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Chapter List
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Disclaimer:
Not mine. If they were Bakura would have won his duels instead of being
defeated by, for example, a God Card. And Yami would have acknowledged that Bakura
had a legitimate grievance�I mean hello, the Pharaoh�s soldiers committed
genocide on his village.

I
wished that the others trusted my yami a bit more. If they weren�t so insistent
that he wasn�t allowed to take over my body for these research sessions I
wouldn�t have to try and keep up with and convey all the esoterica he brings
into the question. And if they�d listened to what he�d said at times
they wouldn�t have wasted time exploring ideas that we told them
wouldn�t work. But Isis only ever listens to
Atemu, and he never seems to listen to anyone but - very rarely - Yugi, especially
since the ceremonial duel where by his victory he condemned himself and Bakura
to share our bodies. The things I�ve dreamed of doing to those two sometimes...

And
Yami insists that if Atemu just let him cast one spell on the Puzzle he
could find a spell that would work inside of a week at most. I shook my head,
dismissing that line of thought as I made my way through the Game Shop. Yugi
had phoned me, sounding all excited about a spell that Isis and Malik had found
together. Atemu thought it was what we needed to give the yamis their own
bodies. Bakura wasn�t so optimistic, his opinion of Isis� intelligence had gone
down over the last four months, and he�d never thought much of Atemu�s
intelligence.

�You�re
all certain that I can�t just let Bakura take over?� My now customary
complaint. I knew what everyone thought, that my yami abused me and was
trying to bully me into letting him do this, but they were wrong. He hadn�t,
the worst he�d ever done to me was harangue me over my refusal to fight for
myself, and even then I�d felt a weird undercurrent of concern and almost fear
for me. He also hadn�t even asked me to try and get the others to deal
with him directly, just to cast a spell he�d taught me when I was worried about
failing Biology five years ago that would transfer the information in the books
to the Ring on all the research materials we were using. I waited for them all
to insist that Bakura had to let me paraphrase his words before continuing.

�I
heard you and Malik found a spell you think will work Isis?�

�No,
we found two spells. I found mine in one of the books your yami said was
useless, but I think it�s the better choice, since you�ll be able to cast it by
yourself.�

-The
closest thing to what we need would be...say she found and misunderstood a
physical manifestation spell or something not...- Whatever Bakura was thinking
of it had to be bad.

�Can
we see that one first then?� Shock, horror and a weird sort of resignation came
from Bakura when he read it through me.

:What�s
wrong with this spell Bakura?:

-You�d
find it immoral, probably evil. The Pharaoh can�t understand what this
means, or they wouldn�t be so happy. Check the other one?- He finished on a
note of slightly more hope: Malik had listened to him when he�d advised
them to turn away from some avenues of research.

�Malik,
can I see your idea too? Bakura says I�ll think this spell is evil when he
explains it.�

-This
one...might work for the Pharaoh, possibly, but it would kill me, and probably
destroy his ability to use Shadow Magic after a while.-

�Yami
sees problems with both of the spells. He can explain it.� And I twisted my
mind, forcing him into control.

�Tomb
robber! Return Ryou�s body to him!� Atemu should know not to try and give
commands to Bakura by now.

�Why?
So you can force him to try and convey things he doesn�t understand?� Bakura
snarled and for once I was in full agreement with him. �He�s tired of playing
the interpreter between us.� And now he used my own words. �Let me explain the
problems with each of your suggestions. He laid the two spells out in front of
him.

�This
one,� pointing to Isis� spell, �is intended to
create ensouled construct-slaves. The first and longer part, to here,� nearly
three quarters of the spell, �is to create the construct�s body, the rest is
designed to draw an entrapped soul out of its previous container, and into the
construct body. All well and good, but woven into the spell, so seamlessly and
subtly that I don�t think even your Dark Magician could remove it without
destroying the spell, are threads of compulsion and control that would make any
soul housed in such a body nothing but the slave of the one who created it. For
instance here, the spell strips the occupying soul of the very concept of
freedom, as applied to that soul.�

�No
wonder you told Ryou he�d think it was evil. It is.� I agreed fully with
Malik�s opinion, despite the strange and subtle hinting in Bakura�s mind that
he�d accept a body like that if I asked him to. �What�s wrong with my spell?
It�ll make a copy of your hikari�s body for you won�t it?�

�Yes,
an exact copy. That includes fingerprints and retinal patterns, meaning no
legal identity for us, and my soul is deeply incompatible with Ryou�s body -
the only reason I can use it is because his soul remains present in it, even
when I take over.� I hadn�t known about that. �And Atemu...Yugi�s Shadow Magic
isn�t as powerful as yours...I�d say perhaps three quarters as powerful. You
should already know that, from using his body, but it means that you wouldn�t
have access to the same power you had back in Egypt if your body was a copy of
his.�

�What
does he mean?� Atemu was displaying his ignorance, looking to Isis for answers - when she
remained silent Bakura expanded on his words.

�Two
things determine the amount of Shadow Magic someone can draw, first the nature
of their soul, and secondly the capacity of their body to channel it. Unnatural
colouring - like our hair and eyes - is often a mark of really high levels of
Shadow Magic.�

:Our
hair and eyes?: I had to know what he meant.

-Red
eyes are only natural in albinos, and metallic eyes and hair aren�t natural in
anything at all.- He was referring to his and Atemu�s old form, but...

�I
thought the reason I understood Shadow Magic better than you was that the
Puzzle tortured your memories away from you, and I spent my time in the Ring
studying Shadow Magic, but it isn�t that, is it?� Wonder edged his voice at
that idea.

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�You
can�t really believe you understand Shadow Magic better than I do!� Atemu
sounded outraged, amusingly outraged, and I just smiled at him, inciting him to
further anger.

:Metallic
eyes and hair? And what about my colouring?:

�Well,
you could always play a Shadow Game with me to find out. I learned almost
nothing about Shadow Magic from the time your father�s soldiers committed
genocide,� And it had been genocide, even if no one had ever thought of it that
way, genocide and worse than genocide. �until I was sealed into the Ring. The
rules are thus...you have five chances to name one thing I learned of Shadow
Magic in that time period. I must either call a Shadow Monster to witness when
I learned what you named, or allow you to use Change of Heart to ask one
question to prove when I learned it. Should you ask an additional question
while I am under Change of Heart�s influence you will spend a day trapped in
the Puzzle as penalty.� He went pale at that thought, not that I really blamed
him. Something occurred to me then, a way he could get around that if I didn�t
spell it out. �Should you choose to ask a question that cannot prove when I
learned to use Shadow Magic in such a way you will suffer the same penalty as for
asking additional questions, and it will be taken as given that I did not learn
it during the period in question. When I win you will allow me to copy the
information on Shadow Magic from your Puzzle and use it to design a spell that
will give us our own forms back and cast the same spell on the Puzzle that I
cast on the Ring the first time I used Yadonushi�s body - after you�ve paid off
any penalties you�ve earned. In the event that you win I won�t demand any more
input into the choice of spells used to grant us physical form.� That idea was
terrifying, the thought of trusting myself to his abilities...but I couldn�t
think of anything else suitable to offer. �Are these terms acceptable?�

-Originally
my eyes and hair were both metallic silver. Your colouring is a bit more
natural, but still white hair does not normally appear in conjunction
with brown eyes.- I didn�t mention the other inhuman things about him even
while he was denying what he was with all his will...the fingernails that he
regularly broke his nail clippers on and that grew into claws left to
themselves or the fangs and sharp incisors that his father had paid a dentist
an obscene amount of money to file down. He�d hidden in his soulroom, leaving
me in control during that, and then forgotten it had ever happened.

�When
I win you�ll let me use the spell Isis found to give you physical form, and swear
never to try to take the Millennium Items again.�

�No,
but I�ll let Ryou cast it, or remain a passenger in his body for eternity
and allow you to cast a spell that prevents me taking control against his
will.�

:I
won�t do that to you.:

-You
won�t have to. I only learned two things about Shadow Magic during the
period in question.-

�Agreed.�
I pulled Change of Heart out of Ryou�s deck and handed it to the Pharaoh.

�Remember
to give that back to us afterwards.� I smiled, letting him know how confident I
felt. �What is your first guess?�

�You
learned how to summon Shadow Monsters by spying on my lessons.�

�Stern
Mystic.� The elderly looking Shadow Monster appeared without any fanfare.

�Little
Scholar, is your Light having trouble at school again? Or moving to a different
country?�

�No.�
I knew I was blushing faintly as I replied, but it didn�t matter now. �I need
you to tell these people about the first time I summoned you. He wasn�t the
first Shadow Monster I summoned, but the earlier ones can�t speak in a way we
can understand.�

�As
you wish. I expected to find what I always found when I was summoned to Kuru
Eruna, my summoner prostrate with exhaustion and another man standing by to
explain what emergency needed my knowledge. What I actually found was the most
beautiful two year old I�ve ever seen, asking me to teach him how to read and
write.�

�Thank
you, you may go.� I turned my attention back to the others answering Malik�s
unspoken questions. �The few who were literate in my village had more important
things to do than to teach me to be likewise, but it was considered vital that
I be as accomplished as possible.� I fingered my Ring thinking about why
I�d needed to be accomplished. �Next idea Atemu.�

�You
learned how to use the Millennium Ring before you were sealed into it.� He�d
wasted another guess as I�d hoped.

�Hell
no! Use Change of Heart.� He summoned the Shadow Monster and took control of me
as specified, then he asked his question.

�When
did you learn how to use the Millennium Items?�

�After
I was trapped within one of the cursed things.� He released me, eyes as wide as
Yugi�s with his shock.

�If
you think they�re cursed why did you want to collect them?�

�I
didn�t...well, in Egypt I did, so I could
destroy them. But since I came out of the Ring I only wanted to get my hands on
each of them long enough to cast that spell I mentioned earlier. And no, I
won�t tell you what it is. You thought it was �the rantings of a crazed
peasant� back in Egypt, so you don�t deserve
to know.�

:Yami!:
Ryou protested and I threw the memory in question at him angrily.

�Next
idea.�

�The
only way you could have learned to cast true Shadow Magic spells was by spying
on my priests after Kuru Eruna was destroyed.�

�Lady
of Faith.� I blushed again as she appeared. �She was the strongest spellcasting
Shadow Monster we had a focal object for. Lady of Faith, tell these people
about the first time I summoned you, please.� I smiled at her, letting her see
how beautiful I found her.

�I
was summoned to Kuru Eruna and I found Stern Mystic there with his hand on the
shoulder of the three year old boy who�d summoned me. Stern Mystic said that
I�d be a better choice to teach him spellcraft, and asked if I would. I tried
to tailor my spells to the ones he was interested in.� A faint frown of
disapproval from me prompted her to stop there, and I dismissed her.

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I
was horrified by the way Atemu had so thoughtlessly rejected my yami�s plea to
at least try to find a way to free the souls trapped in the Millennium
Items. Especially since his memory had included a bit of what he�d had to do
to get that audience so soon after Atemu took his father�s throne. No wonder
he�d accepted the �help� Zork offered and desecrated the bastard�s father�s
body in revenge. I�d never seen Bakura beg for anything before; he must
have learned that there was no point to it, because it wouldn�t get him what he
needed. He had every reason to hate Atemu, and to want the Millennium
Items...I�d never understood that, or even tried to. And the way I pretended he
wasn�t real while taking everything he offered to me...I was just surprised he
didn�t hate me.

I
pulled myself out of my guilty thoughts and focused on what was happening in
Bakura�s game.

�You
didn�t learn how to summon Diabound until after Kuru Eruna was destroyed.�

�You
had to learn how to summon your ka-beast? Call Change of Heart, ask me
why I summoned Diabound when I was a child.�

Atemu
obeyed, I suspected he was afraid that if he didn�t ask the question Bakura
suggested he wouldn�t get the answer he needed, but he still didn�t phrase it quite
the way Bakura did. Still, I wondered...

:Would
he be tortured while he was in the Puzzle under the terms of your Penalty
Game?:

�Why
did you summon your ka-beast before your village was destroyed?�

-Yes.
He�d be tortured every time the souls trapped in the Puzzle had the chance to,
because of what he did in the memory I just showed you. That memory�s the
reason I wasn�t tortured when I was inside the Ring.-

�As
a playmate. The other children wouldn�t play with me...children are sensitive
to anything weird, and I was kept very busy...studying.� As he finished the
explanation he swept his hand through his hair in a way that I knew was
provocative, very much so. After I�d agreed to remember the �harmless� memories
from when he�d taken my body over one such memory was of him studying himself
in a mirror, and checking out the effects of various mannerisms...funny when I
look back on it. His words had brought back some unpleasant memories of my own
childhood too...none of the other children would play with me either,
until I got into RPG, and introduced them to Monster World. I sometimes
wondered how much of the other children enjoying Monster World was their
natural inclination, and how much was something Bakura�d found a way to
influence them into enjoying. But I�d never asked, or wanted to know. I watched
the way everyone reacted to my yami from behind his eyes, I could tell they
were all lusting after him. Once I�d asked him why he�d never taken any of the
men or women who�d shown an interest in him up on their offers...he�d explained
that since it was my body he didn�t have the right to have sex in it...to fight
and kill in it, but not to have sex. I never did understand that.

Change
of Heart had released him while I was musing, obviously. �Last guess now
Pharaoh.�

�You
didn�t learn how to move to the Shadow Realm until you spied on my lessons.�

�Celtic
Guardian.� He glanced flirtatiously at the newly summoned Shadow Monster,
another mannerism I�d seen him practise. �Tell these people about the lessons
you gave me...how they started, where they took place, and how I got there.�

�The
Lady of Faith turned up at my...dojo I think you�d call it. She had a four year
old kid beside her who probably got more propositions than the Pharaoh did. She
introduced him as her pupil of a year, and asked me to teach him how to fight
without magic, since his elders weren�t happy with his abilities in Shadow
Magic. I don�t know why not...he was getting to his lessons by himself within a
month.�

�Some
of them thought I should be learning spells of a different inclination.� I
could feel the sensual shrug Yami made as he spoke. �You remember the
difficulties I had in training with you as well. Thank you, though. You can
leave now.�

�What
some of your elders thought you shouldn�t be using such dangerous spells as you
favour?�

�Actually,
Pharaoh, no. They thought I should be learning spells for fighting, rather than
illusions and spells affecting emotions. The two answers that would have won
you the game were either; how to use Shadow Magic offensively, or how to work
around Shadow Magic wards...such as the one that kept me from summoning
Diabound without the permission of one of five adults. That was put on me, and
tied to me and my own magic, both types, with my scar. But really, you should
have thought of the first answer by yourself, if you weren�t blinded by your
assumptions about me.� Venom laced his every word, and for once I agreed with
him. I mean...if he could summon Shadow Monsters and cast other forms of Shadow
Magic spell, as well as summon Diabound before Kuru Eruna was destroyed
why wouldn�t he have fought in her defence unless he couldn�t use Shadow Magic
as a weapon for some reason. �Now, your Puzzle please?�

Atemu
handed it over reluctantly, he�d agreed to the terms, but he�d never expected
to have to fulfil them, I could tell that. Idiot...I knew for a fact that
Bakura�d saved his precious Yugi at least twice, and half the time when he lost
to Atemu it was because the Pharaoh had an unfair advantage - or because I�d
interfered. The first spell my yami cast was very similar to the one I�d been
casting on my textbooks for the past five years without knowing why. The second
one felt almost holy. And the Puzzle didn�t feel as...evil as it always had
before. I�d never quite got why Yugi insisted Atemu was so very good and Bakura
was evil when his Item felt evil, while mine felt pure, not quite good,
but neutral at least.

�I�ll
give you details of the spell when I�ve come up with it.� With those words
Bakura retreated into the Ring, leaving it to me to reassure the others. Or
not, considering how hostile they were to him. I decided to simply leave.

�Don�t
keep wasting your time. We should have done this from the start - except you�re
too much of a control freak, and Isis is too brainwashed to object to your stupidity
Atemu.�

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There
wasn�t the right spell in the stuff I got from the Puzzle, but there was enough
for me to come up with something that�d work, and another spell that just made
me even more contemptuous of Atemu. I figured there was no way he�d have
thought about how to get legal IDs for us, so I came up with a nice
cover story for the both of us and inveigled Kaiba into meeting with us to work
out the details.

�What
do you want Bakura?�

�I�ve
got a plan to get us legal IDs when we get our own bodies, but I need to know
if your tech can do what I think it can. For Atemu�s ID anyway. The cover story
I�ve got planned for myself doesn�t need any help.� We were in Ryou�s house,
since anything public would have been too risky.

�I�m
still not convinced...what do you want me to help with?� The Priest still
didn�t entirely believe that there even were two souls in our bodies.

�Pharaoh,
that spell I sent you almost a week ago, cast it now.� When he hesitated I told
him what he would want to hear. �It won�t work right for me. It was designed
for the use of the Pharaoh,� not that that would keep it from working for any
other human, �and there�s a number of assumptions that won�t work right for me.
I sent you the version with a determined duration, about an hour.�

�Very
well Tomb Robber.� He cast the spell, and Yugi staggered as he appeared in
front of us dressed in the full regalia that seemed to be so important to him.
I grabbed onto the midget to steady him - the idiot hadn�t thought to warn him
about casting the spell of course.

�I
figured he could pass as your half-uncle, or half-cousin. Raised in the
Egyptian slums without any paperwork, but with a bit more security than most
because your grandfather left the Egyptian woman who carried his child with
enough money to set up a small business of some sort, or to act as enough of a
dowry to get a man to marry her even though she�d been defiled.� I turned to
Kaiba then. �Details can come later, but given a Polaroid can your technology
make a copy suitable for a passport?�

�Yes...I
think that should be possible...� The CEO was obviously thinking about just how
it would be possible. It sounded as if I�d offered him a technical challenge.

�Good.
Atemu, we�ll go to Egypt through the Shadow
Realm to get that Polaroid. It�ll work if you�re just wearing your kilt, none
of the jewellery, time is limited. I think realism will be satisfied if
we just get the passport sent to a holding address in Egypt and pick it up after we
get our own bodies. Then pay for a plane ticket here in cash - that or have a
flight booked for you and a ticket held at the airport for you.�

�I
don�t think we can afford that...can we aibou?� After all the Duel Monsters
tournaments they�d won? Didn�t they have any financial sense?

�It
doesn�t matter. I make a lot of money by using Shadow Magic to remove scars.�
I�d take them at their word. �You can take one of my clients, it will more than
pay for the plane ticket.�

�How
much do you charge?� Kaiba�s voice was detached, but I could tell he had a
personal reason for wanting to know.

�It
varies, depending on a lot of things. How old the scar is, how extensive,
whether or not I�ll have to work on them again, how far I have to travel to
heal them...all sorts of things factor into it.� Including whether I had sympathy
for them. �This woman has an abusive husband, but one who gives her plenty of
money. She pays a million Yen to keep the injuries he gives her from scarring -
they�re always bad enough to scar as well.� Neither of the Game Kings
understood why she�d stay, that was obvious. But Kaiba did.

�What
hold does he have on her?�

�The
usual; family. Mother�s dead, her little sister�s so disabled she needs
constant care. This lets her father work, and she�s sort of saving up for when
the bastard gets tired of her. She�s lasted a lot longer than most.�

�Because
of what you do for her?� It wasn�t really a question, but I answered it anyway.

�It
helps that I keep her looking good for the bastard, but more importantly she�s
smart enough to play games with him. He thinks what I do for her�s an expensive
day spa for example, and she�s siphoning money off to invest.� Not that I was
going to mention how I�d advised her in ways to appease him, keep his interest
and invest her money.

�Smart
of her.� While Kaiba obviously approved the other two seemed rather dubious
about the idea.

�Whatever
her morals it would be wrong to refuse her help on that basis. I agree -
provided Ryou is the one to introduce me to her. He does know about
this?�

-Do
you mind Yadonushi-sama?-

:Go
ahead and appease his suspicions.:

�Yes,
and he approves a lot. Now, I think we could use some artful damage to that
kilt. Yugi, could you go and get some dirt, there�s a basket just inside the
door, half fill that please. I�ll lend you a robe while I sort out the kilt,
and you can smear some of the dirt onto your body Atemu. Well, move!� They
obeyed eventually, I used spells, a touch of bleach and some of the dirt Yugi
had collected to make Atemu�s kilt appear old and worn and he smeared the rest
on his body and into his hair.

We
went to Egypt through the Shadow
Realm, and I took a Polaroid of him before his manifestation dissolved and he
returned to Yugi�s body. Kaiba took the photo, and the holding address I�d
given him.

�I�ll
contact you when the photo�s ready.�

�No,
just send it to the Mutous, they�re the ones who have to arrange for the
passport.�

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