Author's Note: Hello new and old readers. Due to me pulling down one of my stories for a rewrite, I am now posting this one in its place for three reasons: my own amusement, to keep my number of stories the same, and to finish up the three big anime of my childhood (Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh).
Also, to add a bit more to this story: Mew will not have Deus-ex-Hear-of-the-Cards to save her. Each duel will actually be played using YGOPRO, so victory is no longer set as a sure thing. On a side note, due to some character's decks have 'missing' cards since we never seen all 40, I am using what I can find online for them.
Just by spell cards alone, Jaden has over 40 cards in his deck due to Plot Armor. Well boys and girls, your Plot Armor is now all gone.
Chapter 1: New Friends
(Mysterious Person)
Deep underground, rested a ruined chamber sealed off from the rest of the world. There were no lights, no sound, and even the air in the chamber had grown stale. There was nothing… nothing except him and his thoughts.
It wasn't like he had much of a choice in trying to leave. With thousands of pounds of sand and stone above him, there was no real chance of someone discovering him and taking him away from this nothingness.
'I am truly at my lowest,' He bitterly thought to himself. 'I failed to kill that Anubis damned Pharaoh, and his Anubis damned God Cards! And now I am stuck in his very chamber to spend the next few millennia waiting in darkness.'
If he had a voice, he would have yelled at all of the Gods for putting him here and not allowing him his rightful vengeance. But no, instead they take his most powerful spirit, striping him of nearly all his powers. And just to add insult to injury, he had to watch as the Pharaoh pass on into the next life to become the King of the Spirit World!
With the Pharaoh ruling in the next life, he now had no way to get his revenge on the Royal Family for killing his entire village for power. The same power that allowed the Royal Family to lord over everyone else, but damned the souls of so many others.
'If that is what awaits me in the next life, I have no intention on dying anytime soon,' He darkly thought. 'Gods… I could really go for some roasted pig right now.' He idly added, seeing as how he had nothing but a few thousand years to curse the Pharaoh's name.
There was nothing to do, nothing to see, nothing to feel. Even time seemed meaningless as he had no way to tell the passage of time here, so for all he knew it could have been simply hours to years since his defeat. All he could do was-
'What was that?' He suddenly stopped, something seemed off in the nothingness. It started small, but gradual grew. He could feel the ground he was resting on begin to rumble and shake, moving him slightly with it. 'An earthquake?' He wondered as he mused the chances of him being further buried to the chamber being revealed to the world if a crack appeared.
Suddenly the chamber was flooded from light, but it wasn't from the ceiling like he thought it was going to come from, but from further down the chamber's wall and out of his sight.
'Damn,' He swore at his continued bad luck. 'At least I can see again… Yeah, I can see ruins… A wall… A rock… Another rock.' He cynically thought. 'Why did I miss seeing this?'
And just as the light and the rumbling suddenly appear, it all stopped and darkness quickly returned to consume all of the sights that he was 'so happy' to see again. Not like anything changed since he last saw it.
'And once again, I have nothing,' He thought as he set back into his previous mindset of cursing the Pharaoh and the Gods. 'I hope you choke on those grapes your servants are feeding you. I hope your snakes bite your- Gah!'
He mentally shouted as light suddenly reappeared in front of him, but that wasn't what surprised him. What surprised him was that the light revealed some… thing with big blue eyes and pink fur only inches away from him.
xXx
(Mew)
When Mew exited the portal leading to an entirely new dimension she was… disappointed. She found herself in a half-destroyed stone room, with the other half that wasn't destroyed was cluttered by the pieces of the destroyed half.
'Not really what I expected to be my first sight in this new world,' Mew sweatdropped. She ripped open a hole in space and time, and found ruined room. 'I was expecting a more scenic view.' She thought as she gazed over the room. 'Does anyone actually live around here?'
With that question in mind, she pushed out her senses to pick up any forms of life. And much to her surprise, there was something indeed living in this place. Or rather, it felt more like a ghost type un-living in this room.
Closing the portal behind her also eliminated all of the light in the room, but she didn't need to see in order to slightly glide over to the spirit. After moment, she found herself hovering over what she sensed and landed softly infront of it.
Using a Flash, she lit up the area around her so that she could get a better look at what she found.
Laying on the ground in front of her was a half-buried golden ring, with a triangle that held an odd looking eye in the middle. Around the bottom half of the ring was three spikes, possibly more buried, hanging off the ring, and the top half of the ring had a smaller ring.
'A living item?' Mew questioned, her mind thinking of Yamask and Rotom due to the ghostly feel of the item. 'But why is it here all alone?' She wondered. When she pushed out her sense, she knew for a fact they were not near anything to a good long while.
Mew continued to look at the Ring, as she called it in her mind, waiting for it to do something. After several moments of nothing happening, she decided to start first. Reaching out with her mind, she felt the spirit in the ring and pushed her words forward.
'Hello Ring Ghost' Mew's voice called out inside the Ring, she could fell the spirit's shock at this. 'Sorry to break into your… home? But I am rather new around here, so… where am I?' She asked, and waited for the Ring to respond this time.
'I… I am the spirit of the Millennium Ring,' The Ring hesitated a moment before it's voice came out smoothly. 'And you are currently standing in the resting place of the final Pharaoh of the Horrid Royal Family.' He spat Royal Family's name in distain.
'Bad Royalty?' Mew summed up and nodded her head. 'I've seen some rather bad rulers in my time as well, and many others trying to make themselves Kings of the such and such. I'm guessing that they are the reason why you are currently here, instead of anywhere else?' She asked.
'Exactly,' The Ring's voice was cold, Mew could feel it's hatred towards the Royalty. 'The Pharaoh put me in here after he defeated me, and stopped my revenge upon his entire family.'
'Revenge?' Mew echoed the word, a frown on her face. 'What did this 'Pharaoh' do that made you want revenge on him?'
The Ring was silent for a few moments, but Mew felt a flood of emotions go through the Ring; Anger, Sadness, Joy, Vengeance, and many others that remained underneath the other emotions.
'Never mind,' Mew stated, feeling that whatever the Royalty did to him bothered him greatly.
'It matters not,' The Ring finally spoke again, his voice still cold. 'The last of the Royal Family is gone, but I am still here.' He stated, like it was some kind of victory to outlast them.
'I'm rather new to this dimension, so can you tell me where 'here' is?' Mew asked, trying to move away from the Ring's troubled past. 'From what I can tell, we are rather deep underground. No life nearby in any general direction.' She added, looking around the room.
'We are currently in Egypt,' The Ring stated, Mew could feel it's curiosity after she mentioned 'dimension'. 'But I am guessing that means nothing to you, since you don't know what that is.'
'Nope,' Mew replied light heartedly.
'Very well then,' The Ring's voice went back to its smoother tone. 'Since you are in the need of a guide I will tell you everything you need to know. You may call me Bakura, The Thief King.' He stated his title with pride that was very hard to miss.
'Thief King,' Mew echoed in amusement, a smile on her face. 'Well then your majesty, you may call me Mew, the Phantom Pokemon.' She gave a mock bow.
xXx
(Few hours later) (Bakura)
Bakura was quite enjoying himself right now. He had found that he quite enjoyed Mew's rather odd mindset, or maybe he was just happy to have someone to talk to in who knows how long. He told her a rather edited version of his past, along with the rules of how this world worked, but when he got to the Duel Monsters is when she got very interested.
She began to add bits and pieces to his story, with some of her knowledge back from wherever she came from. He told her of their monsters, and she would in turn tell him of her monsters and it was quite surprising the similarities between the two.
Humans had created a method to capture a race of powerful monsters, some even considered gods, and used them to battle one another for money, prizes, food, ect. And while these monsters were at one point used to wage entire wars, they were eventually put on the level where it was expected that every ten-year-old should have them…
When Bakura finished telling Mew his story, he began to question her, trying to get every bit of information he could out of her. It was with these questions, that Mew had gained his annoyed respect.
Not because of what she told him, but because of how little she actually did. She would talk into circles, give very little information, or just say things that went beyond his head without explaining what it meant.
There were only a few key details that he was able to get out of her, even though he knew she only said what she wanted him to know, much like he did to her.
One: She was one of the monsters back in her home dimension, but wouldn't say if she was one of the stronger ones or weaker ones.
Two: She was equal parts clueless as she was manipulative. He could trick her to do a lot of things due to her cluelessness, but she could just as easily turn everything around on him.
Three: She lived up to the name Phantom.
Bakura would have given a dozen good men to have someone with a fraction of the powers that Mew has already shown him. He already figured out she could get into people minds, that was a given. But that was something he could get Millennium Eye to do.
No, what he was talking about was two things. The first being how she managed to get them out of his damnable tomb; Teleportation. With something as simple as that, he could have stolen so much and gotten away in a blink of an eye. You just need a clear image of where you were want to be, and then you were there.
The second power, was one that every thief wanted. The ability to blend into any crowd. The ability to be anyone. The ability of Shapeshifting!
With a few words, and a brief mental image of a location, Bakura was about to use both for a small bit of revenge.
XxX
(Domino City) (Mew)
"Are you sure this blends in?" Mew asked as she walked down the street. She was going to go as her usual human disguise, but Bakura poked a lot of holes in how much she was going to stand out if she did. "I mean, is white hair that common?"
Currently Mew was disguised as a 14-year-old girl, with long white-blue hair that seemed to spike a bit at points. She was wearing a light grey sweater with a deep V-neck, showing a white collared shirt underneath, which was buttoned all the way up and a black bow around her neck. She also wore a black skirt with a white line around the ends of it alone with a pair of black shoes. Her eyes no longer showed the usually bright blue, but instead were mint-green.
'More common than pink' Bakura told her, his ring hidden was hanging around her neck, but it was underneath the shirt and the string was covered up by the bow. Mew could already tell that Bakura was grinning by his voice alone.
Mew sighed at the loss of her pinkness, but listened anyway. Mew continued to walk towards the location Bakura told her about, occasionally bumping into people on the busy city sidewalk she was on. She could hear him grumble about how annoyingly crowded this city was.
After a few minutes of being jostled by the people, she was finally able to pull off the sidewalk and into a more open area.
Infront of her was a rather small yellow building with a green roof, and the word GAME above the front door in red.
"So this is the place?" Mew asked, looking over the small store.
'Yes, this is the place,' Bakura confirmed, hiding his contempt for this place, and the one who calls this place home. 'This is where we are going to make your deck, so you can participate in Duel Monsters. Now we are either going to need to either steal the cards now or… what are you doing?' He asked, noticing Mew was reaching into her sweater's sleeve.
"What?" Mew asked as she pulled out a few wallets from her sleeve and began to pull out the money before throwing them away. Pausing for her actions, she looked down to where Bakura was. "Um… Was I not supposed to do that?" She asked.
After a moment, she got her answer in the form of loud laughter, so she continued to go through the rest of the wallets she stole.
'By Ra, I have spent too much time around goody-goodies,' Bakura laughed, now realizing that the crowed wasn't bumping into her, but she was bumping into crowd to pickpocket them. 'I should have noticed what you were doing, but it was been so long since I've seen anyone do it!'
"Glad you like it," Mew smiled, happy that Bakura approved.
After she threw away the last of the wallets into a nearby trashcan, she pulled out a digital camera she also stolen and hung it around her neck.
"Just in case," She added before Bakura could question her, stuffing her wad of cash into the sleeve.
Walking inside the store, she could see a wide variety of games. Board games, card games, dice games, and single beat up game that said Dungeon Dice Monsters. But a majority of the space was filled with what she was here for, Duel Monster Cards.
Walking over to the glass case, Mew looked over the cards and quickly attracted to all of the images on the cards. Her eyes flickered over the many monster cards, trap cards, and spell cards. Her mind busy working out how each one might work when paired with another.
"Hello and welcome to Kame Game," A short old man suddenly appeared behind the counter, surprising Mew, she didn't see him when she walked in. "Looking for anything in particular?" He asked.
"Um…" Mew blinked a few times to recover before nodding her head. "I'm looking to make a deck."
"Oh, what kind of deck are you looking for?" The old man asked as he motioned towards other sets of cards. "Booster Packs? Starter Deck? Or are you looking to custom make yours from my large selection."
Mew blinked at the onslaught of new words.
"Oh, sorry," The Old Man scratched the back of his head. "Guess I kinda overwhelmed you, youngling?" He asked, but never waited for an answer as he motioned for her to follow him. "I see a lot of potential in you, so how about I make a deal with you. You buy two Started Decks, and I will throw in a Booster for free?"
The Old Man was already placing the decks and a Booster Pack on the table.
Mew didn't know what was going on, and Bakura's laughter at her discomfort wasn't helping either.
"Gramps, I'm home!" A voice called out from the front door. Mew turned to look in hopes to get the Old Man away from her and saw a kid… with the weirdest hair she has ever seen. The kid had big spiking hair that in no way normal with it's black, red and yellow colors.
The two of them saw each other, and the weird hair boy froze. Bakura's laugher likewise stopped dead at the sight of the boy.
"Bakura?" He asked her, stunned for a moment before shaking his head and looking at her and giving her a weak smile. "Oh, sorry about that. You looked like someone I knew," He apologized, noticing that the he was actually a she.
Mew opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off before she could make a sound.
"Ah Yugi, my boy," The Old Man called out happily. "I was just helping a customer try and make a new deck."
Yugi looked at Mew, and could tell that she needed help, but not making a deck.
"How about I help her out Gramps?" Yugi offered, and much to Mew's relief the Old Man nodded his head in agreement.
"Good to see you are taking an interest in the shop Yugi," He said proudly before he disappeared into a back room, both of the only living people in the room sweatdropped.
"Is he…?" Mew left the question hanging, not wanting to seem rude as Yugi walked behind the counter.
"Yeah, sorry about him," He apologized as he put back the stuff the Old Man took out. "Do you know what you are looking for?" Yugi asked, and actually waited for a response.
'Thank Arceus,' Mew thought to herself as she nodded her head to his question.
"Kinda, my older brother taught me… but I'm still not as good as him. Do you think you can help?" Mew scratched the back of her head, she could feel Bakura smiling since she admitted he was better.
"Sure," Yugi smiled "Is your brother a good duelist?" He asked as he picked out some cards for Mew to see.
"Yep, he is one of the best," Mew nodded her head happily. "I heard he once dueled the King of Games and almost won." She added.
"Are you and your brother going to try out for the Duel Academy?" Yugi quickly asked, seeing as how she didn't know who he was. It was kinda refreshing to have someone not know who he is.
"Duel Academy?" Mew asked, Bakura was equally curious about it as well.
"Yeah, Kaiba had set up a school for duelist," Yugi explained, reaching below a counter to the side and handed her a filer. "You might want to try out, and see if you can get in." He suggested as he put her new deck on the counter.
"That seems like fun," Mew said as she took the flier. "Do you guys have duel disk as well? I need to get one for me and my brother." She then asked as she looked over the flier for information.
"Yeah, there in the back," Yugi nodded as he moved to leave. "I'll be right back." He sent her a smile before closing the door behind him.
'So that was Yugi?' Mew asked, remembering him from Bakura's story. 'He was the boy the Pharaoh possessed to become the King of Games?'
'Yes, that was him,' Bakura confirmed, restrained anger in his voice. 'The Pharaoh's cheating little helper. Yugi starts the duel, but the Pharaoh will the one playing and winning it every single time.'
'Well-'
"Here we go, two duel disk," Yugi pushed open the door, walking in with duel disk. "Sorry, but they are kinda used." He meekly apologized as he put them on the counter.
"That's fine," Mew smiled as she pulled out her money and paid him. "Yugi, are you a good duelist?" She suddenly asked, catching Yugi off guard.
"I'm an above average duelist," Yugi nervously laughed, his lie easily seen.
"Well, when I get back from the Duel Academy, how about a duel?" Mew asked as she held out her hand. "You helped me make my first deck, so it is only fair you see it when it becomes a professional one."
"Yeah… I'll like that," Yugi took the hand and they shook to one-day duel.
"Yes! I got my first rival!" Mew cheered, causing Yugi to laugh. Suddenly Yugi found himself pulled as Mew set down her camera and set the timer. "A promise and a picture to never forget."
Flash.
XxX
(Night)
'This the place?' Mew asked as she stood on the side of an apartment building. Since she no longer needed to look human, she was currently scaling the wall as a Ninjask, circling around one window in particular.
'Yes, this is the one,' Bakura confirmed as they looked over the building, checking for anyone nearby who might witness them. Since Mew was out of human form, they had tightened the ring around her neck to the point it would be almost a collar and not fall off as easily.
Using one of her longer front legs, she positioned her arm near the center of the window and used a quick Cut to slice the window's lock in half. With the lock gone, she skittered down to the base of the window and lifted it up so she could slip in.
'It will be the first door in the left hallway,' Bakura told her, and she was quick to follow the order further into the apartment. Reaching the door, Mew quickly flew up and turned the doorknob and pushed it open with her wings.
Checking out the room, Mew found herself in someone's bedroom, with the resident currently asleep in the bed.
'So where is it?' Mew asked as she walked up the door and hopped onto the ceiling to get a birds-eye-view of the situation. She was honestly enjoying the whole situation; it had been a long time since she was actually stolen not in the midst of battle.
Bakura was silent for a moment as he too surveyed the room, his eyes quickly zeroing on the objective.
'Right side, underneath the desk's chair.' He stated quickly, as Mew jumped off the ceiling and used her wings to glide down.
Once Mew was on the ground, she went underneath the desk and found what they were looking for; a Duel Disk with a deck still inside.
Using her leg, she took the top card from the deck so that Bakura could see it.
'Yes, this is it,' Bakura said, holding back his excitement that they found it. 'Take it and let's go. We have my deck back.'
