I am sorry that this took so long. And in this chapter is my first ever
attempt to write an actual duel and I don't know all the rules so well, so
it might be a little strange. Thanks sooooooooo much for the
reviews!!!!!!!!!! Especially anonymous reviewer Yugi Muto, who got me back
on track!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!! Notes: Malik=Marik Isis=Ishizu. Okay,
this is a really long chapter! (Like 17 pages on word!) All the chapters
seem to be getting longer, don't you think? Oh well! Now, on with the
story!!!!!!!!!!
*****Japan, 6 years later*****
A 13 year old Yugi sat in history class, his last class of the day, and let his mind wander to the events of the past. So many things had happened in 6 years. He now lived with his grandpa, his only family left. Tea was always there to support him, even more so after his parents died.
He hadn't seen much of Kaiba though. After That day Kaiba would avoid him, and then Kaiba skipped 3rd grade so Yugi didn't see him at all after that. But there were rumors. Kaiba's mom died a few months after giving birth to Kaiba's brother Mokuba and they both lived in an orphanage. Then in 7th grade, Kaiba started his own electronics company called Kaiba Corp. It was a huge success! So he used this success to give himself and his brother their own house to live in.
Yugi wasn't picked on much anymore. It was mostly because he was respected for being really good at the Duel Monsters Card game (even though he tried to stay out of the lime light), and because of his new friends, Joey Wheeler and Tristan Taylor. They both moved to Domino just recently. When they first arrived, about a year ago, the two best friends stayed to themselves and didn't really mix with anyone. They were the kind of people you didn't mess with. But, after a certain incident, Yugi, Joey, and Tristan became good friends.
(Flashback)
"What'd ya do THAT FOR!!?!!!" a bully shouted. He picked Yugi up by his neck and slammed him up against the lockers.
"It wasn't my fault," Yugi gasped, trying to defend himself, "You tripped yourself!"
"Are you calling me clumsy!!?!!!!!" the bully shouted, "Why I aught a..."
"Hey!!!!!!!! Leave the kid alone!!!!!" someone shouted. A blonde haired boy with a Brookline accent ran up to them.
"This is none of your concern!!!" the bully shouted, throwing Yugi down to the ground.
"You shouldn't pick on people!" the blonde shouted, pulling his hands into tight fists.
"You gonna stop me!? You and what army!?" the bully smirked.
"Him and this army!!!!!!!!" shouted another boy, who had suddenly appeared behind the bully. This boy had brown hair that stuck out in the front.
The new boy picked the bully up by his collar strait into the air.
"Now, are you gonna leave people alone?" the blonde said in a calm yet threatening way.
"Yeah, yeah!!!! Whatever you say!!!" the bully shouted with fear.
"Good," the brunet said and he dropped the bully.
"I hate people like that," the blonde commented, more to himself, as they watched the bully run down the hall.
The brunet turned his attention back to Yugi, who was sitting on the ground rubbing his neck. "You ok there?"
"Yeah," Yugi answered, pulling himself up, "Thanks."
"Nothin to it." The blonde boy shrugged his shoulders, and then looked back at Yugi. "Why was he pickin on you anyway?"
"He tripped over my book bag and blamed it on me," Yugi answered.
"Oh," the blonde said. Then as an afterthought he added, "My name's Joey and this here is Tristan. We just moved here and don't really know anybody."
"Oh, my name's Yugi!"
"Yugi? Where have I heard that before?" Tristan said, more to himself, "Oh yeah! I remember! Some kids were talking about how you and some other person were good duelists and arguing over who would win if you guys had a duel, being that the other person was the champion or whatever."
Yugi was surprised that other people talked about him, but was more curious about the two new boys. "Do you guys play Duel Monsters?"
"Not really," Tristan answered, "But little Joey here is just beginning to put a deck together." Tristan smiled evilly.
"Watch it," Joey said in mock anger.
Yugi laughed. He liked these two. "Well, my grandpa owns a game shop, and we have tons of Duel Monsters Cards!" he said.
"Really?" Tristan asked.
"Then we should go check it out!" Joey announced.
(End Flashback)
And the rest was history, as Joey says.
The bell rung at last and the students jumped up for joy and walked/ran out the door. The teacher shouted after them, "Read chapter 2 about ancient Egypt tonight! I'll see you all tomorrow!"
Yugi met Joey, Tristan, and Tea by his locker. (They all had lockers pretty close to each other.)
"What are you guys doing today?" Yugi asked them.
"Well, I have dance lessons today," Tea answered.
"Me and Tristan are goin to the arcade! You wanna come with us Yug?" Joey asked.
"Nah, I can't. I promised grandpa I would help out with the game shop today."
"Maybe tomorrow?"
"Sure!"
"Bye!" everyone shouted to each other as they walked out of the doors and started to walk home.
"Hey grandpa!" Yugi shouted as he walked into the shop.
"Hey Yugi!" his grandpa shouted from the back, where their house was. Grandpa walked up to the counter. "You have some chores to do."
"Great," Yugi said sarcastically.
Grandpa smiled at his grandson.
There weren't actually that many chores. All Yugi had to do was sweep the store and clean his bedroom. But cleaning his bedroom was a huge task in itself.
Yugi first separated the clean clothes from the dirty ones that were all over the floor. The dirty ones were put in the laundry hamper and the clean ones were folded and put back in his drawer. He picked up scattered CDs, shoes, and other things. He could actually see most of his floor again! Then he made his bed and then tackled the task of cleaning off his desk.
Yugi was sorting through random papers, homework, books, and other things when he found the ancient Egyptian box his grandpa had given to him way back in Kindergarten.
'I wonder if I should bring this into school tomorrow?' he thought.
He opened the box and looked at the more then half finished puzzle inside. He hadn't really felt a need to finish it, and with homework, friends, and chores, he hadn't really had time to. But now, he really wanted to finish it for some reason. He picked it up and started to try to fit some pieces into it.
As he got closer and closer to finishing it, he got more and more excited. He absolutely loved games and this puzzle was another game he had to figure out. But he also had a strange feeling that something was special about this puzzle.
Last piece! Before Yugi attached it, he looked at what he had done so far. The puzzle looked like an upside-down pyramid, but it had a hole in the center where the last piece would go. That piece had the symbol of an eye on it, the same symbol that was on the box. Yugi finally attached it. 'It's finished!' he thought in triumph.
But suddenly, the completed puzzle started to glow. It stood up on its point and the eye faced the surprised boy. The eye on Yugi's forehead started to glow once more. The light from the puzzle focused and through its eye, flowed to the eye on his forehead, filling the teenager with a new power. Now drained, the puzzle stopped glowing and fell back onto the desk.
Overwhelmed, Yugi also fell onto his desk.
Just then Grandpa peeked around the door, saw his grandson, and thought he was sleeping. He half-woke Yugi and led him into his bed.
The teen lie down and fell into a deep sleep.
Grandpa thought he saw something different about him but he just smiled and left. His eyes must just be playing with him anyway.
*****Ancient Egypt, 6 years after Prince Yugioh became Pharaoh*****
Yami sat in his chair, bored out of his mind! The priest was saying something, completely oblivious to the fact that the 13 year old Pharaoh wasn't paying attention at all! Yami wished he could be practicing dueling with the Dark Magician, but he was stuck here!
'This is so boring!' Yami thought, 'Why do I have to be here anyway?'
'Because you are the new Pharaoh and you have to know everything!' The words of the priests echoed in his brain. They had been telling him that ever since he came back to consciousness after That day 6 years ago.
Yami's memories of the day he awoke flooded his mind.
(Flashback)
He had opened his eyes to find that he was in his bed, surrounded by four Duel Monsters. Dian Keto the Cure Master, the Celtic Guardian, the Mystical Elf, and one Yami didn't recognize. She had long blond hair and was dressed in a light blue armor lined in pink. While the rest of the monsters looked serious, she was crying her eyes out!
"He's awake," Dian Keto said calmly.
"Thank Ra!" the Mystical Elf said, ceasing the spell she was chanting.
"You can stop crying now," the Celtic Guardian said to the forth member.
"What?" she asked, opening her bright blue eyes, tears streaming down her pink cheeks, "He's awake!?" She turned her eyes to Yami and rushed towards him.
"OH YOU'RE AWAKE!!!!!!! YOU'RE AWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed picking him up and squeezing him tight.
The 7 year old squirmed in her grip. "Let GO!" he shouted.
"I think you should put the Pharaoh down," said the Mystical Elf. The blue Spellcaster laughed a little at the monster's enthusiasm.
The girl monster set Yami into Dian Keto's outstretched arms and he set him back in his bed.
"He'll be just fine," Dian Keto said, "Now, I have to attend to some other patients." And with that, he left.
"Who are you?" Yami asked the mysterious girl monster. But she didn't answer. The Celtic Guardian did.
"I am the Celtic Guardian, this is the Mystical Elf, and this is the Dark Magician Girl," he said, pointing to each of them.
"The Dark Magician Girl?" Yami asked.
"Yes, she came to be your new guardian for the time being," the Mystical Elf said, "When she found you, you were unconscious, so she called Dian Keto to heal you, myself to help, and Celtic Guardian to guard us."
Yami thought for a little about what the Mystical Elf had said. "What do you mean my new guardian!!?! WHERE IS THE DARK MAGICIAN!!?!!!?!!!!" The young boy jumped to his feat.
All three of the monsters looked down at the floor. Surprisingly, it was the Dark Magician Girl who spoke. "He...He's not doing so well," she said quietly.
"Where is he?" Yami asked.
The Celtic Guardian looked at the Mystical Elf and she nodded her head. "All right, it's this way," he said reluctantly.
The Celtic Guardian led all of them to another room. Inside was a horrible sight! Many monsters were there, most of them hurt and wounded almost to the point of dying. The rest of the monsters were Spellcasters, Elves, and Fairies, all trying to take care of them.
The group walked down the center of the room, careful to stay out of the way, to a corner of the room that was blocked of by a hanging sheet.
Dian Keto walked out from behind the sheet and shook his head. Then he noticed the group. "Oh my! My Pharaoh! You shouldn't be out of bed so soon!"
"I need to see the Dark Magician," Yami said, cringing slightly when Dian Keto said "Pharaoh".
"He's...he's one of the worst of them," Dian Keto said, "Almost all of these monsters will survive, even though I know most of them wish they wouldn't. They had failed their Pharaoh." He looked down at the ground.
"Please can I see him?" Yami asked softly, close to tears.
Dian Keto just couldn't look in the young boy's face, but he answered slowly, "Yes, you may."
Yami walked behind the sheet and it took all of the strength left in him to not burst into tears. The Dark Magician's armor was severely charred and burned, exposing and sometimes melted to skin in many places. His skin was covered with bandages but the blood was still seeping through. He had several scars and bruises covering his face, hair burned and matted with blood. But he was breathing, weakly.
The Dark Magician Girl came in to join Yami. "Dian Keto said he will live. He can even make most of the scars disappear and when Dark Magician gets better, his armor will regenerate. Come now Yami, we should go."
And they walked out from behind the sheet to rejoin the other two monsters.
(End Flashback)
The Dark Magician did heal very quickly. All of the monsters did, except one. Yami's father's guardian... didn't make it.
The priests and the monsters had both told him of what happened to his parents. Heishin had somehow summoned the three god monsters and sent them to obliterate Egypt. He wanted to rule a new Egypt, one he would create after the present one was devastated. So he overtook his parents' guardian monsters and murdered the royals. The priests said that if Yami wouldn't have stopped him, he would have destroyed the whole world in his greed. (Somehow, the god monsters vanished when Heishin himself did.)
Both the monsters and the priests wouldn't let him see his parents. They said it would be too painful. But he did get to see them after they were mummified.
From then on the priest continually asked Yami what had ever happened to Heishin, and he kept replying with the same answer. He had no idea! He couldn't remember what happened! All he knew was that one second he was looking at Heishin and the next he woke up in his bed.
Seto had left after that day, taking his baby brother with him. He said there were too many memories in the palace. Yami hadn't heard from him since.
Yami had withdrawn from everyone, even the Dark Magician, but the Dark Magician Girl helped him out of his depression, whether she knew it or not. She did a very good job being his guardian but she also had a very childish streak to her. She LOVED to play jokes and tricks on the priests! Whether it was to make an image of a chair so they fall through it when they sat down or tap them on the back and then disappear, driving them crazy! Yami thought these jokes were kind of immature, but extremely funny!
The Dark Magician, on the other hand, didn't think they were so amusing. So the Dark Magician took her in as his apprentice in case anything ever happened to him again. The Dark Magician Girl didn't play as many jokes anymore, but she did get away with one every once and a while. Even a few on the Dark Magician himself!
Yami laughed out loud at a memory of when the Dark Magician Girl "borrowed" the Dark Magician's staff and accidentally set one of the priests on fire (who was quickly put out).
This caused the priest that was lecturing to stop.
"My Pharaoh, aren't you supposed to be paying attention!?"
"Yes sir," Yami answered. He was the Pharaoh, but by tradition, he did have to listen to his teachers.
The priest went back to his lecture. "Now, it is said that the Chosen One will help the Pharaoh save the world. It is also said that the Millennium Items will have some part in this, but that part of the prophecy has been debated for several years..."
Yami stopped paying attention again. Why would he need to know about something that hasn't even happened yet and might never happen? He unconsciously started to poke at the Millennium Puzzle that was hanging by a chain around his neck.
Since Yami became Pharaoh, he wanted to keep a personal eye on the Puzzle. Not that he didn't trust Malik, his nursemaid Isis, and their family to watch them, but the Puzzle was special. It was the main source of the Pharaoh's power.
"My Pharaoh?" someone asked.
'What?' Yami thought, 'I'm not in trouble again am I?'
"Yes?" he asked.
His nursemaid poked her head into the room. "There are some peasants here to see you."
Yami looked up at the priest. "I guess we are done today," the priest said.
Yami sighed as he followed Isis to the throne room. Many peasants came to seek the advice of the Pharaoh, even when Yami was still 7. Most of the questions seemed extremely easy to him, and with the harder questions he got help from the Dark Magician.
She led Yami to his throne and he sat down. Then she left.
The Dark Magician was already there and he brought the Dark Magician Girl with him. For some reason, the Dark Magician was soaked, head to toe! Yami gave the dripping sage a questioning look.
"Don't ask," the Dark Magician said, giving the giggling Dark Magician Girl an evil look. Then he magically dried himself with the help of his staff, but it didn't help his mood.
Yami laughed. "You can let them in now," he said to the guards that were standing by the doors.
The doors opened and two teenagers walked in and bowed. The first was a female. She had short brown hair and wore a long white dress with a pink cape. The other was male. He had blonde hair and wore a white shirt and white pair of pants.
'They're around my age,' Yami thought, 'and they look kind of familiar.'
He wondered about that fact, until they stood back up! All three faces showed signs of surprise and unbelief.
"What is it?" the Dark Magician Girl asked, confused.
Yami looked at the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician nodded. "We should go," he said to the Dark Magician Girl.
"Why?" she asked innocently.
"Um, because we should," he said, unable to come up with a better answer.
"But you said I could help out today," she pouted.
"No, you two can stay," Yami said, ending what he knew was going to be a looooooong argument.
"What of us my Pharaoh?" one of the guards asked.
"Yes, you may leave."
After the guards left, the teenaged girl was the first to break the silence. "Yami?!"
"Is it really you!?" the teenaged boy asked.
"Do you know these two?" the Dark Magician Girl asked.
"Yeah," Yami said, "Teana! Jono!" He stood from his throne and came down to where they were standing.
Teana and Jono looked extremely shaken by this! He was the Pharaoh after all! They looked about ready to bow down again.
"No, no guys!" Yami said quickly, "Don't do that! It's just me! Yami!" He smiled. He hadn't seen then in so long!
"But..." Jono started, looking over at the two Duel Monsters, then back at Yami, "We thought...it was some sorta...joke...and after all that time...you were...I mean are..."
"The Pharaoh!" Teana finished.
"Um, yeah," Yami said, slightly embarrassed, "I hated being locked up in the palace, with Seto and Malik, the only other ones there my age. Even then, Seto was always at Studies and I never really got to meet Malik until after... So one day I decided to put on a disguise and sneak out and..." Yami trailed off after that.
There was a kind of awkward silence.
"hmhmhmhmHmHmHaHaHaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The Dark Magician Girl suddenly burst out into a fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?!" the Dark Magician asked, slightly angry with her.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. *giggle* It's just *giggle* the looks on all of your faces! You should see yourselves! *more giggles* I've never *giggle* seen the Pharaoh *giggle* look so funny!" Then, after a slight pause, she started laughing all over again.
The group looked at each other again and, in spite of themselves, they all started to crack up! Nerves calmed and titles dropped, they started talking like old friends, even the monsters! And eventually they got around to why Jono and Teana had really come.
Jono's sister, who lived in a far away country with their mother, was sick and none of the healers could figure out what was wrong with her!
"Hmm, maybe Dian Keto could look at her," the Dark Magician suggested.
"That's a great idea!" Yami agreed, smiling at his guardian.
"Really?" Jono said, "Could you really do that?"
"Sure!" Yami said. This was turning out to be a really good day.
But suddenly, the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician Girl became very serious. "Someone's coming," the Dark Magician Girl said.
The three teens looked at each other, wide eyed. "We should probably get going," Teana said.
"Yeah," Jono agreed.
"You guys have to come back and we'll talk some more!" Yami said.
"Ok!" Teana shouted, "Bye Yami, I mean my Pharaoh!" she added with a laugh.
They left through the main doors just as Isis ran through a side door, followed by many guards and priests. "My Pharaoh!!!!!"
"Yes?"
She was out of breath. "A thief...has stolen...three of the... MILLENNIUM ITEMS!!!!!!!!!!" she shouted.
"WHAT!?!" Yami had heard that there was a tomb robber loose in the area, but he never would have suspected that he would be able to get to the Millennium Items!!!
"Which ones!?!"
"He took the ring, the necklace, and the rod before we became aware of him! Malik, Shadi, and several of the other priests and guards are searching for him right now."
"Wouldn't the thief go through horrible torture for even touching them? I thought only the "Chosen Ones" of that Millennium Item could touch them and survive."
"Yes my Pharaoh! That is what troubles me also!"
"Well, continue the search!" Yami said.
She bowed and then left, most of the group following her, a few staying behind.
How could this happen!! Those three items were some of the stronger ones!!! The Millennium Ring had the power to remove a human's soul, the Millennium Rod had the power to control human minds and free will, and the Millennium Necklace had the power to see the parts of the past and future and shield the powers of the Millennium Items so they can't be traced!!
Yami sat in his throne to try to think this through, but he was interrupted.
"I challenge the Pharaoh to a duel!!!!!!" someone shouted.
'Too much going on!!!!!!' Yami thought. Ever since Yami had become Pharaoh, he had been challenged to countless numbers of duels. Usually he loved to duel but right now...he couldn't think strait, much less be able to summon a monster!
Sensing his Pharaoh's unease, one of the priests took the challenge in Yami's place. Yami sat trying to understand how a thief could get the items, not really paying attention to the duel at all. His priest seemed to be winning anyway. But then...
"And these two combined monsters form the...BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON!!!!!!"
'The WHAT!?!' Yami thought, 'But no one has been able to summon that monster for several years! Actually, the only person I knew who could summon a Blue Eyes was...'
Yami looked over at the person who challenged him as that person ordered the Blue Eyes to destroy his opponent's monster. After the successful attack, the challenger sent the loser to the Shadow Realm.
Yami jumped up. "NO!!!!!" he shouted, "SETO!"
"That's right Yugioh!" Seto shouted, "I'm here to take that Puzzle away from you!"
"My Puzzle!?" Yami shouted, shocked, grabbing onto the puzzle's chain instinctively.
"Yes," Seto sneered, "I need it in my quest for the ULTIMATE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Seto," Yami said sadly, "What happened to you?" He looked into Seto's cold dark eyes that seemed dead to any emotion or feeling. How could this be the Seto he knew as a child?
Seto only grinned in return. "You've stopped me once Pharaoh, you will not do it again!" he said in a voice that was not his.
"What are you talking about?!" Yami asked.
Then, for a brief moment, Seto's eyes flashed to a lighter shade, a look of pure terror held within them. Then a cold purple shade overtook the blue and Seto continued to grin.
'What was that!?!!' Yami thought, 'Those eyes, could it be?'
"You're not Seto, are you?" Yami growled, pure hatred ringing through his voice.
'Seto's' grin widened.
Yami hadn't seen those evil calculating eyes for 6 years and now here they were, coming from his own apprentice. "Heishin," he hissed.
"Not quite," Seto said, "Just a simple spell placed on little Seto here."
"You monster!" cried the Dark Magician Girl, who up until then had been silent.
"Quite an interesting insult coming FROM a monster," Seto sneered.
The Dark Magician Girl charged for an attack, but the Dark Magician held up his arm stopping her. She looked up at him with questioning eyes, and saw her tutor trembling with rage, magic emanating from his entire body. She could tell that it was taking all of his control not to attack without his master's say.
But he didn't have to wait long. "DARK MAGICIAN!" Yami shouted.
The Dark Magician shot his Dark Magic Attack out of his staff strait at Seto. But at the last moment, a great white wing shielded the blast.
"You have to do better than that," Seto taunted, as Blue Eyes withdrew its wing. "This is a Duel after all."
'He's right!' Yami thought, 'Blue Eyes is one of the strongest Monsters out there! I have to make Dark Magician stronger, somehow.'
"Too late!" Seto announced, "Blue Eyes, White Lightning Attack."
"NO!!!! DARK MAGICIAN!!!!!!!!!!!" Yami screamed, "MAGICAL HATS!!!!!"
The Dark Magician was instantly covered by a hat, and that hat split into three others, one of which was destroyed by the dragon's attack.
"Trying to buy some time Pharaoh?" Seto said, "It won't last long."
'What can I do now?' Yami thought. He looked down at the remaining three stone tablets that were in front of him, that served as his "Dueling Cards". A fourth appeared as he drew another card. He examined the tablets carefully. There were two cards there that could help!
"Book of Secret Arts!" he said, "And Sword of Dark Destruction!"
A book suddenly appeared out of thin air and began to drop before the Dark Magician Girl grabbed it. The sword appeared within the hat the Dark Magician was hidden in and he grabbed it and held it ready.
"That makes Dark Magician and Blue Eyes even with each other so I'll play Dragon Treasure to raise his attack level by 300 points to 3300! But the Dark Magician is still hidden within the Magical Hats it would be pointless to attack him, but not the Dark Magician Girl! Blue Eyes!"
The white dragon sent a white energy blast strait towards the female mage. Her eyes widened with fear.
"Waboku!" Yami shouted.
The three blue clad women appeared in front of the Dark Magician Girl and absorbed the attack. The Dark Magician Girl gave a huge sigh of relief as the three women smiled at her and then quickly vanished.
Seto growled. "The card can only be used once. You'll have nothing to protect them next turn!"
Yami studied his remaining two tablets. Korebo wouldn't be any help but De- Spell could help remove the Dragon Treasure Seto placed on Blue Eyes. But that would make Blue Eyes and Dark Magician again. 'I need a card that will either make the Dark Magician stronger or the Blue Eyes weaker,' he thought, and he finally drew a card.
"That will work," he said.
"What are you mumbling about!?" Seto shouted, "Play a pathetic card already!"
"First I'll play, De-Spell! To remove the magic card Dragon Treasure, bringing Blue Eyes' ATK points back down to 3000!"
"That just makes Dark Magician and Blue Eyes the same strength again!" Seto shouted.
"And now I play, this Magic Card!"
Darkness suddenly covered the entire room, wrapping it in shadow, with a hint of dark purple light shinning from some unknown source.
"What is going on!?" Seto yelled. He stood close to his glowing white dragon that shone in the darkness. "Are we in the Shadow Realm?"
"No," Yami answered from somewhere within the room, "I just used the field card, Yami, which covers the playing field in near complete darkness."
Seto scowled. "Using a card named after yourself," he grumbled, "I'll find you and destroy you Yami!"
"It's already to late," Yami said, "Dark Magician? Dark Magic Attack!"
A ball of dark purple light grew within the darkness and was shot strait at Blue Eyes. The dragon screamed in pain and disappeared, sent to the Monster Graveyard.
"How could this happen!?" Seto screamed as the darkness faded, "They had the same attack level!"
"Not quite," Yami answered, "The field card Yami not only shrouds the field with darkness, but it also gives all Fiend and Spellcaster-Type monsters a 200 point bonus, making Dark Magician stronger than Blue Eyes. And now, to bring back the REAL Seto..." Yami held out his hand, calling upon the power of the puzzle, "OPEN YOUR MIND!"
"NO!!!!!!!!!!!" Seto screamed. Then suddenly, he was fine. "What happened? Where am I? Yami? How did I get here?" Seto was truly confused.
"Is that really you Seto?" Yami asked.
"Who else would it be!?" Seto shouted, a little irritated at the stupidity of the Pharaoh's question.
Yami smiled. Seto was back!
"STOP THEIF!!!!!!!!!" a new voice shouted, surprising Yami, Seto, and the two mages. Two men quickly ran into the throne room, followed by several guards and Isis. The guards that were still in the throne room surrounded the first man.
"NO!" he shouted. He struggled against the guards' grip, long white hair flying, but to no avail. He ceased his struggling to glare at the second man with his dark eyes.
That man only grinned back. "The great tomb robber Bakura has been captured!" he said in triumph.
If looks could kill, the second man would be dead 10 times over.
"Malik," Yami asked the second man, "Is this the thief that stole the Millennium Items?"
"Yes my Pharaoh," Malik answered, grinning ear to ear, pale lavender eyes shining, "See for yourself."
On a leather strap tied around the tomb robber's neck was the Millennium Ring, and he held the Millennium Necklace in his hand.
"Where's the Millennium Rod?" Yami asked, watching the robber carefully. He seemed murderous, especially towards Malik.
"The Millennium Rod is missing?" Malik asked.
"Yes," Isis answered, "It was missing along with Ring and Necklace."
"Where did you hide it, you piece of filth!" one of the guards shouted.
Bakura clenched his teeth then spit on the guard.
Losing his tempers, after chasing this street rat all over the palace and now to be insulted by him (in front of the Pharaoh!), the guard punched Bakura, as hard as he could, right in the stomach.
"Hey! No need for that!" Yami shouted angrily.
The other guards dropped Bakura's arms and he fell to the ground, doubled over in pain. He glared up at the surrounding group. Then, suddenly, he jumped to his feet and ran towards Malik, pulling out a dagger that he had hidden in his robes.
"Stop him!" Malik shouted in fear.
This made Bakura run faster and he attacked Malik.
The guards started to move, but the Dark Magician was faster. Just as Bakura was about to stab Malik in the chest, he was able to move him back, so Bakura missed.
Still, a long slit formed in the front of Malik's robe. Bakura grinned in success just before the guards pounced on him.
Malik's eyes were wide in terror! So were everyone else's!
Then Yami noticed something golden sticking out of Malik's robe. "What's that?" he asked.
Malik looked at the slit and his eyes became wider (if possible!) and he tried to cover the gold up but it ended up falling out of his robe instead.
"What is that?" the Dark Magician Girl asked.
"It's the Millennium Rod!" shouted Yami, Isis, Seto, and Bakura, first three in surprise, Bakura in fact.
"Malik?" Isis asked her younger brother in disbelief.
Malik scowled at Bakura. "Traitor," he said under his breath.
"Who betrayed who first?" Bakura asked.
"What?" Yami asked.
"He said that he would give me the ultimate treasure if I helped him with a "certain task"," Bakura said, grinning as he watched Malik become more and more upset.
"GUARDS!!!!!!!!!! Gag this liar's mouth!!!!!!" Malik shouted.
"NO!" Yami commanded, "Let us see what he has to say." Yami raised his eyebrow at Malik.
Bakura continued, truly enjoying the death look he was getting from Malik, "So I get the three god monster tablets and then this baka priest told me he was going to pay up. The stupid fool was grinning the whole way until we finally arrived to where the items were and still as I reached to grab one. I wondered what he was getting a big kick out of, but after I picked up this ring here, he looked like he'd seen a ghost. I picked up this necklace and he got paler. He was mumbling to himself when that girl walks in." Bakura pointed to Isis.
"She stops and her eyes get wide and she starts to mumble too, but I could hear her. "How could he hold the Millennium Ring and Necklace and not die!" Now I'm catching on! This idiot thought he could just have me touch the items, then I'd die and he'd be done with me. No one betrays Bakura! So I figured I'd just kill him right there and then but the girl had already called tons of these bruits." He pointed to the guards.
"As I'm running I look back and see this baka stuff the staff-looking thing in his robe. Guess he figured no one would notice it was missing until after I was killed for the crime. Then we ran in here and I'm sure you know the rest," Bakura finished, grinning.
Malik was furious! But he wasn't the only one!
"MALIK!!!!!!!!" Yami screamed, "GUARDS SEIZE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Malik screamed, and in a sudden burst of magic, the guards surrounding him flew across the room. The furious priest breathed heavily with a mad look in his eyes, magic emanating from his body. "I'll finish what Heishin started 6 years ago, beginning with the death of the Pharaoh!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, Yami's eyes rolled back into his head and shut, but he remained standing. Then the golden eye symbol appeared on his forehead and when he reopened his eyes, they were pure gold, not unlike what Heishin had seen in his last minutes from a younger version of the Pharaoh.
The teen Pharaoh's eyes shinned brightly as he said with an unfamiliar voice, "I am not that easy to kill!"
Malik sent a wave of magic that knocked out all of the guards and Seto but it was simply blocked when it came near Yami, Isis, Bakura, and the Duel Monsters, by the magic they contained themselves.
Then Malik came up with a better plan. He started to chant something very softly.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Yami and Bakura, both grabbing their chests in pain.
"What's going on!?!?!?!" Dark Magician Girl shouted at Dark Magician in distress. She kneeled next to her Master and her Pharaoh as they both fell to their knees in pain.
"Malik is....trying to kill Yami by...sucking his life force...out of his body...and into the Shadow Realm...using the Millennium Item." The Dark Magician was struggling to speak through clenched teeth, sweat dripping down his face, eyes squeezed shut, and arms held out. "I'm trying to stop him!"
Malik finished chanting and shouted, "BOTH OF YOU, DIE!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Not...by...our...SELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Bakura shouted. Using the last of his energy, he jumped and slid across the floor, kicking the Millennium Rod up to hit Malik in the arm, at the same time, chucking the Millennium Necklace at Isis, hitting her on the shoulder.
They both screamed in agony.
Then, they all disappeared!!!!!! Malik, Isis, Bakura, and finally, Yami, leaving the Items behind!! The Millennium Items fell, clattering on the floor, the Millennium Puzzle landing and breaking into a million different pieces, scattering across the floor.
"WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dark Magician Girl screamed, staring at the spot where her Pharaoh once was.
"They're...gone," Dark Magician said, tired and defeated, "But not dead. Their souls, instead of being sent to the Shadow Realm and torn to pieces, are trapped within the Millennium Items themselves."
"Well, can we get the Pharaoh out!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!"
"No." The Dark Magician shook his head. "Only the Chosen ones can get them out now."
Hey! The next chapter is already halfway typed (since I had writers block for the longest time on this chapter, I started on that one) so it shouldn't take that long to finish it. Please review! Three new reviews till next chapter. Until the next chappy, Bye now!
*****Japan, 6 years later*****
A 13 year old Yugi sat in history class, his last class of the day, and let his mind wander to the events of the past. So many things had happened in 6 years. He now lived with his grandpa, his only family left. Tea was always there to support him, even more so after his parents died.
He hadn't seen much of Kaiba though. After That day Kaiba would avoid him, and then Kaiba skipped 3rd grade so Yugi didn't see him at all after that. But there were rumors. Kaiba's mom died a few months after giving birth to Kaiba's brother Mokuba and they both lived in an orphanage. Then in 7th grade, Kaiba started his own electronics company called Kaiba Corp. It was a huge success! So he used this success to give himself and his brother their own house to live in.
Yugi wasn't picked on much anymore. It was mostly because he was respected for being really good at the Duel Monsters Card game (even though he tried to stay out of the lime light), and because of his new friends, Joey Wheeler and Tristan Taylor. They both moved to Domino just recently. When they first arrived, about a year ago, the two best friends stayed to themselves and didn't really mix with anyone. They were the kind of people you didn't mess with. But, after a certain incident, Yugi, Joey, and Tristan became good friends.
(Flashback)
"What'd ya do THAT FOR!!?!!!" a bully shouted. He picked Yugi up by his neck and slammed him up against the lockers.
"It wasn't my fault," Yugi gasped, trying to defend himself, "You tripped yourself!"
"Are you calling me clumsy!!?!!!!!" the bully shouted, "Why I aught a..."
"Hey!!!!!!!! Leave the kid alone!!!!!" someone shouted. A blonde haired boy with a Brookline accent ran up to them.
"This is none of your concern!!!" the bully shouted, throwing Yugi down to the ground.
"You shouldn't pick on people!" the blonde shouted, pulling his hands into tight fists.
"You gonna stop me!? You and what army!?" the bully smirked.
"Him and this army!!!!!!!!" shouted another boy, who had suddenly appeared behind the bully. This boy had brown hair that stuck out in the front.
The new boy picked the bully up by his collar strait into the air.
"Now, are you gonna leave people alone?" the blonde said in a calm yet threatening way.
"Yeah, yeah!!!! Whatever you say!!!" the bully shouted with fear.
"Good," the brunet said and he dropped the bully.
"I hate people like that," the blonde commented, more to himself, as they watched the bully run down the hall.
The brunet turned his attention back to Yugi, who was sitting on the ground rubbing his neck. "You ok there?"
"Yeah," Yugi answered, pulling himself up, "Thanks."
"Nothin to it." The blonde boy shrugged his shoulders, and then looked back at Yugi. "Why was he pickin on you anyway?"
"He tripped over my book bag and blamed it on me," Yugi answered.
"Oh," the blonde said. Then as an afterthought he added, "My name's Joey and this here is Tristan. We just moved here and don't really know anybody."
"Oh, my name's Yugi!"
"Yugi? Where have I heard that before?" Tristan said, more to himself, "Oh yeah! I remember! Some kids were talking about how you and some other person were good duelists and arguing over who would win if you guys had a duel, being that the other person was the champion or whatever."
Yugi was surprised that other people talked about him, but was more curious about the two new boys. "Do you guys play Duel Monsters?"
"Not really," Tristan answered, "But little Joey here is just beginning to put a deck together." Tristan smiled evilly.
"Watch it," Joey said in mock anger.
Yugi laughed. He liked these two. "Well, my grandpa owns a game shop, and we have tons of Duel Monsters Cards!" he said.
"Really?" Tristan asked.
"Then we should go check it out!" Joey announced.
(End Flashback)
And the rest was history, as Joey says.
The bell rung at last and the students jumped up for joy and walked/ran out the door. The teacher shouted after them, "Read chapter 2 about ancient Egypt tonight! I'll see you all tomorrow!"
Yugi met Joey, Tristan, and Tea by his locker. (They all had lockers pretty close to each other.)
"What are you guys doing today?" Yugi asked them.
"Well, I have dance lessons today," Tea answered.
"Me and Tristan are goin to the arcade! You wanna come with us Yug?" Joey asked.
"Nah, I can't. I promised grandpa I would help out with the game shop today."
"Maybe tomorrow?"
"Sure!"
"Bye!" everyone shouted to each other as they walked out of the doors and started to walk home.
"Hey grandpa!" Yugi shouted as he walked into the shop.
"Hey Yugi!" his grandpa shouted from the back, where their house was. Grandpa walked up to the counter. "You have some chores to do."
"Great," Yugi said sarcastically.
Grandpa smiled at his grandson.
There weren't actually that many chores. All Yugi had to do was sweep the store and clean his bedroom. But cleaning his bedroom was a huge task in itself.
Yugi first separated the clean clothes from the dirty ones that were all over the floor. The dirty ones were put in the laundry hamper and the clean ones were folded and put back in his drawer. He picked up scattered CDs, shoes, and other things. He could actually see most of his floor again! Then he made his bed and then tackled the task of cleaning off his desk.
Yugi was sorting through random papers, homework, books, and other things when he found the ancient Egyptian box his grandpa had given to him way back in Kindergarten.
'I wonder if I should bring this into school tomorrow?' he thought.
He opened the box and looked at the more then half finished puzzle inside. He hadn't really felt a need to finish it, and with homework, friends, and chores, he hadn't really had time to. But now, he really wanted to finish it for some reason. He picked it up and started to try to fit some pieces into it.
As he got closer and closer to finishing it, he got more and more excited. He absolutely loved games and this puzzle was another game he had to figure out. But he also had a strange feeling that something was special about this puzzle.
Last piece! Before Yugi attached it, he looked at what he had done so far. The puzzle looked like an upside-down pyramid, but it had a hole in the center where the last piece would go. That piece had the symbol of an eye on it, the same symbol that was on the box. Yugi finally attached it. 'It's finished!' he thought in triumph.
But suddenly, the completed puzzle started to glow. It stood up on its point and the eye faced the surprised boy. The eye on Yugi's forehead started to glow once more. The light from the puzzle focused and through its eye, flowed to the eye on his forehead, filling the teenager with a new power. Now drained, the puzzle stopped glowing and fell back onto the desk.
Overwhelmed, Yugi also fell onto his desk.
Just then Grandpa peeked around the door, saw his grandson, and thought he was sleeping. He half-woke Yugi and led him into his bed.
The teen lie down and fell into a deep sleep.
Grandpa thought he saw something different about him but he just smiled and left. His eyes must just be playing with him anyway.
*****Ancient Egypt, 6 years after Prince Yugioh became Pharaoh*****
Yami sat in his chair, bored out of his mind! The priest was saying something, completely oblivious to the fact that the 13 year old Pharaoh wasn't paying attention at all! Yami wished he could be practicing dueling with the Dark Magician, but he was stuck here!
'This is so boring!' Yami thought, 'Why do I have to be here anyway?'
'Because you are the new Pharaoh and you have to know everything!' The words of the priests echoed in his brain. They had been telling him that ever since he came back to consciousness after That day 6 years ago.
Yami's memories of the day he awoke flooded his mind.
(Flashback)
He had opened his eyes to find that he was in his bed, surrounded by four Duel Monsters. Dian Keto the Cure Master, the Celtic Guardian, the Mystical Elf, and one Yami didn't recognize. She had long blond hair and was dressed in a light blue armor lined in pink. While the rest of the monsters looked serious, she was crying her eyes out!
"He's awake," Dian Keto said calmly.
"Thank Ra!" the Mystical Elf said, ceasing the spell she was chanting.
"You can stop crying now," the Celtic Guardian said to the forth member.
"What?" she asked, opening her bright blue eyes, tears streaming down her pink cheeks, "He's awake!?" She turned her eyes to Yami and rushed towards him.
"OH YOU'RE AWAKE!!!!!!! YOU'RE AWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed picking him up and squeezing him tight.
The 7 year old squirmed in her grip. "Let GO!" he shouted.
"I think you should put the Pharaoh down," said the Mystical Elf. The blue Spellcaster laughed a little at the monster's enthusiasm.
The girl monster set Yami into Dian Keto's outstretched arms and he set him back in his bed.
"He'll be just fine," Dian Keto said, "Now, I have to attend to some other patients." And with that, he left.
"Who are you?" Yami asked the mysterious girl monster. But she didn't answer. The Celtic Guardian did.
"I am the Celtic Guardian, this is the Mystical Elf, and this is the Dark Magician Girl," he said, pointing to each of them.
"The Dark Magician Girl?" Yami asked.
"Yes, she came to be your new guardian for the time being," the Mystical Elf said, "When she found you, you were unconscious, so she called Dian Keto to heal you, myself to help, and Celtic Guardian to guard us."
Yami thought for a little about what the Mystical Elf had said. "What do you mean my new guardian!!?! WHERE IS THE DARK MAGICIAN!!?!!!?!!!!" The young boy jumped to his feat.
All three of the monsters looked down at the floor. Surprisingly, it was the Dark Magician Girl who spoke. "He...He's not doing so well," she said quietly.
"Where is he?" Yami asked.
The Celtic Guardian looked at the Mystical Elf and she nodded her head. "All right, it's this way," he said reluctantly.
The Celtic Guardian led all of them to another room. Inside was a horrible sight! Many monsters were there, most of them hurt and wounded almost to the point of dying. The rest of the monsters were Spellcasters, Elves, and Fairies, all trying to take care of them.
The group walked down the center of the room, careful to stay out of the way, to a corner of the room that was blocked of by a hanging sheet.
Dian Keto walked out from behind the sheet and shook his head. Then he noticed the group. "Oh my! My Pharaoh! You shouldn't be out of bed so soon!"
"I need to see the Dark Magician," Yami said, cringing slightly when Dian Keto said "Pharaoh".
"He's...he's one of the worst of them," Dian Keto said, "Almost all of these monsters will survive, even though I know most of them wish they wouldn't. They had failed their Pharaoh." He looked down at the ground.
"Please can I see him?" Yami asked softly, close to tears.
Dian Keto just couldn't look in the young boy's face, but he answered slowly, "Yes, you may."
Yami walked behind the sheet and it took all of the strength left in him to not burst into tears. The Dark Magician's armor was severely charred and burned, exposing and sometimes melted to skin in many places. His skin was covered with bandages but the blood was still seeping through. He had several scars and bruises covering his face, hair burned and matted with blood. But he was breathing, weakly.
The Dark Magician Girl came in to join Yami. "Dian Keto said he will live. He can even make most of the scars disappear and when Dark Magician gets better, his armor will regenerate. Come now Yami, we should go."
And they walked out from behind the sheet to rejoin the other two monsters.
(End Flashback)
The Dark Magician did heal very quickly. All of the monsters did, except one. Yami's father's guardian... didn't make it.
The priests and the monsters had both told him of what happened to his parents. Heishin had somehow summoned the three god monsters and sent them to obliterate Egypt. He wanted to rule a new Egypt, one he would create after the present one was devastated. So he overtook his parents' guardian monsters and murdered the royals. The priests said that if Yami wouldn't have stopped him, he would have destroyed the whole world in his greed. (Somehow, the god monsters vanished when Heishin himself did.)
Both the monsters and the priests wouldn't let him see his parents. They said it would be too painful. But he did get to see them after they were mummified.
From then on the priest continually asked Yami what had ever happened to Heishin, and he kept replying with the same answer. He had no idea! He couldn't remember what happened! All he knew was that one second he was looking at Heishin and the next he woke up in his bed.
Seto had left after that day, taking his baby brother with him. He said there were too many memories in the palace. Yami hadn't heard from him since.
Yami had withdrawn from everyone, even the Dark Magician, but the Dark Magician Girl helped him out of his depression, whether she knew it or not. She did a very good job being his guardian but she also had a very childish streak to her. She LOVED to play jokes and tricks on the priests! Whether it was to make an image of a chair so they fall through it when they sat down or tap them on the back and then disappear, driving them crazy! Yami thought these jokes were kind of immature, but extremely funny!
The Dark Magician, on the other hand, didn't think they were so amusing. So the Dark Magician took her in as his apprentice in case anything ever happened to him again. The Dark Magician Girl didn't play as many jokes anymore, but she did get away with one every once and a while. Even a few on the Dark Magician himself!
Yami laughed out loud at a memory of when the Dark Magician Girl "borrowed" the Dark Magician's staff and accidentally set one of the priests on fire (who was quickly put out).
This caused the priest that was lecturing to stop.
"My Pharaoh, aren't you supposed to be paying attention!?"
"Yes sir," Yami answered. He was the Pharaoh, but by tradition, he did have to listen to his teachers.
The priest went back to his lecture. "Now, it is said that the Chosen One will help the Pharaoh save the world. It is also said that the Millennium Items will have some part in this, but that part of the prophecy has been debated for several years..."
Yami stopped paying attention again. Why would he need to know about something that hasn't even happened yet and might never happen? He unconsciously started to poke at the Millennium Puzzle that was hanging by a chain around his neck.
Since Yami became Pharaoh, he wanted to keep a personal eye on the Puzzle. Not that he didn't trust Malik, his nursemaid Isis, and their family to watch them, but the Puzzle was special. It was the main source of the Pharaoh's power.
"My Pharaoh?" someone asked.
'What?' Yami thought, 'I'm not in trouble again am I?'
"Yes?" he asked.
His nursemaid poked her head into the room. "There are some peasants here to see you."
Yami looked up at the priest. "I guess we are done today," the priest said.
Yami sighed as he followed Isis to the throne room. Many peasants came to seek the advice of the Pharaoh, even when Yami was still 7. Most of the questions seemed extremely easy to him, and with the harder questions he got help from the Dark Magician.
She led Yami to his throne and he sat down. Then she left.
The Dark Magician was already there and he brought the Dark Magician Girl with him. For some reason, the Dark Magician was soaked, head to toe! Yami gave the dripping sage a questioning look.
"Don't ask," the Dark Magician said, giving the giggling Dark Magician Girl an evil look. Then he magically dried himself with the help of his staff, but it didn't help his mood.
Yami laughed. "You can let them in now," he said to the guards that were standing by the doors.
The doors opened and two teenagers walked in and bowed. The first was a female. She had short brown hair and wore a long white dress with a pink cape. The other was male. He had blonde hair and wore a white shirt and white pair of pants.
'They're around my age,' Yami thought, 'and they look kind of familiar.'
He wondered about that fact, until they stood back up! All three faces showed signs of surprise and unbelief.
"What is it?" the Dark Magician Girl asked, confused.
Yami looked at the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician nodded. "We should go," he said to the Dark Magician Girl.
"Why?" she asked innocently.
"Um, because we should," he said, unable to come up with a better answer.
"But you said I could help out today," she pouted.
"No, you two can stay," Yami said, ending what he knew was going to be a looooooong argument.
"What of us my Pharaoh?" one of the guards asked.
"Yes, you may leave."
After the guards left, the teenaged girl was the first to break the silence. "Yami?!"
"Is it really you!?" the teenaged boy asked.
"Do you know these two?" the Dark Magician Girl asked.
"Yeah," Yami said, "Teana! Jono!" He stood from his throne and came down to where they were standing.
Teana and Jono looked extremely shaken by this! He was the Pharaoh after all! They looked about ready to bow down again.
"No, no guys!" Yami said quickly, "Don't do that! It's just me! Yami!" He smiled. He hadn't seen then in so long!
"But..." Jono started, looking over at the two Duel Monsters, then back at Yami, "We thought...it was some sorta...joke...and after all that time...you were...I mean are..."
"The Pharaoh!" Teana finished.
"Um, yeah," Yami said, slightly embarrassed, "I hated being locked up in the palace, with Seto and Malik, the only other ones there my age. Even then, Seto was always at Studies and I never really got to meet Malik until after... So one day I decided to put on a disguise and sneak out and..." Yami trailed off after that.
There was a kind of awkward silence.
"hmhmhmhmHmHmHaHaHaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The Dark Magician Girl suddenly burst out into a fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?!" the Dark Magician asked, slightly angry with her.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. *giggle* It's just *giggle* the looks on all of your faces! You should see yourselves! *more giggles* I've never *giggle* seen the Pharaoh *giggle* look so funny!" Then, after a slight pause, she started laughing all over again.
The group looked at each other again and, in spite of themselves, they all started to crack up! Nerves calmed and titles dropped, they started talking like old friends, even the monsters! And eventually they got around to why Jono and Teana had really come.
Jono's sister, who lived in a far away country with their mother, was sick and none of the healers could figure out what was wrong with her!
"Hmm, maybe Dian Keto could look at her," the Dark Magician suggested.
"That's a great idea!" Yami agreed, smiling at his guardian.
"Really?" Jono said, "Could you really do that?"
"Sure!" Yami said. This was turning out to be a really good day.
But suddenly, the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician Girl became very serious. "Someone's coming," the Dark Magician Girl said.
The three teens looked at each other, wide eyed. "We should probably get going," Teana said.
"Yeah," Jono agreed.
"You guys have to come back and we'll talk some more!" Yami said.
"Ok!" Teana shouted, "Bye Yami, I mean my Pharaoh!" she added with a laugh.
They left through the main doors just as Isis ran through a side door, followed by many guards and priests. "My Pharaoh!!!!!"
"Yes?"
She was out of breath. "A thief...has stolen...three of the... MILLENNIUM ITEMS!!!!!!!!!!" she shouted.
"WHAT!?!" Yami had heard that there was a tomb robber loose in the area, but he never would have suspected that he would be able to get to the Millennium Items!!!
"Which ones!?!"
"He took the ring, the necklace, and the rod before we became aware of him! Malik, Shadi, and several of the other priests and guards are searching for him right now."
"Wouldn't the thief go through horrible torture for even touching them? I thought only the "Chosen Ones" of that Millennium Item could touch them and survive."
"Yes my Pharaoh! That is what troubles me also!"
"Well, continue the search!" Yami said.
She bowed and then left, most of the group following her, a few staying behind.
How could this happen!! Those three items were some of the stronger ones!!! The Millennium Ring had the power to remove a human's soul, the Millennium Rod had the power to control human minds and free will, and the Millennium Necklace had the power to see the parts of the past and future and shield the powers of the Millennium Items so they can't be traced!!
Yami sat in his throne to try to think this through, but he was interrupted.
"I challenge the Pharaoh to a duel!!!!!!" someone shouted.
'Too much going on!!!!!!' Yami thought. Ever since Yami had become Pharaoh, he had been challenged to countless numbers of duels. Usually he loved to duel but right now...he couldn't think strait, much less be able to summon a monster!
Sensing his Pharaoh's unease, one of the priests took the challenge in Yami's place. Yami sat trying to understand how a thief could get the items, not really paying attention to the duel at all. His priest seemed to be winning anyway. But then...
"And these two combined monsters form the...BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON!!!!!!"
'The WHAT!?!' Yami thought, 'But no one has been able to summon that monster for several years! Actually, the only person I knew who could summon a Blue Eyes was...'
Yami looked over at the person who challenged him as that person ordered the Blue Eyes to destroy his opponent's monster. After the successful attack, the challenger sent the loser to the Shadow Realm.
Yami jumped up. "NO!!!!!" he shouted, "SETO!"
"That's right Yugioh!" Seto shouted, "I'm here to take that Puzzle away from you!"
"My Puzzle!?" Yami shouted, shocked, grabbing onto the puzzle's chain instinctively.
"Yes," Seto sneered, "I need it in my quest for the ULTIMATE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Seto," Yami said sadly, "What happened to you?" He looked into Seto's cold dark eyes that seemed dead to any emotion or feeling. How could this be the Seto he knew as a child?
Seto only grinned in return. "You've stopped me once Pharaoh, you will not do it again!" he said in a voice that was not his.
"What are you talking about?!" Yami asked.
Then, for a brief moment, Seto's eyes flashed to a lighter shade, a look of pure terror held within them. Then a cold purple shade overtook the blue and Seto continued to grin.
'What was that!?!!' Yami thought, 'Those eyes, could it be?'
"You're not Seto, are you?" Yami growled, pure hatred ringing through his voice.
'Seto's' grin widened.
Yami hadn't seen those evil calculating eyes for 6 years and now here they were, coming from his own apprentice. "Heishin," he hissed.
"Not quite," Seto said, "Just a simple spell placed on little Seto here."
"You monster!" cried the Dark Magician Girl, who up until then had been silent.
"Quite an interesting insult coming FROM a monster," Seto sneered.
The Dark Magician Girl charged for an attack, but the Dark Magician held up his arm stopping her. She looked up at him with questioning eyes, and saw her tutor trembling with rage, magic emanating from his entire body. She could tell that it was taking all of his control not to attack without his master's say.
But he didn't have to wait long. "DARK MAGICIAN!" Yami shouted.
The Dark Magician shot his Dark Magic Attack out of his staff strait at Seto. But at the last moment, a great white wing shielded the blast.
"You have to do better than that," Seto taunted, as Blue Eyes withdrew its wing. "This is a Duel after all."
'He's right!' Yami thought, 'Blue Eyes is one of the strongest Monsters out there! I have to make Dark Magician stronger, somehow.'
"Too late!" Seto announced, "Blue Eyes, White Lightning Attack."
"NO!!!! DARK MAGICIAN!!!!!!!!!!!" Yami screamed, "MAGICAL HATS!!!!!"
The Dark Magician was instantly covered by a hat, and that hat split into three others, one of which was destroyed by the dragon's attack.
"Trying to buy some time Pharaoh?" Seto said, "It won't last long."
'What can I do now?' Yami thought. He looked down at the remaining three stone tablets that were in front of him, that served as his "Dueling Cards". A fourth appeared as he drew another card. He examined the tablets carefully. There were two cards there that could help!
"Book of Secret Arts!" he said, "And Sword of Dark Destruction!"
A book suddenly appeared out of thin air and began to drop before the Dark Magician Girl grabbed it. The sword appeared within the hat the Dark Magician was hidden in and he grabbed it and held it ready.
"That makes Dark Magician and Blue Eyes even with each other so I'll play Dragon Treasure to raise his attack level by 300 points to 3300! But the Dark Magician is still hidden within the Magical Hats it would be pointless to attack him, but not the Dark Magician Girl! Blue Eyes!"
The white dragon sent a white energy blast strait towards the female mage. Her eyes widened with fear.
"Waboku!" Yami shouted.
The three blue clad women appeared in front of the Dark Magician Girl and absorbed the attack. The Dark Magician Girl gave a huge sigh of relief as the three women smiled at her and then quickly vanished.
Seto growled. "The card can only be used once. You'll have nothing to protect them next turn!"
Yami studied his remaining two tablets. Korebo wouldn't be any help but De- Spell could help remove the Dragon Treasure Seto placed on Blue Eyes. But that would make Blue Eyes and Dark Magician again. 'I need a card that will either make the Dark Magician stronger or the Blue Eyes weaker,' he thought, and he finally drew a card.
"That will work," he said.
"What are you mumbling about!?" Seto shouted, "Play a pathetic card already!"
"First I'll play, De-Spell! To remove the magic card Dragon Treasure, bringing Blue Eyes' ATK points back down to 3000!"
"That just makes Dark Magician and Blue Eyes the same strength again!" Seto shouted.
"And now I play, this Magic Card!"
Darkness suddenly covered the entire room, wrapping it in shadow, with a hint of dark purple light shinning from some unknown source.
"What is going on!?" Seto yelled. He stood close to his glowing white dragon that shone in the darkness. "Are we in the Shadow Realm?"
"No," Yami answered from somewhere within the room, "I just used the field card, Yami, which covers the playing field in near complete darkness."
Seto scowled. "Using a card named after yourself," he grumbled, "I'll find you and destroy you Yami!"
"It's already to late," Yami said, "Dark Magician? Dark Magic Attack!"
A ball of dark purple light grew within the darkness and was shot strait at Blue Eyes. The dragon screamed in pain and disappeared, sent to the Monster Graveyard.
"How could this happen!?" Seto screamed as the darkness faded, "They had the same attack level!"
"Not quite," Yami answered, "The field card Yami not only shrouds the field with darkness, but it also gives all Fiend and Spellcaster-Type monsters a 200 point bonus, making Dark Magician stronger than Blue Eyes. And now, to bring back the REAL Seto..." Yami held out his hand, calling upon the power of the puzzle, "OPEN YOUR MIND!"
"NO!!!!!!!!!!!" Seto screamed. Then suddenly, he was fine. "What happened? Where am I? Yami? How did I get here?" Seto was truly confused.
"Is that really you Seto?" Yami asked.
"Who else would it be!?" Seto shouted, a little irritated at the stupidity of the Pharaoh's question.
Yami smiled. Seto was back!
"STOP THEIF!!!!!!!!!" a new voice shouted, surprising Yami, Seto, and the two mages. Two men quickly ran into the throne room, followed by several guards and Isis. The guards that were still in the throne room surrounded the first man.
"NO!" he shouted. He struggled against the guards' grip, long white hair flying, but to no avail. He ceased his struggling to glare at the second man with his dark eyes.
That man only grinned back. "The great tomb robber Bakura has been captured!" he said in triumph.
If looks could kill, the second man would be dead 10 times over.
"Malik," Yami asked the second man, "Is this the thief that stole the Millennium Items?"
"Yes my Pharaoh," Malik answered, grinning ear to ear, pale lavender eyes shining, "See for yourself."
On a leather strap tied around the tomb robber's neck was the Millennium Ring, and he held the Millennium Necklace in his hand.
"Where's the Millennium Rod?" Yami asked, watching the robber carefully. He seemed murderous, especially towards Malik.
"The Millennium Rod is missing?" Malik asked.
"Yes," Isis answered, "It was missing along with Ring and Necklace."
"Where did you hide it, you piece of filth!" one of the guards shouted.
Bakura clenched his teeth then spit on the guard.
Losing his tempers, after chasing this street rat all over the palace and now to be insulted by him (in front of the Pharaoh!), the guard punched Bakura, as hard as he could, right in the stomach.
"Hey! No need for that!" Yami shouted angrily.
The other guards dropped Bakura's arms and he fell to the ground, doubled over in pain. He glared up at the surrounding group. Then, suddenly, he jumped to his feet and ran towards Malik, pulling out a dagger that he had hidden in his robes.
"Stop him!" Malik shouted in fear.
This made Bakura run faster and he attacked Malik.
The guards started to move, but the Dark Magician was faster. Just as Bakura was about to stab Malik in the chest, he was able to move him back, so Bakura missed.
Still, a long slit formed in the front of Malik's robe. Bakura grinned in success just before the guards pounced on him.
Malik's eyes were wide in terror! So were everyone else's!
Then Yami noticed something golden sticking out of Malik's robe. "What's that?" he asked.
Malik looked at the slit and his eyes became wider (if possible!) and he tried to cover the gold up but it ended up falling out of his robe instead.
"What is that?" the Dark Magician Girl asked.
"It's the Millennium Rod!" shouted Yami, Isis, Seto, and Bakura, first three in surprise, Bakura in fact.
"Malik?" Isis asked her younger brother in disbelief.
Malik scowled at Bakura. "Traitor," he said under his breath.
"Who betrayed who first?" Bakura asked.
"What?" Yami asked.
"He said that he would give me the ultimate treasure if I helped him with a "certain task"," Bakura said, grinning as he watched Malik become more and more upset.
"GUARDS!!!!!!!!!! Gag this liar's mouth!!!!!!" Malik shouted.
"NO!" Yami commanded, "Let us see what he has to say." Yami raised his eyebrow at Malik.
Bakura continued, truly enjoying the death look he was getting from Malik, "So I get the three god monster tablets and then this baka priest told me he was going to pay up. The stupid fool was grinning the whole way until we finally arrived to where the items were and still as I reached to grab one. I wondered what he was getting a big kick out of, but after I picked up this ring here, he looked like he'd seen a ghost. I picked up this necklace and he got paler. He was mumbling to himself when that girl walks in." Bakura pointed to Isis.
"She stops and her eyes get wide and she starts to mumble too, but I could hear her. "How could he hold the Millennium Ring and Necklace and not die!" Now I'm catching on! This idiot thought he could just have me touch the items, then I'd die and he'd be done with me. No one betrays Bakura! So I figured I'd just kill him right there and then but the girl had already called tons of these bruits." He pointed to the guards.
"As I'm running I look back and see this baka stuff the staff-looking thing in his robe. Guess he figured no one would notice it was missing until after I was killed for the crime. Then we ran in here and I'm sure you know the rest," Bakura finished, grinning.
Malik was furious! But he wasn't the only one!
"MALIK!!!!!!!!" Yami screamed, "GUARDS SEIZE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Malik screamed, and in a sudden burst of magic, the guards surrounding him flew across the room. The furious priest breathed heavily with a mad look in his eyes, magic emanating from his body. "I'll finish what Heishin started 6 years ago, beginning with the death of the Pharaoh!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, Yami's eyes rolled back into his head and shut, but he remained standing. Then the golden eye symbol appeared on his forehead and when he reopened his eyes, they were pure gold, not unlike what Heishin had seen in his last minutes from a younger version of the Pharaoh.
The teen Pharaoh's eyes shinned brightly as he said with an unfamiliar voice, "I am not that easy to kill!"
Malik sent a wave of magic that knocked out all of the guards and Seto but it was simply blocked when it came near Yami, Isis, Bakura, and the Duel Monsters, by the magic they contained themselves.
Then Malik came up with a better plan. He started to chant something very softly.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Yami and Bakura, both grabbing their chests in pain.
"What's going on!?!?!?!" Dark Magician Girl shouted at Dark Magician in distress. She kneeled next to her Master and her Pharaoh as they both fell to their knees in pain.
"Malik is....trying to kill Yami by...sucking his life force...out of his body...and into the Shadow Realm...using the Millennium Item." The Dark Magician was struggling to speak through clenched teeth, sweat dripping down his face, eyes squeezed shut, and arms held out. "I'm trying to stop him!"
Malik finished chanting and shouted, "BOTH OF YOU, DIE!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Not...by...our...SELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Bakura shouted. Using the last of his energy, he jumped and slid across the floor, kicking the Millennium Rod up to hit Malik in the arm, at the same time, chucking the Millennium Necklace at Isis, hitting her on the shoulder.
They both screamed in agony.
Then, they all disappeared!!!!!! Malik, Isis, Bakura, and finally, Yami, leaving the Items behind!! The Millennium Items fell, clattering on the floor, the Millennium Puzzle landing and breaking into a million different pieces, scattering across the floor.
"WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dark Magician Girl screamed, staring at the spot where her Pharaoh once was.
"They're...gone," Dark Magician said, tired and defeated, "But not dead. Their souls, instead of being sent to the Shadow Realm and torn to pieces, are trapped within the Millennium Items themselves."
"Well, can we get the Pharaoh out!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!"
"No." The Dark Magician shook his head. "Only the Chosen ones can get them out now."
Hey! The next chapter is already halfway typed (since I had writers block for the longest time on this chapter, I started on that one) so it shouldn't take that long to finish it. Please review! Three new reviews till next chapter. Until the next chappy, Bye now!