IRTB2 EDITED

In the morning, Sam thought it had all been a dream. She left her bed and got dressed. Tying her hair up and putting her makeup on, she went down stairs to make coffee… and almost had a heart attack. Mahad and Shada were still asleep on her sofa's… but she had thought that they never REALLY came at all. After all, it had just been dream. Peeking down the basement stairs, she saw the other 3 were still asleep too. Having a fangirl moment, Sam went and got her digital camera. Making sure the flash was off, she took pictures of the Guardians sleeping. She did not know what she would say to them if they woke up, but it didn't matter because they wouldn't know what a camera was anyway. Sam decided that she would upload the pictures now, so she sneaked the laptop up to her room. She needed to give herself actual proof as to what was happening to her. They were totally going into her digital photo album!

About 25 minutes later, there was a knock on her door. With the laptop already shut down and put away, Sam opened the door. "Isis?" she asked. "Is something wrong?" "Pardon me…" she said. " Would you happen to have any facial paints? Or perhaps powders? It is important that a woman of the Sacred Court keep her appearance clean cut and formal at all times… I cannot show my face to the rest until-" "Don't worry; I have some you can use. Please, come in." Isis walked into Sam's room. "Your room is very pretty, Miss Samantha." Pulling out her makeup bag, she replied: "thanks." She poured out the bag onto her nightstand, sorting the eye shadow from the mascara, eyeliner and base. "I have a lot, so I'm sure there's something here that suits your tastes." Isis just looked. "I don't know what some of these are." "Then would you like me to help you?" Samantha asked. Isis smiled. "Thank you. I actually haven't put it on myself before, usually some else has done it for me." Oh, right… Sam thought. She is royalty after all… "Well then, pick out what you want to use… these colors are for the eye lid, these are for the skin, and these outline the eyes and facial features." "Oh my… well, I must say I like the color on your eyes… which one of these did you use?"

All the makeup tips Sam got from Katie paid off. Sam never thought she would put them to use. When Isis and Samantha came downstairs, the others were still asleep. Sam started some coffee and toast. She showed Isis where the glasses were, and showed her how to use the water filter built into the fridge. Isis got 7 glasses of water, (proud of herself for using the new water contraption) and put them on the kitchen table. The smell of the meat that Samantha was cooking (Reheating) on the stove finally woke the men up. "Good morning." Isis said as the 5 entered the room. They saw her makeup. "Isis, you look very radiant today." Auknadin said. What Sam had done was take a light brown eye shadow, and put it on the inside of Isis's Eye lids, and had it fade away into a light silver that came off her eye alongside the black eye liner that was the traditional Egyptian design. "Thank you, Master Auknadin." Sam was the only one who saw Mahad's face flush. That's what she thought would happen… after all, she already knew of Mahad's crush from anime's subtext.

After eating, Samantha wrapped Shada's ankle for support… making it easier for him to move around without hurting himself. Now… Sam had planed to take Mahad to the Library, however, taking them ALL is what she figured would happen… so she brought out a 200 piece jigsaw puzzle. She explained to them how to fit the pieces together, and showed them what the picture should look like in the end: Three horses galloping in a field. Sam told them if they needed something to do… should they need to take a break from planning their way home, they could use the puzzle. So, after Mahad explained that he would go searching for some spell books with Samantha, the two left… and the rest took up the challenge of the puzzle.

Mahad was very cautious walking down the sidewalk. Every time a car drove by, he jumped. Samantha didn't blame him either. When they got there, Mahad was amazed. "All these books… are all the villagers allowed to come here? Only those of the court can view any of ours." Sam nodded. Mahad looked around. "I don't suppose you know where to find what were looking for?" "No…" she said. "But I know how to find out." Sitting down at one of the computers, she typed in a search for Egyptian magic. "Tell me, what is this?" He asked. "This is a computer. It holds the records of where different types of books are. It will help us find anything close to or exactly what we're looking for." Mahad just watched Samantha press different symbols and they came up on the monitor. He could not read them, nor anything else on the screen. In the mean time, other people were staring at Mahad, and little kids were pointing. Mahad understood. He was dressed differently than them, so it was natural.

"Here we are." Samantha said, walking down an isle and pointing to a group of books. "Let's see… this one's called: Magic of Ancient Egypt." She handed it to Mahad. Opening it and flipping through the pages, he said "I can't read it." Oh…oops. Mahad gave the book to her. "Could you read it to me?" "Sure." Samantha flipped to the Index. "Is there anything you are specifically looking for?" "Not really." He replied. Sam sighed. This is going to take a while.

After about an hour and a half of searching, they had only found 1 book that had anything to do with what Mahad needed: which turned out to be different kinds of spells… the rest were all Egyptian history books, and had nothing to do with Bakura… so Sam didn't push him about the rest of the history. Last thing I want to do is rewrite history and accidentally destroy the world as we know it. I have to be careful of what information he gets, yet give him info that he can use… which means also keeping him away from the Manga section. Good grief…

Two MORE hours later, the pair hadn't found much more. Sitting in the chairs, Samantha sighed. "Two books are all we found… after all that time." And the other one is just a translation book of the Egyptian language to the English language. Mahad must want to be able to read the books himself. Mahad was frustrated. "How can that be all your library has? There is much more spells and history to our country than that. " "Mahad, please keep your voice down." She whispered. "I'm sorry, Miss Samantha… It's just that, I'm being blamed for this predicament… and because I'm the only spellcaster among us, it is up to me to find a spell to take us home." "I understand," She said. "And I am also sorry that I am not of much help, but…Honored to have the chance to try." After a moment, Mahad said "I am pleased you think so highly of us, although I personally do not see myself as honorable, Miss Samantha." She just looked at him. I think I know why. "I hope it's not because Bakura got past your security. I mean, there is no way you could have possibly known someone like him would come and attack you." "HMM?" Mahad looked at her with questions. "How do you know that I am in charge of palace security?" "Oh, it was just part of what I remember from the… "Story" I heard about: the battle against Bakura." "If that's the case… are you really telling us everything you know?" Sam paused. "You already know how the Millennium items were created, right?" Mahad nodded. "Then yes." Sam crossed her fingers behind her back. I know I'm lying, but it's for their own good.

Walking back with Mahad was different than the way there. Mahad was looking through the language translation book they had checked out, and just glanced at the cars as they passed. It was Quiet the whole way. Sam didn't want to look at Mahad, because she felt really bad about having to lie to him… and the others. I REEEALLY want to tell them what happens, but that might change what actually went down… and if the past is changed to where the Pharaoh never gets sealed in the Millennium Puzzle, then he never meets Yugi. And then the Pharaoh isn't there to save the world again (AND there's no story line, by the way ). . . . . . . . . . . .I feel like I'm going insane . . . . . . . . . . It was nice before I actually met them. Then, it was just a story, and I didn't have to worry about anything…and Bakura was a pretty cool character. But now . . . . . I've gotten a little attached to them.

Mahad looked up from the book. He could see Samantha was lost in her own world.

I know what will happen to all of Them and "All things happen for a reason", but… I don't want to see them die now… now that I met them.

"Is something troubling you, Miss Samantha?" Mahad asked. She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, no… nothing." "Oh? But there's a tear on your face." Samantha hadn't noticed. Great. She had to fib her way out of explaining again. Touching her face, she smiled. " I didn't notice. I guess something got in my eye… I wasn't paying attention." Hmm… Mahad was debating her answer.

Back at the house, Mahad reported their findings. It wasn't much, but they would at least have a place to START looking for answers. However, Sam was given the duty of translating to them… EVERYTHING in the books. As for the Jigsaw puzzle, they had gotten about half way done by the time Mahad and Sam got back.

"So there IS a spell that transports through different times and dimensions." Shada said. "Correct. But this book has little about the spell, and doesn't say much about the one who created it. So basically, it says that our magic is nothing but fantasy." Mahad said, a bit upset. "Are you sure that's all there was?" Seto asked. "Yes. We would have found more, if there was more." Samantha said. Seto grunted, and leaned back on the sofa. "So what should we do now?" Karim asked. "Isn't it obvious?" Seto said. "We find that Spell." But Shada wasn't sure. "But Seto, where do we start?

As the Guardians argued it out, Samantha went outside to get the mail. Walking down to the mail box, she pulled out the usual bill and adds. Typical stuff. Sam heard a big truck roll by, so out of instinct, she turned towards the noise. West Georgia Av. was a long street that intersected a busy, downtown road at the far end. As she looked down the street, she caught a glimpse of a man walking past the intersection, down the busy street. He was tan, wearing red, and…Oh. My. god…White hair…Sam quickly ran inside. Normally she would fangirl, but now that Bakura was a real threat, she was scared.