Ryou: So what's happening here?

I'm not really sure. We started talking before I worked on it this time. Oops.

Yugi: You seriously need to work on chapters first, PhantomBrat.

I know, Yugi.

Bakura: Does the 10th Doctor know you raided his closet?

(Glares at Thief) My dad gave this to me! He had it before I was born and I love my rain/trench-coat-thingy.

Ryou, Yugi, Malik: O.o

Yugi and Ryou paled and gripped their heads in pain. Malik knew what was going on. Ever since their return from the Pharaoh's Tomb, the trio discovered that they had new Gifts. Ryou could sense the emotions from people and Yugi could see the past and possible futures. Malik, of course, could see the auras of other people. "So much pain, anger, fear" Ryou cried as he squeezed his eyes shut.

Malik could see the darkness surrounding the statue and the red tint accenting its murderous intent.

Yugi sobbed as images flashed in his mind. People running as their companions fell to deadly angels similar to the one before them. Children murdered by the foul statues. Images switched to another vision; a pale, emotionless form with dirty white hair and darkened wings stood before the weeping angel statues, a small figure being twisted into a near similar form next to it. Impassive eyes trained up on Yugi's, no humanity was shown in those dead black eyes.

Malik had no choice, he had to end Yugi's visions and there was only one way. He used a pressure point that Odion had taught him would knock out a person, effectively knocking his small friend out. Yugi collapsed to the ground in a heap. Ryou had been taken care of by Bakura who could block emotions far better than Ryou. He hadn't taken his eyes off the statue the entire time, "Bakura, keep an eye on that thing. I have an idea," Malik stated. He took off toward the baseball field. He returned moments later with a baseball bat and another male who looked a lot like him.

The man who had ordered them to not look away from the strange statue gave them a questioning look. "I'm going to smash that thing. It hurt my friends," Malik snapped.

"I don't think that's a good idea…"

"Let them," Bakura stepped in. "Letting them smash that thing is better than the two of them blowing up later. Malik, Marik, and bottled emotions are not a good thing."

The pair of them swung their bats at the statue and knocked small chunks off of its stone body. Malik growled in frustration and put all of his anger into his next swing, effectively separating the angel's body from its head.

LINE
The man was in shock. He had watched a very unusual thing happen. When he had first arrived, the three teens had just barely noticed the weeping angel. Then, two of them began crying as if in pain and the third was getting visibly upset at seeing his companions in agony. The one with white hair had gone from a crying mess to a very angry young man. The remaining youth was unconscious on the ground.

Angered brown eyes glared at the man, "I demand to know who you are and what you know about that thing that had the nerve to attack us."

"I'm the Doctor," the man stated. "Just the Doctor, nothing else."

Before anyone else could speak, the boy on the ground moaned as he began to wake up. The sandy-haired boy with softer features was at his side, "Yugi are you alright?"

"My head hurts," he whimpered. "Too many images, so much pain." Tears fell from his amethyst eyes. "That thing, there are more. They kill people, innocent children as well. I saw children vanish right in front of their parents' eyes and parents disappear before their children. They don't care what they destroy, what they taint. Oh Ra! They were in Egypt, Malik!"

"When," was all Malik could ask.

Yugi sniffled, "I don't know, but the Sphinx looked new. That was all I could see. Bakura? What's wrong?"

The third male glared at the rubble that remained of the weeping angel. "Ryou won't come out. He's an emotional wreck and that thing is to blame. Get the Pharaoh out here so that we can deal with this."

"Yami doesn't want our secret known by this 'Doctor'," Yugi whispered to Bakura as tears ran down his cheeks.

"I don't care," Bakura snapped. "Either you bring him out, or I force his hand!"

"Do not speak thus to Yugi," a fourth teen appeared from behind a nearby tree. "I do not appreciate that tone when it is directed towards my aibou."

"Your little hikari needs medical attention, Atem," Bakura snapped. He glared at the fourth teen, "He's going to have a massive migraine from what he saw. Remember the last time?"

Atem knelt down next to Yugi as the man who called himself The Doctor tried to talk to the child-like teen. Yugi wasn't responding at all, just crying and holding his head in pain. Atem gently touched Yugi's shoulder. The boy leaned into his arms and allowed himself to be picked up. The Doctor stood and was preparing to leave. Crimson eyes looked at him, "We still require that you tell us what that thing was and why it targeted our friends." Atem looked at Malik and Marik who were still pounding away at the remains of the statue, "Dispose of that properly when you are done. Dump the rubble in the pond with the fish where it can be useful for a change. I don't want to hear that a child got hurt playing on a strange pile of rocks that should never have been in the park."

LINE
The Doctor watched as Atem placed Yugi on the smallest couch in the room and gently covered him with a light blanket. The teen looked pale and ill. "Yami, can I have some Sprite or something for my stomach? My headache is making me queasy," Yugi whimpered in pain.

Atem nodded, "Of course, tenshi. I'll bring a small glass to you and a painkiller."

"So," the Doctor began, "Yami is it?"

Crimson eyes narrowed at him, "You are to refer to me as Atem. Only Yugi is permitted to call me Yami. Not even our friends call me Yami."

"The Pharaoh's right. Nobody calls him by that name because Yugi is the only one allowed to call him that," Malik pointed out.

Atem gave Yugi the painkiller, helping him hold the glass of ginger ale steady. Yugi gave a weak cough as he was laid back down and covered up once more. "Rest, aibou. I'll watch over you," Atem soothed.

Amethyst eyes slowly closed, "Thanks Yami." Yugi was out in moments.

"Is he going to be alright," the Doctor questioned Atem.

"Yugi's been prone to some pretty severe migraines as of late. They tend to exhaust him," Atem replied. "So who are you and…"

Ryou took over from Bakura and stared at the man before interrupting Atem, "YOU'RE THE MAN FROM THE PARK!"

Malik looked at him, "Of course he is, Ryou. We all saw him there."

"No, I saw him when I was little. He's the man I saw near the bench who asked for the date. He's the reason my parents thought me insane!"

Lavender eyes were trained on the man, "Seriously?"

Ryou nodded. "Certain. His thoughts are all over the place, but I can see an image of the girl that was with him back then."

The Doctor was getting unnerved by the teens. "What are you boys exactly?"

"Just your average teens," Malik retorted as he and Marik put their feet on a coffee table at the same time.

"I know you boys aren't 'average'," the Doctor stated. "You and your friend reacted differently to that Angel, and those two came out of nowhere after your personality change. And your personality just switched back to what it was earlier."

A young woman entered the room and knocked Malik and Marik's feet off the coffee table, "You know better than that, Malik. Marik, I've told you as well to keep your feet off the tables. Be polite to your guest and answer his questions. You may find that he has near as many secrets as you Half-souls carry."

The man was shocked to hear the woman call the boys 'half-souls'. He had heard rumors and faint whispers through the Timelines of three sets of 'half-souls', but he brushed them off believing that they were just stories. He was jolted out of his thoughts as Malik sighed, "Sister, why'd you have to call us that now? Can't you see that we aren't comfortable around him? He may have been ordered here by the Pharaoh, but that doesn't mean that we have to tell him anything."

"Because his coming here was meant to be," Ishizu stated, "Just as your going with him is. You nine are about to embark on a journey that will change your lives forever."

"Sister, you're scaring the stranger," Malik pointed out.

Ishizu looked at the man as she pulled her hand from her necklace, "Forgive me. Malik, Bakura, Marik, play nice with your guest. I'll have no arguments from this room while Yugi is resting. Pharaoh, I trust that you'll supervise with dignity?"

"As you wish, Ishizu," Atem nodded.

LINE
"So why choose the fishpond," the man questioned Atem.

Atem smirked, "You said not to blink and fish never blink. Apparently blinking gives these things the ability to move and watching it makes it freeze, kind of like the game that Yugi loved as a child called 'Red Light, Green Light'."

"Very smart comparison," the man complimented. "So what exactly are you?"

"We'll tell you when we tell you," Bakura muttered as he took over from Ryou. "I don't think you've earned our trust, especially mine."

Atem nodded, "Bakura's right. If, and when, you've earned Bakura's trust, we'll tell you what we can."

"And that's saying a lot because it takes a lot to get him to trust anyone outside of our friends," Malik pointed out, earning a throw pillow to the head.

Bakura glared at him, "Stuff it, baka."

Sorry about not updating sooner.

Yugi: PhantomBrat's got a lot on her plate at the moment.

Yup. I had the fair to do, things to pick up from the Art Department at the fair, work, just life in general.

Ryou: So how'd the fair go?

I won my first EVER 1st place ribbons! And I learned a valuable lesson.

Malik: What's that?

Never go on rides with a value pass on wristband nights, they cut the rides short just to get people on and off quickly.

Yami: That sucks.

Tell me about it. I just barely got on Rave Wave and the ride ended.

Mokuba: Darn

Joey: Until next time!