Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.



Chapter 2



The Game Shop and the

First day of school

Pathy goes into the game shop and looks at the collection of duel cards. Wow, she thought, I've never seen a shop with so many cards!

"Hello," said a friendly voice at the counter, "How may I help you?"

Pathy eyed the old man curiously. "I was just wondering if there have been any tournaments going on." She continued to look at the cards as she spoke.

"No. Not yet at least." Now it was the old man's turn to eye her curiously. "I think I might know of a card that you might like." Then he started rummaging through a box behind the counter. After a time he came out from behind the counter. "Here," said the old man and gave her a card. "It's called the 'Dark Magician.' It should make your deck a bit better."

"Um, thank you." Pathy said, taking the card. "How much will that be?" she asked when a wallet appeared out of nowhere into her hand.

The shopkeeper looked at her hand with the wallet in it. "How..." He started but Patherine cut him off.

"Esp." She whispered to him. "Don't tell."

The shopkeeper nodded. Then asked, "What's your name?"

Pathy looked at him. "Shadow Cat." She replied.

He nodded again. "It's a pleasure to meet you Shadow Cat. I'm Solomon Motou."

"The pleasure is mine." Shadow Cat replied. I think I will keep my real name secret until the time is right, she thought. "Now, how much will that be again?"

"Hmm," he started typing stuff on the cashier. "$19.45."

"Okay," Shadow Cat said and took some money out of her wallet. "Here."

"Thank you and have a nice day." He said.

Then there was a loud scream. "I'm gonna be late!" yelled a voice. A door slammed, feet sounded down the stairs. Then some boy about half my size came running into the kitchen. He then said a hurried good bye to his grampa and ran out the door.

"That was my grandson." He said after the rush. "Oh! He forgot his uniform jacket again."

"I'll take it to him." Shadow Cat offered.

"Do you go to Domino High?" Solomon asked.

"I'm new there. But I'm sure he might be in my class." She said, took the coat, and walked out.

"Smell ya!" she said and walked to school.

Shadow Cat entered her class right before the bell rang. Whew! She thought. That was close! She looked around her class for the boy she saw at the Game Shop. She finally caught sight of him. "Hey, um, excuse me?" She asked him while he was talking with his friends.

"Hmm?" He turned around and saw his jacket in Shadow Cat's hands. "Hey, that's my jacket! How'd it come to your possession?" He asked.

"Your grampa told me to give it to you when you left." She replied.

"Oh! Thanks a lot!" He took the jacket and put it on. "By the way, my name is Yugi Motou. What's yours?"

"I'm called Shadow Cat." She replied, eyeing the people Yugi was talking to.

Yugi seemed to notice her looking at them. "These are my friends, Tea Gardener, Ryou Bakura, Mai Valentine, Tristen Taylor, and Joey Wheeler." He said, pointing at each one when he said their name.

"Hey, your welcome to join our little gang here." Joey said, looking her over.



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