His eyes opened as he took in a deep breath of air. His eyes focused on the person smiling above him. He frowned.
"Tanith?" he croaked in an unused voice. "What?"
Bakura ran his hands over his faced and then his body. He felt the material of the blue sweats. He looked down at his bare feet and Tanith laughed.
"How did Ryou's body get here" he demanded. That really got her laughing.
"What is so funny, mortal."
Before Tanith could reply the telephone rang. She got up and answered it.
"Tanith? Is that you?" Yugi's voice exclaimed even before she could say hello.
"Yes, Yugi. What's wrong you sound excited."
"Yami's got a body!" he cried. "First the walls shook and then when we all woke up Yami was right beside me in a real body!"
Tanith chuckled, "Sorry about that, Bakura's got one too."
"What?!" he shouted. Just then the phone exchanged hands while in the background there was more shouting from what sounded like Joey and Tristan
"Get over here and tell me exactly what happened." Yami told her. She looked over at Bakura who was tying Malik/Marik up with sheets he was tearing apart for such a purpose.
"Okay, but I'm bringing company."
"Don't worry." He said. "We have company too."
"Bye your majesty!" Tanith hung up the phone as Bakura hauled his hostage up. She turned and addressed him. "That was the pharaoh."
"Uh huh, what did he want?"
"He wants us over at his place to try to figure out why him and you have your own bodies."
Bakura did a double take, almost dropping his hostage. "I'm not in Ryou's body?"
She shook her head, "Nope that would be your own."
"How?"
Tanith only smiled and Bakura nodded with a grin of his own as she placed the Ring around his neck.
"Let's go see the Pharaoh."
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When Tanith walked in with Ishtar and Bakura she found two strangers sitting on the couch in the living room. One was wearing a turban and a white robe and had the most unusual blue eyes that stood out from his tan skin. Around his neck, she spotted a gold ankh that looked like a key at the bottom. Beside him was a man in a red suit and jacket with straight white hair down passed his shoulders and the one eye Tanith could see was brown.
"Why in Ra's name are they here!" Bakura demanded pointing at the strangers and dropping Malik unceremoniously to the floor.
"Who are they?" Tanith asked just in time for Grandpa and Yugi to walk in with drinks.
"Tanith Rivencroft, Maximillion Pegasus and Shadi." Yugi answered handing a drink to each as he introduced them and Grandpa sat down in a chair across from them with his own drink.
"Hi." Tanith said just before Bakura exploded.
"Why are you just sitting back like there's nothing wrong?" he cried and pointed at Pegasus, "He stole your grandfather's soul and you're serving drinks?!"
"Speaking of which where is the Millennium Eye, hm?" Shadi inquired. Bakura paled and ducked behind Tanith.
"Uhh, I lost it?" He replied. Shadi shot him an amused look as Tanith pulled out of her duster pocket the item in question.
"This thing? I was wondering why Bakura kept trying to hide it." She asked as Yami came in helping Ryou walk.
"I thought I heard your voice." Ryou said to his yami taking a seat next to Grandpa. Then he turned his attention to Tanith. "You must be the girl who saved me."
She shrugged, "Well sorta."
Just then Malik began to stir. All eyes shot to him as he awoke.
"Where am I?" he asked. Upon finding himself tied up he demanded, "Why am I tied up?"
Tanith squatted down in front of him, "Okay, what's your name."
Malik glared at her, "It's you, the stupid girl he likes. I thought I threw you out a window."
Tanith rose to her feet, "Well that matter's settled."
Pegasus chuckled, "His sister should be over in a bit to take him home."
"That's a relief." Ryou muttered sending his yami and Tanith into snickers.
"So why is Shadi and Peggie here?" Tanith inquired.
"They're here to see you." Yami told her.
"For six months I've been watching you, Tanith. Seeing if the power of the Ring would corrupt you or if maybe you were meant for the Ring as much as Ryou was." Shadi told her.
"So did you get what you needed?" Tanith inquired. "Because I'm not wearing that hunk of junk any more. It's Bakura's now."
Shadi smiled a little and said, "So it is."
Tanith turned her attention to Pegasus as Shadi and Bakura went into a staring game with one another.
"So why are you here?" she demanded.
"I was wondering if you wanted a job." Pegasus told her. "Shadi brought me one of your inventions and I was most impressed."
"It's a great opportunity, Tanith." Yugi said as Tanith shot Shadi a dirty look. "You'd get paid for doing something you like to do."
Pegasus reached into his jacket and pulled out some paperwork, "I have the paperwork here for you to sign."
Tanith took the papers and looked them over. "Says I have to work from Duelist Kingdom, why?"
Pegasus chuckled as Bakura shot him a dirty look, "If you agree to work for me you'll be my biggest asset. I don't want my best employee to get taken from me."
She looked up from the paperwork and slammed him against the wall, "I can take care of myself."
Once Tanith put Pegasus down, he cleared his throat, "Okay I'll set up living and school arrangements in Domino."
Tanith smiled as Pegasus pulled out a pen and handed it to her. With flourish she took the pen and signed her name on the dotted line.
"A pleasure doing business with you."