Silver Angel: Wow.talk about a long silence. I want to apologize right now for not updating in so long. I had major writers block, even though I had an idea of what I wanted to happen. Gomen, Gomen. And thank you very much to all of the people who sent me reviews. They are much appreciated! Anyways, here is chapter ten. Hopefully, it is okay, and I didn't stumble too much getting over that writers block! ^_^

Note: Most of the cards listed in this story will be fake. I don't know many of them.
Chapter 10: Reveal the Soul

Serena gazed unobtrusively to her left at Yami, who was still holding her hand. He didn't seem to realize it, but a small blush also graced his cheeks, and she giggled. 'I can imagine Yugi blushing' she thought, 'but for Yami to it is rather strange - but cute.' She grinned as the thought crossed her mind, which was the sight Yami was confronted with when he turned to ask he why she was laughing.

"What's so funny?" He asked suspiciously, a cute frown passing over his features. Serena giggled again. "Oh nothing," she told him. "So these are the new dueling systems then?" She held up the fan shaped machine with slots for cards that was attached to her arm.

"Yes, Seto Kaiba seems to have come up with an improved model of his duel disks - and very quickly too." Serena gave Yami a blank gaze.

"Duel disks?"

"And older model," the spirit explained. "It worked similarly to these, but was in two separate parts. He showed us some of the first model just a few days ago."

"He must have had some sort of stroke of genius. Especially since we last saw him only yesterday." She smiled, but it did not quite reach her eyes. 'I knew there was something strange about this tournament right away. He couldn't have come up with a new dueling system like this in a day. I'll just have to stay on the look out then," she concluded, and shrugged any other worries off.

"Yami." the pigtailed girl looked up at the boy next to her. She gave his hand a small squeeze, causing to look down at where he held her hand, in surprise. He did not pull away. "What do you remember about - your past? When I first came here, I knew that you were different from Yugi. Your soul feels."

"Darker?" Yami suggested.

"No, it feels older; more.I don't know.serious I guess. Who were you before you became trapped in the puzzle?" Her blue eyes looked at him innocently, unknowing of the pain some memories might cause him.

Yami's eyes took on a faraway look. "I - do not remember much of my past." He told her. "I was trapped in that puzzle for.thousands of years. The time has clouded or erased many of my memories. There is little I remember that is pleasant. Most of it, I wish I had forgot; and sometime I wonder if all of my previous life was painful."

Serena looked down at the road, watching the concrete pass under her feet as she walked. Gum wrapper, plastic spoon, scrap of flyer. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." She said to the ground. "I don't want to bring up painful memories. Goodness knows; I have enough of those of my own. I know how it feels."

"It's alright," he told her softly. "It helps to tell others about how we feel. I should know. it's what I'm always saying to Yugi." Running a hand through his spiky hair, he began to tell her some of the bits and pieces that he could remember.

"I was born in Egypt. I do not remember what my original name was; it has been. too long. I was a ruler - the Pharaoh I think. My parents died when I was young, and left me to rule from the time I was about eight. I remember.going to my father's burial. The priest of Osirus kept talking about the weighing of souls against a feather. I was so worried about my father - that he would not pass judgement."

Yami sighed, tentatively placing an arm around her shoulder, which she snuggled into obligingly. "It's one of my earliest memories. I do not remember what happened to my mother, only that she was not around. Once my father died, all of my so called advisers tried to gain some sort of hold on me. They thought I would be some kind of puppet. When I gained mastery over the powers of the Shadow Games - " His eyes darkened with the memory of betrayal. "They tried to unleash monsters to kill me. I had no choice but to seal away the magic of the Shadow Realm with the Millennium items; but they managed to interfere enough to seal my soul in the puzzle until Yugi solved it."

"You created the Millennium items?" Serena gazed up at Yami, surprised. "Your magic must have been strong if you were able to imbue them with enough force to attract the remnants of Chaos." She was prevented from saying anything more when Yugi, Joey, ran up to them from one direction, with Bakura and his Yami coming at them from another street.

"There you two are!" Yugi called, as he and Joey got closer. "You ran off when we met up with that creepy blond guy, and we've been searching all over for you!" The four teens reached them and stopped for breath.

Serena hung her head. "Sorry about that guys. We - um - were looking for the place where the tournament was supposed to start. How was I supposed to know that the whole city was going to be the arena?" Joey chuckled, seeing her embarrassed expression.

"Hey. Don't worry about it Sere. I'm kinda surprised that Kaiba came up with that myself! Hopefully Tea and Tristan will get here soon, so we can get this show on the road."

"So do we just walk all over the city to see if we run into people with Millennium items then?" Yugi asked. "That could probably take along time. Look at all the duelists who signed up for the tournament!" He waved his arm, gesturing at the crowds of people who fill the streets.

"Don't worry Yugi," Serena told him. "If I know anything at all about Chaos, it's that it can't stay hidden for long. I can't feel a trace of its power right now, but sooner or later it will decide to come out, and I'll definitely be able to tell when that happens. In the mean time." she turned towards a growing crowd of people to their left and grinned. "It looks like there's a duel going on. Maybe I can try out my new cards."

"Shall we see who is dueling then?"

"Why certainly good sir," Serena said with a mock bow. Still holding hands, the two pushed through the crowd, with Yami glaring at anyone who might decide to push back. 'With so many of my friends cards in this deck, I'm certain to get at least one.' She thought. 'Hopefully the one I get will have some sort of type advantage.'

When the two reached the front of the ring of people, Serena sized up the two duelists. One of them, a brown haired teen, had just lost, and was kneeling on the ground looking crushed as he handed over his locator cards and the rarest card in his deck. The other, a strange aqua haired teen was gloating over his victory, and challenging everyone in the vicinity who wanted to duel.

"Who wants to be next to challenge my psychic powers?"

Serena smiled softly and held up her deck. 'He doesn't have psychic powers. I've been around magic and supernatural forces enough to tell. He is doing something to cheat. So maybe I should expose the cheater?' She stepped forward. "I will duel you," she told him.

The aqua haired teen smirked. "You? You're just a rookie! I would have heard of you before if you were a true duelist! You won't be able to match up to my psychic powers anyway." He crossed his arms over his chest. "Are you sure you want to lose to me?"

"You don't have psychic powers Esper." Serena told him calmly. "And cheating is not the way to win a duel. You may know nothing about me, but I know all about you. Shall we duel to see who is the true rookie here?"

Esper frowned at the insult. "Fine, but I won't go easy on you just because you're a rookie. It's time to duel!" Drawing five cards, he slid two into the slots on his dueling system. "I'll start by playing this card face down, and my slime warrior in attack mode. [A-850 D-900] " A green humanoid blob of slime with gray armor and a sword popped up in front of him.

Serena nodded. "Okay then, I'll play Saber the dark fox ninja [A-700 D- 1000] in attack mode as well, and I'll on this card, magic shuriken to increase his strength by 300 points. Lastly, I'll place a card face down too." A black upright fox with silver tipped ears and a blue bandana around its neck appeared in front of Serena, and was equipped with a silver shuriken.

"You are too predictable. A rookie just like I said." Esper smirked. "Only a beginner would power up a weak monster like that on their first turn. I bet you don't even have any stronger monsters to attack me with."

"If that is what you want to think, then very well. Are you going to take you turn?"

"Fine then, but now you'll see what you got yourself into when you challenged me." Throwing his arms straight out to the sides, he closed his eyes and threw his head back. "Oh powerful spirits of the four planes! Show me all!"

While most of the crowd except Serena's friends watched in amazement, Serena only snickered. "You really think that's going to impress me Esper? You're not calling on any spirits at all! And you're going to have to do better than your little tricks to beat me!"

"Well then, should I tell you what cards you're holding?" He grinned, trying to psych her out.

"I could really care less if you know what cards I'm holding Esper," She yawned, looking bored. "You don't know what half of them do, or the strategy I have. Can we get down do business, and you can take your turn?"

Her opponent drew a card. "Okay then, I'll sacrifice my Slime Warrior, and bring out Shingei!" [A-1500 D-1700] (I don't remember the name, but pretend it's that weird cyborg type monster he used in the show against Joey) "Shingei, attack Saber!" The cyborg shot a blast out of its metal covered mouth straight towards Serena's ninja fox.

"Shadow concealment!" the card that Serena had placed face down, rose to show a picture of a black fog which covered her monster and hid it from the attack. "Looks like I won that round Esper! My shadow concealment card can only be played on ninja type creatures, and allows them to dodge all attacks against them once."

"What kind of card is that?! It doesn't exist in the whole game!"

"I told you Esper, you don't know what half of these cards do. Whatever you're doing to see them won't help you, because they're special editions. They're one of a kind!" She drew another card.

'The perfect card,' she thought. "Now Esper, I know Saber isn't strong enough to beat your Shingei, but I've one that is powerful enough. Would you like to see it?" Before he could answer, she placed it in a slot. "I'll sacrifice my Saber, and play the Sovereign of Silence!"

The dark fox shimmered out of existence, to be replaced with a Hotaru look- alike. She was dressed in a black dress, a replica of the one from her princess form. Black wings stretched out from her back, which remain uncovered by the dress, and her tiara, which she normally wore as Sailor Saturn was upon her forehead. Instead of the pale gem in the center however, it had a glowing purple symbol of Saturn.

/Hello Serena/ she heard in her mind.

Serena's eyes widened, though she tried to not show any of her shock. 'Hotaru. . ."
Silver Angel: Well how was that? I hope you guys liked it! Just a quick note, if Serena seemed out of character at all in that chapter, remember that she is 400 years old now, and has been Cosmos, and /alone/ for most of that time.

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