Yu-Gi-Oh! Reawakening of the Pharaoh
"Welcome to the Duel Monsters World Championships!" the TV screen announced as four teens watched it. "For today's match we'll be seeing Japan's Nation Champion, Reikkyu Naga duel versus last week's winner, Kiaru Mahano!" the TV screen showed the duelist strategies and moves, while one of the teens said, " Yuge, you could beat both of them hands down." "Thanks, Jounouchi, but I haven't played in 8 months." "Speaking of Duel Monsters I need to get more cards." " But Jou, you bought four packs last week! With nothing good either." "Shut up Honda." Jounouchi muttered. He walked into the store part of the shop and pressed his face up to the glass case. " Oh man look at that!" He pointed to the three center cards. " A Black Meteor Dragon, Luster Dragon, and a Barrel Dragon!" "Yeah too bad the Luster Dragon you want is 60300 yen." Anzu told him. Yugi's Grandpa entered the room with a box of new cards. "Hello Yugi, I got a surprise for you today." Really? What is it?" "I think this should pay you back for the work you've done." He held out 4 booster packs of Duel Monsters. " What are you waiting for? Open 'em!" Jou cried. Yugi opened the boosters, and pulled out the rare cards- Magician's Valkyrie, Curtain of Black Magic, Black Magician's Knight and Magic Warrior-Breaker. "Whoa! How come Yugi pulls good cards every time?" " No I don't Joey!" A loud cry could be heard from the back room. " Jounouchi! Yugi! Check this out!" Honda yelled. The two duelists ran into the room and watched the TV.
~Reikkyu's turn~ R's LP: 6200 K's LP: 6700
" This Game is over! I activate Thunder Bolt!" All of Kiaru's monsters were destroyed. "Then I summon Tyrant Dragon (2900/2500)! Plus, I'll equip him with United We Stand rising his Attack points to 4300 from my three other monsters! Now attack directly!" K's LP: 0 "The winner of the second semi-final round is Reikkyu Naga!" The announcer said. Honda shut off the TV.
Jounouchi pulled his wallet out. "That's it, Gramps! I'm buying three boosters." " That'll be 4500 yen." Jounouchi emptied his wallet "Here you go." He eagerly pulled open the packs and found one card that caught his eye. " Hey Yuge, tell me what this is." He held up a monster card of a warrior. "That's the Freed the Brave Wanderer card. It's really rare." "How 'bout this?" "That's Gilford the Lightning. Those cards could really boost your deck Jounouchi."
"Awesome! Now I can beat Kaiba!"
"Don't get your hopes, Jou." Honda said.
"Thanks for the much needed support Honda." Jounouchi replied.
"Will you two shut up?" Anzu asked.
" Hey Yugi, Could I crash here for the night?" Jounouchi asked.
"Uh, Why?"
"Serenity spending the night at a friend's house and she has the keys to the apartment. She doesn't trust me with the keys."
"Gee I wonder why." Anzu said.
"Alright, I guess you can have the sofa." Yugi replied, "Grandpa, Jou is staying over!"
"Make sure he doesn't empty out the fridge again!"
"Thanks, Yugi."
"See you tomorrow Honda! Later, Anzu!"
Yugi got ready for bed and sat at his desk taking apart his duel monsters deck. He looked at his four new cards and looked for cards he could replace for them. He noticed his Slier the Sky dragon was there; of course he gave all of the God cards to Isis Ishtar after Battle City. After that someone had stolen them. So he had to fight to get them back, he shuddered as he remembered his soul got lost during a duel. He had grown attached to the dragon and took all three-god cards back. He also got a Legendary Dragon card called Timaeus. He looked through his almost completed deck after he exchanging new cards but stopped at his Dark Magician card. It was the very first card he had gotten, but there were two more cards his grandpa gave him the same day. 'Forget right now.' He told himself, 'you can think about it later.' He took off his Millennium Puzzle and went to sleep.
Deep within the Millennium Puzzle, the ancient spirit of the pharaoh walked through his room of labyrinths. He sensed something was wrong and chaos was coming. Either that or he was a paranoid spirit trapped in a puzzle. He heard footsteps, 'was it Yugi?' no, Yugi was asleep so his soul wouldn't walk around trying to find his yami. "Show your self!" he roared. A low cursing was heard. He reached out and grabbed the person by the neck. "Don't touch me Pharaoh." The man said. "Bakura! How did you get here?" "You found me so it doesn't matter." He replied, "I don't suppose you have felt the disturbance in the magic have you?" "Actually I have." "So, you're not as stupid as you look." "I've restored your hikari-" " I'm touched." He replied sarcastically. "Not for you, scum, I did it for him, he didn't deserve to be in the Shadow Realm. You're just a part that was dragged along." "That hurts." The thief replied, "but I'll be getting back to exploring the puzzle." " No you won't, I'll banish you right now." "Hah! Blinding flash!" The tomb robber escaped leaving Yami temporarily blinded by the magic. "Argh! I can't see!" His thoughts subconsciously set off many traps on the tomb robber. Bakura narrowly avoided the traps as he made his escape. Then, he was caught. A falling stone pillar knocked him into a wall, giving Yami a chance to stagger up to him. Yami held up his hand and banished him. Bakura's screams got worse as his soul fragment was ripped from the puzzle. He managed to say one last thing to the pharaoh, "Yami this is not the last of me! You shall die by the hand of my master!" 'Your master, why would the thief have a master? Who could his master be?' Yami thought to himself. The walls of his soul room healed themselves magically as he walked out of his room. Yami would usually go to Yugi's room when he had trouble figuring things out. He knocked on Yugi's door. "Hello, Yugi? Are you there?" There was no reply. "Hello?" There was still no answer. He opened the door finding it unlocked. He found Yugi was sleeping and woke him up.
"Yami, what is it? It' 3:00 A.M in the morning." "Bakura said I'd die by his master's hand…" This caught the younger boy's attention. "Really?" The Spirit nodded in reply. " Do you think he was bluffing?" "I don't know Yugi, Bakura is a hard person to predict, he is truthful sometimes but also lies. I don't know if," Yami was interrupted by a soft thud. Yugi had fallen asleep again. Finding it pointless to talk to his hikari anymore, the spirit locked Yugi in his soul room and took control of his body. He walked over to the desk where their unfinished deck was and looked through it. He quietly took a thick binder out from under the bed and began to finish the deck. He was slow and methodical with this, just like his dueling style. 'After all,' he thought, 'the deck is one of the biggest parts in Duel Monsters.'
~Jounouchi~
" Almost finished with my deck, just need to tweak it so I can beat Kaiba…" Jounouchi said to himself as he yawned. 'Must be two in the morning, or is it five? Ugh, my brain hurts.' He fell asleep while holding his deck.
~ Jounouchi's Dream~
" I summon the Red eyes Black Dragon!" Jounouchi called out,
"Attack!" "You fool!" His opponent said.
"I activate Negate attack!"
"You jerk!"
"Now it's my turn." I sacrifice my Kaiser Seahorse to summon the Blue Eyes white Dragon! Hahahahahah!"
The Dragon raised its head to gather energy for it's attack and launched it at Jounouchi. He felt the pain of the blast his Red Eyes received. "Jounouchi, you're a third rate duelist who can never defeat me!" "No! I won't give up!"
"You filthy mutt! Blue eyes! Attack Jounouchi!" The dragon chased Jounouchi, as he ran Jounouchi could see who was riding on the top of the Blue eyes White Dragon. It was Kaiba! The Dragon's jaws closed over Jounouchi.
He woke up with at start. He looked around; there was no one there. Jounouchi breathed a sigh of relief, no dragon, no Seto Kaiba. Suddenly his stomach rumbled and a loud sound was heard. 'Time for a snack.' He thought. He went right into the kitchen and started digging through the fridge stopping to occasionally put jar of sauce, toppings, meats, and other food on the table. He put together his sandwich and began to eat it. 'A snack at night is always good.' He thought. 'That, and Yugi's fridge always has good food.' He went back to sleep after finishing the sandwich.
~Ryou Bakura's residence~
As Ryou slept, his millennium ring began to glow. Luckily for him it was hanging on a coat rack so the spirit couldn't get to him, unlike Yugi and Yami, Ryou couldn't be controlled if the ring wasn't on him. The tomb robber found Ryou away from the ring and began to curse a long line of Egyptian profanities. As for Ryou, he had a hard time sleeping with nightmares of his Yami. "Nooooo…" he cried as he saw a vision of the spirit killing some people. He woke up from his dream and saw the ring glow an angry yellow glow. He had been practicing a way of blocking his Yami through his will, making a mental barrier but it wore him out, so he had been resting so he could fully recover. 'I'm vulnerable now,' he thought, 'and the ring knows it…' He could hear the Spirit laughing at him, mocking him and telling him it was pointless to defend himself.