Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh.

My Notes: At the bottom because of spoilers for only this chapter. I just want to say, here at least, don't be too sure who's controlling Mokuba. He may be acting of his own free will.

Brotherly Love

This feels so familiar to me! Yami Yugi thought to himself as he felt his body being pulled, like he was stretching, but at the same time feeling the same size. That spell Mokuba chanted. The image of the young boy who only mouthed strange words dominated his mind. Why can't I remember what it does?

It was over before it had started. Yami Yugi found himself and Mokuba standing on top of a rocky plateau. A gust of wind shook the two, making them unsteady on their feet. As Yami Yugi settled himself on the soles of his feet, he thought he saw something in the distance behind the possessed boy. It looks like the outskirts of a town. "Where have you taken us?"

Mokuba stood there with a cocky grin on his face. "This isn't exactly where I wanted to go, but it's close enough to home. So very close," he said as he tasted the air.

"Take us back Mokuba!"

"I will not. But someone could." The boy laughed as he pointed at the Millennium Puzzle. "But from what I can tell, you have amnesia and are fully unaware of the true powers you have." His cackling echoed in the winds.

This isn't the Mokuba I know. But who would want to take a hold of him. Yami Yugi couldn't help but stare at the white streaks in the boy's hair; it had to be a sign of something. "Mokuba…," he started.

"And since you don't know of your powers," the younger Kaiba said, raising his left arm.

"I not going to duel you," Yami Yugi repeated, the same determination as before.

"I promised you that we would play the game as it always meant to be played," Mokuba slid the duel disk unto its activated position. "…and now we shall." He drew five cards into his hand, grinning. "If you won't duel to protect yourself, then I have no problems with that."

If I duel him, I may accidentally hurt him. But I can't just do nothing, Yami Yugi thought as he stared at the boy and the blue sky. He set his own duel disk at the ready.

"I knew you'd see it my way," Mokuba said. All counters read 4000. He drew one card. "I set one card face down and summon the Dimensional Warrior in attack mode (1200/1000)." A red-haired solider stood before Mokuba, its brown scarf flapping in the wind, its sword pointed at Yugi. Much of the armor the solider had a cybernetic appearance, as if the armor was playing an additional role in augmenting the frame of the young swordsman.

"I draw." I don't want to hurt him so I'll play this. "I summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior (1400/1700)." The lean gray robotic-looking monster emerged wielding its magnet-emblazoned sword and shield. Alternating sparks of electricity whirled around the monster. "Attack with Attraction/Repulsion slash!" The magnet warrior rushed forward and embedded its sword into the body of its opposing monster; Dimensional Warrior was torn in two from the resulting conflicting forces. Yet Alpha seemed to be stuck on that side of the field, when it tried to return. Before long it too got stuck was seemingly torn apart as well. "My Magnet Warrior!" Yami Yugi cried out.

"The special effect of my Dimensional Warrior," Mokuba started, "Is that it removes itself and the monster that attacks it from the current duel." He seemed little phased by the loss of 200 life-points.

Now I'm defenseless. Yugi glanced at his cards briefly. "I set two cards face down and end my turn." This doesn't seem any different from any other duel. What did he mean the full potential of Duel Monsters?

"My move," Mokuba said as he drew. "I play this, the magic card Heavy Storm." A hurling windstorm descended upon the lonely plateau. A slight smirk grew on Mokuba's face as he watched Yami Yugi struggling against the high winds, his two cards blown clear. "Now I summon Dream Clown (1200/900). Attack his life-points!" A small human figure appeared wearing a matching jester's cap and shirt with stars stitched on. The blue cape fluttered as it danced over to Yugi before attaining an uncharacteristic rigidity as it struck him across the torso. "I place one card face down. Your move."

I need to try to stall this turn, Yami Yugi thought."You know we don't have to do this. Obviously something very troubling is disturbing your peace of mind." He thought he saw, just briefly, a look of the old happy Mokuba. "Let me help you and then you can help me get us both out of here."

"You help me?" Mokuba entire body was violently trembling. "In case you forgot Yugi, the last time you helped me my brother became…he became something, not himself! I searched for him. He's been missing. I haven't seen him for a week!" Tears started to stream down his face. "He wasn't supposed to leave. Not without me. This was supposed to be our time. Our Time! Just me and him and no one else."

Yami Yugi's mouth hung open. "Honesty Mokuba, I didn't know. I couldn't have foreseen that all this would have happened," he apologized.

It didn't help matters. Mokuba flew into a rage. "And that's just like you Yugi! You say you're sorry and all that, but all you do is hide behind your friends and refuse to accept any responsibility! You think being nice and friendly to everyone will get you anywhere, but it won't because in the end you try your hardest and then you lose everything because you were too weak."

"How do you know this? Who told you these lies?"

"Lies?!" Mokuba grinned, laughing. "No Yugi. I saw all this when I remembered who I was." His eyes took on that glossy look again. "I was the Chief Scribe to the High Priest and I watched as his life come crashing down all around him. He lost everything and an inept Pharaoh did nothing, could do nothing. So what could the High Priest do? He did the unthinkable and fought for a revolution. Now I know why Seto is so cold. He doesn't trust anyone. I thought that was wrong but I couldn't do anything and now I've lost him. Because I was too weak." He was silent for moment before returning to his former state of mind. "But I won't let you ruin me! I'll find him. And when I've told him that I've defeated you, he won't have to be the way he was anymore. He will be the Seto I remembered."

"I…I refuse to believe that. I won't ruin you." Yami Yugi said quietly. "I refuse to believe that I was an unjust Pharaoh. I am not in the wrong here!" He shouted, though in the back of his mind, he had his doubts.

"You refuse to accept the truth no matter how painful it might be. But no more. I will make you see the truth when I take your Puzzle away from you. You, prepare to lose!" He was about draw when he realized that it was still Yugi's turn. "Make your move."

So much for stalling. Still I'd like to know how he got his memories back. "I place this one card face down, and summon the Water Magician (1400/1000)." A well-uniformed young woman of blue and green with red trim appeared. She tipped her feathered cap forward with the staff in her hands. "Attack his Dream Clown with Rainfall Torrent." The young mage twirled and raised her staff to the sky; clouds emerged from nowhere and darkened as huge droplets the size of cats or dogs fell.

Mokuba smirked. "I don't think so." But instead of playing any of his face-down cards he uttered a foreign word. The rainfall that would have normally crushed Mokuba's Dream Clown failed to affect him and without warning Yugi's Water Magician was destroyed.

"What trickery is this?" Yami Yugi asked. "My monster's attack points were higher!"

"Why don't you look down at your Puzzle to find out?"

Yugi did and witnessed a strange phenomenon. Instead of glowing as a whole as it normally did, only certain areas were radiating brightly: The four corners of the top, the point at the bottom, and the eye in the center. "It's…it's never done this before!"

"Because you never had an instructional manual for your puzzle," Mokuba joked. "Remember how I said I'll show you the full potential of Duel Monsters?" He pointed at the inverted pyramid. "Those sections that are glowing are releasing the elemental energies that all Duel Monsters possess. Now they are flooding this game, and soon when I take your puzzle, all duels will possess this new ruling."

"Elemental Energies?"

"Each Duel Monster is inscribed with an Elemental Type. Now normally it is only the Attack points that worth considering. Now that is only a secondary condition. The first is whether the monster's element can defeat the opposing monster's element." He pointed to his Dream Clown. "My monster is of the Element Earth and yours was of Water. And as you noticed the earth soaks up water, or directs it where to go. So you're Water Magician had no power over my Dream Clown. Had my monster been of the Element Fire, then your monster would still be on the field and I'd be searching for an Earth monster."

He's right! Yami Yugi noticed all strange glyphs that were in the upper right corner of each card. He had never considered that as part of any of his deck constructions. With this new rule, a new twist is added to the game. He gritted his teeth. "I end my turn."

Mokuba smiled, sniffled, as he drew his next card. "To show you the validity of all my claims, I summon the only creature that only my brother and the High Priest of Egypt could call as their own. First I play this, Dimensional Return. It allows me to call back any monster that has been sent out of play." His Dimensional Warrior flashed back into existence. Mokuba grew calm for a moment, wiping his tear-stained eyes. Yami Yugi felt his body tensing up. "Now, as my brother before me often did, I sacrifice my two monsters to summon the legendary, the fearsome, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" The all-too recognizable cry pierced the area. A beam of white light shot down from the heavens and crashed before Mokuba. Out on its hind legs, the rare dragon spread its wings and aimed its head towards Yugi. His knees grow weak as he wondered what he was going to do to counter his rival's most prized creature.

Mokuba-3800

Yami Yugi-2800

Elsewhere in the Shadow Realm,

"You're certain no one saw you take this?" Yami Bakura asked his fellow white-haired accomplice, fingering the card in his hand. "The Millennium Eye grants me new powers for the ones I lost."

"No one saw me. No one even remembered that such a place existed. It was easy pickings," the man with the dagger bowed, causing it to dangle on its cord.

"And you are certain that this is the strongest of the three Demon cards, Gehaji?"

"Of course, Bakura. You will not suffer like you did at the hands of Marik."

"That still troubles me. Why did he not know such a card existed? Why didn't he bother to search for the Egyptian Demons?" Yami Bakura shuddered as he remembered the jaws of Amment. "If your and the others' stories are true, this card is equal to the strength of the Winged Dragon of Ra."

"He did come from a clan of Tomb-Keepers," Gehaji pointed out. "They were probably a pro-Pharaoh faction during the war and stripped the High Priest from their historic accounts."

"Yes, they probably would do that, those bigots." Yami Bakura closed his eyes, weary from the lack of sleep. It was impossible to tell the passage of time in a place of neither light nor darkness. "I need to make a little visit to someone in particular," as he unconsciously fingered his chest, "before we move to our next phase. I doubt I will be long."

"Soon we will have all the time in the world."

"Yes, soon we shall be beyond death."

My Notes: I've had to bend a few rules to get this to work. I wanted to merge the existing card game system with the alternative version of playing. As everyone knows, there are six main types of cards (Light, Dark, Fire…) and twenty sub-types (Magician, Rock, Undead…) normally. But in certain Gameboy games there's another set of types which includes (Thunder, Dreams, Divine…) and you could defeat a superior monster by playing it against its type. Any water monster would defeat any fire monsters, but thunder would defeat any water. This was what I was hinting towards but it doesn't exactly work because the two systems seem too incompatible.There's only six main types, and the other had a division of elements and light/darkness scale. Now had they asked me I would have pointed this out to them…

And will we see a Silent Swordsman, or monsters that grow stronger? Maybe. I haven't seen enough of those duel episodes to make a judgement call.

Anyways I'll try to get one more chapter in before Christmas, but I really should be enjoying my break and attending to some personal matters. But if you've been good little boys and girls, maybe I'll update this sooner than later.