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(It's their birthday in this chapter)
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Ties That Unite

Chapter 3: Meeting The Dark Magician/ Dark Magician Girl
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Yugi and Yami woke up to the light of the morning sun. Groaning
as the light hit his face, Yami placed the pillow over his head and
tried to go back to sleep.

Giggling at his brother, Yugi received a glare from Yami and imediatly shut up. He started to laugh again when Yami took the pillow off of his head. His hair was flat across his face and some of the hair stood up on top. Gining his brother a smirk; Yugi 'epped' as he was tickled by his brother.

"Now this is funny." said Yami as Yugi pleaded with him to stop. By the time Yami stopped, Yugi was bright red and was struggling for breath. Picking up his brother, Yami headed for the throne room where their father had a birthday present for the both of them.

When they reached the throne room, Yami and Yugi saw their Father's Neo the Magic Swordsman waiting for them.

"Good morning young princes. Hope you slept well." replied Neo.

"Yes, we did Neo-chan!" replied Yugi happily as he gave Neo a hug.

Yami just stood there chuckling at his little brother. Yugi responded by pouting and using his puppy dog eyes on Yami. In turn Yami just sighed. Looking back up, he was tackled by an over-hyper Yugi.

"Happy birthday, Yami." whispered Yugi as he hugged Yami. Yami just smiled and hugged Yugi back.

"So, where are we going Neo?" questioned Yami as he looked at the spellcaster.

"I am going to take you to the shadow realm." replied Neo as he faced the two look-alikes.

"The sh-shadow r-realm?" stuttered Yugi as he hid behind Yami. "What's that, Brother?"

"You'll see when we get there, Yugi." answered Yami as tickled Yugi.

"O-ok." Yugi replied in between fits of laughter.

Walking down many corridors, Neo finally led the two to a door at the end of a corridor.

"This is the door to the shadow realm that is located in the palace." said Neo as he opened the door and ushered the two boys in. While looking around, Yami and Yugi saw they were in a dark room filled with blackish-purple mist. There looked like nothing was there when an angel-like monster came into view. "Good day, Change of Heart."

"And to you too, Neo." replied the Change of Heart as she approached the boys. "Welocme princes Yugi and Yami. Today you'll be recieving your guardian duel monster. They will be similar to a protector and each of you will recieve one."

As if on que, four different monsters came out from the mist. One was a white wolf, next was a blondish-haired phantom, the third a purple cloacked magician, and the last was a skull fiend. "These are Silver Fang, Whitty Phantom, the Dark Magician, and Summoned Skull." said Change of Heart as she pointed to each one. "See if you get along with any of them."

Yami walked towards the Dark Magician and Summoned Skull. Yugi just stayed rooted to his spot and showing no signs of approaching the other two. Silver Fang approached Yugi quietly and put nuzzled Yugi's hand with his nose. Yugi shivered a little bit at the feeling of the wet nose against his warm flesh. The Whitty Phantom on the other hand had snuck behind Yugi and Silver Fang and was about to surprise them when he was hit with a blue energy blast.

All the occupants in the room turned towards the sorce of the attack to find a pari of blue eyes watching them. "This is one of the four Blue Eyes White Dragons" said Change of Heart as she smiled.

"Like the ones priest Seto has?" asked Yugi, never leaving the dragon's blue eyes.

"Actually this is one of his three blue eyes." she replied.

The Whitty Phantom, seeing his plan ruined, disappeared back into the shadows. The Dark Magician left out what sounded as a small chuckle at the retreating phantom.

Yami and the Dark magician approached Yugi as he played with Silver Fangs tail causing the wolf to chase his tail like something was on it. Yami smiled as his younger brother's laugh seemed to fill
the shadows with life. Not a second later, there was a quick movement from behind the group. As they turned around, the Dark Magician was tackled over by his apprentice.

"I found you Sensai!" yelled a very happy Dark Magician Girl.

Standing up after shoving his apprentice off of him, The magician took his staff and hit her forhead.

"Foolish apprentice." replied the the Dark Magician.

Using the puppy dog eyes on the retreating back of her teacher. She then sat down next to Yugi rubbing her forhead.

"I think that reminds me of someone," replied Yami as he winked at Yugi.

"Does not..." whispered Yugi, more to himself then to Yami.

"I hate to interupt, but did you decide on which monster you both will have for your guardians?" asked Neo.

"I choose the Dark Magician." replied Yami to Neo's question.

"Um... I want Dark Magician Girl. That is if she wants to..." asked Yugi as she lookd at the magician girl.

"I would love to have such a cute master!" she replied happily as she hugged Yugi.

"Yep, that definently reminds me of someone." said Yami to the Dark Magician.

"Alright then. You all can leave now." answered Neo as he opened the door back to the palace.

As Yami and Yugi left the shadow realm with their new friends, the High Priest Seto was standing near one of the collums near the door.

"I see you have gotten your monsters.At such an early age too..." pondered Seto. "Come with me, the Pharaoh wishes to see which ones you have chosen."

Following Seto to the throne room, a golden door caught Yami's eye as he stared at the strange markings on the door witch showed seven different carvings covered in gold. Poking Yugi to get his attention,
he told Yugi what he saw. Yugi gasped in surprise as his brother talked about seven gold items that were on a door. Shrugging to his brother, he ran ahead to catch up to Seto.

Upon reaching the throne room, the Pharaoh Akahosh and the queen Kiya sat on their thrones watching the arrival of their two sons. Waving his hand in a gesture to come up to them, Yami and Yugi approached the thrones.

"Congradulations on turning 7, my sons." said Akahosh with praise hinted in his voice. "I would also like to add that you have also gained many friends during your little tours of the palace during your studies." he finished as he winked at them both. Yami turned his head towards the ground, while Yugi just blushed.

"Come here sorcerors,"said Akahosh as he waved his arm for them to come. Reaching the throne, the Dark Magician sat next to Yami and the Dark Magician Girl sat down next to Yugi. "Welocome to the palace. On behalf of my whole family, we thank you for becoming the guardians to the two princes of Egypt."

"Thank you, lord Pharaoh." replied the Dark magician as he bowed to the Pharaoh.

"Yes, thank you!" smiled the Dark Magician Girl as her teacher, yet again hit her on the forehead.

"Don't be rude." muttered the Dark Magician.

"It's fine, no harm done." replied Akahosh as a smile graced his lips. "Now I want the four of you to go have some fun before you all go to bed."

"You mean we get to skip our studies today?" asked an astonished Yami.

"Yes, but only on your birthday." replied Akahosh.

"Thank you daddy!" replied Yugi as he jumped up on to his father's lap and hugged him.

Patting his son's back, he then released them from his presence.

Walking out into the garden connected to the palace, Yugi and the Dark Magician Girl went towards the fountain, while Yami and the Dark Magician went near the shady area near the trees.

"What do you want to do, Dark Magician Girl?" questioned Yugi as he smiled at her.

"Please call me Mana, master Yugi." replied Mana, "Plus it's your birthday, so you choose." She said as she poked him on the nose.

"Okay then! Want to go in the water?" asked Yugi as he neared the water.

"Sure!" said Mana as she ran after her little master.

"So, what was it like in the shadow realm, magician?" questioned Yami as he sat underneath one of the trees.

"A little boring, but when you have an over-hyper apprentice, it's pretty exciting." replied the magician as he sat next to Yami. "Oh, please call me Mahado."

"Alright then, Mahado." smiled Yami as the events from earlier ran thru his mind.

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Chibi Pharaoh Yami: There you go! Now that Mana and Mahado are in the picture, what chaos will ensue when a mysterious person from another city comes into the picture?
p.s. Sorry for any mistakes, my spell check wasn't working.

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