Um…. Hi? (Please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me!) I know that I haven't updated in literally months but I am back! I know I keep saying this but I will try to post more often. (Writers block hit me hard, like really really badly)

I didn't forget about this story (or any of my other ones for that matter) but college applications kicked my ass. Never in my life did I think that those would be as time consuming, terrifying and daunting as they were. Like seriously that was wicked bad especially considering I had to make a portfolio on top of all of the applications (start now if you are interested in art, seriously it will save you a lot of work in the long run). Anyways I have heard back from a few places but not my top choice so it's just a matter of time before I get some kind of decision from them (I just want to get into that school so badly!)

Everything I just said literally sounds like a bad excuse… sorry.

But before I continue with the story I just want to say a few things.

1 thank you for still reading this

2 I will be updating just not as often as I did

3 I have a fiction press account (same name as fanficiton) and I recently published the first two chapters of a new story that I am mega super excited about (tell me what you think)

4 I know this chapter is short but I'm trying, I really am trying

"Nightmare"

Nightmare?

Why the hell does that sound familiar

I don't understand why-

"Fuck! No, no that can't be him!" I yelled as I punched the wall trying to release my anger. "I thought he was dead! I thought that he was taken care of! Why? Why did he have to come back!?" I yelled only getting angrier and angrier with each moment

"That bastard… I'll make him pay for this!" I yelled as I started to pace the floor trying to wrap my head around everything

Nightmare is back, Yugi is gone and more than likely slowly dying as Nightmare laughs.

"This needs to end" I muttered before turning sharply on my heal and running to where the club connected to my apartment. I entered the large space to head straight to my safe that I kept hidden in the corner of the bedroom. I typed in my code before quickly grabbing the wooden box and slamming the safe shut.

Mindful of what I was holding I took the precious box over to the bed before dumping its contents out.

50 shiny gold blocks fell out onto the bed, each one slightly angled in a way that when completed would create a golden upside down pyramid.

Acting on instinct I started to piece the puzzle together, by now familiar with how the pieces went. I worked quickly, not willing to waste any extra time by admiring the shine or the intricacy of the puzzles pieces.

I've had this puzzle since I was very small but I knew its powers long before my parents gave it to me. I had played with the puzzle in my youth enough times to know the puzzle by heart, yet I purposely kept the puzzle dissembled for fear of it falling into the wrong hands. Yet Yugi is far more important right now.

I knew that name sounded familiar, why I hadn't noticed earlier was beyond me. He's changed over the years, I thought to myself as I continued to piece the puzzle together. He's stronger, much stronger than I remember him being. I never once thought that he was still alive though, by all counts he should have died the moment I did.

But I suppose if I can be reincarnated and Bakura and seto then there is the possibility that he could have survived as well…

But how?

He never had a millennium item and only I remember my past life so how is he still alive?

And why does he keep calling Yugi his slave?

As far as I can recall he never had a slave before, unless…

"No" I breathed out as I came to a realization

No he did have a slave, he was but a child back then, there's no way he could possibly be Yugi!

I remember seeing that slave once before I died, he was young, yes, but he didn't look like Yugi did.

Yet Nightmare doesn't look right either so maybe that was Yugi…

I continued to slide piece after piece into the puzzle, slowly seeing the shape come together.

"20 left" I muttered to myself as I gazed at the pieces lying in a pile on my bed sheets.

God I just hope I can find him before Nightmare kills him

Or the puzzle kills me…

"Hang on Yugi, just hang on"