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**Introduction and the Mysterious Incident** --Chapter 1--

Yugi had just claimed victory. As evil never wins, they finally managed to win the shadow duel of masters. The person who defeated the world champion verses the creator of the cards. It was a formidable combination. However, Pegasus had failed to realize the full potential of the Millennium Items. It had backfired and as Yugi and his friends joined forces. After he drew his last card, his life points, for the very first time, went down 0. It was a close match, but Yugi triumphed in the end. And the shadow realm was trying to claim Pegasus. Then, something happened that neither Pegasus, nor Yugi could have even imagined happened.

The Millennium Puzzle started jerking violently as if was under the influence of some greater power, a power more terrifying and powerful than Pegasus had ever imagined. "The stakes have just gone higher. So Long, until next time!" a voice jeered, reverberating from the shadow realm as a dark figure blasted Pegasus and snatched Pegasus' Millennium Eye, "I may not have claimed your prize Yugi, but the games have just begun!" and then he vanished.



At the same time this was happening, Dr. Brandyman, the famous Egyptionologist was surveying one of the pyramids when he noticed two peculiar marks on a wall. He sat down, with his tools and examined the markings. Suddenly, the pyramid began to rumble. He stood there with fear and shock. Then, as abruptly as it had come, it had ended. And where the two marks one stood there was a giant gaping hole. He abruptly died of a heart attack when the pyramid doors collapsed and it would not be discovered in another 2000 years. The Egyptian curse had come alive. It translated: "Shadow Duel".

The castle began to shake and pieces started falling from the ceiling.

"Come on Yugi! We've gotta get out of here!" Joey Exclaimed.

"But we can't leave Pegasus like that!"

"Stop your jabbing you two!" Triston Yelled as he pushed both of them out of the door. The castle collapsed. But their troubles didn't end there. The whole island was trembling violently, as if it was going to sink into the abyss and remain undiscovered like the lost city of Atlantis. Every one was scampering wildly towards the boats at shore. If the aliens had landed this very moment, the duelists couldn't have cared less and the aliens would have gotten trampled, which might have resulted in an intergalactic war, but that didn't happen and Yugi and his friends ran toward the shore.

Dr. Brandyman's assistants were preparing a fresh batch of ramen noodles when one of them realized that the Doctor himself hadn't shown up in the last week. Reeling from their own stupidity, they decided to split up and search the pyramids.

The whole island went Boom! and everyone was flung up into the air and landed onto what remained of the island.

As Adam was checking one of the pyramids, he found that the opening was sealed off. He reached for his cell-phone but dropped down like a bird and was dead.

Yugi and his friends decided to checkout the smoldering remnants of Duelist Island.

"Wow! That explosion really shook up this island," Tea observed, pondering over a huge rock that used to be a waterfall.

"It gets even stranger!" Triston added, "All of the holographic projection systems escaped unscathed but all have a rock with strange inscriptions planted in the middle."

"Astonishing!" Joey burst out after he placed a card and the holographic projected his Red-Eyes Black Dragon. "How could these systems still be working when they got smashed?" But just then, the rock started to glow weirdly and started emitting energy. Immediately Yugi Millennium item started glowing too. Then it stopped and the dragon flew off into the sky.

It was chaos. Complete pandemonium. America's special War on Terrorism was cut short abruptly as a sudden newsflash from Egypt flashed on the screens of everyone's screens. Yugi's grandpa had been released, as Pegasus had promised. Unfortunately he had no recollection of what had happened and was fixing himself a cup of coffee when his television exploded.

"It's your entire fault!" Triston exclaimed as they were running, not only for their lives, but from being turned into fried shish-kabobs. Apparently the Red-Eye was hunting them down for supper.

"How would I have known?" Joey mumbled.

"Hey! If that card was turned alive, then couldn't we turn another card alive?" Tea reasoned, observing the wild goose chase. It was ridiculous. The Dragon was chasing them around a big rock. Apparently he had a brain the size of a pea.

"Yeah, and have another monster after us? No way!"

"Actually, Tea may have a point..."

256 of the world's best detectives were on the scene and 2000 news reporters were at the scene live to new headquarters.

~Buzz. We are currently observing the sudden deaths and disappearances of the world renowned Dr. Brandyman and one of his assistants. We now have a live account from his second assistant, Mr. Christ.

-So mister Christ... Buzz.~

Interestingly his third assistant is named Mohammed. Oh well...

Yugi decided to give Teas suggestion a try. They sprinted to the nearest dueling system, the one that Yugi battled Weevil on. He whipped out the card on the counter as the Red Eyes sat down and prepared to attack. It activated and not a millisecond too soon. The attack fired was fired and Joey thought they were doomed. But the card that Yugi had activated was unwittingly the...

Crash! Boom! Meow! Meow? Well anyway, Grandpa had ducked down behind the sofa just in time to avoid the glass flying all about. Some skills never leave you, as he relished over the fact that he had been to Egypt and had taking place in a number of fire fights, which of whom he had never told Yugi about.

"So, as I was saying..." Yugi tried to explain when Joey interrupted him for only about the two billionth times,

"It was awesome!!! The Red Eyes ate it up and then disintegrated, and it was a lot more realistic than the dueling system ever was!"

"That's not my point!" Yugi said, slightly annoyed, but perfectly understanding. The Red Eyes had fried the Man- Eater Bug and poked him with a giant tree. Apparently, Shish Kabobs were the dragon's favorite treat. So he swallowed it whole and then disintegrated as he threw up the man- eater Bug. Fortunately, he died to so they didn't have to worry about another card chasing after them. Suddenly, his recollection was interrupted by a thunderbolt that struck the ground two feet away from Yugi. He was almost blinded and would have been blinded if it weren't for the huge sheet of rock that was protecting them. They blinked and then fell down.

"Phew!" Grandpa sighed as he finished sweeping up all of the glass. During his expedition to Egypt he was on a tour when while they were passing an excavation they hit gold. They reached the room where there was another coffin and he found the box where the Millennium Puzzle came from...

"Now, on your left you will see the pyramids. we will be exploring those in the next portion of our tour. Please note that the gift shop is located to your far right and the picnic area is..."

"Boyoboy," Grandpa exclaimed, when he was younger and Yugi was only a tiny child, "I can't wait to see what that excavation project is about!" Back then, I was very enthusiastic about archeology and I couldn't wait to see an actual excavation. It was then they discovered the tomb.

"Wait a second! Everyone stop and come over here," the archeologist announced excitedly...

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NEXT TIME: **Into the Tomb**