A/n: Gomen ne! Gomen ne!! Lateness of this chapter, gomen ne! I am trying to get this to work right...and having a sequel for this going in my brain...very different from "Star Child", "Temple of Dreams", and of course "Koori no Naifu wo Daite". No main bad guy after to kill anyone for past lives...oh I'll just let you wait and see!

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Koori no Naifu wo Daite

Chapter Ten: Koori no Naifu wo Daite

Embracing the Knife of Ice

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Sheila fell to her knees, her head pounding like nothing she had felt before. 'She almost did it...' she thought. 'She almost killed them.' she saw red drops on the grey cement, and her eyes widened. Blood.

"You little!" Yami growled. He went to punch her, but Sakura grabbed his arms, and Yugi wrapped his arms around Yami's waste. "How could you!? They trusted you! Some friend you are! What would your parents say if they ever saw this?"

Sheila's eyes widened and she looked at the ground. Her mind raced to find anything about her parents..anything about her past. 'No home..no family...no friends...am I even alive..?'

"Speak you little runt!" Yami barked.

"Yami, please stop!" Yugi cried out. "Don't hurt her Yami, please don't hurt her!!"

Sheila looked at the ground as more blood pored from the gash on her head, in the shape of a physic eye. "I don't remember...I can't remember...mom...dad...a house..a school... nothing!" she grabbed the side of her head and her body began to shake. "WHO AM I!?" she screamed.

Yami stopped and his ruby eyes gazed down at the frightened high school girl in front of him. He felt his body relax and he stared.

"I can't remember anything.." Sheila sobbed. "No home, family, school, or friends! Just my band, duel monsters and... her!!" she whipped the blood from her face and sobbed.

Yugi looked at his friend. He walked to her. "Who is 'she' Sheila? Is she the one who tried to hurt Yami and us?" he bent down to her. "Who is she?"

"I-I-I don't know.." Sheila whispered. "I just know she has been inside me the whole time...ever since I came back from my flight to Egypt...but maybe that was a lie too! I am nothing, no one!! I don't even know who my parents are!!" she looked up at Yugi as she shifted in her red leather coat. "Yugi...who am I?"

"I am not sure..Sheila." Yugi said. He helped her up. "Come on, lets go to Sakura-chan's place...I am sure we can do something for you." he held her hand and looked at Sakura.

Sakura ran over and put Sheila's arm around her shoulder. She looked at Yami. "Yugioh?"

"Why do you do this, aibou?" Yami questioned. "You help those who tried to kill you!"

"It wasn't Sheila, Yami!" Yugi stated. "Someone inside her, like you and me, and like Bakura and his Yami." he looked up at him with his pleading amethyst eyes. "Please?"

"No!" Yami growled. "I refuse to help someone who has put me or my friends in danger! NO!" he then merged into the puzzle, slamming the soul room door.

"Yami..." Yugi sniffed and helped Sheila to Sakura's house.

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"Tell us what you remember." Yue said. They had gotten the Pop singer all cleaned up, and she sat now on the sofa.

"I don't remember much.." Sheila said. "I remember waking up in a hospital...I couldn't have been more than at least six years old. She was standing there. Her red-black hair that was messy, and her Egyptian robes. She had heavy looped earings and a decorated head band. She glared right into me....



Sheila looked up at her, scared and confused. Her small eyes looked around the room as the IV lay in her arm, and she stared back up at her. "Who are you...?"

"Someone that has come to claim you." she said. "If you must have something to call me, little one, it will be Master Silphe[1], understand!?"

"Are you always this mean..?" little Sheila asked. "Why are you so mean?" her eyes filled with tears.

Silphe's eyes filled with rage as she strike the child. Her eyes flared. "I will not harm you again, if you listen to me! Now, I want you to understand something, I'll make you a deal. I will protect you, my vessel, if you do something for me."

"W-what?" Sheila asked as she placed a hand on her swollen cheek. 'How can I ever do something for a person who hits me?'

"You let me do as I wish." Silphe said. "I come out of your body, and take it over as I wish. I will do as I wish. In return, you get protection." she cupped the girl's face in her hand. "Do we have a deal, my little vessel."

"Please don't hurt me!" Sheila cried as Silphe's grip tightened. "I'll do want you want..just stop hurting me! PLEASE!"

"Good, my little vessel." Silphe sneered and then merged with the child. ~I'll be right here..whenever you need me...or to guide you.~

Sheila sniffed her tears up and watched as the doctors came in. She didn't understand what they were saying, or why they looked at her strangely. Her broken arm hurt, and her face did. She closed her eyes. 'Master Silphe...' she thought.



Sheila fell silent and bowed her head. Her brown bangs shaded her eyes and she stared upon the ground. "I am not sure why she had chosen me, or why she wanted me....I do now though." she stared at the ground, and felt Sakura's soft hand touch her on the back. "It was because of my powers."

"Powers?" Keroberous asked.

"Yes." Sheila said. She did not move her head. "I am a physic. I have predictions, that is why I knew Yugi was going to be hurt. I can read minds, and toss power blasts at someone..not to mention heal wounds."

"That is how you saved me that one day." Yugi said.

"Yes, Yugi." Sheila said. She stood. "I have to get going, my band is probably worried."

"Do they know?" Tomoyo asked as she stood. "I can take you.."

"They and you are the only ones that know." Sheila said. "I would like that, Tomoyo. Thanks." she waved her friends good-night and headed out the door with Tomoyo.

"Poor Sheila-san!" Sakura said as she served Yugi some green tea later that night. "I am glad tomorrow is Saturday."

"Yeah." Yugi nodded and drank a little of the tea. "I am worried about her. What about this Silphe person?"

"She maybe the one that Yue and Kerberous warned you about." Yukito said. He was the human form of Yue. He was much like Yugi and Bakura, holding a spirit inside him.

"Hai." Sakura gave a nod. "The question is why and how?"

"She is also after that Triangle of Light, I bet." Yukito muttered and drank some tea. "Something must have a connection between this Triangle and this Knife of Ice." he thought for a moment. "Yet, this Triangle was spilt in two, right? So maybe the Knife can somehow...bring the pieces together."

"Oh, I hate these kinds of puzzles." Sakura sighed. "No point of staying up any longer, ne? Come on, lets hit the hay."

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Silphe clutched Sheila's face. "You little runt! You told them, you did! You are nothing more than a vessel, a vessel that should have not gotten mixed up with them!"

Sheila whimpered. "But, Mistress S-S-Silphe..you told me t-t-to.."

"Yes I did!" Silphe snapped. "Yet that doesn't mean you go and do that, now does it?! Now you are going to go away..somewhere no one can find you."

"No!" Sheila's eyes widened. "Please, Mistress Silphe, not there....not there again! PLEASE!"

"You are not going to get away with this, Sheila Summers." Silphe placed a hand on her forehead. "You have been a pain in my side for the last time! Good-bye!" she then sent a phsyic wave into the girls forhead.

Sheila's spirit separated from her body and began to freeze. The ice then came off it, and surrounded it. Sheila's spirit banged against the icy prison and screamed.

"No, no." Silphe smiled. She turned and the icy prison disappeared. Just then, as she knew it, Yugi and Sakura ran up. "So, we meet again."

"You!" Sakura yelled. She took out her Egyptian staff and growled.

Silphe turned to Yugi. "Why do you torment yourself, little one? Can you not see it?"

"See what?"

"You are just a mer vessel." Silphe snared. "Little Yugioh is just getting what he wants from you..and as soon as the time comes, he'll leave and destroy you. You doesn't care about you..he only wants your body to house him."

"Not true!" Yugi said, clutching the puzzle. "Yami loves me, I know it! He wouldn't do that..not in a thousand years! Yami would do anything for me, just like I would for him."

Yami then appeared next to Yugi and took a step towards Silphe. "So, you are the one causing hurt to my aibou! You are going down, you--"

Silphe gave a hard laugh. "Oh please, Pharaoh! You think you can stop me?" she glared at him. "You were lucky enough to even defeat me...as a child!" she pointed a finger at him. "Because of you, I was shammed from my family. I was driven out of Egypt, and had to live bread that was rotten! BECAUSE OF YOU!" she smiled evilly and laughed insanely. "But oh no, not it is my turn....my turn to did to you what you did to me!" she extended her arms, and a pair of ghostly arms came from behind her.

The arms reached for Yugi, and then grabbed him. Yugi screamed as he felt the arms turn into daggers. He dropped to the ground, and found no wounds. He was completely baffled, and then grabbed his heart. He screamed again.

"And now, great Pharaoh, you see the effects of a Knife of Ice." Silphe laughed. "You see, your highness, the knife wields it's self into ones body, and quickly melts inside. Then it goes straight for the soul, and doesn't leave a mark."

"Aibou!" Yami said as he held his light in his arms. Yugi thrashed in pain and opened his eyes. Yami stared into his amethyst eyes and held him close. "Stay with me, aibou. We'll get through this.."

"Yami!" Sakura screamed. She watched as Yami was grabbed by a woman with six arms. She summoned up the Shot card, but it bounced right off a shield. She ducked and glared at the Egyptian woman.

"Come, Succubus Knight." Silphe smiled. The six armed warrior woman let go of Yami, and reached into Yugi with one of her hands. The knight then carried Yugi's sould to Silphe and held it. "You want your little vessel's soul, come and get it." she turned and walked into a portal, with the knight following her.

"No.." Yami fell to his knees. He felt his eyes stinging as his light's body lay on the ground..pale and battered. He punched his hand into the ground. "Why! Why must it always be my light, and never me? Why!"

Sakura watched sadly as Yami merged into Yugi's body, and took over it. She watched as the portal closed, and she then turned back to her lover. "Lets go, Yugioh."



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a/n: and so ends chapter 10. The "Succubus Knight" is actually a real Duel Monster card. My friend ChibiUsgai won it in a duel with one of our friends. And the day before, I had beaten him. He laid down his Blue Eyes White Dragon, and I had no good cards in my hand...not even the Dark Magician. So I played "Dark Hole", which cleared out all our monsters. He then took his turn, and then said it was mine. I drew "Monster Reborn", and took the dragon of blue eyes on my side. Turned out he had "Monster Reborn" in his hand too! I t was quite funny, and he gave up the duel...ehehe.

[1] - Silphe

The word "Silphe" is Greek. It means butterfly or moth. The mystic creatures called "Sylphs" are from this Greek word. They are like normal humans, but have feather wings that are 2 times the length of their body. They can live for many years, mostly up to about a thousand. Sylphs live in the mountains, away from humans...and yet with the birds. :)