Within the Queen's Chamber

Mai put on a giant black T-shirt and walked back to where Yugi could see her, while she was holding the toy bunny, "How's this?"

"Better," Yugi said with a smile.

"I'm sorry that I don't have anything to fit you."

"I'm fine," Yugi said. He was wearing a white undershirt, boxers, and socks. He looked around, "I guess I'll just sleep in that chair-."

"SIT, Muoto," Mai commanded. She smiled after Yugi got onto the King sized bed. She walked over to the other side, put the bunny on the night stand, got into bed and threw the white cover sheet over their heads. Mai was beaming, "Yugi? I never had a sleep over before."

"Me either." She pulled on his arm, to have him lie down next to her. They laid in silence, thinking about the night as the sheets settled around them. Mai used her hand to tent the sheet, so that she could see Yugi's eyes.

"Yugi?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry I didn't get you to your prom with your friends."

"Don't worry about it, Mai. As long as we all have fun."

"Yugi, I was wondering that after all of this time without having a one true friend, will I ever find any?"

"But, you already have, Joey, Tristan, Tea, and me."

Mai was surprised by his answer and she became more shy, "Yugi? Do you think...do you think that we'd be friends forever?"

Yugi let out a small smile, "Of course I will, Mai." Mai's head catalogued through every person she met. She never met someone with eyes like Yugi's. It feels like she knew him for a long time. She had been alone for so long, yet his eyes made her feel at ease, at home. She pulled him close and started to kiss him. All of a sudden, a flash of light emerged from the millenium puzzle.

"Yugi?"

"I am not Yugi. I am the pharoah." She felt that they were on a bed and he was restaining her by her wrists.

"Pharoah?" When she attempted to pull away, she noticed she was holding a knife in one of her hands. "Where am I?"

"You are in my bed." Mai panicked as she felt like escaping. But, she could not escape his purple eyes. There was something about them that was like Yugi's, but she knew that the eyes did not belong to him. She could not help herself from feeling an attraction for him. The Pharoah threw the knife across the room and held her down as he kissed her. They started making out.

"Yugi?" They stopped kissing and she felt him sit up.

"I am the pharoah." He got up and walked towards the balcony. Mai sat up and looked to where the knife was tossed. She could not detect where it had landed and decided to follow him. The large bed had dark dyed sheets and large bed posts drapped in white fabric. As she got closer, she noticed that the candlelight revealed hieroglyphics on sand colored stone walls. They looked outside together. Mai was shocked at what she saw. The sun had almost set and the moon and stars started to lend a glow to the sand and pyrimads. "This is where I was from. Yugi has waken me up, after being trapped within the Millenium Puzzle for 5000 years."

"How...how did we get here?"

"We are currently in the Millenium Puzzle. I brought you here. All that you see is from my memories. I ruled all of this."

"Did you bring Yugi, too?"

"Yugi's mind can also occupy the Millenium Puzzle. He is here, but I tend not to show him my memories, as he could get lost. At times I am afraid to show him what I remember. When someone's mind reenters the Millenium Puzzle, you never enter into a place you that you have never been." The pharoah opened his hands and showed that the Puzzle interior was like a maze. Mai thought it was as confusing as an Escher drawing.

"Where is he?"

"Yugi is, where he is. He is safe. You are safe in here, as long as I navigate for you. There are many traps out there." He lowered his hands and the image vanished.

"Then, why am I with you?"

"I took notice of your sadness. You could stay here with me."

"Stay? For how long?"

"I am not sure. I do know if you stay here for too long, your body will become confused. It will sense that your soul had left and you will become brain dead. If your soul returns after that, then you'll be trapped until you cease." Mai knew that she might have at least a year.

"Then, I should leave."

"You will stay until the sun rises. Letting you out might wake Yugi. We have much to talk about."

"Like what?"

"Anything to pass the time."

"I never told anyone this. I grew up 'well off'. They usually were not with me because they traveled constantly. I never had any friends because we moved a lot. They forced me to move to keep me close by them. Eventually, traveling cost them their lives. It happened just after they announced moving, again."

"This is a very complicated will, Miss Valentine," the lawyer said.

"Go on."

"Your mother had more money than your father and it seems that she wasted a lot of it. And, your father changed his will numerous times. If the money is invested wisely, then it can last until you're twenty to twenty-five. If you spend it, as they have, you will lose everything before the age of thirteen."

"After that, I became very lonely. I finally decided to start middle school, in a public school. And, that's where I met Roger. We got along, but our relationship did not last long. For some reason, I felt lonier, after that."

"I'm sorry to hear that. I lost my parents when I was young, as well."

"After everything that has happened in my life, I feel like I was always meant to be alone. Even after meeting Yugi, Joey, and their friends, I'm afraid that it might really be true. What if I lose them? If I lose them, it'll really be true."

"I can not promise that you would not lose them. But, there is one thing that I can promise you."

"What?"

"I could have you as my queen. My whole kingdom would love you and you would never be lonely ever again."

"I'll never again be lonely...?"