Oh, gods oh gods it's all coming down. I only have a few minutes before I am crushed. But this is more important than life. I had to get this letter to him even if it kills me. I read the letter one last time, then I threw the letter up into the air and my hawk Shiningwing caught it and I threw myself into full gear. My legs pumped and my lungs sucked in so much dust and rock particles, but I didn’t stop. I saw the exit and pushed with all I had left in me. Then the ceiling above me started to cave in. It was going to collapse before I got there even if I went as fast as I could. I slowed down and saw him outside gesturing frantically for me to move. I smiled love, flowing through me and I blew a kiss at him, and then the ceiling came down. I heard him howl and felt everything he felt wash over me and I smiled and let my spirit go. It was finished. 

I woke up with a start, what a dream. It felt so real. Everything ached as if it had been crushed. I groaned and rolled over. My ancient Egyptian scale was glowing again. It was the third night in a row that I had had that dream and the third night that I had had the scale.  I looked at my alarm. It was 5:30 a.m. I rolled over and went back to sleep. 

My heart raced and I screamed wanting to escape the blackness that was all around me. I wanted to escape but how. Then I saw someone she looked just like me but she was sleeping. She looked as if she was having the same bad dream I was. I walked towards the sleeping figure. She had the same look of wonder that I had on my face. I reached out to touch the exit of whatever was trapping me and I nearly fell out but the girl fell out of bed. I stifled a laugh and she took my prison into her hands and looked straight at me and screamed. 

I had the scale in my hands and it was glowing as it had never glowed before. There had been a woman who looked just like me. I could still see her and she was doubled over with laughter. She saw me watching her and she asked me where I and how did I get here .lke I hadn’t screamed at all. I felt extremely stupid but I answered her. She was on an ancient scale in my room.  It had an eye of some sort in the center of it. She blinked and it was like someone had punched her in the gut and told her that she had to lick the floor clean. I told her that I didn't know how she got here but that she was safe. But she just looked at me with the same deep blue with gold-rimmed eyes I have. It was as if what I just told her wasn’t true and that I was just trying to make her feel better. Like what I said about being safe wasn’t at all true. 

She kept looking at me as if I had a time bomb ticking away in my hands and I realized I did. I ran around holding the time bomb as far away from me as I could and threw it but then realized it had been a figment of my imagination. Now she was the one who was bent double and laughing silently. I walked over to the edge of my prison and placed my hand on the frame and felt no resistance and stepped out of it. My scale/ my prison was sitting in front of me the very same I had held in my hands right before I died. I looked around at my new surroundings and it was a bedroom, a strange one at that. I asked her what time era it was and she looked at me as if I had asked her to give a homeless guy a bath butt *****. She told me that it was 2020 and I stumbled. WHAT!!!!!?? Over 5,000 years had passed since I had been alive. What! I screeched. She blanched and took a small step back. I softened my tone and told her that I was sorry and that I had been rude. She nodded, forgiving me and I realized I hadn't introduced  myself.   

“I am sorry but I haven’t introduced myself yet my name is Seraphina Guardian and Keeper of the Scale. “

Her name was Seraphina but that was my name. We both looked the same now we have the same name. What next birthday is the same time we were born but the year of course? 

    I told her that I was born on December 21              328 b.c. at 12:45 pm I heard a thud and looked at her and found that she was on the floor in a heap and she had fainted. I looked around and started to shake her and I felt a pull to her back. I turned her over carefully and I carefully slit the back of her T-shirt and found the scars that only one species ever had on their back. I reached up and touched the scars and the wings started to come out and I looked at the wings that looked just like mine. But I had a feeling she didn’t know what it meant, only that it was just a genetic disfigurement. But only if she knew she would never be the same again at all she would never want to be a part of me. She would never believe me that I gently slid the wings back into her body she groaned in protest. I felt my back twinge remembering how it felt to put the wings back into my back. I knew I had to grab a cloth fast because if the wings went in fully without the cloth there the ready blood would start to pour out and it would stain the carpet. I searched her bedroom for some sort of cloth that could stop the bleeding before it came. Blood started to bead at the edges of the scars. I knew I didn’t have any more time so I ripped off my gown and placed it on her back just in time for the blood to start and she was starting to wake up and I realized that I would have to explain to her about the wings. She looked at me then at the gown that was bloodied and was slowly becoming more crimson in color. She paled and told me to not look at her as a freak. I told her that I would never look at her like I would freak and that I was just as much of a freak as she was and that is when I slowly unfurled my wings from my body and let her see them. She gasped and I told her that I couldn’t extend my wings fully because they were so big. She nodded and told me that she could tell her parents that she was going got out early to go for a run with a friend which in reality was true but there was a slight loophole in the truth which was the lie about not saying anything about the wings I also got the feeling that she was hiding her wings from her parents. 

Early the next morning when we woke up Seraphina got breakfast and had already changed into her running clothes with me.right behind her as she stepped out the door. 

    The run felt great but I needed to ask Seraphina about the dream and if it was real and if it really happened to her. I stopped and she stopped and she looked at me puzzled. I told her that I needed to ask her about the letter. She turned around slowly and told me that she would write the whole thing out when we got back to my room and nodded and headed off towards the place that was my secret and that no one else knew about. Then she peeled off her sweat riddled shirt and slowly extended her wings to their full length. They were huge. I looked at the design on her wings. The feathers were a deep dark blue color with gold images in them  but those individual feathers made up a picture of my scale and of some sort of puzzle that seemed strangely familiar but I couldn’t quite place it. When we were done she slowly slid her wings into place and I gently pressed a towel onto her back so she could stop bleeding sooner. The blood wasn’t that much and I wondered why. She told me that it was from sliding her wings in and out all the time that the blood had eventually stopped and she had made the pathway so big that she didn’t bleed anymore. We ran home and we were both giggling like little girls because she had cracked a joke on how grandma would say to look at a camera. When we got up to my room I gave her a piece of paper and told her to write all that she had said in the letter she looked at me and told me that I might not forgive her if she did but I wasn’t listening I wanted to know what she had wrote in the letter and why was it so important that she had to die to give it to him or who ever that him was. She started to write it said:  

 Dear Yami,

 In the last letter I sent you, I told you about how I feel about you. I hope that somehow we will live through this together. I should have told you this before now but I can’t change the past though sometimes I wish I could. But even if it might be late, at least it wasn’t never. I don’t know if I will be alive when you read this but if in the case I am not, burn this.  You already know I have Seraphim wings. They are a deep blue with gold images in which 2 of the millenium items are intertwining. They are our items both the puzzle and the scale I’m sorry but I don’t know what it means yet but if I can decipher the meaning if I am still around than I will I am sorry to add to your burdens along with the one of ruling Egypt I am sorry if I am not here to bear this burden with you but I will always be there with you.  I love you with all my heart and would give anything to be with you forever even if it means no rest for me because I will kill. I will give myself up to you if that was my only option left. Good bye for now  love of my life. 

        Seraphina Guardian/ Keeper of the Millennium Scale 

I just blinked at her and said there are more of these things as I pointed to the scale and you died with it in your hands. What! She just looked at the letter with a heart broken expression and I knew that she truly loved him or whomever this Yami guy was. Can you draw me this Yami guy’s picture? She nodded and told me that I was not allowed to tell anyone of her existence until she found out what happened to Yami and where he was. I nodded, eager to even care that I wanted to see this guy. She drew him. Oh gods, he was a drop dead handsome guy but he looked so much like this other kid I knew from school his name was Yugi. 

“Hey there is this guy who goes to my school. He even lives here in the neighborhood where his grandpa owns a dueling monsters shop. He looks almost exactly like Yami except younger and more innocent. Like it is with me and you. You look older and more in control whereas I look young and innocent.”

 She nodded and looked at the picture she had drawn. She looked so sad and defeated. “What was your past like?”

“It was good but it seems that you have it a lot better here and now then back then.” She put her hands to her head slowly and clutched to it she grabbed at her hair as if she was in pain. 

“What is wrong, are you okay?” 

"I cannot remember all of the things that happened back then. It hurts to try and think about it.”

 I looked at her and said that, 

"We are going to get to the bottom of your past and not rest until we do.” 

I looked down at the picture of Yami that I had drawn. He looked so regal and life-like that I couldn't bear to tear my eyes away from it in fear that if I did look away the drawing would disappear. “My handsome Yami, I whispered, where are you? Why did I have to die before I got to you? Maybe I could have gotten to the exit before the ceiling collapsed and you would have scoped me up into your arms like you always do when we just escape something horrifying. I miss him so much that now I fear that if I feel anything else my heart will break. Whatever happened to you I wish I had been there with you but I died before we could ever do anything else besides battle without duel monsters cards you would always tell me to choose out cards that were more like me and I did but the cards weren’t responding like they did to you and I never got to have an answer to that question. But I know that deep down that I will find you and I will ask you that question and have my answer. Love always finds a way nothing can stop love, trust or faith if you have the heart to believe it.”

I looked around and saw Seraphina watching me with a curious expression on her face and I told her that I was going to find a way to find this Yugi Muto and that if he is truly who she says he is then I will be able to find Yami. She nodded and told me that if I was in the scale once than maybe I could do it again during the school day and she could show the scale off during class because they were learning about the ancient egyptian culture and I almost freaked and I told her that it was a very dangerous choice but it might work it might even draw this Yugi guy and maybe we could ask him a few questions about if he has ever heard about the great Pharaoh Yami and how he was a great leader in ancient Egypt. I nodded and knew that it was very very risky to show off the millennium scale but if it drew Yami out and to me then I was willing to do anything. 

Next morning arrived sooner than I wanted it to but it was time to go school. Seraphina said goodbye to her parents and headed out the door. I was in her backpack zippered away from the sun and I wanted to scream to her that this was a terrible idea but it had been my idea in the first place and I didn’t want to seem cowardly just because I was in a dark backpack. I heard it when we entered the classroom because it was so blissfully quiet out in the hall and as soon as we stepped into the classroom all of that wonderful quietness was gone. I heard her talking to the teacher about showing the class something her father had gotten out of the pyramids from one of his archaeological digs and the teacher I could tell I didn’t need to see her face to tell that she was very pleased with Seraphina’s offer. She said thank you and headed back to her seat and then the bell rang and I heard a few stragglers get into their seats and the class began. It was an awesome class from what I could hear from inside the backpack. Then she told the class that Seraphina had an ancient Egyptian artifact  to show the class and I nearly passed out because this might be my only chance to ever see anything besides her backpack and her room and the park where we go for runs. She pulled the Scale out and everyone gasped and I looked around and saw Yami or at least it looked just like Yami but it had to be Yugi Muto the boy Seraphina had been talking about. He looked shocked and in amazement and now it was my time to shine. I stepped out of the scale and took on a spirit mist like form so it looked like the scale had some remnants of long lost power which in reality it did. I spread my wings out and I made sure that Yugi saw every inch of them before I disappeared back into the scale and the teacher was practically vomiting every single comment there was to be told on the earth to Seraphina. She nodded and thanked the teacher politely and took the scale back to her seat and sat down. Yugi turned around and looked at us and I saw a brief but distinct pyramid-like shape around his neck which could have only meant that he had the millennium puzzle. Yami had had the millennium puzzle with him wherever he goes and I don’t believe for a second that he would just let the millennium puzzle be in plain sight to see if he wasn’t around to watch it. Then the bell rang and I told Seraphina to go up to Yugi and ask him but when we turned around to ask him he was already there and he was asking like where had she gotten the scale and did she know that the scale contained powers of long lost pharaohs and other people. She looked down at me accusingly and I shrugged apologetically. She sighed and told him that she did and he looked at her and showed her the millennium puzzle that was around his neck and I had to restrain myself from coming out and asking him all about the puzzle that was around his neck. 15 minutes later it was just too much to bear. I stepped out of the scale and showed myself to him and I asked him do you know about the powers your item holds? Do you know anything at all who the previous owner of that puzzle was and he said he did and he was here with him but that he only came out in spirit form. I told him that I would like to see this spirit and that I knew him from a long time ago, during ancient times of the egyptians. He blinked and said that don’t be disappointed if he doesn't remember you because he can’t seem to remember anything about his past at all. I turned paler if that was even possible. He was quick to reassure me that he might remember me but that it was highly unlikely but at least it was better than him not remembering me at all, right? I just couldn’t bear the fact that he might not remember me at all. That thought was going to head straight for the garbage can but the thought stuck and I couldn’t forget it. I wanted to find out if he still remembered me. That was one of the only thoughts that ran through my brain would he remember anything about me or was I just an unimportant part of his life. Then Yami came out it was so funny he reacted exactly like I thought he would he was so shocked to see he was out in the open and there was no duel in sight we would only be outside to watch duels or to duel each other but that was just about it he never really did anything else with me that I knew of. He was like, “Hey this isn’t a duel, what do you think you are doing!” I missed it when he had said that when we were still in our era of time. I couldn’t help it. I laughed and he looked around and didn’t see me and I felt that whatever Yugi did to make Yami's spirit transfer into his own body that is what I needed to do so Seraphina. I told Seraphina what I was thinking and she agreed but that this cannot become a regular thing and I told her that I make no promises because of what happened with the letter and my death and she agreed reluctantly. I told her to speak the words I told her and she whispered them so no one else could hear them and I was pulled into her body and it fitted every aspect of mine and I felt no discomfort at all and she whispered to me don’t get to comfortable in there because I quite like my body and I laughed silently. I turned around and saw Yami looking at me with those piercing violet eyes that in my lifetime that I just could never say no to. He still looked as achingly handsome as he did when we were still alive and in our own bodies. He looked at me closely and asked me what I wanted from him and I asked him do you remember me from your past? Do you remember the name Seraphina Guardian/ Keeper of the Scale? He looked at me confused but there was some sort of fractured look in his eyes that only someone who knew him before could recognize. The love that was always in his eyes when he saw was gone and was replaced by confusion and hurt and disappointment when he could not recall me from his past and I asked him if he was truly Yami then could I see his left temple. He pushed up his bangs and those soft lush locks and I saw the scar I had given him the very first time I actually met him. It had been a complete accident. I was fighting in the arena for the Pharaoh's entertainment and I was in the area with my two Katanas in hand. My opponent was using daggers and lots of them. He swung and missed. I ducked and took a swing at him, he blocked with two daggers. He swung aiming for the throat. I leaned back, landed on me and heaved myself upward, taking him off balance. He took another swing at my face and this time I swung my leg out and hit his legs with the hilt of my swords. He went down. I swung my blades in a high arc and they came crashing down on his daggers and they both flew out of his hands. Then he reached into his dagger belt and pulled out a broad sword and blocked my attack as I came heavily down with both Katanas. He got up and slammed into me and one of my blades flew out of my hand and embedded itself in the sand and my he came at me again this time I dodged but he was ready for it and as soon as I dodged he twisted his own blade and threw my sword up and over straight at the pharaoh and it had hit him in the face on his left temple and I ran over to grab my sword and had stabbed my opponent in the gut and he gargled up blood and guts then I slit his throat to end his suffering and I raced over to the pharaoh’s side and realized how handsome he was and knew that if someone didn’t stop the bleeding he would die but I thank the gods that it hadn’t been deep otherwise he would never have made it. He was losing so much blood and I knew that I had to get a cloth but no one had any right on hand and the doctor’s were on there way but they would never make it in time so I tore at my dress slicing off a long strip that made my dress look like a strippers all the other woman there gasped, one fainted when I told the pharaoh I was going to place it on his temple to stop the bleeding he nodded and I told him that he needed to relax and so that I could place the strip on his face without it hurting him and he nodded ever so slightly and I gentle placed the cloth on his temple and nearly all the woman there fainted. He let out a small yet distinct moan that only I could he and I whispered to him that I was sorry that I couldn’t not keep a tight grip on my swords and he smiled ever so slightly and when he smiled his whole face seem to change and become so achingly handsome I could have dropped dead because he was so handsome. I have no idea what made me do it but I leaned down and kissed him giving him my first kiss and he reached up and took my head in his hands and sat up slowly and I wound my hands up in his hair and after a little while I broke the kiss and excused myself and told him that I was sorry that I had done that and that it was not very smart that I had done that but then I realized that he was completely healed only a white scar remained but even that was really small you wouldn’t even know it was there until you looked for it and I told him this and said that I had to go and get cleaned up, then I left.