Chapter 1

Yugi was on his way home from school when he passed a old, dark, lifeless house. It was the same old house he always passed when walked home from school.

Every time he even came near it, he would stop to just stare at it. Something just compelled him each time to go into that house.

But he never did. The house itself just spooked people out. No one ever went inside or beyond the gate, not even to demolish it.

So he continued his walk home. Yugi never did stay long enough to see a shadow inside the house watching him through a window on the second floor.

Once he was home his grandfather greeted him. "Yugi, did that wish you made a the puzzle come true yet?" Yugi completed the puzzle his grandfather had given him a few months ago. But nothing changed, at all. "No, not yet, but I'm sure it will." Even Yugi was losing hope at this point.

"Well, I'm sure it just takes more time." his grandfather assured him. 'I hope your right' Yugi thought. He went up to his room where he saw his puzzle lying on his desk.

'Why isn't anything happening?' he asked himself. All Yugi wanted was a friend yet he didn't receive that. 'Maybe grandpa's legend he told isn't true after all.'

Yugi was beginning to doubt the puzzle he wasn't sure what to believe anymore. His hope for a new friend was diminishing.

The next day Yugi decided to take the puzzle with him to school. It was then just letting it sit desk doing nothing and he thought it might actually work if it was near him.

This was all the hope he had left in the puzzle. If it still didn't work by just having it near him, then he would know his wish would never come true.

During school, Yugi made no new friends so his faith in the puzzle was gone. What ever faith or hope he might of had let was very little.

While walking back home Yugi never noticed two people following him. Until they stopped him in front the old house, no one bothered to go in.

"What do you have there?" one of them asked while pointing to his puzzle. Yugi recognized both of them. They were in one of his classes.

"My puzzle?" "Well, what ever it is, it's ours now." the other one said while he took the puzzle from Yugi. "Hey, give that back!" They ignored him while they were looking at the puzzle.

"I knew it this is fake gold!" "Not like you would have anything made out of real gold!" They both said while slightly laughing at Yugi.

"It's very important to me so give it back." "Oh, it's important huh." "Let's see how important it is to you when it's broken!" said one of them while throwing the puzzle over the gate into the yard of the spooky old house.

"He'll never get it back. He'll be too scared to go in there and get it." said one of them as they both walked away from Yugi and the house.

'Have to get that puzzle, but they're right I'll never be able to go in there. But it's a gift from grandpa I have to get it back, for him.'

Even though he knew he needed to get the puzzle back, he still didn't want to beyond that gate. But then he had that feeling of something pulling him closer to the house again.

'I'll just go in to get the puzzle and then come right back out.' When Yugi pushed the gate, it was open. 'Why is the gate unlocked?' But he didn't time to wonder about it he needed the puzzle.

When he walked through the gate he saw the yard clearly. There were weeds everywhere scattered across the yard and tall grass that looked like it hadn't been mowed in years.

It was going to take awhile to find the puzzle in this yard, so he started his search. After an hour of searching through the grass he still couldn't the puzzle.

'It should be here some where, but where?' The puzzle could have been any where and Yugi was sure he already looked through most of the yard.

'Maybe if I look from a higher place I'll find it.' So he looked around for anything to climb to get a better view. All he found were a couple of trees, but they looked too old and would probably collapsed under his weight.

The only place left he could think of that had a higher view of the yard was the second floor of the...house. But no one has ever been in that house for years. Those that did never stayed for long.

There were always complaints about unexplained events in the that creeped people out. But then again it could just all be an old legend. Who knew for sure no one could the last time people lived in that house.

'Have to find the puzzle though. I'm sure all the things they said about this house is just a myth or something' Yugi really hoped he was right about this house though.

When he went to touch the door knob, the door opened by itself. It was like the house was just inviting him in. 'It was just the wind' Yugi tried to convince himself.

Even though there was a little wind there was certainly not enough force to blow open the door. Yugi continued his way inside the house when the door slammed shut right behind him.

He made jump a little, but he tried to blame it all on the wind again. Now that the door was closed, it was almost completely dark inside the house.

But a window near the door let some light shine through. It was just enough light for Yugi to the outlines of objects in front of him.

Once he spotted the stairs he walked up them and made it to the second floor. He saw a hallway with four doors along it. He looked through the rooms until he finally found a window in one of them.

He looked across the yard for his puzzle until he founded it 10 feet away from the gate. Yugi was going to leave the house to retrieve his puzzle when something stopped him.

For some reason Yugi was stuck at the spot he stood. He kept on telling his body to move, but it wouldn't listen to him.

"Hello Yugi, it's nice we can finally meet."

It wasn't until he heard that voice and saw where it came from did he know what kept his body from moving. It was...fear.

But that wasn't the only question on Yugi's mind. 'How did it know my name?'

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