Sorry for not having a wave of chapters for you guys this weekend, but this is the beginning of the wave :) so I hope you enjoy. Volume 7: Threatening Motives Chapter 1 Begin!

Chapter 1

Little Voices

Wednesday November 16th

7:00pm

People walked into the building giving their regards to Regan as they passed. Yugi stood beside her to keep her company and kept glancing back at her to make sure she was doing alright. She was in a simple short sleeve black dress that Téa bought her the day before. He wore the suit that he had brought to the tournament, without the jacket, and shifted the cuffs on his sleeves every so often. It was about an hour into the wake and many people were coming and going. Kaiba in a black suit, that Yugi had no idea where or when he bought it, was standing farther in the hall watching for any suspicious people in the shadows hiding him scarily well.

The three days passed painfully to Yugi. The tournament had an ending ceremony and everyone seemed to have fake smiles on their faces. Pegasus and the two other creators had tried their best to make the ending happy, but nothing seemed to make his girlfriend smile for very long. They were the ones being celebrated, but even though they won, they didn't. They, Regan, lost more than anything she won from that tournament. She may have beaten Devin, they may have survive all the attacks thrown at them, but it seemed all for nothing. Yugi noticed Regan lost something in that ball and it was his job to figure out what it was, and help her get it back.

Yugi and Regan didn't stay very long after the rewards and with Kaiba's intellect; they went to Jade's temporary residence. When they got there, the manager told them that people had already come to collect her things. Yugi got extremely frustrated and lashed out at the manager for letting strange people in when he knew that Regan was going to come. Regan just told him that it was fine and that they should leave. Yugi, not wanting to upset her, decided to follow her out the door leaving a very scared manager behind. He sighed on the way back to the suite in Terry's taxi. He hoped Regan would move past Jade's death and out of the depression state she was in. He missed hearing her jokes, but more so her smile. He let the thought go, she needed to grieve and he could only image how she was feeling. He needed to give her space when she wanted it for the next few days.

Mai, Serenity, and Grandpa took the plane back home while the rest of them left Toronto in Kaiba's limo. They all thanked Terry and his family with a good bye and a thank you for everything they had done before they left them in the large city. The limo came up to the Novotel late in the night. Yugi thought was about one in the morning. The bellhops came out of the hotel to meet the limo and started to gather their things. Kaiba told the bellhops orders, but Yugi didn't comprehend them as he walked into the hotel tiredly. Mokuba went over to the counter and did his thing as Yugi sat on the couch. He put his head back and closed his eyes. He wondered if he was going to be able to sleep then the couch sunk in beside him. He opened his eyes to see Atem sitting beside him.

"Give her time; things will eventually place themselves back together again." Atem told him and Yugi nodded as a pit started to grow in his stomach.

Someone tapped his shoulder, breaking him out of his thoughts. He turned to them and found Regan looking at him with a questioning look and then she smiled a smile that made it to her eyes.

"What are you thinking about, you look funny?" She asked him.

"Nothing really, just wondering how safe it would be to ride with Tristan on the rented motorcycle," He told her.

"You got here safely didn't you?"

"If you call losing half your life to fear, sure."

"It couldn't have been that bad."

"You take a trip with him when we get back to Domino; he knows it better there and will give you a personal tour."

Regan's eyes widened. "I'm not sure if I want to or not now."

Yugi smiled. "Are you okay here?"

She tilted her head with a confused look and then nodded. "Yea, where are you off to?"

"I'm going to check on everyone else, make sure they are behaving."

She smiled again with a giggle. "Ok, we are almost done here."

"How much longer?"

"About half hour." her smile wavered.

He kissed her on the forehead. "At least she's not going to get hurt anymore right?"

"I guess so, now go, I don't need Joey and Tristan sleeping some place looking like a bunch of slackers."

"Yes ma'am." Yugi replied and got a glare from Kaiba as he walked passed for no apparent reason. He walked into the next room and found Atem in simple black dress pants and white long sleeve shirt standing so still Yugi thought he was a statue.

Then he walked forward and gave him a grin. "Finally decided to leave the front door?"

"You never know what could happen." Yugi told him. "Everything fine back here?"

"Nothing, everything has been peaceful, exactly how something like this should go, even though death was celebrated back in Egypt."

"If there is going to be one, I don't think we are participating in it."

"Didn't want to in the first place, I wish to fall asleep in my own bed, I miss it."

Yugi smiled. "Well, I'm going to check on the others."

He wandered over to the room where Jade's body was placed for people to view. Téa was sitting on one of the chairs placed around the room. There weren't many people in the room, but enough so it wasn't strange to be in a room alone with someone dead.

"How's everything in here?" Yugi asked her.

"Nobody with any necrophilia problems or suspicious virus that brings dead people to life, so I guess it's going pretty well." Téa sighed. "My parents are going to be livid when I get home, going on another dangerous adventure. As much as I want to go home, I can wait a day and a bit before I return to that."

Yugi rubbed scratched the back of his neck as he thought about his own mother. "That's a good point, but since the tournament is over, we should be smooth sailing from here on out, when we get home, I doubt we'll be so free then though."

"Yea, asses need to be handed out on platters. Are we almost done?"

"Twenty to twenty-five minutes give or take."

"Great, I'm hungry."

Yugi left Téa and walked to the lounge. He opened the slightly opened door and found quite a few people inside. Many were kids passed out of the sofas while few adults talked. Joey, Tristan and his father were playing a game on the floor that involved their Duel Monster cards that seemed to draw in a few of the older children that weren't ready to fall asleep.

He sat down beside Joey. "What are you playing?"

"No idea, but it is making time fly by." Tristan said. "Not all of us can day dream our time away so we decided to make up some rules and then play this game with our cards."

Yugi watched them play. After figuring out the rules himself, he also started to play. Then, someone tapped on his shoulder. He turned around and met Regan.

"It's time to go?" He asked.

"Yea, time to go back to the hotel." She told him. "The owners are kicking us out after spending hours here; they are taking care of everything."

"That's nice of them." Joey announced as he gathered his cards. "Let's go, we have places to be."

The rest of them gathered up their cards. Joey, Tristan, and Kayama walked out of the room leaving Regan and himself alone. He took a looked her over. "Are you okay, you look really tired?"

She laughed slightly. "As good as I can be right now; I'll be better after tomorrow."

He gave her an unsure look. "Alright, let's head to the front, I'm sure Tristan and Kaiba are ready to go."

She smiled lightly and grabbed his hand. They walked out and headed to the front exit and saw Kaiba and Tristan standing there.

"Ready to go Yugi?" Tristan asked as he threw a helmet at him and Yugi caught it. "Because, you driving us back."

Yugi started putting on his helmet and then he stopped to think about what Tristan had said. "Wait, can you say that again I thought I just heard-"

"Yup, you look wide and awake let's go, drive me to the hotel."

"I don't have a license."

Tristan shrugged and started to drag him out the door. He was hit in the face by the temperature change and Regan stayed at the door with her brother. Yugi turned to where Tristan was dragging him and saw Téa and Atem standing beside their rented motorcycle. He could see Joey and Kayama driving away on their motorcycles. He had no idea why Kaiba thought it was a good idea to rent out motorcycles for them, between the weather and amount it would cost him for the rentals, it seemed like he was enjoying spending money on them to watch them all freeze, except of his little family, Kaiba bought a really expensive car. Regan told him at supper the day before when she had decided to come out of her room that he spent two hundred forty thousand dollars on it.

As he approached, he tried to think of logically things, which were a quite a few, to talk Tristan out of his crazy idea when a grin started to form on Atem's face. On one look upon him Yugi knew who the real culprit was.

"Ready to take a ride?" Atem asked cheekily.

"I can't I don't have a license." Yugi pointed out.

"Didn't stop you from driving a hummer now did it?"

"That was different, there are cops everywhere here. On top of that, this is a motorcycle, something that can tip over or kill both of us just by hitting the break instead of the gas."

"It's just a bike, with a motor."

Yugi sighed. "Why do you want me to drive the bike?"

"So you can get your license that you keep avoiding."

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Regan walked in the darkened foggy hallway. She found it hard to breathe as she pulled out her swords. They glowed dimly in the fog as a scream pierced through the air. She started to run towards it. "Yugi! Yugi where are you?"

There was another scream that answered her call as she entered a room that the fog danced on the floor. The room was huge as she looked around to find where Yugi's scream came from. She couldn't see the ceiling as it was as black as most of the room was. Suddenly, the room shook and torches lit themselves as a shadow similar to the sphere that Devin attacked her with appeared from the ground. It grew and Regan saw Yugi wrapped in one of its tentacles.

"Put him down!" She shouted at the thing.

"Regan get out of here!" Yugi shouted before he was devoured into the shadow.

"Yugi!" The room grew darker as a laughed filled the air and she recognized it immediately. "Who are you?"

"I am who I am."

"Don't get biblical on me, tell me who you are or else."

"Or else you fight me with your puny swords, pathetic not to mention predictable."

She started towards him when sounds started to come from the ground. She turned her attention away from the shadow and towards the earth as a skeleton started to climb out of it in front of her. She didn't even bother to charge her swords as she brought them down on the skeleton's head smashing the skull to pieces and other bones that had got in the way of her swing. "You think that will stop me from saving Yugi or anyone else you might have taking? If you do your wrong, I will stop at nothing to protect them!"

"How can you protect others when you can't even protect yourself?" The shadow laughed. Suddenly, a sharp pain went through her lower back as something sliced through it as she screamed. She turned around and saw another skeleton with its sword only second away from plunging into her torso.

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She bolted up right in her hotel bed, breathing heavily and in a cold sweat. Then, a sharp pain entered her lower back and she gave out a sharp gasp. She got out of bed and turned on the lights. She put her hand up to the throbbing pain and felt something wet. She looked at her hand and saw blood. "What the-"

She walked over to the mirror in front of the dresser and turned her back towards the door. Her shirt was cut and was stained in her red life essence. She clenched her jaw and took off her shirt throwing it in the garbage. Her skin looked pale next to the red liquid as she examined how bad it was. Then she heard a knock on the door and not a second afterwards hearing it open.

"Ms. Heartin are you-" Roland started as she turned her head to him wide-eyed.

There wasn't a split second of thought before Roland shut the door and started to repeat the word sorry over and over again through the door as she found a bra and a half shirt from the drawers. She placed them on quickly and was so happy that the man had not seen her upper half of her body, but was furious at the fact that he had walked in on her not completely dressed. At least with Yugi, he was her age and she was wearing something similar to a bikini, but Roland, she didn't know how old he was let alone she was wearing anything above. She sighed as she moved to the door, it was the last time she wouldn't lock the door before going to bed. Lesson learned. She opened it to see Roland on his knees and head on the ground in front of her.

"I'm so sorry, Ms. Heartin. I was just worried that you were in trouble when you cried out sharply a few minutes ago."

"Sorry if I wakened you, I had a nightmare." She apologized. "And for the love of any god, stop addressing me so formally. I hate it."

Roland stood up and looked down at her in concern. "Of course, M-Regan, are you sure you're alright? You look pale and shaken."

She looked up the hallway and sighed as she opened the door all the way. "Come in."

Roland walked in and she closed the door.

"Regan, you're injured."

"Nothing unusual it seems." She replied sighed and wandered into the bathroom. She bent down, holding a back a hiss, and grabbed the first aid kit. She stood again and her hiss was released louder than what she wanted it to be. Roland appeared in the door way and took the kit from her hands.

"Let me."

She didn't argue with him as he led her to the middle of the room. She stood in front of the dresser and Roland knelt down behind her. She could see most of his torso clearly as he went through the medical bag. "What really brought you to my door, besides my sudden cry?"

"Don't think this in the wrong way, but every night at the same time, your light would turn on since we arrived at the hotel." Roland wiped her injury with a wipe nap and she tensed up at its cold touch. "I was wondering what might have caused the repeated incident and when I heard your shout, I thought maybe it was someone else turning on your light."

She looked at the clock that was backwards in the mirror. "What time would that be? I never really checked."

"3:21 and that's because your light would not turn off until the morning sunlight would come in, meaning you would not head back to bed." Roland scolded lightly. "Your brothers and Yugi worry over you very much and have noticed a difference."

"I know, these nightmares don't allow me to go back to sleep. I might just start sleeping in the day time, it seems safer." She told him as she thought about the numbers. They seemed too coincidental to be nothing.

"You can't do that, you have school, cheerleading and gymnastics. All of them require you to attend them in the day time."

"What are you doing up at three thirty in the morning?"

Roland didn't answer right away as he placed on a bandage. "I don't get much sleep anymore."

"Why's that?"

"I think about my life before being your brother's right hand man. My life before it was taken, your brothers were grateful enough to give me this job after my life changing event."

"What happened, if you don't mind me asking?"

"My wife and daughter were killed in an accident right in front of my eyes as they pulled out of the driveway. Ever since then, I haven't been the one to sleep for more than a few hours."

Regan immediately was hit with a wall of sadness and anger as her senses decided to kick into overdrive. Her head gave her a sharp pain, but she ignored it as Roland finished up by wrapping another bandage around her torso for extra protection. "I'm sorry for prying; I wasn't paying attention to your feelings when we slipped into the subject. I should have known better."

"I wanted to tell you it so there is nothing wrong." He stood up. "That should fix that problem."

"What problem?" Someone asked from her combining room door.

She turned to Seto who looked tired and reminded herself to lock all doors. "I hurt myself on the dresser on my way to the bathroom. Roland fixed it up for me after I asked him to when I noticed."

She didn't know if he bought into her lie or not as he sighed. "You need to stop hurting yourself; there are many people out there that wish to do that for you."

"Sorry Seto."

"Thank you Roland for helping after her clumsy being, you can go back to bed if you want to, it's still ridiculously early for anyone one to be up this early."

Roland bowed and proceeded to head out of the room.

"Thank you Roland." Regan told him as he shut the door. She turned to her brother. "What are you doing up? Aren't you flying us home after the funeral?"

"Yes I'm flying people home and it doesn't matter what I'm doing up, what are you doing up, you can see in the dark with ease, there is no reason for you to run into a dresser."

"I wasn't paying attention as I walked; I was slightly disorientated from another nightmare."

"You mean the same one since Jade was killed."

She nodded; she didn't want to answer it with her voice. The images were clear and her back was proof that it slipped through her defenses and was now on a more dangerous path. How it slipped passed and was still wandering about to get that deep into her dream world, she had no idea. Seto walked into her room and collapsed on the bed. "Seto?"

"You not the only with the bad dream now." He muttered.

Regan walked over to her bed and sat down on it. "Sorry it was probably my fault; the River's Puzzle has been acting stranger than usual, probably sent out waves to your room on my dream."

"I don't think it can do that, projections of your thoughts, sure, but I don't think it has that ability. Besides, mine was a little different from yours anyway."

"How so?"

Seto didn't answer as there was a knock on her door and Mokuba came through it with a distressed look on his face.

"Something wrong?" Seto asked him as he sat up.

"Just a nightmare, came here to make sure it wasn't real."

"It wasn't, come in join the club of nightmares." Regan told him as she patted on the bed.

Mokuba walked in and placed himself on the other side of the queen sized bed. They three of them sat there without a word. After a few minutes, Mokuba spoke. "Shouldn't we call someone to start moving Regan's things to the house?"

"I prefer to pack my own things."

"You don't have time for that, you have school." Seto told her. "I'll call now."

He started to rise from the bed but Regan flashed a look to Mokuba and both of them grabbed his arms pulling him back onto the bed.

"Stay here for a bit, I'm sure my stuff can wait." She insisted.

He looked at the two of them. "Now what?"

"Let's just talk." Mokuba answered.

"About what?"

"Anything, let's just chat about something, like movies, or the weather."

"It's cold outside." Regan started. "But it should warm up. I wonder by how much."

"Thirteen degrees." Seto answered.

"You checked didn't you."

"Yes."

They continued to talk about things like Mokuba had suggested. Eventually, they all managed to be on their backs on the bed with each if their heads touching. Then, their moment was broken by the sounds of her alarm.

"Dammit." She sighed not wanting to move.

"What time is that set for?" Seto asked.

"Eight in the morning giving me two hours to get ready."

Seto and Mokuba got up from the bed. "Then, we should leave. You have packing to do as well as get ready."

She wanted to protest as she kneeled on her bed. She was starting to get to know them better, but Seto was right, she had things to do. "Alright, see you at breakfast."

They left to their respected rooms and she locked both doors after they left. She turned to the dresser and pulled out a simple pair of black dress pants and a black shirt. She would have worn the black dress, but she didn't want to be outside where the weather as well as the people could change from good to bad without a warning.

Chapter 2 coming soon, hope you enjoyed.

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