Note:

All three chapters of this story have been revised, and reposted. There haven't been any significant changes. Grammar and spelling wise things have been corrected. Certain elements of the story plot have been removed, or re written. Other parts have been added, because I felt the need to do so. But, really, there have only been small changes, detail wise and with other stuff. Still, I hope the story has improved somewhat. And although this story will still remain on hiatus for the moment, I promise, it will be continued as soon as I'm able to!

Revised: 20 July, 2005

Title: Hidden Memories

By: ChaosMagicianGirl (formerly known as BehindColdBlueEyes)

Edited by: LazerWulf

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Yu-Gi-Oh! So, you can sue me, but you won't make a penny out of it! (snickers evilly)The only thing I own is the plot of the story. So, that is © and belongs to me! So, no stealing it from me, because, when I find out, you'll probably regret ever doing it….(sadistic smile)……

A note: I posted this chapter earlier, but I posted it up again, after LazerWulf edited it for me. Thanks for the help and for willing to be my beta-reader! You're great!

Summary:

This story takes place after the battle city finals. At the party to celebrate the Battle City Duelling King a strange occurrence takes place. A chain reaction between all the millennium items in the room results in the rebirth and release of Mana's soul, which has been trapped for thousands of years.

This story is in her point of view and tells the struggles she will face to adapt to her new life. Her search to find out more about her ancient and mysterious past, to unlock her hidden memories and find out who she really is, and finding love on the way.

A/N:

Hello peepz!

I'm back with a new story! This idea has been swimming around in my head lately, and I've finally done something with it. I hope you like the story, and R and R! Because I really hope, some people will like it, or else, I don't think I will continue it.

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Raindrops splatter against the window I'm sitting in front of. Outside, dark clouds are raging past me, as the blimp I'm on, speeds away from Kaiba Corp Island. Only hours before, the last Battle City Tournament duel between Yugi Motou and Marik Ishtar had taken place at the top of a tower that is now non-existent.

Suddenly, a loud thunderclap snaps me out of my realm of thoughts. I jump up when the lightning following after it briefly lights up the room with an eerie gold glow. You can see the fear reflected in my emerald orbs.

I get up from my sitting position in front of the window and walk over towards my bed, while the sound of my bare feet padding over the floor can be heard. I lie my head down on my pillow and resume my thinking trial.

I can hear music and the sound of laughing and talking people from a few floors below me. It is the celebration party that was held after the Battle City finals were over. It was held to honour the finalist who received the title of duelling king.

How could I forget about it?

It is the party where my life began or started, I don't know how I should put it. It was in the hall below me, where my soul, which had been imprisoned in a certain card long ago, was set free.

I remember it so vividly.

How should I not? It has only taken place 2 hours ago.

It began after all battle city finalists had boarded the blimp and started the victory party to congratulate the new duelling champion, Yugi Motou.

The finalists that attended the party were: Isis Ishtar, Seto Kaiba, Odion, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, Malik Ishtar, Bakura Ryou, and, of course the champ himself. Yugi's friends were also there. Serenity Wheeler, Tea Gardener and Tristan Taylor. Mokuba Kaiba was also in attendance and, unknown to every one else, Shadi was watching from the shadows.

Of course, what people did not know, was that a few people carried the renowned Millennium items with them. They were the tools that set my revival into motion. All seven items were gathered in one room. Nobody present in the room, save for Shadi, was aware of this though.

Shadi told me, that to few people like him, it is known that texts that were written in ancient times passed, told of the risks the Millennium items represented when they would all gather in one place.

There was the risk, that one event, no matter how insignificant, could trigger some kind of process that would result in the activation of all the Millennium item's powers at once. And it would set loose ancient Egyptian shadow magic.

That was exactly what happened this particular night. The event that triggered it is known to me, and the others on the blimp, I believe. But why this particular event triggered it will forever remain a mystery, I presume.

It was a rematch that took place between two duelling rivals, Yugi Motou, the reincarnation of Nanashi no pharaoh (The pharaoh without name), and Seto Kaiba, the reincarnation of Priest Seth, or so I've been told.

It seems I'm not the only one on the blimp who is without his past memories. The nameless pharaoh, who is referred to asYami by his friends, has also no recollections of his past. Somehow it feels good to know, that I'm not alone in this. At least, he knows what it's like. Although we seem to have much in common, like we're both from Ancient Egypt, there are also some differences. He doesn't know his real name. I do. I have a body of my own. He doesn't. Yugi Mutou served as a vessel for Yami's spirit. Or that's how Shadi explained it to me.

Now my head is reeling with all this knowledge. How am I supposed to believe in some kind of magic crap, when I don't even remember who I am? I'm so confused….

The two fought against each other in a friendly duel, with an outcome that was never expected; me.

When Yugi played the card I was trapped in, the Millennium items responded and began to glow all at once. Their combined magic somehow set my imprisoned soul free from the card I was trapped in.

Now, one must wonder, how did my soul end up in a card? I asked Shadi. He told me he didn't know. Yeah, right! As if that was so helpful. Yes, I'm trying to be sarcastic here. Did anybody notice?

I can only sigh inwardly.

I don't know anything. Okay, scratch that, I did know something, but that tiny bit of information wasn't very helpful. And how can I trust anybody in the state I'm in. What if this is some strange and weird nightmare, I'll soon wake up from?

But, to put it in simple words, this is how I came to be.

I was unconscious and somehow they managed to bring me to this room.

I don't know what happened at all. I only have the information given to me by the mysterious stranger named Shadi, who visited me an hour ago.

He told me that he had appeared before them and told them who I was; that I was a spirit from ancient Egypt, like Yugi's millennium spirit.

He had also pleaded with them to leave me be for now. My revival had come as a huge shock to them all. Even though I have no recollection of the event.

Shadi introduced himself to me as the keeper of the millennium ankh and scales. The scales were able to read a persons heart and tell if the person is good or not. The ankh can see if someone speaks the truth, and if you lied, it would or could punish you.

Since, I don't know anything, or almost nothing about the customs of the Millennium items, what he told me, didn't make much sense. I just took his word for it. What else was I supposed to say?

Shadi came with an important other reason. He gave me two millennium items that had remained unknown of till today, the Millennium earrings and bracelet. He told me I was the one that was destined to wield them, that I had wielded them when I lived in ancient Egypt.

(During that part of his "ramble" I only nodded dumbly.)

I turn my head around to stare directly at my reflection in the mirror next to me.

I study my complexion. I have long brown hair that cascades down my back. My eyes are almond shaped and are a bright emerald green, as the leafs attached to the branches of a three. I'm quite tall, and have a slim, slender body. My skin is a tan complexion. I'm still dressed in the magician's garb that represented me on the card Yugi used to own.

As I continue to stare at myself, I can only find a stranger looking right back at me. I don't know who I am or rather who I used to be.

I have no memories of my past, or at least I can't seem to remember. My mind is a maze with closed doors, behind which the answers lie that I seek to find out who I am. But, for now, they will remain hidden memories.

Shadi told me that I used to be a person living in ancient Egypt and that my name was Mana. I asked him a million questions and pleaded with him to tell me more about my past, but he said to me, that he also did not know anymore than that.

The only other thing he could tell me about my secret past was that it was likely that my soul was trapped in a card. The card I was and formerly known as the Dark magician Girl. The only memories I have are those I collected when I was the Dark magician girl and belonged in Yugi's deck. That's how I know the names of some persons that are present in the room below me. The rest was told to me by Shadi.

My heart's wish is to find out who I am, because I don't understand why I'm supposed to be here.

Was it fate that brought me here?

Perhaps I will someday find out, but for now, my past will continue to be shrouded in shadows.

For now, I will have to concentrate on what I will do once we arrive in Domino city.

I have to find out what to do with my new life lying in front of me.

But, I guess, I will face those trials when they arrive and not earlier.

I will not rest until I find out at least something about my past or who I used to be.

Because, when I look in the mirror now, I only see someone that I don't know...

I softly move my fingers over my Millennium bracelet. It is such a beautiful thing, with the little ankhs and hieroglyphs engraved in it.

At the same time these items are strangers to me, but on the other hand, they seem so oddly familiar.

I believe Shadi is right.

These items do hold the key to unlocking some of my past.

Well? Hate it? Like it? Let me know if I should continue...