Chapter 1
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Thought / Dreams / Event from the past
[Voice from the past]
'Telepathic Voice'
"Spirit Talking"
-Telephone-
Letter
"Dialogue"
Emphasis
Dangerous Tone
Prologue: When it's All Began
1973. Insides a bar in Egypt.
"Hey, have you heard?"
"What?"
"Well, you know, there's this strange man who is going to the Nameless Pharaoh's tomb wearing a tux."
"Oh, that. Yeah, I've heard about it, he's a strange man indeed."
A tanned young man with unique three colored hair, with black at the base and turned amethyst at the tips and blond bangs, halted his movement just as he was about to drink his wine. The young man furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at the gossiping pair near him with his enchanting amethyst eyes, Nameless Pharaoh's tomb? Isn't that what people called Daddy's tomb? He thought before standing up and left the bar after paying his bill, he silently made his way to an empty alleyway as he pondered about what he had heard, No one dares to enter the tomb anymore after so many had died trying, so why now? Why after 3000 years someone dare to enter Daddy's tomb again? . . . And wearing a tux, really?
He looked up at the moon as he let his form changed into that of a small boy, with pale skin and the same eye color as the adult form, and his hair took a shape of a star while maintaining its three colors. "I better check it out." He mumbled to himself as a pair of black colored bat-like wings grew from his back, his nails sharpened into claws and his pupils were slit like cat's eyes. He unfolded his wings and took off to the night sky, confusion and curiosity filled his heart as he flew to the direction of the Nameless Pharaoh's tomb.
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1973. The Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
"The KA occupying those stone tablets will decide your judgement. The cowards will see their souls eaten. The valorous will be shown the path." A man around 40 years old wearing a black tux read the Hieroglyphs that was written on the wall beside the entrance to the next part of the tomb, his spiky grey hair was covered by a black round hat.
He entered through the entrance with another man pointing a gun at his back, each of them carrying a torch so they could see their surroundings. Once inside, they look around before the man carrying the gun noticed something, "Look, there!" he said to the man with the tux.
Mutou Sugoroku looked ahead to see what was it that caught the other man's attention, there was a bridge ahead of them, at the end of the bridge was something similar to an altar, and on top of the altar was a box made of gold with the symbol of Eye of Horus engraved to the box could be seen in their direction.
"There's no doubt, the treasure is inside." The man with the gun continued before pointing the gun at Sugoroku's back again, "Go forward! Hurry up!" he ordered.
Sugoroku glanced at him for a second before walking forward towards the box. What is this feeling? Sugoroku thought to himself as he stopped for a short moment in front of the bridge, which was made from many stone tablets with picture of monsters on them. He looked at the tablets in confusion. It's like I was already here before . . .
"What's the matter?" The man asked impatiently, making Sugoroku looked at him, "Go forward, hurry up!" he repeated his order from before.
Sugoroku looked ahead again and started walking across the bridge, A little more . . . he thought to himself as he walk, A little more and I would have triumphed over this legendary game. But even as he continued to walk, he couldn't shake the feeling that he had already been there before.
Suddenly, a sound of a gun being shot reached his ears before a searing pain make itself known at his left shoulder, the pain make him dropped his torch and fell off the bridge due to him losing his balance from pain. Fortunately, he was fast enough to catch the edge of the bridge with his right hand.
The man who shot Sugoroku walked on the bridge and stopped on the spot directly above him, "You defied the Game of Darkness! You won't have any regrets if you die!" The man announced with a smirk to Sugoroku.
"You . . ." Sugoroku managed to say through clenched teeth.
"I'll keep going alone now." The man said before continuing his way to the golden box, "Now, the treasure is mine!" He said greedily before he felt a shake beneath him, he looked down to see a picture of a monster in front of him. He felt nervous when he saw it, but shrugged it off and started walking again, but just as he stepped on the picture, a monster appeared in front of him, the same on with the picture he stepped on.
The man screamed when the monster grabbed him, but his scream was cut short by the monster eating him alive.
Sugoroku was oblivious to what just happened to the man, due to his concentration focused on how to keep his grip on the bridge, for he knew that it's impossible for him to climb up by himself. He gritted his teeth when his hand started losing its grip, "To have come up to here and . . . have it end like this . . .?" He asked himself in regret, his vision was starting to blur due to the pain and him losing blood.
He narrowed his eyes when a light appeared out of nowhere, he looked up expecting to see the man who shot him come back to finish him off, but what he saw was a tanned figure with three colors hair in the shape of a star with black at the base turned Crimson at the tips completed with blond bangs, which some of them shot up in the shape of lightning bolts.
Sugoroku's eyes widened at the sight of the young man clad in jewelry before narrowing again in exhaustion, the young man knelt on one knee and offered his hand to him with his sharp Crimson eyes looking directly at Sugoroku's.
"Matteru yo, Shimon." (I was waiting for you, Shimon)
The young man's echoing voice was what Sugoroku heard before he lost his consciousness.
He came back to consciousness when he felt something wrapped to his shoulder, "Ah, you are awake." Someone spoke from above him. He looked up to see a blur figure of a boy with the similar hair style with the young man he saw before passing out, this boy was pale skinned though instead of tanned, and much younger than the one he saw earlier.
"Who are you?" Sugoroku asked when he could feel himself losing consciousness again.
The boy looked at Sugoroku, "Yugi." He answered shortly with a smile before Sugoroku lost his consciousness once again.
There's one thing that he remembered seeing before he blacked out this time though. It was the boy's warm eyes, with violet color as beautiful as Amethyst gem.
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1990. An Alleyway in Domino, Japan.
The world really change so much, huh? A boy with the appearance of a 6 years old kid thought as he gazed upon Domino City, The last time I come here – and it's just two centuries ago, the city wasn't this big.
"I'm sorry I'm late, Yugi." A low voice said, he turned around to see a man around 30 years old walking to him, he has a long dark brown hair tied in ponytail and a pair of Emerald Green eyes. "There's a sudden mission, have you wait long?".
"Nah, don't worry about it, Yuuya." Yugi answered with a grin.
Yuuya grinned, "Here, your files." He said as he handed the big brown envelopes to Yugi.
"Thank you." Yugi said as he put the envelope in his backpack before pulling out a small box, he offered the box to the man, "For Mia, she turned 10 tomorrow, right?" he asked.
Yuuya's eyes widened, "Why, Mia would be very happy." He said as he accepted the box, "I will give this to her tomorrow".
Yugi nodded, "Okay then." He said as he wore his backpack again, "See you again sometime, Yuuya!" He said cheerfully before running to his Mansion's direction.
"I wonder what I should get for Lunch." Yugi asked himself as he walked, but then he saw a game shop with Kame Game written on the sign. "Hm, I wonder if there's a good Card here?" he asked himself with a grin before he walked to the shop and entered.
"Welcome to Kame Game shop." A voice greeted him, he blinked when he thought that he had heard the voice somewhere before, and when he looked up, he was greeted by the sight of an old man with spiky grey hair and a pair of violet eyes.
Shimon! Yugi thought with wide eyes.
The old man's eyes widened as well, "Yugi." He said in disbelief, "You are Yugi, right?".
Yugi gulped, "We meet again." He said softly with a nervous smile, "Never thought you would recognize me so easily".
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1992. London, England.
"Ryou, what are you looking at?" A woman with white hair and warm brown eyes asked a boy with the same white hair like her and also the same brown eyes as her.
The 8 years old boy turned away from the Ice Cream stand to look at the woman, "I'm looking at that Ice Cream stand." He answered with a smile, "Can I go buy some, Mom?" He asked as he tilted his head cutely with a wide smile.
The woman smiled warmly, "Of course." She said as she pulled out some money, "I had to stay here and wait in line to buy our movie tickets or we would have to get to the very back again, could you buy it by yourself?" She asked with apologetic smile.
Ryou nodded, "Yes, Mom, I can." He answered as he accepted the hand, he looked at the girl with white hair and grey eyes, "Which do you want, Amane? Strawberry Sundae or Chocolate Sundae?" He asked with a wide smile.
"Strawberry!" His 4 years old Sister chirped happily from his Mother's arms.
Ryou smiled and nodded before take off to the Ice Cream stand, he told the man who sells the Ice Cream that he would have one Strawberry Sundae and one Chocolate Sundae. The man put the two Sundaes in two separate cups and closed it before putting them into a plastic bag, Ryou paid for the Sundaes and accepted the plastic bag with a big grin. "Thank you!" Ryou said to the man.
"You are welcome, Sweet boy." The man answered with a grin as well.
Ryou turned around and started walking back to the Movie Theater's direction, halfway through the street, he heard a shout from above him.
"Watch out!"
Ryou looked up to see what happened and froze, his eyes widened when he saw many pipes from construction site coming down straight to him. He felt like the time has stopped as he looked at the falling pipes, everything moves in a very slow motion as something entered his mind.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I hope with this our two Countries would stay in good term." He said as he shaking his hand with the man with black hair and Emerald Green eyes.
"Throw away the formality, Ryo." The man said with a grin, "There's no need to be so formal to your own Brother-in-law, right?" He asked cheerfully.
Ryo grinned, "Sure, Duke." He answered, "I will head back to Japan now, tell Maya that I will visit again when I have time".
"No problem!" Duke replied with a thumb up, "Have a safe trip, Ryo. Don't strain yourself so much and be careful on your way home".
"Okay!" Ryo promised with a grin and waved before he turned around and walked to his guards, his guards bowed as he arrived, he nodded and climbed up his horse.
The journey was peaceful, but when they walked through some alley around the late afternoon, an arrow landed beside his horse, and so, scaring the poor animal out. Ryo was thrown off from his horse in its panic attempt to get away, "What in the world?!" He exclaimed as he stood up.
"It's the attack from the Netherland Army!" One of the guards announced and they get ready to fight.
Ryo pulled out his arrow to attack his enemies, but a noise from behind him make him froze. "Prince!" A chorus of horrified screams rang from around him as he looked behind him, many huge boulders were thrown from the cliff above him and heading straight to him and his guards.
It's happening so fast and a second later everything turned black for him, and a searing pain through his whole body told him that he was pinned under the boulders. He was losing consciousness quickly due to his shock, fear, pain and the hit he received from the boulders being thrown at him from his enemies.
All his life and memories flew passed his eyes, and when the image of his Little Brother passed before he closed his eyes, he was sad. He was sad because he would unable to keep his promise to be there for his Little Brother's Birthday, he was sad because he left his family behind so soon.
"Yugi." He found himself whispering before losing his consciousness completely.
Ryou gasped as he returned to the present, he remembered everything now. No, that was a bit wrong – he remembered his past life to be exact, and he would soon die again in the same time and situation if he stayed frozen in shock.
Gripping his and Amane's Sundaes tightly in his left hand, he run forward and jumped, landing on his right palm, he used his right hand to turn himself around while still in upside down position before jumping backward with the help of the push of his right hand, he landed on his feet far away from the falling pipes.
His action was considered too athletic for his 8 years old body, thanks to his past life memory, he now had the mind of an adult and could move like his past self to save himself from death. The pipes finally crashing to the ground, he noticed that he managed to get 3 meters away from his previous spot and the falling pipes with his child body. "Thank God." Ryou whispered in relief as he fell to his knees, the adrenalin rush had passed and left him with jelly like legs.
"Boy! Are you okay?!" A man from the construction site asked him in worry.
He smiled at the man, "Yes, but I couldn't walk now, the shock finally kick in." Ryou said with a sheepish grin.
The man sighed in relief, "That was a great move you did back there." He said as he knelt down beside him, "Where are your parents? I will take you to them".
"Mommy is in the Movie Theater." Ryou answered as he pointed at the place.
The man nodded and picked him up, Ryou looked at the sky as he was carried to the theater. Now that he remembered his past life, he knew that his previous family had already died by now, all except for one. Yugi, Ryou thought as he looked back ahead to the Movie Theater to see his current Mother, I'm sure that Yugi is still alive, he continued in his head, he would try and find his Little Brother. Thousands of years might have passed, but he was sure that Yugi would still remember him, and he knew that Yugi would be happy to know that he was alive.
I will find you, Little Brother.
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1993. Kaiba Corporation's Party Hall in Domino, Japan.
"Ladies and Gentlemen." 10 years old Kaiba Seto watched in boredom as Kaiba Gozaburou, his adopted Father, said to the crowd of guests consist of Business Partner, old friends, Stock Holders, and so on. Too bad he couldn't show his boredom, so he could only settled with making his face vacant of any emotion. "Thank you for coming to my party tonight! In this very fine night, I hold this party to introduce you to my adopted Sons." Gozaburou looked at him, so he stepped forward and bowed a little, "This is Kaiba Seto, and this is Kaiba Mokuba." As he said that, Seto's 5 years old Little Brother walked to Seto's side and bowed to the crowd before clutching Seto's sleeve and half hiding behind him.
Seto tuned out the rest of the speech since he didn't want to exhaust his hearing, but he was soon forced to pay attention again when Gozaburou called his name and motioned for him and Mokuba to follow him. Sighing quietly through his nose, Seto followed the man get off the stage. Seto raised an eyebrow when Gozaburou looked around the hall, he was wondering what in the world the man was looking for before the man found whatever it was and started walking to its direction. It turned out that the man was searching for someone and not something, and that someone was a tanned young man looking about 20 years old or more with three colors long hair tied in high ponytail.
One thing caught Seto's attention first before anything else was the young man's attire, instead of formal outfit like the rest of the people in the party, the young man was wearing casual clothes. He was wearing long sleeves black t-shirt under purple vest, blue jeans, and black combat boots, then his attire was completed by a black waist bag. The next thing Seto noticed was the fact that the young man was also bored out of his mind, he was looking like a pouting child with his childish feature in Seto's opinion. The last thing that was standing out from the young man, but was the hardest to forget, was the young man's Amethyst eyes when he looked at them.
"Good Evening, Mr. Hoshikage." Gozaburou greeted politely, "I'm glad that you can come tonight".
"Not for long, Mr. Kaiba." The young man said with a nod, "I have to go soon, my Son is sick at home".
Seto knew that it's a lie since the young man was crossing his fingers as he said so, he didn't blame the man, even Seto himself was bored out of his mind and wanted to go away soon.
Gozaburou nodded, "It's alright." He said as he motioned for Seto to walk forward, "As you know, they are my Sons, Kaiba Seto and Kaiba Mokuba".
Mr. Hoshikage looked at Seto and his Little Brother with a warm smile, "Hello there." He said as he held out his hand, "I'm Hoshikage Heba, nice to meet you, boys".
Seto and Mokuba, in turn, accepted the hand and shook it, "Kaiba Seto." He said calmly with a small smile.
"Kaiba Mokuba." Mokuba said timidly before hiding behind Seto again.
Heba chuckled, "What a pair of cute boys." He commented cheerfully.
"Seto, Mokuba." Gozaburou called out, "Mr. Hoshikage is one of our biggest Stock Holders and his nickname is The Bridge. Remember him well, because he has the biggest influence in our Company after me as the CEO".
Seto stared at the young man in surprise, he would never think that such a young man would have that much power in his adopted Father's Company. "Yes, Father." Seto and Mokuba said in awe.
Seto wanted to look at the man more, but he couldn't take his eyes away from the young man's enchanting Amethyst eyes. He would always remember that eyes no matter what, it's such a rare eye color, not to mention beautiful. He waved at the man as he was pulled by his adopted Father, he watched as the man waved back with a warm smile before turning around to leave.
I wonder if we will meet each other again in the future. Seto thought as he was led to another man, but this one was ugly looking, not beautiful looking like the young man earlier.
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1997. The Underground of Cairo, Egypt.
15 years old Ishizu Ishtar gasped in horror and covered her mouth with her hands as she watched her Father whipped a young man, Rishid, who was already like her own Older Brother, she looked at her Little Brother when she heard his scream.
"No! Father! Stop it!" A 13 years old boy with sandy blond hair cried out, "Stop it, Father!".
"Shut up!" His Father shouted at the boy, "This is the punishment for breaking the law and help you out to the above ground when his job is to keep you safe in the underground!".
The boy gritted his teeth before running to the place where his Father keep the Millennium Rod and Millennium Necklace, "What are you doing, Malik?!" Ishizu gasped when she saw what was her Little Brother doing.
Malik grabbed the Millennium Rod, there's a short glow from the Eye of Horus on it when he did so before disappeared again, and then he turned around to his Father and pointed the Rod to the old man. "Stop now, Father!" Malik screamed in rage, "Don't hurt Nii-san (Older Brother) anymore!".
"He is not your Brother!" His Father bellowed as he turned around to look at Malik, he gasped, "What are you doing with that?!" He demanded.
"Stop hurting Nii-san or I will force you!" Malik threatened angrily, he hated his Father for what he did, Rishid was already fainted but the old man kept whipping him!
"Insolent brat!" His Father spat, "I will punish you for that kind of attitude!" He said as he marched forward to Malik with his whip raised.
"Father, don't!" Ishizu yelled as she grabbed the man's waist with her arms.
"Move!" Malik's vision turned red when he saw his Father slapped his Older Sister and pushed her away like she was nothing, he saw Ishizu landed hard on the ground and heard her yelp from the impact, then everything blacked out.
Ishizu raised her left hand and placed it on her left cheek, it's stung from the slap she received. "What are you- Gah!" Ishizu's head snapped up when she heard her Father's voice, just in time to see the man thrown backwards to the wall and being pinned there by some invisible force.
Ishizu gasped before looking at Malik, her Little Brother had changed somehow. Malik's hair was now wilder than usual, spiked up in all direction like Porcupine's needles. Malik's eyes was narrowed until a slit and filled with malice, even her Brother's mouth was pulled up in a sneer. This boy is not Malik, Ishizu thought as she saw a glowing eye on Malik's forehead, how she knew, she didn't know, but she was certain that whoever moving her Brother's body now was not her Brother at all.
"Old man." The Evil Malik sneered, "Thank you for what you did all this time." He said as he walked to the man, "Thanks to you, Malik had build so much hatred, and his hatred for you and what you did to Rishid and Ishizu had let me born".
Ishizu's eyes widened when Malik pulled the bottom of the Millennium Rod off to reveal a sharp spike, sharp enough to stab someone with it.
"Now, as a thank you, I will kill you." The Evil Malik said with an evil grin before stabbing the man with the pointy end of the Rod.
Ishizu watched in horror as the Evil Malik stabbed their Father many times until the man stop screaming in pain, meaning that the man either lose consciousness or already dead. Her eyes widened even more in fear when the Evil Malik turned to Rishid, who was unconscious, and so was defenseless.
"Now, to make sure my other personality stay asleep, I will kill you as well." Evil Malik said with a dark smile.
Ishizu stood up, ready to stop Malik, or whoever was controlling Malik, but the Evil Malik noticed her and pinned to the wall as well. "Wait for your turn." Evil Malik said insanely and turned to Rishid again.
Ishizu tensed when Evil Malik raised his hand, ready to stabbed Rishid, but his hand stopped just an inch from Rishid's body. "Wh- what?" Evil Malik gasped in disbelief.
A bright light emanated from the Millennium Rod, causing Ishizu to close her eyes against the glare and Rishid to stir.
Rishid opened his eyes when the glow was dimmed, "Malik-sama." He said weakly.
Ishizu also opened her eyes and saw that Malik's body tensed while trembling before fell backward on to his butt. She noticed that her Bother's hair was less wild, wilder than usual but not as wild as before, and his eye color was deeper purple than usual but not nearly black like earlier.
"Th- that was . . . close." She heard Malik gasped breathlessly, "Late for a second and it's would be the end of Malik".
What? Ishizu blinked, she noticed that she was released from her hold so she walked to whoever this time using Malik's body, "Who are you?" She asked suspiciously and cautiously.
This 'Malik' turned to look at Ishizu and grinned, "My name's Marik, the Spirit of The Millennium Rod. Don't get me wrong from that Evil version of Malik, okay?" He said as he stood up, he turned fully to Ishizu's direction, "Thanks to Rishid regained consciousness, I could win against Evil Malik's hold over Malik and sealed him, it would be bad if Malik snapped again though".
"The Spirit of the Millennium Rod?" Ishizu asked with wide eyes. She couldn't believe it, but here she was seeing the proof that this boy was not her Malik at all, "And who was this Evil Malik?".
"Malik has developed Multiple Personality Disorder, it happened because your Father abused you all, Malik grew hatred toward the man and this hatred causing for Evil Malik to be born." Marik explained, "As the name said, this Evil Malik is the evil personality of Malik, the dangerous one".
Ishizu looked at Marik with wide eyes, she had a hard time digesting the information.
"Anyway." Marik said as he wiped the blood from the Millennium Rod with Malik's clothes before he sheathed it again, "It's nice to meet you again, Isis, but I could only appear for a short time. Malik is still too young to house my Spirit, so I will stay in the Rod for the time being." He winked at Ishizu, making the poor girl perplexed, "Good night!" He said before closing his eyes and the Rod glowed again.
Ishizu's eyes widened again when she saw that Malik's hair returned to its normal tame spiky style before he Brother collapsed to the ground, "Malik!" Ishizu and Rishid gasped at the same time, although Rishid called Malik with an addition of –Sama – before rushed forward to Malik's unconscious form.
"Yugi . . ." Malik muttered in his sleep, "Be . . . careful . . .".
Yugi? Ishizu thought in confusion. Who is Yugi? How come Malik know of this Yugi when he had never been outside before now? Her gaze then trailed to the Millennium Rod, Is there more to the Millennium Items than just as important artifacts to Ancient Egypt?
Ishizu promised herself that she would research more about the Millennium Items from that day onward.
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1998, A Mansion in Tokyo, Japan
In the early morning, a girl with wavy blond hair gasped awake, her violet eyes widened as she shot up into a sitting position. The girl was panting heavily to catch her breath, "That dream again." She said out loud to herself as she placed her right palm on her forehead, "Why is it always this day of the year?".
"Is everything alright?" A female voice asked in concern out of nowhere.
"It's alright, Rin." The girl answered, "Just the usual dream I have every year in the night of my Birthday".
"Are you going to go today as planned?" Rin asked again.
The girl looked out through the window of her room, "Yeah." She said as she looked at the morning sky, "I will still going, I promised Aunt Maria to find him".
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That day was when it's all began . . .
The day when everything was set in motion . . .
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To be continued . . .
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Froim : I'm sorry, I have decided to edit this story because the flow was too slow with the previous one. Review Please ^ ^