"Lovely." Melhana said. "And I can't use my power to get loose. These things are sealing my magic."

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Silence. Until Jonouchi piped up, "What the hell are the Numbers cards?"

Ashleigh laughed.
"I knew you are going to say that" she said, "They are also known as XZY monsters. The No. Cards are special. Can you remeber how you got Atemu's memory back?"

---

"Oh man, I don't know how it's going to work to get out of here" Sho replied.

Yugi nodded. "We had to enter the world of memory through the Millennium Puzzle's maze." He replied.

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"These guys are bound to have a weakness, trust me." Melhana replied. "I'm not sure what. Not yet at least."

"Yes and Atemu went through the tablet right?" Ashleigh said.

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"Ok, but can you make it quick? They said that soon, it's doomsday for me so I don't have much time left" Sho replied.

Yugi nodded. "Yeah. It was a pain for the rest of us to get there though."

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"That's all the more reason to get the hell out of here." Melhana replied. "It's times like this I wish these guys weren't so clever."

"Well, there is different ways to get memories back. These No. Cards are peices of Astral's memories. I have a team montoring him while I go undercover" Ashleigh explained, "If Yuma wins, the No. Cards will be aborbed by Astral. If Yuma gets defeated, the No. cards will be destroyed."

"That doesn't sound good." Selena typed.

"Yes and it's important that all No. Cards are returned. If you see anyone acting suspishiois and have a glowing No. on them. Call out and I will send Yuma around. Just tell him that the D-Gizers doesn't work here" Ashleigh said.

"Right." Yugi said. At that same moment Bakura finally found them, having not heard the explanation.

"Guys," He said, "where's Melhana?"

"Captured. I know I'm here but I'm from another time Bakura. Kaimiri is controlling my younger self and made me capture her. Thing is, I can't stop it" Ashleigh explained.

"Damn," Bakura muttered, clenching his fists.

"Calm down, Ryo." Sakura typed. "We'll get her back."

"I know," Bakura replied. "But I feel completely helpless now...we were just starting to plan the marrige...."

"Don't worry, you will have your wedding after Kaimiri is defeated once and for all. But the thing ios, I can olny reserect people after 3-4 days. More than that's it's impossible. That means Sho isn't going to be lucky and Judai's not going to be very happy about that" Ashleigh sadly said.

"The future isn't set in stone, Ashleigh." Selena typed. "The future you remember is only one possible future, which could quite easily be different from what actually comes to pass." She paused, seeming to contemplate what she was going to say next.

"Sakura?" Yugi asked, his brow creased in questioning. "Is there something going on?"

Selena nodded, then after a moments hesitation linked to everyone who knew her identity. 'I think my Demon Eye is evolving,' she linked. 'I had a dream right before the tournament. It showed Kaiba getting shot, my right eye bleeding and burning, and Yusei impaled. I don't know what it means, but so far the first part has come true. And I've never gotten premonitions from it before.'

"That is true, but what happens here deturmends Yuma and his friends's future. Remeber the Paradox incident?" Ashleigh asked the group.

"Selena, your eye is almost finishing evolving. The curse is about to break. In the time where I am, you are imortal. But for that to happen is completely upto you. It's upto you to set your futute in stone" she linked to Selena

Yugi supressed a groan. "It's hard to forget that fiasco. It took all the four of us had to take him out." he said.

"The four of you?" Selena typed. "I thought it was just you, Judai, and Yusei." She'd been told about the incident, just like the rest of the gang, but this was a new detail.

Yugi frowned in confusion. "You don't mean..." He trailed off, then realized exactly what was going on. "Hold on...the you that dueled with us must've been a future version."

Ashleigh coughed.
"Anyway, that was time getting screwed up. Even Yuma's time was begining to disappear. And we all know what happens in the end right?" she said.

"Adios reality." Jonouchi said.

"Looks like we've got another reason to take out Kaimiri." Yugi said.

"Kaimiri doesn't have a connection to Paradox any everyone knows aboout that" Ashleigh sighed.

"Anything else you know about him?" Yugi asked.

"Who? Kaimiri or Paradox?" Ashleigh asked, confused.

"Kaimiri." Yugi replied.

"We're going to need all the help we can get to beat him." Bakura added. Unconciously, he made sure his deck was still in the case at his belt.

"well, the chair he sits on is his dad, he can manipulate anyone, can create enities to control people he wishes, can materialise his hands to kill people, but hate the power of light and love unless love is in his corner to date, can take anyone from their time, is a reculas fighter, but here's a edge to all of this. He doesn't duel at all.Why are you the head of the dark saga and the head of the dooma sector if you don't duel at all?" Ashleigh said.

"That is strange." Bakura said. "He doesn't duel, but he's in charge of Dooma and the Dark Signers. That's just too odd for my liking."

"And now would be where you say that there's some sort of catch to getting him alone to duel, isn't it?" Yugi asked.

Ashleigh shook her head.
"He let his minions to do his dirty work while he gets the shards, and he makes sure they are not vessals. And sadly, very soon, Sho won't be with us anymore. It will be his time to go" she said.

Damn, Selena thought. And we can't get to him either...shit.