An Ancient Legend
Téa and Emily carefully brought Yugi to the Domino museum. They hoped it would be the last place where those demented duelists would think to look for them. While inside, they noticed that a new Egyptian artifact was on display. The artifact was a pyramid that looked like it was made out of crystal. It was called the Pyramid of Light.
"Look, girls," Yugi was saying. "That blue pyramid looks just like my Millennium Puzzle."
"Yeah, it does," said Emily. "Let's go check it out."
The pyramid wasn't the only thing on display. There was also a sarcophagus containing a mummy. The contents said that it was the body of the Egyptian Lord of the dead: Anubis. Seeing the carcass made Téa feel sick to her stomach. She warned her friends that if they didn't leave, she would vomit. Before following her friends to the next gallery, Emily felt a strange dark presence coming from the mummy. It was faint, so she decided not to worry about it.
When they came to the next room, they saw Yugi's grandfather. "What are you doing here?" Yugi asked.
Solomon took notice of his grandson and said, "Well, it looks like great minds think alike."
"So you came to see the Pyramid of Light too," Emily wondered.
"In all my years of Egyptology, I've never come across this relic before," said Solomon. "It says here that it belonged to an ancient sorcerer who tried to bring about the end of the world."
"Well, I guess it's safe to say his plan didn't work, right?" Yugi asked.
"Legend says a brave pharaoh destroyed him with the mystical Dagger of Fate," explained his grandfather. He led the three friends back to the mummy and showed them the blade. Téa was still feeling sick just by looking at the mummy. Emily saw the Dagger of Fate and wanted to learn more about Anubis and his plans of destruction. She also had a feeling that there was power within the Pyramid of Light. Yugi saw hieroglyphics on the sarcophagus and wondered what they depicted. Solomon translated that the contents read a prophecy saying: "The eye that sees what's yet to come, its vision shall be fulfilled. Unless blinded by events predetermined, thus light and shadows both be killed."
When Solomon finished reading the contents, a dark presence filled the room and the entire area was filled with a blinding white light, causing everyone to lose consciousness.
Unconscious, Yugi began having a strange vision. The first thing he saw was a sort of struggle between the Pyramid of Light and the Millennium Puzzle. After that, he saw himself facing Kaiba in a dreadful Shadow Game and was losing. Kaiba was about to reign victorious until the jackal-headed deity grabbed him by the head and roared, "From the light comes the dark!"
Emily was having a different vision. This one was about the ancient past. She saw her mother battling Anubis in some sort of duel with magic and monsters. She was using the magic of her Millennium Star and Anubis was using the magic of the Pyramid of Light. Emily didn't get to see how the fight ended because Téa was trying to bring her back to her senses.
Yugi and Emily regained consciousness, but were both still a little out of it. Téa figured that much out when she heard them ask their ridiculous requests about her singing lullabies and telling their favorite stories. "We've got bigger problems," Téa told her friends. She alerted them that the mummy had been stolen along with the Pyramid of Light. Emily could still sense the evil presence in the room and had a feeling that this wasn't an ordinary act of thievery.
Yugi remembered his vision. "Téa, Emily, stay here with Grandpa. I have a feeling Kaiba's in danger. I have to warn him."
"Yugi, wait," Emily called.
"Just keep an eye on Grandpa," he told her. "I'll call you."
Solomon started coming back to his senses. "What hit me?"
"Probably whatever broke into the museum," Téa said as she was helping him.
"No, this is terrible," said Solomon.
Emily agreed. "They took the mummy and the Pyramid of Light."
"This is one crime those crooks are going to regret." To explain what he means, Solomon tells the girls, "According to the legend, Anubis vowed that he would one day return from the dead."
Already Emily was having a bad feeling about all this. It made her wonder if her assumptions were true. "You don't think-?"
"Emily, I don't know what to think. Let's just hope that legend is just a legend."
Emily could sense that even her neighbor was worried. She also knew that he wasn't really the right person to be asking questions about all this. She wondered if perhaps her mother might have answers, so she withdrew herself from the world and decided to speak to the woman whose spirit resided within the Millennium Star: Queen Mystery.
Within the Star, the queen felt the ominous force and knew that ancient evil was at large. "I share your fears and concerns, my child. Anubis will return."
"Mother," Emily was asking, "is there anything you can tell me about Anubis and the Pyramid of Light?"
The queen decided to go further into the story Yugi's grandfather was telling before they were attacked. Anubis was a sorcerer skilled with dark magic. Filled with evil and darkness, Anubis would let nothing stand in his way of achieving domination. But as the evil within him grew stronger, his ideal of domination turned into an ideal of destruction. But he knew the story of the battle between the Great Goddess and the Dark Lord and decided that he wanted to be superior even to the magicians who held the powers of the Gods. Anubis sold his heart and soul to the netherworld and became the Lord of the dead. So called because he would send forth his beasts of destruction to destroy any life on Earth and the dead would become his servants and minions and he would rule all.
To help him along the way, the Gods granted Anubis a powerful object called the Pyramid of Light. The queen explains that the Pyramid of Light used to be sacred before Anubis corrupted its magic and used its power for evil. Within the Pyramid was a clash between the forces of light and darkness, shifting the balance between them.
The only thing standing in Anubis' way and preventing his plans from coming to pass were the magicians who held the powers of the Gods. He decided to go after Mystery first and take her as his sacrifice; destroying the Millennium Star and forcing her to pledge fealty to him. Alone, the light of the Millennium Star did not stand a chance against the destructive power of the Pyramid of Light. The pharaoh came to Mystery's rescue and fought against Anubis in a Shadow Game. Yami was Millennia's warrior, but even he remembered that the powers of the Great Goddess alone were no match for Anubis' destructive power. But he was granted a weapon called the Dagger of Fate and used it to pierce Anubis' chest. With his dying breath, the evil entity vowed to return and complete his task.
Yami and Mystery both had a feeling that Anubis was speaking the truth. They also knew that something had to be done about the Pyramid of Light. The queen thought she could use her Millennium Star to purify the evil within, but it was still filled with Anubis' hatred towards his enemies. The pharaoh decided that the best thing to do would be to seal Anubis and the Pyramid of Light together in a tomb far away. Anubis would rule the netherworld until his return.
"Your father saved my life that day," said Mystery. "He also saved my friend before she could even get involved in this."
"You used the Millennium Star," Emily said, recalling her vision. "But you stopped. Was it too much for you?"
"I was desperate and wanted to save myself and stop Anubis," she answered. "I thought I could if I used the Millennium Star. But if I kept going and used every ounce of my strength, he would have won and gotten what he wanted from me." She faces her daughter and continues, "The Millennium Star should only be used as a last resort. There is a chance you will be granted victory, but it will also destroy you along with it. No matter what may happen, Emily, you must not use the Millennium Star."
"But Anubis is back," she protested. "He reawakened and stole the Pyramid of Light."
"I am aware, Emily, but I am begging you as your mother to heed my words. I already lost you once before in Egypt. I can't bear to think about losing you again."
Emily listened to her mother's words and decided that it would be best to do as she said. But she couldn't forget about Yugi. She wondered if meeting up with Kaiba was a scheme set up by Anubis to get them to duel. Either way, her friends were in danger and needed help. "I don't know more about Anubis than you do, so I won't use the Millennium Star," she promised. "But Yugi and Kaiba are in trouble."
Mystery nods in agreement. "You must go with caution, my love."
"I will, Mother," Emily said and returned to the real world. She left the museum with Téa and Solomon and went to find Yugi.