Aoi: ok so sorry about how long it took for this chapter to come out. Especially when I left you guys on a bit of a cliffhanger… but here it is! The new chapter of 'the dragon tamer and the goddess'! Hope you enjoy!

Eiko sat at the game shop counter, about a month had passed since Seto and Zigfreids duel. Eiko had been in school for about a week and she was waiting for Yugi and his friends to come back from their first day of school. The door to the shop opened,

"Hay Eiko," Jonouchi said, "what are you doing?" he asked smiling.

"Not much, just some school work," she looked up from he books. "Who are your friends?" she asked looking at the two new boys.

"Oh, this is Bakura," Jonouchi said pointing towards a boy with white hair and brown eyes. "And this is Otogi (Duke Devlin)" a boy with black hair and green eyes stepped forward.

"Very nice to meat you Miss?" Otogi said leaning over the counter. It looked as if Jonouchi might explode. Honda wasn't very happy either

"Tsubaki, but you can call me Eiko," Eiko said smiling.

"Nice to meet you," Bakura said, also smiling. He eyes drifted over to the books on the counter. "Egyptology…" he said looking down at them.

"Eiko your studying Egyptology?" Anzu asked.

"Yah," Eiko said blushing a bit, "Yugi grandfather got me interested," she admitted. "He's got some really great stores," Eiko started to say.

"Eiko I need some help with the deliveries!" Mr. Mouto yelled from the back of the shop.

"Coming!" she yelled back. She walked to the back and picked up a couple of boxes. She brought the boxes to the front and set them down. She suddenly felt light headed. She felt herself falling backwards. She blacked out.

"Eiko…. Eiko…." she heard a fairly familiar voice. Her eyes fluttered open, she saw Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, and Ojogi looking down at her.

"What, what happened?" she asked looking up at them.

"You fainted," Ojogi explained, "gracefully though," he said jokingly.

"Were is Bakura?" Eiko asked looking around the shop.

"I'm here…" a voice from below said, Eiko relisted that she had fainted and landed on Bakura.

"Oh my god!" Eiko said getting up off Bakura, "I am so-" she became light headed again. This time Jonouchi caught her,

"Dose this happen a lot?" Ojogi asked.

"Not really…" Jonouchi said looking at a knocked out Eiko.

Eiko woke up a few minutes latter she looked everyone, "Eiko, I think you should go home," Mr. Mouto said. She was about to protest when he head started to throb.

"Yah that might be a good idea," she said brining her hand to her forehead. She had plans that night plans she did not want to miss. She went home, hoping her head ach would dissipate by tonight.

Eiko looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She was on her first official date with Seto. Although they had become a couple almost a month ago they hadn't had time to go on a date.

"Sorry about that," Seto had said when he picked her up from her apartment, "I've been swamped with work, it never seems to end."

"I'm just glad we finally found time to do it," Eiko said looking up at him. She couldn't believe it. She was going on a date with Seto, something she had never even conserved in her entire lifetime, when they were kids Eiko's mind wasn't really on dating. And when she was a teenager Seto was just a distant memory, no he was Pandora's box. She knew if she opened up those feelings she wouldn't have been able to survive. But now everything was ok, she was with Seto and she was happy, happier than she had been in a long time. The date had been going great; they had talked, laughed and caught up with each other. 'Ok so the date is going great, your happy. He seems happy, its so hard to tell with Seto now the days' Eiko thought giving herself a little pep talk before going back out to the restraint. 'Aright Eiko what do you really want to do? Jump across the table and kiss him. Wait what! No I don't want that!'

Yes you do. A voice inside of Eiko's head said, but I wouldn't do it. Bastard doesn't deserve it. In fact he doesn't deserve you. Eiko was silent,

'Who, who are you? You aren't me are you?'

Yes and no. The voice replied, I'm you, just a different you. Eiko was confused,

' A different me? That makes no sense!' she thought. She waited a bit but the voice never replied.

"So what made you decide to do Egyptology?" Seto asked. They had left the restraint and were taking a walk around Domino.

"Mr. Mouto really, I mean, he reminded me how fascinated I really am with Egypt" Eiko explained. "We only learned a little about Egypt in school, but I really enjoyed it. Plus it's a really hands on coerce, with the Domino museum and everything. You've been there right?" Eiko asked looking up at him her gold eyes glittering in the light created by a lamppost on the side of the street. Seto had been there, that was were he found out about the Egyptian gods, were Battle City really began.

"I might have been there once or twice in the past," Seto said, "but I haven't been there recently." It was only half a lie. Ever since Seto had seen him and Yugi carved on that stone slab he had stayed away from the museum, hoping that nightmare would end. Eiko seemed unaware of the stone, and everything surrounding it. Like Yugi and his other personality that seemed to come out when he was dueling.

"Maybe we should go sometime," Eiko said swinging around the lamppost, "it might be fun. Unless your afraid of mummies," Eiko said.

"Humph, only the dog would be afraid of something like that," Seto, said.

"The dog?" Eiko said a bit confused, "oh you mean Jonouchi" Eiko said reliesing who he was talking about, "you two don't seem to-" she stated to say. Suddenly her vision stated to fade she fell forward. Seto was able to catch her before she hit the ground.

"Eiko are you ok!" Seto said, she didn't respond. "Eiko?" he said shaking her a bit, he eyes opened slowly.

"What happened? Did I faint again?"

"Again?" Seto said shocked, "this happened before?" 'Whoops,' Eiko hadn't told Seto about her spill earlier in the day.

"Um, yah. Twice…" Eiko said a bit sheepishly.

"Twice!" Seto's face was a strange mix of anger and concern. "Come on I'm taking you home." Eiko suddenly felt a surge of pain in her head. She nodded at Seto agreeing that she needed to be brought home. He walked her over to the street, a limo already waiting. They hopped in, and started the drive to Eiko's apartment. "So when did you faint?" Seto asked Eiko, her head resting on his shoulder.

"At work," she explained.

"You didn't hit you head did you?" he asked concerned.

"No I think Bakura broke my fall," she said wearily. She decided not to meshon Jonouchi.

"What?" Seto said looking at her strangely,

"You know Yugi's friend Bakura? Well I fainted and I somehow landed on him." Seto stifled back a laugh; he had met Bakura at battle city. He did remember the boy being quite petty even for his age,

"Don't laugh!" Eiko scolded, "I could have really hurt him."

"I'm sure you could of," he said smiling. The limo pulled up to the apartment building. Seto walked her up to her apartment, "you think you'll be ok?" he asked her at her door.

"Yah, I should be fine. I just need some sleep," she said brining her hand to her forehead. The pain had lessoned but it was still there.

"I had fun," Seto said lifting up her chin so he could look her in the eye. He leaned down, their lips touched. Eiko loved these moments, she felt as though she could just melt in Seto's arms. Her head pounded.

He doesn't deserve you. The voice said, no one dose. No one understands you. Your pain you suffering, I'm the only one who dose. You only need me. With every word Eiko's head hurt more. She pulled away from Seto quickly. The pain stopped.

"G-good night," she said. She quickly closed the door behind her, leaving Seto alone in the hallway.

That night Eiko's head pounded, she was seating in her sleep. The pain was agonizing, 'why is this happening?' she found herself in a dark room, a girl sitting on a black throne was in the middle of the room.

Hello Eiko. The voice was eerily familiar,

'Its you! That voice!' she screamed in her head.

So glad you could finally see me Eiko. The girl stood up, she walked towards Eiko. A familiar face looked back at her. A heart shaped face, short brown hair; Eiko covered her mouth with her hands.

'You, you look-' it was she. She could recognize the face anywhere. It was her own. But there was something different about his face, instead of gold eyes looking back at her, blood red eyes looked at her menacingly. The figure smiled,

We do look the same don't we? Well except for the eyes.

'What do you want!' she yelled at the girl, 'why are you doing this!'

Explaining it would take to long. So why don't I just show you? The girl said

'What do you-' Eiko suddenly felt strange. Like her soul was being pulled away from her body. Darkness. Nothing but darkness. Eiko was stuck in darkness for what felt like hours. There was suddenly light, she looked at herself in the mirror. Eiko then relised it wasn't her, for red eyes looked back instead of gold.

"Lets begin shall we?" the figure in front of the mirror said.

'That's my voice!' Eiko said she could feel herself start to shake. The girl changed, getting ready for the day even though it was still night. The girl dressed differently than Eiko would. She put her short hair in a ponytail, slipped on a red tank top with black horizontal stripes, with a back skirt and studded belt. She then put on black pups,

"Since you don't have any black boots," the girl explained, "but I'll fix that soon. I wonder if any malls are still open." The girls said walking around Eiko's apartment. She was about to leave when she stopped. "As you may of noticed you're not in control of your body anymore. The only reason your able to see is because I'm letting you. Now if you behave I'll let you keep that privilege. But misbehave then its bye-bye world and nothing but darkness." Eiko shuddered thinking about how she had felt in the darkness a few minutest before. "But I wouldn't worry, its not that bad, besides I've been living in it for about twelve years now, and look at me! I'm fine! But its not like I'm goanna miss it. I'm so exited! I finally get to live in the real world!" she said as she walked out of the apartment, "first stop, game shop!"

'What would she want at the game shop?' Eiko wondered, suddenly she saw it, what the girl was going after. 'Oh no…'

Aoi: dant dant da!

Akai: please don't do that.