I sorta wrote this when I was listening to a track on the " Hannibal ", the song where Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter was writing to Agent Starling. I figure since I am working
on a huge Yu-Gi-Oh! Mini-series and a Behind the scenes, I take some time to reflect on
This Saturday's upcoming episode. Please let me know if you want Yugi or Yami to reply
to this letter...

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Hannibal, They are owned by respected studios and shareholders...


Dear Yugi,

If you have received this letter by now, I will have known of your loss to Seto Kaiba. I was
very amazed that you would risk the most important thing in your life & see it shatter right there
before your very eyes. Your one hope of saving your grandfather now remains nothing more than a lighted candle ending at the bottom of the wick. Maybe you need to learn a cold, hard lesson in truth, Yugi. Grandpa isn't coming back... If you think by using Seto Kaiba to defeat me is your attempt to saving your grandfather, I think you would be a fool to do so. Seto Kaiba
was here to save Mokuba and no one else... But he isn't going to save him, No. He's going to join him and your Grandfather...

I couldn't overhearing from a source that your tears were shed on the battlefield. I ask you this. Would you beg for mercy once I have defeated you? Would you shed those very same tears in your hour of defeat as you did towards Seto? I hope you do, the very thought of it makes me even more interested when we battle for the only time. Beg for mercy, Yugi. Not even the highest choir of angels are going to help you out.

But if you want to back out, I would deeply understand. I know that weight of you and your friends fate would depend on your next move. But, let me ask you this. Is this what you really want. A front-row screening to see your friends be added to my collections of souls, one by one until you turn comes at last. Quit while you're ahead. Think about the intentions of your friends for why they came here.

Joey Wheeler: For the prize money to save his sister's sight. As much as I do believe in the modern advancement of medical technology, there is always the percentage that it may not restore but worsen the condition than it already is.

Tristan Taylor, Tea Gardner, & Ryou Bakura: What role do they really play in this game? They are simply your pawns. The pawns you use when Yami is summoned. If you are so kind and gentle as the many have said about you at my face, you wouldn't force them into play.

And Finally, You. Yugi Moto:

Let's face a common fact. Life evolves into stages. From Birth to childhood to adolescence to adulthood. From there, At the very tip of our process, we grown older and wiser. As the season change, we start to fade. The memories of long ago seem so distant and forgotten. We forget the places we grew up in, the names in which we can't place the image with, and finally...
We begin to forget ourselves... Picture your grandfather, years from now, sitting in a rocking chair. You come inside to check up on him. You look upon the realm of his face. You will ask him, " Grandpa, are you o.k.?" But what will he say to you? Will he say in a deep voice, " I'm okay, Yugi..." Or will he stare into your eyes and ask " Who are you?"

Would you want your own grandfather to forget you? He can't grow any older while I still have him encased in this card. I am simply offering him Immortality. No pain... No suffering...

It would be in your best interest to head back towards the card shop and forget about it. But if you're still up towards the challenge. Don't say I didn't warn you....

I would love to chat some more but it seems that Seto Kaiba is ready to be joined with his little brother.

Until then, think about what was said, I will suspect that you and Yami will have a lot to discuss...

Pegasus