Prologue: Waking Nightmare

Spencer was in hysterics. He was chained by his hands and feet to a wall, desperately trying to break away with all of the strength and magic that he had, but no matter what he did, they still held fast.

A little bit away, a child was standing with his back to him, looking up at some unseen creature in the shadows. The creature created a black, glowing orb in its hands. Spencer could sense that the orb had only one power-to destroy.

The creature flung the orb down at the kid.

"NO!" Spencer screamed out in terror.

The orb smashed directly into the child with a painfully blinding light. When the light faded, the child had vanished.

Spencer stared at the space where the kid had stood in horror. He looked down at the ground, shut his eyes, and started sobbing. "No…no…" he murmured.

Suddenly, he felt some sort of strange feeling wash over his body. He felt it transform into thousands of gold sparks and soar away, but for some strange reason, he still felt as though he were in that room.

What now? Spencer thought.

Finally, he felt sparks surround him once more and restore him into a physical being. However, he felt different…as though some of his power had left him…and was he shorter? No, he had to just be imagining things…right?

Spencer opened his eyes to find himself lying on his back in his bed. His face was stained with the tears that he'd cried in his dream. He sat up and murmured, "Won't these dreams please ever stop?"

With a sigh, he lifted the blankets off of him-and stared down at himself with a jolt.

Last night he'd been so angry and tired that he'd just fallen asleep in his typical clothes, a black sleeve-less shirt, blue pants with blue boots on the bottom, a short blue cape, and black belts with silver studs around his neck and waist. This morning, however, his clothes had changed to a white shirt, blue jacket, blue pants, tennis shoes, and a blue buckle around his neck.

He knew that outfit quite well.

"No…" he whispered in horror. He jumped up out of bed and ran towards the full-sized mirror in his room, crying, "By the gods, no…"



He gazed inside the mirror and saw exactly what he feared the most.

Staring back at him was Yugi Muto.