Um...Hi?

Sarah: Where the H*EEP have you been?

Well...for a while I wasn't sure how to word this chapter...and then my homework started to pile up and...

Sarah: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Excuses, excuses, excuses.

Hey! I finally got the chapter up, didn't I?

Sarah: Whoop. Dee. Doo. Some people get, like, three chapters up A DAY, do you know that?

You only know that because I know that!

Sarah: Yeah, then you also know how many more words those peopel have than you.

Thank you Sarah.-_-

Sarah: Hey, just doing my job. :P

Yeah, well how about doing your other job and doing the disclaimer!

Sarah: Fine, yeesh. YamiHeart doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh. There are a couple characters she came up with, but not that many. Sadly, her imagination isn't that big.

:.(


Pov: Sage

Here I was, in front of the museum, changed out of my costume and into some real clothes, with the Pharaoh. No Tea, just me and the Pharaoh (and all the people on the grammar police who just read that sentence, suck it up).

I walked up the stairs, two at a time, ahead of the Pharaoh, who was desperately trying to get up the stairs as fast as I was.

"How do you get up the stairs so fast?" The Pharaoh asked as he tried to catch his breath.

"I'm just really excited for this exhibit." That and I was afraid we'd be late to see Ishizu. Although, in the anime they made the Pharaoh duel Johnny Steps, so I probably didn't have to worry too much.

Once the Pharaoh had caught his breath from going up the stairs, we entered the museum. It was pretty empty, with only two or three other patrons wandering around, not really paying attention to what they were looking at.

As my eyes looked around for the exhibit, an Egyptian woman approached the Pharaoh and me.

"I have been waiting for you, my king." Ishizu said to the Pharaoh. "Please, follow me."

The Pharaoh looked to me, but I just shrugged and followed Ishizu. I wasn't exactly sure if she meant I could come along too, but I brought him here, so I got to come along to see the big reveal of the Pharaoh's past.

We approached two giant stone tablets, both of which were familiar to me because of how many times I had seen the anime and read the manga, but shocking to the Pharaoh. This was mostly because on one of the stones there was a dude who had the Pharaoh's unmistakable hairdo and across from him was a guy who looked like Kaiba. I guess when I first saw the tablets when I was four I was genuinely shocked, but now I had to fake it so it didn't seem weird.

"Who are you?" The Pharaoh asked.

"I am Ishizu Ishtar and my clan has guarded a piece of the Pharaoh's memory for thousands of years." When Ishizu said "the Pharaoh", the guy I had been calling that since the end of season one had an expression of shock on his face.

"Yes! I was right!" I did a little gesture of self-accomplishment and almost started dancing, but I stopped myself just in time.

"What does she mean?" Ishizu was obviously confused at my performance.

"Sage has been calling me 'the Pharaoh' for quite a while now." This took Ishizu back a bit.

"Really? But how did you know?"

"Crap…" My mind froze as it tried to think up an excuse to the exclusive information I had known.

"He just looked like a Pharaoh. And it was pretty obvious there was someone else other than Yugi in there, so I named the other Yugi 'Pharaoh'." I shrugged as if it was no big deal.

The Pharaoh looked back to the tablet. Maybe he thought he could unlock the secrets of his past by just looking at it, but I knew he'd have to wait a long while for that happen.

"Plus I have to make sure you live long enough to do it." I thought to myself while I kept my smile big on the outside.

"So…your millennium item…what does that mean? The last couple of times I ran into someone with one, they were my enemy." The Pharaoh didn't take his eyes off the tablet, almost as if they were glued to the ancient stone.

"I assure you my Pharaoh, I am no enemy of yours. No, your enemy will be the bearer of the last millennium item. My millennium tauk can and has seen the future."

"Well…what did your tauk show you?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"That you, Pharaoh, shall fight this person in a battle to regain your lost memories." The Pharaoh finally looked away from the tablet and to Ishizu.

"My… lost memories?" The Pharaoh's voice was full of hope and I had to resist the urge to tell him those memories would be lost for quite some time- even after, and if, he won the duel with Marik.

If being a very important word seeing as I had no idea what that one guy who kept screwing with the plot was going to do.

Apparently my resisting went on for much longer than I had planned because the next thing I knew the Pharaoh was leaving the museum without me.

"Hey! Wait up for me!" I called as I ran after him.

"Hey, I'm not the one who zoned out. You missed a lot of important information."

"I already know all of the information. That's why I zoned out." I thought to myself. "Yeah, well, your memories are really none of my business."

"I wouldn't mind making them your business." This stopped me cold. Did he just say what I think he said…?

"Oh crap!" I exclaimed. "I knew I was forgetting something!"

No, I wasn't "Oh crapping" what the Pharaoh had said, I was "Oh crapping" the fact that I had completely spaced that Battle City was going to get announced any minute.

I rushed out of the museum, past the Pharaoh's confused face, and looked around for the hoards of people that were supposed to be there. The only problem was, there wasn't anybody.

"Um… Sage?" The Pharaoh asked from behind, making me jump. "Is something wrong?"

I continued to look around before cursing myself. No one was here and I probably made the Pharaoh feel like he just did something wrong. I had to make up a good excuse, and fast.

"I just realized…how late it was! Greta wanted me home by a certain time and…"

"Oh, I understand." If I could have, I would have banged my head against a wall repeatedly. Some fangirl I was…I just made my favorite character sad and awkward in less than one minute! "See you around then…"

"Yeah, see ya…" That was all I could say? AURGH!

We both awkwardly turned in the directions of our houses, me mentally beating the crap out of myself all the way home. That was until the reason I made everything awkward popped back into my head.

"Huh…I wonder why Kaiba didn't announce Battle City…" I wondered aloud.

Pov: Ishizu

I had finally found the reason my millennium tauk was acting up! Usually I could see a clear path into what the future, but lately the tauk had seen two different futures and it wasn't sure which one was right. The worst part was I didn't know how to figure out which path was the right one because I didn't know who, or what, was causing the disturbance.

But now, now I knew.

"Can someone please call the residence of the girl who was just here and tell her to come over at once?" I asked to anyone who would do it.

A man in a turban and a nice suit owed to me and said he'd get on it right away.

"And make sure to tell her to bring her deck." I called to the man after he left.

I walked over to the giant stone with the Pharaoh and Seto dueling on it and sighed. "Well, this will be one interesting duel."

(Normally I would have ended it right here, but you guys have been starved for a part for so long, I'll continue. ^^)

Pov: Sage

I was still trying to figure out why Battle City wasn't announced when I got home and was turned right back around.

"I don't know what you did," Greta said as she pushed me out the door, "But the museum says you need to come over right away. I know you carry your deck in your Panda bear backpack so-"

"Wait, why do I need my de-"

"So hurry up and get there before it closes."

Without further argument, Greta slammed the door shut, leaving me with only one place to go.

"Why do I need to go to the museum? And would it kill them to have had me stay there instead of let me walk all the way back home?" I hurried back to the museum, mumbling silent curses all the way.

When I got back to the museum, Ishizu was waiting at the doors. It kind of creeped me out with her eyes following me as I walked up the stairs, but my mind was more worried that Ishizu had figured me out and was going to ask me a thousand different questions.

"Please follow me." Ishizu said as soon as I opened the museum door.

I followed her as we went back to the same stone the Pharaoh and I had been looking at earlier. Confused, I asked, "Um…may I ask why I was called back?"

"Do you remember how I said my millennium tauk could see into the future?"

"Yes…"

"Well, lately, the tauk has been a bit confused on which path the future should go. For a while I didn't know what to do, but when you came to the museum today I knew exactly what to do."

"And that would be…?" Would it kill her to just spit it out? I had nothing against Ishizu, but sometimes I wish she could just get to the point.

"To duel me." I quickly turned around to see Seto Kaiba in the doorway, his Battle City outfit on and ready to go.

"Oh no, you can't be…" I looked to Ishizu, who only nodded her head.

"The two of you must duel to determine which one of you will receive this:" Ishizu pulled out Obelisk the Tormentor and I almost passed out.

Ishizu was asking me to A) Beat Seto Kaiba and B) If I did miraculously beat him, use Obelisk the Tormentor. Could this mess with the original plot anymore? No, I couldn't ask that question and let it happen. I had to stop the plot screwing now.

"Um…I really don't want it…you can give it to Kaiba."

"Ha. Are you that scared of me beating you? I guess I can't blame you, seeing as I am the best…"

This made me snap.

"Listen here, rich boy. I could beat you anywhere, anytime. But I don't want that card. I don't need it to kick you're as-butt!"

That shocked everyone in the room. In fact, Kaiba almost lost his composure. Almost. Remember, this is Kaiba I just snapped at.

"Well, I want to duel you right here, right now. Here," Kaiba chucked a dueldisk at me and it almost took my head off. "We'll duel with these. And I've changed the rules of Duel Monsters a little bit so…"

"I know how to play and use a dueldisk." I put the dueldisk on like a pro, once again shocking Kaiba. "Let's duel."

One Duel later (you'll have to excuse me for not explaining the whole thing. Besides, the end is the only important part.)

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Kaiba and I exclaimed at the same time. He exclaimed it because he lost, I did because I won.

As Kaiba sulked on the floor, Ishizu handed me Obelisk the Tormentor.

"Looks like destiny has chosen you to wield one of the three gods," Ishizu said.

I looked at the card and sighed. Why couldn't I just give it to Kaiba? In fact, why hadn't Kaiba just stolen it from me? Obelisk was Kaiba bate!

I walked over to Kaiba and said, "Please! Just take it!"

Kaiba looked up at me and tried to yank the card out of my hand. I say tried because when he did, he received a very painful looking shock.

"What the…?" Kaiba asked. He grabbed the card again to have the same result happen.

At this point I couldn't stop laughing because Kaiba just kept grabbing it and the card kept on tazering him. Sometimes he would even do one of those anime "I'm being shocked" dances, and his expressions just kept making me laugh.

Ishizu just looked on in awe, whispering quietly, "I've never seen it do that before…"

Eventually Kaiba learned he wasn't going to get the card and gave up.

"That's it!" He yelled. "Sage, I challenge you and all of the city of Domino to a city-wide tournament. Mark my words; I will win Obelisk from you."

Kaiba then swiftly turned around and walked out the door in a huff.

"Huh…so that's how Battle City is going to get started this time." I said to myself. I looked down at Obelisk and sighed. "I guess I'm stuck with you for a little, huh?"

"Um…Sage, may I ask a favor of you?" Ishizu asked.

"What is it?"

"Remember how I told the Pharaoh he would be fighting the wielder of the last millennium item? Well…that person was-"

"Your brother Marik? I know." Hey, I was tired and grumpy and I was just forced to take a card I didn't want. Couldn't I mess with someone's head? "Don't worry, I'll make sure you get your brother back."

With that, I walked past Ishizu's confused expression and left the museum.


Um...was the chapter alright?

Sarah: About as good as the rest of your stories. CRAP.

Thanks Sarah. You always know how to make me feel beter. -_-

Sarah: No prob. ;)

*SIGH* Hey, can I ask a weird thing of any of the people reading this?

Sarah: No, but you will anyway.

I was reading a shipping list on the internet, and I was wondering how people even write some of these.

Sarah: Which ones?

Here, look. *Shows list* I mean, Shinshipping? How do you make a fanfic where Yami Yugi and Joey possesed by Marik fall in love? And does that make Yami Yugi in love with Joey or Marik?

Sarah: This list has some crazy SH*EEP on it. Mysteryshipping?

What's that one?

Sarah: Shadi and Amane.

WTF? Amane is briefly mentioned! And how does ANYONE fall in love with Shadi?

Sarah: IDK.

Well, if any readers know of some stories in which an author has sucesfully written something like Shinshipping or Mysteryshipping, please let me know. I'm just really curious.

Sarah: Even if you don't, please comment. Do you want YamiHeart to take as long updating the next chapter as this one?

Thank you for reading!