Krystyn picked up the cloth covered rod and handed it to Mokuba. "Mokuba, I'd like you to hold this. I'm going to teach you a spell so that you can place the magic rocks outside without leaving this room. I know it probably sounds weird but trust me, it can be done. I'll help you."

Yami by now had regained a bit more of his senses and frowned at hearing Krystyn wanting to teach Mokuba a magic spell. "Krystyn, why do you have to use Mokuba as a conduit to do this spell? Can't you do it without the millennium rod? Why do you have to use Mokuba? He doesn't have any power."

Krystyn blinked and looked at him as Dartz laughed.

Yami was confused, why was Krystyn looking at him like he'd grown a second head? He was even more confused as to why Dartz was laughing.

Krystyn glared at Dartz, "What's so funny? He was your apprentice, you know. The one you wanted to succeed you! Yet you didn't even teach him one of the basics!"

Dartz stopped laughing and glared at her. Krystyn was happy to have that smug look wiped off his face.

Krystyn turned back to Mokuba as he was holding the rod. She kept hold of the cloth in case she needed it. She took Mokuba over to the window and instead of answering Yami she decided to show him how wrong he was. She told Mokuba to repeat what she said in his head and concentrate hard. Normally she'd insist they do it out loud together. But she feared with the boy's stuttering that it would only make it harder to get through this; especially trying to get the kid to learn to pronounce some of the words.

As Mokuba started his internal chant Yami noticed that Krystyn wasn't touching the boy at all. He was confused. How could she be performing magic through him without touching him?

Seeing the confused look on his face Dartz glared at him and then walked over to him but then was pissed off when he noticed that the fake millennium rod prevented him from getting too close to him.

Krystyn saw the angry look on her grandfather's face at being unable to get too close to Yami. But she also feared after hearing Yami stupidly spout out that because their power was stolen so was their ability that he'd go into lecture mode. When he did that there was no telling what he'd say. She couldn't allow Mokuba or Maura to hear anything he or Yami either for that matter, had to say. Mokuba simply because he doesn't need the distraction and if anything hurtful is said it will cause the boy to break and they'll never be able to do this. Plus she didn't think she could stand to see the boy cry over anything that could be said; Maura for roughly the same reasons. Plus she might be able to help the boy and she'd be unable to if they say anything bad. Though Krystyn could sense a very small touch of magic within the girl it was enough that with her help that together they should be able to place these rocks.

"Maura, how would you like to help Mokuba place these rocks?"

Maura looked up and smiled, "Really?"

"Yes, of course. Now come over here and hold on to Mokuba's arm and concentrate and see yourself outside holding a bag of rocks and Mokuba you do the same. Mokuba you go right and Maura you go left. Meet at the back of the castle then I'll help you get back from there." Krystyn said, placing her hand on Maura to help boost her small ability. Then she placed a sound proof barrier over the two of them so that only she could see and hear both sides. This way even if she wanted to interfere with her grandfather's conversation with Yami the children wouldn't hear.

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As Dartz glared down at Yami he asked, "What gave you the impression that the child had no magic power? I believe I told you he has very powerful magic."

"Well yes, but then Pandora stole his power!"

"Stole all the power he had, yes, but that does not take away his ability to generate more. It takes time to generate more. The time it takes to generate more depends on the person. Most people it only takes a couple days, a few weeks or even a couple of months before it's completely restored; while others it could take years for their power to be completely restored. It takes a lot more than what Pandora or even I myself did to take away a person's ability to generate magic."

"You mean, someday my power will return too?"

Dartz rolled his eyes, "Yes of course it will return, perhaps even stronger than before. It won't be known if your power will simply return or return with interest as it did with the boy. But I believe it will return with interest and soon. While I stole your power you are already awake. Few people can have that much power removed and be wide awake within moments of it happening. Most when that much power is taken it usually takes hours or days to come too."

"You mean, Mokuba has power and it's stronger than it was before?"

At that Krystyn threw a small power blast into Maura to sustain her for a few minutes and removed her hand to make certain the children didn't hear her and said, "Yes it's a lot more powerful than before, but you wouldn't know that now would you? No, why? Because you were so convinced that he could never ever use magic again you stopped looking at him. You stopped paying attention to him! Had you paid even a little attention or really looked at him you'd have noticed his power had returned."

Yami glared at her, "What do you mean I stopped looking at him or paying attention to him?!"

Dartz sighed, "What she means is, we have been keeping an eye on you. I still had hopes of you someday succeeding me. But now I see that you are not the one. When the fight with Pandora was completed you returned to my place and gathered your things and left shortly thereafter, rather than choosing to return home to your family. I had hoped that this would mean a major rift might form and you'd come back to me!"

Krystyn shook her head and said, "I believe deep down due to your mistaken belief that taking magic means taking away one's ability that you were sad. Both your brothers lost their power and could never learn magic. However you grew up together with Kaiba. You were always together through thick and thin, before you ever started to learn magic. Because of that, the fact that you believed Kaiba would never be able to use magic didn't bother you so much as you knew he didn't like magic. So in a sense you never stopped looking at Kaiba. Since you never noticed that he had power before, the fact that you believed it was gone forever, didn't bother you."

"She is correct however after you were told of the boy's powerful magic, a part of you got excited at the prospect of teaching him magic! You never even noticed he had power till after I brought it up and you believed my lies about his power getting out of control." Dartz said.

"What? You lied to us?" Yami was shocked he couldn't believe Dartz had lied to them!

"Yes, the truth is the reason his power never materialized to protect him from the abuse he suffered, by either lashing out or calling for help is someone has been secretly stealing his power for years. Whether this was to protect the boy or to gain more power I cannot say. Due to my aging condition I could not determine which or who it was. Though I suspect it was someone who could get close enough to the boy to do it without him knowing what they were doing to him. I'd have to examine him to know more."

"Could it be the Dice woman you speak of?" Seto asked.

"No, I do not believe it was her or anyone working for her. She wouldn't do something like that, personally. Not for moral reasons mind you, but she hates getting her hands dirty by going out and stealing energy herself. She'd much rather happily steal it from her servants. They go out and steal the power and even when she takes theirs she leaves them with just enough to go out and steal more! I don't believe any servant of hers would bother to play up to the child just to steal his power over the course of several years and even continues to do so."

"What? You're saying someone is still draining Mokuba's power?!" Yami asked.