Umm…this is my first YGO fanfiction (actually, it's my first fanfiction, period), and so please be nice. Criticism is welcomed, but NO FLAMES!! OR THEY WILL BE USED TO ROAST MY NEXT MEAL! (Which, if you are not careful, could be you, haha! Just kidding!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Never have, never will. So don't sue me.

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Chapter 1: The Invitation

~~AT TEA'S HOUSE~~

"Yugi!" a voice echoed through the barren desert. "Wait, where are you going?" yelled a young teenaged girl with chin-length brown hair.

"To face my destiny," a mysterious adult figure replied as he climbed the stairs of an old, deserted-looking temple. "Goodbye."

"Wait!" the girl yelled, but it was to late; the great double doors banged shut, sending a tremor through the ground, as soon as the figure entered the temple.

"You've got mail," said a distant voice.

"I do?" replied the young girl. But, there was dead silence after that. 

Tea suddenly awakened. "Why do I keep on having the same bizarre dream?" she thought out loud.  'Wait, maybe it wasn't a dream, maybe it was a vision,' she thought. 'Wait, I'm talking crazy here; I'm not telepathic. Or, am I?' 

She then remembered the loud voice that interrupted her dream and turned to her computer.  She clicked on the e-mail icon and looked at the list of e-mails she had. "I got an e-mail from Yugi!" she remarked. 'Please be an invitation to a date,' she prayed silently as she moved the mouse cursor over the e-mail and clicked on it. She quickly skimmed the e-mail.

"I'm invited to a party at Yugi's house!" she yelled out loud.

~~AT JOEY'S PLACE~~

"Uh…hello," Joey's voice rang through his room. "Is your refrigerator running…"

There was a slight pause.

"…Tristan!" he whispered in a panic-struck tone as he put his hand over the mouthpiece, "He doesn't have a refrigerator. What should I say now?!"

"Tell him to call you back when he gets…no wait, then he'd have your phone number," replied the other teenaged boy.

"HELLO!" yelled the voice at the other end of the phone line as both Joey and Tristan completely panicked.

"Uh… …GOODBYE," yelled Joey as he slammed down the receiver, and collapsed on his bed.  "That---was---a---close---one," Joey gasped between breaths.

"I hope that guy doesn't have caller---"

"You've got mail!"  Tristan was interrupted by a voice coming from Joey's computer.

Both Joey and Tristan shifted their gazes to the computer.

"You've got an e-mail from 'guywithspikypurplehair203'," Tristan remarked. "Think it's a virus?"

"Nah," Joey replied as he reached for the mouse. "Just Yugi."

"Oh," Tristan sighed with relief.

"It says here that we're invited to a party tonight at five!" Joey said excitedly.  Suddenly his expression changed.

"What's wrong?" Tristan asked.

"It says here he's inviting us, Tea, Mai, and…

~~AT SETO KAIBA'S ENORMOUS MANSION~~

"You've got mail," announced Seto's computer.

'Oh great,' Seto thought, 'as soon as I'm done replying to all of my darn e-mails, I have to reply to a thousand new ones.

"Initiate virus scan," Seto yelled in an irritated tone.

"Virus scan complete," replied the computer.

"Open the dumb file," Seto yelled, "Really do I have to tell you to do everything? I do recall programming you to have a brain!"

"Well, if you're going to be that way, maybe I'm not in such a good mood myself," replied the computer as its screen went blank.

"Damn it," Seto pounded his fist next to the keyboard. "How am I supposed to run a business when my computer keeps on shutting down?"

"You could try being a bit nicer to your computer," said a childish voice from behind him.

'Shit, Mokuba heard,' Seto thought as he turned around and faced his little brother.

"Mokuba's right," said Seto's computer as it suddenly turned back on. "Why don't you apologize?"

'This is humiliating,' thought the enraged Kaiba brother. 'I must be the only person in the entire world who has to apologize to an obnoxious computer.'

"Sorry," Seto apologized in sarcastic manner.

"Sorry for what…?" the computer probed.

"I said I was sorry," Seto shouted, outraged. "Now let me get back to my job."

"If you're not going to say sorry then I might as well send this," the computer replied as a letter popped up on the screen.

Seto's face turned bright red. "I told you to delete that!"

"I didn't know you had a crush," Mokuba commented absently as he skimmed the letter.

"I'm sorry for getting angry with you!" Seto said hastily, blushing furiously. "Please, don't send the letter!"

"Okay," replied the computer as the love letter disappeared from the screen.

'That was a close one,' Seto thought, breathing a sigh of relief.

"By the way," the computer announced, "the letter that just arrived is from Yugi Moto."

"Delete it," replied Seto, "I have no time to read his junk mail."

"Why don't you give Yugi some respect?" Mokuba stared hard at his brother. "After all, he did save your life in Duelist Kingdom."

"Yugi destroyed my life," Seto replied sharply. "And as far as I'm concerned, it's his fault that we got into that mess."

"Ever think that maybe Yugi's challenging you to a duel?" Mokuba said innocently.

"All Yugi ever talks about are proposals to be my friend. He's not the kind of person who would go out and challenge people to a duel unless they infuriate him or threaten his life." Seto leaned back in his chair, arms folded across his chest. 'Or that so-called pharaoh takes over,' he added to himself.

With a sigh of exasperation, Mokuba reached over Seto's shoulder and clicked the 'Read' button. 'Huh—what's this?' Seto leaned forward with sudden interest. 'A party at Yugi's house? I wonder who else will be there…'

"Oh, that sounds like fun, big brother," Mokuba said excitedly. "Are you going?" He faced the older Kaiba brother with his big, round, gray-blue eyes. "Didn't you say you weren't doing anything that Saturday night?"

'I would much prefer to spend time with my brother,' Seto thought. 'The fact that this is at Yugi's house alone tells me that Chihuahua will be there.' He smirked.

"Seto? Are you going?"

"I don't see why not," the brunette replied. 'This might actually be somewhat…amusing.' He snickered to himself. "Will you be all right here by yourself?"

Mokuba rolled his eyes. "Seto… I'm ten years old. Of course I can take care of myself," he said.

"Should I send a reply email?" the computer spoke up mockingly. Seto smirked, ignoring the computer's snotty tone.

"Yes, do so, that would be nice," the CEO replied, waving his hand in dismissal. "After that, you may shut down. Good night. Come on, Mokuba," he said to his younger brother. "It's your bedtime."

"Darn."

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A light shone in the darkness, followed by a loud, maniac laugh.

"The time has come!"

Slowly, the laughter faded into the never-ending darkness…

~~To Be Continued…

Okay, so maybe that wasn't the world's greatest cliffhanger, but this is only my first fanfiction, okay? **growls** So please be nice and review. AND NO FLAMES!! Criticism is good, yes, but NO FLAMES!!!