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"I can hear the music even now, years after it stopped playing for me." grandpa whispered to himself at the dinner table.

I was used to him talking to himself but never had he mentioned music before.
"What's wrong grandpa?" I asked a little afraid of the glazed over look in his eyes.

"Yugi can you hear the music?" he asked while still looking around with his glazed over eyes.

I listened very hard for a few moments before I heard it. It sounded like circus music and it was very low but soon it felt like it was pounding through my head. I grabbed my ears and stuffed my fingers in them trying to block out the noise but it still played loud and clear as if nothing was hindering the noise.

"What is that grandpa?" I nearly yelled above the noise. Just then yami stumbled into the room holding his ears as well and he yelled "could you turn down the music please? Its way too loud!" so he heard it too!

Just as suddenly as the music started it stopped and a new voice rang through our ears. "Congratulations," said the voice, "if you can hear my voice then you have been recruited. Come at once, or suffer great consequences. Bring all of your possessions and meet in the park at midnight otherwise you will be dragged there. Until then" the voice faded away and the music started up again only now it was much lower and easier to tune out.

"It's started, oh god it's started again!" grandpa yelled as he held his head. He finally turned towards yami and I and said "I know you two heard the music as well, go pack your things we leave at 11:30 sharp and don't be late you don't want to make Him angry."

"But who is He? What does He want?" yami blurted out, clearly concerned for our safety, as always.

"You shall soon find out but for now we must pack and quickly, we don't have much time!" grandpa yelled as he ran down the hall to a closet and pulled out his carpet bag. He rustled around in the closet for a few more seconds and took out 2 duffle bags throwing them to us before heading to his room.

/yami? /

/yes, Yugi? /

/what should we do I'm a little worried/

/we must do as grandpa says and pack, I don't want you harmed because we can't follow directions/

/alright, come on/

We headed upstairs to our shared bedroom and started to throw all of our clothes, pictures, toiletries and money into our bags. We were silent most of the time, listening to the music that was still playing in our heads. The song wasn't that bad and it felt familiar as if I had also heard it before…

"yami I'm going to go check on grandpa and get our passports, okay?" yami nodded and I walked out of the room heading downstairs to the safe to grab our passports before heading over to grandpa's room to find him finished packing and on the phone.

"Yes it's started again… can you hear it too? You can?... Are you coming?... Yes I suppose we don't have a choice but we still need to… alright I'll see you there then… goodbye" he hung up the phone and sighed, he knew something and he wasn't telling us but why wouldn't he tell? We could help him if we knew.

"Come in Yugi" grandpa said without turning around. I walked inside and saw that by his feet was a large box. I had never seen that box before. Around the box were several pictures, coins, and other random things that were spilling out of the box. But the one that that caught my eye was the costume that was falling out of the box.

It was, at one point, a pair of white pants and a red jacket. There were black boots in the box as well and a whip was also on the floor. I looked up at grandpa my eyes filled with questions.

"This is why we are packing, we have been recruited to become a part of the nightmare." I was so confused but he didn't continue, he just glanced at the clock and noticed it was 11 'clock pm.

"Are you and yami ready yet?" he asked.

I nodded my head and he just nodded. "Alright, we had better get going, we can't keep Him waiting much longer."

Still confused I watched as grandpa packed everything back into the box and place the box in his suitcase, zipping it closed and pulling the bag off the bed. He left the room and I went to go get my bag to find that yami had both bags in his hands coming down the stairs to greet me.

/Yugi?/

/yes yami?/

/It's in your bag on the top, put it on now/

His tone of voice was not good, even if we were just talking through the mind link. I knew he wasn't joking around and I had no other option but to comply.

I took my bag from him and placed it on the floor and unzipped it enough to grab the 2 objects and closed the bag quickly, heading towards the bathroom.

Once inside I looked at the Velcro and the knife in my hands. I sighed, it had been years since I needed to use this. I wrapped the Velcro around my arm and carefully placed the knife onto the Velcro before rolling my sleeve down to cover it. Knowing yami he already had two knives strapped his body as well.

I flushed the toilet to make it seem like I was just going to the bathroom and then exited the bathroom heading towards my bag to re-zip it.

I pulled out our passports and handed them out to grandpa and yami before slipping mine back into my pocket.

"Alright we need to go" grandpa muttered and grabbed his jacket, hat and keys. I also grabbed my jacket and yami did the same as we left our little house. Once we were outside grandpa set the alarm and locked the doors before grabbing his bag off the side walk and leading us silently to the park, into the unknown….