Seeing the portal Yugi walked over to Zariah and Mokuba and asked, "You opened a portal for us?"

Zariah stood up and shook her head, "No, someone else with untapped power opened it by accident."

"How did they open it by accident?" Yugi questioned.

"Someone who has power but doesn't use it has untapped power. Now your getting here was caused by a collision of two magic's. When that happens and someone with untapped power were to touch the center of the collision a portal will open. Now you must hurry before they come through."

"Um, yeah goodbye. Let's go Mokuba."

Mokuba looked at Zariah.

Zariah smiled and said, "Go on, you better get home."

Mokuba smiled and gave her a quick hug and then ran and caught up and took Yugi's hand. Then they went through the portal.

"Mmm…I best keep a sharp eye on this situation. He could live a very happy life and it's rare for one of my charges to get such an opportunity. However I am concerned over who caused them to be transported. Obviously whoever it was had no concerns on whether or not they would be able to return or not. Something must have happened to the watcher as I didn't sense him watching. Someone like that would have continued to watch and see what happened. While I listened to Mokuba I added a bit to his bracelet to alert me if he's ever close to the watcher." Then as she watched the portal close she shook her head, "Though I have to say I was wrong on one thing. When I first saw the protection spell on Mokuba's necklace I assumed it was a powerful warrior and his magic far exceeded my own. Keh, he's the one who did put that on there, huh. Here I thought they had someone with great power. Well I could change it and make it stronger, but it's adequate for now. I won't interfere with it unless it becomes necessary." With that she turned and went back to her tent.

x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x-x-x-x-x

Yugi looked around and signed in relief at finally being back in the castle where it was warm. He wondered though who it was that brought them back? Before he had time to think on it further he heard a noise behind him. He turned and nearly jumped out of his skin seeing the King standing there. He quickly bowed, getting on his hands and knees.

Mokuba too was happy to not only be back in the castle where it was warm but to have his baby dragon again. He too heard the noise and was happy to see Seto standing there. He ran over and threw his arms around his waist happily.

Seto smiled at the little boy and put his arm around his shoulder, then glared at Yugi, "What the hells going on here Yugi? I expected to find you and Mokuba in here, not out gallivanting around outside in the snow." Seto said.

"W-what does g-gall…"

"It means running around all over the place." Normally Seto would try to help the boy say it, but at the moment he was too angry at Yugi for taking Mokuba out of the castle that he just answered.

Mokuba could tell his brother was angry but he was so happy that despite that he answered him anyway. It caused him to hug him tighter. Now he was sure that he'd always be able to trust asking Seto something. Then he remembered what Seto had said, and replied, "B-but we-we weren't running anywhere."

Seto ignored Mokuba's comment knowing Yugi would understand what he meant. "Well Yugi?"

"I-I'm sorry my King. I-I was only trying to help."

"Help? How? By taking him outside without a coat on in this weather? Stand up and talk to me!"

Yugi reluctantly got up and gathered his courage to look him in the eye and said, "No, you don't understand sire. I had no plans to leave the castle. His baby dragon was supposed to come to us, not us, go to it."

"Then what happened?"

"Z-Zariah said it w-was because s-someone else w-was using magic the same time as Yugi."

Seto frowned and looked at Mokuba, "This is the same woman who gave you your cloak, right?"

Mokuba nodded, surprised Seto remembered.

"What was she doing there?"

"She never said, sire. I swear I never even heard her approach, but she did say that someone was using a magic spell similar to mine and they crossed paths."

"B-but Yugi helped me big brother. See…" Mokuba held up his baby dragon for Seto to see. "H-he helped me get back my baby dragon!"

Seto wanted to yell at Yugi more and ask more questions, but he couldn't do it with Mokuba there. He didn't want to upset him. He ruffled the boy's hair and said, "That's great kiddo. Come on, it's getting late and I have to get you ready for our dinner with Mahaado and his family."

"Okay, bye Yugi." Mokuba yelled, waving and going to the door to wait for Seto.

Seto glared at him, "We'll discuss this more later!" he said in a low voice to keep Mokuba from hearing.

Yugi gulped hearing that, knowing the King would be back later to yell at him without Mokuba to calm him.

x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x-x-x-x-x

At the top of the basement stairs Seto sighed.

Mokuba holding Seto's hand tugged a little asking, "W-what wrong Seto?"

"I just remembered we have to find Yami and Maura."

"Why, where d-did they go?"

"I sent them on the premise of locating you."

"What?"

"Sorry, I mean…" Seto thought for a moment. At first Mokuba wasn't sure he was going to answer. "Have you ever heard the expression a wild goose chase?"

Mokuba smiled and nodded, "Nosaka once sent T-Tristan to do something. Ryo asked why she was sending him on a wild goose chase. When I asked, she said it meant she was sending him somewhere just to get him out of the way for a while because he was being a pain."

"Yeah, that's about what it means. I sent Yami and Maura to look for you while I went to get you."

It was then that it hit Mokuba, Yami had come to Yugi's office looking for him, but left telling Yugi to let him know if he were to show up. So if Yami didn't know he was still at Yugi's then how did Seto? "S-Seto? How did y-you know I was s-still with Yugi?"

"From what I've heard and seen of your step-mother I figured she would beat you if you just dropped off a package and returned saying you left it because no one was home. Unlike Yami, apparently I pay attention to what's happened to you in the past. So I just had a feeling you wouldn't have left the book without telling Yugi."

Mokuba just nodded, 'Seto's so smart. He's right. I did think about just leaving it. But I wouldn't have been able to do it in the end.'

"I h-had tod-de-l-liver a basket of jams and t-things to my stepmother's friend Allison Milian. S-she w-wasn't home, so I didn't see w-why I couldn't just leave the basket and g-go home. It w-was g-getting dark w-with m-mean looking clouds rolling in." Mokuba giggled, "I-it reminded m-me of a rug. I-it was unrolling like that."

"Really, hm maybe we should watch storm clouds together sometime. Maybe we'll see it together someday. I've never seen clouds do that. But then again I rarely paid attention to the clouds. So the woman wasn't home?"

Mokuba shook his head no. "She had a s-screened in patio that had the s-shutters down to k-kept the rain out. So I t-thought the basket would be okay there."

"Let me guess when you returned home and she found out you just left it she beat you and refused to feed you."

Mokuba just nodded.

"Hmp, just as I thought. Well that won't happen here. Come on, let's get going."

x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x-x-x-x-x x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x-x-x-x-x x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x-x-x-x-x

A/N: I did see that once years and years ago. It was really freaky. The storm clouds did literally look like someone was just unrolling a giant black rug.