Author's notes: Well hello everyone ^^ I will not lie to you T_T I haven't been busy, I'm just lazy. So, in order to make up for it, I swear (unless something really dire comes up) what I will have another chapter up before Friday. Or, in case this doesn't get put up tonight, by next Friday ^_^

Note: I got a request for something to happen to Shizuka o.O This..hmm. I couldn't think of anything really good to happen, so, if you would tell me what you want to happen..sorry! Very much so sorry ^^;;;

David and Alice

Mokuba Kaiba's POV

I was asleep...I think. Something like that...maybe.

I can't think straight! It's really getting annoying.

From what I recall, someone had laid me on a bed, even though it was a pathetic excuse for one. A simple thing of padding with fabric over it on wood. But, I'm in a doll house. What else would I expect?

I'd found myself awake with my eyes open. Which I thought was extremely unusual. I'd only happened to me once before. And then, I'd been staring at my alarm clock, when I was dreaming and thinking of how I'd been late for school.  I was late that day.

But know..it was different. I was in my change of clothes, which in itself made me self conscious, and saw that I was surrounded by a group of people. One was an energetic looking young girl, a man holding her, and a woman, who was reaching towards me.

Instincts kicked in and I woke up, fully, and backed away. I cloth that was wet fell onto my lap and I understood that that was what she had been reaching for.

"Sorry to startle you dear." She said with a loving, yet sad smile. " Was only trying to grab the cloth, you see."

The girl whispered to her father, "he doesn't seem to be very intelligent Dad." a bit too loudly and I cast a glance that was a perfect mirror, or so I thought, of my brother's "you're irritating me go away" look.

The girl didn't see though, and her father shot her a sharp glance, which she DID see and said, "Welcome to the doll house young man" with a smile that only a man who's given up hope can give in this kind of situation.

"Why....." I struggled to think of the words. "aren't I...a .. Doll?"

I didn't want to offend them, for that is why I struggled.

(AN- I seem to be reading to much Jules Verne = = It's affecting my own writing in a way that not even...I'll stop.)

The woman looked at the man and the man at the woman.

Finally she said, "You are dear. Only, your spirit is free to roam."

The man nodded. "Yep. Your body is probably in a glass case of some kind, waiting your return."

The woman gave him a look that instantly told me they were husband and wife, for no woman could give a man a look like that without the man taking offense, which this man did not.

The news about my body hadn't exactly sunk in yet. More or less, I was in shock.

I felt tears begin to form as I looked down at my legs from my sitting position on the bed.

Where was my brother when you needed him most?

Y..?....Alice's though Yami Yugi through Yugi's..huh? POV

(This isn't Yami Yugi, though it isn't completely Alice and it isn't really Yugi..confused yet? I am. It sorta bounces from Alice's to YYugi's thoughts. Follow as best you can ^^)

I stared at Bakura from across the room. Right then my heart softened for the boy. Why hadn't I noticed how cute he was? Now all he needed was to be in pain and he'd be simply adorable. I wanted to eat him alive.

But wait.wasn't Ryou a boy? Then . how? What am I doing out anyways?

Right. I need to capture that boy. Easy.

Why though? Wouldn't it just be nicer to let him be free? Though admittedly, it would be nice to see him in pain..

Yeah. That's what I'd do.

I extended my hand towards the cute white haired boy and said the spell in English I'd mastered years ago.

..wait.I know English? Yugi doesn't take English.so how..

The spell wrapped around the boy, and his eyes got the look of fear only the innocent can give. But my spell was diverted. Not to mention that another boy had tackled me.

The cause of the divertion was the spirit that Bakura had been apart of. Or...was it the other way around?

That's right. Bakura and the dark duelist were one. Just like me and Yugi.

Right. Just like you and Yugi.

The third person? I'm not that vain.so why am I?.....

The blonde on top of me received a strong kick to his collar bone. I do not have to say that he got off me very quickly.

(YAMI PLEASE!! Let me out! Mou Hitori no Boku! Please, I don't like this!)

Yugi.let him out!

I had made the drive to do it, but had been stopped. The blonde had pinned me to the wall now, all the while he was gasping for air.

(YAMI! Please..) the voice sniffed.

HELP HIM! I told myself.

I wouldn't though. He was in pain too, a different kind, but it was all beautiful.

He spell I said wasn't working on the white boy. It would on the blonde though. I altered its course, and soon the blonde was engulfed in green light, before he vanished.

The girl gasped. "Other Yugi, please don't do this! Fight her! Think of Yugi!"

Bakura had gotten to his feet, staring at the spot in the air that I knew contained the dark duelist (AN- YBakura introduced himself as 'The Dark Dueliest of the Sennen Ring' when he first entered the series)..I needed to get rid of him.

(Please Yami..let me out. You can't do this! Please stop!)

I put my hand to my head. It was too much.

What did I need to do?

Capture and torture Bakura!

Help Yugi.

But..the other half of my mind wouldn't let me do either! When I tired to catch Bakura one side wouldn't let me and when I tired to let Yugi out the other side wouldn't let me do that either!

I heard Bakura tell Anzu to move.

I looked up and saw that they'd figured out a way to avoid me. The spirit was no longer connected to the ring. He was just outright possessing Bakura and using Bakura's mind to use the Ring.

I thought about how to avoid an attack like that. I searched my mind, but he knew nothing.

Why would I know anything? All I know about my Puzzle is from trial and error, basically.

That's a lot of help..

But my thoughts were cut short. I was back inside my puzzle, feeling sick.

Yugi's POV

(Pure Yugi this time ^_^ (Hope I didn't confuse you too bad with that mind meld thing o.O)

It was dark in my room now. I didn't know what was happening.

I only knew that my Yami had possessed me in the normal way spirits do. Not from the Puzzle.

My mind, at first, and become very cluttered. It hurt. Whatever Yami had bought along with him was too big for one mind to handle. So, I was sent here.

I..it was just black. I was deeply unnerved at what Yami had done, though, a tiny part of my suspected he couldn't control himself.

I thought about that.

What if he really couldn't? The last time Yami had complete control of me he almost forced me to take a life.or.at least, force someone else to take their own life.

But now wasn't the time for the past. Right now was now and Yami had contained me in this.blackness. It was scary. Yes, I'm 16 and saying that. It was. I couldn't see
anything and it was cold. I wasn't even aware, exactly, of my limbs, where they were.

I called out to mou hitori no boku, asked him to let me out. I knew he would do something about it. If just leave me here, that was still something.

He'd started to, but it was as if he'd changed his mind all of the sudden. There'd been light. I could see where I was, but it lapsed back into dark.

I really didn't like this place.

Eventually it got so light I could see clearly.

I saw Jou-kun disappear in green.

I called out to Yami one last time, trying to break his hold.

Or Alice's, I suppose.

It didn't work. She was too strong. She was going to kill everyone of us, and if not that, capture us and do. God knows what..

But, something happened.

I'm not sure, but here's what I think.

I think Bakura set me free.

No joke. He must've reconnected Yami to the Puzzle, using his Ring, somehow, and then since all spirits were being repressed right now, Alice would be taken with him.

So.that means Yami is alone with her?!

And how did Bakura learn to do that?

But the important thing now is that I'm out.

I can see.

And I've never been so happy to be in pain due to sudden exposure to light. And chances are, I'll never be again.

Ryou Bakura's POV

(AN - Watch who he calls -kun. Yugi without -kun attached means it's..the..Yami/Alice/Yugi something .blob.being.maybe..o.O Why are you looking at me?! Huh punk?!? Sorry.)

The flying ball! It'd flown right into Yugi!

I watched as Yugi's eyes turned to scarlet, and then went past into a deep maroon. Not the color of his darker half, but not Yugi's color either. It was crimson mixed with black. Those eyes held no purity, nor good.

I was .. Hmm. I can't say scared because I wasn't. More like.cautious with reason. Something along those lines at least.

And then when the . different .. Yugi turned towards me, I saw a longing in his eyes. Which in itself freaked me out.

Yami (Bakura now : P) told me to be calm, it wasn't Yugi or the pharaoh.

He'd stared at me for awhile, as though deciding what to do.

Jounouchi-kun and Anzu stared at Yugi, as though unsure what to do.

Should they hurt Yugi and or Yami Yugi just to protect themselves. Real clash of morals there. Is it more righteous to hurt your friend to save yourself and two other people?

Kant might have something to say about that.or Stevens. Those would be French and American philosophers there. I know, an American philosopher.but he's respected in England and America, so that's good enough for me. Just wish they didn't have such tricky last names.. Or first names for that matter..

But, back to this nightmare.

When YYugi had raised his hand and shoot green light at me, I lost it. I couldn't keep calm anymore. Inside I was screaming while outside I couldn't move.

Yami held onto me though. Can you believe it? He actually put his arms around me to ward it off.set it off course. but Yami? I didn't think he'd actually do something like that. Of course, I know he loved me, as a friend, of course. he told me that often, but still.

I looked back onto what was happening between Yugi and Jou-kun. Jou-kun had tried to detain Yugi, but Yugi had kicked him in the collar bone. Oh, they were on the ground by the way, Yugi isn't that flexable, even if it isn't him.

Yugi stood up and shoot the green light and Jou-kun. He disappeared.

Anzu was crying at him to stop.

I felt something enter my mind right then. I was Yami, though I was too disoriented by it to know it at the time.

It was like.I was there. I thought I had complete control because there was no struggle. The waves my brain was sending out were being received and carried out, only Yami was tampering with them, so it was him, not me. Though I could see, hear, and feel everything exactly as it was when I was the omote (surface personality. I don't like using the fandon 'hikari' though I will if I have too = =).

He'd using the Ring, through me, to reconnect Yami Yugi to the Puzzle, and then break the control he had over Yugi-kun.

Yugi had fallen to the ground, panting and holding his eyes, almost as though he'd just come out of a dark room. Yami Yugi was inside the Puzzle again, and Alice.where was she?

Alice's POV

Damn. So close so close. But let's do a running tally shall we?

I have Shizuka, currently transformed completely, I believe, and wandering around without the knowledge she was know a doll looking for Mokuba who was also a doll.

'Jou-kun' was currently trapped in the house, looking out the window at Seto Kaiba, who was still lost in his own thoughts.

Honda was unconscious, and most likely David was trying to help back to consciousness, and then, Anzu, Yugi, the other Yugi, Bakura, and the 'dark duelist' were all right in front of me.

But not for long.

I was.in a maze. HUGE thing. Someone could get lost in here for a really long time.

But, I knew how to get around.

There's a trick to these things. You put your hand on the left wall and follow that. I think. Or was it right.

I hate mazes..

I saw the other Yugi though. Back in Yugi's clothes, kneeling on the ground.

It appears the room I was now in had the texture of his thoughts running though it.

He felt sick and I could feel myself attached in this room was well.

Stupid spirit. I don't want to be a fixated ghost!

So.know. how do I get out, I wonder?

I wandered away from the other Yugi.

Eventually though, in the midst of my thoughts, I came across something odd. Twenty minutes of walking had gotten me to a place where the door was thin. It was a gateway.

Not wanting to be stuck in here, I walked towards it, in hopes of getting out.

The other Yugi stopped me though.

"How the hell'd you get in here?!" He asked, outraged.

Ah, but there was a trace of fear in his eyes. He'd felt what it was like to be possessed, hated it, and never wanted it to happen again.

I cocked my head. Planning. If I go through that door now, who knows what I could do. But if I stayed here, I could control both this spirit and his host.

Why not just control the host and not worry about there spirit, though?

I recited my spell and the spirit was gone, in a green flash.

I allowed myself the pleasure of a small chuckle, and, decided to leave the puzzle. Hell, I could always come back. Wherever this tunnel leads, it's two-way.

And I hoped very much that somehow it'd get me closer to Bakura...

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Feh. I hate it. Didn't spend enough time on it and it doesn't create the effect of 'gasp~!' like I wanted it too -_-;;;;