"It can't be," Fader said as he recovered from his attack on the Blue Eyes Toon Dragon. Toon World melted around him until the metropolis had been restored. "It's impossible."

Beezy, Dennis and Vega came up to him. "What's wrong?" Beezy asked him.

"What was that thing talking about?" Dennis added. "Do you know it?"

"No," Fader replied. "But at the same time, I do."

Vega's expression became puzzled. "You're not making any sense."

"It's not making any sense to me either. It's like recovering from amnesia and deja vu combined, things are familiar I'm just trying to make sense of the new memories." The three gave him quizzical stares. "Sorry, just trying to wrap my head around a few things."

"Understandable," Beezy said. "You were in a coma for a while. That Blue Eyes Toon though, it said something about having Seto Kaiba. And controlling Mokuba?"

"Mokuba was Kaiba's brother, one of the two actually," Fader began to explain. "He was a gamer; at least he tried to be. He was Capsule Monsters champion at one time. A small game that lost following as Duel Monsters gained popularity. He was never that good at Duel Monsters so as his brother became more and more adept at the game Mokuba sort of fell to the background."

"What happened to him?"

"I can't remember....or I don't know; whichever. I know that Mokuba only had a minimal controlling interest in Kaiba Corp. Seto had 49% of the company shares and Mokuba had 2%. The other 49% belonged to a group called the Big Five: Kaiba Corps board of directors...I think," Fader said, not sounding sure of his own voice. "They tried a few times to take control of Kaiba Corp by trying to kill Seto Kaiba. They struck a deal with Maximillian Pegasus at one point, but it fell through when Yugi defeated Pegasus. Then there was Kaiba's virtual world..."

"The one Serena used as a basis for Duel Monsters Online right?" Beezy asked.

Fader nodded. "Not only the basis, she used the code, almost every line of it, she just modified it. Anyway, they trapped Kaiba's mind in the virtual world; they had hoped that with Seto incapacitated that they could control Mokuba's 2% to get controlling interest in the company. Unfortuantely Mokuba escaped." There was a large noise off in the distance. Fader and the others looked around for the source of it. "We've got to get going. We're not going to find Serena just standing around here." They headed in the direction of the system hub, with Vega leading the way.

"What happened with the virtual world?" questioned Dennis as they moved.

"Mokuba ended up escaping from the Big Five's goons. He, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine and I...I mean Yugi, entered the virtual simulation and rescued Kaiba. Just before they could escape though the Big Five appeared, and attacked. It took all of them working together to deafeat their enemies and in the end the Big Five were trapped in the virtual world."

The group finally arrived at the system hub and Vega walked over to the control panel to activate it. "Look at this guys," she called with a wave of her hand. The three joined her and saw what she was pointing at. "Another of the sequences is disabled on that sixth server. That makes three in total." She held out her hand and began to count off. "Serpent Night Dragon, Berserker Dragon and Blue Eyes Toon Dragon. three dragons in three different servers and now three unlocked sequences, it can't be a coincidence."

"Wait a second, " Beezy spoke up. "If The Big Five were trapped in the virtual reality simulation and Serena used that virtual world as a basis for this one, is it possible that the conciousnesses of the Big Five transferred over to the DMO game as well?"

"It shouldn't be possible," Fader argued, shaking his head. "They were removed from the computer and transerred to another one by Noa."

"Who?" the other three asked at the same time.

"Noa Kaiba, Seto and Mokuba's brother, well, step-brother...sort of."

"You're doing that whole confusing thing again Fader," said Vega.

"Noa Kaiba was the blood son of the head of Kaiba corporation. He died when he was very young and his mind was kept in stasis in the Kaiba Corp computer until it could be transferred in to a new host. It was supposed to be Seto. Anyway, this computer mind had vast control over certain Kaiba Corp resources and contructed another virtual world and elisted the trapped minds of the Big Five to try and get revenge on Seto and the others who had helped him. It can't be the Big Five here because Noa took them out of the game."

"But it's a computer program," Dennis stated, looking over the terminal. "Computers have back-ups. A copy of the Big Five must have been saved into the memory of the game and remained even if they were removed."

"If that's true," Beezy added. "Then they have no idea of what's going on. They only have memories up until they were defeated by Yugi and Kaiba and were stuck in memory until Serena brough DMO online for the first time."

"And when they saw Serena as the Blue Eyes White Dragon and recognized her access codes they assumed that she was Seto and are trying still to carry out their original plan," Vega finished.

"The last time, they tried to force their conciousnesses into the bodies of others so that they could leave the virtual world. Serena may be in more danger than we thought," Fader said. "Are we ready to go to the next server Vega?" Vega looked at Dennis and Beezy who both looked at her and the three of them looked at Fader. "What is it?" he asked them.

"Fader," Beezy started. "We don't know what's going on with you. You appeared out of no where and since then you haven't seemed yourself. I mean you were acting like a man possessed when you attacked that Blue Eyes Toon, I thought it was because of Serena, but now you're talking about all theses things that happened a hundred years ago. What's gotten into you?"

"I'm going to explain everything, alright? I just can't right now. I just want to save Serena and get out of here. Will you trust me?"

Beezy paused. Finally saying, "We've come this far together. Let's go."

Fader turned to the two others. "What about you two?" They nodded their agreement after brief pauses of their own. "Good. We've got two more servers left. And if Vega's right then there's going to be two more Dragon's there that we'll have to defeat."

"All set to go," said Vega. "We're headed to the graveyard." She tapped a couple more commands on the console and the gate hummed to life.

"Oh goody," Beezy said as he stepped through the gate. Vega followed right behind him.

Dennis was about to fly through when Fader stopped him. "I have something I want to run by you."

* * *

"I say again, oh goody," Beezy said as they appeared in the foggy graveyard. Around them were rows upon rows of headstones, stretching into the blackness and still of the night.

"Should we even ask what the alternative to this was?" Dennis asked.

"The beach," answered Vega, shrugging her shoulders.

"Good to see you made the right choice then," he replied sarcastically.

"We'll deal with it," Fader said. "If we find out where we have to go." The group of four looked in all direction in to the vast explanse. The horizon was the same in every direction, with no idication as to where they should head.

"We don't even know where the server hub is here," Vega said, adding to the problems for the group. "At least it can't get much worse." Just then a cold wind began to sweep across the field, whisking around them. Fader, Beezy and Dennis all looked at Vega. "Sorry," she said.

"Anybody see anything?" Fader said, his mind back to the potential threat.

"No," Beezy replied having drawn his swords.

"Nothing this way," added Dennis. "Give a little light Vega?"

"Got it." She sparked her staff adn a small Fireball shot down one one of the rows of gravestones. Nothing was there. She repeated this process a few more times, once in each direction. And each time there was nothing.

"There!" Beezy shouted, pointing with his swords. Vega instantly launch a pair of fireballs in the direction Beezy has gestured to. They just saw the motion of a black cloak moving amungst the graves. Beezy stepped a few paces forward towards where the blur of movement. "What was it?"

"I have an idea, but pull in closer Beezy, it's too dark, we can barely see," Fader cautioned. Beezy turned back to the group to say something when the black cloak sweeped past in an instant, and after it was gone, so was Beezy.

"Where did he go?" shouted Vega.

"I don't know," Dennis said. "He's just gone. Whatever that thing was it's using the darkness to move through the shadows. And we can't even see it coming." He looked at Fader, who just stood there staring into the darkness, focused and unwavering. He was panning the horizon, his sceptre aimed straight ahead, the end glowing a little, but not enough to produce a good source of light.

He finally spoke up after a minute. "How many Hinotama's can you cast Vega?" he asked.

She thought about it for a second. "One, Maybe two. I don't know. I can't remember how long it takes to regenerate."

"Then I'll have to make this count," he continued. "When I tell you to I want you to activate your Hinotama,"

"And launch it where?" she asked.

"If she can't see where she's aiming she'll just be wasting her ability," Dennis chimed in.

"Not if we do it right," explained Fader. When I give the word I want Vega to bring the Hinotama down right on top of us."

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Hear me out. When she launches the Hinotama the entire area is going to light up and anything out there in this graveyard is going to light up like the sun, making whatever it is that's out there show itself. I'm betting that it doens't have a strong power rating and relies on the darkness combined with it's speed. When the graveyard lights up we'll have a few seconds to spot it and hit it with a combined attack from the two of us."

"And what about the Hinotama? Those fireballs are going to hit us."

"If we time it right we should have enough time to dive out of the way after we destroy the monster. If we don't, then this may singe us a little. Ready?"

"As we'll ever be," Vega said.

"Ready," Dennis confirmed, flaring his nostrils.

Fader stared back out into the darkness, waiting for the moment. That slight change in the shadows, the signal he needed. "Now!" he called out. Vega cried out and activated her magic card, the sky brightening as the fireballs began to rain down upon them. Fader twisted around as the shaodwy cloak caught his eye again. "There Dennis!" He shouted as he swung he staff out to the side and blasted a dark magic wave at the figure, recognizing it as the Reaper of the Cards. Dennis blasted his own attack at the monster and their combined attack shattered the Reaper in a pixelized explosion. With no time to jump out of the way as he had planned and the fireballs seconds away from smashing into them, Fader raised his free palm at both Dennis and Vega, hitting them with a small fraction of his power, not enough to severely hurt them, but enough to knock them out of the way of the falling fireballs.

Dennis and Vega were both sent sprawling backwards and as they regained their composure they could only watch as the Hinotama fireballs slammed full force into hte gorund disintegrating everything standing where they hit. Exactly where Fader stood. A dull rumble sound from behind them snagged their attention before they could think of their friend's well being. they both looked back to see a massive Pumpking of Ghosts crawling its way along the ground, tendrils whipping back and forth. and in one of the Beezy struggled as he was held above the grond with a tendril coiled tightly around his neck.