Tulip-Jin: Yay! Its snowing! You guys know what that means?

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Yami Tulip-Jin: Me ignoring you?

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TJ: (makes face) Noooooo...

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Chibi Red Eyes Black Dragon: Rawwr rawr rawr? (Shoveling the driveway?)

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TJ: (big grin) Great! Shovel's by the garage door! Thanks a bunch, Chibs!

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Chibi Red Eyes: Rawr? Rawwwwwrrrrrr... (Huh? Damn lazy human...)

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(Chibi Red Eyes goes outside. Not bothering to use a shovel, she uses an Inferno Fire Blast to blast away the snow)

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Chibi Red Eyes: Rawr rawr! (All done!)

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Yami TJ: Huh? Nice. One question, Chibs. Who's filling in that huge, smouldering hole that used to be our driveway?

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TJ: Did someone say Huge, Smouldering Hole? You can't fill it in - those are the best holes of them all!!!

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Yami TJ: Then you build a bridge over the hole, or it's bye-bye smoking pit.

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TJ: You can count on me! Now, first I'll need some wood...any witches 'round here?

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Disclaimer: See other chapters, clueless person

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As for the graveyard tour itself, Bones had managed to do pretty well with it, despite the rather bland cemetery he had to work with.

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Not only did he rig up a few of the scary surprises that had filled the tunnel Yuugi remembered not very fondly from Duelist Kingdom, he told such outrageously scary stories about every single grave - and how every single person buried in there had died outrageously scary deaths - Yuugi was quite willing and able to give Bones an honest assessment of how well his business was going to do…assuming Bones didn't manage to scare away all his customers first.

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But when Yuugi walked away from the cemetery, Yami fluttered around his head and demanded that they go back at once.

"Are you insane?!" Yuugi snapped, "I'm going to be having nightmares for weeks now, and you want to go BACK?!"

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"I'll go back by myself if I have to," Yami replied calmly, and immediately turned and flew back towards the graveyard.

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Left alone on a dark path, his head now filled with the spooky horrors Bones had described so well, it took Yuugi less than a minute to realize that he'd much rather stick with his yami/nightlight.

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Bones had gone to bed - he lived in a little wooden hut inside the graveyard, next to the entrance - and the two of them walked past all the graves, heading for the back.

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There was an open section in the farthest back of the graveyard that hadn't been part of the tour. Here were only three tombstones: a particularly large one, and on either side of it two regular-sized tombstones.

Something else was peculiar about this section. A miniature storm hovered right over the large tombstone. When you walked from the back to the front, the storm died down into nothing really quickly, but back here it was windy and rainy and rather unpleasant.

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"Why did we have to come back here, Yami?" Yuugi finally asked after looking around and seeing nothing else of interest.

"I sensed some strong shadow magic back here," Yami answered, "Now its hiding, but when I sensed it, it was as if someone opened a portal to the Shadow Realm…"

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"Oh great, now we have the Shadow Realm to worry about too!" Yuugi growled.

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In his frustration, he kicked one of the regular-sized tombstones. And very soon regretted that when a dark mist flowed out of the stone. The mist grew and coalesced into the shape of…

A large pumpkin with a straw hat and VERY big teeth. Also known as Pumpking, the King of Ghosts.

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"GHOST MONSTER!" Yuugi screamed, bolting for safety.

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Unfortunately, he tripped over the other regular-sized tombstone, disturbing its occupant. This one was a fully armored knight…minus its head. Thus its name of the Headless Knight.

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The two ghost approached Yuugi, looking very menacing and scary. Yuugi thought that this was the end, until Yami's voice cut into the scene.

"Cut that out!"

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Pumpking and the Headless Knight took one look at the fairy menacing them and jumped backwards. There they waited, while Yami tugged on Yuugi's hat until the hikari was finally willing to get back up.

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"Okay then," Yami continued in his best 'I'm Pharaoh so you listen to me or else' voice, "What are you two doing here? Tell us right now or else its back to the Shadow Realm with the both of you!"

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The Headless Knight, sticking his sword into the ground, began explaining. At least, that was what they thought he was gesturing about. But since he lacked a head - and therefore, a mouth - there was only silence.

Finally, the Pumpking slapped his fellow ghost's arm, apparently shutting him up before explaining things himself.

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"We're supposed to keep people from finding the secret buried under that big tombstone," said the Pumpking, "If we had known you were the one that wished to see it, Sire, we would have never attacked you!"

"See that you don't forget in the future," Yami snapped at them.

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After the ghosts bowed and vanished, Yami was suddenly aware of the slightly P.O.'d look Yuugi was giving him.

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"…Do I even want to know why those monsters obeyed you?" Yuugi finally asked.

Yami gave him a non-arm shrug.

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"They're Duel Monsters. Five thousand years ago, I was King of Games. Monsters don't forget those sorts of things, you know."

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The large tombstone was the oldest there. Hidden in the grass right next to it was an old lever for something. It was made of wood. When Yuugi pulled in experimentally, blocks rose out of the ground in just the right way to tip the stone over so that it fell backwards.

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Under the tombstone was a deep hole. Luckily, there was also a sturdy ladder. Yuugi climbed down the ladder and found himself walking down a corridor through a crypt. Things only got worse when they reached a large open room. The middle of the room was almost totally blocked from side-to-side by a moat of steaming green liquid, and there were several things in the room. They looked a lot like dead bodies, but standing around. And they had wooden masks over their faces.

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"Not more zombies," Yuugi grumbled.

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On the opposite side of the room, there was a door leading deeper into the crypt. Yuugi was all for heading back the way they had come - the faster the better - but Yami was insistent that there was something important past that other doorway that they needed to check out.

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Unfortunately, the zombie-things were in this room to prevent anyone from going any further. When Yuugi tried ducking past them and around the edge of the smoky green moat, the nearest one turned towards him, opened its mouth, and screamed.

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It wasn't like a regular scream at all. Volume-wise, it was as loud as a normal person's speaking voice, but when the sound waves of the scream hit him, Yuugi's entire body seized up, totally paralyzed. And because he had been in mid-run, when his leg froze in position off the ground, Yuugi was unable to keep his balance and fell over.

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As the zombie-thing approached him, moving incredibly slowly, Yuugi frantically tried to move, but his body remained locked in place. But, at the last second before one of the zombie-things' hands could grab him, Yuugi's body broke through the paralysis. As if they had never been stuck in the first place, his limbs propelled him forward and out of harms way.

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Yuugi hurriedly yanked out the Kokiri Sword and whirled to face this monster. It was opening its mouth to scream again. Not hesitating for an instant, Yuugi slashed at the zombie monster. It recoiled, a deep gash down its chest.

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Yami made himself useful at this point and latched onto the top of the zombie's mask, yanking it backwards and tipping the monster off-balance. As it fell over, it gave out a short scream. While Yuugi was now safely out of the way, Yami's left wing was not so lucky.

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One wing frozen stiff, the other buzzing like crazy, Yami couldn't keep himself in the air and fell. He was heading for the glowing, smoking water, but Yuugi caught him in the nick of time.

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There were no more serious obstacles. Just one long tunnel, leading into the crypt's final room. Much to Yuugi and Yami's astonishment, from a hole in the ceiling came a shaft of moonlight.

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"I could have sworn we were too deep underground for a moon-roof," Yuugi thought out loud, before turning to examine the large stone that dominated the room.

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It was covered with writing. Although it was very dark, even with the moonlight, Yami gave off enough light that he could read the words. Luckily, he also could understand them and translated what they said.

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'A rising sun will eventually set, a newborn's life will fade. Moon to sun, sun to moon, give peaceful rest to the living dead.'

"That's unusual for a gravestone, isn't it?" Yami wondered aloud afterwards.

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"Yeah…" Yuugi blinked, "Hey, what's this down here?"

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Scribbled on the stone, almost completely hidden in the shadows below the inscription, was what looked almost like…

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"They're musical notes!" Yuugi said, amazed.

"Do you think playing them will be a good idea?" Yami wondered.

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Not answering his other half, Yuugi studied the notes intently, before nodding to himself and pulling forth his Ocarina.