Disclaimer: Whoo… another disclaimer thingy XP hehe… anywhoot, I don't own Yu-gi-oh! Though I'd like to own the Chaos Mage, Yugi and Yami Yugi. ^^; This story is a Rough Draft.

When Two Souls Become One

By Zelda Martial*~

Chapter One: The Invitation --complete--

I wasn't expecting the something that I received in the mail just before I was about to leave for my afternoon classes. I was sorting through my cards trying to create a new dueling deck for the Duelist's Kingdom tournament. I knew I was going to go to this competition because I had placed second at the World Duel Monster's tournament that had been held in Japan. I had been expecting a package about it for quite some time, but instead, I had just received a handwritten letter from the Duel Monsters creator himself. It was a letter inviting me to be his guest of honour and to compete in a friendly duel at the end of the Duelist's Kingdom tournament. There were also three cards enclosed. Two of the cards enclosed were dueling cards; a ritual and a fusion card. The ritual card was called 'Special Dark Magic Ritual' and the fusion card was the 'Magician of Black Chaos'; two of the rarest cards in the history of the game.

I couldn't understand why these cards were given to me or even why I was given the invitation to duel against Maximillion Pegasus himself. I took the third card and noted that the card was of a castle. Written below the picture were instructions: "Come to the Washington International Airport. Someone will be awaiting your arrival. Upon your landing in the Duelist's Kingdom, present this card to gain entry into the castle.

I await your arrival."

I closed my eyes and contemplated about whether or not to actually go traveling across the world to Japan; to bare witness to one of the greatest dueling tournaments of our time. How was I got to explain this to my mother? She barely let me compete in the World tournament because it had taken place in Japan and she hadn't ever approved of me playing Duel Monsters to begin with. She thought it was like playing the Poké mon card game: a complete waste of time. The only reason she allowed me to play Duel Monsters was because it had been my father who had gotten me interested in the game (much to my mother's dismay ) and after he passed away, it had been the only real thing that I could remember about doing with my father before then. I was about 10 then and I'm almost 17 now. However, even if it wasn't for my Dad, I still would have played Duel Monsters till I died. My Dad's death just kept my Mom from telling me that I could no longer play, even though I was now seventeen. She still treated me like a child and all of my interests like garbage. She had never cared about what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go. After a moments more of silent meditation on the subject, I made my final decision. I heard my Mom enter through the front door so I quickly shoved my dueling cards and the invitation in my book bag.

"Hello Renee, heading off to class?"

"Yes Mom, just need to grab my lunch from the kitchen." I replied.

"Good girl." She then rustled her hand through my long ebony hair before I disappeared into the kitchen. I also grabbed a few other things, besides my lunch, before leaving through the front door with no intention of returning.