Pegasuses castle. In the special hall where he receives important guests, the owner of the island is sitting at a long table, with his arms and legs crossed and a serious expression on his face.

Ishizu enters the chamber. Her steps majestically resonate across the hall as she approaches.

'Ishizu Ishtar,' Pegasus says, with his arms and legs still crossed.

'Maximillion Pegasus,' Ishizu responds, with an expression as solemn as that of her host. She sits at the table, across from the powerful man.

Silence. A silence more grim than awkward. The two people exchange serious looks.

The host is the one who finally breaks the aforementioned silence. 'I admit I didn't expect I would see you ever again.'

'I wish there had been no need for us to meet ever again,' Ishizu replies. 'It is not that I cannot bear your presence, do not get me wrong, my kind host. It is merely that if we had never needed to meet again, it would mean that everything was going well, everything was going as the Millenium Necklace had predicted.'

Pegasus eyes his female guest. 'So, what you are trying to say is that something unexpected has happened?' he deduces.

Ishizu lets out a sigh, which, as sad as it is, is cute and girlie nonetheless. 'Precisely,' she answers.


Marik and Yami Mokuba are eyeing each other. Like two carnivores that have come across each other in savannah. With each of those two carnivores having marked this area as its own hunting area and treating the other carnivore as a trespasser.

Suddenly, both of them remember their respective Millenium Items; the two golden artifacts have begun glowing, each of them reacting to the presence of the other.

Instinctively, both Millenium Item owners lower their eyes to their respective artifacts for a moment. Then, their eyes back to each other.

The spirit of the Millenium Ring is the one who finally breaks the silence. 'So,' the entity in the body of a little boy caresses his chin with a smile, 'I see that you, too, have a Millenium Item.'

Marik reciprocates the smile and shrugs. 'What if I have?' he says nonchalantly. 'Is this illegal or something?'

'I don't know if it is illegal,' Yami Mokuba keeps smiling. 'I couldn't care less about the laws of mortals. All I want is for you to give it to me.'

Marik takes a serious expression, with the boy opposite him also losing his smile soon afterward. 'And what will I gain if I give it to you?' the blond man wonders out loud.

'You will get to escape with your life,' Yami Mokuba answers. 'Believe me, mortal, this is a big gain!'

Marik chuckles and strokes his Millenium Rod. 'I'm sorry, but I have other ideas.'

Mokuba's face hardens. It is hard for Marik to tell whether the boy has got angry or just serious.

The evil spirit is trying to decide what to do. Challenge this mortal to a Millenium Item battle? Or further try to reason with him, just in case he can solve this without unnecessary risks?

As if he has read Yami Mokuba's mind, Marik talks again, 'I will be more than happy to give you my Millenium Item. If you do something for me first. After all, I won't need it anymore when I have got what I want.'

'And what do you want?' Yami sighs, even though Marik was about to tell him anyway.

After some silence, Marik caresses his Millenium Rod again and answers, 'The God Cards.'


'THE GOD CARDS?' Pegasus snaps, jumping to his feet in shock. 'STOLEN?'

Ishizu lowers her eyes in shame. 'Unfortunately,' she gulps. 'I'm-I'm afraid that two of them have been stolen.'

'But... how?' Pegasus wonders, with his hand on his chest as a gesture of disbelief. 'You have the Millenium Item that predicts the future, Ishizu. How come you didn't you see that coming?'

Actually, Ishizu did see that coming. And, if the future had gone the way the Millenium Necklace had predicted, this would not be a problem at all. However, Ishizu guesses that this is not the right time to tell Pegasus about the future her Millenium Item predicted in the first place. Especially since, in that future, Pegasus was supposed to wind up pathologically depressed for life and, despite knowing that beforehand, Ishizu never warned him, for the sake of the greater picture!

The girl lowers her eyes to her golden artifact and caresses it. 'I'm afraid my necklace cannot see the future anymore. That is, if it could ever see it to begin with!'

Pegasus remains standing, silent and dumbfounded. 'And... and what are we supposed to do now?' he finally utters, only to realize right the next moment that this is the first time in his life that he, such a powerful and collected man, has asked someone else what he is to do!

'Well,' Ishizu sighs, with her eyes still on her precious artifact. 'The Millenium Necklace can still show me the present.'

The necklace glows, as if to confirm what its owner has just said.

'And, right now,' the girl carries on, 'my brother and another Millenium Item holder are about to arrange a...'


'... duel monsters tournament,' Marik cries, with a malicious smile. 'Now that you own KaibaCorp, I want you to use your wealth, power and resources to help me get my hands on the third God Card. A tournament here, in Domino City, which is known as the City of Games, will attract the best duelists all over the world.'

Yami lowers his eyes and smiles. Come to think of it, this isn't a bad idea at all. Such a tournament would also attract Millenium Item holders, so it would be in his own best interest as well. Still, though, he doesn't think he can trust this blond mortal.

His eyes back to Marik, with a serious expression. 'What do you seek to gain by collecting all three God Cards, mortal?' he asks.

'I'm a gamer,' Marik chuckles. 'To become the best duelist in the world, one needs to have the most powerful cards. Right?'

Yami's face hardens. This mortal is so obviously lying. Thanks to his Millenium Ring, Yami can look into Marik's heart. It is full of misery, anger and self pity. Gamer my ass! There is no way that such a person has such shallow and straightforward goals. There is definitely something else going on here.

But what? As deep in Marik's heart as Yami's Millenium Item allows the latter to look into, it still doesn't enable him to read the blond man's mind, so Yami has no way of knowing for sure that miserable soul's true objective.

Yami knows that, to open the Dark Door, one has to place the Millenium Items in the Millenium Stone. Is it possible that this is not enough after all? Is it possible that there is some additional requirement? Does this blond mortal know something that he does not? It sounds so crazy that he, Zorc's avatar in the mortal realm, might be unaware of something, let alone something that a mere mortal knows! And yet, it seems that this is the case!

In any case, Yami guesses that, for the time being, it is better to turn that Millenium Item possessor into an ally rather than an enemy. 'Fine,' Yami says out loud, smiling anew. 'Let us organize the Domino City tournament.'

Marik reciprocates the smile.


Ishizu takes out the 'Obelisk the Tormentor' card. 'This is the God Card I managed to prevent from being stolen,' she unnecessarily explains, extending her arm forward. 'And I think it is for the best to return it to its creator. You!'

Tentatively, Pegasus extends his arm as well and takes it. He recalls the process of creating those 3 damned cards. For all his efforts, for all the books he consulted, Pegasus never managed to translate the Ancient Egyptian text under the three gods' pictures in the Tablet of Lost Memories. Therefore, in the end, he just copied it on the cards exactly as it was. In other words, not even he knows the God Cards' exact power or effects!

When Pegasus collaborated with Kaiba boy's company in developing duel monsters arenas, which could produce monsters holograms, he performed secret experiments, with human lab rats using the aforementioned cards in duels. It didn't go well! Every time, before the Gods could manifest themselves into holograms, the duel arenas would malfunction and the players would be electrocuted! The electrocuted players either died on the spot or woke up after several day long comas, only to lapse into dementia, which they never recovered from.

In the end, Pegasus regretted making those cards. Many times, when sitting alone in his private office, he came close to burning them to ashes with a lighter. But he just couldn't; at the end of the day, they were his creations.

'Darn, why didn't I destroy all 3 of them back then?' the tycoon inwardly wonders, looking at the blue colored God Card. 'If I had done so, none of this would have happened.'

Ishizu interrupts his thoughts. 'It is not my place to tell you what to do with this card, Maximillion,' she says, closing her eyes and placing a hand on her chest. 'You are its creator. Do what you deem best.'


'To the Domino City tournament,' a smiling Marik extends his arm forward, offering a handshake.

'To the Domino City tournament,' Yami repeats, extending his arm as well and reciprocating the smile as well as the handshake.

'Now, to celebrate the occasion, how about we go out to have some good time?' Marik proposes.

Yami chuckles, shaking his head in amusement. Those mortals and their pitiful physical needs!

But, come to think of it, now Yami has a physical body too! Well, he has taken control of physical bodies in the past as well, but he never did so for long enough to find out what having physical needs is like, what experiencing physical pleasures is like. So far, in his millenia long life, the only pleasure he has ever experienced is the joy of watching mortals suffer. But now, now that he has a physical body all to himself, 24/7, it has just occurred to him that, at least in some respects, he has to act like a mortal!

'Okay,' the boy says to the older man. 'Let's go out and spend a crazy, wild night!'


And so, Marik and Mokuba went out. First, they went to a luxurious restaurant, where they enjoyed all kinds of delicacies. Then they went to the cinema and watched (what else?) a horror film!

Then they went to a brothel. For Marik, it wasn't the first time; ever since that pitiful excuse for a father that raised him died and he escaped that prison he grew up in, among other things, he has had his share of fun in red light districts.

For Yami, on the other hand, it was the first time. But he soon found himself into it! At the end of the day, he now has the body of a 12 year old boy! And a 12 year old boy is normally more than happy to engage in such activities! (Not that the previous owner of that body ever went that far, mind you! Mokuba was still in the 'touch yourself/explore your body' phase. But this doesn't matter, since Mokuba is no more.) At the end of that experience, Yami inwardly admitted that not all weaknesses of mortals are bad after all! Not that he would like to remain in a physical body forever for the sake of those pleasures; his mission is above all else. But still, that experience was a pleasant break.

All in all, that night, Marik and Yami had fun. Like friends. Not that they became friends or either of them had a change of heart. They still by no means trust each other. They both are still ready to backstab the other at the first opportunity!

But, for tonight, they can forget about the above. Right now, having returned to the mansion after their wild night, they are sitting at the dining room table and drinking wine. They both are drunk.

'To the... (hiccups)... Domo City tourment!' Yami cries and raises his glass.

'To the... (hiccups)... Donna City toufriment!' Marik raises his glass as well.

'Cheers,' they cry in unison and burst into laughter, clinking their glasses.


Pegasus is sitting in a seat, in the helicopter taking him back home. He is gazing outside the window, at the sun setting. Suddenly, he turns his eyes to the 'Obelisk the Tormentor' card, which he's holding in his hand. The expression on his face becomes determined. He has made up his mind.

The powerful man takes out his golden lighter with his other hand and raises it to the level of the card. He looks at his precious creation one last time. 'Farewell, Obelisk,' he says in a grim tone of voice and sets the card on fire! Then he drops it on the floor, where it is burnt to ashes.

Pegasus is looking at the aforementioned ashes with a melancholic expression. The third God Card is no more!