Hey all!

I Membered! I membered! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The thing I was going to tell you but forgot numerous times is that I am not going to incorperate the holidays into my fic. (If I did, it would end up being: Day one- Christmas. Day two-Normal day. Day three- Easter or something like that... So, no I ish not going to do holiday specials and stuff like that...

Also, for those who have expressed their confusion, (Glances at Mojobubbles) Jrj is also my brother. ( I just keep forgetting to mention him in the story. As I had Shells say, he really is often excluded from what we are doing.) Like I said before, Read my Bio, the last line, and you shall understand.

Also, another new thing... Shells's thinking shall actually done as thinking instead as part of the narrative...

Ok, so now that you (finally) know that, Let's read the fic!

(NOTE: This is the other chapter that I replaced due to plotholes...)

+Shells+

DVD and Shells sat in silence for most of the day, thinking, still mostly in shock about what had happened. Occationally, Jrj would turn the T.V. back on, much to everyone's annoyance.

Shells sighed. She tried to mentally bring up her list of "things that could have happened," but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't concentrate. She sat, staring at the hospital room wall for a moment, thinking hard.

Suddenly, there was a small flash of light. Shells looked around quickly, but nobody else seemed to have noticed. She turned to DVD and was about to ask him what he thought had just happened, when a new thought came to her.

That was no ordinary flash of light.She realized. That...Was a mental thing...That was in my mind! Maybe it was the link! This is so confusing...I wish this would all just make sense for once! And what did that doctor mean,"one other case?" Does that mean that there was another person who had been in the same condition as Daricio is now? Shells was filled to the brim with unanswered questions and half formed thoughts.

She was so wrapped up in her thinking, that she almost didn't notice when the doctor came back into the room to check on Daricio. Shells let him do whatever tests he was preforming, then just as he was about to leave, she went up to him.

"I heard you talking to yourself this morning. What do you mean 'another case?' was there someone else like this ever?" Shells asked him, determined to get some answers. The doctor glanced at everyone in the room, none of whom had noticed Shells talking to the doctor, and then sat in a chair and motioned for her to sit next to him.

"Not really 'was' another case, more like, 'still is.'" He told her. She looked at him with a confused expression on her face.

"So the other person is still here? For how long? Can you help either of them?" Shells started to bombard him with questions, but he raised a hand to stop her.

"Yes, there is another person here. I didn't want to tell you because I thought it would worry you, but now I see that you are strong enough to hear the truth."

"Strong enough?" Shells asked, still not understanding.

"You see, these are two very mysterious cases. Espesially the other one. Mostly because nobody knows who he is. Also because of just how long he's been here.

He was found in an abandoned apartment...About four years ago, and yet his body has not aged a bit. It's as if, not only was his mind in a state of...Nonexistment, but so was his growth."

The doctor shook his head, then continued. "He has been in one of our rooms this whole time, and yet no change has ever come to him. Nothing good. Nothing bad. Nobody quite knows what to think of it.

And now that we have another case of it, we know we will have to work harder to find a cure for it, if possible...But the chances of doing so are very small."

Shells looked up at him. "Can I see him?"

"What? Hmm... If you think it will help...Somehow I doubt it will, though." He got up and went over to Mom and Dad. After gaining their permission, ( "Anything you think will help my daughter, just do it!") He took Shell's hand and led her down the hall.

He took he to a small door at the very end of the corridor and opened it slowly. Shells looked inside first before going in. She couldn't really make out the form on the bed because of the height of the bed, but when she got close enough to see, she peered at his face.

Shells gasped. This cannot be who I think it is! That's impossible! But it is! It's him!

+Yugi+

Class had started. Yugi listened carefully to Daricio as she tried to walk him through the problems. He was doing his best to jot down whatever Daricio told him to so that she would be able to help. So far, though, he and Yami still didn't quite get how to do it.

Use your calculator to figure this part out, then write it down, Ok? Daricio told him. Ok, good. Now, all you have to do is divide the number you just wrote down by that numberover there, and you have youranswer! The answer is X22! See?

Well, I see that that's the answer, but why do you divide those numbers and not these? If you did it that way, you get a completely different answer! How do I know that it's not the answer and that the one you showed me is? Yugi asked, still confused.

Because, that would be dividing it by two times B, and we ned to divide it by two times A. It's in the basic formula, if you just look at it. Daricio tried her best to explain.

Huh? Yugi still didn't get it. Daricio sighed.

I may be good at doing this, but I'm obviously not very good at teaching others how to do it. At least I know I'mnot going to be able to be a math teacher when I'm older...Daricio grumbled. Yugi, just ask the teacher... That's what they're there for.

Oh, right.Yugi called the teacher over and tried to figure out more problems. Daricio retreated over to the corner of the soul room where the door was and began trying to get it to open again.

"Is now a good time for you to explain what you had said in the puzzle earlier?" Yami asked, suprising her.

"Uh... I guess. In one of the episodes,..." Daricio stopped as she realized what she was saying. "I mean... You know when Yugi had to battle Marik?"

"Who?" Yami sat next to her on the floor looking confused.

"I mean, Bandit Keith, who was possesed by someone. The person who possesed him...He has the Milennium Rod, and his name is Marik... I think... At least according to the closed captioning on my screen...I mean, it has been known to be wrong... While it was showing Ishizu tell you her name it was saying her name was Isis, but..." Daricio started wandering off the subject.

"What does... Marik...Have anything to do with Bakura?" Yami asked.

"Oh, right. Anyways, When Yugi had to battle Keith, Tea, Tristan and Joey were running around trying to find you guys. After a while they split up.

Tea ran into Evil Bakura as she was searching, and she told him what was going on. As soon as Tea went around a corner, Bakura took out his Ring and began using it's powers to find the Puzzle."

Yami nodded. "The Ring again." he commented. Daricio looked slightly annoyed at being interupted, then continued.

"When he came to the allyways and saw all those arrows, he mixed them up as he went so that nobody else would be able to find him. When he got to the building you were in, he got up to the second floor and began to watch your duel. After a while of that, he freed Keith from Marik's spell.

As you know, Keith went slightly nuts, with Marik fighting to regain control. He did gain control for one breif moment, and that's when he ran onto the dueling feild and smashed the Puzzle.

Bakura then... I think that's when he swung down from the floor above and started helping you to pick up the pieces of the puzzle."

"And?" Yami said. "I remember all that... Though from a different point of view of course... But what dos that have to do with.."

"Well, just listen! I'm not done yet. To Yugi it must have seemed like Bakura then handed him one other piece that he had missed before. Then Bakura left." Daricio looked worried again, but for a brief instant, she smiled. "not without falling down first, though." She added. "Proof that the tomb robber isn't as graceful as he seems."

"I still don't see what you mean..." Yami started.

" Bakura didn't just find that piece and hand it to Yugi, he kept it in his hand for a moment before giving it to him. While it was in his hand, he put a small portion of his soul into that piece! The Puzzle may be shifting over there, just because of Evil Bakura!" Daricio finished. "That's what I meant."

Yami was silent for a moment. "Oh."

Daricio turned away and began trying to open the door again. As before, it was sealed shut. She sighed.Yami was about to ask something else, when they heard Yugi exclaim, "Ohhhhhh! I get it now!"

Yami smiled. "At least one of us does." He commented.

+Shells+

The person in the bed looked to be a little younger than Daricio, although they were probably about the same age. Shells still couldn't believe who it was.

This is totally impossible.She thought, shaking her head. She looked back at the doctor. He was waiting for her by the door. She went over to him, then told him she wanted to go back to Daricio's room. The doctor nodded.

Just before they turned to leave, Shells took one last glance at the boy in the bed. The boy she had never expected to find. The boy she had thought didn't really exist exept in her fantasies.

She sighed and left the room.

This is where things get interesting. (evil grin) Can you figure out who this boy is? I bet you can't! At least not until I tell you next chapter! BWHAHAHAHAHA!

Also, please no reviews telling me about Marik. I know all that already, it's just that before I started reading Yu-Gi-Oh fanfics, I didn't know. And I'm pretending that Fan Fic doesn't exist in this story so that I don't start stealing the idea of "Mystery Yu-Gi-Oh Theater." So, yeah...No reviews telling me about Marik...

Thank you!

Daricio