I can't find the one story I wanted to reread!
Yugi: What was it about?
You getting amnesia, Yami trying to help you remember, failing and deciding to return to Egypt. Just after he leaves for the airport you remember and go running after him. I can't remember the title!
Ryou: Maybe a faithful reader can help.
I hope so.
Malik: This chapter is dedicated to Phoenix0192 for getting the mystery author correct. The author in the picture with PhantomBrat is none other than the 'Stephen King of Children's Literature', PhantomBrat's most favorite author of all time, the great R.L. Stine.
Mokuba: The next chapter 'sneak-peek' will be offered to the 186th reviewer…granted PhantomBrat doesn't…
Actually, I do have another thing I just thought up. Whoever can help me find the story that I am looking for and it's the right one, the first person who located it for me will get a preview for a future chapter!
Joey: I'm confused.
Basically, I'm offering a reviewer a future chapter to read if they obtain one of two things…Be the chosen numbered reviewer, or finds the story requested . It's that easy.
Seto: For two people with nearly identical names, the girl wins, Wheeler. She just confused you and she even made it simple for someone with as little brain cells as you've got.
*Sends Dragon Master Knight Draco Equiste after Seto*
Yami: Wasn't there another fanfic you were looking for?
Yeah, but I'll save that for another time…I don't want to have readers looking all over the place and getting confused as to which ones I wanted to reread.
"There was the one time that Yugi and Ryou hid in closets because Malik had terrified them while watching scary movies on Halloween night," Paige told Atem. "Yugi fell asleep behind a stack of games in his bedroom closet and we couldn't find him for hours."
Yugi groaned at the memory. "I didn't mean to pass out! I couldn't help it! Malik ribbed me for weeks about being part fainting goat!"
"You used games to barricade yourself in a closet that opened into your room, Chibi," she pointed out.
Yugi shook his head, "At least I found a decent hiding place."
Dawn entered the living room, "This place is boring. What do you have to do that's fun?"
"Yami keeps games around for us to play," Yugi answered. "I'd loan you my GameBoy™, but I'm trying to beat a hard level and really don't want to lose my saved game. There are my game systems that my grandpa brought over for me. If you don't mind playing outdated games, you could play those. They're in the cabinet of the entertainment center with my name on the door."
Yugi laughed to himself, remembering that Tea and Joey argued over how to label Yugi's cupboard. Joey wanted to label it 'Yugi's Games' while Tea wanted to label it with just Yugi's name in it. Yugi had to explain to Joey that his name already meant 'Game' so it was pointless to label his cabinet the way he wanted to originally.
"I guess that's better than being bored," Dawn shrugged. She went over to the entertainment system and opened the door marked 'Yugi'.
Ryou and Giles had gone out to the inner greenhouse to talk in private. "Ryou," Giles began, "honestly, how have you been?"
Ryou clipped a sprig of rosemary for seasoning the next day's chicken dish and sighed before pulling up a garlic bulb. "Ok, I guess. This whole thing has been pretty hard for me since that night I was kidnapped. Having Yugi and Malik around has helped a lot, but I had always felt something was missing even with them around. Like there was something waiting for me."
"Your brother and real parents?"
"Yeah. But you and Dad were my family…are my family." Ryou picked some tomatoes and peppers as they talked. "I still feel awful that I didn't leave Dad a message, but I didn't know where we were at first and then we agreed that it was too dangerous to go home after being kidnapped."
Giles sat down on a bench, "Ryou, did you know that there is a Law that protects certain Supernaturals?"
"There was one passed that made it to where, if anybody hurt us, they would be severely punished," Ryou answered. "Atem said that basically the Law was that we are not to be Hunted or harmed without severe consequences."
"There is an older Law. Any sentient Supernatural exhibiting a specific want to protect Humans is given amnesty and protected so long as they refrain from following any and all predatory instincts toward Humans. A Supernatural Law also protected you three long before the Mutual Laws were formed," Giles added.
Ryou was stunned, "There are Laws for Supernaturals?"
"Just the ones that have created a society and have a Ruling Council."
"What does their Law say, Uncle Giles?"
"If there are less than twenty of a certain species of Sentient Supernaturals in existence, so long as they are not a threat to others, they are not to be killed. They are to be classified as 'off-limits' and placed under the protection of the Council of Elders." Giles looked at his nephew, "The Watchers Council wanted to have me locate the newly-discovered Supernaturals of Atem's and bring them to the Council, but I refused because that would mean defying the one group that could kill me and everyone with me without recourse."
"You mean having the team come after you," Ryou sighed.
Giles nodded, "Yes, I do. I had to decline their quest and return to Sunnydale in disgrace."
Malik broke Atem's temporary ban and had taken his animal form to fly around the property to get away from his brother for a while, not realizing that there was one too many shadows on the property. He landed and Shifted near the greenhouse near sunset. That was when movement caught his sharp eyes. He crept toward the tree line slowly and grabbed a terracotta pot. Malik threw the flowerpot at the shadowy form and watched as the pot broke onto pieces before it hit its target. The form whirled around and glared at him with deadly yellow eyes. Malik gasped in shock because, apart from the yellow eyes, the mass looked like Yugi did in his Shadow-wraith form. He ran towards the mansion, yelling for Atemu and Akefia.
The creature followed the Hikari as he ran towards the mansion, unaware of the two inside. Ryou heard Malik's shouts and rushed after the thing tailing his cousin. Giles watched as his nephew went from young man to canine in seconds. The canine growled at the shadowy mass and lunged after it. Glowing yellow eyes looked at Ryou's new form in shock before attacking him. Giles watched as Ryou clawed and bit the creature. A smaller form rushed from the house with cries of 'Yugi, get back in here' following.
Yugi froze for a moment before jumping into the fray. Giles noticed that the small male had cat-like features instead of the human ones he had seen earlier. Atemu and Akefia arrived as the two males were growing exhausted. The shadowy creature shot off into the woods when it realized that it was outnumbered. Ryou lay panting next to Yugi, still in his canine form. {That thing is pretty tough. Thanks Yugi.}
"No problem, Ryou," Yugi panted as his right ear twitched. "Um…I think we're in serious trouble."
"Darn right you are, Young Ones," Akefia hissed.
Atemu shook his head, "Yugi, you're supposed to take it easy for a few days more. But instead, you jump into a fight. You disobeyed your brother and went out partially Shifted at that!"
Yugi winced at his raised voice, "I'm sorry, but Ryou needed help and I was closer than anyone else."
"You're grounded, Young Ones," Atemu ground out. He bared his fangs at the Hikari, who winced in fear, "Get inside and go to your rooms. NOW!"
Ryou pushed himself to his feet and padded behind Yugi, his tail between his legs and his head down. Atemu sighed as the back door closed behind them. "How could they do something so reckless," Atemu asked no one.
Akefia leaned against a maple tree, "They're like we are, they can't stand something harming our friends and family. You were too hard on them, 'Temu." The white-haired Daywalker remembered Giles was still present. "Forgive the Young Ones, they are still learning. They tend to leap first ask permission later at times."
Giles waved off the comment, "I know how those three act with each other. What I want to know is how my nephew can change forms and why Yugi looked part cat.
"They are descended from us, so there was a chance that they would gain that ability…however slim," Atemu pointed out, trying to keep from spilling their secret so early.
Yugi: So what are you doing?
Aside from cataloging ALL of my Yu-Gi-Oh TCG cards, I've got to finish my dad's Father's Day gift.
Bakura: That was two days ago. What is taking you so long?
Actually, I tried to work on it for him and the book said 7 Day Afghans. I actually started on it eight days prior to Father's Day and kept having to rip out rows to get to various mistakes that I discovered.
Yugi: What exactly are you working on?
A crocheted ripple blanket. I've only been crocheting for a little over 2 years and wanted a new challenge. I went through at least a dozen crochet books with ripple instructions and the very last one was simple enough to understand.
Ryou: How far along are you on it?
Somewhere between a fifth and a fourth of the ways done…It all depends on how long I make it for my dad.
Ryou: Good luck with it.
Thanks, Ryou.