The Wrath of Set
by Dark Witchcraft

Summary: Summer Vacation had just started and the gang just wanted to enjoy the free summer. That is until they are invited to a tournament in Egypt. Next thing you know the whole gang finds themselves in the most danger they had ever been in. With new and old evil appearing, what will they do? Will they make new friends, or even bigger enemies?

Chapter Four
First Duel

Joey sat at the end of a large table. The table was full of all sorts of food. It ranged from cakes to hotdogs. Joey smiled widely and began eating his heart desire. He was going to grab a bowl of soup, when out from under the table appeared Pegasus.

"Hello Joey-boy!" he said excitedly. Then out of his ear came the toon mermaid. She giggled and snapped her finger. Joey watched in horror as all his food began to disappear. "NO!" he shouted. "No...No..NO!!"

"Joey...?" Yugi asked uncertainly. Joey sat up, hair sticking out. He looked around and saw everyone was sitting up on their beds, staring at him. "You were shouting 'No', are you alright?"

"Yea..." Joey mumbled rubbing his head, "I had a bad dream..."

"Well, if you have bad dreams, do us all a favor and go sleep outside where the scorpions can get you" The girl, Sam hissed. Joey glared at her.

"Well, it's time to get up..." Mai mumbled and then yawned.

"How do you know?" Tristan asked. Mai rolled her eyes.

"The man said, if you were listening at dinner, when the sun rises, men will be around to hand out clothes. And..." she said, pointing to a beam of light that poured from a window. Joey grinned and stood up.

"Well let's get goin!"

"Well, we can get up when they knock-" Tristan began, but was cut off from a knock on the door. Tristan sighed and stood up, getting the door. In seconds two burly men walked in. In the arms was a sack.

"What are you?" one man growled. Joey snorted, the man was dressed in an Egyptian uniform, and therefore he was wearing a skirt. The man glared at Joey.

"Royal Guard" Joey said, Tristan grinned.

"Me to!" he shouted. The man rolled his eyes and dug in the sack. He brought out two plastic bags, the word 'Guard' was written in thick black marker. The man looked towards Yugi.

"Priest of Osiris..."he muttered. The man nodded and threw him a plastic bag also. Everyone took turns shouting their status. Yugi found out that Mark and Sam were Artisans.

"Alright, there will be a quick meeting in the village square. Each one of you has one item in your bag. You need the Eye of Houris, Staff of Seth, Scarab, Ankh, Sesen, Crown, Maat's feather, and Canopic Jar. I suggest you see what item the person has before dueling him/her. If you have doubles of something you will not be allowed in." The man waited a few seconds, seeing if anyone had a question. Nodding to his friend, the both exited the house.

"So...I have...this cross thingy..." Joey said, bringing out his item.

"That's an Ankh, I have one too..."Mark said, holding out his.

"I have the Staff of Seth" Sam muttered.

"Eye of Houris!" Yugi said rather cheerfully. Malik also had the eye of Houris. Isis and Mai had a Sesen. Ryou had a Scarab.

"Well..." Joey said "We practically all have the items, so we could just duel-"

"No" Yugi said, catching Joey by surprise. "Let's promise not to duel each other, only if we have to. I want us all to make it to the finals." Yugi winced slightly, Yami shouts were echoing through his head. They all muttered their agreements. "Well, lets get dressed..." Every boy found themselves standing outside the small mud hut, waiting for the woman to finish dressing.

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There was a brief meeting, just a review of the rules. Surprisingly, many duelists decided not to wear the attire, and were sent off to wait for the bus. As soon as the meeting was done, many people ran around looking for duelist.

"No offense guys" Mai said. "I'm gonna go do my own thing; see you all at the finals!" She said, walking into the crowd. Sam and Mark didn't say anything, they just walked away.

"Yea" Joey said. "Why don't we all do our own thing? We'll met each other at de finals." Ryou and Malik agreed instantly. Malik wanted to get away from everyone, Ryou because of his yami.

Within minutes, the whole gang had splitten up. Yugi had made his way down to the market place. Mai, a temple. Joey and Tristan decided to just walk around .Isis and Tea decided to go together, they were at the palace, admiring a dancer who had come out to dance for a crowd. Malik lurked in the alleys. Bakura had taken control over Ryou, and was following Malik. He decided he should take him out first. Sam was back at the mud hut, sleeping and Mark had gotten lost.

"Hey!" Someone shouted from behind Bakura. Bakura turned around, secretly cursing his luck. A male around the age of 14 stood there, grinning. "Wanna duel?" Bakura's eyes narrowed. He wanted to send him straight to the shadow realm, but he never turned down a challenge.

"Very well" He said, reaching for his deck and putting it into the Duel Disk Kaiba Corp had supplied. It was the only technology allowed. "But we duel on my terms..." he said as a cloud of darkness appeared around the two duelers. The teenager was taken aback by the display, but quickly concluded that it was just a effect.

Minutes later, bystanders could hear a shriek of terror and a bone chilling laugh. Bakura walked out of the allies, a scarab and Maat's feather bounced around in his pocket. He chuckled to himself. This was going to be easy.

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Dark Witchcraft: Ack, sorry for the short chapter. Just a quick note, a Sesen is a locus flower; the Maat's feather is a plain old feather. Staff of Seth is a staff and a Canopic Jar was used to store organs during Mummification. Most of you should know what an Ankh, Scarab, Eye of Houris is. Thanks for your support about the Private School thing. Testing for the school is coming up on Sunday. I better get going. Oh, I wanted to announce, I have plans for a Kingdome Hearts story. My friend Gwen is obsessed with the game, so I'm going to make a story about her. Here are the parings, please note, there is no romance in the story, just a slight blush or something like that.

JoeyxMai
TeaxYugi
TristanxSerienty
DukexSerienty
Marik(Yami Malik)xOC

I repeat, there will only be slight romance. Have a great day. Happy late Halloween, ect.