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Last time:

"Yugi, It's Ishizu Ishtar. We are visiting Domino for the grand opening of The Seal of Anubis, no doubt you have heard of it. I will you see you tommorow at 3 o'clock for the unvealing at Domino Museum. But be aware, my brother is also attending."

Yugi smiled slightly, Malik was nothing compaired to his evil Yami, but Marik was gone now. But Malik was still not the most friendlyest of people. He reached for his phone and started to call everyone he knew about the Seal of Anubis.

Tommorow was going to be very intresting............



Teá held the phone limply in her hand. It was 8 o'clock in the morning. If she listened to anymore of Mai's rambling about the wet backseat of her car she'd be late.

"Mai, I have to go. Did you get Yugi's phonecall yesterday?"

"You mean the one at like One in the morning? Yes I did, I'll be there. Will you?" Mai asked.

"Yes- I mean of course. It's importent to Yugi." Teá said, mentally making a note to make sure the guy's were aware of how angry Mai was about the wet car.

"Okay, then you go to school Teá, I've kept you long enough." Mai smiled, as if Teá caould see her.

"Yes, you have..." Teá said quietly, "I'll see you at three, Mai." They exchanged goodbyes and Teá hung up. She grabbed her school bag and reached for the door. Outside was Yugi, Tristan, Joey and Ryou all waiting impatiencently for her arrival.

"'Bout time, what were ya doing?" Joey asked as Teá signalled for him to get off her garden wall.

"Mai phoned, she isn't happy about her car." Teá said, as they started to walk, "The seats were all wet." The boys flushed red, it was their fault's along with Kaiba's and Aurora's that Mai's car was wet.

"Is it ruined?" Yugi asked worried.

"No, it will take a good cleaner to get the seats okay again, but it's not ruined." Yugi sighed as Joey whistled.

"Can ya imagine what she would of done if it was ruined?"

"We would have to emigarate," Ryou said nervously.

"Or dissapear off da face of da earth to escape da wrath of Mai Valantine." Joey added, the boys laughed but Teá looked seroius.

"Oh come on guys, she isn't that bad is she?" Teá asked, holding her bag close to her in the wind which had reared it's ugly head again. Silence was heard from the group untill Joey spoke up.

"She's a great duelist, and 'er 'earts in da right place." Teá nodded, waiting for the rest to speak up as well.

"I agree with Joey, she is very......" Ryou faultered, he couldn't think of a word to discribe Mai.

"Oh come on guys, she isn't Marik or someone, this is Mai we are talking about!" Teá said, getting angry.

"To be honest." Ryou said timidly, "I prefer Marik," Silence was heard again. Ryou looked around at him, to see no one agreed.

"I was kidding." He continued, everyone smiled slightly.

"We knew dat!" Joey smiled as they crossed the road. Yugi stopped suddenly, Making Teá bash into him.

"Whats up, Yug'?" Joey asked.

"Look." Yugi stated, pointing to a poster being put up the paper shop.

"Woah," Joey gaped at the picture, that face and hair was unmistakable, "Dat can't be."

Teá, Ryou, Tristan, Yugi and Joey took a step closer to the poster. It was either her or someone else with a extreme uncanny resemblance to her.

"It's Aurora." Teá said, underneath the picture of the girl was a discription of Aurora, the police hadn't missed a beat. They discribed her down to the last freckle. Her parent's had filed a missing person report, it wouldn't be long till they found her.

"Wow, she ran away." Teá said.

"Didn't you see the paper the other day, Teá? There was a whole section on the front cover about her." Ryou reminded her.

"I hope she is okay, her parent's are probably wild with worry." Teá said, as they started to walk again.

"I am sure she will be fine, Teá. We are already late." Yugi said, starting to walk faster.

"You going ta da Seal of Anubis opening, Teá?" Joey asked as they all sped up. Teá looked over at them questioningly.

"Maybe....... I suppose." They had caught her off guard, why did everyone feel she didn't want to go?

The bell rang and the teenagers hurried quickly to their lesson. The teacher looked manicly at them as they arrived five minutes late. Her red hair was laying straight this morning, where as usually it would be piled up in a bun.

"Sit down." She chirped, catching them all off guard. They all took their seats towards the back of the class. Ryou next to Joey, who was behind Tristan and next to Yugi.

Joey was scribbling something down on a piece of paper, shoving it towards Yugi when the teacher wasn't looking.

Yugi reached out under his book and pulled the note out from where Joey had placed it.

'How did you know about the Opening?' Yugi wondered how to respond.

'Nevermind about that, Malik is going to be there.' Yugi passed the note back quickly, watching for the prying eye's of Ms Tenschu.

Joey eye's wided slightly when he saw the note, showing Ryou who looked taken aback. Yugi took back the note when Joey passed it.

'This will be fun...' Yugi laughed, putting the note away as Ms Tenschu started their maths.


It was 5 minutes to 3; Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Ryou, Teá and Mai joined the excited crowd outside Domino Museum. They could barely hear each other over the chatter and excitement of the many people gathered to witness the same thing they wanted to.

The group turned to the barking of many dogs. There was Aurora, two Great Danes and a Collie dragging her along.

"Hi...." she said, trying to control the dogs as one jumped for Joey.

"See they reconise their own species." A cold voice bit.

"Kaiba." Yugi said, innocently, "I didn't expect you to turn up." Seto shrugged the fact off as one of Aurora's Great Danes flew for him.

"Can't you control them?" A voice asked. Aurora smiled at Mokuba's presence.

"I've got a new job, part time dog-walking." She held up some yen, "It's beginning to pay off."

Yugi strained to hear Aurora over the crowd, but they were almost instantly hushed by Ishizu Ishtar who was standing on the steps to the Museum.

"Can you all carm down, please." She asked, her brow furrowed in concentration.

"We wanna see the Seal!" A journalist cried, to a mass of agreement. Ishizu looked behind her, her brother standing a fair few feet back. Turning back to the front she sighed.

"I bear terrible news about the Seal." Yugi and his friend's turned to listen. One of Aurora's Great Danes pulled her away, it was so strong it managed to do so, turning some heads. Blushing bright red, Aurora dug her heels in to control the canine, but to no avail. Her friend's looked on, amused, as she fell flat on her face and was unceramoniously dragged away by the hounds. She managed to tie one to a post, while still wrestling with the other.

"The Seal has been removed from the exhibition. We do not know by whom or where it is now, but we have a faint idea." Ishizu continued, the journalists' ear's literally pricked up at this.

"Who do you think took it?" shouted one.

"Why do you think they look it?" Another yelled.

Bending her head down for a second, Ishizu tried to summon some patience for the Press.

"That is classified infomation, besides, we are not pointing any finger's yet. We will make no accusations while we are still unsure of the Seal's whereabouts."

Seto sneered, "Waste of time..." he muttered, turning to go, but Mokuba took his sleeve.

"Seto... What if the Seal isn't missing?" Seto looked down at the black haired pre-teen.

"She just said it was, come on, Mokuba."

"What if she just said that because she doesn't want the Newspaper's to take Photo's of it?"

"She let them film it the other day...." Seto said.

"Your brother is rather bright." A voice said, Ishizu had walked down to meet them, "When they filmed the Seal yesterday I had no control over it. But, today I do, come on in." She signalled to them to come into the Museum as the massive crowd had disintigrated.

"Do you allow dogs?" Aurora asked, trying to quieten the hounds.

"She's letting Wheeler in isn't she?" Seto smiled slightly. Ishizu looked at the dogs uncertainly.

"Any trouble and they must be removed." She stated, Aurora nodded, dragging the dogs towards the entrance of the Museum.

"Come on Jessy." Aurora smiled as the collie stopped to sniff the sign post.

The Museum was deadly silent, Aurora let out a little squeak as the dogs ran for a book in the middle of the exhibition.

"That's the Bel Uh Ful." Ishizu answered Aurora's question before the word's had left her mouth.
"In English." Aurora said, her eye's widening as Seto reached her side to look at the closed book.

"The Egyptian Book of The Dead. Each Pharaoh would be buried with one to help him or possibly her in the Afterlife." Ishizu helped, Aurora looked through the glass, misting it up with her breath. Moving on as the dogs decided to drag them to another side of the exhibition, the group stopped as they walked past Egyptian cutlery and plates.

"You'd certainly need a servant ta clean all dat." Joey stated as they passed.

"That is just peasant's cutlery, Joey." Teá said, reading the sign on the glass. Joey looked suprised, but moved on. Aurora lingered for a moment at the knives, she wondered how much a blade like that would pierce.

Yugi was already way ahead of them at jewellry belonging to many Pharaoh's.

"Why's it all Silver and not Gold? I thought Gold was more precious than Silver." Aurora asked, stroking Jessy on the head.

"Because Gold was quite easy to come by in Egypt," Yugi explained, "Silver was not, as it had to be traded in to the country. Only the Pharaohs or someone high would be able to afford the Silver." Aurora nodded as Jessy set her black nose up against the glass.

"Don't Jess, bad girl." Aurora scolded, as Jessy pawed the glass trying to reach the Silver it seemed.

Aurora suddenly turned very pale, "You don't have any mummies here do you?" She asked Ishizu, catching Malik walking quietly behind them.

A smile crawled over Seto's mouth at Aurora's fear.

"Why?" He asked her, she looked as white as a sheet. She tried to scowl but her mouth muscles just weren't working, her mouth just lay there half open.

"Not if you don't want to see them." Ishizu said, a gentle smile playing on her face at the teen's fear.

"There is a great Mummy in The British Museum." Ryou said, "They nicknamed him Ginger. I saw it once, they have the biggest collection of Egyptian Artifacts outside of Cairo."

"Is that Ginger the one preserved by Sand?" Yugi asked.

"Yes, Sand was a good preserver, it would drain the hydration out of the body." Ishizu said as they walked passed a covered glass exhibition.

"What's in dere?" Joey asked, pointing at the covered glass container.

"A skull." Ishizu said blankly as they kept walking.

"Whos?" Teá asked, stopping quickly. Malik from behind laughed.

"A Pharaohs." Aurora was quivering now, the dogs eager to see the boney skull. Her body reisisted to move even when the Great Danes tugged, she wouldn't pass the covered glass conatiner.

"I, I think I'll just stay here." She said, her voice shaky.

"Ya frightened ain't ya, Aurora?" Joey asked, walking towards the skull. Ishizu looked at her brother skeptically, warning him to not say anything disturbing about the skull.

"Maybe..." Aurora said, trying to regain composure.

"Look, dere's nothing ta be afraid of." Joey said, clutching a piece of the velvet that covered the skull. Aurora knew what he was doing before he done it, he pulled the cover off. Aurora screamed as she shut her eye's tight, refusing to look at the skull.

"Come on, Aurora." Joey said, "If ya don't walk past ya won't see da Seal." Aurora flung her hand's out like a blind man.

"I don't have to look at it." Seto was almost in histerics.

Aurora opened one eye, "You wouldn't be doing that it that was your skull!"

Seto looked at her scornfully, he could say nothing to that, he had to admit, he wouldn't be laughing if it was.

"My brother told you it was a Pharaoh's, not a Priest's." Ishizu said to the confusion of a few people.

"To high up for you," Aurora said, trying not to look at the Skull as she passed, one eye closed.

"It moved!" Seto said, Aurora jumped, backing up against the wall. Joey couldn't help but splutter a bit with laughter. Aurora just looked so funny beuing scared of a Skull.

"That's a terrible thing to do, Seto." Teá said as Aurora breathed in and out. Yugi had had enough of the scared Aurora and was now looking closely at the Skull.

"It won't bite." Joey said, as Aurora again tried to pass it. She shot him a look.

"Don't give it ideas." She laughed nervously. Finally passed it she looked around for a chair to sit on.

Ishizu started to walk on, Malik threw the velvet cover over the skull again, shooting Yugi a expressionless look.

"Do you want to see the bitumen which some call the mummies, or would you prefer to go straight to the Seal now?" Ishizu asked, signalling at a makeshift door. The group looked around at each other as they heard a echoing voice. Aurora jumped as a tall, black haired boy with a dice earring joined them.

"I only just heard about the exhibition," Duke looked over at the door, "Are there mummies?"

Aurora was so freaked by this time she refused to see the mummies, but Joey wanted to see them, so Ishizu opened the door.

"Comin' anyone?" Joey offered. Everyone shook their head's. Shrugging Joey walked into the room.

About two minutes later they heard a crash, Ishuzi looked up.

"Oh no..." She opened the door followed by everyone else, Aurora unwillingly followed along. Joey was standing next to a chair.

"What happened?" Yugi asked. Joey shrugged.

"Wasn't me." The group turned as they heard a key lock. Tristan pulled on the door handle to try and open the door.

"Someone locked us in."

Aurora paled again.

"Anywhere but here." she muttered over and over again, sitting down in the chair next to Joey.

"Help!" Teá called, as Tristan bashed on the door.

"I am the only worker here at the moment." Ishizu explained.

"When will someone else come?" Duke asked, banging on the door as well.

"In two or three hours." Ishizu said, searching her pocket's for an extra key.

"Two... or three.. hours?" Aurora said, shaking her head.

'This is way to freaky for me, I don't want to be surronded by mummies.' she thought, daring a glance at one mummy.

"Well, while we're 'ere tell us about these Mummies." Joey asked.

"These are mostly Nomarchs and Imakhus from around the 18th Dynasty or maybe more. This one was the Keeper of the Secret of all the Royal Sayings." Ishizu explained.

"Meaning he or she chose who saw the Pharaoh and who didn't!" Malik added distastefully. Yugi was listening carefully as well as staring at the stone carving behind the mummy.

"That's what we found in her tomb." Ishizu added, seeing where Yugi's glance was directed to. A Gaint Wolf was carved beside the girl, who was standing infront of what looked to be a palace.

"We found no treasure in her Tomb, so we suppose Tomb Robber's had taken it all around the time of her burial." Ryou looked sheepish and continued to look around carefully.

"Was that from the 18th Dynasty?" Aurora asked, daring a glance as the mummified woman.

"Yes."

"Under what rule?"

"That's unknown." Ishizu stated.

"Well today I've learnt ta never get trapped in a room with a bunch of mummies, my friend's and Seto Kaiba." Joey said, tiredly.

Aurora stretched as Yugi looked at his watch.

"We have only been here twenty minuties."

Suddenly the Great Danes and Jessy went mad, jumping up at one mummy and growling. Teeth bared, they had pulled Aurora off her seat unexpectedly.

"Carm down. Carm down." Aurora pleaded as the Dog's frustration just grew. Jess just gave a doggy sigh and laid down, The gaint Canines barking all over her.

"I can't say they are not always like this because that would be lying." Aurora said, grabbing one Great Danes collar as she bent down, she came face to face with the sign on the glass and her mouth dropped open.

"What is it?" Ishizu asked.

"Nothing, my mistake." Aurora said embarrased, "I thought that sign said Tomb Robber that's all." Joey glanced at the plate on the glass.

"It does."

"Well, look, if she died (she pointed at the woman) around the same time as him (she pointed at the Tomb Robber) don't you think maybe the Tomb Robber was the one that stole the treasure in her tomb."

Ishisu shook her head, as if Aurora had just uttered a nasty curse.

"They died together, under the same strange circumstances. Already seemingly half mummified, Lungs, Stomach, Intestines already removed."

"Dat reminds me." Joey said, "I'm hungry."

Aurora paled again for the third time.

"I'm hope your not that hungry, I don't think Ishizu would be too pleased if you ate any of her exhibits." Mai smiled, Aurora turned a delicate shade of green.

"People did use them as medicene in the 13th Century to the 17th." Ryou added.

"This is not my day." Aurora said queasyly, bending over. Mai walked to her side.

"He was kidding, right?" Ryou shook his head.

"Learned a lot today?" Joey asked himself. Mai gave him a look.

"Have SOME sympathy, Wheeler."

Duke and Tristan were still ramming on the door shouting for help.

"Have you seen the Mummy?" Tristan asked, Aurora looked up, her delicate shade of green taking a turn for the worse.

"Yeah, dats cool." Joey said, and then the group, excluding Aurora, Yugi, Ishizu and Malik fell into a heated disccusion about walking, talking mummies.

Sometime later, maybe hours or longer; no one had bothered to keep track of time, they heard a voice. Ishizu sat up straight on the chair.

"Carlos?" She asked hopefully, relief washing over her as she recieved a reply.

"Ishizu? What in the world are you doing in there?" Ishizu believed she had no energy in which to reply with.

"It is a long story, Carlos, can you please be of assitance and escort us out of here." The door knob turned and a young man with fair hair and pale grey eye's that shimmered appeared at the door.

"You will insist on getting in these situations, Ishizu." He laughed at her. His eye's fell upon the rest of the group.

"I thought I left direct orders that no one was allowed in after the Opening." Ishizu face suddenly turned hard.

"There was no opening; I do not feel as if we have the right to show the Seal to the public, Carlos." She faced him as the rest slipped past behind her.

"The Seal has no rights, Ishizu, it is an artifact, and like every artifact we have ever discovered it is to be shown to the Public, I have not made acceptions for anything else. Ishizu, if you take your position here seroiusly you will announce another opening tommrow, if you don't, I expect your resignation by Wednesday at the least."

Carlos left Ishizu standing by the door, neither her composure or posture deteriorated after Carlos' outburst.

Ishizu glared after him, turning to the group.

"Finally, I can show you that Seal." Yugi looked questioningly up at her.

"Are you annoucing a new Opening?" He asked timidly, Ishizu blinked and looked down.

"If I do not, he most certainly will. But I doubt the Seal will be around long enough for him to show it." At this point she looked up at Kaiba, "I have a feeling by tommorow it will be gone, long out of our grasp. A darker personnel that what we have worked to to gain the Seal is yearning for it. The evil inside it is not yet known to us, but thousands of years ago it was to them." The group tried to follow, understanding little but the Egyptians had known of the power inside the Seal.

"The power is rising again, and they can feel it, they search for the many artifacts that will make the curcuit of power complete. One is hanging round your neck Yugi." Yugi looked up.

"The Millennium Puzzle?" he asked, his hand ligering over the gold artifact.

"No, Yugi, the other one." Yugi touched the Scarab, it's brownish tone catching the light.

"The Millennium Item's played a part in the story. The Seal tells of a tale of a Shadow Monester, that only wish was for power and death. An alliance made to protect the People as the war against the Shadow Monesters raged. Many who faced the creature was killed, their soul's ripped from their body. It is unknown how many or of what importence they played in the Shadow Games, but one thing has recently come to our undestanding....."

"What is that?" Mokuba asked, he had been so quiet they almost had forgotten he was there.

".....That the Pharaoh was one who stood up against the Shadow Monesters, the creature depised him. The Pharaoh could only watch while his subjects were murdered at the hand's of the beast and the beast's army. But when his cousin was killed, along with the woman his cousin had made an alliance with, he decided to put a stop to it. He fought the Beast one-on-one with his Ka, the remaining preists and friend's waiting outside. The courage displayed that night must of brang them all to tears..... but Egypt was left with no Pharaoh, or Shadow Monesters." Ishizu eye's were deadly still, she did not kid about. In everyone present's heart they felt her strenght as she told the story. All that time her eye's had been fixed on Yugi, who's eye's were set on his Millennium Puzzle. Swallowing heavily he looked up, his eye's darting from friend to friend.

Everyone remained silent, the story had struck them hard. Seto's eye's rested on Yugi. Aurora head buried in her hand's. It took them all sometime to relise that the Museum was soundly quiet. Ishizu looked away from Yugi, sensing something other than amazement in his glare now.

"When... when did you discover this?" Seto asked eventually.

"Less than a week ago, it took me by suprise as well."

Aurora was the first to relise most of them were weeping, wiping tear's from her eye's she stood up, all fears of Mummies and Skulls gone.

"Show us the Seal!" She did not order it as such, it was a request that was gladly obeyed. Ishizu leading them down a corridor to a gaint gold plate. It shone with such radiance it could of blinded them, every incription had been prized and taken great of. It was atleast four finger's thick, each picture drawn with detail. Each one looked hundred times better than shown on the TV. The delicate artwork was a monument to souls lost thousands of year's before. Each person in the room felt honored to stand before it.

"It's incredable." Joey said. Teá looked up at it in it's glass case. The pharaoh was unmistakably the one in the middle. To his left one that held such a high post as Priest, and to his right someone that could of been a imakhu, an honored one; who would of been the Pharaoh's friend or close family. A gaint creature carved behind them, standing tall, it had the head of a Jackal but the body of a man.

Underneath was again the boy who had been named as Bakura, the Tomb Robber. But something new was carved, something that hadn't been broadcasted. A young boy, one that unmistakably like Malik.

"On the back.... I have yet to discover what it is." Ishizu led them behind the gold plate.

Five rectangles that could easy fit a duel card snugly was carved in a strange formation. One at the top, three in the middle and one at the bottom.

Around the formation was six round, almost egg, shapes the size of a teenagers Palm.

"These round shapes fit these in." Ishizu pointed at the Scarab. Yugi slipped the Scarab off the chain and stood up to the Seal. With a look at Ishizu he fitted the Scarab neatly in.

"So there must be more of those Scarabs." Aurora said, blankly.

"They are The Scarabs of Anubis. We know a duel card fits into these spaces, but what Cards do is unknown, such is the power of what should awaken if they are all fitted in."

"All we know," Malik said, "Is whatever power it was, it was strong enough to not only bring down Egypt, but to bring down the Pharaoh too."


Damien grinned widely.

"You can get me the Seal?" Damien's eye's danced behind the shades he was wearing. Harris smiled evilly up at his master.

"Certianly, it'll be a piece of cake. The security at the Museum is low, we'll have the Seal in no time."

"And get me some of that Jewelry as well." Damien smiled, amused now.

"And if you can - bring the Pharaoh."