Just as they raced towards the pier, where the boat was, the vessel had already left, confusing the genie. 
Looking around, it was only the man from earlier, standing there. 

Right then was where they could see the rowboat of disqualified duelists already sailing away. The crew ran up to the goon as he was watching the boat sail away. " You're too late, those losers are on their way back home." 

" Hey! That's! not fair, it hasn't been half - an hour yet!" Jaden yelled. 

"Tough luck. Pegasus sets the schedule here." The goon explains to them. 

Mokuba held out the handful of stolen star chips...plus Yugi's. "You've got to call the boat back! I've gotta return the kid's star chips back to him!" The goon only replied with slapped Mokuba's hand, sending the seven-star chips into the water. 

The group gave collective gasps and exclamations having watched the scene unfold before them. Yami was especially shocked. 

"What gives?! A bunch of those stars belonged to Yugi, ya big jerk!" Joey yelled.

Mokuba looks at Yugi with a saddened look. "I'm so sorry Yugi." 

Yami looked saddened too but knew he couldn't blame Mokuba.

"You losers should keep a tighter grip on your valuables, Dontcha think?" The goon grabbed Mokuba suddenly handling him by the arm rather harshly. 

"Let him go you creep!" Jaden shouted. 

The ground seemed to ignore them and their protests. "Let's go you, back to the cage! This little ingrate is a special guest of mister Maximilian Pegasus and he's invited to attend a special dinner in his honor back to the castle! Right Mokuba?"

"Hold on," Yami shouted, which got the attention of the goons. "I still have three-star chips left. I challenge you to a duel for Mokubas freedom. If I win, Mokuba stays with us."

The goon huffs and smirks. "Hmph...I don't know why you'd risk your star chips for this punk, but if that's how you wanna waste your last star chips, then meet me back at Arena One-forty-six in exactly four hours; you'll have your duel," the goon said before walking away. 

Yami could only watch but was ready to free Mokuba from his potential fate. During that four hours, the group went back to the arena and waited.