Boku wa Yami desu...

So, now everyone's here. I need to start working on the Puzzle. Mai got the first flight she could from where-ever she lives in America. Seems she couldn't resist coming to help out. I think she really wanted to see Jonouchi though. They're sitting real close together.

So now, I've got these thirty golden pieces in front of me. Everyone's looking at me.

"Yami, don't you know how to solve it?" Anzu asks.

"Er..." I blush and look at the floor.

"Well, I made it, but I don't know how to solve it... seems that's one of a the very miniscule details in my memory that I forgot."

The others stare at me in disbelief. Well, except Ishizu. She walks to me, and takes hold of my hand. "Yugi knows." she says.

What? I don't understand. Of course Yugi knows how to solve it, but how does that help me? Yugi's in there...

But yet, I feel at the back of my head that he never left me.

"You're right, Yami." Ishizu says. "Now, concentrate."

I close my eyes. I always do when I concentrate. It always used to help me pull out the powers of the Millennium Puzzle, but now I am searching for something else.

A faint white light... this is my Soul Room. Darker than before... but I haven't been here in ages. I didn't know I still could. But, being here, I know what to do.

I open the door. And go into Yugi's Soul Corridor. Yes, it's Yugi's, not mine. Because my room was built as an extension of his mind, this was here before me.

Opposite me is Yugi's door, shut tight. Where his name had been written on it, it's faded and scratched away. I touch it, and the darkness surrounding me instantly tries to get into my mind, and stop me. It hurts... I can't go on... I rip my hand away.

I've never failed before. But what's this...? I can feel magical energies entering me... good ones, light, not darkness. In my mind, I can see three streams of light around me. One, pale blue, that magic-colour belongs to Bakura and Ryou! A white one... Ishizu's. Now, a darker one, dark green. I can instantly tell who that belongs to, Marik. The blue and the green join, followed by the white. It creates a new colour... light sea green... I remember that colour. I touch the stream swimming around me. A flash, and gold enters the flowing colour. Now I know. That magical colour belongs to the Millennium Puzzle, and the gold shows my control, as Pharaoh.

I touch the door again. Pain, for an instant, quickly swamped by my borrowed magic. Yugi's door swings open before me...

Nothing. Nothing at all.

"Yami?" I hear a faint call.

"Yami, I forgive you!"

Outside, on the physical plain, I snap my eyes open.

"Yugi..."

I pick up the Puzzle, and start fitting the pieces. It's easy now, where before I was confused. Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen pieces.

Anzu is sitting here, handing me pieces... I can somehow feel that she knows what goes where... of course! In the beginning, Yugi showed Anzu the Puzzle before he solved it! She does know.

"It's something you've seen, but have never seen before..." she murmurs.

That riddle was placed with the Puzzle.

Twenty six... twenty seven... twenty eight, twenty nine!

I feel Ishizu's hand on my shoulder.

Only one piece is left. The one showing the glimmering golden eye.

I can feel Yugi's soul closer becoming closer to mine again.

"Wait, Yami. You know what we must do first." she says.