I disintegrated! I lost a duel and disintegrated! For one second I saw nothing, feeling my life force slip away, feeling my strength flee me as I started to disappear from existence. Though soon it all flooded back to me and I recognized the Shadow Realm. I could come back from this. I still exist. Though the next second I blacked out. "The hell is going on!"
I woke to Domino City Square with the big water fountain. I looked around, confused. I had been in Egypt… wait. No Egypt had been created in a diorama made by Ryou and we'd been playing in the Shadow Realm. I heard giggling and turned to look, glaring only to see a child. He looked eerily familiar. He had white hair and chocolate brown eyes and was wearing a small blue striped shirt and soaked jeans. I stared at him and soon he was staring at me. He touched his cheek and gave a sympathetic look. I touched my own cheek and felt my scar. That kid isn't me! Who is he?!
"I see you noticed the child." I saw a black form rise from the ground and it shaped into… Anubis?! "Yes. It is I. Anubis, God of Death. It is also my doing that you still exist. I like you Yami more than anything. Especially you and Malik. Not that you're a Yami anymore. You'll learn that when you wake. If you had listened to me over Zorc, you would have known I had sent all those poor souls to the best place I could."
"Oh? Is that so?" He ignored me!
"Zorc, however, I sent to the underworld, where he will never escape. I never approved of him. Since Pharaoh defeated him, I did the same for him." He stepped aside and I saw one of Anubis' henchmen and Little Yugi. He was watching Pharaoh trying to command a tree to move out of his path. Then it dawned on me. I looked at the white haired child.
"Ryou!" I called. He looked up at me, smiling. I turned to look at Anubis. "Why is he a child?"
"Why? To bring you back into existence. You're lucky I didn't make him younger. I did the same for Malik." I looked over to where he pointed and I saw a second of his henchmen, Malik, and a child Marik. Now that I see them, I notice Atem, Ryou, and Marik are all the same age. Four.
"And why are you telling me all this?"
"To put you ahead of the game."
"Marik is a child to bring Malik back into existence then?" He smirked.
"You catch on fast, Akefia. Then I've done what I've wanted. I'll leave you with a gift." I watched, amazed as the Ring appeared on my neck. As my vision darkened I saw Malik receive the Rod, and Yugi the Puzzle.