"I'm gonna beat you!" Lizzy exclaimed, moving her game controller around while smashing buttons.

"No, you're not!!" Ryan yelled, pressing buttons on his controller as fast as he could. The two were playing a racing game on the TV, while Ian and William spectated the match. The two competitors were fighting hard to beat each other, but in the end Lizzy came to the finish line before Ryan. "Dang it!" he shouted, almost throwing his game controller to the ground out of frustration. "Why do I always lose to you?"

"Because you lose focus at the last part of the race," Lizzy answered bluntly. "Especially when you're not in first."

"Wouldn't anyone do that?" Ryan questioned with a little pout.

"Yes but not as much as you," Ian pointed out. The boy with the controller groaned, placing it hard on the table. Lizzy chuckled quite a bit and looked around the room, noticing something was a bit off.

"Where's Crow, Jack, and Yusei?" the girl asked, still looking around.

"I don't know," William said. "Weren't they watching you two play?"

"Yeah....but I don't see them now."

"So where are they?"

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Little Jack tried to climb up to the kitchen counter but failed, pouting a bit. "I can't reach it!" he exclaimed.

"Try again, try again!" little Crow said.

"Why don't we climb using each other?" little Yusei suggested. The other two looked at each other and nodded. Little Jack was able to get the two up on the counter after almost scraping his shoulder because of their feet and panted a bit. "Crow, climb on my shoulders so that you can get the thing!"

"Ok!" little Crow chirped. He roughly got on little Yusei's shoulders, making himself as tall as the fridge right next to them. He tried to reach out his small arms to reach what they wanted but failed. "Yusei, get closer!"

"I'm trying!" little Yusei said, getting closer to the refrigerator. Little Crow kept reaching but with no success. Meanwhile, Lizzy walked over to the kitchen to find the kids and her eyes widened quite a bit, seeing what they're trying to do. She didn't know whether to be angry with them or be impressed that they thought of this. However, she wanted to find out what they were doing in order for them not to get hurt and she thought it would be funny to see their reaction of her in the room. Trying to act a bit mad, she put her hands on her hips and entered the kitchen.

"Now what are you three doing?" she asked, a bit stern. Little Jack and Yusei stopped in an instant and turned to her, very surprised. However, little Crow looked at Lizzy with a happy smile and announced,

"We're going to have some ramen!!" The other two boys glanced at him quickly, mad that he told her. Lizzy didn't say anything for a moment but then laughed.

"Ramen?" she repeated. "Is that why you wanted the water boiler?" The boys nodded sheepishly. "Okay, I'll get it for you."

"Yay!" they yelled. Lizzy helped the two on the counter down and got the boiler.

"Goodness, you three get hungry fast," Lizzy noted, getting the machine ready. "What were you doing?"

"We were chasing James around the house," little Yusei said. "It was fun!"

"Aww, why would you chase him?"

"Because I was pretending to be a big monster," James explained, walking into the scene. "But they figured out my weakness..."

"He laughs whenever we poke his tummy," little Crow giggled. Lizzy bursted out laughing and James shook his head, sighing. The three kids decided to laugh too, even though they had no idea why she was laughing.

"So what will we do after eating?" Lizzy asked the group.

"Let's play Duel Monsters!" little Jack said with a smile.

"Yeah!" little Crow agreed. "Let's all play."

"I don't know, guys," Lizzy admitted. "I may be busy after I make the ramen."

"Play with us, Lizzy!" little Yusei begged. "Pleeeaaaasseee?" James started to encourage her to play while the kids begged for her to play. Lizzy smiled warmly and said,

"Okay, okay, I'll play." The three kids cheered happily, making Lizzy smile more. "But after ramen, okay?"

"Okay," the three said in unison.

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Loud knocking came from the front door, causing everyone in the house to stop what they're doing. "I'll get it!" Keiza exclaimed, running to the door. This made everyone else return to what they were doing, letting their friend handle whoever was the guest. The girl opened the door to find Akiza, Leo, and Luna on the other side. "Hey Aki, Luna, and Leo!"

"Hello!" Luna and Leo said. Akiza smiled and asked,

"How is everyone?"

"We're doing good," Keiza answered. "Nothing too extreme has happened yet. Come in!" She stepped aside to let the three guests step into the house. Leo and Luna decided to go off and find everyone while Akiza stayed with Keiza.

"Have you gone to the warehouse yet?" Akiza questioned her, fixing her short red hair a bit.

"James and William have," Keiza responded. "The runners were still there so they guessed no one has broken in."

"That's good. Whenever the potion wears off, we don't want them to be mad..speaking of which, has Lizzy been working on an antidote?" The brown haired girl sighed and explained,

"She's been trying to make one ever since the boys drank the potion. She would stay up late at night, mixing some ingredients together precisely to make a good enough elixir. However, it hasn't been working and she can't understand why. Now she's exhausted but she won't let anyone else know that."

"How do you know that she's that tired?"

"I'll show you." Keiza led Aki over to the room where Lizzy was, and where a few other people were at. "Can you see the bags under her eyes?" she whispered to her friend. Akiza squinted her eyes a bit to get a close look at Lizzy and could barely see them under her light chestnut eyes.

"Yes," she answered quietly, nodding.

"Lizzy doesn't like it when people worry about her, so she always hides with a smile on her face. But I'm beginning to worry quite a bit."

"Yeah..poor thing. She must think it's all her fault for letting this happen." What those two didn't realize was that one of the kids was looking at them and then glancing at who they were staring at. He had no idea why this was happening but began to feel a tiny bit worried.

All right, this chapter is done! Hope you enjoyed it! :)