Pharaoh Atem's soul has finally, after been trapped within the Millennium Puzzle for nearly five thousand years, reached the afterlife thanks to his beloved friends. The Millennium Items, now rest deep under the sands of Egypt. Except for one... One Sacred Guardian reincarnates back into this world to set right what is still unfinished, and restore the past to save the future of the Pharaoh she has always been destined to protect. And maybe, a long fateful destiny will be finally be realized.
This is my first fan fiction that I am starting, and I never would have thought it would EVAR be a YGO fanfiction. But never the less I woke up one day at the ripe old age of 21 (I think I was still in elementary school when I was in fact playing Duel Monsters and watching the show whenever possible) Just figured I'd download the rest of the anime and find out just what happened to the story (I left off with the duel between Pegasus and Yami/Yugi) So for all the YGO fans out there, I hope you like this! I was listening to Megadeth's "A Tout Le Monde" while writing this, and it made me miss Atem too, haha. This is just a prologue, I won't put song lyrics in anymore chapters... maybe. I kept the names the same as the anime, but I am following the manga, and if anyone has read the manga, it's fucking dark!
And because I do not want to get sued: I DO NOT OWN YuGiOh! AND I DO NOT OWN THE LYRICS!
Don't remember where I was, I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things, the harder the rules became...
Yugi sat down at his desk for the day, eyes staring vacantly out the window across the morning view of Domino High grounds. It had been nearly a year since he said goodbye to his best friend. He still missed the voice in the back of his head, the other half. A day hadn't gone by that he did not miss Atem. Tea stood in the doorway, watching Yugi with a soft expression. Joey crept up to her, Tristan right behind him. "Yug's still mopin', Tea? I' never seen'em so down for so long" not attempting to keep his voice low "It has been a while, like what? A year now?" Tristan lowered his voice peering over Joey's shoulder. Tea didn't know what to say, Yugi had been her friend since they were kids, and never once knew Yugi to be so down about something, being as sensitive as he is. "I don't know you guys" she said quietly, "Yugi shared his body and mind the Atem, and for nearly all that time, his identity too" she wondered what it would feel like to have someone so close for so long. The thought of another entity in her mind made her shiver. But if that one person had been like another half of you for nearly five years, and then suddenly be all alone. Must be very lonely. "Yugi really misses him, I just wish there was something we could do to cheer him up" she trailed off. Tea felt for Yugi, everyone seemed to be missing the Pharaoh. Students began filling up the classroom, Yugi's quiet moment was gone and the last day of school was in sight.
Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard...
Yugi's feet worked mechanically down the sidewalk, his eyes never leaving the only thing he had left to remember the spirit that once shared his mind, the dark magician card between his fingers. He always kept this card close to him, he didn't even have the millennium puzzle anymore. A whole year... it seems longer, life's been so quiet... his mind wandered. What he wouldn't give to have things the way they were again, but he knew how selfish that would be. But the Pharaoh had become a dear friend.
To all the world, To all my friends, I love you, I must leave...
The Kame Game shop seemed to appear before him, he was so deep in thought, he hadn't realized he was nearly home. Entering the store, the familiar weight of the door as he pulled it open. The quaint game shop had indeed become more popular with Yugi's fame as the International Duel Monsters Champion. His grandpa seemed to be loving his fame more than Yugi himself. "Ah, Yugi! You're home! How was your last day at school, son?" Yugi had to remember that it was now the beginning of summer. "It was fine, grandpa! Tea, Joey and Tristan want to go out to the arcade to celebrate" Solomon Mutou looked at his grandson with a concentrated stare. "You've been awefully quiet all year, what's wrong Yugi? This is not your usual self..." Yugi didn't like making his friends and family worry about him. He felt fine, just more lonely now that he was alone. Tears threatened their way through his eyes as he thought about that last day... the last duel really. "I'm fine grampa!" he did his best to plaster a smile on his face, nearly bolting to the stairway that led to his bedroom. "I'm just going to take a nap before going out tonight" he turned casually to his grandpa and gave him one last smile before heading up the stairs.
So as you read this know my friends, I'd love to stay with you all
Solomon wasn't a fool. He knew Yugi was still fighting the loss of the spirit. Yugi, I know you feel as if you've lost your best friend, but... He had wanted to say so many times, but Yugi didn't need to hear that. Solomon hoped that all that Yugi needed was time. But how much more time?
Yugi dropped his school bag and stood in his bedroom. The afternoon sun was glaring in through his skylight. His eyes glanced at his desk, the same spot he spent years trying to assemble the Millennium Puzzle.
Please smile, smile when you think of me...
He dropped onto his bed and closed his eyes. He hadn't thought much about it, but it had indeed been a year since he had dueled anyone. The last duel... had sent his friend away. Atem's spirit was free to return to the afterlife. No one had really challenged Yugi to a duel since he returned home from Egypt. I guess being the "King of Games" proved intimidating to many. Not that Yugi felt much like dueling anyways, his deck and duel disk had been sitting in his room untouched for a while. Yugi's thoughts were taking him closer to sleep... he let out a long sigh. Sleep had overcome him at last.
My body's gone that's all...
Tea was at home preparing for a night out on the town. A black miniskirt and a hot pink tube top sat on her bed, and black ankle boots with low rising heels stood next to each other just below the bed. Towel drying her hair in front of her mirror, she reached for the TV remote and flipped on to the last channel happened to be on from before. The evening news was just getting started. Turning back to the bathroom she started for the door knob when she heard, "missing from the museum Egyptian exhibit..." Immediately she turned back and slammed on the volume button. The reporter flashed on screen, "... Investigations are under way as to who the persons responsible, although what seems to be intriguing officials and investigators more is how exactly the item in question was stolen..." Just then, another figure appeared on the screen, beautiful woman with dark hair and dark olive skin, Ishizu! No way! Who would steal something from the Egyptian exhibit? I didn't think that any of the millennium items would be on display! There're all gone. So why is she on the news, and what was stolen? "Those who know of the specific items stolen are keeping quiet at this point in time..." Tea stared in wonder, and then reached for her cell phone. I don't know this number...?
So much for plans, the summer just started and already it seemed like fate had other plans. Tea was walking down a long hallway, with an occasional turn and a few doors here or there. Two men on either side of here walked slightly in front of her, they were dressed in suits with ear pieces. Employed by Kaiba Corp. She went over the ominous phone call in her head.
"Hello?"
"Miss Gardner? This is Odion Ishtar, my sister Ishizu wish's to meet with you and your friends. There will be an escort coming for you shortly"
The mysterious phone call kept her mind busy, not to mention creeped out. The small group descended down a steep flight of stairs, and at the end of that hallway another door, from which she heard voices.
Yugi looked all around the room deep under the museum. A long conference table was situated in the middle of the room. His grandfather sat next to him, and Joey and Tristan on his left side. "Yug' you got any idea what's goin' on 'ere?" Asked Joey. Yugi was searching the room, full of more familiar faces... Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, Ryo Bakura, and even Duke Devlin. The only door in the room open once again, and Tea stood before the group. "Yugi, Joey, Tristan! What's going on here? I got a creepy phone call and now I'm here. What's going on here?"
"I don't know Tea, no one here knows" Yugi stared at her, his look just as bewildered as hers"
"I'll bet Kaiba knows, it's his goons who brought us 'ere" Joey pointed at Kaiba
Kaiba merely glance his way without even saying a word, but his sneer said it all. "For your information..." started Mokuba, who in the last year had matured quite a bit. "My brother and I don't know exactly what's going on either, we were asked to gather everyone that's here"
"It's all right Mokuba, you don't need to give anyone an explanation, especially the loud mouth" Kaiba turned his back to the group, "But Mokuba is right, we only gathered you all here at the request of the Ishtar family"
Ishtar? thought Yugi, everyone here was at the ceremonial duel in Egypt, but does this have to do with the item being stolen? I can't imagine it was anything of any danger, all the millennium items are gone, so what could possibly be the cause of such precautions?
No longer had Yugi thought about what the Ishtar family could have to do with everything, the door opened once again, and this time three people entered the room. Ishizu, Odion and Marik had entered the room.
"I gather there is a good reason why I am taking time out of my busy schedule to round up everyone on your shopping list" Kaiba finally turned fully to the new comers. His attitude was no-nonsense, and demanded an explanation. "In fact there is a good reason Kaiba, we have a grave situation, and I fear it's only going to get worse" Ishizu's face was solemn now. "What's wrong Ishizu? Does this have anything to do with what was stolen from the museum?" Yugi's mind was just itching to find out what was so scary, if not the millennium items... "Yeah, what gives man? Out of nowhere I get a disturbing phone call and some men in black wanna-be's picking me up and now I see it wasn't just me, why are we all here? and what do we have to do with the robbery at the museum?"
Ishizu glanced up and caught Yugi right in the eye, never breaking her glance from his "Mister Solomon, do you know..." she paused and shifted her gaze to Solomon, "...Of the Millennium Spellbook?" At that very moment, Solomon breathed a sharp breath, and his gaze immediately became sharp and intense. The room was silent, all eyes were shifting between both Ishizu and her family, and Solomon. "I am aware of what it is, but I don't see how there should be any concern, no one, not even the ancient scholars of ancient Egypt could decipher it"
"This is true" Marik jumped in, "But we believe that this may no longer be the case"
"Excuse me, I know you all like your mumbo-jumbo and magic, but I am wasting time here, and I want to know on what and why, and I want to know now" Kaiba's low tolerance for the occult was testing his patience.
"Seto" Solomon was the first to offer an explanation, "The Millennium Spellbook was an item of great power, It is said to yield the power and knowledge of the Egyptian gods, it was even what gave the sorcerers of the ancient times the knowledge on how to create the millennium items. But even then, the sorcerers could barely translate that, it took them decades, but if I understand what Marik is implying, somebody has found a way to translate the ancient text?"
"It's much more dire than that, Solomon" Ishizu glanced back at Yugi, "We are the sacred guardians of the Pharaoh's tomb, and even now, we fear something is threatening the Pharaoh"
The whole room thought the same thing
Atem...
Yugi couldn't take it anymore, "But Atem is safe in the afterlife, how could he be in danger?" Ishizu looked upon Yugi's concerned face, "Yugi, someone has brought back the Millennium Items from their resting place deep from within the earth, I could feel the presence of my Millennium Necklace, I know you feel the presence of the Millennium Puzzle" Yugi froze... He had felt something, the sensation. His thoughts lately were on the Pharaoh, more so than usual. "Come to think of it, I have felt the prescence of my Millennium Ring lately, but I thought I have been imagining it" Bakura wondered aloud. "But how? How could someone possibly have the...?" Yugi was still frozen, Tea was asking, her near excitement could barely be contained. "The spell book is mother to the Millennium Items, it's power is that of the gods, and now that the tomb of the Pharaoh has been disturbed and the items removed, Atem's soul no longer resides in the afterlife, we fear he is once again trapped within the Millennium Puzzle" Odion's gaze was stern, but calm. "The reason we feel the presence of our respected Millennium Items, is because of or bond with them, we were in fact, the last holders of these items, and so, are sensitive to their state"
Yugi's blood ran cold. He had missed the Pharaoh and wished to see him again, but he was in his resting place after five thousand years trapped within the puzzle, and the thought of him trapped again, and without him there to help, made Yugi shiver. "But as troubling as that is," Ishizu broke her gaze from the now devastated Yugi, and glanced at everyone in the room "the circumstances of the disappearance of the Millennium Spellbook is even more troubling" Bakura gently raised his hand, almost to gently inquire, "Disappearance? I thought the Millennium Spellbook was stolen?" He had an uncanny attention to her choice of words. "Yes... and no" She said simply. "Kaiba, if you could, please?" she gestured to Seto, who looked at Mokuba. Mokuba had opened a briefcase, which seemed to be housing a small computer inside, he rotated it around so that the room could see the screen. It was, it appeared, to be a surveillance video taken from within the museum. Ishizu mention over to the screen, "We gave the Millennium Spellbook to the curator of this exhibit as s gesture of good will, after all no one can read the ancient texts, and did not pose any threat, but watch carefully" Mokuba pushed a key and the video began to play. The Millennium Spellbook sat there, everyone's gaze sat transfixed on the screen, staring hard should they miss something. Just then the book on the screen began to levitate, in midair in its display! Tea let out a gasp, but kept her eyes on the screen. The book sat floating in midair for about a minute before two shadowed figures walked into the frame. They were facing the Millennium Spellbook, but then turned to face each other. They looked as if they were exchanging some words, and then the spell book began to glide over to the smaller of the figures, and barely under the black hood, hands came up to take the book. Feminine hands. The larger of the hooded figures moved as if agitated, and then after what seemed like a tense moment, lunged after the smaller figure. The two struggled for about 20 seconds, fighting over the Millennium Spellbook. Then suddenly, the smaller figure disappeared, into thin air. The larger of the figures was left standing alone, looked around for a moment, then walked off screen.
That was the end of the footage. The room was silent.
"It seems" Ishizu began in the silence, "that the guardian of the Millennium Spellbook has finally been incarnated into this world"
"What do you mean Guardian? The book was stolen" exclaimed Mokuba
"True, but the Millennium Spellbook chose that individual... and because the Millennium Items have returned, I have no doubt in my mind that the person in that video, can decipher the ancient texts within... somehow"
"So you mean to tell me that the person who stole this book has the Millennium Items?" Tristan looked confused
"We don't know" was all Ishizu could say
Well that's all for now everyone, I hope I have a good start, so read and review, and based on the reception, I'll add the next chapter up as fast as i can write it!