EPISODE- 005 - A SHADOW MASTER. PT 1. "PREVIOUSLY ON YU-GI-OH! "Kepura! You may think you've won... but you're wrong. For I hold a card that will negate your Shadow realm... Seal Of Orichalcos!" "Argh. You may have cancelled my Shadow Realm, but you will not win Pharaoh!" "Now I play this card: Timaeus! Black Luster Soldier... Timaeus... Become Black Dragon Of Luster!" "You wont win..." "Attack now!!!" "Help me you fools... You may have won for now Pharaoh... but we'll be back!" -- "Kaiba. Do you understand now?" "The Memory World. Pharaohs? Ha. Yeah right! Bye Yugi..." -- "Hm... Millennium Guardians... it is I, Bakura. The Egyptian God Cards that you stole from the Valley of the Kings..." "What God Cards?!" "The ones you stole from the Valley of the Kings. Because I am after the Pharaoh, and he better be ready. For when I come after him with his Egyptian God Cards... He will be sorry for destroying my chances of being infused with Zork Necrophedius!!!" Yugi looked around. His room was very dimly lit. It was Sunday. He didn't have to go to school today, meaning he could just hang out with his friends. But today of all days, the time had come. What Kepura had said, was about to be a reality. Yami awoke to find the body of Yugi next to him, and the Millennium Puzzle in the young boy's grasp. Yami smirked, and pulled out the Puzzle from his hands, and hung it around his neck. A painful glow echoed in Yami's eyes, and he left the room silently. He passed outside, many dimly lit lampposts, as a grim figure watched in the night. "Thank you Bobasa for keeping a track of him..." "Anything for you Ms. Ishizu..." said Bobasa. "Now..." said Ishizu. "Bobasa. Head back to the Valley of the Kings... There's been a shift change. You will guard the Millennium Key and the Millennium Scales... Shadi will guard over the Millennium Rod and the Millennium Necklace..." Bobasa nodded, and left in a hurry. Ishizu watched as Yami left, unaware that she watched, and perched herself low in the bushes for many hours, until she heard Yugi's loud scream very early in the morning. As Ishizu had figured, a few hours later she heard a large cry from Yugi's bedroom. He knew that Yami had gone. And that he may not come back. For the time since they encountered the Millennium Guardians, he had been acting rather strangely. And their minds had been unexpectedly switching since then. Yugi headed towards Domino Museum. To view the lithograph that had predicted his own destiny 5000 years ago: To aid the Pharaoh in his quest for his Memories. But what would happen if the Pharaoh deserted you, Yugi wondered. Yugi slowly walked through the dimness of Domino City at 5 AM, until he arrived at the museum. He climbed the large marble steps, and entered in through the doors, which was very peculiar since the museum was not scheduled to be open for another 2 hours. Yugi circled the museum until he reached the Ancient Egypt exhibit in the North end, and headed down to the Memory, which was boarded up by a large sign on the entrance to the stairwell. He stood perfectly still, staring at what his destiny was. The lithograph, which had predicted that he would serve the Pharaoh, and then, in Yugi's eyes, have the Pharaoh desert him. Yugi remembered back to when he had first unlocked the Millennium Puzzle, and when he was infused with the goodness of his new best friend, the Pharaoh. Yugi woke up with a start. He saw the bully, Ushio, bashing Joey and Tristan. Yugi was scared for their lives. And then he noticed the Millennium Puzzle in front of him, the final piece resting in his limp hand. With only one choice, he took the Puzzle piece and slammed it into the spot, completing the Millennium Puzzle. This began his destiny as the Pharaoh's partner, the help to regain his memories; the one how would complete his destiny with him. "We're going to play a game now..." Yami said. He cried a bit, standing there remembering the memories. And then the figure that had been stalking him for a while revealed herself. "Yugi Muto," said Ishizu. Yugi turned with a start. "Ha... Ishizu..." he mouthed, but no words came out. "How are you Yugi?" Ishizu asked, but Yugi only hung his head. "Hmmm... I do not own the Millennium Necklace anymore... but somehow I can sense what is troubling you. It has to do with the Millennium Guardians, am I not correct?" Yugi raised his head, and nodded in amazement. Ishizu smiled. "Am I talented or what? Anyway... I believe you are confused with the whole situation at the moment... Allow me to explain... The Millennium Guardians were appointed by the Pharaoh to guard over each Millennium Item after he died. He entrusted them to do it at that moment, with his previous experience of the Tomb Thief Bakura, and even his own cousin, Seto. He did not trust the remainder of the Elected Priests, as was demonstrated with his cousin, they were all too easy to control. So he enlisted the help of the Millennium Guardians, Kepura, Atenza, Sehka, Kishib, Secmenton, Martis, and the ghost form of the Elected Priest for the Millennium Scales..." Yugi stood in anxiousness, listening to Ishizu's explanation. "But, by then... Seto heard of Yami's plan... and joined forces with the High Mage Heishin. Heishin had only just found plans to locate the dark power sealed away by Akunamon, the Dark-Oracle-Staff, once held by the Ancient Atlanteans... But when he attacked, Yami sacrificed his soul and was sealed within the Puzzle. Heishin and the staff were also sealed within a tight shield room, inside the Puzzle itself, which can only be opened with the aid of the Egyptian Gods, and the Puzzle..." "What does Heishin have to do with this?" Yugi asked Ishizu. Ishizu looked stunned. "Oh nothing... I just said that to explain in further detail as to how Yami was sealed away..." At that moment Yugi thought about how he and Yami had won Battle City together. "Pharaoh... To stop my evil self I will sacrifice myself now! I forfeit!" "Noooo!!!"

Yami had won Battle City and now it was on to unlock his memories with the help of Yugi, his best friend. Yugi closed his eyes tight. This was pain for him. He had been united with Yami for as long as he could remember. He could even remember standing on this very spot, where Yami regained his lost memories... "Are you okay Yugi Muto?" Ishizu asked. Yugi wiped off the tears. "Yeah, I'm fine..." he lied. Pharaoh looked almost cross-eyed looking at what tea held out. "What's this..." Tea held out a cartouche pendant to the Pharaoh. "Take it... That's...a cartouche pendant..." she said. "In Ancient Egypt, it was what the Pharaoh's name was written on!" "There's no name written on this..." "I'd like you to put your real name there..." "My... Real name.....!?" "So...if you remember your real name once you got your memory back, you won't forget it this time. On that stone tablet, all instances of the Pharaoh's name were scratched out... Your name disappeared from your memory... I just... want to know your name..." Pharaoh put it on. "Thanks Tea! I'll treasure it!!" Yugi looked up, directly at the engraving of the Pharaoh's sacred Millennium Puzzle. He remembered once holding it around his neck, but not anymore. The Millennium Puzzle was gone, as was the spirit that inhabited it, the Nameless Pharaoh, Yami. Yugi got flashes of Yami's memory; when he held up the God Cards, to when the Lithograph glowed, and ten to when Yami fell out of body. They had been through so much together, so why would Yami leave. Then and there Yugi decided not to blame himself, and that Yami had most likely needed to go, and that he WOULD return. And then Yugi noticed something that he had not noticed before. A string of text in-between that of the top engravings of the monsters, at the very top, perched high above them all. Somehow this puzzled Yugi, as he had not remembered there being any text upon the lithograph in that position. "Ishizu..." asked Yugi. "Can you read Heretic?" Ishizu turned to him. "Yes... Why?" Yugi looked up. "What does that say perched at the very top?" Ishizu looked up. Her eyes flashed. He looked concerned, and anxious all at once. "What the..." she mouthed. He tried to translate the words to Yugi. "From the depths of darkness... he shall... awaken... Oh my! ...the powers of darkness shall forsaken... This is weird ...from death and blight, he shall remember... all that has laid present to him... and I can't figure out this one... Oh I got it! ...and be creation..." Ishizu turned to Yugi. "I have no idea what it means..." Yugi walked up towards the lithograph. He blinked a few times, staring up into the centre of the Millennium Puzzle, and then began. "From the depths of darkness he shall awaken... the powers of darkness shall forsaken... from death and blight, he shall remember... all that has laid present to him... and be creation..." The engraving of the Millennium Puzzle glowed, and out from it poured an eerie greenish light. It blinded Yugi for a few seconds, but he looked up just in time to see the Lithograph frozen over by what appeared to be cold, greyish and purpled ice. Yugi reeled back. Ishizu's eyes widened. "What... is this!?" The same eerie green glow, echoed in Yugi's pocket. He looked down concerned, and then hurriedly reached into it to find an Orichalcos Crystal. His eyes widened. "HA... NAMELESS PHARAOH..." laughed Bakura. "I WILL ANNIHILATE YOU, AND AS I PROVED TO MARIK... I CANNOT BE DESTROYED! FOR I AM THE DARKNESS!..."

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