Nyehehehe!!! Scarabsi strikes again! Mwahahahahahaha~

Sleeping Beauty of the Nile will be discontinued for a while (sorry for those fans out there- ah Rei pleeeeeease don't kill me! Nooooo!) I will also be using the English card names, because I am too lazy to learn the Japanese card names just to write a stupid fanfic for picky readers. =P And I know the card count is all messed up, but I'm too lazy to do all that math just to make the duel more complicated and boring. =P

Sii: Hey, no fair! Why do they like Rahotep more than us?!?

Rahotep: Because you're lame and because I'm gay!

Sii: What sort of retarded reasons are those?!?

Bakhe: Retarded ones. *nod nod*

Sii: ..

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Chapter Eighteen: Team With Your Enemy, Fight Against Your Friend

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"I go first!" Yami announced. Yamis Bakura, Bakhe and Youen drew five cards, and Yami drew six. Yami looked at the cards in his hand. "I place this monster in defense mode, and these two cards face down. End turn." Two big facedown cards appeared in Yami's Magic and Trap zone, and one in the monster card zone.

"All~ right! Me next!" Yami Youen giggled and drew a card from her deck. "Ooh, I'm a lucky, lucky ducky today!" she sang. "I play La Gin Genie of the Lamp in attack mode, obviously, and attack the facedown monster!"

A green ghost-like man appeared on the field, with his tail in a small Arabian lamp. He blew some green gas at Yami's facedown monster.

"Saaaaaaaaa!" A small three-eyed furry creature with small, clawed hands and feet shrieked in pain as it was destroyed.

"You've activated Sangan's special effect!" Yami said in his powerful dueling voice. The little bits of fur Sangan left behind turned into cards and flew in front of Yami's face. He looked at them all, and touched one of them. The card flew to his hand while the others disappeared.

"Hmph," Yami Youen snorted. "I place this card face down. End turn."

"Huh," Yami Bakura said as he drew a card, to signify that he was not asleep. He smirked. "I play two cards facedown also, and I summon Portrait's Secret! Attack Bakhe's life points directly!"

A horrid painting of a man in a dirty grey suit appeared in Yami Bakura's field. It looked completely harmless at first, but a ghost even more hideous than the painting floated out of it, leaving it waist- down into the painting.

Yami Bakhe looked panicked, and immediately slammed a card onto his duel disk. "Quick-play magic card!"

Portrait's Secret advanced toward Yami Bakhe, but a wall with beautiful Kushite carvings on it appeared in front of him and destroyed Portrait's Secret.

Yami Bakura growled. "I activate Dark Door. End turn." The card he had put down earlier flipped over to reveal a card with a picture of a huge shadowed door and many monsters attempting to walk through it.

Yami Bakhe sighed in relief. "Make that a VERY quick-play card." He drew a card from his deck. His expression went from relieved to annoyed. "Useless now." He put the card in his hand and thought of what move he should make. "Place a monster in defense. Place one card facedown. End turn."

A facedown card appeared in Yami Bakhe's monster card zone. Yami looked at it suspiciously, but drew a card.

"I place this monster in defense. End turn."

"Ooh!" Yami Youen oohed. "Nothing to do, nowhere to go, huh?" She taunted. She drew a card but paid no attention to it. She looked over at Yami Bakhe's facedown monster. Yami Bakhe looked at her, and narrowed his eyes before nodding his head at La Gin and nodding to his facedown monster, lightly enough so that Yami and Yami Bakura wouldn't notice. Yami Youen returned a confused look, but ordered the attack anyway.

"La Gin, Mystical Genie of the Lamp! Destroy Yami Bakhe's facedown monster!" She ordered her monster. Yami and Yami Bakura exchanged surprised and confused looks.

"What are you doing?!?" Yami demanded. "That's not teamwork!"

La Gin blew at Yami Bakhe's facedown card and it shattered into a million pieces, but formed together again to form a huge brown insect.

"Yes it is!" Yami Bakhe argued. "Very good teamwork indeed. Good job, Yami Youen!" Yami Youen gave a giggle of modesty (cough cough).

"Now I activate the special effect of- Man-Eater Bug!" Yami Bakhe bellowed. He pointed at the Painter's Secret. "Man-Eater, destroy Painter's Secret!"

The Man-Eater Bug lumbered over to Yami Bakura's Painter's Secret and ate it before bursting back into a million pieces and returned to the Graveyard, dragging Painter's Secret with him.

"Well, nobody's lost life points yet," Yami Bakhe said, smirking, "but I think this is going to be a very easy duel!"

[4000, 4000; 4000, 4000]

(In order: Yami, Y. Bakura, Y. Youen, Y. Bakhe)

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"Hmm," the amnesia case thought out loud. "What would they be doing right now.?"

Yami Sii looked around, finally spotting footprints that were stomped into the earth. "Wow, someone needs anger management," she mumbled to herself before following the prints in curiosity.

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"It's my turn," Yami Bakura said. He drew a card. "I activate Fissure, and destroy La Gin," he said lazily. Yami Youen groaned in disappointment when her monster disappeared into a huge pit. "Summon Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams and attack Youen's life points!"

Yami Youen yelped in pain as the Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams swung its sword right through her torso. "Ah- owww..."

[4000, 4000; 2700, 4000]

"Nobody lost life points indeed, Bakhe?" Yami Bakura snarled at Yami Bakhe. "See how much nobody's lost life points now!" He cackled evilly, the same way he used to and always will when he is drunk with power.

Yami Youen growled, finally angered and out of her "Tee hee!" mode. "Get him, Bes- Bakhe!" She yelled at Yami Bakhe. "I don't care if he's got a counter- just wipe that smile off his disgusting face!"

"Don't let your fury overcome your wisdom, Youen!" Yami Bakhe said, deciding that it was faster if they cut off all the 'yami's. "If we win this match, we will hurt him more than we ever will by just attacking foolishly." He drew a card. "I place a monster in defense mode, and end my turn."

"WHAT?!? Bes- Bakhe, you pathetic little- coward that's too scared to attack- !"

"I had no choice, I can't do any of the strategies I'm used to without- her!" Yami Bakhe exploded in frustration. "Be quiet or I'll- not attack!" he finished lamely.

"Fine! Whatever! Anyway, it's pharaoh's turn, so go, Yami!" Yami Youen made a gesture at Yami and looked away. "I don't want to see us lose..."

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Yami Sii ran as fast as she could, huffing to keep up with herself. "I can sense something happening..." she muttered to herself. She took out her deck just in case it was needed.

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"I summon Summoned Skull by sacrificing my facedown card! And please excuse the pun!" Yami said. The facedown card shattered and formed into Summoned Skull. It roared and lightning ran in between its horns. (I'll cut all the description because I'm really lazy. =P)

"Destroy the facedown monster!" Yami said confidently. Summoned Skull aimed one of its lightning bolts at Yami Bakhe's facedown monster, and it was burnt to crisps.

Yami Youen groaned even louder. "I didn't like the sound of that," she mumbled. She turned around. "What do you know, we're all wide open because SOMEBODY refused to SUMMON a monster!" She glared at Yami Bakhe angrily as she said this.

"How the hell was it my fault, b*tch?" Yami Bakhe yelled, ignoring the winces of people passing by from someone so 'young' saying words that are so 'old'. "I didn't have anything useful in my hand! I was lucky I even had that stupid monster!"

"Well, blaming you is fun!" Yami Youen said, pouting and acting like a three-year-old. "Can I go now?" she added, remembering that she was in a duel and not a nursery.

"Um, yes, I just said that I ended my turn about a minute ago," Yami said, slightly shaken by how scary Yami Youen was acting.

Yami Youen drew a card. "Damn!" She cursed rather loudly, and the people passing by ran away. "End turn!" She snapped at Yami Bakura, as if it was his fault she didn't have a useful monster in her hand.

Yami Bakura hissed at Yami Youen and drew a card. "You're lucky I didn't draw another monster, brat," he spat at Yami Youen. "Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams, attack again!"

"Not this time!" Yami Youen pushed a button on her duel disk and her facedown card flipped face up. "Activate Waboku!" She said. Some nuns appeared in front of the card and chanted a spell. The Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams hit an invisible wall and was thrown back to Yami Bakura's field.

"Baka!" Yami Bakhe said furiously. "Why didn't you activate that earlier?"

"That's because...!" Yami Youen said dramatically, "...I forgot I had it there."

Yami Bakhe died.

"End turn!" Yami Bakura growled moodily. Yami Bakhe returned back to life and drew a card. He looked at it and his face fell. "Damn!" He cursed even louder than Yami Youen. "I think my deck hates me or something!" Then he heard the voice he had been waiting for for the entire duel.

"What the hell is going on- Yami! Why are you dueling? Wait- are these other item holders?" Yami Sii asked, looking around at the rather space- consuming duel in front of her. She was panting from running so far with such a weak body, her vision was swirling very badly from lack of energy, and her brain was going slower than usual.

'That's it!' Yami Bakhe mentally cheered. 'Took her long enough!'

Yami Bakhe kneeled on one knee and closed his eyes. He started muttering a spell under his breath.

"What?" Yami Bakura snarled. "Does that mean you give up?"

Yami Bakhe didn't answer, but continued to chant the spell.

"What?" Yami Sii could just make out the duel and feel the soft warmth coming from her deck. A card flew out of it, so fast she almost didn't notice it was missing. Nobody else seemed to notice either. She pondered what was going on until she could feel a tiny part of her soul going with the card. Clutching her heart in pain, she squinted at the blur that she thought might be her card and soul fragment, and notice that the card headed for Yami Bakhe's hand while the fragment went to his Jar.

'Jar...the Millennium Jar?' Yami Sii realized, cursing herself for thinking so slow. 'Well, duh it is, dummy, it has to be there somewhere if there are two item holders.'

"So, how long is the pathetic one to crouch?" Yami Bakura asked, starting to get annoyed. "I vote we kick him."

"...shui, huo, dian, di, RA!" Yami Bakhe concluded, standing up at last with a smirk on his face. "I never forfeited, and I never said I did. But what I am doing... is winning!" He pulled out the card he had stolen from Yami Sii and flipped it over to show Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura, seeing what it was and recognizing it perfectly, frowned.

"Activate Destiny Board!" Yami Bakhe said, with much confidence. "Victory is near! In just five turns, both of you will lose!"

"Now wait a minute," Yami said, slightly confused. "How do you know that you'll get all five of the Spirit Message cards in just five turns? Aren't the odds a little off?"

Yami Bakhe chuckled. "You just don't get it, do you?" He flipped his hand over and showed Yami the cards in it. "The reason I didn't have any monsters to play was because my hand was full of Spirit message cards!"

And sure enough, all five required cards were in his hand: Spirit Message "D", Spirit Message "E", Spirit Message "A", Spirit Message "T", and Spirit Message "H". D, E, A, T, H.

"And the spirit messages also spell out somebody's fate- death! The death of a friend!" Yami Bakhe started laughing lightly, an echo of Yami Bakura's evil howl.

"But you left one mistake," Yami pointed out.

Yami Bakhe stopped laughing and glared at Yami. "And what would that be?" He asked, almost daring Yami to answer.

"You left your teammate wide open for an attack," Yami told him, pointing to Yami Youen. "If both Bakura and I attack her, both of you lose immediately! And because you have no monster cards in your hand, there's nothing you can do about it!"

Yami Bakhe scowled at his own stupidity. "Damn, I forgot," he scolded himself. He hung his head for a few minutes, but snapped it back up. "Too bad I found a way out of humiliation!"

"What do you mean?" Yami and Yami Bakura asked together.

"Because I will make someone from your own group take it. I would be killing two guards with one spell!" He thought harder about it. "No, wait. Make that THREE guards with one spell."

"What's the third guard?" Yami Sii asked stupidly. She was crouching on one knee and had a hand on the ground to keep her balance, and was trying to tell red apart from green. (Basically everything looked red and green in her vision at the moment.)

Yami Bakhe smirked, but this time it had a hint of sadness in it. "The third guard is my friend, so it will be sort of a betrayal." He crouched on one knee again and put one hand to the ground.

Yami Youen was starting to get annoyed. "Stop it with all the cliché stuff already and get your ass moving!"

Yami Bakhe stumbled back on his feet. "W-what...?" he asked dizzily.

"I said, 'Stop it with all the cliché stuff already and get your ass moving'! You deaf idiot!" Yami Youen yelled.

"Well, it's not my fault that I- !" He was cut off.

=End your turn, idiot!=

Yami Bakhe raised an eyebrow at the odd voice in his head, but heeded it. "End turn...uh, I guess..."

Yami Youen looked at him weirdly. "Aw, Ra, you're embarrassing," she growled at him. He didn't reply; he just held his head like he had a headache.

"Draw." Yami drew a card. Immediately he felt a huge pain in the back of his head, and he almost dropped his cards. He fell on his knees and held his head.

'Pathetic pharaoh,' Yami Bakura thought. "What's wrong, weakling?" he asked, looking down at the pharaoh's shaking body.

"My head. hurts," Yami choked. Yami Bakura watched in utter horror as Yami's life point count dropped by 800.

[3200, 4000; 2700, 4000]

After the point count stopped dropping, however, Yami didn't stop shaking.

Yami Bakura looked up from Yami to Yami Bakhe and Yami Youen. "Hey, what's the big deal? Are you cheating or something?"

Yami Bakhe didn't answer, continuing to hold his head, so Yami Youen had to think of and explanation to what is happening. "I think Yami Bakhe stuck a spell on his Destiny Board so that every turn the opponent takes, he loses 800 life points, so that by the time five turns is over, one of their life points will drop to 0 and we would win. Pretty smart of you ask me," she added.

Yami, still on the ground, played a card. "Red... Medicine," He managed to say. His headache lifted a little bit, and his life points recovered by 500. "Blue...Medicine," he added, also playing the card. He healed completely.

[4000, 4000; 2700, 4000]

Yami still had a small struggle from after-affects, but he lifted a finger and pointed at Yami Youen. "Summoned Skull...attack."

Yami Youen was enveloped in electricity, and screamed. Her life points reached a very low point where even a Petite Moth could kill her with a direct attack.

[4000, 4000; 200, 4000]

Yami Youen desperately drew a card and almost laughed out loud from the results. "I play a monster in defense mode, and I activate Dian Keto the Cure Master!"

A facedown monster appeared in her Monster Card zone, and a card appeared in her Magic/Trap Card zone. A man with a kind, smiling face and odd non- modern clothing appeared. He formed a ball of sparkling energy and threw it at Yami Youen. It exploded into millions of sparkles and healed her life points.

"Whee! This is fun!" Yami Youen said, gaining a little of her cheerfulness back.

[4000, 4000; 1200, 4000]

"End turn!" Yami Youen said cheerfully, looking over at Yami Bakura.

"Stop being so happy; it's making me ner-er-vous," Yami Bakura grouched as he drew a card, almost choking on the last word from pain. He felt the pain fill his head the way he'd seen happen to Yami, but physical pain hurts a lot more when you are the one suffering, and he gave a short scream, not being as physically strong as Yami.

[4000, 3200; 1200, 4000]

Yami Bakura fell on his knees and sat there panting and holding his head. He put his cards on the ground facedown so that his sweat wouldn't damage them. "That's...one...hell...of a spell...he...cast..." he managed to say. When he got used to the pain, he picked up his cards and looked at the one he had just drawn.

"Summon...Headless Knight," Yami Bakura said slowly, then taking a huge gasp to help his lungs function properly. "Headless Knight...attack...facedown..." he only got that far before having to take another huge gasp, but Headless Knight got the message. It turned its armor (being headless, it didn't turn its head) toward Yami Youen's facedown monster card and charged at it with its sword raised for an attack.

Just before the sword was about to slice the card in two, it disappeared and became an odd monster that looked like a rib cage with a head. It opened its eyes and scared Headless Knight so badly it made a huge jump and returned to Yami Bakura's hand.

[4000, 2800; 1200, 4000]

"What is that?!?" Yami asked, alarmed.

"That," Yami Youen explained, "is Wall of Illusion. It has the power to send whatever monster attacking it back to the opponent's hand. Tricky, isn't it?" She glanced over at Yami Bakura. "Oh, and sorry to make you suffer more, but it appears that Wall of Illusion has 1850 defense points, which is about 400 points more than Headless Knight, with 1450 attack. Oops!" She giggled.

Yami Bakura was sick of her nearly undying cheerfulness. "Gross...Ghost...attack...life..." and he had to take another huge breath.

The Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams Flew over to Yami Bakhe, whom I had almost forgotten to write about, who was still holding his head. He looked up and saw the hideous ghost charging at him, and almost jumped out of his skin. Gross Ghost lifted its sword...

...and the sword bounced back.

"What's the matter? Attack!" Yami said at it, knowing it would have been what Yami Bakura had wanted to say. Yami Bakura looked surprised, too.

"Silly boys," Yami Youen teased. "Yami Bakura, how could you have forgotten? Gross Ghost isn't allowed to attack because you already ordered an attack from Headless Knight!"

"What does that have to do with anything? The rules of the game said we were allowed to attack with all the monsters on the field if we wish!" Yami reasoned.

"Well, yes, the official rules do say that," Yami Youen admitted, "but that rule has been slightly bent in this duel. Does the card name 'Dark Door' ring a bell?" She pointed at the first Magic Card Yami Bakura had played in the duel. "If I remember correctly, that card says that as long as it is in play, only one monster may attack per turn. And it is a continuous card, so to remove it from play you need a De-Spell." She looked around. "And I didn't see anyone activate De-Spell before Yami Bakura ordered the attack," she added, just to rub it in.

Yami Bakhe drew a card. "I summon my own Headless Knight to destroy Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams," was all he did. "End turn."

[4000, 2650; 1200, 4000]

Yami Youen was slightly satisfied that Yami Bakhe was able to attack successfully, but was angry because he hadn't done anything else. He had, after all, left his monster wide open for an attack. But she figured that since he didn't have anything in his hand other than the Spirit Message cards, he didn't really have much to do.

Yami took a quick look around the entire duel. 'Something doesn't feel right. I sense a disturbance in the balance of souls.' He shrugged it off, telling himself he was just being paranoid. He drew his card. Pain.

[3200, 2650; 1200, 4000]

Other than pain, nothing. "Summoned Skull, attack Bakhe's Headless Knight."

Summoned Skull aimed another lightning bolt, this time at Yami Bakhe's Headless Knight. Yami Bakhe looked at it nonchalantly.

Just as the lightning bolt was about to hit Headless Knight, it bounced back and destroyed its own master. This time, Yami really did scream.

[700, 2650; 1200, 4000]

"Like my Magic Cylinder?" Yami Bakhe laughed. "Whoo, you people keep forgetting I have this Magic/Trap card in play. You're so funny." He continued to laugh.

"Is it just me, or is he beginning to act like Youen, too?" Yami asked.

"It's...just...you..." Yami Bakura said hopefully. The last thing they needed was another Yami Youen.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Yami Youen demanded as she drew a card. "Place another card facedown, activate another Dian Keto!"

Dian Keto appeared again and threw another ball of magic at her. Again she jumped about and played in the fountain of sparkles, earning lots of sweatdrops from the other fellow duelists.

[700, 1850; 2200, 4000]

"And...there she goes again," Yami sighed. "Yami Bakura, I really wish you could get a grip on yourself and attack her again. A grumpy Youen is better than a cheerful one."

"What was that?!?" Yami Youen raged. "End turn, and receive your beatings! Gosh, wonder whether Yami Bakura can still stand, though," she added while she watched him draw a card and start screaming and breathing heavily all over again.

"Focus...focus..." Yami Bakura tried to comfort himself, to much failure. He gritted his teeth and looked like he was going to puke.

"Call ME a weakling, will you?" Yami growled at the white heap on the ground that was Yami Bakura.

[700, 1850; 2200, 4000]

Yami Bakura looked at the life point count one more time. "Wait..." he managed to say. 'If the pharaoh and I lose 800 life points each turn during either draw phase or standby phase (can't really tell), then Yami will...' he stopped right there. He took a quick glance at his cards. 'Damn pharaoh."

"Play...Goblin's...Secret...Rem- rem- ed- eeeee~" he started confidently and ended weakly. He made a gesture at Yami when the ball of light (assumed as Goblin's Secret Remedy) appeared. It floated over to Yami and recovered 800 life points.

[1500, 1850; 2200, 4000]

By now Yami Bakura was more sitting than crouching. He looked hopefully at his hand for another healing card, but found none. He moaned in despair. "End turn..." he grumbled.

"Draw."

Yami Bakhe slowly pulled out the card at the top of his deck. He glanced at it.

Yami Sii's eyes widened. "Change of Heart..."

Yami Bakhe played the card. "I activate change of Heart, and I want Yami Bakura's Headless Knight to heed my word for the time being."

Yami Bakura was getting very annoyed. 'Damn it, I forgot to tell Headless Knight to attack."

"Attack Yami Bakura, both Headless Knights."

The first Headless Knight attacked Yami Bakura, and sent him to the ground.

[1500, 1350; 2200, 4000]

When he hit the ground (running! Hahahahaha...no), Yami Bakura felt something underneath him. It was in his pocket. He reached inside and pulled out a tiny water bottle.

Yami Sii's eyes widened. "The water that Sii gave Bakura this morning..."

Yami Bakura smirked and downed a lot of it. He could feel his energy coming back.

[1500, 8000; 2200, 4000]

Yami Bakhe pounded his fist into his palm in frustration. "Damn! Remind me to kill that girl."

Refreshed and smirking, Yami Bakura wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, capped the bottle, and put it aside for later use. "Ah, yes... I do believe someone wants to have a little... vengeance, yes? Now, I do believe I could share some of this with Yami. After all, he does need a little help with those points, does he?"

Yami caught the bottle that was thrown at him. He arched an eyebrow at Yami Bakura. "I do not understand."

"You will in a moment, I assure you," was the reply, followed by a trademark cackling that had been professional over the last two tournaments.

"Now I draw." Yami did as he said, and his eyes rested suspiciously on Yami Bakura, but before he could sigh at the ridiculous 'innocent' face he was sure the thief was going to put up, he had to put up with Yami Bakhe's Message Board.

[700, 8000; 2200, 4000]

"The water, pharaoh! Use it now, don't waste the points I just saved you last turn!" growled a certain grouchy white-haired 5000 year-old evil guy with a golden ring. (At least, that's what he would have looked like to the old man sitting there, minus the age thing.)

"Alright, alright, no need to invite an elephant stampede, young man!" said a rather young-looking man named Yami. "But isn't this sort of... cheating?" questioned the ever-so-strict one. Nevertheless, he drank it anyway, and he felt the boost.

[8000, 8000; 2200, 4000]

"Now I play Mind Control, and take Bakhe's Headless Knight. I sacrifice Headless Knight and Summoned Skull."

"Heh!" scoffed Yami Youen. "Your Dark Magician will do you no good in this situation! It has the same amount of attack points as Summoned Skull; did you forget about your own cards?"

"Not Dark Magician!" Yami said rather loudly and triumphantly, as lightning started flashing from the sky. "Sun of God Dragon!"

The magnificent beast flew down from the sky in a ball shape. Yami looked up helplessly at the big ball hovering above him, with the attack and defense of 5000/3000. He had forgotten that a certain spell was needed to open up the mightiest Egyptian God card. He looked down at the card he had played on his duel disk, and sure enough, instead of a description with the attack and defense points, there was an Arabic spell, which obviously, he couldn't read.

"Ha, ha!" Yami Youen laughed. "Okay, so that big ball has impressive defense points, but it will only take a Blue Eyes White Dragon along with Dragon Treasure to defeat that- " she picked two cards from her hand and showed them off to the seemingly doomed spirits. "- which I just so happened to have in my hand at the moment! Oh, guess what? I also have a Mind Control in my hand right now!" she picked a third card from her hand, and sure enough, it was Mind Control. "I can just sacrifice Bakura's Headless Knight and my Wall of Illusion, and I can play Blue Eyes White Dragon, equip it with Dragon Treasure, and destroy your worthless blob!"

"Hey!" Yami Bakura growled, fuming. "Dare to sacrifice MY monster, will you, snotty brat?"

"Cool down, Bakura!" Yami said, beads of sweat forming on his face. "She won't even have the chance. She won't ever see her next turn! I promise!"

He looked, frustrated, at the Sun of God Dragon card, clenching his teeth and mentally cursing at the Arabic. After he looked at it too long, though, something clicked.

"Yami?" Yami Bakura asked as Yami's head snapped up, his eyes flashing a deadly white.

White? Wait a minute. Yami doesn't have white eyes.

"I summon the power of the god of the sun, Ra. Awaken from your eternal slumber- Sun of God!" Yami chanted. The metallic ball known as Sun of God Dragon began to open up. Yami Bakura's eyes widened in amazement as the Sun of God Dragon finally awakened to heed Yami's command.

Yami lifted a hand in a zombie-like fashion. "Sun of God Dragon... destroy the enemy..." Yami's white eyes widened and his life points dropped to 1.

[1, 8000; 2200, 4000]

"One... Turn... Kill..." Yami continued in his dead tone of voice. The dragon's attack increased dramatically.

{5000/3000} = {12999/10999}

Sun of God Dragon started glowing a powerful golden color and attacked Yami Youen and Yami Bakhe at the same time. Obviously, their life points dropped to zero.

[1, 8000; 0, 0]

Since the game was over, all the monsters started disappearing. The fog lifted, revealing the sunlight that had been lost for an entire duel. Both Yami and Yami Bakhe dropped at the same time, and while the color on Yami's face returned, Yami Bakhe's Millennium Jar glowed a soft blue color and became dull again.

Yami Sii stood up. "So... it's over, huh?"

Yami got up. His eyes had returned to its natural violet color. "It...is?"

He looked over to Yami Bakura, who scoffed and turned away. "Don't look at me. You're the one who called the attack."

Yami looked at the scene. Sun of God Dragon was still placed on the reader of his duel disk, except that it had gone back to normal since the duel was over. He looked at Yami Youen's deck, which was spilled all over the place, and Yami Youen herself, who had her back turned to everyone else and seemed to be in a terrible mood.

He noticed Yami Bakhe get back to his feet, although he was pretty sure it was the normal Bakhe now, considering the fact that he had a dazed look on his face and the way he was asking, "Who are you again?"

Bakhe was pointing to Yami Youen, who turned around. "You pathetic little- !" she started, but all of a sudden, a flute that was stuffed into her pocket glowed and she stopped mid-sentence.

The normal Youen returned, rubbing her eyes. "I'm too lazy to get out of bed..." she mumbled, while everybody sweatdropped. Her vision focused, and she realized she was in the middle of a park road. "Huh! I'm up! Or is this still a dream..."

Bakhe smacked himself on the head. "No, you're not dreaming, you're in the middle of a garden with tall, tall flowers and a huge strange-looking puddle/river that defies the law of gravity. How could you be dreaming?" Everybody watched with interest, seeing Bakhe making sense for once. "I think I'M the one dreaming," he added, and everybody lost their hopes of him being smart.

Yami Sii also seemed to have disappeared, and Sii was in her place. "Even in my nightmares, you're an idiot, Bakhe..."

"Why is everybody talking about dreams?" Yami asked. Bakhe, Youen, and Sii stared at him grumpily.

"I had a nightmare that no matter how far I ran, I couldn't find anybody that cared about me," Sii grumbled softly. "There was this set of very, very long stairs, and every time I climbed a set, there would be a door that looked like to door to my old room- back when my parents were still alive. But every time I opened the door, there would be another very, very long set of stairs." She tucked her head between her legs in shame. "It was so stupid."

"Well," Bakhe said, in an un-characteristic, dark voice, "I had a dream of my old guardian and my best friend. You think it's tough for you to have me around? Imagine what it's like for me." He looked up into the sky. "Before Shadi sent me here, I was perfectly fine by myself. I was fine with dusting artifacts, or scrubbing the floor, or cleaning the waste room. I also learned quite a lot, and nobody thought I was stupid. I had a best friend who looked almost exactly like me, and we both had a lot in common- we both had no real family, and were dumped at that place when our parents couldn't find a way to take care of us any longer."

Sii guiltily poked her head up, but Bakhe ignored her and continued his story. "And the worst part was that that one month was the only happy memory I have. One month." He faced the others. "You all have souls that were activated as soon as you were born, but I wasn't so fortunate."

Now everyone in the group except Yami Bakura was listening. "Why not?" asked Yami.

Bakhe's face twisted. It was hard to tell whether it was sadness or anger. "Since I was born... I was without a soul. My parents assumed I was brain- dead, and had had to feed, dress, and clean me for an entire twelve years. By the time I was ten, they got a little impatient with me and started going different places, looking for some way to make me...functional. Like my brother was," he added, glancing at Yami Bakura, then staring at the ground.

"They eventually got to Egypt, because my father finally decided to take me along one of his expeditions. He wrapped me in a white cloth and pretended I was a rug. He went to different places in the market, asking about ways to bring inanimate objects to life, and saying that I was his favorite rug every time someone asked about me. Eventually, his questioning led him to Shadi. Shadi promised to bring me back, and he succeeded, but when he went to return me to my father, my father was..." Bakhe paused to wipe away a tear. "My father... was gone. He had left me behind."

"Geez..." Sii mumbled.

"I'm sorry," Yami said truthfully.

Yami Bakura merely snorted and kicked a stone.

"It's okay," Bakhe told them, reverting back to his normal self. "I just miss Horufu, that's all. I wonder what Youen dreamed about?"

Youen, hearing her name, looked around, her eyes finally landing on Bakhe. "Who? Me?"

Bakhe nodded. "Um, yeah. We shared our dreams and stories already, what's yours?"

"Mine?" Youen asked. "It's going to be a long story..."

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Scarabsi: After three or more months of writing the stupid duel, I'm glad it's all over! Now I can just relax and chill for the next few chapters.

Youen: (grabs Scarabsi by the collar) Oh, no you don't! You still have to write about MY story!

Scarabsi: (sighs) Oh, right.

Bakhe: I'm so out of character! (sobs)

Sii: ... assuming you know what 'out of character' means...

Bakhe: Oh, right... what DOES it mean?

Sii: (sighs)

Bakura: When are you going to let me out?

Yami Bakura: Shut it, mortal!

Bakura: (sniffs) You're so mean.

Yugi: And what about me? And my friends?

Tea: Yeah!

Joey: You have to let us back in the picture SOMEday!

Scarabsi: ^^;;;

Rahotep: Okay, people. You better review if you actually read this chapter, or Scarabsi will assume you all died. Get it there- you do want to know more about ME, right?

Sii, Bakhe, Youen, Tea, Joey, Tristan, Yugi, Bakura: Nooooooo...

Rahotep: (sniffs) Fine then, be a meany!

Everyone else: (sweatdrop)