Im Just Saiyan

Chapter 1: King no more

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"GACK! Why did I ever think that it would be a good idea to set my alarm to 6 in the morning?" I thought to myself while removing my fist from the shattered remains of my alarm clock. I never will understand why my grandpa keeps buying me those, they always end up breaking for some reason or another. "Well at least I can take advantage of this early hour and prep up my deck." I've been preparing for this tournament ever since it was announced. I still can't believe the day is today. By the way, I don't think I've mentioned my name yet. I'm Yugi Moto and the current "King of Games"; well, that's what everyone has called me ever since my first tournament. I specialize in the game Duel Monsters, a fast paced, high action card game that almost everyone plays. It may seem simple and harmless at first; until a strange thing happened to me one night.

FLASHBACK

"Wow, Grampa sure is going to be surprised when he sees I figured this puzzle out all by myself." I said to no one in particular as I held up the shining golden pyramid that was the Millennium Puzzle up to my face. Grampa had brought this puzzle home in a box full of its pieces after coming back from his Egyptian archeology dig. He said that it was found in the tomb of a long since dead Egyptian Pharaoh, and, so far, no one he gave it to had been able to solve it; even himself!

"The last piece…" I mumbled to myself while reaching into the box and pulling out the last carved piece of gold from the box. It was a perfect fit for the middle slot that was the final hole in the puzzle. This one was especially intriguing above the other pieces because it had the pattern of the Egyptian Hieroglyph Eye on its front. "This is it!" I carefully slid the piece into its slot, completely removing all visible markings of when it was in pieces. I noticed light seeming to cascade from the Golden Pyramid, but I simply attributed it to my recent sleep deprivation and my excitement.

"Awesome, I did it! The Millennium Puzzle is complete!" I shouted in glee as the light intensified. I held the puzzle closer to my face as my grin seemed to intensify. "I can't wait to see the look on his face when I show him in the morning." I thought to myself, noticing now that the light was getting even brighter. I had to shield my eyes now.

"Hey. What gives." I said out loud in a trembling voice as the now completed puzzle began to shake. The previous white light coming out of it was replaced with a purplish red cloud that seemed to rocked out of the eye on the front. I barely was able to keep holding it with how much it was shaking.

"Gaaaah!" I yelled as the clouds started to materialize. Suddenly, my room was filled with what could only be described as monsters. There were skeletal looking ghosts, dragon-like bugs with bulging veins on their wings, Snake creatures, almost none looked alike, except for the cold and heartless looks they all had in their eyes. The one that caught my attention the most though was a small brownish puff ball with stubby green arms and legs, white claws, beady eyes, and sharp fangs. It walked across my floor, out of the crowd, and stopped right next to me. We both stared into each other's eyes for a split second; suddenly, it bared its fangs at me while shrieking and leaped straight towards my face. I shielded myself with my arm, and waited for the beasts fangs to sink into it…

Nothing happened. I finally looked up, only to have my eyes almost blinded by the Millennium Puzzle's even more intense light. I looked down and noticed that the rope I had attached to it had caught on my neck, where it was now hanging; shaking even more violently, but in a more circular and controlled motion than its erratic fits seconds before. It was then that a strange urge came over me. I felt as if the light was pushing me into my own body, making me sink into the depths of my own soul. Words slipped from my mouth that I did not know, nor did I control.

"YU-GI-OH!" As I spoke these words, my voice deepened in mid-speech. My body seemed to have grown half a foot, and I was no longer in control.

(A/N: From now onward, I will be using Bolded font like this to symbolize Yami-Yugi talking and italicized font to symbolize thoughts. They will be bolded if it is Yami-Yugi Thinking.)

There was a burning, yellow eye symbol on my forehead that shined brighter than the puzzle had (Which by now had stopped shining.). The person controlling my body brought his head down from the leaned back position it had been forced into by my transformation. He, I mean I, slowly opened our eyes and observed the monsters. I could see now by their eyes that they were… afraid? No that couldn't have been it. Time had once again started moving at its normal pace and the brown, furry creature had once again leaped at me. This time though, the light formed in a circle around me, winds rushing around in my closed room making my hair stand more on end than it already does with its spikey style.

We grabbed the puzzle around our neck with one hand, and swung our other arm, pointing it in the direction of the monster. "Shadow creatures, begon! I command you!" We commanded the light swirling around us to surround and wrap around every single one, seeming to blind the monsters, judging by how they shielded their eyes with their arms. "Return to the dark realm from whence you came!" The light filled the room like an explosion, absorbing all in the room besides me. The light then gathered in one place and was sucked back into the eye of my Millennium Puzzle, along with the monsters, making the room once again go dark.

I was breathing hard, thinking it all to have been a dream; but here I was, standing in the exact same spot, holding the puzzle closer to my face as if it would give me an understanding of what had just occurred...

FLASHBACK END

Me and the person I would later discover to be the spirit that resided in the Millennium Puzzle had many adventures after that; with each one, delving into the secrets of his past. I came to call him Yami and Pharaoh, seeing as how that was the name he preferred and he was in fact an Egyptian Pharaoh from 5000 years ago. It was because of him and my friends, Tea, Joey, and Tristan that I became the duelist I am today; and together, we are all an unstoppable team. Just ask Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters. It was because of my beating him in his own tournament, after he stole my Grandpa's soul and forced me to enter, that I earned the title "King of Games". I won't take credit though, because the Pharaoh did most of the dueling; not that anyone ever realized it, even my friends.

"Yugi, you do know that we need to be awake to duel; right?" Pharaoh spoke out from within Yugi's puzzle.

"Oh, sorry." I replied while scratching his spikey hair and grinning. "Did I wake you up Pharaoh?" Ever since getting back home from the Duelist Kingdom Tournament, hosted by Pegasus, it had been especially hard coming to terms with sharing a body and doing everyday things.

"Yugi, I know this has been rough on you as well as me, but try to be mindful of your surroundings. We're not non-stop dueling machines. We need rest too if we're going to win that tournament." He said in a caring and yet still stern tone. We had become quite close over the past few months, and not just from sharing a body too! "Besides, you and I both know that our deck is fine. We spent hours on perfecting it, and we're happy with the results."

Feeling a little foolish, Yugi went back into a lying down position and succumbed to his wishes. "I can't wait for the tournament…" Yugi thought to himself and the Pharaoh.

"I know what you mean. I sense that this will be an even greater challenge than we have ever faced before…"