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Chapter Twelve

Yami and Ryou helped Bakura get on his feet and then they slowly made their way to the Ishtar's and hopefully they would be able to help heal the minds of Serenity and Malik. They were the innocent victims here and Bakura wanted to find some kind of miracle that would bring them back to their loved ones.

As Joey was holding onto his sister's hand, Malik came into the room and softly said "Sister."

Ishizu turned and when she saw her brother standing there she went to him and helped him into the room. Malik sat down opposite of where Serenity laid and he had tears running down his face as he told Joey how sorry he was about his sister.

Joey looked into the haunted eyes of Malik and he said "Hey, it wasn't your fault this all happened, it was that thing that did it and I could never blame you nor would Serenity."

Shadi was so taken with the compassion that Joey had for Malik that he vowed to find someway to heal both of these two young people so he excused himself and left to go to the Museum when he saw Yami, Ryou and Bakura walking towards him. He hurried over to see how Bakura was doing and when Bakura said to him "How are they?"

Shadi couldn't lie to him no matter how it made him feel so he told him the truth and then he said "If it weren't for you we might never have found her, but now I don't know if we can save either of them, there has been too much damage already done to their poor minds."

Tears fell from Shadi's eyes as he talked to Bakura and then Bakura did something that was so different from his character, he went over to Shadi and he held the man who loved Malik and Ishizu and would give up his life for them and then Bakura said "We need to find a binding chant that would bind their minds together and then we just might have a chance to bring them back."

Shadi then remembered seeing a scroll with just the chant that they needed and he told them about it as he hurried to the Museum and the others went inside to see if they could help Ishizu.

When she looked up and saw Bakura and the others standing there tears filled her eyes as she motioned for them to come into the room and see Malik and Serenity. None of them were ready to discover the extent of damage that Marik had done to poor Serenity and Malik that it caused them all to fall on their knees and ask Ra to bless these two innocent ones and give them his strength to fight their way back to their loved ones.

Ryou went to his friend and sat down beside him and wrapped his arms around Malik and whispered "You didn't know what you were doing it wasn't your fault so please stop tormenting yourself."

Bakura wanted to scream because of what that bastard had done to these two innocent young ones and Yami felt his anger and he calmly said "Bakura you have to stop your hatred or it will bring Diabound out again and you don't want that so please remain as calm as you can. I too want to scream and yell but it won't do those two any good, all we can do is pray that Shadi can find someway of healing their poor tortured minds"

Shadi entered through the back door of the Museum and went to where he had last seen the scroll that he was looking for and after searching for a while he finally found it and upon re-reading it again he was certain that his is what they would need to help heal both Malik and Serenity, but he also knew that they would need both Seto and Yugi in order to make the spell work. He called the Manor and after talking to Seto who assured that both he and Yugi would meet him at the Ishtar's, Shadi hurried back to where they were awaiting him.

As Shadi entered the house he found Seto and Yugi along with the others waiting for him and then Shadi explained how the spell would work "We all must believe that this is the one thing that will help assist in the healing of both Malik and Serenity or it will be for nothing."

Shadi had Malik sit on the bed beside Serenity and then he told everyone to stand around the bed and hold hands and they couldn't break the circle for anything or it wouldn't work. Then as they all were holding hands Shadi began chanting "We ask Ra to hear our prayers and ask him to look down on these two innocent young people who have been harmed but Marik and beg him to help heal their tortured minds. Without your help we can never help them, so please hear our plea and help them."

Then the room began to get really bright that they all had to close their eyes and as they kept holding onto the hands of each other they all felt the power of Ra entering the room and as the entity walked among them he touched each of Malik and Serenity's broken minds and then they heard chanting and then there was a flash of bright light and then the room returned to the way it was before and Shadi said "We can let go, I have to see if it worked."

Everyone stood there not saying a word as Shadi used his magic to probe deep inside of each of their minds and then a tear ran down his face as he said "It worked their coming home healed and safe."

Joey fell to the floor thanking Ra and God for healing his sister and Malik and Ishizu went over to Joey and got down on the floor next to him and they held each other thanking the powers for hearing their prayers and coming to help their siblings.

Bakura, Ryou, Seto, Yami and Yugi all held onto each other as they gave praise for what had happened here and then Shadi said "They are healing but they still may have nightmares about that happened to them and we all have to be strong enough to help them through their trials and show them the way back home."

Joey stood up and he faced everyone in that room and he said "I am so very proud of each and everyone one of you, you all came here to help Malik and my sister find their ways back to us and I will forever be proud to call all of you my friends."

Ishizu stood beside Joey and she wiped the tears from her face as she said "I agree with what Joseph just said. It takes a very special person to do what has been done here today and I will forever call each of you my family because I love all of you so much."

Shadi the said "They will probably sleep for a couple of days because they are tired and their bodies needs the time to heal, so all we can do is wait and see exactly how they are when they wake up. It has been a privilege to have known each of you and I too want to extend to each of you my thanks and prayers for all what each of you has done to bring these two innocent young people back to their sister and brother."

Please R&R...

Chapter Thirteen Coming Up...Dealing with flashbacks...