Chapter 3

Yugi ran to Iris' side and knelt down beside her. "Iris!"

"Gee, she sure does faint a lot, doesn't she?" Joey joked.

"Not the time, Joey." Tristan said irritated. Yugi looked at her and noticed she was breathing.

"She should be ok." Yugi said. "She must've still been a little weak from the time travel." Iris' eyes squeezed tight.

"Yugi, look." The Pharoah said appearing next to Yugi. Iris' eyes opened and she sat up slightly.

"What happened?" Iris asked looking up at Yugi as he knelt down again.

"You tell us." Yugi said as he helped her up.

"I...I'm not sure..." Iris put her hand on top of her necklace. "...something happened...but...I don't know..."

"Come on, maybe you're just hungry."

"...maybe..." Yugi pulled Iris toward a large food court, Joey, Tristan and Tea stayed behind.

"What did I tell you?" Tristan said looking at Tea.

"That was no ordinary faint spell." Tea said watching the two head for the food court.

"Are you trying to say that Iris is evil?" Joey asked astonished.

"I don't know, I just think we need to keep our eyes open and on her at all times."

"I agree." Tristan nodded.

"You guys comin'?" Yugi yelled from way up ahead. The three walked towards Yugi and Iris slowly.

in the dark alley

Mokuba laid on the ground and a man noticed he was there. The man ran up to him, "Hey, are you ok?" Mokuba's eyes opened and a fire burned in his eyes. He sat up and looked at the man.

"I'm fine." Said a dark and eiry voice coming from Mokuba! "But you won't be!" Mokuba flung his arm out toward the man and a strange energy shot out of his arm and flung the man to the wall, knocking him out. Mokuba laughed evily, but when he stepped out into the light he screamed. He stepped back into the darkness and looked evily at the sun. Mokuba gnashed his teeth together.

hours later

Kaiba stood up near the window. "Where could he be? He was supposed to be back hours ago."

"I found him!" One of Kaiba's employees ran into the room with Mokuba in his arms.

"Mokuba!" Kaiba ran to him.

"It's strange, he didn't want to come to me and when I forced him he screamed all the way here and finally he just...fainted."

back with Yugi

"Bye guys!" Yugi waved to Joey, Tristan and Tea as he and Iris walked towards the Game Shop. Iris looked sad as she stared at the ground. "What's wrong?"

"I don't think your friends like me very much."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know, I think...they think I'm a threat or something...I don't know...but they hate me."

"That's not true, and besides it doesn't matter, I like you."

"And I get a feeling that you find me annoying at times."

"How could you be annoying? You've barely said two words since you woke up."

"That's just it...I get the feeling that you get irritated with me."

"That's not true. I think you're cool and the fact that you came from Ancient Egypt makes you even cooler." Iris didn't seem any happier by this compliment. "Is something else bothering you?"

"Yeah but..."

"But what?" Iris was quiet for a few steps as they got closer to Yugi's grandpa's Game Shop.

"It's nothing..."

"Well, until we can find out a way to get both you and the Pharoah back home, you can stay at the shop. I can pull out an extra bed for you." Yugi said smiling.

"Thank you." Iris said looking sadly at the ground.

'Something must really be bothering her, making it even hard to talk about it with a friend.' Yugi thought looking at her. "Hey Iris." Iris stopped and turned to Yugi, he looked a little shy and nervous. "I don't know much about Ancient Egypt, at least, not as much as you do...and I don't know what friends do back in Ancient Egypt...But here it's different. You can talk to me about anything...I promise no one else will know if you tell me whatever's bothering you. It could be our secret. So whenever you feel like talking about it, you can find me and tell me, ok?" Iris smiled and nodded. The two continued to walk towards the Game Shop and the two opened the door and walked inside. "Grandpa, I'm home."

"Oh, Yugi, there you are. I was wondering when you'd get...who's this?" Grandpa said walking out from behind the corner.

"Oh, Iris this is my grandpa and grandpa this is my new friend Iris. She's from Ancient Egypt and she needs a place to stay, and I thought here with us would be perfect."

"Of course it would. You can stay here as long as you like." Iris smiled.

"Thank you."

"Well, I guess I'll have to pull out the guest bed." Grandpa said as he walked out of the room.

"Come on, I'll show you my room." Yugi grabbed her hand and they ran laughing to his room.

back at Kaiba Corp.

Mokuba laid on his bed in the same place he had been since his brother placed him there hours before. Mokuba squeezed his eyes tight and tossed back and forth. He heard the same laughing that he had heard in the alley. "No...leave me...alone..." Mokuba said still sleeping, but the laughing just got louder. All of a sudden, Mokuba laid still and his eyes bursted open. He sat up silently and the fire that was in his eyes before was back. He looked down at his hands and looked at both sides of them. "Excellent. I have taken over the boy's body." Mokuba stood up and walked up to the window and looked at the moon. "Now to fulfill my destiny...and aquire the world and put it in my control. But first, I need my ultimate creature and to get it...I have to find him...Exodia! I will find you!"

In Yugi's room

Iris was amazed at all the Egyptian artifacts that were in his room. She looked at the Egyptian box that the Mullinneum Puzzle was in long ago. "You like it? It held the Mullinneum Puzzle before I was able to put it together. So Iris..."

"What is it Yugi?"

"Coming from Ancient Egypt, you must know a lot about it..."

"Yeah..."

"Well...the Pharoah lost his memory and I thought maybe...since you two came from the same time period, maybe you could...uhh...tell him..."

"What part would you like me to tell him?" The Millinneum Puzzle glowed and the Pharaoh took over.

"You could start by telling me my name."

"My Pharoah.." Iris said closing her eyes and bowing before him. The Pharaoh put his hand on her head.

"Please..." The Pharaoh helped her back up and took her hand and led her to the bed. The Pharaoh sat down. "Please...sit...I have a feeling that this could take a while." Iris sat next to the Pharaoh and smiled at him. "I don't know who you are, but I feel some kind of connection with you that may have something to do about my past as the Pharaoh." Iris nodded. "I knew it...what is it? Who are you and why do you seem familiar to me?" Iris opened her mouth to speak but just before she did they heard a scream from outside. It was Yugi's grandpa! The two ran out of the room and down to the actual shop area. Just as they got down there, the door shut. Yugi's grandpa was laying on the ground, knocked out and the Pharaoh ran to him. "Grandpa!" (I always thought it was pretty funny that the Pharaoh called Yugi's grandpa 'grandpa' since it wasn't actually his grandfather). Dueling cards were spread out all over the floor and the shop was almost completely destroyed. Iris walked outside and she saw nothing. Her necklace glowed and she put her hand over it. "Grandpa wake up!" The Millinneum Puzzle glowed again and the Pharaoh changed back into Yugi. "Grandpa are you ok?" Iris walked up to him and knelt down to his grandpa. She held her hand over his grandpa's forehead and she closed her eyes. After a minute she opened her eyes.

"I'm sorry..."

"What's wrong?"

"His soul is not there..." Tears filled Yugi's eyes.

down the street

"The old fool, thinking he can stand up to me." Mokuba looked at the card which had Yugi's grandpa's face on it that he held in his hand. "Nobody can stand up to me and make me give up what I want! Nobody!" Mokuba laughed as he looked at another card that he had stolen from the Game Shop. It was the head of Exodia!

Good grief! This story is getting me excited! Just wait till you see what Mokuba does with the Exodia cards, it's awesome! I'm especially excited about the ending! smiles big You're going to flip your socks! wink