DISCLAIMER: Nope, still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. But I'm saving up! *empties piggy bank* see? *twenty cents falls out* that's that most I've ever saved too!

Well… because I've been thinking about this a lot I have decided… this will NOT be 'Memories' simply because my patience with it is totally and completely gone so… yeah… this will be something else

Yes… and… yes… well… please review after you read this… okay? Yes… thanks in advance!

IMPORTANT! The language of the Mordians is actually a language… it's copyrighted to me because I made it up! This is my own spoken language, whereas Graeci is my own written language, okay? Good. I'll just put translations after they talk… then soon it'll be a directory thing-a-ma-bob on the top, unless that's to confusing… Some words/phrases won't have meanings… that is for a reason, most often because you don't want to know.

My friends gave me some… ah… ideas for this story. And, by popular suggestion I will have to continue that whole talking-to-the-characters deal. So… I'll try to get back to that… okay? Okay.

Yugi: *sputters* I felt like you crammed me in a box evil, cruel author!

Aesil: Yeah, really. That was just plain mean to forget about us up here.

Seto: Um… yeah, what she said.

Everyone: *stares at Seto*

Yami: Well, Kaiba, you're not as smart as you say you are.

Mokuba: My big brother is smarter then any of you!

Aesil: That I now see.

Everyone (but Yugi): *gives her a dumbstruck stare*

Yugi: I see that too.

Everyone (but Aesil): *gives him a dumbstruck stare*

Aesil: Yeah, because if we were as smart as 'the great Seto Kaiba'…

Yugi: When given the opportunity to silence Mokuba Kaiba forever…

Aesil and Yugi: We wouldn't have helped him out. (my best friend has something against Mokuba)

Seto: That isn't funny! My little brother means the world to me!

Mokuba: Yeah, me too!

Yami: that's not what the hidden camera says!

Mokuba: *gasps* W-w-w-what?!

Yami: *pops tape in player and reply begins…*

Serenity: DIE YOU CARELESS RICH BASTARD!!!

Joey: hey, sis, remember you failed Martial Arts.

Serenity: oh yeah. Aesil…

Aesil: Anything for a pal *grinds Seto into dust*

Everyone: YEAH!

Mokuba: YEAH!

Yugi: you're happy he's gone?

Mokuba: yeah, he was so mean to me!

Yugi: oookkkkaaaayyy…

Seto: *grinds teeth* now that was just mean, Yami.

Yami: ME?! I was just the person who put the tape in…

Isis: You should be mad at me.

Seto: Why?!

Isis: Because I'm the one about to rewind that tape…

Seto: Isis… Yami… wait…

Everyone: WHAT?!

Seto: *sweetly* Mokuba, you are grounded *gradually getting angry-er* for the rest of your puny pathetic LIFE!

Mokuba: WHAT!?

Seto: GO TO YOUR ROOM!

Mokuba: Okay, okay jeez you don't need to yell *grumbles and walks off*

Author: now to the story!

Chapter Ten: The Seam of the Galaxy: Part One

^^^^^^^^^^ The Cell in the Mountains of Mordia ^^^^^^^^^^^

"Don, teichi quarm, vayne toin wiel lamathed shlief?" (So, my friend, who are we guarding today?") Mercidor asked Faritnae. It was just their luck they would be guarding the girl who single-handedly sent them to their knees.

"Saifei c'satyn oor, Quiestarmal." (I don't know, Comrade.) Faritnae answered. "Saifei armet c'coin vi artkaymi. Saifei vokel qua artkay!" (I hope it's a duelist. I want to duel!) This guard fancied himself quite the duelist.

"Iohn damil, Xant!" (Yeah right, Stupid!) Mercidor answered. He considered himself the brains. "Saifei armet c'coin vi karmati." (I hope it's a girl) he said. "Mangla solb zoiet amis zenial. C'coins witern vi dhonew." (They sob and carry on. It's quite a show.)

"'Iohn damil Xant!' yoerhei!" ('Yeah right stupid!' yourself!) Faritnae answered, mimicking his Comrade's own insult.

Of course, they both got their wishes, but they didn't get them the way they expected.

"Hey, Aesil, what's that noise?" Mokuba asked. Aesil and Yugi looked up and tried to hear what he heard.

"Just guards, Mokuba. Don't worry." Aesil said.

"G-g-guards!? Like the ones who were keeping me…"

"Oh, Mokuba. I won't let them hurt you again, I promise you." Aesil said softly.

"Thanks Aesil." Mokuba said, pressing himself against the wall, trying to be the smallest he could. The voices stopped.

"Yugi," Aesil whispered harshly to him. "They're speaking Mordian, the language of the natives. I never learned it, but this is the only thing most understand."

"Oh." Yugi answered. 'So we need an interpreter now too. That's great.' He thought, then he said, out loud, "Isis and Yami probably know it, right?"

"Isis does, but I doubt Yami does. But Yugi… if we can't speak to them or even understand…" she paused, and looked at Yugi fearfully. "we won't be able to defend ourselves…" she stopped again, and bowed her head. Her last words came out a whisper, bearly audible. "we will… have no hope of life as it was."

"Aesil… we will find a way, don't worry."

"Don't you know what they do here?"

"Don't tell me, Aesil. Don't say another word."

"But Yugi… you don't understand!" Aesil cried, fear in her face. "You don't understand!" Tears streamed down her pretty face and she bowed her head. Yugi put his hand on her chin and lifted it up so she was looking him in the face. His face was solemn and his eyes were caring.

"Aesil, we'll be okay. I promise. Isis and Yami will save us. I won't let anything happen to you."

His words widened Aesil's resolve. "And I won't let anything happen to you." She said to him strongly. "And we have to protect Mokuba with our lives."

"What?" Yugi asked.

"Mokuba is important, Yugi. I don't know how... but he is."

"So we'll just have to protect him the best we can." He responded.

"No, Yugi. Our best isn't good enough. We have to protect him with our lives. Our lives, Yugi."

"Whatever you say, Aesil. You understand this, everything," he added sheepishly. "then I do."

"Okay. But the only way to win this time is to stay together, no matter what. Two is harder to beat then one." She said, planning a military strategy in her head as she spoke. "I think-"

"Sh." Yugi whispered. "I hear their voices again."

"Horest fli cardafsoi C'del Elleseivay moril Decoral." (Something is troubling His Majesty the King.) Faritnae said after a pause.

"Jaine." (Yes.) Mercidor replied. They were silent for a time as they neared the cell Aesil and Yugi were inside.

"Hey," a feminine voice said from the shadows. "I know that tongue. Am I really in Mordia? I actually am here?!"

"W-w-w-who's t-there?" Yugi called out, a quiver in his voice.

"Show yourself!" Aesil called out. Mokuba whimpered in fear as two glowing blue eyes pierced the shadows…

"CAIL COIN MOIF!" Faritnae cried. He spun around and started back into the darkness of the steps.

"Cermo?" Mercidor called after him. "Cermol moril katoy?" (What? What's the matter?) "Faritnae? Faritnae?! Toin yo xantosh? Faritnae??!!" (Faritnae? Faritnae?! Are you there? Faritnae!!??) Half growling with fury, Mercidor ran after his AWOL companion.

"Hey…" a new male voice called from the shadows. "They're leaving."

"Good." The original feminine voice answered.

"Who are you?!" Yugi cried, all fear gone. "Show yourselves! Come out of the shadows!"

"Oh, I'm sorry." The voice said. "All shadows are the same to me." Suddenly something in her voice clicked in Yugi's mind. The voices had been vaguely familiar… but they couldn't be…

"Serenity?" Yugi called hesitantly. "Triston? Is that you?"

"Yugi!" Serenity cried, running forward to him and throwing her arms around his shoulders. Aesil looked on with something like jealously, until she remembered Serenity and Yugi were good friends for what he'd done for Joey who, in turn, helped Serenity. Aesil listened, thin lipped.

"Yugi! You're alright! Hey, where's the Puzzle?"

"That's a long story to tell, but first I want to know how you guys got here."

"That's a pretty long story too…"

^^^^^^ Flash Back/Story ^^^^^^^^^^

"So, we need to go to find them now." Serenity said in understanding.

"Exactly." Serenity grinned smugly.

"Well Triston, are you ready for the ride of your life?" Serenity asked, a smirk on her face.

"What do you mean?"

Serenity groaned. They are obviously in another universe. Mordia is the only known universe beyond ours to have a direct connection with Earth. Moreover, since it was targeted at Yugi, the holder of a Millenium Item it would be a safe assumption they are after that, or something along those lines, and Mordia is a equivalent to Ancient Egypt of Earth. From your description of what happened, a great concentration of dark energies were gathered in one place as a pathway to Mordia, then that was disguised. Overall ingenious plan." Serenity said, eyes closed, the words not fully her own.

"Whoa, you are smart, Serenity! I know nothing about any of that!"

"That's because it is a gift to know, one I have. We have to go to Mordia through a certain Realm…"

"Not the Shadow Realm, right?" Triston asked.

She laughed. "No, through another Realm. It should be weakened from when Joey went through, so we might be able to get through… but in warning this will be difficult. You must, must listen to me no matter what. And Triston?"

"Yea?"

"Be my eyes. I cannot see everything. You have to tell me everything you see and accurate directions or we're as good as dead."

He swallowed hard. "Okay, Serenity."

"Let's go then." She closed her eyes and spread her hands wide, opening an abyss through time and space… a rip in the galaxy, free passage to anyone

^^^^^^^^^^^ End Story/Flash Back ^^^^^^^^^^^

"No, you formed a rip in the Galaxy!? Oh, Serenity…" Aesil cried.

"What's wrong Aesil?" Yugi asked.

"Mordian kings have wanted to lay waste to Earth for millennia upon millennia since the dawns of time. The one thing stopping them was the Galaxy's Seam. It was the weakest part, and by far too strong to go through. Sorceresses and Sorcerers put trial upon trial inside to further prevent entry… Wait, how did you get through the Trials?" she told everyone, then asked Serenity sharply.

"I was just getting to that." Serenity with something on the edge of anger on her voice.

^^^^^^^^^ Flash Back/Story ^^^^^^^^^^^^

"Well, Triston." Aesil began. "Welcome to the Seam of the Galaxy. Relatively easy trip, huh?"

"Easy?!" Triston sputtered. "We got thrown about and tossed so much… That was awful…"

"Awe, quit complaining, start describing."

"Okay… looks like the park we were just in."

"Hmm… perfect."

"Not so. There are several armed warriors walking towards us right now. And they don't look very happy."

To Be Continued….

Aesil: hmm… good idea author

Everyone: yeah…

Random Mordian: DESTROY AND CONQUER…!

Triston: okay.. whatever.

Everyone: yeah…

Well, next chapter will be The Seam of the Galaxy Part 2… continuing the story of Triston and Serenity.

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