Chapter 3 THE LEGEND OF YAMI
Through the dark tunnels of the caverns, the voices were heard as savage voices of the darkness.
Clashes of steel and iron were heard throughout the natural mazes, creatures of both the Earth and the
Dark. They were not far away in the tunnels that resounded the doom of the world as they made
preperations.
"Sssss, how are the preperations going?", the giant dark creature asked as it was an anomoly of the duel
world.
"Master, I, Kojikocy am under your command and I am to report to you what are the happening in the building
of the...the object!!"
"Good, Kojikocy, you have learned well and are a good man and a warrior. I will see to it that you are
promoted!"
As the warrior with his white beard and sword turned to leave he hesitated and then stopped for a bit before
continuing.
"Why do you stop Kojikocy?"
"Well, you see master, I am puzzled to know how I am in the real world without being confined to a card as I
was before!! And as to how long am I to be called out on the field!!"
"HA HA HA, Kojikocy, you amuse me and you are a curious man. I will tell you the history of our capture, I
will tell you of how your lives were and what happened..."
* * *
"You know gramps...I am getting worried about Yugi! I mean, he has had at least two preminitions together in
only three hours. I mean, its not good that the dude keeps a lot of the information inside of him but its even
worse that he now has to live through some past that does not agree with him!!"
"I know Joey..", Solomon glanced at Yugi who was being tended to by Taya and Tristen, "..but you know,
there is not much I can do to help him, except only help him help himself!!"
"Eh?", Joey said
"He's confused!", Mai said.
Joey --- clearly confused
"Yugi, I need to have a chat with you..alone!!", Solomon said as he adjusted his glasses.
"Ok, Mr. Moto, we'll clear out!!", Mai said as they went out the back room door.
Joey just stands there staring at Yugi and Solomon.
A bangled hand comes from the other side of the door and pulls Joey out of tthe room.
"He means you Joey!!"
"OH, you meant all of us!!", Joey's voice sounded as the door closed behind them.
"Sometimes I wonder about that boy!", Solomon sighed.
"You wanted to talk about something, Grandpa?"
"Yes Yugi, I am worried about your preminitions, I think it has something to do with you and your alter self!"
"What are you talking about?", Yugi asked suspiciously.
"Well, I feel that you are still struggling to come to terms of what you have inside of you at times of need!!"
"You mean Yami!"
"Yes, him. He seems to want nothing else then to help you because you have solved the puzzle!"
"Well, I guess you are right!", Yugi remembered when his mind was looked into with the Millenium Key, it
was Yami that had made a number of locks in his mind so that Yugi was not prone to easy manipulation.
"I think you have to recover you millenium puzzle and start trying to understand its full potential and its past!!"
Yugi was silent for a bit as he mused over what his grandpa had just said and then he made his decision.
"You know grandpa, you are right. I think its time I understand what the puzzle is actually for and what it used
to be for!!", Yugi said as he ran a hand through his hair.
"I don't clearly know what is happening here, but I feel that it has something to do with the past, who knows
you might learn something when you do your research!!", Solomon said as he got up and walked towards the
end of the room where the new comic books had just arrived.
"You know Yugi, there is a lot you can learn from the past...a lot...but sometimes there is nothing you can do
to change it..you can only learn", Solomon said solemnly.
"Are you talking about Grandma?", Yugi asked quietly.
"No, Yugi, i am talking about....Taketome , my son and your mother, Estelle.", Solomon said as a streak of
pain passed over his face.
"Dad...Mom..", Yugi muttered the words. THey sounded very strange to him.
"As I have told you before Yugi, your parents had passed away when you were very young, I think when you
were around the age of five"
"Y..yes, you have told me that", Yugi said as he figured over what his grandpa was trying to say.
"All the time I have cared for you, I never lied to you except for once and even then, I didn't lie entirely..I only
withheld some of the truth from you!"
"What are you talking about Grandpa?", Yugi was sensing that the chat his grandpa had invoked had
something to do with the past.
"Yugi, the death of your parents was not natural....infact, they didn't die at all.."
"WHAT?", Yugi was astonished as he heard the last part of the sentence.
"Yes Yugi, as far as I know, they are still alive. Their bodies are gone, but their souls are still alive..."
"GRANDPA, what are you talking about? Without a body a soul is only there, unable to do anything until it is
release-", Yugi just had the shock in him that he had already gone into talking about spirits and whatnot
even before realizing what his granpa had just said.
"Yugi, calm down, listen to me.!"
"Ok,", Yugi forced back the threatening tears in his eyes and listened.
"Do you remember the time you started duelling...?"
"Against Seto Kaiba?"
"No, I mean, really duelling..!!"
"You mean when I arrived at the island and started battling?"
"Yes, thats what I mean, and if I am not wrong, you were believing in the cards.."
"But I knew that no battle could be won if you didn't believe in the heart of the cards!"
"Maybe so Yugi, but when you started battling all that was on your mind was to free my soul from the card
Pegasus held with him!"
"Yes, I remember!", the light started shining in his head as he put two and two together. "You mean that my
parents were caught in cards just as you were?"
"Their souls were captured, not caught, there is a difference. They did not accidently give their souls up, their
souls were snatched from them after they were taken prisoners. This time it was different, they were not
confined into cards like Seto, Mokuba and myself once were, but instead they were trapped in something else.
The original plan-"
"Who's plan?", Yugi asked his eyes blazing.
"Calm down Yugi, I will get to that part later on, but as I was saying, the original plan was to place their souls
into the water around a certain area and in the trees around. Then 'them' would be able to control your father
and mother to do their bidding and kill for them as well, but-"
"But?"
"But, something went wrong, some kind of ancient magic was present or so the jungle people say, and both
of their souls were somehow placed in two object of power. I don't know what, maybe it was a simple rock,
or maybe a bow and arrow, maybe modern weapons, who knows. But the thing is that these two power
weapons were swallowed by the earth and a prophecy's second part was complete. And to this day, even
though I myself have searched through the Jighar jungle, I have never found a weapon in the earth and can
only hope that they are still there, waiting for someone to come and use them to complete some prophocy..."
Yugi looked at his grandpa for a whole two minutes just to see if the old man was making a jest of some sort
just to get something out of him.. but Yugi couldn't find anything in his simple face that told him that this man
was telling him something of a lie.
Yugi's mouth was dry and he couldn't speak for a few minutes but then he finally plucked the courage and
spoke.
"Grandpa, do you...do you really believe in the..the whole prophecy thing??"
"I don't know Yugi, it always seems like a good idea to have some kind of confirmation that a part of your
child is somewhere in the world providing help. It is probably so that the whole thing is a local tale told to
little wide eyes children by the fire at night. "
"But do you believe that they might be still souls?"
Solomon sighed as he took his chair. "My boy, after you have been seperated from your body and placed in a
card, you are ready to believe almost anything. For all I know, this story is totally false because I myself was
not there when you parents disappeared into the jungle. The forest people came to me, thirteen days after
Taketome died and told me the story as they think it happened and as how the wood spirits say it happened!"
"I'm sorry grandpa, you really loved d..dad, didn't you?"
"Not only your father, Yugi, your mother as well. She was an angel and she made some of the most delicious
dishes I have ever had the delight to taste... "
There were a few moments of silence and then Yugi spoke again.
"Grandpa, what is the prophecy about?"
"I have no clue Yugi, all I know is that the man gave me some sort of riddle and till now it is still with me....
I'll show it to you!", with that Solomon walked over to the wall on the right hand side of the door and moved a
crate aside. Once done so, he pulled a hatch out, revealing a secret compartment with a second door on it to
reinforce it. Solomon opened the second door, it was a safe type, and then put his hand inside to take out
some parchment.
"There we go!", Solomon blew on the parchment and then took it over to the table and placed the light over
it, showing it to Yugi.
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"Um...is it just me or can I not read what it is saying on the paper?", Yugi asked scratching his head.
"No, Yugi, I can't read the stuff on the paper either. It is in some language I can't understand. I'll give this to
you.", Solomon handed over the parchment to Yugi.
"Thank you Grandpa, but I need to know what you mean about the thing you were saying about, l mean the
stuff about learning from the past.."
"Well, you see, Taketome had so much in his life to do and so many dreams he wanted to finish. He had said
that Estelle was his biggest dream come true and now he was on his way to get all his other dreams. They
had just started their travels-"
"Travels?", Yugi asked.
"Your mother was an Archeologist and your father was a Linguist as well as a Historian and thus he had more
than enough reason to go along with his wife. They were a good team, and their last destination was some
secular spot in the the Jighar jungle and that was the last I heard of them.", Solomon shook his head sadly.
"You know grandpa, someday we will get a chance to go to the jungle and then maybe, we might find the
bodies of my parents and maybe, we can give them a proper burial"
"I hope so too, yugi, I hope so! Now I think you better be going and reclaim your millenium item!"
"Right, thank you grandpa.."
"The parchment was nothing Yug-"
"For everything!", Yugi completed.
"Yugi!", Solomon smiled as he saw a new determination in his grandson's face.
Yugi went to the door and opened it to go outside, only to be hit full force by the eavesdroppers.
Mai, Taya, Tristen and Joey all fell on top of Yugi.
"HEY,", Mai yelled as Joey fell on top of her.
"Guyv, I'mv geffig cwushed unver here!", Yugi's muffled voice came through from the bottom.
All the four got off Joey immediatly.
"It was all Tristen's idea!", Taya said.
"My idea?"
"Well, i was just caught in the confusion!"
"Come off it Mai, you were the one who had her ear the most pressed against the door!"
"Well, I told you guys not to listen on them!"
"What, Joey you little whacked off obnoxious off kilter twitty liar!"
"See, the respect I get here is pathetic!"
"Well, because you are pathetic!"
"HEY, you wanna duke it out?"
"We all expected that to happen sooner or later!"
"Taya, why don't you go stuff yourself with pie!"
"I would except Tristen ate all of it!"
"I THOUGHT IT WAS A LEFTOVER!"
"YOU DON't CALL A FULL PIE A LEFTOVER!"
"You two are losers"
"Yeah well, at least I don't fantasize about tv goofs!!"
"HEY, HIMATO RIVEROYA IS A GOOD ACTOR"
"You mean he was acting?"
"Like you would know the difference!"
"Hey Mai, why don't you go back to smelling perfumes?"
"Because Joey, YOU ARE WEARING ALL OF THEM!"
"HEY! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING OVER ACTING DRAMA QUEEN!"
"HEY, ATLEAST I'M A QUEEN!"
"I TELL YOU THE PIE WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME!"
"YES, WELL IF YOU SEE A CAN OF PLAYDOH IN FRONT OF YOU, I BET YOU'LL EAT THAT TOO!!"
"NO I WOULDN't!"
"IF IT WERE LEFTOVERS YOU WOULD!"
Yugi simply turned to his grandpa with a very confused look on his face.
Solomon raised both his eyebrows at the row, but yugi only shrugged and waved, motioning that he would be
going on his way now.
"Oh, teenagers these days!", Solomon sighed as he picked his coat up and cautiously left the four squabblers
in the store as he went home.
* * *
Burata looked across the stadium as he saw the rising "Witty Phantom"* on the opponents field. He knew that
he would have to finish the phantom quickly before the opponent played a combo and became more powerful.
"You turn Burata!", the other duelist called
"Yeah, I know!", Burata pulled a card from his deck and then smiled.
Excellent, now I have the card I need to battle the cards face down on his field. First I will place the "Master
& Expert" * card on the field in attack mode and then I will place my warrior in defense mode with this magic
card face down to make him stronger. This will be so sweet!
"Ok, I will make my move. I first put this card face-down in defense mode and then another two cards face
down-"
"But you have no monstor on the field, meaning I can attack your life points directly!"
"I'm not finished.. now I play my card in attack mode, MASTER AND EXPERT come on!"
A sudden flash in the field appeared and the third field held a dark brown savage creature with blond hair
which had its tongue out also showing its pointy teeth. The master, a figure mostly dressed in red wearing a
light green scarf around his neck crouched beside the expert creature.
"HAH, what a stupid move. "Neo the Magic Swordsman"* , MAGIC SWORDS ATTACK!!"
"Not so stupid when I have a Ku-Nai-Whip chain to attack to my warrior card thus raising its attack and then I
played the 'Defensive Card' which raised my warriors defense by 600 points. Kojikocy ARISE!!", Burata yelled
triumphantly as he called the monstor in defense into attack mode.
The place where the warrior was to come up glowed in a white light and then nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The monstor failed to appear on the field.
Burata was confused, and afraid as well.
His opponent looked equally worried.
"Hinata, I call time out. There is something wrong, I want to see what!"
"I agree, we'll stop for now!", Hinata stepped down from his stand and came over to Burata's side.
"Look, I played my Kojikocy face down right here.."
"You warrior monstor!"
"Right!, Look I'll pick it up now....what the hell?", Burata swore almost before he had the suprise register
completely into him.
"You're right, WHAT ThE HELL?", Hinata exclaimed amazed.
"What do you think is the meaning of this?", Burata said.
"I think you were either ripped off-"
"But the figure was there when I purchased the card!"
"-or maybe there is something wrong with the place where you put your card!"
"Hmmm, maybe, you try a card!"
"Ok, I'll put the 'Dark Assasin"* "
The light in the field glowed and the white skulled monstor with a red eye on its forehead appeared. Its green
claws slashed through the air as it growled and then rested awaiting orders.
"Well, nothing wrong with the field!"
"Then what is wrong?", Burata wondered worriedly.
The card that once held Kojikocy was blank right now, totally blank, just a blank card with no indication of how
much the attack or defense of the monstor was. The picture of the monstor was gone as well and now only a
white blank space appeared.
The warrior had disappeared.
The only thing that Burata muttered was ,"What the hell!"
* * *
Kilani was walking home from her practice at the ballet when she noticed that she had put her shoes on the
wrong feet. As she bent down to correct the shoes she thought about the trades she had made today. She was
a very keen Duel Monstors fan and today during the breaks she had managed to trade for some very cool cards
She decided that she was going to check out her cards and have some fun looking over them. She put the
shoes correctly on her feet and then walked over to the nearest bench and took out five cards from her
backpack. They were some cool cards, but the best amonst them was the one called "Ryu-Kishin Powered"*.
The big armoured pink monstor with large black claws looked back at her in its gargoylish way.
She smiled and then put it beside her to pick the card the fell down. She got up again and took the card back
into her hand and to her horror found only a blank space there.
Ryu-Kishin had disappeared, and now only a white spot appeared in the place.
"What the heck?"
* * *
"Sssssssss, during the last couple of days the guard of the duel protectors has disappeared and thus allowed
me to release you creatures of Darkness and Earth then bring you under my control. You are all my servants..
no, loyal servants, who will do anything I want you to do, at any whim of mine. Can you understand that
Kojikocy?"
"Yes Master, you are my master and I am your servant, I understand. Thank you master for enlightening me
with your knowledge. Your power if large and I cannot ever hope to come anywhere near it. I will go master!",
with that the white-bearded warrior bowed his head with his sword in front of him and then left.
"Ah, the downside of being a master. None who can hear the whole story, only hear that they are my servants.
I ssssould be able to have a chat with some of my fellow monstors but they are all too afraid of my power..
Soon, he will have his soul torn apart as he did mine many millenia ago. So much time has passed, but he
will ssstil pay dearly.", a white claw flashed through the air as the monstor creature sliced a piece of meat as
it put it into its mouth letting the blood trickle down its throat and around its white claw.
"ssssooon, !!"
[* * * ]
Yami placed the golden goblets around the table and took out the apple juice and poured it until the goblet
was full. He wondered who was coming to his door right about now. He knew that his relations with many was
kept mostly at a business level. He was beginning to get suspicious when suddenly he saw the golden silk
dress the visitor was wearing.
"Mutsaya?", he wondered as he rushed to the door.
"Yami, my friend how are you?", the beautiful face stared at him as it asked those words.
" Mitsuya ? What..how...when..How are you?", Yami was obviously in shock.
"Yami, you still can't talk clearly unless you are in a duel!", the woman giggled as she walked in and brushed
past Yami.
Yami was thankful she walked past him because at that moment he felt his cheeks go red.
"What I meant to say is, where have you been all these years?", Yami asked as he motioned her to grab a
seat.
"Well, as I had told you before I had left, I was at Alexandria, near the nile. You are still as forgetful as the
last time I saw you!", Mutsaya said as she picked up the golden goblet and took a drink of the apple juice.
"Well forgive me if I didn't remember because I was in shock! You left without a moments hesitation!", Yami
said as he picked the other goblet and drank the grape juice in one gulp.
"Nile Bile!", Mutsaya said as she looked at him over the goblet.
The comment came so unexpected to Yami that he spat out some grape juice over the floor beside him.
"I guess you still remember!", Mutsaya said as she finished her juice.
"You little fiend. And right when I was drinking!", Yami said as he called for a servant to come and clear the
mess.
"Ha ha, you are still no better at insulting me back, Yami. You still are as Nile Bile.!", Mutsaya got up and
walked near the table as the servant came in and started cleaning. She motioned for Yami to come with her.
"I see you are in the same place...but this time in charge of it! Give me a tour of this place will you not?"
"Ok", Yami said as he took her arm and guided her to the end of the hall.
"Remember this room over here, Yami?", Mutsaya said as they stopped at a certain room near the stairs.
"Yes, we had a lot of good times playing in this room. After you left, this room was not a room that actually
invited me to spend my time in there anymore!"
There was a moment of silence and then they started walking again.
As they walked along, Yami finally ventured to ask.
"Mutsaya, why have you come back?"
"Can not a friend come back to meet her childhood friend, her best friend?"
"Maybe, but I don't think you are here for that purpose. I know you better Mutsaya!"
"Do you?"
"I did!"
"I will not lie Yami, you are right that this visit was not solely for the purpose of meeting you again, but it was
more for a purpose of great concern!"
"What are you talking about, Mutsaya?", Yami asked as they finished walking up the stairs.
"Yami, a great terrible things are happening. The kings have started to play against each other.."
"So? Those fools need something to keep them occupied!"
"But, Yami, the creatures are becoming very hard to control!"
"What do you talk about?"
"The creatures are not paying any attention when they are called!"
"How is that possible? If you respect the cards, the monstors will always listen to you!"
"But the problem is that the monstors are becoming more wild by the day!"
"Hmmm, I see."
"There is trouble afoot and you can sense it. I know you can!"
"You're right!", Yami said slowly as he surveyed his pyramid. He remembered how it had suddenly become
very heavy.
"But tell me my friend. Why do you come to my house to talk to me?"
"Yami,...it is more terrible than can be imagined"
'Such as?"
"Rumors of a war are spreading!"
"A war? Against who?"
"A war against the monstors!"
"WHAT?", Yami was spellbound
"A war against the monstors? How is that possible?"
"Yami-"
"Monstors obey you if they think you are worthy to duel.."
"Yes, I kno-"
"Every duelist has a desire in him to win, and every monstor he collects is precious to him.."
"True, the fac-"
"The monstors don't just stop obeying in a flash of the sun!"
"Right-"
"Something must be wrong!"
"YAMI!"
"Yes?", Yami finally stopped thinking to himself and payed attention to Mutsaya.
"Yami,..the Unsangthra..is free!"
Yami's eyes widened in fear and in shock as the meaning of what Mutsaya had just said.
"Uvagi!", Yami swore.
"I say the same!"
"What do you want of me?"
"I want you to start becoming the warrior you were destined to be!"
"Mutsaya, not that again!", Yami groaned as he started walking again.
"Yami, do not deny it. The legend of the stones say that 'one to duel' will be the downfall of the great evil!"
"Yes, I know the legend too well! But I am no warrior!"
"Not yet. But the way you have battled with your monstors, I can see the heart and soul of a true warrior!"
"Mutsaya.."
"Promise me Yami that you will come to the village tournament and keep an eye out for the Unsangthra?!"
"But.."
"For me Yami", Mutsaya said as she held Yami's hand between her two.
"Are you a duelist?", Yami asked.
"Yes"
Yami gave her a smile. A smile which he hadn't given for four years now.
"Then i'll be there!"
[* * *]
"Urgh." Yugi muttered as his brain started clearing up,
where is Mut..
"Ya man, ya ok?", a bald man asked Yugi as he lay sprawled on the sidewalk near the mailbox.
"Yes, I'm Yugi!"
"Ya well, i don a use for your name but wanta make sure you was ok ya!"
"I am.. fine.", yugi said as the man helped him to his feet.
Yugi stood unsteadily and then using the bald man's support balanced himself properly.
"Ya sure ya ok? I can a take ya to the clinic!", the bald man asked as he peered through his glasses.
"No its ok. I'm fine!", Yugi let go of the man and then thanked him.
"No prab man. Lata", the bald man gave him a peace sign and was on his way.
"I had another preminition!", Yugi said aloud to himself as he gathered his wits.
Yugi walked slowly and then started jogging to the shop where his millenium item was surely finished till now
"I have to get the puzzle!", Yugi felt that the answers would be given to him by the item.
He went to the store and gave a sigh of relief at seeing the owner still there. But he was cleaning up to close
and Yugi knew he had to get in fast.
Yugi opened the door and walked in.
"We're closed, go away!"
"Excuse me sir, but I left with you a pyramid with cement all over it and I really want to get it back!"
"Didn't you hear me, we're closed. Come back tomorrow!"
"But sir, this is very important to me, I really need it!"
The man stopped cleaning up and came to the counter and stood in front of Yugi.
"Why? Are you gonna steal it?"
Yugi was shocked. "NO sir, I'm Yugi Moto. I was the one to whom the puzzle belonged to!"
The man looked as if he didn't believe Yugi and this made Yugi come near to panic.
Suddenly the man smiled and thats when Yugi relaxed.. a bit.
"Your Solomon's grandson right?"
"yes sir!"
"I know the man, good guy. I was just kidding with you. I;ll just go and get your puzzle!"
Yugi's panic was swallowed and his relief was undescribeable.
The man returned in a few minutes and handed Yugi the puzzle.
It looked like it always did. A golden pyramid with the eye of Osiris in the middle of it. It was inverted when
worn around the neck and that was exactly how Yugi had worn it for all this time.
Yugi thanked the owner for doing a good job and then stepped outside.
He felt that now that he had his millenium puzzle back, everything would come to light.
He took the puzzle and felt the clean gold around it and then put the thing around his neck.
He felt that everything would become clear.
Everything would be fine.
Everything will be ok..
He was WRONG...
Very wrong.
DEAD WRONG!!
~ ~ ~
WITTY PHANTOM----[DARK] (Fiend) Dressed in a night-black tuxedo, this creature presided over the darkness. ATK/ 1400 DEF/1300
KOJIKOCY----[EARTH] (Warrior) A man-hunter with powerful arms that can crush boulders ATK/ 1500 DEF/1200
NEO THE MAGIC SWORDSMAN----[LIGHT] (Spellcaster) A dimensional drifter who not only practices sorcery, but is also a sword and martial arts master. ATK/ 1700 DEF/ 1000
DARK ASSAILANT---[DARK] (Zombie) Armed with the Psycho Sword, this sinister assasin rules the bad land. ATK/ 1200 DEF/ 1200
MASTER & EXPERT---[EARTH] (Beast) A deadly duo consisting of a beast master and its loyal servant. ATK/ 1200 DEF/ 1000
RYU-KISHIN POWERED----[DARK] (Fiend) A gargoyle enhanced by the powers of darkness. Very sharp talons make it a worthy opponent. ATK/ 1600 DEF/ 1200
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Ah! Another chapter posted. I'm sorry for the tardiness on my behalf. But I only write when inspiration strikes me and well I guess I didn't get much time to go on the net. So you can put two and two together. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was a long one and I think it has a lot of new ends that would need closing eventually. There are going to be chapters which will be very long from now on so I won't bore everyone with short chapters that will take like 20 chapters to do. But still. I am trying to do this as a book , but its takes a while. Whenever I get the chance I will include card data so everyone can know the card statistics. CIAO
P.S. email at dark_death2@hotmail.com if you have some comments of problems
Through the dark tunnels of the caverns, the voices were heard as savage voices of the darkness.
Clashes of steel and iron were heard throughout the natural mazes, creatures of both the Earth and the
Dark. They were not far away in the tunnels that resounded the doom of the world as they made
preperations.
"Sssss, how are the preperations going?", the giant dark creature asked as it was an anomoly of the duel
world.
"Master, I, Kojikocy am under your command and I am to report to you what are the happening in the building
of the...the object!!"
"Good, Kojikocy, you have learned well and are a good man and a warrior. I will see to it that you are
promoted!"
As the warrior with his white beard and sword turned to leave he hesitated and then stopped for a bit before
continuing.
"Why do you stop Kojikocy?"
"Well, you see master, I am puzzled to know how I am in the real world without being confined to a card as I
was before!! And as to how long am I to be called out on the field!!"
"HA HA HA, Kojikocy, you amuse me and you are a curious man. I will tell you the history of our capture, I
will tell you of how your lives were and what happened..."
* * *
"You know gramps...I am getting worried about Yugi! I mean, he has had at least two preminitions together in
only three hours. I mean, its not good that the dude keeps a lot of the information inside of him but its even
worse that he now has to live through some past that does not agree with him!!"
"I know Joey..", Solomon glanced at Yugi who was being tended to by Taya and Tristen, "..but you know,
there is not much I can do to help him, except only help him help himself!!"
"Eh?", Joey said
"He's confused!", Mai said.
Joey --- clearly confused
"Yugi, I need to have a chat with you..alone!!", Solomon said as he adjusted his glasses.
"Ok, Mr. Moto, we'll clear out!!", Mai said as they went out the back room door.
Joey just stands there staring at Yugi and Solomon.
A bangled hand comes from the other side of the door and pulls Joey out of tthe room.
"He means you Joey!!"
"OH, you meant all of us!!", Joey's voice sounded as the door closed behind them.
"Sometimes I wonder about that boy!", Solomon sighed.
"You wanted to talk about something, Grandpa?"
"Yes Yugi, I am worried about your preminitions, I think it has something to do with you and your alter self!"
"What are you talking about?", Yugi asked suspiciously.
"Well, I feel that you are still struggling to come to terms of what you have inside of you at times of need!!"
"You mean Yami!"
"Yes, him. He seems to want nothing else then to help you because you have solved the puzzle!"
"Well, I guess you are right!", Yugi remembered when his mind was looked into with the Millenium Key, it
was Yami that had made a number of locks in his mind so that Yugi was not prone to easy manipulation.
"I think you have to recover you millenium puzzle and start trying to understand its full potential and its past!!"
Yugi was silent for a bit as he mused over what his grandpa had just said and then he made his decision.
"You know grandpa, you are right. I think its time I understand what the puzzle is actually for and what it used
to be for!!", Yugi said as he ran a hand through his hair.
"I don't clearly know what is happening here, but I feel that it has something to do with the past, who knows
you might learn something when you do your research!!", Solomon said as he got up and walked towards the
end of the room where the new comic books had just arrived.
"You know Yugi, there is a lot you can learn from the past...a lot...but sometimes there is nothing you can do
to change it..you can only learn", Solomon said solemnly.
"Are you talking about Grandma?", Yugi asked quietly.
"No, Yugi, i am talking about....Taketome , my son and your mother, Estelle.", Solomon said as a streak of
pain passed over his face.
"Dad...Mom..", Yugi muttered the words. THey sounded very strange to him.
"As I have told you before Yugi, your parents had passed away when you were very young, I think when you
were around the age of five"
"Y..yes, you have told me that", Yugi said as he figured over what his grandpa was trying to say.
"All the time I have cared for you, I never lied to you except for once and even then, I didn't lie entirely..I only
withheld some of the truth from you!"
"What are you talking about Grandpa?", Yugi was sensing that the chat his grandpa had invoked had
something to do with the past.
"Yugi, the death of your parents was not natural....infact, they didn't die at all.."
"WHAT?", Yugi was astonished as he heard the last part of the sentence.
"Yes Yugi, as far as I know, they are still alive. Their bodies are gone, but their souls are still alive..."
"GRANDPA, what are you talking about? Without a body a soul is only there, unable to do anything until it is
release-", Yugi just had the shock in him that he had already gone into talking about spirits and whatnot
even before realizing what his granpa had just said.
"Yugi, calm down, listen to me.!"
"Ok,", Yugi forced back the threatening tears in his eyes and listened.
"Do you remember the time you started duelling...?"
"Against Seto Kaiba?"
"No, I mean, really duelling..!!"
"You mean when I arrived at the island and started battling?"
"Yes, thats what I mean, and if I am not wrong, you were believing in the cards.."
"But I knew that no battle could be won if you didn't believe in the heart of the cards!"
"Maybe so Yugi, but when you started battling all that was on your mind was to free my soul from the card
Pegasus held with him!"
"Yes, I remember!", the light started shining in his head as he put two and two together. "You mean that my
parents were caught in cards just as you were?"
"Their souls were captured, not caught, there is a difference. They did not accidently give their souls up, their
souls were snatched from them after they were taken prisoners. This time it was different, they were not
confined into cards like Seto, Mokuba and myself once were, but instead they were trapped in something else.
The original plan-"
"Who's plan?", Yugi asked his eyes blazing.
"Calm down Yugi, I will get to that part later on, but as I was saying, the original plan was to place their souls
into the water around a certain area and in the trees around. Then 'them' would be able to control your father
and mother to do their bidding and kill for them as well, but-"
"But?"
"But, something went wrong, some kind of ancient magic was present or so the jungle people say, and both
of their souls were somehow placed in two object of power. I don't know what, maybe it was a simple rock,
or maybe a bow and arrow, maybe modern weapons, who knows. But the thing is that these two power
weapons were swallowed by the earth and a prophecy's second part was complete. And to this day, even
though I myself have searched through the Jighar jungle, I have never found a weapon in the earth and can
only hope that they are still there, waiting for someone to come and use them to complete some prophocy..."
Yugi looked at his grandpa for a whole two minutes just to see if the old man was making a jest of some sort
just to get something out of him.. but Yugi couldn't find anything in his simple face that told him that this man
was telling him something of a lie.
Yugi's mouth was dry and he couldn't speak for a few minutes but then he finally plucked the courage and
spoke.
"Grandpa, do you...do you really believe in the..the whole prophecy thing??"
"I don't know Yugi, it always seems like a good idea to have some kind of confirmation that a part of your
child is somewhere in the world providing help. It is probably so that the whole thing is a local tale told to
little wide eyes children by the fire at night. "
"But do you believe that they might be still souls?"
Solomon sighed as he took his chair. "My boy, after you have been seperated from your body and placed in a
card, you are ready to believe almost anything. For all I know, this story is totally false because I myself was
not there when you parents disappeared into the jungle. The forest people came to me, thirteen days after
Taketome died and told me the story as they think it happened and as how the wood spirits say it happened!"
"I'm sorry grandpa, you really loved d..dad, didn't you?"
"Not only your father, Yugi, your mother as well. She was an angel and she made some of the most delicious
dishes I have ever had the delight to taste... "
There were a few moments of silence and then Yugi spoke again.
"Grandpa, what is the prophecy about?"
"I have no clue Yugi, all I know is that the man gave me some sort of riddle and till now it is still with me....
I'll show it to you!", with that Solomon walked over to the wall on the right hand side of the door and moved a
crate aside. Once done so, he pulled a hatch out, revealing a secret compartment with a second door on it to
reinforce it. Solomon opened the second door, it was a safe type, and then put his hand inside to take out
some parchment.
"There we go!", Solomon blew on the parchment and then took it over to the table and placed the light over
it, showing it to Yugi.
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"Um...is it just me or can I not read what it is saying on the paper?", Yugi asked scratching his head.
"No, Yugi, I can't read the stuff on the paper either. It is in some language I can't understand. I'll give this to
you.", Solomon handed over the parchment to Yugi.
"Thank you Grandpa, but I need to know what you mean about the thing you were saying about, l mean the
stuff about learning from the past.."
"Well, you see, Taketome had so much in his life to do and so many dreams he wanted to finish. He had said
that Estelle was his biggest dream come true and now he was on his way to get all his other dreams. They
had just started their travels-"
"Travels?", Yugi asked.
"Your mother was an Archeologist and your father was a Linguist as well as a Historian and thus he had more
than enough reason to go along with his wife. They were a good team, and their last destination was some
secular spot in the the Jighar jungle and that was the last I heard of them.", Solomon shook his head sadly.
"You know grandpa, someday we will get a chance to go to the jungle and then maybe, we might find the
bodies of my parents and maybe, we can give them a proper burial"
"I hope so too, yugi, I hope so! Now I think you better be going and reclaim your millenium item!"
"Right, thank you grandpa.."
"The parchment was nothing Yug-"
"For everything!", Yugi completed.
"Yugi!", Solomon smiled as he saw a new determination in his grandson's face.
Yugi went to the door and opened it to go outside, only to be hit full force by the eavesdroppers.
Mai, Taya, Tristen and Joey all fell on top of Yugi.
"HEY,", Mai yelled as Joey fell on top of her.
"Guyv, I'mv geffig cwushed unver here!", Yugi's muffled voice came through from the bottom.
All the four got off Joey immediatly.
"It was all Tristen's idea!", Taya said.
"My idea?"
"Well, i was just caught in the confusion!"
"Come off it Mai, you were the one who had her ear the most pressed against the door!"
"Well, I told you guys not to listen on them!"
"What, Joey you little whacked off obnoxious off kilter twitty liar!"
"See, the respect I get here is pathetic!"
"Well, because you are pathetic!"
"HEY, you wanna duke it out?"
"We all expected that to happen sooner or later!"
"Taya, why don't you go stuff yourself with pie!"
"I would except Tristen ate all of it!"
"I THOUGHT IT WAS A LEFTOVER!"
"YOU DON't CALL A FULL PIE A LEFTOVER!"
"You two are losers"
"Yeah well, at least I don't fantasize about tv goofs!!"
"HEY, HIMATO RIVEROYA IS A GOOD ACTOR"
"You mean he was acting?"
"Like you would know the difference!"
"Hey Mai, why don't you go back to smelling perfumes?"
"Because Joey, YOU ARE WEARING ALL OF THEM!"
"HEY! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING OVER ACTING DRAMA QUEEN!"
"HEY, ATLEAST I'M A QUEEN!"
"I TELL YOU THE PIE WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME!"
"YES, WELL IF YOU SEE A CAN OF PLAYDOH IN FRONT OF YOU, I BET YOU'LL EAT THAT TOO!!"
"NO I WOULDN't!"
"IF IT WERE LEFTOVERS YOU WOULD!"
Yugi simply turned to his grandpa with a very confused look on his face.
Solomon raised both his eyebrows at the row, but yugi only shrugged and waved, motioning that he would be
going on his way now.
"Oh, teenagers these days!", Solomon sighed as he picked his coat up and cautiously left the four squabblers
in the store as he went home.
* * *
Burata looked across the stadium as he saw the rising "Witty Phantom"* on the opponents field. He knew that
he would have to finish the phantom quickly before the opponent played a combo and became more powerful.
"You turn Burata!", the other duelist called
"Yeah, I know!", Burata pulled a card from his deck and then smiled.
Excellent, now I have the card I need to battle the cards face down on his field. First I will place the "Master
& Expert" * card on the field in attack mode and then I will place my warrior in defense mode with this magic
card face down to make him stronger. This will be so sweet!
"Ok, I will make my move. I first put this card face-down in defense mode and then another two cards face
down-"
"But you have no monstor on the field, meaning I can attack your life points directly!"
"I'm not finished.. now I play my card in attack mode, MASTER AND EXPERT come on!"
A sudden flash in the field appeared and the third field held a dark brown savage creature with blond hair
which had its tongue out also showing its pointy teeth. The master, a figure mostly dressed in red wearing a
light green scarf around his neck crouched beside the expert creature.
"HAH, what a stupid move. "Neo the Magic Swordsman"* , MAGIC SWORDS ATTACK!!"
"Not so stupid when I have a Ku-Nai-Whip chain to attack to my warrior card thus raising its attack and then I
played the 'Defensive Card' which raised my warriors defense by 600 points. Kojikocy ARISE!!", Burata yelled
triumphantly as he called the monstor in defense into attack mode.
The place where the warrior was to come up glowed in a white light and then nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The monstor failed to appear on the field.
Burata was confused, and afraid as well.
His opponent looked equally worried.
"Hinata, I call time out. There is something wrong, I want to see what!"
"I agree, we'll stop for now!", Hinata stepped down from his stand and came over to Burata's side.
"Look, I played my Kojikocy face down right here.."
"You warrior monstor!"
"Right!, Look I'll pick it up now....what the hell?", Burata swore almost before he had the suprise register
completely into him.
"You're right, WHAT ThE HELL?", Hinata exclaimed amazed.
"What do you think is the meaning of this?", Burata said.
"I think you were either ripped off-"
"But the figure was there when I purchased the card!"
"-or maybe there is something wrong with the place where you put your card!"
"Hmmm, maybe, you try a card!"
"Ok, I'll put the 'Dark Assasin"* "
The light in the field glowed and the white skulled monstor with a red eye on its forehead appeared. Its green
claws slashed through the air as it growled and then rested awaiting orders.
"Well, nothing wrong with the field!"
"Then what is wrong?", Burata wondered worriedly.
The card that once held Kojikocy was blank right now, totally blank, just a blank card with no indication of how
much the attack or defense of the monstor was. The picture of the monstor was gone as well and now only a
white blank space appeared.
The warrior had disappeared.
The only thing that Burata muttered was ,"What the hell!"
* * *
Kilani was walking home from her practice at the ballet when she noticed that she had put her shoes on the
wrong feet. As she bent down to correct the shoes she thought about the trades she had made today. She was
a very keen Duel Monstors fan and today during the breaks she had managed to trade for some very cool cards
She decided that she was going to check out her cards and have some fun looking over them. She put the
shoes correctly on her feet and then walked over to the nearest bench and took out five cards from her
backpack. They were some cool cards, but the best amonst them was the one called "Ryu-Kishin Powered"*.
The big armoured pink monstor with large black claws looked back at her in its gargoylish way.
She smiled and then put it beside her to pick the card the fell down. She got up again and took the card back
into her hand and to her horror found only a blank space there.
Ryu-Kishin had disappeared, and now only a white spot appeared in the place.
"What the heck?"
* * *
"Sssssssss, during the last couple of days the guard of the duel protectors has disappeared and thus allowed
me to release you creatures of Darkness and Earth then bring you under my control. You are all my servants..
no, loyal servants, who will do anything I want you to do, at any whim of mine. Can you understand that
Kojikocy?"
"Yes Master, you are my master and I am your servant, I understand. Thank you master for enlightening me
with your knowledge. Your power if large and I cannot ever hope to come anywhere near it. I will go master!",
with that the white-bearded warrior bowed his head with his sword in front of him and then left.
"Ah, the downside of being a master. None who can hear the whole story, only hear that they are my servants.
I ssssould be able to have a chat with some of my fellow monstors but they are all too afraid of my power..
Soon, he will have his soul torn apart as he did mine many millenia ago. So much time has passed, but he
will ssstil pay dearly.", a white claw flashed through the air as the monstor creature sliced a piece of meat as
it put it into its mouth letting the blood trickle down its throat and around its white claw.
"ssssooon, !!"
[* * * ]
Yami placed the golden goblets around the table and took out the apple juice and poured it until the goblet
was full. He wondered who was coming to his door right about now. He knew that his relations with many was
kept mostly at a business level. He was beginning to get suspicious when suddenly he saw the golden silk
dress the visitor was wearing.
"Mutsaya?", he wondered as he rushed to the door.
"Yami, my friend how are you?", the beautiful face stared at him as it asked those words.
" Mitsuya ? What..how...when..How are you?", Yami was obviously in shock.
"Yami, you still can't talk clearly unless you are in a duel!", the woman giggled as she walked in and brushed
past Yami.
Yami was thankful she walked past him because at that moment he felt his cheeks go red.
"What I meant to say is, where have you been all these years?", Yami asked as he motioned her to grab a
seat.
"Well, as I had told you before I had left, I was at Alexandria, near the nile. You are still as forgetful as the
last time I saw you!", Mutsaya said as she picked up the golden goblet and took a drink of the apple juice.
"Well forgive me if I didn't remember because I was in shock! You left without a moments hesitation!", Yami
said as he picked the other goblet and drank the grape juice in one gulp.
"Nile Bile!", Mutsaya said as she looked at him over the goblet.
The comment came so unexpected to Yami that he spat out some grape juice over the floor beside him.
"I guess you still remember!", Mutsaya said as she finished her juice.
"You little fiend. And right when I was drinking!", Yami said as he called for a servant to come and clear the
mess.
"Ha ha, you are still no better at insulting me back, Yami. You still are as Nile Bile.!", Mutsaya got up and
walked near the table as the servant came in and started cleaning. She motioned for Yami to come with her.
"I see you are in the same place...but this time in charge of it! Give me a tour of this place will you not?"
"Ok", Yami said as he took her arm and guided her to the end of the hall.
"Remember this room over here, Yami?", Mutsaya said as they stopped at a certain room near the stairs.
"Yes, we had a lot of good times playing in this room. After you left, this room was not a room that actually
invited me to spend my time in there anymore!"
There was a moment of silence and then they started walking again.
As they walked along, Yami finally ventured to ask.
"Mutsaya, why have you come back?"
"Can not a friend come back to meet her childhood friend, her best friend?"
"Maybe, but I don't think you are here for that purpose. I know you better Mutsaya!"
"Do you?"
"I did!"
"I will not lie Yami, you are right that this visit was not solely for the purpose of meeting you again, but it was
more for a purpose of great concern!"
"What are you talking about, Mutsaya?", Yami asked as they finished walking up the stairs.
"Yami, a great terrible things are happening. The kings have started to play against each other.."
"So? Those fools need something to keep them occupied!"
"But, Yami, the creatures are becoming very hard to control!"
"What do you talk about?"
"The creatures are not paying any attention when they are called!"
"How is that possible? If you respect the cards, the monstors will always listen to you!"
"But the problem is that the monstors are becoming more wild by the day!"
"Hmmm, I see."
"There is trouble afoot and you can sense it. I know you can!"
"You're right!", Yami said slowly as he surveyed his pyramid. He remembered how it had suddenly become
very heavy.
"But tell me my friend. Why do you come to my house to talk to me?"
"Yami,...it is more terrible than can be imagined"
'Such as?"
"Rumors of a war are spreading!"
"A war? Against who?"
"A war against the monstors!"
"WHAT?", Yami was spellbound
"A war against the monstors? How is that possible?"
"Yami-"
"Monstors obey you if they think you are worthy to duel.."
"Yes, I kno-"
"Every duelist has a desire in him to win, and every monstor he collects is precious to him.."
"True, the fac-"
"The monstors don't just stop obeying in a flash of the sun!"
"Right-"
"Something must be wrong!"
"YAMI!"
"Yes?", Yami finally stopped thinking to himself and payed attention to Mutsaya.
"Yami,..the Unsangthra..is free!"
Yami's eyes widened in fear and in shock as the meaning of what Mutsaya had just said.
"Uvagi!", Yami swore.
"I say the same!"
"What do you want of me?"
"I want you to start becoming the warrior you were destined to be!"
"Mutsaya, not that again!", Yami groaned as he started walking again.
"Yami, do not deny it. The legend of the stones say that 'one to duel' will be the downfall of the great evil!"
"Yes, I know the legend too well! But I am no warrior!"
"Not yet. But the way you have battled with your monstors, I can see the heart and soul of a true warrior!"
"Mutsaya.."
"Promise me Yami that you will come to the village tournament and keep an eye out for the Unsangthra?!"
"But.."
"For me Yami", Mutsaya said as she held Yami's hand between her two.
"Are you a duelist?", Yami asked.
"Yes"
Yami gave her a smile. A smile which he hadn't given for four years now.
"Then i'll be there!"
[* * *]
"Urgh." Yugi muttered as his brain started clearing up,
where is Mut..
"Ya man, ya ok?", a bald man asked Yugi as he lay sprawled on the sidewalk near the mailbox.
"Yes, I'm Yugi!"
"Ya well, i don a use for your name but wanta make sure you was ok ya!"
"I am.. fine.", yugi said as the man helped him to his feet.
Yugi stood unsteadily and then using the bald man's support balanced himself properly.
"Ya sure ya ok? I can a take ya to the clinic!", the bald man asked as he peered through his glasses.
"No its ok. I'm fine!", Yugi let go of the man and then thanked him.
"No prab man. Lata", the bald man gave him a peace sign and was on his way.
"I had another preminition!", Yugi said aloud to himself as he gathered his wits.
Yugi walked slowly and then started jogging to the shop where his millenium item was surely finished till now
"I have to get the puzzle!", Yugi felt that the answers would be given to him by the item.
He went to the store and gave a sigh of relief at seeing the owner still there. But he was cleaning up to close
and Yugi knew he had to get in fast.
Yugi opened the door and walked in.
"We're closed, go away!"
"Excuse me sir, but I left with you a pyramid with cement all over it and I really want to get it back!"
"Didn't you hear me, we're closed. Come back tomorrow!"
"But sir, this is very important to me, I really need it!"
The man stopped cleaning up and came to the counter and stood in front of Yugi.
"Why? Are you gonna steal it?"
Yugi was shocked. "NO sir, I'm Yugi Moto. I was the one to whom the puzzle belonged to!"
The man looked as if he didn't believe Yugi and this made Yugi come near to panic.
Suddenly the man smiled and thats when Yugi relaxed.. a bit.
"Your Solomon's grandson right?"
"yes sir!"
"I know the man, good guy. I was just kidding with you. I;ll just go and get your puzzle!"
Yugi's panic was swallowed and his relief was undescribeable.
The man returned in a few minutes and handed Yugi the puzzle.
It looked like it always did. A golden pyramid with the eye of Osiris in the middle of it. It was inverted when
worn around the neck and that was exactly how Yugi had worn it for all this time.
Yugi thanked the owner for doing a good job and then stepped outside.
He felt that now that he had his millenium puzzle back, everything would come to light.
He took the puzzle and felt the clean gold around it and then put the thing around his neck.
He felt that everything would become clear.
Everything would be fine.
Everything will be ok..
He was WRONG...
Very wrong.
DEAD WRONG!!
~ ~ ~
WITTY PHANTOM----[DARK] (Fiend) Dressed in a night-black tuxedo, this creature presided over the darkness. ATK/ 1400 DEF/1300
KOJIKOCY----[EARTH] (Warrior) A man-hunter with powerful arms that can crush boulders ATK/ 1500 DEF/1200
NEO THE MAGIC SWORDSMAN----[LIGHT] (Spellcaster) A dimensional drifter who not only practices sorcery, but is also a sword and martial arts master. ATK/ 1700 DEF/ 1000
DARK ASSAILANT---[DARK] (Zombie) Armed with the Psycho Sword, this sinister assasin rules the bad land. ATK/ 1200 DEF/ 1200
MASTER & EXPERT---[EARTH] (Beast) A deadly duo consisting of a beast master and its loyal servant. ATK/ 1200 DEF/ 1000
RYU-KISHIN POWERED----[DARK] (Fiend) A gargoyle enhanced by the powers of darkness. Very sharp talons make it a worthy opponent. ATK/ 1600 DEF/ 1200
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Ah! Another chapter posted. I'm sorry for the tardiness on my behalf. But I only write when inspiration strikes me and well I guess I didn't get much time to go on the net. So you can put two and two together. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was a long one and I think it has a lot of new ends that would need closing eventually. There are going to be chapters which will be very long from now on so I won't bore everyone with short chapters that will take like 20 chapters to do. But still. I am trying to do this as a book , but its takes a while. Whenever I get the chance I will include card data so everyone can know the card statistics. CIAO
P.S. email at dark_death2@hotmail.com if you have some comments of problems