Hey guys! Not really much to say. I haven't seen any references guesses, so I'm gonna just tell you. Btw, there were 3, not 2. Typo on my part. The first was When Elisa started playing the Sonic X theme, second and third when rings was caps and underlined, you know, 'cause of the Sonic Rings? ANYWAY, no comments suggesting, so just gonna say, and also, sorry about there being three. Enjoy!

Me no owns Yu-Gi-Oh
Nor the songs mentioned in this chapter, those belong to Taio Cruz, Daniel Powter, Natasha Bedingfield, Cass Dillon, and Enya

I was walking down the hall of the school and humming the tune of Kawaita Sakebi, not fully memorizing the English lyrics, and sure as heck not gonna remember the Japanese ones. It had been a good day so far, I had no signs of homework, and it was a perfect day out. Right now, I was cutting class trying to find Yugi, Miho, Joey and Tristan. I was calmly walking around, not trying to be suspicious, going to all the 4-way halway intersections.

^This kind of day seems familiar...where has it happened before? I know not today, but still...^

Spring Fest? The other, um, I don't know, guessing voice said.

That's right! Spring fest! I thought as I felt a pang of sorrow. I had been starting to miss my other life a lot. I missed my family, my mom always having a smile on her face when she came to pick me and Hank up, my dad when he'd come home always giving us hugs, even how Hank always picked at me and how our dog, Freddie, always was scratching at my door right when I was doing homework.

Don't worry girly, you'll be back soon enough.

Calling me girly won't get a huff outta me right now.

Oh? No? Well then, NYAN CAT YUGIII! And the mere mention of that brought back a YouTube video that I saw. It was, basically, the cutest thing I had seen at the time, and the memory made me freeze up from the cuteness for a second even now.

That's what I thought. she said as I closed my eyes, smiled, and giggled a bit.

Alright, I thought as I continued on my way, still smiling. I can't escape the cuteness effects even when I'm in the Yugioh 'verse.

It had been two weeks after Shadi's appearance, and I was wondering when he'd show up. Until now. Last night Granpa had visited the hospital for Prof. Hopkins, and I knew I was on the verge of the next episode, and had started to suspect that Shadi would come for me, considering how I was being integrated into the plot. Though, I did NOT want to take Téa's place, I, for one, would surely fall of the plank. Yea, not the bravest soul out there...

Well, I had heard about Téa acting strangely at lunch, Joey convinced that it was the "Egyptian Curse" (High and middle school have the same lunch periods). I was almost at the last four way intersection now, the one farthest from the class I was leaving, when I started to see fog rolling along the sides of the hallway, and the shades to the windows close, making the hallway darker. Then, out of a fog wall, further down the hall (hah! That rhymes!), I see Shadi, who starts walking towards me.

I held my phone in my hand, ready to throw it, but more ready to run, and said in a not so threatening voice, "If you come near me, this is going at your head!" More just empty threats than anything.

"So then I shall stay here. But, tell me, how were you not afraid?" He asked, catching me off guard.

"I'm afraid now! What are you talking about?"

"No, not now. Back at the museum. When I inspected the boy's mind."

"Um," I started, ignoring the fact that he continues to call Yugi "the boy". "How do I say this without seeming nuts...? I, wait, why should I tell you?"

"If you don't, there will be consequences."

"Um," I said, thinking.

What do you think? I asked my alter ego.

I don't know, how fast do you think you can run?

I don't think that will help, although since my life will ultimately depend on it, fastish. We had to end theion there though, because Shadi asked "Well?"

Taking my chances, I threw my phone at him (which he dodged, letting it crash to the floor where the back and battery popped off, and everything slid away) and turned down a small hallway that was to my right. I then rounded a second corner and went left. I ran for a few moments before I felt another presence trying to get inside my head.

Yes! Eragon style! Thank you universe! The fact that Shadi, for I could guess it was Shadi, had to try to claw his way in meant that I had a chance at defense. So, I started focusing on the feeling of homesickness that had wandered it's way into my heart.

Luckily, I got focused enough, and the feeling was strong enough, that I kept Shadi at bay, although my speed dropped by half, leaving it a a jogging pace.

I can't keep this up much longer. I thought, as I felt my concentration ebbing.

Then let me take over, I can focus completely on it.

Can you? You're a voice in my head, how can you do that?

I'm more than a voice, Elisa.

Alright, it's all yours. I then slowly concentrated more on running, but I didn't feel the barriers fall. Though, there was a different force enforcing them, I assumed it was my alter ego.

I ran for a bit longer, reaching the other side of the school at that point, when I slipped and fell on a wet floor.

"Craaaaaap!" I yelled as I slid down and along the ground. I ended up crashing against the end of the hallway feet first, banging my knees against it. I looked behind me and saw Shadi walking towards me, like he hadn't been chasing me this whole time.

"I suppose it would be useless to try to do anything now. You have shown your abilities. I'll be back with the same question." He said. And then he left, disappearing into sudden fog, leaving me dumbfounded.

What the heck just happened? I asked, not really to my alter ego (will think of a nickname sooner or later) but to myself.

I'm just as confused as you are. She answered anyway.

I decided to go up to the roof, thinking that they may be already there. I stood up and winced as pain shot through my left knee, the knee that took the brunt of the force.

"Crap." I said, now walking with a slight limp now. The pain passed though, and I was soon jogging, determined to catch the Shadow Game.

I was about to open the door to the roof, hoping that it doesn't squeak, when I heard a muffled crack. I opened the door, thankful for it being absolutely silent, and saw that only the first heart statue weakness thingy had cracked.

"Yugi, didn't you realize the game's already started?" Shadi asked, glancing in my direction. "Those statues reflect your heart. When you show weakness in your heart, statues will break, one after another."

I realized I was still holding the door open, and silently closed it and took a step forward.

"If the remaining 3 break, you lose the girl." Shadi continued. "But you have an opportunity to win. Tied to the rope is the Millennium Ankh. And what's holding that is the statue reflecting my heart."

"I see."

No, you're going blind. I thought jokingly. I needed to give myself jokes like that, if I didn't, all the easy jokes would be unthought.

"So before my heart statues break, if your heart statue breaks first..."

"That's right. When that happens the Millennium Ankh will go along the rope so the girl can touch it. If she touches the Millennium Ankh, she will regain her senses and I will have lost. Understand? The one who shows weakness in the heart is the game's loser."

"A game to probe each other's weaknesses of the heart, eh?"

"So let us begin." And with that, the game (this is going to be big) BEGUN! (Shocker!) and the blast of wind or whatever it was swirled up around Shadi, then Yami, then surprisingly me before dispersing.

Well, I guess I'm goint to be used in this game, any advice?

Not really advice as a request, when you get put in, don't look shocked, or if you do, recover quickly. Give Shadi a good scare.

Lol, ok. Then, I started watching the game.

-small time skip-

I watched as the slates flipped over, revealing, think the name was Amemit? I listened as Shadi announced the next game, but was surprised when he said...

"Let me show you the next challenge." And I saw metal bars grow up out of the roof around me, encircling me, which made me give a yelp as well as some scared moaning afterwords before I was reminded, Recover! and calmed down, leaving a "you are SO gonna get it later" look on my face directed towards Shadi.

"I'm giving you a choice. This challenge is a musical one. You will hear songs from when Elisa was younger, if you can place them, I will let her go. Miss one, and she will stay in that cell. But, the choice I'm giving you is this, you can do this yourself, or you can have her take your place. What will it be?"

I then tried to say that I'll go, but I couldn't speak. It wasn't out of fear or anything, I just couldn't speak. Yami looked my way, and by the look on his face, I knew he would interrogate me later, and said, "I choose her to take my place."

I don't know what convinced him, but I just agreed when Yami asked me if I wanted to do this. I had no doubt that this would be immensely difficult, probably from when I was 5 or 6, but I was sure I could place them.

"Very well then." Shadi said. "Let's begin then."

The first one was pretty easy, it was just the chorus to Dynamite without the lyrics. I guessed it pretty quickly.

"Dynamite." I said.

"Correct." Shadi replied.

The next one was hard though. I couldn't place it. I asked Shadi to play it again, which he agreed to. I still had trouble figuring it out. So, I closed my eyes and thought about the properties of this Shadow Game.

What am I supposed to do? I am supposed to guess a song from my past. Would there be anything to hint at this one. Wait, and then it hit me. IT'S BACKWARDS! Yes! I decided to ask Shadi to play it backwards, but he said no, which confirmed my suspicion.

Now what? I repeated the tune in my mind over and over again, then, seeing as that hadn't worked, separated the melody from the chords and picked out what each note was starting from the end. This whole process took me a few minutes but when I was done, I played it backwards, imagining me playing it on a piano to help, and I recognized Bad Day by Daniel Powter.

"Bad day!"

"Correct."

The next one was slightly easier, I had liked the song, and it was in a minor key instead of a major one.

"Unwritten!"

"Correct"

This next one I had a bit of a struggle placing, as that helped me remember the names, but I figured it out that it was the theme to 5Ds, although I have no idea what Shadi thought to this song.

"Hyperdrive"

"Correct. Last one."

This last one was the most difficult. I could tell it was from when I was at day care, it was one of the songs they played to get us to sleep at nap time. I remembered that a few years ago, I had remembered it after so long of it being buried in my memories, and, not knowing the name, I had been dying to find it. It had taken me a while of trying to sound out the lyrics that were fuzzed by memory, and I had found it.

Now, though, with that small portion of it Shadi played, I had trouble remembering anything else of the tune. I focused on it for a minute, letting the rest come to me, not trying to rush it in fear it would totally be lost, but also not letting my concentration waver to another song. At last, Is tarted remembering the lyrics and got the name.

"Sail awa-" I stopped myself frim remembering the wrong name, as I called it "Sail Away" when it was something else.
I nearly lost my concentration completely, forgetting the name, when I heard a crack and a break as one of the statues broke.

Darnit, Yami, don't worry about me!

I then shouted out the correct name as clearly as I could.

"Orinoco Flow by Enya!"

"C-correct." Shadi said, and something about the way he stuttered made me suspicious.

He was tampering! He. Will. Pay!

Pretty sure you don't want to do that.

Whatever.

I went on to say, "I've won, Shadi, even with your meddling. Now let me go!"

And then, after I was let go, the games went on as normal, accept only one of Yami's statues broke during the next one.

Afterwards, before everyone else showed up, and before Yami switched back to Yugi, he walked up to me and asked, "Why did you come up here?"

I answered with a nervous, "Getting some fresh air?" it sounding more like a question than an answer.

"I don't believe you."

I sighed and replied, "It's a long story that we don't have time for."

"Fine. But you will tell me sooner or later."

"Sure..."

And then, we proceeded with the plot, Yami switching back to Yugi who went over and grabbed Téa before she fell. Then I went to pick up the pieces of my phone, luckily undamaged. The rest of the episode went by according to the anime basically, so I have no more to say.

Okay! Yes! Finally getting this on time (and even early)! *cannons shoot that makes candy fly everywhere and triumphant music plays* Hope everyone had a GREAT Hallowe'en, cause mine stunk. No Trick-or-treating, and not even passing out candy. In short, yours was probably better that mine. But, even though it's late, happy Hallowe'en!