Chapter 7

Note: The Pyramid of Light card's name has been changed to Gods' Forsaken Tomb. The name Pyramid of Light for some reason bothered me, so I therefore changed it.

From the empty seats in the stadium, Joey and Tristan were howling and whistling for Yugi, thinking with all three Egyptian God cards on the field he had already won. It was true that with all three of the legendary beasts on the field, one would have probably automatically won just like they had collected all five pieces to Exodia: the Forbidden One. However, Yugi, Joey, and Tristan did not know that all of this had been a façade planned by Seto Kaiba.

"You're finished," Yami told Kaiba.

Kaiba could only stand and laugh. Yami raised an eyebrow to why he was doing so, considering he was about to lose the duel by his own hands.

"I had no idea you were so gullible," laughed Kaiba. "Yugi, watch as your reign as number one duelist is shattered!"

Kaiba seemed to only obfuscate Yami and Yugi more.

"Reveal: Gods' Forsaken Tomb, and watch the destruction of your God cards!" Kaiba called up his other face down card, which had three special abilities of its own, and one being to remove all Egyptian God cards from play.

Yami nor Yugi had never seen or heard of this card before, though he had some kind of memory of it. It had three powerful abilities, one Kaiba could not even use, but its true strength would be clear. A black ball of dark energy grew high above between the two duelists, small black lightning bolts sparking from it. When it had a large enough circumference, four, black shots of dark energy shot from it: three for each Egyptian God, and one for Yami's remaining face down card. Every single one of them, even Ra, Obelisk, and Osiris, cried out and were consumed away. Yami looked back to see his mighty cards destroyed and removed. He looked back up at the black ball, which did not get any smaller, as it shot four more energy lasers around them, forming a pyramid shape. Walls of black light began to form around them, trapping them inside. The ball of black energy became the top point of the black pyramid, and for the moment, nothing seemed to happen.

It was then that a dark presence knew it was time. It activated something in Yami Yugi's puzzle, something that had already been placed inside. The puzzle around Yami's neck glowed, but Yugi was not trying to switch with him. All of the sudden, a large, Egyptian Eye, the same as the one on each Millenium item, was formed on the outside of the pyramid that trapped Kaiba and Yami inside. Then Yami felt Yugi being pulled away from him. It was unexplainable, but he felt Yugi's spirit separate from his. Once he saw Yugi outside next to him, he knew that Yugi's spirit now inhabited a different body: his own, shorter, less developed body. Yami only saw him for a split second, because for reasons he did not know, a light from the puzzle shined onto Yugi, and his body was then sucked into the puzzle, disconnecting any communication with him. Yami only saw his friend yell as he was being absorbed into his puzzle. The puzzle then stopped.

"Holy..." Tristan and Joey said together.

On the outside, Tristan and Joey were unsure of what had just happened. The only thing they were aware of was the fact Yugi's Egyptian Gods had been removed from play. The seats extended all around the dueling field, so they tried running around it to see if they could see Yugi or Kaiba. They found they were unsuccessful, but saw a giant eye on one side of the pyramid. They looked into it for just a moment and felt their bodies being lifted into the air. Screaming for help, both tried to grab a nearby railing to stop them from moving. They failed miserably and found themselfs yelling at the top of their lungs as they were being sucked into the giant eye they had stared into.

Mokuba, sitting in the control room, had seen enough. He had witnessed Joey and Tristan disappear into the pyramid as well, and he could no longer see the duel. While he could still see it on the big screen television in the arena, the lighting was horrible, so he really could not see well. He jumped out of his spinning chair and ran down the stairs to the dueling field to try to figure out what the matter was.

Inside the black pyramid, Yami tried to see if he could see anything outside the pyramid, but realized he could not. That's when his puzzle glowed again. A light coming from the side of the pyramid which Kaiba stood in front of shined into his puzzle again. After a few moments, the light faded, and Seto and Yami stood inside the pyramid formed from Kaiba's card, seemingly alone.

And the evil presence would only have to wait until he was physically ready.

"Kaiba! Something has happened," Yami tried to explain to him, but Seto had already come to his own conclusions.

"Yes indeed. I just took out your God cards! Or was it your pyramid necklace's little dysfunction you were talking about?" Kaiba harassed. He had thought the puzzle was just glowing as a reaction to the forming of the pyramid.

"More than that," Yami again tried to explain.

"I don't want to hear it," Seto interrupted him. "You may be upset that I played a card that took down your Egyptian God cards, but by all means, continue dueling. Defeating you wouldn't be any where as fun."

Seto, whom had been quiet and timid for most of the duel, was becoming a vivacious character. With one card, Seto was able to turn the tables to his favor. Things were going just as he had planned.

"Kaiba, you must listen," Yami was trying to convince him something horrible was happening.

"No, you must," Seto argued. "I'm not going to end this duel. It's not my fault you fell into my trap and will now suffer its consequences. But you'll be suffering a lot more after you lose!" Yami tried to speak again but could barely get a word in. "Let this show you the humiliation of defeat, and I'll make sure you feel every single horrible part of it, because I plan to pick off every single piece of flesh that's left on your bones!"

Yami knew he would not be able to get through to Kaiba. He could not get him to stop the duel so he was left with no other choice but to continue. Yami and Yugi's feelings had been correct. Yugi was sucked into the puzzle and unable to talk with Yami, and him and Seto were locked inside a black pyramid with hardly any light, making every quite dark and difficult to see. What would be the worst part of it all was it was Seto's turn.

"My turn," Seto pointed out as he drew his card. He looked at it his big grin seemed to be super-glued to his face. "Well, well, you have no monsters on the field now."

Yami looked around to realize Seto was right. With his Egyptian Gods taken off the field and his one face down card destroyed, he had no other monsters to defend himself.

"Say hello to a new friend of mine: Peten the Dark Clown (500/1200)!" Seto put his new monster on the field. It had to be among one of Kaiba's creepier monsters. Much like a clown mixed with a mime, the masked clown waved to Yami at the other end of the field.

"Has your resentment of losing blinded you from seeing that something is not right here?" Yami was still attempting to let Kaiba know something had gone wrong, but Kaiba had no patience for it.

"Stop giving me your B.S. You're not going to fool me and back out of this duel," Seto assured. "Don't wuss out on me, Yugi, because then you wouldn't make me look as good."

Seto's monster withdrew its dagger from the sheath hanging on its belt on its right hip. He held it up to the left side of his face, reflecting half of Yami's face in the blade. The mysterious clown smiled and spun around, as if doing a dance move, and disappeared, yet the card remained on the field.

"What the..." Yami was puzzled by the clown's disappearance.

"Attack him...directly," Seto demanded, saying it so smoothly.

Yami's first instinct told him to turn around. He did so and there stood none other than Peten the Dark Clown, dagger in hand. Yami knew what was coming next, and he could do nothing to prevent it. Peten swung his arm back and jabbed it forward, stabbing Yami deeply in the left side his stomach. Yami howled in pain, feeling the real pain of a very real stab. Luckily the clown had horrid aim and only hit an area of the body less vulnerable to such an attack, but that had not changed the fact the wound he had dealt was real. Holding the dagger in place for a few moments, Peten ripped the dagger out of Yami's side and returned to his side of the field. Yami held his real stab wound, blood soaking his hand quickly and the pain was quite extreme. He had expected a similar attack, but had not foreseen the attack and wound being real and the pain so dreadful. Yami grunted as he turned to face Kaiba, the clown back on his side of the field, waving to him with his sanguine dagger, covered in Yami's blood.

"Seto..." Yami said weakly. Strangely enough, though he had been stabbed in only one part, his entire body had felt it had lost a load of energy and strength.

"Don't even try the chicken blood stunt on me," Kaiba assumed it was only a trick to get him to stop the duel. "Is this what you do? Do you put bags of chicken blood under your clothes so when you're attacked directly they break open and make it look like you're bleeding so they forfeit?"

"Never!" Yami denied. "I wouldn't..."

"Deny it now, after it's been done and been caught," Kaiba snarled, a bit ashamed of his opponent. "Your little prank won't end this duel. I place a card face down, and end my turn. Yugi, this is only the beginning, and if you're hurting now, you'll be hurting much more later."

His right hand holding both his duel disk and wound, Yami weakly drew his card to begin his turn. Even though still had 3500 Life Points, he would find he would slowly and painfully languish from there on.

Slowly, Yugi awoken, having felt he had just dove into and empty pool. He awoke in a dark, very complex and confusing area. There seemed to be stairs on both the ceiling and ground level. Everything seemed to be square and made of golden brick, yet it was dark and cool. Yugi knew he had been sucked into the Millenium Puzzle, though unclear to the answer of why he was. It did not really make sense for the card to be the catalyst of it, but it was the last thing that occurred before Yugi was sucked in.

Yugi stood up and called for anyone that may have been in there with him, only to hear an echo throughout the puzzle. He was not sure of what to do, but he was not too worried. He thought the pharaoh would find a way to get him out of there. Not sure of exactly what to do, Yugi groped around the puzzle, searching for any clues on how he ended up being in the puzzle. He had been in the puzzle once before, but was not all that familiar with anything inside. As he had seen his previous and only visit in the puzzle, there were several chambers, shut off with stoned doors, though all the chambers looked to be empty. With no other ideas on his mind, Yugi walked up several sets of stairs, opening the doors to any room he came across. He would open a room only to find nothing but blackness and emptiness. He was not getting anywhere into finding anything.

After looking in many rooms and climbing up and down many stairs, Yugi had become frustrated. He was tired of walking up and down stairs, and he had not been in the puzzle any longer than ten minutes. Climbing up yet another set of stairs, Yugi found but one door at the top, indicating it was only one room, and then the stairs lead back down the level he had just been on. Though he figured it would be pointless, Yugi opened the door to check for any evidence.

This room, it was different. It was a perfectly square room, as well as the only room with bright light. Candles dangled on the walls, and torches hung high on the farthest wall. Between them, in the exact center of the wall, was a small Egyptian Eye, its pupil shining purple and black. The hieroglyphics on the walls were easily noticeable, some looking quite familiar to Yugi at first glance. What could not go unnoticed were the many caskets lying on the ground, and there was one, large and fancy casket laying on a platform nearer to the farthest wall. He had never seen this room before, or so he thought. Fascinated, he swung the door open and took a few steps into the mysterious room.

"I have been waiting for you, Yugi," a dark voice echoed through the room. Yugi paused and looked around, seeing nothing more. The fact that caskets sat in there made him a fearful.

"W-who are you?" Yugi called out.

"It matters not," the deep voice told him, but no form of life was in the room. "You will be trapped here for eternity as shadows cover the earth. And 't will be because of you!"

Yugi became concerned, but confused. As far as he knew, he had not done anything harmful to the world.

"What have I done? Tell me who you are!" he demanded.

The voice laughed loudly.

"Assembling the puzzle," the voice said.

Yugi looked at the larger, golden casket and noticed it was shaped like a pharaoh's coffin would be. However, the head of the fancy coffin was in the shape of a jackal head. Normally, a human with a jackal head would represent the Egyptian God, but they lived in the heavens. Yugi thought for a second and then realized it was not an Egyptian God that was present, but the God powered imposter, Anubis.

She was running late as usual. Tea was running down the streets of the city along with Duke Devlin whom had decided to join her, trying to get to the Dueling Dome. She had only wanted to drop off her school stuff at home then leave right away, but she ended up eating some dinner and changing clothes before hand. Then she ran into Duke, who had stopped to talk to her for a bit and both decided to go watch the duel. Hoping the guys would not be upset that she was late to the duel, Tea looked at her watch every few seconds, freaking out about how many more seconds late she was going to be.

Not looking exactly which way she was running, she accidentally ran into a hobo running from the police. The hobo had done nothing wrong, according to him, but the police found his story about his body being controlled by another spirit unbelievable. Tea had just ruined his escape, and the two policemen grabbed the fleeing hobo and arrested him.

"I didn't do nothing!" the hobo pleaded.

"Yeah, you didn't do 'nothing', so you just confessed to doing something!" one of the policemen used the hobo's grammar against him. He snapped handcuffs on his scratched up hands and dragged him to the car.

"I didn't steal that dagger at my own will! I swear it! I was possessed!" yelled the hobo.

Annoyed, Tea signaled the police to hang on a second. The hobo thought that she had believed him until she started screaming at him.

"Do you know how much more late you've made me?" she hollered. "I'm supposed to be watching my friend duel right now, and I'm running late!"

Tea probably would have started slapping him had Duke not restrained her. The hobo sighed and cooperatively went in the police car. The police drove away as a limousine pulled up. The door opened and Tea saw a man she had wished never to see again.

"Good evening, Tea," Pegasus greeted her in a polite manner. Tea tried to walk away, but Pegasus grabbed her arm.

"Whoa, is that Maximillion Pegasus? It's been a while, man!" Duke cheerfully greeted Pegasus.

"Oh if it isn't Dukey," said Pegasus, though she did not believe a bit of him. "It really has been a while."

"Has it ever!" Pegasus was somewhat of a hero to Duke, or at least he had been once, so Duke was a bit pleased to see him again.

"Hey, remember that he was the creep that swiped Yugi's Grandpa's soul!" Tea reminded them. Duke lost his happy face and became more serious, though hiding his true emotions. "Come on, Duke. We've got to get to the Duel Dome!"

"I'm not here for little Yugi, but for Seto Kaiba," told Pegasus. "So you have nothing to fear of me."

"He's at the Dueling Dome with Yugi," said Tea. "We're going there right now, but unfortunately you weren't invited."

"What a shame. I suppose I will just have to crash the party," joked Pegasus. "Unless of course that party has wine."

"Look, I want nothing to do with you, so just leave me alone!" Tea stomped off.

"Oh sweetie, I'm not the cold man with the golden eye I once was," Pegasus tried to convince her. "Actually I'm a one-eyed romantic."

Pegasus began pulling the hair covering his left eye off of his face, wanting to show Tea his blind left eye, but Tea smacked his hand away, stopping him from doing so.

"Come now," he sighed. "We're both going to the same place, and it is not you or Yugi or any of your friends I have a problem with, so you are in no trouble with me."

Tea paused a moment.

"Besides, I'm powerless without my millenium eye. You know that. I'm just an old, pathetic, weak geezer without it," he confessed.

Though she was incredulous, Tea felt she could trust him this once. Besides, she was already pretty late, and any later then the guys might upset enough to eat her head off. She and Duke cautiously went to the other side of the limousine, opened the door and entered it. Pegasus and Tea shut their doors and Pegasus directed the driver to the Dueling Dome.