Disclaimer: For the second time, I don't own Yugioh......duh....

If you have the time, PLEASE REVIEW!! *~*all comments are appreciated*~*

Chapter #9: Transportation

*~*~*Elaya's Mind Chamber--Seto's POV*~*~*

I don't understand it. It feels like I'm running through her memories. The walls begin to turn grey as they display more memories. So far, they are Elaya when she is very little.....with her real parents. I slow my run into a jog....and then into a walk.

"Excuse me. You are an unauthorized personnel in a private sector." Said an Elaya in a knight's uniform.

"You are not allowed to be here." Said her twin. They are about to take my hands and restrain me, but I push my body weight into both of them and race past them.

"You are not allowed to be here." Both of them repeat, in sync with one another. Their voices get fainter and fainter as I lose them.

Pretty soon......I lose myself.

"Seto? Is that you?" I hear a voice call me. About 50 yards in front of me, I see a little cage with both Mokuba and Elaya trapped inside it.

I try to run towards them, but I end up glued into place. Soon, they and their cage disappear and the walls begin to close up on me. They press towards me. Tighter and tighter until the floor that I was standing on, drops from beneath me and I begin to fall in a weightless void. Around me is another one of Elaya's memories...........

*~*~*Flashback--Reader's POV*~*~*

"Elaya! Come down and eat your breakfast!" Thomas Roberts called out. He was currently downstairs in the kitchen setting the table.

"Okay Daddy! Lemme make my bed!" His only daughter called from upstairs. He truly loved her.....she was always happy and helpful....and extremely responsible for a ten year old. He always had to wonder how she got such colours for her hair and eyes. Both he and Lisa, his wife, had dark brown hair with brown eyes.

He sometimes wondered if Elaya was adopted. But that was impossible; he WAS in the delivery room.....

Upstairs, the young Roberts was trying to smooth out the wrinkles from her sheets.

"Hey honey. Need some help?" Lisa called from the doorway. Her daughter nodded in response.

"Mom?" Elaya dragged. "Do you know what day it is today?"

"At my age.....how could I forget? Happy Birthday Sweetie!" They hugged and Lisa planted a kiss on Elaya's cheek.

"Now, how old are you again?" Lisa asked jokingly

"I'm ten!" Elaya said proudly, spreading her fingers and thumbs out to show her age.

Lisa smiled. "Yes you are. And here's a little something for you." She held out a green velvet box with a yellow ribbon wrapped around it.

"What is it?"

"A present for you. I just couldn't wait for you party, so I decided to give it to you now!" Lisa smiled proudly and placed the small box in her daughter's hands. Elaya slowly unwrapped the ribbon and opened the box.

"Cool! Earrings!" Elaya cried. She especially liked the little green gem in the middle of them.

"I take it that you like them?"

Elaya nodded.

"Do you know what that little green gem reminds me of?"

"What?" Elaya inquired.

"You. And your beautiful eyes." Lisa cupped Elaya's face with her hands. "I don't know how you got them so green, but they are beautiful nonetheless."

Elaya smiled. "Let me put those on for you." Lisa removed Elaya's old earrings and replaced them with the gold loops. She fixed her daughter's hair so that the pigtails were tight. "There."

"Lisa?! The stove isn't working! Where's that steel thing that you poke it with?" Called Thomas from downstairs.

Lisa sighed. "Daddy doesn't know much." Elaya laughed as Lisa pulled the rest of the bed sheets over and went downstairs. "I'm coming!"

Elaya looked at herself in the mirror, fiddling with her new earrings. "These are so cool!! Can't wait to show everybody!"

"Thomas? What's wrong?"

"I don't know.....the gas won't light....." Thomas walked around in search of his lighter.

"Is the gas still on?"

"No. I turned it off." He looked for his pipe and lit it a safe distance away from the stove.

"You sure?" Lisa asked.

"Pretty sure." Thomas leaned in closer to where the gas should have been coming out of.

"Mommy? Daddy?" Elaya said as she hopped from one stair to the last in her jumper and knee highs. "Is breakfast ready--?"

A loud explosion filled the air, sending Elaya toppling backwards to the ceramic floor. Flames consume her sight as she sees two bodies against the kitchen wall. "Mommy? Daddy?" Her screams were frantic as she hastily got up on her feet and tried to go into the kitchen. But the temperature was too much to bear as she began to run towards the door.

Elaya dropped to the floor after much coughing from smoke inhalation. She tried to open the door, but the knob was already burning up. She grabbed the first thing she put her hands on, her father's jacket, and opened the door by wrapping the jacket around her hand.

She ran outside and collapsed against a tree, coughing and crying. Elaya continued to cough until she felt faint and the sounds of sirens floated softly in her ears.

*~*~*End Flashback--Seto's POV*~*~*

I wanted to cradle Elaya in my arms after what I saw. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't.

"Big Brother!! Over here!" I turn my head slowly to see Mokuba and Elaya in that cage again; with Elaya crying.

I find movement in my legs again as I travel deeper into the dark room.

"Oh no. She got you too?" Elaya said, looking up.

"It doesn't matter; I got to get you out of here." I try to break the bars open, but it doesn't work. "Dammit!" I curse under my breath. Then it hits me.

"Elaya, if this is your mind, let us get out of here!"

"I can't...." She said sadly. "Dieen infected me."

"Just try." I said.

She burrows her brow in frustration and slowly the bars turn into rubber in my hands. I pry them apart and grab for Mokuba quickly. Once he is outside, I give Elaya instructions. "Good. Come towards my voice without breaking your concentration. Hurry!" Just as she was about to come through, I felt the bars become steel again.

"I can't." I could tell that she was exhausted.

"Keep trying!"

*~*~*Elaya's Apartment--Reader's POV*~*~*

"Where is she?" Joey asked aloud.

"Maybe she's already at the airport?" Tristan suggested.

"I doubt it....." Téa sighed.

Mai moved up to the front of the pack. "Let me try!" She knocked on the door hard. Before she could knock again, the door swung open........and there stood Elaya.

"Hey guys! What's up?"

"Where were you? We tried to call you!" Téa said.

"I just came back from the airport! You know the whole deal with my mom and such." Dieen countered. She smiled. "Would you all like to come in?"

[Let's see......] Dieen thought. [We have a new comer. Her name is Mai.......and apparently, her favourite card is Harpy Lady 1400/1300....] She quickly gathered what she could about the blonde female from Elaya's memory.

The gang settled into Elaya's small T.V. room. Joey, Serenity and Mai took the couch. Yugi and Téa stood beside the television and Tristan stood beside the couch. "May I take your coats?" She asked.

Joey handed her his blue jean jacket and Tristan gave her his black one. The others weren't wearing any coats. "Trying to be the perfect hostess, eh?" Joey said, smirking.

"Shut up." Dieen said, as she hung up their coats. "Want anything to drink?"

"Sure!" Serenity and Mai chirped, totally forgetting the plans they had to go to Burger Palace. The others nodded.

"Okay. I'll I got are Pepsis and Five Alive. I'll be right back." Dieen moved into the kitchen.

Yugi watched as Elaya moved into the kitchen. [I could have sworn I heard her voice change......]

\\ Yugi? What do you mean by that? \\

Yami did not get a response from his other half.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Dieen was preparing for her ritual. She pricked Elaya's finger and allowed the blood to flow into the unsuspecting teenager's drinks.

"Shadows hear me......bring them to a place where the monsters live. Bring them all to a place where the monsters live...." She whispered. She placed another drop into Joey's drink. "Flame Swordsman.......Flame Swordsman." She then turned to Serenity's drink. "Mystical Elf" Then, to Yugi's drink, "Dark Magician times two." Next, Téa's "Dark Magician Girl" Then, to Tristan's "Cyber Commander..." Then to Mai's "Harpy Lady" Then, finally to her own. "Evil Storm Sister, Storm Sister, Pixie"

"May they become their monsters....may they not know the secrets within themselves....may they not know one another as friends, but as adversaries."

Dieen quickly drank her enchanted potion. She did a quick spell for the other shells before hand. Since they couldn't drink......or do anything for that matter, she did a verbal spell.

She made her way back into the T.V. room and smiled. "Your drinks!" She handed the appropriate glasses to the right people. "I'll be right back." She went back into the kitchen and waited. She looked back at the teens in the opposite room and noticed that they had all fell asleep.

"May they become what I said." She envisioned the bodies of Kaiba, Mokuba and Teresa in her head and she slowly whispered the names of their monsters. "Let it begin." She began to laugh as she watched the eyes of Elaya's friends go blank and as she felt the minds of the five within her vanish to her special world.

She quickly moved the other bodies with her magic into Elaya's room where the others were stored. All of their minds were leaving......"Let it finally begin"

*~*~*Elaya's Mind Chamber--Reader's POV*~*~*

"Keep trying!"

"I can't......I--I--I just can't....." Elaya said sadly. It hurt her too much.

"Big brother!" Mokuba cried out in urgency. "What's happening to me? AND YOU?!" Kaiba turned around to see that his brother was slowly disappearing. He looked at his arm and noticed that it was vanishing before his very eyes.

"MOKUBA!" He cried. Kaiba tried to grab Mokuba, but now, both of his arms were gone!

He whirled around to see that the same thing was happening to Elaya. She was disappearing too. [What's happening?! What the fuck is going on?!] Kaiba thought franticly as both of them vanished.

Mokuba cried out his name before his entire body departed.

And soon, Kaiba was gone too.

*~*~*Justi's Mind Chamber--Reader's POV*~*~*

"I'm sorry Teresa......." Justi said, with a depressed tone in her words.

"For what?" The distressed mother asked. She had been stuck in this 'stone maze' with her daughter's dopple-ganger for some unknown amount of time.

"For what is about to happen. You are disappearing." Justi said solemnly. [She has begun.....]

"What?!" Teresa looked down and noticed that her arms and legs were dissipating into thin air. "What's happening?!? PLEASE TELL ME!"

Justi let the tears fall from her face. "I'm sorry........" Soon, both of them disappeared, leaving nothing but Justi's tear.

*~*~*Reader's POV*~*~*

Green eyes opened slowly as they observed their surroundings. First it was nothing but black, but soon, her senses adjusted and she saw in perfect clarity. The walls were dark brown and it appeared that she was in a cave.

She brought her arms up to her face and noticed that she had long black nails with purple sleeves that only covered her lower arms. She was somewhat confused, but didn't know why. She turned her head to the right and noticed a bright light. When it was turned to the left, all she felt was heat. And a lot of it.

Slowly, she began to move towards the light. She felt something attached to her back scratch the stone walls around her. Ignoring it, she pushed herself through the small passage way.

[The light.....it is getting closer] were the first thoughts in her head. With a final quick shove, she made her way into a wider space and was finally at the mouth of the cave. Her eyes quickly adjusted to the bright light and she looked out. There was a cloudless sky above her, a forest beneath her and a wave of heat behind her. Frankly, she liked the heat more......a lot more.......then the cool breeze that welcomed her.

She turned her head to look behind her and noticed that she had two purple wings coming out of her back. Also, she noticed a long purple tail next to her. Her mind was confused. She didn't know what to do.

Of course, her first instinct was to fly. Without noticing, she shut her eyes and leaned out of the cave..........hoping her wings knew how to fly........

In another part of this world, shrouded in darkness, sat a black haired god. Her trusty, powerful sceptre in one hand and the other cradling the arm rest her throne provided. She looked up and noticed all types of dark creatures, like Media Bats gathered around her. She smiled. Her eyes shone a bloody red......[Let it finally begin]

*~*

Another chappie down!!! WOOHOO! Yes......well, sorry about the long update.....school and all.....but, I will continue to thicken the plot! And if you don't know who the monsters described in this chappie are, THINK CAREFULLY! LOL {oh, so you're not gonna give them clues?} [Of course not!] {Welcome to the dark side....} [Quiet you!]

PLEASE REVIEW! : )