In every life, there is an paths that one must choose, sometimes they might lead to happyness, joy, Other's lead to chaos, and destruction..

(Joey sighed. He knew he was good, but, he also knew he would never beat Kaiba. most of all his best friend Yugi. His fingers moved over the glisteny surface of his Duel Monsters deck, and a thought punctured his mind, "Why am I still doing this, know I'm good, hell, I came in second at the Duelist Kingdom, but there, there is that thought that I will just be the duelist that travels with the great Yugi Motto". He leaned his head back over the arm of the couch and coughed.)

JOEY: MAI!

(He jumped up from where he was sitting, his deck scattering across the floor and ran to greet her.)

JOEY: LONG TIME NO SEE MAI!

(Mai's expression was not that of happyness though.there was a strange foreboding look deep in her eyes.)

MAI: Hi there Joey, sorry if I'm not enthusiastic, I'm just, exhausted.

JOEY: Hey theh, foggit abou'it, I'm just glad your heah, I bet Yugi will be too!

MAI: I bet.

(The door coming from the kitchen opens, and out steps Yugi, the "King Of Games". His garb had not changed over the years since his battle in Malik's tournament, neither had his trade mark hair style.)

YUGI: Mai! How are you doing! I thought you where traveling?

MAI: Yeah, I was, but I met up with a strange duelist on the way back, he, he defeated me in 2 turns.

(Yugi and Joey looked shocked. Mai was a top ranked duelist, and what was even more strange was the worlds supposed best duelist has a rough time defeating her every time they play.)

YUGI: Who was this duelist?

MAI: I have no idea. He wore all black, the pants and shirt made from a material I have never seen before, his hair was black also, but what was strange was that he had a strange sword held onto his back by a silver chain that wrapped around his chest.

YUGI: What did it look like?

MAI: The hilt was golden, the bottom of it ending in a golden sphere, the symbol of the.

(She paused and looked at Yugi for a moment, her eyes tracing down to his puzzle.)

MAI: The Eye that decorates the Millennium Items.

(Yugi is shocked again, but he thought to himself that there was no such Millennium Artifact that she described.)

YUGI: Did you get his name. MAI: Yes, he called himself Xreser NynE.

(Mai looked up at the ceiling.)

MAI: His eyes, I have never seen one with so much darkness in them.

JOEY: Did he say what he wanted with yeh?

MAI: He wanted nothing with me, but, he did ask me this.

(She looks over at Yugi, who is looking very puzzled at the moment)

MAI: He asked where he could find Yugi Motto.