's head. "Um…" She had forgotten.

"Of course," her teacher flowed on, "since you're the new student, you'll have to have something rather spectacular."

"Uh… yeah… I do," Terra promised. Crap, she thought.

"Well, good, because it'll be a great way for the new students to get to know… you know, you." Bennen gestured to indicate the profoundness of the activity known as show and tell. "Your essence. You know?"

Terra blinked, a bit startled that her teacher was suggesting that her quintessence could be summed up into a mere show and tell spiel. …But crazier things had happened!

It was around an hour later that class began. Why Terra, Yugi and his friends had been there so early, Terra wasn't quite sure. This class was kind of weird that way.

"We'll start the day off with show and tell," Bennen began, straightening his papers out in front of him. He looked straight ahead at him, as if he was Tom Tucker from the news. "Later on we'll learn how to insult someone in Japanese, followed by a light shower of lunch. Up next, moles: the animal, the scientific measurement, and the ugly thing on your face."

"But first it's time for the pledge!" Jake sputtered. Everyone stared at him. It was as if one of the cameramen had spoken instead of the anchor.

"…The what?" Bennen looked intrigued.

"The Pledge of Allegiance!"

Terra sweat dropped. "Uhm, we're not in Ameri—" But Jake was already up, his hand placed profoundly over his heart, and his voice swelled with meaning as he said, "I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of…"

Everyone tuned him out. Terra looked around and caught Yugi shuffling some of his Duel Monsters cards. Duke had taken his dice earrings out and was using them to play Yahtzee with Tristan. Terra turned back around, and found that Li Wang was, of course… brushing her hair.

Terra sighed. What was she going to do for Show and Tell?

"My quintessence, huh?" she murmured. She was tapped on the back by a fat finger. Terra twisted herself around.

"Hey," Heidi said. Her giant lips startled Terra, and she scooted back, shoving her desk forward just a half an inch. Eesh was what almost came out of Terra's lips, but she held her trap shut.

"H-Hey," Terra answered back weakly. Please don't eat me, she added silently.

"What did you bring for show and tell?" Heidi asked.

"Um… I don't know." Terra sweat dropped. Heidi's mouth turned into a giant round O of surprise. "Do you know, um, what you're doing for show and tell?" Terra asked. Heidi nodded vigorously. "Oh. Cool then."

Heidi opened her BIG mouth, about to tell Terra what it was, when their teacher spoke.

"So, let's get on with the Shooooow and Teeeell!" Bennen-sensei announced, pointing into the air dramatically with a huge grin plastered on his face. The students went wildly, applauding him uproariously. "And first up iiiiis," Bennen looked around the room for raised hands. Terra felt like she was in the audience of a Hollywood shindig, awaiting the name of the winner of the Oscar.

"Yugi!"

Yugi stood up and shuffled diffidently to the front of the room, hands shoved in his pockets. "This, um…" He scratched the back of his neck. "Sorry, but, um, I brought for show and tell… it's, um… my…"

"Deck," said many of the students at the same time as Yugi. Yugi blushed.

"Again," snorted a boy who was playing with Tarot Cards. Yugi looked uncomfortable.

"Um… it's a deck… and, it's uh… got cards…" Yugi sighed. He'd never been a very good public speaker. "It's got… um… Dark Magician, and um…"

"Doesn't it have Kuriboh?" a girl in the back row asked.

Yugi looked like he wanted to slide into his uniform like a turtle and never come out. "Um, it… yeah, it… It's weak, but… um…"

Poor guy, thought Terra.

"Um… YUGIOH!"

A serious wind kicked up, and Yugi looked up into the air and screamed. A moment later the wind died down, and there was… Yugi, looking just a little bit taller.

"THIS deck—" this new Yugi pumped his arm into the air, holding the deck out, "—is the ULTIMATE in Duel Monsters decks! It has all THREE of the Egyptian God Monsters, a DARK MAGICIAN, aaaaand a Dark Magician Girl!"

"Woo woo," said Joey. Tristan sniggered.

"It ALSO has a Mystical Elf, and, I'm not ashamed to say, KURIBOH! Because it isn't the size of the monster, it's its HEART! Also—"

"I'm sorry, but you're out of time," Bennen-sensei said, cutting Yugi off just as he said something that needed further explanation. Just like Bill O'Reilly.(1)

"But I—" Yugi suddenly seemed to physically shrink, although his clothes fit him just the same. He blushed. "I mean… the, uh… Kuriboh is, um…" The boy with tri-colored hair looked like he wanted to disappear or turn invisible, something impossible since he did, after all, have tri-colored hair. He was kind of hard to miss. "I'll just sit down now," he said, looking uber-embarrassed.

"Poor Yugi," Terra could've sworn she heard the British boy mutter.

"So…" Bennen-sensei smiled at his students as Yugi slid into his seat, muttering angrily to himself. "Who's next?"

(1) Sorry, but I'm not a fan of the No Spin Zone. …But my mom is. O.O Which is why we have a No Spin Zone welcome mat, umbrella, and matching coffee mugs. Darn it all.