Oops late again, not I didn't lose the tape, my Father needed the computer for work. Here's the next chapter for you all. It's really the end of the story, but there is one last chapter to come to tie up some lose ends and to give you a taste of the sequel.

I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

"Blah" = Japanese

[Blah] = English

Blah= Welsh

/Blah/ = Telepathy.

Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.

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The White Metals

Silver.

Chapter Twenty-Three : Answers _______________________________________________________________________________

Yugi looked around. "This place...someone's here, something happened here."

An looked up she seemed to be hyperventilating. Kiaba and Ryou tried to hold her down but she stood anyway.

"Like w-what?" She asked but was shocked when she notice Yugi wasn't Yugi anymore.

"I can feel it, something is trying to come back."

/Stop him. / Anhai shouted.

"Yami what are you doing..." Seto asked, An was to scared to tell him to stop, but she couldn't tell where the fear came from.

Yami's third eye started glowing in the middle of his forehead he held out his hand. "I think we should speed this up and get some answers."

/No!/

An backed away from the strange black hole appearing in the passage.

"What...what is that?"

"An entrance To the shadow realm." Ryou said. "Yami what are you doing?"

"The Shadow Realm? Anhai why do your want him to stop..?" An asked herself but she trailed of when she saw something coming out of the hole.

A woman stepped out of the hole. She looked at each of the teens in turn. An had been stepping back slowly. She narrowed her eyes and walked forward. An looked like she couldn't breath. She was terrified. Seto stepped half way in front of her. Joey joined him.

[Keep away from her.] Seto warned the woman in English.

The woman slapped Seto across the face, with such force that he fell to his knees.

/An run!/ Anhai cried.

"Run!" Seto shouted at the same time, He kicked out with his leg tripping the woman.

An was to scared to move and everyone else was to shocked to stop the woman as she got up and took hold of An's wrist and held it in a painful vice like grip. An didn't even notice the pain or the bandage turning red. Seto who had regained his feed growled. Joey had hold of his arm.

[You -can't...be here]" An tripped over the words pathetically, even in English.

/Let me help you. / Anhai said. /You know what she'll do to you if your don't, your friends too./

The woman pulled An closer to her. [Give me the armlet!]

An gasped for breath as she was lifted almost off her feet. [Please...stop.]

[Let her go!] Seto threatened.

"I knew she had something to do with this." He muttered to himself

"Who is she?" Joey asked.

The woman acted as if she hadn't heard Seto, or Joey her eyes hungrily took in the sight of the black band on An's arm.

[Give it to me!] She reached for it on An's arm it glowed burning the woman's hand but An's arm was untouched. The band seemed to bubble as if it was burning, then they realised it was in fact a black ribbon pulling away from the band. Revealing Anhai's silver armlet underneath. She had been wearing it all along in plan sight.

/I would never hurt you, and I won't hurt your friends. /

/You hurt my mother./ An shook her head. /Andrew was killed because of you./

/To protect you. / Anhai said. /And Andrew was killed before I was awakened fully. This woman would do anything for my powers. Can you imagine what she would do with them? She is going to kill you Aibou, Please...let me stop her./

The woman pushed, more like threw An to the floor.

Yami and Ryou, who was now Yami Bakura moved forward to her.

"Don't move anyone!" The woman pulled a knife from the back of her belt.

An had seen that knife before.

/Let me help you! Please! /

"You can have the armlet." An said rising to her feet. [You can have the armlet if you catch me!]

Looking a lot like Anhai she kicked on leg out and knocked the woman's legs from under her.

An then ran past the woman.

She ran and ran until she reached the study. His Study. She picked up a photo on the table. The blood had been washed out of the carpet but she could still smell it, or maybe it was just her imagination.

[You always was too sensitive. I knew you'd come here.]

[I don't know how you can dare to enter this room.] An growled, still out of breath yet still looking dangerous. [Catch.]

The woman caught the photo. [How sweet a family reunion.] She spat before letting it fall and stepping over it.

[I guess you caught me.] An said. [I guess I have to give 'it' to you.]

[You think you can control that kind of power?]

An closed her eyes. When she opened them Anhai was there. The woman sensed the difference. She took a step back.

Third eye glowing Anhai lifted her hand.

The woman went flying out of the room. Hitting the passage wall with a sickening crack. Anhai waved her hand to one side and the knife flew out of her hand. It landed at Bakura's feet. He and the others had been looking for An they had stopped dead when they had seen the woman flying out of the room and smacking very hard and painfully into the wall.

[You have no right to enter that room. NO RIGHT!] Anhai screamed.

"Anhai." Yami said, he narrowed his eyes worried that Anhai was losing it.

[You killed in that room.] Anhai's voice faltered for a moment. "YOU KILLED MY BROTHER! For a power that would have destroyed you anyway!"

The silence caused from that comment was tangible.

Tears flowed like a river from Anhai's eyes.

[You going to kill me?] The woman asked.

[She should.] Seto said.

Bakura nodded in agreement.

Anhai looked down. When she looked up again it was An

[No.] An looked at the woman. [I'm not like you I don't kill family. And I won't send you back to the Shadow Realm.]

The woman looked up from the floor she hadn't moved from where she had landed.

[You can't do just nothing!] She sounded worried.

[Oh I won't. I'm going to phone an ambulance and the police.] An said. [I'll tell them what I've already done how when you lunged at me I rammed you though the door and you kept going and hit the wall...I just won't motioned the shadow powers. The police already know what you did to my brother you're going to prison for the rest of your miserable fucking life.]

An ran one had down her bandaged arm. [I almost killed myself because of you, I had really started to think that I had killed you. If you want to finish your life sentence faster you can follow my example, but I think this way is better. You ruined my life. Now I've wrecked yours.]

She took the armlet off, slowly unravelling the black ribbon that still covered parts of it reviling the rest of the silver band complete with an eye on what could be considered the front.

She left it on the floor a few inches from the woman's foot.

[I'll just leave this here while I phone the police. If you want it take it.]

"An what are you doing?" Joey asked.

"Don't interfere guys." An warned. "This is something that should have happened before we even met."

A few moments later she was back. Everything was identical. No one had moved save Yami, who had gone into the study.

An picked up her armlet and put it back in its proper place. On her arm.

Yugi walked out of the study. Yami must have thought that he was no longer needed.

Yugi showed the picture to the others.

"Hey An why is this woman here with you and this guy?" Tea asked.

"That 'guy' is Andrew. That woman who took us into her house and him out of this world."

"Huh?" Joey asked.

"You mean..." Ryou said slowly. "This woman who killed your brother is your..."

"Mother." An finished. "Adoptive mother."

An's 'mother' looked like she was in a lot of pain.

"I don't understand. What's going on." Joey asked.

"Andrew, he couldn't get anything for me from the dig's he worked in, in Egypt. However, he bought me a present from a stall near by. He didn't know the armlet had been stolen thousands of years ago, by Bakura, from the very dig he was working on. Anhai's tomb. He gave it to me on my birthday. It was beautiful, I fell in love with it instantly but I didn't put it on. I put it in my secrets box to keep it safe. Month's later, 'Mom' was going out to a meeting or something. She wore a black dress but she thought it was missing something."

An sniffed, she was determent not to fall apart. Ryou was shaking his head and Yugi's eyes were wide, they knew what was coming.

"I loved my mom and I love the Armlet, I thought whom better to lend it to. Mom would look so much better in it that little clumsy me. But when she came the next morning she looked...different. She thanked me for the present, that she would treasure it. But I had told her the night before that I wanted it back. So as told her so..."

[It's wrong to take back a present once it's been given.] An's mom said. Showing that she could understand Japanese just chose not to speak it.

[It wasn't a present, it was a lone, and I shouldn't have loaned it to you. If I had worn it as soon as I got it I would have known...Mom don't you see, the armlet drove you insane, it was never meant for you!] An paused to regain control of herself and her voice.

"One night, Andrew gave it back to me. I didn't know then that Anhai had told him to, to save me and Mom. The day after, no, he gave the armlet back after midnight, so it was the same day, my birthday, I found Andrew, dead, his...his throat cut open...in that study...so...so I done what any terrified girl would do...I ran to mom...but she attacked me...I ran but but..."

"She caught you." Tea said horrified.

"She hit me over and over...demanding the armlet but I had hidden it I didn't want her to have it again. I ran again to the study...insists told me to go back to my brother...but of course he couldn't help me now...or ever again...I hid under the desk. Where I kept my secret box...I pulled out the armlet, the last thing Andrew had ever given me. The last thing he would give anyone. Then mom found me. She said she was going to kill me like she killed Andrew...Then Anhai took over and she broke away. Another chase started but Anhai all the stress, she couldn't breath, and she couldn't get away, so...she sealed 'mom' in the shadow realm. She left me in control again once I was in the study, again. " An laughed bitterly. "Someone had called the police... I didn't remember but it was Anhai that had done it like she had sent mom to the shadow realm...my only other family was Uncle Matt. They sent me to him a week later. I joined School a week after that."

"All this happened a fortnight before we met?" Tea asked shocked.

An nodded she had started crying again. Kiaba put his arms around her.

"I have a dumb question." Joey asked. "Why is your mom still on the floor? She's been shooting glares at us she's said a few words but she hasn't moved."

"Anhai's fault. She over used her powers. When I said I wrecked mom's life I meant it even if it was an accident." An sighed again. "Mom probably won't go to prison for all this after all."

'Mom' growled at her daughter.

"She's insane. You can't put an insane person on trial. But when Anhai threw her into the wall...When I threw her into the wall...her back broke. She'll never walk again."

An walked to one of the windows, "Here they come."

Sirens could be heard coming closer...

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Crossover Authoress: And that's that.

An: What's that the end?

C.A.: Well, there's the epilogue and then...

Anhai: Oh no.

C.A.: All together guys!

YGO Cast: SEQUEL, SEQUEL, SEQUEL, SEQUEL!

Anhai: Oh Ra.

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