A/N: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Searching The Darkness

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Chapter 1:

The Search Begins

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"Morning Yugi" Yami said half asleep, Yugi just tugged his covers over his head. He needed more sleep. It was about noon on one of those lazy Saturday mornings, when school was out and you can have one of those nice lie ins. But he had to get up some time, so why not now? So he got up and did the usual things you do in the morning, had breakfast in front of the T.V and just thought to himself 'What the hell am I gonna do today?' Yugi didn't think much on a Saturday, and he didn't like it. Yami felt the exactly the same way. He sat next to Yugi eating a chocolate bar, thinking exactly the same thing.

"Yami?" Yugi asked, "want to go to the arcade?" Yami just replied with a quiet murmur, he wasn't a mid-morning afternoon kind of guy. So they got up and went to the arcade.

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"Is everything planned?" said the person on the chair in the middle of the room. The room was very dark and you couldn't see the person's face.

"Yes sir!" replied a soldier.

"Sir! We have spotted Yugi Moto heading for the Domino arcade"

"Excellent, it's all going to plan"

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"So what are we doing here again?" asked Yami.

"We're here to meet the guys and have some fun!" replied Yugi. He had cheered up a bit now, but he wished he could say the same thing for Yami. He was still in his mid-morning afternoon grumble kind of phase. They managed to spot the guys in the corner where they always stood.

"Hey Yug'!" Joey shouted

"Hey Joey," Yugi replied back.

"Yami still in his mid-morning afternoon phase?" asked Téa.

"Yep, it's going on longer that usual" Yugi said back. He was quite worried about him, he had never been in a mood this long before. Something was up, and Yugi wanted to find out what.

"Well we were going to go to the mall, comin'?" asked Tristan.

"Like I have anything better to do" replied Yugi.

While they where walking down the street 2 miles from the arcade, Yugi finally had the guts to ask Yami...

"WHAT THE HELL IS WITH YOU?" Yugi yelled at the top of his voice. "GET OUT OF THAT MOOD AND HAVE SOME FUN!!!" Yami was a bit taken back, his hikari didn't yell much, it was quite surprising.

"I'm not in one of my moods Yugi, I sense a great evil coming"

"A great evil? Well it's nothing we can't handle!" Yugi said in an over- confident voice.

"Maybe Yugi, maybe" Yami didn't have such confident voice.

"Come on you two!" shouted Ryou.

"Coming!" shouted Yami back, "Come on yu..." Yami was cut off, Yugi was gone. "Yugi.........YUGI!!!" Yami heard a strange crash down a dark alley. "YUGI?" Yami yelled. There was a strange man in a dark robe holding Yugi in his arms running off down the dark alley. "YUGI!!!" Yami shouted and ran after him. The alleys were long, dark and full of nasty stuff that was waiting to get him. But never the less, Yami lost them.

"No......no they can't be gone......YUGI!!!" Yami collapsed on the floor.

"Yami,"

"Yugi?"

"Yami help me.....no no no....... arrrgh!!!"

"I'm comin' Yugi!!!" Yami yelled. He ran as fast as he could but he was too late, Yugi lay there, motionless.

"YUGI!!!" Yami leant down by his hikari, the man was standing next to him. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM!?!?" Yami demanded.

"His mind has been taken to the shadow realm" as a quick as a flash, he was gone.

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"I SHOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING! I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THAT MAN!!!"

"Don't be so hard on yourself Yami, there was nothing you could of done." Joey replied.

"Your friend is right Pharaoh."

"SHADI? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"I sensed a disturbance in the cosmic alignment, then I hear your hikari has been taken to the Shadow Realm, I may be able to help."

"How?" Yami asked.

"I know what part of the Shadow Realm your hikari was sent to, but I can't transport you there with just the power of my key, so I'll send you to the nearest part of the Realm I can and you have to make your own way there and your own way back"

"Anything for Yugi,"

"By the power of the gods of Egypt, I send this mind to the SHADOW REALM!!!"

Yami landed with a thud.

"It is all up to that brave soul now."

~*~

"How goes the plan?"

"I have sent the boy to the Shadow Realm sir."

"Good, it's all going to plan."

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Oooo, how exiting! What will happen next? Stay pitched in for chapter 2: The Pathway To The Unknown.

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