“The yamis are missing.”

~~*~ Flash Back ~*~~

“Ryou? Ryou, is that you?” Marik asked the person he and Malik, his yami, which was now a Chibi, had run into and knocked down. Marik had decided to take Chibi Malik to the park a little while earlier. But as soon as they had gotten there, it had started raining so Marik was running to get Malik back home before he caught cold. He bent down and got on his knees to get a better look at the person. He gasped, indeed it was Ryou. He as want he assumed was Chibi Bakura had probably been headed to Yugi’s house, since it was close to here... Wait! The chibis! How could he have forgotten so quickly? He looked around; but there were no Chibis in sight.

~~*~Back to present~*~~

Yugi gasped. He’d never seen Ryou like this before... And the news about the other Chibi yamis missing wasn’t too inviting, either. He stepped aside so Marik could enter.

“Do you know how this happened?” Yugi questioned as he watched Marik put Ryou down on the couch.

“Well, Malik and I were coming from the park, we were running because I didn’t want him to get sick... We weren’t really watching where we were going, and the next thing I knew, we had knocked someone down, pretty hard too, I think, so it’s not a wonder he’s knocked out. I bent down to help him up, and when I looked around, there were no Chibis anywhere that I could see... I then remembered we were close to your house, and figured that was were he was headed, so, here we are.” Marik finished with a sigh. He looked at Ryou again. “Um...shouldn’t we get like a washcloth or something for him?” Marik suddenly asked, nodding his head at Ryou.

“Oh, um, yeah. Hold him for a sec.” Yugi said, handing Chibi Yami to Marik. Yugi left the room and a few minutes later appeared again with a damp washcloth in his hands. He placed the washcloth on Ryou’s forehead, and almost immediately Ryou started to stir, but didn’t open his eyes.

“Now what do we do?” Marik asked as Yugi took back Chibi Yami, whom was still asleep.

“Well, I’d say we should wait until Ryou wakes up again, then go looking for the Chibis.” Yugi suggested.

“Sounds good to me, but... I’m just a little worried about what the Chibis might have gotten them selves into, you know? I mean, they could catch something really bad from all this rain-” The door bell rang, cutting Marik off. Yugi sighed.

“You mind holding him again?” Yugi asked, Marik nodded and took the Chibi yami in his hands again.

“Coming!” Yugi shouted as he ran to the door. Yugi opened the door, and, to say the least, was very shocked. For, Seto Kaiba and a Chibi Mokuba Kaiba stood on his doorstep.

~~~~~~~~~**~~~~~~~~~

Malik had gotten curious when he had seen the other Chibi sneak away, and had decided to follow him. But now, he was regretting that choice.

“Wher ‘re we going?” Chibi Malik asked chibi Bakura. The other chibi looked behind him at Malik.

“Expworing. If ‘oo awr scarwed, thwen why did ‘oo follow?” Bakura questioned the other chibi. Malik huffed.

“I wever swaid I was scarwed! I onwy ask wer we gonin’!” Malik told Bakura. Bakura laughed, but didn’t otherwise respond. So the two chibis continued crawling along, fourchenitly, there were a bunch of large roof coverings where the yamis were currently crawling, so they weren’t very wet.

~~~~~~~~~**~~~~~~~~~

Joey had just gotten out of the store with a few items Serenity had told him to pick up for dinner, when he saw the strangest sight... Or at least thought he did, he could have SWORN that a toddler version of Bakura (Yes, all of them know about the yamis and millenium the items) and Malik has just come crawling past.

Was he losing it, or was it real? He decided to check things out anyway, so he took off in the direction he had seen them leave. He saw a flash of pale blonde hair, and he knew he was on the right track. He quickened his pace a bit.

“Hey, Joey! Over here!” He heard a familiar voice call out. He looked up, and indeed, saw Tristan running at him.

“Hey Tristan!” He said, glancing back to where he had seen a glimpse of Malik. “I think I mighta just seen a toddler version of Bakura an’ Malik head this way, an’ I was gonna check it out.” Joey said, walking foreword again. Tristan almost laughed.

“Are you getting’ enough sleep? You might be seeing things...” Tristan teased. Joey huffed.

“I’m serious, dude! I saw them go that way!” He said, pointing a head of him. “An’ I havn’t seen Ryou or Marik any where ‘round here.” Joey exclaimed, looking around. Tristan suddenly gasped his eyes wide.

“Look!!” Tristan screeched pointing to a street the chibi yamis were about to cross, and there was a car coming down that persice road. Joey gasped.

“Here, hold this, would ya pal?” Joey shoved the items in his hands to Tristan, whom took them, almost sending some falling in his shocked state. Joey ran full force to the yamis and snatched them up, the car’s wheel missing them by a centimeter. The car immediately stopped the diving getting out and running up to the boys.

“Oh my goodness!” The lady screeched. “Are they Okay? I didn’t hurt them, right?” She asked franticly.

“Yeah, they're just dandy.” Joey sarcastically remarked turning and walking away, leaving the screeching woman behind. He came up to Tristan again; the scared yamis still in his hold.

“Let’s get outta here.” He told the other boy, taking off his jacket and wrapping it around the two chibis so they wouldn’t get sick.

~~~~~~~~~**~~~~~~~~~

Marik couldn’t believe this; Mokuba had been turned into a Chibi as well?! What in the heck was going on? At first they had thought it only something to do with the yamis, but Mokuba was obviously not a yami... Or was he? Marik didn’t know the boy very well, so it could be a possibility, yet, not a very likely one. He could tell that Yugi was just as confused about this as he. A low moan brought him out of his train of thought.

“Wha-Where am I? Wha-What happened?” a groggy Ryou asked. He slowly sat up and looked around. His eyes widened as he remembered.

“Bakura! Where’s Chibi Bakura?” He asked, looking around. Yugi and Marik side glanced at each other.

“Well, uh, you see...” Yugi started, but Seto finished.

“They’re missing. Now let’s get back to talking about how to change Mokuba back.” Seto hissed. Bakura looked terrified. At that moment, the doorbell rang.

continued