Hi! Here's chapter 12 for all of my faithful (and new) readers after a stressful few days of school. I hope you all enjoy.

Discalimer: I don't own Yugioh, Kazuki Takahashi does, nor do I own anything that resembles anothers work.

Warnings: There is shounen-ai (boyxboy) relationships in this fic. If you don't like, don't read.

Italics are thoughts.

Last Chapter: "Lets go. They're coming and we've been told not to cause a scene...yet." The three people left quietly, waiting for the right moment to return.
Ryou, Yugi and Malik ran into the throne room. The once elegant area was now in a state of ruin. The black marble floor was rubble and the golden shine of the room was now severely tarnished. Some of the gold had even melted off of the walls and had re-set into little nuggets on the floor or as drips on the rough sandstone walls. The beautiful tapestries that had once adorned the walls were now piles of ash on the dusty marble floor. Stained glass windows had shattered and the room was void of any sign of life. Something fell to the ground and the Gods turned to where the sound had come from. They stood there shocked.

(A Fight Begins)

Pinned up on the only intact wall left were the Gods of Water, Fire and Darkness. Each of the Gods were trapped in a sphere held up on the wall. Bakura was motionless in the middle of a desert, the heat and lack of moisture taking its toll on the God of Water. The God of Fire was frozen solid in a block of ice, his flame slowly flickering out in the freezing, airless environment. In the middle was a completely dark sphere. Ryou and Malik knew it was Yami. Yugi looked at Yami's dark prison in fear. It was too dark for his Darkness. He would be consumed by it and Yugi wouldn't be able to save him from it.

"Who did this?" Malik asked through clenched teeth.

There was a giggle from behind them and the three Gods turned around. Standing on the platform where the throne once stood were three people - three very familiar looking people. So familiar in fact, that Ryou, Yugi and Malik had to look twice to make sure they weren't imagining things.

"How is this possible?" Yugi asked.

"Simple!" A voice announced from one of the windows. The three mages turned to see the King standing there with a smirk plastered on his face.

"Jonouchi! You traitor! How could you do this to Yami? Your best friend?" Ryou yelled as he noticed the blonde behind the King.

"Power. Do you think I would do this otherwise? If I join with Seto, I can rule the world by his side! We won't stand for you pathetic Gods ruling what should be ours!" Jonouchi yelled back, Seto's arms wrapping around his waist.

"How dare you! I'll kill you both!" Malik yelled, breezes angrily blowing, making dust whirl around the destroyed throne room, tugging at the occupants robes and making their hair wildly flutter about.

"I wouldn't worry about us right now," Seto said with a smirk, "You should be worrying about yourselves."

The three heard a collective, menacing laugh and turned around. Standing opposite the three gods was…themselves. The others were wearing completely black compared to the green, white and yellow of Ryou, Yugi and Malik.

"This time tomorrow, King Seto will have control of all the dimensions. But in order for that to happen, you Gods must be destroyed. How simple a task it will be. Our opposing elements have been trapped and are slowly dying. Now all that's left," the other Malik said with a smirk.

"Is to destroy you three," the other Ryou and Yugi said simultaneously.

Yugi, Malik and Ryou stepped into fighter's stances.

"It will take a lot to destroy us," Malik said, the air going completely calm. A sign of his sudden rage…the calm before the storm.

"After all, your only copies of us from when our DNA was taken," Ryou said. He smirked as the three looked shocked, a habit he had developed from Bakura, "Yes, I know about cloning, even if I came from a different dimension. Physically you are identical to us in every way. Mentally and magically however, you are not. You grew up in a completely different environment to us and learned different things. That is what will decide who shall win this fight," Ryou said as he began to glow a soft green.

(A Fight Begins)

Malik took to the skies, his copy following closely behind, trying to catch the Air Elemental. Malik expertly dodged all of the other's attempts to catch him. Growling, Malik turned and flew head on with his copy and managed to land a punch on the other Malik's jaw before diving into the trees below. The other Malik snarled and spat blood from his mouth. That little upstart will pay for that one!

"That was a cheap shot, brother dear!" the other Malik drawled, gently floating over the trees, looking for that glimpse of yellow that the real Malik wore.

"It was fair and square. If you look into your copied memory banks, you'd remember that this is how people from my dimension fight…and I'm not your brother you copycat!" the real Malik yelled back from his cover of the trees. Smiling as he watched the trees bend to hide him from sight as he jumped from branch to branch, leading his other on a wild goose chase.

(A Fight Begins)

As soon as Yugi saw Malik take to the sky, he smiled at his copy and ran off into the palace, giggling.

I can't just keep on running…I have to find a way to destroy this copy of me and save Yami Yugi thought as he turned down another hall, letting another giggle escape him. The giggle was cut short, however, when he abruptly stopped blinded by an intense light.

"Hey! No fair!" Yugi cried, shielding his eyes from the light, "You know I can't take it!"

"I know you can't, but I can. I trained hard to make sure I could use my light magic without being blinded by it. As much as I don't like destroying things, I know that I must do this. It is right and just that I do it."

Yugi blinked, his eyes slowly adjusting to the light. As a light mage, he had learned one very important thing. The light within controlled him; it made him the innocent person that he was. The other Yugi was telling the truth. He honestly did believe that killing the real Yugi was right. He grinned.

"Ready to go for another run?" Yugi asked as he took off once more, an idea formulating in his mind.

(A Fight Begins)

"This is very interesting. Your memories don't go back very far and yet, you are fairly well educated…well…from when I was created anyway. It is impressive," the artificial Ryou said, conversationally.

"I'm not here to talk. You have what is mine and I wasn't it back," Ryou said tersely.

"Ah yes, well. You'll have to fight me for him. After all, we are the same person, so he's mine too," the copy said with a slight smirk.

"Don't worry. I'll fight dearly for what rightly belongs to me," Ryou looked at the fallen form of Bakura, feeling the snowfall in his mind slow a little more. "I'll die for him," he whispered.

"How sweet, but our fight will not take place here. Our area is the forest, so the forest is where we fight," the copy said, taking off through a wall that had been reduced to rubble.

Ryou went to follow but stopped at the bubble that Bakura was in.

"I'll save you love, like you have once done for me. If I die, I'll return to you, always. I love you, Bakura," Ryou whispered as he gently kissed the sphere before going deep into the forest.

So, that's chapter 12. Did you all like? Was it interesting? I'm not the best at writing fights, but I'll try my best! Please, leave a review once you've read...it gives me inspiration. Ja ne!

Thanks to: Pharaoh Atemu's Angel, Hikari's-dark-side, Chelley Angel, Hathors-Favorite androse#45, thanks for your reviews...they make me feel loved!

SilverWing147: How did you know! I hope this chapter was up to your expectations of the confrontation...thanks very much for the review! Also, Yami's arm is feeling alot better from where you stabbed it in the dark.