Me:  Hey everyone here I am with the new part.  And here come my muses.

Ryou:  Hey Sweetcandie.

Me:  Hi Angel.  I have always wanted to call you that. *Ryou is blushing and covering his face with his hands*

Me:  Ooh you are so cute.

Yugi:  Hi Sweetcandie.

Me:  Hi Yugi, how are you my little teddybear?

Yugi:  Fine and why do you call me a teddybear?

Me:  Because you are small, you have cute eyes and you are all snuggly.

Yugi:  *is twisting the tip of his shoe in the ground and blushing*  Oh.

Malik:  What's up Sweetcandie.

Me:  Hi Tiger.

Malik:  *growling and purring*  I like to be petted.

Me:  Believe me I will keep that in mind.

Malik:  I'll make sure you do.

Me:  And here is my last muse Seto.  This is my twin.  I don't know if he's a Capricorn or not, but I am and we are the workers of the Zodiac.  And Seto is most definitely a worker and so am I.

Seto:  Hey there.  Do you want me to kiss Serena now.

Me:  Yeah let me get her.  *goes out a door and comes back with Serena*

Serena:  Seto!  *Serena runs to Seto and glomps him*

Seto:  Can't… move… and… circulation… is… cutting… off.

Serena:  Oh sorry.  Can I have my kiss now?

Seto:  Sure.  Sweetcandie I must really like you because no one is allowed to kiss me. I don't care if the authoress asks or not.  But I am doing this for you so you must be special.

Me:  You know  you love me.

Seto:  Yeah I do.

Me:  I knew it.  *Seto kisses Serena on the cheek, but then Serena grabs his face and plants one on his mouth*

Me:  Down Serena down.  Don't mess it up for yourself.  You might want a few more kisses later.

Serena:  Yeah good Idea. *halo is over her head now*

Seto:  Not from me I hope.

Serena:  Are you offering me another one?

Seto:  Uh no.

Serena:  Darn.

Me:  Hey Serena why don't you do the disclaimer for me.

Serena:  Sure.  Sweetcandie does not own Yugioh or anything else that is mentioned in the story that she needs a disclaimer for.  But I do own the kiss that Seto just gave me *is squealing in delight*

Seto:  *muttering*  You mean the one that you just about suffocated me to get.

Serena:  Yeah that one.

Seto: o.0

Serena:  Now here is the new chapter.

     It has been four years since Max left the mansion to go to his unknown destination.  He is now twenty-one and is living on the island that he bought.  During these years, Max has acquired the Millennium Eye, from a search in Egypt, but for a different reason.  Instead of trying to bring back a dead love, he is trying to revive his parents.  He has not gotten over his parents' death and his castle houses all of the family portraits and individual portraits he painted and furniture that his parents had bought.  His most prized painting hangs in the dining room of his castle.  It is of a young lady with dark raven hair and skin of caramel.  Only Max, Croquet, and some staff workers stay on the island.  Max has offered them living quarters on the island so that he and the island may remain a secret.   He has already patented Duel Monsters, but no one knows that he is the creator.  He has never shown himself and continues to remain in secrecy until he gets ready to host the Duelist Kingdom Tournament. But even then he only sends out unsigned letters to the attendees.  As for his long lost friends he has kept an eye on them all. 

Seto is running his company as usual, with a eleven year old Mokuba by his side and his partner and lover, Joseph Wheeler.  Even though they don't know  who the owner of Industrial Illusions is, they make software and devices for the Duel Monsters game.  All three take an interest in the game. Seto and Joey are tournament players. 

Yugi took over his Grandfather's gameshop after he died, which has merged with a gameshop owned by a young man named Duke Devlin.  Yugi and Duke are trying to promote a game called Dungeon Dice Monsters, but can't seem to get in touch with the creator of Duel Monsters.  Both young men sell the cards and collect them.  They both are also very fond of playing the game and Yugi enters the tournaments. 

Ryou is a worker at one of the many Industrial Illusions branch divisions.  He trial runs all the new equipment and gadgets for the game.  Because he works with much of the equipment he has grown to love the game and finds every possible way to better his deck and his strategy.  He enters some tournaments, but is not in the top best. 

Malik works at the Domino Museum with his sister Isis.  Since the phenomenal acceptance of the game, Malik has been studying its past influences in early Egypt and its purpose.  Malik is often plagued with dreams of a past life, which recently started with the increase of his studies about the ancient game.  Malik is a collector of the rare God Cards.  He also plays in tournaments, but has yet to defeat Yugi. 

Deston has become the owner of her parents' company, Egyptian Red.  Her company alongside Kaiba Corp. and Industrial Illusions is one of the strongest companies in Japan.  Deston's company designs videogames, electronic accessories, and electronic hand held games for whatever is in at the time, which happens to be Duel Monsters.  Deston is an avid player of the game as well.  The art reminds her of a person she knew when she was younger, but she often pushes the hope filled idea away when she checks the card for the artist and the name is not there.  So the whole second part of the story starts with a few unknown messages…

"Access the Kaiba Corp. Mainframe."

"Kaiba Corp. Mainframe has been accessed.  There is a level five defense code on the computer would you like me to override it?"

"Yes A. I. and when you get through please deliver the message I have programmed into your database."  A few minutes later the computer told its designer that the message had been delivered.

"Continue to deliver the same messages to everyone on the list of names that I programmed.  Do not send the message titled Friendship to the address of the company Egyptian Red, instead send the message labeled Beauty."

"Your orders are received and will be carried out.  Is there anything else Sir?"

"Yes when you are finished I want you to show me how my friends are doing with my game.  The only information that I have is Seto being the top Intercontinental Duelist and Deston being the World Champion at this time.  She always had to be the best."

"I will have the information as soon as the messages have been delivered to their owners."

"Alert me when that is finished A. I."

'Yes Sir."

     Seto Kaiba sat at his computer, typing in schematics for a new duel disk prototype.  The prototype was due to the Industrial Illusions owner in three weeks, but Seto thought it better to start early.  Seto leaned back in his office chair to stretch, looking at the small computer clock, he sighed.  It read five o'clock in the morning.

"Another sleepless night.  All these damn hours, I might as well be a robot."  Seto squeezed the back of his neck to prevent the cramp that was forming.  He rubbed his neck until he felt some comfort and then turned back to his computer.  Blueprints and codes reflected across the pupils of the young CEO.  Seto's fingers danced across the keyboard, inputting and exchanging information.  He had been typing for a few minutes, when he felt two hands massaging his shoulders.  The hands were strong, yet gentle.  They glided over his shoulders and down to his arms, only to return to Seto's shoulders once again.

"That feels great."  Seto felt hands roam down his chest and then back up to his neck.  Seto pulled his hands from his keyboard and let them lie in his lap.

"It should be illegal for a massage to feel this good."  Seto relaxed into the massage and let his head fall back so he could see the one responsible.  His blue eyes met honey orbs and he smiled up at his lover.

"Are ya even goin' ta try and get some rest?"

"It's almost time for me to wake up anyway."

"Dat's always your excuse when ya work all night.  Why don't cha try ta get a little sleep."

"You remind me of a nagging wife Joey, but with a sexy accent."

"Yea thanks for da compliment, but dat's not goin' ta make me stop naggin' you about your rest."  Joey kissed the back of Seto's neck and then kissed a trail to his lips.  Seto leaned into the kiss, running his hands through Joey's hair, and pulled Joey around to straddle his lap.  The kiss that the two shared continued to get heated, Joey ran his hands through Seto's hair and smiled down at his lover.

"If you let me finish this and have a little fun, I'll go right to sleep."

"Dat's not what I heard, I heard it's almost time for me ta get up anyway, which means dat bout time ya finish with this stuff and we finish with what you want ta do, it will time for you to leave."

"Come on, don't be stingy."  Joey looked at Seto and laughed.  Seto nuzzled Joey's chest and Joey gave in to his affections.

"Alright, but ya have to sleep late, so ya can recuperate."

"But I have to be up early."

"If ya don't da deal is off."  Seto looked at Joey and scowled.

"You are asking too much."

"Ooh sleep is a lot ta ask for."

"I just don't have time."

"Fine, I don't need ta have sex, but I know someone who does very badly."  Joey stared at Seto and when he saw Seto giving him the stubborn look, he got off of Seto's lap and started walking through the archway that led out of the office.

"Okay you win."  Seto grabbed Joey's arm and played with his hand.

"What was dat?"

"I said you win."  Joey walked back to Seto and leaned down to kiss him.  Seto pulled Joey back into his lap and kissed him feverishly.  The kissed lasted for a while longer and Seto stood with Joey in his arms.  Joey wrapped his legs around Seto's waist, pulling the other closer. 

"Aren't ya goin' ta finish?"

"Later."

Seto, carrying Joey in his arms, prepared to leave his office, but the chime on his computer signaled that a new message had been delivered.

"This had better be important or someone is getting fired."

"Just see what it is."  Seto clicked the new message button on his computer and gasped.

"What is it?"

"The Duel Monsters creator wants to meet me.  What the hell does he want me for?"

     The alarm clock went off at the condo of Ryou Bakura.  The young man snuggled up next to the body beside him, the continuing sound of the irritating alarm clock blasting in his ears.  The body he lay beside shifted position to his side.

"It can't be five o'clock yet."  Ryou reached blindly over his yami to stop the shrieking of the clock, but, not paying attention, he hit his yami in the face.  Dark mahogany eyes opened and the hand belonging to the yami grabbed the alarm clock and threw it against the wall.

"Damn annoying ass clock."  Yami Bakura sat up on his elbows to see his hikari beside him sleeping.  Angry that the clock had interrupted his sleeping, Yami Bakura rolled Ryou over until he fell on the bedroom floor.

"Ow, you know Yami all you have to do is tell me to get up."

"That damn clock tells you that every morning and you ignore it."

"Shut up."

"It doesn't matter now, I broke it."

"Why did you do that?  Now I'll have to get another one."

"Get one with a mallet so you can actually get up."

"It's too early in the morning for this, I'm going to go take a shower."  Ryou ran his hands through his hair and sighed.  "Could you pull me something out to wear?"

"Yeah whatever."  Yami Bakura said lying back on the bed and pulling the covers over his head.  Ryou picked himself up from the floor, walked into the bathroom, and turned the shower on.  The water sprayed out cold and Ryou waited for it to warm.  While he waited, Ryou walked back to the door to stare at his sleeping yami or the silhouette of his sleeping yami.  Ryou smiled, knowing how much his yami hated waking up early in the morning and he knew that he could not complain because he was just as bad.

"Yami Bakura, baby wake up."  Ryou could see the body of his yami move under the covers.

"But I don't wanna."  Yami Bakura whined from under the covers.  Ryou ignored the water in the bathroom of a moment, to walk to his yami's side of the bed, sit down, and smile at his sheet-covered form.  Ryou rubbed his yami's rear end, and then smacked him sharply.

"Ow, that hurt.  Those are sensitive you know."

"Yeah yeah yeah, come on and get dressed.  I want you to go to the office with me in the Millennium Ring.  I'm working on some info for a Duel Monsters videogame and I don't feel like researching Egypt to find the information that I need."

"And why do you need me." 

"I don't know, maybe because you are Egyptian.  That's a lucky guess, but I can try harder."

"OK, but you owe me."  Yami Bakura said from under the covers.

"Fine.  Wait a minute, I don't like it when I owe you."  Yami Bakura pulled his head from under the blankets and smiled at his hikari.

"Don't give me that little sadistic smile.  I am still trying to live down the last time I owed you.  I still don't think Kenneth believed me when I told him that he heard a porno through the door."

"It sounded good to me."

"I'm sure it would have been an excellent lie if I would not have been covered in sweat, half naked, and actually had a television in my office."  

"Well you still owe me if I come to your office with you."

"What do you want?"

"I want to wake up."

"You are awake."

" I want to fully wake up."  Yami Bakura said suggestively.

"What kind of libido do you have Yami?  That is the reason I could not get up this morning.  You interrupting me all through the night for quickies."

"Hey sex is good for ya."  Ryou shoved his yami and went to the hall to get some towels.  When he returned, the two were about to walk into the bathroom when Ryou's laptop clicked on.

"What the hell?"  Ryou asked walking to the computer.  The screen flashed and a new message icon blinked on the screen.

"Who would be sending you a message this early?"  Yami Bakura said rubbing his hikari's stomach.

"I don't know."  Ryou clicked the flashing icon and the message appeared.  Ryou read the message and Yami Bakura stood behind him reading as well.

"What does the head man of Industrial Illusions want you for?"

"I have no idea."

Ring!  Ring!  Ring!

The phone interrupted the slumber of a tri-colored young man and his sleeping partner.

"Answer the phone aibou.  It's starting to get annoying."

"Can we just let it ring?  I don't feel like getting up."  Yugi rolled off of his yami's chest and glanced at the electronic clock.

"Yami it is five in the morning who in the hell could be calling at this time of morning?"

"I don't know, why don't you answer it and see how much that helps you figure out the answer to your question."  Yami said sarcastically.  Yugi pulled away from his yami and answered the phone.

"Hello."

"What's up Yugi?  Get up man, we have a lot to do this morning.  The shipping company just called me and told me that they didn't get our shipping order yet.  Yugi, Yugi are you listening to me?"  Duke could hear faint snoring over the phone as he spoke.  When Yugi heard Duke call his name, he forced himself back awake.

"Yeah, yeah I'm listening."

"What did I just say then?"

"Something about the order shipment."

"We have to redo the order."

"But that took us two hours to do."

"Yep which is why I am calling you so early.  Now get your little lazy ass up."

"What time do you want to meet at the gameshop?"

"About six-thirty."

"Fine I'll be there."  Yugi grumbled and sat on the edge of the bed he shared with his yami.

"Damn Yugi that has got to suck.  Having to leave early and miss sleeping in."  Yami said into thee pillow that he lay on.

"Why don't you shove it Yami and stop rubbing it in.  Damn I don't want to go the gameshop now."

"Well you have too."

"I'm just going to sleep for five more minutes."  Yugi lay back down beside his yami and prepared to close his eyes.

"Yugi get your little ass up.  You are not going to sleep for five minutes.  If you put a zero after that five you might be more accurate."  Yami heard Yugi groan and he laughed. 

"Hey I grew a little bit okay.  I'm five-three now"

Yami stroked his hikari's hair and kissed him on the nose.  Yugi smiled and pulled his yami closer, playing with the small hoop earring in his ear.

"Can you start the shower for me then."

"Sure aibou."  They both got out of the bed, Yami went to the bathroom, and Yugi went to his closet to pull something out to wear.  Yami walked back out of the bathroom carrying a laptop in his hands.

"Aibou why was the laptop in the bathroom."

"I was looking at the Duel Monster card statistics while I was getting ready for bed last night.  The creator is coming out with some new cards and decks.  That reminds me I might as well look to see what I need to add to the list before I go to the gameshop, and then I will have less to order next time around.  Could you start it for me, while I brush my teeth."  Yami started up the computer while his partner went into the bathroom.  When the desktop appeared, Yami click on the their Internet provider and searched for the web page.  The web page popped up and the new information concerning the Duel Monsters game came up.

"It's up Yugi."  Yami called and walked away from the computer.  Yami could hear Yugi spit into the sink and fill the small cup in the bathroom with water.

"Write down the new decks and cards for me please."  Yami sighed and looked on their dresser for a pen and some paper.  He started copying down the information when the new message button started to blink in the corner.

"I guess everyone likes to talk at five-thirty in the morning."  Yami said quietly to himself.  He clicked the button with the mouse and read the message.  When he finished a wide grin spread across his face.

"Aibou, come in here.  Hurry up."  Yugi ran out of the bathroom with toothpaste foam on his lips and the toothbrush in his mouth.

"Wha?"  He asked mouth full of foam.

"Read this."  Yugi walked up to the screen and read the message.  The foam slowly dripped from his bottom lip as he held his mouth open and a few seconds later the toothbrush landed by the laptop.

"The duel Monsters creator wants to talk to me.  He must have heard about the game Duke and I are trying to finish.  Maybe he wants to promote it."

"Maybe aibou, but it might be something else."

"There is nothing else that he or she could possibly want me for."  Yugi jumped up and down, hugging his yami.

"Come on Yugi and get in the shower before the water gets cold."

"I have to hurry so I can tell Duke the good news."

~Dream~

Screams of both a male and a female could be heard throughout the palace walls.  They sounded like small children.  Malik ran through long halls with walls decorated in gold and floors made of marble, trying to reach the two that were screaming.

"You must bear the mark of the pharaoh.  You hold the magic of the Pharaoh."  Malik heard someone say from one of the many rooms.  Malik ran through the halls until he came to a room where two men were holding a small boy down while another man cut hieroglyphics in the child's back.  When he looked to the side, he saw two other men holding a young girl.  She was screaming and trying to pull away from the guards.

"Leave him alone."  She yelled from her position against the guards.  The little girl broke free and ran to the man who had the little boy, hitting him blindly.  The man paid no attention and continued his task.

"Get the girl or she will make me ruin the message."

"You are hurting him.  Leave him alone."  Two palace guards came behind the girl and grabbed her around the waist.  While the girl was in one of the guard's arms she yelled,

"Please stop hurting my friend."  She was practically begging as the guards continued to pull her away for her friend. 

"Let the boy go."  Malik yelled, but the men ignored him or did not hear him.  The man continued to cut in the boy's back, putting more hieroglyphics on it.

"Please stop.  Stop.  Please."  The young boy screamed repeatedly.  Malik could see the boy withering in pain.  The pain must have been excruciating because the little boy, of about ten, started to shiver and shake uncontrollably.

Let him go."  Malik yelled again trying to hit one of the men, but his hand went right through his body.  After much screaming and shaking, the small boy eventually passed out from the pain, going into shock.  The man that had been cutting the boy's back put the black paint inside the cuts and then added gold and white.

"He is finished lay him on his stomach in his chambers.  Get the healer so he may help the boy heal faster and prevent infection in the wounds."  When he had given his orders to the men with the small boy, he turned to two men holding the girl.

"Bring the girl."  The small girl struggled as they picked her up and lay her on her stomach.  The man pulled out a new set of tools and stripped the little girl's back. 

"You hold in you the power of the Pharaoh.  You shall also bear the mark."

"No please, Malik.  Malik." 

~Dream End~

"Malik!  Malik!  Malik wake up!" 

"It burns!"  Malik was clawing at the covers on his bed trying desperately to stop the burning sensation going across his back.

"What is burning hikari?"

"My back it burns!"  Malik said while thrashing on the bed.  Yami Malik shook his hikari, but the boy continued to thrash around.

"Isis!"  Yami Malik called his hikari's sister, hoping that she could hear him.  While he waited for Isis, Yami Malik shook his hikari once again.  Malik could feel someone shaking him, but he couldn't open his eyes.  His back was on fire and small tears fell from the corner of his eyes.

"What is it Yami Malik."  Isis asked running into the room.

"It's Malik, he says his back is burning."  Isis ran over to her brother flipping him over onto his stomach.  When she looked at his back, she grasped and ran out of the room.  Yami Malik looked at Malik's back trying to see why Isis left.  As soon as he looked he knew why she ran out of the room.  Malik's back looked as if the tattoos there had just been made.  The hikari withered in pain and cried into the sheets of the bed.  Isis came back with a jar of cream in her hand.

"Here Yami Malik take some of this cream and smooth it over his back."  Yami Malik opened the jar, pulled out some of the white cream, and rubbed it on his hikari's back.  Isis did the same thing dipping her hand in the cream and applying it to her brother's back.  When the cream started to take effect Isis and Yami Malik could see Malik relax.  Yami Malik continued to rub the cream into Malik's back while Isis asked Malik what was wrong.

"I dreamed that a small boy was getting hieroglyphics cut into his back.  The man was hurting him.  The boy screamed and cried, but the man refused to let him go.  I tried to hit the man who was hurting the boy, but it didn't work.  The boy passed out from shock, but when his back was finished the man called two men to bring a young girl who was there with him.  He was preparing to do the same thing to her as he did to the boy.  And that's when my dream ended."  Malik breathed erratically and was holding on tightly to his sister's nightdress.

"Relax Malik.  Breathe slowly."  Malik listened to his sister's words, trying his best to remain calm.  Isis pulled Malik to her, being careful not to touch his back.  He laid his head in her lap and she played with his hair until he drifted back to sleep.  Yami Malik came to sit beside Isis looking down at his lover.

"These dreams have been happening ever since Malik started studying that Duel Monsters game.  That game originated in Egypt and was played by people of power long ago.  Malik didn't start to have the dreams until he started to study the game and the deeper he gets into the history the more vivid and dangerous his dreams seem to get."

"I know he told me about them, but he has never told me that they get this bad."

"They don't get that bad.  Most of the time they are just nightmares, but I have never seen that happen to Malik before."

"I am happy that I decided to stay the night."        

"As am I."

"You don't think that Malik is having dreams about what Father did to him do you."

"No I asked him before and he told me no.  I started to feel guilty about what I did to his father and that is why I asked him.  He told me not to feel guilty about what I did because it was his anger that made me do it.  I didn't like his father hurting him."

"It's okay Yami Malik I understand.  Malik said something about a small girl though, Father never did anything to me."

"Maybe the girl is someone else."

"I think that we should ask Joseph about Malik.  His dreams might have something to do with the Millennium Items.  I bet Joseph could explain what is going on."  Yami Malik and Isis laid beside Malik, keeping and eye on him to make sure that no more nightmares occurred.  Isis was just settling beside the two to go to sleep when the small cell phone, belonging to Malik, started to ring.  Isis quickly reached for the phone not wanting to wake the two beside her up.

"Hello Isis Ishtar speaking."

"Good morning Miss Ishtar, I have some wonderful news."

"What is it James."

"Well it seems that young Malik Ishtar has been invited by none other than the Duel Monsters creator to see him."

"Really?  Do you know for what purpose?"

"No Lady Ishtar.  The invitation just says that the creator wants to meet him."

"Thank you James, I'll tell him as soon as he wakes up."  Isis turned the phone off and set it back on the small table she had gotten it from.

"Is it true."  Isis jumped surprised to hear her brother's voice.

"You scared me."

"Sorry.  So?"

"Yes the Duel Monsters creator wants to see you."

"Why?"

"You know just as much as I do."

"Hey what's up Dee?"

"Good morning Nolee."

"Aren't you up kind of early?"

"I could not sleep."

"So do you want to play?"  The small holographic image of a little girl asked.  The little girl had a very close resemblance to its owner when she was younger.  Her hair was pulled into two large, fluffy, ponytails by two holographic red bows and she wore the Japanese uniform.  In her arms was a big black Persian cat with green eyes.  The small girl had to use both arms just to keep the cat in place.  The small hologram hugged the cat to her chest, with the cat facing the real Deston. 

"No I have too much work to do."

"You are starting to sound like Seto."

"Well I guess I am.  That's what you have to do when you run a company.  You never have time to do anything else.  Oh, that reminds me I have a meeting with him this week.  Did you…?"

"Yes I scheduled it."  Deston smiled and looked at the cat in the girl's arms.  The cat was looking around the room and meowing.

"I think Misha wants to get down.  He looks like he wants to leave."  The little girl put the cat down and he, also being holographic, ran under the bed.

"Do you want me to set you up a game of Solitaire then?"

"No I'll be alright I just need some…"

"Coffee."  The small image finished.  The little girl buzzed one of the morning workers and asked him to bring some coffee to Deston's room.

"You think of everything don't you?"

"You programmed and designed me."

"Yes I did."  Deston leaned back in her seat and waited for the coffee to come.  The little girl sat on the floor and the cat ran from under the bed, into the little girl's lap.

"Are you still sad about him?"  The hologram asked as she stroked the cat's fur.

"Who?"

"The one who went away."

"Sometimes.  I would do anything to just here his voice or to know that he is alright and so would the other guys."

"You mean Seto and the others."

"Yes."

"Why do you miss him so much?"

"Because I loved him."

"Are you sure?"  The little girl asked, pulling the cat up to her chest again.

"I wasn't back then, but I am now."

"He must have been special."

"Yes he was, very."  The worker from the kitchen interrupted the conversation when he brought the Vanilla flavored coffee to the Egyptian Red owner.

"Thank you Thomas."

"You're welcome and I hope you sleep better.  G'night ma'am.

"You as well."  Deston sipped on the coffee, savoring the flavor that danced across her tongue.  The little hologram dropped the conversation that they were having and started up a new one.

"Well since you are sad, let's try to cheer you up."

"How will you do that?"

"Let's read all the mail that those stupid suitors are sending you.  It's funny when you reject them."

"I think that I programmed a little Seto into you."

"Yeah, but this is the cool part of Seto.  If you want me to, I can play back the time when Seto and Malik assaulted Alex Roshima for touching you against your will.  That always seemed to cheer you up."     

"That was funny.  He deserved it.  He was so rude."

"So play it back?"

"No, check the mail." 

"Darn."  Deston smiled and the hologram tapped into the computer database and pulled up the mail that had been sent in the hours that it was not checked.  Up came messages beyond messages.

"Let's get the rejection files started Nolee."

"Yes ma'am."  Deston read through the tens of messages she received, deleting the junk mail and sending rejection notices to the others.  They reached the last one and the computer opened it.  Deston read it and smiled.

"I own my own company and this person wants me to be his personal assistant."  Deston finished the rest of the message and looked surprised.

"The Duel Monsters creator wants to meet with me and why does he want me as his personal assistant?"

"Send a rejection notice?"

"No Nolee.  No one has ever seen him before, the other guys I know, but I would not mind finding out what he looks like.  Put the meeting time and day on my calendar and give me a reminder before the day arrives."

"It is done, Dee."

"Thank you Nolee.  Oh and start compacting your hologram on my laptop just in case I get bored."

"I'm going?"

"Yep."

"Yeah."  The little hologram materialized a suitcase in front of her and threw random articles of clothing into it."

"Why are you packing it's not until next week."

"I'm getting an early start."  The hologram grinned and continued with her packing.

"Have all the messages been sent A. I.?"

"Yes they have.  Do you still want the information regarding your friends Sir?"

"No A. I. you may cancel that request.  They will tell me everything when they get here."

"Very well.  Anything else?"

"No thank you."

"James Croquet is waiting outside of the chambers to escort you back to your room."

"I swear that man just doesn't rest does he."

"No he doesn't Sir."  Max giggled at the computer and exited the computer lab to be escorted back to his room by Croquet.

"So Max, do you think that they will come?"
"Yes I am positive."

"Well good luck Young Pegasus."

Me:  This chapter was kind of boring I guess.  But it was to set up the new part.  Everybody is getting invited to meet a long lost friend and they don't even know it.  But some questions are raised also, the biggest being what in the world do Malik's dreams mean.  Well you will find out later, but read and review please.  Also I got a comment from one of my friends saying that Deston was a Mary Sue.  I don't think she is, but I would appreciate if my reviewers would respond on this accusation.  I just think that she is an original character.  If you think that she is a Mary Sue could you please tell me why and if you don't just say so.  Thank you.

Seto:  *indicating to the hikaris and himself *  We interrupt this author's note to talk and for me to ask Sweetcandie for help.

Me:  What?

Seto:  Could you please get Serena, she has taken my clothes.

Me:  Your boxers were included in that huh?

Seto:  *just noticing* Uh yeah, could you draw me a leaf or something.

Me:  Sure.  *drawing Seto a leaf *

Seto:  Thanks.  *is running away from Serena*  Serena stop grabbing for the leaf.  This is my only form of protection.

Serena:  Ooh look at Seto's little butt.  Sweetcandie can I have a camera?    

Me:  Yeah, I have first dibs on the shots though so get some good ones.  *gives Serena the camera*

*Serena is taking pictures and Seto is screaming something about murder*

Me:  Well hikaris did you guys want to talk.

Ryou:  I would like to give a shout out to all of my fans and to my yami.  I love you all. 

Yugi:  I would like to give a shout out to all my fans and my yami too.  I love guys.

Malik:  I would like to give a shout out to all my fans and my yami.  Love you guys too.

Me:  *yelling* Seto what about you.

Seto:  *stops running, but is looking around for Serena* I have a shout out for Mokuba and my non-crazed fans out there.  Wait I don't have any non-crazed fans.

Serena:  Seto say cheese.  *snaps picture of naked Seto without the leaf *

Seto:  Please don't sell those.

Serena:  Give me another kiss and I won't.  *Seto kisses her*  Thank you.

Me:  Alright split the pics Serena.  You can take the others with you.  *we split the pics and Serena is teleported back home*

Seto:  Is she gone?

Me:  Yes Seto and here are your clothes.  Seto say the usual please.

Seto:  Read and Review.  Can I take a bath now?

Me:  Go ahead.

Seto:  Hey you can pamper me next chapter.

Me:  OK

Hikaris:  Us too?  We want to help.

Seto:  The more the merrier.  ^__~