Anaya's Creator: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?!!

Malik: Hi people!

Anaya's Creator: WHY ARE HARDLY ANY PEOPLE REVIEWING? ONLY 2 REVIEWS AGAIN?!

Mokuba: Has everyone gone on vacation or something?

Anaya's Creator: OR HAS MY WRITING GOTTEN THAT BAD??

Malik and Kaiba: (hands over their ears) Guys please review so she'll stop yelling.

Anaya's Creator: THESE ARE FROM THE TWO PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY REVIEWED:

Stormtracer:

Sorry, you're just going to have to deal with it in chapter nine. I think that's the only time I may take him out of context, but, who knows, I could change my mind... Sure, if you'd like to suggest some fanfics to me I'm all ears.

KrysofSorrow:

Cheese! Tacos! Where? You wouldn't happen to have any chocolate too would ya?

Anaya's Creator: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, but when you wish upon a star... Oh, and this is a song chapter using "My Last Breath" by Evanescence, I don't own that either. And in case you didn't notice the rating has gone up to "R", you'll see why in a moment and the genre to Romance/Angst. I'm going to stop talking now...

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Hold on to me love, you know I can't stay long

The next two duelists were Joey vs. Odeon, who everyone but Akina, Odeon, and the real Malik believed was the man who put them through all the torment of Battle City.

Throughout the entire duel, Yoko never showed up, this made Rogue seriously begin to worry.

Then something happened, according to the reactions of everyone around her, whatever duel monster had just been played wasn't attacking. The sound of lightening striking the blimp sounded. She turned to Malik. "What in the name of heaven is going on?"

All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid, Ohhh,

"The Winged Dragon of Ra, he is angry that Odeon played a counterfeit card. So the one in my deck and the one on the dueling field are going berserk..." Malik broke off, groaning slightly.

"Malik, what's wrong?" Rogue extended her arms and they found his face which was cold, sweaty, and she felt it spasm beneath her hands. She felt Malik grab her upper arms and lean on her for support.

00Up on the Dueling Fields00

Joey, Yugi, and the gang were trying to help Odeon.

"So if you aren't really Malik, who are you?" Joey asked.

"I am only a servant of the real..." Odeon pointed to Malik and Rogue. "Master Malik,"

Can you hear me?

Yami's eyes widened. Did Rogue know about this the whole time? "That's the real Malik?" he asked, stunned.

Malik stopped leaning on Rogue, wrapped his arms around her, and looked up at the others over her shoulder. "Yes, I'm the real Malik. That man up you just faced Wheeler is nothing but my servant Odeon."

Can you feel me in your arms?

"Rogue knew about this?" Yami demanded.

"She did. We've known each other for about two years. And now I will finish..." Another voice suddenly took over.

"What my mere servants could not..." Malik let go of Rogue again and grabbed his face.

"Beware," Odeon said. "Master Malik has a darker side."

Holding my last breath safe inside myself

Rogue backed up quite a bit. That voice, it was the same as the imposter from her dream. Then she walked forward again, having regained her courage, trying to reach him. "Malik," she whispered softly.

Yami jumped down to her from the dueling field. "Rogue, don't touch him," he ordered, forcing her hands down.

Malik looked over at the two, and those who were watching him saw that he laying eyes on this... had sealed their fate. His hair spiked up in several places, his eyes became two spheres of bitter lavender ice, and his voice deepened considerably. "Heh, heh, heh, it's good to see you again, Pharaoh," he said coldly.

Yami turned around, still holding on to Rogue, and looking puzzled.

"Pharaoh, you don't remember me, figures. You erased your memories before you gave up your soul to seal the Shadow Realm after she died." He pointed at Rogue with the Millennium Rod. "But then again, it strikes me as odd that you would have not remembered the man who stole the heart of the only woman you wished to marry."

"I remember you now. You're the priest Akina married, Marik."

"I am, and because of you, she died. Now I will avenge her by stripping you of all the power you possess! Ha, ha, ha, ha..."

Are all my thoughts of you, sweet ruptured light it ends here tonight

Adan, who had been with Yoko, came up through the stairway screeching his falcon head off in panic.

"Yami, let go of me, and you that's laughing, I don't give a damn who the hell you are just shut-up; I need to listen." She yanked herself from Yami's grasp and let out an arm so that the distressed bird could explain himself to her.

"No," was all Rogue could manage to say after a few minutes of listening to Adan shriek himself silly. She turned around and ran towards the stairs. I can sense it now. How could I not have felt it before, she thought. Yoko... he's in pain...

Completely trusting Adan to guide her, she ran down the hallway which was silent, except for the dim sound of low groans of someone in pain.

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I'll miss the winter, a world of fragile things

Yoko was kneeling on the floor of the restroom in the room he and his sister had agreed to share. Karasu's poison was doing its worst on his body as the final effects set in. Karasu had clearly made sure the poison would put the victim in as much pain as possible as they died a slow death.

I don't have much time left, he thought. Please, Rogue, hurry. A sudden intoxicating wave of nausea engulfed his senses and a surge of his black tainted blood spilled out from his innards and into the toilet in front of him. He heard the pitter-patter of sprinting feet approaching. Then he felt the aura of whoever had been running slip away, that is, until he heard the door open.

"Yoko, what in the name of Jehovah's name has happened to you?"

It was Rogue; he felt her hands feel around the lavatory until she found him. He felt her body kneel beside his. "Don't say God's name in vain," he chastised in a strained voice. "And I heard you swearing up there."

"This is no time to lecture me about my use of words; I need to get you to a doctor." His voice seemed far off, distant, as if he were... dying. Terror was beginning to consume her heart the way a famished lion consumes a freshly killed antelope brought home by the lioness. She slung one of his arms over her shoulder and carried him, with some difficulty, into the outer room.

Look for me in the white forest, hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)

"A doctor won't help me now, Sister, lie me down on the bed."

Slowly, Rogue nodded; she dragged him over to where Adan told her the bed was and laid him down on it. She felt Yoko put a hand on her cheek, it was sweaty and cold; he truly was dying. His other hand went to her upper arm and held on tightly. Rogue put one of her hands on the one on her cheek; the other took off her sunglasses, she knew he would want her to see this, if she only could because she could tell for once in her brother's life that she could remember, he was crying.

"Sister..." His voice cracked as he spoke. The tears that were falling were for her, since those horrid scars Karasu had given her had made it impossible. "Before I go, you need to know..."

I know you hear me; I can taste it in your tears

"I don't need to know anything Yoko; I'll go get a doctor and you'll be saved." She tried to leave, but Yoko's fading grip still held fast.

"This... is the point of no return... for me, Rogue... No antidote... or medicine can save me..."

"No, Yoko, you can be saved; I just know it. Let me get a doctor." She could feel tears from at the edges of her eyelids, but she knew that they would never fall, no matter how hard she wished they would.

Holding my last breath, safe inside myself

"No, you need to know... Karasu's here I have sensed his sinful presence... He is here to kill you once and for all... but it is you who must win the final battle..."

Rogue could say nothing; she just kept holding onto her brother, hoping against hope that he would remain alive. She clung to his every word he said, knowing deep in her heart that they would be his last.

"And... forgive Malik... he knows not what he does... he is under the spell... of the embittered heart of... Akina's husband... She can help him... let her out... let her spirit give you aid..."

"Yoko,"

Are all my thoughts of you sweet ruptured light, it ends here tonight

"Everything will get better, sweet Sister... Do not be afraid..." With a great effort, he pulled himself up to her and kissed her forehead and her cheeks with his cold dying lips. "Be strong... let Jehovah guide you... and as always... I love you..." Then he lay back down and closed his eyes forever more.

Say good night, don't be afraid, calling me calling me as you fade to black

With quivering hands, Rogue took both of her brother's now dead arms and laid them across his chest. She returned the kisses he had given her and ran her hand through his hair one last time. Then chanted "Dona nobis pacem," and with that Yoko's body disappeared with a shimmer.

"Rogue!" exclaimed a voice. Someone rushed forward and flung their arms around her. "What happened?" It was Mokuba.

Rogue returned his embrace and said in a hollow voice, "He's gone, Mokuba; Yoko's dead."

He broke away from her. "Your brother... he just died..."

"Yes, he..." She broke off when she felt something flowing down the side of her face. "Mokuba, what's happening?"

Mokuba was puzzled. "You're crying."

"I haven't done that in so long..." She wiped that one away and soon more followed. Rogue let herself fall into a deep fit of weeping; she felt as if she had enough tears to fill a million oceans. With her tears she felt everything fall away. Mokuba patted her awkwardly on the head then sat beside her with a hand on her arm.

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Malik: 0.0

Anaya's Creator: Yep, that just about sums this chapter up.

Mokuba and Kaiba: You said we'd in this one?

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