As Yugi and Gabriel approached the area where the White Horn was being blown, the two approached a sight that was just absolutely horrible to see. There were gigantic explosion spots all over the place and smoke everywhere. All the souls of Heaven were running around, screaming and trying to get away from what was causing them such terror. There were demons running around, causing chaos and terrorizing people. There were some angels that were trying to fight against the demons that were terrorizing the helpless lower ranking souls, but there were not that many.

Yugi's jaw dropped. "What happened here?"

"I can only guess …" Gabriel answered in a whisper. Yugi did not hear him. She could not believe that someone would attack this beautiful and peaceful paradise. Then she heard the most evil laughter of any evil laughter she had ever heard. She turned her head towards the source of the laughter and saw that it was none other then the Source of Evil himself, Yami. Tears began to fall from Yugi's eyes.

"Do not fear, Young One; he will not take you that easily." With that, and a reassuring smile, the High Archangel made his way towards the Dark One. As he did, Yugi had a battle going on inside of her. She looked down at her left hand to see that silver ring around her finger. She remembered what Yami had said to her the night the Devil had forced her into the 'blood marriage', as he called it:

'This ring binds us together. It lets me see exactly where you are at all times. There is no place you can go that I can not see.'

Yugi tried to pull the ring off, but it would not even budge at all. After a while, she gave up and let out a sigh. It was no use. "He really did come for me … I've put everyone here in danger …" Yugi hung her head in defeat. She did not want to leave this place, but she also did not want to see it destroyed. Tears continued to run down her cheeks. How did her life turn out like this?

However, while Yugi's inner battle was going on, Atem continued to cause destruction in his rage. He looked absolutely demonic now. It had reached its ultimate level. His attire was kilt held up by a black belt, a black cape and bare chest. He had black boots with a red stripe. His claws extended twice their sizes. His bloody-red eyes began to even drip blood and reverted to their pointed oval shape. His teeth had sharpened; not just fangs anymore, but all his teeth were now sharp. His fingernails were a little longer that they could slice

open a steel vault he had a black trident in his left hand. All in all, he looked like the epiphany of evil.

The Source of Evil roared so loud that Yugi could literally see the waves of sound caused by it. "COME OUT AND FACE ME, GABRIEL! SHOW YOURSELF!" He yelled so loudly that the Heavenly buildings began to crumble. Yugi covered her ears while Yami screeched again such a high pitched tone that it hurt her ears. The small, holy girl tried to look for a place to hide, but unbeknownst to Yami, the object of his affection was right were his next gigantic fiery energy ball landed. It scared the living crap out of the small angelic girl as she looked for another hiding spot. Yami did not see her. "FACE ME, ALREADY BEFORE I DESTROY YOUR PRECIOUS HEAVEN!" Yugi was completely terrified by the fury in his voice that her heart rate rose to a dangerous level. She was sure she was going to have a heart attack. She had never seen Yami this angry before.

"Here I am, Source." A calm voice said. Yugi gasped. Gabriel did not seem to flinch at Yami's rage or fierce appearance. He looked like a sitting duck standing there in his silver robe with his wings and arms folded. The glow around his body did not seem to dwindle at all; in fact, it still seemed to demand respect, even in the eye of his enemy. "What is it that you want, Source?" He asked. Yami gave him a wicked grin and jumped down from a pile of rubble and landed on a smaller pile of rubble. He looked like a wild beast, being hunched over, one clawed hand on one knee and the other supporting him on the ground;.

"I believe you have something that belongs to me." He growled, low and evilly. He meant to be intimidating, but Gabriel did not flinch. He slowly shook his head.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Yami's growl increased in volume.

"She belongs to me! I want her back!" It was apparent that Yami's wrath was growing by the second. Little did he know that Yugi was watching his every movement.

"You can not own her, Source; she is a living being and living beings can not be owned like they could in the old days." Yami's screeched again and Yugi covered her ears. Yami charged at Gabriel, but the angel's personal glow began to glow even brighter, blinding the demonic ruler and stopping his rampage.

"Your reign of terror in this place is over, Source; leave at once and never come back. The girl will stay with us." Yami's sight finally came back to him. He briefly shook his head.

"No … you will not take my light from me …!" Gabriel was caught off guard. He expected Yami to give up, since Gabriel had the home-team advantage, but the Source was still fighting. "You can not keep my beloved light from me, Archangel; the two of us are married and canNOT be separated!" Gabriel gasped. He did not realize that Yami had already gone through the Blood Ritual to bind the two together. Yami's aura flashed with fiery heat. He shot clouds of black matter towards Gabriel, who gasped and fell backward. Yugi gasped and feared for her new friend. Even after Gabriel was down, Yami kept attacking with fire balls. After that, he approached and began to claw at him, causing major damage to the Archangel's face. "You will give her back to me this instant before"-

"Stop!" Yami instantly pausing in his actions and looked up. There, standing before him was his small wife. Yugi looked him with the saddest face anyone could ever give; tear marks down her cheeks, her eyes bloodshot and puffy due to the crying that she had been doing. Despite the sad look that she was giving her darker half, the Devil was too happy to see her. All he did was smile a true smile.

"Yugi, I found you!" He forgot all about Gabriel and ran straight to his smaller look-alike. He scooped Yugi up in his arms, being careful not to hurt her in the process. Yugi did not make any move to hug him back. However, Yami did not care; he was just happy to have his little one back in his arms.

(Step 1 complete)

(Step 2 find the real Atem)

(Step 3 bring down this face impostor)

Suddenly, Yugi slowly pushed him back. Yami's eyes returned to their soft, normal form, but his body was still in its demonic form. The Source placed his clawed hand over Yugi's cheek and rubbed it with gently with his thumb.

"What is it, Sweet One?" A tear ran down the cheek that Atem continued to rub. He rubbed the tear away.

"Please, Yami … no more …" The younger was practically begging. Atem cocked his head in confusion.

"No more what?"

"No more pain … please …" Yami could actually see the pain and pleading in her light's eyes. He took Yugi's face in both hands, keeping his sharp nails away. Yugi's sparkling amethyst eyes looked into the ruby ones of the Devil. Yami drew the little Holy One into a deep kiss. Yugi closed her eyes, not fighting the kiss that was forced upon her. Slowly, Yami pulled away.

"Then come home with me" He whispered. Yugi kept her eyes closed and slowly nodded.

"Okay …"

"… Y-yu-gi … no …" Gabriel said, painfully. Yami began to growl loudly like a wild animal, but Yugi put her hand in front of him to calm him down.

"Let me talk to him." Yami thought for a while, growling as he did, Yugi pleading with her eyes; the smaller knew that Yami was a sucker for Yugi's eyes. And once again, Yami fell for it.

"Fine, but make it quick!" The Source snapped. Yugi nodded and went over to Gabriel. She leaned in and began to whisper.

"It's the only way to keep him out of here; you can recover and form a new plan to over throw him. I'll do my best to distract him and keep him from taking over the Mortal World as long as I can, okay?" Gabriel sighed.

"Fine, but remember that it's your power that will over come him; we can only aide you in doing so." Yugi nodded.

"Yugi, let's go!"

"I gotta go …" She dashed back over to Yami and in a flash of fire, they were both gone. Gabriel felt relieved and guilty at the same time; relieved that Yami was gone, but guilty that he had taken Yugi with him as well.

"Do not worry, Holy One … we will help you tame the Source once again …"

Yugi awoke sometime later to a warm, a very warm, place. . 'Oh no, I'm back …' SHe thought to herself. She could tell that Yami was still asleep because the demonic overlord tended to growl deeply in his sleep, and that was what he was currently doing. Yugi began to notice a pattern of some sort the morning after the ritual was complete.

The strange thing was, when Yugi was not wrapped in his arms at night, but right beside him, Yami would start to growl, but when she was in the Devil's arms, he would begin to purr and nuzzle her. 'Am I really that important to him?' She thought again. She looked towards Yami, who was currently growling in his sleep, even though his had one arm around Yugi's waist. Sometimes, the growling became so demonic that it would scare Yugi to no end. But this morning, it was just soft, animal growling instead of loud, demonic growling. Yugi sighed and decided to move closer to Yami, whose growling immediately stopped and turned into scary purring. In some really twisted sort of way, Yugi thought it was a bit ... interesting, the way Yami purred demonically when Yugi touched him when he slept.

Sometime after they came back to Hell, Yami had returned back to his normal form; well, as normal as he could. Still, it was better then seeing Yami in his full demonic form. Suddenly, his body began to awaken. Yugi stiffened and lied back down in the sheets. Yami sat up and stretched, working out the kinks in his upper body, which grossed Yugi out when he actually heard the cracking sounds coming from the Source's spine. After that and a big, loud yawn, Yami turned his attention back to the little bundle of joy he had in his bed.

"Good morning, my sweet, Yugi ." He whispered as he began to nuzzle Yugi's throat, purring.

"How can you tell that it's morning? The sky is the same color as it was when we got here." The smaller replied, looking out of the dark, fancily decorated stained glass window. It was open, so that was how she could see through it. Yami chuckled and brought his little bundle into his lap, wrapping his arms around Yugi's waist so that she could not escape.

"There is no concept of time in either Heaven or Hell; that is an Earth thing; however, once I rule that world, I'll be sure to take care of that little problem as well." Yugi did not want to blow her cover. It was dangerous to let Yami know that Gabriel had already filled her in on Yami's plans so she decided to play dumb for as long as she possibly could.

"What do you mean, Yami?" Yami continued to nuzzle the smaller one, purring continuing.

"It is not fair that this purgatory be your home for too long; you deserve that world, so that is what I am going to give you." The lust for power that started to glow in Yami's pointed eyes began to scare Yugi. She gulped a bit.

"But … that's not what I want …" To this, Yami did not listen; he just began to nuzzle the girl again and flopped her back down onto the bed.

"It is so good to have you back, Yugi; but they could have taken better care of you! Your skin is even paler then when you were here last, and look what they have done to your beautiful hair!" Yami took the lock of hair that had turned white and had pointed out that another lock had begun to turn white as well. "It was a good thing I brought you back when I did, or else you would have turned out to be just like everyone else up there!" He announced with pure disgust in his voice

"It just because I was up there for too long …" Yugi began to argue.

"That's right, and any longer up there and your entire head would be white!" Speaking of white, Yugi looked down and her eyes widened. She realized that she was not wearing the white attire she had been wearing in Heaven anymore. "Of course, I could not have your wearing those cursed clothes; they were too holy so I threw them into the black flames." Yugi gulped again; that did not sound like a trip to Disney World.

"'Black Flames'?" Yugi repeated. Yami's lips curved upwards in the shape of a grin.

"Yes, it is the worst of all eternal punishments, and since those clothes just happened to have been dipped into holy water before they were put on you, I had no other choice but to burn them."

"O-okay, but w-what do the 'B-Black Flames' d-do?"

"Anything I want them to. They can burn, freeze, and control the thoughts of dead souls, just about anything. However, I only use the 'Black Flames' in the most drastic of measures. So you don't have to worry, Yugi," Yugi gulped. It sounded as it these 'Black Flames' was definitely something she did not want to visit.

Deep inside damp, dark dungeons that were located under the Palace of Darkness, five unfortunate souls sat in the darkness, having their very existence being slowly sucked from them. They longer they were down in that horrible place; they began to lose more and more of themselves.

"We were taken from the Afterlife to be brought to this place?!" Priest Seto exclaimed in not only anger, but exhaustion as well.

"Please, Seto, you must conserve your energy; we do not know how long we will be here." Isis warned him, but like the stubborn ass he was, Seto refused to listen to a word the woman said to him.

"If it were not for those damned children, we would not be here at all!" He exclaimed again. After that next outburst, he had used up so much energy that he actually began to collapse before Karim immediately stood up and caught him. It was not as if Aknadin had the authority to say anything to make their current situation any better since he was the only one of them that actually deserved to be in that purgatory, but he did anyway.

"My son, you must put your hatred for Yami aside for right now; he is not the person he once was." Seto glared at the older man as Karim set him down in the corner of their rotting cell. His anger grew for Yami it was now, nothing but hatred and disgust now that he saw what the former "Pharaoh", and he used that term very loosely, really was … a true beast.

"Just like you, right?" The oldest former priest hung his head.

"I deserve that; I should have paid for my crimes, and now I am. Yami is far worse than I ever was. However, that boy may be our only chance to finally bring him down." Shadi sighed.

"Perhaps you are right, Aknadin; but the question is, is that boy strong enough to resist Atem's evil and sadistic spells." He raised his head, looking at the rotting roof of the cell with weak eyes. The others were wondering the same thing. "We have to trust that Mahad will protect her and aid us as well." Seto scoffed.

"Please, Shadi; you place your faith in that pathetic fool?! He betrayed us to serve Him." Seto spoke the last word with enough venom to poison the very thick air that they would be breathing if they were actually living. Shadi ignored that comment and did not even attempt to answer. However, Karim did.

"He had no choice, Seto!"

"He did, he just chose the wrong one." Karim's anger was building, but before he was able to say anything else, Shadi stood between them and stopped their argument.

"Knock it off, both of you! If we are to get out of this, we need to stand together!" Saying this, he turned to Seto, who had turned away.

As time went on, all five of them were going crazy, knowing the world was in danger of being encased in darkness once again and not being able to do anything about it. Seto, of everyone else, was the worst out of all of them. He grunted loudly and stood up. "I can not take this anymore! I will not let him get away with treating that innocent boy the way he treated me! No, not this time!" He weakly stood up and hurled a ball of magic towards the cell door, but the magical barrier surrounding it caused the opposing magical ball to bounce off of it and reflect itself back towards its castor. Seto yelled out in pain and was thrown to the back of the cell. Isis and the others were instantly at his side. The priestess tried to heal him, but found that her own power was weak as well. They all knew that their powers were draining as time went on. The faithful priestess put her hands together and said a silent prayer to herself as she had done many times in her lifetime many millennia ago.

'Yugi is our only hope now.'

Up in the palace, Yugi sighed for the thousandth time for the past hour and a half. She had never been so bored in her life. She was still locked up in Yami's room with nothing to do and only a black dress to wear; she began to suspect that the reason Yami had given Yugi a thin dress so Yami could take it off easily, but Yugi was glad she wasn't completely naked.

The petite girl cringed. Those thoughts really were for only the Devil. She sat on the very large, but very comfortable, bed, absentmindedly playing with the edges of her Locket that her daddy and mom gave her. Every once in a while, she would finger the pure white lock of hair that she had to see if it had changed back; but it had not. She began to wonder if the change would be permanent. After a while, she started to look around the room. There was really not a lot there except what one could only picture in their mind what the Devil would have in his room. The gigantic suite was a little too quiet for her liking. All he did for the past … well, she really had no idea since there was no concept of time in Hell, but she knew she slept a lot so she was not tired; just bored. That is, until she heard a familiar voice.

'…L-Little M Mistress …' Yugi instantly sat up when she heard that telepathic, yet pained, voice echoing all around her. Suddenly, a shape began to form in front of her. It was Mahad. He was in a bowed pose, but he was straining to keep himself up. As happy as Yugi was to see him, she could not help but notice that it looked like holding himself up was taking so much energy out of him. Seeing this, the little one ran over to the once High Priest and caught him before he fell to the ground. The holy girl was horrified to see all the burn marks and blood all over his body and outfit and his breathing was labored.

"Mahad, what happened to you, how did you get so many burns and cuts?!" Yugi asked, true worry in her voice. Mahad raised his head slowly.

'M-master … he p-punished me … I am l-lucky that … he did n-not send me … to the 'Black Flames'…' Yugi flinched at hearing those forbidden flames once again.

"Yeah, I heard they hurt; but what did he punish you for?" Mahad groaned in pain as Yugi placed Mahad's head in his lap.

'For … letting them … t-take you …' Before Mahad went on, Yugi walked him over to the bed and allowed him to lie on the bed. At first, Mahad refused, telling Yugi that he could not step foot on his masters' bed, but Yugi insisted. The girl rushed towards the washroom and retrieved a bowl of water with a washcloth to wash away some of the blood off of her magical friend's face.

"Now, relax and tell me, what did you mean that you said that you let them take me?" Mahad's labored breathing began to calm down, but it was still racing a bit.

'I knew … that they w-would come for you … once Yami regained the memory … of who he once was; e-either to protect you f-from him … or to t-train you ...' Yugi was stunned.

"That's what Gabriel said right before Yami threw a hissy fit and forced me back here," She had to think to herself for a while; that outrage that Yami had thrown was just a tad more then a mere 'hissy fit' as she had put it. Yugi shook her head; now was not the time to think of that, "but what kind of training were they talking about?" Yugi asked as she continued to clean Mahad's face. The dark servant smiled weakly. He ran the back of his hand over Yugi's cheek, feeling how soft his little mistress skin truly was; just perfect for a real angel.

'Little Mistress, you are so pure … you have n-no idea … how much …' Yugi cringed.

"You know, I'm really getting tired of people telling me that!" She sounded frustrated, but looked adorable while saying that. Mahad smiled even more.

'I apologize, Little Mistress, but it is true that you are pure; you are an angel that was born on earth. You are not just the lighter half of the Master's soul, but you are the incarnation of everything that is pure and holy. One of the main reasons the Master is so attracted to you is because your aura glows brighter then any other soul that has ever existed, and that ever will exist. You are the embodiment of all holiness; a true saint and can destroy his dark power with the flick of your finger if you can learn to harness that energy, which is another reason why he wants to keep you out of their hands; that way, the Saints can not teach you how to use that power.' Yugi's fragile and confused heart was on the border of being thrilled and broken. Thrilled that she had such an important role in all of this, but broken from finding out that the only reason Yami had taken her was to keep him taking her own power. This was all too much for her. Saving the world from crazy psychos was hard enough, but throwing Heaven and Hell into the mix topples the scale of how much Yugi could truly handle.

"I never asked for any of this …" As a tear rolled down Yugi's round, pale cheek, Mahad placed a hand on her shoulder and looked her in the eye.

'No one ever does.' Suddenly, Yugi threw her arms around Mahad's body and sobbed her bright heart out. SHe needed a shoulder to cry on right now, and Mahad seemed to be the only one that truly cared for her right now. Yami only wanted her to prevent his own downfall, and Gabriel only wanted her to plan Yami's downfall. Yugi was only sixteen, why did everything have to happen to her? After a few minutes, she let go of Mahad and sat on the bed, cradling her head in her hands.

"Mahad, what am I going to do? I'm so confused! I … I'm not sure if I love him … or if he even loves me anymore …"

'You must do what you think will be the right choice.' Yugi rolled her eyes.

"Very cliché, Mahad."

'I mean to say that you know the Saints are going to come retrieve you soon and you know that Yami is planning to raise Hell to take control of Earth.'

"Yeah, but he still thinks I'm oblivious to his whole plan … I think … sometimes I don't even know when he's listening into my conversations … he could be listening in right now!" Mahad shook his head.

'He is not. His Majesty is far too busy handing out the punishments of souls that had arrived during his absence. So Master will be very busy for a while.' Mahad said before he laid back down on the bed, exhausted. Yugi was by his side once more. SHe hated seeing her currently only friend in so much pain. There just had to be something she could do.

"If I'm as powerful as you say I am, then I should be able to heal your injuries." Mahad's eyes widened.

'No, Little Mistress, you mustn't! He will then find out that you know!' Yugi clenched her eyes shut and held out both hands over Mahad's body.

"I don't care!" Yugi's clenched eyes and teeth were clenched tighter as the girl tried to draw energy within herself that she supposedly had. Suddenly, the palms of her hands began to glow white. Mahad was astonished; it was working! Sweat was dripping from Yugi's brow, and even though her eyes were shut, it still burnt them. SHe began to groan in pain, not knowing how much longer she could keep this up. The light in her palms began to glow brighter and soon, Mahad felt the pain begin to lift from his body.

After being fully healed, Mahad sat up and could see that Yugi was still pushing herself. He placed a hand on Yugi's shoulder. Upon doing this, Yugi let herself go and was about to fall to the ground before Mahad caught her by using magic. He knew better then to touch Yugi's body by hand, otherwise Yami would have another fit. Gently, the ancient being placed the exhausted girl onto the bed and tucked her under the covers. Yugi smiled sleepily.

"I did it …" Mahad smiled back and nodded. Then, Yugi finally gave into sleep Even in sleep, Yugi gave off an aura that was very powerful. She was everyone's hope; and Mahad made a promise to himself that he would protect Yugi forever.

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