Ch. 13 Zeke and Lilliths past

Zeke slept peacefully through out the day. He woke up inside a dream, finding himself standing in the exact middle of a room surrounded by stone walls that were painted with various hieroglyphics. He slowly looked around until his eyes came upon a young Egyptian man in white robes wearing a turban.

"What do you want?" he asked, wondering what this apparition was doing inside the mental space that his bracelet occupied.

"Do not worry yourself. I am here to achieve the same goal as yourself," he replied with a heavy accent.

"What goal?" Zeke asked, confused.

"To find the extent and power of the tiara," he answered. "I brought her to help maybe find something of its past."

Lillith emerged from behind him, smiling. "Hey Zeke," she said, giving him small wave.

"What are you so happy about?" he asked her.

"I get to find out who you really are!" she replied in a joyfull tone. "Shadi says memories of your own past will come with the ones of the tiara."

"Why do you think I know anything about the tiara?" he asked the man.

"You both seem to have a connection," he said. "We shall see. Let us begin." He drew from his robes, a large golden key. The millennium key. It started to glow, the tiara reacting with the key, sent out its own light that shot onto Zeke's head.

FLASH! Memories of his past came rushing through his mind. As a young boy, standing next to the coffin at his mothers funeral, FLASH! His dad, crying and drinking in a corner of the house, FLASH! An archeological dig with his father, finding the bracelet, FLASH! His father, sick and dying of lung cancer, FLASH! A lawyer and his uncle, FLASH! Boarding school, FLASH! A kid, dead and bleeding at his feet with a knife in hand, FLASH! Escaping into the night with other kids, FLASH! His uncle, dead in his chair, FLASH! The tablets. Heiroglyphics engraved into both of them, the tiara inside a velvet box FLASH! The girl, screaming and being sealed inside, FLASH! Enchantments placed up it, FLASH! Sealing it inside a tomb.

Then a rush of memories that wasn't his own were hitting him even faster, only seconds of images, almost to fast for him to recognize. The only things that caught his minds eye was Yugi, and Ishizu.

Then nothing. He woke up suddenly inside the real world, panting. His mind ached as he regretted seeing all the memories of his past. He sighed, laying back down on the pillow.

The light switched on a few seconds later, and in walked a sullen Lillith wearing a pair of pajama bottoms and a white tanktop. She slowly walked over to the couch, and sat down.

"What did I see in their?" she asked. "Please tell me…"

Zeke sighed, knowing he was going to regret going through his past one more time. He began his story.

"When I was six, my mom was shot during a robbery at the convenient store she owned. My dad became depressed, and started drinking, often ending in fits of rage. After a year though, he realized what he was doing, and tried to quit. He sold the store, and resumed his work for the Archaeological Society, and tried to rebuild his relationship with me by taking me with him on the digs. Its how I found the bracelet. After that, my dad became sick with some lung cancer that was inoperable. He left everything to me, but since I wasn't of legal age, I had to have a guardian. My uncle took over my finances, and sent me to boarding school before wasting the rest of it on gambling. That place was hell…I was bullied, hurt, almost every day.

It took me a year to actually get some friends. Then, their was the biggest, stupidest bully of them all. He threatened to kill me, trying to act all cool. He had a knife with him that night. Everything went wrong for him when I managed to grab it out of his hand. His mother and his lying friends got me and the others a twelve year jail sentence. We escaped after three years, and Ishizu was the one who helped me with everything else. I killed my uncle, and sold what I could that was left. Ishizu put her name in for me."

He looked down, a little ashamed as he finished the story. Lillith sighed.

"That's why you don't want to go to a hospital, isn't it?" she asked. Zeke looked up, surprised that she was still their and not horrified at what murder he had done in his past.

"Yeah. They'll find my name, and arrest me on the spot." He looked into her amethyst eyes, wondering about the additional memories that had occurred inside that room.

"What about your past?" he asked her.

"What makes you ask?" Lillith said, curious as to how the subject of her own life had came to his mind.

"I got some of your memories as well," he answered..

Lillith looked back into his eyes. He had told her his past. She might as well do the same.

"Well, when I was born, they found I had a weak body. My immune system was strong, it was just that I would be hurt easily. Mentally, physically, and emotionally. A year after that, Yugi was born, and even at one year of age, I was fiercely protective of him. When I was about eleven, my mom and dad died of unknown causes. I was close to both of them, and almost died with them…So I changed. Yugi noticed, and he became protective of me. Three years later, I met Bakura through Yugi. Then, some time after that I met Yami…then the abuse started, and so did Yugi protesting me and him being together. Six months later, when I was fifteen, Yugi solved the millenium puzzle, and Ishizu gave me the necklace. When Rose showed herself to me, we became fast friends. She found that, whatever happened to me, something significant, I would get hurt so much more then someone else. She always tried to help me."

Zeke was slightly stunned by her story. The similiarities were too odd to be coinceidence.

"Wow. We go through almost the same things, and result in complete opposite of eachother."

Lillith nodded. "You should get back to sleep. I'm sorry to kept you awake, but I just wanted to know about... "

Zeke nodded, lying back down on the pillow.

"Goodnight," he heard Lillith say before she flipped the light switch once more.