Seto: Am I going to win?

Yami: No! I want to win!

Seto:*glares at Yami* You're just a lucky novice!

Yami:No I'm not! I beat you on T.V.! I even save your life!

Seto: I didn't need any help anyway.....=P

Yami:=P

(continues to fight)

Me:If you guys don't stop...I'll...I'll...I'll write that both of you were trapped in the shadow realm together... FOREVER!!!

(Yami and Seto stop)

Me:-_-; I'm probably the only writer who has to BABYSIT their characters -_- ;

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Everybody gasp. "Father?"said Celeste,"Why would you pick that?"

"I want a husband that could protect you from anything,Celeste. If Seto beats Yami in a duel, then I know that he is most capable of doing so."

"But father...." She didn't finish. Everybody knew of the dangers of the shadow realm. If anybody even attempts to enter the land of banished monsters, they'll instantly be crushed by the magical energy. Only kings and socerers with intense magical abilities could withstand the effects.

"I said what I said, Celeste. Do you still want to compete Seto?"

Everybody turned to Seto for his answer. Though his face was paler than usual, Seto nodded silently. Yami looked solemn.

The Pharoah looked at each of them. "The competition would start in one week from now. I suggest you get praticing."

Yami and Seto bowed and walked off towards their seperate ways.

Celeste stood back and glared at her father before running to the back gardens. "How could father do this?" she thought, walking through the statues of sacred cats and alligators. "He knows Seto has less of magical ability than Yami. Yami had been known to be the best duelists in the world. How could Seto beat him? He could die."

Careful not to step on any scorpians, she sat down on the shade of a palm tree. "Oh Ra," she thought, praying towards the sun," don't hurt Seto."

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Seto stumbled into his chambers. Mokuba was already waiting for news on the bed. Mokuba took one look at Seto and his face showed puzzlement.

"Seto? What happened? I can tell the pharoah accepted, but I don't know what the game is."

Seto just sat limply on the bed beside Mokuba. Mokuba couldn't tell that it was the shadow games becaues Seto had never even see it, so he couldn't imagine what it was like.

"Its the shadowgames, Mokuba. The pharoah chose the Shadow games."

"Shadowgames? But Seto, Yami is the best duelists in egypt! Why aren't you more worried?!?!"

Seto smirked. Mokuba didn't know yet."There's some things about father I haven't told you about Mokuba." He motioned Mokuba to get off the bed. Mokuba obeyed and watched him as he pushed the bed to the side, revealing a trap door.

It didn't surprise Mokuba. The palace was filled with passages and hidden doors. Mokuba, himself, spent hours at a time finding them. In fact, it was he that showed Seto the door in the first place, though Mokuba never explored it.

Seto made sure the doors were locked and closed the curtains in the windows. He lit up a torch and opened the trap door. There was a staircase leading to darkness. Mokuba was afraid but followed close behind Seto.

"Where are we going, big brother?" unable to disguise how scared he was.

Seto was silent for the moment and begin to explain."Father didn't want you to know this Mokuba. Before he died, he was not only a socerer, but a very powerful one. He was famous throughout the land for his magic and ability to duel in the shadow realm. When he fell in love with mother, he forced himself to stop going to the shadow realm and changed his name so he can be with her."

Seto sighed. "Can you tell the rest from my thoughts, Mokuba?"

Mokuba concentrated. He could only see outlines of people moving frantically and something shiny. "I'm sorry Seto, its too fuzzy."

Seto wasn't diappointed. He had been pushing the memory to the back of his mind for a long time." One day, a group of bad people managed to find out who father was. By then, you were already born. Father and I were out fishing in a nearby river. Those people wanted father's magic and trashed our home looking for his source. Mother hid you somewhere where they couldn't find you but it was too late for her." Seto's voice cracked slightly."They killed her when she tried to stop them.

When Father and I returned, we found mother. I was the one who found you, Mokuba. Father must've realized what the people were after. The next day, we gave mother a quick buriel and tried to move quicly to a nearby town. We lived peacefully for 3 years in that town but I've always noticed that father was always so overprotective over us.

Then they came back. They had managed to track us down again. It was at night and father had woken me up. All I could remember is a lot of yelling done by father and hooded figures. Father and I ran with you still asleep on my back. When they were about to catch up to us. Father ordered me to stay behind some boxes and hide. I heard alot of spells and incantations said by father and some people screaming. I covered your ears so you wouldn't wake up. When it was over, I lifted you down and went to father's side. He had gotten rid of the people, but used alot of magic. The figures were gone but father was badly injured, lying on the ground. Father said was about his past and everything that happened. He gave me something that was in his hand before he died. It was the thing the hoods were after. The last thing he said to me was:'Take care of Mokuba.'.

That was when we turned into orphans. The rest is what you know yourself."

When Seto was finished, he turned around to see Mokuba on the brink of tears. Seto stopped and bended down to hug him. Seto decided to carry Mokuba the rest of the way.

He stopped at the room the staicase ended. Lighted with some kind of forever-torches, the room was exceptionally bright. Statues of gods ,like Ra, and famous egyptians, like Imohtep, lined the sides of limstone pillars. Seto placed Mokuba down and watched as his face grew in awe. Further down the room were tall stone tablets. Each of them etched with a monster.

Seto watched in amusement over his little borther's amazement. "It must've been the collection of an ancient duelists. Look at all the monsters."

"Exactly, I did a little research and this is actually the lost tablets of a socerer who once served here a century ago." Seto said. Mokuba ran to down the room."Hurry up Seto!"

Seto walked beside Mokuba as he examine the back. In a row, was the legendary blue eyes white dragons. "Seto? How long have you known? I've read your mind plenty of times and I've never seen any indication of this room!"

"I've been here a couple times. I was bored one day so I decided to explore a trapdoor you shown me earlier. I guess I wasn't really impressed becaues it wasn't useful to me..until now. Im going to use these in my duel against Yami."

"Great! Then you can't possibly lose! Except...." Mokuba drifted off.

"Except what?"

"The shadow realm. You can't even be in the Shadow Realm, big brother. You have magic but I don't think you have enough to survive the place."

Seto smirked." Do you think I'll forget anything like that?" He bended down near one of the tablets and a millenium item. "This was what father gave me and what those fiends were after. Its' the millenium rod... the source of father's magic. I hid it in various places ever since father gave it to me so no one would take it. It could magnify my power to withstand the shadow realm."

Mokuba looked at the good necklace and touched it. This was the caues of his parents death.

" Do you miss mother or father, Seto?"

Seto eyes blinked but he ignored his brother's question. "I'm going to beat you Yami."

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Yami laid on his bed, facing the window. "I can't believe I agreed to this. I vowed never to use it again. But how could I refused?" he thought.

Slowly, he walked to a table. He pulled out his necklace and a small key emerged at the end of it. He opened one of the drawers to reveal a dusty box with ancient writing etched along the sides. He opened it with a key and a small pyramid glistened to the light of the sun. He examined the prism to make sure it wasn't damaged and checked the eye over with his hand.

It had been months since he had used it. The last time he had was against a power-hungry king trying to take over his land. It was an emergency. Yami had won the duel, but the king lost his life becaues of his control over his monsters. It was a hard victory, even if the ruthless king did deserve it.

It was one of the 7 items of the shadow realm. Each made by an unkown person. Each hold powers to help the master with the Shadowgames.

He held up his millenium puzzle to get ther full effect of the sunlight. "I'm sorry Seto. You have served me well. Please don't take it personally."

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Seto: Where is she?

Yami: How should I know?

Seto: Maybe the fanfic ended! Thats why she isn't here! Yeah^-^* brings out a bag of chocolates to celebrate*

Yami: I doubt it.....*looks at Seto*

Seto:Don't even think about it Yami. I went through alot of trouble trying to get these!

Yami:How did you get them? There aren't suppose to be any chocolates in ANCIENT EGYPT!

Seto: I found it on the table. Finders Keepers. Losers Weepers.

Me: Hello Seto*smirks evily* Give me back my Chocolates!*starts pulling on bag*

Seto:*still holding bag. No! its mine! Don't ...I ..get.. a ...reward... for ..doing th...*bag tears and chocolates rolls on the floor*

Me:*o_o, 0_0, O_O* mmmmmmmm.......m.....my...CHOCOLATES!

Yami:(to seto) You just had to do that don't you Seto? Just Remember, It wasn't my fault!

Me:O_O killllll killlllll killlllllll