Prologue

Lupaka looked up at the sky. He lay upon a beach of silver sand, the black waves crashed into the cliffs with abandon. The young woman beside him gazed at the moon. Her long brown hair still dripping with sea water was tightly plated. She wore a single black shoulder strap dress. A blue sash was tied to the back of the shoulder strap, dropping to her waist before wrapping around her mid section. There it split into two that dangled around he legs. Lupaka wore a pair of black slacks. Draped over the opposite shoulder to the woman he had a deep green sash. His dropped down both sides of his body, tied to the opposite waist before wrapping around his hips. From there his split into three that dangled around his legs.

The woman looked over at him "Lupaka? Are you missing your friend Flipper again?" she asked and he looked over at her.

"Yes and no. I worry. What if the war is lost here? The shadows of the Cyclops shall spread to my home." he said and the woman blinked.

"Your home? I thought this was your home" Lupaka looked at the woman.

"I am not born of this world. I came from the planet Earth." the woman looked at him curiously "here let me tell you. My home. It is a land filed planet with oceans and sea's surrounding them. I came from an island. One day when I was out fishing I was caught in a storm and fell out of my boat. I was drowning, but then, from below something pushed me back to the surface and led me back to shore. A few days later I went to the caverns hidden inside one of the cliff faces. I found a dolphin there. He taught me to speak the language of the sea and to hold my breath under water longer than any other human." Lupaka shifted in the sand and laid down "He taught me to swim like a dolphin. He and I were the best of friends. Then one day many years later a girl, an Ocean Girl, swam into our islands lagoon. She warned me of a disturbance in the ocean and so I went to help. I found a small group of others like her. They were of this world. And so we fought the battle and won. Then they offered to bring me here. I no longer fit in with my own people and Flipper, he had died in battle, so I accepted their offer. I was only nineteen. I am now thirty nine. I was here for five years before the Cyclops and his shadows arrived. Since then I have been fighting."

the woman looked down at him, her eyes tracing over the scars on his body. "Your descendants will find their way to your home if the war spreads to it. They will have your fighting soul." Lupaka closed his eyes imagining his island home.

"If she had not turned from me when I told her I loved her. If she had not turned away from me, I would not have left." the woman nodded and stood.

"And so I shall give your family a blessing and a curse. No female shall your line give birth to. Only men. But fear not, for the submissive's will be able to bear children. BUT only from a dominant counterpart." Lupaka opened his eyes to look at her in disbelief only to find her gone.

"Will wonders never cease" he murmured. Looking down at the water he saw a small boys head appeared above the waves "Aloha my son" the man called and the boy waved erratically. A mark on his wrist glowed for a moment. A mark, Lupaka knew had not been there before

Chapter 1 aka Prologue 2

The Pharaoh Atem looked up as the messenger stumbled and fell to his knees in front of him "my lord! There has been a sighting of something falling from the sky wreathed in fire! It landed in the ocean to the east of here." the Pharaoh frowned.

"And do tell me, why the panic of a simple fallen star?" the Pharaoh's crimson eyes peered down at the messenger with a weary annoyance.

The messenger trembled at his kings feet "My lord. They had it dragged from the water. It was like a miniature Pyramid of a metal we have no knowledge of. They were studying it when..." the messenger swallowed heavily before looking back up at the Pharaoh "It opened my lord. And inside... inside were four young boys submerged in water." the Pharaoh frowned.

"And where are these boys now?" the messenger's trebling subsided at the less hostile tone the Pharaoh had used.

"They are being escorted here my lord." the Pharaoh nodded and gestured for the messenger to follow him.

"Take this message to the High Priest. Then have him meet me." the Pharaoh stated calmly and the messenger ran.

Atem sighed, his closest friends looked at him in worry "What if Pegasus' prediction is right?" Bakura asked brow furrowed in worry.

Marik nodded "he did say a war was coming from a world not our own"

Seth sighed "to bad we've been preparing for an attack from the shadow realm" Atem nodded "Where do you think these 'boys' have come from?"

Atem looked up "I don't know."

A blond boy opened his eyes. He looked about himself. Sand, sand everywhere. It stretched in every direction. Looking up he saw millions of stars. Beside him his three brothers lay sleeping. Their wrists were all bound with rope and they were all gasping for breath. The blond looked at a nearby source of light. A large man sat beside a dying fire. "Excuse me?" the boy called and the man looked up. "could you please give my friends some water?" he asked. The man just looked at him for a few moments. The blond looked at his bound hands. They were tied tightly in front of him. Raising his hands he pointed at himself "Jou."

The man looked at him before speaking in a language the boy did not understand. The blond hung his head. He heard movement but remained still. He felt at his bare neck 'my collar is gone' he thought before looking at the person now kneeling beside him. The man held out a bowl filled with water. Jou smiled. Pointing to himself he shook his head then pointed at the other boys and nodded. The man looked from the blond to the other strange boys.

One, the smallest had tri-coloured hair, the next (in hight order) had a shock of white hair. The third boy, smaller than the blond but larger than the others had similar blond hair, the difference was his was a bronze type wheres the blond that was awake had a golden blond. Nodding he moved over to the boys then looked at the one awake. Jou mimed dipping a finger in the bowl and rubbing it against his lips, then of drinking from it.

The man nodded and copied the actions on the smallest boy. The boy opened his lips as the man rubbed water on them. Tilting the bowl to the boys lips the boy drank, his eyes opening slightly. Jou watched the man tend to each boy. As each opened his eyes Jou noticed their collars were gone. Once all of the boys were awake the man sat back on his heals. Jou reached up and pointed to his bare neck "Collar?" he asked holding his hands out and shrugging his shoulders. The man pointed to his neck and shook his head. Jou sighed. The man pointed towards the horizon and moved his fingers in a walking motion. Jou looked at his brothers who all shrugged. The taller blond looked back at the man and nodded and made a walking movement with his fingers.