"Aww maaaan! You beat me again!"
Joey yelled while scratching his head roughly, he had lost another duel monster game against his best friend, Yugi. "Sorry Joey, I guess you should work on your strategy some more"
Yugi, with an apologetic expression, scratched his cheek as Joey yelled in defeat.
Tea laughed in the background with Tristan mocking Joey for losing for the 5th time that day against Yugi, that is until the principal called on the intercom "Will Yugi Mutou, Joey Wheeler, Tea Gardner and Tristan Taylor please come to the office immediatly, a friend of yours wants to speak with you"
The gang stopped and stared at eachother for a moment before Tristan spoke up "Friend of ours?"
Yugi tried to think over who might be waiting for them but he quickly decided to not guess and just go see who it is "Well the Principal called us to the office so we shouldn't make him wait"
(Later)
The group arrived at the office, however they saw a man talking to the principal, a man with dusty blonde hair and dark skin... It was Marik Ishtar! He turned to look at Yugi and the others with a smile to greet them with "It is good to see you guys again"
Joey greeted him in return "Well if it isn't Marik! How ya doin' bud?"
Marik smiled for a moment longer before his expression turned into a frown
"Yugi, I have bad news..."
Yugi's eyes widened slightly "Bad news? What's wrong? Is there somethig wrong with Atem?"
Marik shook his head "Somewhat... You see before The spirit of the ring died he left a curse... One that would send you all back to Ancient Egypt and be locked away there forever"
The others were shocked, Tea was the first to speak up "You mean... We will be sent back without a chance to come back!?"
Marik nodded as he replied "I'm afraid so, but my family is trying to figure out this and perhaps come up with a way back for all of you"
Yugi began to think this over "Maybe the Millenium Items of the past could help send us back! It's a shot afterall" he continued "When will this happen?"
Marik thought it over for a moment before replying "The Millenium Items just might be able to send you back, the curse is supposed to activate the next time you fall sleep"
The group all stared at eachother with concerned expressions.
Yugi stared at the floor before looking up again and nodding to Marik "We should be fine, afterall Atem will know who we are!"
Marik smiled in agreement "Yes, I don't doubt that"
Later that night Yugi stayed up a little longer to think things over. He thought about if he were to travel back to ancient Egypt that he would be able to see his friend Atem again. He smiled lightly at that thought, even if he did have to go back to his own time in the end, afterall, he couldn't survive in the past as he was born in a different time.
(Later)
"Joey!"
a yell through the haziness of both Joey's mind and eyes was heard. "Joey! Wake up!"
and with that Joey did wake up, violently, but awake. "Wha!?"
He bashed his head into Tristan's after getting up too fast "Owww!"
they both screamed while holding their heads.
"Well that was graceful..."
Tea joked. Joey frowned at her while rubbing his head still "Don't you know I'm not a graceful kind of guy by now?"
Tea sighed before Yugi interrupted them "Guys we have bigger problems, Marik was right... We have been sent back"
They all looked around as they were just outside of the kingdom market. The rest of the group stood up as they stared at the giant palace in which their friend was within. "well come on! Let's get going so we can see Atem!"
Joey shouted with excitement and determination as he dashed off into the marketplace. Yugi ran after him "Joey! Wait for us!"
As soon as they got far enough inside the marketplace they heard a scream along with a jar dropping, which made them stop in their tracks only to realize that something was different from last time. All of the villagers were staring directly at them, as if they could see them.
"This... doesn't look good"
Joey panicked as he stared right back at the villagers, who seemed to have feared expressions on their faces. "They can see us? But... Why do they look so scared?"
Tea said as she was also feeling a little nervous about the villagers fearful expressions.
Suddenly they heard a familiar voice call out to them "Halt!"
A women yelled out to them as they turned to look in her direction "It's Ishizu!" Tristan smiled with hope in his eyes, but not for very long as the women who was actually named Isis told the gaurds to arrest them. The group was confused and shocked as they were grabbed by the gaurds and bound. "Wait! We're friends of the Pharoah!"
Yugi begged to Isis for their release but Isis didn't seem to budge, instead she was even more mad now then before. "How dare you! First you commit a crime of insulting our king and now you claim to be his friend!? You will surely be punished for your crimes!"
The group panicked but were very confused as well "Crime?"
Yugi questioned, followed by Joey furthering his question "What crimes have we commited? We just got here!"
Isis shouted as she was losing her patience "Silence!" she continued her reply to the gaurds "Bring them to the palace, they will be judged by our king"
End Chapter 1
