Sarah, Emily, and I sat bored waiting for the bell to ring, signaling the end of school. Mr. Good, our band instructor, had dismissed everyone a bit early so we could be ready for the bell, a very unusual occurrence I guaranty. Suddenly a huge crashing sound filled the room and half of the ceiling fell in! Everyone ran screaming out the doors, everyone that is, except us. We sat there frozen in our chairs.
For there, hovered Slifer, the Sky Dragon! But it was not the monster that glued us to our sears; it was the boys atop it. A boy that looked maybe twelve with blond, purple, and black spiky hair, another boy that could have been his twin except he looked way older, maybe eighteen, and a tall boy with sleek brown hair were all standing atop the mighty dragon.
"Do you know where we can find Tanya Peterson, Emily Dickerson, and Sarah Rodriguez?" called the tall blond boy as he examined the mess he and his companions had made. But Emily, Sarah, and I sat mute. I stared up at them thinking "No! This can't be happening! I worked to hard to let this happen!" But I knew that they were both thinking something along the lines of this "This can't be real! They can't be real!" The origin of all these thoughts came from the fact that we knew who these three boys were! They were the characters from Yugioh, one of our favorite TV shows, Yugi, Pharaoh, and Seto!
Finally Emily regained her voice and called "That's us, but, what do you want?" Seto, the tall brown haired one, looked skeptical, but Yugi, the shorter boy with spiky hair, called out "We need you to come with us. We were told by a friend of ours that you could help solve our problem, so hop on." He gestured at Slifer.
Sarah looked at me and shrugged. "What could it hurt?" She said. At this she and Emily began to climb up onto Slifer.
I glanced at her thinking "You have no clue Sarah, but how could you. I can't refuse because it might bring up suspicions so I have no choice." So I too climbed aboard and Slifer took off at hyper speed.
Once Slifer had slowed down Emily called out to Pharaoh "Where are we going?" No response, she tried again, still no response and she was beginning to get really agitated at being ignored. So I tried, but he ignored me too. I looked over at Sarah who called out as well. He ignored her as well. We glared at them for a while then, all at once, we cried out exasperated "PHARAOH!"
Sarah, Emily, and I quickly clamped our hands over our mouths, but it was too late. Pharaoh wheeled around and exclaimed "How do you know my name?" We exchanged glances, we had said too much. Just because we knew them did not mean that they knew us!
"Well?" inquired Pharaoh. "Spill it!" We looked at him flustered. What were we to say? 'Oh, we know all about you. You're a main charter in our favorite TV show.'?
"Yugi a little help here," I whispered desperately, then realizing my mistake I fell silent, blushing, and looked down at the ground.
"Spill it!" yelled Pharaoh "How do you three know our names?"
"Jump!" commanded Sarah as she pushed us off Slifer. We landed with a thud and quickly rolled to our feet.
"How in the world did we survive that?" Emily cried in awe, looking up. Slifer was about fifty yards above us.
"I don't know, but right now we better get out of here!" I lied as I urged them into a run. I looked back and saw that Slifer was gaining on us. I pushed myself to go faster. But despite our efforts Slifer quickly caught up to us, Yugi, Pharaoh, and Seto reached down and grabbed us.
"We won't ask anymore questions until we get to Domino, just don't do that again! OK?" Pharaoh stated, looking shocked. We all nodded and hung on to Slifer as he sped over the ocean on the way to Domino, Japan. We landed in Yugi's yard after about a ten hour trip of silence. But the good thing was that Yugi, Pharaoh, and Seto seemed to have forgotten about questioning us.
Pharaoh held out his Slifer card and Slifer disappeared into it. Then he walked into the game shop that was also Yugi's house and headed upstairs to Yugi's bedroom, where Joey was waiting for us.
We all sat on Yugi's bed and Pharaoh said "Ok here's the problem. There is this guy named Dartz who has been causing a lot of trouble around here. We don't know who he is or where he came from. All we know is that his followers are using something called the Seal of Orichalcos to take people's souls to revive this Leviathan thing that they keep ranting about."
Sarah looked at them and said "Ok that's all fine and dandy but how in the world are we supposed to help? We're just kids! We don't know a thing about this Leviathan thingy!"
Yugi glanced at Pharaoh with a disappointed look in his eyes. "I really thought they could help," he said, and then turning back to us he apologized "I guess Ishizu was wrong. Sorry about dragging you into this."
"We can, and will, help!" I said defiantly "We must...No I must, I am not going to drag you two into this again." I corrected myself looking at Sarah and Emily, sheepishly.
"Well if you think we can help then we'll help, but you're not going into this without us." said Sarah as she and Emily stared at me strangely. I smiled at them and nodded, they had a right to choose for themselves.
We turned back to Yugi and declared "We're in!" Yugi smiled and looked at Pharaoh and Joey who both nodded. They turned back to us smiling "You're on the team." They concluded
"Now wait a minute! They still haven't told us how they knew our names before we told them!" Seto cut in.
"That's right." said Pharaoh as he turned back to us.
"Umm…let's just say you're kind of famous back where we live," Emily explained "And I don't think we are supposed to tell you any more than that. Sorry." Yugi waved it off.
"It doesn't matter anyway." he said. I smiled, grateful for his understanding. At an unspoken signal we all got up and walked out the door, heading to the train station.
