Author's Note: This story fills in the gaps were ever I could find one. I only use facts or things I can likeablly come up with without killing the story line or the characters. This takes place mainly between the saga of Marik (Enter the Shadow Realm) and the time of the real monsters or Dartz. I did much research on this particular show before I formulated the story, and I continue to add details that have been released by a person in Japan, who just so happens to have more of the story than we Americans do.

My name is Heshema Alimany Belaki. I use this character in all of my stories even if I tend to not start with her as her. You'll understand that if you read on. Anyway this is the 3rd part so it may seem a little confusing. Part one is a DragonballZ story called Shattered Innocence.

This first prologue is written from Mokuba's point of view, so enjoy. R &R.

I do not own Yugi-oh

Duel of Fire

Mokuba's Mysterious Stranger / Seto's New Girl

Prologue

Mokuba's Story (Pegasus's Prison)

Maximillian Pegasus was holding me prisoner in his Duelist Kingdom castle when I met her, or rather she found me in the darkness of my cell. She was a cute little girl I'd say around my age (Mokuba-11) maybe a little older yet she was so pale and fragile looking like a porcelain doll with dark golden red hair and gold eyes so enchanting once you looked into them you could never forget them. Her clothing was extremely conservative, with a long skirt and sleeves that covered her arms and fell from her hands. Other than a slim amount of her neck and her face, no skin was showing. The dress was a red velvet fabric that hung loose, with the exception of a thin golden rope sash pulling the gown ever so slightly in to her slender waist.

She had appeared suddenly when I was about to make my second escape, then she startled me by whispering in my ear, "They'll just hunt you down and put you back, why don't you just be patient and wait for your brother." I had no clue how she got in or how she knew about Seto, but at that time I had NO intention of waiting for Pegasus to go through with his plan to take over Kaiba Corp. or to use me as a pawn to get to my brother.

"Don't worry," she said like she had read my mind. "Pegasus is being held up by a duelist named Yugi Motou. He is a fine duelist and seems to be keeping Pegasus's hands pretty much tied," She whispered gently, her voice was so sweet almost like music through my cell, it was the only lovely thing I had heard besides the chirping of the birds outside my window. I had to keep her talking.

"How did you get…"

"I have my ways," She interrupted.

"Can you help…"

"No, I won't help you escape but I will help you with anything else you might need as long as Pegasus keeps you here," She interrupted again. She had said won't like she could but refused to oblige my request

"Why are you being so nice to me?" I asked suspiciously

"I have my reasons." She replied almost immediately as if she had known what I was going to say.

"What would those be?"

"Non ya." She answered smiling like she had said something funny. It was almost funny that type of slang in her beautiful voice, but I kept my face and didn't laugh.

"Ok how do I get you to tell me?"

"You don't" she said smiling "Now is there anything I can get you?" she asked as if she didn't need to hear the answer but wanted me to say it anyway.

"How about this nasty stuff these suits call food." I replied

"I'll see what I can do," She smiled as she walked to the corner hidden in the shadow. I went to follow her but she wasn't there. I even checked the walls to see if she had found a way out, but there was no sign of her anywhere. I gave up figuring she was proof I was going insane, like a hallucination or such.

She came back the next morning with a warm delicious looking pancake breakfast complete with steaming hash browns and pure maple syrup. As the guard came by with my lovely "rocks in milk", I looked around and she was nowhere to be seen and my pancakes where gone as well. Darn hallucinations! I took the tray and started to play with the spoon. Until I heard a chuckle behind me.

"Would you rather eat that?" She laughed

"No, but…"

'I disappeared?" She smiled.

"Yes," I figured that with only one syllable I could finish my own sentence. She just giggled and brought me the pancakes, and for the first time in forever I enjoyed breakfast.

Her bringing me food worked until about dinnertime that night when the guards started to believe I was starving myself by no longer eating their slop. She decided on a trade; I'd eat her meals and she'd eat ½ of my gruel. It was ingenious, if she choked it all down they would simply think I was throwing it out my window into the sea below (they didn't trust me w/ ground because of my last escape) but by eating ½ it showed "I" was really eating. It was a really unfair trade and I knew it. Again she had another brilliant plan so I could make it up to her. I'd tell her stories and keep her entertained in order to keep the food exchange up. (I realize that it was just to keep "me" entertained, not her) So I told her all about my brother, his company, and my days in the orphanage, my whole past, she was a very attentive listener.

We were interrupted every now and again by a guard walking by or checking in on me. She would always manage to disappear right before they would walk by. This gave me a heads up on when the stupid suits were going to try to annoy me, giving me the advantage on all verbal assaults that would proceed because those stupid suits had nothing better to do then to lose to "some useless little kid".

What would happen if she didn't disappear before the guards came? What would they do? What could they do?

The Last Day

"What else is there to say?" I said around noon about a week later having run out of stories. "How about you tell me something about yourself."

She simply giggled softly and said, "There isn't much to tell." She had informed me about the tournament but she had told me nothing else. I didn't even know her name! I had told her everything without knowing anything about her.

I laughed out loud; "Well we could start with your name."

She suddenly vanished, at first I thought I had offended her but in less than a minute Seto came to my cell door. I started talking to my brother when I heard the weirdest thing, her elegant voice in my head Look out. It was just a whisper but it had a slightly frightened tone and it worried me, but then I saw what the problem was. Maximillian Pegasus walked out of the shadows and sent me into the shadow realm.