"Well, Tori, here we are," Yugi said happily as he pushed open the door to the attic of his house. "You're new room." Torina looked around the room in complete awe.

"This isn't a room!" she exclaimed. "It's a whole blasted apartment!" She was right- as you entered the attic there was one large room with a door way to the right, leading to a full bathroom and to the left was a hallway, leading to a back bedroom. Yugi's smiled faded.

"Grandpa used to rent it out a long time ago," he told her. "But we haven't done that in years... we thought you'd like it." Tori turned to face Yugi- where he had expected disappointment, he saw a bright smile.

"Like it? Yugi, I love it!" She started looking around excitedly. "This place is intense!" she continued. "Planned carefully, I could use the Duel Disks up here, no problem... do you think that Grandpa would let me redecorate?" Yugi's smile returned as he nodded. Grandpa had told Torina to call him by that name earlier today and he was pleased the she was taking to it so quickly. It was nice to see her happy.

Suddenly, she rushed over to Yugi and wrapped him in a loving embrace, one that took the poor boy by complete surprise.

"Yugi, this is so great!" she said. "For the first time in about eleven years, I'm gonna have a real family! A grandpa and a brother who actually love me! This is just so great!" Yugi's smile widened as he returned her embrace- it was nice to see her happy.

"All right, Teá," Tori said happily. "You ready for this one?" Tori was standing outside Teá's house, under her bedroom window. It was about a month after Tori's house had burned to the ground, but her friend had just taken ill a week ago. Not wanting Teá to be bored out of her mind for too long, Torina had decided to use her magic to cheer up her ailing friend, who was watching excitedly, along with Joey, Tristen and Yugi.

"Go for it, Tori!" she called from up in her room. Her mom wouldn't let her friends come up and see her, for fear they would catch her cold, but she never said a word about something like this. Torina smiled.

"Okay," she said, rolling up here sleeves. "Nothing up either one of my sleeves, correct? Well, except this- my assistant." She revealed a Shining Friendship card to all her friends. "Now, with the magic words: Shining Friendship, with powers so true- allow me to reveal Teá's gift to you!" Suddenly, the card disappeared and Tori pulled a bouquet of pink roses out of nowhere. As everyone began to clap, she held up a hand. "That's not all." Just as suddenly as the flowers appeared, Tori began to rise into the air. She let out a little giggle, flew up to Teá's window and handed her the flowers. Then, she rose even further into the air, laughing all the way

"That is amazing!" cried Yugi from below. "How does she do it?" Tori was about to answer him when she suddenly put her head in to her hands and let out a groan. Seconds later, she began to fall.

"Tori!" yelled Joey as he rushed to get underneath her. He barely managed to reach her before she hit the ground and he was surprised to find that she was unconscious.

"Is she all right, Joey?" Teá called, worriedly. She'd hate herself if Tori was hurt because of her. Joey was about to say he didn't know, when Tori started to come around.

"Tori, are you all right?" he asked. "A fall like that and you could have been killed." Torina didn't reply at first- she seemed to be concentrating very hard on something. Suddenly, she gave up and shook her head.

"I'm sorry," she said. "It wasn't my fault... it would seem that he has taken my powers. Funny- I had thought that he didn't know of them." She didn't have to voice who she was speaking of. They all knew she was talking about Pegasus.

"He didn't know about your powers?" asked Tristen. Torina shook her head.

"I didn't think so, but when I was falling, I saw him in my mind. He was smiling and asked "How long can you survive without your magic?" She looked at her friends and grinned. "I guess we will find out."

Pegasus was beside himself. He didn't know Torina was so high in the air at the time- he had only wanted to scare her, not kill her. If Joey hadn't caught her... if he'd have known...

"Snap out of it!" he thought. "Even if you would have known, you would have done the same, regardless of the consequences.... still, it's a good thing Joey caught her."

The next day, Torina stood on a bridge and looked out over the water. As far as school field trips go, this one was pretty lame- middle of April, really cold (not quite freezing, but a bit colder than sweatshirt weather- not that that stopped everyone from leaving their coats on the bus) and they were checking out some farm where they grew tulips and daffodils... if Teá hadn't still been at home sick that day, she might actually be enjoying herself. Joey and the guys were there, but they were engaged in a snowball fight with each other: one-on-one-on-one. So, Tori was alone, looking out onto the water. Although the river was beautiful as it glistened in the sunlight, the water was rushing out of control and was most likely right around it's freezing point. Tori would hate to take a dip in that.

"Hey, hot stuff!" Torina felt an arm on her shoulder and turned to see a boy standing behind her. Considering that she had never seen him before, he must have been from some other school. He was a mildly attractive kid: Jet black hair slicked back with a little too much moose, hazel colored eyes peering through a pair of orange sunglasses and attire resembling that of a gang member- leather jacket with different symbols on it, black jeans, gloves with the fingers cut out... and he was looking at Tori like she was a piece of meat. "The name's Mick," he continued. "How about you and me blow this joint and I'll show you a real good time." Torina gave him a soft, but annoyed smile as she removed his hand from her shoulder.

"Thanks, Mick," she replied. "But no thanks." She turned and was about to walk away when Mick firmly grasped her shoulder and forced her to face him again.

"What's the matter, bitch?" he asked, angrily. "I ain't good enough for you or what?" Tori felt her blood begin to boil as she lifted her hand and slapped him across the face. He began to chuckle as his reflexes kicked in and he slapped her back. He then grasped her arms firmly and stared at her, menacingly. "Nice hit, bitch- this is gonna be fun." Tori tried not to show him the fear she had inside- his type of 'fun' was something she didn't want any part of.

"Hey, let her go!" Tori's head jerked to the side when she heard Joey's voice and she saw him, Yugi and Tristen running towards them, with Joey looking hot enough to boil water from the river below in less than a second. "You heard me, punk!" Joey continued. "Let her go, now!" Mick shrugged his shoulders and shoved Tori to the side, causing her to land on her back. As Yugi rushed over to help her up, and Tristen attempted to hold Joey back, Mick began to chuckle.

"No wonder you didn't want me, bitch," he said. "You all ready seem to be playing the field."

"Why you little..." Tristen instantly let go of Joey- his eyes were narrowed as far as they could go without closing, noting that he was extremely ticked off... and Tristen didn't want to get hit on accident.

The scuffle broke out on the bridge- Mick throwing everything he had at Joey, Joey dodging his every move and landing a few of his own. How dare this punk insult Torina- his Torina- like that! Joey was giving it everything he had and it was shown through the bruises he was leaving on the Mick.
As the two of them fought it out, and Tristen went to find a cop, teacher or whatever, Yugi helped Tori to her feet.

"Are you okay, Tori?" he asked, worriedly. "That was a pretty rough push he gave you." Tori looked at her friend, smiled and gestured to the backpack she was wearing.

"This took most of the fall for me," she said. "And people said taking it off the bus was a dumb idea." She then turned her attention to the fight. "Mop the blasted floor with him, Joey!" Joey looked at her and smiled.

"No problem, Tori-girl!"

After a while, Joey debated on whether to throw one more punch, even with the request from his girlfriend- granted, this kid deserved everything he got, but something told him one more would be a mistake. He threw it anyway, but not without consequences. He hit the boy as hard as he could and sent him flying towards the low railing of the bridge. But instead of hitting the rail, the boy slammed into Yugi, knocking him over. Yugi cried out for help, but was silenced when he hit his head on the side of the bridge, knocking him out.

"Yugi!" cried Tori. Joey could hear Tori's frightened cries as Yugi fell towards the water, followed by a splash... wait- two splashes. Joey suddenly looked around... where was Torina? Joey rushed towards the rail and looked over- Tori had dived into the water after Yugi.

"Tori!" Joey yelled, but it seemed that she didn't hear him- she was too busy swimming downstream after Yugi's unconscious body, which was somehow staying above water. Joey spun around, grabbed Mick by the collar and pulled him to his feet. "I swear to God," he said. "If anything happens to either of those two, the cops are gonna have to do one hell of a job keeping you safe from me." Mick stared at him- much like Tori had done with him, Mick was trying to hide the fear he had inside.

"You wouldn't dare," he scoffed. Joey began to smile one of his sly Joey-type smiles.

"That was my best friend and my girlfriend that went in the water and they are two of the people who mean more to me than anything in the world. So don't you tell me that I wouldn't dare."

With the current rushing as fast as it was, it took everything Tori had just to finally reach Yugi and get him to river's edge. It seemed to have gotten colder since she dived into the water- the air on her wet clothes were the culprit- and she was freezing, but she knew that Yugi must have been much colder. He was in the water longer than she was, meaning he had more time for the water soak his body. Tori bit her lip- if she didn't get him out of the water, dried off and warmed up soon, he could catch hypothermia or worse... he could die. Tori finally pulled Yugi out of the water and looked around. She soon spotted a cave and used what was left of her strength to take Yugi in her arms and walked towards the cave.

"Don't worry, Yugi." she said. "It's gonna be all right- I promise."

Mick had been taken into custody for harassment and despite his attempts to land Joey in a cell right next door, saying that Joey had threatened him and hit him for no reason, he went there alone. Too many witnesses had heard what he said to Torina and saw what he did- all stated that Joey had done what he did in order to stand up for her.

"Why wouldn't he?" one witness said. "He loves that girl more than anything." As statements were being taken, Joey and Tristen were describing their missing friends to rescue teams assembled to help find them.

"Yugi's about five foot nothin'," said Tristen. "He has reddish-purple hair with blonde bangs..." He gestured towards the clothes he was wearing. "He was wearing one of these uniforms and had a large triangular shaped necklace on a metal link chain." One of the police men, Sergeant Ken Timmons, nodded as he took down the notes.

"All right then," he said. "What about the girl?" Tristen was about to reply, when Joey spoke up.

"She's got fiery red hair," he said. "It sticks out to the sides and looks kinda crazy. Her eyes are really dark brown and are framed by her silver eyeglasses. She was wearing a light blue sweatshirt, with aqua colored sleeves, black denim pants and a sash matching the shirtsleeves tied around her waist."

There was a pause. Tristen thought Joey might say something along the lines of "And when she walks, all the wind blows and the angel's sing," a line from his and Tori's favorite song, next. But Joey just shook his head.

"We've gotta find her," he said. "We've gotta find both of them."

Tori was exhausted as she carried Yugi into the cave, but she had no time to relax. She could feel her friend shivering uncontrollably in her arms- as was she, but she didn't take the time to notice. All she knew was that she had to get Yugi warmed up and do it quickly. She wasted no time in slipping off her backpack, Yugi still in her arms, and opening it up. From inside she pulled out her Wingweaver jacket and a blanket, the latter she had placed in there because of a strange feeling she had that morning. Both were dry as a bone.

"I knew there was a good reason for getting a waterproof backpack," she mumbled as she used one hand to spread the blanket out on the ground and laid Yugi down on the top. She then took off his wet shirt and wrapped him in her Wingweaver jacket, zipping it up to his chin, which seemed to be turning blue. Tori bit her lip. This would help Yugi get the color back into his face, but she was afraid that it wouldn't be quite enough.

Then, she had an idea- she shook off all the extra water she could off of her backpack and propped it against a large rock she found in the cave. Then, she picked up Yugi and the blanket, put the blanket up against the rock, set Yugi in front of the blanket and wrapped it around him.

"This could work," she thought as she took off his wet shoes and socks and tucked his feet into the blanket. "But there's more I can do." She looked at Yugi, who was still completely out of it- the combination of his head trauma and the cold was keeping him that way. She didn't want to leave him alone, but in order to save his life she had no choice.

"I'll be back, Yuge," she said aloud. "Just sit tight." With that, she walked out of the cave and into the cold. She barely noticed the wind against her still soaked clothes that rested against her skin. Yugi was in trouble and that was all she cared about now- he had saved her life twice before and she was going to repay him for that if it killed her.