Chapter 7

Emma had reached Kaiba's mansion and was quite surprised to find that she could just squeeze through the gates and walk right up to the front door. She rang the bell and waited for the door to be answered. The door opened and once more she was surprised to find that it was Mokuba who stood there.

Surely Kaiba would have had servants working for him. She'd seen his companies finance records so knew that he could afford many servants but he chose not to. Why was that? Was he greedy with his money? No she had seen how much he donated charity each month it had to be something else. Did he really hate other peoples company so much that he made as little contact as possible? Or maybe he'd had a bad experience with pass employees. Whatever the reason this was no time to think about it.

"If you're looking for Seto, he's not here." Mokuba told her in a miserable voice.

"He's still at Kaiba Corp then?" she asked trying to sound surprised.

"Yeah, some sort of virus is trying to delete the whole system, and he won't leave until its sorted." he answered in a sad voice. "He also told me to stay away from you and the others."

"Oh!" said Emma feeling slightly guilty that she had arranged to keep the two brothers apart from each other for longer. "Did he say why?"

"No, but I know it's not serious because he wouldn't keep anything like that away from me." Mokuba lowered his head and Emma saw tears fall from his eyes. "He hardly tells me anything anymore, and I'm sure he's avoiding me."

Emma now felt really guilty about what she had done. Maybe she was wrong after all and Mokuba was only just trying to get his brother's attention. She crouched down so that she was level with Mokuba. "We just had a disagreement about my choice of company."

Mokuba wiped his eyes with his sleeve and look up once more.

"That doesn't mean that we can't still be friends though." Emma told him. "If anything's troubling you, you can tell me and I'll do my best to help you."

"I'm fine." Mokuba smiled. "I just need to rest that's all."

Emma stood up and handed him a piece of folded up paper. "Open it later, after you've rested." she told him before she turned and walked back along the path to the gates.

It was almost midnight, and Emma waited in Domino Park pacing backwards and forwards. Yugi, Joey, Bakura and Tea had managed to persuade her to let them come along. She would have liked to do this without them but was glad of their company and support. She was anxious at what was about to happen and began to sing out aloud, she didn't care if the others heard she needed to sing herself a happy song to boost her mood.

"It's cold outside,
There's no kind of atmosphere;
I'm all alone,
More or less.
Let me fly,
Far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun."

"It's official, she's lost it." commented Joey at Emma's choice of song. But still she continued to sing.

"I want to lie,
Shipwrecked and comatose,
Drinking fresh,
Mango juice,
Goldfish shoals,
Nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun……" she trailed off as she saw Mokuba approach wearing a dueldisk. "You came." she said and activated her own dueldisk. "I know about the good luck charm and it's spirit."

Mokuba also activated his dueldisk and together they drew their hand of five cards. "Please help me. Don't let him hurt my broth…..Argh!"

Mokuba had lost control and the spirit of Sobek had taken over his body. "You think you can stop me!"

"I know I can." said Emma forcing herself to sound confident.

"All I want is to help our pharaoh eliminate his rival." Sobek explained, his voice showing no signs of friendliness.

"Stop living in the past." she shouted across to him. "They're not Horus and Set, so just let them be and return to where you came from."

"I can't believe you're turning on me and betraying our own pharaoh, Hathor!" snarled Sobek.

"What's he talking about?" asked Tea.

"Hathor was an Egyptian goddess." Bakura explained. "Her name means 'house of Horus' and she is a protector of pharaohs."

"So Emma is Hathor?" asked a confused Joey.

"It would appear so." replied Bakura. Everyone was to busy focusing on Emma and Sobek that no one noticed the change in Bakura as he stared at the two about to face each other head on.

"And right now she's trying to protect Kaiba." added Yugi.

"You're mistaking me for somebody else." Emma told him as she remembered what she had read from Shadi's journal. She tried to hold her voice steady but could feel it weakening.

"I did read your Master's journal before I set fire to your room, so I know all about you being reincarnated." A twisted smile appeared on his face.

"Then you couldn't have read it very well." Emma retorted and then asked "What did you do to Master Shadi?"

"Let's just say that he's no longer in this world." Sobek's smile grew even more twisted.

Emma couldn't and wouldn't accept that Shadi was dead. She had to stay strong "Neither will you once I've finished with you." She drew a card from her dueldisk and set one monster card on her field. "Thanks to Mokuba drawing your hand you can't back down from this duel."

"How do you plan to get rid of me?" Sobek laughed. "We're not playing a Shadow game, you don't possess the powers of an Egyptian artefact to take us there, and I won't take us there with the power of mine. In fact I'm not even going to continue this duel. Your attempt has failed you traitor!" He turned and began to walk away only to walk in to an invisible wall. Shocked he spun round to see Emma reveal her millennium key.

No one saw Bakura's eyes gleam at the sight of the millennium item.

"Guess again." she taunted. "These are the stakes: whoever loses, gets sent to the Shadow realm. So if I win Mokuba is free of you forever."

"And if I win, your human body will decay without your soul." Sobek sneered.

"It would have been easier to say that I'd be dead." said Emma trying not to think about that fate. "And in the case of a draw?"

"I believe that Set himself said that a draw is classed as a loss." said Sobek referring to Kaiba.

"So then we both lose." mumbled Emma as she watched her opponent draw his card.