(A/N: Woo hoo! Over 100,000 words. It's my first story to reach that length. Just in time for the end too. But before that, I should explain something about what happened in the story. Some people were a little confused at how time was affected by Téa staying in the past. So I'll explain it to you. All of history including everything that happened during the anime happened the same way. Téa was present for everything. It was the PAST that changed, and it changed only to include Téa in that time period. Everything else happened the same way. She was still born in the 21st century and everything. She had to be in order for her to go to the past. Remember how in Chapter 3, the past had already been changed. Atem did get to live again, but he never married or anything. Originally Atem had not gotten to live again and it was Seto who ruled as pharaoh. In both cases, the future still remained the same, and the past had changed. It's as it was explained last chapter, the road changed slightly, as in the time line, but the destination, meaning the future, was the same,. Ah, time travel is such a complicated process. So, anyway, this is the last chapter. It's both happy and sad. Enjoy.)

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Epilogue

"I swear, we didn' do it!" Joey cried. "It jus' fell over!"

The security guard wasn't buying it. "And you expect me to believe that?"

"Well, you weren't here." Tristan pointed out. "So you have to take our word for it."

The security guard's eyes narrowed. "Oh, do I now?"

"Yeah, innocent until proven guilty, remember."

Yugi quickly tried to calm things down. "Whoa, lets all just take it easy for a moment. Joey, Tristan, I'll handle this." He turned to the security guard. "Sir, please forgive my friends for their rudeness. But we really didn't knock over the tablet. We didn't even touch it. It just fell over on its own. It must not have been stable."

The security guard crossed his arms. "And what about the girl who was with you?"

"Who, Téa? I don' see her here, do you?" Joey asked sarcastically. "She's not even in dis room anymore, so she couldn' done it."

The security guard pointed an accusing finger at him. "I've had just about enough out of-"

"That's enough." said a familiar voice.

The others turned to the speaker. It was none other than Mai Valentine, casually walking towards them.

The security guard's eyes wandered over her curvy body once before he became serious again. "Ma'am, are you telling me how to do my job?"

Mai smirked. "Not at all. I'm simply pointing out that you are falsely accusing these boys. I was standing right over there." She nodded towards a few artifacts on display. "I saw it all. They didn't touch it. The thing just fell over on its own. If you ask me, you should quit bothering these kids and go have a talk with whoever put that tablet there, because they clearly didn't set it up properly."

The security guard growled, but he had nothing to prove his accusation, and they had an eyewitness. He had no choice but to let them go, and he angrily stormed away, mumbling under his breath.

Joey breathed a sigh of relief. "Dat was close. Danks a lot, babe."

Mai smile. "You're welcome, hun." She said, and pulled him in for a kiss. "But did you really knock it over?"

"Course not! We know better dan dat." He gave her a curious look. "But wait, what are you doin' here? I dought you said you were busy today."

She traced a pattern over his chest. "I finished early and was passing by when I had this sudden urge to come see this exhibit."

"Then it appears I'm not the only one." The others turned to who had spoken and saw Duke coming towards them.

"Hey, Duke." Said Yugi. "Didn't you have something with your Dungeon Dice Monsters game."

He shrugged. "Yeah, but then I got this feeling that this was more important, so I rescheduled it and here I am. I saw Bakura outside too."

"You saw Bakura?" Tristan asked.

"Someone say my name?"

Yugi smiled. "Bakura, you made it after all."

The white haired boy nodded. "Yes, something just told me that I needed to be here. And look who I ran into outside."

"Hi, everyone."

"Serenity!" Tristan and Duke cried, running over to her, each one grabbing one of her hands. "What brings you here?"

She smiled at them, completely oblivious to their affections for her. "Just a whim. Oh, Mai, it's great to see you again!" She ran over to her brother's girlfriend and gave her a hug. "It's been awhile."

"It certainly has." Mai replied. "I see you still have to beat the boys off with a stick."

Serenity looked confused while Joey became angry. "Mai, please don' say dat!"

"Oh, big brother!" Serenity hugged Joey tightly and whispered in his ear. "Did you propose to her yet?"

"Shh." Joey shushed her, glancing at Mai to make sure she hadn't heard. "Not yet, bu' I will on our nex' date."

"Oh, great, it's the geek patrol."

That voice could belong to only one person.

"Kaiba, Mokuba!" said Yugi, surprised to see them, at least Kaiba.

Joey glared at him. "What are you doin' here, money bags?"

Kaiba glared right back at him. "Not that it's any of your concern, Wheeler, but Mokuba suddenly wanted to come see the new exhibits."

"Hey, big brother," Mokuba scolded, "you wanted to see them too."

Kaiba snorted. "I simply said that I was curious if there was any more information on Duel Monsters. Pegasus did base them of some stupid carvings he found."

Yugi just shook his head at Kaiba's excuse. 'Still in denial.'

"YUGI!"

He suddenly had the breath knocked out of him as someone hugged him tightly from behind.

"R-Rebecca?" he gasped. "What are you doing here?"

She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek then let him go. "Grandpa and I just had to come see the new exhibits. We brought your grandfather along as well."

Yugi blinked. "Grandpa's here too?"

"Over here?" called Mr. Motou, walking towards them with Mr. Hawkins by his side.

"Good to see you." said Mr. Hawkins.

Kaiba groaned. "I'm surrounded by idiots."

"Still have that superiority complex, Kaiba-boy?"

"Oh great," Kaiba muttered, as he turned to see none other than Maximillion Pegasus. "As if things couldn't get any worse. What are you doing here, old man?"

Pegasus chuckled. "Probably the same thing as all of you."

"Wha's dat supposed ta mean?" Joey asked.

Yugi thought about Pegasus' words. "You know what, he may be onto something."

The others glanced at Yugi curiously. "What do you mean?" Tristan asked.

Yugi crossed his arms. "Think about it. All of us who were involved with the Shadow Games got the urge to be here on this specific day at this specific time. Maybe there's a reason we're all here. I'll bet that even Marik, Ishizu, and Odion would be here too if they weren't in Egypt."

Pegasus was nodding along with what Yugi was saying. "You've got it, Yugi-boy. My thoughts exactly."

Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Yeah right."

Joey glared at him. "Watch what you're sayin', Kaiba."

"Look, I admit that Yugi may have been possessed by some creepy ghost look alike, but I still don't buy all that other nonsense. Honestly, just listen to yourselves; all of us gathered here for a reason, it's ridiculous. Besides, not everyone's here. Did you notice that the shrimp's girlfriend is missing?"

"Hey!" cried Rebecca. "I'm not missing! And don't call my Yugi a shrimp!"

"Not you." Kaiba replied. "I was talking about Gardner."

Yugi looked around. "Now that you mention it, where did she go?"

"Yeah, she was jus' here a little while ago. Where'd she get ta?"

Tristan shrugged. "Bathroom, probably."

Before anything else could be said, a bright light filled the room, blinding them all with its intensity.

"Hey, turn down the lights!" said Mai, covering her eyes.

"I don't think these are the lights." said Yugi.

He opened his eyes slightly, squinting. He just barely saw the tablet that told of Atem's past as the source of light. And the tablet seemed to be… growing? Yes, growing. It was like watching coral grow very rapidly. The tablet was expanding.

And then the light vanished. They blinked and rubbed their eyes, seeing spots from the light's intensity. Strangely, they seemed to be the only ones affected. Everyone else in the room didn't seem to notice anything.

"What was that?" Kaiba grunted, rubbing his eyes. "Some stupid light show?"

Joey suddenly sucked in a breath of air. "G-Guys, I don' dink dat was a ligh' show. Look!"

He pointed at the tablet that had Atem's history on it. It was now twice the size as it was before the flash of light.

They made their way over to it and gasped.

"Guys," said Tristan, "am I crazy, or is that Téa up there?"

Mai studied the carving of the girl standing by Atem's side. "It certainly looks like her."

"There's more writin' too." said Joey. He turned to Yugi. "Can ya read it, Yug?"

"Already am." Yugi replied.

The others waited while Yugi did the translation. They watched as his eyes got wider and wider with the more he read.

"Guys, you're not going to believe this."

"What's it say, Yugi?" Rebecca asked excitedly. "What's it say?"

Yugi couldn't believe what he was about to tell them. "That really is Téa on the tablet."

Kaiba snorted in disbelief. "Yeah right."

"It is!" Yugi insisted. "It says that she appeared out of thin air. She was believed to be a messenger of the gods. She… wow, she did a lot of amazing things. She even became a war hero!"

"Téa?" Tristan cried in disbelief. "Our Téa?"

"Yes, it says her name is, Téa Gardner." Yugi replied. "It also says that she saved the humanity of the great white dragon and pharaoh's mighty magician, whatever that means. She also empowered the king to create a shining creature that defeated a powerful force of darkness."

"Seriously?" Joey asked. "You're not pullin' our leg, are ya, Yug?"

Yugi shook his head. No, I swear, that's what it says. And it gets better. She and Atem got married! They even had three kids."

"Kids!" cried everyone aside from Kaiba.

"Yeah, first a daughter, Aru, and then a son, Yami. Huh, I wonder if they named him that because it's what we used to call Atem. Then they had one more son named…" his eyes widened in shock, "Yugi…"

"Yugi?" said Joey and Tristan together.

"Named after the pharaoh's closest friend, who helped him conquer the Dark One."

"Oh brother." Kaiba muttered. "I can't believe you're buying this nonsense. This is nothing but a stone carving."

"Oh yeah." Said Joey. "Well wha' about dat? Dat wasn' there before."

They looked where he was pointing. The stone tablet wasn't the only thing that changed. Laying right next to Atem's sarcophagus was a second one. The face on this one was an exact replica of Téa's. The faces on sarcophaguses were meant to look like the one inside them. That meant that the mummy inside it was Téa!

"T-Téa!" cried all the believers.

"Please." Kaiba muttered. "So it looks like her. Big deal."

"Look at her hand!" Yugi cried. "It's marked with the friendship sign that she drew on us."

"It's just a coincidence." Kaiba insisted.

Pegasus sighed and shook his head. "Still in denial, Kaiba-boy."

Tristan rubbed his eyes and looked at the second sarcophagus. "I'm not sure what's going on, but I know one thing for certain. That other sarcophagus was not there a few minutes ago." He looked around and spotted a few of the museum employees fussing over the broken Tablet of Time. "Hey, you guys, over here!"

The museum employees turned to him, looking annoyed. They spoke for a moment and then one of the employees walked over to them. "Sir, I apologize, but this isn't a good time. One of our exhibits has been destroyed, and we're-"

"I just wanted to know where that other sarcophagus came from all of a sudden." Tristan interrupted, nodding towards the sarcophagus with Téa's face carved on it.

The employee raised an eyebrow. "I'm afraid I don't know what you mean, sir. That sarcophagus was there the whole time. It was found right next to King Atem's when the temple was discovered." He pointed to a voice box beside the two exhibits. "All information is recorded on there. And now if you'll excuse me, I'm very busy."

Joey cut his eyes at the retreating employee. "Grea' customer service." He muttered sarcastically.

"One of their exhibits was just destroy, hun." Mai replied, going over to the voice box and putting on the headphones. "He has a right to be irritable. Now lets see what this says."

She pressed the PLAY button and listened to the recording, nodding every now and then.

"Don't leave us in the dark!" Rebecca snapped impatiently. "What's it say?"

Her grandfather placed a hand on her shoulder. "Now, now, Rebecca, be patient."

"Yeah," Mai replied, her eyes wide, "give me a moment to get over my shock."

Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Well, what nonsense does it say? More real magic and real monster garbage?"

Ignoring his rude tone, Mai shook her head. "No, just facts on their lives mostly. And it is identifying the other mummy as Téa. Queen Téa actually. Wed to King Atem, ruled for many years, brought peace and prosperity to Egypt." She fell silent for a moment. "Both she and Atem were buried in the same temple, dying only a month apart after living long happy lives. At the request of the queen, a stone carving of a scroll with a message was carved on her sarcophagus. To this day, no one knows who the message was truly meant for."

Yugi raised an eyebrow. "Carving on of a scroll?" he repeated, looking back at Téa's sarcophagus. "Yes, I see it. Look." The carving of Téa on the sarcophagus was holding an unrolled scroll rather than the tradition rod or staff found on most sarcophaguses. "I can see the writing on it." He squinted his eyes, trying to read it. "It says, 'To my friends and family. Although I am out of place and out of time, know that I am happy and it was my decision. Do not mourn me, but instead rejoice, for I have lived a full life with the one I love as his queen'." His eyes shined with tears. "She left that message for us."

Joey wiped his eyes. "So, does dat mean dat… Téa's gone?"

Kaiba cut his eyes. "So you're saying that she died 5000 years before she was born? Yeah, that makes sense."

"Not everything dealing with magic makes sense." Said Mr. Motou. "Magic defies reality."

"Well spoken." Pegasus agreed. "I know this from personal experience. And it seems that we're the only ones that have noticed the different path history has taken."

Tears ran down Serenity's cheeks. "Then, Téa is really dead?"

Joey rested a hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her, even though he had tears in his eyes as well. "Don'… Don' be sad, sis. She… She said dat she… dat she didn' wan' us ta mourn her. She said dat… dat she was happy."

"Happy, yes, that's what's important." Said Pegasus. "But just how exactly are you going to explain this to her parents?"

Joey turned to him, trying to look angry, even as tears poured down his cheeks. "S-Shut up! Give us a chance ta mourn for our loss before we spread da news." He wiped his eyes and turned to Yugi. "Hey Yug, think you can say somethin' ta make dis better for us."

Yugi sighed, feeling both sad and happy for Téa at the same time. "Well, all I can say is that love is a power that transcends even time."

THE END

(A/N: Is this a sad ending or a happy ending? I guess it all depends on whose perspective you see it from. Téa and Atem got to live long happy lives together, but her friends in the future have lost her. Pegasus does make a good point though. How ARE they going to explain this to Téa's parents? But like Joey says, they'll worry about that later. At least they know that Téa was happy. They even had kids. And it seems as if there's going to be another wedding soon between Joey and Mai. I always did love them as a couple. Well, I'm talking too much. It's time bring this to an end. But as a last note, I just want to make it clear once again that the links to the pictures provided throughout my story are NOT mine, I was merely inspired by them. With that said, I would now like to thank everyone who has read and reviewed. Your support and encouragements have been most appreciated. I hope you'll grant me one last review for this chapter and my story overall. Thank you, and goodbye.)