A/N- Hey, minna! Ok, so here's what's going on...Originally, I had a chapter that I had planned on writing here, but once I got to thinking about it, it was pretty much pointless and I didn't really need it now that you guys have all the facts. Therefore, I just skipped that chapter and went straight into this one, but THIS was the chapter that I had writer's block on and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to go about doing this. Lucky for all of you I got a vague idea of what could happen on Thursday and, after including some minor details, am able to write this chapter...

Hopefully, my writing won't be as poor as it was last chapter when my brain completely felt like mush...If it does, please forgive me.

Thanks for being patient w/me everyone and sorry for those of you that have tried to e-mail me...I haven't been able to get on it b/c it's messed up again. I intend to remedy that soon.

hobbit13: Well, that love triangle is correct, but that doesn't exactly help me any as neither Serenity or Duke are in this story...what can I say? I'm very naive and Selina has a lot of anger of course I would loose to her!

Hazel-Beka: YOU'RE WHAT?! What did you do?! My email is messed up, but I'm hoping to fix it so I should be checking it out soon. I finished R/Ring you didn't I? Am I all caught up on yours or did I miss some? I know I got caught up on somebody's. Neways, let me know. As soon as I get my email working again I'll be sending you those pics and stuff.

Subieko: Thanks! Um...I actually don't know as much about the raid on Bakura's village as I let on. All I had to go by was a little commentary at janime that said his village was attacked by one of Yami's Priests. Thanks for the card info! It was very helpful!

Nicky: Evil, ne? Actually, no, Ryou isn't b/c he's in his soul room. You remember when I had their worst fears going? Bakura didn't have one b/c (I couldn't think of anything) he was in his soul room...then he switched w/Ryou, which means Ryou's in his soul room and doesn't have to worry about it either. Yup, we're twinz...thanx, but the muse they gave me was really cheap and didn't help that much...it kept running away...

Una: That is pretty cool how we both did some of the same things in our stories like Joey's necrophobia and making Bakura relive his worst memory...Of course! That's what makes it so interesting! Well, don't worry, they all come together in this one. Yeah, I know. Last chap sucked in my opinion, but I wasn't really trying with it. It just didn't want to cooperate with me so I just kinda gave up on that one. I don't think this one is much better as the muse I was using kept running away at the worst of times...Thanks so much for that card info! You're the best!

Elizabeth Aiken: Thanks! Here it is! Enjoy...

A Neko Okami named Wolfy: I actually think that's an excellent idea...the only problem with that is that this is the third part in a trilogy...I'm the kind of person that will leave a project in the middle of it and move on to something else b/c I can't stand doing the same thing for too long. (In short, I'm kinda getting tired of this plotline, you know?) But since it is such a great idea, why don't you write it? I would love to read something like that and I'm afraid that if I tried it you guys would think it was boring b/c I wasn't trying my best if I wrote it, understand? But I would love to read it if you wrote it and I would even tell everyone about it in my epilogue (if I do one) and give you my full permission to use my characters and such...What do you think? You could email it to me and I could put it up if you wanted to...Wow, thanks for all that card info about Dark Necrofear! That was really helpful!

Chapter 7- The Cacophony of Chaos

Selina glared at her surroundings angrily as she recalled how she had found her hikari going through her most private memories (of course, that was excluding the fact that it was what just happened to pop up in her mind thanks to her Shadow Magic).

Now that all of her enemies had gone through there worst memories, it was time for the next phase of her plan...the part where she destroyed them all...

All that she needed now...was to instruct the shadows to do her bidding...

Yami stared apathetically at the spot where his past self and aibou lay. Sweat trickled down from his temple across his cheek, mingling with the tears that flowed freely down his face from remorse and guilt.

He did not even notice when Kuribo began to grow agitated and started to nudge him. Nothing, sparring the scene in front of him, even registered until Kuribo knocked into him so hard that he was falling face forward onto the ground.

He grunted at impact as the wind was forced out of his lungs and he took a moment to steady his breathing before leveling a glare at Kuribo, who blushed apologetically.

Yami sighed and rolled his eyes, standing back up to face Kuribo before saying, "You're right. I'm sorry; I know I shouldn't let these memories get the better of me like this, but..."

Yami broke off as the ground rumbled and started to shake. He changed his stance so he would not loose his balance and watched, wide-eyed, as Kuribo disintegrated in front of him.

Before the shock had even worn off from the sudden earthquake, a large hole melted out of the shadows under him and he fell as the darkness swallowed him.

All over the Shadow Realm, vortexes appeared, dragging Yugi and all of his friends into the depths of the shadows and in a flash of bright, white light, depositing them all in the same place.

(It really got annoying doing it from all those different POVs)

Serafina looked around, confused at the sudden fall into the abyss and the just as sudden a drop off in the middle of nowhere...again. Noticing that this time she was not alone, Serafina ran to the only "friendly" face she saw—Yugi.

Her run was more of a crawl as the strain of the Shadow Realm pulled on her body, causing sweat to drip down her face, matting her hair to her forehead with the effort of standing upright. As she drew nearer to Yugi, it seemed to her as if he was a bit paler and sicklier looking than before she had previously seen him.

"Yugi," her raspy voice called. "I'm so glad you're ok! Do you know what's going on? Or where we are?"

Recognition crossed his expression before it was replaced with a grimace. He answered in a weak, strained voice filled with tension, "This is the Shadow Realm, Serafina. It's magic. A girl that looks like you has trapped us here and is trying to kill us. She wants the Millennium Items that Ryou and I posses and she's doing all this through your Millennium Bracelet."

Serafina's eyes widened as she gaped at the short teenager in front of her. The expression was quickly erased as pain seared through her and Serafina vaguely noticed that Yugi seemed to be suffering just as much as her as she gasped, trying to draw breath, but only managing to hyperventilate as if the very air had been sucked out of her lungs.

The moment passed, however, and air was returned to her, causing her to take deep, steadying breaths to calm her racing heart. She winced at the pain each breath caused, as if a giant ice pick had been stabbed into her ribs and gotten caught.

When Serafina was finally able to speak normally again, she said, "Are you talking about Selina?" At Yugi's nod, she continued. "I don't think-" she began, but was cut off as two heavy somethings collided with her midsection and knocked her to the ground, forcing the air out of her lungs once again.

The somethings hit her and one of them wrapped firm hands around her throat, lifting her off the ground.

"NO! YAMI! JOEY! STOP! It's not her! That's Serafina not Selina! Let her go!" Yugi's voice called frantically.

"How do you know that for sure, aibou?" a deeper voice, sounding remarkably like Yugi's replied coldly, chilling Serafina with its frigidness.

"You would be able to tell as well, Pharaoh, if you bothered to look before you leap to conclusions. That creature absolutely reeks of light magic, clearly revealing her to be a hikari."

With that, the figure in front of her glared at Bakura and dropped her (none too gently either) and backed off.

Serafina stumbled and nearly fell over, managing to catch herself just in time. Struggling to catch her breath again, she wiped the tears from her face and begged herself to stop crying.

'I'm not a baby,' she kept telling herself, 'so I shouldn't act like one.' But she just could not keep one final tear from falling as she gasped and gulped air eagerly. Yugi ran over, holding onto her arm, supporting her, and helping her to stand.

When Serafina had finally managed to school her features into a semblance of casual shyness, she looked up to see herself surrounded by all of Yugi's friends; each of which having a miffed expression on their face.

Her movements were timid and meek as she moved closer to Yugi instinctively. Yugi glared at the boy that looked just like him and Joey before saying, "Leave her alone, guys. This isn't her fault that we're in all of this and it's hard enough dealing with the strain of the Shadow Realm without you beating up innocent bystanders!"

At that grim announcement, most of Yugi's friends blanched and Joey mumbled an apology, averting his eyes to the ground. Yugi turned back to Serafina and asked, "Now what were you saying?"

Serafina began to answer, but was unable to get anything out as the Shadow Realm's darkness swept through them again, forcing Yugi and Serafina to their knees.

When the black dots disappeared from Serafina's vision she noticed that all of Yugi's friends (excluding Bakura) had surrounded him and were helping him up. When no one came to help her up or even seemed to notice her distress, Serafina felt a pang of sadness rise up in her, causing her heart to sink and she had to mask her expression quickly before the others turned around.

Helping herself up, Serafina turned to the others as they crowded around Yugi and asked him whether he was all right. He answered that he was fine before turning to Serafina and asking her the same thing.

She smiled and her heart soared at Yugi's act of friendship and she told him that she was all right also.

"Anyway, I was going to tell you what happened to me. I don't really understand what's going on, but you seem to and I was wondering if you could explain it to me and maybe help me with something?"

Yugi smiled at Serafina in return and said, "Certainly."

"Well, at first, I woke up in this strange room. I looked like something I would dream up if I was going to redecorate my own room. It was really weird because it had pictures that I had drawn before hanging on the walls; when I looked to see who the artist was, the name that was written on the drawings was mine!

"That's when I rushed out of the room into this long corridor. At first it was empty and I just walked down it, but after a while this door just popped up!"

Serafina then proceeded to tell Yugi (and his friends who were eagerly listening in) about everything that had happened and all that she had seen (only leaving out the part about her being related to Selina as she did not think it wise to be tackled to the ground anymore). When she finally finished, she looked to Yugi for an explanation

Yugi interrupted her, elucidating, "That room you woke up in is called your Soul Room. It reflects your personality, but it's the place your mind goes whenever it is not in control of your body, as is common with the Millennium Items and their spirits. The corridor is what connects your mind to Selina's, since she's your yami, or your dark side in a sense.

"If Selina hadn't been hiding her door from you, you would have seen another door across from yours that would lead to her soul room. As I'm sure you've figured out already, those doors that you opened that showed you those scenes were the doors to Selina's memories. Does that help you any?"

"Yeah, I think I get it...sort of."

"So what did you want me to help you with?'

Serafina blushed and looked at her shoes, "Um...I know you guys probably won't really understand, and I'll forgive you if you don't, but I was wondering if you would help me become friends with Selina...?"

As soon as that statement left her mouth, a cacophony of voices shouted at her in protest. After a few minutes, Yugi finally shouted for everyone to calm down and it became silent. Turning back to Serafina, Yugi asked, "Why do you want to be friends with her, Serafina? After all, she dumped you here into the Shadow Realm as well. It's obvious that she hoped to get rid of you."

Serafina sighed and explained her reasoning, "Well, I do know that Selina might not like me, especially after she caught me looking through her private memories, but when I went into that one door that showed me a basic overview of her life...well, I just got the impression that she was lonely. I mean, if you think about it, that's basically the whole reason she's doing this isn't it?

"I mean she wants the Millennium Items and I know she's trying to get rid of you in an attempt to do that, but the whole reason she got that way is because everyone picked on her at the orphanage. It makes me kinda feel sorry for her and I think that if we make friends with her, maybe we can dissuade her from her obsession of taking over the world..."

They all looked at her suspiciously and she said, "Look, guys. I know you don't trust me, or anything I have to say, but I just have this hunch that Selina isn't really doing all of this to gain power. I think what she really wants is for people to recognize her and see how much she's really worth...she wants friends, there's no doubt in my mind about it, but she just doesn't fully understand that yet.

"So far, everyone that she's ever gotten close to has left her. If we can convince her that we genuinely want to be friends with her and that she can trust us not to leave her, then I think we might stand a chance of setting her straight."

"She's got a point, you guys," Ryou said, switching with Bakura for the moment. "I mean, just look at Bakura. He used to want nothing more than to destroy Yami and take Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. Now that I've become friends with him, he doesn't care about that anymore...at least not that much, and we've even made friends with you guys when some of you used to not trust him, or us, before."

Yugi nodded his head in agreement, looking somewhat amused at Bakura who had switched back with Ryou and was attempting to glare at his other half (or in this case, himself). Yugi was quite sure that Ryou was receiving a mental berating.

"I guess we can give her a chance...we should at least try," Tea told everyone.

Before any of them had a chance to reply, they heard a sinister voice call out from the shadows.

"Well, well, well. What have we here? The entire dream team together...I think you all have had enough time to catch up on pleasantries wouldn't you say?"

The whole group spun around at the sound to Selina's sinister drawl.

The air crackled like electricity as enraged expression gouged themselves onto everyone's faces (excluding Serafina) despite their promise to attempt to make friends with Selina.

Selina noticed the barely contained magic and said, "Now, now. None of that. If you can't behave yourselves, I'll just have to let you play with my puppets..."

With those words, eight distorted, shadowed figures walked out of the darkness and approached the group from all directions. It was all of their favorite monsters turned against them.

Dark Magician

Dark Magician Girl

Magician of Faith

Flame Swordsman

Cyber Commander

Dark Necrofear

Change of Heart

Maiden of the Moonlight

As one the monsters used their magic or their weapons to shoot bolts of light at the unsuspecting group. Tea screamed and grabbed onto the nearest person, which happened to be Joey. Everyone else stood frozen, not knowing what to do, while Yami and Bakura threw up Shadow Shields causing the bolts to bounce off and right back at their casters, forcing the monsters to put up their own blocks.

Serafina came forward, staring at Selina as she exclaimed, "Selina! Please stop this! We can help you!"

The dark figure of Selina smiled sinisterly as she looked over to her lighter half before a burst of evil laughter escaped her and filled the area so that chills ran up the spines of everyone in the vicinity.

A/N- Ok, I know that really sucked and I didn't want to end it like that, but this chapter is just being really evasive and it has taken me forever to get this out b/c the words just wouldn't come to me. I told you I had writer's block for this chapter and it's been really hard trying to write through it even if I did have a vague idea of what was going on...so, I'm sorry.

NOTE: Alright, I went back and cut the original end off, b/c I know it tremendously sucked and I didn't put any effort into it...sigh I'm sorry guys; that's insulting to you and I promise to go back, fix it and make it right...So that makes this the second to last chapter and I might do an epilogue if I can think of something to write...wish me luck w/the editing of the last part...