Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Approaching Darkness

Prologue: A New Threat

5 Years Ago in Egypt…

The sandstorm was swirling out of control, obscuring the vision of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught outside in it. However the sand didn't seem to be having much of an effect on the dig.

"Sir, we are just about to open the tomb. Would you care to join us?"

Dr. Victor Ramius turned around and looked at his apprentice. "Excellent, let's get this over with so we can get out of this miserable storm." he replied, "Hopefully the inscriptions we found in the ruins across the canyon are correct, and this is the resting place of this so called 'great-entity'".

At the age of 67, he was still a well built man. He was a full 6 feet tall, with broad shoulders and thick wrists. He had spent most of his life digging up archeological finds like this, and thus was an extremely fit person. However, time had done its damage, and he was no longer the athletic young man he had been in his youth. His hair had gone gray long ago, and we was starting to thicken around the middle. Needless to say, he was no longer at the peak of his life.

The two archeologists made their way over to where the entrance into the tomb had been found the day before. The team had started removing debris away from the entrance this morning, when the sandstorm had moved in, and forced the pace of the workers to come almost to a standstill. The entrance had to be uncovered though, otherwise the sandstorm would have completely covered the worksite.

Now it was time.

"Doctor, would you like to do the honors?" one of the workers said, holding up a pick-ax.

"Why not, it might be the last chance I have, after all", he said, "Not much in the way of digging after your retired".

"There is if you want to take up gardening!", another worker remarked.

That got a laugh out of everyone.

"Alright, here we go", Ramius brought the pick up above his head, and then brought it down on the entrance way. The door crumbed into a heap of rock, kicking up a cloud of dust which was quickly swallowed up by the sandstorm.

"Grab the lanterns, quickly, it's almost sunset!" the Doctor yelled, over the roar of the storm, which seemed to instantly pick up in intensity.

The team of six quickly made their way inside, and discovered a set of stairs that descended down. Upon reaching the bottom, they found a large, circular room, with inscriptions covering all of the walls. Toward the far end of the room, opposite of the research team, was a single coffin, with a set of inscriptions on the wall behind it.

"Gabriel, help me with the coffin, the rest of you examine the markings!" the Doctor quickly made his way over to the coffin. And took one side of the lid, while Gabriel took the other side.

"On the count of three, we lift the lid" Ramius said as he braced himself.

With my luck, I'll probably get a hernia, he thought to himself. Old age was horrible, he would give anything to have his youth back.

"Ready? One, Two, THREE!" the two researchers had barely gotten the lid a quarter of an inch off of the sarcophagus when a brilliant white light burst through the lid, reducing it to a fine dust. Ramius was knocked back, but Gabriel was not so fortunate.

The blinding white light completely incinerated him, while the rest of the team looked on in horror. Then the light started to fade.

Ramius watched as Gabriel's' body was consumed by the light . Then, he caught sight of what seemed like glowing green eyes. He stared at the demonic eyes in horror, until he blacked out.

As he lost consciousness, all he could hear were screams of pain.
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Present Day…

"Mr. Pegasus will see you now." the man named Croquet said, as the servant/bodyguard poked his head out the door.

"Good, I was beginning to wonder if he had forgotten about me", Keiran replied as he got up from the chair he had been sitting in for the last 4 hours.

"Sorry to make you wait, but Mr. Pegasus had important business."

"Yeah, I'm sure the background check on me was pressing", Keiran replied with disgust, as he walked through the door.

"Ah, you must be Keiran. I must say it is a pleasure to meet you at last.", the creator of Duel Monsters said as he looked up from his desk. "I take it you're here to pick up the card your master had me create for him, or is this a social visit?

"I'm here on business, that's all. Is it ready?"

"But of course it is, my dear boy. I'd like to know thought. What does Mr. Ramsey plan on doing with such a powerful card?"

"It's none of your concern. Besides, what makes you think I know myself?"

"You know more then your letting on, much more. I won't press the matter, however. Croquet, give him the card, and show our guest the way out."

The bodyguard walked to a nearby table and opened the briefcase sitting on it. From it, he withdrew a single card and handed it to Keiran, whom examined it.

"Excellent.", Keiran reached into his jacket and pulled out an envelope, handing it to Pegasus. "As promised, here is your payment."

"Ah yes!" Pegasus replied, taking a sip of wine from the glass sitting on his desk. "A pleasure doing business with you. Tell your master I said hello, will you."
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"Croquet, I want you to make sure these three invitations are delivered to their recipients." Pegasus said, as he opened the envelope given to him be Keiran, looking over the contents.

Wait, this isn't right, Pegasus thought to himself.

"Yes sir, Mr. Pegasus!"

Pegasus went over the contents of the envelope, carefully this time. This wasn't what he had asked for, but nonetheless it had peaked his interest. Finally, he came to a simple, hand written note.

Interesting.

"Croquet, I want you to oversee the delivery personally." Pegasus finally said.