Sorry it took me a while, I have this flood of ideas coming from all sorts of stories, this one, Fullmetal alchemist and Inuyasha and it's kinda hard to juggle them all. Sadly this is the last chapter of this story, I know your heartbroken, but we all knew the day would come some day. I hope you've enjoyed reading this story as much as I have had fun writing it. Well here's the final chapter of Without Temptation.

Chapter 9

"What are we gonna do?" Iris asked looking at Yami and he sighed.

"I don't know...we better go tell the others..." The Pharoah turned around and headed back up the stone stairs. Iris looked around sadly.

"If it wasn't for me, all these people would be safe...if I hadn't been so careless..." Just as Iris was about to follow the Pharoah up the stairs, something caught her eye. A door she hadn't seen before was in the corner of the room. She couldn't take her eyes off of it and she slowly walked over to it. It looked as if it was covered in jewels and there was ancient Egyptian writing all over it. She pushed it gently and it swung open slowly. There was a single room on the other side of the door and right in the center was a stone alter and on it sat a necklace, with a huge green-blue diamond in the center. It seemed to call out to her and she walked up to it slowly. Careful about what might happen she slowly placed the necklace around her neck. Her eyes immediately started to glow a dark red and as if possessed made her way up the stairs where the others were.

"Hey, Iris, you alright?" Joey asked. Iris didn't say anything. She showed no emotion at all and she walked up to the Pharoah who was standing beside Yugi.

"My Pharoah, the girl you call 'Iris' is alright."

"Who are you?" Yami asked.

"I am the Pheonix, the young girl was chosen to possess my spirit and even though I have been with her since birth, this necklace has allowed me to over shadow her, just as you did to this boy. The Millenium Puzzle has brought me here and I intend to fulfill both mine and the young girls destiny."

"Tell me Pheonix, will you be able to help us stop Riku and Exodia?"

"Alone? No. With your help? Yes."

"What must I do?"

"Come. I'll show you." She led Yami and his friends to the back of the pyramid where a shrine had already been placed. On a huge stone tablet sat three holes that were shaped as cards. "Set the gods here."

"You think she's talking about the god cards?" Tristan asked leaning over to Tea.

"What else would she mean by 'gods'?" Yami took out the three Egyptian god cards out of his card container and set them in the three spots and they immediately glowed.

"Now, step away." Iris told them as they all backed away and she stood in front of the tablet and closed her eyes. "Oh three Egyptian gods, Obelisk, Slyfer and Ra. Here me oh great spirits and destroy this creature." The tablet glowed brighter and three beams of light shown from the three cards. Iris' eys turned back to normal as she took the necklace off. "Great Pheonix, bird of fire, help the gods and get rid of this cursed creature once and for all!" The necklace glowed and a large bird seemed to squeeze out of the necklace and up to where the three beams shot up. The gods appeared and so did the Pheonix and the three Egyptian gods seemed to collide with the Pheonix, giving it their power and making the Pheonix stronger. Iris collapsed into Yami's arms as he knelt down beside her. They gazed up in awe as the once cloudy sky seemed to spread apart and made room for the sun. With Riku on his shoulders, Exodia stopped and turned to the great beast.

"Ha, you really think a big bird is going to stop me from destroying this world." Riku laughed. "No one will stop me."

"Evil doer. Your destruction has been predicted since the day that this great Pharoah sat on his throne." The Pheonix said but his mouth never moved. "I am your destruction and the last thing you will ever see. My Pharoah, I will serve you and you alone, even if it costs me my life."

"Thank you." Yami said. The Pheonix then became covered in fire and he dove for Exodia and a great light shown when the two hit. With the power of the god cards, the Pheonix was more powerful than ever and Exodia couldn't stand it. The Pheonix glowed brighter and brighter as it hit the forbidden one. Exodia growled in pain as the forbidden one fell to the ground and increasingly lost power. Exodia tried to put of a fight, but he was no match for the great fire bird.

"My Pharoah..." The great bird closed it's eyes and the Millineum puzzle glowed and all around the world, the seven Millineum items glowed and sent it's power to the Pheonix. The Pheonix got stronger and stronger and soon each one of the Millineum items broke and last so did the Millinneum Puzzle, drained from their power. "My Pharoah, with the Millinneum Puzzle destroyed from it's power, you will be sent back to your time."

"What?" Yami was suprised.

"With the destruction of this beast I will have just enough energy to send you and the girl back to your proper time periods."

"But what about Joey, Tristan and Tea? What about Yugi...?"

"I'm sorry my Pharaoh, but it must be done..." The Pheonix glowed and Yugi walked up to the Pharoah.

"I can't just leave you all here."

"But you have to Pharoah, he's gonna take you home, where you belong?" Yugi said smiling.

"Yeah, and it's not like your really going anywhere..." Tristan started.

"...we're friends and friends are always together no matter where or what time period they're in." Joey finished.

"Yeah..." Tea added.

"I still want to know what's going on..." Kaiba said folding his arms.

"It was a pleasure dueling with you Kaiba." Yami said smiling at him.

"Whatever..."

"I'm gonna miss ya buddy..." Yugi told him.

"Same here..." Yami said back.

"Take care of Iris, will ya?"

"I will..." The Pheonix smiled and gave the final blow and Exodia dissapeared.

"Goodbye...Pharoah..." Yugi said as a tear snuck down his face.

"Goodbye my friend, I'll never forget you, or any of you." Yami smiled and him and Yugi shook hands for the last time. As they shook hands, the Pheonix glowed for the last time, sacrificing itself to send both Yami and Iris home. Iris dissapeared.

"You're gonna make one heck of a Pharoah..." Yami smiled and soon dissapeared while shaking Yugi's hand.

--back in Ancient Egypt--

Yami looked around, he was in the palace. "Wh-where am I?" In front of him was a red velvet curtain and he pushed it back. He was on the balcony with thousands of people beneath him cheering when he appeared. Also on the balcony was Iris who smiled and Yami walked up to her. "Where are we?" Iris laughed.

"My Pharoah, we're in Egypt...don't you remember...we're...getting married..."

"Oh yes of course...I guess Yugi wasn't able to come with us..."

"Yugi? Who is this Yugi, my Pharoah?"

"You don't remember, Yugi? What about Joey or Tristan or...Tea?"

"Are you alright, my Pharoah? We can postpone the wedding if you're not feeling well." Yami shook his head.

"No, I'm alright...carry on..." Yami looked at her strangely. 'She doesn't remember anything...it's as if it never happened...'

"May I present to you..." A man in a robe said. "The Pharoah and the new queen of Egypt!" The people cheered loudly and Yami and Iris smiled at each other.

"You sure you're alright?" Iris asked.

"Yes...I am..." The man placed a crown on both Yami's and Iris' head and the man nodded and they kissed. Yami realized...he remembered everything, not only from his time at Domino City, but also from his childhood and growing up in Egypt. It's as if the Pheonix made it as so that nothing had ever happened. "It's strange..." Yami said when they broke off. "I keep thinking of this other world...in the future..."

"Well...we're here now and we're married...finally." Yami smiled and nodded and they kissed again.

--5000 years later--

Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea and grandpa walked up to the Ancient Egyptian exhibit. "It's a good thing that when the Pheonix destroyed Riku that all the souls were sent back to their bodies, right grandpa?" Yugi asked.

"It sure is." Grandpa told him and rubbed him on the head.

"Hey look, what does this say?" Tea asked looking at a new stone tablet that they hadn't seen there before.

"This is a tablet from an ancient pharoah's tomb." Grandpa started. "It says, here lies the great Pharoah Atem and his wife, Queen Iris."

"So is that supposed to be our Pharoah?" Joey asked.

"I guess so. Unless there was another Queen Iris." Yugi told him.

"Well, I'm glad he finally got back to his time..." Tea said smiling.

"Me too, Tea, me too..." Yugi laughed.

What was written below the tablet: 'Pharoah Atem and Queen Iris were one of the greatest and fairest rules in all of Egypt and they were praised and worshiped by everyone. Long live Pharoah Atem and Queen Iris as they journey into the after-life together...'

I hope you liked that story and I'm sorry it was so short. At least it was a happy ending and I hope your happy too. I hope that if you are a fullmetal alchemist fan that you'll read my 'A Twist of Fate' story and soon after I'm completely done with the first chapter you'll read my Inuyasha story, it'll be called 'Someone's watching over me.' Thank you for reading this story and thank you people for reviewing I really appreciate it.