It can't be.
It couldn't be.
Can it?
"Pharaoh Atem-sama?"

The place where Yugi sat was now taken by a much older teen, but he looked almost the same as Yugi.
"Ayame? Are you feeling alright?" The replacement of Yugi asked. There was a long pause.
"Pharaoh Atem-sama?" Ayame asked again. She wasn't acting like herself. She just sat in the car; looking at the replacement with her eyes that looked possessed.
Suddenly, she was back to reality and the replacement of the older Yugi was gone.

"What happened? Did I say something weird? Why are you looking at me like that?" Ayame doesn't remember ANYTHING that had just happened.

"Uh, u-uh?" Yugi looked confused so confused that he couldn't even make out a proper word. "You were j-just…just, oh, nevermind, it was nothing."
Before Ayame dropped Yugi off at his game shop, they sat there staring at each other weirdly for a while.

Ayame walked into her unbelievably large mansion. One of the maidens greeted her. "Welcome back, my lady."

One of the scientists that work in the research section ran up to her, "Miss! You are finally back!" He said, "We got a problem!"

"What is it?"

While he was explaining, they took the elevator to the underground level where almost a thousand computers were installed.

"Someone hacked into our system, and they are spreading viruses at an incredible speed." He explained.
"What? How's that possible?" The girl said, "Even the security was protected at the highest quality!"
She approached the central computer system, searching through the viruses.
Who could have done this? She thought to herself.
"Download all the files we have on this is computer to my laptop, and shut all the sys…"

Just then, the doorbell rang.

A maid went to see whom it was. "My Lady! I think it's one of your friends. Maybe you should come and see."

Ayame walked to the front door, thinking it might be Yugi, Joey, Tea, or maybe even Tristen.
But it wasn't any of them. The person standing in the doorway was Bakura. She felt half-scared and half-angered. They stood there silently staring at each other. Bakura had an emotionless expression; it was almost as if he was looking right through her.
Ayame thought quietly in her mind. What the hell is he doing here?
Then Bakura took the first step, and punched Ayame, hard, in the stomach. Because of the shortage of oxygen, she fainted.

Mean While

Yugi, who had been doing his homework but got tired and fell asleep, knew about his other half of his soul. The other half of the soul's name is Yami. These two have almost the same appearances; Yami looked more mature than the other one. The mature one seemed to be taller. They can switch back and forth because they a possessing only one body.
Yami was asleep also. He had a dream, not wait, a nightmare, no, half-and-half. He dreamt about a girl, who was calling out, "Help me! Help me!" She said, "Someone! Please help!"

"Ayame?" Yami couldn't see who she was, "Is that you? What's wrong?"
"HELP ME! SOMEONE!"

Yami has awakened, and so has Yugi. He knew what Yami just dreamt, because they could read each other's thoughts.
"Yami? Was that…was that Ayame?" Yugi asked.

Yami answered the question unsurely, "I'm don't know, but I think it was her."

A flash of image appeared in Yami's head immediately, it was an old abandoned warehouse. He thought that must be where Ayame was located. Suddenly, Yami felt a voice in the air that was calling out to him, his curiousity decided to follow this sound of despair.

Mean While Ends

Ayame was unconscious, but she could hear the two voices' conversation.

"So, are you going to use you rod to possess her mind as a mind slave?" Bakura's voice asked, "As you did to all the others?"

"Not exactly," A voice said. "I have a better plan. A better plan to get what I desire."

Slowly, Ayame opened her eyes and tried to look up. She didn't realize that she was tied back to a chair with metal chains in a dark and misty room until she tried to move around. "Where did the voice came from?" She sat there cluelessly staring into the darkness. "And where on earth am I?"
Ayame felt so hopeless and helpless. Then she finally began to remember what had happened before she was here, it was Bakura, he was the person who brought her here. She thought. And he's the one who had knocked her out unconscious.

"I see you are finally awaken." A voice said that was approaching to her. "I believe you've heard everything I've said."

He was walking towards her in this misty darkness. He was moving in closer and closer. "Bakura, does she know anything yet?"

"No, nothing, yet." Answered Bakura.

"Who are you?" Ayame asked, she felt kind of stupid because she's been asking that same question for a while. And what don't I know?

"Oh, I've been very rude haven't I?" The voice said. "My name is Mar…"

"MARIK! BAKURA! What do you think are you doing?" Yami has arrived and saw the two had kidnapped Ayame in this abandoned warehouse.
"Ah, now we have another guest to join us." Marik said in such a casual voice, as if nothing was happening, "Pharaoh, you have finally arrived."

Pharaoh? What? The confused girl, Ayame, doesn't get anything that they were saying.
"Pharaoh? Like a Pharaoh from the Ancient Egypt?" She asked.
"Yes, the exact Pharaoh from the Ancient Egypt." Marik answered her, but he wasn't looking at Ayame, he was looking at the Yami.

"Marik! Let the girl go!" Ordered Yami, "Now!"
"No." Marik responded simply.

Then the one was being called the Pharaoh was taking step after step towards Ayame. Nothing else was on his mind at this moment, except for freeing Ayame from the metal chains that was tied to her. But before he had reached his destination, he stopped.
Ayame just remembered something, something that's very important, something that was forgotten long time ago, "Pharaoh Atem-sama?" Ayame asked, this time, she didn't looked possessed; she was sane.

Bakura just stood there leaning on the wall, "Yami, you should know that your true name is Pharaoh Atem. Or did you forget?" He looked as if he was enjoying himself.
To Yami's surprise, he remembered that his name was Atem back in Egypt. Not just that, he also remembered Ayame was the only person he had loved. How did he remember all this? He does not know.
"Ayame…" The Pharaoh said. "Is that really you?"
"Pharaoh!" Tears of joy were coming out of Ayame's turquoise eyes. "Oh, Atem-sama! I'm so happy that we are together once more!"
Pharaoh Atem rushed towards Ayame to free her.
"Once more? I think this is the last." Marik said with a huge grin across his face, "Sorry, but this happy reunion has to end here."
"Pharaoh, do you not know how long my family have waited in Egypt for your return?" Marik rose his golden millennium rod at the Pharaoh. "Now I can finally have my revenge!"
"At last," He thought. "I knew this moment would come. It was destined."
Pharaoh Atem stopped moving towards Ayame as soon as rod shot out a blinding light, and then, the Pharaoh dropped onto the floor.
"Atem-sama!" Cried Ayame.
After a few seconds have passed, Atem finally stood up. He turned to Marik, as if he was waiting for an order.
"HA!" Marik laughed. "Now, Pharaoh, obey me. Kill…"

He got interrupted again, this time Joey, Tea, and Tristen were there by the gate of the warehouse.
"Ayame, Yami? And Bakura and Marik?" Joey and Tea ran to them, but they didn't get far. Some medal bars appeared infront of the three to stop them from going any further. The friends shot a glance at Bakura who was holding up a card with a smirk.
"Thank you Bakura, for taking care of those idiots." Marik turned away from them.

"HEY! WATCH IT! WHO ARE YOU CALLING IDIOTS?!" Joey shouted with the anger that's still rising up his head.

Marik ignored him as if he was not there.
"Oh right, Pharaoh, as I was saying." Marik turned back to Pharaoh Atem and tossed him a short piece of blade, "Kill Ayame…"
Pharaoh caught the blade, he stepped to Ayame and pressed the sharp blade against her throat…

Note from me: Gasp To kill or not to kill? That is the question. He can't kill her! Or can he? The tension is killing ME! /lol.

-FoxieAngel