A/N- Wow, everyone was so concerned about Yami. Don't worry he and the others are in this chapter. Thank you everyone for your support, it keeps me going!

Thanks to everyone that reviewed! You all are the GREATEST!! I know I say that a lot, but that's because I mean it! You guys ROCK!

Subieko: So you kenwe that Yugi would be good at magic huh? Hehe. Yup all connected again! Yeah, I know! We never put up our Christmas tree so early! Usually we put it up Christmas eve or a few days before and take it down only a couple of days later. Hehe! Yeah, *LUCKY* if that's what you want to call it. You'll find out what I'm talking about in this chapter.

Sorceress Vanessa: Almost! You were second though! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much! It makes me happy! Thanks so much!

hobbit13: You know we finally got to watch the Two Towers yesterday. It was pretty cool, but I don't like where they left off. They still had at least 3 more chapters to go! (I have all the books) I completely understand. Family is important! Yami? Points up! ^ You'll see! I can't kill Bakura! I need him to get his revenge in the seq!

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Sword Master Jeff: Yeah, I know. I really could do a romance between those two, but I'd just mess it up. Besides Sitara can't fall in love at the moment because of something that happens at the very end. Well actually in the seq. but still it would be pretty cool if I could. Yeah, sure I'll check them out! Your welcome in advance as well! ^_^

It'sHardToBelieve: So I C! ^_^ I'm glad you have joined me and I hope you like it enough to stay! Yeah, I know! I fixed the problem. Thanks and I'm really glad you like it! ^_^

Una: I get sugar highs too. I'm famous at school and church for my laughter. Let's see, a friend of mine at church said you could stuff me in a straight jacket and stick me in a rubber room and I'd just sit there laughing. In fact another nickname of mine is Laugh-a-Lot. I think the most I've done (this is just timed not counting the other times not timed) it 2 hours straight without stopping just from eating a bag of M N M's. Since they won't let you have any here's some pixie sticks! Hehe I like being hyper and I like it when other ppl are hyper too! Yup, Yugi is the star of the show he has to be good at it! Yeah, I know he cries, but he's not like a crybaby is what I was trying to say, ya know? Yeah, he's just so KAWAII!!!!!!!!!!! -^_^- *glomps Yugi plushie* It's not the same, but it works! I told you in my e-mail that aimee is friend. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I liked those last parts! Funny!

Phantom 1: Oh, Yay! My very own Mallet!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!! I finally have one and now I'll keep it by my desk for whenever I need it! The spatula was all that I had, but now I've got a MALLET!!!! YAYAY! Hehe!! That's ok! Yeah, I can see that too! I like Star Wars! Hey, I didn't know they were making a seq! A vigil for 2 weeks? What? HEHE!! Of course it will be a buddy fic! Yup there will defiantly be a bond there! You'll find out what happens about that with the end and the seq! I"ve always loved magic. That's the only thing I would play with my childhood friend when we were little. We would get together everyday and play magic. Kelly got sick of it, but I never grew tired of it. I wish I had magic. Don't worry the others are in this chap.

Hazel-Beka: I told ya where I live in my e-mail and all about that. Next! HEHEHE!! Don't worry, she's perfectly back to normal now! You're not the only one wishing you had magic! I've been wishing for it and playing (pretending) magic since I was at least 3 years old! I wished for something else. I've wished on too many stars and been disappointed to wish for magic anymore. -V_V- I wished to become a better writer on that thing.

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Chapter 20

Yami sat on the floor with his legs crossed Indian Style, and the Egyptian book, he had used to take himself and his friends to the Shadow Realm, in his lap. His friends and the Tomb Robber sat around him in different places around Yugi's room. Yami was flipping through the pages of the book looking for something to help them find Yugi. His friends were either watching him work or those that had gotten tired of that were talking to each other in hushed voices so as not to disturb Yami from his concentration.

As he flipped to a page with a particularly hard spell, he felt something familiar. He flinched and looked around for the source of the strange sensation. The others looked at him.

"What is it?"

He looked at them a serious expression on his face. He continued to look around, ignoring their questions. Someone asked, "Is it Yugi?" and he suddenly realized what was so familiar about the sensation. He jerked again as he felt the mind link open fully and he stood up completely, staring off into space.

"Did you find him?"

"What is it?"

"Yami?"

Questions like this flooded toward Yami, but he blocked them out and concentrated on the link to Yugi that he was sure was not there a moment ago.

//Yugi?//

/.../

It seemed that the link was indeed open, but Yugi was either not able to respond or was not aware of the link being open again. Meanwhile the others were beginning to get frantic about Yami not answering their questions and just ignoring them completely.

"What is wrong with him?"

"I don't know. Yami?! YAMI!"

"Shut up, foolish mortals!" Bakura snapped at them. "If he wanted to talk to you instead of Yugi he would have answered you by now! So shut your mouths and sit down. You're bugging me."

"How do you know he's talking to Yugi?"

"Because of his expression. Look at his face. Yugi and Ryou usually get that same look on their faces, like they're listening to something far away or something no one else can hear. That's when they're talking to us. Yami is OBVIOUSLY talking to Yugi, baka now be quiet."

//Yugi?! Yugi! If you can answer me, please tell me that you are all right! Please!//

/Yami?/

Yami nearly fainted in relief. //Aibou! Are you ok!? What happened to you?!//

/.../

//Yugi are you there?!// Yami panicked.

/Don't worry! I'm not hurt, but if I don't concentrate I won't stay that way for long!/

Yami stayed silent until Yugi told him it was ok as he wondered what was going on with his aibou. Meanwhile, the others were getting tired of waiting on Yami to snap out of it again and started asking questions.

"Yami! Tell us what is going on!"

This time Yami heard them and decided to answer.

"Yugi's in trouble."

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Yugi was having trouble staying afloat in the water because it felt as though something below him was trying to pull him down into its depths. It had not pulled really hard so far because he had not gone under, but Yugi was sure that if it really wanted him down there...he would be down there.

As he was dragged one time and his head slipped under the water he heard something so amazing he wanted to cry from all the intense emotions that were swirling through him. He heard someone say...

//Yugi?//

He would have answered except for the fact that he was fighting his way to the surface. He decided it was best not to do all the crying stuff until it was safe and maybe when he was alone.

/.../

He head broke surface once more and by now he just *knew* there had to be something down there. So he asked, "Does it feel like something is pulling you down too?"

Yugi received two answers at the same time.

"Yes." "No."

It seemed as though Sitara was facing the same problem he was, but not Kero- oshi.

"Check and see what is doing that, Kero-oshi," Sitara commanded of her mentor. The man nodded to her before disappearing under the water. Yugi quickly, while he had some time, checked to make sure there was no block up in the link so Yami could see what was happening. There was not so he quickly went back to concentrating as he almost slipped under the water again.

Pretty soon Kero-oshi came back up bearing bad news.

"There's a Remrak down there all right," he said calmly, but with an underlying distaste. (a/n- don't ask me where I think up these names. I just put a lot of letters together until it sounds right.)

"Great! Just great!" Sitara announced sarcastically. Yugi was about to ask what a Remrak was, but before he could Sitara gave him instructions.

"Yugi, I need you to give me an energy attack like I showed you how to make and aim it below us. We have to release them at the same time so when you get yours we'll let go on the count of three, got it?"

Yugi nodded. He had already started gathering his energy and condensing it into a ball. The black-violet swarmed out of his palms and into the sphere as Sitara did the same with a white-silver orb. When they were both ready, Sitara began her count.

"One..."

"Two..."

"THREE!"

They both let them go into the water and both headed straight for the bottom. After a mere second of the baited breath silence they heard the energy connect with something. It seemed to roll. Then a mighty roar from beneath them told them they had hit their mark.

Yugi had been looking down into the murky depths trying to see if he *could* see anything, but when he heard that roar he looked up at the others and his look said quite plainly...uh oh! The ceiling of the cavern rumbled and shook and waves rocked the trio on the surface of the water. Then out of the depths great, huge coils came hurtling at them, reaching and grabbing at anything in reach. Since Yugi and Sitara were directly above it, it caught both of them and tried to drag them both under.

Yugi was wrapped up tight in it's coils and could not even move his arms, but Sitara was griped only around her waist and she used that to her advantage.

(a/n- hold on a little bit while I go think of a way to make this a little more interesting. Besides I need to go eat lunch.)

(a/n- Hahahahahaha! That was funny. Sorry. I'll get back to the story now.)

Yugi struggled while Sitara built up another discharge attack. She let it go and instead of the beast just dropping her like she had hoped it threw her into the nearest wall. It was barely a pitch, but it knocked her unconscious. She fell onto the dry ground at the edge of the cave which was luck for her, otherwise she would have drowned. Though her attack did little more than infuriate it further that was still not good, because it still had Yugi.

"No! Sitara!" Yugi yelled as best he could since he was almost suffocating from the pressure of the Remrak. Kero-oshi tried to get to Yugi so he could help him as it started to pull Yugi down again. The Remrak batted him away, but swam back towards it nonetheless. He knew he would not be able to make it in time to save Yugi, but he would not give up. But that did nothing to help Yugi...he was on his own.

The star on Yugi's forehead glowed dark violet and Yugi's body glowed the same amethyst color of his eyes. Since the Remrak was holding onto him it began to glow as well. Soon it began writhing in pain. Its huge coils thrashed, churning up the water, but it seemed as if Yugi's magic had done the trick. It dropped him...right into the churning currents.

Yugi struggled to stay afloat again, but this time he had encouragement.

//Don't give up, aibou! Come on just a little further; you can do it!//

This gave Yugi the strength he needed to get away from the creature. As it ended up, Yugi was on the same side as Sitara, but Kero-oshi was on the opposite side, where he had tried to reach Yugi. As soon as the Remrak released Yugi it stopped writhing, but the water had prevented Kero-oshi from going anywhere. The only way of escape he had was to go through the monster. (not meant literally) The cave wall was on the other three sides of him and with the water agitated he could not get by the Remrak safely. (not that it was safe to begin with)

To sum it all up he was trapped. Him being the nearest, the Remrak snatched him up in its appendages and prepared to have itself a tasty snack.

Meanwhile Yugi was (Oh it's the sad song again! Has anybody heard Christmas Shoes? It's a really sad song. Sorry, I'll get back to narrating) trying to wake up Sitara and finally managed to get her to come around. She looked up and the first thing she saw was a pair of big violet eyes.

"Are you alright?" Their owner asked.

"Yeah, where's Kero-oshi?"

They both looked up to see that the Remrak was holder her tutor and was about to eat him. Now that it was no longer submerged Yugi could see that it looked like a giant squid. It's mouth was open wide and it was about to eat Kero-oshi. Sitara acted immediately. She got up and dove back into the water with Yugi right behind her.

"Swim, Yugi! Get out of here!" Sitara told her newfound friend.

"No! I'm going to help you get him back!" he answered.

"All right, but please be careful!"

"I will now let's go save Kero-oshi!"

A/N- Ok, done! Now to go do the million and one other things on my list like study for a test tomorrow.

NOTE: I will NOT be updating next weekend due to the fact that I need to study for finals. I've only got one gateway this semester so that leaves three other finals to study for next weekend. So I won't have any time to type another chapter so I'll see ya the weekend after that.

VOTE NOTE: For those of you that I contacted via e-mail about voting for names. I'd just like to thank all of you for participating and giving me your ideas. Also the winning name is...dun dun dun...Akiva! anyway. That's that.

UR UPDATE NOTE: You know how it goes! If you updated or just want me to read a story of Urs and want me to read it! Let me know!

I think that's it...Ja ne!