Chapter 2 Golden Puzzle Pieces

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Picking up one of the oddly shaped puzzle pieces he turned it over in his hands, whatever it was made out of, it wasn't gold. It was much too light and hard to be gold, but nothing else came to mind to describe the metal. Setting the piece back down in the box he turned around and tapped his finger against his lips, dark eyes ran over the room slowly as he thought.

" If I put this together here, what will happen? ...........Booby traps, perhaps....."

Shaking his head he turned around and slipped the lid back onto the golden box, scooping it up as his mind ran over what he remember of ancient egyptian traps. It wasn't very plesent to think of, spears launched out of walls, deadfall pits, corrossive fluids dropped from the ceiling, walls rigged to crush whoever triggered them.

" I'll take it with me, i'll just have to lock the door and tell the servants to leave me alone for a few hours."

Walking back across the chamber he paused, staring at a chain hung on the wall next to the open doorway. He hadn't noticed it on his way in, but there was a piece of yellow metal hanging from it. Smiling he walked over and pulled on the puzzle piece, surprised when the chain came down with it. Peering intently at the seamless join connecting the puzzle piece to the chain he shrugged and hung it around his neck, walking down the long hallway to the entrance.

" There's probably a good reason for why this was hanging there, after all, it has a.....puzzle......piece............."

Stopping in mid-step he turned and stared at the hieroglyphics on the walls, the yellowish color of the walls attracted his gaze as much as the spiky haired man. The man wearing an inverted pyramid on a chain around his neck. Snapping his mouth shut with an audiable click of his teeth he shook himself and resimed walking towards the entrance.

" Whatever secrets you may hide, they will have to wait. You've wiated this long, a few more days will make no difference to you."

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Hours later he sprawled on his bed with a towel around his neck, the golden box lay on it's side, puzzle pieces strewn over his bed as he fitted them together, the chain he had found was laying on the desk across the room. The room was simple in itself, a few floor to ceiling windows showed the view of the metropolis streching nearly to the horizon. Pressed against one wall was a plain desk with a small laptop computer, a single message flashed over and over again on the black screen, indicating the battery was recharging. The soft sound of metal puzzle pieces clicking together was the only sound in the room besides his breathing. Most of the room was bare save for a chair sitting near the desk, and the woven rug resting on the floor beside his bed, a gift from one of his profesors upon his graduation. Frowning slightly he spoke to the air as he fitted the pieces together, both the golden metal in his hands, and the recent information he had acquired from one of his more reliable street sources. A small light on the screen of his laptop flashed, indicating it was recording his dictation, as it had been programed to do.

" The cards on the wall by themselves could mean anything, but the dragon on the wall ties them to something called 'Duel Monsters'. A game played on earth by the younger generation, averaging at sixteen. The game is played by using your cards to summon monsters to battle for you, eaching having a number value for attack and defence strength, to both defend your 'life points' and attack your oppnents as well. Ironicly, there seems to be a tournament starting sometime this month......."

Setting the puzzle down for a moment he walked over to one of the windows and peered outside, airtaxi's flowed by in a steady stream as well as just as many privately owned aircars. After staring outside for a few minutes he walked back to his bed and dropped onto it, picking up the puzzle and his train of thought once more.

" It seems the tournament was announced shortly after I found the pyramid, though my source informs me that this has happened before, a tournament announced on the spur of the moment. Though one of this size......"

Trailing off he fitted together several more pieces before resuming his dictation, absently setting any likely fitting pieces into a small pile.

" People from all over earth have been invited to take place in this tournament, literally hundereds of thousands of people, the greatest tournament the earth, or Duel Monsters has ever seen, once again, according to my source. How all those people are going to be organized, I cannot even begin to guess. Obviously some sort of tracking technology will be used to trace all the 'duelists' as they call themselves, taking place all over the city..........'Battle City' seems like an appropriate name for such a tournament."

With a start he realized thta the puzzle was nearly complete, all that remained was the piece connected to the chain and the eye of Horus. He had intended to save that for last for some reason. Smiling ruefully he stood up and walked over to the desk, fitting the piece fused to the chain in place on the puzzle.

" I think I'm spending a little too much time in those tombs all by myself, maybe I should reconsider that girls request........"

Walking back to his bed he reflected on that thought, a girl, barely fifteen wanted a chance to go delving around in tombs with him. According to her she had been following his career ever since he had graduated at the top of his class. He didn't think of himself as much of an idol but the girl seemed a little star struck. Hero worship was the only thing that could describe it, she sent him vid-mail every week, as regular as clockwork. The eye of Horus snapped into place loudly, startling him out of his reverie. The puzzle seemed much heavyer that it was before, the golden metal gleamed a little brighter too. Frowning absently to himself he lifted it on it's chain, slowly putting it on as he spoke again.

" I have to get ahold of some of those cards if I'm to enter the tournament and get some answers to my questions, Hopefully, this game won't be too hard to pick up, I only have a week to learn."

The weight of the chain around his neck was all he felt, it was as if the puzzle wasn't connected to it at all. Lifting his hands to cup the inverted pyramid a sudden shaft of light burst forth from the ancient puzzle, swelling to surround him in blue-white light.

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Well, chapter two is finished now, please feel free to send me any comments or questions you may have, I'd like a little reader feedback before i begin chapter three.