Hello, everyone. This is my first Yu-gi-oh! Fanfic.

**IMPORTANT** As set out in the summery this is an Alternate Universe (AU). Things will be different! However, that doesn't mean that characters should be out of character (OOC). Please correct me if I do a great injustice to a character. Be constructive about it, tell me specifically what I should work on. I greatly appreciate any advice given.

The setting is in a sort of ancient Mediterranean world that has been molded to my fancy. Yes, they will go to an Egyptian sort of area, but it's a very small part of the story.

Disclaimer: Me? Own Yu-gi-oh? Yeah, in my dreams.

And now the story.

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Prologue

If you knew there was the ultimate source of power waiting somewhere for you, would you go find it? If you could be guaranteed to be the best at whatever you did, would you try something you've been dreaming of doing?

I would.

But what if you also knew there was a catch. A big catch. In exchange for the power and skill, you loose your ability to feel, and love. You loose all you hold dear. But what would it matter you'd have the power, you'd own the world.

My answer is what good is owning the world if you don't enjoy it, if you can't secretly smile to yourself behind closed doors. But what does it matter to you. Your answer could be completely different.

Why am I bringing all this up? I'll tell you why.

There are seven items that each have special powers: the Millennium Puzzle, the Millennium Ring, the Millennium Tauk, the Millennium Eye, the Millennium Rod, the Millennium Scale and the Millennium Ankh. If you get all seven you will be invincible, no one could ever stop you. But you lose almost everything you know and love in the process. In the end you are callous and unresponsive, and you can't really enjoy all you can accomplish. I didn't know that when I first started looking for them, though. Yeah, I searched for them, I wanted the power. Now that I look back, I really didn't need anymore than I had. But I was foolish. We all were when we first started. As we went on, we learned a lot about the items and ourselves.

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