This fanfic was originally written by my friend and all the credit goes to her. I'm just posting it for her because she can't find time to post it.

Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh does not belong to Sandra. The only characters that she has rights to are Sandra Castro and Maura Matataki.

Chatper Eighteen

Sandra was facing Seto while putting on her duel disk. Her lifeless eyes stared right into his. Inside her mind, she was sitting down in a corner rocking back and forth. All the memories of her father and mother were just too much for her to handle. Meanwhile, Naomi tries to snap her out of it.

"Sandra, get up. You have to fight Marik's power."

Naomi pushes Sandra some more, but she won't move. Naomi was about to give up on her, but she had one more idea. It's risky, but if that's the only way to snap her out of this phase then it must be done.

"Sandra," Naomi said to her, "I didn't want to tell you this because I wanted to spare your feelings, but you are giving me no choice. Here goes... I know were your father is. Before Marik took control of your body, I quickly looked through his mind and found out that he has your father."

Suddenly, Sandra snapped out of her phase and got a bit enraged. She got up and turned towards Naomi as though wanting to hit her, but she didn't. She got up and walked to the center of her mind.

Seto, on the other hand, doesn't want to duel Sandra, but doesn't see a choice. He was about to draw his first card when he saw that there was something different about Sandra's eyes. It's almost as if life was coming back to her. Then he knew, Sandra was breaking Marik's bond.

Yami saw this too and yelled to her, "That's it, Sandra! You can do it! You are almost breaking his bond."

Sandra finally broke free and turned towards Marik. She took off her duel disk and walk towards him. Seeing how angry she was, Marik started towards Noah, but Sandra caught him. She grabbed him by the shirt and screamed, "Where's my father? I know you have him! Where is he! Tell me!"

Marik laughed uncontrollably and said, "Now what makes you think I have him? Last I heard he was off somewhere being miserable not thinking about the worthless daughter he left behind."

"Damn it!" Sandra yelled, almost hurting Marik as she shook him, "You tell me where he is or I swear I'll kill you. I'll kill you, Marik! Also Noah!"

Noah could tell that she was being serious so he giggled and said, "Calm down... we're just having a little fun. I'll tell you what, if you put Marik down, I'll tell you where your father is."

Sandra slowly put Marik on the floor while keeping her eye on Noah. Yami, Seto and Mokuba are completely lost. They have no idea why Sandra is talking about her father.

"Alright then, " Noah said, "Your father is at an abandoned warehouse in a small room. The warehouse is located ten blocks east from this house."

Marik got up and said, "But don't think it's that easy. There will be something waiting for you when you get there."

"You mean a shadow game?" Sandra asked.

Marik didn't answer, he and Noah just left Sandra's house and headed towards the warehouse. Sandra started going after them and the rest followed.

"Sandra," Mokuba asked, "What's going on?"

"Didn't you hear?" she said, "They have my father and I'm getting him back. He may be a complete jerk, but there are questions in my life that needs answering and he's the only one who can give me the answers."

"Well," Seto said, holding Sandra's hand, "I'm coming with you."

"And so am I," Yami said.

Seto got extremely annoyed by him. "We don't need you around so just go home and mind your own business."

Sandra got mad at Seto, "Don't start anything! If he wants to come let him!"

So they all headed towards the warehouse to find Sandra's father. Little do they know that a mysterious stranger is following them step by step.

They got to the warehouse to find the entrance door wide open. Sandra took the first step in. Her footsteps made a loud echoing sound throughout the empty warehouse. It was dark and there didn't seem to be a light switch anywhere.

"Hello!" she yelled out. "Marik! Noah! Where are you?" When she finished talking, the lights turned on all around them. Marik was right in front of her, a few feet away from with his duel dies ready to go. Noah was right behind him holding some kind of button.

"Okay then," Sandra said to Marik as she put on her duel disk, "Let's get this shadow game going."

"Now what makes you think it's a shadow game?" Marik asked.

Sandra felt so insulted. "I'm not stupid," she responded, "I know I'm going to have to duel you in order to get my father. I also know that every single one of your duels is a shadow game. I'm not blind!"

"All right then, let's get started. I'll go first."

Marik drew a card from his deck and gave a little smirk as if that was just the card he needed.

"I play a monster face-down in defense mode and place two cards face down. Your move."

Sandra drew a card, but she didn't know what to do. Sure, she played the game before and is pretty good at it, but this is a shadow game. This is totally different then when she played Yugi or Joey. A lot more is at stake and she doesn't want to mess up. She looked at the card she just drew. Darkfire Soldier #1 with an attack of 1700 and a defense of 1150.

"I summon Darkfire Soldier #1 in attack mode! Then I play the trap card Shadow of Eyes which switches your face-down monster into attack mode! Now, Darkfire Soldier, attack his monster!"

Sandra found this quite strange. Marik lost 1250 life points, but the card was a Man-Eater Bug, Sandra has never seen that card in his deck before. Why is it in there? Besides the move was too easy, he didn't even use his face down traps (or magic) cards. Something's odd...

Marik laughed, "My move now!"

He drew his card and put it with the rest of his hand. While all this was happening, Seto was thinking to himself, something that he never thought would cross his mind. Would Sandra be better off if she were with Yugi? Yugi's her closest friend, they go to the same school together, they both have Millennium items, they both have spirits of their former selves from another life (who happened to be lovers), and they both live right next to each other. And what does Seto have to offer her? Lonely nights while he's at work, arrogance, picking fights with her friends, not accepting "fate" as a logical explanation. Seto sees the way Sandra looks at Yugi and sometimes and even Yami. She admires them, and if Naomi and Yami were together back then, shouldn't Yugi and Sandra be together now? No! Seto can't keep thinking like this! He quickly tries to go back to his old ways and pretend he didn't think any of that, but still, that one idea lingers in his head while Sandra's dueling to save the jerk who abandoned her. Even if she knows that Marik's just toying with her at the moment while she has 8000 life points and he has 6750. Sandra has two monsters down on the field (Darkfire Soldier and Armored Lizard) and she played a trap card, Ominous Fortunetelling (her favorite card). The trap lets her guess a card whether it's monster, trap or magic from Marik's hand. If she guesses right, Marik loses 700 life points and if she guesses wrong nothing happens. She seems so determined as if the person she's trying to save was an old friend. So, should Seto give her up?

Maybe this was the decision that determined if he really loved her. Maybe this was the decision that determined if he still had a heart inside and can to do something nice for someone else. Then maybe sometime in the distant future they can all be friends, everyone. He certainly became a different person when he was around her. He thought about that for sometime while his mind got back to the duel.

"It's my move!" Marik said as he drew a card from his deck. He looked really glad about the card he just pulled and put it face-down in defense mode. "I'm getting kind of bored... how about if I take us on a little trip to the Shadow Realm?"

Marik got his Millennium Rod out and darkness spread all around them. Now Sandra was really nervous. If she loses, she loses her soul and she won't save her dad. If Marik loses (which is a fat chance), he may lose his soul also and she still won't get to save her dad.

"My turn now," Sandra said. She drew the Hysteric Fairy. "First, my Ominous Fortunetelling activates and I guess that the card you're holding in the far left of your hand is a trap."

"You are absolutely right..."

Marik's life points dropped to 6050. Sandra was glad that she had her permanent trap to gain easy access to Marik's life points. She played her Hysteric Fairy and attacked Marik's face-down card, but it was Plasma Eel and it has 2000 defense points so Sandra lost 200 life points. She ended her turn.

Marik drew a card and ended his turn. This really puzzled Sandra. She knows that he has at least one monster that can beat her two monsters on the field, so why won't he play it? Why won't he use his two face-down cards? Sandra drew her card. It was her trusty Red Eyes Black Dragon. First, she activated her Ominous Fortunetelling which sucked another 700 life points from Marik. Next, Sandra sacrificed her Darkfire Soldier #1 and Hysteric Fairy to summon her Red-Eyes. She destroyed Marik's Plasma Eel and he still didn't play any of his face-down cards.

She ended her turn and Marik drew his card. Next, he summoned Revival Jam in defense mode. "What is it's special ability?' Sandra thought to herself. She was so nervous that she can't remember what Revival Jam does. Marik ended his turn. Sandra once again activated Ominous Fortunetelling, but she failed in guessing the right card. Next, she attacked Revival Jam with Red-Eyes.
"You fool!" Marik yelled as Revival Jam revived itself. "My monster has the power to regenerate. It can't be destroyed!"

"Stay strong, Sandra!" Yami said to her, "You can still win this! You have the advantage over him!"

Kaiba walked over to Yami and told him to shut up. "The advantage?" he said to Yami. "You should know perfectly well that Marik us just toying with her. If she does win, it will be by a slim chance..."

"Kaiba," Yami said, "how can you say that? Sandra needs our support and you are not helping!"

Sandra tried to ignore all their arguing while she ended her turn. Marik started his turn by playing Card Destruction. So they both discarded their hands and drew five new cards.

Then Marik played Monster Reborn and revived Sandra's Darkfire Soldier #1, he also played Remove Trap with got rid of Sandra's Ominous Fortunetelling. Why did he revive her monster? She tried not to think about that as she attacked it with her Red-Eyes, but then Marik activated his Jam Defender. It defended the soldier form the dragon's attack. Then Marik activated his Jam Breeding Machine on his turn and she knew, he was going to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra.

Come on you guys. I wanted five reviews and I only got one between April 27th and May 14th. I wish for more reviews. I do not care if the reviews are flames, questions or whatever else! Just review!

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Darkside Girl is one of my most loyal reviewers and I thank her for it. I hope to have more loyal reviewers. Right now, unfortuntly, my friend has writer's block and I am trying to help her out of it. Just be patient for the next chapter to come. As for anyone who may review after I post this chapter, sorry I didn't respond directly to your review and I hope you will continue to review. I will post one of my own stories soon after one of my friends looks over it for me. So I can then make it look better.