Where was he?

Green grass, plains, and olive trees did not fit the description of Egypt in his time. Then the people here were light skinned and others quite tanned than most. Yet when Atem, looked down at his body and saw his pharaoh clothes on and his jewelry, excluding the sennen puzzle.

He walked by the crowds of people, mostly women and children and elderly men, playing outside of what looked like a city. They wore silk clothes that wrapped around their bodies but they had no exotic jewelry but rather unique. They just seemed like ghosts but he felt eyes watching him and turned around.

Atem's pairs of eyes encountered hazel colored eyes that studied him, with amusement. The man was tall, olive skinned, and had a little bit of a beard as he wore a golden armor with a red cape and carried a helmet on his side.

"Who are you?" he asked out loud.

But as soon as he said those words, everything was gone.

Atem awoke to the sound of Yuugi's alarm o'clock going off as he realized he was back in the world of the living. He slammed his palm over the big red button to stop the irritating noise as he turned to his side, trying to get back to sleep. But it seemed like he was unable to return to that dream.

Instead he started to recall yesterday when he arrived here as soon as he left it, or so it felt like to him. He informed Yuugi on his situation with his search on finding a wife he didn't even remember, but none of his important companions would leave to the next life without her. His only clue was that she was dwelling somewhere in this world of the living, in Yuugi's school.

Though, they spent the entire trying to settle down, especially after that big fight amongst his priests. They had to tell the neighbors around that they had gotten some new technology for their game shop that went horribly wrong. When they asked about seeing monsters, they answered, "Oh those were holograms, and of course there are no such things as real monsters!" Obviously, they believed them.

The hardest part was finding places for his priests to settle down. It wouldn't be wise to be a bunch of people, waiting to accuse the other for this chaos, to be in the same room all day. Plus, it wasn't fair to Yuugi to have to take in ten more people in a small place such as the Kame Game Shop.

He ordered for Karim, Shimon, Shada, and Isis to go with Jounouchi, Honda, Otogi, and Shizuka (Grandpa would have a heart attack if he saw Shimon). Then had to pair Mana and Kisara with Anzu, it would be foolish to put Mana with Isis since she could be too hyper and Isis could get easily agitated as for Kisara, she could berserk and summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon. (Yeah, then they'd had a real problem.)

Since Mahado refused to leave Atem's side, Yuugi had to take him in and Mana tagged along. As for Seto, he was intimidating for Honda and Jounouchi (and of course Otogi) to take with them. They refused to take him saying, "No way man! It's a Kaiba-look-alike; I ain't taking him home with me!" So now, Yuugi was stuck with taking in Seto, Mahado and Atem.

He twisted around to lie on his back to look up at the ceiling with the window. As he looked through the window, it reminded him when they went to…her heaven and she had that window open to show this world. He realized he never got the chance to look around for her on the window and now he wished he did.

Why couldn't he remember her? Why wasn't there a single clue about her existence? Atem closed his eyes trying hard to think but it was no use. His memories of his ancient past were completely gone and he could barely keep up with lost memories with his friends in the past so what made him think he'd remember a wife who died before the Bakura incident?

"Slept well, last night?" Yuugi asked him as he entered the bedroom, already dressed for school. Atem noticed in his hands he had some folded clothes.

"I suppose, but I had an odd dream." He admitted openly to him.

"Anything that could be of use to us for our little mission?"

"Hmm…no, I don't think so." He answered, disappointed.

Yuugi looked down at the ground nodding, understanding. This mission was going to be a little more of a challenge. He walked over to Atem, handing him the clothes in his hands saying, "I sent Ishizu an email about needing her help last night."

Atem nodded with some relief. Ishizu would find a way to help him and the others find their way back to their next afterlife once this mission was over. There just had to be another way for them to return and get over with entire mess.

"Here," Yuugi said getting off from the bed, "get dressed quickly. You're coming to school with me today."

A little shocked, Atem took the clothes handed to him, as he realized it was the school uniform. (How many of these did Yuugi have?) Then he stopped as he came up with a question, "What about Seto? People are going to think he's Kaiba!"

"Oh don't worry; we're only bringing you and Mana to school with us. In case you don't recognize your wife, at least she will." Yuugi smiled brightly as if he was trying to assure him that everything was going to be alright. He looked down at his watch as he added, "Anzu and Mana will be here soon, so you might wanna head into the shower now."

It was at night and she was entering a store with the old woman following her. They wandered around the shop, wearing their ancient clothes. They picked out a bunch of clothes and were about to walk out with them when the man managing the store stopped them saying they didn't pay.

The girl turned to him, with a dark expression on her face. Then there was something else that was different about her. She walked slowly towards the man and muttered in a icy voice, "penalty game."

In quick flashes, the game started off with the room turning dark and the girl chuckling in a malicious way that seemed frightening. She glowed of a dark aura and a creature came out behind her. Instantly Ishizu knew what monster it was. The Dark Elf struck the man at the girl's command. The manger screamed in pain and fear.

Ishizu woke up startled to see someone standing by her bed. Quickly, she recognized the man standing before as she asked, "Shadi! What is it now?" He remained speechless as ever. He only muttered softly, "Find her, before she causes any further destruction for the rest of the world that is no longer hers." Ishizu blinked, trying to find meaning behind those words. When she opened her eyes, he was gone.

She tried to focus on what he just said. What possible danger could this girl be? Alright, so somehow she gained some dark magic with her to this new life. So what?

Enough was enough! She had enough visions about this girl! It was time for her to face reality around her. The whole business with the Pharaoh was over long time ago. The only thing ancient Egyptian in her life was her museum in Japan but now she was supposed to be living a normal life, for the sake of her brothers.

Besides the dreams half the time didn't make sense. One minute that girl was in ancient Egypt then the next she was someone living in the normal life. This held no significance with her trying to live the way her brothers and herself wanted to live. She had bigger problems to trouble her mind like researching some ancient artifacts or the bills or making sure Marik doesn't blow up the house by attempting to modify a vehicle.

Also she had to help Rishid get a real job to pay his share on the taxes rather than following Marik. Yup, that was now her new life. Though, not quite as exciting as before but it was something at least. Anyway, she dressed up in her Egyptian cotton dress and called out to Marik in the garage that she was heading for work.

"Alright," he answered as he was back to work in the garage as more banging noises were heard. "By the way I fixed your car!"

"Thank you and be careful!" she called back as she opened the car door to seat herself in.

Off she was to her small building in Cairo. It wasn't huge, for her job in Egypt wasn't such a big deal as it was in Japan. But whenever tourists came to Egypt she was able to get enough profit and that was enough to survive on.

The office was air conditioned luckily to spare her from the hot and humid day. When she sat down on her desk one of her employees came up to her announcing, "Miss Ishtar, you have an email from Mutou Yuugi."

"What?" she turned around surprised. 'But why?'

Without any further hesitation, she turned to her computer to access into her email account. Sure enough there was an email from him.