This story takes place after Yugi beat the haywire dueling computer and the announcer is calling out the competitors' names. When they get to the last one, another duelist steps on to the stage. There will be some mention of my the prequel that I'm going to right, Yugi Versus The Cloud.

Chapter 1

The Wild Cards

"Oh, it appears someone is late," said the announcer.

Yugi and the everyone else looked

The boy who stood at the door wore a black leather jacket matched by a black muscle shirt and a black pair of jeans. On his feet he wore a black pair of sneakers and he had on a black pair of fingerless gloves that looked like those that were given to the competitors of the Duelist Kingdom Tournament, but it was his face that caught everyone's collective eye. His hair was spiky and bright red with orange and yellow mixed in. Below each of his fiery red eyes there were three downward pointing arrows and on his forehead was another marking that looked like the level star off a Duel Monsters' card.

"Sorry 'bout that Mr. Kaiba," said the stranger, "The guards thought I stole my invitation."

"That doesn't mean a thing," said Kaiba, "You were late, which means your disqualified."

"Not so fast Kaiba," the strange boy said holding up his hand, "You can't disqualify me."

"Why is that, might I ask?"

"Because of the contract your guy made me sign to get into this competition as a Wild Card in the first place, and it clearly stated that in the case of a misunderstanding with an employee of the Kaiba Corporation the undersigned cannot be disqualified."

"Your point is?"

"Your watchdogs outside detaining me for an hour is my point," said the boy, "Because of them, I'm still in the tournament and so are the other nine wild card duelists I'm representing by being here."

Kaiba's face twisted with anger but finally he said, "Fine, just take the stage so you can be introduced."

"Actually," said the boy as he walked to the stage, "I'll introduce myself."

He stood on the stage and looked out at the crowd, "My name is LaKota Dark Cloud, that's Lakota with a capitol 'K'. I'm the American duelist that's going to show you Japanese what the darkness of light can do."

LaKota smiled revealing four extremely long canines that Yugi found extremely familiar.

That night as Yugi laid in the room he'd been given to sleep in for the tournament, he thought about the boy who had actually used Kaiba's own intelligence against him to stay in the tournament.

Just then Yugi heard someone walking outside his room then a knock came from the door.

Yugi rose from his bed to answer the door, and on the other side was LaKota Dark Cloud

"Hi Yugi Moto," he said with his fanged smile, "We weren't formally introduced, but I'm LaKota Dark Cloud and I'd like to talk to you outside."