"Umm, well, I think I might your help, all of you," Ianna said looking at the trio. "I need to get Yugi out of the Puzzle, I don't know what could happen if he's there for a long time."

"Of course we'll help ya," Joey said stepping towards Ianna. "We'll do whatever it takes." He grabbed her hand and smiled. "Won't we guys." Tea and Tristan nodded, pulling Joey away from Ianna.

"Yeah, any friend of Yugi's is a friend of ours," Tristan told her, Tea nodded in agreement.

"Where do we start though?" Ianna asked.

"Maybe we should head down to the museum, they have an Ancient Egyptian exhibition set up right now," Tea suggested.

"That's a great idea," Joey exclaimed. "Come on Ianna, we'll show the way!" Joey once again took Ianna's hand and started to lead out of the room with the others.

"Oh, wait," Ianna ran back and grabbed the Millennium Puzzle. "I should keep this with me." She said tying the rope around her chain, so that it hung on her waist. Joey then took her hand again.

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"What's Joey doing?" Yami questioned as he watched his sister being dragged along with Joey.

"Just trying to be nice," Yugi said, he knew that Yami was becoming protective now. "Don't worry about it." Yami just crossed his arms.

"I worry about what Joey is going to do with my sister. I hope that their careful out there," Yami said after a few minutes silence. "She's never been outside the Puzzle before, at least since you put the puzzle together."

"I don't think you have to worry about her," Yugi reassured Yami. "She's got the others there with her too, just in case." Yami nodded knowing Yugi was right.

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Arriving at the museum they realized it was almost closing time, they only had about half an hour until the museum would lock the doors. They walked in and found the Egyptian exhibit, then decided to split up and search.

"What exactly are we looking for anyway?" Tristan asked before the split up.

"I don't know," Ianna said, thinking. "I guess anything that refers to the Millenium Items." She shrugged. The others nodded and took off.

Walking past a few cases with artifacts in them Ianna was drawn down a side hallway. Walking down the dim hallway she stopped in front of a case that held a particularly colorful papyrus. She didn't notice the cloaked figure that had been following her. Moving on to the next case she was startled when the figure grabbed her wrist. She gasped and quickly turned around.

"I'm sorry, miss," The man said. He was wearing a long purple cloak, his face covered with a hood. "I did not mean to startle you." His voice sounded familiar to her, but she pushed the thought aside.

"Uh, it is alright," She said slowly. "May I help you?" She looked as the man's gaze went down to the Millennium Puzzle at her waist.

"That is an interesting you have," he then looked up and saw her armband. "Is that a matching item?"

"I don't think it was meant to be, but they could be part of the same set," She said trying to pull her wrist from his grasp. "I think I shouhld be going now." But the man wouldn't let go.

"I had forgotten that the pharaoh had such a lovely sister," The man chuckled to himself, tightening his grip on Ianna. Ianna looked at the man, her eyes a little wide.

"What are you talking about? What do you know?" Ianna said a little worried now. She continued to pull at the man's grip, but to no avail. "Please, let go of me. I do not know you, please leave me alone." THe man kept chuckling then Ianna felt a sharp pain in the back of her head before she blacked out. She fell forward and the man holding her quickly caught her and threw her over his shoulder.

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Tea, Joey and Tristan stood outside of the museum waiting for Ianna. "You tink she got lost?" Tea asked as the secrity guard locked the front doors.

"I think that one of the guards would have found her," Tristan said. Joey looked around and noticed some movement in one of the allies by the museum.

"Hey guys, what d'ya think's happening over there?" He says pointing to the alley. Tristan and Tea shrugs. "Think we should check it out?" They jogged over and hiding behind a dumpster they saw a guy in a black robe followed by a guy in a purple cloak. Then they noticed he was carrying Ianna. Joey went to jump out and save Ianna but Tristan stopped him.

"If you jump out there now you get could you and Ianna in more trouble," Tristan told him. "We wait and see where they go, then follow them in my car." Joey nodded and stayed back, keeping on eye on Ianna.

The two men stopped in the alley and looked around for any people looking. Ianna slowly opened her eyes then, slowly adjusting to the scenery around her. She felt herself being carried as the men started to walk again. She wiggled and fell out of the man's grasp and onto the ground. The two men stopped and Ianna jumped to her feet before she could be grabbed again.

"What the hell do you want?!" She yelled at the men, who advacing towards her. She slowly backed away trying to think of a plan to get away, or at least get help.

"Just come with us quietly and no one will get hurt," The man in the black robe said.

"Yea, no one but you!" Ianna turned around and saw Joey, Tristan and Tea run out from behind a dumpster. Joey and Tristan ran at the guys while Tea stopped and grabbed Ianna's arm pulling her in the opposite direction of the fighting.

"Come on, those two can handle themselves," Ianna nodded but kept looking back as she ran. Tea and Ianna ran all the way the local park until the stopped, sitting on a bench they rested and caught their breath. "What was that about?" Tea asked Ianna.

"I'm not sure. The one stopped me in the building, next thing I knew I had been knocked out." Ianna leaned down, holding her head in her hands. "But the man did notice the Millennium Puzzle, he seemed very interested in it." Tea just nodded.

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"What just happened?" Yugi and Yami has witnessed the whole scene.

"Some dark forces are at work here," Yami said, obviously in thought.

"Do you think it's Marik?" Yugi questioned, not really wanting to know the answer.

"I believe it is," Yami said quietly. "I knew this wasn't going to go well." 'This is not a good omen,' Yami thought.

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A few hours later, the sun had set and Tea and Ianna were still in the park, with no sign of Tristan and Joey.

"Maybe they went home, or maybe they're looking for us now," Tea said outloud, not sounding like she even believed that.

"Maybe we should leave," Ianna suggested. "You should return to your house, and I'll go back to Yugi's home. I should be alright there."

"Do you want me to walk you there?" Tea asked.

"No, I'll be fine, but thank you." Ianna and Tea said their goodbyes and went their seperate ways. Ianna walked down the dark street, with only a few street lights to guide her. Before she had left Tea had given her some direction back to the Game shop, which wasn't to far away from the park. Turning a corner she saw three figures half way down the block, she stopped and looked for another way to the shop. With her attention distracted the three cloaked men advanced towards her, two from the incident at the mumseum, and another black robed man for backup.

Ianna looked back and quixkly turned around to flee but ran into someone and fell to the ground. Looking up she saw two more men in black robes. They roughly seized her from the ground and before she could open her mouth to scream one of the men behind her had tied a gag around her mouth. Ianna was was turned around and found herself staring into a pair of violet eyes.

"On second thought, you can help me," The man in the purple cloak smirked. His hood was off his head and Ianna could get a good look at her assailants face. Apart from his violet eyes he had wavy sandy blonde hair and thin lips. "You might be the thing I need to bring the Pharaoh to me." He laughed as the other men started to tie her hands and feet together. "Maybe we won't have to kill you right away after all." Her eyes widened as she realized that this was Marik.

Ianna squirmed and struggled against her captors, but they had a good hold on her arms this time. Now she was wishing that she had taken Tea up on her offer. A black limo then pulled around the corner and stopped in front of them. One the robed men opened the door and threw Ianna in the very back as she landed on the floor. Marik climbed in and one of the robed men as the others went up to the front. The man roughly picked her up and threw her in the seat in between him and Marik as the limo started to move. Marik lifted her head up with his hand and looked into her yellow eyes.

"Such lovely eyes, such a rare sight," He smirked. Ianna swiftly moved her head out of his grasp, Marik retaliated by grabbing her long hair and pulling it towards him. She gasped but it was blocked by the gag. "I think it would wise to listen to me, since now I hold your life in my hands."

Ianna's head was facing the robed man and she could see the faint trace of a smile on his face. Marik let go of her hair and she almost fell to the floor again. He then traced his fingers along the outline of the eye on her armband. "This is very interesting to me," Marik said, looking at the armband. "Would you happen to know anything about this?" Ianna shook her head no closed her eyes as he now traced the outline of the arm band on her skin. "Really, quite a lovely woman you are." Ianna tried to scoot away from Marik, but found that the robed man was closer than she thought. The only other place to go was the floor, and that didn't look very comfortable at the moement.

A few hours later, and a few hours of silence, the car stopped and the door opened. Marik got out and the robed man grabbed Ianna and practically tossed her out of the car. Two other robed men caught her before she hit the ground and started to follow Marik. Looking around Ianna tried to take in her surroundings. They appeared to have stopped at a pier with empty wharehouses all around. Marik walked into the largest of the buildings and instructed the men to take Ianna to her 'room.' Going down a down a hallway and through a few doors Ianna found her self being thrown inside of a small cage. The door slammed shut and locked, the men walked away leaving her alone in the room.

Ianna struggled with the ropes but found it was no use, but the gag was loose and it slipped off her mouth. Breathing in she then tryed to formulate an escape plan, but of course the ropes would be hard for her to work around. A few minutes to door to the room opened and Marik walked in, he circled the cage smiling to himself. "Are you comfortable with your accomadations?" Ianna didn't answer but glared at him. "I see, a quiet one we have here. No worries though," Marik walked up to the cage and reached in grabbing the Millennium Puzzle. "With this and you here there is no doubt that that little brat will come looking for it. When he does I will defeat him and take the Puzzle for myself."

"You are mistaken in your plan," Ianna said calmly not looking at Marik. "It will not work, of this I am certain."

"What do you mean?" Marik walked in front of her so she would look at him. "What do you know sorcereress?"

"I know where the flaw in you plans lies," She said smiling. "And I demand that you release me now. I am royalty, have you no respect?"

Marik chuckled and reached under his cloak and pulled out something. "You will tell me, or I will force it out of you," He threatened pulling out the Millennium Rod. Ianna just stared at it, her smlie disappeared.

'What do I do now?' Ianna thought staring into the eyes of a madman.