When they reached there...

Yugi fell flat on his face. He felt someone box his ears. "Slave, come to the fields and work today. I let you rest; you kept on idling about yesterday, so you must work twice as hard today! The other slaves came quietly, but you? No!!! The other slaves are already working very hard!!! Now come work now and may Ra strike you down if you don't come," screamed a stout old man with a short goatee. "What? Where am I? Who are you?" "Do not act like an ass, child! Now come with me, or you shall be whipped!!" was the harsh reply. "Sincerely, dear sir, I do not know where I am." Yugi said quietly. "You leave me no choice," the old man said while reaching into an earthen basket. He drew out a long brown string, made out of camel hide and very tattered. It was a whip, a cruel whip to hit animals with. "I am not an animal," thought Yugi, "Surely this man shall not discipline me with it! It is probably for his-animal. Not me, his animal" Much to Yugi's fears, the man pulled back his hand and started whipping the short boy. About one hour later, Yugi was covered in blood and his skin was raw. The man, seeing that his work was done, said quietly, "Other masters treat their slaves more harshly than me. I am sorry that I did this to you but I had no choice. Tidy yourself up and fetch some water from the Nile." The man left the small room, leaving Yugi alone. "Nile?" thought Yugi, "The Nile River? Well, there's only one Nile River.and that's in Egypt. I don't think that they keep slaves anymore and when they did. Egypt was ancient Egypt. But that's impossible!!! I live in the 21st century. How the hell did I come back to the years before Christ was born??? Unless- that mist!!! It must've sent me here. But why?" Yugi groaned as he tried to stand up to get water for his 'master'. His aching, raw, red, painful body creaked after an hour of whippings. Still, Yugi Mutou struggled to get up and get the water from the Nile River; which- he later found out- was 3 miles from the house. He walked on, but found that there was a copper weight on his right ankle. Examining it even closer, he found out that it said the stout man's name and a number: 20 ØÎ

Wondering what it was, Yugi wanted to call his 'master' but thought better of it as he looked at one of the whip-scars. The man entered the room and he cast a glance at Yugi. "You have not gone yet? Must I teach you another lesson?" "No, no umm."whimpered Yugi. "I see that you have forgotten my name. Well, that is forgivable. My name is Excavitch, I am a traveler. But you not obeying my orders are unforgivable. I must teach you another lesson. I am sorry for you," Excavitch almost sarcastically wept those words. He slowly opened up a room door and led Yugi into it. He grabbed manacles off the wall and cuffed Yugi. These shackles were heavy and connected to a grey wall. Because these were so high up on the wall, the prisoner had to stand, almost tiptoe for Yugi. There Yugi hung, with chains on his arms and hands, his torso, his legs, and his ankles. "There a couple of nights maybe even a week or two hanging there. You'll learn a lesson: Don't mess around with Excavitch. "I have to get out of here," thought Yugi. His mind searched for a plan, but even if he had one, he couldn't escape; the manacles were tight around his limbs and he could hardly even move. As Excavitch left the room, Yugi struggled to get free, and then he saw it. The key, the metal key that was hardly one meter away from him. But he couldn't reach it. "Ah, yes," Yugi thought, "I'll let Yami do this for me. YU-GI-OH!!! Huh? I'll try again. YU-GI-OH!!! Hello? You stupid millennium puzzle!!! YU-GI-OH!!! This is just not working. Yami, you better get out or else I'll..!!! Yami, when I get out of here, I'm gonna whoop yo ass so hard you'd wish you were never born, boy!" Yami still didn't come out of the puzzle. Yugi yelled for Excavitch, "Uh.master, master!!!" Excavitch came running in. "What is it, slave?" "I have learnt my lesson, master." "Those who say that they learnt their lesson never have," squinted the bearded man. "I have, I have." "Fine then, but just to make sure I'll keep you there for two days more. And I also found another delinquent, incompetent slave. Here he comes. Dog!!! Bow down to your master!" he said to another slave. This slave was also chained to the wall, but his feet were chained, not to the wall, but to a clay mat with sharp thorns all over it. This slave whimpered as the master placed his feet on it. Once the old man had gone away, Yugi turned to the other slave. He seemed strangely familiar. His face was bloody and his blonde hair covered most of it. Still, when this boy looked Yugi in the face, Yugi turned his compassionate eyes toward him and began to realize that this person reminded him of someone. He couldn't remember who, though. It was before he was transported to Egypt. Suddenly, Yugi remembered who this person was: Jounichi Katsuya. "Jounichi!!! Jounichi!!!" Yugi screamed joyfully. "Wait a minute, I think I know you." His memory came back too. "Wait, you're not Egyptian! You're Yugi Mutou! So glad to see you Yugi, I can't believe you're in my dream!!!" "This isn't a dream, Jou," said Yugi quietly, "Remember that dark and really weird mist? It sent us back.to ancient Egypt" "I don't know Yugi, whatever you say." "Come on, we got to get outta here soon and find everybody else. But how to get out of here?" Yugi wondered.