Chapter 2 THE LEGEND OF YAMI
"So Yugi, tell me what brings you so early to the store today??", the senior man peered over his glasses as he
readjusted the shelve units which had been just installed that morning.
"Hey Grandpa, how are the new shipments fitting into the store?", Yugi asked as he led the way into the store.
"Hey Gramps!", Joey gave his usual casual greeting.
"Hello Yugi, Joey, Tristen, Taya, Mai. What brings you guys to the store right now? Need some cards for an
upcoming duel?", Grandpa said as she slid the new monstor action figures into place on the shelf in an
artistic way.
"Cool Duel Monstors!", Mai said as she surveyed the display being put up.
"Yeah!", Tristen nodded his approval and then realized that they had come here for a reason.
"Thank you, I have been working on them the entire morning and right now I am going to set up the Blue Eyes
and the Battle Ox statues! It will look like the Battle Ox is holding the axe as a shield against the charging
Blue Eyes!", Granpa said as he invisioned this image inside his head.
"Gramps, what we came here for actually has nothing to do with cards or anything..yet! The thing is that ol'
Yuug here is feelin' a little giddy and whatnot-"
"What are you talking about?", Grandpa said as he arranged the Unknown Warrior of Fiend here and there.
"Grandpa, the thing is...I am feeling kinda weird. Its not that I am coming down with something, its just...
just a feeling that something is going wrong and we'll be caught in the middle of it.."
"Whoa, Whoa, Yugi, Slow down. How about we go to the back room and talk about this. I'll close the store
early today. You seem to have something serious on your mind, and I think we better give it our full attention.
Don't you agree?"
"Yeah, I saw we get to tha root of Yuug's problem", Joey said as he tried not to appear concerned.
From his past experience Joey knew better than to just take Yugi's incidents lightly. Anything that had to do
with Yugi's millenium item and the past was important. Yugi was an important one in the universe of duel
monsters and the dealings that surround this universe.
Solomon (Gramps) closed his shop down and he guided the teens to the back room of his store. There he had
a large space among the cartons and computer and cards. He motioned for all of them to find a spot on the
ground or on one of the cartons in the fairly large room.
"So Yugi, tell me what you were telling me before!"
"Well, lately, within the last few days I have been having visions of a life that isn't actually mine. I mean, I
had a vision that I battled a man to win his house and then relived memories of a mother and father in this
vision."
"Hmmm, maybe you are just reliving your own past Yugi.", Solomon said quietly as he gave forth the
suggestion.
"No Grandpa, this was different. Everything was different. I can't properly explain it but, I fear that it has
something to do with my millenium item."
"Why do you say that Yugi?", Mai asked as she placed her purse beside her.
"Well, for one thing, the guy through whose eyes I was looking had taken his soul's refuge in the pyramid. I
sense somehow that Yami had had a lot of pain in his life and the item was a talismon that assured him!"
"Um.. Yugi, who's Yami?", Tristen asked.
"Yami... well he is the man who I am seeing this all through. He is the one who had helped me during my
duel with Pegasus. He is the one who saved my life and freed Granpa's soul!"
"Tristen, remember the Mind Shuffle thing Yuug told us about. I didn't get it then so I'm getting it now. This
Yami was actually part of Yugi and thats why it seemed that Yugi changed into another person each time he
was to battle in the beginning!", Joey said with his eyes closed and his index finger under his nose.
"Yes, Joey, that is indeed Yami! I think Yami needs my help for something, but what I don't know
specifically what ! ", Yugi said as he quite suddenly started rubbing his head.
"Well, maybe, Yami wants to be back with you and again have someone to help!!", Taya said suggestively.
"Y..Yeah, m...may be it is time I start wearing the item again. I always wore it as just something I liked and
as something that inspired me. But since it got that cement on it and had to be given to be cleaned and
uncemented. It has been three days now and it was yesterday that the whole preminition thing started
happening. Slightly at first but now more in detail and more with meaning now. I fear something is wrong and
that something from the Old World has leaked out or that something has gone amiss. I think it has something
to do with whats happening over here in the world today.."
"What do you mean Yugi?", Solomon asked as he took a sip of the fresh tea he had just made.
"I think it has something to do with the shift of the powers in the world of the duelling universe. I mean,
Pegasus was the most powerful man there was to be a duelist and now we see that he is nothing more than a
sad man who was trying to get back his wife by gathering all of the millenium items. And then there was the
thing with Seto and Mokuba. Good thing we saved them from that terrible virtual game-"
Joey chuckled. "I still remember how Seto was so thankful to you and how those workers or partners whatever
were scared so much, I almost thought they had wet their pants while trying to get away from his wrath. I liked
the notion that Seto locked them away in the virtual game just as they had him."
"What are you talking about Joey? Seto never locked those guys in his game!", Taya said remembering.
"Yeah well, he should've, like I see it. Those jerks were bigger jerks than Seto had been when he went to
rescue his brother from Mind-Reading Eye!", Joey took a glass of water from the fountain.
"Ahem, Yugi. You were saying about the shift in the powers of this world. I would like you to make that clear
as to why you think our world has been changed in its dimension.", Solomon said as he noticed Yugi starting
to look a little confused.
"Um..what...yes, Well, I don't mean that the powers in the world have changed in the political ways...much..
but that the monstors are being used more as a way to gain power than just as a sport or game. I mean kids
duel all the time for cards and spare change and whatnot, but now the governments are using this as an
advantage to start making cards that are more expensive and thus hard to purchase but nevertheless,
Profitable. The monstors were always thought to be more as cards than anything else. But I feel something is
changing. I don't know what yet...b..b..but..so..something..is..ch..chang..ging. "
"Hmmm, I can see where you are going with that and I feel you are correct but this sign you keep talking
about is like some sign of impending doom."
"M..M..ay..be", Yugi felt the pain in his head start to become worse and then suddenly he felt he can't stop it
anymore.
"Yugi..are you alright?", Tristen said as he got up when Yugi slumped in his chair.
"YUGI"
* * *
Yami walked along the new mansion of his and surveyed its looks and how it was to his feel. He knew some
of the palace was to be changed significantly. He didn't want any remains of Zora or his previous life in this
mansion he had acquired.
He walked into the grand hall and once in there went and sat in the golden feathered chair which also had
a foot rest attached by a silver and iron alloy hook.
Mother and Father. I have reclaimed what was rightfully ours and now I have no debt to pay to you, but now
I must confer with the matters within my heart. I am still young and still have not chosen my mate, but I need
to have your support in this and I would appreciate it if a sign were to be given
Yami knew better than to hope for a sign immediatly. As he knew from the past and the people he had
observed that signs did not come to them but rather they decided by thinking it through and he feared that
would be his case because he was still in the dark to know what to do when his heart, knowing not when this
happened, now belonged to a woman he knew and admired.
A sudden wind blew through the silver slitted windows and the golden pyramid around his neck moved
against such a slight gust. The pyramid started vibrating and then it suddenly felt very heavy against Yami's
shrouded neck.
"Urrgh, why does this also seek to ruin me?", Yami said as he was yanked off his chair and reduced to being
having his face three inches from the footrest on which the pyramid now rested.
"Great Spirits, why is it so heavy?", just as Yami said that and pulled with all his might to pull the pyramid off
the footrest, the object gave slack and Yami found himself in a sprawl with his shoulders aching and with him
being at least three feet away from the throne.
"So the spirits have sent the sign!", Yami whispered in awe and slight fear as he realized that the pyramid
around his neck was almost weightless.
'MMMMMMMMBBBHH", a great horn of the outer state rang signalling that Yami was to have visitor.
Yami had not fully reached his status where he could simply turn away the pest who would try to annoy him at
times when he didn't want them to.
Yami walked over to the open signal window and then lighted the four lamps around his window on the other
side. This was the signal to say that the visitor was allowed to come without any trouble.
It would take approximately three sand cycles until the visitor came about to actually shake hands with Yami.
"I wonder who it is at this time of the evening?", Yami said as he stared at the sky. According to the stars and
the moon, it was well over three hours after sundown.*.
"I guess I shall just have to wait until the stranger comes!", Yami said as he settled to bring out some of his
drinks from the cupboard. He brought out the grape and the apple juice. He had believed that alcohol wasn't
good for humanity and stayed far away from as did many of the people of the society during that time.
The pyramid gently hit him against his chest almost as if on purpose as one with a spirit within it.
Yami didn't know what to make of the pyramid, except that it was a friend for him, no matter how dead it was..
* * *
"Uuuvvgi", a blurry faint noise sounded in his head as his eyes started to come into focus and his brain
started understanding what had happened and as he looked around at the faces he found strange. The men
wore different sort of garments and the women, OH, he was shocked to see that the women wore very different
and more revealing clothes than before. What was happening?
A sudden gear clicked into his mind and suddenly everything made sense to him.
He remembered who he was...Yugi, yes, that was his name.
Those around him... Joey, Tristen, Grandpa, Taya and Mai.
He was in the shop, the shop his grandpa had opened up since he had taken Yugi in into his care fifteen years
ago.
He remembered... he was Yugi and the clothes everyone wore were very ordinary.
Yes, yes, everything was just fine.
"Yuug, pal, you ok?", Joey said in sincere worry as he crouched down and stared into Yugi's eyes.
"J..Joey?"
"Yeup! Its me ,the one and only and the greatest!", Joey said to lighten the mood.
Yugi rubbed his head as a smile came to his face. Joey could always make everyone feel at ease when they
were in a tense situation.
"What happened Yugi? Are you ok? ARe you hurt?", Taya asked in fast sequence before realizing that everyone
was watching her. She almost muttered an embarressed apology when she saw that everyone was waiting for
the answers to the questions she was asking.
"I..I think that I had another vision, this time I was actually partly living it through..through something. I think
I'm fine but when I came to...I didn't recognize any of you and then I had the wildest thoughts running through
my mind.."
"He's ok!", Joey said as he grinned at Yugi going all explainitory and talking to himself.
"Heh Heh, thank you Joey for bringing me back to the reality!", Yugi said as he stood up with Taya's help.
"Anytime Yugi, Anytime!"
"What were you saying Yugi?", Tristen said as Solomon brought in some tea and gave it to YUgi to drink.
"Bottom line, something is wrong!"
"Theres something wrong almost everyday, so whats new!", Joey asked casually.
"NO, Joey, this is different. Something is wrong, very wrong.." "VERY VERY WRONG!!", Yugi said as he remembered the pain in his head.
* * *
"sssssssssssssssss", thats is right, something is very wrong 'One to Duel', you have only percieved this
from little what you can sssense .
"Creatures of the worldsss, we are to change everything..."
A deafening roar sounded as one through the entire cavern.
"WE ARE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING!!!"
~ ~ ~
* The thing about time in the ancient days was usually with the sand timer and what not, so the hours were
not clearly defined. There were three sand glasses. One which was large and marked the end of one day at the
time the sand finished emptying into the other chamber. The day sand glasses were placed in the major
that the public would visit and in the homes of a few rich who were far from the major places. Every household
had an hour glass and a minute glass. Theses glasses were placed on a smart mechanical invention that
would change the position of the glass after the bottom container was full.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
There we go, sorry about that, I just didn't think that writing a story double spaced would take so much time, Anyway, I hope this chapter satisfies. I wish I could write faster, but the truth be told is that I get the chances to get onto the computer are few. Anyway, e-mail me at dark_death2@hotmail.com if you want to tell me something. Later
"So Yugi, tell me what brings you so early to the store today??", the senior man peered over his glasses as he
readjusted the shelve units which had been just installed that morning.
"Hey Grandpa, how are the new shipments fitting into the store?", Yugi asked as he led the way into the store.
"Hey Gramps!", Joey gave his usual casual greeting.
"Hello Yugi, Joey, Tristen, Taya, Mai. What brings you guys to the store right now? Need some cards for an
upcoming duel?", Grandpa said as she slid the new monstor action figures into place on the shelf in an
artistic way.
"Cool Duel Monstors!", Mai said as she surveyed the display being put up.
"Yeah!", Tristen nodded his approval and then realized that they had come here for a reason.
"Thank you, I have been working on them the entire morning and right now I am going to set up the Blue Eyes
and the Battle Ox statues! It will look like the Battle Ox is holding the axe as a shield against the charging
Blue Eyes!", Granpa said as he invisioned this image inside his head.
"Gramps, what we came here for actually has nothing to do with cards or anything..yet! The thing is that ol'
Yuug here is feelin' a little giddy and whatnot-"
"What are you talking about?", Grandpa said as he arranged the Unknown Warrior of Fiend here and there.
"Grandpa, the thing is...I am feeling kinda weird. Its not that I am coming down with something, its just...
just a feeling that something is going wrong and we'll be caught in the middle of it.."
"Whoa, Whoa, Yugi, Slow down. How about we go to the back room and talk about this. I'll close the store
early today. You seem to have something serious on your mind, and I think we better give it our full attention.
Don't you agree?"
"Yeah, I saw we get to tha root of Yuug's problem", Joey said as he tried not to appear concerned.
From his past experience Joey knew better than to just take Yugi's incidents lightly. Anything that had to do
with Yugi's millenium item and the past was important. Yugi was an important one in the universe of duel
monsters and the dealings that surround this universe.
Solomon (Gramps) closed his shop down and he guided the teens to the back room of his store. There he had
a large space among the cartons and computer and cards. He motioned for all of them to find a spot on the
ground or on one of the cartons in the fairly large room.
"So Yugi, tell me what you were telling me before!"
"Well, lately, within the last few days I have been having visions of a life that isn't actually mine. I mean, I
had a vision that I battled a man to win his house and then relived memories of a mother and father in this
vision."
"Hmmm, maybe you are just reliving your own past Yugi.", Solomon said quietly as he gave forth the
suggestion.
"No Grandpa, this was different. Everything was different. I can't properly explain it but, I fear that it has
something to do with my millenium item."
"Why do you say that Yugi?", Mai asked as she placed her purse beside her.
"Well, for one thing, the guy through whose eyes I was looking had taken his soul's refuge in the pyramid. I
sense somehow that Yami had had a lot of pain in his life and the item was a talismon that assured him!"
"Um.. Yugi, who's Yami?", Tristen asked.
"Yami... well he is the man who I am seeing this all through. He is the one who had helped me during my
duel with Pegasus. He is the one who saved my life and freed Granpa's soul!"
"Tristen, remember the Mind Shuffle thing Yuug told us about. I didn't get it then so I'm getting it now. This
Yami was actually part of Yugi and thats why it seemed that Yugi changed into another person each time he
was to battle in the beginning!", Joey said with his eyes closed and his index finger under his nose.
"Yes, Joey, that is indeed Yami! I think Yami needs my help for something, but what I don't know
specifically what ! ", Yugi said as he quite suddenly started rubbing his head.
"Well, maybe, Yami wants to be back with you and again have someone to help!!", Taya said suggestively.
"Y..Yeah, m...may be it is time I start wearing the item again. I always wore it as just something I liked and
as something that inspired me. But since it got that cement on it and had to be given to be cleaned and
uncemented. It has been three days now and it was yesterday that the whole preminition thing started
happening. Slightly at first but now more in detail and more with meaning now. I fear something is wrong and
that something from the Old World has leaked out or that something has gone amiss. I think it has something
to do with whats happening over here in the world today.."
"What do you mean Yugi?", Solomon asked as he took a sip of the fresh tea he had just made.
"I think it has something to do with the shift of the powers in the world of the duelling universe. I mean,
Pegasus was the most powerful man there was to be a duelist and now we see that he is nothing more than a
sad man who was trying to get back his wife by gathering all of the millenium items. And then there was the
thing with Seto and Mokuba. Good thing we saved them from that terrible virtual game-"
Joey chuckled. "I still remember how Seto was so thankful to you and how those workers or partners whatever
were scared so much, I almost thought they had wet their pants while trying to get away from his wrath. I liked
the notion that Seto locked them away in the virtual game just as they had him."
"What are you talking about Joey? Seto never locked those guys in his game!", Taya said remembering.
"Yeah well, he should've, like I see it. Those jerks were bigger jerks than Seto had been when he went to
rescue his brother from Mind-Reading Eye!", Joey took a glass of water from the fountain.
"Ahem, Yugi. You were saying about the shift in the powers of this world. I would like you to make that clear
as to why you think our world has been changed in its dimension.", Solomon said as he noticed Yugi starting
to look a little confused.
"Um..what...yes, Well, I don't mean that the powers in the world have changed in the political ways...much..
but that the monstors are being used more as a way to gain power than just as a sport or game. I mean kids
duel all the time for cards and spare change and whatnot, but now the governments are using this as an
advantage to start making cards that are more expensive and thus hard to purchase but nevertheless,
Profitable. The monstors were always thought to be more as cards than anything else. But I feel something is
changing. I don't know what yet...b..b..but..so..something..is..ch..chang..ging. "
"Hmmm, I can see where you are going with that and I feel you are correct but this sign you keep talking
about is like some sign of impending doom."
"M..M..ay..be", Yugi felt the pain in his head start to become worse and then suddenly he felt he can't stop it
anymore.
"Yugi..are you alright?", Tristen said as he got up when Yugi slumped in his chair.
"YUGI"
* * *
Yami walked along the new mansion of his and surveyed its looks and how it was to his feel. He knew some
of the palace was to be changed significantly. He didn't want any remains of Zora or his previous life in this
mansion he had acquired.
He walked into the grand hall and once in there went and sat in the golden feathered chair which also had
a foot rest attached by a silver and iron alloy hook.
Mother and Father. I have reclaimed what was rightfully ours and now I have no debt to pay to you, but now
I must confer with the matters within my heart. I am still young and still have not chosen my mate, but I need
to have your support in this and I would appreciate it if a sign were to be given
Yami knew better than to hope for a sign immediatly. As he knew from the past and the people he had
observed that signs did not come to them but rather they decided by thinking it through and he feared that
would be his case because he was still in the dark to know what to do when his heart, knowing not when this
happened, now belonged to a woman he knew and admired.
A sudden wind blew through the silver slitted windows and the golden pyramid around his neck moved
against such a slight gust. The pyramid started vibrating and then it suddenly felt very heavy against Yami's
shrouded neck.
"Urrgh, why does this also seek to ruin me?", Yami said as he was yanked off his chair and reduced to being
having his face three inches from the footrest on which the pyramid now rested.
"Great Spirits, why is it so heavy?", just as Yami said that and pulled with all his might to pull the pyramid off
the footrest, the object gave slack and Yami found himself in a sprawl with his shoulders aching and with him
being at least three feet away from the throne.
"So the spirits have sent the sign!", Yami whispered in awe and slight fear as he realized that the pyramid
around his neck was almost weightless.
'MMMMMMMMBBBHH", a great horn of the outer state rang signalling that Yami was to have visitor.
Yami had not fully reached his status where he could simply turn away the pest who would try to annoy him at
times when he didn't want them to.
Yami walked over to the open signal window and then lighted the four lamps around his window on the other
side. This was the signal to say that the visitor was allowed to come without any trouble.
It would take approximately three sand cycles until the visitor came about to actually shake hands with Yami.
"I wonder who it is at this time of the evening?", Yami said as he stared at the sky. According to the stars and
the moon, it was well over three hours after sundown.*.
"I guess I shall just have to wait until the stranger comes!", Yami said as he settled to bring out some of his
drinks from the cupboard. He brought out the grape and the apple juice. He had believed that alcohol wasn't
good for humanity and stayed far away from as did many of the people of the society during that time.
The pyramid gently hit him against his chest almost as if on purpose as one with a spirit within it.
Yami didn't know what to make of the pyramid, except that it was a friend for him, no matter how dead it was..
* * *
"Uuuvvgi", a blurry faint noise sounded in his head as his eyes started to come into focus and his brain
started understanding what had happened and as he looked around at the faces he found strange. The men
wore different sort of garments and the women, OH, he was shocked to see that the women wore very different
and more revealing clothes than before. What was happening?
A sudden gear clicked into his mind and suddenly everything made sense to him.
He remembered who he was...Yugi, yes, that was his name.
Those around him... Joey, Tristen, Grandpa, Taya and Mai.
He was in the shop, the shop his grandpa had opened up since he had taken Yugi in into his care fifteen years
ago.
He remembered... he was Yugi and the clothes everyone wore were very ordinary.
Yes, yes, everything was just fine.
"Yuug, pal, you ok?", Joey said in sincere worry as he crouched down and stared into Yugi's eyes.
"J..Joey?"
"Yeup! Its me ,the one and only and the greatest!", Joey said to lighten the mood.
Yugi rubbed his head as a smile came to his face. Joey could always make everyone feel at ease when they
were in a tense situation.
"What happened Yugi? Are you ok? ARe you hurt?", Taya asked in fast sequence before realizing that everyone
was watching her. She almost muttered an embarressed apology when she saw that everyone was waiting for
the answers to the questions she was asking.
"I..I think that I had another vision, this time I was actually partly living it through..through something. I think
I'm fine but when I came to...I didn't recognize any of you and then I had the wildest thoughts running through
my mind.."
"He's ok!", Joey said as he grinned at Yugi going all explainitory and talking to himself.
"Heh Heh, thank you Joey for bringing me back to the reality!", Yugi said as he stood up with Taya's help.
"Anytime Yugi, Anytime!"
"What were you saying Yugi?", Tristen said as Solomon brought in some tea and gave it to YUgi to drink.
"Bottom line, something is wrong!"
"Theres something wrong almost everyday, so whats new!", Joey asked casually.
"NO, Joey, this is different. Something is wrong, very wrong.." "VERY VERY WRONG!!", Yugi said as he remembered the pain in his head.
* * *
"sssssssssssssssss", thats is right, something is very wrong 'One to Duel', you have only percieved this
from little what you can sssense .
"Creatures of the worldsss, we are to change everything..."
A deafening roar sounded as one through the entire cavern.
"WE ARE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING!!!"
~ ~ ~
* The thing about time in the ancient days was usually with the sand timer and what not, so the hours were
not clearly defined. There were three sand glasses. One which was large and marked the end of one day at the
time the sand finished emptying into the other chamber. The day sand glasses were placed in the major
that the public would visit and in the homes of a few rich who were far from the major places. Every household
had an hour glass and a minute glass. Theses glasses were placed on a smart mechanical invention that
would change the position of the glass after the bottom container was full.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
There we go, sorry about that, I just didn't think that writing a story double spaced would take so much time, Anyway, I hope this chapter satisfies. I wish I could write faster, but the truth be told is that I get the chances to get onto the computer are few. Anyway, e-mail me at dark_death2@hotmail.com if you want to tell me something. Later