It had been five months since Pharaoh Atem entered the afterlife. Yugi and his grandpa, Solomon, were closing the game shop up for the night and all seemed very quiet. Not for long as the door to the front of the game shop busted open and snarling beasts charged in.
The next day, Joey, Tea, and Tristan were walking to the game shop so that they and Yugi would ride the bus to school together. Joey and Tristan were goofing off with one another while Tea was walking ahead of the two boys. "Come on guys! Yugi is waiting on us!" she says to them as they are still goofing off.
Joey and Tristan just grin at her and calm down enough to walk with her. When they got to the game shop Tea tried to open the shop door to find it locked, which Tea found odd. Joey shrugs his shoulders and the trio waited for Yugi to come out. After a few minutes of waiting Tea starts getting worried that maybe something was wrong. "Hey guys, we've never had to wait this long before. Why don't we go to the back and see if can get in that way." She says, but Joey shakes his head no.
"Na… We can wait a bit more and see what happens, kay Tea." And she had to agree.
After ten minutes pass by with no word for either Yugi or his grandpa the three teens begin to really worry and agree that now was the time to go around to the back of the shop and see if something happened. The trio ran till they came to a fence and Tristan leaned his back to the fence and cupped his hands so he could give Joey a boost up and over the fence to unlatch the lock. Once done the three teens ran to the patio of the back yard and to the back door only to find it ajar on one hinge and the smell of blood was very prominent. The three ran in to find, to their horror, Yugi and Grandpa dead on the kitchen floor lying in a puddle of their own blood!! Tea gasped in shock and let out a loud scream!
Tea, Joey, and Tristan were talking to an officer giving him their point of view and of their findings. When they were finally left alone, Tea walked a little ways to get some air as she was still trying to come to terms with the death of her long time friend. She felt tears come to her eyes again at the thought of live without her small, kind, and compassionate friend. But she sees something at the corner of her eye, a small teen with tri colored hair that stood in a star shape. Tea quickly turns around to hopefully get a good look at what she is seeing but the person she thought she saw was gone. Tea sighs and starts muttering on how she was seeing things and started making her way back to her friends. While she was not looking, a young man about five feet and four inches tall with tri colored hair walked out of an alley and was making his way to the hospital to meet the bodies there.
Sometime after sunset, a young man with tri colored hair snuck into the morgue where there were two bodies lying on long metal examination tables, one a small teen with the same hair style as the other young man and an old man that was the small teen's grandfather. The young man walks up to the examination table that held Yugi and the man put his hand above the dead teen's eyes and began to chant in ancient Egyptian. After a few minutes of chanting he removed his hand and Yugi's injuries started healing until all damage to his body were gone. Once the damage was dealt with, the young man whispered out, "It's time to wake up, Yugi. Your night time terror has ended." He said in a low tenor voice.
Slowly, Yugi's eyes fluttered open and gazed into the gentle crimson hues of his long time best friend and once a spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, Pharaoh Atem or better known as Yami. "Yami…" Yugi's voice was barely above a whisper.
Yami gently helps Yugi sit up as the sheet that had been covering the once dead teen's whole body fell down to his waist as Yugi tried to remember what exactly happened to him and his grandpa. But when he saw his grandfather on the other table it all came back to Yugi and he just breaks down and cries while hanging onto Yami as if he was the small teen's last life line. As Yugi cries Yami comforts him as best as he can by letting Yugi hold onto him as he holding Yugi while whispering soothing words to his hikari. "It's alright, Yugi. I'm here now. It will be alright."
When Yugi finally calmed down, Yami handed Yugi a set of clothes, "I'm sorry that I have to rush you but we do not have very much time. Hurry and get dressed, we have a lot to do before the night is over with." He says and helps Yugi get off the table lets the teen have his privacy while he slipped into boxer shorts, pants, and a loose shirt.
Once dressed, Yugi confronts Yami about how he had returned when he should be enjoying his rest in the afterlife. "I wanted to come back. I didn't want to leave my hikari alone in this big cruel world." Yami smirked.
"Oh… So what now?" Yugi asks while he was tying his shoes and getting to his feet.
"We have to leave here before somebody sees us, then we must get to the Nest before dawn, there you will have to make a very important decision. And you will need as much time as possible to make this decision." Yami says while keeping an eye out for anybody out in the halls; Yugi just ah's and quickly follows Yami to the exit of the hospital without any incident.
An hour later, Yami was leading Yugi towards the pizza parlor. Behind it was a secret door that leads underground. Yami taps the wall three times and waits for the door keeper to answer his knocks. "What is the password?" says a guy that was on the other side.
Yami just rolls his eyes at the guy, "There is no password you dumbass."
The guy just laughs at the remark and Yugi is appalled about the use of language that his friend and partner had used, "Yami!!!" Yami turns towards his hikari and just shrugs his shoulders.
"What?" Yami asks innocently.
"Don't what me!" Yugi exclaims, "You never use language like that!!"
Yami just shrugs again, "That doesn't mean I can't change, Yugi."
Yami says in his wise tone.