"Hey guys, why are we looking around here? Yugi was sent to the Shadow Realm, remember?" Téa said.

"I can get us there! But we may not be able to make it, the Shadow Realm installs serious pressure onto a normal human body. You may want just me to try to find him," Marik said.

"No way, ya rat! You would kill Yuge if you had da chance!" Joey said.

"Let us not point fingers now, you guys! We have to save Yugi!" Bakura replied. "Marik, take us to the Shadow Realm."

"Seto! Wait! I want to find Yugi too! I was able to put off the battle city finals so we can take our time looking for him! I called Tristan and he's coming too, Serenity is coming with him! But she can't take her bandages out until tonight! Doctors orders!" Mokuba yelled as he ran down the street toward his brother. A few minutes later, Tristan followed with Serenity close behind. (How she could see where she was going I don't know... but that is beside the point!) Now that almost everyone was in that one spot, Marik used his Millennium Rod to open a portal to the Shadow Realm. (It's my story- and I can use millennium items any way I want!)

BACK IN THE POKEMON WORLD-

"Wow, this is fun!" Yami exclaimed as he placed his Typhlosion in the attacking position.

"We've been playing... all... night, Yami. Please, PLEASE, let us stop," Ash whined.

"But it's just so fun! NOW, TYPHLOSION! FLAME BURST!" Yami yelled, waking up Misty and Brock.

"You win, Yami. Can we stop playing now... please?" Ash wiped his eyes.

"Okay," Yami said, disappointed.

"Ash, why did you bring out your cards?" Misty asked, half asleep.

"Because I finally have someone to play with," Ash grinned as he packed up his cards and put his jacket on.

"These cards, Ash, do they depict images of real Pokémon?" Yami asked, as he looked at a card that looked very different from what the others did.

"What'cha got there, Yami? That doesn't look like a card I have..." Ash peered over Yami's shoulder, or around it because Yami is so tall, and saw something very unusual. The card was both a foil and a holo (yes, there is a difference), and Ash knew he didn't have anything like that. "T- t-that's the hieroglyphic, holographic, foil, ultra rare flygon card. Wh- where? How?" Ash mumbled to himself. How did this newbie manage to find one of the rarest cards in the world?

"I like this one," Yami said. He then pocketed the card and packed his stuff up too. "Hieroglyphic? As in Egyptian writing?" What Ash said just hit him, and he then questioned his knowledge.

"Not sure what it is, all I know is that they are little pictures that mean words," Ash replied.

Yami looked pleased with himself, and took out the card again. He read the card with ease, and read it well. "Flygon, the desert Pokémon," Yami mumbled. "Ash! I must get this Pokémon! Where and when do you think we can find it?" Yami yelled.

"Yami! Stoooop!" Brock whined, still mostly asleep.

"I'll check my Pokédex to see where we can get a flygon." Ash pulled the Pokédex from his pocket and looked up flygon. "Fly-gon. The evolved form of vib-rava. Fly-gon can be found in the Sand-storm Desert, east of Fall- Arbor and Lava-Ridge town. Though the appearance of fly-gon are rare and few, fly-gon's basic form, trap-inch, are very common."

"Well, Yami, looks like a month or two worth of walking to get to the desert. My next badge is found in Lavaridge anyway so we don't have to go out of our way to find it."

"Thanks, Ash. When can we leave?"

"After breakfast!" Ash's stomach growled. Misty and Brock slowly woke up, quickly packed up, and went down to breakfast with Ash and Yami. After they ate, they left and headed west, toward Lavaridge town and Fallarbor town.

"What's that?" A voice whispered from the bushes.

"I dunno, let's check it out," another voice answered. The bushes ruffled, and stopped the group, hoping to defend themselves if they were thieves or someone wishing to challenge them. A pair of people clad in red cloaks with skulls on top then appeared from the bushes and greeted the four travelers. "'Ello. We are-"

"Rare hunters!" Yami gasped. "What do you want?"

"We are Executives of Team Magma! Not rare hunters, you silly, silly boy. That item around your neck is most intriguing," the Executive continued. "May we examine it?" The other one added.

"Erm, no?!" Yami answered, distressed. Even here there was people going after his puzzle.

"Why not, boy? We are nice people! We mean you no harm. Now let meh see that puzzle," The Executive reached out and Yami pulled out Pharaoh. "Pharaoh! Thundershock!"

"Piiiiiikaaaaaaaaaachu!," Pharaoh shocked the short, sidekick Executive.

"That is uncalled for!" The short one coughed. "Go, breeloom! Use thief, now!" Breeloom took the puzzle from Yami's neck, and ran off with it as fast as it could. The two Magma Executives followed. "Let's see you get this relic back!" Yami and his new friends followed, Yami desperately trying to slow them down, but it was no use. They escaped with the puzzle, with only tracks to lead them to the thieves.