Domino Hospital: 4-12-04: Monday: 10:00 p.m.

It took them about an hour and a half to get there, there was a serious traffic jam. However, they had managed to get there, and that's all Yugi cared about. Kaiba had made good on his promise. He had dropped Yugi and his friends off at the hospital then he and Mokuba went on home themselves. Yugi, still in his yami form, and his friends entered the hospital and immediately found the front desk where a nurse was sitting. She didn't look like a nurse though, having bright pink har, purple eye-shadow, and a spiked dog collar. She also had her hospital uniform open like a robe, revealing an Ozzy Osborn shirt. Not exactly professional looking, and the fact she was twirling a pen in one hand while typing away at a keyboard rather boringly didn't help much either. She noticed Yugi and his friends approach and set her pen down.

"What can I do for ya, hun?" she asked in a friendly tone. "We're hear to see my grandfather, Solomon Motou." Yugi answered.

"Okay, let's see here..." the punk nurse mused to herself as she typed in the name and began looking. It didn't take her too long to find him. "Here we go, Solomon Motou. Hmm...oh yeah, the beat-up old guy they wheeled in here not too long ago." She looked quickly at Yugi then back at the screen with a smile. "I think I can see the resemblence between you two. Well, it says here that he had several deep cuts and bruises and a bit of internal bleeding, plus a minor concusion. They just got him out of surgery not too long ago."

"Is he going to be alright?" Yugi asked. The nurse looked at the screen again and gave a quick nod. "Yup, seems he'll be just fine, hot stuff," she replied winking atYugi. Yugi just blushed a bit, but Tea gave a slight glare to the nurse. She hadn't admitted to actually liking Yugi like that yet and got somewhat flustered when another girl hit on him. "He's on the fourth floor, room 403, hun." Yugi gave a nod and thanked the nurse, then proceeded to the elevator with Joey, Tea, and Serenity behind him.

"Boy, that nurse is a weird one, huh?" Joey asked as they arrived at the elevator, "And that pink hair? Man, what's up with that?" Serenity giggled a bit. "Isn't any weirder than this," she replied, swiping at Yugi's hair real quick. Yugi wide eyed and fixed his hair as they entered the elevator. "Hey, this takes forever to style!" The three chuckled as Yugi attempted to fix his hair and arrived on the fourth floor in just a few seconds. Yugi, finally finished restyling his hair, exited the elevator with Joey, Serenity, and Tea. They walked down the long hallway looking for Solomon Motou's room. It didn't take them long to find it.

"Yugi, why don't you go in and check up on him by yourself?" Tea suggested. "I'm sure you're the one he would really want to see right now." Joey and Serenity agreed with Tea and told Yugi to go in as well.

"Alright. I'll fill you in on his condition" Yugi's friends nodded and left to go find a place to sit while Yugi entered his grandfathers hospital room. Before walking in though Yami allowed Yugi to take over, so now he was smaller. Inside the room he saw his grandfather hooked up to several monitoring devices with an oxygen mask put over his face. Yugi slowly walked over to Solomon's bedside and sat down, looking at the chart beside the bed. It seemed he'd be okay but it would probably be several days, maybe weeks, before he could leave.

"Yugi..." Yugi looked up from the chart and saw his grandfather with his eyes half open. He quickly put the chart down and placed his hand over his grandfathers. "Hey there...how you doing, grandpa?" Solomon smirked a little at his grandson and answered back. "I've been through worse..." Yugi smiled. His grandfather was a tough old bird. "Did you get your...cards back from that theif?" Yugi took on a downtrotted look and shook his head no. "She slipped out of my sight for a few seconds while I was chasing her, long enough to pass the cards on to someone else." Solomon looked sadly at Yugi then quickly glanced away.

"I'm sorry, Yugi...I know how much...those cards meant to you..." Yugi shook his head and patted his Solomon's hand. "Don't worry about it. We'll get them back eventually. Right now, your health is higher priority." Solomon had fallen back asleep and didn't hear Yugi. Yugi patted his grandather's hand again then decided to leave. As much as he'd like to stay and watch his grandfather, he had homework to do and it was getting late. He also had quite a bus ride home.

Yugi got up and left the room where he found Tea, Serenity, and Joey sitting at the other end of the hall where there was a lounge and a television. He quickly walked over to them and sat down on a sofa that Serenity was sitting on. "So how is he?" Tea asked. Yugi shook his head. "He's okay, but it's going to be a long time before he's up and moving again."

"That's good," said Joey. "Does one of us need to stay over night or should we all head home?" Yugi thought for a moment on that.

"I think we should all head home," said Yugi. "Grandpa should be okay without any of us being here." Everyone nodded in agreement and made their way out of the hospital so that they could catch a bus back home to their neighborhood. Yugi had several questions running through his mind. Questions such as who was the new leader of the rare hunters and why did he want the egyptian god cards. Yugi knew what horrible power the god cards possessed if they were handled by those with evil intentions so he had to get them back from whoever this guy was.

Kaiba Mansion: 04-12-04: Monday: 11:00 p.m.

Kaiba and Mokuba had had a quiet drive home, neither of them exchanged much in the way of words. Mokuba knew how distressed his brother was and didn't want to agitate him so he was quiet the whole drive. Now they were both sitting in a large dining room area having a late supper. Mokuba was famished and gobbled his food down rather quickly. Kaiba, however, didn't really touch his meal.

"Seto? You haven't touched your food at all," Mokuba said. Kaiba closed his eyes and sighed, pushing the plate away. "I'm not very hungry, Mokuba."

"Why not?" Mokuba asked. "You haven't eaten anything all day. You should get something in your system." Kaiba stood up from his chair and slowly walked towards the window, looking down at the plush green yard bathed in the moon light.

"Mokuba...my pride was hurt today," said Kaiba. "I don't think food is going to heal it." Mokuba looked sadly at his brother. He honestly didn't know what to say in order to cheer him up. Besides, it was hard to make Kaiba happy about anything, even though he had lightened up considerably.

"...plus," Kaiba added. "The person who called us on Tea's cell phone was the leader of the rare hunters. He was the one responsible for hacking into my database and hijacking all of those files."

"He also said something about brothers and sisters," Mokuba added, putting a hand to his chin. "You think he's related to somebody we know?" Kaiba turned away from the window and walked back towards the table. "It's possible," he said. "But he could be just playing with our heads."

Mokuba was silent for a few minutes then pushed his own plate away. "Well, I'm full now. I'm going to head on to bed," he said. "You might want to do the same. You've had a rough day." Mokuba walked off out of the room, leaving Kaiba alone to ponder his thoughts.

"None of this makes sense," he mused to himself. "That hacker would've needed my computer skills in order to even break into the Kaiba Corp. mainframe. Not many people have the ability to do that and even then why would they want all of the duel disk data and duelist profiles?" Kaiba strung all he knew thus far in his head. Whoever the new leader of the rare hunters was was obviously a computer genius. All he took was duel disk data and duelist profiles...

"...and then he sends a rare hunter to successfully make off with the eygptian god cards!" Kaiba mentally slapped himself. "Of course! With the data he took from the main frame he could control the operating functions of every duel disk on the planet and he could use the duelist profiles to obtain rare cards from other duelists. He'd have the ability to choose when a duel took place if a duel disk is in any way involved." Kaiba then started pacing the room. "With that data and the egyptian god cards...would could they possibly be planning?"

Yugi's Home: 04-06-04: Monday: 11:20 p.m.

Yugi walked slowly off the bus stop about a block away from his home. He could see down the street that the squad cars and the ambulence that was there earlier were now gone. He let out a small sigh, glad that he could at least go home and not have to worry about disturbing any evidence. Yugi made his way to his home and entered it, walking by the mess that the scuffle between Solomon and Calli had caused. He figured he clean it up sometime tomorrow.

"Yugi?" Yami appeared beside him in a spirtal form. "What is it, Yami?" Yugi asked. Yami was quiet for a little bit then spoke. "I believe that evil is once again encrouching upon us." Yugi sighed and walked up the stairs to his room with Yami following him.

"I know, Yami. It seems like someone is out to get us once again,"said Yugi as they entered his room. "This seems different than our last encounters, Yugi." Yugi quarked an eyebrow as he undressed into some sweat pants and an old T-shirt. "How so?"

"I don't think whoever the new leader of the rare hunters is after us specifically or any of the millenium items." Yami stated. "His intentions seem to be on other matters."

"Like what?" Yami shrugged. "Call it a hunch I guess. Plus there didn't seem to be any kind of hint that shadow magic was involved."

"I guess that makes sense," Yugi mused. "We're gonna have to watch our backs until we can figure all of this out." Yami nodded in agreement. "Yes. There is a chance that the rare hunters will strike again, even if they already have what they want." That said, Yami disappeared and Yugi tucked himself into bed. Although he doubted that he'd have any sweet dreams after what had happened today.

Domino High: 04-07-04: Tuesday: 8:10 a.m.

Tristan and Duke were both standing around the front of the school talking amongst themselves before the bell for the first class rang. The night before they had told the police that they had tracked down the person who hurt Yugi's grandfather and that Yugi beat her in a duel monsters game. They didn't tell them of the missing god cards though.

"Last night sure was hecktic, huh?" said Tristan. Duke nodded in agreement. "Yeah. The Calli women was strange. In an odd way, she kinda reminded me of Bakura. What with the hair, pale skin and all that."

"I actually thought it 'was' Bakura for a few moments," Tristand added.

"Did somebody say my name?" a voice came from behind them. Duke and Tristan turned around and noticed Bakura standing there with his bookbag slung over his shoulder. "How are you guys doing this morning?"

"Not all too great," said Tristan. "We had one hell of a night last night." Bakura raised an eyebrow at the two. "Do tell."

"Yugi's grandfather was hurt very badly last night by a rare hunter because he wouldn't give her Yugi's egyptian god cards," Duked informed. "In the end she got them anyways, but Yugi tracked her down and beat her in a duel to get them back except she didn't have them on her. Me and Tristan here had to give a report to the police once they arrived and arrested her."

Bakura was flabbergasted by this news. "And it didn't cross your minds to tell me of this?" Tristan and Duke rubbed the back of their heads embarrassed. "Sorry, dude," Tristan apologized. "We were a little caught up in what was going on to think about it." Bakura gave a light shrug.

"Ah well, no worries. Is Yugi's grandfather okay though?" he asked.

"We don't know ourselves," Duke replied. "Yugi and the others went to go see about him why we dealt with the police."

"I see," Bakura mused. "Well, the old man's been through worse, right? Should be easy for him to make a comeback!" Bakura said with some enthusiasm. "Yeah, that's true," Tristan agreed. The bell soon rang and Tristan and Duke waved their goodbye's to Bakura. He watched the two enter the school along with everyone else. Nobody noticed the strange darkness that seemed to suddenly appear in Bakura however.

"An interesting turn of events..." he mused to himself. "The rare hunters have returned. I wonder why." Bakura looked up to the sky in thought. 'To top it off, the egyptian god cards have been stolen from little Yugi. I'm going to have to look into this further...someone else could be after the millenium items and I can't let that happen.' After staring up at the sky for a bit longer Bakura entered the school and proceeded to his first class. "...God, I hate this place. If I didn't have to keep myself a secret...first thing I'm going to do when I have the power of the millenium items is burn this place into ashes. Not only is it painfully annoying...the building itself is tacky."

Domino High: 04-07-04: Tuesday: 8:25 a.m.

Joey was going full speed ahead on his Frankenstein essay. When he and Serenity got home the previous night he had immediately set to work on reading the rest of the book. After he did that he started on his paper. Unfortunately, he didn't have it complete before school started and was now running on a full pot of coffee trying to get it done.

"Well good morning, Joey!" came a voice from beside him. Joey stopped for a brief moment to look up and see Rahn standing next to his desk. "GoodmorningyourselfthereRahn,whatdoyawant?" Rahn looked at Joey oddly before he was able to understand what Joey said. "umm...what are you doing?"

"Homework," Joey replied simply. "BeenupallnightworkingonitandI'vegotfifthteencupsofcoffeerunningthroughme," said Joey. Once again Rahn took a moment to decipher what Joey said. "oh..." he replied."Well, if it's alright with you, I'll just take this seat right here behind you." Joey waved his hand at the desk saying 'all yours, bud.' Shortly thereafter, Yugi entered the room and took his usual seat next to Joey. Joey noticed him and quickly stopped what he was doing and began speaking normally.

"Hey, Yuge, how you holding up?" he asked. Yugi shook his head. "Not so well. I barely caught a wink of sleep last night. Plus, when I get home, I've got to clean up the entire shop." Joey whistled. "That's too bad. You want me to come over and help ya clean it up after school?"

"You don't have to but I'd appreciate it," Yugi replied.

"Maybe I can help a little bit?" Rahn butted in. "I overheard your little conversation. What exactly happened?"

"Well, my grandfather was...robbed, to say the least, and was injured," Yugi explained. "He's in the hospital now and the doctors say he's doing fine."

"What a terrible thing to happen," Rahn stated. "My best wishes to your grandfather. I still have your address so I'll just drop by later this afternoon and lend you a hand cleaning you place up. Sound good?" Yugi nodded and thanked Rahn. At that moment the bell rang for class to start.

Kaiba Mansion: 04-13-04: Tuesday: 12:30 p.m.

"You really should be focusing more on your schoolwork than on this," said Kaiba's computer.

"I will after I track this guy down," Kaiba replied. "Nobody makes a fool out of Seto Kaiba and gets away with it."

"Fine then. Ego trip aside, what about your company's mainframe computer? Is it salvagable?" the computer asked him. "I've got the best computer mechanics in the world working on it as we speak. They'll get it back online but I'm going to have to reupload all the data it had...and all that was stolen by that hacker."

"Ah, I see...you're gonna find him and then get your data back, right?" Kaiba smirked. "Exactly. 'After' I trash his face..." Kaiba tryped away furiously on the keyboard in front of him. He knew there had to be some way to find this guy, whoever he was. Everything leaves a trail but it all depends on how good a hacker is at hiding it.

"He had to have come in through a back door somehow..." Kaiba mused. "If I can find that door then I'll be able to find out where he did it from." He checked every possible place he could think of in which someone would be able to get into the mainframe. His first thought was maybe inside the building itself but then he realized that the only two places one could do that from would be his office or where the computer itself was located. Obviously none of them could be it. His second thought were places that could connect to the computer outside of the building. That included his helicoptors, some of the cars, and the Blue-Eyes White Jet. After checking those and finding nothing he was at a loss.

"I'll give this guy some credit. He covers his tracks well," said Kaiba. "Obviously so if you can't find him," his computer quiped. "What do you say we take a little break and see how those technical mechanics are doing on the mainframe? I can try and connect to it if you want." Kaiba's eyes widened with realization and he began typing furiously at the keyboard again. "I say something?"

"Tell me. Yesterday did you detect any outside connection in your database?" The computer was silent for a moment. "Now that you mention it...my hard drive did run a bit slower than usual about the time your mainframe crashed. Why, do you think he connected through me to the mainframe?"

"That's exactly what I'm thinking!" After some searching through the database Kaiba found what he was looking for. A foreign I.P. address that he didn't recognize. "You know what to do," Kiaba told the computer.

"That I do, Mr. Kaiba! Let the hunt begin!" The computer connected to one of the company's satelites and began tracking the connection the hacker used to the location that he connected his computer to. Withing a few minutes they had it.

"Looks like he did it from one of the warehouses in the harbor," The computer stated.

"The harbor, huh? That's where the rare hunters held Tea and Mokuba captive during the battle city tournament." Kaiba stood up from the chair and begain to walk out. "Thanks for the help. I'm gonna go investigate this personally."

"Not a problem, Seto. Watch your ass!"

Yugi's Home: 4-13-04: Tuesday: 4:30 p.m.

Yugi, Joey, and Rahn got off of the bus in front of Yugi's house with the intent on cleaning up the place from the previous nights scuffle. Before coming to school Yugi had done a little bit of cleaning but he could only do so much.

"Wow..." Rahn whistled as he stepped inside behind Yugi and Joey. "This place got pretty trashed, huh?"

"Trashed doesn't even describe it, man," Joey replied as he took a good look around. "So where do we start at?" Yugi tapped his chin in thought. "Well...why don't we get all of the cards and glass out of the floor first, then we'll move that book case back to where it goes?"

"Sounds like a plan," Rahn said to himself as he sat his bookbag and his laptop down on a nearby chair. Yugi and Joey did the same and the group set to work. Yugi and Rahn picked up all of the cards and carefully alphabatized them in piles according to their rarity, attribute, and type while Joey took care of the glass and other floor debris. It wasn't long before the trio had everything spruced up.

"You've got a lot of rare cards in this place, Yugi. It's no wonder you're considered the best," said Rahn as he stared at some of the cards he had picked up and began sorting through.

"Yeah. Since my grandfather owns the shop I get first dibs on any of the new cards that come in." Yugi stated. "Same goes for Joey too, but Grandpa sometimes makes Joey have to pay half price or something like that."

"It's a half now half later sort of gig," Joey replied as he dumped the broken shards of glass from the dustpan into the trash.

"Must be nice," Rahn said as he sat the cards down in their proper spots. "Before I get too into this I should probably ask how your grandfather is doing?" Yugi closed his eyes and sighed.

"When we saw him last night he was doing alright. I probably should give the hospital a call or go visit him again."

"Don't worry, Yuge, he's been through worse. Remember when Pegasus stole his soul with that millenium eye of his?" Joey asked. Rahn looked up at Joey with interest. "Millenium eye, what's that?" he asked.

"Oh, you wouldn't believe us if we told ya," Joey replied. Rahn looked at him quizzically and turned to Yugi, who just smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "Alright...if you guys think it's that far fetched, but-"Rahn was interrupted by a knock at the door.

"Just a second!" Yugi called out and ran towards the door. When he opened it he saw Tea braced up against the door panting like she had just ran a marathon. "Tea!? What are you doing here?"

"Yugi, your grandfather is missing!" Yugi gasped in shock. "Missing!? What happened!?" Joey and Rahn both arrived at the door to hear what Yugi said.

"Who's missing?" Joey asked.

"Yugi's grandfather," Tea started. "They think someone came in through the window and got him. I tried to call you but the operator kept saying that the line was disconnected."

"Well duh, the phone line was cut, remember?" said Joey. Tea placed her hand on her face and groaned. "ANYWAY, the police are already there, but they wanted me to bring you, Yugi. They said the found something you should see."

Domino Harbor: Warehouse23: 4-13-04: Tuesday: 3:45 p.m.

Before Yugi and the others found out about Solomon's kidnapping, Kaiba was searching the warehouse he had tracked the hacker to. He had been searching for a few hours now but had turned up nothing. As far he could tell this building was filled with nothing bute crates, boxes, and more crates.

"I'm missing something, I know I am!" Kaiba said to himself as he walked down another isle of crates. As we walked he felt floor give away a little bit under his foot then go solid again. "...Wait a second..."

Kaiba turned around and put his hand on the floor, hitting it to find the spot again. He found it again felt around for any sort of latch. Sure enough he found one and lifted it. The hidden door rose up and revealed a set of steps that went down into a poorly lit corridor.

"Check and mate," Kaiba muttered then began walking down the steps. "I'll teach this punk a lesson or two about messing with my business." As Kaiba walked downstairs he noticed that the poor light was starting to get better. He finally came to a simple door and cautiously opened it. He wasn't prepared for what was inside.

"What...is this?" he asked himself as he looked at the room in awe. There were several computers on various tables around the room and in the far off corner was an empty tube. He walked inside slowly and carefully examined the room.

"I may have underestimated this guy," Kaiba mused to himself as he looked at some of the computers. They were indeed advanced, more than capable of hacking into an advanced computer network. Only one problem though. Where was the operator?

"He must be around here somewhere with his goon squad of rare-"Kaiba stopped in front of a screen that was still running a program of some kind. As he examined it his eyes started to shrink in horror, then he began to read it aloud.

"Maxamillion Pegasus DNA...accepted...Joey Wheeler DNA...accepted...Marik Ishtar DNA...accepted...Mai Valentine DNA...accepted...Yugi Motou DNA...accepted...Seto Kaiba DNA...accepted!? Estimated time until completion: thirty-two weeks. Estimated time left...zero..." Kaiba slowly moved his eyes towards the empty tube he saw in the corner. "...so that's what the tube is for. They combined all of that DNA together and created some sort of clone. Question is...where is it now?"

Kaiba slowly stepped away from the screen a little shakily. Somewhere there was a partial clone of himself walking around. Without a second thought he took out his cell phone and dialed a number. After a few rings somebody answered.

"Kaiba residence, Mokuba speaking."

"Mokuba, it's me," Kiaba greeted shakily.

"Seto? What's wrong? You don't sound too good," Mokuba replied worridly.

"Listen. I've found something very important here. This is more than just hacking into our database or stealing the egyptian god cards. The rare hunters have-" There was silence. "Seto? Seto, are you okay?"

A foot came down and smashed Kaiba's cell phone, then dropped the lead pipe. Next to Kaiba's unconcious body. "Things are going just as the master planned," the attacker mused to himself. He then took out his own cell phone and dialed a phone number. A few seconds later someone picked up.

"Did you get him, Nokame?"

"Yeah, I got him. Alert the master and tell him that Kaiba took the bait hook, line, and sinker." Nokame hung up the phone and looked down at Kaiba. "The fun part is soon to begin, my unconcious friend." Nokame then grabbed Kaiba by his ankles and dragged him away, not noticing Kaiba's deck box fall out of his trenchcoat pocket, and hauled him away.