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Summary: Marik learns how to send spirits to the shadow realm by an even greater evil than he. But when he tries his new skill out on Yugi, something goes terribly wrong.....

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"Marik.....Marik...... Marik....." called a voice over and over again until Marik opened his eyes. "What?!" he muttered irritably, still half asleep. "Come with me to learn a skill to help you on your mission to destroy Yugi Moto and gain possession of the spirit, Yami. This woke him at once. Marik rose from his bed and followed the voice to a room in his mansion that he did not recognize. There, on a table in the middle of the room, was a small slip of paper. "Read it.... read it.... read it!" the voice urged him, so he picked it up and unfolded it, his eyes following the trail of letters across the page. A cruel smile began to form on Marik's lips, which evolved into an evil cackle as he digested the last sentence. "Finally!" he cried. "The Pharoh's power will finally be mine!"

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"But how? How can we defeat an evil we do not even know?!" Yugi asked Yami for the millionth time. The spirit paced the room. "I do not know," he answered his frustrated counterpart gently. "But all will be revealed at the time when it is needed; you can always count on that." Yugi stood up. "But I need it now!" he said, trembling and clutching the puzzle. "I almost lost you in the fire! How can you be sure I won't make a stupid mistake like that again?" Yami placed his ghostly hands over Yugi's. "I believe in you," he stated firmly, and Yugi smiled. "We'll be all right!" he said, in a sudden flow of confidence that Yami had slipped him. "We can beat him! I know it!" Yami watched as Yugi's eyes fluttered, heavy with sleep, and he withdrew into the puzzle to rest a little himself.

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"It is finished!" Marik hissed, violet eyes glowing with the reflection of the small flame he had woken upon the table. "All I must do is: "Drop the rose petal into the fire." Marik smiled. "Yugi!" he called. "This is the moment of your defeat!" And he dropped the petal.

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Yugi woke to a feeling of suffocating. It felt as if his soul was being ripped out through his nose. He shuddered and tried to call out, but it seemed as if his lungs had been removed in the same way. Suddenly, it was over. Yugi gasped, then fumbled blindly for his Millenium Puzzle. //Yami!// he called worridly. The spirit did not answer right away, but he might be sleepin- And time froze.