Key:[ ] = in their mind.

YuGiOh The Return of the Puzzle

"If you want to win your son back, then beat me and take my soul, if you can." Raphael says. Since my Lava Golem is on the field, you each lose 1000 lifepoints each of your standby phases. Now all I need is this card to seal your doom." He says placing a card facedown. "Now it's your turn, Stacey, so make your move."

"I will. Now I activate…"

"Hold on Stacey. I activate my trap card, Gravity Bind! Now no monsters with four stars of more can attack."

[ I was afraid of that. Now I can't use my best cards against him. But I have a plan. ] "Now, as I was saying, I activate Mystical Space Typhoon. This card destroys one trap or spell card on the field. I choose to destroy your Gravity Bind. Looks like I can attack with the card you gave me but first I'll summon another monster to the field. I call forth, Neo the Magic Swordsman. Now all monsters on our field can attack you directly." Stacey says.

(Opponent defeated)

"Now the darkness in your heart will seal you away with the black magic you called into play." Dartz yells.

"Ha! Are you sure? Because I feel fine." He says as the Seal of Orichalcos encircles him. But then, astonishingly, the Seal fades away as if the player never lost.

"But how can this be?!" Dartz asks. "From what I remember, the Seal should seal the loser's soul away. But it seems that the Orichalcos does not want to seal him away. Has the Orichalcos developed a mind of its own? If it has, then this is much more dangerous than I thought possible-."

"Well," Raphael interrupts, "since you won, you can have Atem back. But I'll be taking this." He says grabbing the Millennium Puzzle. After he grabs the Puzzle, he throws Atem at Stacey. Stacey realizes that Atem had his soul.

"I thought you said that Atem lost a duel." Stacey says.

"He did. I just didn't play the Seal." Raphael says getting on his motorcycle. "Maybe I should have. We'll see each other again Yugi, Stacey, and Joey, I promise."

"Raphael, I'm not through with you. Give me back the puzzle! It doesn't belong to you."

"You may not know this, Yugi, but the Pharaoh still lives inside of the Puzzle. Before he left for the spirit world, he sealed a piece of his soul into it. Just in case he was ever needed again in this world. And as you know, we need the Pharaoh's soul in order to fuel the Great Beast."

"You'll never get Atem's power, and you know it, don't you?!" Yugi shoots back.

"We'll see. Until then, I'll be keeping this," Raphael says holding up the Puzzle, as if taunting him.

"Daddy, I lost, I couldn't win, his cards were too powerful, I…"

"Atem, it's alright. If I had known that the Orichalcos was still in power, I would have done things differently."

"Like what, daddy?" Atem asks.

Yugi bites his lip. "Like, well, like dragging them into this." Yugi says pointing to his friends.

"Oh, ok daddy…" And with that, Atem passes out again.

"We have to get him to a hospital. I would never forgive myself if something happened to him."

"Ok Yug, I'll take him, you and Stacey find Raphael.

End of Chapter