A/N: -_-;;; I was tired. the first chapters kind of a drag, introduction thing. It moves kinda slow, but the next chapter should be better. Oh and sorry all you Tea/Yugi fans. I hate Tea.. with such a bloody vengeance it isn't funny. so I made no real couples, I mean there had to have been couples. but I don't mention them, k? I do have a lot of OCs in here. but none of them have been coupled with the characters. So without further. babbling. I give you {Insert Fic name here}.

D: I do not in any way own Yu-Gi-Oh, nor do I own Vitani, she owns herself. I do however own all the other OCs. so. yeah. you know the deal, right?

Chapter 1: Onward into Adventure



Miako Motou sat in her kitchen, her father running up and back almost in an insane manner attempting to put all the needed items into place. She couldn't help but giggle when he tripped on the rug and fell over, the bowl he had been carrying landed with a clang on his head. He stared off dazed for a moment then looked up at her.

"I lived in this house my whole childhood an yet I still don't know where everything goes." He then took to bowl off his head and looked around. Yugi Motou sighed; the game shop he had grown up in seemed empty without the sound of his Grandfather busseling around trying to sell this and that to customers.

"Yo! Yug'!" Yugi spun around to see a blond man and a brown haired girl standing at the doorway. "Long time no see, man."

"J-Joey!" Yugi yelled. "I haven't seen you in so long!"

"Hehe... yeah, well, dat often happens when 'ne moves ta America, 'n one stays in Japan!" Joey Wheeler grinned widely at the shorted man as he walked up to him. "Man, when I last saw ye, ye were like, dis tall," Joey moved his hand to about his waist, "An' now ye've grown ta be like, dis big." Joey moved his hand about an inch upward.

"Joey, that's not funny." Yugi gave a mock hurt expression. "I'm a bunch taller than I was when I was a kid." And it was true; Yugi was the same height as a normal adult now.

"Not jus' when ye were a kid man, when ye were a teenager too." Joey snickered, earning him a smack from Yugi. "Ow."

"So, is this Vitani?" Yugi gestured t the girl who stood at the doorway still. She was wearing jeans and a black T-shirt on, she also wore a red jean jacket.

"Yup!" Joey grinned. Vitani waved and smiled.

"Hiyas!"

"Hi! I haven't seen you since you were three." Yugi smiled. Vitani sweatdropped adults always said things like that. it got annoying. "Oh!" He turned to the kitchen and yelled. "Miako! C'mere!"

The girl stuck her head out the doorframe of the bathroom, surprising Yugi greatly, with a toothbrush sticking out of her mouth. "Yush?"

Yugi sighed. "This is my best friend Joey Wheeler, and his daughter Vitani. You met them when you were three, though I doubt you remember them."

Miako paused for a second. "You dash vone wish de push bow on yoush head?" She asked, toothbrush still in her mouth.

Joey sweatdropped.

"Yeah, that was him." Yugi answered, snickering.

Miako pulled her head back into the bathroom and spat out her toothpaste.

Vitani was laughing hard when Miako walked out and Joey was blushing feverishly, muttering about Tristan and spiking the punch.

The mailman walked up and stood for a moment mail in hand, staring at the laughing girl, and the blushing adult.

"Ah.. I'll take that." Yugi walked over to the mailman and took the package. "Thank you!"

When the mailman had gone Yugi looked down at the package and gasp at seeing who it was from.

"Wha's da matta man?" Joey turn to look at his friend's horrified face.

"P-Pegasus." Yugi stammered staring at the package in shock. "It's from Pegasus."

"What da hell!? Dat's impossible! He's dead!" Joey ran over to him.

"Dad?" Miako asked walking over to him.

Vitani looked at her then to her father and walked over to her. "Open it."

Joey looked at her then nodded. "Yug'."

"Y-yeah." Slowly he opened the box and stared, inside was the exact same thing it had contained the many years ago he had received it. A glove with a wrist band for star chips, a video and an envelope probably containing information cards.

"Should we see what's on the video?" Vitani asked picking it up.

"No!" Both Yugi and Joey shouted at the same time.

"Sorry... um. Why not?" Vitani said, blinking slightly.

"You don't know what could be on there!" Yugi yelled, stress in his voice.

"Um. Dad, don't you think you over reacting, just a bit?" Miako said, trying hard not to laugh at her father's reaction.

"No, last time I got a tape like this something horrible happened." Yugi answered.

"Like what?" Vitani looked at him.

"His Grandpa's soul got taken. das what." Joey glared at the tape.

"But how did he send the tape, he is dead." Yugi bit his lip.

"You mean Maxemillian Pegasus? The creator of Duel Monsters?" Vitani asked. When Joey and Yugi nodded she continued. "It's probably from his niece then, she took over his company. You know, Kalli Pegasus."

"Oh yeah! I remember reading that!" Miako said. "I think I still have it!" With that she ran out on the room and grabbed a book and ran back in, flipping through the pages she found a picture of a very elegant looking black haired woman, about the age of 25.

"She doesn't have the Millennium Eye." Yugi said.

"Nope. It mus' be safe den. and if not. we'll jus' do what we did last time." Joey said.

"I suppose you've forgotten last time I nearly got killed and. hey, where're the girls?" Yugi looked around for the two teens.

"I-uh. umm." Joey looked around.



Vitani and Miako walked into the living room, Miako slipped the tape into the VCR and sat down with Vitani.

"Hello there, Miako Motou, my name is Kalli Pegasus, and I would like to inform you that you have now invited to attend the Duelist Kingdom Tournament, please not that you have to be at the Domino City Dock by 8:00 a.m. on July 6th. I thank you and hope you will be able to make it." And with that the screen went blank.

"That's it." Vitani stare, rather let down. "I thought something cool was going to happen."

"I'm invited to a Duelist Tournament? Cool!" Maiko exclaimed, reacting to the video a bit differently than Vitani.

Just then Yugi and Joey raced into the room. "Don play da tape!" Joey yelled.

Vitani and Miako looked at their fathers in as innocent a way they could.

"You played the tape.?" Yugi asked, a slightly distressed look on his face.

"Umm. yeah. heh." Miako grinned sheepishly.

"Nothing happened! Miako was just invited to the duelist kingdom, not a big deal!" Vitani said quickly.

Joey sighed and looked at his friend.

"So, dad, can I go?"

July 6th, 7:30 a.m.

Miako stood by the large boat, a huge amount of people were surrounding it, all talking cheerfully of the up coming tournament.

"Miako! Yo! Mi-a-ko!" Miako turned to see Vitani racing up to her, the girl stumbled, tripped, landed on her face, gut up, and continued running.

Miako laughed and waved at her friend. "So you got invited to?"

"Yup! Invitation came yesterday evening!" Vitani grinned holding up the cards grinning broadly as a bright light reflected off the wristband on her star chip glove.

"Alright!" Miako grinned, now she had someone she knew coming with her to the Duelist Kingdom.

Half an hour later, the dock had filled up with thousands of people, each of them murmuring excitedly.

A man in a suit stood on a platform. "Attention duelists! We will be leaving for the Duelist Kingdom right away, please show your star chips at the door and board in an orderly fashion. Thank you."

Of course, with that said, there was a chaotic rush to get onto the boat.

"Onward! To the Duelist Kingdom!" Miako shouted pointing off into the sunrise. (You'd think the sun would rise earlier during July, wouldn't you?)

"That was so corny." Vitani face faulted, "You sounded like. something really corny!"

Miako grinned, "I know! I just had too.

Vitani sighed, then grinned, "Onward! Hurrah!"

The two laughed and then went in to see if they recognized anyone.

Sandra Kaiba sat her dark hair tied back in a braid, sat quietly in the helicopter; her eyes were on the ocean bellow her. Her father was sitting beside her being equally quiet. His raven hair was messy and unbrushed. She glanced over at him and sighed. She didn't know how well she would do at this tournament. And she didn't know if she really wanted to go either. But her father had told her it was a good idea to get out and meet other people her age. Her Uncle, who had also told her to go, was now flying the helicopter silently. Sandra didn't want to break the silence that was building up by the second. Thankfully the trip didn't last very long and soon enough they hard landed on the island. Upon landing the three of them got out of the vehicle.

"Be careful. you know you can always call me at any point, you know, if anything goes. crazy." Her father said, kneeling down and putting his hands on her shoulders.

"You won't though. nothing can go wrong, I designed the virtual reality systems they're going to be in, and I'll be here to supervise." Seto put in.

"Yeah, and 'sides. I've been stalking up my deck, I don't think I'll be home 'till the end, I'm positive." Sandra smiled proudly. Mokuba Kaiba knew his daughter would be fine, nothing could go wrong.

"I know. but be careful just the same. I worry you know." He smiled at her and she giggled slightly.

"Hey, Sandra." Seto said as Sandra prepared to set off to the castle.

"Yeah?" She asked.

"Here, now you'll be unbeatable." He tossed her a card and smirked.

She snatched the card from the air and gasped. "The Blue Eyes White Dragon!" She ran to him and gave him a tight hug around the waist. "Arigatou!!!"

Seto gave a half smile and hugged her back. Sandra then turned and hugged Mokuba.

"Sayonara!" She waved and ran off in the direction of the castle.

Mokuba waved and when she was out of sight he turned to Seto. "Keep your eye on her for me. and call. if anything. you know."

"Yeah. I know." Seto Kaiba and Mokuba made eye-contact for a moment then Mokuba nodded and headed to the helicopter.

"Sayonara Onii-chan!" He grinned then jumped in, and then a few minutes later was off.

"I hope I didn't need to call you, little brother." Seto's face grimaced as he remembered the last time he had been in this place.



Vitani and Miako walked to the wall with many different boxes; each labeled with one of the duelists' names on it. Vitani pulled hers out and blinked.

"They're. costumes." She pulled out a dark red tunic and blinked.

Around there other duelists were also finding what was in their boxes and sending questioning remarks outward.

"To inhance the affect of the game, we've provided each of you with an out fit that will allow you to easily fit in with your surroundings." Kalli announced to them, "there are changing rooms on each side or this room."



The two of them were changed, Vitani was in a dark red tunic with black body armor, and it all fit her nicely. Miako was in a deep blue coloured tunic, the body armour was a dark green colour, and it also was exactly her size.

"Oy! Yoohoo! Vitani! Over here!" Vitani turned to see a boy in a gray tunic with black body armour running up to her. He had brown hair that was all short except for a small rattail that was about to the small of his back. He was being closely followed by another boy with brown hair a few shades redder that his, all cut short with the bangs spikes up slightly. This boy was in a brown tunic and red body armour.

"Hey!" Vitani grinned, recognizing them. "Josh! Craig! I didn't know you two were coming!"

The one with the rattail grinned broadly when he reached them. "Eh. well. It sounded like fun... even if I get disqualified early." He shrugged and the other boy nodded.

"Heh, and I'll just laugh at you." Vitani grinned as rattail boy scowled. "Oh! You know Miako right? From the 'Welcome back to Japan!' party, remember?"

The two blinked and gave her a blank look.

Vitani sighed. "This is Miako Motou. You know, Yugi Motou's daughter. the one our parents threw a party for when they got back to Japan.?"

Miako stared confused at the two boys who were giving her equally blank looks.

Vitani sighed again, "Oh well, Miako, this is Josh Taylor," She pointed to rattail boy who gave her the peace sign, "And this is Craig Gardner." She then pointed to the other boy who grinned and waved.

"Hi." Miako said, blinking slightly.

""Hey! We can all hang out once we get into the game! That way this loser won't get us hopelessly lost!" Craig pointed to Josh who scowled then smacked him on the back of the head with his fist. Craig teetered on one foot and opened his eyes wide a stunned expression on his face.

"I will not get us lost you dumbass." Josh shot, before Craig grabbed his rattail and pulled. "OW! Leggo! That hurts! Leggo!" Josh flailed his arms around managing to get Craig to step away for fear of a broken nose.

Miako giggled and Vitani sighed yet again.

"Men." She grumbled.

With that the two girls headed for the door to the pods, realizing that they were going to be left behind the two boys stopped what they were doing and ran after them.

On the other side of the room a girl with short, nearly white lavender hair, brown eyes, and a dark purple tunic with black armour, stared longingly at the cheerful group of four exiting. She sighed and folded her shirt and put it in the box the tunic had come in.

Don't envy them Hikari, A voice in the back of her mind whispered. You're better than they are, they don't need your envy.

The girl sighed, Yami. I know. It's just.

Sh. Remember, you still have me. The voice echoed.

I know, thank you. The girl smiled and put her old clothing on the shelf and walked from the room, quickly tucking a golden ring under her tunic.

Sandra ran into the large old looking golden castle. Running up the stairs she had realized that it had been bad idea wearing a skirt. The instant she opened the old door she was greeted by a man in a black suit.

"Miss Sandra Kaiba, would you please follow me?" The man led her to a room where a few teens were still standing waiting to get their outfits. "Please find your outfit and join the others in the next room where you will enter the vertual reality pods. I trust you don't need to be instructed on how to start it?"

Sandra nodded, a few dark strands fell to her face and she brushed them away casually, after the man left she turned to the selves, looking down the rows for her name she found a few last names that she recognized from stories, Wheeler, Tayler, Gardner, and most importanrly, Motou. She remembered the name of her Uncle's old rival. Upon finding her name she gave a confused look at the deep pink garment in her hands, looking deeper into the box she found strange red Mid-evil looking armour in it.

"Hm." She sighed and pulled it out. Looking around the saw a door labeled Change Room and went in, she found that the bizarre outfit fit her perfectly. She tugged at it with distaste, pink, and an ugly shade of it too. "Oh well, it'll have to do, I guess the others have to wear them too."

Kalli walked out onto a platform and smiled at the many, many people (in tunics and body armour might I add. XP) bellow her. "Welcome," She yelled, "To the Duelist Kingdom! You know who I am, and over the next few hours I will learning about you at the observation room. Once you enter these pods you will be transported to a world of Duel Monsters! A place of fantasy, it has a mid-evil setting, hence the clothing, and many things in this time are not there, please don't bring anything electronic into the game, and enjoy the game! And a big thanks to Kaiba Corp. for donating all these pods." And with that Kalli retreated back into the other room.

Once she was gone, people left to their pods, the room echoed with a computer voice saying; 'Please insert your dueling deck.' And they were off.

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2nd A/N: Well. That's the first Chapter. BTW Vitani's done some REALLY nice stuff for me in the past, for that she gets to be in the fic, I'm sorry I don't have any room in this for anymore characters, sorry.

Please Review. pretty please. I kinda need to know if I can be an author again. (No this isn't my first fic, I just deleted all my other ones.) If you could please review it would make me very happy!