I do not own any of the Yugioh characters except for the mysterious girl. Please enjoy and comment.
It had been seven months since Atem had decided to stay with his friends instead of going to the spirit realm. Since he didn't go into the spirit realm he was now able to have his own body. He was no longer bound to the Millennium Puzzle. Although almost all of the Millennium Items were locked away for safe keeping, Atem had kept his puzzle.
When Atem decided to stay here in this world Yugi had said that he could stay with him and grandpa. Yugi came up with a great cover story for Atem. Thought to say that Atem was Yugi's older brother who had on occasion taken Yugi's place in a tournament.
"Earth to Atem," Yugi said for the hundredth time.
"I'm sorry Yugi," Atem said as he snapped back to the present, while his mind still lingering in the past.
"I said, I wonder what Ishizu wants to talk to us about?" Yugi repeated as he took a bite of his cereal.
"I'm not sure, but she sounded really shaken," Atem said as he took a bite of toast.
"Well I hope we don't have to save the world already, I mean I just want to relax," Yugi said with a smile on his face.
"I hope not again," Atem replied with a smile as well.
As the two continued to talk, there was a knock and Joey, Tristan, and Tea came through the door. Each one had a smile on their face. "Hey guys," they all said together as each one took a seat around the kitchen table.
"So what's the plan for today," Joey asked in his usual excited tone.
"Well Atem and I have to meet Ishizu later at the museum," Yugi said after he had taken another bite of cereal.
"Ishizu, we haven't heard from her in a while," commented Tea.
"So why are you meeting her?" Tristan asked as he got up to get a drink.
"She didn't say," Yugi replied.
"I hope we don't have to save the world again," Joey commented as he got up to get a drink as well.
At Joey's comment Atem raised his eye brow and asked, "We?"
"Of course, you two don't get to go and have all the fun without us. I mean we're a team and so we're going to stick together," Joey said as he sat back down with his glass of water.
"He's right, if you guys are going then so are we," said Tea as she leaned over and kissed Yugi on his cheek. The two of them had started to go out shortly after they had gotten back from Egypt. "So what time are we going to the museum?"
"We have to be at the museum by 11:00, so we have a few hours to kill," Yugi said.
"Well then we can go see Duke, I heard that he just got back from his world tour," Tea said.
"He's back early," Tristan said in surprise.
"So come on let's go," Joey said as he leapt to his feet excitedly.
"Ok Joey," said Yugi as he put his bowl in the sink.
Then everyone turned to look at Atem, he had been very quiet. "Ok, why not, we have about 2 hours until we need to meet Ishizu."
As they all headed out the door, Yugi turned and shouted, "We'll see you later Grandpa!" With that they all turned and headed down the street. The street was packed with people; a lot of them were tourists on vacation. They headed off towards Duke's game shop, talking and laughing while Yugi and Tea held hands. Each one bringing up their favorite memory from the last few years.
As they were walking, Atem kept feeling like someone was following them. He was constantly turning and checking over his shoulder. The only thing was that every time he turned around no one would be there.
"Hey Atem are you listening buddy?" Joey asked again concerned.
"What?" Atem said as he slowly turned back around.
"I said, do you guys want to go see a movie later?" Joey asked everyone again.
"Do you ever feel like someone is following you, but when you look everything is normal?" Atem asked, his mind not paying Joey any attention.
"No," everyone said puzzled.
"Hey man it's just the stress, but you can finally relax. We saved the world and now we get to kick back and have some fun," Joey said.
"So that's him?" girl asked seemingly to herself. The girl looked to be about the same age as the group of teens she was watching. "He doesn't look that special. He looks pretty ordinary, except for his hair," the girl mussed out loud. Realizing that she was staring, she quickly hid back around the corner. Her ring catching the sun and bouncing light off the gold and green emerald.
"Hey what was that?" Tristan asked as he saw a flash of bright light. He had been looking around when he had seen a flash of light. Tristan started to head over towards the thing that had got his attention.
"Well it's about time," came the sound of a cocky voice from behind the group. "I thought that you two were never going to start dating." Duke watched as they all turned to see him standing against a side of a building twirling a dice in his hand.
"Hey Duke!" Yugi said cheerfully being the first one to recover.
"Long time no see," Joey said.
"What ya been up to man?" Tristan said next, forgetting about the flash of light.
"Hey," was all Tea said, but she had a big smile on her face saying that she was glad that he had finally gotten back.
Duke had mentally gone around the group as each one started talking to him. He had then realized there was a silent member in the back, as he looked at the figure he noticed that this figure look exactly like Yugi only a few years older. "Wait there's two of you?" he said shocked and startled.
"Um… a Duke maybe we should talk in side," Yugi said, the last thing he needed was Duke freaking out and blowing their cover story about Atem.
As they went inside, everyone could tell that Duke was dying to ask questions. Duke led them quickly back to his office where no one would be able to disturb them. The office was pretty big and held different types of furniture. When Duke was planning his office, he wanted a place that he could retreat to and hang out in.
Before he could ask any questions Atem told him to listen and just ask questions at the end. Not knowing where to start, they decided it would be best to just start from the very beginning. They told Duke about how Yugi solved the Millennium Puzzle and the Atem spirit was locked away inside. They moved right along, all the way to the final duel between Yugi and Atem, and Atem deciding to stay in this life with his friends instead of moving on.
"Wow," Duke said not really sure how to proceed. "So all this time the world thought, well we all thought, that we were dueling Yugi but it was actually Atem?"
"Yes," Yugi said. "Now you can't tell anybody."
"So what is your cover story for all this?" Duke asked.
"Well we're saying it was me who Kiba dueled for the first time, but then I didn't want to be in the spot light so my 'older brother' took my spot since our strategies are basically the same. So while Atem dueled, I stayed home so that way nobody would know the difference."
"And everyone believes this story?" Duke asked in disbelief.
"So far," Joey said.
"So who all knows the truth?" Duke wondered out loud.
This time Atem answered, "So far only the people in this room, Yugi's grandpa-"
"Our grandpa now," Yugi butted in. "You have to say our or people will get suspicious if you keep saying Yugi's."
"Yes our grandpa," Atem said with a slight smile, "Ishizu, Marik, and Odion. Also Professor Hawkins and Rebecca know. Then Mia, Kaiba and Mokuba are the only ones that know. "
"Wait Kaiba knew before me?" Duke asked, he was a little upset at the fact that Kaiba, who wasn't their friend knew before him.
"Well Kaiba was kinda there with us during the duel, so he knew then," Yugi said.
"Let me guess, he still doesn't believe any of it," Duke said.
"Actually, he's starting to believe some of it," Yugi said. "Wait! Pegasus also knows, though we're not sure how he found out," Yugi said remembering the letter that he and Atem had received about two months ago with brand new duel monster cards.
"I still think it has something to do with his Millennium Eye," Joey grumbled.
"But didn't it get taken away and sealed with all the rest of the items? Well except for the puzzle," Tristan asked.
"Yes, but that doesn't mean anything," Atem said. "If you held an item for long enough, I think that you obtained some of it's power."
"Guys, not to cut this short, but we need to get to the museum," Tea said looking at the clock.
"What's at the museum?" Duke asked as everyone started to get up.
"Ishizu wants to meet with us and the others want to be included," Yugi said as got up off the couch.
"Sound like fun, count me in," Duke said as he got up as well.
Atem sighed to himself, he knew once they told Duke he was going to want to be part of the meeting. Everyone was ready to go in a few seconds, and they were once again off to the museum.
As they were walking Atem had the same feeling again, the feeling that someone was watching and following them. He kept checking over his shoulder.
"Hey is everything ok with Atem?" Tea asked concerned.
"He's been distracted all day," Yugi said as he glanced back at his brother.
"Wow, it has been awhile since we've been in here," Tristan said as they all walked into the museum. "So where do we meet Ishizu?"
"My guess would the Egyptian section," Duke said.
"That sounds like a good idea," said Yugi as they headed off towards the back of the museum.
"You know out of all the times that we have been here, I don't think we have ever looked around anywhere else but the Egyptian section," Joey stated as they passed random exhibits.
"Well whose fault is that?" Tea asked sarcastically
"Thank you for coming," Ishizu said as she rounded the corner when the group of teens entered into the Egyptian wing.
"So what is happening?" Atem asked wanting to get right to the point.
"A great evil is raising and the world needs your help," Ishizu said.
Please I need an idea for the great evil, so leave an idea or two.