Hehe...the juices have been flowing! I hope ya'll enjoy this chapter. Any questions or comments, just send 'em to me and I'll try replying back. Hmmmmmmmmm...nothing new yet again. Just enjoy!

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Samson hummed as he tossed the five starchips up and down, pulling out a rather small cell phone. All Eliminators had been instructed to call Pegasus if they ever met Yugi Mutou on the dueling platform and inform them of the proceedings.

Well, actually, the Eliminators were supposed to keep the phones on so their employer could reach them. It was assumed that Pegasus had been watching the duel from the many cameras he had placed throughout his kingdom. But the loud beeping sounds the phone made when it rang annoyed Samson, so he never followed the rule.

Samsom fell back off the platform as a shrill ring cut through the air the minute he turned the power on. He growled and rubbed his behind, crawling over to the offending object. Samson frowned, forgetting how to answer, and then just started to smash the phone with his fist. He figured that if he didn't hit the right button, at least he'd make that racket stop.

"Samson!" Pegasus' voice barked out through the speaker portion. Samson blinked, smiled, then bent over the ruined pile of what had once been a wonderful piece of technology.

"I did what you wanted, Master Winged Horse Man!" Samson chirped back happily while holding out five starchips, knowing Pegasus could see them through the camera.

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Back in his cozy room with his fruit juicei and comics, Pegasus tried his hardest to stay calm. He let out an exasperated sigh, thinking about how to say what he wanted to say so Samson would understand and it wouldn't take more time than needed. Time wasn't exactly on his side at the moment.

"The man you dueled," Pegasus spoke in that loud and slow tone that people seem to think makes them more understandable to foreign or challenged people, "was not Yugi Motou. Yugi Motou was the little boy with him. If you would have kept your phone on, I could have told you that earlier."

He watched on as Samson blinked at the phone, then at the direction Ki had run off too.

"He..." Samson's lip trembled and tears started to form in his eyes, "Tim wasn't Tim? But I was so nice too..."

"That doesn't matter right now, my boy," Pegasus continued in his same tone, only slightly more comforting. "Right now I need you to go get the real Yugi back so you can duel him. Ok?"

Samson wiped away the tears and stood up straight, saluting.

"Aye aye!" With that he dashed off, leaving a worried Pegasus. He would have sent some extra guards to help out, but Samson was the only one who knew the tunnels well enough not to get completely lost.

Pegasus sighed. He knew about the Yugi/Ki saga from the moment it had taken place. His cameras and satellites helped with that. It was like watching a fantastic soap opera; the best daytime TV he had ever seen since Funny Bunny had been cancelled. But he had started to get worried when mysterious flashes of white had been following the two stars of the program. Try as hard as they could, the cameras couldn't catch who or whatever it was that had been trailing Yugi and Ki all this time.

Pegasus watched as Samson scrambled down the tunnels, following the trails made by Ki and Yugi's captor. Soon he would be out of the camera's range and down into the deep tunnels that hadn't been wired yet. After that, all Pegasus could do was wait.

Sighing again, the creator of Duel Monsters twirled a card in his fingers. Hopefully Ki and Samson could get Yugi out safely; he had come too close to his goal to let the boy just die on him now.

"And we wouldn't want his Grandfather to get lonely without him, now would we, Kaiba-boy?" Pegasus asked the card as Samson slowly faded from his view.

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"Yugi!" Ki cried out as he saw the boy huddled against a wall. He was cradling an arm against his chest like a wounded animal. Upon hearing his name, Yugi looked up with frightened eyes.

"Ki, don't co..." He was cut off as the shadows themselves seemed to hoist him into the air and suspend him in darkness. Yugi cried out as his arm (which Ki could safely assume was broken) was jerked by the movement.

"Let him go now!" Ki demanded of whatever it was that was holding his companion hostage. There was a chuckle, and the shadows fledge in fear from the person they previously concealed. Ki's eyes narrowed.

"You..." he hissed. The Spirit of the Ring laughed softly.

"Miss me?" the spirit asked. Ki growled low in his throat and took a menacing step forward. The spirit in turn grabbed Yugi's good arm and twisted it. Yugi yelped and Ki stopped in his tracks.

"If you were to run as fast as you could, I would still have time to break both legs, this arm, and his neck before you laid a finger on me," the spirit taunted. "Now back away like a good puppy."

Ki did as he was told, silently promising Yugi that he would make sure the boy got out of this safely.

"You want this, don't you?" Ki said, holding up the puzzle around his neck. "Considering I'm almost completely blocked from Yugi, you must have the other half. But knowing a thief such as yourself, you can't stand to only have half the power."

"Aren't we the teacher's pet?" the spirit purred, twisting Yugi's arm a little harder, disappointed when the runt held in his screams this time. Still, it was amusing to see Ki's hand clench like that. "Toss it over, and the runt goes free."

"Fine," Ki said, taking off the puzzle. It didn't hurt as much as he thought it would, the pain only making him dizzy to the point of falling to his knees. He was sure Yugi was telling him to stop and not worry about his safety, but Ki felt he had no other purpose than to protect the child he had the blessing to call his other half. If Yugi died, Ki would be lost. He couldn't allow that to happen; the rest of the world may suffer, but he didn't care so long as his little light still shone amidst the darkened ruins.

When the darkness finally ceased from his vision, Ki found that the puzzle was gone from his grasp. Looking around frantically, he was relieved to find Yugi was clutching his shoulder and shaking him desperately. Ki winced. The damage from taking off the puzzle must have been worse than he thought to not have felt his charge so close.

"Thank you very much," the Spirit of the Ring said, smirking down at the glaring man. "Don't worry, I'll put the Millennium Puzzle to much better use than you ever would have." He tossed Ki's half of the puzzle in the air playfully.

It never came back down.

"Pretty!" Samson cried, turning the puzzle around in his hands. "It's much better without light coming from it!"

"Give that back!" the spirit yelled, running after Samson. The insane one jumped around and bounded out of the white haired one's grasp.

"No! Mean White Hair Man kidnapped Samson's friends! Samson doesn't like you anymore," Samson said, blowing a raspberry the spirit's way.

"I'm warning you," the spirit said, a dangerously low tone to his voice, while keeping an eye on the other two occupants of the cave to make sure they didn't intervene. Samson made faces at him in response.

"Fine. We'll play that way then." The Millennium Ring began glowing. Yugi's eyes widened as he realized what the spirit was planning to do.

"Samson! Run!" he yelled. Unfortunately, Samson was too busy cringing away from the light. He wasn't going to move from his position any time soon. Yugi couldn't do anything except to watch as the light emitting from the Millennium Ring narrowed into a beam and shot straight towards his friend.

i Hey, I have a footnote! Hehehehe...well basically I put that in there because I find it so corny in the show that they would make it up. Just my personal humor.