Tenshikoneko03-Laughs. Glad you enjoyed it then.

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Pegasus reclined in his company chair, he fingers steeple in a sign of pleasantries. He tilted his head back to glance at the picture of his dead wife, his eye tearing slightly. "Soon love." Pegasus whispered to the frozen moment. His sigh of disgust at what had happened nearly choked him. With nothing more then a want to his beautiful wife's face laughing, he drifted into memories.

A young Pegasus with two brown eyes glittered wonderfully. He was admiring his father party, shaking hands with some people he was familiar with. At eighteen he was a strapping youth with an enormous talent in the visual arts. His family was wealthy and he wanted for nothing, with joy Pegasus laughed and retreated outside. There he found a young lady, silky blonde hair trailing her back as she spun. Pegasus watched star-stuck as her light blue dress swirled with her, highlighting her orbs that shine. Pegasus knew at that moment, she was to be his wife. Walking over, Pegasus introduces himself, which began a budding relationship.

Pegasus sighed as he thought of his love, a small smile on his face. However, as he continued to drift though his memories, it fell to the darkest one yet.

Pegasus kneeled before Cyndia's bedside, his hands grasping hers pleadingly. A man in white stood off to the side, his head bowed in grief, both for the lady and the young man. Pegasus reached one hand to brush through his wife's bangs, his hand feeling the heat rolling off of her. "Is there nothing to be done?" He questions the man in white, the doctor, who shakes his head and leaves the room. He then turns back to Cyndia, his brown orbs feeling with restrained tears. "Please Cyndia, don't leave me." He begs the ill woman, whose eyes flutter and open. A tired smile stretches across her face.

"Crawford, I love you." She whispers and her eyes fall shut. Pegasus reaches a gentle hand to her shoulder, urging her to stay with him.

"My love, stay with me." He pleads, his eyes leaking his sorrow. A stronger smile spreads across Cyndia's face, while her breath stills. Her passing painless and quiet. "No, I love you." He declares, and stands, he brushes a kiss on her temple. "I will find a way to bring you back." Pegasus states with conviction. With one more lasting look he leaves the room, and strolls into his home office. With a tone of distress he picks up his phone and begins his search.

Pegasus felt tears building as he recalled that dreadful day that led up to his actions here. One hand raised to touch the golden object in place of his left eye. "The millennium eye." He whispers and his last memory draws up before his eyes.

Pegasus slammed down the phone, it had been nine years, and his search had been fruitless. Age twenty-seven and hopeless, he runs a tired hand through his silver locks. Tired, he leans back, and sobs into his hands, wanting his love back alive. Suddenly a ball of light flashes before his eyes and he picks his head up. The ball of light settles before his desk, and his eyes catch blue ones hidden within the orb. "Cyndia?" He inquires hopefully, and the light dies out revealing a fairy looking woman. Hair of lavender wrapped into two buns, long streamers running from it. Eyes of navy stare at him, sympathy written in them, to which he leans closer. The most distinguishing figure of the fairy woman was the upturned golden crescent moon on her forehead. "Who are you?" Pegasus inquires, a small hope building in his heart.

"The answer to your prayers, Pegasus." The fairy woman replies. "I can tell you what to procure in order to bring life to Cyndia." She states, and bows slightly to the avid man. "I am Queen Selenity of the long forgotten Silver Alliance." She introduces herself, and waits for the question bound to come from him.

"Why?" He mumbles. "Why help me?" He inquires, begging for the answers he seeks.

"By helping you, I keep my daughter." Selenity answers pointedly. "There are seven mystical items that she crafted eons ago." Selenity tells him. "If you gather these main seven, they have the power to bring soul to flesh, life." She tells him. "They are called the Millennium Items." Selenity tells him.

"Where can I find them?" Pegasus asks, hope filling his voice.

"I know young men carry them, for she had given them as gifts." Selenity stated. "However, the final location of them were lost to the sands of time." She adds.

"Where then?" He urges.

"In Egypt, specifically somewhere in Cairo." She speaks, and waves a hand to conjure an image of the items. "Your best bet would be to find the nameless Pharaoh's tomb, and find the guardian Shadi." Selenity instructs. "There he should give you the one item that shall help you locate the others." She whispers and then her form vanishes as Pegasus smiles, picking up the phone. "Yes, I would like a ticket to Cairo, Egypt, first class." Pegasus orders. His memory fades out, and his fingers drop from the millennium eye.

"I know you wouldn't approve of this, my Cyndia, but I have no choice love." He whispers to the portrait. Not more then three weeks from his last memory, he acquired his item and knowledge of the others. His eyes fall on his opened computer screen, the money from the take-over of Kaiba corp helping him grandly. He chuckles sadly, and looks to the arriving boat schedules. "Welcome, Yugi Motou." He states to the screen, and stands to walk to the balcony to which he would greet the duelists, blank cards held in his hands.

Yugi watched sadly as the green-haired bug duelist throw his exodia pieces overboard. He felt anger bubble, and nearly lost to himself to one of his blackouts, until Joey leapt over the side trying to reclaim the sodden cards. Calling out to his friend, Tristan, Teá, and himself pulled Joey back onto the boat who apologized for not being able to get the cards. Yugi waved off his apology with a small smile, his heart sadden by the lost of his grandfather's most prized cards.

Pegasus was distress when his eyes fell on the fiery orbs of Yugi who stood just below his balcony. 'I apologize for my behavior Yugi, but it was the only way to get you here.' He states mentally and outwardly smiles charmingly. "Welcome duelists, to Duelist Kingdom, I am sure many of you know who I am." He greets them, holding his fake smile for a little longer. "Some modifications to the normal dueling rules have been made, but finding out what these changes are, is part of the tournament." Pegasus explained, and his lips curled into a more appeased mysterious smile. " Now along with the two star chips you receive with your duelist glove, you will need eight more to enter the gate that guards the finals." He ordered, and a smirk crossed his face. "A large purse shall be awarded to the winner, good luck and I shall see you shortly." He told them and then gestured for the blank cards to be handed out. "Don't lose these." Pegasus ordered and walked into his mansion castle without a blink of an eye.

Yugi held up his blank card and studied it carefully, yet, what once was blank now held a picture. A sword stuck into a pile of gold, it held a sort of fake appeal and Yugi shuddered. Deep within his conscious Yami stared at the shadow energy that emitted from the card. 'I promise to retrieve your grandfather's soul for my failure.' Yami promised to his oblivious half. Yami was distracted from his thoughts as Weevil taunted Yugi. He grew angry, and took control of Yugi's body over coming their normal change. The Yugi-tachi followed the bug duelist far into Pegasus's wooded area.

A shadow slipped off a late arriving boat, his white hair flashing in the patches of the sun. Bakura smirked as his ring guided him to Yugi's position. He pulled further into the woods, but kept an eye on the puzzle wielder's position. Waiting for an opportunity, he settled down and pulled out his deck. Dark, misguided thoughts rang in his head, and he couldn't wait to retrieve the pharaoh's puzzle. Bakura laughed loudly as he stared at the card in his hand. He smirk, and fingered it thoughtfully. 'Ryou.' He thought, and the light fell on the card. "Change of Heart." He muttered in gleeful abandon.

Apollo felt harried as the ship grew closer to the shores of Pegasus's Duelist Kingdom. "I hope Kaiba-san, and Mokuba are okay." He murmured, and raised a hand to the charms hanging on a hidden necklace. One charm was a duelist card, with the two Kaiba brothers actually smiling. Another was a large sun, another with a sun overlapping a moon, and the last was a bunny charm with a halo. "Serenity." He whispered, and he walked off the boat to touch the shores of the island.

Cosmos flipped out of the way of a dark magic attack, and glared at her Egyptian father. "That's cheating." She quipped and blocked a staff strike with hers. She had long lost count of the hours or days that had passed in the shadow realm. Destiny and Fate had been very busy, for they missed her achievement of mastering a hard spell. Her focused had wandered, and she was rewarded with a bump on the head. She snapped up her eyes to lock with Dark Magician and her sayian blood boiled. Cosmos flicked a stray bang out of her eyes and ran toward Dark Magician who smirked as Cosmos knocked his staff from his hand.

"Not good enough Seren." He told her and raised an flat hand to Cosmos's close face. "You see, I can still do this." Dark Magician whispered and dark purple energy built in his open palm. "Dark Magic Attack!" He cried out as the energy was released, right in his daughter's face. As the smoke cleared, Cosmos had stepped back, but her bangs had been singed.

"Father." Cosmos stated lightly, gaining his attention. "You are so going to pay for that." She whispered coldly, waving a hand over her bangs in healing. Using a triple front flip she landed right beside him, and tripped him up with her staff. Dark Magician went down, and Cosmos laid the staff at his throat. "My win." She told him, and offered a hand up when he nodded.

"Very good Seren, do you want to peer into the reality world now?" Dark Magician offered to which she nodded happily. He showed her the spell to look into the outer world, and it focused on a multi-toned haired teen getting ready to duel a white haired male.

Bakura had manage to trick the Yugi-tachi in allowing him to stay with them. It was getting near dusk and Bakura felt his power grow. "Hey guys." He called using Ryou's voice, the Yugi-tachi turned to him. "What's your favorite card?" He asked, his question holding a double meaning.

Yugi answered first, his hand drawing out fondly, a very familiar card. "Well, he has been with me forever." He murmured in happy remembrance, he flipped the card to show them. "The Dark Magician." Yugi stated and turned to Joey.

"Mine's this guy." Joey said as he held up his card. "The Flame Swordsman, he's da man." He exclaimed and Teá kneeled down next to him.

"I like all my cards." She stated, before settling on one of her deck. "I believe Magician of Faith is my best though." Teá murmured thoughtfully.

"Cyber Soldier." Tristan proclaimed and his eyes alighted on Bakura. "What about you?" He inquired.

"Mine's Change of Heart." Bakura mimicked Ryou while holding up the magic card. "Hey Yugi, why don't we duel, and you guys can lend him your favorite cards to help him." Bakura suggested, and the Yugi-tachi nodded in agreement. As the cards slipped into Yugi's deck, Bakura activated his ring's shadow powers. He laughed smugly as there souls where trapped into their favorite cards. However, he was surprise when Yami took control of Yugi's body. "Ah, so there is a soul trapped in the puzzle as well." Bakura stated, and Yami glared at the tomb-robber.

"Give me back my friends's souls, Tomb Robber." Yami ordered, and watched as Bakura narrowed his eyes.

"Only if you win our duel." Bakura declared.

"Let's Duel." Yami agreed.

Cosmos watched fearfully as the souls of the friends of teen appear on the field of play. She knew the reaper of the cards spared no quarter if an unknown trespassed in the card graveyard. The battle was won in the victory of the pharaoh, and Yugi finally became fully aware of the other soul. Cosmos rushed quickly to where the card grave yard was located and saved Bakura's soul from the Reaper's scythe. Bakura only manage to catch a glimpse of the blue eyes that had rescued him before he found himself back in Ryou's conscious.

Yugi, for the first time saw Yami appear beside him. They talked as the group singed the duel off as a mere weird dream. The night called them into dreamland, as another three pairs of blue eyes arrange themselves on the quiet island.

Luna had finally regain some sense of bearing as her eyes focused. Her tiny paws had been locked in chains so she could not escape, along with a magical collar around her neck. She gasped in surprise as her eyes observed her captor. Her eyes watered, and she strained at her chains, as her captor smirked.

"Hello, Luna." was the cold greeting.

Well, Interlude is closing in on its end. I hope you all this enjoy this chapter. Hmm, it seems things keep shadowing in the wayside. Enjoy and please review. Sorry for the wait.

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