Chapter 1

He was reliving his worst nightmare. It was the supposed rematch of the generation: Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba Corporation, versus Yugi Muto, currently ranked the number one duelist in the world. Kaiba had just summoned his almighty Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3500), and boosted its power to 10000 attack points. Seemingly unstoppable, the three-headed dragon growled with ferocity.

"You're finished! My Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is the strongest beast on the field, and even your Egyptian God Cards stand no chance!" mocked Kaiba. Yugi was used to all of his taunting and mocking, and plus he was far ahead of Seto strategy wise, as he already had all three Egyptian Gods, Osiris, Ra, and Obelisk, out on the field.

"Once again, you've been blinded by your selfishness and vengeful nature. Have you forgotten that I have all three Egyptian Gods on the field?" Yugi told him.

"And none of them even come close the strength of my Blue-Eyes!" Kaiba tried convincing him, but it of course was useless.

"And once all three are out on the field," Yugi began. "They can combine with each other to equal the power that of Exodia: The Forbidden One."

Kaiba stood in shock.
"You mean…" he said almost speechless.

"Yes," Yugi went to call his attack. "Osiris, Ra, Obelisk! Unite your strengths to create infinite power!"

All at once, Ra, Obelisk, and Osiris moved to attack. Their powers so great that flames burst from their bodies once in motion. The flames that had emerged from them came together and became one powerful, light purple flame directed at the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

"I won't stand for this! Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack!" Kaiba yelled.

The three Blue Eyes heads powered up their white lightning attack and blasted them ahead. The mighty attack from the Ultimate Dragon collided with an even stronger attack from the Egyptian Gods. Within a second, the Blue Eyes' attack was too weak and began to fade back towards its sender.

"No!" Seto shouted in disbelief.

There was nothing he could do but watch his strongest beast once again fall to the power of the Gods. The attack from the Gods finally over powered the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon's and hit it directly, the ferocious dragon screeching in pain and its hologram exploding to pieces.

When the smoke from the attack cleared, Seto saw Yugi standing on the opposing end, once again victorious. He looked down on his duel disk only to watch the remainder of his life points drop to zero.

"And the winner of this duel…" the announcer of the duel began to say…

Sweaty and heart pounding, Seto awoke sitting up in his bed. For the past few days, Kaiba dreamt of nothing but his only losses to Yugi, all the way from his first duel with him to Battle City. Those memories were nothing but nightmares that were seemingly on a permanent replay button and kept showing Kaiba over and over again just how humiliating his losses were. Hands into fists, Kaiba knew he would not get a bit of sleep until he found a way to defeat his only rival.

Unfortunately for him, this meant he had to surpass the three most powerful cards ever created: the Egyptian God cards. He knew how to beat them individually, as he had learned from Battle City, but all three at once seemed nothing but impossible. So many times he had tried to calculate a flawless strategy that could take the Gods down, but every time it was the same result: failure. He was so sick of failing! Once more and he would surely lose it.

Kaiba looked over his shoulder to see his expensive alarm clock. It read 2:03 A.M. Annoyed, Seto got out of bed and slipped on some slippers next to his bed. In his room was a large desk, covered with business papers and dueling cards. He flipped on a lamp sitting on the desk, opened the front, and pulled out his deck, looking through his cards. He must have gone through it at least seven times within those next ten minutes. Not a single idea was coming to him, and Seto, being the low tempered man he was, began to lose his patience. He flipped one of his cards over to the backside, and at last an idea had sparked in his mind. On the right hand bottom corner, in small white print, was the name of the creator of Duel Monsters.

"Pegasus," Kaiba whispered to himself. The creator of the game, Maximillion Pegasus, was the man he needed to see, as much as Seto despised. Though it was early morning, Kaiba dressed himself and went to the computer room in search of the inventor's location.

A flash of dark light! Standing alone at the time, Yugi looked around the room of blue which he was in. In front of him however stood a tall, dark shadow of what looked like a wrestler. Out of nowhere, Yami Yugi's soul was standing before the dark shadow. He called for his friend, but it was like he did not hear him. The shadowed figured grabbed Yami by the neck and Yami's soul was consumed. Yugi again tried screaming for him, but it was too late. Then Joey, Tristan, and Tea's souls stood near the silhouette, unaware of what was happening. Yugi tried to warn them, but they stood there, dumbfounded and unconscious of the darkness behind them. Suddenly their souls were sucked into the darkness until they were gone. Yugi fell to his knees, saddened that his friends had been sapped away. Looking up for a quick second and now noticed Seto Kaiba standing next to the dark figure, glaring at it. What was a shadowed human form turned into a morbidly huge dog, and its massive paw swiped the air, its claws hitting Kaiba in the process. Kaiba screamed in pain and then he too faded. It was at that time Yugi realized he stood alone against this evil beast. Yugi backed away, inch by inch, as the completely oversized dog took larger steps closer to him. Closer, closer, closer until finally…

Yugi awoke from his own nightmare, breathing heavily and heart racing like a fleeing hare. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked out the window. The moon still stood high in the sky and the room stood still. Everything was just as it had been before he went to sleep. His eyes scanned the room, but found nothing neither peculiar nor menacing. Yugi went over to his desk and picked up his millenium puzzle, observing it. Even it, being the mysterious item it was, seemed to be fine. He was finally convinced enough to place the puzzle back on his small desk and head back to bed. Yugi, lying in his bed, looked around the room once more as he slowly shut his eyes. He quietly fell back asleep as the shadows of the night lurked away from the scene.