Chapter 5

After paying more than enough for an entrance fee into the Domino Museum, Tea and Yugi finally were in the museum. While they were really only in there to hide, they thought, since they indeed had payed, they could check out a few exhibits. There was a new exhibit that was now open for viewing, so they decided to look around.

The two walked into the newly built part of the museum. There was a good portion of items displayed in the new exhibit, but nothing too fascinating such as a mummy in its coffin, but it was still interesting to look at. Ancient scriptures and artifacts were all around, the hieroglyphics covering much of the stones and potteries. Of course, neither Tea nor Yugi had any idea of what this ancient type of writing said, so they were exploring, a bit clueless.

Walking into the second room of the exhibit, Yugi ran into a familiar face. His grandpa stood in front of a large stone tablet covered with hieroglyphics. Being an old archeologist, he had some idea of what it was saying.

"Grandpa!" Yugi called for his family member. Sugoroku turned around to see his grandson and Tea, who unintentionally and unknowing captivated him in a way.

"Yugi, what are you doing here?" he asked him.

Yugi just stared at him blankly, as if his grandpa should know already why he was there.

"Did you come to see the new exhibit?" Sugoroku asked with curiosity. Yugi sighed. "Oh, I get it. You don't want to look like a nerd coming into this museum. Don't worry, you look perfectly fine."

"Grandpa!" Yugi howled. "I'm being mobbed by duelists again! I'm in here to hide."

"Oh I see now," he said. "That's your cover-up story. I must say that's a pretty good one. It's quite believable in your case."

Yugi gave him an odd stare, but Sugoroku only laughed.

"Only kidding," he joked. "Well as long as you're here, come check out this new exhibit with me. I think you'll find it much more interesting than it looks."

With not much of another choice, Yugi and Tea followed Sugoroku around the new exhibit. He would occasionally read off some ancient scriptures on some of the items, but nothing was particularly fascinating. It was almost the same idea of a field trip from an elementary school.

"Ooh, look at this," Yugi's grandpa pointed out a large stone tablet from a pyramid. "That's the sign for the Egyptian God, Anubis. See the jackal head? That's him alright."

Tea and Yugi sighed. Sugoroku had lost their interest a few exhibits ago.

"No, but look," he said trying to get their attention back. "It says something about...hmm...some enemy that had...similar strengths to the Egyptian God?"

Yugi at least turned his attention back to his grandpa.

"That can't be. No one except the Gods had that kind of power," Sugoroku doubted the scripture. "...Murder, then the raise of the dead?"

He continued to read the scripture in his head. The stone tablet was quite large, but contained large lettering as well, making it seem like there was a lot more written on it than there really was.

"What's it say?" Yugi asked, finally a bit curious.

"It says that long ago, there was this man, and he possessed the power of the God of the Dead," he read. "It says that four Egyptian Gods shed some of their power upon the earth within multicolored marbles: Anubis, the God of the Dead, Ra, the Sun God, Osiris, the God of Death and Resurrection into the Eternal Life, and Bes, the Guardian from Evil and Misfortunes. When the time came to use these powers, they realized one of them was missing, and assumed the boy with the cursed name contained it."

"Boy with the cursed name?" Yugi asked.

"His name...was Anubis," his grandpa told him. "It is automatically assumed that if one should carry the name of a God his soul would be sinful or cursed." He continued to read. "It says that all he had was a crystal in shape of a pyramid with a black pearl placed into its center, and he wore it around his neck."

"So he did have it," concluded Yugi.

"Not necessarily," Sugoroku continued. "The problem was...only the blood that sealed the power of the Gods away until later use would be able to tell if that pearl was of indeed a God. By the time the power was needed and they realized one was gone, the blood that had sealed it away had evaporated into the afterlife."

"So they never really knew what happened to it," Tea had finally listened in.

"They never came to any certain conclusions I suppose," he said, moving on to the next stone tablet. "Well, from what I can read from this tablet, it looks as if he probably was the one with the power. It says the cursed named fiend, when he came of adulthood, attacked Egypt."

Yugi, who had wandered off a bit to look at other items from the tomb, returned to where his grandpa stood.

"He used a mighty force that brought much death and darkness to the world," he said. "Dark, deadly powers no one had ever seen before, nor could one possibly possess. Even a pharaoh had not that kind of strength. He had but four magnificent beasts: three sphinxes, one which focused on the weakness of defense, another focussing on the weakness of attack, and the final one having the strength of both, and a mighty dragon that gained power by every man he killed. With these four beasts combined with his raw power, he was unstopable." He rubbed his chin and began reading once again. "He shadowed much of Egypt and intended to destroy it when...when a pharaoh came to power."

Sugoroku read the scriptures in his head for a moment, then his eyes buldged open in disbelief.

"How could this be? A kingdom with a new leader is surely to be very fragile!" he hollered. "And yet, the pharaoh, he succeeded in stopping this God powered beast?"

Yugi looked at the scriptures, but still could not read them.

"Apparently, this was the same pharaoh that sealed the dark magic of duel monsters away, but that this was his first succession," Sugoroku still stood in shock.

His heart stopped. Yugi knew who this pharaoh was.

"In the midst of a dark shadow game, the pharaoh used what they would later call the dagger of fate to bring him down," he said. "And it says that God named man's was indeed cursed, but it took his death for its activation."

Yugi stood and looked at the tablet, but not attempting to read it, in shock that his alter ego had been responsible for this fiend's defeat. At this time, his second spirit was present within his mind, listening to everything.

"The prophecy of this man is written here," Sugoroku read off the prophecy.

Be not unaware of the man

The fiend whose dark soul beared a God's power upon the world

For he held light and shadow's doom in hand

And almost closed his fist on it

Know that he brought after life

To the innocent and guilty mortals that walked the sands

But that though his strength is great and feared

Fate made his curse take on

The blood he shed

It existed not any longer after his disintegration

His soul never to ressurect back to earth

And prevented from taking another mortal body

Let us remember his God name!

Mercy has been given upon us on these days

Thee shan't be unaware

Future's repetitive course may not contain a same fate

Fascinated, Sugoroku had reread it several times in his head. Tea was a bit confused, though she had not been paying the entire time. Yugi took this time to speak with his alter ego within his mind.

"You...you did this?" Yugi asked his companion.

Yami Yugi could not answer at first, his nebulous memory counteracted him from recalling such events.

"His name, it is so familiar," he told Yugi. "Of all the pieces to my memory, I seem to remember the most of him, but much of it is still unclear."

"What do you remember?" Yugi continued asking questions.

"All the death...the darkness...the shadows...the pain," he said and fell silent for a moment. "A tragic unrecallable memory is all I think of. That memory is the key to my memorization of him, though I can't seem to see what it was."

Yugi, seeing his partner struggle to remember, smiled at him. He knew that soon, now with all three Egyptian God cards, they would soon find out the mysteries of his past. He was unconcerned with this matter because of that reason.

"You'll know soon enough," he reminded Yami Yugi. "Ra, the Sun of God, the Saint Dragon-God of Osiris, and the God of Obelisk will soon tell us."

Yami understood what he was saying, but still had a look of concern.

"A few nights ago," he began. "You had a nightmare."

Yugi knew what he was talking about. It was among the worst dreams he had ever had. Some silhouette had taken all of his friends into darkness, and Yugi could do nothing to stop it.

"What about it?"

"Something happened with the puzzle that night," Yami confessed. "I cannot explain what, but it was as if a spell was cast upon it."

Unsure of what he was saying, Yugi raised an eyebrow.

"It's unexplainable, and even I know not of what precisely what happened. Perhaps it was just I sensing your fear from the nightmare," Yami suggested a bit hopelessly.

"Don't mind me asking so, but what does that have to do with any of this?" Yugi questioned him once more.

"Future's repetitive course," Yami repeated a line from the prophecy. "That dream seemed known to me, yet not. I apologize for the constant contradiction of my own words, but you understand."

His mind was filled with so many questions that he wanted answers to, and Yugi knew it. It was as if a word was at the tip of his tongue, but he just could not say it. Yugi felt sorry for his pharaoh friend for the fact he could hardly remember anything.

"Soon," Yugi promised. "Your questions will get answers. We have what you need to reclaim your lost thoughts."

Yami smiled at his friend, knowing that he was right. Still, this petulant feeling of fear would not leave him.

Yugi finally brought himself back to reality, no longer communicating with his yami.

"What I do not understand his why they do not have the items this man had, like that crystal with the black marble, or his body for that matter," Sugoroku seemed to be talking to himself. "They did bury his body in a casket, or at least it states so. Now how could they not find it?"

Yugi shrugged his shoulders. His grandpa and Tea continued walking around the museum for a bit longer, waiting for the appropriate time for Yugi to make his appearance in the streets of the city.