Torina was missing. She had disappeared shortly after leaving her friends at the hospital to get her things- that was over a week ago and everyone was starting to worry. They all knew that there was something Torina wasn't telling them and hoped she would speak up when she was ready. Granted, she hadn't known them very long now- it only been a week and a half since they met and Torina hadn't said a word- but her performance at the hospital hinted that there was something terribly wrong. And her disappearance was the final straw for Yugi and Teá.

"We've got to find out where she lives," said Teá, while she and Yugi were at school, eating lunch with Tristen and Joey. "If we can find her home, maybe we can find her." Yugi nodded, then began to think.

"Torina had a lot of money on hand," he replied after a moment. "I mean, when she grabbed that stuff at the hospital, she paid for it with a hundred dollar bill! And I noticed she had more than one of those in her purse."

"So what?" asked Joey. "She's got money- so does Kaiba."

"Joey's got a point," agreed Tristen.

"If she has as much money as I'm thinking," Yugi continued. "Then she and her uncle would have purchased a rather large place. All we have to do is find out if Torina's uncle bought any property and where it's at." With that said, everyone took out their cell phones and began calling real estate companies. But Teá didn't move. "Everything okay, Teá?" asked Yugi. Teá shook her head.

"Torina always seemed nervous when she talked about her uncle," she said. "You don't think..." Yugi said nothing- just handed Teá her cell phone.

"I hope you're wrong," he said. "But if Torina is really in trouble, we need to find her- fast."

Hikaru had moved Torina's body onto her bed, but try as she did, she could not reach her, nor could she take control of Torina's body in order to get help. There seemed to be some sort of block between the two of them. The only explanation was the mysterious golden door, engraved with the eye of Anubis, that had suddenly appeared- Torina's spirit had to be trapped behind it.

Her uncle had always threatened to do this to her, and Hikaru had been prepared to protect Torina... until today. Today, she had failed. Hikaru didn't know what to do- a bad feeling crept over her, one that said if she didn't revive Torina soon, she might lose her forever. But she was going to need help; her husband's help.

"Find anything, guys?" asked Teá. The group of friends had called every real estate agency in town and it seemed that no man by the name of Peg had purchased any real estate in the past year, let alone since Torina had come to town. Everyone shook their heads at Teá, except for Joey, who was still on the phone. Seconds later, he hung up the phone, shaking his head as well.

"Nothing for a Mr. Peg," he said. There was a pause, followed by a sly Joey type smile. "But a Torina Peg purchased a warehouse downtown, three days before she showed up at school. Let's hot foot it over there."

"Well, this is it," said Tristen. "Twenty-one Baker Street." He and his friends looked up at the building- all had the same thought on their mind, but only one voiced it.

"Why the heck is she livin' in a warehouse?" cried Joey. Yugi shook his head.

"Let's go inside." They opened the door and looked around. There were a bunch of cardboard boxes stacked up on top of each other, which lined a path towards the back of the warehouse.

"Torina?" called Teá. "Torina, are you here?"

"Back here!" a voice called back. It sounded like Torina, but everyone could tell that there was some sort of difference. The group of friends followed the path to the back of the warehouse and were surprised at what they found. There were two Torina's- one lying on a bed, seemingly asleep, and the other was kneeling at her side.

Hikaru wasn't quite sure what to say next. She hadn't hesitated to call out when she heard someone yell for Torina, regardless of who it might be. She didn't realize who they were until she looked at the youngest boy: he was a spitting image of her husband.

"We have to hurry," she said, finally. "If we want to save Torina we have to be quick." No one said a word. "What's wrong?"

"Who are you ?" asked Teá. Hikaru bit her lip, looking even more like Torina as she did so. How do you explain this one?

"I think I can answer that." said a voice. Suddenly, Yugi's Millennium Puzzle began to glow. Seconds later, Yami appeared- he and Hikaru just stood there, staring at each other for the longest time. Then, Yami cracked a smile. "Hikaru... my love it has been so long." Hikaru gave a relieved sigh, her fear stricken eyes became soft as she walked over and wrapped her arms around him.

"Yami," she whispered. "Yami, I..." She said nothing more- he lifted her chin and kissed her. And boy did he kiss her- Tristen looked at his watch a few times in disbelief.

"Are they ever gonna come up for air?" he asked. Joey chuckled.

"They're spirits, Tristen," he replied. "They ain't gotta come up for air." The kiss ended, but the embrace didn't. The two spirits could have stayed there forever, if the gods would allow. But both knew there would be time for this later- after they rescued Torina. Yami looked down at his wife.

"What happened to your aibou, Hikaru?" he asked. Hikaru's face fell as she looked at her "partner," Torina, and shook her head.

"After everything we did to escape him," she said. "He found her."

"Who found her?" asked Teá.

"Her uncle... the reason I am with her." Hikaru pointed at Torina. "He's imprisoned her spirit inside of her mind. I can't get through to her, no matter what I do- if she's there much longer, I know he'll do something terrible... I just don't know what." She looked Yami in the eye. "You have to help me get her back, Yami- next to you, she's all I have." Yami put a hand to Hikaru's cheek and smiled.

"Of course we'll help her, my love. But tell us, who is her uncle? We need to know who we're up against." Hikaru sighed- Torina was going to kill her for this.

"Her uncle is Maximillion Pegasus."

Torina bit her lip in frustration as she sat cross-legged, in a small room, waiting for whatever horror might come next. Although she'd never been here before, she had a pretty good idea of where she was... well, where her spirit was. Her body was back in her warehouse- locked in a sort of sleeping death. Her spirit, on the other hand, was somewhere else, trapped in the darkest part of her mind- the place where all of her past and present fears dwelled. As she thought about it, she knew she should probably make 'fears' singular; she only had one- the person who done this to her. He had threatened to put her here many times before-the one place she couldn't escape him- but this was the first time he had been able to do it.

"I know you can hear me," she yelled. "You may have me now, but you can't keep me here forever!"

A hideous laughter filled the room. Shortly after, a ghostly image appeared- a tall man, with long silvery hair, wearing a red suit. One of his eyes resembled the eye of Anubis that was engraved on the Millennium Puzzle, Millennia Diamond and the door that separated Torina from Hikaru. It glistened in the candle light as he grinned at her. The man glaring at Torina was her uncle- Maximillion Pegasus. And Torina glared right back.

"You can't keep me here forever, Uncle Max," she said again. "I won't let you."

"Why, Torina," her uncle said, in a tone of voice that was both soothing and frightening, a tone that only he could pull off. "I have no intentions of keeping you here forever- just until my obedient lackeys find where you're hiding. As long as your spirit remains trapped here, your body can't run away. Besides, if I wanted to keep you here, exactly how would you stop me?"

"I escaped my Duelist Kingdom prison, didn't I? This may be a different prison, but it is a prison just the same- I'll find a way out." Pegasus chuckled.

"My dear, you've always had a relentless spirit running through you, much to my dislike. But I've always had to admire it. Try as I know you will, there is no chance you will escape this time." The stupid grin that had once been on Pegasus' face turned into an evil smile. "I know your one big secret, Torina- and I plan to use it against you."

With that, Pegasus disappeared... taking the candles, the only source of light in the room, with him and Torina felt a panic attack coming on. She did not like the dark- when things became dark, Torina felt as if the walls were closing in on her and it became more than difficult for her to breath. Sure, the part of her trapped in the dark was just a spirit, but if the spirit stopped breathing, the rest of her just might stop as well. She closed her eyes- sleep might help to calm her down.

"Hikaru..." she whispered. "Please... help."

Everyone was silent after Hikaru made her announcement, making her wonder if Torina was right- she never told anyone about Pegasus for she feared the friends she had would leave her. Yugi finally spoke up.

"How could someone like Pegasus be related to someone like Torina?" he asked. "She's so... not like him." Hikaru gave a mental sigh of relief- maybe this wasn't going to be so bad after all.

"Yugi," she said. "If Pegasus had it his way, Torina would be just like him- he's been trying to make her like that since she was five. Together, we held him off."

"Hikaru," said Joey. "You said Pegasus is the reason you're with Torina- what'd ya mean by that?" Hikaru's gave drifted over to Joey.

"When I had the Millennia Diamond made, it wasn't just so I might see my husband again. I had a spell put on it so that only someone who truly needed me."

"How would you know if they needed you?" asked Teá. "And how does Torina fit into that?"

"Teá," said Hikaru. "When I was a child, my parents died in a mysterious accident and I was sent to live with an uncle, truly the meanest man in the world. He thrived on seeing people in pain, especially his own niece. There were no limits on what he would do to someone in order to break them down. He tried to turn me into him, but I wouldn't let him- the more he tried, the more unlike him I became." There was a pause. "Teá, Torina's story is identical to my own. She received the Millennia Diamond when she was five, but I didn't appear until her parents died and she was sent to live with Pegasus. That is how I know she is the one."

"Why didn't she tell us about Pegasus?" asked Tristen. Hikaru shook her head.

"He has brought her nothing but sadness, Tristen. Before she met you and everyone here, the only true friends she had were me and a little boy she met at the Duelist Kingdom- everyone else she thought to be her friend only said they were because they thought she'd hook them up with rare cards and things. When she didn't, they just dumped her. She knew what Pegasus had done to Yugi's grandfather- she was afraid if you found out about him, you'd dump her too."

"We wouldn't do that!" cried Teá. "Torina's our friend, we wouldn't just leave her because her uncle's a jerk, no way!"

"She'll be glad to hear that, Teá," Hikaru said with a smile. "She's really fond of you." Hikaru then looked at Yami and Yugi. "The three of us will have to go after Torina. With the combined powers of the Millennium Puzzle and the Millennia Diamond, we should be able to get all of us in and out, including my aibou, safely. But while inside her mind, you will seem as dead as Torina, Yugi and it could be like that for days."

"It's a risk I am willing to take," he said before shifting his gaze to his friends. "You guys should probably get us to my house and explain things to my grandpa... considering everything that's happened, he'll believe you." After his friends nodded, Yugi looked back at Hikaru. "I'm ready." Hikaru nodded and closed her eyes. Yami did the same. The two of them began to chant. Seconds later, the disappeared and Yugi began to fall to the floor. Tristen caught him just before he hit.

"I've got Yugi," he said. "You guys grab Torina." Joey picked Torina's body up off the bed.

"I've got her, Teá- you get her bag." With that, Teá grabbed Torina's bag and they headed off to Yugi's house, not quite sure what to expect next.