Mc: I'm sorry I haven't updated for sooooo long. I wanted to do it over my spring brake but I got lazy and depressed with my stories. But thanks to your ever so nice and reassuring reviews, I have got confidences in my stories again. Thank you, all of you!
Stela: And so on with the Fic! Oh and when someone is talking to there other half or in mind thought it will look like this for the light half or thinker one/'blah'/ and for the darker half or thinker two/'blah'/.
Disclaimer: I do not, I repeat do NOT own: Yugioh, no matter how hard I try to win the lottery and buy it, it will never happen. Sniff
Stela leaned against the gate of the school, resting her head against the cool pillar. After an exhausting first day of school and worrying what her new friends could have to tell her, Stela closed her eyes, deep in thought about her day. After lunch she had Biology 1 and Algebra and then art class, which Ryou was in. Stela had chatted with him, but nether brought up the topic discussed over lunch. 'This day has been strange. First I keep feeling like I not alone.' Stela thought, shuddering. 'I wonder what the gang needs to talk about.'
"Stela…" a voice said beside her. Opening an eye, Stela tilted her head to the left, and saw Yugi standing beside her, smiling. She smiled back at him. "Hey Yugi. Hey everyone." Following at ether side or behind him were Yami, Tea, Ryou, Joey, and Tristan smiling at Stela.
"Hey, do you want to come over to the game shop with us?" Yugi asked tilting his head slightly to one side. "Sure, thank you." Stela said, picking up her pack from the ground and falling in beside Tea and Ryou as they left the school grounds.
"So how was your first day at our school" Tristan asked, grinning at Stela. "It was ok." Stela said smiling back, and told them how her day when and they in turn talked about there's. When they were halfway to the game shop though, Stela sighed, and gathering up some courage, she interrupted the more pleasant conversations with a question of her own. "Sooo…umm why did you guys want to talk to me about?" Stela asked. She didn't know if it was her imagination or if it seemed like everyone faltered for a second.
Yami stopped, and everyone followed in suit, looking at Stela. Almost everyone's eyes had that worried look again, except Yami's; in his eyes there was just a steady calm and a determination to find something out. "We wanted to ask you more about you Millennium item." Yami said carefully, as if Stela was about to exploded or something. In fact Stela felt herself tense at the question. 'But, why should I care about an innocent question like that?' Out load she said, "Ok, what do you want to ask me?"
"Have you ever felt your not alone and have you every blanked out before what happened this morning."
Stela told them everything she felt would be important. She told them how she sometime feels like she's not alone since she has had the Heart, how she never blanked out before that morning, how she thought she heard a voice in her head this morning, and about her dream. Looking around after she told her part, she saw that both Yami and Yugi looked like they were both in deep thought. /"So do you think that there is a sprit of the Millennium Heart?" Yugi asked Yami through their mind connection that they have had since Yugi solved the Millennium Puzzle, though Yugi didn't at first know that there was a sprit living in his Millennium item. /"Yes, I believe there is…though I don't know if it's good, or evil. We will have to find that out."/ Yami thought back. Looking up at Stela, who raised an eyebrow at his silence, Yami took a breath and wondered how he was going to explain. "Stela, do you know anything about your item?" He started slowly. Stela shock her head.
"Well, there are seven Millennium items and they were magical items made 5,000 years ago in Egypt. (A/n: or 3,000 year depending on what episode time line you go by.) But when evil men wielding shadow magic threaten to destroy the world, a pharaoh stopped them by sealing the magic away into the Millennium items. I was that Pharaoh. Something happened the night I sealed the shadow magic away and my soul was transferred into the Millennium Puzzle."
Stela blinked at Yami, waiting for someone to laugh and tell her that it was a joke, but it never came and Yami looked very serious. Clearing her throat and wetting her lips, she looked around. "So you're saying that you're a 5,000 year old pharaoh?" Yami nodded. "And there are more then just mine, yours, and Bakura's item?i" "Yes, as I said, there are seven Millennium items that we knew about, my puzzle, Bakura's ring, the Millennium eye, rod, key, scale, and necklace. Now there are eight items with your Millennium Heart."
Stela nodded, the thought sinking in. "So why tell me all this?" Stela asked. "Because I wasn't the only one who was sealed into a Millennium item. Ryou also has a sprit in his millennium item." Yami said in a low voice. "My darker half was an evil sprit when he was still in the Millennium Ring, but when he had the chance to get his own body, he vowed that he would change his ways.1" Ryou said, thought the look on his face said that he doubted that Bakura would ever turn over a new leaf. "We think that your item might have a sprit also, we were being cautious because we're not sure whether it is good, or evil." Yugi said looking worried as he stated this.
"How will we find out whether it's good of evil?" Stela asked looking around at the group. When know one said anything after a few minutes of thinking, Stela chewed her lip thoughtfully, then voiced an idea that suddenly came to her. "I'm going to try and talk to it." She said quietly, but everyone still looked at Stela, Tristan and Joey with raised eyebrows. "How are ya doing to do that?" Joey asked head cocked to side.
"Well, maybe if I concentrate I will be able to talk to the sprit. Maybe the doors in my dream are real and maybe I can go through them." Stela blurted out before realizing that it was impossible that a room could exist in her mind, let alone being able to go and exploring it. To her surprise Yami crossed his arms and said looking thoughtful, "It could be dangerous, you could easily became lost if the soul room is maze-like and the sprit could easy gain control."
"Yes, but if I don't try and talk to it then we might never know if it's evil until it's to late." Stela argued back stubbornly.
Yami shock his head. "Alright, but you have to promise to be care." He said staring into Stela's eyes, unblinking. "Alright I will." Stela said walking over to a bench in a park they were by. Sitting down Stela closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She was aware of Yugi; who sat down next to her; Tea and Ryou; who were sitting down on the bench across from hers, Joey and Tristan; who where sitting on the ground; and Yami; who was leaning against a tree; were watching her intensely, waiting.
'This is stupid, how can there be a room in my head, let alone two of them.' Was the thought that popped up in Stela's head as she tried to think of how she was going to talk to a sprit that lived in a pendent. 'Well I might as well try, I said I would.' Stela though resolvedly, taking a deep breath and feeling a little stupid. /"Ere…Hello, is anyone there?"/ Stela thought, imagining she was talking out load. /"Hello, Stela."/ A echoing, female voice said in the back of Stela's head, making Stela mentally jump. /"Who are you? And where are you for that matter? Are you in my head?"/ Stela 'said', aware that she was breathing very fast. /"Come find me and I will answer your questions.'/ Said the voice again, this time with a slight laugh. Stela hesitated, remembering Yami's warning. /"Your not going to do anything, ere…underhanded are you?"/ Stela asked the voice. /"No, I promise."/ The voice said seriously. /"Ok, where are you?"/ And Stela the felt a rush as someone pulled her subconscious mind away from her body.
"Look! She's done it. She's entered her soul room!" Yugi said looking at Stela as she let out small sigh, looking like she was asleep now that her soul was wandering in her soul room now.
Everyone stood and gathered around Stela; looking at her, wonder on their faces. "Do you think she'll be ok?" Ryou asked softly, a worried look on his face. "I hope so…I just hope that the sprit of the Millennium Heart is good." Yami said quietly staring off distance, also looking worried.
"Hello? Where am I? Hello are you there?" Stela called out, finding herself in the dark corridor from her dream. Up ahead a single torch suddenly ignited, somehow light the whole corridor and Stela could see two doors, one on the right and one on the left, a few feet ahead. Approaching the door on the left first, Stela saw that it was a fairly new door, painted white with a bronze colored handle. Reaching out a hand and turning the handle, Stela pushed the door open cautiously, expecting to see someone standing there. Instead she saw a fairly large, blue painted square room, with a hallway leading off to the side. Looking around in puzzlement she saw a different items on the floor and walls, all of which interested her. Stela shook her head, 'I don't think the sprit is here, maybe she's behind the other door.' She thought, closing the door to her soul room and turning to the other door.
This door, with its golden embroidered eye on its stone surface and old fashion handle, was exactly from her dream. Tilting her head in curiosity, Stela traced a finger over the eye before reaching out a hand and grabbing the handle, slowly opened the door.
Peaking in, Stela saw a long, stone hall, with doors on both sides of the hall, stretching into darkness. Looking around Stela saw that the ceiling also extending into darkness. Stepping into the hallway, Stela started to walk forward, but stopped and looked back as the door she had just come through closed softly behind her. "Ok…creepy." Stela muttered staring at the door over her shoulder as she continued down the hallway, stopping at the first door on her left.
This door was a plain wooden door, identical to the ones behind and down the hall. Opening this door, Stela found herself looking into a seemingly empty room of stone with another door at the far end of it. Walking forward and opening the door Stela found herself in what she thought was another hallway until her looked back down the hallway and saw that the door she had first opened was there on the opposite wall and five doors down. 'Umm…how I got from one side of the hall to the other?'
Stela continued down the hall trying doors, some doors Stela passed by, some were sealed, and some were the same as the first door. This continued for awhile, until Stela found a room where a huge boulder drop from the darkened ceiling, almost crushing her had she not jumped back out of the room, slamming the door as she when. "That was close, too close." Stela said breathing hard, sliding down to the cool stone wall to the floor. "I'm never going to find the sprit." Cradling her head in her hands, Stela didn't see the thing that was creeping silently down the hallway until it was right next to her. I let out a low menacing growl.
Wiping her head up, Stela looked into the brown eyes of a silver coated wolf creeping closer to Stela, still growling. It was one of the most beautiful creature Stela had ever saw, but keeping her wits about her, Stela slide slowly away from the growling wolf, talking softly to it and hoping that it wouldn't attack her. "Good wolf, nice wolf, its ok, I'm not going to hurt you." Stela said trying to keep her nervousness out of her voice.
Suddenly the wolf charged at Stela. Gasping, Stela flung her arms over her face, knowing that she couldn't outrun the creature, when she felt the wet tongue of the silver wolf bath her face and arms as if greeting her as an old friend. Opening an eye, Stela looked at the wolf as it sat down at her feet and wined. Reaching out a hand Stela, patted that wolf and when it didn't bite her she smiled and stood up. Taking a closer look at the wolf, Stela saw to her surprise that the wolf looked familiar. "Wait a moment, I know who you are." Stela said digging into her book bag pocket and taking out her deck. Looking through it until she came to the card she was looking for; her favorite card in fact, she compared it to the wolf. The Silver Fang, howling silently on the card was identical to the wolf sitting in front of her. "Silver Fang?" Stela whispered to the wolf as she put her cards away. The wolf gave a short woof as if to confirm Stela's guess.
Smiling suddenly at the wolf, Stela kneeled down and petted the wolf. "Do you know where the sprit is Fang?" she asked the wolf, not really expecting him to answer her. To her surprise though the wolf, barking once, give Stela an unmistakable dog grin, and then suddenly Fang bonded down the hall a few feet, then came back barking before running down the hall again. "Hey! Wait for me!" Stela called to the wolf as she ran after him.
After going past what seemed like a hundred doors and going through two doors that didn't lead back to the hallway, Fang lead Stela up to a stone door with a gold eye on it. Sitting to the side of the door, Silver Fang gave Stela another doggy grin, tongue hanging out of his mouth. Reaching the door, Stela doubled over, panting and looked up at the door. "Is…this the…place?" She asked the wolf between gasps. Barking once, Silver Fang raised a paw as if to indicate that Stela was to open the door. "Ok, I am going it." Stela said with determination as she straitening up. And reaching out a hand, she turned the handle and pushed open the door.
The room was different from any of the other rooms Stela had come across so far. The Room was large and dimly lit with deep shadows in the corners. The walls were decorated with hieroglyphics, like a pictured wallpaper border, and what looked like a large stone chest sat at the far end of the room. Stepping into the room and closing the door quietly behind her after Silver Fang rushed in after her, Stela looked around the room. 'Neat room, but a little creepy.' She thought. "So you found your way here at last. Well done." Said the voice of a woman, the same voice that was talking to Stela before she entered the soul room.
Wheeling around, Stela saw someone step out from the shadows in the far corner of the room. The woman had pale skin, long white hair, and slightly narrowed, but still friendly blue eyes. Though slightly taller and about a year older looking the Stela, the woman was the exact twin of Stela.
Stela had finally come face-to-face with the sprit of the Millennium Heart.
Mc: Muhahahahahahaha! The evilness of cliffhangers! If ya want 'a find out what happens next you have to review. You know…this chapter was hard to write, I couldn't think of how I wanted to start it. At first I was going to have Yami challenge Stela to a duel and the sprit was going to come out and everyone was going to get introduced to her, but it wouldn't work. shrug Oh well, I like this version much better. Oh and I am going to format my other chapters so that they make sense and I'm also aging Stela to 15.
Ryou: So you know what to do if you want to find out what happens next. You have to push the little purple button.
Little purple button:(in a squeaky little voice) Push me!
i Yami and Bakura's items are the original items while Yugi's and Ryou's items are exact copies with almost the same powers, just a little weakened. When the lights (a/n: I need to look up the word for light. --) and the darks split, each person got an item.
1 In my own little world, all the yamis, minus Marik (a/n: or is it Malik?) Had the chance to get a body of their own. Bakura had to promise to behave if he was going to get his own body, so he promised, (his fingers were crossed.) So that's the reason why they have a body of there own in my story.