:Hello everyone! I missed you all so much! Here's the winner! This was in a tie with The House of Yami for a while but it won by three votes! I hope you enjoy this new story because it might be a long one.:

The room was ice cold, as if someone had unleashed the deadliest of winters in the small dark room. On the wall was a large bright glowing door with half of a circle at the bottom of it, similar to a welcoming mat. Across the door stood a small boy with black spiked hair and amethyst aligning the sides of it with sharp yellow bangs framing his face. His bright amethyst eyes were wide in fear. He was clutching a book in his small hands, staring at the glowing door. The boy began to sweat as he breathed heavily, he was hot in the freezing room. Around the small boy was a blue transparent circle, a shield. The boy didn't move a muscle, he couldn't do it. He just couldn't. The child rose his hand and screamed out two words. The room's temperature turned normal in the blink of an eye. The door that had been shining now dimmed and gray smoke rose from it.

"That's the second time you've done that!" A harsh voice called out. The boy flinched at the tone and turned his head to see a tall man with long teal blue hair that flowed down to his waist, his eyes were mix matched. One was a matching blue to his hair while the other was a light gold. The man was dressed in a white suit, this was the boy's master. The boy gulped and faced his master fully.

"I-I'm sorry sir...I-It's just...the room..."

"It's supposed to do that!" The man hissed at him. The boy whimpered softly at the man. The man sighed and rubbed his temple.

"Forget it, we can try once more tomorrow." The man spoke, this time with a softer tone. The boy nodded and shut his book. "However, since the day is still early. I would recommend you head to my library and study. I will not tolerate another failure." The boy nodded once more and watched his master leave the room.

The boy was left in the room alone. It was a pitch black now that the ritual he had attempted to do had ceased, his master had turned off his light. He assumed the boy would be following right after him it seemed. The boy walked to a small lamp in the room that was at the side and turned it on. The room was lit up just by this small object. It was a basement. The area was small to be one but it was. The walls were brown with rotten wood and the floors were concrete with only one rug near the small bed that laid beneath a small rectangular window. The boy thought it resembled a kind of door that a mailman would slip letters into. It was the perfect place for an apprentice to study summonings. The boy sighed. How was he supposed to be a magician who can summon when he can't summon at all?!

He shook his head and headed out his door, his book now on his bed.

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"Yugi. Your friend is coming, however I want him out within half an hour. I need you to study, understood?" His master spoke as he saw the boy 'Yugi' climb up the stairs that led to the house. Yugi nodded at his master.

"Yes, Mr. Dartz." Yugi spoke obediently. He thought about the duration of time he allowed the friend to stay over. From this alone, Yugi was able to figure out which friend that was coming over. If it was his friend Anzu ( A sweet girl with short brown hair and blue eyes), his master would have said fifteen minutes. If it was his friend Bakura ( A harsh boy with long white hair with two spikes at the top and dark brown eyes), his master would have said an hour...That left only one person then.

Knock! Knock!

Yugi's eyes brightened at the sound of knocking at the front door. Ah! That must be him! Yugi ran to the door (which resulted in his master telling him to stop running), and swung it open. Standing there with one hand in his pocket and a book in the other, was a tall boy with short brown hair and piercing blue eyes. Yugi leaped forward and embraced the other boy. The other boy sighed and hugged him back with one arm.

"I am not a huggy person, Yugi." The boy spoke firmly. Yugi smiled and let go.

"No one saw. Lighten up Seto, please?" Yugi spoke sweetly as he turned around and gestured for Seto to follow him in. Seto shrugged and let out a small grunt before he followed. Yugi turned around to face Seto and opened his mouth to speak. Seto rose a hand to him, cutting him off.

"Thirty minutes. I know." Seto looked around. "Library then?" Yugi nodded and headed down multiple hallways. Yugi's master was one of the most wealthy magicians in Arcadia, the main base of all magicians. All beings around the world who wished to become a magician was required to move here and take proper training. It was a city that only one plane could take you too, for a good amount of money of course. Yugi was fortunate enough to be born in Arcadia, however due to a war that both of his parents had to go to, he was forced to get a master at a young age of only five years old. His parents never returned. It had been 10 years and Yugi had given up hoping for that.

The two boys wandered down the hallways to a large set of dark wooden doors. Seto and Yugi entered without hesitation. It was a large library that took up a whole side of the house, there were spiral staircases that led up to two more floors full of books. All these books contained every sort of magic that magicians were required to learn. Magician's came in five types. The easiest to master is Potions, followed by Charms, Then Bending Elements, Conjuration, and the final most difficult of them all was Summonings. In order to become a Summoning Magician (A summoner), you had to master all the types. Yugi had mastered all of them with hardly any difficulty, but when it came to actually summoning something...

"Tell me." Seto suddenly spoke as he reached toward a shelf and pulled out a lengthy red covered book. "How did your summoning go today?" Yugi froze at the question. Seto lifted an eye toward him and rose an eyebrow.

"By the way you are frozen on the spot, I am to assume you failed. Correct?" Seto spoke with slight disappointment. Yugi nodded. Seto sighed and opened the book he had gotten, he flipped through the pages boringly.

"What happened?" Seto questioned, not lifting his gaze from the book in his hands. Yugi fidgeted slightly with his hands behind his back. He didn't need to recollect that again, did he?

"W-Well...At first it was okay...I drew the door right, I put a shield around me..." Yugi looked down at the floor, it was so interesting at the moment. "The room was pitch black...I spoke the right words..." The floor was carpeted with a dark blue, Yugi could make out little black specks out of it. "The room became cold...T-The door began to glow and I..." Yugi began to count the black specks. 1..2...3...4.

"You?" Seto ushered for him to go on, his eyes still not leaving the book. Twenty. Twenty black specks on the carpet near his feet. Yugi licked his lips.

"I-I spoke the cancellation spell." Yugi quickly spat out, closing his eyes in fear. Seto looked up, his eyes wide with surprise.

"You...what?" Seto questioned. Yugi's face turned red with embarrassment, couldn't he just go back to counting black specks on the carpet? That was much more fun then this at the moment.

"I canceled the summonings...I couldn't do it. I-I wasn't ready." Yugi whispered. Seto slammed the book closed and placed it on a nearby table.

"And why did you do that?" Seto crossed his arms and glared at his friend. He was obviously disappointed and confused.

"I-I didn't want to summon it...W-What if it tried to kill me?"

"That's what they'll try to do. We're trapping them, why wouldn't they want to kill us?"

"B-But what if it took the appearance of a little girl..." Yugi spoke, imagining a small girl coming out of the small door in the half circle and looking at him with pleading eyes. Begging him to let her out. To let her leave her circle. To let her wrap her small child-like hands around his throat and-

"Then you would have had to trap a small girl. Yugi, not all spirits can shape shift. Only the ones that are extremely hard to summon, the ones who take plenty of concentration, energy, and power. Which may I remind you." Seto rose a hand and began to count off their friends. "That Anzu summoned her first spirit yesterday and Bakura summoned his a week ago. I'm summoning mine tomorrow." Seto explained. Yugi felt his mouth go dry. All of his friends were summoners, they all trained in the same place and they stayed together for more then six years. Bakura and Seto were the most intelligent of the four. Anzu was just below them. Yugi considered himself to be the worst of them all.

"And you know that in order to approach them when they have a spirit out is to have your own. Right?" Seto narrowed his eyes at Yugi, who was still staring at the floor, unmoving. In order for magician's to be safe, it is required that when a friend of yours has a spirit out that you too were required to have one out. He never understood why, but he accepted the rule regardless and obeyed. Now that Bakura and Anzu had their spirits, they would keep them out. Seto was summoning his tomorrow...that meant Yugi had to summon his or they couldn't all spend any time together.

"It can be any type of spirit, okay? Here. Let's look for one." Seto turned his back and started to browse the library books. Yugi looked up at his friend surprised. Usually Seto would just leave him to figure it out on his own. Yugi smiled to himself, Seto wanted to spend time with him and the others. So, he was willing to help. Yugi had to hold himself back from hugging him again.

Dartz had come down to collect Seto and tell him to get out but after a good amount of explaining the situation, he had allowed Seto to continue to stay for another hour or two. The two boys were left alone to their own devices, trying so hard to find a simple spirit to summon. In order to summon a spirit, you had to know their name. After that, they were forced to obey you. If you made sure to get every detail correct, even the slightest slip up on a name could be a life or death situation. A wrong syllable could mean the spirit is summoned and kills you right away, a summon you didn't want, or a plain failure that other magician's will laugh about for days to come.

"This one seems easy enough." Seto spoke pointing at a picture on a page of the brown book he was looking in. Yugi was across from him at a small table looking at a dark blue one. He got up and went to Seto's shoulder. He looked at the book and narrowed his eyes in disgust. It was a small spirit that resembled a moldy toad, it had an angry face that looked smashed in and an appearance that made you want to smack it with a fly swatter.

"What's its name?"

"Yomi."

"It would fit it, if looks could kill." Yugi complained while Seto let out a small chuckle. Yomi, a name that meant Death. Yugi would have thought a more powerful spirit was attached to the name, but no. It was a scrawny hideous toad that Yugi wanted to smack with a broom and throw in the river. Seto reached into his pocket and brought out a small long thin object. He stuck it in the place where the toad name resided. He closed the book and handed it to Yugi.

"If you are not able to summon that, then I would recommend you become a potion maker." Seto said with a mocking smile on his face. Yugi flushed slightly before he took the book and set it down next to him. He wanted to change the subject now. He could think about the stupid spirit toad later.

"Seto, what are you summoning?" Yugi questioned with a smile. Seto rose an eyebrow before he reached into his other pocket and fished out a small folded up brown sheet of paper. He unfolded it and smoothed it out onto the table in front of them. Yugi's eyes widened slightly. In the center of the page was a tall boy with short blonde hair and honey colored eyes. The boy was winking with a cheeky grin on his face while giving a thumbs up. It looked like the picture of a reckless teenager, not a spirit.

"Jounichi?" Yugi spoke, trying not to pronounce it wrong. Seto nodded at him. Oh good. He said it correctly!

"Apparently, it's a shape shifter spirit. Also once summoned, it prefers to go by another name." Seto refolded the paper and placed it back in his pocket. Yugi chuckled awkwardly. Of course Seto would be going to summon a shape shifter. Bakura probably did summon one and Anzu probably attempted but failed and summoned a fairy looking spirit.

"Why's that?" Yugi asked. Usually spirits liked their name and wanted it to stay that way. Seto shrugged and stood up to stretch.

"I'm not sure. It does not matter anyway. As long as it obeys me, I do not care what it wishes to be called." Seto told him, he glanced toward the clock and sighed. "I should head off. My master would get angry if I did not return soon." He faced Yugi.

"The others wish to hang out tomorrow after I have summoned my spirit, which will be around four. Do you think you can manage to summon your spirit by then?" Seto said slowly, a hint of worry laced within his words. Yugi smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, I should." Yugi responded as he reached to the table and grabbed the book that contained the toad's name. Seto smiled slightly at him.

"We will meet at our usual spot. The abandoned cabin near the cafe on West Street." Seto explained. Yugi nodded once more, Seto didn't need to explain this but it was fine.

"Alright, be safe." Yugi smiled as he led Seto to the front door of the place and watched him leave. Yugi sighed and closed the door. He looked down at the book in his hands and turned to the page with the toad on it. He grimaced just looking at the thing. That was supposed to be his servant? He doubted it would even know how to walk. What were those things that hung below it's chin? Was it legs or extensions on the face?

"Yugi." Yugi whipped his head towards the voice that had spoken to see his master standing in front of a doorway. Dartz's eyes were narrowed and his arms were crossed. "Now that your friend has left. You are to report back to the library and continue to study. Also you are to be in your room in two hours, I am going to bed because I am worn out from working on a project of mine." He spoke smoothly as he just stood there. Yugi nodded quickly.

"Yes, sir."

"Good, now run along." Dartz gestured to the hallway. Without a moments hesitation, Yugi obeyed. He walked, hearing footsteps from above him, his master heading upstairs. Yugi held his book to his chest and hugged it. If he didn't summon this toad tonight or tomorrow, he would have to stay home. He didn't mind staying home...he just wouldn't like to be lectured at by his master again. He took a deep breath as he stepped in front of the library doors and swung them open.

He had some studying to do.

:End of chapter one! I believe I will have quite a bit of fun with this fanfiction and I hope you will all stick around for the ride! I hope you guys enjoyed it and are willing to stick with me! Please review!: