Yugi finished healing Maura.
"How did you do that?" Maura asked.
"Yugi, here's a healer." Joey said.
"I've never seen a healer before?" Maura said.
"So, exactly where did you come from?" Joey asked.
"Joey, that's rude." Yugi scolded.
"It's all right, my name's Princess Maura Vanslyke. I'm from the Sky Kingdom." she said with a curtsy bow.
"Then how did you end up here?" Yugi asked.
"Not to mention; having Mokuba here call you his sister." Joey said.
"My stepmother said I had two choices, I could be married or I could die. I didn't like either option, so I ran away. About my third night out, I met Yami. He brought me home with him. Then he and Seto decided they would adopt me. It wasn't easy but my stepmother reluctantly agreed to allow them to adopt me."
"Speaking of the king, we should let them know what's happened." Yugi said.
"Hey, where'd that creep we pushed into the room go?" Joey asked.
"He must have slipped out and got away while we were busy with Maura and Mokuba." Yugi said. "Well never mind him for now, let's get out of here."
Just as they walked out Mokuba's ears perked up and took off. He'd learned to pick up on people calling him even from a distance. It turned out to be very useful in avoiding beatings. Everyone was confused as to why he ran off, as they didn't hear anything. A minute later, they heard.
"Mokuba! Maura!"
It was Ryo. He'd returned 10 minutes after the kid's went outside and was concerned when he couldn't find either one. Mokuba ran over and jumped into his arms.
"Where have you been? I've been worried sick!" Ryo said.
"S-Sorry. M-Maura w-wanted to play outside."
"But that doesn't explain where you've been and what happened to your jacket? Is that blood on it?"
Before Mokuba could answer Yugi, Joey and Maura walked up.
"Yugi, it's nice to see you again." Ryo said.
"You too." Yugi said.
"What happened here? Maura, is that blood on your coat?" Ryo asked.
Mokuba's it was a little hard to tell as his coat was dark blue, but Maura's was a very light blue. But it was clear something happened.
"Um, yeah it's a long story." Maura said.
"Make it short." Ryo said.
Maura gave a quick explanation as to what happened.
"How is this possible Yugi? Mokuba told me that you put a protection spell over both his necklaces."
"Well I only put it on his baby dragon, but I did learn later that Master Yami's necklace made contact with his angel one and that it spread to that one." Yugi said.
"Then how did he get hurt?" Ryo asked.
"I-I'm not sure."
"You'd better get sure. You do know Seto will hit the ceiling when he learns about this, don't you?" Ryo asked.
Yugi gulped. He'd forgotten that Seto had a hot temper and it was bad enough under normal circumstances but they all knew that Mokuba was a touchy subject. If it was anything bad or negative then well you'd rather be anywhere but there. He wasn't quite so bad now as he was when Mokuba was gone, but they'd still rather not tell him anything negative. He knew Ryo was right about Seto, though he felt he'd hit the roof, not just the ceiling. So, he walked over to Mokuba. "Mokuba, may I see your necklaces?"
Mokuba nodded and unzipped his jacket.
Yugi got closer and looked at them.
"Well, Yugi?" Ryo asked.
"Well I can't be sure but I guess when my powers changed the spell must have been broken. I promise this one won't. No matter what happens in the future, this spell won't be broken. I'm going to place a solid one on both of his necklaces. I can guarantee this one won't break. No one will be able to do this or hurt him physically again." Yugi said and concentrated. Soon a bright green and blue bubble appeared around the necklaces then around Mokuba. "Now all you have to do is connect the necklaces and it will spread to the others. This time I guarantee it won't break."
"T-thanks Yugi." Mokuba said then he turned to Ryo and tugged on his jacket.
Ryo smiled and bent down and pulled out his necklace.
Maura was surprised she hadn't noticed that Mokuba and Ryo had necklaces similar to each other and that they connected.
"Well let's go inside. I realize Seto and Yami are probably busy but we have to tell them what's happened." Ryo said.
"Uh, you guys go ahead. I think I'll sit this one out." Joey said.
"Coward." Ryo said.
"Hey the king already thinks of me as his pet dog, no way I'm going anywhere near him when he finds out you screwed up and left his kid alone." Joey said.
"I was gone 15 minutes at the most and I told them to stay put. We were inside the castle. I didn't think anyone would try to kill him!" Ryo said.
"Enough!" Yugi said. "You're going with us Joey. You were there when this happened, you know the king will drag you down to see him when he finds out."
Joey just grumbled as they went to tell Seto and Yami what happened. Something none of them wanted to do.