Summary: Everyone thinks that Ryou was unconscious when the Pharaoh accessed his memories. Oh how wrong they were. How could anyone stay asleep when their soul was being tortured? This is my alternate version for the ending from Ryou's POV more often then not. Not nearly as sappy as the normal ending. I think...How about I just let you decide eh?

WARNING: Has Spoliers for final episodes, like Yami's name...and i think that's about it. Epic fail at warning.

Diclaimer: I Do not own Yugioh or any of the said characters in this story.

This is used to show the mind-link, or in this case, Ring-Link.

Chapter 1 – Confusion and Fear

It had been silent at first, the buzzing in his ear. But it soon grew into a roar, like thousands of bees had swarmed over his entire body and wormed their way into his core. All he could hear was that incessant buzzing! He wanted it to stop, to go away, but it grew louder and louder forcing him to get up. Finally his chocolate eyes opened. The buzzing ceased. Ryou was calm. Until he realised his face was mashed into an angular piece of rock.

'Bloody Bakura! Where am I now!' He grumbled, trying to get up. He reached out and felt nothing. Ryou continued this blind groping method until he found sold ground. "Where am I?" he wondered looking around. By the feel of the material underneath him and the amount of light he was either underground or in a cave. The clothes he wore were heavier which told him he was wearing Bakura's black coat.

Spirit. Bakura? Oi, Bakura you lazy dolt. Where the bloody hell am I? Ryou shouted through his mind link, a sudden surge of anger and courage jolting through him. Suddenly he felt it.

Emptiness.

Spirit? Are you there? Please answer me. He said, more nervous. Bakura was gone. He could fell the giant gaping hole in which his dark usually resided. Ryou was frightened. For the first time in 3 years the feeling of abandonment and utter loneliness returned to him. And Ryou didn't like it.

Bakura? Please, are you there, can you hear me? If you can just give me a sign. I-I'm frightened. I know you said fear was a weakness, but I can't help it. You've always been there to keep my mind at ease. Please, just show me a sign. he begged. He sounded pathetic, begging to nothing. But...Ryou could feel something. A sudden yellow glow from his neck brought his attention to the Ring. Maybe Bakura hadn't heard him, but the Ring had. And it pointed down the steps Ryou was currently sitting on, into the darkness. Gulping, he held the Ring and followed it, one hand to the rough stone wall.

When he reached the chamber below Ryou was shocked. The bodies of his friends were scattered on the floor. He ran to each of them to check their pulses, even Kaiba. He sighed in relief to find them all alive, just knocked out. He took the time to look around the room. It was small and unfurnished, the main wall adorned with two stone tablets, one being very worn away, and other large depictions of Egyptian gods. To his right was another doorway, but Ryou didn't pay any attention to it.

The better preserved of the stone slabs was calling to him. Upon it was a carving of Yami and... 'No WAY. Kaiba?' Ryou looked at the unmoving form of the said man and then back to the tablet. The looks were uncannily similar, not to mention the beast above him was Blue Eyes White Dragon. It was clear that the Pharaoh was the other man. No-one else had hair like that, well apart from Yugi, and his beast was the Dark Magician.

After further inspection Ryou found the tablet to have several areas which looked like they had been deliberately scratched out. Above the two fighting beasts was a carving that looked exactly like the Millennium Puzzle, the Eye that was on every item, staring at him, judging him. Surrounding it were very simple carvings of the three Gods, Osiris, Obelisk and Ra.

Ryou could not look any longer and so he turned his gaze to the other wall carvings and spent his time studying them, not knowing how he'd gotten to what he gathered to be Egypt, why he was in an underground tomb or when his friends would wake up.

But the biggest and most frightening question of all, one that Ryou dared to ask was, where was Bakura?

Ok so this is gonna be a multi chapter story, but with really short chapters. I wrote the entire thing in one sleep depraved day.

Have no fear, all will be revealed eventually!

Please review, even if is to just ask for more f the story, i know it's really short.

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