Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh. However, Daice along with his millennium item are mine.

Chapter 1: Millennium Discovery

My name is Daice and I am a little known person in the town of Domino. I own a small card shop in an alley down the main street of Domino. I am a good duelist with an excellent deck. I do not play in many tournaments. Most people do not know what I am really like. In reality, I am a wealthy 17-year old kid who owns stocks from many different companies and in fact I own my own company called Southerland Corporation or South Co. for short. My parents died when I was young so I fully own South Co. Also, I know a kid named Yugi is an excellent duelist and has a chain with a large item attached to it, Millennium Puzzle which I must obtain. I am in possession of a Millennium item myself, I own the Millennium Dagger. Nobody knows there is even such a thing.

My story begins on the way home from school. I have to set up shop for the few customers I have. Nevertheless, I needed to get to my shop.

I walked down Domino St. towards my shop. Suddenly, my Millennium Dagger rattled in its sheath near my dueling deck. My dagger sensed the presence of a dark presence, possibly of another millennium item. I pulled the dagger out. Magically, the dagger's blade extended into a sword. I tossed the sword onto the ground. Before hitting the ground, the sword stopped and floated in the air. It slowly spun and stopped, pointing to the northeast near a side road. Quickly, I picked up the sword and the blade once again returned to its smaller size to a dagger.

Placing the dagger into its sheath, I ran down the road seeing about 15 people. Slowly, I walked down the road toward a boy I saw at my school with white hair. I felt the need to talk to him.

I quickly decided to talk to him and said, "Hi, I've seen you from my school. Anyway how's it going?"

He responded in a quiet but threatening voice, "Come with me boy. I know of the item you hold."

I confusingly went with him into a store. The store was an ordinary card shop. I wondered why he needed me to go in here with me. A black shadow on the floor was growing strangely. Rapidly the card shop was being engulfed in darkness.

"Welcome to the shadow realm," he said.

"Who are you and what do you want with me!" I shouted in anger.

"My name is Bakura and am the owner of the Millennium Eye and Ring. I am here to take the Millennium item you possess."

"How do you plan on doing that Bakura?"

He quickly but quietly responded in saying, "In a duel."

Bakura took out two of Kaiba's state of the art duel disks and tossed one to me. I fastened the disk to my wrist and inserted my deck. The disk launched out two holographic imaging inducers. After the inducers landed, the life point count showed 4000. Both Bakura and I drew 5 cards each and glanced over our cards. I decided to go first.

After I drew my card, my hand showed a Pot of Greed, two Neo the Magic Swordsmen, a Maha Vailo, a Yami and a Book of Secret Arts. I said, "I am going to play Maha Vailo in attack mode and Yami!"

Bakura laughed and played a monster in face-down defense position and put 2 cards face-down.

I drew a card, another Book of Secret Arts. I played my Pot of Greed and drew 2 cards, a Time Wizard and the Dark Magician. I stated clearly, "I place one monster in defense mode and play the Book of Secret Arts!"

"Maha Vailo, Attack!"

Bakura put his card in the graveyard and drew a card.

"I use Cheerful Coffin to remove two monsters from my hand and play Dark Necrofear. Then I'll use Offerings to the Doomed to destroy my Dark Necrofear, unleashing Dark Sanctuary!"

"What is this?!"

"It is the card for your destruction. But I need to play two more cards for my strategy to be complete. So, I'll play the Dark Door and DESTINY BOARD! Your Millennium item is mine!"

"I guess it's my turn now."

I drew Giant Trunade, perfect!

"I play Pot of Greed to draw two new cards! Next, I think ill play Giant Trunade to remove all of both of our magic and trap cards, meaning Dark Sanctuary is finished! Since you have no monsters on the field, I will beat you! So, I will simply play two of my Books of Secret Arts to raise my Maha Vailo's attack points to 3150 and flip my face-down card, Neo the Magic Swordsman. And then, I will attack, reducing your life points to zero!"

"Oh no, I lose!"

"Yes, you do lose." I said, ".and you lose more than the duel, you lose your Millennium Items and your strongest card, Dark Necrofear!"

Slowly, the darkness from around us was disappearing, we were returning to the real world. Bakura took out his Dark Necrofear and threw it onto the ground, and then dropped his Millennium Items on the ground. Kneeling on the ground, Bakura said something.

"Keep those items well." "What did you want with those items anyway?"

He said, "They contain extremely powerful magic, you fool!"

He stood up and ran out of the store. I calmly walked out.

"These contain powerful magic, eh. I guess I'll have to get me more of these things."