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"Anzu!" Yami grabbed her hand.

Anzu looked up at him, she had fallen through the floor! "Help me, please!" she reached her other hand up and grabbed his arm. "I'm slipping, Yami!"

Yami grunted and tried to haul her up, but it felt like something was trying to tug her down. "Anzu! Something has a hold of your foot!" he yelled.

"I don't feel anything. . ." Anzu said as her grip around Yami's hand and arm started to loosen. She felt all the color drain from her face as she looked down into the darkness she was falling in. "AH!" she looked back up at Yami. "Don't let me go!"

"I won't!" Yami yelled, he heaved back and lifted Anzu up a little. 'Something's dragging her down. . .' he thought as he tried to drag Anzu further up out of the hole. 'I can feel it tugging on her. . .' he felt Anzu's hands almost slip completely away from his. "NO!" he yelled, giving one last haul on Anzu's arms, taking her up out of the hole.

Yami flew backwards and Anzu landed on top of him, almost crying. The two looked back at the hole and watched it close back over. Anzu squeezed Yami's shoulders at the sight of this. ". . . what was that. . ."

Yami sat up and looked at Anzu who was now on his lap. ". . .I'm not sure. . .are you OK?"

Anzu nodded and stood up. ". . .Yami this is creeping me out. . .what the hell caused that. . ."

"I would say that it was the mansion falling apart but. . ." Yami stood up and looked at where the hole once was. ". . .this is just too weird. . ."

"I saw we leave this room. . ." Anzu said opening the door and walking out into the hall.

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"Damn. . ." Kasi scowled and watched Anzu and Yami walk down the hall. ". . .it was so close too. She would have fallen to her death if it wasn't for him!" she smirked. ". . .well since that failed I can always try something else, ne?"

*

"Lets try in here. . ." Yami said opening another door. This room was all lit up, it looked like it was another dance hall, only smaller than the main room downstairs.

". . .wow. . ." Anzu said gripping the door facing. ". . .are you sure its OK to go in there?"

"Its should be I guess." Yami sensed Anzu's fear and held out his hand to her. "Come on. . .if it makes you feel any better about it. . .take my hand."

Anzu nodded slightly and took Yami's hand. Yami have her hand a short squeeze before leading her into the room. ". . .I guess this place is OK. . ." Yami said looking at Anzu. "Shall we look around?"

Anzu slowly let go f Yami's hand and nodded. "Yeah. . ." she walked over to a small bookshelf and started reading the head liners of the books.

Yami watched her, he couldn't help but smile. He could still sense fear drifting through her whole being, but, it made her all the more beautiful to him.

". . .wow look at this. . ."Anzu said. She touched a statue of a raven. ". . .isn't this neat?"

Before Yami could answer her the raven head tipped to one side and a loud crunch was heard.

Anzu turned pale. "What was that?" she asked.

The door to the room slammed with a loud boom, and large spikes shot out from two walls. Anzu ran over to Yami and grabbed his arm as the walls slowly started to move in. "WHAT THE HELL!?" Anzu screamed.

Yami wrapped his arms around Anzu and hauled her close to him. He didn't know what else to do. He watched the walls as they moved, and he felt Anzu trembling in his arms. '. . .oh dear god. . .' he thought. '. . .what the hell are we going to do. . .?'

". . .this is it. . ." Anzu whimpered, tears streamed down her cheeks and she looked at Yami.

". . .no." Yami said looking at her. "It can't be. . .OK? Don't think like that. . ."

"How can she not?" a voice asked. "Look around Pharaoh. . .do you see a way out of this?"

Yami's eyes widened. He heard that voice before, and by the look that came across Anzu's face she had too. "Who are you?! Why are you doing this?!"

A girl appeared next to them and laughed. "My name is Kasi, my Pharaoh. . .surely you remember me. . ."

Yami's eyes narrowed, yes. . .he remembered her alright. . . "What are you doing here. . .I thought you were dead."

"Dead no. . .lost yes. . ." Kasi's eyes narrowed on Anzu. "Teena trapped me in a dark world all those years ago. . .and you reentering this house has brought me back to full power, Yami. So now I can get my revenge on Teena, and destroy the rest of you. . ."

'Teena. . .' Yami thought as he looked at Anzu. '. . .Anzu don't remember anything about this I bet. . .' he looked at the walls as they got closer, then looked at Kasi. "This is mad, Kasi! Stop this at once!"

"I would but it can't be stopped." Kasi smirked as she started to disappear. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go take care of the rest of your friends. . .farewell." she was gone.

"We can' let her get to the others, Yami. . ." Anzu said looking at him, utter terror in her eyes.

"We're not. . ." the Millennium Symbol appeared on his forehead and he took a step back, and before the spikes could hit them, the two fell through the floor.

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"Interesting." Sutomi said as she flicked at a rope hanging from the ceiling of one of the rooms she Ryou and Marik had come to. ". . .a suicide attempt, maybe?"

Ryou sweat-dropped and shrugged. "Maybe. . ." he looked around. "This room is bare. . .that's the only thing in here. . .maybe they never got a chance to dress it up. . ."

"I doubt it. . ." Marik said, spotting something in the corner. "Hey. . .what's that?"

"I'll go see. . ." Sutomi walked over and shone her flashlight at the bundle in the corner of the room. She screamed and stumbled backwards, the flashlight fell from her hand and landed on the floor, shining light on the corner for Ryou and Marik to see. It was a body.

By the look of the clothing it was one of Seto's maids. Her face had all its skin ripped off, and one of the eyeballs was missing, the one left was staring at the three blankly, the maids neck was ripped open and looked as if all the blood had been drained from the body through that part.

"Sutomi get back!" Ryou yelled.

Sutomi scooped up the flashlight and scooted back across the floor, banging into Ryou's legs, she was still screaming.

"Cam down." Ryou stood her up and shook her shoulders. "Sutomi. . .breathe. . ."

Tears rolled down Sutomi's face and she threw her arms around Ryou's neck. "I don't want to be here anymore, Ryou-kun! I want to leave. . .please. . ." she sobbed into his shoulder.

Ryou looked over at Marik who was still looking at the body. "Marik what could have done that?"

". . .nothing human. . ." Marik said looking at him. "And it was done within the last hour. . .there's something in this house, Ryou."

"What do you propose we do?" Ryou asked.

". . .look for it. . .and stop it before it can harm anyone else. . ." Marik said, his eyes narrowing.

Ryou nodded and hugged Sutomi closer to him. "Don't worry. . .there's nothing to worry about." he whispered. He looked at Marik, and Marik shook his head. They could both tell that this was going to be bad.



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