Once again and forever more, I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh!
I own the people and stuff I make up in this fic!
okay, Yami POV, //yamithoughspeech// /yugithoughtspeech/, you know the drill.





As soon as Jainlia and Grandpa fell asleep, everyone else snuck into Yugi's room.
"This is so creepy," Taya said, shivering. "Yeah, it was warm this morning." They were
all shivering. Bakura had wrapped himself in a blanket, and poor Layhon was still wearing
his coat. As for me, I was sitting on the bed of my Soul Room, freezing. I was from Egypt.
We didn't even have ice! I franticly tried to get warm as the others talked. It was
probably just me, but it seemed to get colder by the minute. "Man, I'm freezing! Is your
thermostat broken or something, Yugi?" "No it's fine, we checked it ten minutes ago!" We
were all getting way too cold. None of us could last long at this rate. Layhon was the
first. He curled into a little ball and whimpered something about being cold before passing
out. "We have to stay warm, c'mon! Everyone huddle together!" Bakura urged. Everyone
piled on each other, trying to keep the others warm. They even pulled Layhon in.
Meanwhile, I could feel myself shutting down. "No, Yami!" Yugi cried out loud as my
thoughts grew sluggish. "He can't take the cold!" I wondered what he was talking about.
Suddenly I was in Yugi's room. Yugi had managed to pull me into my false form. It was a
bit of a shock for the others - I rarely did it in front of them - but at the moment I
didn't care. I just lay on the floor, curled up and shivering. I think I passed out,
because the next thing I remember is being covered in about ten pounds of blankets and three
or four people. I think it was the false form itself that saved me. Because of the amount
of magic it takes to make one, false forms give off a lot of excess heat. No one else would
notice, of course, but to someone inside a false form it was always pleasantly warm.
Bakura's head was next to mine, and he looked relieved with my return to consciousness.
"Are you okay?" he whispered. I just nodded. Layhon was next me, and even though I
couldn't see him I knew he was waking up.



//Aibou?//
/Yami! Are you okay?/
//Now I am. Aibou, Layhon's waking up! What should I do?//
/I think you can go back to your Soul Room. The Puzzle is buried under everyone, so it's probably warmer now./



I went back to the Soul Room. Yugi was right, it was warmer. Still cold, but warmer. I
wrapped myself in every blanket I could find in there. Outside, I could hear Yugi
reassuring the others that I was fine, don't worry, and don't say anything about me to
Layhon. "What happened?" Layhon asked groggily. "We almost froze ta death, what else?"
Joey snapped sarcastically. He sounded tired. It was around midnight, after all. And it
was still cold. I felt kind of snappish myself. "Now, if this was the desert," I said to no one in particular, "I could just bury myself in the sand when it got too cold. I wish I was in Egypt. Back there, we had normal weather." I could hear Yugi silently snickering. I hadn't noticed Layhon making an almost identical comment relating to Greece. I failed to see what was so funny. Just as everyone was finally beginning to relax, the house began shaking. It was a earthquake (just a little one). And then it finally connected - the feelings of dread, the freak storm, and an earthquake. I had seen it all before, I didn't need a open memory door to know this. But before I could warn Yugi, it struck.




GASP! An actual cliffhanger! I don't believe it!
It's amazing!
It's stupendous!
I think I had too much sugar a few minutes ago. So, just Review this thing!