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Chapter Seven

As they discovered who the men were who had paid for each of the girls and they were brought to the Shadow Realm to be questioned, they found the two me who had bought Belinda and Courtney and that they had died and their bodies had been thrown away like trash, well lets say that Bakura's scream of NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Could be heard echoing through out the Realm and what happened to those two men was justice served twice over.

Then the men were all found and the girls were brought home, only to be dead inside. Tasha and Cassandra were found first and their physical deformities weren't as bad as what happened to their brains. Both girls were almost brain dead, and Shadi needed to get inside and work fast to prevent them from disappearing completely. As he and Yami walked through Tasha's mind, they were sickened with what they saw. This poor thing had tried to be strong to the end, but finally gave up, and now she sat huddled in a corner of her mind broken and wanting to be left alone to disappear.

Yami tenderly picked up this little girl and started singing an old Egyptian Lullaby and as he sang, tears ran down his cheeks and she looked into his eyes and she felt the love emitting from this person and then she began to respond and as she touched the side of his face and she whispered "take the pain away, please." Yami then reached out and touched her face and he said "we need to work together and try to break through the barrier that separates you from her. If we can do that, then just maybe she can begin to start to heal." If I do help, will we be like were use to be?" The little girl asked. Yami couldn't lie to her and then he said "I really don't know, but we can start making the pain go away enough for her to climb out of the hell and walk again in the light. Can you help us?" She smiled and took his hand and they Shadi and Yami's spirits returned to their bodies and they both broke down and cried because of what this poor child had gone through. The reason Yami and the others were helping is that the last time nearly destroyed Ishizu and Shadi refused to let her help.

Courtney was the next girl found and as they entered her mind, well it was three times worse then what happened to Tasha. Courtney couldn't take what hell they were making her do and what was being done to her and she snapped long ago. When they entered her mind it was almost black with rage and they had to hurry and find what was left of her inner child or be destroyed by the hatred consuming her mind. As they entered the room where her inner child was, it was bright with ethereal light and it was going to be a very difficult time reaching this poor broken soul. As Bakura went over to where she was huddled in a fetal ball, he sat down and pick her up and rocked her in his arms. Tears blinded him but he wouldn't let her go. As she struggled to get away Bakura started whispering to her in Ancient Egyptian and for some strange and unexpected reason she knew what he was saying. She looked into his tear stained face and couldn't believe that this man wanted to help and not hurt her.

Shadi then walked over and he too started talking to her in Egyptian and as she uncurled her body and started wrapping her arms around Bakura he softly said "we need your help to bring your other self back into the real world. It won't be easy, but I will be here with you and just maybe we can convince her to want to come home." This poor child like person then asked "will we be the same as when we left?" Shadi then touched the side of her face and he told her "no, but we can help her deal with the demons inside her mind and just maybe she can start to heal. She may never be the same, but if she wants to live again, we can help her, if you help us." The child then reached out to both Bakura and Shadi and they began walking toward the bright light and the darkness started going away.

Sasha was the next girl found and she was almost comatose, and that scared the hell out of Shadi, because he didn't know if they were going to be able to reach her at all. He and Marik walked to a door and it wouldn't open and then Marik grabbed hold of the doorknob and with all his strength he yanked it open and the foul smell that came rushing out at them nearly made them double over. What they were experiencing was her inner child dying and the ran to where she lay and Shadi picked her up and then he and Marik started chanting one of the most strongest healing chants and as they said the words a warm glowing light engulfed them and little by little the warmth started to enter her body and as it did she started breathing better.

Marik cried and as his tears fell onto her face she opened her eyes and whispered "I've been waiting here for someone to come, but when they didn't we decided to give up and die. Will the pain go away now?" Shadi smiled at the child and he whispered "little one we can make some of the pain go away but she will have to deal with some of it in order to begin to start the healing process. Will you come back with is to tell her to fight?" The inner child reached out and they both took her hands in theirs and they walked towards the door and as Shadi and Marik's spirits returned to their bodies, they ran and vomited over and over again.

There was only one girl left to find and that was Serenity Wheeler.

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Chapter Seven Coming Up...Will they find her in time???