Chapter 7

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Mai looked down, took Hermos' card and gave it to Yami. "Here, take it." She pleaded "only you can save them, Yugi. You are the only one who will be able to do it."

"Very well, Mai, thank you." Yami responded and took the card. "I think the time has come to finish Dartz's madness."

The other three nodded. Tristan picked Joey up and the five of them left to face Dartz.

(A.N. The duel between Rafael and Yami has just finished and like in the original story, Yami has won and Rafael has been saved)

(The building is collapsing. Everyone is safe except for Yami, Mai and Rafael as they are struggling up against the stairs)

"We have to leave now, Mr Kaiba!" Roland called out.

"Say what?" Téa shrieked.

Rafael, seeing that he was slowing the pharaoh down, gathered all his strength, grabbed the pharaoh, and threw him to the top of the building seconds before the stairs gave way under his feet. Mai, who was already at the top of the building, quickly helped Yami up.

Anxiously looking over the edge, Yami saw that Rafael was hanging onto a small ledge by one hand. When Mai shrieked, he quickly looked up, only to see her pointing to something sitting calmly on the ledge. To Yami's utmost horror, he realised that it was Una. Calmly Una got up and walked up to Rafael. When she reached him, she sat down again and put her hand on Rafael's.

"Una, what are you doing? Quickly grab my hand! Come on, this building is going to collapse any minute now!" Mai called out.

"You too, Rafael! Take my hand!" Yami ordered.

Ignoring Yami's command, Rafael reached into his coat's pocket, took out a computer chip, and threw it to the pharaoh.

"Take this." Rafael ordered the pharaoh. "Don't loose it! You'll need it if you're planning to take out Dartz."

"Sir, please" Roland begged Kaiba while getting on the chopper "we have to go!"

Slowly, the chopper started to rise into the air. At the last second Kaiba jumped on board of the chopper.

"Grab our hands, guys, we don't have much time. This whole place is going down!" Mai called out desperately.

"Yes, please" Yami pleaded.

"Go while you can." Rafael ordered and fell into the abyss as his weight was too much for the ledge he was holding onto.

"Rafael!" Yami called out

"No, Una, what are you doing? Have you gone insane?" Mai cried out. To Yami's horror, he saw Una standing at the edge of the ledge and diving after Rafael. Again, Yami had the strangest feeling. The feeling he had when he saw the woman on the tablet. The feeling of his heart being ripped into shreds!

"Una, no!" He called out and was surprised to feel tears gather behind his eyes.

Slowly Yami and Mai got up. Just then, the chopper got down to a height parallel to the building's top.

"Come on, Pharoah. Jump. I'll catch you!" Tristan called out.

"I'm right here, Mai, I won't let go." Téa encouraged Mai.

Simultaneously, Yami and Mai looked at each other, nodded and leapt to their catch partner, grabbing firmly onto their hands when landing on the helicopters loading panel.

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Slowly waking up, Rafael was shocked to see his family sitting around his bed in the home he grew up in.

"Is this a dream?" He asked his mother.

His mother smiled and answered, "No, Rafael, this isn't a dream, nor was the accident of the ship capsizing. You see, this girl here was able to save everyone on the ship. Everyone except for you, that is." and pointed to Una who was leaning against the doorframe.

"Yes, son, but she wasn't strong enough to send us back home, so we had to wait in a plain where we were in a stasis like state, so that she could gather up enough strength to send us back. She only told us yesterday that she was finally strong enough. Right now, you are also in the same plain as we are." Rafael's father continued where his mother left off.

"Rafael, please don't be mad at the girl. She was very weak back then, because instead of gaining enough strength to fight against the "lizard" as she calls it, she constantly had to go out and save other people from Dartz, like Mikey and his mother as well as other people." Sonya pleaded.

"She also said that, when and if you are willing, she can send all of us back to a before the accident. She also said that we can go on the ship again, but then we will have to wait until she has taken Dartz down, seeing as she desperately needs to save every bit of the strength she builds up from now on out." Julian added.

"So, the big question is, Rafael, are you willing to wait until Dartz is defeated and go back to before the accident, or do you want to pick up the pieces here and continue onward?" the girl called Una asked while moving closer to the bed.

"O yeah, I'll wait. But until you're strong enough, I'm going back out there and help the pharaoh in every way I can." Rafael responded determined.

Una smiled sincerely for a short while before turning serious again.

"When you wake up, I won't be there. Don't worry about it, though. I will be around shortly. Now let's get going. The war has started. Once this battle is over, I promise that I will send you back. Once you arrive there, none of you will remember what has happened these last few years." Una said before walking out of the room.