Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, any of its characters, or the Yugioh/Konami card game.

All card names are written in bold and thoughts are written in italics.

Prologue

"Hey, Will, wake up."
"Mmm, five more minutes Mom."
"Get up you gomer, and I'm not your Mom."
BAM! I felt a pillow smash into my head.
"Okay, okay, I'm awake already!"
I threw the pillow off of my face and looked up into the face of my best friend, Michael Strief.
"Hurry up and get dressed. We're gonna be late." Michael said.
I jumped out of bed and threw on a pair of black jeans and a white beater and lastly I slipped into my dark brown leather jacket.
"Are you almost ready?" Michael asked impatiently.
"C'mon, Mike, have some patience. I just need to grab a few things and then we can go. Besides what's the point of going if you don't give me a chance to grab my deck." I said.
"Fine, just hurry up." Mike retorted.
I went over and got my wallet, watch, and my sutra-bead necklace off of my dresser. Then I grabbed my deck and deck-case off the desk. I put my deck in the case and I clipped the case to my belt.
"Now we can go." I said as I headed for the door.
"So have you remembered anything else yet?" Mike asked as we left my house.
"I told you I didn't forget anything. Marik put those thoughts and ideas in my head and even though I know that he put them there they still feel like good ideas. Y'know like they should have been there in the first place." I said back.
A couple of months ago Seto Kaiba had hosted a duel Monsters tournament that he had called Battle City. During this tournament there was a major power struggle over three powerful Duel Monsters cards called the Legendary God Cards. The main people in this struggle were Yugi Moto, Seto Kaiba, and Marik Ishtar. Marik had used his Millenium Rod to brainwash me and use me as one of his rare-hunters. His plan was that when the Quiet One defeated Yugi and took control of Yugi's Millenium Puzzle then I would be dispatched to defeat Kaiba and take his Obelisk the Tormentor. Of course the Quiet One was defeated and Yugi took one of Marik's God Cards, Slifer the Sky Dragon. My assault on Kaiba was postponed while Marik attempted to regain the dragon and the puzzle. In the end Yugi defeated Kaiba and Marik and took control of all three God Cards. Thus I never got my chance to duel against Kaiba.
"Whatever, but you still like to duel right?" Mike asked.
"Of course I still like to duel and with these cards I cant lose." I replied.
"Y'know I'm actually kinda surprised that you're even gonna use that deck."
"Why wouldn't I use it? This deck is sweet."
"Well, because Marik forced you to use that deck while he was controlling you."
"Well the deck's still good, even if I did get it from him. Besides he got rid of my original deck, so if I don't use this deck the I'd have to start all over again."
"I guess you're right. Hey, you said that there were a couple of different strategies built into that deck."
"Yea, what about 'em?" "Well, are you sure you know how top use them?"
"Of course I know how to use them. The only thing that bothers me is that Marik got rid of my deck he got rid of my favorite monster."
"You mean the one that my uncle gave you for your birthday?"
"Yea, don't you remember? It was the first card that I ever had."
"Wait a sec. That monster was a rare card."
"So what?" "So didn't you tell me that Marik took all of the rare cards that he got ahold of and redistributed them to the rest of the rare-hunters?"
"Yea, you're right, he did. So now all that I have to do is to track down all of the other ex-rare-hunters and figure out which one of them has my card. And how I'm gonna get it back." I said "Is that what you're suggesting?"
"Yep, that's about it."
"Cool, sounds like a plan. But let's start tomorrow okay. After all we were gonna go to your uncles card shop today weren't we."
"Yea, Speaking of which, we're there."
I looked across the street and saw the glass double doors and the brightly colored posters, and there sitting right above the doors was a bright neon sign that read 'Striefs Cards & Comix'.
"Alright! Lets go!" I yelled out as I bolted for the door.
Hey, i hope that everyone that reads this sends me a review, but don't be too rough on me this is my first fanfic.