-1Do you think I own Yu-gi-oh!? Well, if you do, your dead wrong. I DON'T own Yu-gi-oh! or any of its characters or properties, but I wish I did… because then I could rule the world!! … … … or something like that. Now, on with our story!

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"Alright," Yami said. "Yugi's at school and won't be back for 3 hours and Grandpa's asleep so he won't be up for… hours. It's time."

His eyes darted from side to side suspiciously… just to make sure no one interrupted him. He pushed a certain secret piece on his puzzle, which caused a yellow glow to emit from the creases in it and sucked him inside the infinite space that is the Millennium Puzzle.

In the past, many people (Yugi and Shadi) have tried to find out the secret within the dark room that is the Soul and Heart of the Millennium Puzzle… the Soul and Heart of the Pharaoh… Atem's deepest, darkest, most loved and most kept secret of all. It has been protected by dark creatures and traps. No one has ever been able to unlock or even enter the Pharaoh's soul (other than the Pharaoh, of course).

Yami was now in the puzzle's dark room. "Alright, now. Let's see if I can remember this right. Step left, forward, forward, right, right, forward, left, forward, forward, forward, left, left, left, and the light switch is on the up-left wall, and… flip."

When he flipped the switch, it revealed an ongoing hall with parallel, ongoing shelves filled with…

"SUNDAES!! I have returned for you!"

Then, suddenly, someone entered the shop.

"Yami! I'm home!" Yugi greeted Yami with a singsong welcome.

"What the hell?! Why is he home so early?! He can't find out about this! He made me go on a diet because I was out of shape. He'll get rid of all of my sundaes as soon as he can… if he knows how!"

"Where is he? Oh, here's his puzzle! He never leaves his puzzle. He must be inside."

Yugi leaned over to scream into the puzzle.

"Yami! When you're done in… WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

Yugi looked inside and saw Yami eating sundaes.

"Could you not scream? It's ear-splitting and I already have a brain freeze!"

"You're on a diet, and here you are eating SUNDAES?!"

"I can explain! They're… organic broccoli and spinach sundaes!"

"Oh, really?"

"With a carrot on top!" Yami said as he quickly ate the cherry that was actually on top.

Yugi crossed his arms as if to say, "I'm not buying that story… no way in hell."

"Okay, now that you know my darkest secret ever, what're you planning to do about it?"

Yugi didn't answer. He looked at Yami's puzzle and found the piece that had been pushed in, and pushed the same piece on his puzzle in. Now they were together in the same room.

"How did you do that?" Yami questioned curiously.

"Do what?"

"That."

"What?"

"THAT!!"

"What PRECISELY?!"

"Oh… see, you pushed on your puzzle… yet, here you are in mine."

"There may be two physical puzzles, but inside… we are one!"

"Oh, don't give me that 'We are one!', 'Our friendship is more powerful than anything', 'Heart of the Cards' bullshit again. You know I only say that stuff to annoy Kaiba."

"But it's true!"

"You've said that over and over and over, and I've replied over and over and over… and over… that I do NOT… nor will I EVER… believe in that stupid theory about the Heart of the Cards!"

Yugi sighed. He supposed there was no way Yami would believe… truly… in the Heart of the Cards. But he had gotten sidetracked. Back to the sundaes problem. Yugi knew just how to get rid of this room entirely.

"There's only one thing different about our appearance right now." Yugi pointed out.

"Is it the fact that I'm taller?"

"NO!! I wasn't talking about that!"

"Then what is it?"

"Look around your neck."

Yami looked. He didn't have his puzzle.

"No puzzle… but that's because we're IN IT, smart person!"

"Exactly! Now, look at my neck."

Yami looked. He still had a puzzle around his neck!

"But, that's impossible! You're in here with me in the puzzle! How can you have one around your neck and I don't?!"

"You answered your own question!"

"Huh?"

"You see, I'm in here with you… in the SAME PUZZLE! This isn't two different puzzles… it's one! YOURS! Therefore, I still have mine! And, similar to voodoo craft, I shall remove this room from your puzzle by removing it from mine, proving that our puzzles and our souls…"

"Now let's not get carried away here with this talk of our souls being connected."

"… are connected as one!"

Then, Yugi removed the piece of his puzzle which held the Pharaoh's sacred dark room. A huge, what seemed like an earthquake to their microscopic size occurred and took them by surprise, actually. Yugi didn't suspect such drama. When the piece was removed all the sundaes faded away, and Yugi and Yami's size reduction, due to the puzzle's infinite power, cancelled out as a result of the puzzle's separation. When they returned to normal size, Yami's puzzle was shattered. Without the Heart and Soul of the Pharaoh within it, it collapsed under pressure. Yami held the remaining dust in his hands.

"Do you…" Yami began to choke up, almost crying, "… do you realize what you've done?!"

"Uhh…"

"You've taken a part of me that can never be replaced… and you just hold it in your hand."

"…"

Just then, the idiot of the city (Joey) came in.

"Hey, Yugi! How're you doing, man?!"

"Joey, we're kind of in the middle of…"

"OOOH!! Is that pretty gold piece that looks like it goes to something of great importance for me?! Aww, you shouldn't have."

"Then it's a good thing I didn't, Joey, because…"

"Thanks, man! And it's not even my birthday for another 14 months! This means a lot to me, man."

"Joey! Wait! COME BACK WITH THAT PUZZLE PIECE, YOU MORON!!"

Joey, laughing his way down the road, didn't even hear Yugi's demand to bring back the puzzle piece. After several grueling and exhausting minutes, Yami was out of breath and stated,

"That idiot could be anywhere by now."

"Then it's time for an adventure… an adventure for the lost puzzle piece!!"

"Then I guess this is Yami signing off and letting you know that if you don't read the next chapter, I'll summon the Ancient Egyptian Black Beetle Bed Bugs of Death to go to your house during the night and crawl into your room, into your bed, and into your skin, so that they can eat you alive from the inside… And, of course, they'd be forced to collect… very, very slowly."

"Uh… bye?" Yugi said.