Auroris: HERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER FOLKS!!!!!! And can I just say to you an ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I RECEIVE ANY REVIEWS FOR MY LAST CHAPTER???????? Grrr.........I FEEL AS IF I WANNA KILL SOMEONE!!!!!!!!
Hafertis: *appears* Oh by Nephthys.
Auroris: Hey! What are you doing here?
Hafertis: I'm not sure *looks around* How did I appear in such an obscene place?
Auroris: Woah! This is the house that MY parents picked, not me girl. I just live in it.
Hafertis: I see.
Mokuba: *appears* Hiya!!! Oooh.....look at those tons of books over there......
Auroris: HEY!!! DON'T TOUCH THOSE!!!!!! *swats Mokuba's reaching hands away*
Mokuba: *lip trembles* Waaah!!! You slapped me!
Auroris: What the heck kid? I only pushed your hands away.
Mokuba: *bawls* Big brother!!! She hurt me!!!!
Seto: *appears and glares darkly at Auroris* Did she now? I'll call my lawyers right away then.
Auroris: WHAT?!?! Now you listen here buddy!!! I hardly touched him!!!
Tea: *appears* I beg to differ.
Auroris: HEY!!! How did YOU come in here???
Tea: *looks around* Dunno, you know that your room is quite horrible?
Watch your mouth young lady or you're gonna be bashed in my fic!!!!
Yami Bakura: *appears and taunts* Oooh....I'm scared.
Auroris: AGHH!!!!!! YOU'RE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!!!!!!! SCAT GO!!!!!!! *nobody moves* Grrr.....fine then!!! One of you do the disclaimers!!!!!
Mokuba: I will!!! I will!!! Auroris doesn't own Yugioh or any of its characters and plot. She only own Hoshi, Hafertis, the Millennium Bracelet and THIS fanfic's plot.
Auroris: Attaboy!!! For that you get a lemon lollipop!!!
Mokuba: *lips trembles* Big brother...she's giving me JUST a lemon lollipop...she's being stingy.......
Auroris: WHAT?!?!?! Now listen up here kid......
Seto: *glares at Auroris* I happen to have the phone numbers of the top lawyers in the world.....
Auroris: ACK!!!!!! I'M BEING ATTACKED BY ANIME CHARACTERS!!!!!! Well folks just read and REVIEW!!!!!!!
Chapter 4: Reunions
Hafertis saw Yami and squealed in delight.
"Pharaoh Yugi!!" she shrieked and lunged forward at him. Before he could make a move Hafertis jumped onto him, wrapping her legs around his waist and locked lips. Yami staggered under the weight Hafertis bestowed upon him. The former bodyguard's face was filled with ecstasy, eyes closed, as she seemed to suck the breath from Yami. The crowd of students oohed as Yugi's friends stared open-mouthed at the sight. Yami Bakura was the only one that looked with rage.
"You! Were with her?!" he spat with rage, his face drained of blood. "How could you....after all these years...."
After a bit of a struggle Yami managed to remove Hafertis off him and held her at arm's length. He turned to Yami Bakura and responded, scowling in a most unprincely way.
"We...were...not...together," he said through gritted teeth. He turned back to Hafertis. "And what are YOU doing here may I ask?"
Hafertis sighed. "This wasn't the best welcome I was expecting from you, but my reincarnation found my Item and opened it." She brightened up. "Oh, so you found your reincarnation too?"
"Don't talk so loud here!" Yami hissed at her. "That's supposed to be a secret!"
Hafertis smirked in response. "Oh and your reincarnation was able to keep you a secret from his friends? A job well done Pharaoh, I congratulate your light."
Yami just pulled on Hafertis' arm and dragged her out of the crowd of students despite her protests.
"What is the meaning of this? What did I do? Was it something I said?"
Yugi's friends dumbly followed the pair. After a few minutes Yami Bakura followed too, but looking so sour, as if he had lost a Dueling game.
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"Let go of me! This is the most undignified position I've ever been in! Let go of me!" Hafertis kept on complaining.
Yugi's friends managed to catch up with the yami couple and looked questioningly at Hafertis.
"So...she's not Hoshi?" Tea finally asked pointing at Hafertis.
Hafertis' eyes narrowed at her. "Can't you see the difference? For a mortal you aren't perspective."
Tea wanted to growl out something unpleasant in return, but Yami raised a hand for silence. He began explaining.
"There wasn't only seven Millennium Items as I had told you before but eight. After I had been kept in the Millennium Puzzle for so long, for some odd reason I forgot about the eighth one. Then SHE showed up and a memory was suddenly triggered in my brain causing for me to recall the eighth Millennium Item."
"What's her connection to ya during Ancient Egypt?" Joey asked. Yami glared at him. Joey looked back with confusion. "What? What da heck did I do wrong now?"
Yami quickly looked away. "Never mind. Hafertis will explain." The Millennium Puzzle glowed and Yugi reappeared again. He blinked confusedly and noticed Hafertis.
"Hey! You're not Hoshi!" he suddenly realized.
Hafertis rolled her eyes skywards. "Of course not," she replied.
"And I'd like to know what she's doing here," Yami Bakura panted, finally catching up with the group.
Hafertis swept an arm to her surroundings. "And do you want me to yell it out to all these people while I'm at it? Or should I tell you privately?" Everyone, except Yami Bakura, looked at her with bafflement.
"Oh by Ra," snarled Yami Bakura. "She wants you to show her someplace where she can talk with nobody eavesdropping."
Yugi brightened up. "Oh, that's easy. Let's go to my place!" His friends agreed and they walked over to Yugi's house.
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The bell hanging next to the door in the Turtle Game Shop tinkled and Grandpa called out from the stock room, thinking it was a customer, "I'll be right there!"
"It's just us Grandpa!" Yugi called back as he and his friends began to troop upstairs to Yugi's living chambers. "No need to come out! It's just me and my friends."
"Ok Yugi, just give me a shout if you need anything!" was Grandpa's response.
Entering Yugi's room everyone plopped down on a favored spot. Joey and Tristan on the floor, Yugi on his bed, Tea in a chair and Yami Bakura standing by the window. Hafertis chose to sit on the floor against a wall with knees drawn up to her chin.
"Explain," snapped Yami Bakura.
Hafertis eyed him for a second with a hint of sadness then launched into a speech.
"For now I'll skip all of my origins and just explain my connection to Pharaoh Yugi. I was one of his personal bodyguards and followed him everywhere as I was my duty. As females weren't supposed to carry weapons back then my gender had to be hidden so I was a young beardless boy to everyone called "Amunhur". On the day when the Pharaoh locked up the Shadow Games he used the powers of eight Millennium Items. In the Millennium Eye he placed the gift of reading minds. In the Millennium Rod was the power to control people's will. In the Millennium Tauk it could foretell the future. The Millennium Ring could locate where the other Millennium Items were, but the Pharaoh needed more power so used Bakura's soul as the sacrifice.
"And I hate him for it," Yami Bakura muttered too low for anyone else to hear.
"In the Millennium Scale it could judge people's souls while the Millennium Ankh could open doorways to ????. Pharaoh Yugi sacrificed himself to be placed into the Millennium Puzzle while I did the same for the Millennium Armlet or Bracelet. This Bracelet besides containing my soul to ability to find pathways through minds, times or to other worlds." Hafertis leaned forwards as if to whisper confidentially to the teenagers. "And my meeting here was no coincidence."
The teenagers' eyes widened and they leaned closer to Hafertis.
"Someone is trying to open the Shadow Games." Everyone gasped except Yami Bakura who snorted. Hafertis gave him a raised eyebrow.
Yami Bakura scoffed. "That's all you have to say? That's been done million of times by many people so it's nothing new or big
"But someone wants to reopen the Shadow Games, use all of the creatures inside and unleash them upon the world!" protested Hafertis. "THAT isn't big enough for you?"
Yami Bakura's eyes gleamed evilly. "Then I encourage them and support them greatly when they've succeeded." Five pairs of eyes stared at him in disbelief. "I'm the bad guy here remember? I'm supposed to delight in torture, bloodshed and other forms of violence." Tristan groaned.
"Why don't you just let Ryou come back can ya?" he asked. "I prefer the quiet guy then the crazy, maniacal villain."
Yami Bakura scowled and didn't comply. Tristan snorted and turned away.
Tea asked, "And what can the Millennium Items do?"
Hafertis didn't answer the question, but said, "I received a verse from a prophecy by some high powers about the Millennium Puzzle. It goes like this:
The first item is in plain sight
Riddles within its cracks
Burning with Ra's light
Within it is a knack"
"That wasn't so hard to crack," Yami Bakura sneered. "Any other pretty poetry for us to hear?"
Hafertis' face went devoid of emotion and walked over to Yugi who edged back a bit nervously.
"Don't worry," she soothed. "Just need to your Puzzle for a second." She reached forwards and placed a hand on his Puzzle then gripped it hard. White light exploded as soprano voices sang out soaring to the ceilings:
The second is never ending
A finder for things of power
An object forever searching
Shall help in the needy hour
When the light faded everyone was in the same spot as they were before, but blinking rapidly with bright flashes still bursting before their eyes. Hafertis turned to Yami Bakura and before he could react she had gripped his Item.
The third is the reader
Ripped away in pain
The user as a miser
Given in falling rain
Was sung out with the same bravado. Yami Bakura stumbled back from Hafertis and growled, "Will you stop doing that?! It's giving me a headache."
Hafertis said nothing and sat back in her same spot in the same position. Turning to the group she spoke.
"And what do you think of those verses?"
"Well from what it said it was referring to the Millennium Items?" asked Yugi.
Hafertis shrugged. "From what I heard that is what it seemed to be so."
Joey pondered. "And this is wha' happens? Ya touch an Item and concentrate then another verse of the prophecy comes up?"
Hafertis nodded. "That's what it seems to be so."
"So then how about we get cracking on these verses!" Yugi said cheerfully.
"Yes, as friends we can go through everything together and defeat all of our obstacles...." Tea started.
Everyone groaned with Yami Bakura muttering, "Count me out," and changing to Ryou.
Ryou looked confusedly around and asked in his British accent, "What's going on?"
Auroris: I REFUSE TO DO THE NEXT CHAPTER WITHOUT AT LEAST FOUR REVIEWS!!!!!!! Yes I know, I didn't keep to my threat from the last chapter. BUT I WILL THIS TIME!!!!!!! No four reviews? THEN NO NEXT CHAPTER!!!!!!! REVEIW THIS CHAPTER PLEASE!!!!!!! Just a teensy weensy review please!!! And flames accepted as always!!!!!!!
Yami Bakura: You sure are desperate for reviews aren't you?
Auroris: ACCK!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???? I THOUGHT I LOST YOU SOMEWHERE CLOSE TO THE END OF CHAPTER 3!!!!!
Yami Bakura: *laughs maniacally* Ha! You think you could lead the greatest of tomb robbers on a false trail? Think again Auroris.
Auroris: Grr.....well then say the line that I've said in every chapter.
Yami Bakura: *yawns* Don't forget to review this story.
Auroris: More vigor! I'll give you the Millennium Puzzle if you do so.
Yami Bakura: *shouts* DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW THIS STORY!!!!!! *looks expectantly at Auroris*
Auroris: *grins* Not a chance. Can you believe how gullible people can be nowadays?
Yami Bakura: Grrrrrr..........
(Added by Silver Moon): Come on Auroris don't force the audience. Encourage them to review and no threats! Although you'll still do them anyway…so readers! Plz review and stop my friend's crazy wanting review barrage!