Hi! I am SO sorry about not updating but I have had a massive writer's block that has lasted for like two months and it has been so worrying, and then fanfic has screwed up so I couldn't post this two days ago. I hope some people are still reading this! Anyway, read on!

Disclaimer: I don't own YuGiOh, but if I did, I would be even busier than I am now.

As Ryou thrashed around wildly, Sami was screaming for him to stop it and calm down, but it seemed as though he didn't hear her, ad he continued to thrash around as though possessed. Nurses tried to secure him but there was no possibility of that happening at all. Eventually they just watched with mouths gaping wide as Ryou began to levitate and float towards the ceiling, and bash his own head against it. "GET IT OUT OF ME! OH RA, SOMEBODY PLEASE JUST CUT ME OPEN AND GET IT OUT NOW!" This last part was said with such desperation that Sami Ishtar burst into tears, mourning Ryou and her being so hopeless.

Ryou then fell back down to the ground and stood up with a weird look on his face; it wasn't the Ryou everyone knew and had come to love, but it was the Shadow, Akefia. He had sharper and somehow whiter hair, that was raised into narrower spikes than Ryou's had been. She caught a fleeting glance of this being before her arms were caught behind her and the Shadow had her pinned against the wall. "Don't move or even make a sound," he whispered menacingly into her ear.

She gulped, and turned to see all the nurses were dead; their heads twisted around to an impossible position. Turning her head, she thought she was about to be sick, for the heads of the nurses were face the wall, and their bodies were facing the window opposite. Their very heads had been twisted one hundred and eighty degrees around. Blood was on the floor, having emerged from the veins that had exploded when the heads had been turned.

Ryou turned to her, but she knew that he wasn't Ryou anymore. "What is your name? You aren't my Ryou, so who and WHAT are you!" The Shadow chuckled. "Why dear little one, my name is Akefia, and I am a Shadow that will tear 'your' Ryou apart. Why, even now his very soul is breaking away piece by piece, and any attempts to stop me are futile. You however are now in my clutches, and as it seems Ryou quite fancies you, I shall take you away with us!"

Then the Shadow grabbed a nearby chair, and smashed the window in; jumping out, scratching his arms on the jagged glass, and Sami Ishtar felt her body lose blood as she was cut by a shard of the glass while thrust out of the window with the Shadow. Needless to say, she fainted from blood loss not fifteen minutes later, the wound on her back bleeding out.

The Shadow felt her become dead weight on his back, and looked mad. 'Oh great!' he thought; 'Now she will be of no use to me until she wakes up.' Nevertheless he carried her with him to a cave far into the Domino National Forest, and set about making a fire. It reminded him of back when he was mortal, some 5000 years ago; a thief of all things, and the most wanted thief in all of Egypt. (Khemet) Tales had spread from village to village of his thievery and his escapades around various tombs and store rooms.

He felt much better after lighting a fire, and began to sing a song his mother had sung to him once long ago, in Egyptian. Translated, it meant:

"Broken hearted souls are floating by your bed

You will never see them as long as you rest your head.

These souls are lost and look for victims to remake the dead

So when you wake and they have taken you you'll feel like lead.

Catch their hearts in jars, and take my hand my son

Become one with all your pain before the day is done.

And when your fears are beaten, and all the wars are won

Fearful will you be and from you all the cowardice shall run…"

Sami woke up hearing the song, and even though she couldn't understand Egyptian, to her it was beautiful and for a time became entranced by it. When the song ended, she sighed, alerting the Shadow to her presence. "So," he sneered, "My little hostage has awoken?" She nodded, now remembering the danger she was in. Shivering, she backed away from Akefia. He laughed at her. "Scared of me, my little hostage? You needn't be; I'm not going to harm you, in fact, I quite like having you around. You shall travel the world with me! Because I need to learn much about the modern world before I can walk amongst the people in it!"

Sami nodded slowly, trying not to show her fear. This person may look like Ryou, but she wasn't entirely sure she could trust him when he said he wasn't going to hurt her. All of a sudden, she screamed, and pointed at something behind Akefia. He turned, and sprang into action, but was thrown into the cave wall, and knocked unconscious. Sami backed against the wall, and cried in pain as the creature; hidden by the darkness of the cave, bit her. Then…

I am so cruel to my main characters, aren't I? Once again, sorry about not updating. Thanks:

Samuraiduck27 –Yeah, it was meant to be entirely creepy and angsty, as I began it write after reading The Exorcist. Ryou has very bad luck in this, first he drowns and now his reincarnation has gone mad. Poor Ryou indeed! Thanks for reviewing!

Stormrose Dewleaf –What did Aurora end up doing? (Spots Aurora) Oh, hi Ror! Um, sorry about the late update! There was much angst in this chapter. Thanks for reviewing!

ttSerenity –Yes! I would love to come and chase cars with you in America! PLEASE tell me the story of your pen name now! Please! I have been waiting and wondering about the two T's! I will always dream, maybe not about Seto, but about YuGiOh! Thanks for reviewing!

Love Sami.