Chapter 1: A New World

"Get out of the way!" cried Artemis, her eyes filled with tears.

Atem ignored her plea, and continued walking to his demise. I didn't know what to say, but I watched helplessly as Atem was about to intercept Pluto's attack.

"Atem!" I shouted out. Then everything turned dark.

I can still remember the good old days I had with my friends and I. Ever since Lina came into our lives, nothing was the same. Her objective: Take the Millennium Puzzle away from me. She came to Domino right before I solved the puzzle, and she realized that I would never use the puzzle for evil purposes, so she let me keep it.

Deep down, I knew she was hiding something because she would always appear at an opportune time when I was in trouble. Lina had great knowledge of Egyptian history, but why does she know a lot? Alike to me, she has a spirit living inside her mind who goes by the name Luna. This mysterious being can possess Lina's body and do the same to others.

Now two new figures appear, but their faces look familiar to Lina. Who are they? What do they want? Why are they trying to steal the Millennium Puzzle? And why in this strange world have they have taken us? Only I, Yugi Mutou, stand in their way. Here's how it all began.

"YUGI!" I hear Grandpa's voice call out.

I was fast asleep in my room when Atem appeared in his spirit form, attempting to wake me up. He looked at the clock which read 8:39 am, and then he decided to use our mind link to try again.

Partner, it's time to wake up.

Morning already...

I opened my eyes to come face to face with a pair of crimson eyes. I began stretching my arms and got out of bed. I opened my closet and took out a black, sleeveless shirt and blue jeans. I put on my clothes and buckled my neck belt. Then I placed the Millennium Puzzle around my neck, and Atem handed me my deck. He quickly went back to his Soul Room as I made my way towards the door and down the stairway.

"What's been taking you so long?" Grandpa said as I walked to the counter. "Your friend, Lina is waiting for you outside"

"She is." I replied and walked out of the game shop.

"Well, finally!" Lina spoke to me. She wore a plain purple shirt covered over with a blue denim jacket, blue jeans and black boots. Her black belt fell on the left side of her waist. Around Lina's neck was a silver chain and silver crescent moon pendant. "I said that you had to wake up about 8 o' clock or at least before." she muttered as we walked.

"Don't mind him, he's just a heavy sleeper." Luna appeared in her spirit form. Her platinum bangs waved in the wind.

"Oh, I do mind." Lina said as we finally made our to the park where we were supposed to meet our friends.

"Hey, guys! Over here!" Tea shouted in our direction.

"Alright, Lina, tell us why we are here?" Joey asked once Lina approached them.

Her bluish-silver eyes gleamed at him. "A new threat is upon us!" Lina replied.

"What do you mean?" Tea said, looking very puzzled. "I thought the threat was Marik, and Atem did defeat his evil self."

"You don't even know how wrong you are!" Lina said harshly. "This 'new' threat is not of this world."

Everyone looked at her with confused looks. Whatever she was talking about didn't seem to give the same idea to me either.

"It's hopeless!" she sighed as she sat down on a nearby bench.

"I would like to more." Atem said as he appeared before her in his spirit form. "I have this strange feeling that the worst is still to come."

Lina smiled at him and continued her discussion. "I had this vision that two mysterious figures shall arrive to take Yugi's puzzle,"

I noticed Tea, Joey and Tristan came closer to her, urging her to continue. I guess that got them interested, I thought.

"Can anyone stop these beings?" I asked.

Lina looked at me sadly. "No one can, and their powers even match mine. I don't know when they'll come."

Suddenly, the wind began blowing at a overbearing state. The surroundings changed all around us, and I as though we were plummeting down an endless vortex. Meanwhile, Kaiba and his little brother, Mokuba were also encountering the same fate. They both were at KaibaCorp at the time.

"MOKUBA, HOLD ONTO ME!" Kaiba yelled.

Mokuba held onto his brother's hand as they, too dropped into the vortex. I opened my eyes to see that we were no longer in the park or Domino.

"Where are we, big brother?" I heard Mokuba's voice nearby.

Lina and the others were sprawled on the ground and I decided to find where Mokuba's voice was coming from. I finally reached both Mokuba and Kaiba who had no clue where they were.

"Yugi, you're here too!" Mokuba cried happily.

"Do you have any idea what is this place?" Kaibe asked.

The area was a grassland filled with attractive flowers and something sticking out of the horizon. I ran over to the pointed object and I couldn't believe my eyes. Kaiba and Mokuba ran after me and they, too had shocked expressions on their faces. What we saw was a huge castle with dragon statues at every corner. It resembled one of those castles found in Medieval Europe.

"What do we have here?" a deep voice replied behind us.

Author's Notes: The scene I started out in my first chapter, we'll get back to that later on in the story.