A/N: Finally!!! After almost two weeks!!!!!! Sorry it took me so long but school's being a pain...and I'm not doing to well. At least this is...anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter and plz review...it'll cheer me up for the time being. Anyway enjoy!

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

Laski: The only thing I own are the plot and Sam's family.

Yami: Now start reading...we know you can't wait to keep going!

Laski: He's right...let's stop stalling Yami and work on the next chapter.

Yami:All right. Can't wait to see what happens after this!

Chapter 25

Surprises In Every Corner

Yami

We finally caught up to Dartz in some sort of tourture chamber. Dartz stood at the other end of the room, angry look in his eyes. He was angry at all of us, especially Sam. Then something bright shot out of his palm and he smiled widely. He raised his arm, his palm facing us. The same thing as before shout out of his palm, hitting Mokuba.

"Mokuba!" yelled out Kaiba as his little brother was thrown back. He landed against the wall with a resounding thud and he didn't fall to the floor. In fact, it looked like he was stuck there. He looked up, a pined look clouding his eyes. "What did you do to him?" Kaiba yelled at Dartz as he tried to approch his little brother but Sam held him back and he clamed down as she said something to him.

"He's all right. Do not be firghtened Priest Seth," he responded.

"What do you mean?" Kaiba asked.

"Your past life was a Priest named Seth," Dartz answered and another beam of energy shot out of him, hitting Serenity in her chest area.

"Serenity!" Joey cried out. She landed next to Mokuba, a scream of pain coming out of her. Dartz kept at it until Sam, Yugi, Ally, Joey, Kaiba, Mai and I remained. Sam seemes furious and all her fear had disappeared from her eyes.

"How did you do that?" she yelled at Dartz. "How dare you!" That's when I noticed that her eyes were a deeper blue than before...am I imagining things?

"Thanks to a little something I found in one of these chambes, I can use Shadow Magic. Temporary of course," Dartz replied as some sort of energy ball formed in his hand. I headed towards Sam, embracing her...I could sense her fear and mine. She recieved it and turned to Dartz, still hugging me.

"You're insane!"

"Thank you love, it means a lot coming from you," he said while smiling. He shifted his gaze towards the dark energy ball in his hand. He played with it, as if he were thinking about it too much. He looked up, his eyes glancing at each of us in turn. "Who should I kill first?" he said. I looked at the ones on the floor. Ally was standing behind Yugi, Mai behind Joey, Kaiba, Sam and I were the only ones without someone to hold on to since she left the embrace.

"Ally!" Sam hissed.

"What?" she replied in a soft voice.

"Stand behind me!"

"Why?"

"Don't ask!" Sam hissed in reply. Ally left Yugi's side and did as told.

"Love, you can't protect them all," Dartz said slyly. "More than one of you won't make it out alive today but the thing is...who should die first?" he said in the same sly tone as before. The energy ball he had grew and the smile on his face did as well. He looked at all of us in turn, thought stopping him from speaking. He looked at his hand and gazed at one of us. I faced his direction and saw Yugi. Ra no! Don't let him hurt my Aibou. Suddenly Sam was behind Yugi and Yugi fell backwards, into her open arms due to the force of the blow. They landed against the wall, the sound of something piercing flesh echoing in the room. We all dashed to their side, I reached them first. I carefully took Yugi and laid him down gently. I moved Sam from the wall and noticed a puddle of blood behind her. Ra, please don't let her be dead. I looked at her back and saw a large cut. No wonder she asked Ally to stand behind her. She wanted to protect my Aibou. I checked for a pulse and it was faint.

"Sam wake up," I said softly as I laid her down. She could die any second and there's nothing I can do. "Sam wake up. there's a slight chance for you to make it if you do."

"She's done pharaoh. I suggest you send her properly and resume fighting if you want to save the owrld. Pity though," Dartz said. "Wonderfull specimen, would have made a wondefull queen and bride for me," he finished while leaving...I felt anger boil inside me. He's never going to have Sam. She doesn't belong to him regardless of what he's done to persuade her to be with him.

"Why I oughta..." Joey said as he tried to follow Dartz but Mai held him back, her violet eyes shining with worry.

"Don't do it Joey. Violence isn't the answer right now," Mai said. Joey calmed down and captured Mai's lips in a short kiss before turning to us.

"You're right Mai. Let's foucus on Yugi and Sam. We still have time," Joey replied.

"Explain mutt," Kaiba said sternly.

"I was talkin' to Sam late last night. She snuck out of bed and we met downstairs with Impa."

"What?" I asked in a loud voice.

"She didn't bother telling you because she thought that it wasn't important at the time," Joey answered, his eyes worried about how I'd react then.

"What do you mean?"

"The Sam didn't say a thing about meeting me becaus I was the one who approached her about the subject."

"About what?"

"Yesterday, I was the first one to arrive at Sam's place. Then Serenity called and asked me where I was and I told her to come over. Little did I know that the others were there with her. Anyway, as I was waiting for you guys to come I found an interesting book in her living room and began to look through the pages until something caught my eye. It was about this ritual that's supposed to unite all evil and destroy the world or something like that. I asked Sam about it when you guys got back and she told me to meet her downstairs around two in the morning."

"Then?"

"When I got there, Sam and Impa were waiting for me. They told me that the appropiate time for the ritual is today before sunset. They also said that I didn't have to worry since it couldn't happen because there were no possible threats."

"Guess I was wrong," said a female voice from behind me. Sam was up. I looked at Sam and she seemed weak. "Sorry I didn't tell you about it. I though there wasn't anything that could do the ritual at this time. Then the Shadow Realm thing happened and now this..." she said as her voice trailed off.

"Sam don't strain yourself, you're weak," Duke said as he bent down to look at her wound.

"I understand why you didn't tell me about this but all I care about is to heal you or at least help you get your strenght back," I said softly. "You dove to save Yugi from danger and I can't thank you enough."

"No need to and Ally should know what to do," she said as she lost conciouness once more. I felt tears sting in my eyes. What could Ally do? I felt a hand wipe away a tear that fell. I noticed that it was Ally who had done that. Why? She moved over to where Sam's wound was and she used the hand that she wiped away my tear with and passed it over Sam's wound, healing it somehow.

"Well done Ally. You saved your cousin," said a familiar voice. We turned around to see Mahado and Mana.

"Hi there kids!" Mana said as she bent down. "Wake up Sammy," she said as she shook Sam gently. Sam let out a dissapointed groan and opened her eyes. She seemed shocked and crawled backwards.

"Mahado? Mana?" she asked.

"In the flesh," Mahado replied as he helped Sam up. "Ra granted us a second chance."

"I can't belive it!"

"We can't believe it either," Mana answered as she hugged Sam.

"We're so glad to see you like this," Mahado said as he joined the embrace. They separated and Sam embraced me, kissing me gently as she did so.

"I'm glad you're all right," I said as I returned the kiss. She left the embrace and headed to the unconcious Yugi. She pulled out something from her blue coat and placed it on Yugi's forehead.

"Ally, you should stay here until he wakes up," Sam said as she got back up.

"What should I do?" Ally asked

"Talk to him."

"About what?"

"Anything, your thoughts, fears, strange feelings..." Sam said while raising an eyebrow. Ally seemed to be taken aback with that last one. She sat down next to Yugi and motioned us to go.

"Go...I'll join you when he wakes up," Ally said. We all left nervously but did as asked and I just had to ask.

"Why did you tell Ally to stay behind?" she smiled but seemed surprised at my question.

"Out of all of us, you should know better," she replied while taking my hand and giving it a gentle squeeze. That's when I understood.

"I get it. Let's just find Dartz," I replied.

"Let's! he'll pay for hurting Serenity!" said Joey. We moved on, folloing the echoing sound of Dartz's voice.

Yugi

"Please be all right," I heard a female voice say softly as I woke up. I sat up slowly and saw Ally, she was crying.

"Please don't cry Ally," I said as I place a hand on her shoulder. She tensed up at the touch and looked up. I smile filled her face as she saw that it was me.

"Yugi!" she said happily.

"Yeah...I'm up and I've never felt better," I replied. "What happned?"

"Long story short, you two hit the wall and we heard a strange sound. Yami was the first one to get to you. He laid you down gently and checked on Sam. She was bleeding and had a low heartbeat. I healed Sam somehow and I volunteered to stay behind until you got up. We were so worried and I was afraid of not seeing you again," she answered quickly, without thinking. I smiled and looked into her green eyes. I gave her a gentle kiss on her pikish lips and smiled again. A pink color smililar to the one on her lips decorated her cheeks and she smiled in return. I got up and she extended her hand, asking for help. I pulled her up into loving embrace and kissed her again. She returned it and as we parted she took my had and ran off, dragging me with her.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"To find the others," she said with a slightly worried tone. We found ourselves back in the main room, Dartz standing near the thrones. He had another energy ball in his hands and he threw it at Sam, who landed safely in Yami's arms. We ran to join them and Yami seemed relieved to see me all right.

"That is enough!" Sam yelled.

"The little sheila's right," spoke a strong australian accent from behind us. We turned atround to see Varon. (A/N: I've asked a few people on what they think his accent is and most people say that it sounds Australian, if he isn't in the show...well then in this fic he is.) "Hey there guys," he said while walking towards us. He hugged Sam and returned to Dartz. "Told ya I'd be back for revenge mate," he finished. Dartz seemed to shocked for words, actually...all of us were.

Yami: Not much of a cliffie today either...

Laski: I know...but anyway...hope you enjoyed it! (walks off towards algebra book and tries to work)

Yami: Plz try to review! It's really cheer her up she hasn't been having a good week.