Quick Warning: Seto is gonna be OOC, just roll with it. It's just to better set up the story and to give him more of a major roll later. Also, sorry if any of the other big names are OOC, I just roll with my gut on how to put them in this story.

It was a beautiful spring day. The birds were chirping, the breeze was blowing, and the sounds of a child at play could be heard. A five year old boy, by the name of Tyrant Kōmyō was running around his home. For hundreds of feet all around there was nothing but green meadows, followed by dense woods. This was a haven, isolated from the rest of the world, save for a dirt road that lead to the nearby city of Domino.

The home, despite looking like a log cabin, was actually quite modern on the inside: polished wooden floors, granite counter tops, and computers and other electronic gadgets everywhere. This was the home of two employees of the world's most powerful company, Kaiba Corporation.

Tyrant's parents, despite their official positions being simple grunts at the Kaiba Corp main office in down town Domino, were very close to Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corp. While many people didn't understand how they were close to the CEO if they were only grunts, they just smiled and said it was dumb luck. The truth of the matter, however, was that they had been saved from a brutal beating, and possibly worse, by Seto when he was only twenty-five years old. The Kōmyō's, fresh from their honey moon, had been driving home, when a group of thugs had surrounded their car and began to assault them. This happened to be on the same road that Seto was using to transport his new academy duel disk technology, and thus would have prevented it from being delivered on time. In short order, several Kaiba Corp personnel, approached the vehicle and began to remove the thugs, it was only a few minutes later that Seto approached the car to check if they were alright.

After that day, they had insisted on repaying Seto for his help. Eventually, Seto settled on having them work for him. He eventually began to rely on them, as any errand he needed run they would gladly do for no extra pay. After several years of service to Kaiba Corp, they invited Seto to come and visit their humble home. When he arrived, he was treated like a King. He grew fond of these two and soon began to offer them extra work benefits (although he hid this fact by simply making it part of the deal for all employees of their level), like health insurance.

Not long after these new benefits kicked in, Mrs. Kōmyō found herself pregnant with Tyrant. A (relatively) short nine months later and Tyrant joined the world. To show their appreciation, they named Seto his godfather, which Seto accepted without a second thought.

Tyrant lived a semi-typical childhood. He ate, slept, played, slept, repeat. However, he was home schooled, and never had any friends. Despite that, he was never sad or lonely. That was because he had a special power, he could see the spirits of creature from the popular card game Duel Monsters. He was never lonely because there was always at least one monster spirit hanging around his home. Most of the spirits he spoke to were of small creatures, like beasts, fairies, and spellcasters. Although he did occasionally get to play with a winged-beast, warrior, or (rarely) dragon.

This day, which was so similar to any other day, was about to become one of the darkest days in his life. It all started when his parents came home from work. He ran out to greet them as he normally did, only to be scooped up by his father taken into the house, his mother right on their heels.

"Mamma, Papa, what's happening" asked Tyrant.

"Ty, we are having some guests over," his Mother started, "and we need you to stay in your room until they leave, Okay?"

"Sure, Mamma" agreed Tyrant with a smile. "I'll be a good boy!"

Tyrant rushed off to his room and closed his door. Once Tyrant was out of earshot, his father spoke.

"What are we gonna do Amanda" he asked exasperatedly. "They'll be here any minute, and we can't drag Seto into this. He has enough to deal with, what with the upcoming Championship and that meeting with the United States President."

"It'll be fine, John" replied Amanda. "We've dealt with this before, we can deal with it now. We will NOT allow them to get near Tyrant, or the stone."

"Thank you dear, you always seem to be able to bring me back down to earth when I start to worry" said John gratefully.

Well, thats the end of the first chapter. Sorry if it is a little short, I felt it best to cut it here so that it doesn't all rush together. The next chapter will go up right after this one, so don't worry. Reviews are much appreciated, flames discouraged but if they happen, oh well. I apologize again (probably in advance) for any characters that are OOC. I just needed them to fit their part in this story.