Evelyn: Now that the meeting is out of the way, it's finally time to introduce some more popular characters and see what they do!

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Back in the castle that looked over the capitol city, Kale , Seto was reading a piece of parchment. He placed a

stamp on it and calmly placed it in the rejection file. He looked outside, seeing no hint of the sun and decided it

was time to call it a night. The sun has been down for quite some time and he needed to be fully awake for the

celebration tomorrow when Yami returned home after freeing the village.

As he walked down the hallway, someone caught his attention, "Seto!" Ryou said in a hushed tone. He turned

around to see the small, white haired boy run to catch up to him. "Ryou, do you have any idea what time it is?" He

said angrily.

Ryou blew off the question, "We found something important that you have to see."

Bakura was sitting quietly in the office staring at some old documents he found in the King's desk. He spoke

quietly to himself, "So this is what he was working on before his death..." The documents stated that there are

secret ruins underneath the city of Atlas. There was a seal buried underneath in the heart of the ruins. Some of

the documents were old and worn down so he didn't get much further than that.

He sent Ryou out to fetch Seto, maybe he would know something of this.

As if on Que, Ryou walked in with Seto. Bakura gave a sly smile, "Hope we didn't wake you." Seto smirked right

back, "You know just as well as I do that I don't sleep much anyways. Especially with our ruler being out of town."

"Yes, because you're the one that has to clean up the messes until he gets back." He said, but Seto was done

playing games, "Is there a reason you called me?"

Bakura picked up the documents and handed them to Seto, "I think there's a reason Risto wanted to get their

hands on Atlas." Seto read and reread them, "Isn't this just a fairy tale?" He raised an eyebrow on them, "No, this

is a legend, remember the story of something being sealed under a city from when we were children. All legends

have some truth to them."

Seto smirked, "I know that we have some pretty impossible things going for us these days," Seto wasn't only the

adviser, he was also the head Priest so he knew quite a lot of things that were going on, "but there is no way any

magic could have advanced that far, that early. It was only discovered a couple hundred years ago, not

thousands."

Bakura was about to snap back at him, but Ryou put a hand on his shoulder and spoke up instead, "You don't

know what our ancestors from these lands are capable of Seto. Maybe you should talk this over with Yami."

Seto nodded, "Indeed I will. Goodnight." He walked out still holding the documents.

Bakura looked up at Ryou, "My my, you've grown a mouth on you." Ryou looked away, embarrassed that he

actually stood up to someone as powerful as Seto and got away with it, "Well, maybe I've picked up a few of your

less attractive traits." They have been partners on digging up ancient history for a while now, and let's say some

of Bakura's tactics weren't quite legit until Ryou came around. Bakura chuckled, "Well I think it's a very attractive

trait."

Yugi was watching a dream in his head, only it didn't exactly feel like a dream. He actually felt concious.

There were three men in black cloaks talking. "How exactly did this happen? Why weren't there more guards?" The first man said. "I'm not sure, I think after years of keeping it locked up and no counter attack, our men grew lazy." The second one said. "Well, as long as the as our seal doesn't leave, we still should be able carry out our plans." the first one stated. "We haven't even located the seal yet. One of the villagers must know about it though, and if they do, he or she will be the first one to leave." The third one spoke up. "With everyone free, I'm sure they want to go see their families and travel. We will have to send a spy out there to create some noise before anyone can leave. The townsfolk will probably want to rebuild and do trades with other towns before they leave anyway, and I'm sure any traveller would want some time to say goodbye anyway." "I will have have someone there by tomorrow."

Before Yugi knew it, he was back in his bed, he sat up gasping for air as if he hadn't breathed since his dream

began. He looked up and saw three very worried faces looking down on him. One he recognized as one of the

guards, he wasn't sure if he was Joey or Tristan, the next one was Serenity, and finally Mana. "Uum?" Before he

could get out a real sentence, Mana wrapped him in a tight hug.

"I'm so glad you're okay, you scared everyone!" She said. "I did?" She pulled away, "Yes! You were laying there

with your eyes open, and your expression was completely blank. And you even stopped breathing for about five

minutes." No wonder his chest hurt.

Serenity felt his pulse and the guard handed his some water. "Joey, will you go inform Yami that he's woken up?"

Serenity asked. "Yes, sis!" And he was out the door.

"How are you feeling?" She asked Yugi. Yugi closed his eyes, and all in all, other than the lack of air, he felt fine.

Not even the aches from yesterday were hurting him anymore. "I'm actually feeling pretty alright." He said. "Good,

because we had our best healer take care of you last night. She couldn't stay too long though, she had soldiers

waiting to be treated in another tent." "I understand."

Yugi sat up and stretched his legs. He put his legs over the edge of the bed and stood up. He was still a little

shaken, but he felt fine. He was still in his old clothes, black pants and a gray tank top. He heard the flap of the

tent move and looked up. Joey walked in with Yami. Yami approached Yugi and Yugi just realized how much taller

the older was. "How are you feeling this morning, Yugi?" "I'm great, Yami! Thanks." Yami looked at the others,

"May I have a word with him?"

The other three nodded as if they already knew what was going on and left quietly. Yugi tilted his head in

confusion for a moment. "I just wanted to let you know, that I am sincerely and truly sorry for putting you through

this. And that I know it's hard to lose the one person that means the most to you. So I'm offering to let you stay

with me in the castle. I will give you everything you need and a job as well, that way you can start a life for

yourself since yours here has been..." he wasn't sure if he could say the end of the sentence.

Yugi looked a little shocked, "You mean the King would let me have a room there? I mean, would he be willing to

let someone like me stay there?" Yami let out a small chuckle at this, he forgot that no one in the town was

caught up with the times. "Yes, of course. I mean I wouldn't offer if I didn't mean it. And besides, the King couldn't

say anything to me about because I am the King."

Yugi almost jumped back five feet when he heard this, "A-are you serious?" He remembered back when he saved

him and how he was acting so casual around him. He bowed and said, "If I did anything disrespectful, my

apologies." Yami laughed and Yugi looked up confused. "You did nothing wrong, I actually kind of like the

informality." "R-really? From what I've heard Kings demanded the utmost respect." "Time's have changed, but let's

just say I'm not supposed to let people get away with informality. But I'll make you an exception considering the

circumstances." He said.

Yugi just stood there in shock but Yami decided it was time for an answer, "So, will you come live with me?"

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