Sorry, this is a little late!! Happy Easter and Passover!! I really need more then just THREE new reviews people, come on!! Oh well, here's chapter 12, Truth

Yugi looked at Zyta as if he were already dead. "What- what do you mean?" "You need blood Yugi. Without Yami's blood you will die. But his blood is poisoned and if we use it, you will surely die. But if we don't, you'll die then too." Zyta said quietly. "Well, if I'm go-going to die." "Why would you die li-little Yugi?" Yami turned around "Aelu!!" He ran to her aid. Her shoulder was bleeding heavily. "Don't worry a-about me. I'll be fine. I have the antidote to the poison in my cloak." Aelu said. Tashu ran to Aelu with the cloak in its paws. "Here I-" "Shhhh!!" Aelu scolded, her real name almost being said. She reached into a pocket and got cut by a piece of glass. "Oh no. the vial. it's been broken." She said. Yami bit his lower lip. "So. we're both going to die?" Yugi asked, his eyes downcast. "You can't use my blood, it's been poisoned." Aelu said. "You can use Mariku's. I can check to see if he's been infected." Zyta said, running off to Mariku's body. The rain had washed most of the blood off of them, but the whole courtyard smelled like blood. "Aelu how are you alive? I watched you. die." Yami said. "Mariku didn't kill me to get back at you or because I was disobeying him. He was scared of me. It is so hard to explain." Aelu said, putting a weary hand on her forehead.

Yugi looked very pale. His wounds were still bleeding. "Y-yami, why did you leave me? Don't you love me?" Yugi choked out as Yami was helping Aelu. Yami stopped in his tracks. "Yu-yugi, I-" Yami didn't know what to say. Aelu looked at them and smiled fondly. 'I remember when he did the same to me. all because he was scared. He has a new reason to be scared now. He has already felt the pain of loss. And so have I.' Aelu thought, placing a hand on her stomach. "It sucks to be a shade." She whispered.

Yugi's eyes filled with tears. "Yugi, I think I made a mistake. What I said last night-" Yami couldn't finish it. Yugi shivered. "You mean. you don't love me?" Yugi asked. Yami couldn't say the word, so he shook his head. 'What am I doing? I love Yugi! This is killing him more then those wounds. it's breaking his heart.' Yami thought. 'Then again, it's breaking mine too.' He thought as Zyta can running back with a vial full of Mariku's blood. "His blood is clean." She said. "Come here, Yugi. You need to drink this once I put a spell in it." Zyta said. "I don't want to live." Yugi said quietly. "What?" Zyta asked. "Nobody loves me. In my time, I had a family and a few close friends who loved me. Now, I have no one." Yugi said. "But, doesn't Yami love you?" Zyta asked. "Zyta." Yami said, warning her not to go on. "No." Yugi whispered. Zyta gasped. "But Yami-" "Enough Zyta!" He commanded. "Yami, can I speak to you for a moment?" Aelu asked. Yami nodded.

"Why are you doing this to him and yourself?" Aelu asked. "I do not want to fall in love too deeply, then get myself hurt again." He said. "Yami, if you don't tell him how you really feel, then he dies, you will feel ten times worse. He's refusing the spelled blood. Without it he will surely die. Then what will you do?" She asked. "I will make him drink the blood." Yami said, shrugging. "Do you'll make him hate you for your own happiness? So YOU don't get hurt. You are so selfish, Yami." Aelu said, getting angry. The rain poured down heavier and lightning flashed across the sky more and more. "Yes, Aelu. For his happiness and mine. What if something happened to me?" He asked. "He would at least know you loved him, Yami!!" She began to raise her voice. Yami looked at her sternly. "It is better this way, Aelu." "I am no longer Aelu, Yami" "Then what do you want me to call you?!" He almost yelled. "Isis. I am Isis." She said, walking back to Zyta and Yugi, and leaving Yami standing in the rain, staring after her.

"Yugi, please, drink it. You have to. What if we find a way to get you home?" Zyta asked, sensing his life slipping away faster and faster. "You- you're ju-just saying th-that." He said, slumping over. His breaths were becoming more and more shallow. "Te-tell Yami I said. goodbye." He said, before falling over in a coma.

Well, here's chapter 12!! So sorry it took longer then I expected. The next chappie should be up soon.