The Darkness is reborn....

Person...:Hello, this story may not exactly follow the original plot of Yugioh. This is mainly based on Malik's past, )the way I see it :))

Person...: One more thing, I'm not going to do detailed stuff for each duel...I suck in writing but I must! For school!!

Disclaimer: No profit is made from this story. Entertainment only. I do not own any of these characters, except the mysterious woman, I made her up.

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Chapter 2: The invitation

2 days later, in the shadow realm

Alone in the shadows, Yami Malik was disgusted and embarrassed that he had lost at his own game against the pharaoh. He had lost everything, his body, his rod and his treasured God card. His sands of time were almost at its peak. In a few hours he was going to be a forgotten soul, and would be fed to the shadows, he was ready to suffer the ultimate consequence, he was ready to suffer for eternity, he was ready to die. Suddenly, a light had appeared, it broke through the shadows. Could it be here to save me? He thought. "Malik!" It was the voice of a woman, "I am here to release you from the shadows, but you must promise me something."

"What is it?" Malik said this without any second thought.

"You must promise to compete in the tournament in Battle City."

"I agree, but why are you doing this?"

"Because I have something for you there. But, also promise me this; don't banish your other half to the Shadow Realm. He will be a necessity if he is by your site."

"All right, I will keep this promise."

"Here, I have a gift for you." She held out the God card that once belonged to him.

"The Winged Dragon of Ra!" Malik couldn't believe, he was grateful to see this.

"Close your eyes, Malik." He did as he was told.

As soon as he opened them, he realized he was no longer in the shadows, but back in his old dwelling. Where it all began, and where he was first born. He was in Malik's body, and as promised, he wouldn't send him to the realm of darkness. He had decided to stay hidden once again, until he thought the time was right.



"Sister, I heard knocking!" Malik ran to his sister. "What should we do?"

"We have company? Open the door, I want to find out who it is." Isis was just as surprised as her brother was.

"Rishid, come, if they want any trouble, you and me will have to do some serious damage."

"All right master." Rishid went along with Malik.

They ran to the door, opened it and saw a lady covered in a dark cape. "Greetings, family of Ishtar, I am here to give you an invitation to a tournament in Battle City."

As soon as she spoke, Malik felt a strange but familiar presence within him. "We don't accept this, we rather not compete in tournaments." Isis said thinking her family supported her, but one of them didn't.

"Isis, I want to go to this, I would like one please." Malik reached out to take one.

"I have four invitation, keep them. I expect you all to come." She said this giving it to Malik.

"But we only have three people here living with us."

"The fourth member will come, I have seen him. One more thing, I have returned something that belongs to you." The woman quickly responded.

"Okay...." Malik pondered at what she had just said; "Will you be there?"

"Yes. Goodbye."

"Bye…" Malik shut the door and then stared in wonder at his sister. Inside he was excited that he was going to duel again. "This will be good to test my dueling skills."

"Brother, I don't know about this." Isis was worried for some reason.

"Don't worry Isis, I'm going to be fine. I don't think anything is going to go wrong."

Rishid interrupted, "Don't worry miss, I will protect him."

"All right, I will come too."

From nowhere came a'thud'. Malik and Rishid turned around and headed to the place where they had heard it. When they reached at that spot, there was a pile of rocks and a hand of a human reaching out. Immediately the two Egyptians cleared way so that person could breath. "Bakura?" Malik said much to his surprise. "Are you all right?"

"Malik, you live here? Uhg!" He favoured his right arm and knelt down in pain. "I need help."

Rishid assisted Bakura by carrying him, then they all walked towards home. Malik wondered if Bakura was the fourth person that would enter the duel. He was going to give the invitation to him, what else could he do? She was right, they would be a fourth competitor. He was amazed at how accurate the woman was.

They reached home and assisted the wounded man. Bakura slowly opened his eyes. "Where am I?" He looked around and saw Isis looking straight at him.

"Are you well rested? You were under a landslide of some sort."

"Yes I am, but where am I."

"Egypt, or do you not remember."

"No I don't, when did I come here?"

"That's a question for you to answer."

"Oh no," Bakura started to realize that there was only one explanation to this, "my other half must have brought us here. He was probably looking for hidden treasures again. I wish I had more control."

"We will see if this is true, show yourself ancient thief." Malik said this as he entered the room.

"It is true what my other half has said. I seem to become more predictable." Yami Bakura gave a little smirk, "It's been awhile Malik."

"I agree. Here I have something for you." He held the fourth invitation to the tournament.

"Why thank you. Where is it?"

"In Battle City, where we last met. You can come along if you like. We all have the same ticket to fly there."

"Your very kind. Don't expect anything in return."

"I usually don't." Malik sneered at Yami Bakura.

Bakura began to favour his injured arm again, "When are we set to go?"

"Tomorrow I guess."

"Oka.. Ugh, this hurts like hell!"

Isis bandaged his arm, "Don't worry, you'll be fine."

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1 hour or so later



Malik headed over to see his deck. He wanted to take a look at something he hadn't in awhile. He glanced through it quickly until the last card. What's Ra doing here? He remembered, the woman had said that she returned something that belonged to him. How could that be? Didn't the pharaoh have Ra? I have a feeling this tournament will answer some of these questions. "I must win." He was determined to.

"I see you are starting to be a robber yourself Malik." Malik turned and saw Yami Bakura at the door.

"You seem to be all right now. Maybe we should just let you out the cold."

"I maybe fine, but my other half isn't in that great condition."

"Fine, you can stay."

"So, how did you get that card from the pharaoh?"

"I didn't. I believe it was the lady who gave us these invitations, that got it."

"Do you know who she is?"

"No, but she said she would be in the tournament."

"Interesting, do you think she defeated the king to obtain it?"

"I don't know, but could you stop asking so many question!" It wasn't a request it was a demand by Malik.

"All right, I shall rest now."

"That is a good idea."

"You entered the tournament in Battle City? Well, I'm coming with you Yugi." Téa had burst out at the news Yugi had told.

"Yah man, count me in too." Tristen said in a cool, calm voice.

"Can I come too, big brother?" Serenity had asked with her sweet charm.

"Of Course! It's gonna start three days from now, so everybody be prepared!"

They all were excited; each started heading their own direction to go home. Téa turned and ran to Yugi, "Um, Yugi, is there a reason why you joined this tournament?"

"Well, at first it was going to be for fun. But then I a mysterious woman said if I didn't the world may not survive the upcoming years." He sighed, "So now I'm forced to enter another contest."

"You don't want to, do you?"

"I have to though."

"Well, I'll help and support you all the way!"

"Great." Yugi was truly happy that all his friends would help him get through this. "Thanks Téa, but I think it's time to go home, it's quite dark."

"Yup, bye!" He watched her run away to the direction of her abode.

"Maybe it won't be as bad. Because all the attention can't only go to me all the time." Yugi spoke to himself. Oh well, I know my friends will be behind my back no matter what. They have been with me since the beginning. I want to find out more, and going to this competition will let me. I am going to compete! I am going to duel. Yami in Yugi's mind said, "Don't worry Yugi, we will penetrate any evil together, along with our friends. For friendship is one of the most powerful asset to have by one's side." Yugi agreed, "And we have it on our side." They both admired each other's speech then headed home.

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So there is another tournament being held at Battle City. What's this, the rules of this tournament seems to be similar to mine. They even have my dueling disks. Hmm...it seems Yugi is joining this tournament. This may be a good time to win back what is rightfully mine. I don't care whether he created the god cards or not, maybe I'll even duel him for the other two gods. I shall enter this tournament. Seto Kaiba was lying on his bed as he read the newspaper. He hadn't dueled for awhile, and was gritty to feel the pleasure of being superior to others. He thought this tournament could give him what he wanted, power. "Fuck Yugi and his friends, I should be lonely champion of dueling. I will contend and win!"