A/N I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh...
A/N Sorry this has been so long in updating. I've been pretty busy between work and my new quasi-boyfriend. (He's not officially my boyfriend becuase my dad does not like him for some reason...But that was probably more than you needed/cared to know) Again, I'm sorry about the delay, and I hope you enjoy.
Jamie was a troubled girl with no real family and no real friends. Her mother and father died in a car accident when she was just an infant, and she had been raised by her grandmother, Sandra. Sandra loved Jamie dearly, and did everything she could to make Jamie's life an easy one for as long as they were together. But she had been diagnosed with leukemia several years earlier, and passed away when Jamie was only seven. This left young Jamie without a single familial or physical connection to the world, save for a solitary ring.
The ring was a solid gold band with a single engraving: the emblem of the Millennium Eye. The tale that accompanied the ring was one of lust, love, and sacrifice. The ring had belonged to an ancient Egyptian queen name Safiya. But Safiya had not started her life as a royalty; she had been the personal servant to the High Priest Seth. Seth loved her, but when she politely refused him, his anger consumed him and he began to beat her. Safiya found refuge in the arms of the Pharaoh Atemu, and the two were wed after a short time. Seth was enraged by the union, and Atemu was forced to banish the priest from the palace forever.
As the queen of Egypt, Safiya ruled alongside her new husband for but a single year. During their first wedding anniversary celebration, the angry and jealous former High Priest Seth approached them, his heart consumed with hatred and his mind consumed with thoughts of revenge. He stripped them of their guardians, leaving them helpless. In the one-sided battle that ensued, Safiya sacrificed her life to save her husband. Unable to live without her and unwilling to let the evil priest have free reign over Egypt, Atemu sacrificed his soul to the Millennium Puzzle in order to remove Seth's spirit from the physical realm. Unfortunately, Atemu's soul was forced to remain in the Puzzle with Seth's. The Puzzle shattered immediately after the incantation was complete, and both Atemu and Seth's souls were forced to remain within the pieces until someone was able to reassemble the Millennium Puzzle in its entirety. Only then would Atemu and Seth be free once again.
After Safiya's death, her ring had been given to her remaining family, and was passed down between the mothers, sisters, and daughters who were her descendents. But unbeknownst to others, those who inherited the gold band also inherited its former owner. The spirit of Safiya traveled with the ring, inhabiting everyone who wore it. Her spirit was not a troublesome one, wanting nothing more than to find and free the spirit of her husband, but she would not force her search on anyone. Instead, she waited patiently for those who would willingly join her in her search. Every few generations, one of the bearers of the ring would aid Safiya in her search; but even with the connection of her soul to Atemu's soul from her Millennium Band to his Millennium Puzzle, she was still unable to locate him. She was only able to sense when she was getting close.
Jamie was one of the few to welcome Safiya and the two became fast friends. Since Jamie was an adventurous young woman who had no living family and no true responsibilities, she welcomed the challenge of finding the Millennium Puzzle and the Pharaoh's spirit. While they searched, Jamie provided Safiya with a physical body and Safiya provided Jamie with care, protection, and maternal guidance. Whenever Jamie became discouraged or depressed, Safiya would gently assume control and find some way to cheer her up. The two became very close, sharing everything with each other. Together, they traveled near and far in search of the Millennium Puzzle, until one day, their search landed them in Japan.
Over the years, Jamie developed into a beautiful young woman. She had shoulder length brown hair and soft brown eyes to match. Her five foot ten inch frame had been intimidating to the boys in grammar and high school, but now that she was nineteen, she was no longer taller than the guys, and they no longer found her intimidating, but rather, they found her to be worth pursuing.
Between fighting guys off and trying to find Atemu, Jamie tried her best to get some schooling. She had been in and out of schools and colleges on the journey to find the Pharaoh's soul and had grown used to the drill. She was supposed to get to know some natives and see if anyone even knew what the Millennium Puzzle was. And while she was attending the schools and universities, Safiya insisted that the teen do her best to learn something. That was one thing that Safiya regretted about enlisting the aid of someone as young as Jamie: the teen missed out on regular schooling. But Safiya did her best to teach Jamie everything that she knew.
Once the duo reached Japan, Safiya sensed through the connection of her ring with the Millennium Puzzle, that her husband's spirit was near. She was able to narrow down the search to a small university in the city of Domino, Japan. With a little bit of work, Safiya managed to enroll Jamie in classes there, hoping that somehow they would be able to locate someone who knew where the Puzzle rested.