Chapter 2

Let's Party

I went to Tristan's house soon after that. I don't know what Yami meant, but I wasn't going to let it worry me. It was nothing. When I got to Tristan's home, I rang the doorbell. Joey took his dear sweet time in answering it, but he did.

"Hey Yug! Were ya been?" Joey asked as if I had been gone for years.

"Ah, Yami just wanted to tell me something, so I had to stop, but I'm here now," I explianed.

"Yugi, come in, I've got something I need you to do for me," Tristan told me.

We scrambled around for a couple of more hours until everything was finally ready. Exhausted, we fell down on the couch and turned on the TV. I was so blizted that I fell asleep, which wasn't the best thing to do, actually. The next thing I knew, I was in the middle of another dream.

I am running again. Running faster this time. I see my yami once again.

"Yami, help, please," I plead again.

He simply stood there, just like last time. This time, I tripped over something and fell. The shadow got closer and almost got me. But Yami attacked, though I'm not sure how, and it retreated.

"Thank you," I told him as he helped me up.

"I must tell you something of great importance," he told me.

This was very unusual. Never before had he actually talked to where I could hear him. In the earlier ones, he had said something, but I could not hear, or understand, it.

"What?" I asked catiously.

"It is coming," he said without expression.

"What's coming?" I asked a little bewildered.

"I mustn't reveal that to you just yet. You'll find out soon enough, for it is almost here," Yami told me.

"But what is it?" I yelled as Yami faded into the distance.

But he said nothing.

I was shook awake by Joey.

'Hey Yug, wake up," he told me. "It's almost seven."

"Huh?" I asked groggily as I came back to reality.

"Welcome back," Tristan said.

"What happened?" I asked, a little bit disoriented.

"Well, we got everything set up and crashed on the couch," Joey told me.

"You fell to sleep pretty quickly," Tristan added.

"You were out for two hours, at least," Joey interejected.

"But, it only felt like two or three mintues," I told them.

"Oh well, it doesn't matter anyhow," Joey decieded. "Our guest of honor should be arriving soon."

He had no sooner said that when there was a knock at the door.

"I'll get it," I jumped up.

I walked over to the door and opened it.

"Hello," I said.

"Yugi, I'm here," Tea said.

"Tea! Come in!" I told her.

She walked in and looked around. I followed. Aparently Joey and Tristan had dimmed the lights. It was almost completely dark in the room that we now stood in.

"Yugi, what's this-"Tea started.

But Joey and Tristan jumping, and rasing the light, saying, "SURPRISE!" stopped her.

"What's all this for?" she asked in shock.

"Don't you know?" Joey asked.

"We heard about your graduating to the advanced dance class and decieded to throw a party for you," Tristan replied.

She was silent for a second and then said, "Thank you. I don't know what to say."

"Let's party!" Joey cried.

Within mintues, everyone was eating chips, drinking sodas, and talking about different stuff. I sat down on the couch. There was something I had to talk to Yami about.

Yami?

Yes Yugi, are you okay?

Yeah, sort of, I just gotta tell you something

What is it?

I fell asleep eariler today

I noticed

Anyway, I had that dream again and it was much, much different than all the others

How so?

In the dreams before, when you talked, I couldn't understand you, but in this one I could

What did I say?

He was obviously eager to hear what he had said.

You told me that 'It's coming'. But when I asked you what 'it' is, you simply told me that I would find out soon enough

Interesting

Then it started to pour.

"Great, now how am I gonna get home?" Joey asked. "Not that I want to go," he mumbled under his breath.

"Don't worry, you can stay here until it let's up," Tristan told us. "My folks are out of town and won't be back until tomorrow."

"Thanks Tristan," Joey said.

Then, I heard something that caught my attention. It was very faint, and it sounded like it came from the window, or a window, but I had no way of knowing what it was. For all I know, it could've been some dumb cat that fell off the window ceil or something. So basically, I just brushed it off and went on. It wasn't until I heard a crash that I started to get worried.

Yami, do you know what that was?

Nope, no idea

Then I heard Tea gasp and I turned around to see Marik, the Millennium Rod holder and threat to all humanity.

[Great,] I thought. [It can't get any worse, can it?]

Tip, never ask that question either.