Thank You Lynn-Chan & Sic fi fan for reviewing! *Gives our chocolate* Now we have to say Goodbye to Mill, after all she was only in Japan on holiday. (Now we can get on with more plot. {Mill: Hey! _})
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!
"Blah" = Japanese
[Blah] = English
Blah= Welsh
/Blah/ = Telepathy.
Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.
************************ = change scene.
Warnings: Mild Swearing, (I think it's like one word Oh well better safe than sorry.)
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The White Metals
Silver.
Chapter Thirteen: Cyfaill
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The time came for Mill to catch her plane home.
"Mill can you please let me go now, I'm not going back." An said as she struggled to breath in Mills bear-hug.
"But I'll miss you!"
"Mill I'm going to write and I'm coming over to the exhibition remember." An said.
"But that's a whole month away from now!" Mill hugged her tighter.
An looked at her friends, the look plainly said 'Help me!'
Tristan came over and pried Mill off An who started breathing again.
"You promise you'll write?" Mill asked. An nodded.
Mill crushed An once more before walking to the departure lounge. "You'd better write or I'll come back!"
"I'd better get a boyfriend quick then, to protect me from your tackles." An said. Mill smiled with tears with her eyes and walked off. The next second she was lost in the crowd.
An sighed. [Adrift again.]
[What do you mean by that?] Bakura asked.
An shook her head at her only stupidity. Even with his British accent she had forgotten that Bakura was born English and could naturally speak English.
"Nothing really, it's just, she's my only friend from back home who still cares." Mill said, if Bakura can understand her she might as well let the rest of them understand too. "Sure Seto and Mokuba care for me but they were always closer to my brother, and I hadn't see Matt since I was six."
Bakura put his arm on An's shoulder.
An continued. "It's just that I feel like a plant that has been pulled from the ground and had my roots cut off."
"It's okay." Tea said. "You have us, and Anhai."
An smiled. "Thanks."
"Do you want to see the plane take off?" Bakura asked.
An nodded.
A couple of hours later Yugi had suggested a game of Duel Monsters to cheer An up. Everyone save Seto and Joey agreed, they weren't in the room.
"That's your answer to everything isn't it?" An asked.
"Yeah." Tea laughed softly. "Didn't Seto and Mokuba say what happened to them on the Duellist Kingdom?"
"Seto said something about having to tell me what really happen happened on the island. I know Mokuba was kidnapped, I was half out my mind with worry when I found out, I mean at least when Seto went wandering after Yugi beat him we knew he was alive." An said. "Why?"
"Err, it would be best if Seto tells you, where is he anyway?" Bakura asked.
"Business meeting, and then he wants to mess with a new virtual pod." Mokuba answered a little to quickly.
An shook her head. He was lying though his teeth but Seto had asked him too.
/I don't know which is worse./ Anhai said. /Seto and Joey asking him to lie for them or the fact he dose it so well./
"Come on Yami wants to play Anhai." Yugi said.
"Can I help her she's not very good." An laughed. "All she knows she's learnt from me."
/HEY! Don't tell them THAT!/
An winced. "Don't shout at me you said yourself you can't play."
Everyone laughed.
"Come on lets play." Yugi said.
An was surprising everyone by completely thrashing Yugi. She had even taken out his Summoned Skull with the trap card, Acid Trap Hole. Mokuba was cheering, but An had an odd look on her face.
Yugi had enough, he was going to put down a card An can't defend against funny though for someone who was wining An didn't look happy. He pulled the Dark Magician out of his hand.
"Stop." An said.
"Why?" Yugi asked
"Is that the Dark Magician?"
"What!"
"And the other cards in your hand, The Ferial Imp, Mystic Elf, Polymerisation, and Kuriboh?"
"How did you know?" Yugi demanded.
An slammed her cards down. "I forfeit the game."
"Why?" Mokuba asked. "Your wining!"
"An what's going on?" Ryou asked and it looked like everyone else had the same question on their minds.
An looked away not looking anyone in the eye. "I don't know...I just wondered about what cards were in your hand and then I thought I could see them, I thought maybe it was just a lucky guess...but guessing every card in your hand is not luck...I don't know what's happening to me, and nether does Anhai."
"That explains how Anhai told us you wouldn't fight when we found you with Mary Mathew and Malcolm. She was imitating the powers of the Ankh, but instead of sending herself into our minds she sent her voice." An looked up to see that Yami had taken the place of Yugi.
An blinked. /You called them for help?/
/They were already there./ Anhai answered.
/Oh./
"When did it start?" Yami asked.
"You remember that game of fish?" An asked. "It started then, I was so relived when I was wiped out."
"It seems that the item Anhai's soul was sealed in is imitating the powers of another item. Which would also explain why Anhai could talk to Yugi and Ryou telepathically before." Yami said. "She was imitating the powers of something called the Millennium Ankh, but instead of entering our minds like the holder of the Ankh dose she just spoke to out minds."
An nodded slowly. Okay I think I got most of that. But when did Anhai...
/Back when you wouldn't fight, when we saw them I told them that you wouldn't./ Anhai answered before An could finish thinking the question.
/Oh./
"Have your tried taking off Anhai's item?" Yugi asked. "Just to see if not wearing it stops the effects."
"But..." An locked eyes with Yami. "I don't what Anhai's item is."
"How can you not know?" Bakura asked
"I didn't even know she was there, I don't know how long she's been in my head." An sighed.
Everyone looked at her. "But..." Yami said. "Won't Anhai tell you."
An shook her head, a few strands of red hair escaped her hair tie and fell in her eyes. "Anhai doesn't know what item she was sealed in herself, she say's she expected to wake up in the land of the dead not as a Yami, I have a theory of what she might be in but that would mean that that she's been there for years and I know for a fact she hasn't."
Yami frowned. "I know Anhai doesn't like me because I can't remember my past but I need to talk to her."
An nodded and suddenly Anhai was in her place.
"Anhai? Why won't you tell An what your item is?" Yami asked.
"Because she's already guessed, I just haven't confirmed it and I'm not going to ether." Anhai said glaring at Yami. "I want to know how you can expect An to get rid of me? Do you think Ryou would put up with his Yami if he could just toss the ring out of the window. Wasn't your Yugi scared of you ever? After all you can be intimidating. If you did, did he take off the puzzle? It's the same for An and myself, I don't know what's happening to us but we can't just brake ourselves apart now that we are together."
Yami looked down.
"I know your not as strong as me or Bakura, I had hoped that your bond with your light was also weaker."
Anhai frowned a dangerous look in her eyes.
Yami regarded her closely, that memory was dancing closer.
"I am not weak." Anhai growled. "I saved your life once Pharaoh."
"How?"
Something in Anhai snapped she walked forward and almost slapped Yami in the face.
"No!"
Her hand stopped less than an inch from Yami's face.
An had taken control again. "Yami I'm sorry. She has no right to hit you."
"Hah!" Tristan said. "Anhai did use to go out with Yami didn't she?"
"Hardly." An said. "Yami here was in a different Class of people than Anhai, usually they wouldn't have even have known each other well. And Anhai truly believes Yami was a god like all Pharaohs."
"And she still went to hit him." Bakura sounded surprised.
"Well you've never seen ether of us really angry, and she's as mad as hell." An smirked. "And I did say was."
"Out side the city limits." Yami said suddenly. "A boy with green eyes and black hair, wiping blood from his lips."
An blinked. "Anhai promised she's not going to try and slap you again, I'm letting her out."
Yami nodded. "Okay."
"So." Anhai said having taken control again. "You have some memories. We were playing a game, what did Mill call it? Keep Away? We were keeping the Prince of Egypt away from his guards."
"We weren't very old then, were we?"
"Eleven." Anhai nodded. "We made it out side the city limits, but there was someone waiting, he didn't like me."
"Why?" Yami asked.
Anhai shook her head. "That's for you to guess my lord."
Yami frowned.
"How are you going to get your memory back if I tell you everything?" Anhai asked. "Anyway this guy didn't like me and thought I was evil because I had gotten you out side the city. He tried to beat me and you tried to stop him, he pushed you away, I think that was just an accident but he paid for it."
"So, you were my friend as a child." Yami frowned still trying to peace together the puzzle. "Yet I feel there's more to it than that."
Anhai walked up to Yami with a playful grin on her face. "Really my Lord. I'm I to die saving your life again before you remember me completely? Do you remember the stories you were told about me before we met? The outcast that no one could beat in a fight. The daughter that made her father proud with her fighting skills."
"I remember those...So you are her." Yami said. "I'm...glad that your mind wasn't damaged over the years."
Anhai tapped her finger on the tip of Yami's nose. "Like Bakura's Yami?"
Ryou paled.
"Anhai." Yami said in a warning tone.
Anhai stepped back but still looked playful. "What? Can't I tease my old friend anymore? Or do you just want me to behave in front of the young ones?"
"What's wrong? And don't try to distract me with anymore teasing." Yami asked. "Why can't you seem to control your powers?"
Anhai drew back her eyes looked hurt, but it could just be that she wasn't hiding it anymore. "You could always tell couldn't you my cyfaill. My lord, you could always see though shields, and now it seems I have a similar ability, to see though minds, we'll learn how do control it. My Lord my Cyfaill."
Yami tipped his head to one side. "Cyfaill?"
Anhai shook her head an let An take over again. The conversation was over, at least as far as Anhai was concerned. An shook her head too.
"You okay?" Bakura asked.
"Yeah, I just get a little disoriented when we switch." An said. "So does that mean you and Anhai are friends again?"
"I still say Anhai and Yami were going out." Tristan said crossing his arms.
An shook her head. "She wasn't, and she doesn't have a 'thing' for him ether Tristan."
Tristan just shrugged shearing a look with Tea. An shook her head again. Yami retreated back into the puzzle letting Yugi regain control of his body.
"I'll better be going now." An said. "I don't want to intrude on your minds by accident, I got to see the doctor in the morning but I'll see you afterwards."
/Anhai, why did you block me out of most of the first conversation?/ An asked as they walked out.
/Oh that, it was just me shouting at Pharaoh Yami, I didn't think you would have liked to have heard that./ Anhai answered.
/Were you and Yami really that close?/
/We were best friends, he was my only friend./ Anhai told her partner. An decided not to push it any further.
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As to what Cyfaill means you'll find out when everyone else dose. ^_^
Joey & Seto in the next chapter. ^_^ (Another Lime, I'm not risking a lemon since I don't want to be kicked off or something)
Also An finds out what else she can do with her new powers. And Seto guesses what her item might be!
