Ottawa: Confusion ahead!

Yami: there's always confusion with you two

Rye: That's not true!

Yugi: Please no fighting! Disclaimer and warnings still apply.


Yugi woke up the next morning and got his clothes ready for the day when a scream tore through the halls. He ran out into the hall and saw the girl from yesterday, the mousy girl, holding her very badly injured boyfriend as what looked like a panther growled at them, its teeth stained with blood. Everyone else ran out into the hall and screamed as well. The beast roared and charged about to attack the girl when thunder cracked through the air and it fell on its side howling in pain.

"Get out of here!" Seto yelled, his hand gun smoking from the shot he fired. "Ryou, Malik make sure Scott's fine! Joey carry him!"

The three hurried to the girl and her boyfriend, Scott, and Ryou sighed seeing he was alive, just badly hurt in the shoulder. Malik checked the girl over as Joey got Scott on to his back and they hurried down the hall. Yugi quickly followed, but stopped and turned back as he gasped in air.

"Seto!"

Joey looked back at the shout and nearly screamed in terror as the beast pinned his lover down. He handed Scott to Malik ran to help his lover. The beast snarled and swiped at him as Seto growled and tried to shove it off. Yugi stood rooted to the floor, scared out of his mind as he felt like he was watching this from the sidelines.

"Someone! Please help Jono and Seth!" he cried out as the beast finally managed to get Joey out of its hair and was rearing back to deal a death blow to Seto's throat.

A blast of ice cold air shot past Yugi and hit the beast square in the chest. Yugi turned to see a young woman with green eyes before the world turned black...

Yugi jumped awake in bed and blinked as he scrambled for the bedside lamp and turned it on. He blinked, he was in his room? But wasn't he in Egypt? Getting up he ran down the hall to his grandfather's room and lightly knocked.

"Grandpa?" He called, scared and confused.

He waited only a moment before Solomon opened the door and rubbed the sleep from his eyes.

"Yugi, it's three in the morning."

"Sorry but I had a strange dream... I was on my class trip and the hotel was attacked by a wild beast and then a young woman used magic... it was so real-"

"It's only a dream, my dear boy. Please try to get some rest. You promised Joseph you would meet him at the hospital."

"What?"

"Kaiba-kun was attacked by a mugger and was put in the hospital. Don't you remember?"

Yugi looked lost, that wasn't right, he was attacked by a beast- he quickly told his grandfather that he remembered and told him that he was going back to bed, but he wasn't going back to bed, he pulled out his laptop and turned it on. He muted it and signed in. Something strange happened. He was pretty sure that they were in Egypt. There was no way that they could be back in Japan.

Opening the internet up he typed in Seto's name and then attacked to see what would come up. He pulled up the first three articles and read them; the first two were old, he had seen them happen in front of his eyes as well as Joey and the others. But the last one was strange. It told him that Seto had been out on a date with his 'mysterious lover' a tall 'mysterious beauty.'

They were attacked on the way to Seto's car and Seto was slashed across his neck. But Seto had been attacked by a beast...

'What's going on?' Yugi thought as he closed his laptop and crawled back into bed. He wasn't going crazy he knew that. 'Maybe it has to deal with that strange boy and that woman...'

Meanwhile, Rye collapsed onto the stone floors of the stone chamber she was in, Marik quickly picked her up as Ottawa brought over a bubbling green brew.

"drink that..."

"What did she just do?"

"Changed time... That was an emergency manoeuvre we use when there are too many things going on at the same exact time... That troll tore through the market and killed 30 people, the hotel was attacked by that beast, also that boy went missing, and those harpies attacked..."

"Okay, we get it a shit load of crap happened and you three couldn't stop all of them in time." Bakura summed up. "But that doesn't explain the spell she used."

"That's... because... I'm not allowed... to use... it... It's dangerous... causes lapses... sensitive people will pick it up... or... I miscalculate... and world ceases... to exist..." Rye gasped out after downing the potion Ottawa gave her, she sighed and her head lulled back and she fell deeply into sleep as Marik carried her out of the room and into the main part of the castle.

"So what are we going to do?"

"Not kill each other until she's up and running... with that spell, she has to make sure her changes settled well. I can't do it because that spell is way too complex and the last time I tried it... the Dark Ages happened." Ottawa muttered though Bakura still heard her and Yami rolled his eyes.

"So who caused the holocaust?"

"...Bakura." Rye moaned. "Shut... up."

"To answer your question, it was some little brat name Jeanne's fault." Ottawa growled as Yami began laughing, recalling what Ottawa did to the girl after Rye gave her the okay. "Fucking little shit deserves more than eternal damnation."

"So, where are we now?" Ottawa looked at the computer screen in the living room, which like all electronics in the world, would have been set back to the time that they had gone back to. "About a week ago." She replied. "It gives us time to find those creatures and get rid of them before they cause that havoc."

"So the boy won't remember me?" Yami asked.

"Most likely not." Ottawa sighed. "But, that does give you a chance to get to know him as an adult."

"What do you mean?" Yami asked in confusion.

"In a few days he'll be coming back to Egypt, school trip if I remember right."

"So the kid that looked like me will be back too?" Marik asked eagerly. Ottawa smirked. "Not...not that I care or anything, could be fun to seduce him or something, you know?"

"All demons are softies at heart." Ottawa murmured to Bakura, making him laugh.

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"Hey, Joey, how's Seto?" Yugi asked, trotting down the hospital corridor.

"Ready to get out of here." Joey replied with an amused and resigned grin. "The nurses had to threaten to tie him down to keep him from getting out of bed."

"That sounds like Seto alright." Yugi chuckled and then followed Joey into the room.

"What do you want?" Seto growled, his blue eyes glaring at Yugi.

"I came to see if you were alright." Yugi answered, not at all put off by Seto's brusque greeting.

"I'm fine, and if the damned doctors would quit fluttering over me I would already be out of here." His voice sounded a little hoarse and Yugi could see a white bandage around his neck.

"So you will be coming to Egypt with us still?" Yugi asked.

"You really think I would miss that?" Seto demanded haughtily. Yugi grinned, but he still couldn't believe this was happening. The events of the previous days, being in Egypt, the boy, the attack, were starting to fade from his mind, feeling more and more like a dream each passing minute. He hung on to the scraps of memory, certain that they were important and not to be forgotten. Something strange had happened, and he wanted to know what.

"Hey, did you see the article of the attack?" Joey asked with a grin. Yugi nodded. "They called me mysterious, but that's only because they couldn't really see my face, and they didn't see me deck the guy that mugged Seto either."

"Well, I'm glad you're both alright." Yugi sighed. He had to go and help his grandfather in the store and so he reluctantly left his friends in the hospital room, but felt they would likely make good use of their time alone together.

As he sat on the bus waiting for his stop he reflected on the clearer memories he still had of the 'days that never were' and suddenly frowned. When he'd called for help he called Joey and Seto by different names; Jono and Seth. He rolled the names on his tongue and was startled to realize they felt right for his two friends.

But how did I know those names anyways?


Rye: *woozy from casting the spell* hopefully... I didn't sink atlantis again...

Ottawa: I think we're going to wind up breaking Time one of these days.

Rye: As if it's not already broken. *looks pointedly at Bakura and Marik*

Yami: Why do I hang out with you people? (sighs) Reviews make them happy.