Chapter 1
The Return
It was two weeks after Alumos came to Domino that Joey met him. When Joey saw Alumos he couldn't believe that he looked so much like Atem did. He like the others had thought that once Yugi defeated the pharaoh that they would be able to hang out and be normal kids but now he wasn't so sure. There was something about the guy that made him think that all the battles that they had been in over the past five years had been nothing compared to what was about to happen. He hoped that what he had seen in his dreams lately were just nightmares but with this new guy he was beginning to think that they weren't.
However Joey knew that he wouldn't find out what was going on until he found out who the kid was. So after the duel Joey walked over to him and asked if he wanted another challenge.
"Um actually I'm worn out." said Alumos "That was my fifth duel in a row."
"Wow there are only two or three people I know that can do that." said Joey.
"Really?"
"Yeah and I'm one of them. Second best in the Duelist Kingdom tournament and fourth in-"
"Battle City." Alumos interrupted as something came back to him. He knew this guy. But he didn't know from where and he hated it. "You're Joey Wheeler."
"Yeah how did you know me?" asked Joey
"Honestly I don't know." said Alumos. "The only faces I know are Yugi Moto and now yours."
"You have no memory?" asked Joey as he remembered telling Yugi his dream and Yugi explaining what was going on just before he met Alumos.
"Not since I woke up in the hospital two years ago." said Alumos
"T-Two years ago?" asked Joey shocked. That was how long it had been since Yugi and Atem's duel 'Could it be? Could this guy really be Atem?'
"Yeah they said I had an accident and I lost my memory except for my name and Yugi's face." said Alumos. "To be honest I didn't even know Yugi's name until I looked on the World Dueling Rank."
"So what is your name?" asked Joey
"Alumos Toshiro." he said and Joey couldn't believe it. That was the name Yugi told him was in his dream. Now that he thought about it Yugi told him that Alumos was the same person that was in Joey's own dream when Joey told his best friend about his dream.
Joey looked over at Alumos and decided that there was one way to find out what was really going on. "I think you need to meet Yugi."
"You know him?"
"Yeah he's my best friend." said Joey
"Are you serious?" asked Alumos and he smiled. He had a feeling that his journey was just about at and end.
"Yeah come on." said Joey and the two started to the game shop. While they were walking Joey was thinking about the dream that he had right before he had come down where Battle City was at. He was sure that Alumos had something to do with what they were about to face but he wasn't sure that he really wanted to know what it was. Though he had a feeling he was about to find out more than he wanted to know.
As Alumos walked beside Joey they would run into people that Joey knew and people that Alumos almost knew. Just then they heard a shout and the turned to see a blonde girl running up to them. Like everyone else that they had seen that day Alumos knew her face but didn't know where he met her.
"It's good to see you Mai." said Joey as he hugged her.
"You too Joey. So who's this? He looks a lot like Yugi."
"It's a long story Mai. Listen Sis is in town and I know she would want to see you." Joey told her and Alumos was thankful that she took Joey's hint and didn't ask any more questions about him.
"Okay but call me later." she said.
"Will do." said Joey and they went their separate ways.
"Who was that?" asked Alumos for like the hundredth time and Joey, was starting to believe more and more that this kid really was the Pharaoh. The way he asked who most of the people that Joey met in Duelist Kingdom and Battle City Yugi and Atem met with him and Alumos seemed like he knew them but didn't.
"That was my girlfriend Mai Valentine." said Joey and like before with Joey Alumos knew the name and the place where he had met her. It was on Duelist Kingdom where he and… then he lost it and sighed aggravated.
Joey heard his sighed and turned to him. "What is it?"
"I thought that I had remembered something, but it was nothing." said Alumos
"It's okay. I'm sure you can remember. One of my friends went through the same thing five years ago." said Joey thinking that if he really was Atem that might register something.
"Really?" asked Alumos and for some reason he felt that he knew about that but didn't know why.
"Yeah but he got them back three years later, then he disappeared."
"Two years ago…" said Alumos slowly. It was starting to come together. Two years ago Alumos woke in the hospital from an accident. Two years ago when their friend regained his memory and then disappeared. Could it be that he was the guy that Joey was talking about.
"Come on let's go see Yugi." said Joey noticing the look on Alumos's face and Alumos agreed.
Yugi walked down the stairs as he heard someone come into the shop. Since his grandfather was ill he was running it in his spare time. When he looked up he saw Joey with a guy that almost made his heart stop. It was the guy from his dream, Alumos Toshiro. "Joey…"
"Yugi… this is Alumos Toshiro. I met him down where Battle City was."
"Alumos Toshiro?"
"Yeah um… I was wondering if you could help me." said Alumos
"What do you mean?" asked Yugi
"For the last two years I've had no memory except for your face."
"Two years ago? The same time Atem left." said Yugi.
"Atem?"
"One of my friends." said Yugi. "And my brother."
"What?!" asked Joey shocked "Yug you never said anything about Atem being your brother!"
"I just recently found out that the reason I was the only one to complete the puzzle was because I was the first person to complete it back in Egypt." said Yugi
"So you were his brother?" asked Joey noticing how Alumos was beginning to recall something.
"Yeah." said Yugi. "I just wish I had known beforehand."
"I think that's why I'm here." said Alumos "For some reason I know everything you just said."
"So do you know Atem?" asked Yugi hoping that he was right in thinking who this guy was
"No I don't think so but I don't remember much of anything.
"Why don't you stay here for a while?" asked Yugi
"Really?"
"Yeah." said Yugi and he led Alumos to the guest room. Then he called to Joey "Joey can you hold on? I want to talk to you."
"Okay." said Joey and he sat down.
Later that evening Yugi had called Marik and his sister. Yugi told them everything that had happened including his and Joey's dreams. Then all he heard was silence on the other end. "You there?"
'Yugi this is something that was in ancient text that not ever we could decipher before your duel with the pharaoh.'
"What do you mean?"
'There's a legend that spoke of two brothers from ancient times. Then it said that the two brothers were separated by the passage of time and that the youngest, who was the strongest of the two was to bring the two brothers together again.' said Marik over the phone. 'Yugi Ishizu Odion and I believe that it was you and the pharaoh.'
"Marik do you know his true name?"
'No like with the Pharaoh the image is too defaced to make it out.' said Marik. 'We're coming in something isn't right and I can't sit by and do nothing.'
"Thanks Malik." said Yugi using the mage's true name and he hung up the phone then he turned to Joey "Dude I think we have a problem."
