ok all of those who have been paetent with me, i am sorry about the long wait, a lot of things have been happening. any way here is chapter 12, and i hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 12: Trial by Stone

ANU'S POV…

The girls were still sitting on the out side tables and I was lying on the ground. I had a really bad feeling at the moment again and I didn't like that feeling. It was a feeling of great loss and I don't think that loss was a good thing. The nice smelling girl was getting impatient.

"Are they ever going to come back?" The nice smelling girl said

The blonde girl was typing but I heard her voice a noise of puzzlement and I saw her look up so I looked in the direction she was looking at and saw a car.

"Tea look" she said

I jumped up as well, they were back, and I couldn't believe it they were back.

"It's them" she pointed and the other girl gasped.

She stood and said

"I told you they would come back soon" she was lying but I didn't care, the master came back, he was ok, he was ok.

The boys were in the car and the other master was riding on the horse.

"Yugi, you're here"

I ran up to them and got to were my masters were when I sensed it and I skidded to a halt, chucking up rocks. No no no this couldn't be happening. Not again.

The blonde girl ran past me and hugged the other master, she didn't realize it yet, he didn't win, he lost, and the light with in him was gone. She gasped when he didn't say anything.

"How did it go" the nice smelling girl asked and I winced. "Is everything ok" she asked

"Not quite" the blonde boy said in a sad tone. "We've got a problem guys"

"What do you mean" she asked

I couldn't take this any more, why did he do it. I barked at him then let out a deep growl as my tail sunk to the ground. The two girls looked at me and the nice smelling girl asked

"What's wrong Anu, why are you growling at him?"

"Yugi didn't win" said the dice boy"

"He's gone" the food smelling boy said

"Tea what dose Anu always growl and bark out when we're near them" said the blonde boy.

A look of realization appeared on the brunets face and I growled again.

"What" she said

"You heard me, Yugi got beat Tea"

"Your wrong" she was in denial "if Yugi really lost that duel those creeps would have taken there soul with freaky magic card Tristan"

"So what's your point" said the blonde boy and he sounded like he had given up "Anu's growling at him, Anu never growls at Yugi, what more proof do you need."

"My point" she said "if he lost how can he be standing…" she looked at him in realization, I do believe she just remembered the other master lived in that mind to.

"…behind me" she finished looking at his face in shook. "Oh no"

I growled as it seemed Rebecca was the only one still in need of convincing.

"Yugi talk to me. What wrong why you are acting so strange"

The other one [still Yami] sighed and said "Rebecca they got him"

"Got who" she asked all naive like

"Yugi" he said "it's all my fault I am the one who unleashed the magic that took Yugi away"

He had turned from her now and I walked closer still growling.

"You knew that card was evil but you still played it. If you really were a great pharaoh you would have never done something like that to poor little Yugi"

I stopped growling, I remember what he was like as a pharaoh from when I was Mahado dog so I knew she was wrong, even if I was mad at him, accusing him of something he was clearly beating him self up over was not the way to go so I stepped in between her and the other master and growled at her.

The other master was looking at me in shock and so was the blonde girl. I know, I know major mood swings, but still.

"How can you defend him Anu, after what he did" she screamed at me

I barked at her, trying to make her see yelling would not change anything.

She started to cry and I let her lean on the master even though she was emotionally unstable right now. She pounded on his chest a bit and cried. Saying that none of this was fare

"I want my Yugi back, it should have been you." I jumped in between them after I saw his face and she ran into the arms of the nice smelling girl who had walked over to calm her down.

"I am afraid Rebecca's right" he said

"What's done is done" the blonde boy said

"I let every one down especially Yugi, he warned me not to use the seal of Orichalcos card but my rage took control. He paid for my mistake."

I moved around to where he could see me and I pawed at his leg to get his attention, he looked at me and I nudged his leg with my head. He placed his hand on my head and said

"I don't disserve to have you here Anu, I betrayed you as well" I whined in protest.

"You gotta snap out of this" the blonde boy yelled walking up to my master.

"He's gone and it's my entire fault" my master said defeated.

The blonde boy grabbed my master's collar and yelled "GET A GRIP" then swung his fist and connected with my master's face sending him to the ground.

"Joey" the nice smelling girl said while the other two boys got out of the car. I ran to my master and licked his face where the boy's fist had made contact with. I growled at him and he said

"Listen Anu I know you are defending him and all, but if we're going to rescue Yugi we've got to move ahead. Not look back so pull yourself together"

My master rubbed his check and the blonde continued.

"What we gotta do now is find out who this darts guy is and where he keeps all these souls"

I barked haply to this as my master got up. The dice boy said some unneeded comment in the back ground and the food boy told him shut and stop thinking about him.

"Let him go Tristan" master said "this happened because I couldn't control my anger and if we keep fighting amongst our selves the Orichalcos will destroy us"

I barked at his comment. I had seen it happen before and I was going to make sure history didn't repeat it's self for me.

YAMIS POV…

We all had gathered back in Rebecca's trailer home. We sat at one of the tables. Tea sat next to me while Joey stood, leaning on the back of the stove. Tristan was across from me and Duke sat next to him. Rebecca was in another chair, refusing to go any where near me. Not that I blamed her. Anu, Anu was at lest lying on my foot under the table; I could feel a bit happy she didn't totally hate me.

I looked at her head that was poking out from under the table and across one of my feet.

"So these guys want to take over the world, we have dealt with that before" Joey said

I sighed and then said

"No Joey, this time things are different"

"Yeah" said Tristan agreeing with me, "this time there is not just talking about wiping out all life on earth; there're doing it."

I hated to admit it but Tristan was right, all the other times we face someone who said they were going to destroy all mankind as it was, they were doing just that, saying. This time, they were succeeding.

"But we know how to stop them" said Joey

I smiled in my head a bit, ever positive Joey. He continued while everyone looked at him, I concentrated on Anu's head.

"We've got to go strait to the source, and destroy that secrete weapon of there's."

Anu snorted but didn't move. Oh how I wish she could tell me what had happened 10000 years ago, was she really Darts old magic seeker, did she betray him, what had been the down fall of the great beast so long ago.

Tea spoke up at Joeys words "you mean that weird monster zapper in the sky"

Again Anu snorted at Tea's words.

"Unfortunately that thing is after more than just monsters" said Tristan "its using human souls to power it's self up so it can wipe out the rest of us."

Way to be positive Tristan, I thought and Joey put in a comment.

"Yeah and that thing got Yugi so I don't know about you but, I'm not gonna stand here twiddling my thumbs. I'm gonna take action."

Anu moved and stood next to Joey barking and pawing at his leg

"See, even Anu wants to fight them"

"Look Joey" said Tea as she stood up "I want to help Yugi too but we can't just fight this thing by our selves we need help"

Anu barked at this in a sort of, she is right sort of way.

"No Tea" said Rebecca from the couch who was typing away at her lap top. "Incase you forgot, those losers burned down my Grandpa's laboratory and destroyed all his research."

She looked up and Anu ran over and jumped on the couch next to her to see what she had on the laptop.

"And with out any hard evidence there's no way any one's going to believe our story."

I frowned at this. She had a point, they would throw us in the loony bin, as Yugi put it, faster then we could blink.

"But we have proof" Tea protested "it's all down in those under water ruins."

Rebecca got up bringing her laptop with her and Anu followed her.

"Whatever was in those ruins won't be of any help to us now and unless we can get Anu to some how talk then we have no one to tell our story."

She placed the laptop in front of us and it showed a picture of an island, I do believe it was and she then said

"The ruins are gone guys."

"Some one ruined the ruins" Tea said

"There one step a head of us" said Duke.

Suddenly Joey obscured my vision of the laptop to see what it was showing seeing as how he was behind Rebecca.

Anu suddenly started to bark and a voice said

"Don't give up so easily" it was Professor Hopkins.

Anu ran to him and jumped up to lick his face. He let her then she jumped down and Rebecca said

"Gramps you're awake"

Yeah shouldn't you be resting" said Tea

"Thank you for the welcoming surprise Anu now, I'll be fine any way, who can sleep with you kids chatting all day" he said walking forward and placing his hand on his granddaughter's shoulders.

I felt kind of guilty; we didn't mean to wake him up.

"Besides" he said "I can help you find the information you need, your right about looking to the ruins for answers" he was referring to what Tea said.

I stood up and said

"So did you discover anything more about these thugs" [Yami just used the word thug…]

The professor replied to my question.

"Well I can't be sure but based on the inscriptions I found there's a good chance these fellows are decedents of Atlantis"

Anu walked over by my and looked at the professor and I again wondered how much she knew that could help us.

ANUS POV…

The professor who had rediscovered my original birth place was on to something with the decedents things. I walked over to the other master, who I was still a bit mad at but, if I abandoned him now then who would lead him from the path Darts took.

"An ancient content said to have disappeared into the ocean thousands of years ago with out a trace."

I began to picture my home, buried beneath the waves, oh what a disaster it probably look now.

The nice smelling girl asked if he was sure and I snorted, the dice boy asked

"Professor if your hunch is right, why would these people want to destroy what left of there ancestors city"

"They must be trying to hid something, those ruins reviled the history of Atlantis, and it's not a pleasant one, am I right Anu" he asked me.

I barked then snorted that said no duh. "They must want to keep it a secrete."

I snorted again, that's no surprise my people where very secretive, when they created us, some of them didn't want outsider's to own us, but they gave in to cleanse the world of Dark magic.

"How much of this history do you know" my master asked him.

"Anu correct me if I mess anything up, thousands of years ago Atlantis was home to most advance civilization the world has ever know, it truly was a paradise on earth"

I smiled a bit at this. It was like how he described it only better, at least at first it was.

"A land of eternally tranquility where every one lived in peace; am I right Anu"

I nodded at his comment and he continued.

"Until one day when a dreadful creature was called forth from the depths of the earth, by an evil king"

I frowned they had it back wards. The creature was thought to be good, it was used to create me but it became evil the more man kind used it"

"An evil king" the other master said "oh no," he then went into a flash back. I looked at him and began to wonder, what was said at that meeting between the master and the biker. What was haunting my master so? I nudged him with my head.

"What's wrong, are you ok" the nice smelling girl asked.

"I fine" he lied.

The professor continued

"It seems this power hungry king drew his evil strength from a mysterious stone and this stone drew its strength from another world"

I knew this to be true and the blonde boy said

"Its that rock they where around there neck isn't"

I nodded and felt a shamed to made from that same substance that was now causing my master pain

"I am not sure" the professor said and I looked at him strangely

"That was all I was able to translate"

It was silent for a moment when the dumb blonde made a screeching noise and I scrambled to get under the table in surprise at the sound.

"Chill out man, you'll blow a gasket, you already startled Anu" said the food smelling boy

"sorry Anu but, you guys don't get it" he said those Atlantis freaks are trying cover something up about this mega ancient monster, to bad Anu can't tell us"

The others gained a look of realization and the dice boy said

"Of course it's probably something written in those ruins about how to destroy that thing before it destroy us"

Nobody heard me snort at his proposal, why would Atlantians put away to destroy them in there own history tablet, unless Narcissi did it. I jumped out from under the table at this thought. Way to go Narcissi. Everyone had stopped talking I realized when I had jumped out from under the table suddenly. I jumped up and began lick the blondes face he was a guineas. I jumped off him and the food boy said

"Hey Joey, Anu and I agree, you had your good idea for the year"

The professor continued saying the ruins he had were not the only copy, that there were copies in Florida [where that was or what that was I had no idea]

"Perfect" said the nice smelling girl "so all we have to do is go there and translate the rest"

The professor nodded and then the blonde boy walked up to the other master and said

"Yeah what are we waiting for lets head to the sunshine state and the secret to defeating these guys and save Yugi right"

The food boy agreed and I nodded a bit when the dice man said

"Just one question how are we suppose to get there?"

No one had any suggestions.

That didn't seem to stop the blonde he said

"We can call Kaiba"

There was silence and then every one but my master said

"WHAT!!!!!!!!!"

"Think about it, he owes us big time, I mean how many times have we saved his and his brothers buts"

"Ok" the nice smelling girl said "let's says for arguments sake Kaiba dose by some bizarre reason take us to Florida, how do we get to Atlantis from there"

"That's easy Tea, Anu will lead us"

I had been in the process of moving over to the couch when he said this and I turned and looked at him and made a soft bark that was equal to the human expression "what the heck." Did he not realize I had yet been to my birth home in 10000 years?

"And what makes you think she can still remember where it is, it sunk remember" the nice smelling girl continued

"Simple all dogs remember there original homes it's programmed in there sent"

The professor chuckled and said to blonde boy

"you are almost correct Joey, but you must remember Anu is about 10000 years old and has moved some many times that her birth place would have been lost to her sent ages ago."

I snorted again and laid on the couch at the stupidly of it all but I had a small thought in my mind that I could find my way home again but I wasn't like I wanted to go back. I was comfortable right here.

"Ok ok let's just call Kaiba and then go from there"

I snorted; good luck getting the cold one to help.

YAMIS POV…

Joey used Rebecca's video phone to call Kaiba corp. part of me wondered if Kaiba would even be there but the other more rationally side of me said that this was Kaiba we were talking about.

I stayed in the back by Anu while the others crowded around the phone. I glanced at Anu. Her eyes were open but dazed and she looked like a human in thought, I didn't think she believed Kaiba would help us and in away I hoped she was wrong.

I was lost in my thoughts when Joey suddenly shouted he had gotten through. I wasn't really paying attention but I did here Mokuba's voice telling Joey to back away from the camera. I turned to pay attention to them when I realized Kaiba actually took our call.

"We found some clues about those biker punks" Joey said

I was curious to see how Joey would get Kaiba to bring us to Florida.

"I not giving them up that easy" so Joey was with holding information so Kaiba would be forced to give us a ride. Smart. "But, if you give us a lift to Florida, I will fill you in on the way"

Tristan then shouted "so what's it going to be"

I could tell Joey was getting frustrated; he didn't have the patents to deal with kind of thing.

"Time is running out, those creeps defeated Yugi and took his soul"

I turned away at this, thank you Joey for bringing is up. Anu nudged my hand, so she had been listening. I suddenly heard a roar come from the phone and it had Yugi's and lost in the same scream/sentence so I looked over in shock.

"Hold on" I said trying to get him to come down; I don't think I was doing a very good Job.

Kaiba said some more things then abruptly hung up on us.

"Now what" I said

Joey and Tristan were yelling but I was too focused on the sound of Anu's collar shaking when she got off the couch, I heard her claws tap on the tile and then stop.

Joey said something about then next flight and I heard Rebecca's voice so I looked over. Anu was sitting next to her and she said

"Joey's right gramps running around the country is not the best thing for you right now"

"Duke" Joey said "why don't you stay here and keep and eye on Rebecca and the professor"

"Sure" said Duke

"Anu, you…" he stared to say when she growled fiercely at him "come with us, defiantly coming with us"

She snorted in a way that seemed to say "I thought so" I smirked a bit, Anu wasn't going anywhere I wasn't it seemed. My smirk disappeared, I didn't disserve her loyalty. Almost as it she was reading my thoughts she came up to me and nudged my leg, she then sat on my foot, like she uses to do when danger was around. I couldn't help but pat her on the head.

Rebecca sighed and when she said she would book our flights I could see the pain in her eyes and my heart stopped as I was reminded of her hatred to me which I proved was justified hate.

"You can take a train to the air port; I just hope we can save Yugi before it's too late.

We drove to the train station where are next leg of the Journey would begin.

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