Chapter 5

The Grand Championship tournament was well underway at the KaibaLand amusement park. The semi-finals were currently being played as Hathor appeared in search of the pharaoh. She was able to make herself only visible to the individuals that she sought so went unnoticed to passers by as they chatted about the tournament or the last ride that they had been on.

It wasn't long before the goddess spotted Yugi and his friends as they followed the directions on a hand drawn map. "Hello my pharaoh." she spoke to Yami as he appeared briefly by Yugi's side.

"Hello." Yami replied unsurely to the stranger that had greeted him.

"Who are you talking to?" Yugi asked his friend through their thoughts.

"He can not see me for that is the way that I wish to appear." Hathor told Yami before he had chance to answer Yugi who was looking like he wanted to get moving along right away. "If our conversation would be interrupting whatever it is that your friends are doing then perhaps we would be better off continuing this inside the millennium puzzle."

Yami nodded in return to Hathor's comment before he told Yugi; "It doesn't matter. I'll be in the puzzle if you need me."

"Okay." Yugi thought back as Yami and Hathor both disappeared in to the millennium item around his neck.

Inside the puzzle the two of them stood in the corridors of the stairs that led off in all directions to some truly amazingly unreachable rooms. Hathor had been here once before when she had been part of her former self.

"I sense that I know you." Yami told her. "But you'll have to forgive my rudeness as my memory isn't quite what it use to be."

"No, it's entirely my fault, I shouldn't expect you to know who I am." Hathor apologised as she knew that the pharaoh had very little memory of his own. "I am Hathor."

"The Egyptian goddess?" Yami asked in awe. He had remembered that Shadi had believed Emma to be the reincarnation of the goddess. "Then it seems that Shadi had been wrong about Emma after all."

"No he wasn't." Hathor replied. "My spirit was released from her own when she met with a tragic end."

"She's dead!" Yami exclaimed disbelievingly. "How? When?"

"It's not important right now." Hathor sighed as she really didn't feel like explaining what had happened once more.

"Not important!" Yami shouted angrily. "My friends and I have lost someone that we cared about and you're denying us the chance to grieve for her!"

"How dare you speak to me like that!" Hathor roared before she returned her voice back to normal. "Every mortal is destined to face death. Her's was destined to be sooner but you interfered and altered destiny itself. Now I've been sent to put it right!"

"And just how did I do that?" Yami asked unaware that he had done anything wrong.

"Is your memory really that bad?" Hathor asked as she folded her arms.

"The shadow game against Sobek!" Yami realised where he had interfered when he had pulled Emma's soul inside of the millennium puzzle to stop her being taken to the shadow realm. "I had no idea that it would have had such an effect. I am really sorry."

"Are you?" Hathor stared straight at the pharaoh. "Well then prove it by not delaying your own destiny any further, or have you forgotten about unlocking the secrets that lie in your past?"

"I'm trying to." Yami said in his defence to the whole situation.

"Really?" Hathor looked sceptical. "It just looks to me as though you're competing in your friend's duelling tournament."

"It's the only way that Kaiba has agreed to take us all back to Domino so that I'm able to collect the items that I need to fulfil my destiny." Yami explained why they were in Kaiba's tournament in the first place. "Unlike you, we are unable to disappear and reappear as we please. It takes time and money for mortals to travel such vast distances, both of which it seems that Yugi has very little of. But I assure you that I don't plan on being distracted away from my fate any longer than what is necessary."

"Grandpa!" the puzzle filled with the sound of Yugi's voice symbolising that he needed Yami's help.

"Yugi needs me, I must go." Yami told Hathor.

"Farewell, and may we meet soon again." Hathor bowed her head before she was enveloped in light. Once she had gone, Yami to evaporated as he went to help his friend.