The change was so quick that Meioh almost didn't notice. But having been around both his masters on the battlefield had allowed him to see the differences in their appearances right away. While Yugi had soft curved cheeks and big bright violet eyes, Yami was all angles and slightly taller with crimson eyes. His body language was all about confidence and attitude while Yugi had the confidence too, it was clouded with self-doubt.

Yami Yugi narrowed his eyes and spoke, his voice a tone deeper than his other. "Meioh, Dark Magician, what ever you wish to be called, I want to know where are we?"

"Meioh, if you please Master Yami. We are in a house I constructed named 'Eye of Ra'."

 "And where is the Eye of Ra, Meioh?" Yami raised a bow in a questioning manner.

Meioh hesitated for a moment, then stated in a somewhat resigned voice. "It is near London, England."

"If you should be so inclined, could you tell me why?"

"I cannot say at this moment sir."

"Cannot or will not?"

"…Cannot, Master Yami."

Yami snorted and leaned over his arms lying on the table. "Oh?" His tone was dangerously calm. Meioh almost wished he would yell at him, he would certainly feel much safer from his master's wrath if he were screaming at him. "Why is it that you drag my other and I to this place yet cannot tell me the reason for such an action? Do you wish us harm?"

Meioh looked choked in shock. "What? No, of course not! Why would I hurt my masters?"

"Tell me why we are here and how we got to this place, and I will not banish you to the Shadow Realm… yet."

The threat was clear to either speak the answers the pharaoh wanted to know or else he would not be in the physical world much longer. Meioh was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he told his masters the reason why, then he would be exposing part of his plans in training him in his powers, but if he did not tell him what he wanted to know, he risked leaving his masters untrained and alone in a strange world he knew nothing about.

Meioh slumped in his seat, beaten. "You had just finished the duel with Pegasus, and had not been released from the shadow realm quite yet.

Pegasus lay across his scattered cards on the other side of the field, his ego wounded and his pride nonexistent. He was left with no will in his body having lost to a boy and at the same time, lost his chance to be reunited with his love. You were distracted by the conversation with your weakened other, discussing if Kaiba, Mokuba, and your grandfather were free from the soul cards.

My card had not been taken off the field playing spot, and as such I was still on the field, even if the field was not activated. For some time I had noticed that many are after your puzzle, and it was my duty as your monster to make sure you are kept safe, even from yourself.

I had been looking for a chance like this one, to be able to carry out the plan I had crafted to protect you from the other millennium item holders until you were ready for them. While you were distracted, I cast a silencing spell around me so that my actions would not attract attention by the noise. Since I could not be seen nor heard, I activated my powers and channeled them into my staff.

As the build up of magic surrounded the staff gem, I chanted under my breath a new spell I had found in my spell book not too long ago. With a slashing motion, the tip of my staff ripped the very fabric of the shadow realm, leaving a gaping scratch where you stood not five feet away.

You were knocked out from the magical overload and I grabbed your cards from off the playing field grid and kept my own card on the top of your deck, face up so that the magic radiating in the air around us would keep me active.  I picked you up and put you over my shoulder and jumped into the rip.

The tunnel was a nauseating rainbow of colors, and seemed to be an endless wormhole of nonexistence until I stumbled upon a glowing doorway. I peaked in, scanned the information flooding my brain from which the doorway gave. Magic was alive and well in this dimension, and I liked the overall feel of the world. I could help you train here and no one would notice.

It was not until after I stepped into the doorway that I realized Duel Monsters were not active in this reality and that technically, I should cease to be active as well. But I was too late to jump back out of the doorway and we were transported to this clearing in the middle of a forest area. My image flickered as the rip in the shadow realm closed, and you fell through me onto the ground.

I felt a pulling sensation in the bottom of my stomach and I was afraid. I did not want to leave you alone and unprotected by yourself so I fought the sensation to lie down and go to the deep sleep. After a few nerve-racking minutes, my body solidified in a way it never had before. I had a heart beat and I had blood flowing through my veins. I realized that I was alive, like you.

I picked up my staff where I had dropped it and looked around the clearing. We needed a place to live but to stay hidden for a while and this was the best spot that came to me at that moment. I reached into the protected pocket on the inside of my armor and drew out one of your cards. Using my magic, I summoned the Ancient Elf to help me make this house we are in. But unlike me, the Ancient Elf did not become real flesh, alive, but he helped me cast spells to make the house. When he finished his task, he was called back to the Shadow Realm.

I brought you inside the new home and put you in the room you had woken up in. That was two days ago."

Meioh licked his dry lips. That was the longest he had ever spoken in his time of creation. He never gave speeches, but for his master he had to tell what he knew and by that he had to lecture him on what he was doing, the reason for doing it, and why he was doing it in the first place.

Yami Yugi was quiet for a moment as he sorted through the information Meioh had told him. So they were not on their world, but on another where magic did exist and was used more freely than their home. Duel Monsters were not active, which meant the timeline in this world was different than his own, and most likely his other and their enemies did not exist.

Also, he managed to get his first question answered by Meioh without him noticing that he had answered it. So, his monster was alive and a person, but with all the powers he had when he was just a duel monster. He smiled secretly to himself, he still had it.

Yami had to admit, if only to himself, that Meioh was a crafty planner. He had not realized nor remembered this incident after the Pegasus battle. He had a black spot in his memory. Yami had no cause to distrust Meioh's story, for it was most likely true. Which meant that his own monster was going to have to teach him how to use magic from his puzzle he did not know how to use on his own -which was not bad but it was a bit embarrassing.

Aibou?