The next day Dai was feeling much better and the Key Keepers found their keys and their lives were continuing on as usual.
"You all know Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba as Dueling Legends, far in the way the very best of their generation." Banner said as he pointed out pictures of the two men that their children had provided instead of the cartoon sketches he was going to use.
"And best looking, too." A girl said.
"They're total dream boats." Another girl said.
"I like Mai Valentine." A boy said.
"But you do realize class, that there were other great duellists well before all of them." Banner said.
"How is that, Prof? I mean, Duel Monsters hasn't been around all that long." Jaden said.
"Guess you were asleep during that class, Jaden. They used to play back in ancient Egypt." Syrus said.
"Yeah, in Shadow Games. Remember, they used the Millennium Items for it." Dai said.
"That's right and one of the best way back in those days was a powerful Pharaoh named-"Banner was cut off.
"Atem?" the cousins asked.
"No, Abidos the 3rd. Abidos was undefeated." The man said showing them a rough sketch of the man who wore a mask that had the Eye of Horus on it.
"Undefeated? That's so sweet. He must have been something else. Of course, it's a good thing he's not around today because that undefeated record would go adios." Jaden said.
"Sure it would, Slacker. And then you'd probably take down Yugi and Kaiba too." Chazz said smirking.
If Jaden did manage to beat his Uncle Yugi and father Seto in a duel, he would make both males insanely proud of him as he became the next King of Games.
"You think? Well, thanks. I had no idea you believed in me so much, Chazz." The child of Darkness smiled making the Raven Slifer grit his teeth.
"It's sarcasm, got that?" he asked with his hands raised, twitching to grab on to something.
"Yeah, sure. But if you wanna change you name, Chazz, you can do a lot better than Sarcasm." Jaden said crossing his arms behind his head.
Dai laughed at that, but it sounded a little weak since she still had a clogged throat from her fever.
"You know what I mean!" Chazz said grabbing Jaden's head making him laugh as the two struggled.
"Hey, come on guys. You're gonna check us in trouble." Syrus said.
"Chill out, really." Dai said as she leaned her head on the table to watch them.
The two boys separated soon after.
"Wanna see trouble?" Chazz asked pulling at Jaden's ears.
"Fine. How about this?" he said as the brunette cried out.
"Guys, he's gonna hear us." Syrus chuckled.
"And Rena's gonna kill ya." The child of Miracles said.
"Well, I certainly did hear you." Banner said.
"You can continue in detention." He said.
"Aw, man. 5th time this week." The bluenette groaned sadly.
(That night…)
"I spend more time in detention than I do in class. My mom's not gonna be happy." Syrus said.
He, Dai, Jaden, Chazz, Renamon and Flamedramon were walking together outside in the cool, refreshing night.
"Just blame Sarcasm." Jaden said.
"OK, the joke's old." Chazz yelled trying to strangle Jaden, but Renamon caught him and held him up by his collar.
"What do you think you're doing, Mr. Princeton?" she asked.
"Put me down you fur ball!" he yelled as the others laughed at his misfortune.
"At least things can't get worse." Syrus said.
Dai and Flamedramon then sent him a glare as the sound of a girl screaming filled the air.
"What was that?" Jaden asked.
The group all went to the edge of the cliff that over looked the light house to see what was wrong.
They saw mummies bursting out of the ground, cornering the Kaiser and Obelisk Queen.
"Mummies? Really? Been there, done that." Dai said.
"Alexis!" Jaden called.
"Zane!" Chazz yelled.
"Mummies?" Syrus asked.
"Flamedramon." Dai said.
"Renamon." Jaden said.
The two digimon nodded as they grabbed their partners and jumped down to the lighthouse with them in their arms.
They landed in front of Zane and Alexis, cutting off the three mummies as Chazz and Syrus found their own way down.
"Give us the Spirit Key." One of the mummies said.
There was yelling and the group looked up to see more had appeared in front of Syrus and Chazz.
"Renamon, digivolve now!" Jaden called holding out his D-3.
"Renamon digivolve too…KYUUBIMON!"
Jaden mounted his fox and went off to help out the other two Slifers while Dai stayed behind.
"Flamedramon, barbeque these guys." She said.
The dragon jumped into the air and was covered in flames as he then charged the mummies, knocking them back as they all slowly burned.
Kyuubimon could be seen using her Dragon Wheel, the dragon shaped blue flames burning the mummies up there as well.
"Thanks for the help." Alexis said.
"What's that?" Zane asked looking up at the sky.
Gold light shined down making everyone look up to see some sort of ship descending from the sky with a barrier over the top.
"Duellists, I have come for you." A flamboyant male voice said.
The lights then became blinding, making everyone cover their eyes as they soon blacked out.
Dai and Jaden both woke up at the same time, finding themselves in the arms of Flamedramon and curled up in the tails of Kyuubimon.
"Welcome back, you two." Zane said.
The cousins looked over to see that he, Syrus, Chazz and Banner was there with his cat.
"What the-? Professor?" Jaden asked.
"Those mummies found me and brought me here. That Spirit Key that I had must have led them to me." Banner said.
"Yes, that must be how I found all of us." Zane said.
The sound of a gong being hit made them all look over to where it had come from to see what was happening.
Looking over, they saw a man dressed like a Pharaoh was sitting in a throne with a mask on and his soldiers standing around him.
"Hello there." He greeted the students and teacher, who was the only one that freaked out.
"What's wrong with him?" Syrus asked seeing the man on the floor.
"I don't know. Looks like he's seen a ghost." Chazz said.
"This is why children are chosen to save the world." Flamedramon said.
"What's this?" the Pharaoh asked standing up as Jaden and Kyuubimon both got up on the stage.
"Jaden!" Everyone cried.
"Hey, what's the big idea?" the child of Darkness asked.
"That's not how one should address an Egyptian Pharaoh." The man said as she walked forward.
"Egyptian Pharaoh?" Jaden asked.
"He looks just like the picture Banner showed us in class today." Chazz said.
"Abidos." Alexis said.
"You'd make a fine palace girl, my beautiful doll." Abidos said looking at the blonde.
"The name's Alexis, you masked weirdo. What's going on?" the blonde asked.
"It's a Shadow Rider. After those Sacred Beasts like the rest." Zane said.
"It seems like the punk's got us out numbered." Chazz said.
"That's right, so just leave your keys and walk away. You don't want to duel me." Abidos said.
"I do! Over here! Please pick me! Come on!" Jaden said raising his hand in the air and pointed at himself with the other.
"Jaden." Syrus sighed.
"He just might beat Uncle Set or Dad one day if he keeps up that attitude." Dai said smiling with her arms crossed.
"And let me show ya how we duel in the 21st century." Jaden said.
"You can't talk to me like that." Abidos said highly insulted.
"You can't talk to him like that." His advisor repeated.
"Jaden, you realize this will be a Shadow Game?" Zane asked.
"He's right. Your soul's on the line." Alexis said gripping her left arm with her right with a worried look.
"And this guy's undefeated." Syrus said cowering.
"Not for long. I mean, once I'm done with him, I'll be the legend. So get your game on." Jaden said.
"My game is always on. Now prepare yourself, Key Keeper-"Abidos was cut off by the Raven Slifer.
"Yeah, yeah. We get it. It's not our first Shadow Game exactly. Catch!" Chazz said throwing a duel disk he acquired somewhere at Jaden.
"Hey, that duel disk looks just like mine." Syrus said looking in his back pack and seeing it was empty.
"All right. Time to throw down." Jaden said as he readied the duel disk and his deck.
Banner was still passed out with Pharaoh playing on his chest as everyone waited for the duel to start.
"Let's see. First, I think I'll summon Pharanoic Protector in DEF mode." Abidos said.
"No DEF points?" Syrus asked.
"And I'll lay down a face down. Your turn." The man said.
"Then here I go." Jaden said drawing a card.
"Not before I activate the First Sacophrocus." Abidos said.
"Huh? Never heard of that card." Jaden said.
"Well, after this match, you'll never forget it, though you may want to, but I'm afraid you'll have to wait until I bring out another two Sacophrigi before you see why, Key Keeper." Abidos said.
"Two more?" Syrus asked looking worried.
"OK, whatever. Can I go now 'cause I've got a couple of Duel Monster tricks of my own that I wanna show you, Abidos." Jaden said smiling.
"Put your monsters where you mouth is." Abidos retorted.
"OK, but you asked for it. Here's Elemental Hero Avian in ATK Mode. And check out the spell card Heated Heart. Now a monster on my field gains 500 extra ATK points. Not too shabby, huh? But there's more. If he attacks a monster in DEF Mode, the extra damage goes right to you. See for yourself. Quill Cascade!" the child of Darkness called.
Avian sent out white feathers that were sharp like knives at Abidos' monster and destroyed it, along with taking out some Life Points.
"Sweetness. Duelling's not what it used to be, huh, old timer?" Jaden asked.
"No, it's much tamer now, but let me give you a taste of the old school. I play Second Sacophorigus. And once the third is played, this duel and your soul will be mine." Abidos said.
"What's it do?" Alexis asked as Banner finally woke up.
"I don't wanna know." Syrus whimpered.
"Next I'll play my Pot of Greed. This lets me draw two more cards from my deck. And I think I'll play one right now. Go Tribute to the New! Now, by discarding one card from my hand, your Avian is destroyed!" Abidos said.
Sand appeared in a whirl under Avivan and two mummy hands shot out, grabbing the Hero and pulling him under.
"And next I'll play Pharaoh's Servant in ATK Mode. Now, stick him." Abidos said.
The Servant charged at Jaden and stabbed at his feet with his golden spear, making his Life Points drop.
"Jaden!" Syrus called as the brunette cried out in pain.
"My undefeated record will be staying intact, but you will not. Don't worry, Key Keeper. After I play this face down, it's your turn again, if you have the strength left to play it that is." Abidos said.
"Come on, Ju-chan! You can beat this guy." Dai called making everyone look at her in curiosity of what she called him.
"Ju-chan?" they asked.
"Judai Jaden Kaiba. That's his real name." Flamedramon said in a tone that said 'duh!'
Jaden smirked, ready to get back into the game.
"Come on, give us present day peeps some credit. My go and I play this card! It's Emergency Call and it springs an Elemental Hero from my deck to my hand. And the Hero I'm springing is gonna be…Sparkman! And there's more. Next I'm playing the spell card known as Righteous Justice!" Jaden said.
"What's that do?" Syrus asked.
"For every Elemental Hero that Jaden has out on his field, well then, one of Abidos' spell or trap cards is destroyed." Zane explained.
"Yeah, like that First Sacophrogis you got over there. Well, looks like we're not gonna be seeing what it does after all." Jaden said smiling in a cute, yet silly way making Abodis growl in annoyance.
"Righteous Justice, destroy the First Sacophrogis!" he called.
"I don't think so. Go Magic Jammer. It serves your Righteous Justice into a righteous waste." Abidos said.
"Wicked counter, that's what I'm talking about." Jaden said.
"You should be talking about getting some new cards for that weak deck." Abidos said.
"Oh, he shouldn't have said that." Syrus said.
"He's a dead man." Dai said knowing the Kaiba pride was being called into play.
"Yeah, bad call." Alexis said.
"Weak? See if you think this is weak. Sparkman, attack!" Jaden called as his Hero did as he was told.
There went Abidos' monster and Life Points from the massive electric attack, the man falling to his knees from it all.
"You…can't attack me." Abidos gasped.
"I can't? Hate to break it to you, but, yeah I can. That's how ya play the game. Read the rule book." Jaden said as he scratched the back on his head with a thoughtful look wondering what the man was going on about.
"But I am Abidos the greatest duellist ever." He said.
"The greatest? Um, I'm not so sure about that. To tell you the truth, you haven't even been dueling that great. I mean, for someone who's undefeated, I was hoping for, I don't know, some super sweet monsters or wicked rare cards. But so far I've been kinda underwhelmed." Jaden pointed out.
"The duel is progressing at a...disappointing rate." Kyuubimon said.
"Yeah, his cards are hardly better than a starter deck. For a legend, this guy is a bit of a letdown." Syrus said.
"Looks like Jaden's gonna win this one easy. There goes my shot at a new room." Chazz said.
"Your move, Abidos." Jaden called to the man, but he just stayed in place.
"Hello? Hello?" Jaden called.
"I think we shocked him so bad he can't move." Dai said.
"Wait, could it be all my servants let me win?" Abidos asked coming back.
"Let you win?" the cousins asked.
"Wow, what a giant loser this guy is." Chazz said.
"You know what; I wouldn't mind having some servants like that." Syrus said.
"But his whole life has been a lie." Alexis said.
"You never really dueled?" Jaden asked.
"I guess not." The man said in despair.
"Then let's start your first lesson right now." Jaden said shocking Abidos and everyone else but his cousin and their partners.
"What?" Abidos asked.
"You heard me right. Now get your game on…again. But if this is gonna be your first real duel, let's do this right and ditch that mask." Jaden said.
Abidos reached up and removed his mask, revealing dark tanned skin and large dark violet eyes outlined in black.
"That's it." Jaden as they both smiled.
"Jaden, just promise me you'll give it your best." Abidos said.
"That's all I ever give. Now let's duel." The child of Darkness said.
During the duel, the duos of Miracles and Darkness both encouraged the young Pharaoh to do his best when he dueled, making their friends think they had gone nuts.
Abidos was close to winning, but in the end he lost the duel.
"That's game and a pretty good one, too. You got moves." Jaden said with a wink and his signature pose.
"Yeah, but not like Jaden's." Alexis smiled.
"Big, fat hairy deal. Ojama Hurricane's just as good." Chazz said.
"Abidos doesn't look so hot." Syrus said.
Jaden walked over to the man as he stayed on his knees with his head bent.
"Hey, what's the matter?" he asked making Abidos look up at him.
"I used to think I was the best duellist of all time, but now I know I need a lot of practise if I want to be a true dueling legend." Abidos said with a smile as Dai and Flamedramon got up on the stage, joining them.
"As long as you keep working hard for it, you might be able to make your dream come true one day." The Slifer Queen said.
"Of course you'll have to beat of us first." The Slifer King said as he placed a hand on his cousin's shoulder, the two sharing a smile.
Abidos smiled at the two chocolate eyed teenagers as he stood up.
"Well, I was thinking right now." He said.
"Right now? You want a rematch?" Jaden and Dai asked.
"No, Jaden." The young Pharaoh said as he took the boy's hand in both of his.
"You could come back with me." He said.
Everyone gasped at that, even the Pharaoh's servants and advisor.
"Jaden!" Syrus yelped.
"You're too good for this place. Listen, come back to my kingdom and I promise you power and fame." Abidos said with great passion.
"That's a really nice offer." Jaden said making Syrus freak out.
"Jaden, wait! You can't leave!" he yelled.
"Sweet, so I will get his room!" The Raven Slifer said.
"CHAZZ!" Syrus whined.
"Sounds nice, but I think I prefer it right here. And I also wouldn't dream of leaving Dai, Kyuubi and Flame. But, hey, drop me a line any time you're in my hood, OK?" Jaden said.
"Same with you, that is if you ever find a time vortex looping loophole or…you know what, I'll just call you." Abidos said making the duos of Darkness and Miracles laugh.
The students and teacher all got off of the ship as it began to hover into the air.
"Farewell!" Abidos called.
The ship was then covered in light as it disappeared, returning the Egyptians back to their own time period.
The Key Keepers then turned and began walking back to their dorms, talking along the way.
"You know, Abidos wasn't such a bad guy. I mean, hey, look what he gave me." Jaden said as he twirled the crown with the Eye of Horus on it around his finger.
Viximon and Chibimon were both resting on their partners' heads as they enjoyed the walk.
"You're getting a collection of those." Dai commented.
"But where's the Shadow Rider with a skateboard?" Jaden asked as the two chuckled.
"I don't see why Jaden gets all the free stuff." Chazz said.
"Probably because I beat a dueling legend." Jaden said.
"Oh, so now he's a legend 'cause you beat him?!" Chazz yelled.
"Well, Chazz, that is what all the history books say that he is, right?" Syrus asked innocently.
"Well we know the truth!" Chazz yelled back at him.
Zane and Alexis shared a look as they nodded to each other before the group continued on their way back to their own dorms, paying no mind to that fact that Banner had disappeared.
"He was a shame, a fake!" the Raven Slifer continued.
"Jaden the Legend Slayer. I like the sound of that." The Slifer King said.
"Can we go to bed now?" Chibimon whined looking half dead.
"Oh, stop being so weak. You are a Royal Knight after all. You've been through much worse and strenuous situations that this one shouldn't have affected you so." Viximon said.
"But I did it all on an empty stomach." The dragon whined.
The fox groaned in annoyance as the others all kept out of this argument.
To be continued…