OMG!! The review numbers have reached the double digits! (dances around the room) YAY! I love you guys! Maybe I'll post big pictures of chocolate thank you things around and you can drool over them! Hehe!

elsiey: Thank you so, so, so much! ^-^ I'm glad you like! And I read the next chapter of The Chopin Season! Please continue with that, its awesome!
SoulDreamer: I hope you like this too! Thanks for both your reviews! ^-^

Crimson-Eyed-Angel99: WOW! 4 reviews!! *tears* thank you!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! I'm sorry about the romance stuff, I know I'm not really-!

Bakura: -_- She can't write romance for beans, and she hates beans. Its okay, I know that it stinks

_ excuse me!

Yami: WATCH IT BAKA! That's my romance you're talking about!

Bakura: yeah, well, baka pharaoh couldn't have a romance if his life depended on it ^-^

Yami: (grabs a plunger) Say that again…

Bakura: Okay! baka pharaoh couldn't have a romance-! (is attacked with plunger and it gets stick on his head)

Yami: HAHA! Haibokusha(loser) tomb robber!

Bakura(from the plunger): Minikui(ugly) pharaoh!

Yami: grrrrr *idea*(takes out a bottle of hair dye) *evil chuckle*

-_- okay, while they have their little battle, I admit once again, I cannot write romance it is a known fact. Gomen! ^-^

Destiny's Dragon: Thank you!! Don't worry more chapters will ensue! ^_^

Hutchy: I think they kinda have a little brother/sister/friend thing going on. Sorry if you wanted them to have feelings, but then Yami would either murder someone or become suicidal, and we want this to be a happy ending! ^-^ thanks for your review!!

On to the next chappy!

Chapter 8

Yugi rubbed his eyes, frantically trying to clear the picture set before them. However, when he opened his eyes again, the vision remained. Instead of the pearly white throne room of the palace, he was standing in a small windowless room not unlike his quarters in the gardener's wing of the palace, except all the furniture had disappeared. Replacing it, littering the floor were all varieties of games. Cards, boards, blocks, and many more. Yugi looked around aghast. "Where am I?" he wondered aloud.

He picked his way across the floor until he reached the small wooden door. Yugi wrenched it open and stepped outside. Meeting his eyes was a long marble hall, like those in the palace, but it had only one door. The door was large and intricately carved of red wood, with a black iron handle and the eye of Horus in the center. Yugi gulped, took a deep breath, and pushed it open.

It was dark inside, and cold, but with the door left open there was enough light to see by. Yugi gaped, staring at the room before him. The walls were made of huge bricks, and twisting in and around the walls were steps and hallways of various array. But always scattered here and there was a large door, some upside down, some sideways.

"Shinjirarenai[1]!" Yugi exclaimed, bright eyes shining with wonder.

"WHERE IN RA'S NAME AM I?!" a voice suddenly thundered through the room. Yugi jumped and slapped his hands over his ears, but still the voice poured through. "WHAT IS THIS!?" it roared again.

"Konnichi wa[2]?" Yugi called out anxiously. "Is anyone there?"

"Nani?[3]" came the reply, but there was no more.

It was silent, the only sound issuing from the chamber was the sound of Yugi's own breathing and just when he was starting to think he had imagined the voice, in front of him, a figure began to materialize out of thin air. Yugi stared in disbelief and horror. The white figure of the pharaoh stood before him, fury radiating from the very core of his being.

Yami stepped forward stooping down until his nose was almost touching Yugi's. "What did you do?" he hissed.

Yugi took a step back. "You think I did this?" he asked incredulously.

Yami smirked. 'Does he think I'm stupid?' he thought to himself.

"DOES HE THINK I'M STUPID!?" his voice rang through the room. Yami spun around. 'what is this place?'

"WHAT IS THIS PLACE?"

Yugi stared around the room looking for the source of the noise. 'But,' he thought, 'it's Yami's voice…' and as he thought the words, he almost thought he heard an echo coming back to him. "Yami," Yugi whispered, "I swear, I didn't do anything that would harm either you or Keturah. I would die before doing that."

Yami sneered. "Already you pledge me your life little fool?"

Yugi nodded. "You two pulled me out of a growing pit of troubles in my life, lifted me above them, and made me feel whole again," he said quietly. "Like I haven't felt since before my family was killed."

"I don't buy your tricks," the voice rang through the room once more.

"WOULD YOU STOP VOICING MY THOUGHTS!?" Yami roared into the twisting passageways.

Yugi gasped.

"What?" Yami growled.

"I think I've just figured out what this place is!" He stared around excitedly. "It's the inside of our mind!"

Yami snorted, but considered his words. 'If it voices my thoughts it makes sense that this would be my mind," he mused, and once more heard his own voice rumble through the chamber. Yami growled forgetting his momentary neutral feelings toward the boy, as the old anger rushed back this time accompanied by a new wave of fury at having the brat listening to his thoughts. "If this is my mind," he said softly, "THEN GET OUT!" And he picked Yugi up and threw him form the room, the heavy door slamming shut and a ringing vibration going through the air.

Outside the door, Yugi pulled himself to his feet, rubbing his shoulder where he had hit the wall upon his exit. The small boy reentered his soul room and pulled the small door closed, and overwhelming urge to cry blossoming inside his chest. He sank down onto the floor and put his head in his hands. A shimmer of light flashed across his face, and Yugi looked up from his arms. Across the room, nestled in a corner, was a small gold box, glistening in the nonexistent sunlight.

Yami leaned his head against the cold wall. What had happened? Those things, which he had once considered right and wrong, were now just one huge jumbled mess churning inside his head.

"So Isis," Yami muttered. "What now?"

"The darkness…" a voice whispered from the corner of the room.

Yami spun around. That voice had not been his. And then he saw it. Settled between two bricks not perfectly aligned, was a tiny golden box, glowing mysteriously, and covered with carved symbols. Yami stared at it. 'That was not there before,' he told himself firmly, listening to it ringing back in his own ears. But still, something about that little prism intrigued him, drew him closer, and as he reached out his hand, another small hand reached towards a similar box.

'What is it?' the two minds thought simultaneously, and as their hands closed over the identical boxes, a great power was passed to each in turn, and in the highest chamber of the tallest palace tower, Isis opened her eyes.

"So it has begun."

[1] Japanese for "incredible"

[2] Japanese for "hello"

[3] Japanese for "what"

^-^ the first one I didn't have already written out! Is it good? I know it's short but it's Monday -_- (I hate Mondays) Any suggestions are welcome, and reviews are ALWAYS welcome! ^-^ so, please review!! Hope it meets the expectations of all previous readers!! This is for you guys! ^______^ (big grin!)