Darkness...

Just darkness..

It surrounds me as a sea of strange creatures encircle me. They are nothing I've seen before in my life. Grotesque....black-hearted.....I feel as if I've only read about them in a book once. And I've seen some pretty strange stuff in my day....

What? With saving the world a couple of times with my darker counterpart..meeting villians of every callibur...meeting new friends...new enemies..rivals... you'd think I've seen it all..

But you're wrong.....

My next adventure has yet to begin....

My limits will be pushed to the breaking point....

I will have to save the world again.....

But this time.....It's another world I have to save

Only few know about its existance.....

Many only think it a Legend

But it does exist....

And it needs my help.....

One mystery after another.....

And my own puzzle has yet to be solved......

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I woke up one moring to the alarm going off. I rubbed my sleepy, amythest eyes and turned the alarm off. I yawned and went to my bathroom. I took a quick shower and brushed out my wild mass of multi-colored hair. I sometimes wonder why my hair is the way it is. Most people can call themselves blonde...red haired..and black haired..but only I can say I'm all three naturally. Hehe.....But it stands up in every direction (excluding my bangs, but that's a different story) which makes me look and feel like a weirdo....

But who am I kidding?

Weirdoness is practically my middle name(though I actually don't have a real middle name)... Mr. Yugi Weirdoness Motou.

Why do I consider myself weird you ask?

...Where do I begin?

Oh yeah...I'm a sixteen year old sophomore at Domino High School. I'm about 5'0 exact(power to the short people!) and about 98 pounds. I have numerous friends(though some don't go to school with me).

Jounouchi Katsuya, former bully and best friend. He's blonde(Jokes aren't excepted unless you want a black eye)with puppy brown eyes(same with puppy jokes) and about 5'10.

Honda Hiroto, also Former bully and best friend(other than me) to Jounouchi. Tall (about 6'0 if I'm not mistaken) dark haired(though it lookes like a dorsal fin) and really shy around girls.

Ryou Bakura, Former exchange student from England, a really shy kid and, like me, has a darker half. Ryou is about 5'7 and has white hair(don't call him Albino because he isn't) and doe brown eyes. You'd mistake him for a girl at a distance if he wasn't wearing the standard uniform for Domino boys.

Otogi Ryuuji, the creator of the popular game Dungeon Dice monsters(and a real ladies man) About 5'9, black hair in a ponytail, emerald green eyes and a dice earring(he's obessed with dice..ahem..) He kind of came after me after my victory over Pegasus J. Crawford at Duelist Kingdom(but that's another story entirely) and we became friends after I beat him at his own game.

Shizuka Katsuya, Jounouchi's little sister whom he payed for her eye operation a long time ago and is now a freshman at Domino. 5'3 with strawberry blonde hair and honey/hazel eyes. She's really sweet and nice and depends a lot upon her older brother. She couldn't see without him.

Seto Kaiba, not real friend(in his eyes) but has helped me in tight spots. Was an orphan with his younger brother, Mokuba, and was adopted with him by winning a game of chess. Though..afterward..life was hell for him, causing him to be cold-hearted and distant(excluding his brother). He's about 6'1 with chestnut hair and icy blue eyes. Also not good to be on his bad side.

That about sums up my friends except one..

As I prefer(as well as everyone else) annoying aquaitance. Anzu Masaki. Chestnut brown hair, about 5'6 and ocean spray eyes. Seems normal enough right? My only advice is to run before you know her. She..Is..ANNOYING!!! Every other word from her mouth has something to do with friendship, Love, and the likewise. It's nice at first..but..every other sentence?

I thought so.

There is another person I neglected to recognize; My Darker Half Atemu(also called Yami). In a past life, he was Pharaoh over all of Egypt. Pretty cool to have an egyptian spirit living inside of an ancient item I carry. The Sennen Puzzle. Ryou's is the Sennen Ring(the spirit which resides is who we call Bakura) Both look like us respectively and there is another like us. An egyptian boy named Malik Ishtar who also has a darker half. But he's not like mine or Ryou's counterparts. This one was forged in the darkness and hatred of Malik's soul that just took form when he touched the Sennen Rod. Long story which will be saved for another time.

I walked to school like I usually do, uniform crisp, hair managable, puzzle loosely around my neck, Yami asleep....

School bores him...

I agree

But I don't get to sleep..

Lucky...

I then suddenly spot an old book on the ground. Now who would throw a perfectly good book on the ground?

A very absentminded person obviously.

I dust off the cover and read the title.

" "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien" I read aloud.

I've heard about this book, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. The movies we're awesome though and they made me want to read the books so badly, but they we're either checked out of the Domino library or out of stock at the book store. I knew the characters though. Frodo, Gandalf, Strider, and everyone else. We have action figures at Grandpa's game shop and I know them by heart now

I looked inside the front cover and read aloud the poem

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the dwarf-lords in the halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

I guess that's the whole plot of the book. Quite interesting....but then I discovered there was more....

Reader, beware of where you stand.
Your destiny, soon, is at hand.

An adventure awaits you on the morrow

To help secede the sadness & sorrow.

The journey of the One Ring ends

While another quest soon begins

With this book you have found
The fellowship, with friends profound

Together with the original nine

Many more makes the number divine

Though one is of the foe

This information no one shall know

Through fire, thunder, and water alike

Many will survive this trecherous spite

The Golden Woods, Rohan, and Mordor you will reach

The lesson of the mirror it has to teach

So read on if you dare

Because you have barely time to prepare

Prepare for the dangers ahead

Less..you want to end up dead

Okay..that was creepy.... I walk home(aka Game shop) looking at the book. I think Ryou's read the books..maybe he knows what's going on. I phone up all my friends and they come(including Malik & Seto which surprises me.) Ryou and them bring their Yamis, Bakura, Seth, & Marik, and Seto looks over the book and reads the poem.

"This isn't part of the original book," he said, "Someone must have written inside of it and only made it appear threatening."

"I don't know," Jounouchi says, "seems kind of serious. Especially that last part."

"Yeah.." Honda said, "is that like some sort of magic or something?"

Seth closed his eyes, him being a former high priest and magician to the Pharaoh, he can sense magical energies from things.

"I'm afraid it's quite serious," he says, "we'll have to wait onto the morrow to see if it's telling the truth."

"If you wake up somewhere in the woods," Bakura stated, "don't think it was a prank being pulled."

Marik snickered at that.

I didn't think it was so funny.

Things that go bump in the night scare me.

I'm a wimp..I know...

A lot of people would agree...

But I'm a sweet wimp and that's all that counts...

Shutting up now....

"I think the best thing to do is for everyone to stay in the Gameshop tonight," Yami suggested.

Makes me feel better....

Hikari & Yami counterparts agree to stay. So does Jounouchi.

But Honda & Otogi have other stuff to do.

Lucky...

But I'm betting Honda's chicken...

I am too..but no one saying I get out of it because of that...

And that I was the one who found the book in the first place.....

What a drag.....

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Later that night, I kept my deck close to me, with my Dark Magician(favortism to the max!) on top. He always knows what to do when I'm inbetween a rock and a hard place.

Same with Yami, but that's a different story....

"Dark Magician..." I say softly, "have you even been in a situation like this one?"

For some reason, I think I saw him smiling softly at me. That doesn't bother me...

I see strange things everyday....

Take today for example....

Yeah..I thought so....

I soon drift off to sleep, Yami speaking softly in Ancient Egyptian.

I don't know how he does it......

But...

When I wake up the next morning....

I'm...Like Bakura said..In the middle of the forest....with...

An arrow in my face...