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EPISODE- 002 - BEATING OF A NEW SHADOW. PT. 2

"PREVIOUSLY ON YU-GI-OH!""Morning Grandpa..." "Morning Yugi... GOD CARDS! PLEASE Yugi! You've already got Yami's Memories back! Please Can I sell them!?" "No! They're still powerful cards in our deck!" "Okay you're right... by the way, you're late for school." -- "Smart move Yugi. Falling off your chair... funny..." "Oh man Yugi! I want The Millennium Key! How cool is it!?" "Joey!? No way," cried Tea. "Bobasa said that only a person with an Ancient connection can hold one. And you're just YOU!" "Yugi..." "Yes Yami, I feel it too. Whatever is coming this time..." "I'll Be Ready For It!"

In a dark corner, Bakura sat, staring unhappily up at the metal roof of the warehouse, which was currently being pelted by rain. And an unhappy Bakura was a dangerous Bakura. Unfortunately, the rain meant that it wasn't a good idea to go outside, as Bakura didn't even want to think about how bad his hair looked when it got wet. And having 'fun' with the idiotic children he was stuck with was also not an option, as Yami was in the building, and Bakura was sick of dealing with the ex-pharaoh. It always ended in him getting banished to somewhere icky. He had also lost the dark power of Zork Necrophedius this time, so he did not dare strike again... until he was sure it would be worth it.

So, he sat twiddling his thumbs, until he had the bright idea of looking in his weaker half's backpack where he found, as well as a binder of homework and an untouched lunch, an umbrella. Smiling in what could only be described as a very evil way, he quietly slipped outside and popped open the umbrella.

The rain made a pleasant pattering noise against the fabric of his umbrella, and the glow of the streetlights made it look almost like falling gold. Of course, this beauty was lost on Yami Bakura, who was looking for someone to torment. He looked at the watch on his wrist; the glowing numbers told him that it was currently 1:54. Who was he going to find on the streets at eleven at night in a monsoon? The answer soon presented itself, in the form of one man, dressed in armour-like clothes, even with the manacles around his wrists. On either manacle thought, was the same symbol, a golden indent in the manacle that was shaped like a circle, with a triangle in its centre. He was a rather large man, with a cheeky, cocky grin.

"Kepura... What a pleasant surprise. What are you doing out here, in this weather?" Bakura's tone was anything but concerned.

"What? Oh yes Master. We believe now that the time to strike has begun. You have separated from the Puzzle, and now you have inhabited the body of your weaker self... but really? If you did this now, surely it must mean that your plan is to begin now..." Kepura was, understandably, a little distracted. He shuddered. "Bakura!" he cried, trying to get his attention.

"Congratulations. You've managed to remember a three syllable name of someone who's been your idol for so long..." Bakura's voice dripped of sarcasm. Kepura nodded absentmindedly. "No, you fool, but you can give me YOUR SOUL! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The Millennium Ring started to glow, and a light shot out of it, straight towards Kepura.

Kepura opened the door to the corner store and stepped inside. The beam reflected off the glass of the door, and straight back at Bakura, hitting the ring in the centre. Bakura stared down at it. "That is NOT what I intended." A second later, Ryou was standing in his place, wondering why he was standing outside in an alleyway.

Alone in the dimly lit office of Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corp. sat the one and only Seto Kaiba. He sat in front of his laptop computer at his desk, scrambling through its contents with every click of a button. He winched at every stat that came in front of his eyes. He closed his eyes and then slammed shut the laptop, holding his head in the palm of his left hand.

"Darn it!" he cried out loud, pushing 3 or so books off the desk and scrambling onto the floor. "I've got to find out how Yugi and that amateur Joey can summon the 2 remaining Legendary Dragons, Timaeus and Hellmos. I must add them to my deck!" he then got an idea. "Wait a minute," he said at last. He quickly opened his laptop again and checked the stats of the 3 Dragons. He smirked when he saw the result of all 3. "Ha-Ha... yes... Timaeus, Critias and Hellmos... If I fuse them all with my own cards... Critias and Crush Card... and Hellmos and one of my Blue Eyes... and then add the weapon to the Critias-Crush-Card-Monster, and then fuse that with Timaeus... Yes... The Ultimate Beast!" He let out a soulless laugh. "Time to go see Yugi..." and he hurried out of his office, and to the one place where Yugi could be at 2 O'clock in the afternoon: Domino High School.

Normallys a union of 6 people would be thought of as a reunion or a get together of friends, but not if they were all wearing dark clothes with golden manacles and hieroglyphs all over the manacles. The 6 people, (5 men, 1 woman) all stood in a perfectly arranged circle.

The tallest stepped forwards. "Now..." said Kepura. "Master Bakura has betrayed us... Just moments ago he tried to take my own soul, but I dodged in enough time and the blast refracted onto himself... But he is not gone... he'll be back. But I say we continue with the plan. It wasn't just for him. We were to get revenge on the Pharaoh who had thwarted our plan so many years ago... So are you all ready?" Kepura looked to the other 5. First to the dark man, bearing the manacles resembling the Millennium Key. He nodded curtly, and pulled down his hood from his cloak. Kepura then looked to the next one, the woman, who wore the manacles depicting the Millennium Eye. Kepura looked away to the next when she nodded too. The next, who sworn upon the Millennium Necklace nodded also, removing his hood. Kepura looked to Martis, who bore the scriptures of the Millennium Rod, and then looked over to the final one when he had nodded. Karim removed his hood and nodded. He smirked evilly. He had once served under Pharaoh Yami, but now... All 6 of them placed out their hands and began to chant in Ancient Heretic.

'Mages Under The Sky, Wish To Hear Cries... Kepura, Karim... Injustice To All... Sehka And Secmenton... Will Kill Them All... Martis And Atenza... Shall Harm The Traitor... For Kishib Has Done Nothing But Baiter... Mages Under The Sky, Wish To Hear Cries... Arise From Darkness And Begin... Begin And Spread Your Fury... From Deep Within, Upon Our Foe!'

Yugi stood in front of his locker still. Joey and Tea were still arguing about he whole Millennium Items thing. Tea just couldn't understand why Joey wanted one so bad.

"Come on Tea! Think about it! A Millennium Item! I want 'dat Millennium Key! You can turn invisible..." he cried. Then he let out in an inaudible whisper, "Yeah... and I can explore girls minds and see if 'dey like me or not..." he smirked, obviously imagining something that Tea definitely didn't wan to know about.

"Yugi..." said a voice from behind him. Kaiba stood there. "Don't say a word. Yugi, I need to ask you something. Would you come with me now?"

"Kaiba? I've got school now..." said Yugi.

Kaiba nodded. "Fine. After school head to my company... There is something we need to discuss about Timaeus... you too Wheeler. You may be a duelling monkey, but this monkey controls Hellmos, so I need you too..." Kaiba turned to walk away.

Then without any warning whatsoever, the ground began shaking like crazy. Books fell out of lockers, chairs in classrooms fell over, and everyone started screaming. Yami looked up into the sky through the window. Te sky had turned pitch black at 2 O'clock in the afternoon. Something was up, and Yami knew it.

"Yugi?" Yami asked.

Yugi nodded to his friend. Yami split back into Yugi and the golden flashing began. Yugi's eyes faded and as if he was a hologram, another figure appeared with him. Yugi's mind spun madly, doing a mind shuffle. Yugi's thoughts and emotions changed, as did his attitude and perspective. Then he looked up. He was no longer Yugi. The rough and tough exterior proved that Yugi was now residing within the Millennium Puzzle. Yami was now in full control, with the glowing golden Millennium Symbol glowing upon his forehead. He smirked. But he had little time to comply, because the window in front of him shattered, and the wall collapsed; but there was no wall behind it, meaning that Yami fell straight outside, down Three-Storeys onto the cold hard concrete ground.

Yugi's friends, and Kaiba too, ran to the hole in thew wall. Yami was falling. "YUUUGGIII!!" they all cried in unison. Then mysteriously Yugi's backpack began to glow. And Joey's did too. Kaiba looked at his arm, he was wearing a Duel Disk with his deck inserted. His deck was glowing. The glows erupted into a force that saved Yugi. Timaeus, Critias, and Hellmos stood perched upon the ground, with the body of the Pharaoh sitting upon their backs.

Yami got down. He opened his eyes wider and fiercely. "Now... Timaeus... Hellmos... Critias..." he sure hoped this would work. "Attack the vortex of clouds now!" The 3 Legendary Dragon rose up and charged at the clouds. They each opened their mouths wide, and charged their blast to max. They fired each at the same times, and erupted the vortex into a million pieces. The sky changed from pitch black to just normal darkness. It was not over yet. And Yami knew that was true, when he turned around to find someone clapping at him.

The man stopped abruptly. "Hello Pharaoh. It's good to see you again. I'd like to introduce myself. I am the Millennium Guardian: Kepura: Guardian of the Ring!"

Kepura smirked. Yami saw the other 5 Guardian standing behind him. "And now I challenge you to a Duel... Nameless Pharaoh..." Yami reeled a bit.

TO SETTLE THE SCORE FOR WHAT YOU DID TO US 5,000 YEARS AGO!

ยป TO BE CONTINUED...

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