Ryou rushed towards the edge of his soul room, and glanced out of his yami's eyes. They certainly were not in Domino City anymore. Instead of the familiar streets, the horizon was covered in pyramids and golden sand.
Yugi, as well as the rest of his friends, stood in front of a large dome. Malik, and his sister, Isis, were with them. He couldn't hear their conversation, but guessed that it probably had something to do with helping the pharaoh to regain his own memories.
His yami cackled, waiting for the group at the bottom of the cliff to go inside the Ishtar home. Once they had gone, he started his climb down.
"This is it." He laughed to himself, the words reverberating through Ryou's soul room. "After three thousand years, the opportunity has come! All of the items are in one place, and they will soon be mine! At long last, I will finally destroy the pharaoh! I will have my revenge!"
As his yami walked, Ryou paced back and forth in his soul room. His yami seemed so confident for battle. And that meant he surely had a plan.
"Oh… I've got to stop him somehow…" Ryou whispered, rubbing his hands together as he walked lines down his soul room. "I went back into his memories in order to do that… and what did I find? Not much…"
Yami Bakura paused at the door. A long staircase descended into an underground chamber.
"Yes. The tablet of memories is down there." He smiled. "And when the pharaoh is pulled inside, I'll be waiting for him! I'll destroy him just as I should have three thousand years ago!"
Ryou watched as the spirit of the millennium ring started climbing down the steps. Driven by his unquenchable desire for revenge, his yami laughed to himself. In the confusion, his own life being a mystery to him, the pharaoh would stand no chance.
"I can't let that happen…" Ryou muttered to himself, with equal resolve.
He opened the door to his soul room again, and dashed into the stone corridor. The door to his yami's soul room was still open, just as Ryou had left it.
"If my yami plans to meet him inside the tablet, he'll need to get completely out of my body." Ryou mused aloud. "And that means he'll need to come back here first..."
Ryou glanced inside the room. Frozen musk clung to the air, weighing heavy on his spirit. But, otherwise, the soul room was completely empty.
Outside, Yami Bakura paused on the steps.
"I won't be needing you for a while, host." He snickered, and attempted to jump inside the millennium ring. "When the puzzle activates, it can pull me right out of here, and into my victory!"
With no one to take control of Ryou Bakura's consciousness, his body fell, face first, into a lifeless slump on the stairs.
The spirit of the millennium ring reappeared inside his soul room with the intention of quickly leaving it. He did not expect, however, to see his lighter half standing in the middle of the dark room, his hands crossed sternly at his waist.
And he didn't know what to make of it.