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MidnightBallad: As you may or may not know, I live in Australia. Over here, it's pretty hard to watch the entire Yu-Gi-Oh series without them being cancelled for another show halfway through; you need Foxel/cable TV to see the entire series. Therefore, I had to get a lot of my information for my story from websites. If any part of the story is wrong, blame it on the website, not ME! Thanks a lot.

P.S: If you see 'present' at the start of the chapter, then that means the story is set in 'the now'. If it says 'past', then it is set 3, 000 years ago, back in Egypt.

Present: Knowing and Yearning

'Are they alright? What happened, Kaiba?' a girl asked in the darkness of Yami's semi-unconsciousness.

'They just dropped down like they'd been shot.'

'Poke them!' a younger person said loudly. 'Maybe they're awake!'

Someone poked Yami. He sat upright very fast, so fast that his head spun. He was met with the faces of Tea, Seto Kaiba and Mokuba. They all looked very confused.

'Yugi! Are you alright?' Tea asked in a shaky voice. Yami put his head in his hands and said, 'Yes, I think so.'

'What happened?' Mokuba asked.

Yami answered, 'It was a memory. One that I've never seen before.' He rubbed the Millennium Puzzle around his neck. 'Back in Egypt...'

Kaiba frowned and looked at Tory. The necklace around her neck was glowing faintly. It was a small plate of brass that clasped a very large, colourful crystal. The brass had small leaves and such carved into it. The necklace looked very old. Slowly, Kaiba reached out and touched it –

Tory screamed as she awoke. She looked at Kaiba and screamed again. The High Priest?! What was he doing here?! And then she remembered...it was the present again, and her memories were behind her.

Kaiba appeared very shocked that he had been screamed at. Tory bit her lip and said, 'I'm sorry. I thought you were someone else.'

Kaiba narrowed his eyes. 'Indeed,' he looked at Yami and then back to Tory. 'What did you just see?'

All eyes fell on Tory. Did she know something about Yami's past that no one else did?

'We need to go somewhere,' Tory said, climbing shakily to her feet. 'I have something I need to discuss with Kaiba and Yugi...Yami...whatever.'

- -

Kaiba invited Yami and Tory back to his office building, where no one was going to disturb them. Tea went home without delay. Tory was silent all the way, but Mokuba continuously shot questions at Yami.

'What was the memory about? Did it have anything to do with Duel Monsters?' Mokuba asked.

'No...it was different. It looked more like a personal aspect of my life.'

Mokuba scratched his chin, and then whispered to Yami, 'Did it have anything to do with her?' He pointed at Tory. Yami nodded.

The car pulled up outside of Kaiba Corp's building. It shone like a giant upright sculpture of glass, one that towered above the rest. Kaiba got out first, followed by Tory, Mokuba and then Yami. They went upstairs without delay, and Kaiba barked at his workers and told them not to disturb them unless they asked for help.

Kaiba's office was on the top floor, and the walls were actually the windows of the skyscraper. Sunlight streamed in through the windows, and rainbow light danced around the room as sunlight pierced a lage fish tank. Apart from Kaiba's desk, there were two, red leather chairs in the middle of the room. Also a wide glass coffee table that doubled as a fish tank. There was also a TV screen set into the only true wall of the office. Kaiba's deck of Duel Monster cards sat in a metal briefcase on his desk, next to which was a phone.

'Sit down, everyone,' Kaiba said, crossing to the phone. 'I'm going to get some refreshments up here.'

Mokuba bounced twice as he leapt onto the lounges. Yami sat down, stretching, but Tory remained standing. She went over to the windows and gazed down into the streets, then looked out onto the horizon – dark clouds were swarming across the city, and Tory sighed within herself.

She suddenly noticed that Yami was standing behind her, and she turned to face him. She smiled weakly – Kaiba and Mokuba were watching her too. Tory licked her dry lips and sighed. 'Alright...where do I begin?'

'From the beginning.' Kaiba said. Tory took a deep breath...

- -

'Okay,' she began. She clung to the necklace with the large crystal in it. 'I think it starts with this. Ever since I can remember, I've had this necklace. I think my mum must have given it to me. She says it came from Cyprus, and that her mother gave it to her. Kind of like a family heirloom, I guess. I realised when I was little that it had some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on it...'

Tory flipped her necklace over. It was true – there were hieroglyphs on the back of it. 'I tried to learn how to read it, and eventually had to consult a textbook. Eventually, I found that it said Akunriou. I had no idea what 'Akunriou' was. When I managed to translate it, I found that it meant blessed angel (A/N: Not really, I made that up). I guessed that Akunriou was an Egyptian deity or something.'

Tory began to play with the necklace in her fingers and went on. 'So I did plenty of research on this deity – turns out that she wasn't a deity. Nowhere did anyone mention Akunriou. But, I finally had to the chance to find out when my dad got offered a two-week job in Egypt. During his time off, we went around the pyramids, and even got to go into them. And then I noticed something: on the walls of one of the temples was a picture of a Duel Monster. It looked like the Dark Magician...'

Tory thought for a minute, as if trying to remember the story. ' ... And then there was a picture of the Pharaoh on the wall next to it. Around the Pharaoh's neck was the Millennium Puzzle.'

Tory looked across at Yami. 'And as soon as I saw that picture, I had a vision. It was of you two, Yami and Kaiba, and another girl. And I knew there was something about this necklace that I just had to know. I found a newspaper clipping of Yugi with the Millennium Puzzle around his neck, and decided that I was going to get to Japan somehow. A week after I got back for Egypt, dad had work to do in Japan – can you believe my luck?'

She grinned, but quickly went on. 'And then it turned out that dad, mum and I got to live here, at least for a year. Now was my chance to speak to you, Yami. And that's the story so far.'

There was a brief silence.

Kaiba asked, 'When you and Yugi fell unconscious at the museum, was it a similar vision to the one you had in Egypt?'

'It was the same. And I have a feeling that the girl in the vision...was me.'

Kaiba cocked an eyebrow and looked at Yami. Yami said slowly, 'Are you sure?'

Tory nodded and swallowed at the same time. 'Yes.'

'But I have never seen you in my memories,' Yami said pointedly. 'Are you saying that...the girl was your previous life?'

Tory nodded again. 'The memories are locked inside my necklace. And I think you and Kaiba being here could unlock them. I have a hunch that the necklace is fate, and it means something.'

Yami folded his arms across his chest. 'So, if Kaiba and I help you...do you know how to unlock the memories?'

Tory clasped the necklace in the palm of her hand. 'I do.'

'Could you show us?' Kaiba asked. As if it were an answer, Tory's necklace began to glow. So did Yami's Millennium Puzzle. And then, Yami, Kaiba and Tory were sucked into the white oblivion again.

-End Chapter Three-

MidnightBallad: Please review, because I want to know whether I should continue or not. And the next vision is a good one, and you won't find out what it is unless you review. Be nice, please!