Good Day Readers! I only own Kylie and Katherine Hope along with the unique cards within their decks and whatever other OCs decide to crop up. Also this was originally written in dubbed so some chapters may have some dubbed dialogue remaining because I like it. Also italics symbolise another language not Japanese, I'm follow the Manga's timeline year speaking because it's easier for me.

This chapter will have a change in POV, first part is Yami Yugi's, second part is Katherine's, I would appreciate any responses that you have, please enjoy. Thank you to 2kirschcherry for the reviews and I was intending to leave the Labyrinth Brothers to Yugi and Jounouchi anyway, it wouldn't work otherwise.

Chapter 10: - Evil Spirit of The Ring

I carefully moved my friends' still and lifeless bodies back so that the area around the dueling mat would be easily accessible, although I did stop when I noticed that Katherine's right hand was a golden colour instead of the deadly pale blue everyone else was but I shook it off and stood up to face Bakura with a dark look swirling in my eyes.

"Bakura… you're a duelist of the Dark Games aren't you?" I asked. This place held the same ominous presence as when I had dueled Pegasus before he kidnapped the soul of Yugi's grandfather and given how dead my friends were I feared that the same thing had happened to them.

"Bakura? I am not Bakura," The individual responded. I demanded to know exactly what his objective was and he unleashed an arrogant laugh. "Yugi you should know this. Whoever gets all the Millennium Items will have everything he wants from this world. If you win I'll bring back everyone's souls but if I win I'll take your Millennium Puzzle," Bakura responded.

As he spoke it felt like something was pulling in the back of my mind almost as if something was attempting to force its' way through but my missing memories were preventing me from recalling exactly what that was except for that this Dark Bakura had the Millennium Ring, although the moment he mentioning taking my Puzzle I forgot about the feeling and clasped my hand around its' cold metallic surface.

"Try it!" I challenged in response to his claim. With the opening banter done the two of us crouched on either side of the mat and I drew my first hand with one of the monsters being Honda's favourite.

Other Yugi – LP: 2000

Dark Bakura – LP: 2000

"My card is Commander in defence mode!" I declared. I placed the card in the declared position and the monster was projected just as in my last Dark Game against Pegasus however instead of the creature on the card, what came out was Honda, dressed as Commander, instead.

Commander – Attribute: Dark, Type: Machine, Level: 2, ATK/750, DEF/700

"W-what this? Where am I?" Honda questioned. He seemed just as confused as I was then he turned around and upon seeing me exclaimed his friend's name however I was more concerned about the fact that Honda appeared to be trapped inside of a card and I worried about the fate of the others and if they were in the cards they had chosen as well.

"Everyone's souls were transferred to the card they liked the most," I voiced my realisation. The person possessing Bakura's body laughed as he confirmed my suspicions by claiming it was too late to realise this fact now and then he proceeded to summon out the White Thief in response to my move.

White Thief – Attribute: Light, Type: Spellcaster, Level: 3, ATK/1000, DEF/700

Dark Bakura ordered his monster to attack with Honda still being extremely confused, he was destroyed sending him to the Graveyard making me seriously concerned about what would happen to him whilst he was there but for the time being I had to focus on winning this duel until I would get him back safely.

Unfortunately my worry was soon increased when Dark Bakura revealed that soon the God of Death would arrive in the graveyard and when it took the card that Honda was trapped in, that meant that his body was going to die.

'Honda-kun, I will surely save you from the graveyard.' I thought. Glancing down at my hand I saw that there was another of my friend's soul cards already nestled within it. 'I can't play everyone's soul card carelessly but to defeat the White Thief there's no other than Jounouchi-kun's Flame Swordsman.' I thought. My hand drifted over to the necessary card and I slid it out so that I could play it.

"Next is this card, Flame Swordsman," I spoke. I then played the card and just as with the Commander, the individual that was projected was in fact Jounouchi who seemed incredibly confused before turning to look at me and having the exact same reaction as Honda did earlier.

Flame Swordsman – Attribute: Fire, Type: Warrior, Level: 5, ATK/1800, DEF/1600

"You are… Yugi?" Jounouchi exclaimed in shock. He soon unfroze from the shock that he had been sent into and looked down at himself then looked back up at me. "What's going on?" Jounouchi asked. I would have to explain the situation clearly yet quickly to get Jounouchi to help.

"Be calm and listen. Your soul is now sealed inside the card of the Flame Swordsman, if we can't win this duel, you can't come back and if you're defeated in battle, you will go to the graveyard , like Honda-kun," I explained. Jounouchi froze once again upon hearing his potential fate however once I explained that I would need his help, Jounouchi readily agreed although upon turning to face Dark Bakura he screamed again.

"Ba-Bakura? Bakura's the enemy? I don't get this dream one bit," Jounouchi commented. I swiftly informed him of Dark Bakura's true nature although Jounouchi didn't understand it he still proceeded to attack Dark Bakura's White Thief destroying it.

Dark Bakura – LP: 2000 – LP: 1200

Dark Bakura frowned at the damage that had been inflicted upon his Life Points however the next card he played was one that he positioned face down in defensive mode which caused me to pause momentarily as I tried to figure out what this evil spirit could be up to, although I did voice my query.

"That doesn't matter, the enemy is weak," Jounouchi responded. I attempted to stop Jounouchi from doing something dangerous however he didn't listen to me and instead charged right in causing the card to flip up allowing me to see that it was a Metamorph Pot which caused me to grit my teeth.

Dark Bakura asked if I understood and I voiced the monster's identify which caused Jounouchi to slightly freak out as he hadn't run into this specific monster before which caused him to wonder if he had made a mistake by destroying the monster.

"When a Metamorph Pot appears, our entire hand must go to the graveyard. In this moment, it's a good thing that I have no cards with others' souls in them but…," I explained. Jounouchi apologised but I didn't blame him for what happened, I discarded my hand and drew anew with one of the cards being drawn was Black Magician.

'Black Magician! Black Magician is the card that has Yugi's soul!' I thought as my eyes stayed focused on the card. Dark Bakura chuckled as he played another monster face down in defence and a second card also face down in the Spell and Trap zone, I knew from his moves that he was attempting to freak me out but it wouldn't work.

With another set card it was far too dangerous for me to keep Yugi's card in my hand so I put it into play causing Yugi's soul to be projected outwards but I didn't wait for any reaction as I immediately seized another card in my hand which would allow me to undo a mistake that I had made early in the duel.

Black Magician – Attribute: Dark, Type: Spellcaster, Level: 7, ATK/2500, DEF/2100

"And also a Spell card, Resurrection of the Dead to revive Honda-kun," I finished. This revived Commander and with it, Honda's soul putting him back into the game where he was surrounded by Jounouchi and Yugi causing him to ask what was going on.

"Seems we were transformed into Monsters from Duel Monsters," Jounouchi responded. Yugi didn't really understand everything either although the young boy's appearance caused Honda to ask if he wasn't up where I was causing the three to look at me.

"Yugi," I prompted. Yugi appeared to be understand exactly what I was getting at as he decided that now was not the time to be keeping secrets from our friends since we all need to fight together in order to survive this Dark Game.

"That Yugi is actually a spirit that sleeps within the Millennium Puzzle. It's the other me," Yugi explained. The other two looked completely confused by Yugi's explanation but didn't ask questions. "Sorry… for not telling you about this until now. It was not my intention to hide this from everyone but…," Yugi apologised. However Honda and Jounouchi claimed that we were all still friends which had relieved me slightly as I was worried that they wouldn't trust me if I revealed myself to them.

With that out of the way Honda asked where the girls were with Yugi correctly guessing that they were still within the deck and Jounouchi suggested that they attempt to end this duel before any of the girls' were put in harm's way with the blonde offering to make the next move.

"Wait a moment! This turn is mine!" Yugi reminded. The young boy stepped forward and used the Black Magician's powers to destroy Dark Bakura's face down card however it turned out to be another Metamorph Pot and so once more the both of us discarded our hands and drew new cards.

'Anzu, Kylie and Katherine's souls card!' I thought in shock. The fact that I had drawn all three girls' Soul Cards in the same hand was simply shocking, having seen my expression Dark Bakura mocked me and played a card face down potentially being a third Metamorph Pot thus putting the girls in danger and then he flipped over the Trap Card he played earlier causing shock to run through my system.

"I activate Just Desserts," Dark Bakura explained. From its' image a ghostly hand leapt out and launched towards my face making a gripping motion and when it hit, it felt like the very Life Points I had lost were being torn out of my own body making my grip my chest and curl in slightly due to the pain.

"For each monster you have on the field, it inflicts five hundred damage points directly to your Life Points," Dark Bakura revealed. I heard my friends cry out in worry about me and whilst I reassured them that I was indeed fine, another hit like that would end this duel for us.

Other Yugi – LP: 2000 – LP: 500

I looked at my hand and knew that the girls weren't safe in it so I had to get all three of them out onto the field thankfully the Hope sisters had provided me with the means to do just this.

"First I activate the Spell, Warrior's Counsel. If I have a Warrior type monster on the field this Spell allows me to Special Summon another from my deck or hand and I choose Maiden of Wisdom, Athena," I declared. Once I placed the card down a light began to glow and Katherine was released from her card.

Maiden of Wisdom, Athena – Attribute: Earth, Type: Warrior, Level: 8, ATK/2800, DEF/2700

*Yu-Gi-Oh*

I blinked slightly as the light finally returned to my vision however when I looked down at my hand I was surprised to find my right hand free of any gold material and that I was dressed in a rather ancient Grecian style dress with bronze armour at the top, bronze armbands on both wrists with a spear resting in my left hand and a golden shield over my right which bore the head of a snake haired woman and a weight was on my head.

"What in the-," I began to mutter. However when I raised my head I was cut off as a scream tore from my throat upon seeing a giant Bakura leering down on me, I took a slightly step back as I tried to calm my racing heart only for it to speed up once again when I looked behind me and saw a giant Other Yugi causing another scream to erupt.

"Katherine-chan calm down it's ok," Yugi's voice called out. I looked in his direction to see him, Jounouchi and Honda standing there all dressed as the cards they had chosen to represent themselves which meant that I was dressed as Athena, making the weight on my head the helmet, and with the freaky dark appearance of our surrounding, I knew one thing for sure.

"We're in the Shadow Realm," I bluntly stated. Yugi blinked slightly at my statement and the other two looked confused although giant Bakura raised an eyebrow however I noticed his hair was slightly wilder and his eyes more angled then the one I had met. "You're not Bakura," I hissed. This caused Dark Bakura to laugh as he looked at me.

"Quite the perceptive child isn't she," Dark Bakura muttered. Yugi swiftly explained to me the circumstance of the duel and I nodded my head to show him that I understood before looking up at Other Yugi.

"You'd best get Kylie and Anzu out here soon as. It's risky but we're safer together," I called out. Other Yugi nodded and so he then summoned out Kylie by playing Virgo in the Spell and Trap Zone which was due to Virgo's Special Effect.

Virgo – Attribute: Light, Type: Spellcaster, Level: 2, ATK/500, DEF/2500

I watched as my sister appeared dressed in a long flowing blue dress with a cord of red rope around her waist as white wings expanded behind her, she blinked and looked down at herself before looking at me.

"I have one question. Why am I in a dress?" Kylie asked. My sister had always hated dresses believing that they got in the way and prevented her from being able to move properly which made her seriously upset whenever she had to wear one.

"Because your soul has been trapped inside of Virgo and we're currently in the middle of a duel for said souls," I shyly explained. Kylie sighed and looked down before looking around herself examining the situation and then her piercing green eyes swiftly found my own.

"Shadow Realm," Kylie stated. I nodded to confirm her suspicions, this caused Kylie to mutter something under her breath before turning up to face Other Yugi. "Due to Virgo's Special Effect, here," Kylie spoke. She held up her hand and from it a light flew out and settled into Other Yugi's chest restoring the Life Points he had lost.

Yugi – LP: 500 – LP: 1500

Other Yugi proceeded to play a monster in face down defence position and when the card lifted up I saw Anzu underneath and she called out to us so the boys panicked and rushed over to hide her from Dark Bakura's sight with me and Kylie rushing over to be with them.

"Why is everyone cosplaying? Me too?!" Anzu exclaimed in shock. I looked underneath to see that she was focused on the magical sceptre that came with Saint Magician being a Spellcaster type, I then stood back up to see Kylie focused on watching Dark Bakura for any suspicious moves.

"Hey shush! Don't speak too loud! That freaky Bakura will notice you!" Jounouchi warned. This resulted in Yugi explaining the current situation to Anzu by claiming that Bakura was being controlled by a Duelist of Dark Games and Anzu noticed that there were two Yugis which Yugi called 'the other me'. "I don't really get it but to put it simple there's a cool Yugi and a normal Yugi here," Jounouchi explained.

Sadly his comments had the effect of hurting Yugi's feelings and so in retaliation he attacked using Black Magic although myself, Kylie and Other Yugi called out in an attempt to stop him when we saw the monster that was going to be destroyed but he didn't listen and when it was destroyed my spear flew out in front of Yugi and electrical pain charged through my body and I collapsed to the ground.

"Katherine-chan what happened? Are you ok?" Yugi asked. I numbly felt Kylie scooping me into her arms as Yugi knelt down in front of me a look of panic and horror etched onto his features with the blurry images of the others standing behind him.

"If the monster that destroys the Electric Lizard isn't a Zombie then it isn't allowed to attack on the next turn but due to my effect as Athena all card effects from the opponent are directed at me," I managed to explain.

"My turn is over," Other Yugi declared. He played a card down into the Spell and Trap zone, Jounouchi and Honda attempted to cover up Anzu once more but Dark Bakura told them that it was useless and correctly identified who they were hiding since it was obvious.

"I'll tell you that this is the Flesh Eating Insect," Dark Bakura claimed. He then set a monster in face down in defence position and Yugi explained that once flipped over or attacked by any of the others, the Flesh Eating Insect would destroy one of the monsters on the field with only Kylie being safe in the Spell and Trap zone.

"Yugi! There's got to be a way to prevent it from activating?" Jounouchi questioned. Yugi explained that there was one way out of this predicament and it was the card that Other Yugi had played however in order to activate its' effect a monster on our side would need to be sacrificed.

Honda offered to be the sacrifice however part way through his speech, Jounouchi slammed the hilt of his sword into Honda's stomach causing him to fall down and so the blonde charged right in in order to ensure that Other Yugi could activate the card which he did after a bit of pleading from Jounouchi about not wanting his friends to be sacrificed.

"I activate the trap Hunting Horn of Death! I sacrifice one monster on my field to activate it, your monster's effect is negated and it is destroyed!" Other Yugi declared. Both the bug and Jounouchi were encased in a bright wall of light and they disappeared from our sight causing tears to well within my eyes at Jounouchi's sacrifice and that he consider me and Kylie friends despite the short time we've known each other.

"Don't worry you will all go to the same place," Dark Bakura mocked. I finally felt the strength of my body returned to me and I shakily rose to my feet with Kylie staying beside me in order to make sure that nothing bad happened to me but once at my full height, Kylie turned her glare onto Bakura.

"We're going to save Jounouchi and we're going to beat you so clam up you Soul Stealer before I come over there and do it myself," Kylie hissed. Dark Bakura laughed at my sister's threat but I knew she could and would carry it out if she got angry enough but at the moment she was more concerned with everyone else.

Anzu's tears flowed down her face and landed on the Saint Magician's card which in turn activated the card's effect thus letting Other Yugi retrieve Resurrection of the Dead form the Graveyard and he swiftly used it to bring Jounouchi back resulting in all of us welcoming him back after he realised where he was as he freaked out slightly once he was brought back.

"None of them being in the graveyard is weird," Dark Bakura spat. I clamped my hand onto Kylie's wrist so that she wouldn't do something that would put her soul at risk but that didn't mean my feelings weren't the same as those my sister was currently feeling.

"The friendship between the seven of us will definitely create a miracle," Other Yugi responded with venom in his voice. Dark Bakura claimed he would teach us our friendship meant absolutely nothing and to begin with he brought out the High Priestess in attack position.

High Priestess – Attribute: Light, Type: Spellcaster, Level: 3, ATK/1100, DEF/800

"And also this," Dark Bakura revealed. He showed us the image of the Spell card that Bakura had used to represent himself the Change of Heart. "With this card I can turn you against your friends, due to Athena's effect it will automatically target Katherine but if I had a choice it would be you Yugi," Dark Bakura stated. In response to this Kylie immediately pulled me and Yugi behind her in an effort to protect us both.

"Just how low will this guy fall!" Other Yugi yelled. I had never heard such anger in his tone before and this really did shock me, Dark Bakura stated that Other Yugi could say what he wanted but here and now our friendship would end.

Dark Bakura played the card and as it turned out the real Bakura had also been sealed into his chosen card but instead of listening to Dark Bakura's command, Bakura possessed the High Priestess with him begging that Yugi attack him which would end the duel however none of the others wanted to banish their friend.

Dark Bakura insulted the real one yet before any of us trapped souls could make a single move a glow emitted from the Puzzle and Dark Bakura screamed in pain before Bakura was back in control of his body with Dark Bakura holding the High Priestess and so Yugi ended the duel with a swift Black Magic, ending the Dark Game as a result.

Bakura, Yugi, Kylie and myself woke up first and we learned that Bakura's item was known as the Millennium Ring and that his father had discovered it whilst on a visit in Egypt, where they all might be from, and the person who sold it to him claimed he was from the Dark World – potentially a another name for the Shadow Realm – for whatever reason Bakura's father bought it and gave it to his son.

The others then proceeded to wake up with Bakura accidentally scaring both boys as they automatically hugged each other before calming down and then pushing each other apart in embarrassment causing all of us to break out into laughter before calming down although Anzu had a curious look on her face.

"By the way… there were two Yugis… that was really a dream?" Anzu spoke up. Yugi flinched for a moment but before anyone could respond to Anzu a scream went up from somewhere in the woods so we rushed off to check what had caused such a scream.