Chapter 16

Joey, Tristan, Mokuba and Tea ran into the building through the hole that earlier monsters had put in the wall. They were ready to congratulate Yugi and squeeze him to death with hugs, but were unable to when they saw Yugi holding his lifeless friend in the center of the dome. Mokuba's attention was turned to his brother, who was lying lifeless as well nearby. He ran over to him as the rest slowly approached Yugi, who was crying uncontrollably for his friend's death.

"Yugi..." Joey knelt beside him.

"This can't be it! Not after everything that has happened! I refuse to believe that all of it was for nothing, and he was brought back to die like this!" he started complaining, still shedding tears. "If this is what fate is, then fate can screw itself!"

It was true. The secrets of his past were still a mystery to him, and just after they had found a way to solve these mysteries, this had to occur. It all seemed too pointless for him to return and never figure out what he desired. There needed to be more of a reason for him to come back.

Yugi continued holding and crying for Yami. Nothing could relax him from such a loss. Joey stayed next to him, hoping he could find some way to comfort him. It was useless. It seemed like Yugi would never reel from such a catastrophe.

Tristan looked at Tea and saw that the marks on her face caused by the mummies had disappeared. With confused looks on their faces, Tristan put Tea down and found she was able to stand again. She looked down and noticed that all of her wounds were beginning to heal. The blood was soaked back up into the wounds and then they shut and disappeared as if they had never been there. Scars were not even left behind. Tea felt just as she had before she fell into the hoard of mummies. It was then thought that the death of Anubis had caused such healing.

All except Yugi glanced at Yami. His wounds were also disappearing. Blood returned the veins of the body as bones reconnected and the stab wounds closed. The blood that ran from his mouth disintegrated and not a single scar was left behind.

"The blood he shed existed no longer after his disintegration," Tea repeated a part of the prophecy from the tablet. "This is it! This was his curse!"

Yugi did not notice, but Yami's eyes reopened. He felt Yugi's tears drop from his face onto him. Seeing his little friend in a state of sadness, he reached his arm up and his hand lifted his chin.

"It is too soon, I know. That is why I would never allow death to separate us at this time," he completed his statement from before.

Yugi was overjoyed to see Yami alive again. A huge smile on his face, he leaped into his friend's arms and hugged him. The two of them stood up again as Yugi released his hug. His arm wiped his tears from his face as their bodies began to glow. They became lights with human shapes and then the taller of the two shrunk down to Yugi's normal height as the other disappeared into the puzzle. The light faded and Yugi and Yami were again reunited in one body.

"Yug!" Joey and everyone else went to their friend.

"Hey," he said happily. "Glad to see you're all ok!"

"We're fine, but dude, how much of an ass kicking did you deal Anubis with your God cards?" Tristan had to ask.

"Uh, I wouldn't call it that at all," he replied. They were only kidding. They were happier to see him alive and well.

"Big brother!" Mokuba shouted with joy. "You're alright!"

Finally getting to his feet, Seto stood up, though there were four large scratch-shaped holes in his shirt. He rubbed his head and looked around the severely damaged Battle Dome. He started throwing a fit after seeing how badly it was damaged.

"Damnet! Who did this? Who hired a crane to come and knock holes into my beautiful dome?" Seto cried, apparently in disbelief of everything that happened.

"That's not a bad idea. I'll hire some guy that knows how to work a crane and have him smash up your business headquarters!" Joey joked. Kaiba just snarled at him.

"Seto, do you remember what happened?" Yugi asked him.

"Yeah, I guess I fainted in the middle of the duel, and then I had this creepy dream about this man that did steroids trying to take over the world," Seto explained briefly. "Damnet and I was about to win!"

Everyone sighed. Nothing would get Kaiba to believe any thing they had gone through. He was still in disbelief from Battle City.

"I'll just have to have someone fix this place up then," he sighed. "Let's get out of here, Mokuba."

Seto and Mokuba were beginning to leave the Dome, but Yugi stopped them.

"Seto, whether you believe what happened with Anubis or not, we both know that you would have won that duel had there not been interference," Yugi said him respectively.

Kaiba turned around and saw Yugi sticking out his hand, giving him a card. Seto walked over and took it from him. He looked at it and saw the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon. He stared back at Yugi, knowing that he had not admitted defeat, but given Kaiba that card in respect. Though it was really stolen from Pegasus, Seto really had no intention of giving it back to him. Not wanting to make this moment any cornier than it seemed, Kaiba nodded his head back at Yugi and walked away with his younger brother.

There is a light in you, Yugi thought to himself as Kaiba walked away with the card he had given him.

It had been a few mornings after the incident. Kaiba was in a rush to get to work that day. He had misplaced his cell phone somewhere and was scurrying around trying to find it. Mokuba had just woken up as Seto was calling to him.

"Mokuba, grab my cell phone, will you? It's in my desk in the den!" he asked of his younger brother.

Mokuba gladly agreed to retrieve his brother's phone. The past few days had been great between him and his brother. Seto had locked away his deck, promising Mokuba that they would build Kaiba Land before he would duel again. He decided that he needed not to duel so much and spend more time with the only piece of his family he had. For that, Mokuba was in more appreciation of his brother and was happy to see him turn over to become at least a little bit more of a family person.

He ran into the den and opened the center desk drawer. Inside of it was not only Seto's cell phone, but also something else. It was a card, protected with a special glass cover screwed shut. He had not even protected his Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards in cases like these. He lifted the card from his desk and saw that it was the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card Yugi had given him. Mokuba smiled, assuming that perhaps Seto had really appreciated. Maybe even he had considered it a sign of some kind of bond. Mokuba could only hope, but nonetheless was very proud of his brother.

"Mokuba did you find it?" Seto called to his brother. Sneakily, Mokuba put the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card back in the desk.

"Yeah, I got it," he said as he shut the drawer to the desk.

Author's note: So yeah that's it! Picture the Orichalcos Doom (or Waking the Dragons in the English version) happening right after this, like some days or something. Yeah sorry if it didn't go too hot with the original story, but I tried.