Paladin: Hello, all ye who have remained faithful to me.

Yam: Which isn't that many.

Ari: Am I the only one who notices the absence of two extremely annoying American doppelgangers?

Rai: No, I noticed it too. Where are they?

Paladin: Oh, they went back to America, saying something like "It's too cold here," or "We aren't accepted," or something.

Ari: Aww, I'm gonna miss that hot-head.

Yam: And senor Eraser. He always left hair in my room though, so I won't miss that aspect.

Rai: You guys are lucky. Paladin made you copies yet I don't even have one, and he doesn't even consider how I feel! (Rai turns emo and starts cutting himself)

Ari: See what you did Paladin? It's okay S-Rai. (Ari starts to cry)

Yam: Well, since everyone else is having an emotional breakdown, I don't want to be left out.

Paladin: What am I going to do with them? I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, those rights belong to Kazuki Takahashi, yadayada, Sol and Shadow may or may not be coming back into these authors note, it just depends on how I feel. And yes, Ari still has his powers. Life'd be very boring without some fire to spice up the day. (Note: "regular speech" 'ari-yam' (yam-ari) :rai-yam: {yam to rai} /ari-rai/ \rai-ari\ [author's notes])

Orphaned Prologue

Orphanage Owner POV

It was a rainy night, and I had just closed up the orphanage for the night and had just sent the four kids, Seto, Joey, Yami, and Yugi, and the baby, Mokuba, who is five years younger than all of them, whom are five, to bed, and had just sat down with a nice cup of hot cocoa and a newspaper when I heard a knock on the door.

'That's odd,' I thought to myself, 'No one should be here at this hour. I'll go check to see who it is.'

I folded the newspaper and rose from my chair, my slippered feet gliding soundlessly across the tile floor, and to my surprise, when I opened the door, I found three orphaned babies, swaddled with care in linen sheets, lying in a basket on the wet floor.

With them was a note. I hastily picked it up and read aloud to no one in particular.

"To whom this may concern,

"You have my sincerest apologies for burdening you with my three children, Sol, Yam, and Rai, at this hour of night, but they have special... needs that need to be accounted for that I cannot let them out of my sights, no matter how young they are.

"I had heard from some of my colleagues that you were the right person for the job, and they gave me your address, so it is my hope that you can take care of them until the time arises that I might be able to take them home with me unless a family has already adopted them, Ra forbid that to happen.

"I hope that under your car their skills may flourish and they may learn to control them as to not put others in harms way, and to save them.

"Thank you, and I am sincerely sorry"

"Ishizu"

That note made my heart break, hearing that someone expected not to have to have vigilance with three children, but it still made me want to help her.

I noticed that one of them, I presume it was Rai due to his golden lightning bolts running through his hair, that and the brighter-than-gold irises, sneezed, causing me to bring them in.

Which is the beginning of my life with them.