THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS!!!!!!!!! Here's the new chapter! I hope
you like it! On with the story!
It took Yami a little while of searching to realize he had no idea where he was going! He stopped running through one of San Francisco's back streets to stop in front of a strange Sphinx shaped building, hands on his knees, breathing hard.
'What am I going to do?!' he thought desperately. Every instinct in him told him that Yugi was in danger and he had to find him! Yami's hands formed fists and he hit them on his knees in frustration. Squeezing his eyes shut, he thought, 'I'm going to need help.'
Then he jumped when a sudden noise interrupted his thoughts, sounding like grating stone. Something quite large shot out of the Sphinx building and into the sky. Wide eyed looking up at it, Yami almost missed the other two figures that ran out of the building, that is until one of them collided with him!
"Ooof!" Yami said as his back hit the ground, hearing another person hit the ground as well. He quickly pushed himself up to face his attacker, but found.....
"Ishizu?????" Yami said surprised.
"My Pharaoh!!!!" she said back, also surprised.
Yami saw the other figure that had been running stop in his tracks. The figure, wrapped in what seemed to be a golden snake, turned to face the two. "What?!?" he said.
"No time Rath!!!!" came a shout from the sky. The figure then turned back and started running again.
"Come!!" Ishizu said as she jumped up, grabbed on to Yami's wrist, and took off running after the figure.
"What's – going – on?!!!!!!!" Yami said as he was being dragged along, and slowly starting to run as well.
"I will tell you on the way!!!!" Ishizu promised.
"Mmmmmm," Presley moaned as he started to come to. His entire body ached, especially his back, but he couldn't feel his arms at all. He slowly opened his eyes to look around the dark room. It was hard to see anything in this place, but from what Presley could see it looked like he was in an old dungeon. The walls and floor were made of stone and there were all kinds of chains, ropes, and such hanging from the low ceiling and walls. Moonlight was peaking through a tiny window near the ceiling, and the light was broken up by the bars that covered the window.
He then became aware of the coldness on his back and pain in his shoulders. He noticed that he was sitting on the ground, with his back up against the wall. Looking to his side he saw that his arms were being held up by shackles that were chained to the wall, and the reason he couldn't feel them was that the blood had drained out of them!
That woke his drowsy brain! 'Where am I!?!' he thought panicked, 'How did I get here!?! How long have I been out!?!?!? What's going on!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!'
Finally his memory caught up with him. 'There were Shabties!!! At the fast food place!!!!! And we were fighting and then I thought I heard someone shout and then the Shabties jumped on us and.....' His eyes widened in realization.
Then another thought crossed his mind. 'Where is everyone!?!?!?!?!?!' He scanned the dark room again and spotted a cage in the far corner that he didn't see before. Three figures lay still on the bottom of it, and in the dim light he could just make out their clothes and hair.
'There's Tea, Tristan, and Joey, but where's Armon and Nefertina, and Yugi?' Presley thought. Just then, something moaned on the other side of him. He looked over to find.....
"Yugi!!! Yugi, wake up!!!" Presley shouted in a loud whisper.
"What?" Yugi mumbled, "Why can't I feel my arms?"
"Because they're hanging by shackles chained to the wall," Presley replied.
"They're – What!?!" Yugi seemed to snap out of his zoned out state and come to. "What's going on!?! Where are we!?!?!"
"We were attacked, remember?" Presley asked.
"We – Yeah!" Yugi said in realization, "There were those stone things and the other things that were fighting them and then we were attacked and..... Where's everybody!?!"
"Shhhhh," Presley whispered looking around, "They're over there in the cage in the corner." He nodded towards it with his head.
"Are they alright?" Yugi whispered, worried.
"I hope so," Presley answered.
There was a short silence and then, "What is going on here?" Yugi asked.
"It's a long story," Presley answered.
Yugi looked up at his pale hands hanging from the wall. "I think I've got time," smiling a little at his weak attempt at humor in these predicaments. He slowly started to stand so that blood flow would return to his arms, discovering that there were chains shackled to his feet also.
"Well," Presley started, also starting to stand up. "I guess it all started about 3000 years ago in ancient Egypt....."
It didn't take the two guardians, Ishizu, and Yami long to reach the half destroyed Beefy Burger. But there was a problem. It was still under attack!!!!!!
Jakal quickly dive bombed the group of Shabtis still outside the building, spotting several more inside, along with a fighting yet very beaten looking Armon. "Rath!!!!" Jakal shouted.
Rath nodded in understanding. He closed his eyes in concentration and positioned his right hand over his left. A green ball of light started to glow and grew dramatically until it was about the size of a basketball. Then Rath sent the glowing ball flying into the fast food place, causing it to explode in the center. Everything was so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes. When the light subsided, no Shabtis were left. Only piles of dust remained of them.
Armon fell to his knees as his armor disappeared.
"Are you alright!?" Jakal asked worried.
"Yes," Armon said hurriedly, "But Ramses and his friends!!!!"
"Yes, I know," Jakal said, "Where's Nefertina?"
"She's – there," Armon said, pointing to her still body on the floor.
Jakal rushed over to her. There was blood on the ground near her head. He felt her wrist. "She has a pulse," he informed the rest of them, "There is life in her." He looked up. "Rath, could you look at her."
"Sure," Rath said.
Armon had been quiet during this time, thinking. "How do you know Jakal?" he asked.
"That's what I would like to know," Rath agreed, while looking at the cut on the back of Nefertina's head. The cut wasn't as bad as it seemed. It just needed a bandage wrapped around it, and there was no shortage of those. (Pun intended)
"I had this dream about Ramses and – and YOU!!!!" Jakal said, pointing at Yami.
"What?!" Yami said, confused.
"Why were you in Egypt?" Jakal asked.
"I'm from Egypt!" Yami said, still confused.
"But you were – you were – the Pharaoh?!"
"Yes," Ishizu answered for him.
Suddenly Yami's dream came rushing back to him. Only this time, he knew that the first part was an actual memory! "I had the same dream!" he said.
Armon and Rath were in shock. "What!?" Rath said.
But if anyone was going to say anything they were interrupted.
"Ow, that hurt," Nefertina said wearily.
"Are you alright?" Rath asked her.
"Yeah, but – Where's Ramses!?!?!" She suddenly became rather alert.
"She'll be fine," Rath said.
"We don't know," Jakal said, "He was captured!"
"Well, we have to find him!!"
"And Yugi and his friends too!" Yami added.
"How?" Armon asked.
"What about," Ishizu started, "your connection to the young one?" She turned to face Yami.
"I can hardly feel him, but I guess I could try harder."
"His what?" Rath asked.
"The Pharaoh and the Chosen One are connected through the Millennium Puzzle," Ishizu said.
"The Millennium Puzzle!?!?! The Chosen One!!!!" Rath said. He'd just seen that in his studies, before all this started to happen.
Yami was focusing so hard that he couldn't hear anything else. He had to find his light!!! He was their only connection to Yugi and the rest of the teens.
The golden eye symbol started to glow on his forehead. "The Eye of the Millennia!!!!!" the four mummies said in surprise. Golden power started to radiate from Yami, frightening the onlookers, but none more than Jakal, who had seen this in person before.
Then, suddenly everything stopped. Yami, drained of energy, tried to stay standing but failed. His legs gave out under him and he fell to his knees.
"Yami!" Ishizu shouted running over to him. "Are you alright!?"
Yami smiled weakly. "I found him."
"Ow," Joey moaned, interrupting Presley's story.
Not knowing what the noise was at first, Yugi and Presley stood silently, listening.
Joey sat up and accidentally hit something. 'What's that?' he thought. He looked over through the darkness, and spotted Tristan.
"Tristan!" Joey said in a loud whisper, reaching over to shake his friend a little. "Tristan, wake up!"
"Wha?" Tristan said, slowly opening his eyes, "Joey? What's going on?" He sat up also, rubbing the back of his head.
"Don't know," Joey said.
"What's that?" Tristan said, pointing to another body.
"It's Tea!" Joey said, surprised. They scooted over to her and Joey put a hand on her shoulder, shaking her a little. "Tea? Tea, are you alright?"
Tea took in a sharp breath. "Ah!" she said in pain.
Joey quickly retracted his hand. "Sorry!" he said.
"Tea, what's wrong?" Tristan asked.
"My wrist," she said, opening one eye to look up at them, "I think it might be broken." She slowly lifted her left arm to softly hold on to her right wrist.
"That's not good," Joey said.
Tristan took off the coat he was wearing.
"What are you doing?!" Tea asked surprised when he started to rip his own coat. She sat up slowly to look at him, still holding her wrist.
"Well, if we're going to leave, you're going to need a sling," he said, folding the large piece he'd just ripped diagonally and started to wrap it around Tea's arm and neck.
Joey decided to look around more. He stood up to walk over to a set of bars that were in front of him. Looking to the left and right he saw a stone wall and then more bars. "Hey guys?" he said, "I think we're in a cage."
"What????" Tristan said, also standing to join him. He gripped the bars and shook them. They didn't budge. "What are we going to do????"
"Hey, where's Yugi!?!?!" Tea said suddenly, standing to join them.
The three looked around frantically but couldn't find their friend anywhere.
"Yugi!?!" Joey tried.
"Joey!!!" Yugi shouted back, relieved.
"Yug!!!" Joey said, also relieved, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah!!! We both are!!!"
"Whose there?!" Joey shouted.
"Presley!!" Yugi answered, "How are the others???"
"We're fine!" Tea shouted.
"Tea broke her wrist!!" Tristan informed.
"We're stuck in this cage!!!" Joey shouted.
"Well, we're chained to the wall!!!" Presley shouted back.
"This isn't good," Tristan said.
"What do we do now Yug!?!?!?!" Joey shouted.
"I suggest you all start begging for your lives," came a sly voice that seemed to echo everywhere.
Everyone became silent – except Presley. "Heka!!!!!!" he shouted, "You tell that Slimeball to let these kids go!!! They have nothing to do with this!!!!!!"
"Why don't you tell him yourself?" came the snake's voice as she just appeared in front of them.
"And they do have quite a bit to do with this Ramses," came Presley's most hated voice as Scarab walked into view. He walked strait up to Presley and stood not a foot away from him, arms behind his back. "Quite a lot indeed," he said grinning evilly, "But, you were a nice door prize I must say."
Everyone was shocked! But for different reasons. 'Ramses!?!???' was the main thought from the cage, 'Who the heck is this guy!?!?!?!' was coming from Yugi, and from Presley, who voiced his thoughts. "They weren't after me; they were after my friends!"
"Quick one isn't he?" Heka asked.
Scarab moved away from Presley to stand in front of Yugi instead. "Missing something?" Scarab asked, revealing from behind his back the Millennium Puzzle.
"My Puzzle!!!!" Yugi shouted eyes wide.
"Yes Pharaoh, you're Puzzle," Scarab said slyly.
"Pharaoh?!" Presley said, confused.
"Oh didn't your little friend tell you?" Scarab said in a mocking tone, "He is the spirit of Pharaoh Yugioh, a great leader recorded to have disappeared almost 2000 years before we even existed Ramses, 5000 years from the modern age."
Presley was, to put it mildly, in shock! But the rest of the group was catching on.
"Hmhmhmhm," Joey started. Then he couldn't hold it anymore. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone stared at the laughing boy. "What's so funny!?!?!?!" Scarab demanded.
The rest of the group stared as if asking the same question. Tristan thought that he'd just lost it.
"He thinks that Yugi is Yami guys!!!!!!" Joey said, looking back and forth between his friends, "Isn't that funny!!?!?!?!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
By his laugh, Joey's friends could tell he was up to something. Maybe a plan?
"What!?!?!" Scarab demanded, still confused, "Who's this Yami?!?!?!"
Tristan caught on. "He's the real Pharaoh, duh," he said, making a face at Scarab, "I can't believe you mixed the two up!"
"Definitely a dumb-wad," Joey added for good measure.
Scarab then remembered hearing that name before.
Flashback
"Mr. Stone," Ishizu said, "I'd like to introduce you to these teens that are my guests. Joey, Tea, Tristan, Yami, and Yugi."
End Flashback
How could he have been so blind!?!?!?! He had been so focused on the trinket that he had missed the real Pharaoh!!!!!
Joey and Tristan were still ranting about how stupid he had been, the others smiling at him as they realized what was going on. "I mean," Joey said, "Yugi's only the vessel isn't he? Like the "Chosen One" or something like that."
"The CHOSEN ONE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Scarab screamed in surprise whipping around to face the cage. Of course!!!!!!!! Being a scribe himself, Scarab had heard about the Chosen One since he'd been born!!!! Which meant that he knew that the Chosen One and the Pharaoh had a "Bond" through which they could talk to each other. And that the Pharaoh would want him back!
"I think that was the wrong thing to say," Tristan whispered to Joey.
Scarab whipped around again, but this time back towards Yugi. "Call to him!!!!" he demanded.
Yugi was surprised at first, but then looked up at Scarab defiantly.
"I said CALL TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scarab screamed, grabbing a handful of Yugi's hair, and pulling so hard that he almost lifted the boy off the ground.
"AAHH!!!" Yugi screamed in pain, clenching his eyes shut.
Enraged, Presley started to fight against his chains, but they held fast. Tea stood in horror as Joey and Tristan started to attack the bars of the cage, and actually made them move – barely.
"Not laughing anymore, are we now?" Heka said.
"Quiet Heka!!!" Scarab shouted, clearly ticked. But then he saw something. "What is that?" he said, holding Yugi's head up so he could see his forehead.
On it had appeared a shining golden eye.
Suddenly, Scarab screamed, pulling his hand quickly away from Yugi! He looked at the steaming hand that looked like he'd just poured boiling water over it, and felt as if he had too! He retreated in a flash of smoke, along with Heka.
"Yugi!!!!!!!!" the rest of the occupants shouted as Yugi collapsed to the ground. Or almost. His arms were now hanging above his head again.
"Yugi!!!" Presley said repetitively, trying to wake him up. Then he saw Yugi grin. "Yugi?"
"They're – coming," Yugi said.
What a great place to end! Oooooooo! Major cliffy! Please review! Well, until the next chapter, bye now!
It took Yami a little while of searching to realize he had no idea where he was going! He stopped running through one of San Francisco's back streets to stop in front of a strange Sphinx shaped building, hands on his knees, breathing hard.
'What am I going to do?!' he thought desperately. Every instinct in him told him that Yugi was in danger and he had to find him! Yami's hands formed fists and he hit them on his knees in frustration. Squeezing his eyes shut, he thought, 'I'm going to need help.'
Then he jumped when a sudden noise interrupted his thoughts, sounding like grating stone. Something quite large shot out of the Sphinx building and into the sky. Wide eyed looking up at it, Yami almost missed the other two figures that ran out of the building, that is until one of them collided with him!
"Ooof!" Yami said as his back hit the ground, hearing another person hit the ground as well. He quickly pushed himself up to face his attacker, but found.....
"Ishizu?????" Yami said surprised.
"My Pharaoh!!!!" she said back, also surprised.
Yami saw the other figure that had been running stop in his tracks. The figure, wrapped in what seemed to be a golden snake, turned to face the two. "What?!?" he said.
"No time Rath!!!!" came a shout from the sky. The figure then turned back and started running again.
"Come!!" Ishizu said as she jumped up, grabbed on to Yami's wrist, and took off running after the figure.
"What's – going – on?!!!!!!!" Yami said as he was being dragged along, and slowly starting to run as well.
"I will tell you on the way!!!!" Ishizu promised.
"Mmmmmm," Presley moaned as he started to come to. His entire body ached, especially his back, but he couldn't feel his arms at all. He slowly opened his eyes to look around the dark room. It was hard to see anything in this place, but from what Presley could see it looked like he was in an old dungeon. The walls and floor were made of stone and there were all kinds of chains, ropes, and such hanging from the low ceiling and walls. Moonlight was peaking through a tiny window near the ceiling, and the light was broken up by the bars that covered the window.
He then became aware of the coldness on his back and pain in his shoulders. He noticed that he was sitting on the ground, with his back up against the wall. Looking to his side he saw that his arms were being held up by shackles that were chained to the wall, and the reason he couldn't feel them was that the blood had drained out of them!
That woke his drowsy brain! 'Where am I!?!' he thought panicked, 'How did I get here!?! How long have I been out!?!?!? What's going on!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!'
Finally his memory caught up with him. 'There were Shabties!!! At the fast food place!!!!! And we were fighting and then I thought I heard someone shout and then the Shabties jumped on us and.....' His eyes widened in realization.
Then another thought crossed his mind. 'Where is everyone!?!?!?!?!?!' He scanned the dark room again and spotted a cage in the far corner that he didn't see before. Three figures lay still on the bottom of it, and in the dim light he could just make out their clothes and hair.
'There's Tea, Tristan, and Joey, but where's Armon and Nefertina, and Yugi?' Presley thought. Just then, something moaned on the other side of him. He looked over to find.....
"Yugi!!! Yugi, wake up!!!" Presley shouted in a loud whisper.
"What?" Yugi mumbled, "Why can't I feel my arms?"
"Because they're hanging by shackles chained to the wall," Presley replied.
"They're – What!?!" Yugi seemed to snap out of his zoned out state and come to. "What's going on!?! Where are we!?!?!"
"We were attacked, remember?" Presley asked.
"We – Yeah!" Yugi said in realization, "There were those stone things and the other things that were fighting them and then we were attacked and..... Where's everybody!?!"
"Shhhhh," Presley whispered looking around, "They're over there in the cage in the corner." He nodded towards it with his head.
"Are they alright?" Yugi whispered, worried.
"I hope so," Presley answered.
There was a short silence and then, "What is going on here?" Yugi asked.
"It's a long story," Presley answered.
Yugi looked up at his pale hands hanging from the wall. "I think I've got time," smiling a little at his weak attempt at humor in these predicaments. He slowly started to stand so that blood flow would return to his arms, discovering that there were chains shackled to his feet also.
"Well," Presley started, also starting to stand up. "I guess it all started about 3000 years ago in ancient Egypt....."
It didn't take the two guardians, Ishizu, and Yami long to reach the half destroyed Beefy Burger. But there was a problem. It was still under attack!!!!!!
Jakal quickly dive bombed the group of Shabtis still outside the building, spotting several more inside, along with a fighting yet very beaten looking Armon. "Rath!!!!" Jakal shouted.
Rath nodded in understanding. He closed his eyes in concentration and positioned his right hand over his left. A green ball of light started to glow and grew dramatically until it was about the size of a basketball. Then Rath sent the glowing ball flying into the fast food place, causing it to explode in the center. Everything was so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes. When the light subsided, no Shabtis were left. Only piles of dust remained of them.
Armon fell to his knees as his armor disappeared.
"Are you alright!?" Jakal asked worried.
"Yes," Armon said hurriedly, "But Ramses and his friends!!!!"
"Yes, I know," Jakal said, "Where's Nefertina?"
"She's – there," Armon said, pointing to her still body on the floor.
Jakal rushed over to her. There was blood on the ground near her head. He felt her wrist. "She has a pulse," he informed the rest of them, "There is life in her." He looked up. "Rath, could you look at her."
"Sure," Rath said.
Armon had been quiet during this time, thinking. "How do you know Jakal?" he asked.
"That's what I would like to know," Rath agreed, while looking at the cut on the back of Nefertina's head. The cut wasn't as bad as it seemed. It just needed a bandage wrapped around it, and there was no shortage of those. (Pun intended)
"I had this dream about Ramses and – and YOU!!!!" Jakal said, pointing at Yami.
"What?!" Yami said, confused.
"Why were you in Egypt?" Jakal asked.
"I'm from Egypt!" Yami said, still confused.
"But you were – you were – the Pharaoh?!"
"Yes," Ishizu answered for him.
Suddenly Yami's dream came rushing back to him. Only this time, he knew that the first part was an actual memory! "I had the same dream!" he said.
Armon and Rath were in shock. "What!?" Rath said.
But if anyone was going to say anything they were interrupted.
"Ow, that hurt," Nefertina said wearily.
"Are you alright?" Rath asked her.
"Yeah, but – Where's Ramses!?!?!" She suddenly became rather alert.
"She'll be fine," Rath said.
"We don't know," Jakal said, "He was captured!"
"Well, we have to find him!!"
"And Yugi and his friends too!" Yami added.
"How?" Armon asked.
"What about," Ishizu started, "your connection to the young one?" She turned to face Yami.
"I can hardly feel him, but I guess I could try harder."
"His what?" Rath asked.
"The Pharaoh and the Chosen One are connected through the Millennium Puzzle," Ishizu said.
"The Millennium Puzzle!?!?! The Chosen One!!!!" Rath said. He'd just seen that in his studies, before all this started to happen.
Yami was focusing so hard that he couldn't hear anything else. He had to find his light!!! He was their only connection to Yugi and the rest of the teens.
The golden eye symbol started to glow on his forehead. "The Eye of the Millennia!!!!!" the four mummies said in surprise. Golden power started to radiate from Yami, frightening the onlookers, but none more than Jakal, who had seen this in person before.
Then, suddenly everything stopped. Yami, drained of energy, tried to stay standing but failed. His legs gave out under him and he fell to his knees.
"Yami!" Ishizu shouted running over to him. "Are you alright!?"
Yami smiled weakly. "I found him."
"Ow," Joey moaned, interrupting Presley's story.
Not knowing what the noise was at first, Yugi and Presley stood silently, listening.
Joey sat up and accidentally hit something. 'What's that?' he thought. He looked over through the darkness, and spotted Tristan.
"Tristan!" Joey said in a loud whisper, reaching over to shake his friend a little. "Tristan, wake up!"
"Wha?" Tristan said, slowly opening his eyes, "Joey? What's going on?" He sat up also, rubbing the back of his head.
"Don't know," Joey said.
"What's that?" Tristan said, pointing to another body.
"It's Tea!" Joey said, surprised. They scooted over to her and Joey put a hand on her shoulder, shaking her a little. "Tea? Tea, are you alright?"
Tea took in a sharp breath. "Ah!" she said in pain.
Joey quickly retracted his hand. "Sorry!" he said.
"Tea, what's wrong?" Tristan asked.
"My wrist," she said, opening one eye to look up at them, "I think it might be broken." She slowly lifted her left arm to softly hold on to her right wrist.
"That's not good," Joey said.
Tristan took off the coat he was wearing.
"What are you doing?!" Tea asked surprised when he started to rip his own coat. She sat up slowly to look at him, still holding her wrist.
"Well, if we're going to leave, you're going to need a sling," he said, folding the large piece he'd just ripped diagonally and started to wrap it around Tea's arm and neck.
Joey decided to look around more. He stood up to walk over to a set of bars that were in front of him. Looking to the left and right he saw a stone wall and then more bars. "Hey guys?" he said, "I think we're in a cage."
"What????" Tristan said, also standing to join him. He gripped the bars and shook them. They didn't budge. "What are we going to do????"
"Hey, where's Yugi!?!?!" Tea said suddenly, standing to join them.
The three looked around frantically but couldn't find their friend anywhere.
"Yugi!?!" Joey tried.
"Joey!!!" Yugi shouted back, relieved.
"Yug!!!" Joey said, also relieved, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah!!! We both are!!!"
"Whose there?!" Joey shouted.
"Presley!!" Yugi answered, "How are the others???"
"We're fine!" Tea shouted.
"Tea broke her wrist!!" Tristan informed.
"We're stuck in this cage!!!" Joey shouted.
"Well, we're chained to the wall!!!" Presley shouted back.
"This isn't good," Tristan said.
"What do we do now Yug!?!?!?!" Joey shouted.
"I suggest you all start begging for your lives," came a sly voice that seemed to echo everywhere.
Everyone became silent – except Presley. "Heka!!!!!!" he shouted, "You tell that Slimeball to let these kids go!!! They have nothing to do with this!!!!!!"
"Why don't you tell him yourself?" came the snake's voice as she just appeared in front of them.
"And they do have quite a bit to do with this Ramses," came Presley's most hated voice as Scarab walked into view. He walked strait up to Presley and stood not a foot away from him, arms behind his back. "Quite a lot indeed," he said grinning evilly, "But, you were a nice door prize I must say."
Everyone was shocked! But for different reasons. 'Ramses!?!???' was the main thought from the cage, 'Who the heck is this guy!?!?!?!' was coming from Yugi, and from Presley, who voiced his thoughts. "They weren't after me; they were after my friends!"
"Quick one isn't he?" Heka asked.
Scarab moved away from Presley to stand in front of Yugi instead. "Missing something?" Scarab asked, revealing from behind his back the Millennium Puzzle.
"My Puzzle!!!!" Yugi shouted eyes wide.
"Yes Pharaoh, you're Puzzle," Scarab said slyly.
"Pharaoh?!" Presley said, confused.
"Oh didn't your little friend tell you?" Scarab said in a mocking tone, "He is the spirit of Pharaoh Yugioh, a great leader recorded to have disappeared almost 2000 years before we even existed Ramses, 5000 years from the modern age."
Presley was, to put it mildly, in shock! But the rest of the group was catching on.
"Hmhmhmhm," Joey started. Then he couldn't hold it anymore. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone stared at the laughing boy. "What's so funny!?!?!?!" Scarab demanded.
The rest of the group stared as if asking the same question. Tristan thought that he'd just lost it.
"He thinks that Yugi is Yami guys!!!!!!" Joey said, looking back and forth between his friends, "Isn't that funny!!?!?!?!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
By his laugh, Joey's friends could tell he was up to something. Maybe a plan?
"What!?!?!" Scarab demanded, still confused, "Who's this Yami?!?!?!"
Tristan caught on. "He's the real Pharaoh, duh," he said, making a face at Scarab, "I can't believe you mixed the two up!"
"Definitely a dumb-wad," Joey added for good measure.
Scarab then remembered hearing that name before.
Flashback
"Mr. Stone," Ishizu said, "I'd like to introduce you to these teens that are my guests. Joey, Tea, Tristan, Yami, and Yugi."
End Flashback
How could he have been so blind!?!?!?! He had been so focused on the trinket that he had missed the real Pharaoh!!!!!
Joey and Tristan were still ranting about how stupid he had been, the others smiling at him as they realized what was going on. "I mean," Joey said, "Yugi's only the vessel isn't he? Like the "Chosen One" or something like that."
"The CHOSEN ONE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Scarab screamed in surprise whipping around to face the cage. Of course!!!!!!!! Being a scribe himself, Scarab had heard about the Chosen One since he'd been born!!!! Which meant that he knew that the Chosen One and the Pharaoh had a "Bond" through which they could talk to each other. And that the Pharaoh would want him back!
"I think that was the wrong thing to say," Tristan whispered to Joey.
Scarab whipped around again, but this time back towards Yugi. "Call to him!!!!" he demanded.
Yugi was surprised at first, but then looked up at Scarab defiantly.
"I said CALL TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scarab screamed, grabbing a handful of Yugi's hair, and pulling so hard that he almost lifted the boy off the ground.
"AAHH!!!" Yugi screamed in pain, clenching his eyes shut.
Enraged, Presley started to fight against his chains, but they held fast. Tea stood in horror as Joey and Tristan started to attack the bars of the cage, and actually made them move – barely.
"Not laughing anymore, are we now?" Heka said.
"Quiet Heka!!!" Scarab shouted, clearly ticked. But then he saw something. "What is that?" he said, holding Yugi's head up so he could see his forehead.
On it had appeared a shining golden eye.
Suddenly, Scarab screamed, pulling his hand quickly away from Yugi! He looked at the steaming hand that looked like he'd just poured boiling water over it, and felt as if he had too! He retreated in a flash of smoke, along with Heka.
"Yugi!!!!!!!!" the rest of the occupants shouted as Yugi collapsed to the ground. Or almost. His arms were now hanging above his head again.
"Yugi!!!" Presley said repetitively, trying to wake him up. Then he saw Yugi grin. "Yugi?"
"They're – coming," Yugi said.
What a great place to end! Oooooooo! Major cliffy! Please review! Well, until the next chapter, bye now!