First, I know most everyone is going to take their exams soon, but I'm really getting depressed with the horridly small amount of reviews I got last chapter...
Second, good luck to those taking their exams soon.
blah, blah, blah mental talking between non hikari/yami pair.
Now that I'm done with the notes that I'm sure that no one reads, enjoy the chapter.
Several hours later, in the morning sunlight, the young adults awakened.
"Hey, we made it!" Yami exclaimed, sounding surprised.
"Thanks sweetie. I love you too. And because of how much I love you, come into my Soul Room."
Bakura made an unrepeatable comment.
"I meant to search through the books there, you dunce," Alyssa growled. "You three are welcome to join us, if you wish to."
"Why the formality?" Yugi asked, holding Alyssa's arm in preparation for entering her Soul Room. If you tried to go in another's Soul Room with out having physical contact with them, well we'll just say the results are not pretty.
"Change of pace. Hey Bakura aren't you coming?"
"No. I'm going to visit Carly and make sure she's OK." Yugi and Ryou also decided that visiting their girlfriends was more important than helping Yami and Alyssa out of their predicament.
"Bye," they chorused, two of them disappearing into Alyssa's Soul Room.
The rom was not too different from an average girl's room, save a few things. One being the weddings of Alyssa and Yami and Alisa and Atem playing over and over again on one wall- telling everyone exactly what occupied Alyssa's mind most of the time. Another was that twenty percent of the room held Ancient Egypt in it. Most of it was papyrus scroll and books, but there were a few statues and whatnot too.
"Hey, this section is smaller than it used to be. Everything from my past is shrinking."
"That suggests you're letting go. I wish I could..."
"Well, you were trapped in it for 5,000 years and then spent awhile trying to remember it. So, if you DO hold onto your past so dearly, them why don't we call you Atem instead of Yami? That IS what your real name after all."
"I'm not Atem any more." At Alyssa's confused look. Yami continued. "You know that 'yami' means darkness in Japanese tight? Good. That's essentially what I am now- Yugi's darkness, the darker side of Atem. Using my old name would be like calling you Alisa. It's what you were not what you are, if that makes any sense."
"I think I get what you're saying. The past is not the present, even if you've lived it and grown up in it," Alyssa agreed, handing Yami a large stack of papyrus. "Here you search these."
Almost half an hour of searching had passed by, and not a clue was to be found.
"I think the priests did this on purpose."
"Did what Yami?"
"Made it next to impossible to find what you're looking for. They probably cast some sort of spell to make this difficult."
"You didn't exactly show them your best side, you know. Or anybody for that matter..."
"I was a jerk wasn't I?"
"Yeah..."
Yami glared. "You weren't supposed to agree with me. It would have been an excellent time for 'silent support.'"
Alyssa giggle, which sounded strange coming form Yami's body.
Yami rolled her eyes. "That is just too weird. I can't wait to be me again and stop leaking."
Alyssa kept reading while he replied. "Yeah it's gonna be great, but I certainly don't miss wearing a bra When we get- oh Yami! I found it! YES!
"You had better not be kidding me."
"I'm not, look!" Yami looked over her girlfriend's (boyfriend's?!) Shoulder. Both did a happy dance.
Reading the spell/potion combo, Yami frowned. "It's really complicated." The farther Yami read, the deeper she frowned and the more she muttered under her breath. "Lacewig wings... days to settle...under new moon... well yeah, this sucks. We can't start this for two days, and even them we can't finish it for another three days."
Alyssa's face fell, but he tried to stay cheerful. "But hey, it's only another five days and we've been like this for over two weeks. You ought to be used to it."
Yami shuddered. "I'll never get used to these," she muttered, indicating her chest area. "It's just a weird weight hanging there.
"Anyway... Where do we get this stuff? Lacewig wings? Ashwood? Moonstone? Hellebore? I've never heard of those."{1}
Yami smirked. "You'd be surprised what survives thousands of years when it's preserved in a Soul Room."
"To your Puzzle then?"
"To my Puzzle." Alyssa picked Yami up new bride style. "A bit anxious are we?"
"Not for another couple of weeks. Beam up there, Scotty.
"Holy crap!" Alyssa exclaimed, looking into the store room. "I didn't even know this many plants existed!"
"Honey, these are only the roots of flowering plants that were picked under the full moon, in a fairy ring after a thunderstorm. And you remember how rare those were. The priests always went nuts after it rained..."
Alyssa would have swooned had he been in female form.
They found what they need after much searching around Yami's labyrinth of a Soul Room.
"Well, let's leave to start this concoction."
"Yami, can we call it a potion? It makes it could much more magical."
"Sure, what ever," Yami replied, popping them back into the real world.
An unfortunate surprise awaited them.
Carly sat on the couch bawling her heart out, being comforted by Bakura. Alyssa dropped to his knees in front of his friend, grabbing her hand.
"Carly, are you alright? Did somebody die?" Carly shook her head. "Is the baby OK?" Carly nodded. "What happened to make you so upset?"Carly sobbed and hiccuped for quite a bit before she was able to clam herself down enough to talk coherently.
Carly took a deep breath. "W-with Bakura back... I finally got enough... c- courage to tell me par-aarents that I'm...pregnant."
"And...?"
Carly wailed again. "They kicked me out!"
{1} These are from Harry Potter, I'm such a geek.:)
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