AN: Sorry for the long update.

Last Chp: Isis met Seto/Seth/Aten, except that he didn't remember her. Seto had to duel with Pegasus for Isis. The only problem is, he didn't know anything about dueling.

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He held her close in his arm as he returned to the old village that he once run away from. It all went so fast. One moment, he was dueling against some white hair freak. The next moment, she was bleeding rapidly next to him. He didn't know what to do, except returning to the place he knew and ask Teana for help. He hated of having to ask for favor, especially from her. Aten didn't want to feel obligated to Teana anymore. Yet, because of an unknown stranger in his arm, he was forced to do the things he hated.

The ride back to the village was a short one, for he didn't venture that far from it. Jono, as soon as he saw Aten, ordered the guard to stop him from entering. However, Teana begged her brother to release her love as once and led Aten in.

Teana was glad that husband returned to her. However, she frowned as soon as she noticed a beautiful woman in Atens' arms.

'Why is there a woman with him? Is it his new girlfriend?'

She felt her heart stabbed into two pieces at the sigh in front of her. Aten had asked her to tend the injured woman. Yet, in his eyes, she could see that he was having a hard time facing her.

'He never shown any kindness to me…the way he did it with this stranger…'

Teana took the woman and ordered the villagers to heal her. Although she hated of having to do this to her enemy, she wanted to see Aten happy.

Teana looked at the woman. She was beautiful no doubt. Though her body was bleeding rapidly, this woman still did not lose her attractiveness.

"Aten might be attractive to you, but I won't let you have him. You have the look, but I doubt if you have the personality," Teana whispered.

Using some of the herbs, Teana stopped the bleeding and wrapped the wound up. As soon as the woman seemed at rest, Teana went outside to talk to Aten.

She found her husband outside with her brother. Jono was yelling incoherently to him. Teana smiled. Jono was being overprotective of her again.

Teana walked up and broke the fight. Well, it was not much of a fight because Aten didn't seem to be interested in arguing with Jono. He seemed distracted.

As soon as he saw her, he asked immediately, " How's she?"

Teana forged a smile, " she's fine. I took care of the bleeding, she's asleep…" She can't help but feel jealous at Aten's sudden interest in the stranger.

"Good," he replied, " can I see her right now?"

"Yeah.."

He walked coldly past her, obviously not interest in having a conversation right now. Teana ran after him,

"Wait up," she hollered.

Aten stopped with some reluctance.

"Who is she?" Teana asked as soon as she caught up with him.

"The lady?"

"Yes.. Is she your girlfriend or something?"

"No."

"No? Then who is she?"

"She's…someone…I don't know," the truth was that he didn't know anything about the woman, except that she seemed to be connected to his past and that she saved his butt during the battle.

* Flash back *

It didn't take long for him to be losing to Pegasus. Aten tried to come up with some monster to defend against Pegasus. However, with no luck, he couldn't summon anything.

The woman who he rescued called out to him during the duel, telling him that he knew how to summon the beast against Pegasus. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember. Pegasus called out some monster to attack directly at him, but the woman used something in her necklace to destroy it.

That didn't stop Pegasus from winning though. With him being powerless to do anything, Aten lost. Beside, the woman who called herself Isis interrupted the duel when she protected him. That was not allowed, since the duel was between himself and Pegasus.

Soon, Pegasus was laughing as he defeated him.

"You fool. You dare to challenge me when you didn't even knew how to duel? You lost. Now, as a reward, your soul will be under my command!" Pegasus was mumbling something strangely while Aten was left confused.

'What the hell is he talking about? Soul? Reward? What's going on?'

However, Isis seemed to know exactly what's going on. Pegasus smiled as the golden eyes in his began to shine brightly. The light blinded Aten but Isis stepped up next to him. She closed her eyes and then the necklace around her neck began to radiate as bright as Pegasus's eye.

"I won't let you take his soul!" Isis screamed. The light coming from her went directly against Pegasus's light. It seemed to him as though both are battling in some magical way that he couldn't be able to comprehend. As strange as the occurrence around him seem to be, he couldn't help but felt that he had seen this event before.

The next thing he knew, Isis was falling into his arm, her body bleeding. As for Pegasus, he looked like he was fading into darkness.

Then, everything went back to normal. He was no longer in the unknown darkness but was back at the place where he first saw Isis.

*end flashback*

Teana felt a bit of happiness at her husband's answer.

'If that woman is not his girlfriend, then I still have a chance with him.' she smiled as she walked with him toward the hut.

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AN: Now, I'm out of the writer's block, I'll update more often. Promise

Next chapter: Isis recovers

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