Dislcaimer: am I suppose to repeat this every time? Not sure if I should… but just in case…. I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH!…I ONLY OWN APOLLA, AUSAR, ENLIL AND ENKI! Well... just the characters any way. I don't own the names.

Oh well... ON TO THE STORY IF YOU WILL!

"What do you mean that Arons' son is still alive!" Aron yelled angrily at the bowing, cowering follower in front of him.

The bowing follower stammered, "I-I'm sorry m-my lord. We-we-we just found out recently about this."

"I thought you said your servant killed Ausar's son and that Apolla escaped!"

"W-Well, I assumed the servant finished the child off but my servant never reported back to me."

Aron looked at his follower impassively. "Did your servant ever came back to report to you?" he said dangerously quiet.

"N-No sir."

"And so you decided to assume that Apolla escaped and her son was dead?"

"Y-Yes sir." the follower said without thinking.

Aron growled, "Grr…You fool!" he shouted, "You didn't know if your assassin did his job, so you decided to lie to me saying that your servant did what he was suppose to do!"

The cowering follower swallowed, "I-I'm s-so s-s-sorry my lord. It won't happen again!"

Aron looked at his follower with cold green eyes. "You're right." he said, "It won't happen again. Ever again."

His follower's eyes widened in fear. He knew what was going to happen.

"Please my lord! Have mercy! Just give me a chance to pr- gah!" he stopped speaking. His head was thrown back, a dagger punctured at his throat. He fell back with a thump! Aron's hand was stretched. He was the one who threw the dagger.

"Farid!" He yelled. Two big, arch doors that were the entrance to his room opened. An impassive soldier came in the room and bowed when he approached Aron.

"Yes my lord?" he said looking down.

"Find someone to clean up this mess and get two of your members to go to this location-" he handed the soldier named Farid a piece of paper, "And kill the one inscribed here. Tell them to report to you when they've finished their mission." Farid nodded and left the room.

"I don't know where Apolla is, but I will get Ausar's son. When I said that Ausar will suffer for ruining my plans to rule this land, I meant he will suffer. I may not make him suffer physically, but I will make him suffer emotionally. He will suffer, thinking that he couldn't save his mate and son, thinking that they're dead. He will suffer even more when he finds out that his son had been alive for sixteen years and he couldn't get him. He will suffer, knowing that now, I have a second chance of killing his son. Ausar's son will not escape. He will not escape this time. Even if it has been sixteen years late."

Seven months later

It has been seven months.

It has been seven months since Seto dueled. Seven months since he called Joey a mutt. Seven months since he took care of his brother. Seven months since Seto worked at Kaiba corps.

Seven months since Seto Kaiba has disappeared.

Since then, Mokuba has been in the mansion, with one of Yugi's friends to sleep over.

I mean, come on people! Who would want to sleep in the big, dark, lonely mansion all alone?

I'm getting off topic here, back to the story!

That day, Yugi and Tea had been over. (D.W.O.A.F.B: No pairings here!)

"Mokuba!" Tea knocked on his bedroom door, "Mokuba! It's time to get up!" she heard a groan and grumbling from the other side of the door.

"Has he finally awaken?" Yami was taking over while Yugi slept in his soul room.

"Yup! I don't know how Kaiba could have waken him up in the morning to go to school."

Yami sighed, "Still no sign of him?"

"No." Tea paused, "I don't get it Yami. Kaiba's a powerful and rich person. If he were kidnapped, shouldn't there have been a ransom note or something? Why can't we find him?"

"There must be a rea-"

"-Yawn- morning Yami, Tea." Mokuba came out of his room, sleepy and rubbing his eyes.

"Are you ready for school?" Tea asked.

Mokuba yawned again, "N-No. My eyes feel as if they're about to fall off."

"Well, grandpa has already made breakfast so don't let your mouth fall off or else he will feel very disappointed that you won't be able to eat his disgu- I mean wonderful breakfast."

Mokuba made a face. Soloman always came over with Yugi when they slept over. Don't get him wrong, Soloman's great and everything, but his cooking was terrible! The food was either burned, not cooked enough, too sweet, too sour, too salty, or no flavor at all.

"You know what? I'm not hungry."

Yami laughed, "I don't blame you."

"I'll just eat an apple and go to school."

"Me too" said Yami and Tea.

Mokuba got dressed, combed his hair and brushed his teeth.

(D.W.O.A.F.B.: OK. Dumb question here… Why on earth do people brush their teeth before they eat? Heh heh… that rhymed. Doesn't the food taste nasty?)

Before he went downstairs, he went to his brother's room. Mokuba's rule was that nobody except him can enter Kaiba's room. None but him can enter that room.

He looked around. There was only a bed, a desk, a closet, a wall covered by books, and a big window that anyone can sleep upon. The room had a carpet as well.

Everyday he would come and try to remember his brother, always hoping and praying that his brother would appear that day. Again he prayed to whoever was listening.

"Please, whoever is listening." he whispered, "Please bring my brother back. He-he's not as bad as you may think if you think he's bad. He's actually a nice person. It's not my brothers fault for being the way he is. IfI did something badfor this to happen, please, I'm sorry.He didn't do anything bad to deserve this!" Mokuba shut his eyes to stop his tears from falling. "Please let him come back home. Please bring my big brother back to me." and with that, he left the room and shut it behind him.

Solomon already asked a driver to pick the kids up.

"Bye Mr. Mutuo!" Tea and Mokuba yelled as they waved.

"Bye grandpa!" Yugi woke up and took over.

"Good Bye kids! Have a good time at school!" Solomon waved.

"He's joking right?" asked Mokuba. "To have 'fun' at school?" Yugi just shrugged.

They all got into the limo and the driver drove off. They dropped off Mokuba at his school and Yugi and Tea were dropped off at their school.

Joey and Tristan were already waiting for them outside of school.

"Hey Yugi!" Joey said, "What's up, old buddy, old friend, old pal?"

Yugi looked up, "Just the sun, clouds and outer space and numerous planets."

"Um… right. So how was it with Mokuba?" Joey asked.

"Everything's alright I guess. He's still a little depressed though."

"Oh."

"Hurry you three!" yelled Tea as she ran towards the school, "We don't want to be late!"

Fortunately, they weren't late. They reached the class in time.

"Ok class. Take out your homework." the teacher droned in a bored voice. She was flipping through an old magazine, bored out of her mind.

Joey and Tristan were sweating, no doubt they didn't do their homework the other night.

"Psst! Yugi!" Joey called Yugi.

Yugi looked towards him, "What?"

"Can I see your answers? Pleeeaaaasssseeeeeee?" Joey begged.

Yugi sighed, "Sure, why not?" he was about to pass his paper when Tea smacked Yugi's hand.

"Don't do that! You're only hurting him!" Tea said.

"How's helping me hurting me?" asked Joey innocently.

"Yeah. And me?" Tristan also needed answers to his paper.

"It's hurting your brains!"

"Apparently, they don't have any brains." the teacher came up to them. She snatched Yugi's, Tristan's, and Joey's papers and went back to her seat.

"Detention for the three of you." she said loudly for the class to hear. The class laughed as the three of them groaned. The teacher began to flip through her magazine, "Turn to page 92 and do the work instructed." the teacher said, "Tea, please pa-"

There was a knock on the door. The bored teacher sighed and got up to the door. She opened the door, went out and closed the door behind her. The class began to talk loudly, some got out of their seats, some began to throw paper around. A moment later, they heard the door handle move, the students quickly went back to their seats and acted like innocent angels..

The teacher came back in, a little bit of shock in her face. "W-we have a new student today." she said a little shakily. She turned to the door, "Come in please."

The new student came in, barely making a noise as he entered. The class was quiet. The student up ahead was tall, maybe six feet or more. He was slim, but promised a good fight if forced to. He had brown hair and blue eyes. It looked like…

"Kaiba?" Joey and Tristan yelled. The Seto look alike looked at them startling.

"Um… no." said the teacher, "This is our new student Jolinar Marduk. Would you like to say something?" she asked Jolinar.

The boy, Jolinar, blinked, "Um… well I guess I can say is that I'm Jolinar Marduk and that I hope to know all of you well." Jolinar said politely. His voice even sounded like Kaiba's. Except less harsh and cold.

Joey fell over, "Well that's definitely not Kaiba." he said aloud.

"Joey Wheeler. That's enough!" to Jolinar the teacher said sweetly, "Please take a seat besides Yugi. The one with the crazy hair." the class snickered as Yugi blushed in embarrassment.

Jolinar walked to his new seat, beside Yugi.

/Yugi, let me take a closer look./

Yami took over and looked at Jolinar. Jolinar felt someone looking at him and looked at Yami's direction before Yugi took over.

"Hi!" said Yugi, "I'm Yugi Mutuo."

"Um… nice to meet you." Jolinar said.

"And I'm Tea Gardener." said Tea. "This is J-"

"I know how to introduce myself!" Interrupted Joey. He looked at Jolinar with a grin and offered his hand, "Joey Wheeler at your service!"

Jolinar laughed and shook the offered hand.

"And I'm Tristan Taylor." said Tristan.

Jolinar nodded his head in acknowledgement, "Pleasure to meet you."

"Tea" said the teacher, "Pass out paper please."

"Hey Yugi" said Joey. "We'll all meet after school right?" Yugi nodded.

"Wait! We have detention!" said Tistan. Joey and Yugi groaned.

They completely forgot.

After school

"Yes! Freedom!" yelled Joey as he barged through the exit doors. He took a beep breath, "Aah. Smell that fresh air. Not that disgusting soap." they spend their time washing the classroom windows.

"Now it's off to pick up Mokuba." Tea said.

"Oh yeah!" Joey said, "…I forgot." he said sheepishly.

"How can you forget! We've been doing this for seven months now." Yugi said. They all began walking to the school parking lot, where a limo would pick them up and Mokuba.

"Yeah. Poor kid…hmm." Joey then brightened, "How about we order pizza!" the others face faulted.

"How can you even think about food!" yelled Tristan. Bah! As if he doesn't think about food too.

"Well the atmosphere was getting moody so I decided to change the topic. Now then, we should order some hot wings, french fries, cheese steaks-"

Yugi smiled as Joey kept on talking. Yugi looked up ahead and blinked. Jolinar was at the corner, looking around.

"Hey! Maybe we should invite Jolinar to come with us." Yugi suggested.

"Yeah. Great idea Yugi." they all ran to Jolinar, who seemed surprise to see them.

"Hello Yugi, Tea, Tristan, Joey. Did I remember your names right?" Yugi nodded.

"Yep. The four of us are going over to a friends house and we were wondering if you would like to come as well."

"Oh! Um… ma-"

"Woof!"

Jolinar turned around and across the street was an impossibly big dark dog and a person, a man, was waving.

Jolinar turned back to the others and said politely, "Thanks for the offer but my father needs help unpacking."

"Oh." said Yugi disappointingly, "Well, ok. Bye then!"

"Later." Joey and Tristan said.

"Good Bye!" said Tea as they all went in the limo waiting for them.

"Father eh? That can't be Kaiba." Tristan commented.

"No. I suppose not." said Yugi.

Jolinar looked at the limo drive away and ran to his father and dog. "What took you so long?" Jolinar complained.

His father rubbed his head sheepishly. "I uh…heh…you'll get a laugh out of this…I…got lost. I couldn't find this place."

"How can you get lost?" Jolinar asked skeptically. "How could you not find this place? It's only ten blocks away!" Jolinar practicallyshouted.

"Exactly! I can't get used to this whole street thing. I'm used to 'go west', 'go south', 'go north', 'go east'. Not 'go ten blocks'."

Jolinar looked at his father confusingly. "If you didn't no how to come here how di-" His father just pointed at the five foot five inches dog. "Oh."

"I went back to our house and used Enki to find your scent and lead us to you." Enki sat down with a thump! His tail wagged and he looked at Jolinar proudly.

Jolinar sighed. "Can we go home now?"

"Of course." said his father began to walk but…

"Dad, you're going the wrong direction." Jolinar said.

His father smacked his head. Jolinar laughed, "Come on dad." he took his father's arm and turned him towards the right direction. "If we're going to live here, you have to learn to find your way around or else you'll be in biiiig trouble" Enki barked in agreement.

His father remained quiet as they walked home. "How was Enki doing?" Jolinar asked.

His father blinked, "Well he's doing better then I am."

"He's always doing better then you are." Jolinar teased.

"He does not!" his father argued, "I'm a better sword fighter, talker, and more human then Enki."

"That's because Enki has no thumbs to use a sword, doesn't speak and isn't human to be more human than you."

(D.W.O.A.F.B: HINT! HINT! HINT:singing: I know a secret that you don't know! Ha! Ha! Ha! I know a secret! I know a secret! I know a secret! I know a secret! I know a secret! I know a secr-OW!

Enlil:throwing two rocks: Shut up!

D.W.O.A.F.B:::Gasp: that was sssoooooooo meeeaaaannnnn! You shall be hearing from my attorney!

Enlil: you're too young to have an attorney. I'll probably hearing from your attorney in twenty years. By then, I'll probably be forgotten in that complicated mind of yours.

D.W.O.A.F.B: I'll take that last comment as a compliment.:sniff: meanie.)

"Bah!" Ausar grunted, "How was your school day anyway? Did they teach you new sword techniques?"

"Uh no. I told you that it's different here. They taught numbers and letters and made me write a lot of complicated things. And they gave me more papers for you to sign."

His father stopped walking, "You're not serious are you? Please tell me you're joking."

"Nope."

His father groaned. He raked his shoulder length brown and graying hair. "This is torture. I prefer fighting Aron then this hand killing writing." he blinked, "On second thought…I prefer writing." they finally stopped in front of a two story, red house.

"Finally we're home!" Jolinar looked at the house gratefully, "It took you an hour just to find me. I thought you would've done better." His father just stuck out his tongue. Jolinar rolled his eyes, "Very mature Ausar. Sometimes, I'm starting to think that I'm the adult one ever since we've came here. You were more serious back home."

The two humans and giant dog entered the home. There was barely anything inside. There was more space then things. When they talked, the room echoed.

"I was more serious back home because we had more enemies there. Here, there are harmless people. I doubt anyone knows we're here so I can loosen up a bit." Ausar defended himself.

"By loosening up, I suppose you mean acting like a child?"

Ausar just shrugged. "Don't know." Jolinar sighed and began to go upstairs. "What are you doing?" asked Ausar.

"Going upstairs. I got to do something called 'Homework'. Lots of it."

"What am I suppose to do?" he yelled after him.

"I don't know!" Jolinar yelled, "How about you make dinner!"

"But there's nothing to hunt here!"

"Didn't you go shopping today!"

"Shopping!" Ausar heard Jolinar run downstairs.

"Didn't you hear what the priest back home said about this place?" Jolinar said from the stairs.

"No… not really. I heard some."

"What about the money?" Jolinar asked.

"What money?" Ausar asked confusingly.

Enki went to the kitchen and came back with a pouch on his mouth. He placed it in front of Jolinar. Jolinar looked at Ausar, "You are completely clueless about this place aren't you?"

"Well" Ausar began defending himself,"If your mother were here, she would've-" Ausar stopped as Jolinar winced and looked down. "You're mother," said Ausar gently, "Your mother would've probably yelled at me and bind me to the house until I learned all there is about this realm." Ausar waited for Jolinar to say something but Jolinar remained quiet.

"I'm going to do my homework." said Jolinar quietly. He turned and left to his room.

"I shouldn't have said that shouldn't have I?" understanding, Enki shook his head. Enki took the pouch and gave it to Ausar. "What?" Enki pointed his head towards the door. "What!" Enki ran to the kitchen and pointed at the fridge. "Food? You want me to go get food?" Enki nodded his head. "I haven't seen any place to get f-" Enki ran to the door, opened it, since it was an easy door to open for a big dog like him,and ran outside. "Enki! Enki! Enki come back here!" he ran after Enki, but before racing down the street, Ausar remembered to lock the door with a key and then raced after Enki, following a glowing string that only he can see that connected him to Enki.

Up in his room, Jolinar looked down from his window, watching his father race after Enki down the street. "Well at least he was smart enough to remember to lock the door." he commented before turning away to do his homework.

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"Jolinar! Jolinar!" Jolinar looked out his window, his father was outside with Enki, a full shopping cart beside him. "Mind helping me?"

"Hold on! I'll be down in a minute.!" Jolinar went out of his room, downstairs and outside. He started to help Ausar bring in bags when a thought occurred to him. He looked at Ausar, "How did you know hat to do and what to get?"

Ausar grinned, "Well, I waited in the dark and waited for a nice lady to come and I absorbed her memory."

"What?" Jolinar looked at Ausar shockingly. "That's forbidden! You con-"

"Wait a mo! Wait a mo! Wait a mo! I took her basic memory. I just took information that will help us get through living here. And seemingly, I need to get a job." he muttered the last part. "But I also learned how to read and write in their language, that I need to pay rent, taxes, food, and... you have to go to college!" Ausar began to bring in bags, "I also learned that barely anything here is free."

"Are you sure we're going to stay that long to the point that I might have to go to college?"

Ausar shrugged, "Don't know. We'll be here until you get your memory back or until one of Aron's goons find out that we're here."

Enki attempted to carry one of the bags with his teeth, but only caused his teeth to rip the bag and its contents to fall to the floor. Jolinar came back outside and picked up the fallen food, "You help too much Enki." Enki made some sort of noise. Sort of a humph!

"Think Enki will like this?" Jolinar and Enki came back inside to the kitchen, seeing Ausar holding a bag of dog food.

"Are you sure that's healthy?" Jolinar looked at the bag suspiciously.

"Don't know…oh well! If Enki dies, it'll be his own fault. He chose this."

They began to unpack the food and putting them to where they might belong.

"So… what do we do now?" Jolinar asked once they were done.

"Don't know. Hmm…How about we fill this house with furniture and junk and stuff?"

"Where are we going to find junk and stuff? What are we going to buy? There's no swords to bu-"

"I found this place that was full of wood stuff. We need a table! Drawers too now that I think about it… and there was this building with books in it!"

Jolinar brightened. "Are you sure?" he asked.

"Positive. It was two-"

"Let's go!" Jolinar grabbed Ausar and Enki, locked the door, and asked, "Now where was this book place?"

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Jolinar, Enki and Ausar came back to their home. Enki had a chew toy in his mouth and Jolinar and Ausar each had three bags filled with books.

"Why books? Why did you have to buy thirty books!" Ausar asked.

"Because I might become bored. At least Enki's happy." Ausar looked at Enki, who's tail was wagging happily.

"I hope you don't decide to give me that as a birthday present." Back twenty years ago, when it was Ausar's birthday, Enki decided to give him his old chewed up bone for a present. As it was the custom to receive a gift on the day of your birth.

"I forgot to ask, did you meet any people at school?" Ausar asked.

"Well, I met four friendly ones. Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Tea. They seemed nice. They invited me over to one of their friends house."

Ausar stopped and looked at Jolinar seriously, "No."

Jolinar looked at him confusingly. "No what?"

"Don't go to someone's else's house. Don't even trust them."

"Why not? They can't hurt me. They're harmless."

"No. We can't trust anybody here. Sooner or later, Aron may find us and k-"

"May, dad, may find us. It's quite possible that Aron won't find us."

"Until we know that Aron has lost interest of us, we can't trust anyone here."

"But-" Jolinar began to complain.

"No buts Jolinar! I'm trying to keep us safe!"

Jolinar stomped his foot, "Well you don't have to treat me like a baby!" Jolinar said angrily.

"I'm just trying to keep you safe! I already lost my family to that murderous beast! I lost my brother! I lost your mother! I don't want to lose you or Enki!" Ausar said frustratingly.

"You already lost me before." said Jolinar angrily.

"Yes I know and I don't want that to happen again." Ausar sighed, "I just want you to be cautious. I want you not to trust anybody."

"Can I trust you?" said Jolinar frustratingly. He was steaming. How could his father forbid him to make any new friends here just because there was this creep who wants revenge after them! It wasn't fair!

"I don't know. Can you?"

Enki whimpered. He didn' like the mood between father and son. He nudged Jolinar. Jolinar looked down at him and smiled. Hemanaged tocalm down.

"I suppose so."

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D.W.O.A.F.B: Hee hee! I'm done! Now… I've had 127 hits on this story, but I only got 6 reviews! What's up with that!I suppose that I should be grateful that I even got reviews at all, but will it hurt you to leave a review? I understand if your computer is going slow and it will freeze if you try to submit a review… I've had it happen to me before…:hits computer: Bad computer! Bad! Bad! Bad!

Enlil: You're torturing that poor defenseless mechenism you horrible, horrible person! And besides, you do the same thing! You go read a story, but you never review! You have no right to complain to those readers you lazy bum!

D.W.O.A.F.B:::Sniff: you're right. Now I feel sooooooo awful:::Sob: Meanie! Now you've made me cry!

Enlil: I'm proud of myself.

D.W.O.A.F.B: WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO MEEEEEAAAAANNNNN?

Enlil: Because I'm bored to tears… and what have you done to me? Did you kill me! You're such a horrible, coldhearted, person!

D.W.O.A.F.B: How can I be a coldhearted person if my tears are shedding? That makes no sense! YOU make no sense! I make no sense::::Looks around: Who makes sense around here!

Enlil: She has cracked.

D.W.O.A.F.B: I cracked a long time ago!

Enlil: .. I know! And I'm so proud of you.:Hugs D.W.O.A.F.B:

D.W.O.A.F.B: The horror! Ack! The pain! Save me from this insane person!

Enlil:::Lets go of D.W.O.A.F.B: You should be happy to have this insane person! You're never bored!

D.W.O.A.F.B: 0.0 -.- .0.0 -.- 0.0 -.- .0.0 :Blinks: hey… you're right! Tee hee! I've got an insane person with me :Hugs Enlil: and I shalt never let go of thou!

Enlil:::Looks terrified: What have I done? X P

D.W.O.A.F.B: ... .