Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! series or characters because they belong to Kazuki Takahashi. However, I do own my own characters: Layla Chiba, Shinichi Chiba, Amon Chiba and Selene Chiba. I also own some of villains in the story: The unnamed Shadow Duelists, Apep, Keku, and Set, who is the main villain. Lastly, I also own the prototypes that lead on creating the Millennium Items: Millennium Bracer and Millennium Circlet.
Note: Bakura is Ryou's Yami while Malik is Marik's Yami since they have their own bodies in this story, just like Yami, who is Yugi's Yami.
Egypt. The place known for mystery from the ancient times from the creation of the Egyptian Gods to where the great pharaohs ruled over Egypt, which their stories were written amongst the walls to tell people that whoever found their tombs besides the tomb robbers that might have had their share of the treasure first. But there have been guardians who do their best to protect the tombs of the pharaohs from the robbers, however it was uncertain if some of the guardians from the past that have been working as an double agent to gain the treasure as well. Now, there are museums that have been made to protect the treasures and gather information about the rulers and their families so they could inform the world on what they were like while they were alive.
It was August 17, 19xx where an excavation site had been worked that there was a mystery of a unknown pharaoh was being led by a young archaeologist named Shinichi Chiba. He had graduated from the university and was requested by the director at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt to assist them by gathering information about the pharaoh and making sure that the treasures would not be stolen by tomb robbers like many has done for the other pharaohs that were buried.
When he arrived at the airport, he searched for anyone that he would be working with while reading to speak the languages so he wouldn't get lost as he felt a tapped on his shoulder, causing him to look over his shoulder. He met with an young Egyptian woman named Layla, who was also an archaeologist and assistant at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities by translating the hieroglyphics while some of the archaeologists had often misread them from time to time.
While months passed, Shinichi and Layla's relationship were close as Shinichi decided to ask for Layla's hand in marriage. During an excavation within the mysterious pharaoh's tomb, he encountered Shadi as Shadi asked him questions that Shinichi told him the truthful answers until Shinichi saw the Millennium Scale and Key. Shinichi began to ask him who he was until Shadi used the power of both items to see if Shinichi was pure and wasn't trying to deceive him like many tomb robbers, which Shinichi was telling the truth.
When Layla arrived to the scene, she asked Shadi what he was doing until the ceiling of one of the chambers began to collapse, thinking that she and Shinichi would be killed, since she knew that Shadi was actually a spirit. To both to their surprise, the rubble from the ceiling was in the air while Shinichi was holding it in seer concentration of his mind and moved the rubble aside as he asked them if they were all right, which they nodded that Layla didn't know he could do that.
Shinichi explained to them that he had this talent that was mostly from his mother's side and not only he had telekinesis, but he could see the past by getting in front of something from the ancient times, also known as retrocognition. Layla had a feeling as she didn't care if he had these abilities, she would still love him no matter what, causing Shinichi to propose to her. She tearfully accepted and the two were wed within a week as Shadi stayed in the back, foreshadowing on what he had saw for the two in the near future and left before they could notice him.
Soon after the next few months, Layla had been working at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities while being pregnant as she and Shinichi were excited to have the family they wanted, which they decided the name the children Amon and Selene after finding out the genders from the ultrasound. Shortly after, the two children were born as Shinichi silently prayed that their children did not inherited his family abilities, which he did not know about the future that would be in stored for them.
Five years later, tragedy struck the Chiba family when Layla received word that her husband, Shinichi, was murdered by tomb robbers as Shadi appeared before her with the box container in his hands. Shadi told her that her husband had found two relics that were not part of the Millennium Items that he had owned, but were prototypes that lead the creation of the Millennium Items. He also told her that the suitable owners to have these items were her children and specifically told her which item the children would have, causing her to accept it as her children came into the room, wondering what was going on.
Layla sadly told the children that their father was murdered by robbers while protecting the artifacts that belonged to the unknown pharaoh as he entrusted the artifacts to them. Sadden from the news, Amon and Selene promised their mother that everything will be alright since she still had them as Shadi had a feeling something would come their way soon enough...