Tea Gardner

**Téa Gardner**, known as **Anzu Mazaki** in the Japanese versions, is a childhood friend of Yugi Muto. Téa does not usually play games with Yugi and his friends, but in the beginning of the anime, she could beat Joey Wheeler in Duel Monsters, and was later shown to be more than competent against others. Téa is also very good at dancing and wants to be a professional dancer when she grows up.

## Biography

### Duelist Kingdom

Téa defeats Joey in *Duel Monsters* five times at school, with four of the Duels being offscreen.

Téa draws symbols on her, Yugi, Joey and Tristan's hands to symbolize their friendship before Yugi faces Kaiba, after Kaiba tears up Solomon Muto's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".

Téa and Tristan sneak onto the boat to Duelist Kingdom to support Yugi and Joey in the tournament. Téa mostly stands on the sidelines giving the boys encouraging speeches.

Yugi and his friends faced Yami Bakura in a Shadow Game of Duel Monsters, where the players are trapped in cards similar to their *Monster World* pieces. Téa becomes the card "Magician of Faith" in the Duel. As she is upset over Joey's sacrifice, she uses her effect to return "Monster Reborn" to Yami Yugi's hand, which allows him to revive Joey.

As they approached Pegasus Castle, Téa wonders if there really are two Yugi's. She thinks back to when she first meets Yugi and Joey at Burgerpalooza. She then wonders what they are doing there and thinks they could get her in trouble since she had to be 18 to work at the restaurant and if they let it slip she is still in school, she'll get fired and won't have enough money to pay for her dance lessons. As she serves Joey and Yugi their food she gives a sinister glare and pours ketchup all over their food. She reveals she wants to study dance in New York but instead of laughing, Yugi and Joey support Téa. The next day Téa gets a letter from Yugi saying they found a warehouse in Spring St. for Téa to use as a dance studio. When she arrives a mugger holds her hostage and Yami Yugi saves her when she blacked out.

Kaiba cheats to defeat Yugi in the tournament by standing on the edge of the castle, so Yugi's last attack would knock him off. Yugi relinquishes the Duel to Kaiba. Téa then yells at Kaiba how Yugi spared him. Kaiba says Yugi lost. Téa argues back that Kaiba's forgotten what being human is due to his machine obsession and Yugi’s friends care for him whether he wins or loses a Duel.

After losing to Kaiba, Yugi no longer has enough Star Chips to enter the tournament finals. Mai offers Yugi her excessive Star Chips. Yugi initially refuses, feeling unworthy. Téa Duels Mai for the Star Chips. Using a combination of Magic Cards, Téa makes her "Shining Friendship" card defeat Mai's "Harpie Lady". Though Mai is able to turn the Duel around, using "Harpie's Feather Duster", she is impressed by Téa's performance and wants to give Yugi the Chips, so she surrenders saying "Harpie Lady" was her best monster and Téa defeated it.

Kemo doesn't allow Téa, Tristan or Bakura to enter the castle, where the finals are held, as they are not finalists but Mai distracts him long enough for them to sneak in.

Inside they witness Kaiba and Pegasus Dueling, Pegasus was able to predict Kaiba's moves and easily win. Tristan Suspects Pegasus cheated, so that night he talks with Téa and Bakura on the subject. The three inspect the Duel arena and find a hole that shines moonlight directly at the Duel arena. Tristan spots a tower and the three head towards it. In the tower, they are confronted by Pegasus, who uses his Millennium Eye to transport them to another dimension. They wake up and enter a room, where a Shadow Game between two robed men is taking place while others are chanting. The winning man, Pegasus confronts the three and tries to take Bakura's Millennium Ring. Yami Bakura takes over Bakura's body and sends Téa and Tristan back to their rooms and erases their memories.

During the final rounds, Téa cheers on Yugi and Joey in their Duels. She is unable to watch the end of Yugi's Duel with Pegasus, as Pegasus takes the Duel to the Shadow Realm. Despite this Yugi feels his friends are with him in spirit and manages to defeat Pegasus.

Pegasus disappears after the Duel. The gang proceed to a tower, where they find Pegasus' diary, which Téa reads. She learns that Pegasus had a wife Cecelia, who died and Pegasus was trying to revive her using the Millennium Items and Kaiba Corp technology.

Téa and her friends are taken home by Kaiba in his helicopter.

### Battle City

Yugi asks Téa to go out with Yami. After visiting many shops and attractions, they enter an arcade. Inside Téa beats Johnny Steps in a dance game. Not taking his loss too well, Johnny later catches up with Yami and Téa, and challenges Téa to another game with a condition: if she loses, she must become his girlfriend. Yami instead challenges Johnny to a game of *Duel Monsters*. If he wins, Johnny must leave Téa alone. If Johnny wins, Téa must go on a date with him. Yami reveals himself to be Yugi Muto, towards the end of the Duel Johnny recognizes Yugi Muto as the one who beat Pegasus, causing Johnny to surrender and run. Téa stops him to tell him how quitting isn't going to help him and he must never give up to achieve his goals.

Afterwards Téa and Yami go to an Ancient Egyptian exhibition to find clues to Yami's past. Here they meet Ishizu Ishtar, who shows Yami some info about his past as a pharaoh and tells him he must enter the Battle City tournament to learn more.

During the preliminary rounds of the tournament, Téa accompanies and encourages Joey along the side lines for his Duels, before being captured by the Rare Hunters, being held by her *neck which causes her to gag* very briefly along with Joey. The hunters take them to a warehouse at the docks where they keep them locked in separate rooms. The hunters lock Téa alone inside a compartment filled with cardboard boxes while Joey is tied to a chair in another part of the building. She attempts to escape by standing on some of the boxes so that she reach a window in the room. The boxes can’t support her weight, however, causing her to fall just as her hand reaches the window. Soon later, Mokuba, who had also been kidnapped by the Rare Hunters, is locked in the same room as her. The two then work together to escape by stacking all the room’s boxes together so that they can climb towards the room’s skylight. As they climb towards it, however, the Rare Hunters enter and begin climbing after them, causing the stack to collapse. Though Téa falls and is restrained by the hunters, Mokuba manages to escape, promising to come back with help to rescue her.

After this, Téa is possessed by Marik, who turns her into one of his mind slaves, with her eyes having no sunlight reflection in them as her voice merges with his (In the original Japanese version only, Marik's voice takes over Tea's completely), to lure the Pharaoh into a Duel with Joey, who is also possessed by the same man. The Duel is set up, so the loser would drown. Téa is made to sit on a chair which restrains her hands and feet while under a large crate hanging from a crane. A push of a button will release the crate and crush her, should Yugi refuse to Duel Joey or anyone else interfere. Téa is then released from Marik's control after she is forced to explain the provisions to the Duel and helplessly tries to help Joey break free of Marik's control several times while also doing her best to remain brave and cheer Yugi on, despite the fact that her own life was in danger. During the duel, Kaiba remote controls his helicopter to ram the crane into the water in order to save Téa. upon seeing this, the Rare Hunter holding the control to the crate attempts to push the button but is stopped and knocked unconscious by Kaiba. The chopper successfully knocks the crane into the water thus saving Téa’s life. After Mokuba manages to free her from the chair, she joins her friends in attempting to stop Joey and Yugi’s duel, but are unable to free them in time before both are pulled under the water. When it seems as though both are doomed, Téa drops to her knees in crying despair, only to be shocked and relieved when Yugi rises to the surface and later when Serenity, who has regained her eyesight, rescues her brother from underwater.

Téa, along with Tristan, Serenity and Duke Devlin proceed to the KaibaCorp blimp to cheer for Yugi, Joey and Mai in the finals. Roland initially refuses to let them board, as they aren't finalists, but Mokuba talks him into letting them on. Despite Joey's objections, all of them take residence in his room for the finals.

Téa cheers for Yugi and Joey, during their quarter-final Duels. When Joey tells Mai, she wasn't in his dream, which his friends appeared in and jokes about it, Téa seizes him after Mai leaves and tells him off.

During this time, Marik's spirit inhabits Téa's body and occasionally possesses her, since Yami Marik took over his body, using her to try to talk to Yami Marik and Ishizu.

### Virtual World

As the KaibaCorp blimp traveled to the Duel Tower, it was sucked into an underground lair by Noah Kaiba. Téa along with Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Duke Devlin, Serenity, Mokuba and Seto Kaiba emerge from the blimp to investigate. Here they are sucked into the Virtual World. The gang encounter Noah and the Big Five, all of whom seek revenge on Seto Kaiba and require a body to return to the real world.

They then get separated and Téa ends up being transported to a large canyon in the middle of a desert. Waking up and finding herself in the Virtual World for the very first time, Tea simply goes "Oh great, now what?" (In the original Japanese version, Tea, dazed and confused after waking up, simply asks herself where she is) Wondering where her friends are, Tea has no choice but to travel through the desert with the hope of finding her friends. Wanting to make her journey more interesting, Noah sets a trap for her.

She wanders deeper into the canyon, her footsteps echoing, clearly heard as her stylish blue platform-sandals strike the rock-covered ground, hoping to find her friends, unaware, that she is indeed not alone in her eerie surroundings (Tea's footsteps, however, are not heard in the U.S.A. dub). As she wanders deep into the canyon she calls out if anyone is out there but receives no reply (In the original Japanese version, after asking herself if her current location is virtual reality too, she remains silent as she walks).

Believing herself to be alone, she talks out-loud to herself as she continues down the gorge, remarking how it is similar to a virtual Grand Canyon as she takes a moment to stop (Again, in the original Japanese version, she remains silent as she walks). Though she finds the landscape creepy and uncomfortable, she then continues to travel through it, still hoping to find someone (In the original Japanese version, Tea simply reminds herself that she has to find everyone).

Téa is oblivious, however, to the fact that she is being watched. Behind the rock formations of the canyon lies a strange single-eyed humanoid creature that is stalking her as she continues on her way. In its hand is a large stone-bladed axe. Unaware of the beast, Téa continues to walk all the while complaining about how hot it is. Tea than starts going quiet, deep in thought both about wondering where her friends are and how to get out of this strange place (The camera has Tea's beautifully skinny legs being zoomed in).

Her walking finally comes to an end soon when she hears the noise of rocks falling from the cliffs on the right side of the canyon. When she looks up, she sees the creature that was stalking her looking right down at her. Realizing he has been spotted, the beast makes a hasty retreat back behind the formations. Téa is startled by the monster and openly questions what it was (In the original Japanese version, Tea simply asks herself "What?"). Her question is answered when four savage cyclopes, Hitotsu-Me Giants, emerge from behind the rocks and surround Téa. Wielding stone aged weapons and wearing animal skin clothing, the giants have their eyes set on Téa, staring at her intently as they lurk atop the cliffs and down on the rocks of the canyon.

After looking at her attackers, Téa faces herself forward trying to stay composed as she thinks up a plan to get away. Though scared, Téa makes an attempt to leave peacefully without provoking the predators. She nervously thinks to herself to just stay calm and walk back slowly (In the original Japanese version, she simply takes a step back without thinking). With this in mind, she very slowly but nervously takes a step back with her left foot. As this happens, Tea opens her right hand due to her fear and puts her left one close to her face in a fist for similar reasons while her beautifully short hair moves a bit to her left with her movements. But her plan ends in disaster for her with this very first step. As soon as her stylish platform-sandal touches the ground, it’s back end steps unevenly over the tip of a loose pebble. Pressing down on it, her foot causes the pebble to fling off the ground, which creates a small but sudden noise to occur. When Téa hears it she lets out a small gasp, knowing that her mistake shall prove dire for her. When the giants hear the pebble being tossed, they are spooked and are enraged by the noise and thus, with their leader’s signal, a loud roar echoing across the canyon, they begin their attack.

The leader, the first giant she spotted, is the first to strike. After said loud roar, he jumps off the cliff and while in midair throws his axe which spins through the air, seemingly coming for Téa. However, the leader is merely using his attack as a distraction. While Téa is focused on his attack, one of the 4 giants (off-screen) sneaks away and hides behind some rocks a good distance from Téa’s position towards the left part of the canyon. As the lovely girl deals with his comrades, this giant hides himself behind the rocks without her knowing, waiting for his chance to complete their part of the plan that he intends to finish for his friends.

The axe misses Téa’s position, instead landing several feet behind her. Its impact on the rocky ground, however, flings many small but very sharp rocks up into the air that scatter in all directions. Due to this, the teen girl would soon be forced into a corner. One of these rocks lands on Téa just as she is turning her head towards where the axe hit the ground. The same rock leaves Téa with a small bleeding wound under her left eye (In the U.S.A. dub, the rock merely hits against her cheek and doesn’t bleed though it still caused some serious pain).

After the leader’s failed attack, Téa places her left hand on her wound, *actually* *groaning* as she reels from its pain while putting her socking-covered knees close together from said pain despite the fact that everything in the Virtual World is supposed to be a total illusion (This right here is a critical error on the episode's writers' part since it was already established earlier that the Virtual World is supposed to be what it is-virtual which basically means that Tea shouldn't have felt any real pain). But she has no time to rest, as even though they aren’t attacking yet, the other giants move closer to her position, their weapons and claws seemingly ready to strike. Téa quickly notices this as one of the giants takes big step towards her from her front. Upon seeing this, it takes Téa literally only a second to react. Frightened and knowing she can’t just walk away, Téa makes a desperate run for it. Seeing an opening Téa flees towards the left side of the canyon.

By doing this, she has unknowingly done just as her attackers wished for her to do. She fails to notice that only 3 giants, including the leader, are after her; while she was distracted by the axe, the fourth giant slipped away behind the rock formations. Now she is unknowingly running to his position in fright as the other giants chase after her to ensure she goes nowhere else. She is running into another trap. As Téa frantically runs, she desperately calls out for someone to save her, but nobody replies to her screams; no one will come to her rescue (In the original Japanese version, she calls out for Yugi to save her). Despite this, she successfully manages to stay ahead of the three giants pursuing her from behind, seemingly as if she will soon be able to outrun them entirely and escape.

Finally, however, the third phase of the giants’ plan begins and succeeds; Téa has been driven to the hidden one’s position and now he can make his move. Revealing himself, the hidden giant cuts in front of Téa by just a few small inches, stopping her in her tracks. With a loud gasp, she looks up to see the giant, towering over her by several feet as he stares downs at her ready to strike. Her face filled with horror and her body frozen with fear, all Téa can do is let out a final small tremble of her voice and look up helplessly as the cyclops readies to finish her off. In but a second, the Hitotsu-Me Giant, with a murderous stare, enters into a striking position, pointing his left-clawed arm at Téa while raising his right arm high in the air before bringing it down with all his might. The beast’s claws vertically and very painfully slash the petrified *young* *humane* *teenaged woman, literally striking her in the stomach,* ending the Hitotsu-Me Giants’ hunt and completing the leader’s plan. (This scene was censored in all versions of the episode for graphic imagery). With this single blow, Téa is (off-screen since this episode cut to the Kaiba brothers wandering through the virtual forest, instead the giant is only seen lunging its claws) knocked down to the desert floor, the pain being too much for her to remain conscious.

The other giants (off-screen) soon arrive, roaring triumphantly as they look down upon the unconscious girl, lying and moaning in pain at their very feet, showing that she's at least still alive, but unfortunately, she can’t escape due to her injuries. Rather than finish her off, the Hitotsu-Me Giants have other plans for their lovely catch. Though the hidden Hitotsu-Me Giant was the one that caught and subdued her, the leader of the pack takes the honor of toting the pack’s prize. He scoops the unconscious Téa off the ground and then throws her over his right shoulder, causing the helplessly unconscious teenager to briefly cough up spit, wrapping his right arm around her white socking-covered legs while holding his axe with his left hand. With the girl now draped over his shoulder, her beautifully thick and brown hair falling completely upside-down as she hangs down his back, the leader orders his pack to march through the canyon and return to their home. Being both the leader and the one toting the human girl they believe to be a hunting prize, the leader marches in front with the other following close behind. Almost walking beside him is the giant that struck down Téa with its claws, having received the honor of marching in front of the others due to knocking her out.

After only a few minutes of walking through the canyon, the giants’ virtual creator, Noah Kaiba, checks in on their progress. Sinisterly laughing, Noah is pleased and entertained as he watches the giants marching through the canyon with Téa draped over their leader’s shoulder. Taking a second to watch using his virtual image screens, he giddily remarks how “Téa has come to meet his Hitotsu-Me Giants” (In the original Japanese version Noah looks at the screen silently). Originally showing the beasts from a distance, Noah zoom’s in on their position, centering on Téa.

The screen then shows her face: her head pointing towards the right allowing her face to be seen, her eyes closed due to being unconscious, her mouth slightly open as she breathes, her sleeveless right arm gently touching the leader’s spinal muscle and her beautifully thick and brown-layered hair falling completely upside down as her upper body hangs down the leader’s back. And with each step the leader takes, Téa’s face on the screen moves up and down. Deciding to move on, Noah shifts the screen away as the giants silently carry her deeper and deeper into the canyon (in the original Japanese version, the leader’s growls could be heard as he carried Téa). Sometime later, the giants march out of the gorge and up atop a hill. At the very top lies a large hole, the only entrance and exit to a huge stalagmite filled cave.

Climbing down into their den, the giants lay down their weapons before dealing with their unconscious captive. The leader carries the lovely Téa up a stalactite like stone structure in the center of the cave, with two others following behind him. Once at the top, the leader enters into a hunchback position, with Téa now laying down on his back instead of hanging upside down, her face hidden behind her bangs with her right elbow on top of the leader’s spine (This scene is sometimes mistakenly seen as an editing error due to the fact that Tea was laying down on the Hitotsu-Me Giant Leader's back earlier). Then without sympathy or respect to his lovely captive, the leader growls softly as he once again begins to inflict great physical pain onto Téa. Rather than place her down gently, he simply throws Téa off his shoulder down onto the flat but solid stone surface of the structure. Removing his arm from Téa’s lovely skinny legs, he moves his right shoulder forward causing the unconscious girl to be thrown off briefly into the air. As Téa falls towards the ground, the hair blocking her face gives way, revealing more of her face. While her eyes are still hidden behind her bangs, her mouth begins falling open and her arms reach up above her captor as she falls. As she gets closer to the ground, Téa body turns towards the right.

With her right elbow and hip landing on the stony surface first, Téa releases a large and agonizing grunt as she hits the ground (In the original Japanese version only, after making her agonizing grunt, Tea also releases an agonizing gasp). After the impact, Téa lays down on her right before she starts to usher moans of pain as her body begins to squirm, struggling on the uncomfortable surface she now has to lay upon (In the original Japanese version only, after making her agonizing gasp, Téa then makes a very brief and very soft grunt). Reeling from the pain, her hands tighten into fists, her knees moving up towards her chest, and her face filled with a frowning expression of utter discomfort and struggle.

Watching this, the leader takes a step forward, his enormous foot landing just mere inches away from poor Téa’s feet. The sheer impact of his stomp causes the ground to shake and a loud noise to echo throughout the cave, but it is not enough to awaken Téa, however, as the pain continues to swell throughout her body. Just as she stops squirming and she lays still on the ground, the leader looms over her with two of his tribemates. The three savage cyclopses take amusement in the girl’s suffering*,* smiling as they look down on her. As they delight at the prospect of the feast to come, their single red eyes begin glowing. They then climb back down the structure back into the den below, taking some time to rest and relax before dinner.

Hours pass as Téa lies on the structure until a drop of water from a stalagmite lands on her face. The drop lands right on the cut of her left cheek, with water searing into her flesh and stinging her. Groaning as she comes to, Téa finally awakens and to her surprise, finds herself laying down on her right side on the stalactite where the leader placed her. Upon awakening, she initially has no memory of how she arrived at the cave, or even where it is. As she ponders a way to escape, she hears a loud roar echo through the cave. Scared at its familiar sounding, she openly asks what it was (In the original Japanese version, the roar doesn't happen and Tea, still dazed and confused after regaining consciousness, asks herself where she is). Down below, at the bottom of the cave are the Hitotsu-Me Giants, lurking, resting, and relaxing after their successful hunting trip.

The leader, who gave Téa her scratch and carried her on his shoulder, is the first to notice that she has awakened. Looking up at her, the fiendish creature gives her a threatening snarl. Upon seeing her captors down below, Téa gasps in fear as the sight of the monsters causes her to instantly remember. As she finishes recalling the events, Téa suddenly winces in real pain as she once feels the pain of her partially still-bleeding cut (In the U.S.A. dub, Tea's cut simply starts stinging her).

Trapped on the shelf and the cyclopes down below, Téa has seemingly no way of escape. With nothing else to do, she spends some time watching the beasts from the shelf as they continue to lurk below (In the original Japanese version, Tea actually wonders if the Hitotsu-Me Giants are going to *end her)*. Though they are aware the girl is awake, they leave her be for the time being, convinced she has no way to escape what they have in store for her.

The giants then bring out a huge cauldron and light it over a fire. As the water inside boils, Téa believes that they are readying for dinner. The leader releases a sinister laugh as he boils the cauldron, looking forward to the feast to come; a feast that includes Téa’s flesh. Realizing this, Téa gasps in fear and instantly looks for a way to escape before she is turned into “Téa soup” (In the original Japanese version, Tea simply tells herself that she has to escape). Noticing that the only way out is the hole in the ceiling, Téa finds a loose vine and begins to climb along the walls of the cave.

Her feet end up kicking down some rocks alerting the giants to her escape (In the original Japanese version, the sound of rocks tumbling down doesn't play as Tea didn't kick them down and the grouped Hitotsu-Me Giants simply find out about their prey's escape). Furious that their meal is getting away, the giants shake their weapons and all of them start roaring in anger towards Téa as she hastens her climbing. She manages to make it to the top but is nearly out of breath upon arriving. However, she has no time to rest as the giants have already started climbing after her, causing her to make a swift run for it.

She has gained much distance by the time the Hitotsu-Me Giants reach the top, but still, they are undeterred. The giant that ambushed and knocked her unconscious in the canyon is among the first of the pack to reach the top. Now armed with an axe, he furiously throws it at Téa, hoping to prevent her escape. Thankfully for her, the axe misses its target landing but inches away from Téa’s feet. With no time to lose, she continues running for her life as the Hitotsu-Me Giants chase after her, running on all fours.

Despite their speed, she manages to outrun them and is seemingly on the verge of escaping them for good. This proves all for naught, however, as she ends up being driven to a dead end in the form of a large chasm with a raging river at the bottom. With nowhere to go, Téa briefly looks for a way to escape before noticing the giants are gaining on her position. Then she sees a rope-bridge to her left and runs for it.

By the time she arrives, though, she is extremely nervous to cross it due to the bridge’s obviously old age. With the bridge’s poor condition and the giants getting closer to her position, Téa despairs and cowers in fear. But she then remembers the bonds she has made with her friends, which inspires her to face her fears and cross the bridge. She takes it slowly, stepping one foot at a time, all the while trying not to look down. She nearly slips, causing her to look down anyway and briefly panic, stopping in her tracks. She then begins walking again when she looks back sees how close the Hitotsu-Me Giants are to the bridge. She is slow to get across, however, and is not even half-way when the giants arrive and begin crossing.

Téa attempts to reason with the monsters, telling them to stay away as the bridge will collapse from their overwhelming weight. They do not understand her and begin crossing after her, becoming only a few feet away from her in a matter of seconds. Téa desperately tries to cross faster, yelling fearful pleas for someone to come and save her. Like before in the canyon, no one answers (In the original Japanese version, Tea simply screams "Oh no!"). The giants gain quickly and are mere inches away from reaching her. But before they can reclaim their lovely prize, the bridge finally gives out under their weight and breaks in two. Both Téa and the Hitotsu-Me Giants scream as the bridge falls apart and they fall. However, only the giants fall to their deaths in the river below, as Téa has managed to hang onto a half of the bridge that is still hanging from the top. Hanging from the surviving portion of the bridge, Téa watches as the beasts that attacked, incapacitated, kidnapped, and intended to eat her fall into the river and drown. With that she sarcastically says that she thinks she's had about enough of this place. She then begins climbing the remains of the old bridge to the top of the cliff, complaining the whole way about her ordeal with the beasts and bridge (In the original Japanese version, after the giants die, Tea tells herself that she refuses to die here herself. She then shouts to herself, as the sentence itself echoes, that she won't give up).

She reaches the top but passes out shortly after arriving, exhausted from all the running and climbing she has done along with the stress the Hitotsu-Me Giants gave her. While she's unconscious, Téa has a dream where she and Yugi went to see a show about Dark Magician Girl where she is chosen as a member of the audience and gets dressed up in Dark Magician Girl's outfit. She is woken up by a penguin, who leads her across the Virtual World to a temple. Inside she meets Crump of the Big Five who has taken the form of Nightmare Penguin, his deck-master.

Though Tea attempts to flee, Crump imposes a Duel and takes her to an icy region, where both players stand on opposite icebergs in freezing water. Téa is made to assemble a Deck, by selecting from a monitor of cards appearing before her. Remembering her dream she chooses "Dark Magician Girl" as her own Deck Master, while "Nightmare Penguin" is Crump's.

As Téa's Life Points drop lower to 0, she becomes engulfed in ice along with having to suffer from the immense physical pain from the damage she sustained from said Dual as she was shivering from both problems, though it's unknown exactly when she started shivering. Dark Magician Girl helps her during the Duel. Toward the end of the Duel, Téa was almost completely engulfed in ice, with her 2 arms and her small head being the beautiful teenager's only body parts still unfrozen. Using her Deck Master's effect and the Spell Card "Sage's Stone" to Special Summon "Dark Magician" from Yugi's Deck, Téa is able to defeat Crump as she attacks him with both Magicians although she only just barely won.

After the Duel, Téa is released from the ice and passes out. Yugi, who had witnessed the last few moments of the Duel, helps her to regain consciousness and after Téa hugs him out of relief offers her his coat to keep her warm. The two proceed to the courtroom, where Joey is Dueling Johnson.

Afterwards, everyone meets up with each other, while Tristan is trapped as a robot monkey because he lost a Duel. A few Duels happens between Kaiba and Lector, Yugi (Yami) and Joey between all the Big 5 members, Kaiba and Noah which changes to Yugi (Yami) and Noah. After this Duel Gozaburo shows up. Then, they all try to escape with Noah's help but he tricks them eventually taking over Mokuba's body and getting out into the real world, first wanting to trap their minds in the virtual world. However, he then had a change of heart and realized he was wrong and helped them out instead. When they were all out, they got back to Battle City.

### Back to Battle City

Battle City continues right after the Virtual World. They arrive at KaibaCorp Island where the Battle City finals begin at Dual Tower. Téa supports Yugi and Joey in the battle royal to determine who faces who in the semi-finals.

Téa cheers for Joey in his semi-final against Marik and rushes to his aid after he collapses.

As Yugi prepares to face Kaiba, Téa informs Yami that she would rather he didn't Duel, as she is afraid of what might happen to him, but Yami tells her he need to Duel Kaiba to Dual Marik so he can save the world and she understands and lets him go. She stays back with everyone to try and help Joey but is still cheering Yugi on.

Near the end of Yugi and Kaiba's Dual Joey wakes up and at first doesn't remember anything but slowly does. Then he asks Téa if Yugi started the Duel yet. She tells him he did and Joey wants to go instantly. Just then the doctors show up, but Joey demands to go and Téa tells him not to because so many people got hurt and he was just in critical condition. Joey says he made a promise to Yugi and he has to be there for him which reminds her of what Yami told her before his Duel. Then Joey, Téa, Duke and Tristan go to the Dual Tower just in time to see the ending of Yugi's Duel.

Since Yugi won he moves onto the finals to Duel Yami Marik but first Joey challenges Kaiba to a Duel to see who gets third place. Before the Duel starts Marik takes over Téa's body so he can go talk to Ishizu. He then tells Ishizu that he needs to confront Yami Marik and runs off to the Duel Tower to do so. Yami Marik is already up there trying to figure out what happened during Yugi and Kaiba's Duel then he gets annoyed and throws the rod, which lands near Téa. She picks it up and is holding it up at Yami Marik while Marik is talking to him. Yami Marik ends up getting the rod back, and he tries to get rid of Marik with the rod. Then Ishizu comes up just in time to stop him. Marik then tells Ishizu to forget about him and stops taking control of Téa. She is knocked out for a while, and Yami comes up to find out what happened to Téa and starts talking to Yami Marik, and he eventually leaves. Yami then talks to Ishizu about what was going on, and Téa wakes up, not knowing what happened. Yugi decides not to tell her about how Marik was taking control of her. They go back down to see how Joey's Duel was going, and they tell her that he lost, so they get ready for Yugi's Duel with Marik.

Yami's Duel with Yami Marik begins, and everyone is worried about how this Duel will turn out. Téa is cheering Yugi on the whole time but is worried because Yami Marik was able to stop Slifer the Sky Dragon and make a copy of Obelisk the Tormentor. Also, every time Yami loses life points Yugi is slowly being sent to the Shadow Realm and the same with the good Marik every time Yami Marik loses life points. During the Duel, Marik took over Téa again, this time so he could try and help Yami win the Duel, but he eventually went back into his own body, leaving Téa confused about what just happened, although she quickly got over that and focused on the Duel. Then Odion shows up, which gives Marik the strength to take over Yami Marik for a little while so Yami could win the Duel. Even though the Duel was finally over, Kaiba said they should get off the island because he was going to blow it up. Everyone went on the blimp; Mai was awake and they found Bakura but they noticed Kaiba and Mokuba weren't there so they went to go look for them but couldn't find them. So all of them went on the helicopter to go, and they all see Kaiba and Mokuba leave on a jet of their own.

They got back to Domino City and said goodbye to Marik, Ishizu, Odion, Duke, and Mai. The following day Téa was showing Serenity around town and remembering everything that happened during Battle City. Serenity eventually has to leave. Téa is sad at first, but Serenity tells her that it's ok and that they will always be friends. After Serenity leaves Téa is thinking about how she's not ready to say goodbye to Yugi and realizes that she should just enjoy the time she has left with him. Then she catches up with Yami.

### Waking the Dragons

Téa is on the roof of the school wondering why Yugi left early. Joey and Tristan come up; they're wondering the same thing. They end up finding Yugi at the museum. Later they find out that someone stole the Egyptian God Cards. Yugi has a Duel with Gurimo, which is where they learn about the Seal of Orichalcos.

The next day they run into Rebecca and she calls Yugi her boyfriend, which Téa doesn't like. She takes them to see Professor Hawkins, who starts talking about how the monsters coming to life could have something to do with Atlantis. After that, everyone heads home.

Later they're all at Yugi's house. Yugi gets a package from Pegasus with a video. Pegasus Asks Yugi to come see him right away. The next day they go on a private jet then in a limo. The limo breaks down so they have to walk for a while, Téa is able to get a driver to stop and give them a ride to Industrial Illusions.

Later on, they are on a train to Florida, but the train splits apart, separating Téa and Yami from Joey and Tristan. Most of the time Téa is trying to help Pharaoh from being upset about Yugi while she herself is also upset. After a while they just focus on finding Joey and Tristan. They are reunited later when Kaiba's plane crashes and then they are all taken back by Kaiba's helicopter to try and stop Dartz.

Kaiba's company was taken over by Dartz. Joey runs off to Duel Valon and Mai. While Joey Duels, Tristan, Téa and the Pharaoh go to look for him, but when they find him he lost his soul.

After the Pharaoh's Duel with Rafael the gang goes to Dartz in Kaiba's helicopter. Kaiba and the Pharaoh Duel Dartz; after Kaiba loses the Duel the Pharaoh continues while Téa, Tristan and Mokuba are unconscious.

The Duel is won by the Pharaoh. Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey come back and Mokuba, Tristan and Téa wake up. Seeing Yugi back they have a group hug. Then they're off to finish off Dartz. Téa wishes Yugi good luck as he, Joey and Kaiba have their final battle with Dartz.

### Grand Championship

Téa doesn't have a prominent role in the Grand Championship arc, but as always she's Yugi and Joey's cheerleader throughout their Duels.

Téa also meets and despises Vivian, because of her feelings for Yugi and personality. She also develops a habit of saying the line "I need some female friends" whenever the others start getting on her nerves.

### Dawn of the Duel

Téa, Tristan and Joey accompanied Yugi to Egypt so they could help the Pharaoh figured out his memories. She also had noticeably had a change in clothing and was now wearing white heels, a red skirt and a black tank top. The Pharaoh presented the Egyptian God cards to the Tablet of Lost Memories and was pulled into the Shadow RPG, where he would find out his memories. However, after discovering that Yami Bakura followed him, the gang went after Yami.

Later, Téa figured out that the key to stopping Bakura was to tell the Pharaoh his real name, as it was also the key to unlocking his memory. The gang was betrayed by Tristan, who was possessed by Bakura and almost killed, but jumped to a cliff and saved themselves. Téa pulled Yugi up, who was hanging onto Joey and then both her and Yugi saved Joey. When they found Tristan, he revealed that he had been possessed by Bakura and Dueled Yugi.

Téa noted that Yugi had to Duel without Yami. Yugi still won. Once they found Yami, everyone had to join in the final battle with Zorc Necrophades. During said final battle, when her monster "Fire Sorcerer" was destroyed while fighting,,Tea suddenly felt some serious pain coursing through her body which caused her to groan in real pain while giving herself a hug while she groans. Soon, she, alongside her friends, gave Yami his name by thinking of the symbols and putting them on a necklace-like item. Yami then remembered who he was and revealed that his true name was Atem. Atem was then able to Summon The Creator of Light to destroy Zorc Necrophades. The gang then returned to the real world.

### Ceremonial Battle

Téa is mostly seen torn with the idea of Atem passing on the spirit world. As she believes that, though he deserves to reunite with those in his past and finally achieve peace, she also doesn't want him to leave because of the feelings she has for him. Thus, she usually appears having this mental debate within herself, with the outcome ending in her crying. However while dealing with this emotional turmoil, she displays a happy facade to the rest of the group, especially around Yugi and Atem. During the beginning of the Duel, she outwardly supports Yugi to win but inwardly wishes Atem to be victorious so that he can't leave. However as the Duel progresses she increasingly cheers on Yugi to the point where she shocks herself on how she changed sides of who she wanted to win.

However though Yugi won the Duel in the end, her feelings for Atem had not weakened and she is saddened to such an extent of the possibility of him leaving, that just as the spirit of the Pharaoh is about to pass through the gates of the afterlife, she tries to run after him however her attempt is stopped by Joey, also tearful alongside most of the Pharaoh's friends. All witnesses of said last match then run narrowly in time to escape, look up at the sky in Egypt ending the anime once the last words are spoken.

## Portrayals:

* In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters spoof she is played by Wendy Darling.