The gang has been sucked into the future thanks to mere curiosity. They soon learn that their future selves have been missing without a trace for two years! With new friends helping them Yugi/Yami and company might just be able to find their future selves, but can they find them and save the world at the same time?
Rekindling Sunlight
Chapter 1_ Dice Heir
"Hey guys is it just me or does it look like it's gonna rain?" Joey looked up at the darkening sky. His bangs fell into his almond brown eyes.
"It shouldn't rain, the news said nothing about it raining," Tea looked up at the sky too.
"Those don't look like regular clouds to me, guys," Duke said. He pointed at the black swirling clouds, "Look how they're moving." The clouds seemed to be forming a portal-like shape in the sky.
"I agree with Duke, guys," Yugi looked at the clouds that were beginning to take a more of a definite shape.
"You don't think those could be Shadow Realm clouds, do ya?" Tristan asked the pharaoh's vessel.
"No, they move differently than these clouds," Yugi stated.
"What do you say we go check it out?" Tea asked.
"Why should we, Tea?" Joey wondered.
"Just to see what's going on."
"If we do we'll get into some kind of trouble, like we do all the time," Duke crossed his arms over his chest.
"I was just saying," Tea shrugged.
"Well, I guess it couldn't hurt, let's go," Yugi began to run down the street.
"Wait for us Yugi," Joey ran after his best friend along with Tea and Tristan.
"Oh c'mon, guys. Can't we talk about this?" Duke ran after them.
"Why, are ya scared Duke?" Tristan smirked.
"No," Duke scowled. "You're the one who's worried about those clouds being from the Shadow Realm, not me, dude," Duke smirked then.
"Shut up."
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"Whoa, weird," Tea and the others had been led to the middle of a street by Kaiba Corp.
"What is that thing? Is it some kinda portal?" Joey wondered.
"Maybe, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything," Yugi said as the wind picked up.
"Looks like you spoke too soon, man," Duke told Yugi. The wind blew even harder. The wind was freezing.
"What's going on?" Tristan asked.
"AAH!" Tea screamed when the wind picked her up.
"Tea," Yugi grabbed ahold of her hands.
"Yugi," Tristan grabbed hold of Yugi's ankles.
"Tristan," Duke grabbed hold of Tristan's ankles.
"Dudes," Joey wrapped his arms around Duke's legs.
All of them were lifted off the ground and they were pulled into the portal that was now glowing, "AAAHHH!" They seemed to have been sucked into a swirling vortex and were now falling from a calm sky unto the top of a building.
"Holy shit," Duke rubbed the back of his head.
"What the hell happened, guys?" Joey stood up on wobbly legs.
"It looks like we were taken somewhere," Yugi and the others stood up.
"Um, guys, you might want to take a look at this," Tea said when she looked over the edge of the roof.
"What is it, Tea?" Tristan asked then he looked down, "What the fuck?"
"We're on the roof of your game shop, Duke," Joey told the dice master.
"How did we get here?" Duke wondered. They all took the roof access stairs down to the first level of the building.
"Guys, you're not gonna believe this," Joey picked up a flyer. The others peeped over Joey's shoulder. The year was several years from the present.
"Either we are all having the same dream or we've been sent to the future," Tea took the flyer from Joey.
"But how the hell is that possible?" Duke asked. He looked around the shop. Things looked the same except for a few things that looked different.
"What isn't possible?" Tristan looked at the flyer.
"Good point, considering all the stuff we've been through."
"Yeah, but you got a point Duke. How is time travel possible without a Millennium Item?" Yugi said as they all walked outside.
"Either way what are we going to do now?" Tea wondered as they all looked at the exterior of Duke's game shop.
"Our best bet is to find our future selves." Yugi had switched to Yami.
"How are we gonna do that? We don't even know if we exist in this time," Tristan said. Everyone looked at him. "What?" Tristan asked.
"Let's try to think positive," Yami told him.
"We should try Muto-san's shop first," Tea suggested as she started to head down the street.
"Tea, wait," Duke said, "Let's see if I'm here somewhere first."
"Okay," Tea nodded. The group headed back inside.
"If I know you as well as I think I do Duke. I bet you're down stairs playing your game with somebody," Joey said as they got on the elevator.
"You might be right," Duke said leaning against the wall, "It's either that or I'm upstairs."
The elevator stopped and everyone got off. There were two people playing Dungeon Dice Monsters. A girl with long black hair was on one side of the dungeon and a guy with auburn hair was on the other.
"Okay, Riley, your turn," The guy said.
"Um, excuse us," Tea said, "We're looking for Duke."
The girl raised her head. Her emerald green eyes looked at them then they widened when she saw them. The dice she held fell out of her gloved hand when it went slack. "Oh my God," She said.
"What the hell?" The guy looked just as shocked.
"What's wrong?" Joey asked along with the guys.
"What's wrong?" The girl repeated. "You guys, that's what's wrong."
"Say what again?" Duke said.
The guy and girl came to them. "All of you disappeared two years ago," The girl explained.
"None of you have been seen since," The guy added.
"Okay, can we back up a minute?" Tristan asked. "Who are you two?"
"I'm Riley," The girl answered. She was five foot seven. Her skin was acne free, creamy porcelain-like. She had light smoky eye-shadow on her eyelids.
She wore black skinny jeans with holes torn into them and chains hanging from the belt. Her black scuffed and worn high-top converse covered her feet. Her vintage band t-shirt had the sleeves torn off. The shirt was cut to show her midriff. It was worn underneath an anime jacket with cat ears on the hood. The jacket had anime related pins pinned on the pockets. She had the Kanji character for the word sabotage tattooed on her flat stomach. She had a tattoo of a pair of dice on the back of her right shoulder.
She wore fingerless accessory gloves on her hands. She had a class ring, a skull ring, and other sterling silver rings on her fingers. Her cartilage piercings matched her spike gauges in style. She had a small rhinestone nose ring, which was barely visible from a distance.
"And this doofus is my little brother Blake," Riley said with her fists shoved into her jacket's pockets. The guy had short auburn hair and green eyes. He was five foot nine. He wore faded blue jeans along with a white Polo brand t-shirt and a pair of brown Sperry Top-Siders. He had a brown leather wristband on his wrist.
"You two gotta last name?" Joey wondered.
"Devlin," The two siblings answered in unison.
Their mouths dropped open, especially Duke's. He gapped at the both of them. "I knew that was coming," Riley smirked.
"They're in the future and just met us. What did you expect?" Blake looked at Riley.
"Don't get smartass-y with me," Riley told Blake.
"And another thing, there's only a one year's difference between you and me, so how am I 'little'?"
"You know how," Riley told him.
"Uh, hello?" Yugi hesitantly interrupted.
"Oh, our bad," Riley apologized. "You were saying?"
"Well, first of all, do you know how we got here?" Yugi wondered.
"We were wondering the same thing. The fact you guys are here told us that you're from the past." Riley explained.
"I got one," Joey said, "What was this about us disappearing?"
"It's just as Riley said," Blake told him, "You all disappeared over two years ago. We haven't seen any of y'all since then."
"All of us? What about Serenity?" Joey felt his heart go into overdrive.
"Mama," Riley asked. "No, she's at home." Joey's heartbeat slowed down back to normal.
"DID YOU SAY MAMA?" They all repeated.
"Hai, Serenity Wheeler is our mama," Riley nodded.
"Serenity ends up with you?" Tristan turned to Duke.
"You say that like it's a bad thing," Duke looked at him with his arms crossed.
"Uncle Joey approved," Blake added.
"I did?" Joey asked.
"Hai," Riley nodded.
"Perhaps we should get all of the details," Yami appeared in Yugi's place.
"Hai, Yami-sama," Riley nodded.
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"Perhaps you could tell us how many of you there are and your parents," Yami said.
"Sure," Riley said. "You got some paper and a pen?"
"Hai," Tea pulled out the requested items.
"Thanks," Riley took the items and began writing.
Duke& Serenity: Riley & Blake
Joey& Keilyn: Garrett, Aaron, Codi (f.)
Tristan & Savannah: Shawn & Blair (f.)
Yugi/Yami & Tea: Sirena & Nirveli (twins, both f.)
Marik & Ryoko: Keilani, Sabiya (twins, both f.), Ari (m.)
Bakura & Bridgett: Brooke & Shylo (twins, both f.)
Ishizu & Kaiba: Thana
Once she was done writing she handed the paper to Yami. "Damn, there are a lot of you," Duke said looking at the paper.
"Yep, there is," Riley chuckled.
"Well, this is a lot of information," Yami said handing the paper to Joey.
"You guys deserve to know," Riley handed Tea her pen.
"Let's go up stairs to the apartment," Blake suggested.
"What for, to give Mama a heart attack," Riley wondered. She smacked Blake upside the back of the head, "You idiot. We can't drag Mama into this; it'll be too much for her to handle."
"You're right. Sorry." Blake rubbed the back of his head.
"How did we disappear?" Duke asked.
"You guys were heading to a tournament that Kaiba was holding and you guys never came back," Blake answered.
Everyone looked at Riley when her face saddened and she whimpered quietly. Blake wrapped an arm around his sister and pulled her to him comfortingly. Everyone looked at Blake curiously. "She's a Daddy's girl," He mouthed in response.
"Give her a hug," Tristan whispered into Duke's ear.
"Why?" Duke asked in a whisper.
"Look at her, dude," Tristan told him. Duke looked at Riley, who was beginning to cry, and then he sighed lightly.
"Riley," Duke called her. Riley looked at him with wet eyes. Duke held his arms out to her. Riley hugged him tightly. Duke hugged her comfortingly, "It's okay, don't cry." Riley sniffled and wiped her eyes free of tears. He gave her a light smile.
"C'mon let's get y'all out of here before Mama sees ya," Blake led the way to the elevator.
"We are we going?" Tristan wondered.
"Somewhere we can talk without eavesdroppers," Riley answered.
"Do you all live together?" Yami pressed the button.
"Well, no, we live with Mama. Mama, Marik, Ishizu, and Odion look after us all." Blake stepped out of the elevator.
"But everyone else is divided among households, either they life with us or Marik and Ryoko or Ishizu or Odion." Riley led the group down the street.
"Where are we going again?" Joey walked next to Riley.
Riley smiled, "You'll see."
To Be Continued…