"Wake up!" Kari rolled over and went back to sleep, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" Kari groaned, she knew Yugi was excited but could she sleep a little longer? "Kari! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"

"Alright! Alright, I'm getting up!" Kari groaned, "I'll be out in a minute!"

Yugi bounced into the living room where Joey was drinking a up of coffee. Kari came out of the guest room, in her nightgown and fluffy Kuriboh slippers and sat down on the sofa and was handed a cup of coffee. She drank it quickly and turned to the important part of the day, present opening. Mr Muto Sr. handed out the presents and they took it in turns to open them.

Kari bit her lip as Yugi opened his present from her, it was a copy of the new holographic technology that would be fully integrated in the new duel disks but these were specifically designed holocubes designed to project one duel monster per cube. They were pre-release and had cost her a mint to buy from Kaiba, but she knew they would work once a card was swiped through the reader. Joey opened his straight away and both duellists swiped their favourite cards, Joey's Red Eyes Black Dragon, and Yugi's Dark Magician was brought as close to life as possible for a hologram, the only way sit could get more real was if they were shadow monsters and there was no way Kari would install the new duel disks with 'shadow graphics' as some idiot in her department called them.

The Dark Magician bowed to Yugi and settled behind him. Joey wished he hadn't swiped his Red Eyes card inside as Red Eyes nearly brought the Christmas tree down by accident. Kari smiled, "You can put the cubes into sleep mode, Joey." She showed him how and the Dragon vanished from the living room.

"Do you have one?" Kari nodded.

"I'll go get it once we're done. We can show them off to the others, just one thing…those cubes are now set to those cards, they will only ever project those monsters."

"Good job we swiped our favourites then, hey Yugi?" Yugi smiled and nodded, the Dark Magician looked at Kari and smiled too. She smiled, what she hadn't told them yet was that there was a battle feature to these cubes too. They'd work that out soon enough. She smiled as she opened her presents from the group, silver jewellery from Yugi to go with her cartouche, duel monsters cards from Joey, Tea had brought her a new dress for her holiday, Tristan had given her more cards, her parents had sent her clothes and her prescription for something she'd deliberately left back in England, as well as the actual things, her glasses. Kari growled, she'd deliberately left them at home since she didn't need them anymore. Yugi's grandpa left the room before she opened her last gift, to go get something.

She'd left her English friends gift for last as Robyn, Ash and Lily had been abroad and brought her something back, she didn't know where, so as she opened their gift she was surprised to see a scarab beetle on the golden box inside the packaging, as well as the Eye of Horus. There was a letter with the box, "We were shopping in an Egyptian bazaar and found this, and we feel you were meant to have it, so Merry Christmas." She read aloud, ignoring her glasses and scowling slightly from her parent's reminder.

She opened the box and gasped, inside was a golden orb, engraved with hieroglyphs and adorned with the Eye of Horus. Kari stared at it, and Yugi's head shot up as he sensed magic as she reached into the box. Kari lifted the orb out of the box, it was about the size of her fist and Kari felt it's magic swirling around her. She closed her eyes and felt magic from the Orb reaching inside of her. She smiled as she felt a second mind, filling the void where Rai's had once been, and so similar in magic and sense to Rai she wondered who it was. The other mind was darker, not evil, just darker then her's.

She was still smiling as she opened her eyes, Yugi was staring at her, no his eyes were blank, he was talking to Yami, she tried to read the hieroglyphs on the box, but found she could only read a few, she looked at Joey who smiled at her nervously, "Where'd they get that?" He asked nervously.

"Egypt." She saw Joey's reaction, "Oh come off it, you told me there was only seven Millennium Items, your Puzzle, the Ring, the Eye, the Key, the Rod, the Necklace and the…the…oh meh…the Scales, there's no way this Orb could be one." She said, running through the list. "Come on lemme see what you got!" She said, distracting the other two as she nearly managed to grab Joey's new warrior structure deck out of his hands. This made Joey move and she fell over the sofa, landing flat on her face. "OW!" She moaned as she got up, "That hurt." Yugi was laughing his head off. While Joey was hiding his new deck, she smiled, at least that had gotten them off her case about her Orb, there was no way she was letting it out of her sight. She smiled, as Joey dashed around the room with Yugi's new cards, the smaller duellist chasing him and nearly crashing into everything as he did so, she watched them dash into the kitchen and sat down, holding her Orb. She wasn't any older then them, so she couldn't play the "I'm-older-then-you-so-I-know-what-I'm-doing" card.

She closed her eyes but was disturbed as Yugi dashed out of the kitchen, closely followed by a flour covered Joey. Kari laughed as Yugi hid behind her seat with Joey advancing with a bag of flour in his hands. "Don't even think about it in my living room, Joey." Yugi's grandpa said, having just got back into the room. Yugi grinned cheekily and Joey smirked to Kari who smirked back, they'd get him later.

"What do you have there, Kari?" The old man asked and Kari gave it to him to look at, instantly she felt a withdrawal of the mind that had latched eagerly onto hers when she'd first touched the orb. She bit her lip as Mr. Muto Sr. looked it over and handed it back. He then looked at the box, reading the hieroglyphs, as Kari felt the other presence again. "That's an Egyptian artefact, from the Millennium Items time, it's story was engraved into it's box, it was worn by a Princess who was engaged to the Pharaoh, a Princess who had a strong Ka and was a powerful Shadow Gamer. She died protecting the land she came to love." Yugi nodded, "I'm pretty sure it was created about the same time as your Puzzle, Yugi, but it says it was hidden away after the Princess died and was never recorded in history."

"Does it say her name?"

"No, it has a cartouche on it, but the name has been scrubbed off."

"No name, no afterlife." Kari murmured, "I studied ancient Egypt back home as a hobby, I know the legends of the afterlife." 'What did you do to have your name rubbed off?' She asked the second mind, it wasn't hard to work out that if Yugi's Puzzle had belonged to a Pharaoh and Ryou's Ring had belonged to a Tomb Robber, and now both resided in those items, that this new presence she felt had to be the Princess. She felt the Princess stirring, and felt the spirit looking through her eyes, she shuddered, this was weird, was this how Yugi felt, when Yami used his body while Yugi was still in control? She felt the spirit's sudden surprise as she sort of recognised both Yugi and Joey, she felt the spirit smile when she saw Yugi, but blush when she saw Joey. 'Ah.' Kari smiled, and then she spoke aloud. "I think I know why her name was rubbed off."

The others looked at her, and Yugi watched her carefully, as she explained, "I think the Princess is still residing in her item. And I think she has at least residual memories, she certainly remembers people that looks like you and Joey." She said, aiming her comments at Yugi.

"You can sense someone?" Yugi…no…she sensed the change over, Yami asked. Kari wasn't sure how to react,

"It's not sensing her like I would if I wanted to trace shadow magic or Millennium Items, like your Puzzle, or if I sensed when you're present. It's more like when Rai was alive and part of his mind was resting at the back of mine and vice versa. It's the first time I've felt like a whole person since Rai died." She knew Robyn had told them about her twin brother. Joey was speculative. Yami was wary. "If she'd wanted to hurt you she'd have tried to force control away from me by now, I remember what you said to me about Ryou."

Yami nodded, it was true, Bakura, that baka thief, had never worried about forcing control away from his host, and this new spirit hadn't tried. Kari could sense confusion from the female spirit. She smiled, "Plus she's confused."

Yami looked surprised, then remembered his confusion when he'd first woken up, confused had barely described his feelings. This item had come to Kari for a reason, it was often easy to forget she was the same age as Yugi and the others, because she'd gotten a job and was working full time. But he was sure that Shadi had said seven items, and Pegasus had, but if it had never been recorded in history, maybe the other item wielders in this time didn't know about it. Yugi took back over, "I'll call Isuzu, excuse me…" Yugi vanished into the kitchen.

Joey sighed and picked up his presents, "Hey Joey!" Kari smiled, "What's that? The one from Serenity?" Joey passed it to her and she looked it over while Yugi was on the phone. "She made the picture frame herself?" Joey nodded, "That's pretty amazing."

Yugi left the kitchen, thoughtful expression on his face, and Joey looked at Kari, "I'd keep that on you if I were you." He said.

MUCH LATER ON

Kari curled up on the guest bed, she'd eaten way too much today, a full roast dinner was delicious but very filling. She held the Orb in her hand and felt herself drifting off to sleep.

Kari opened her eyes, she was in a room with lilac walls. One wall had a large mural of a dragon. She looked around, she wasn't going to complain about the luxury four poster bed that she was led in, but where was she?

She sat up and saw the manga books strewn all over the floor and her laptop was led on a desk, where her Bastet statue was also stood. She got to her feet and saw the door was open. She walked out, she obviously was being held prisoner here, the door would have been locked. She walked out into he corridor and saw a metal door, built into a sandstone wall. Her door had been wooden, in a brick wall, or it seemed like brick from this side.

She couldn't help herself, she just had to know what was behind the door. She pushed it open and gasped. This room was like a tomb, like the one she'd visited in Egypt when she'd gone with her parents. She stopped as she saw a girl with long dark blonde hair, with brown lowlights which was as long as her own, and the girl had magenta eyes, unlike Kari's own brown but other then that they could have been sisters. This girl would be the older one, true, but sisters none the less.

Kari had to ask, "Who…Who are you?"