Hello. Ok so the last chapter was pretty boring, not to mention short. But I promise that this one will start to make things very interesting. Oh and sorry it's taken me soooooo long to get this up.

P.S. I don't own Yugioh.

Chapter 3: A New Way to Play

Joey- "Could Kaiba have possibly made his building headquarters any farther away?'

Tea- "Quit complaining. The building is right there."

The Kaiba Corp. building was huge and seemed to tower over every other building in the city. Out front typing away on his laptop was Kaiba's little brother, Mokuba.

Yugi- "Hey Mokuba!"

Mokuba- "Hey Yugi, what brings you to Kaiba Corp.?"

Yugi- "We came to see your brother. We need an I.D. on a mystery duelist."

Mokuba- "Seto's in a meeting right now, but I should be able to help you."

Joey- "Cool."

Mokuba- "Ok. When was his last duel, and who was it with?"

Joey- "His last duel was about an hour ago, and I was his last opponent."

Mokuba- "Ok. Hold on a sec, and the computer should bring up the stats on your last duel and we'll go from there."

The gang waited for a while, until Mokuba's computer gave a little ring.

Mokuba- "Well that's strange."

Yugi- "What?"

Mokuba- "I have the readout of 'Joey's last duel, but his opponent's name or stats don't appear. I can't figure out who he is."

Tea- "Don't you have any idea who he is?"

Mokuba- "No, there are too many people using duel disks to identify one person, because there stats don't show up."

Joey- "I wonder if there could be something wrong with his duel disk?"

Mokuba- "Why do you say that?"

Joey- "Well when he played a card, it looked like his duel disk had a big crack right in the middle of it."

Mokuba- "Why didn't you say so before?"

Joey- "I didn't think it was that important."

Mokuba- "No wonder he didn't show up!"

Tea- "Why?"

Mokuba- "Because he's not a duelist like Joey or Yugi.

Joey- "Hey wait a minute! How can someone wear a duel disk and not be a duelist?"

Tea, sarcastically- "You're a perfect example."

Joey- "Watch it."

Mokuba- "Well he is a duelist in a way. See Seto hired some people for the Battle City tournament to participate as Fusionists."

Tristan- "Oooook. You've lost me."

Mokuba- "See Fusionists would normally duel like you or me, until they draw their fusion card, once they do that, they must discard their entire hand and imeadatly play their fusion card. That activates the extra set of hologram projectors that display the card's form on the Fusionist, allowing them to 'fuse' with a card and enhance its abilities and vise versa."

Yugi- "Hold on that doesn't seem fair. If the duel goes on long enough, the fusionist would win because they still have half their deck, while we run out of cards."

Mokuba- "That's one of their duel disks special features. Once the hologram projectors are activated, their duel disk automatically discards one card per turn."

Joey- "But what about monsters And magic cards that have already been played?"

Mokuba- "They can still control those as well."

Tea- "You still haven't told us who this guy is yet."

Mokuba- "Oh yeah, Let's see.... Hmmm. Well that's not good."

Tristan- "What?"

Mokuba- "His duel disk I.D.'s him as Ace Cooper, and if I were you Yugi, I would seriously rethink about dueling this guy."

Yugi- "Why?"

Mokuba- "Because he ranks number one in the world as a fusionist, not to mention his fusion card is literally unstoppable."

Joey- "Well what is his so called unstoppable card?"

Mokuba- "It's called the Guardian of the Crest. It has so many different abilities, that it's almost impossible to list them all."

Tristan- "Hey wait a minute! Isn't he the same guy that won the World Martial Arts Tournament 15 years in a row?"

Joey- "Yeah! He set a new record!"

Tea looked over at Yugi who was lost deep in thought.

Tea- "Hey Yugi? Are you ok?"

Yugi- "Yeah. I'm just thinking. Hey thanks for the info Mokuba!"

Mokuba- "Anytime Yugi! And good luck! (Mumbling) You'll need it."

As Yugi and the gang were walking back towards the Game shop, Yugi seemed lost in his own head. Then from nowhere, came a soft and distant tune. It was faint at first, but seemed to grow louder as it settled around them. All of a sudden, Yugi took off in the direction that he thought the tune was coming from. It was almost as if he was being drawn towards it. As he was running, Yami made an appearance.

Yami- "So you heard it to?"

Yugi- "Yeah. I know this may sound erie, but I feel like I've heard that tune before."

Yami- "So have I. And it sounds like it's coming from up ahead."

Sure enough, as they drew closer to a small alleyway that tune grew louder.

Yami- "Yugi let me take over, at least until we know what's going on."

Yugi- "Alright. But just for now."

With a flash of the puzzle, Yami stood at the threshold of the alleyway, and cautiously peered around the corner. What he saw couldn't have been any further than from what he expected.

The scene that met his eyes was a joyous one. Two small children stood dancing around a younger man. He was roughly 5'11", and built like a tank. He wore a pair of blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and a shabby blue jean jacket. His long blue-black hair was tied back into a pony tail, that wisped about his shoulders. But what really caught Yami's attention was his eyes. They were the most radiant color of sky blue that seemed to cast its own light. But the expression they held was like none other. They were filled with laughter and joy, and at the same time were sad and longing, as if he hadn't a friend in the world.

Boy-"Hey Ace, swing us again!"

Girl-"Yeah! That was fun!"

Man-" Do two ever tire out?!"

But in the end he grabbed the two playful youngsters and was spinning them around in circles until they were all laughing so hard that they could barley stand.

Man-" Alright you two settle down. Your mother will be home any minute now."

He gently stooped down and took the two kids into his arms. He walked over to a rather shabby shack and set the two on to a rickety old porch swing, and covered them up with a large quilt. The little girl looked sleepily up at the young man.

Girl, yawning-"Will you play us that song one more time?"

Man-"Sure."

With that he pulled out a small, round, wooden flute and began playing the same tune that had drawn Yugi and Yami here in the first place. Just then Joey and the others came running up.

Joey-"Hey! What's the big idea running off like that and leaving us behind?"

Yami-"Shhhhh. Joey, do recognize him?"

Joey-"Hey yeah! That's that Ace Cooper guy!"

Yami-" I thought so."

Tea-" You have to be kidding me. He looks too sweet to be the same guy that shook Mokuba up so badly"

Yami-" Looks can be deceiving, but right now I think I've seen enough."

Joey-"I hear that! I'll see you guys tomorrow! Meet me by the fountain! "

Tristan-" Sounds good. Well, I'd better get going too. See ya."

Tea-"Bye Tristan. Huh? Yugi? Are you ok?"

Yami was still staring at Ace. There was just something about him that the more Yami tried to remember the more he forgot.

Tea-"Yugi?"

Yugi switched back so as not to worry Tea. Yugi turned around and smiled.

Yugi-"I'm fine. We'd better get home before it gets too dark."

Tea-"Alright, but are you going to be ok?"

Yugi-"Yeah, I'm just a little nervous is all. I'll see you tomorrow!"

Ok, so it's still not the best, but this is my first fic. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading this!

(More dueling in the next chap!)

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