It's Temple Time, Baby!

Disclaimer: I don't own YGO. Or the word supercalifragjalisticexpialidocious. Mary Poppins owns that word.

D/N: Just a moment. Supercalifragjalisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough you'll never feel precocious, supercalifragjalisticexpialidocious! ... Yeah, I know those aren't the words. I never watched the movie. I only sang the song. ANYWAYS! Yes, I'm back! Back like a pack! So, Gaelia's in the picture now. Dammit... how do I pull this off AND do the sequel... ? o.O I mean, what sequel? There's no sequel. Of course not. I'd never make you guys wait through another story just to hear the ending. And certainly not one involving Ancient Egypt and Joey's past profession... No, no, no, no way. Yeah... So, anyway... Here's the chapter.

Due to some freakishly random thing that was supposedly posted on the front page of fanfiction, I'm told I can't reply to reviews anymore. I'm going to post this chapter up without my usual replies, but I'm going to see if that was some idiot's bluff or the real deal. Anyway, sorry guys! If it turns out to be false, then I'll post up my replies with the next chapter, okay?

Thanks for reviewing everyone. Prozac, you used so many freakishly cool sentences... I'm going to have to steal them at some point in time. And R.K.F.a.'...', DON'T YOU TOUCH MY DUCKS!

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"Yami... How do you turn his mouth off?" Joey asked, disgust drooling from his words in the same manner salvia drooled from Kaiba's mouth. "I mean, come on! The guy's gushing here! He's a... a... spitfall or something."

"Yes, I noticed." Yami nodded. "That's why I declared it your turn."

"Oh yeah?" Joey snapped, pushing the former genius towards the former pharaoh. "Well, now it's your turn."

Yami wrinkled his nose a bit, but then smiled. "Alright. I'll take him and his drooling ways. But it's only a matter of time before he loses control of his bladder..."

Joey's eyes widened, as he grabbed Kaiba's arm and yanked him back with limited protest. "Okay, okay, I'll take him. But if he start peeing his pants, he's all yours, got it?"

"Mmm." Yami murmured, as they reached the top of the sand hill. Stopping to look around, he said, "Joey? Do you have any idea where the rock chair would be?"

Joey scanned the horizon. "No. Man, if only we had some sort of sign. Like... I don't know... Something we left there to mark it."

"I don't suppose that muffin is still there?" Yami asked.

Joey shrugged. "It's too small to spot. Is there anything else?"

"Pointy, pointy..." Kaiba droned, in an unusually high voice.

The others looked at each other with wide eyes.

"The sword!" Joey cried. "Of course! I dropped it at that place where I fought Razatul! I could see the rock chair perfectly from there, and it was from there that I tripped over the temple thing."

"That's perfect," Yami grinned. "Now, where's the sword?"

Joey stopped smiling, looking back at the endless desert. "That's a good question."

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"You're Gaelia." Bakura gaped, too stunned to truly say anything else. "You're... you're her!"

Gaelia nodded her head. "And you're Bakura, are you not?" She turned her head. "And you would be Serenity."

"How do you know our names?" Serenity asked, picking up KaibaII and holding him close to her. (Bwuahahaha... ) "Who are you? How did you get in my house?"

"Silence, you fool!" Bakura snapped, turning on Serenity. "Don't interrogate her!"

Gaelia shook her head, chuckling. "It's fine, Bakura. I believe I do have some explaining to do, but that shall have to wait for a moment. Right now, the goal is to get the two of you into Razatul's realm. Your brother will need your help soon, Serenity."

"So, what?" Serenity said. "You just pop into my house and then you're going to throw us into some other dimension without explaining to me how you know about this whole situation?"

"There's no time, Serenity." Gaelia replied, a hint of impatience creeping into her voice. "You must go now, before it's too late."

Serenity looked hard at her, before slowly nodding. "Alright. But when I come back, I want a full explanation." She put KaibaII on the table, as he cowered in on the edge.

Gaelia smiled in response, before holding her hands out to her. "I'll send you both separately. It conserves energy that way."

Bakura narrowed his eyes slightly. "No, it doesn't."

Turning her head too him - a tad too quickly, he noted - Gaelia smiled again, though it seemed to have a bit more of a 'Shut-up-you-moron' tone to it. "Of course it does," Gaelia said. "There's a special trick to it, Bakura. Now then, Serenity. Close your eyes..."

Serenity slowed let her eyes slip shut, as an aura of light began to surround her. Moments later, she was bathed in light, only to disappear completely.

"Finally!" Gaelia cried, in quite a different voice from before. "God, I thought she'd never leave. What the hell was that, Bakura? You almost gave it away! I couldn't get her to go by light magic if she didn't trust me."

Bakura squinted at her, before stepping back. "Who are you?"

"Yeah, my voice is a little hoarse right now, isn't it?" Gaelia-not-Gaelia said, scratching her throat. "All that screaming and stuff... God, who'd have thought being rich and powerful would make you lose your voice? Anyway, it's me! Joey!"

It took all of Bakura's might and main to keep from keeling over right there. Letting out a startled gasp, he cried, "What?"

"Yeah, let me get this thing off." Gaelia/Joey said, struggling to get the tiara out of her/his hair. No sooner than he succeeded than he grew blurry, only to return to focus as the Joey Bakura had come to know, except he was in tan robes. "Well? How do I look?"

Bakura raised an eyebrow. "Why are you dressed like that?"

"It's part of my uniform." Joey told him. "Being second to the pharaoh and all that."

"Huh?" Bakura blinked. "Weren't you just with Razatul?"

"No. Well... yes, but..." Joey sighed. "Okay, I'm from the future. Well, more like the past. Actually, it's more like the future's past... er... past's future?"

"I'll be right here when you want to start making sense."

Joey scrunched up his nose in deep thought. "Uh... okay, well... I'm from the future where I got sent to the past."

"... Right."

"Yup."

"Why would you have been sent to the past?"

"Oh, Tartra sent me."

"... Tartra?"

"Yeah," Joey nodded. "Right, you haven't met her yet. Well... she's like this... I don't know... sorceress chick who just sort of popped out of nowhere after we went to that temple in Razatul's realm."

Bakura was silent for a moment before asking again, "So why were you sent to the past?"

"To stop Razatul from destroying the world." Joey said. "Tartra wanted me to do something for her and she promised to do something for us in return. So I said, 'Get rid of Razatul for us' and she said, 'Okay, fine.' So I had to go back in to Ancient Egyptand get this key thing for her, because Tartra thought that it was around that time that Trawmi - that's her brother - lost it. So I went back, but I couldn't find that thing or Trawmi anywhere. A little bit later, Tartra pops in and says that it wasn't in the past anymore. It was in the future, so I went back into the future, but I couldn't find anything. So I went back to the past and checked again and spoke to all the important people that knew about magical artefacts, and they said that they were raided not too long ago, and that whoever it was must've taken the key and shot into the future. So I came back, looking for the key."

"... What's this about a key?"

"Yeah, that's what Tartra sent me to get. I think she called it the..." Joey murmured something under his breath. "The... Tavo... no, Tampvo Key. It's supposed to be the only thing that will get Trawmi moving into the future again."

"What do you mean by that?" Bakura asked. "He's not moving into the future?"

"Nope."

"Why not?"

Joey shrugged. "I dunno. They have this weird thing about them that causes them both to go into the past or something."

Bakura looked at him. "So... this 'Tartra' person is... moving into the... future like we are."

"Yeah."

"And 'Trawmi' is moving into the... past?"

"Yup."

"But that makes no sense!" Bakura cried. "Everything would be going backwards for him!"

"Yeah, exactly. That's why they're separated." Joey nodded. "So, Tartra said that she and Trawmi would take care of the whole Razatul thing so long as I got them back their key. Trawmi lost the Tampvo key, so now he's stuck going into the past again. If Tartra didn't have the Opjant Key, she'd be going into the past too. "

"So... why doesn't Tartra just get rid of the Object-or-whatever-you-called-it Key and go into the past as well?" Bakura asked. "You wouldn't have to muck around in the past and she'd be with her brother."

"Well... she said she had already rewound the world to the very beginning. Like, she saw all the dinosaurs and stuff, but everything was backwards. So now she and Trawmi are supposed to go into the future and see everything again, only the right way this time, so there was no possible way she could go back and get the key for her brother because she was tired of seeing everything backwards." Joey sighed. "Look, she explained it way better before."

"I'm sure." Bakura rolled his eyes. "Alright, so you get her this key and she gets her brother and takes care of Razatul for us. So, go get the key."

"Oh, it's not getting the key that's the problem right now. I know where it is." Joey said. "It's trying to give it to Trawmi."

"How on earth is that difficult? Just give it to him!" Bakura told the blonde.

"I can't!"

"Why not?" Bakura asked. "The sooner you give it to him, the sooner they can get rid of Razatul, right?"

"He keeps disappearing into the past." Joey explained. "I see him for half a second and then he disappears. Anyway, I only came back here because I just felt like I could get Serenity to take care of Kaiba so I don't have to keep wiping up his drool. And anyway, she's my little marker. I'm going to drop her on top of a sword."

Bakura looked at him in a slight alarm. "What?"

"Oh, no, no, no, not like that!" Joey said. "Just near it so I can find my way to the sword."

"What sword?"

"Don't worry about it." Joey said. "And the other thing I came back for was you, so I could get you to come with me to Egypt."

Both of Bakura's eyes shot up this time. "Back to Egypt? Why? They hate me there."

"Yeah, but I figure you can come up with something good. Past Kaiba's still a pain in the ass and told me to do it myself." Joey rolled his eyes. "Okay, give me your arms and I'll take us back there."

"You learned time-travelling magic?" Bakura asked.

"No." Joey pointed to a thin, gold chain that Bakura had previously overlooked. "It's got a shard of the Opjant Key on it. It's supposed to make the person go in the opposite direction in time than they were before. That's why Tartra and Trawmi go into the future when they use the keys. We go into the past." Joey's eyes suddenly lit up. "Speaking of keys..." He grabbed KaibaII, who was still on the ground nearby. "Can't forget you, now can I?"

Bakura thought for a moment. "What was that you said before about Kaiba and drool?" He asked, as a white light began to engulf them.

"You made Kaiba an idiot." Joey told him. "Yami said it was something about subconscious knowledge and pyramids... I don't know, I gave up listening and just sort of nodded my way through it."

"I see." Bakura replied, as the trio disappeared from the kitchen once more.

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"That better not be pee I'm smelling..." Joey (the 'present' one) growled, eyeing the CEO in disgust.

Yami took in a deep breath, nearly making Joey gag at the sight of it. "No. It's not pee."

"Gee... Thanks for clarifying..." Joey replied, green in the face. The three reached the top of the next sandhill they were currently climbing. "So, you see that sword yet?"

"No." Yami sighed, shaking his head in despair. "Why do I feel as though we'll be wandering this place for eternity?"

Kaiba gurgled an agreement.

"If only we had some sort of sign." Joey remarked. "This place looks exactly the same the whole way through. Hills and valleys, hills and valleys, sand, sand, sand, and more sand. We just need some sort of... uh... I don't know... big billboard or arrow or-"

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!"

"... Or Serenity plummeting out of the sky!" Joey shrieked, as he watched the undeniable form of his sister appear in a flash of light and meet gravity face to face. "Hang on Serenity!" He yelled to her. "I'm coming!"

"Let's go, Kaiba." Yami said, grabbing the brunette's arm and tugging him towards the direction of Serenity.

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D/N: Yes... This really should have been longer after the length of time I made you guys wait... Buuuuuuut I have to go out soon. Anyways, ciao for now, peepos!