Another chapter, because I'm in a writing mood. I did half of my homework for the last three hours. Sounds like fun, no? Anyways, I don't own Yugioh, but I do own Sonya. Yay for me!

"Are you absolutely sure you don't wanna go to work with me?" Yami asked for the thousandth time.

"Positively," Yugi replied with the same happy tone.

"Really?"

Yugi gave him an assured smile and said, "I'm a little tired from yesterday, so I thought I should stay here."

This was a big fat lie. He only wanted to stay, so he could talk to Sonya. Otherwise, Yugi would already be waiting in the car.

Yami sighed and finally agreed he should stay. "I'll be back around three, okay?"

"Sounds good to me," Yugi replied.

"Bye Yugi."

Yugi just smiled a goodbye, and watched the car drive away.

"Time to talk to Sonya," he told himself.

---

Yugi sat on the soft sand and watched the sea move calmly. He breathed in the wonderful, fresh air of home.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Yugi looked at the source of the voice.

"Hey Sonya!" Yugi greeted cheerfully. "It really is."

"Do you want to leave it behind?"

"You know, I've always longed to be a human, after my grandpa would tell stories about them," Yugi told her. "He also said we were connected to the sea."

Sonya just looked out into the sea with him.

"But," he continued, "I found someone I have a stronger connection with."

She still didn't say anything, and Yugi looked at her with large, amethyst eyes.

"I would give up anything just to be able to stand next to that person," he said. "Even the sea."

"You love him, don't you?" she finally asked looking at him.

Yugi nodded his head, smiling shyly.

"Well then, I think I can tell you how to stay like this."

"You would?" he asked happily. "Thank you, thank you!"

Yugi pulled her into a hug, and she laughed at the innocent boy.

"Calm down, Yugi," she told him.

Yugi finally let go and intently listened to her.

"Alright, to become a permanent human," she said quietly, "you must solve the puzzle to your love's heart, and he must solve the puzzle to yours."

"What does that mean?" he asked.

Before she answered him, they heard a squeak behind some bushes.

"Who's there?" demanded Sonya.

Anzu popped out of the bush with a scratched up arm and twigs in her hair.

"Hello Miss.Quatica, Yugi," she greeted getting the leaves out of her hair.

"What were you doing in a bush?" Yugi asked.

"Looking for my...pencil," she replied.

"Pencil?" Sonya asked.

"Yeah, my favorite pencil."

"Did you hear us talking?" Yugi asked nervously.

He really didn't want his secret exposed.

"Kinda."

"How much of it?" Sonya asked.

Anzu looked at them innocently before answering, "All of it."

Sonya rolled her eyes, while Yugi was completely worried and panicked.

"Don't worry, Yugi," Sonya told him. "Anzu was a mermaid, too."

Yugi tilted his head and asked, "You were?"

"Yeah, but my mother was a mermaid and my father wasn't," she explained. "I'm more human than mermaid, because my mother had the transformation done when she had me."

"Oh," Yugi said.

"So you're not Yami's cousin?"

"Nope, sorry I lied to you," Yugi apologized.

"Don't worry about it," she told him. "I understand it has to be kept a secret."

Sonya smiled at the two, when her cell phone rang.

"Yep. Alright. Calm down, baldy we'll be there!"

She hung and told Anzu, "Gotta get back to the restaurant."

She looked over at Yugi's direction and smiled at him. "Remember what I told you, and good luck!"

"Thank you Sonya." He looked over at Anzu and said 'good-bye' to her, too.

Yugi looked out into the sea again and thought, 'Solve the puzzle to his heart.'

---

Yami was on his lunch break and decided to go out and get something to eat.

He went to the small deli and got a sandwich. When he came out, he was confronted by an old lady in a cloak that covered most of her face. All you could see was her mouth.

"Why hello there," she greeted. "Would you like to buy this golden puzzle box, from a poor, unfortunate lady?"

Yami did feel sorry for her, and agreed to buy it.

"How much?"

"What do you have with you?"

"Fifty bucks."

"Gimme!" she cried. "I mean.. uh, thank you."

"Yeah," Yami said confused by the weird woman.

She handed him the box, and then said, "Keep it safe, and close by you, child. It holds a treasure like no other."

He looked down at the puzzle box to examine it, and he was about to ask her a question, but the old woman was no where in sight.

Yami just shrugged it off and went back to Kaiba Corp.

He stared at the puzzle for the longest time in his office.

'Where have I seen this before?'

Pretty soon, boredom took control, and he fell asleep.

It was pitch black, but puzzle pieces rained down from above. Shimmering pieces dropping down, and then vanishing once they hit the ground.

Yami watched his friends try to complete the puzzled but failing in the end.

The old lady walks up to him and hands him the box.

"Give it a go, kiddo."

Yami begins to put the pieces together with ease.

"What's so hard about this?" he asks.

Once he has one more piece to put in, Yugi appears before him with his eyes closed, and holding his hands close to his heart.

"Yugi?"

He places the last piece in and notices the he only completed half of the puzzle.

Yugi's eyes open up, finally, as he reveals the other half in his hands.

"Yami..." he says quietly. "At last we can be together."

The two halves click together, and a blinding light surrounds him.

Yami's eyes fluttered open, and he looked at the puzzled box again.

The Egyptian eye on the box was shinning from the light.

Yami opened it up, and began to work on it.

'Lately my dreams have a meaning to them,' he thought. 'And I got the message loud and clear this time.'

Just to let you all know, Sonya isn't Yugi's sister, and they're not related! Got to go now, bye!