Betrayal
Danny sat in the living room watching cartoons on the big screen. It was 8 in the morning and he had just awoken. He walked to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of soda and made himself a sandwich, not the healthiest of breakfast, but still, good enough. Danny began flipping through channels when he saw a news report on a building that mysteriously caught on fire. They showed the firefighters fighting off the flames and a girl yelling to her friends inside.
"Téa?" Danny said to himself as he watched the fire spread. He called up his driver and ran to his room and changed out of clothes and ran out of the house and into the car.
"Where to?" he said.
"Go towards the smoke, John," Danny said, pointing at the smoke that covered the sky. Danny turned on the TV and picked up the phone.
"Pegasus? You watching the news? I think we've found the person...." Danny said into the phone.
"We're as far as we can go," the driver said. Danny nodded and jumped out of the car. He ran through the crowd looking for the person who had caused this. Suddenly he caught sight of Bandit Keith. He felt an ice cold shiver go down his spine and through his blood. Someone powerful was here... someone or something did this. Danny quickly broke through the crowd and ran past the cops and into the building, ignoring their yells to stop him.
"Danny?" Joey said as he burst into the building.
"Hey! I've come to help," Danny said. Joey and Tristan were pulling on Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.
"How bout using dat odd powers of yours," Joey said.
"Can't, electrical equipment. I'll look around and try and seal off the electric stuff," Danny said, running through the blaze. Joey and Tristan picked up a metal bar and started banging on the hook and held the Millennium Puzzle onto the wall. Danny began to search around. Electrical stuff was everywhere. He ran up to the stadium and found Keith's deck.
"I might need this later on..." Danny said, pocketing it. He held his hands in the air and suddenly, bolts of electricity flew into his arms and absorbed every bit of electricity.
"Danny! We've got it!" Joey and Tristan yelled.
"Alright!" Danny yelled back. He quickly shot out some water and they ran out of the building. The cops helped Joey bring Yugi into the ambulance.
"Well, now that that's over..." Joey said as the ambulance drove away.
"Get in," Danny said, bringing them towards his car. They got in and drove off towards the hospital. They quickly got out of the car and ran into the hospital. They found out where Yugi was and quickly ran to his room.
"Bakura?" Danny asked, seeing Bakura standing over Yugi.
"Oh hello there, Danny. I heard about Yugi and got here as fast as I could," Bakura said.
"Well, Joey, Tristan, and Téa will be here any second," Danny said.
"Sorry, but I cannot stay, I have to get to school," he said, walking out as everyone else walked in. Every started to sit down to wait till Yugi woke. Danny noticed a bag on the floor. He picked it up and noticed it was Bakura's bag.
"I'll be back," Danny said to them, running after Bakura.
"Alright," Yugi said, waking up. Everyone stood up suddenly as their unconscious friend awoke. Danny quickly ran out of the door to get Bakura his bag and to also tell him Yugi awoke.
"Bakura!" Danny yelled, skipping as many steps as he could. When he reached the bottom, he found no one there but a doctor.
"Where you saying something?" the man said.
"Huh? Oh, no, just looking for a friend.." Danny said.
"Where is he?" Danny thought. "He didn't get that big of a head start and I could of sworn I saw him down the stairs. Oh well, he'll probably visit the game shop afterwards."
Danny ran back up the stairs to visit his friends, only to hear Joey and Tristan yelling at each other and finally stopping at Yugi's threat of taking away the Hospital food if they didn't stop. Danny laughed and drove everyone back.
"Pegasus? Yup, saw him a few hours ago," Danny said into the phone.
"What was he up to?" Pegasus responded.
"He was standing by Yugi."
"Probably trying to steal Yugi's like he stole mine."
"Then our fears have come true, Yami Bakura is back..."
The next day, they all met up at the Game shop. Joey was huddling over some cards in the glass cabinets.
"I wanna get that one, Gramps," he said, pointing at a card.
"Sorry Joey, but you're tab's full," Yugi said.
"You can always buy from Future Tec." Danny said, bringing some boxes with the Future Tec. Logo on it.
"New card's from the Company?" Yugi's grandfather asked.
"Yup, newest and some of the strongest," Danny said. "We even made some new booster packs, full of magic and trap cards."
"That's for me," Yugi said, ripping through the box. Yugi found the booster packs and ripped them open, all crappy magic. Danny laughed and open a pack of his own, reveling Raigeki, De-Spell, 2 Red Medicines, Dian Keto the Healer, Acid Trap Hole, Fissure, Change of Heart, Soul of the Pure, Remove Trap, and 2 Copy Cats.
"Whoa, that's some nice cards you got there," Joey said looking through them.
"Ok, so that's a discount price of 2 bucks, Gramps," Danny said, taking out all the cards and booster set.
"I'm afraid we're running out of room since you've provided all these cards from the factory," Gramps said.
"Well, that's cause you have advanced ones that haven't come out on market yet. I'll "accidentally" let it slip on the internet that you own all these cards and the store will be empty faster than Yugi can beat a novice," Danny said.
"Hey, I saw the Future Tec. truck outside," some boy said, walking in the store, "does that mean you have new cards?"
"Yup," Yugi said as the boy looked at all the boxes around the store.
"Danny, this is Thomas Cavern, Thomas, this is Danny Lam, owner of Future Tec," Gramps said.
"Hello," Danny said.
"You own Duel Monsters? And call me Tom," he said.
"That's me," shaking hands with Tom. Tom started to look around and pulled out the little money he had. He asked for the Launcher Spider. Then he looked at the Booster Pack Full of Magic and Traps. He looked back and forth, the card, the booster pack, the card, the booster pack and then down at how much he had. Danny saw Tom's problem. Danny took the card and booster from Tom's hands and grabbed another with all monsters.
"I've got it," Danny said, handing Gramps the money.
"Thanks," Tom said, ripping open the booster packs.
"So Gramps, what do you have to eat?" Danny said.
"Eat?" Joey said, sticking his head out of the boxes.
"Uh.... I'm not sure what I have around here," Gramps said.
"Well, how bout lunch in a restaurant or something?" Danny suggested. "My treat?"
"Oh, you'll live to regret that," Joey said, running outside. They all ran out of the shop while Gramps closed it for lunch.
"Get in, I got my license today," Danny said. They all hopped in. "Coming Tom?"
Tom smiled and nodded, getting in the car. They drove down to China Town and ate at Danny's favorite restaurant. They sat down and began to order, Joey and Tristan picking out almost 2 of everything.
"I'll be right back," Tom said, walking to the bathroom.
"So, what's the story about Tom?" Danny said.
"He's an orphan from the orphanage 2 blocks away," Yugi said.
"So, what's new in Duel Monsters?" Téa asked.
"An emergence with Kiba Corp may happen soon, specially since the goons he had were fired," Danny said. "Right now, he's working on a new type of projector so that you won't have to throw the disk to play a monster."
"I'm back," Tom said, sitting back down.
"And so is the food!" Joey yelled.
"I think we need a bigger table," Téa said, looking at the food the waiters were carrying. Danny nodded and pulled another table near Tristan and Joey's side of the table. The waiters placed the 500 pounds of food on the tables as Joey and Tristan pigged out.
"The tip is gonna be 10 times the cost of mine," Danny said, eating away before Tristan and Joey could get to it. Tom also had a lot to eat since they aren't fed well at the orphanage. After they finished eating and going around China Town, they went back to the Card Shop and Tom went back to the orphanage. Bakura was waiting for them outside the card shop.
"Hey Bakura, you missed lunch at the restaurant," Téa said.
"Yea, even Joey and Tristan are full," Yugi said.
"I've got your bag in the car. Wanna lift? I gotta take Téa home anyway, oh, and Tristan and Joey who fell asleep in the back are gettin a ride too," Danny said. Bakura nodded and got in. Joey was the first dropped off, then Téa, then Tristan.
"We're almost here," Bakura said.
"Yup..." Danny said. Danny suddenly stopped the car.
"What's happening?" Bakura asked.
"Don't try and fool me, Yami... I know you have the eye and I think you should give it back," Danny said, turning around. Bakura's expressions suddenly changed.
"Duel me..." he said. Danny nodded and they were suddenly sent to the shadow realm. Danny pulled out his deck, mixed in with Bandit Keith's. They drew their five cards.
"New rules or old?" Danny asked.
"Old," Bakura said, placing a card face down in defense mode.
"Lucky for me, I have almost all weak cards in my Hand and that means I don't have to throw all my good cards away when I destroy your Ancient Jar," Danny said, playing Bickuribox and 2 magic cards down and attacking the Ancient Jar and sending both hands to the graveyard and drawing new cards.
"I play Summoned Skull in attack mode and increase his attack points by 600 with Dragon Nails," Yami Bakura said, destroying Danny's card and bringing his Life Points down to 1500.
"I play my strongest card, Perfectly Ultimate. I play Gaia Power and Forest, Increasing his attack to 4600! I then play Ring of Magnetism and Destroy your Summoned Skull!" Danny yelled. Perfectly Ultimate began to glow as the Dark shadow realm began to bloom into a beautiful forest. Then sprouted a huge tree, Gaia, Mother Earth, blessing her powers to Perfectly Ultimate, who blew a huge gust of wind and sending Summoned Skull flying.
"First I play Fissure, destroying Perfectly Ultimate, and then I play Monster Reborn and bring Perfectly Ultimate back and under my control with the increased attack of 4100 because the field is forest," Bakura said.
"My strongest card!" Danny thought. Danny drew a card and pulled out the card he needed.
"This was brought to me by my good friend, Yugi! I play Kuriboh in attack mode and apply Multiply!" Danny yelled.
"Curse you!" Bakura yelled. "There's nothing I can do but draw."
"Then it's my turn," Danny said drawing. "I'm gonna make the Ultimate in attack increase! I play Ryu-Ran, Salamandra, 2 Horns of the Unicorns! His attack is now 4300! RYU-RAN, ATTACK!!!"
Ryu-Ran sent out a huge burst of flames from his horn and mouth, bringing Bakura's Life Points down to exactly 0. Suddenly, the Shadow Realm shattered as they returned back to normal. Bakura was knocked out on the back seat of the car and Danny found the Millennium Eye in Bakura's backpack and found the Millennium Ring around Bakura's neck.
"I do not need this stupid body any longer," Yami Bakura thought inside the body of the unconscious Bakura. Danny placed the Millennium Eye in his packet and threw the Millennium Ring on the passenger seat.
"Pegasus? Got it back," Danny said.
"Good, I'll come over and pick it up later tonight," he said, hanging up.
"Put it on!!!" Yami Bakura's voice rung inside Danny's head.
"Huh?" Danny said to himself, looking around, not recognizing the voice. Suddenly, the Millennium Ring flew into the air and the Millennium Eye came out of Danny pockets and circled around him. The Millennium Ring placed the string around Danny's neck and fell softly on his chest while the Millennium Eye landed in the middle of the Ring and stayed floating there.
"You are mine!" Yami Bakura yelled, choking Danny and transferring his soul into Danny's.
"What?!" Danny yelled as a black fog entered his lungs and took control of him.
"The Millennium Ring, Eye, and Crystal flowing in your blood is now mine!" Yami Bakura yelled within Danny.
"This is my body!!" Danny yelled, struggling for control.
"What's happening? Ooooh my head," Bakura said, in his small British voice.
"Bakura, run!" Danny yelled, throwing him out of the car and picking up the phone.
"What are you doing?!" Yami Bakura yelled, struggling to get in control once again.
"Pegasus! He's back and taking----," Danny tried to say but was sent far back in his mind.
"Pegasus? Don't worry, your eye has plenty of company now. Now, for little Yugi," Yami Bakura said, back in control.
"Yami...." Pegasus said to himself. He picked up the phone and called Kaiba and Yugi, the only people who can stop Yami Bakura.
"Now for some needed cards," Bakura said, picking up the phone and changing to Danny and calling the Future Tec Company. "Hello? I'll need some special cards for a duel..."