The Stargate Base- USA

Daniel wanted to confirm that the spirit hadn't caused any trouble while he'd been away. He entered the room finding the spirit more translucent than before he'd left for his trip to Japan. He was floating in the air clearly asleep, still looking similar to Ryou Bakura. He looked so peaceful while he was asleep. The spirit was also looking more like Ryou Bakura then the last time he'd seen him. The spirit was mumbling in his sleep, the same was Ryou mumbled. "Need to find light." In Japanese. "Need to find hikari." This time in English, besides the word hikari which was still in Japanese. The word light. He kept going between his ancient dialect, English and Japanese.

He sat and watched the spirit as he slept, hoping to learn more about him. He was not disappointed.

"I am not your puppet Zork, I am free." He heard the murmur now in Japanese. He seemed to favour Japanese over the ancient language he spoke when was awake.

He muttered about Zork multiple times. Daniel didn't know who Zork was, it sounded like the name of a villain from a cartoon or movie or maybe he was referring to the old text-based PC game?

"You will not steal my hikari Zork. He is mine! I need him alive, you will not hurt him!" The spirit said quite dramatically before waking up.

"I know you can speak English and Japanese. You were talking in your sleep." Daniel confronted the spirit.

"I blame my host for that habit. He talks in his sleep all the time." The spirit replied in Japanese. He didn't appear to be bothered about being caught out in being able to speak more than his ancient language.

"Something of the host survives?" Daniel asked him.

"Of course, he's always in the back of my mind even when I have full control." The spirit replied with a heavy Japanese accident, very different from Ryou. Ryou's accent when he spoke English was English. "Usually, he's asleep when I have full control, but not always. Those times are the most entertaining; when he is trying to take control back himself. That is what this scar is from." He held up his hand. A scar that was exactly the same as Ryou's. "My chosen host managed to gain control of this hand one, so I ran it through. He has a strong will. I have had a lot of fun playing with him. He is the youngest host I have ever had. Some of my past hosts, I completely destroyed their minds by just taking them over for the first time. They all died in the end."

"Will Ryou die?" Daniel asked with concern.

"If I have my way, he will die of natural causes, hopefully, old age. He is the only one who will survive with me around. My last host. There will be no more hosts after he dies." The spirit told him.

"Why?" Daniel asked him.

"That is none of your concern. Is there a point to this? What do you want?" The Thief snapped. Losing patients with small talk.

"I came to check if everything is alright," Daniel told him. "Why are you so translucent?"

"Because you have cut me off from the ring." The spirit snapped. "It's a rather dull existence. Not able to touch anything, leave this room, or return to my ring. Just existing."

The spirit yawned and fell back to sleep. It looked like to Daniel he was struggling to stay awake. He left the room, making sure everything was secure before he left.

SG-1

"Sam, any idea what Zork is?" Daniel asked his fellow scientist from SG-1.

"An early text-based computer game. I used to play it all the time with my brother. Why?" Sam replied.

"The ring spirit keeps mentioning Zork when he's sleeping. I don't think it's the computer game." Daniel told her. "The way he keeps referring to Zork, I think he' a goa'uld. He's not any goa'uld I've ever heard of before."

"Considering how many goa'uld larva and Jaffa carrying them it isn't surprising that you haven't heard of him if he is a goa'uld," Sam told him. "So you don't think the spirit is a goa'uld?"

"I think he was merged with a goa'uld for so long that he doesn't know who the real him is. He actually seems to care about Mr Bakura. He wants to protect him from Zork." Daniel pondered.

"Do you really think they are reincarnations like they claim?" Sam asked him. "As a scientist, I find it hard to believe."

"But considering some of the things we have seen is it really that farfetched?" Daniel continued.

"Exactly," Sam replied. "I don't know what to expect anymore, even from our own planet."

YGO

The guard hadn't let up and Ryou had mostly been left on his own in the room. Janet had given him a few books to read. From what he was able to gather from listening to the whispers in the hallway was that SG-1, the team that Sam and Daniel belong to were currently in Japan. He still didn't know what they were going to do with him. He'd been here for close to a month already. He didn't think they knew what to do with him either. He had seen things at Area-51 that he should not have seen. He'd also had heard alarms going off for emergencies on a regular basis. Occasionally people would run off. For whatever the emergency was.

He looked up as a man he hadn't seen yet entered the room with Sam and Daniel. The big one who didn't talk often was holding a box, his box. Daniel was holding a couple of his diaries.

"How did you get those?" He asked.

"Your father let us into your apartment," the oldest man explained.

"I really need to change my locks." Ryou replied. "Or move out of the apartment owned by my father."

"Colonel O'Neil." The man introduced himself. "You and your father don't get along. He was all too happy to hand all this over. He hopes that we lock you up for the rest of your life."

"What I don't understand, the Ring has done all these horrible things to you, and these people." Daniel indicated to the box. "Why do you want it back?"

"So that no one else suffers the way I did. Bearing the Millennium Ring is my responsibility. This may sound odd, but I don't feel whole without the Ring, it seems like a part of me is missing." Ryou replied. "I was just getting used to not having the ring when it was disturbed. Now it feels like a part of me is dying every time I am separated from it.

"Come here and sit down." Jack indicated to the chair next to him. "Can you tell me who ever single one of these people are?"

"Most. Be careful with them, those are real people. Each one contains a soul." Ryou warned them. He sat at the table and started to pull them out, separating them into groups.

"All these ones are from before I become the host to the Ring Spirit." Ryou pointed out all the ancient ones and a few modern ones. "These ones were my friends."

"Were?" Sam asked.

"If I could return their souls, I would. Though I know for a fact that not all of them are alive anymore. Would you really want to remain friends with the person who was the reason you became this?"

"You can't seriously believe that they contain the souls?" Sam asked him.

"Their bodies are in comas because their souls are in these dolls." Ryou replied thoughtfully. He continued onto the next group of figurines. "This group are the kids that used to bully me. These are the professionals who tried to help me. These ones simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And these ones either did wrong by me or someone else and I'd witnessed it."

"What do you mean by wrong by you?" Sam asked him.

He held up the figurine. "This one was a teacher at Domino High School. I witnessed him sexually assaulting one of the girls I went to school with. I blacked out. When I woke up, the teacher was in a coma. The girl thanking me for helping her." He held up two more figurines that SG-1 all recognised for the file as being his former teachers that were both now dead. "These two were both meant to look after me when I was at school. With him, my father had forgotten to pick me up." He held up the male teacher. "He offered to drive me home. Instead, he drove me to a warehouse. Told me that I was special and that it would be our little secret. That it was hard to believe I wasn't a girl. He attempted to rape me. When I came to, I was standing close to home covered in blood. I never saw him again after that. She also tried to sexually assault me."

He went through, telling them what the ones who had wronged him or someone else and what those sins were.

"How come some of these are cards?" Sam asked him.

"Those souls were captured by the creator of Duel Monsters. Maximillion Pegasus. The spirit won them and the eye from him."

"How did the souls get into the figurines and the cards?" Sam asked him.

"By winning a Shadow Game." Ryou replied. "The Shadow Game didn't have to be the same each time. The Thief King preferred Monster World since that was my best game. He had access to all my memories and skills. The majority of the later ones were captured by playing Duel Monsters. Nevertheless, it could be any game, even one that you made up on the spot. State your rules and the shadows will take the soul of the person who doesn't meet those conditions."

"You really can't return the souls?" the silent man asked him.

"If I did know how to return the souls I would've returned most of them." Ryou replied.

Daniel changed the subject away from soul capturing. The archaeologist brought up photos of his diorama of Ancient Egypt. The one that had been destroyed when the Thief King had lost the Shadow Game. "This is unbelievable. Did you really make it yourself?"

"I did. I wish it wasn't destroyed, that was my best diorama. The Ring Spirit would show me an image of what he wanted me to create, and I would create it. I don't remember much of creating the diorama or figurines. Only flashes. One thing I do know is that it's built to scale of the time that the thief lived in." He pointed to the place near the edge of the diorama. "He came from here Kul'Elna, the people destroyed to create the Millennium Items. The ghosts and spirits are his family, the ones whose deaths created the Millennium Items."

Ryou walked to the box and pulled out a layer that had not previously seen.

"Who are these ones?" Daniel enquired.

"These ones don't contain souls." Ryou told them. "They've been used for two different Shadow games that the Thief lost. These ones were made for the Egyptian diorama. This is what the thief king looked like when he was alive."

Daniel took the small figurine examining it. Before putting it down. He looked impressed.

"These three are Atem, Set, and Isis, who Yugi, Kaiba and Ishizu are reincarnated from. This one is Shada he became the guardian of the items. Have you ever seen him? He usually comes to the people who have the Millennium Items eventually." Ryou them pointed out which ones were people of interest. "These ones are Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea and I." He had two of each for those. "The fantasy based ones are from our first Shadow Game. That is when I got this." He pointed to the scar on his hand.

The miniature of Yugi had the puzzle, as did the priests having miniature items.

"You understand why we can't let you have the ring back. Who's to say that you won't go on a killing spree?" Jack told him.

Ryou smiled at them sadly.

"I have an assignment from your teacher. He doesn't want you to fall behind while you're here." Daniel handed over his assignments and a couple of textbooks. "If you need any help with your assignments, I'm happy to help, as are any of the other archaeologists on site. We have experts in many different fields. If you need more text books, just ask."

Ryou nodded. This at least gave him something productive to do while he was here.

YGO

It was a couple of days later when Ryou saw a woman brought to the cell next to his. It was the first time he'd seen anyone else locked up. He watched through the hatch which had been left open. She was beautiful whoever she was.

"Do you really have to lock me up, can't you take me directly to the Stargate?" She begged the man.

"It's protocol ma'am." The soldier replied in a daze. All the men look they were in a daze.

"We are Hathor, your goddess. You cannot lock us up." The woman told the men.

"I really don't want to lock you up Miss Hathor, but I have to." The man told her. He really did look sorry that he had to cuff her and lock her in the room.

He had no clue what a Stargate was that she was looking for. It was the most entertainment he had had recently. His guards didn't even tell him to stand back from the door. They allowed him to keep watching.

The door to her room was closed. One of the soldiers ran off and returned with General Hammond, Daniel and Jack.

He saw them enter her room, but could not hear what was being said once they closed the door.

The woman honestly didn't believe she was the goddess Hathor? Could she? He knew that the gods were real, but she didn't look anything like the gods he had met. She looked human, to human.

The General and Jack were not in the room long before they came out of the room. The General had the same dazed look in his eyes as the soldiers. Jack looked completely normal. Daniel remained behind in the room. Ryou continued trying to evesdrop, but was now no longer able to hear what was being said.

Daniel spent a long period of time in Hathors room before he left, looking even more dazed than everyone else who had been in contact with the woman. He wished that he could ask his Yami what this woman was.