Me: I SPENT MY FRIDAY NIGHT WORKING ON THIS FOR YOU!

Hikari: She would have put this up earlier but Bug joins the glaring got the account locked!

Me: I feel so bad always just writing as me, now that I know someone called Me. It seriously is confusing me.

Jounouchi: That's so lame Kisara

Me: .

Yugi: Kisara owns nothing but her changes to the story line, her original story and her twisted ideas with Hikari. Oh, and on this cue card it says she also owns the world's supply of chocolate pudding, so hand it over. Kisara, what sort of crap is this?

Me: I like chockie pudding – tats all folks


Damsel in Distress

She's scared – I can feel it. I know she's in danger but I don't know if she'd want my help, let alone accept it.

laughs deeply

She is the cat's mother. That's what my late mother used to say anyway. Something tells me that she will comfort me if she is the person I think she it. I'm scared what I'll find though. I'm scared she's already dead. I'm scared I'll be hurt again – by her or my expectations.

But worst of all, I'm scared I'll be right. That she's been right in front of me and I've never seen her for the person she really is.

She's a girl I know. Ok, I'll expel the obvious. She's in my grade.

I don't want to say her name out loud.

It feels like that means I believe all this bull crap that Isis has told me.

Isis. What does she want with me? She says that Hikari, in my grade, will help me find out who I really am. I know who I am. Seto Kaiba. I don't need Hikari to tell me that.

Damn them. Damn them both.

Why am I thinking about Hikari again? I thought that I wouldn't mention her. Why is she in my dreams? I barely know her.

Well, she looks like the girl in my dreams, the girl Isis mentioned.

That's funny. The girl in my dreams is innocent. Graceful. Hikari – well. I don't think she was ever virtuous. She's always been wild. Never predictable. Maybe there's a reason why. I don't care why.

I don't care. Damn Hikari. Damn her to hell so that she may rot from my mind. And take my dreams with you because all I need is power and I have that.

I don't care.

I don't care anymore. Take my mind, take my sanity. They're yours. It's not like I have control anyway.

Alone in a major Duel Monsters tournament where I'm not supposed to be competing but I have my duel disk in my backpack. Alone without any of my friends.

Bloody brilliant.

How much worse can this morning get? First dropping my wallet, then bending down to get it then look up to see Katsuya gone and someone taking my wallet.

crash

'Oh my God, I'm so sorry sir,' I said, picking up the things I had knocked out of this strangers arms. He was a bit taller than me, but that's not too hard because I'm only 5'5. Wearing what could be described as interesting clothing he looked like a mix of a magician, a clown and a mime.

I blushed a bit when he surveyed me up and down, probably thinking the same about me. Not that that's uncommon as I was wearing my latest cheapskate ensemble – my school uniform with the bow just undone around my neck, fishnet stockings, Doc Martins, black gloves, my gray puffy hat and a chunk of eye makeup to cover up the months of sleepless nights. Plus my short, blue spiked up hair, which matched the color of my eyes, I mustn't have looked much more normal.

'That's quite alright – '

'Hikari,' I finished off for him. 'Hikari Motou.'

Kissing my hand in such a formal manner, I heard him whisper, 'This should be interesting. He'll do anything for his sister.'

Not knowing what this man was talking about I just kept to my old motto – smile and nod.

Handing his stuff back to him, I took no notice of what I held.

'So, do you duel?'

Nodding, I replied, 'I'm sorta new and I need some practice, but other than that I'm really good.' Not wanting to sound too cocky, I quickly added 'Or so I've been told.'

'Why don't you come to my arena?' he asked. Half running we reached a circus tent after about half-an-hour.

'What's this?'

'My arena.'

My confused look gave it all away, and he forcefully led me inside. A new glint had entered his eyes, and it scared me.

"Meow."

"Meow"

'Do you always carry a cat around with you?' the magician asked.

Realizing it was my phone I ran away to try and answer it, and tell whoever it was where we were. Unfortunately for me it was Anzu calling me, and this man took my phone off me, simply saying, 'Tell the Pharaoh to come collect his sister.'

'Hikari Dickory Dock. The mouse ran up the clock.'

The pieces of the puzzle fell together and I realized how much trouble I was in as he pushed me into a box like the ones you see on TV and people saw other people in half. Except this one was full of some sort of gas.

'But she's playing with the grownups now, not her 14 year old friends.

The clock struck one, the mouse fell down, never to wake again.'

I don't know what it was, but it made me dizzy in quick time and I let the darkness consume me.

"Something's wrong. Move"

Where?

"I don't care where. We're all in danger."

We?

"You ask a lot of questions for someone so young."

Hey! You were my age once too!

"Yes, but that was many years ago. Too many."

How long?

"Ask the Pharaoh."

But who's we?

"Ask that Pharaoh. Or his rival. Or his enemy. They all have a different story to share."

Blinking, my eyes struggled against the two blurs of light. There was lots of yelling. I knew those voices.

The freaky magician guy and –

'YUGI!'

Turning around as quick as a fox hunting its prey, I saw my tricolor hair friend. Running straight at me, he knocked what seemed to be a glass box surrounding me.

'HIKARI!' he kept repeating, continuing to thump the cage. 'HIKARI!'

'Will you duel for her life?' said the magician. 'Otherwise she stands no chance. You can pick her fate if you like. I could just gas her, or use my personal favorite. Send her to the Shadow Realm!'

'NO!' Yugi and I screamed in union, except for different reasons.

'Pandora, this is ridiculous!' Yugi exclaimed as I said, 'Don't duel him.'

Once again facing me I saw changes I had never noticed in my friend. He looked so much more mature, but at the same time tears barely escaped his eyes.

'This isn't fair Yugi. He's tricking you. I won't let you duel.'

'But – '

'BUT NOTHING!' I shrieked. 'I'M NOT SENDING YOU TO YOUR DEATH FOR ME! I'M NOT WORTH IT

'Yugi, you're one of my best friends. I can't do this to you. I won't let you fight my battles for me. This isn't your fight!'

'But this is,' he interrupted. 'I haven't told you something. Something I should've said sooner. You see this, around my neck?'

'Yeah,' I said, my eyes mesmerized by the gold that looked so like my ring. 'The Puzzle. What's anything got to do with it? It's just an Egyptian souvenir.'

'It's not,' Yugi confessed, not daring to look at my eyes. 'Inside the Sennen Puzzle is the spirit of an ancient Pharaoh. He duels for me when I'm in danger. He's trying to save the world, but now both of us want to save you.'


Me: Please R&R coz I'm tired now. Also I have a voting thing now! Woo!

Yugi: Either vote A) I fight the duel

Jounouchi: Or B) Hikari fights this duel

Hikari: Or C) Somehow everything turns out and I get paid extra.

Me: No C). She's lying. Thanks for reading, another one coming soon.