(Summery: Marik escapes his dads furry and tries to remember where his brother Melvin was staying for the night, finding himself in the poor part of town. He finds an abandoned house.)

Marik made his way across the stones that made a pathway across a creek. He slipped on a particularly small stone and landed on his shin, and getting wet by the rushing waters. He stood up, steadying himself and cursing from the pain, and continued his way across the creek. He slipped again when he hit solid ground, landing on the same leg he had just barely hurt.

Why was his luck so bad today? First he messed up on the time and didn't get out of the house fast enough and get beat up by his insane dad, then he nearly got run over by a car, and now he kept tripping on the same leg over and over again.

He made his way through the field of weeds like he usually did every day around this time, and walked down the poor people road. There were a lot of abandoned houses; he explored them a bit, even thought about moving into one of them without anyone noticing. He was still thinking about that idea, why keep living in a stupid neighborhood, with a father who hated his guts, oh yeah, his brother.

Marik's brother, Melvin, was the only reason he even still lived in that house. Melvin was Marik's sort of protector. Melvin could take care of himself, he knew how to defend himself against his father, he knew how to provide for himself, how to get food for the two 12 year old kids. Stealing was a big deal for Marik and his perfect ways, but Melvin didn't have a problem with it, so he was the one who did it. That's probably what he's doing right now.

Melvin was never home. He was always at his friend's house; Marik would be at a friend's house if he had any. Melvin offered to take him with him to a friends house but Marik never felt welcome, not that he didn't feel welcome at his dad's house but at least there he wasn't intruding upon someone else.

Marik found his way to the end of the street he was on and turned the corner, heading up the other streets, trying to remember which house Melvin was staying at. He told him, but he guessed he wasn't really paying much attention, cause he didn't even remember if Melvin was even in the poor section of town. He came to a sudden stop at the corner of a certain street he had never noticed before.

The street was clear of houses except for one at the very end of the street. It was a little bigger and brighter than the other gloomy houses in that gloomy city with abandoned streets and a fog that was heavy and never left, just lingered, blocking the sun making it always shadowy and sad.

He felt the need to explore the mysterious abandoned house. One thing that made this house different from the rest was it was a two-story house unlike the other one-story apartment like houses. He practically ran up to it, knocking to check to make sure it was abandoned. The door opened a crack at his touch. He entered, "Hello" he said, waiting a second for a reply, there was none.

He looked around the house. It was obviously old and abandoned. Rotting floors, spider webs everywhere, layers of dust covering the floors and furniture, which was flowery and girly, and ripped. Obviously the previous owner was a girl, but he wondered why she left this tacky furniture behind.

He suddenly came to a stop, hearing a loud bang upstairs. Looking at the staircase that was to his right, "Hello?" He called again making his way to the bottom of the stairs. Slowly he walked up the stairs, step by step, every other stair creaked.

He finally made it to the top step and looked around an abandoned room, it looked like a very tidy person previously owned this room. A made bed with pinkish frilly sheets and pillows, an old desk that had papers and books and pencils all organized perfectly, a clean wall free of posters, and a floor with nothing but dust. The only thing it was lacking was the person who made that loud noise.

He saw a book on the floor, concluding that that was the source of the noise. He walked over, picked up the book and was about to place it on the pile with the rest of the books when the front door slammed. He straightened up, and ran down the stairs to see no one there. He ran to the door and opened it, then ran outside to see no one there.

Okay? That's weird. He thought remembering his original plan to find his brother. The need to explore the house abandoned for right then. He finally remembered he was staying at his friend,Yugi's house in the rich section of town.

He made his way there using the street instead of his shortcut creek, to get back into the rich section of the gloomy town, heading in the direction of Yugi's house.

So that was the first chapter, Bakura, Melvin, Yugi, and his grandpa will come in in the next chapter.

Yes, Marik and Melvin are going to be twins, and yes there 12, bakura's going to be 13

Please don't get offended that I call it the poor part and the rich part of town, I called it that because I was sitting in history, one day like a month ago, and my teacher mentioned the saying "she/he came from the wrong side of the track" and I thought of that today, and decided that I would, instead of separating the town by a train track I would separate it by a creek.

What else do I have to say… oh yeah, Marik still has the book with him, he still has the bloody knee, and he has some bruises from his dads beating.

Yep I think that's it for this chapter. Please Review. Thanks!