Me: Hey all, I'm not really new to writing fan fiction; I'm just new to posting. So, I hope you all enjoy the story. Please review! If you don't review, I won't know if anyone is interested! I have about fifteen chapters typed already! The sooner you review, the sooner I post. Now *eyes the characters evilly* who would like to do the disclaimer?

Dree: Me!

Me: No one has any idea who you are..

Dree: So?

Me: Alright..

Dree: Blah Blah Blah, she doesn't own any of the Yu-Gi-Oh characters.

Me: .Nice

Dree: *beams* Thanks!

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Prologue

Yami

"Yugi, you must sleep," I insisted. My light sat up in his bed, pulling his blankets to his chest in fear.

"I don't want him to get me," he admitted softly.

"It's just a dream aibou. Nothing will get you," I replied.

Yugi had failed to get full nights sleep in a week because of this dream. It upset me that nothing I said could ease his fears. Even worse was his refusal to tell me about the dream. All he would say was that the creature was going to get him. I had offered to go into his dreams, but that only upset him more. He said that's what the creature wanted.

"You're going to make yourself sick," I said as I sat on the edge of his bed.

"You should go back into the puzzle," Yugi's bloodshot eyes met my clear ones.

"What? Why?" I asked softly. Yugi's bottom lip trembled at the hurt in my voice.

"Yami, it's only so you'll be safe from him," Yugi whispered, like he was frightened the creature might hear him.

I waited, silent, as the minutes trickled by. Eventually the poor boy could no longer keep his eyes open, and sleep claimed him. I watched Yugi's sleeping face, smiling to myself, until his expression twisted into one of fear. Placing my hand on Yugi's forehead, the Millennium Symbol appeared on my forehead as I joined him in his dark dream.

Darkness was everywhere in the room; I walked blindly, and headed towards where I sensed Yugi was. I found him, huddled in a corner.

"Yami!" he cried, reaching for me. "I tried to stay awake, I really did," he said as I took him into my arms.

"It's okay, I'll protect you," I tried to calm the boy.
"You should have listened to the boy, and gone back into the puzzle Pharaoh," a soft, serpent, voice hissed.

I heard Yugi whimper softly. This was more than just a nightmare. The voice hissed a word I did not understand and a bolt of lightning surged towards my chest, but before it could hit me, The Dark Magician appeared in front of me. He crumbled onto the ground, flinging his staff at the creature as he fell. The creature's presence vanished.

"Protect the little one Yami," The Dark Magician managed to say before losing consciousness.

I stood, standing slightly in front of Yugi, wary of what else might be out there.

"Your bond is too strong here, damn you both," a cold human voice sent chills down my back. I knew that voice, but where from?

"Perhaps in the past your bond will be weaker, goodbye little Yugi," The voice croaked a word I did not understand, and then Yugi was gone.

"Yugi??" I cried, desperately looking around for him.

My overwhelming fear woke me up, and I went to shake the boy awake, to find his bed empty. I quickly looked around his room.

"Yugi?"