Yuugi ran down the stairs again with his suitcase trailing behind him "WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST?" He demanded.

Joey burst into the room, right on time. He had shorts and a white tea-shirt on, refreshed to smell the alluring smell of breakfast. He practically floated past grandpa and to the plate.

"Hey Joey! You ready?" Yuugi asked

" We're having omelets and sausage for breakfast. We won't be having the same food in a while boys, so you better savor this!" he said while laughing " We'll be leaving in 20 minutes so eat fast. " he warned. Joey took the cue and devoured his breakfast as if it was the last thing in the world.

Yuugi quickly ate his breakfast and ran back upstairs to change in his usual: his school uniform.

Joey stood up and flexed. " Good bye Japan, hello Egypt!" he said as he imagined himself on the top of the pyramids, laughing his head off and ordering Kaiba around. " Ready!" he exclaimed.

(( Kaiba: looks over my shoulder That stupid dog... /Hehe, couldn't resist./ ))

Yuugi sped back down the stairs calling out "IIIIII'm reaaaaaady!"

Yuugi, slow down. You ate too fast and now my stomach hurts Yami complained.

Solomon got up from his seat and opened the door as Joey and Yugi sped out in excitement. " Boys will be boys." he murmured. He then opened the trunk and packed the luggage that the two had handed him.

Joey was trying his luck at aiming a rock, typed to a piece of paper, as they passed by Tristan. It told him to not get in trouble without him. He then looked over to the bouncing Yugi. /he's hyper/

Yuugi bounced in the back of the car. "I'm so excited!" I THINK WE GET THE POINT NOW, STOP BOUNCING Yami fought hard not to throw up.

Yuugi kept bouncing up and down. YUUGI STOP. Can't stop.. to excited. Yuugi kept bouncing. UGH, THAT'S IT. Yami took over Yuugi's body without warning, holding himself down. OTHER MEEEE THAT'S NOT FAIR.

Joey had gotten dizzy after watching Yugi jump up and down after a while and finally stepped out of the car when they parked. " We're here!" Solomon shouted as he parked the car and stepped out.

"Finally." Yami got out of the car, still trying to keep the breakfast from that morning down.

Joey breathed in the air and looked around. " Well, I've bought one of those Kodak cameras!" he said as he took it out. " This'll be the last breathe of air I have of here in a while!" he said as he breathed heavily. He helped gramps bring the luggage out and held the heavier ones and left the lighter ones for gramps and yug'

Yami grabbed his and Yuugi's suitcase and started to walk toward the airport entrance.

Joey heaved the bags and followed after Yami. Solomon was busy catching up to them. Joey started to clamp his hand down on Yuugi's shoulder when he noticed he'd changed again. " So it's back to Egypt fer yah? I bet your a living legend over there!" he said excitedly.

YAMI. Hi. Yuugi said. No. I'm not switching back until you settle down. Yami stated firmly. You're just old. How old are you 5000 years old? Yuugi smirked. Shut up. Yami fumed.

"Yeah, I guess. I'm a bit nervous though. I haven't been there in 5000 years." Yami said. SEE! 5000 years. You're OLDDDD. Yuugi laughed. ...Shut...up.

" Ah, no worries, hakunapatata." he said as he quoted Lion King. "We're there!" he said as he gazed at the airport. "Now we just slip these bags through the conveyor belt. " he said as he lifted his bag and passed it through. " Clear. " came a dull monotone voice. Joey had no clue how it worked, but he wasn't going to ask.

Yami did the same, looking incredulously at the machine. "Woah..." When the bag was checked clear, he stared at it for a little while longer, wondering how it worked. LET'S GET GOING. Yuugi pestered. OK, OK. But you know how I am with technology.. Yami waited for his grandpa's bag to be checked.

"We gotta get going! The planes boarding!" Yami started to run off, only to find out he had no idea where he was going. "Uhhhhh..."

As their bags were checked he heaved it up again and put it on a separate conveyor to be sent to the plane's luggage. He heard their plane number called and he exclaimed. "The planes boarding! Let's hurry! Gramps is already on board." He said as he completely ignored Yami.

Yami ran to the boarding dock with Joey quickly and boarded the plane, trying to find Yuugi's grandpa.

Joey led Yami to the docking area; he tripped and fell on the stairs. They had barely made it on board, and seated next to the seats saved by Solomon. " Well, looks like you have the window seat Yami." he said quite happily. He then put his gaze on the in flight movie. He then looked to his left to see a patron serving him those salty peanuts he loved. " Peanuts!" he exclaimed as he ripped open the bag.

A random girl, sitting directly behind Yami cooed "Ooooh.. pretty hair" and attempted to pull at it, but to her surprise Yami turned around and said smoothly "Don't touch the hair."

Wow.. Egypt. I wonder what it's like. Yami thought to himself, resting his head on the seat. You know.. I'm sure you'll find a lot of information about your past there. Yuugi stated. I sure hope so... Yami turned to look out the window.

Several hours later, Joey was snoring loudly as he leaned against Yami's crushed body. " Don't let the monkeys attack me.." he murmured.

Yami closed his eyes, lost in his own thoughts. I hope it's nice there...

Yami opened one eye and saw Joey's sleeping body leaning against him. "Ew." He pushed Joey off slowly, only to have Joey fall into his grandpa's lap. "Oops..."

Joey finally stepped off the plane lightheaded. He looked around to see that it really was Egypt. Sandy. By the time they got to the hotel, the sun was already beating down on them.

He was busy rubbing the sun-lotion on him to notice Yugi. The desert was way to vast once he thought of it. He remembered serenity burying him on the beach when they were little. " Reminds me a little bit about serenity." he said as he squeezed more lotion from the bottle. " I think you'll need this. " he said as he handed it to Yugi.

Yami took the bottle from Joey. "It IS nice here... but hot. It's a nice change from the cool winter."

" Yah, but you can't shove snow up someone's pants." he said as he recalled pranking tea last week. " Looks like gramps is the real tourist." he said as he pointed his thumb at Solomon busy with his maps.

"Of course he is, he gets excited about going places more than anyone." Yami responded, watchin Solomon as he fumbled through the maps.

He idly shifted through his jigsaw puzzle of the pyramids he had gotten as an exclusive gift from the airport. "Hey, can you help me with this?" he said as he tried fitting a piece into another by force. "I can't tell up from down on this thing."

"Yea, sure." Yami walked over to his grandpa and put together the jigsaw puzzle in 30 seconds flat. "There you go!" He smiled at the finished product.

" Well, whatcha know." Joey said laughing. He looked the puzzle over. He then pointed out some thing peculiar. " Look, there's something written on the pyramid. " he said as he traced it over. " Something in that funny writing they have here." he said as he put his head closer to the puzzle for a better look.

Yami looked at the writing closely. To his surprise, he could read it perfectly. My memories as pharaoh may be gone, but I can still read the ancient texts. He thought to himself. "It says 'A surprise lies on the 3rd pyramid of Anubis... come if you dare.'"

" What the heck is dat suppose to mean." Joey commented as he laid back. " And how did you do that? Did you learn that in language class or something?" he added afterwards. " I can speak Spanish." Joey said as he versed a few lines.

"Joey, don't hurt yourself trying to remember the Spanish language." Yami joked. "And I can't really explain how I know what it says... I guess that's one memory I didn't lose."

" Well, you're good at puzzles, mind telling me what that means in English." he said mentioning the riddle. "This is weird, do you think it's an invite to a party?" he said wistfully.

"Somehow, I doubt it. But I'm not sure what the 3rd pyramid of Anubis means..." Yami racked his brain for a possible answer but couldn't find one to his disappointment.

Joey slumped off the bed and slipped a map from Solomon. It was soon followed by a " Hey! What do you think you're doing!" and then Joey rushing back to their room. Joey then showed Yami triumphantly the map. It had a layout of all the pyramids, including tours of Egypt.

"Good job, Joey." Yami said sarcastically. "But I don't think it was necessary to steal the map. I'm sure Grandfather would have let us see it, anyway."

Joey tried to ignore the comment as he pointed his finger at three pyramids. " You see, during history the teacher finally said something useful. I remember something to do with Anubis for these three. But I can't remember when they were made." he added scratching his head.

"Hmmm... I wonder if we should visit all three of these pyramids and maybe there will be information on them. Hopefully we can find the right one." Yami said, looking at the map thoughtfully.

" So you want to ask gramps to drive us over there?" Joey said as he laid out on his bed. " We can't just walk there." he added, looking at the distance between the pyramids. He then stood up and got his glue. He began gluing the pieces of the puzzle together, utterly failing, and getting glue in his hair.

"Yea, we'd have to." Yami watched as Joey fiddled with the glue. "You're the only person I know that can manage that."

Joey looked half annoyed but then broke into his goofy grin. "Least I don't have hair that's shaped like a star, you're the only person I know who can manage that!" he said as he visualized himself in star shaped hair.

"It's all Yuugi's fault." Yami snorted. YOU had the same hair when you were pharaoh Yuugi interrupted.

Joey broke into laughter at Yami's "optimism". " Well I'll go ask gramps that you've found a "sudden" interest in those pyramids."

"OK Joey. But I certainly don't want my grandfather to be dragged into this just in case something strange happens." Yami was worried about Solomon getting kidnapped again..

Solomon had raised an eyebrow at the request but decided not to ask. They had rented a desert safari truck and had gotten in. Joey took a sip of the water. " Boy, it's hot out!" he exclaimed. " We best save the water for the trip Joey. " Solomon warned.

Yami nodded in agreement to Solomon's warning. "Especially if this trip takes longer than expected." He said. I sure hope it doesn't... he thought.

" You two are too careful." Joey groaned and put away the water bottle. " Well, we ready?" Joey asked. Solomon nodded and closed the trunk. He turned on the engine once in and drove toward the pyramid directly, no roads were needed in Egypt.

I wonder if we'll find anything about your past in these pyramids Yuugi said, hopefully. Perhaps. We'll find out soon enough Yami was excited by the thought of finding memories of his past, but he was also nervous as to what he might find out.

Joey took the whole puzzle incident as another part of his trip. He didn't really think anything would come of it. But deep down he knew he should be careful, he was dealing with more than Domino High now. He put his face out into the wind like a dog and was refreshed when it hit his face.

Yami looked at Joey curiously. "What exactly are you doing?" He asked. He never understood Joey's actions... except in dueling, which Yami admitted Joey was very good at. But sometimes, Joey just seemed like he didn't have a brain.

( Kaiba: SEE! He is a dog! Me: Shut up and go play duel monsters or something. )

Yami looked out the window, seeing the first of the three pyramids approaching. "We're almost there."

Joey pulled his head back from the wind. "Your going to become a crisp star-fish in that leather." Joey commented. He was right. Although Yami was used to the heat, the leather had caused him to start looking like a red lobster. "Relax."

Yami looked down at his own attire and shrugged. "Yuugi did it." Will you stop blaming me for everything? Yuugi said, annoyed.

"Besides leather isn't all that bad." Yami stated.

"They look like huge blocks of stone. I wonder why they praise it so much." Joey commented as he looked at it. "Now let's take a look at it." he said as they stopped. He jumped out of the truck and patted the stone.

"They build these pyramids for the bodies of dead pharaohs, Joey." Yami informed. "The Egyptians built these by themselves, with no machines. Just there own bodies. That's why they're so praised and raved on about."

Joey edged away from it in realization. " Deeaad pha-raohs?" he said as he chattered his teeth. "He then pointed at the pyramid, then Yami, then the pyramid again. He then burst out in laughter.

"Yea, yea. My actual body may be in one of these. But my spirit isn't, obviously." Yami said. The thought of his own body lying in one of these pyramids made him shiver a bit.

Joey then tried to look for an opening. "So, how do we know if this is the right one or not?" he asked as he searched. He looked to his right to see a scorpion scuttling toward him. He jumped and walked backwards slowly at the pace it was moving. " Y-Yami..."

"Don't worry Joey; it won't hurt you unless you do something to make it hurt you." Yami said cooled. "And to tell you the truth, I'm not sure how we'd know if it's the right one. I'm guessing that if it is the right one... we'd be greeted by something..."

Joey decided to stop moving, though still wary of the scorpion. "Maybe it's the scorpion." he said lamely. He looked around for signs of life, but all he saw was Yami and Solomon.

Yami looked around again. "Nothing seems to be here so we might as well move on." He walked toward the car.

Joey turned around and headed to the car. He jumped into the car with the waiting Solomon. Solomon meanwhile was very curious of why they didn't really seem to be enjoying the trip. What were they expecting?

Yami slumped into the car as well. "Well that one wasn't the one we were looking for obviously." He said.

Joey waved two fingers into the air. "Well, dat leaves, two more." he said as he took a great gulp of his water bottle. He looked up. "We've got a long wait to go till the next pyramid ya know."

"Yea... I know." Yami thought for a moment, and then the light bulb went in his head. "Hey Joey... that puzzle said the 3rd pyramid of Anubis... so wouldn't it make sense to just go to the 3rd pyramid that was on that map?"

He then grabbed his shoe off his foot and turned it sideways. Sand poured out into a lump. "Now, how'd that get in there?" He said scratching his head.

Yami stared at Joey. "Joey... Egypt... well, it's mostly desert. And there's sand all around..."

Joey then looked at Yami, prodding at Yami's magic light bulb. "Now, why didn't I think of that!" he said laughing nervously. He then put his shoe back on and proceeded to empty the other.

Yami looked at Solomon. "Hey, Sol...er.. Grandpa, do you know anything about the 3rd pyramid of Anubis by chance?" He asked.

"Yes, why do you ask? " Solomon muttered as he tossed Yami a pamphlet. Joey leaned over to Yami and looked over the pamphlet. "Junk, Junk, Junk, Anubis's pyramid, Junk Junk. " Joey listed in monotone.

"Uh... Joey. Let me have a look at the Anubis' Pyramid one." Yami reached over and took the pamphlet, searching through it.

"Here it is!" Yami pointed to the pyramid on a map inside the pamphlet. "And it IS the third pyramid. No use stopping at the 2nd one now that we know which one it is."

She stood near one of the pyramids, having wandered away from the site. Her 'parents', Chitose and Yasuo, had finally agreed to take her along on one of their trips to Egypt for an archeological dig, though they'd been very hesitant. She sighed, staring up at the pyramid through strange, gold eyes. She looked about 18, but in truth, she was a high school freshman.

At a Japanese high school, yeah, see if you can figure that one out. However, she looked about as far from Japanese as one could get. Sure, her straight, waist-length black hair matched the stereotype, but her skin didn't, it was dark, tanned. She wore sandals, tan pants of a strange fabric, and a white linen shirt. Around her head was tied a bandana, made to hide something upon her forehead.

The mark it hid was the Eye of Horus, that rested upon her forehead like a 3D tattoo, but the black fabric was folded to hide it effectively. Her name was Tahirah Nosara, the surname taken from her 'parents', her first name...she wasn't quite sure of where it had come from. It was all she remembered when Yasuo found her 5 years prior, hidden in an Egyptian tomb, and still alive. There was another issue, Tahirah never aged, her hair never grew, and her physical appearance, in general, never /ever/ shifted.

In actuality, she was the Millennium Doll, a byproduct of the creation of the Millennium Items. However, much like someone else we know, her memories had gone totally 'kaput' other than vague senses of deja-vu now and then. Like right around now, as she stared at the pyramid, her 'father' had said it was known as the third pyramid. Why? How the heck could she have known?

Nor did she know why she was still standing there. Unlike most people, she could tolerate the scorching heat with no effort, it was comfortable to her. "I wonder..."she murmured, glancing around lightly.