"Jonouchi, it's me! Kujaku Mai!" Mai said and slapped him.

Jonouchi growled and tried biting her.

"Jonouchi, I am Kujaku Mai. Do not say you forgot I know you are still in there. Remember you fought this in Battle City? When Marik took your mind over? It is almost the same. Even if this person is a parasite. I know you can still take your mind back, Jonouchi. You cannot forget, you cannot forget that your friends need you right now. They are going through the same thing. You have been through this before. You can help them get over it too, come on Jonouchi, please." Mai convinced.

"Mai...?" Jonouchi questioned.

"Yes, Jonouchi, Mai. It's me. Do you remember now?"

"Yeah, I remember you are going to die, Mai!" Jonouchi exclaimed.

Mai closed her eyes again, tightly.

"Anzu, Honda! Please! Wake-up! We are friends!" Yugi cried.

XxYugi, maybe I can break this curse within them.xX

0o0Try my Darkness.0o0

Yugi was willing to do anything. Yugis' Darkness began trying to rupture the curse with his ancient magic, and then he forgot about what he was told before. His magic was still young compared to Risika's magic.

XxThere is no use. My magic is still young.xX

0o0You made an effort my Darkness...at least we will fall together, not apart.0o0

Risika gave a deep sigh inside, 'This doesn't make me any better than others...I still have a human spirit and yet I try to destroy the human nature. Why do I decide to have myself go insane? I had killed Aubrey by myself. He had used to be human too. What have I done?'

Risika shed a tear or two, 'It had been so many years. I have forgotten what it was like to be human. You have so many emotions. Those emotions are happiness, sadness, and anger. I was only full of anger and greed. I wish I could turn back into time. I feel so sorry of what I have done. This friendship and the relationship between everyone is so strong. Something I had only realized when I was Rachel. I had left her in the dark.' Then she shed her last tear.

She looked in the puddle of tears. They were so dry, but she could see her reminiscences. Before Ather had turned her into a vampire, before Aubrey killed her brother. When she had a love for her Bengal tiger.

"I would rather be malnourished than feed on another human. Perhaps if I pass on, things will become better of me. Please, everyone. Forgive me." Risika said leaning towards the light.

Then Jonouchi, Anzu, and Honda collapsed.

"Yugi are you okay?" Mai asked.

"Yes, are you?" Yugi replied.

"Um...yeah," Mai had Jonouchi collapsed on her lap, "What about Risika?"

"Risika," Yugi whispered.

Risika grinned. She closed her eyes, took out the cross pendant that she had taken from Aubrey. Inserted it in the knife. Then sliced it deep in her neck.

"Hey, where am I? Hey Mai," Jonouchi said awakened. Anzu and Honda had also awoken too.

"Wow, I had a dream that everything became a crazy maniac world," Honda explained.

"Me too," Anzu added, "so where are we?"

Yugi pulled out the tickets to Anzu's dance concert that he found in his pocket and a memo was attached. It said, 'I am sorry'.

0o0These tickets are to Anzu's dance concert now. There is enough for everyone.0o0

"I think we are going to the concert for Anzu. See?"

0o0My Darkness I thought these tickets expired.0o0

XxRisika must have done it.xX

Yugi smiled softly. But he was still wondering why Risika decided to do what she did.

"Yeah! I remember now! I finally got picked and... But...I don't remember that I had to have a concert straight away!" Anzu exclaimed.

"Well, maybe you already know what the moves are, who knows when you are on stage a lot of things can happen, Anzu." Yugi stated.

"Yugis' right, so just go out there and do your best!" Mai said winking at Yugi. Yugi smiled in reply.

"Aright! To the concert! Wait, where are we?" Jonouchi asked.

"We're in New York." Mai replied.

"Wow, New York!" Honda exclaimed.

"Well, if you want to get there, our tickets say 6:30pm. Right now it's 5:50pm. So we have a while but we have to catch a bus!" Anzu said.

"Okay, then we leave!" Yugi exclaimed.

It took them until 6:15pm to get there. Everyone was able to get his or her seats but when the show started no one was there. No other dancers, no hosts, no body.

"Where is everyone? This doesn't seem right." Honda said.

"Yeah. It's now 6:49 and no one's here. Not even an audience. Why?" Yugi questioned.

XxSomething really doesn't make sense here.xX

0o0What do you think it could be?0o0

XxI'm not sure; I don't feel any dark presence or anything.xX

"Hey, I am going to get one of them cold pizzas." Jonouchi said.

"I'll come too. Call us when things start." Honda joined.

Hours later no one still came around. Yugi had to go to the bathroom and Mai was left alone in the auditorium.

"Where is everyone? It's been several hours!" She complained.

Mai looked around for a while. She had gotten tired of waiting. Then she heard deep breathing noises. She decided to walk faster. Then she reached to one of the corners she put a lot of items on to block them from turning. She waited then...

"Great Scott! Who puts things in a corner like this?" It was Bakura! He tripped over the items.

"Bakura?" Mai questioned, "What are you doing in New York? Especially at this time?"

"Who isn't here?" Bakura said.