Tana: Hey people, I'm back! Hope everyone enjoyed their summer vacation! I'm in Grade 12 now...it feels weird. Anyway, just a few review responses and on with the chapter!

SeleneXAngel: Thanks, hope you enjoy the rest of the story.

Darkrosemoon: Yeah, my first real attempt at humor...I know I didn't really need this chapter, but this chapter wasn't ready yet and I wanted to give you all something to read before school ended, so I wrote (or typed) that instead. Oh well...I don't like provincials and I think I signed your annual, in one of those study things or something. Anyway...enjoy the chapter!

AnimeCrazy88: Thanks! I'm not sure of who I should pair Soraya up with - or whether to pair her up at all. I want to avoid pairing her with Yugi or Kaiba - since everyone seems to be pair their character with them (assuming their characters are girls) - unless I really can't think of anyone else. Anyone else probably being Ryou or someone, which would be dramatic with Kaiyuki and Bakura. Either that or one of the Duel Monsters, which would be different. What do you think?

Nychick: Yep, kitchens are battlefields. I enjoyed writing that chapter, I hope you enjoyed your cookie.

Chapter 11 Game Start

Soraya walked along the sidewalk, hearing the slow, steady pat of Kaiba's step behind her along with Mokuba's faster pitter-patter.

What are we going to tell them? Soraya wondered.

The truth. Kaiyuki replied.

Of course. I meant how are we going to explain the whole thing about having an Ancient Egyptian woman whose supposed to be dead out trying to kill us all?

We'll figure that out when the time comes.

Very soon, the Kame game shop came into view. As they approached it, some interesting dialogue reached their ears…

"YAMI! BE CAREFUL!"

"Yugi, I'm FINE!"

"THEN WATCH OUT FOR THE-"

CRASH!

"…okay Yugi, you were right. I couldn't carry that many."

They heard an aggravated groan. "Now you listen."

"Hey guys," Soraya said, opening the door to see an exasperated Yugi and a sheepish looking Yami picking up boxes of Duel Monsters cards that were scattered on the ground. "What happened?"

"Oh, hi Soraya. Well, there was a new batch of cards that needs to be unpacked," Yugi explained. "Yami wanted to help, and tried to carry fifty,"

"Yugi, it was only eight," Yami protested.

"Ten boxes around."

"'Tried' being the key word here, huh?" Soraya said, bending down to help retrieve the boxes.

"Yeah," Yugi replied. He looked up and caught sight of the Kaiba brothers as they came through the door. Yami disappeared quickly. "Hi Mokuba, hi Kaiba," Yugi greeted politely. "What brings you here?"

"Questions needing answers," Kaiba looked around. "Who's Yami?"

"A…a friend," Yugi said uneasily.

"Where is he?" Mokuba asked, handing over the last box.

"He needed to go," Yugi replied.

"You know, I'll help you if you give me a pack of cards," Soraya offered, smiling.

"Go ahead," Yugi said relieved, throwing the beat up cartons away. "But, it could take…"

Flick.

Snap.

"…hours…"

All the cards were now lined up neatly on the shelves in perfect condition.

"All done," Soraya said cheerily, twirling the crescent moon staff.

Yugi stared for a moment, then shook his head wearily. "Thanks, I guess, help yourself," he said, gesturing toward the cards on the shelf. "Wait," Yugi stiffened, remembering the presence of the other two people in the room. "Your magic, do they…?"

"Yes, they know. We had a run in with Akiro a moment ago. Nothing really bad happened," Soraya said quickly, seeing Yugi's alarmed expression. "Except now they know that Akiro and Kaiyuki exist and that I can do magic."

Somewhat. Kaiyuki teased.

Hey! I'm getting better. Soraya retorted.

"Well…ah…" Yugi smiling weakly, slightly at loss for words. "Fun."

"Yes, very fun," Kaiba growled impatiently. "Now will you quit wasting my time and tell what's going on. Who are Akiro and Kaiyuki?"

"Akiro is the psycho that attacked us back at the hospital," Soraya explained. "As for Kaiyuki…"

Kaiyuki took over and looked at the two brothers. "That's me."

Silence for a moment.

"No, you're Soraya," Mokuba said bluntly.

"Not at the moment," Kaiyuki said before Soraya took control. "Now I'm Soraya." Of course this just confused the Kaiba brothers even more, so Kaiyuki simply appeared in spirit form.

This was simply not something you'd expect to see everyday.

"Holy shit," Kaiba and Mokuba stared with wide eyes at the spirit. "You're a ghost!"

"I prefer the term 'spirit'. My name is Kaiyuki. I am twin sister of Pharaoh Yami, and was a sorceress during his reign 5000 years ago. Now, I am the dark side of Soraya, her spirit protector," Kaiyuki said to the dumbstruck duo. "Oh for Ra's sake, stop backing up. I am not about to self destruct."

"Holy shit," Kaiba repeated, his back against the wall.

"Nice vocabulary," Kaiyuki said, dryly.

"You know Kaiba," Yami said, appearing beside Yugi. "I do not think shit is really that holy." Smirking as the two brothers' eyes widened to the point where their eyes were in danger of falling out, he held out a hand. "Hi, I'm Yami, Yugi's dark. Nice to meet you."

"Holy crap."

"You two are real, aren't you?" Mokuba ventured, voicing both brothers' thoughts as Kaiba hyperventilated. Kaiyuki muttered a few words, and she and Yami were now in their own bodies.

"Do I seem real?" Kaiyuki asked, holding her hand out toward the two. After a moment's pause, Kaiba reached out, slightly surprised to feel the warm touch of Kaiyuki's hand against his.

"So you are real," Kaiba mused, taking deep breaths. He looked over at Yami. "You're the one who beat me in our first duel."

"No, not I alone. Yugi and I duel as one, one body with two souls. We won that duel together," Yami replied.

"Two souls?" Kaiba muttered. "In one body? How's that possible?"

"Easily," Yugi said and closed his eyes, opening them as Yami. "As easy as opening a door." The two brothers stared.

"It's not complicated," Yami continued. "If I open my soul room door, I am in control. If Yugi opens his soul room door, he is in control," Yugi shrugged. "It's not hard, whoever's soul room door is open is the one in control at the moment."

"Okay…" Kaiba decided not to ask what a soul room was.

"A soul room is where you stay in your mind," Soraya explained, seeing Kaiba's uncertainty. "Yugi and I have two soul rooms in our minds, one for the light and one for the dark."

"Can you actually summon real Duel Monsters, like you were going to with Seto's dragon?" Mokuba asked eagerly.

Kaiyuki nodded. Kaiba stepped forward, trying not to look too eager to see a flesh and blood version of his favorite monster.

"Show us then," he said, holding out the card.

"I don't think that would be a good idea right now," Kaiyuki said, looking around at the slightly crowded room they were in. She reached forward and bent the hand that held the prized card back toward its owner. "I don't need the card to summon the dragon."

Kaiba's brow furrowed. "Then why ask for it earlier?"

"Because the Blue-Eyes White Dragon was a favorite monster of a person I thought I knew back in Ancient Egypt. You are his reincarnation and the dragon is your favorite monster," Kaiyuki explained.

Kaiba raised an eyebrow.

"I just thought it would be courteous to ask permission in a way," Kaiyuki shrugged. "Most people with magic can summon their Shadow monsters – that's what we called Duel monsters back then – from their deck. Being a Shadow Link lets me summon monsters without needing the card and allows me to summon monsters that aren't in my castle."

"Castle?"

"Where the monsters in your deck live in the Shadow Realm. Its name reflects some aspect of your soul. Soraya and mine is the Castle of Faith. Yugi and Yami's is the Castle of Light. I believe your castle, Kaiba, is called the Castle of Duty."

Kaiba grunted, not sure if he approved of the name or not.

"That's so cool!" Mokuba exclaimed. "Let's go see your monsters, can we, Seto?"

Kaiba smiled at his brother's enthusiasm and looked pointedly at the other four.

"Sure, why not," Kaiyuki said, twirling her staff as the Puzzle glowed. "To the Castle of Light, we go!"

"Wait, what!" Kaiba started before feeling himself being pulled away into nothingness.

Reappearing among the dusky shadows dimly lit with the dark light that seemed to radiate from nowhere, Kaiba turned to Yami. "Why your castle?"

"You mean you don't want to be stuck in a castle with your rival's monsters?" Kaiyuki smiled as Yami smirked.

"I'm surprised, Kaiba. We thought you would want to get to know my deck. You know, think up more strategies to humiliate yourself with in our next duel," Yami grinned, cockiness shining from him like a beacon.

"I could take you on any day," Kaiba growled, taking out his deck as if he was unsheathing a sword.

"Taking me on, yes," Yami countered, taking out his deck as well. "But winning? That remains to be seen."

"Then we'll see, I challenge you to- hey, get that stick out of my face," Kaiba snapped as Kaiyuki stuck her staff in between the two rival duelists.

"It's a staff, not a stick, baka. If you two duel out here, it will be a Shadow Game," she warned.

"That would be bad, then" Kaiba asked, not really wanting to know what a Shadow Game was at the moment.

"Yes, very much so," Kaiyuki replied.

"Are you guys coming anytime soon?" Yugi and Soraya called from the doorway of the Castle of Light. Mokuba had already been introduced and was conversing amicably with the monsters as the rest of the group came in.

"Hello Pharaoh Yami, Lady Kaiyuki," Dark Magician greeted. "Well, Seto Kaiba. Long time no see."

"Any amount of time is too short for me," Kaiba muttered. Then smirked. "Though I believe the last time we met, I was enjoying the sight of my dragon annihilating you."

"I believe you are mistaken," the spellcaster retorted. "It must have been the other way around, either that, or you were dreaming."

"Prove it," Kaiba replied.

"Gladly," Dark Magician and Yami said together.

"Children, behave yourself. Especially you," Kaiyuki said, smirking at Dark Magician, earning her a swing from his staff. She returned it, resulting in a staff fight between the two.

"I'm challenging you to a duel as soon as we get back to the real world," Kaiba said to Yami.

"I'll accept it," Yami replied, smirking as he walked away.

...meanwhile...

"Do you think we should have brought Kaiba here?" asked Yugi.

Soraya shrugged. "Even if the answer's 'no,' he's here already. He'll do okay, Kaiyuki and Yami will make sure no one dies."

"Yugi, we are dueling Kaiba when we get back to the real world," Yami said as he walked by.

"See," Soraya said as Yugi grinned. "Kaiba's getting along fine."

"It's not Kaiba we have to worry about," Yugi commented, nodding toward a certain pair of mages behind Soraya, who turned around.

"Hey, Dark Magician Girl," Soraya called as the female spellcaster walked by. "Can I borrow your staff?"

"Why?" Dark Magician Girl asked. Soraya pointed in response. "Ahh, go ahead. Have fun," she said, handing the staff over.

"Arigatou," Soraya thanked and started to walk toward the still dueling pair.

"I'm going to get a camera," Yugi said, heading toward the door. "Oh, Dark Magician Girl, when Yami asks where've I gone, don't freak him out too much, okay?"

"Don't worry," Dark Magician Girl replied smiling. Yugi left quickly.

…about a minute or so later…

"Dark Magician Girl, do you now where Yugi is?" Yami asked.

"Oh, Yugi," Dark Magician Girl started, then caught sight of Kaiba, who was nearby. "He went to go kidnap Mokuba."

The effect was instantaneous.

"WHAT!" Kaiba raged, whirling around, coat flying, eyes ablaze. "Where is he, that bastard, I'll kill him, I'll rip him to shreds, I'll…" he paused, "…wait."

"Hey Seto," Mokuba said, walking up. "Is something wrong?"

Realization crept up upon Kaiba as common sense dawned on him. "Nothing," he said, wrapping Mokuba in a tight hug.

"Good effect," commented Yami, as Kaiba put Mokuba down and glared at Dark Magician Girl.

"I agree," she replied.

"So where is Yugi?" Yami asked again.

"He went to- there he is, see?" Dark Magician Girl said as Yugi walked through the doors and made his way toward them.

"Where did he go?" Yami asked.

"To get a camera," Dark Magician Girl replied.

"Why?"

"To film Kaiyuki and Soraya fight Dark Magician," the spellcaster answered, gesturing toward the duel. She paused. "Or maybe just Soraya."

"Hello everyone," Kaiyuki greeted, walking up and holding out Dark Magician Girl's staff.

"Arigatou," Dark Magician Girl said, taking the staff. "But didn't Soraya need this to help you beat on Dark Magician- oh, sorry Pharaoh Yami."

Yami smirked. "I am glad you all take care of him so well."

"Yes, we do," Kaiyuki said grinning. "We did so for awhile, then took mercy on him. He's teaching Soraya staff combat now. She's using my staff."

"Ah darn, we missed it," Dark Magician Girl sighed slightly.

"Missed what?" Kaiyuki asked.

"You and Soraya beating on Dark Magician. We wanted to get that on camera," Yugi said, holding up the camera. Kaiyuki looked at it inquisitively.

"What does it do?"

Kaiba stared, dumbfounded. "Don't you know?"

"They're from Ancient Egypt," Yugi explained. "I assume Soraya hasn't showed you a camera yet, hasn't she?"

"No," Kaiyuki replied. "So, what does it do?"

"I'll show you," with that, Yugi raised the camera. And the camera, being the rather modern day Japanese camera it was, could do all sorts of crazy stuff.

Like take pictures.

"Hey! What was that for?" Kaiyuki yelped, when the flash went off.

"To tell that it took a picture," Yugi explained, showing her the image on the display screen.

Kaiyuki took a look and jumped. "You can trap people in that?"

"No! That isn't what it does!" Yugi exclaimed. "Nothing gets trapped except the light rays that make the picture."

"How can you stand it?" Kaiba asked as Yugi after gave up trying to explain how a camera worked and handed the camera to Kaiyuki so she could continue to examine it.

"It's easier when you're not around technology all the time," Yugi said. "Believe me, I have to go through this all the time."

"And what are you implying, Yugi?" Yami inquired.

"A lot," Yugi replied. "Does the word 'radio' sound familiar? You know, the little box that had all those voices trapped in it?"

...later...

It wasn't very long before everyone finally decided to say goodbye and show Kaiba his castle. Dark Magician insisted on coming along, he didn't exactly trust Kaiba and his dragons alone with Yami and the others. The sight of the castle awed Seto Kaiba, but he hid it from the others. It didn't matter much, because Mokuba was expressing enough awe for the both of them.

"Wow, this is Seto's castle?" Mokuba exclaimed, tilting his head back to try to see the top of the castle. "Awesome. Come on, let's go!"

They walked through the doors, and a Blue-Eyes White Dragon came forward to greet them.

"Master Seto! Mokuba! How did you get here?" the astonished Blue-Eyes asked.

"Some bitch named Akiro used magic to attack Mokuba and me earlier today at the hospital. That's how I found out about her," Kaiba nodded to Kaiyuki, "who brought me to meet him," Kaiba nodded to Yami. "So now I know that they're 5000 year old Ancient Egyptian dead people," Yami and Kaiyuki rolled their eyes, "who are the darks of these two," Kaiba gestured to Yugi and Soraya. "Then they dragged Mokuba and me off to their castle," Kaiba nodded to Yami and Dark Magician, "before they decided to come here."

"I see," Blue-Eyes said, nodding his head. "I assume that you'll want to meet the rest of your monsters, Master Kaiba?"

"Kaiba is having a good time," Yami said a while later as they watched Kaiba happily chat with his monsters. "I say we could leave him here and he wouldn't notice. At least for awhile."

"I second the motion," Soraya called, raising a hand.

"Third it," Yugi added, raising his as well.

"Great, it's been thirded. Let's go!" Yami exclaimed, grinning.

"Wait, how will Seto get back?" Mokuba inquired, crossing his arms.

Everyone paused.

"We can come back for him later," Dark Magician offered. Mokuba stared.

Kaiyuki sighed. "I guess we're staying then,"

…later…

"Mokuba," Kaiyuki started wearily.

"Yeah?" Mokuba replied.

"Are you sure we can't come back for him later?"

Mokuba sighed. "Yes."

"It's been hours."

"I know."

Kaiyuki slumped back against the wall beside her brother and watched half-heartedly at Yugi and Soraya duel on the floor.

"What's the score?" Yugi asked taking down more of Soraya's life points.

"Seven wins, three ties," Soraya said resignedly. "For you."

"What about for you?" Yugi asked, smirking.

"What do you think?" Soraya retorted.

"I think you're not going to admit it."

Soraya rolled her eyes. "I think that if this next card is the last piece of Exodia, then it's time to go," she said, showing the four pieces already in her hand.

"Seconded," Yami, Kaiyuki and Dark Magician all said at once.

Soraya drew the next card. "Seven wins, three ties, one loss," Soraya said, grinning. "For you."

Everyone sighed in relief; it was the last piece of Exodia. They all turned to look pointedly at Mokuba.

"Seto!" Mokuba called across the room.

"What?" Kaiba called back.

"Do you have anything to eat?" Mokuba asked as the others snorted. "I'm hungry."

They waited. "No, I don't," came the reply.

Mokuba and the others sighed.

"Maybe I should go back to the real world," Kaiba said to his monsters with a guilty glance at Mokuba. "You know, get Mokuba something to eat."

"Yes, that would be a good idea," a Blue-Eyes White Dragon agreed.

"What is this?" Kaiba mocked. "Want me to go that badly?"

"No, Master Seto," another Blue-Eyes said. "I think everyone else wants to go." Kaiba looked over at the restless group and gave the dragon an 'am I supposed to care?' look. "And Mokuba is hungry," Blue-Eyes added.

"Then I'll see you all later," Kaiba sighed, turning away. "Come on Mokuba, let's go."

Kaiyuki waved her staff and everyone disappeared. They reappeared in a huge hall with many doors along the sides, brightly lit with light streaming in through the large windows at the either end of the hall.

The lights and the darks gazed around, admiring their surroundings. Mokuba on the other hand, declared he was going to get everyone something to eat before he ran off.

"Ah, so that is why ended up here," Kaiyuki mused to herself. "That makes sense."

"What makes sense?" Kaiba asked.

"We're in your home, aren't we." Kaiyuki responded.

"Yes, so?"

"So it explains why Mokuba knows exactly where to get food in a place like this. It would be strange unless he was familiar with it," Kaiyuki explained. "And it also explains why you seem like you want to throw us out that window so much."

Kaiba growled. "Why couldn't you go to Soraya's or Yugi's house? Why mine?"

"I wanted to get everyone else home safely," Kaiyuki replied.

"I have my own way to get home," Kaiba retorted.

"Then you better tell them you are already home."

Ring…ring…ring…

"If my address ends up in some tabloid or something, I'm going to kill Yugi and Soraya," Kaiba threatened the darks, as he reached for his cell phone. "Hello, Seto Kaiba speaking."

"Hello Seto, is Soraya Reikado there?" a female voice drawled.

Kaiba's eyes narrowed. "First of all, no one calls me 'Seto' except my little brother, Mokuba, and you are not my brother. Second of all, what the hell are you doing calling my phone to talk to Reikado?"

"Give the phone to her, Seto, and you may find out."

Kaiba scowled and thrust the cell phone toward Soraya. "It's for you."

"What the hell."

"Just take it and see what she wants."

Soraya took it. "Hello?"

"Why hello Soraya, how do you do?"

Soraya tensed. "You. What do you want."

"Tsk, tsk. You teenagers are so rude these days. But since you asked, I'll tell you. I want you to look out the window. That window in the hall you're in will do nicely."

"So, nothing spectacular. What kind of game are you trying to play?" Soraya snarled, looking at the window from where she was standing.

"Oh I'm not trying. Walk out on the balcony. Take a good look around. Hurry, you don't know what condition he may be in."

Soraya's temper flared. "What did you do?"

"You want to know? Go see for yourself." She hung up.

Soraya stared disgustedly at the phone for a moment before giving it back to Kaiba. "She wants me to look off the balcony," she said calmly, making her way toward the window.

"I'm coming with you," Kaiyuki, Yugi, and Yami all said at once.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Soraya assured them. She opened the window and walked out onto the balcony. Looking around at her, she saw nothing out of the ordinary. Stopping at the railing, she looked down.

Her eyes widened.

Oh my god.

That's one more chapter done, hope you all liked it. Who do you think Soraya saw? Review!