Hey all! I bet you didn't expect to see me so soon, did you?

;_; no body wanted to see the picture of Gabriela!

On with the show!

~*~

It was 10'O clock in the morning when Kaiba turned on the TV set to watch the news.

"…And this morning, we have a special report on the new carnival that has just rolled into town! The parade is to be at noon and, folks, you don't want to miss this one! It's going to be a very interesting week, because this carnival is a traveling Duel Monsters Tournament and a Circus and an amusement park all rolled into one! More after our top story…" Kaiba went back to work.

"A tournament carnival? What will they think up next?" he said sarcastically.

He had went down earlier to wake Mokuba up. He also had a guest in his bedroom. Safira Stone had spent the night, unbeknownst to Seto. He shrugged it off. "Hmph. So Mokuba had her sleep over? So what?" He told himself. But inside he was slightly jealous that Mokuba had already grown close enough to Safira to sleep with his head in her lap. He hadn't woke them up. From the looks of things, they had been up pretty late, with their clothes on and everything, they looked like they had passed out from exhaustion. He secretly smiled. Mokuba could cause that to happen, without breaking a sweat, too. He decided that he would tape the parade for Mokuba to watch later. "He'd like waking up to that." Seto muttered.

~*~*~Downtown~*~*~

"Hey, Kohana! Get it together! Only ten minutes until we have to line up for the parade!" A young girl dressed in very odd clothes was running around yelling out people's names and telling them what to do.

"Hurry up, Hiko! The crowd's not going to wait for you to perfect your fire breathing! You'd need a million years and we only have… HEY!"

A shoe sailed through the air, clonking the yelling girl on the head. "Who died and left you ringmaster, Amaya?"

Amaya stuck out her tongue. "You're just jealous that I got done before you and that MY float is the prettiest we've ever had!"

"Float? You mean like your air-head?" Kohana jeered.

"Harty-har-har, Kohana!" Amaya yelled, throwing the shoe at the equally strangely clad girl.

"Stop it, guys! Don't start a fight now! I just got my float put back together from the last one!" Keanu yelled.

"All of you be quiet!" came a male voice. A boy with medium brown hair and washed-out blue eyes came forward. He wore a cape and a top hat and dressed very regally. "You will only get your share if we pull this off without a hitch! Remember, those were Daphne's EXACT words! If you keep fighting like this, you'll make fools of us all. You each have a special gift to give, but if we mess this up, we can kiss our reward good-bye!"

The girls all bowed. "Yes, Ciro-sama."

"That's better. Now, hurry up and get ready. It's almost time to begin. Make it look good."

"Yes, sir." they chorused again and sped about doing their chores.

"Hm…" Ciro turned around and looked at the tent behind him. "We've done very well so far. Now we just need to lure in the suckers." He turned toward the fence between the carnival and the street. Little children were pressing themselves to the gate, mouths watering at the site of all the rides and "creatures" that were roaming around.

Speaking of creatures… thought Ciro as he turned around to see the Mystic Clown. "Queen Daphne wants a report on her little intro to the world…" it hissed.

"Everything is coming along swimmingly. We're already attracting tons of kids, and when the tournament award is announced, it will bring all the duelists from this entire town running, and all of it is thanks to Lady Daphne's generosity." He bowed graciously.

"QUEEN Daphne's patience is wearing thin with you, Ciro. She's allowing you to use monsters in this carnival only because she expects great things to come of it… things which I fail to see occurring with YOU in charge."

"Rest assured, sir Clown, that I'm doing everything in my power to see that Queen Daphne's expectations are met. All we need now is a little time and everything will fall into place, I'm sure."

"So be it, Ciro, but let it be known that I'm watching you." The Clown disappeared in a puff of purple smoke.

Ciro waved his hand in front of his face, clearing the smoke. "Charmed, I'm sure…"

He turned back to the float he would be riding on in the parade. It looked like a Blue Eyes White Dragon was sitting up on it with it's head turning in each direction and it's tail curled around the base of the float.. There were several posters on it proclaiming the date and time that the carnival would be open to the public. On the front was a megaphone in a microphone stand that he planned on using to make his other announcement.

"Kohana! Report!" he barked suddenly.

Kohana stood to attention before him, her hand just above her swamp green eyes and just under her strangely styled green and brown streaked hair. "Ciro-sama?"

"What is the status for tonight's show?" he demanded.

"Sir! My girls are ready with their acrobat routine and I'm read for monster taming, sir! And Keanu is also ready with her levitation act and the tight rope routine, sir! Hiko has finally perfected her fire breathing and Daring-Fire-Feats routine, also, sir, and Amaya is ready for her debut in tonight's show sir!"

"Status on the floats?"

"My earth battler float, Keanu's flying float, and Amaya's water monster and Hiko's fire monster floats are ready for the parade. And all the marching monster/performers are ready to go. And all the monster balloons are filled and ready to fly."

"And the… secret routines? Are they ready too?" he asked smirking.

"Ready for use when required, Ciro-sama" she whispered, smirking also.

"Good. The side show and magic show are coming along well too. There can be no slip-ups tonight, understand?"

"Hai, Ciro-sama!" She bowed and went back to her float. She began hooking up the Twin Headed Wolf to the float.

(AN: for those of you who may be confused, Sama=sir and Hai= yes)

As she got it hooked up, a little girl with a blonde pony-tail bounded through the tent, giggling as she went. She strolled up to the Ringmaster, Ciro.

"Hi-ya, Ring-mister!"

Ciro didn't even turn around. "Look, kid, the circus doesn't open to the public for at least 3 more hours, and you're going to have to wait like everyone else-" he turned around. "Oh! Yuki-chan! What are you doing here?"

She smiled winningly. "Lady said for me to stay out of her way while she's making special cards, so I came here!" She looked around at all the weird monsters. "You have any hotdog stands up yet?" she asked rubbing her belly. "Card man didn't have time to feed me before Lady locked him in the card machine-thingy room."

Ciro smiled. 'As long as I stay on the good side of Daphne's Hikari, she'll protect me and I don't have to worry about the shadow realm…' "Why, of course we do, Yuki-chan!" He guided her over to some stands with popcorn, cotton candy, soda, and hot dogs. "Here you go, Yuki!" He looked in a little stand. "Fireyarou! See that Lady Yuki's every desire is met!" He looked down at Yuki. "You stay out of trouble now, okay? And if you need anything, just ask for Uncle Ciro."

"Okie-dokie!" she smiled up at him. "Just ask Uncle Ciro!"

Fireyarou snickered. 'Uncle? He's barely 12!'

Kohana came up behind Amaya. "I hope you've been practicing. I just told Ciro that you'd be ready for your big debut tonight… you'd better not make a liar out of me."

"Oh, I have! I have! Thank you, Kohana! I owe you one!" The purple haired girl hugged her friend. "I'll be the best act tonight!" Her ocean-blue eyes watered dramatically.

"That's nice… now you have to prove it." Kohana muttered, prying herself loose.

"Yes! And I will!… Now I just have to find Yado Karu to hook up to my float…" She looked around to see the shell-fish monster standing at the door of the tent, looking determinedly out at the kids. "No, Yado Karu! Not for eating!" She ran after it.

Keanu was also looking for her monster, her nightshade-violet eyes moving in time with the swing of her black hair. "Have any of you seen…" Hiko pointed up, staring with her golden brown eyes. Keanu's gaze followed her finger. Perched on one of the tight rope lines with it's head down like it was sleeping, lay Queen Bird, cooing in a snore like fashion. "Okay! Naptime's over!" Keanu clapped her hands. "Up, lazy bird!" The Queen raised her head, looked down at Keanu, then went back to sleeping peacefully. "HEY! I'M NOT TALKING TO MYSELF DOWN HERE!!" Keanu shrieked.

"Here, let me help." Hiko said, tossing her orange hair. She whistled sharply. "A little help here, Fire Dragon?" The Twin Headed Fire Dragon came forward and looked up. It grunted, sending steam and embers flying up toward the bird.

Queen Bird squawked indignantly and flew down to Keanu, shaking her head in confusion. "Thanks, Hiko!" Keanu yelled while wrapping the collar around the Queen's neck. "Now, who's the prettiest birdie in the world, huh? You are, that's who!" She hugged the huge bird, putting a ring of flowers about it's neck.

Hiko sweat-dropped. "Suddenly, I feel sorry for it…" The Fire Dragon snorted it's agreement.

~*~*~

Daphne looked over his shoulder again. "Yes… That's more like it. Hera should be shown as a great and powerful Goddess!" She put up a new canvas. "Now, lets work on Eris the Goddess of Chaos, shall we? And then we'll discuss Demeter's lovely picture." She laughed triumphantly.

"Ugh… Why? What's the point of making such strong cards? These aren't even from the original game, so they can't possibly be of any use to you." Pegasus argued weakly.

"Oh, but they will be. As soon as you are finished with all three, I'll use my borrowed powers to make them real monsters, just as you used to be able to do, weakling!" She went over to a machine that was copying the Hera card she had just ordered created. "And if we get done before the forty eight hours are up, I can make some new cards that I've been working on…" She looked down at the sketches she had had the Feral Imp steal. "The Muse's Blessing card is an especially lovely sounding card, don't you think? My, but Gabby would have made a fine student for me if she wasn't controlled by that Egyptian witch…" She turned to look at Pegasus, who was pretending to be busy over what was starting to look like a lovely profile of a face with sharp angry features.

"Hmm… we've only just began creating and already you're showing your spinelessness… very sad, Pegasus, very sad indeed." She smiled cruelly. "Of course, I could just be rid of you now and find someone with more my style artistic vision. With a little brain washing, I think that Gabby-girl would be perfect for the job!"

Pegasus didn't respond as he continued drawing.

She laughed. "Alright then. Pretend you don't care. I don't either, so long as you keep working." She sat down next to a machine and crossed her legs, kicking the top one nervously. "And would it kill you to hurry up?" She looked around. "I do have an appointment in a few hours, you know!"

~*~*~

Yami was sitting at Yugi's kitchen table, his arms crossed and a worried look on his face. He had a strong feeling that something bad had happened last night… he just wasn't sure what. They had come home at 1 in the morning and Grandpa was waiting for Yugi, who had been herded straight up to his bedroom. Yami had followed, but unlike Yugi who had been exhausted, Yami couldn't seem to sleep. He had come downstairs, like Yugi had sometimes to get a drink of water, and just sat down in a chair, where he was now. It was now 10 in the morning. He could sense Yugi moving around upstairs, probably just waking up.

"Morning Yami! When did you get up?" Yugi asked as he went to get some orange juice out of the refrigerator.

"Oh… earlier." Yami said, waving his hand to dismiss the question. "Did you plan on doing anything today, Yugi?"

"… You mean besides finding Gabriela?" Yugi whispered.

"You too, huh?"

"Yah, I'm worried about her too. It's like she's afraid of us or doesn't want to see us or something… but where do we start? I think we can count her apartment out."

"Yes. I don't think she'll be heading back there anytime soon." Yami agreed.

"YUGI! COME HERE QUICK!" Grandpa yelled from the living room.

Yugi rounded the corner and nearly crashed into Grandpa who had gotten up to haul him in there. Yami followed, more placidly.

"What is it, Grandpa?" Yugi asked.

"On the TV! It's a carnival!" Grandpa nearly shouted.

"Yah? Sounds fun." Yugi said, not understanding why his Grandpa was so upset about a carnival.

"More fun than you think! This carnival is a Duel Monsters tournament too!" Grandpa beamed. "I'm going to open the shop early! Maybe this will cause the younger kids to rush in!" He whistled happily as he went down to the shop.

Yugi sighed. "Grandpa…" he groaned.

"Yugi, wait." Yami commanded. "Look at this." he pointed to the screen.

"What is it, Yami?" Yugi asked.

"What do you notice about that carnival?" he asked.

Yugi studied the screen. "Oh, wow!" he looked closer. "Monsters! Walking around!"

"And no holo-discs or systems anywhere." Yami continued. "They're real."

"You think Gabriela has something to do with this?" Yugi asked.

"I'm not sure, but I think she'll be around the carnival." Yami reasoned. "I think she'll go if just to investigate."

"I'll call the others!" Yugi announced, already dialing the numbers.

~*~*~

Jericho had landed near Gabriela's apartment shortly after they had left the roof. "Grab anything of importance to you." She commanded. "We aren't coming back."

Gabriela nodded. She ran upstairs and grabbed all of her clothes and shoved them in a pack. She reached for her school bag and noticed it was missing. "Jericho?" she called, "where is my bag? The one with all the drawings in it?"

"I didn't touch it!" Jericho called. "Did you leave it at school?"

"No, I don't think so…" She looked around. "Hey! My drawing supplies are gone too!" she declared.

"Maybe Tori took them for safe keeping." Jeri suggested.

"Not unless Tori has claws!" Gabriela called, uncovering a large gash on her dresser. A piece of green fur was lodged in the mark. "A monster!"

Jericho came up behind her. "The Feral Imp." she declared. "Gabriela? Were ALL of your drawings in that bag?"

Gabriela thought for a moment. "N-no… I think I still have some under my bed…" She put her hand under her bed and reached as far in as her shoulder would allow. "There they are!" She muttered, pulling out a leather bound case.

Jericho bent down to open it. "Why are these apart from the others?" she asked.

Gabriela winked. "When you said you would teach me to make monsters, I chose some of my favorite cards that I wanted to make into real monsters and put them here." She smiled. "There are also some magic and traps in here too."

"I don't doubt that Daphne took your other cards, Gabriela. Are these as strong as the ones she stole?"

"Stronger. I decided not to carry around my strongest ideas because they might get ruined. These are all the strongest monsters I've drawn." She said proudly.

"Good job, Gabby!" Jericho said, putting her arm around her shoulders.

"My name is NOT GABBY!" Gabriela muttered, prying her shoulder loose.

"If that's it, we need to go now." Jericho stood up. "They might come looking for us again."

Gabriela went downstairs to grab her important papers that she would need no matter where she went. She went through the living room and turned on the TV for noise out of habit.

"…where the Parade is about to start! You can feel the excitement here as the crowds push towards the street to get a good look at the amazing creatures lined up behind the fence surrounding the downtown rental plot that now holds a carnival! The streets are blocked and backed up all across town as we await the moment when the gates open and the parade begins! Back to you, Umeko!"

"Thank you, Takara! We'll take a closer look at the happenings downtown right after our news report by Aiko Matsamoto…"

"Jeri! Did you hear that?!" Gabriela said. She had dropped the papers and crouched down, eye level with the television. They dashed out of the apartment, leaving the TV on, and barely remembering to grab Gabriela's drawings.

~*~*~

Pegasus had gotten done with the drawings and sat down in the dining room, holding his head in his hands. "What have I done?"

The intercom on the wall buzzed. "Mr. Pegasus? Sir, If I'm not interrupting anything, I think there's something on the news that you might like to see…"

"Show it on the large screen." He said calmly.

"…Back to you, Umeko!"

"Thank you, Takara! We'll take a closer look at the happenings downtown right after our news report by Aiko Matsamoto. Aiko?"

"Hello, I'm Aiko Matsamoto, here in Sakura Springs for the Domino News Network. Terrible news seems to be the forecast here in one of Japan's finest estates. Roughly four months ago, Mr and Mrs. Sakurano disappeared in an airplane incident while on a business trip, commuting between Greece and Egypt, leaving 4 year old Sakurano, Yuki all alone in the world with only the house staff to look after her. Then, 3 months later, Yuki is announced missing, along with a book of her mother's and father's research from their recent trips to the area they had disappeared from. The staff of the house believe that the young girl may be looking for her parents and trying to make her way across the ocean, yet no clues to the true whereabouts of the girl have been found. Investigators are unsure as to whether this could have been a kidnapper, as there seems to be no sign of a struggle, or if she ran away, because she didn't seem to take anything with her of importance besides her parents' book. If you have seen this girl or have any information on her whereabouts, please contact authorities immediately."
Pegasus stared at the picture on the screen. "Yuki?… Sakurano?… Sakurano!" Pegasus's eyes went wide as he realise who the girl AND her parents were. "Croquet! Get me the number to the Sakura Springs main house! Immediately!"

~*~*~

Tori and Sara ran to the front of the crowd. The parade was about to start, but that was the least of their worries. Tori scanned the crowd. "Do you see her?"

"Not yet!" Sara yelled back.

Tori looked across the street to Yugi, shrugging. He did the same. He hadn't found her either.

"Jeri… Where are you?" Tori whispered.

Sara shrugged to Tristan, Joey, Tea and Serenity, getting the same motion in reply. "She's not here." Sara whispered, disappointed. They hadn't been able to contact Anubis, Callie, or Safira, so they hoped that they would see the news report and decide to come down on their own.

"Hey, you! You just pushed my boy out of his spot! Now he can't see!" A lady came up behind Sara.

"Sorry! I'm looking for someone. She's about this tall, with brown hair and green eyes, sometimes it looks like there's streaks in her hair… Seen anyone like that? It's not safe for her to be out here on her own…" she pointed to her head. The lady got the idea.

"No, but I'll let you know if I do, okay? Now, please, move so the smaller people can see?" Sara got out of the way. As she left, she turned to see that the woman was already spreading the word through the crowd. "Look out for a girl that looks like… blah blah… crazy in the head…blah blah… let that blonde girl over there know." She pointed at Sara.

Tori came up behind her. "Good move. Now if she shows, we'll be able to find her for sure."

Sara climbed up on a box so that people would be able to see her if they spotted Gabriela. From where she was, she could see a news camera set up above the crowds' heads to get a clear view of the parade.

~*~*~

Jericho landed a few blocks away from the parade, so she didn't cause a riot with Kurama. They ran to the street line next to the gate, trying to look for Daphne hidden in the crowd. "She's probably disguised as her Hikari!" Jeri yelled over the crowd.
"Who's that?" Gabriela yelled back. Jeri shrugged.

"Just look for the same color hair! That should be her!" She shouted.

Gabriela noticed she was getting some odd looks and people were whispering and backing away. She raised her eyebrow.

"Uh… Jeri? Do I have something on my face? Because something seems to be wrong with the people of this crowd…"

Jeri noticed too. They seemed to be looking at her suspiciously also. Suddenly a 12 year old girl started screaming.

"THAT'S HER! SHE'S OVER HERE! THE CRAZY GIRL!!!" She began waving her hand in a direction. Gabriela followed her gaze.

"Crazy? Who's crazy?" she muttered.

Jericho spotted them before she did. The group had started towards her in congregation, the crowd separating like the Red Sea for them to pass. "OH, GODS, NO!!!" She grabbed Gabriela's arm and ducked past the lines that blocked the street as the gates started to open, running across the street.

Gabriela tripped and fell on the pavement, hitting it hard. Jericho looked back, separated between the panic of them finding her and the concern that Gabriela just cracked her chin on the cement. She picked Gabriela up and ran, slinging her over her shoulder. She was slowed down significantly. They were standing at the sidelines now, and yelling at her to come back. She was in the middle of the street… and the parade, lead by a Mammoth Graveyard, was about to descend upon her. She stared up at it with blank eyes, frightened and lost at the same time as to what was really going on. The great beast's foot began to come down.

~*~*~

A.N: You know… I would just end it there… but I think I'd die from all the flames… ^_^()

~*~*~

Ami opened her eyes. She was laying on a garbage sack full of clothes. "How did I…?" She turned and was looking into the sleeping face of an angel. (;P For you, Ami-chan!)

She sat up. She could vaguely remember getting to where they were and Ryou passing out. Since she wasn't strong enough to move him, she did the same. She wondered why he wasn't awake yet.

"Ryou? Ry-y-ou! Wake-up. It's morning." She said, shaking him a little. She bent down close to his face, whispering. "Ryou? Are you okay?" She put her hand to his chest to see if he was breathing, and felt something hard beneath his shirt. Through it, she could feel his even breathing.

She bent in close again, her nose nearly touching his. "Ryou. Wake up now. We have to move before the trash people come."

Suddenly, his brown eyes flashed open and he grabbed the wrist of the hand that was still against his chest, holding her close to him. She gasped. This wasn't yesterday's Ryou!

"R-ryou? What's going…"

"My name is Bakura." Ryou said, correcting her. "And you must be Ami." He smiled evilly. Ami swallowed hard.

"You're the thing in the Ring, aren't you?"

"Ryou told you? That's odd, he's never had that much guts before…"

"No… he told me there was something in the Ring, but not what."

"Why would he tell you that, little girl?" He asked, tightening his grip on her arm.

"Because of… The Cobra." She realised that she had done the worst possible thing she could've right then, as Bakura's face registered several emotions at once, and not one of them friendly.

Bakura's eyes finally stopped flashing emotions and went wide with shock and recognition. "Aminaka?"

"Who's that?" Ami whispered.

He rolled up her sleeve, drinking in the look and feel of the Cobra, which wasn't reacting. Ami suddenly wished it would… then maybe Ryou would come back…

"Aminaka…One of the greatest thieves in…" He looked at her hand and reminisced..

"I-I think I need to go home now…" she tried to pull her hand loose, but he only held on tighter.

"And I think, you're going to stick with me, Miss Ami." His hair covered his eyes, so she didn't know what he was thinking, but he suddenly jumped up and practically lifted her off the ground and began running. Ami could see a crowd ahead. Ryou… Bakura… who ever this was, was heading straight for them.

~*~*~

He zoomed out into the street, knocking down the lines that were holding people back and ran into a girl who was carrying another. They collided, both of them skidding to the side of the road she had come from.

Bakura didn't give anyone time to recuperate before he hoisted Ami up again and continued on his way.

The blow had knocked some sense into Jeri, as well as bringing Gabriela around. She turned around. Unfortunately, it had also given the others a head start on getting close to her.

Yami was staring into Jericho's eyes, standing perfectly still. And she couldn't help but do the same. She blushed. Mostly with shame for what she knew had taken place in the past, ancient and recent, and what he obviously didn't. The moment seemed to draw on forever. Her, staring into the bottomless, empty crimson voids, and him staring into the vast green oceans that seemed to hold so many secrets that he needed to know.

Tori was holding the others back, sensing that something very important was happening, and they were trying to get to Jeri and Gabriela before they could take off again.

They continued like that for what seemed like forever, though it was only a few seconds. Then Gabriela pointed at one of the passing floats.

"Jeri! Daphne!" she whispered urgently. Jericho tore her gaze from Yami and looked at the float that was seemingly based on water monsters. Sitting on the back, with her legs swinging to and fro, was a 4 year old girl with a golden ponytail and icy blue eyes.

Jericho ran for the float, pushing Gabriela ahead of her. Gabriela landed on the float and reached for Jericho, who just barely missed. Instead of trying to catch up to them, Jericho sat down on the back of the Earth float and tried to blend in.

Gabriela looked at the little girl. "What's your name?" she asked urgently.

The little girl tilted her head. "Yuki!" She giggled. "You wanna play with me?" She fingered her belt.

"Nice belt. I have a necklace." Gabriela pulled the Cat out of her shirt. Yuki went wide eyed.

"Yay! We play now! You'll be able to last longer in my play place than the others!" She grabbed her belt and closed her eyes.

"I wish we could play in my special place!" Suddenly, Gabriela and Yuki began glowing and disappeared.

Jericho yelled, "NO! Come back!" but it was too late…

Yuki had found a new playmate.

Ciro watched what had happened from his place in the back of the parade.

He made a cross on his body and folded his hands as if to pray for Gabriela. "May God have mercy on her soul." he whispered. "Oh, well. Better her than me."

~*~*~

Daphne had finished creating the cards and it was almost time for her appointment. She went into a bedroom where she would be alone and locked the door. Then she called on the powers of her belt. "Take me to him." She whispered. The golden belt winked in the light, and then she was gone.

Suddenly she was standing in what looked like a control room, full of monitors and keypads and junk. In the middle of the room was a large structure with a screen on the side.

She went up to it and bowed a few meters away.

"Greetings, sir. I believe we had an appointment?" She whispered.

The monitor flashed and two navy blue eyes glared back at her. "You are very foolish to come here. From this distance, I could easily steal your body and be free."

"But you won't, because it's not MY body that you want, is it?" her icy blue eyes glinted mischievously.

"Hmm… I'm listening." He said, seemingly leaning forward.

"My lord, you've been through so much trauma! What with being stuck there for most of your golden years and now with the neglect your entire world has suffered…" she motioned around the room. "You must have been to Hades' very lair and come back again!" she swooned.

"Yes? Get on with it!" he commanded.

"I'm just saying… has Seto ever felt the way you do? With nothing? The very thing he cares for most being taken away from him?"

"I already tried taking Mokuba…"

"I'm not talking about little Mokuba." She said, her eyes glowing with evil pride. "It would seem that he is not the only link into your brother's…"

"HALF-brother's…"

"Yes, of course. He is not the only link into your Half-brother's life, soul OR heart." She smiled cunningly.

"…Go on."

"Have you ever heard of a young lady named Sadeh? Your brother now knows her as Safira."

"Safira Stone?"

"That's the one!"

"Why would Seto care about her?"

"Because this life wasn't the first time they met, obviously!" she said with impatience.

"Really? And I bet Seto thinks that's a laugh." The boy had already dismissed the notion.

"That's where his weakness is. He already knows he had a past life… but you did too, Master Noah." she smiled up at him. "Your destiny is to take over the family business, yes, but also so much more! With all your knowledge you can have so much more than the family business! The world could be your oyster… or should I say, Our oyster?"

"What do you want me to do? I'm stuck in here, remember?"

"Only temporarily, dear lord. And while we're on the subject of being stuck, have you ever met my Hikari? She's a blast to play with!"

"Hikari? Are you nuts, lady?"

"Oh, I'm quite sane, actually. One moment please!" She focused on her belt. "Okay, she's gone to her little 'play place.'" She looked up. "It's her soul room." she explained. She pointed the belt at the screen.

"I'm going to do a little… what is it you say?… uploading." The belt glowed and a beam of light went from the crocodile to the drive of the computer.

A voice on the computer replied, "Upload complete. Files Yuki_Sakurano.exe and Gabriela_Fremon.exe both saved successfully."

Daphne smiled. "Oh! Seems Yuki's done a bit of my dirty work for me! Now I don't have to worry about Gabby-girl getting in the way."

Noah looked out at her incredulously. "What?! You're just going to leave them here with me!?"

"Well, no one said you have to activate them!" Daphne said as she flounced out.

"Oh! And don't forget to send one of your upload thingies to Safira! We'll need her as bate for that Egyptian High Priest Scum." She waved and backed out, leaving a very confused Noah Kaiba behind her.

~*~*~

Anubis and Callie had reached home before anyone else. They hadn't lived far from where they had last seen Gabriela. Callie had fallen into bed and fast asleep. Anubis had taken only a while longer, after he was certain that no one was following them or planned to attack Callie while he slept.

In the morning, they both woke up at about 11. Callie stumbled around the kitchen looking for food and Anubis handed it to her because he was much more alert.

At about 11:30, there was a knock on the door. Callie was instantly awake and looked at Anubis. He looked toward the door. After a few moments the knock came again, just as gentle as the first time. Anubis went to the door.

"Who's there?" he barked.

"Isis." came the quiet reply. Anubis's eyes couldn't have gotten any wider.

Callie looked from the door to him in a questioning manner. Anubis nodded.

She opened the door, Anubis standing beside her incase it was a trick.

Callie had never seen her before, this woman who stood a good bit shorter than Anubis with raven hair and blue eyes. It looked to Callie like she belonged in some sort of history book, not on her doorstep.

"May I come in?" she asked.

Callie stood aside. "Sure, why not?"

Anubis looked Isis over. It had been a while, but she was exactly the same. He pulled Callie aside.

"Callie, I want you to go upstairs, okay? And NO EAVESDROPPING!"

"Why? Is she your girlfriend or something?" she asked, "Not that I care, because YOU don't pay the rent, I DO!"

"Please, Callie?" Anubis asked.

She looked up at him. "Oh fine! Don't cry about it!" She stomped upstairs and slammed her door with a "humph!"

Anubis went back into the sitting room where he had gestured for Isis to make herself comfortable. "What brings you to our humble home?"

"Just a massive shift in the shadow realm. Someone's just added a huge number of monsters to the charts, Anubis."

"Who?"

"That's what I'm not sure about. I think there are other Millinium Beasts at work, but I think the one responsible for the shift isn't the one it should be."

"Isn't this Shadi's job?"

"It was… but it seems he's busy with other work… or maybe he's disappeared altogether."

"So you are taking up the slack? Same old Isis alright…"

"Anubis? Have you had any contact with the other Millinium Beasts? I mean recently."

"Yah, actually. Just yesterday we ran into the Cat, the Falcon, and the Jackal."

"Really? Are those the only ones?"

"Yah. That I know of anyway. Oh, and I saw your brother. Can't you put him in a cage or something?"

"I'm sure someone's tried that and failed too."

"Oh wow, Isis has a sense of humor! Somebody pinch me!"

"So there are still 3 missing Beasts."

"Seems that way, don't it?"

"How is Callie dealing, anyway?"

"She hardly even misses Zachary anymore. It's like she thinks I'm him or something."

"In a way, you are… or were. Besides, that's not what I was talking about."

"I'm not sure, Isis. Share you're female body with a male Yami and tell me how you fair. She's fine as far as I can tell… besides the fact that she's a tomboy. She was before, but I think she's even more of one now."

"Well, as long as there aren't any side effects, you should both be fine. At least she doesn't have an evil, control freak Yami who's trying to take over the world."

"Oh, so you found out about my hobby?"

"Anubis, that was stupid. Even for you."

"Ouch."

"Well, I think my business is done here."

"Wait a minute, Isis. Why don't we find out if CALLIE WAS TAKING GOOD NOTES!?" He yelled up the stairs. Instantly, he heard footsteps and a door slam.

"I'm sure we will meet again, Anubis. Until then, farewell." She walked out the door.

He shut it after her and turned around to see Callie standing there at the bottom of the stairs.

"She burnt you!" she crowed.

"Yah? Well she might have 'burnt' me, but I'm going to get you!" Callie screamed and ran up the stairs, Anubis in hot pursute.

"I didn't mean it! Anubis! Leave me alone! Help me someone!"

"Oh be quiet, crybaby!"

"Hey! Tickling's no fair! Hahaha! Stop! Hahahaha! Leave me alone! Hahaha!"

"Say it!"

"No! Hahahahaha!"
"Say it!"

"Okay Okay! Anubis is the coolest brother anyone could ever have!"

"And?"

"And he's a great guy all around!"

"That's better!"

"Now, let me up! Anu-bully!"

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