Joey and Tea entered Solomon Moto's card shop. Joey prepared to great his best friend, but stopped short at the sight of Yugi and another boy glaring at each other, arguing.
"And what would you offer if I win?" Yugi asked.
The other boy snorted. "If by some slight chance you win and save your Puzzle, then you will receive this..."
With a sharp movement, he thrust his right hand into the air, letting the light catch on a shining silver gauntlet he wore. It was embossed with an Egyptian symbol, the Eye of Horus.
"The Vengeance Gauntlet!"
Yugi paused for a moment to think. This gauntlet obviously held some sort of power... but what? It was not a Millenium Item. After a little more thinking, Yugi decided to dump this problem on Yami.
"YU-GI-OH!"
In what seemed toYugi like a blinding flash of light, Yami joined him.
Akari again smiled at him. "So, that is the power of your puzzle? You summon some spirit to... what, give you counsel? Helpful. Unfortunately, it will not be of any use against me."
Yami ignored Akari's comment. "I accept your challenge! I will prove that you are wrong, and that both those men deserved what they got."
Tea didn't like the sound of this. She decided that she would have to step in.
"But Yugi!" she said. "What if you lose? You can't lose your puzzle!"
"Yeah!" Joey added. "And besides, we have to go to the tournament!"
Akari looked over at them and grinned. "I didn't know you had a cheering squad, Yugi."
Akari quickly realized that his joke had not been appreciated. This was not hard, as Joey had responded by good-naturedly lifting him by his shirt a few feet off the floor and banging him against the wall.
"Hey, who you calling a cheering squad?" Joey asked, angrily. "I was runner up at Duelist Kingdom! Hey, you hear me!? Come on, wipe that smirk off ya face! I could beat you with my eyes closed."
Akari decided that, though this boy's reaction was amusing, he would rather enter the coming duel with all of his bones intact and thus found it neccessary to apologize.
"Forgive me, good sir. I meant it as a harmless joke. I did not mean to insult your dueling talents." Akari smiled kindly as he felt his feet resume contact with the floor. He turned to Yami again. "Shall we move outside, where there's room to duel?"
Yami nodded, and the group moved outside. Once
"I'm ready when you are," Yami said.
"Fine," Akari said eagerly. "Let's duel!"
The Duel Disks set themselves up in their familiar patterns, and the duel began. This duel, however, was watched by someone other than Joey and Tea...

"Mister Kaiba."
Seto Kaiba opened his eyes. His assistants were always bothering him with useless data and questions. He needed to get out soon, find some losers to defeat, so that he woudl nto have to deal with this. "What is it?"
"A duel is starting between two registered Duel Disks," said his assistant, "but it is not within the tournament area."
Kaiba frowned. Who was using his Duel Disks outside of the tournament? He decided to find out. "Who are the contestants?"
"The contestants are: Yugi Moto and Akari Ume, sir."
"Akari? I don't recall him. Show me his profile." After a moment the profile came up. Akari looked disturbingly like Yugi, and he was a five star duelist. Kaiba looked at his rarest card, and froze. It was a very deadly monster; to Kaiba's knowledge, only 7 had ever been printed. Kaiba grinned.
"I doubt Yugi can stand up to that. What other data do we have on this Akari?"
"Very little," his assistant said. Kaiba glared at the man, who threw u phis hands defensively. "All our data comes from one duel against Maximillion Pegasus, in which he won on his first turn with just two cards. That might not even be his rarest card."
"Incredible..." Kaiba said. "Let's see how Yugi does."