Nomad's. That was something you would call the three boys that dashed through the tall corn fields that seemed to engulf them whole. Although, that didn't seem like a bad idea considering their situation. Queer. Another word that described them along with many others in the world they lived in. It's also exactly what they were and is the answer as to why they are running from the Maytona Poacher's.

All three boys continued to run as fast as they could. The corn stalks whipped their faces, leaving them stinging and bleeding, but there would be time to deal with the injuries later, now they needed to get to safety.

"Were almost there. Just keep running!" one of the teenage boys with platinum blond hair, violet eyes, and soft caramel skin of an Egyptian yelled to his friends who were slightly ahead of him.

"Damn these shoes. I keep tripping over myself!" the other teenage boy hissed. He had wild star shaped hair that was black, tipped with dark magenta and wavy gold bangs that framed his face with the exception of a few that stuck up. His eyes were sharp dark amethyst color and he also had tan skin.

"Be careful guys, their right behind us!" the smaller of the two panted as he followed his older look alike. The boys hair was also star shaped with the same tricolored locks without the extra bangs that stuck up against his black hair. Really the only difference between him and the older was that his eyes were wider and a lighter shade of amethyst that made up the prettiest color. He also had a more pale complexion.

"I would know!" the platinum mumbled breathlessly as he took a quick glance behind him to see a bunch of men chasing after them.

"Because you're the slowest out of us all." the older boy with the dark amethyst eyes remarked.

"Now is not the time nor the place!" the smaller yelled as they closed in on their destination.

"Almost there! Almost there!" he chanted as he could see the forest that had the glowing fence barrier around it.

He could almost smell the green nature that called to him and provided him protection. He was so focused on the opening at the glowing gate that he didn't realize that there was only two of them running now.

"You doing ok back there Malik?" he called over his shoulder.

He received no answer which made him take another glance behind him. He almost choked on the dryness of his throat when he realized his friend was no longer with them.

"They got him- Ah!" he screamed as he felt a piece of rope wrap around his legs with two large balls on both sides of the rope, trapping him and making him fall helplessly to the ground.

He struggled and squirmed, but he had been running so hard that his arms and legs were shaking so badly he could barely maneuver them.

"Keep running!" he yelled after his older look alike, knowing he would come back for him.

But his urges did no good because the older did come back and tried his very best to unravel the smaller from the tight wrap around his legs.

"Forget me! Save yourself and then get help! I'll be fine. Please Atem go!" the smaller begged.

Atem knew he could not get the rope off in the limited amount of time they had. "I swear I'll find you Yugi. You and Malik. Do me a favor and don't give in. Keep fighting, but stay safe." Atem rushed before quickly kissing Yugi on the forehead and dashing off into the night.

The second Yugi could no longer see Atem he felt many hands grab him by the arms and yanked him roughly off the ground.

"Where's the other one?" one of the men asked.

"There's no doubt he went inside the barrier. No use in trying to track him down now, he's out of our range. Two out of three aint so bad though." another man replied.

They then took out a flashlight and shined it onto Yugi's face.

The leader of the group smirked. "Oh, yes. I think he'll sell just fine. Lovely, isn't he?"

The others agreed. They especially seemed fond of Yugi's color choices.

"Ok, let's get him and the loud mouth to town. Sooner we get rid of them the more we can catch."

The men nodded and dragged Yugi back from the way they had just ran. It took them awhile since they had been chasing him for a long time through the corn fields. But after switching off who had to carry Yugi and walking the long way back they finally made it back to the clearing where many vans laid out on the lawn. Some more of the men were standing guard outside the yellow mustard colored van that looked perfectly polished.

"Should we put him in a separate van or dump him with his friend?" the man holding Yugi asked.

"Separate. Can't have them plotting against us now can we?" the leader clicked his tongue. "Once he's in were out of here. It will take most of the night to get to town."

"Yes sir." the man answered before pulling Yugi towards a white van that looked like it had seen better days.

He opened the back door and practically threw Yugi inside.

"I don't know if you have your powers or whatever, but don't try anything. The balls on the end of that rope will shock you if it feels any energy radiating from you.

Yugi said nothing. He only stared at the dirty corner of the van with a glare set on his face.

In the other van Malik was doing no better. He was scared and angry. He also wondered if they had caught Yugi or Atem. Although he was hoping that they made it inside the barrier, he couldn't help but feel alone and wanted more than anything to have his powers at that moment.

"Who would have thought that a witch and a leprechaun could take something so powerful…" he muttered as he remembered what happened.

~Inside a large mansion located inside the town.~

"Yami, my lad, where are you?" a man who wore a black suit with a striped black and white tie called throughout the large mansion that he lived in.

He waited a few moments before he heard the padding of feet against the stairs.

"Yes, dad?" a teenage boy appeared. He had star shaped hair colored black at the base with magenta tips on the edge of the black and golden bangs that framed his face and shot up along the black. His eyes were a exotic crimson and his complexion was rather pale although it did have some golden shine to it.

The man smiled at his son as he motioned for him to follow him to his office. Once they were inside the office the man closed the doors and went to his desk before sitting down. His son rummaged through the closet that was in the room before pulling out a dark navy blue bean bag chair where he planted it on the floor and fell backwards into it.

"Now Yami, as I'm sure your aware of, tomorrow is your birthday." his father played with the money in his hand that he hid underneath the desk.

"How could I forget?" Yami lightly smiled.

"Well, your turning seventeen and I think at that age is when teenagers start to take on responsibility, in my opinion."

"Ok, so?" Yami twirled his hand in a circular motion to hurry his father up.

"I was thinking it's time for you to pick out which creature you want to own. They will be selling many tomorrow at the market. It'll be the perfect time for you to decide since they separate the species from the one's that are not their kind."

Yami's father was a very rich man. He was also kind and considerate and always wanted what was best for his son. If that meant giving him the responsibility of owning his own creature then so be it. After all he had his own monster already.

"You can even take my monster to help you choose if you wish."

Yami's eyes widened. "Take the nasnas? He's completely crazy and loves tricking people! Which is strange because nasnas hate people!"

His father laughed. "That's why Marik tricks people. Another form of hating."

"Right. I guess he can come along if you think it will help me decide. But I have no idea what creature I want. Maybe an orthros…"

"A two headed dog? Not too original."

"More original than yours. He only has half a body! And thank Ra it's his torso and up."

His father laughed at this. "Oh come on. He does have a ghostly tail."

"Creepy." Yami replied.

"No matter. But you pick out what creature you want. I think you'll find them to be very useful." his father then handed him the wad of money.

Yami nodded. "Thanks dad. I'll go tomorrow afternoon." he headed towards the door but then paused. "Oh yeah, don't let Marik near that apple pie I just made." he then smirked before walking out, making sure to close the office doors behind him.

~The next day in the afternoon~

Yami was getting annoyed by Marik who was laughing like a maniac at everything or anyone he managed to scare. Which was every five minutes.

"Would you stop embarrassing me?" Yami moaned and then blushed as he watched Marik smack a woman in the butt and then pointed to the man that happened to be browsing beside him. The unknown man got a stinging slap to the face for it.

"Hm… no." Marik grinned.

His eyes wandered around for something fun he could do and pointed towards a large tent. Yami looked in the direction the monster pointed to and watched as many men grabbed people or creatures out of the back of their vans and pushed them in the line that formed at the back of the tent.

"Looks like an auction. Wonder what those things are."

Marik glared at him. "I don't appreciate being called a thing. I was once human too you know."

"Oh, er, sorry."

Marik only waved him off. "Come on. Let's go in and see if anyone good is up for sale. Besides I'm bored and we've been looking at creatures for hours."

Yami agreed and they went to the front of the tent where they had to pay a little money to get in. Once getting tickets they headed inside and grabbed two seats that were close to the front. It seemed the auction had already started and many members of the crowd would wave their numbers in the air, trying to outbuy everyone else. Currently on the stage was a girl wearing a bra that had many beads attached to it. She also had on harem pants and tiny slippers that all matched the transparent veil that hung around her face.

"So… what is she?" he asked as he watched her go off the stage since she had been bought.

"These are genie's and gypsies." Marik said without taking his eyes off the stage as the next person walked on.

Yami almost fell out of his chair at this. "Seriously? Aren't they really rare and hard to capture because of their charmed barrier?"

"Yeah. Or that's what I've heard anyways. I don't know. Their strange and have a pretty calm nature and are usually very willing to their owners."

"Hm just like you, right?" Yami teased.

Marik slapped him on the arm. "Finally! Their getting to the males."

Yami paid more attention to the creatures on stage since he was in fact, gay. Not that that had to do with this, but he preferred to have a male creature anyways. He watched as many teenage boys and some men came onto the stage, but none caught his interest. The only things that slightly caught his attention was what the genie's and gypsies were wearing. They all had different color schemes and jewels that adorned their bodies.

Yami sighed. "Come on, let's go."

Marik agreed since he was starting to get bored and none of the boys were really catching his attention either. The two scooted their ways out of their row. Or more like Yami did. Marik just floated by. They went outside the tent and just hung around for awhile. Only a few minutes later did they hear the loud sound of gravel being run over. They both turned their heads to see two new vans pull up beside all the other vans. They decided to watch and see what was in the vans.

"Probably werewolves or something." Marik sighed.

"Mmm." Yami hummed, but he still watched, curious to see what waited inside the vans.

Another few minutes flew by before some men went to the back of the trucks and lifted up the backs. Yami and Marik were both shocked when they saw two more genie's come out of the van. It wasn't what they were that shocked them, but their beauty what held their gazes.

Yami couldn't take his eyes off the smaller boy who looked very similar to him despite a few differences. The boy was also wearing a genie attire. A gold colored vest hung on to the boy's frame which showed off his slightly toned chest and his arm muscles. He also had on black harem pants, an amethyst colored sash/belt that hung snuggly around his hips, two gold armbands on the area right above his elbow, a few ankle bracelets, and no shoes. He looked a little beaten up and for some reason this angered Yami. He also saw the shackles around the boys ankles. Both boys had them.

The boy Yami had been watching suddenly smiled. "Malik!" he called.

The other boy looked to the side and also grinned widely. "Yugi!"

They tried to hug each other, but the hold that the men had on them refrained from doing so.

"Yami I want him." Marik wined.

At first Yami thought Marik was talking about his jewel who he figured out was named Yugi. But then he realized he meant the Egyptian boy.

"I want his friend. Come on. Let's see if we can buy them before they get auctioned off."

Marik nodded and both he and Yami ran towards the men who held their gypsies captive.

A/N- Ok, so I'm not sure if I should make Atem Yugi's lover or make him his brother or just a friend. What do you guys think? Should I turn this into Mobiumshipping along with a few other shipping's? Or should Atem and Yugi just be friend or brothers? Either way it will be a Yugi/Yami, Marik/Malik, and eventually Ryou/Bakura, Joey/Seto. Tell me what you think and please review. I hope you understood this story.