This is a story about Yu-Gi-Oh! and it is a prologue/lead up to this actual story.

Author's Note: I do not own/create/take credit for Yu-Gi-Oh! and all of this story

is purely for the entertainment of the readers only

Five years passed since the Kaiba Corp. Grand Prix and all was quiet around the game shop. Suddenly, the phone rings, and Yugi answers.

"Hello, is Yugi there?"

"Hello there, Tea. How is everything going?"

"Everything is going along great. How about you, Yugi?"

"Everything is just fine. How about we hop on the computer and talk there. You know what my grandpa is like when holding up the phone."

Yugi hops on the computer, when he realizes that he has a strange message waiting for him... Not wanting Tea to wait, he disreguards it and continues his conversation.

Soon, he leaves to go to work as a game designer for a large company. All is quiet as Yugi works alone in his room, working on something. All of a sudden he remembers the message on his computer from earlier in the day. Curious, he goes to check it and realizes that there are 2 messages for him.

"Yugi Moto, it has been a while, but I would like ot point out that I still remember you.

Let me get to the point. I have kidnapped your friends and I am demanding that you come down

immedieately if you value your friends. It would be wise."

The second was a little less threatening

"Yugi, all of the millenium items have been stolen. All the god cards are missing too.

You have to figure out what is going on here. YOur friend, Joey"

Yugi, sensing trouble, takes a day off, and goes to Joey's place. Yugi, for about 5 mintues, continually knocks on the door, but no one responds.

Yugi hurriedly runs to the museum to find the millenium items. He sees that they are gone. The god cards have disappeared too! Yugi, then, asks the security guard what happened.

"It was some theif. He came in and used something to blast all the security away. Then, another person came in and they fought. The first person said 'If I cannot have them, no one can' and blasted them. They just disappeared."

Yugi looks around and sees that the only item remaining was the Millenium Puzzle. Knowing that it was time to merge with the spirit of the puzzle to fight darkness again, Yugi picks up the puzzle. All of a sudden, Yugi notices that Yami is not in the puzzle...

In another dimension... I must find the millenium items before their true power is realized... Thus, the search for the items has begun.