Winning Without Gods (A Yu-Gi-Oh Fanfiction)DONE!

Chapter 15: Shadow Game of Connect Four?

In Kaiba's Car

"You better hope you can get access to some of your old fortune because you owe me a bundle for this," Kaiba complained to him. "Getting you from Domino Museum, dealing with the authorities without telling them you sprang to life from the exhibit, and then getting you access to clothes. I had to call in so many favors for this one."

Atem adjusted the choke collar on himself. No, he and Yuugi weren't the six dice, they were the twelve. He held a phone that Kaiba had lent him to call Yuugi. Held it with his own hands. A part of him wanted to cry out for joy at such a miracle at having his body back. Another part?

To receive such a gift as life, to have his body restored again. That wasn't just a god's magic, that was an ancient god's magic. One of the most revered could do it, if all of the parts were there. Time to use that phone. "Yuugi."

"Atem?!"

He sounded surprised, yet he assumed because of the voice, he knew it was Atem. "I seem to have dropped into my old self in Domino Museum's revisited exhibit."

"Are you okay?"

"Yes. I'm with Kaiba. I needed his connections to get me out safely," Atem said. "Where are you? Are you at the Game Shop?"

"I'm heading back to Anzu. Satiah also came back to life," Yuugi informed him.

Not only him, but Satiah? "The one whom everyone calls the mere commoner now has her life back too. Yuugi. You and all of your friends should be very prepared. I don't believe this is a fight of cards, or something with only one villain. This will not be an easy battle. Very, very few are granted what Satiah and I have been given back. Very few."

"I imagine so," Yuugi said.

"Very few," Atem repeated again. "Legends, mostly."

"Atem?" Yuugi sounded off. "There was something that happened with Anzu. She told me that she believed we cursed her and she ran off with Mai."

"What?!"

"But it was a lie," he said quickly. "To make us back off. I don't know how to explain it right, but Satiah took the extra energy in her that was going to kill her. She was supposed to die, when she got her body back."

Oh no. "Corrupted souls." Atem understood. "I must have came back at a tender moment." He didn't know when he arrived back, but if Yuugi had been involved with Anzu, then that meant Satiah was present. "I am so sorry, Yuugi."

"Anzu is okay now," Yuugi said. "Satiah took it somehow."

Oh. "Still. The pressure grows within. How close had she gone to becoming insane?" He had to ask. "Yuugi, stay very close to Anzu from now on. There could be serious repercussions on her." He'd never even known of a case that survived. "You might consider marrying her and putting her at complete ease."

"In a heartbeat, but I've barely managed to keep her in Japan with me. Even that might not last long."

"Then try your best. I'll meet you at the Game Shop soon."

"What about . . . her? When I went to Bakura's to see Satiah, I found out how she died. She sacrificed herself in Kul Elna to save his eternal soul. So, is she here then to turn Bakura to our side? Because. She looked like Anzu."

"She is Anzu." Atem understood it already. "If there was a corruption of individuals who couldn't separate, there is trouble. There was trouble. That means she is the other side of Anzu, like you are a side of me. However? It does not mean they are the same. We aren't the same."

"Right. They definitely aren't the same. I am almost back to Anzu. She's at Jounouchi's house. I'll get her and get home. See you soon, Atem. Literally."