A/N: Hey! Back for another chapter...hope you guys like it!

Yami: She doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Michelaski: Thanks for doing the disclaimer again.

Yami:No problem at all (hugs michelaski)

Michelaski:(blushes)

Chapter 23

Finding Out

Sam

I walked over to the tablet and touched the carving of the girl that looked just like me. Her eyes were shaped just like mine and she was wearing the coat Impa gave me. She was standing next to a carving that looked just like Yami. He had is arms around her and they were both smiling, as if it were a picture perfect moment preserved in a mere stone tablet. I couldn't believe my eyes. I looked to another side of the room and saw two chairs that looked like thrones. I approached them quietly and examined them. I read the inscription on one...Queen Samantha. I can't believe it! They weren't lying to me. I read the other throne but the name was wiped out...I don't know what to say...I really was her. I dropped to my knees, saline and crystal tears falling from my cheeks. I slammed my fists on the stone floor. It hurt badly but it doesn't compare to the damage and pain I caused to Mahado and Mana last night when they told me this. I hurt them so badly...I want to take it all back if I could.

"I'm sorry..." I said softly. I had doubted the two people that have watched over me for years...I yelled at them, I screamed I insisted that they were wrong and I still didn't believe them. I tried to find them through that connection we've shared but it was empty...both ends were closed. They weren't going to talk to me through our link anytime soon. I feel bad for hurting them like this. "I'm sorry..." I said louder once more. "I love you guys...you've always been there for me...don't leave me just because of this argument. Please forgive me," I said softly. Please hear me...I'm really sorry I doubted you two. Please hear me...please listen. I'm sorry...I'm really sorry for what I've done. I really don't know what else to think or say. This is all to much for me to take in, in such a little time period.

"Get up," said a female voice. I looked up and saw girl that looked just like me and like the one in the tablet. Long hair flowing past her shoulders, almost reaching her wait. Her blue eyes had the same sparkle, that life, that mine have. She had an average frame and a petite figure. She could pass off as my twin if it wasn't for her ghostly appearance. Was this the spirit of the queen herself? Is this my past life? "They forgive you and they love you just as much as you love them. They know that it was hard for you to believe what they told you last night. They just wanted you to know about all of that before you found out about it from someone else," she said while smiling. I got up, wiping away the crystaline tears that had begun to fall and looked into her eyes.

"Who are you?" I asked as I got a bit closer to her glistening spirit form.

"I'm half of you," she explained.

"What do you mean half of me? Why does that throne read 'Queen Samantha' instead of and Egyptian name?"

"This is a long story and I don't have enough time to explain but I'll try. Will you try to understand this?" she asked. She sounded desperate. I nodded silently in response.

"Yes. I'll listen," I said after my nodd.

"Good...this all started ever since you were born. You were just a baby when you were taken from your parents by more than one dark force," she began.

"What do you mean? Who are they?"

"They were Zorc and Dartz. They knew who you were and what you would be able to do...that's why they took you from your parents and your family. They had to stop you berfore you could stop them. Anyway, before you ask what you can do...I have no idea what it is," she said. I was a little surprised that she guessed what I was going to ask.

"What did they do?" I asked.

"They took you over to Dartz's hideout and using ancient magic removed half of your soul and they sent it five thousand years into the past, Yami's time. After they removed a part of you and sent it where they knew it wouldn't make you complete and make you interfere with their desires, they gave you up for adoption."

"So my parents never wanted to give me up?"

"Exactly. They were so heartbroken with what happened that they didn't know what to do. They knew you were around the Domino area but due to their traveling, they couldn't search for you."

"So you're the half of my soul they sent to the past? What do they mean by interfere? And what do they mean by complete?"

"You're asking pretty hard things for me to explain but I'll do what I can and I still need to finish this. First off...yes, I am the other half of your soul. Secondly, they're trying to perform this ritual to unite all evil forces so that; in time, destroy the world together. Thirdly, if your soul is complete you can trigger that ability, that very thing that they don't want."

"But why send me to Yami's time?"

"They figured that you'd just be a wandering soul and never do anything. Luckly Mahado and Mana's parents already suspected this and prepared a body for you. It would look exactly like you once you took over the empty vessel they had prepared for the soul of the future. When the half of your soul Dartz sent finally arrived to its destination Mahado and Mana's parents made sure that it took over that empty vessel that they created. When it did you were raised as their own kid. When you reached your teen years you were sent to be Yami's protector since he was recently crowned pharaoh and you agreed, well actually me since I'm the part of you that lived there."

"What happened then?"

"You did Sam. You changed history when those two sent you there. When Yami sealed himself in the puzzle he had nothing but, when half your soul came, he had a wife and a wonderful son."

"So when I was sent..."

"You changed history."

"But how did you know?"

"Shadi told Mahado. He doesn't know who you are, he doesn't know anything about what happened with your soul or what you can do if you're complete. All he knows is that you're a teenager that afected Yami's life greatly and that you lived in the past, but he knows that you changed the past for Yami and he left sad and angry but he had a even better reason to do what he did."

"Because he wanted to protect us both...me and the baby aside from his kingdom,"

"Precisely Sam. I only kept your name in Egypt to be true to the one who I was living for."

"So Yami loves you and I just remind him of you?"

"No! He loves you...remember I'm a part of you."

"Sorry...I forgot."

"It's all right. Anyway, I sealed myself here with Shimon's help so I would watch over the temple and so I could wait for your return."

"What about those Egyptian dreams I've had?"

"That's the life you had in Egypt and you were seeing through my eyes."

"What I don't get is why I'm being chased."

"You're being chased because you've been showing signs of unvelievable strength within you. Not just that...you're pretty powerful for being only half a soul most of your life. That's what made Dartz go after you once more, to keep you from tapping into part of your ability."

"What about you?"

"I'm a ghost, I can't do much."

"Oh."

"I've been sensing the ritual and I know where he's doing it."

"I figured as much...wait a sec..."

"Yes?"

"Ghosts have unfinished buisness and you were supposed to wait for me and to tell me all of this. Since you finished what you were supposed to do...why haven't you disappeared yet?" I asked. She smiled and her blue eyes glowed with happiness.

"I actually have one more thing to do Sam," she said while walking towards me.

Yami

I saw that ghostly form of Sam walking towards the real one and they fused together from what I could see. A bright light came from Sam and when it dimmed she collapsed. I began to head towards her, wondring what that ghost did but Yugi stopped me.

"Listen..." he said. That's when I heard footsteps. The same two guys we saw talking earlier had come back and they were heading towards Sam.

"I can't bellive she's here!" said the one that usually talks first.

"Yeah. I can't believe we mistook her for the queen," said the other one.

"She does look a lot like her though."

"Yeah. She really does."

"What do you think happened?"

"Seeing how much she looks like her must've caused this," the second said while picking her up. What I wonder is...Sam a queen? My queen?

"You'll finally get to meet the one who's caused you so much pain Samantha," said the first one while touching her cheek.

"We know you'll hate him at first but you'll like him after a while," said the second one as they began to walk away with her. I could feel tears and anger within me. I just couldn't let her get hurt. I promised her and I never break a promise.

"Yami?" asked Joey. "You okay?"

"No I'm not Joey. I promised Sam something ever since I met her and I'm not breaking it," I said while heading the direction those boys went. The others were close but I just wanted to find her. I heard some chanting in the far distance and followed the sound of that voice. It lead me to a large room which looked like a bedroom. Sam was on the bed, her hands resting comfortably on her chest.

"Nice of you to join me pharaoh," said an obscure voice. I knew at once that it didn't belong to any of those boys that were after Sam.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"It's a shame you don't remember me well pharaoh..." he said while turning around.

"Dartz!" Yugi called out.

"Yes, it is I," he began. "I managed to survive what you did to me some time ago but the only thing I've wanted aside from the millennium items is her."

"What do you want with Sam?" I said loudly.

"She has this unique ability and I'd like to use it to my advantage so I can conquer this planet and return it to how it should be," he explained.

"She won't do it willingly," I pointed out.

"I know. That's why I decied to brainwash her...you see, I did something to her when she was a mere infant to ensure my victory tonight. It just so happens that even though I did that she still is pretty harmfull and could destroy my plan."

"What did you do?!?"

"Let's just put it this way...she's half of what all of you have."

"What do ya mean?" asked Joey.

"She only contains half a soul; therefore, brainwashing her will be easy unless...she's united with her other half which should be around here," Dartz explained.

"Isn't that..." Mokuba began only to be kept quiet by Kaiba. "Nevermind."

"Now arise my darling," Dartz said in a sweet voice that was completely fake. Sam sat up and looked straight at Dartz. He pointed to me and spoke clearly. Suddenly, a knife appeared on my hand and one appeared on Sam's. I looked into Sam's eyes and they seemed different, I just can't tell how. Did his magic work? "You'd might like to use the kinfe to defend yourself. From the looks of this it might be over in an instant."

"I am not hurting her," I said softly.

"You might have to when I ask her to do this..." he said as his voice trailed off.

"What do you mean?" I asked with worry growing inside of me.

"Kill him..."

Oh no!!! another cliffhanger!!! Sorry people for doing this again but I have to build up the suspense...anyway, until the next chapter!