Darth: Say…

Everyone else: We already did that!

Darth: Oh.

Me: I still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh

Mars sat in the room, fidgeting. Kao reached over and touched her on the shoulder.

"You all right?" Mars shook her head.

"No, and you're not either." Kao looked at her confused. There was a soft knock on the door and Henri and Sar came in timidly.

"Sar's not doing so vell," Henri said. In the past seven months of their training, all but a few traces of his accent had faded away. Kao went over, asking what was wrong. Henri sat on the bed with Mars.

"Mars? What es wrong?"

"I don't know, but something is…" just as she said that, Chaz, Zen, and Ogenki came through the door. Ogenki had an odd look on her face, and the Black Pendant was back around her neck. Zen walked up to the bookshelf the girls had in their room and, without hesitation, pulled the thickest book off. He flipped through it, muttering to himself. All except Chaz stared at him in wonder.

"Ah-Ha!" Zen exclaimed, turning the book around so every one could see, "A locator spell."

"Why would we need a locator spell?" Kao asked confused, Sar's fingers twined comfortingly around hers. Sar let out a sort of nervous hiss, clutching Kao's hand. Kao gulped, suddenly fearing the answer. It had, of recent, taken more to scare either Sar or herself. And Mars was sitting on the bed, trembling just as hard, despite the comforting arm of Henri around her shoulder. Ogenki spoke up in an odd voice, giving the answer.

"Darth was taken away by his so-called former master," she shuddered, "A master does not do those types of things." Mars stood up in defiance.

"We have to go rescue him!" Ogenki shook her head.

"It's not so easy as that." Zen cleared his throat.

"Hello? Locator spell anyone?" Chaz snatched the book from him.

"Don't be naive, you know that won't do anything. This is the Dark Lord we're dealing with."

"So we just have to sit here and wait for an attack?" Sar asked. Chaz looked grim.

"I'm afraid so."

Darth fell to his knees, trembling. His body was held up by his arms, which were chained to the cave wall. On the other side of the cave were two dragons, one as white as newly fallen snow on Christmas Day, the other as black as pure charcoal. These two great beasts lay whimpering as the Dark Lord put a spell over them to control their minds. They could no longer protect Darth. Darth gasped out ragged breaths, trying to steady his heart rate. The Dark Lord looked up from his spell. He laughed at Darth, going back to his spell with pleasure at his fallen former apprentice. Darth cursed at him then, standing up shakily.

"Come now, do you really think you're in the position to make threats or to speak such nasty words? I can not kill you, true, but I can make you suffer." Darth fell to the ground again as the pain started anew. The two beasts cried out as their minds were invaded by the Dark Lord.

"Ogenki?" Mars asked, coming up behind her, "Are you alright?" Ogenki sighed, leaning over the rail to the balcony.

"No, no I'm not," she finally decided. Mars touched her lightly on the shoulder.

"Hey, it'll be alright, we'll save him and the kingdom. I promise," Mars said comfortingly, "Kao and I have always been here for you. We always will be, especially now." Ogenki frowned.

"Can you be there when fate says otherwise?" she asked, referring to the vision Miyst had had, "Miyst told me that a lone fighter would stand against the evil, friends dead, loved one dead. And Chaz told me that because Darth gave me this," she jerked her thumb at the pendant around her neck, "I'm the one Darth thinks will be that lone fighter." Mars looked at Ogenki firmly.

"Ogenki, I love Miyst, she's a wonderful person, and I'm sure she is as powerful as everyone thinks, but visions don't have to come true. I believe that most don't. Visions are probably just a way of forcing everybody along the right path. But if people don't respect the visions, and just whimper along, expecting them to come true, then they do and the path can't be found. So that means whatever Miyst may have seen is just a shove at you to push you towards the path you're meant to take for this life," Mars sighed, "You can't just give up, Ogenki." (Yay inspirational speech from Mars!)

Yami sat in his room. The door burst open and Triston, a trusty scout from the eastern side of the Kingdom, stumbled in. He was panting for breath and his blood-caked hand covered his heart.

"King Yami," he choked out, "It's too late. The war has come…" With a last escape of breath, the young man died. Yami stood up in horror. (Okay, I have nothing against Triston, but I'd rather not face my Sister's wrath by hurting Joey and Kaiba still has a very small part to play. I couldn't bear to kill off a girl, being one myself, so that left Triston. Sorry to all of the big Honda fans.)

The Dark Master stood upon a cliff, his two winged beast crouched behind him. He grinned at the sight of the soon to be conquered Kingdom.

"Just wait world. The lord Malik is coming to get you," he let out a laugh that echoed dreadfully across the land, settling itself like a dark blanket of anticipation at the attack.

Author's Note: Okay, so I lied about getting to update every other day. I'm sorry. But I had two very good excuses! One was I was busy, and the other is that I wanted people to enter my 'contest'. Okay, so we found out who the Dark Lord was. Cool… To me anyway. And the winners to my 'contest' are *drumroll*

CUNOBABY AND YAYUKI!!!!! Actually, these were the only two to enter… But, hey check out their stories, I know these guys personally, and it's great! Some of their things are really good. The rest are really funny! It's a win-win situation.



And before anyone gives me any grief, I don't necessarily hate Malik either. And to avoid confusion, I didn't use the Japanese names for the characters, like Honda and Jounouchi. Except for Malik. But the name Marik annoys the heck out of me! GRRRRRRRR! DIE MARIK! Live on for the story Malik, but DIE Marik.