As the tape was finished loading, a black background and a Chinese-ish
Dragon appeared forming an "S" and then went from realistic looking to a
blue outline of itself, still looking like an "S" and to the right came an
underline that went out further and from it raised several letters spelling
"Salazar." Below it dropped the word "Enterprises."
The logo faded and a female voice said "Salazar Enterprises has purchased Industrial Illusions' extremely popular game, "Duel Monsters..."
"What?!" Yugi exclaimed. "They sold the game?!?"
"Calm down Yuge," Joey said. "It's not like they'd send you a tape to just tell you that."
"...and with owner Vincent Salazar's wealthy purchase..." a picture of his face was shown, he was Hispanic, and he had long black hair that he held up by a ponytail. "...he's kicking off Duel Monsters by throwing a tournament held on a familiar place to some duelists known as "Duelist Kingdom..." with that, dozens different pictures of the familiar place to Yugi and his friends appeared of the forest, the ocean view, the rocky landscapes, and the castle.
"Duelist Kingdom?" questioned Tristan. "He bought that too? How much money does this guy have?"
"...the tournament is open to anyone who has entered a recent tournament is invited and they shall travel to Duelist Kingdom by boat..." then, there were pictures of five large ships all with an blue outline of a dragon forming an "S" on the ends of the port and starboard sides. "when you arrive, you shall have a new battle system ready so have your duel discs on hand. Also, Duelists will be given a white card which will adjust your duel discs system to the new battle system; however duelists won't be able to duel at all without this white card when on Duelist Kingdom. When arriving on the island, you'll be given a familiar object, a dueling glove..." pictures of three new dueling gloves were shown but these dueling gloves were sea blue, blood red, and forest green and the wrists were slightly bigger. "...but now you must fill your dueling glove with 15 star chips, but these ones are a bit smaller than the originals don't try using the same ones from last time if you have them. And any duelist that loses a duel must ante up a card of their opponent's choice as well as an equal amount of star chips. The ships set sail on 8:00 PM Friday, June 17, 2005 (the story takes place several years in the future FYI). Happy Dueling!"
The video ended and static appeared on the screen. Yugi noticed it was 11:00 PM and decided to turn in and everyone began leaving Joey was the last.
"This Salazar guy probably didn't invite me like every other tournament I've been in..." Joey told Yugi as he headed for the door.
"Well you've still managed to get to the finals each time, remember?" Yugi reminded him.
"Yeah, yeah," Joey opened the door and walked out. "See ya, Yuge!"
Yugi went upstairs and got changed to go to bed, set his Millennium Puzzle off to the side excited about the tournament and fell asleep...
"Hey! Wake up!" a voice shouted. "Muto, get up!"
"Huh?" Yugi awoke to find himself not in his room, but a realm of darkness with purple mist low to the ground. The floor couldn't be seen and Yugi wasn't in his PJs, but his normal clothes but his Millennium Puzzle was absent. And when he looked up he saw a man wearing a white robe and had his head covered by a turban and his face was covered up by a cloth.
"Yugi Muto, King of Games," said the robed man. "Your puzzle is mine. Hand it over or you will die. "
"What?" Yugi was shocked to hear this but also, the voice sounded oddly familiar and yet at the same time it was a completely different voice. "You're not getting my puzzle!"
"It's not like you have a choice in the matter Yugi," he told him as he picked up Yugi by his shirt and tossed him to the ground.
Yugi hit the ground, still confused on where he was. But then Yugi saw the Millennium symbol appear and the spirit of the puzzle appeared before him with the puzzle around his neck. The spirit turned and faced the robed man.
"Leave him out this! You want my puzzle? Then we shall duel you for it." With that, Yugi stood up and vanished within the Spirit. Yami Yugi and the robed man's decks appeared and they shuffled them then said to each other in unison.
"Let's Duel!"
Yami Yugi: 4000
Robed Man: 4000
"I'll go first," Yugi said as he and the robed man drew 5 cards and Yugi drew an additional one. "I play Beta the Magnet Warrior (1700/1500) in attack mode and I lay one magic or trap card facedown ending my turn."
-Robed Man's turn-
"Very well," said the robed man and he drew one card. "I first play Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier (1500/1000) in attack mode," and with that, a man in a black robe wielding a spear with snakes encircling the base of the blade. "And I play the magic card Gravekeeper's Servant as well as the field card Necrovalley," the eternal darkness the two were in turned into a desert and cliffs rose up on their sides but the dark purple mist remained. "That increases my Spear Soldier's attack and defense to 2000/1500 and I attack your Magnet Warrior."
The Spear Soldier hurled the spear and it impaled Beta deeply and the Spear Soldier pulled out the spear and instead of vanishing from the field like normal, Beta's corpse remained and the wound where it was killed remained as well.
"Don't worry, your monster doesn't remain on the field it's still dead and because of Necrovalley, you can't revive it," he told Yugi.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew one card and said "I play one card facedown in defense mode and I play one more magic or trap card facedown and I end my turn."
-Robed Man's turn-
"I draw one card, and I play Gravekeeper's Assailant (1500/1500)," a black robed man appeared wielding a sword with a jagged blade. "and Necrovalley raises his stats to 2000/2000 and with my Spear Soldier to attack your facedown card."
The Spear Soldier hurled his spear into the facedown card, it was revealed to be Gamma the Magnet Warrior (1500/1800) and it was impaled like Beta but this time through the neck and it fell to the ground with its other fallen comrade.
"Also, my Spear Soldier's special effect allows me to deal damage to you even if they're in defense mode," he added. "And with Gravekeeper's Assailant, I'll attack you directly."
The Warrior ran fast to strike Yugi but Yugi flipped one of his facedown cards and a hexagram went around Gravekeeper's Assailant and stopped him from attacking and it kneeled down.
"Spellbinding Circle stops your monster from attack and it can't attack or change position as long as it is out."
"Then I end my turn," the robed man said.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw my card and play the magic card Dark Magic Curtain by paying half of my life points I'm allowed to Special Summon a Dark Magician (2500/2100) from my deck and then my deck is then shuffled. Then I end my turn playing Magical Knives destroying your Spear Soldier."
The Spear Soldier was gored by several knives and fell to the ground still in his stabbed state.
Yami Yugi: 1900 Robed Man: 4000
-Robed Man's turn-
"I play the magic card Pot of Greed, and play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Spellbinding Circle also, sacrifice my Assailant to bring out my Gravekeeper's Chief (1900/1200)," he said as he drew his card and the Assailant's soul was sucked out and it fell lifeless to the ground and what took its place was a man in a robe with a green trim plus it was wielding a long staff with a cobra's head at the end. "And from Necrovalley, his stats grow to 2400/1700, ending my turn."
-Yami Yugi's turn-
"Well that still isn't enough to vanquish my Dark Magician," Yugi told him as he drew his card. "Attack Dark Magician! Dark Magic Attack!"
As his Dark Magician fired several bolts of black electricity, the robed man discarded a card from his hand to the graveyard and a sarcophagus appeared and blocked the attack and shattered to pieces as it fell to the ground.
"If I discard my Charm of Shabti to my hand to the graveyard, it defends all my gravekeepers and I still have two more," the robed man answered. "Also, because of my card Gravekeeper's Servant, you have to discard the top card from your deck to the graveyard."
Yugi did so but the card he had to discard was Valkyrion, the Magna Warrior.
-Robed Man's turn-
He drew his card and played one magic card, Dimensionhole and his Gravekeeper's Chief got sucked into a hole in the sky and vanished and it would be gone for one turn and he played one card facedown in defense mode ending his turn.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his card, played a magic or trap card facedown and attacked with his Dark Magician but it was a Morphing Jar and due to the rules, Yugi and the Robed Man sent the cards in their hands to the graveyard and drew 5 cards and ended his turn.
-Robed Man's turn-
"I draw another card and my Gravekeeper's Chief returns to the field from Dimensionhole and I equip it with the Magic Card Black Pendant and," he said as the pendant appeared around the Chief's neck. "His power grows to 2900 and now Gravekeeper's Chief! Kill the Dark Magician! Cobra Staff Strike!"
The Gravekeeper threw his staff to the ground and it turned into a green cobra and grew greatly, much bigger than that of the Dark Magician and the pendant suspending from his neck fired a blast of black energy at the cobra making the its fangs grow even longer, now protruding from its mouth as well and its whole body grew several feet and its green scales turned black and it then went to devour the Dark Magician.
"Not so fast," Yugi said. "I play my trap card, Magical Hats, concealing my Dark Magician as well as 2 other magic cards," Yugi shuffled his Dark Magician with two magic cards and placed them down and three huge hats appeared each with a question mark on each of them. "Now choose."
"Very well, I choose the hat on my right," the robed man said as the black cobra obeyed and dove towards the hat and ate it whole.
"Looks like you chose wrong," said Yugi as the remaining hats vanished revealing the Dark Magician on the robed man's left.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw," Yugi did so and smirked at the card he drew. "This Duel will soon be over, thief. I first play Celtic Guardian (1400/1200) and I play Dark Chaos Ritual."
With that Dark Magician and Celtic Guardian and stood beneath a platform with a hexagram on it and their bodies vanished and then what replaced them was a great and powerful spellcaster, the Magician of Black Chaos (2800/2600) and Yugi played the magic card Fissure destroying the robed man's weakest face-up monster, that was Gravekeeper's Chief and the earth beneath him opened up and closed in on him but not before the Black Pendant fired a black blast of energy right at Yugi dealing 500 damage.
"Now I'll attack you directly! Attack Magician! Chaos Scepter Blast!" Yugi shouted and the Magician twirled his staff around and pointed it right at the robed man firing a black ball of energy that grew bigger and bigger as it came closer and when they connected a great explosion came with smoke surrounding him.
Yugi: 1500 Robed Man: 1200
When the smoke began to clear, Yugi saw that the cloth surrounding the robed man's mouth was destroyed from the attack but still couldn't make out who it was.
The wind took care of that by blowing away the smoke and Yugi gasped at who he saw that he was dueling.
"You!" was his shocked response...
The logo faded and a female voice said "Salazar Enterprises has purchased Industrial Illusions' extremely popular game, "Duel Monsters..."
"What?!" Yugi exclaimed. "They sold the game?!?"
"Calm down Yuge," Joey said. "It's not like they'd send you a tape to just tell you that."
"...and with owner Vincent Salazar's wealthy purchase..." a picture of his face was shown, he was Hispanic, and he had long black hair that he held up by a ponytail. "...he's kicking off Duel Monsters by throwing a tournament held on a familiar place to some duelists known as "Duelist Kingdom..." with that, dozens different pictures of the familiar place to Yugi and his friends appeared of the forest, the ocean view, the rocky landscapes, and the castle.
"Duelist Kingdom?" questioned Tristan. "He bought that too? How much money does this guy have?"
"...the tournament is open to anyone who has entered a recent tournament is invited and they shall travel to Duelist Kingdom by boat..." then, there were pictures of five large ships all with an blue outline of a dragon forming an "S" on the ends of the port and starboard sides. "when you arrive, you shall have a new battle system ready so have your duel discs on hand. Also, Duelists will be given a white card which will adjust your duel discs system to the new battle system; however duelists won't be able to duel at all without this white card when on Duelist Kingdom. When arriving on the island, you'll be given a familiar object, a dueling glove..." pictures of three new dueling gloves were shown but these dueling gloves were sea blue, blood red, and forest green and the wrists were slightly bigger. "...but now you must fill your dueling glove with 15 star chips, but these ones are a bit smaller than the originals don't try using the same ones from last time if you have them. And any duelist that loses a duel must ante up a card of their opponent's choice as well as an equal amount of star chips. The ships set sail on 8:00 PM Friday, June 17, 2005 (the story takes place several years in the future FYI). Happy Dueling!"
The video ended and static appeared on the screen. Yugi noticed it was 11:00 PM and decided to turn in and everyone began leaving Joey was the last.
"This Salazar guy probably didn't invite me like every other tournament I've been in..." Joey told Yugi as he headed for the door.
"Well you've still managed to get to the finals each time, remember?" Yugi reminded him.
"Yeah, yeah," Joey opened the door and walked out. "See ya, Yuge!"
Yugi went upstairs and got changed to go to bed, set his Millennium Puzzle off to the side excited about the tournament and fell asleep...
"Hey! Wake up!" a voice shouted. "Muto, get up!"
"Huh?" Yugi awoke to find himself not in his room, but a realm of darkness with purple mist low to the ground. The floor couldn't be seen and Yugi wasn't in his PJs, but his normal clothes but his Millennium Puzzle was absent. And when he looked up he saw a man wearing a white robe and had his head covered by a turban and his face was covered up by a cloth.
"Yugi Muto, King of Games," said the robed man. "Your puzzle is mine. Hand it over or you will die. "
"What?" Yugi was shocked to hear this but also, the voice sounded oddly familiar and yet at the same time it was a completely different voice. "You're not getting my puzzle!"
"It's not like you have a choice in the matter Yugi," he told him as he picked up Yugi by his shirt and tossed him to the ground.
Yugi hit the ground, still confused on where he was. But then Yugi saw the Millennium symbol appear and the spirit of the puzzle appeared before him with the puzzle around his neck. The spirit turned and faced the robed man.
"Leave him out this! You want my puzzle? Then we shall duel you for it." With that, Yugi stood up and vanished within the Spirit. Yami Yugi and the robed man's decks appeared and they shuffled them then said to each other in unison.
"Let's Duel!"
Yami Yugi: 4000
Robed Man: 4000
"I'll go first," Yugi said as he and the robed man drew 5 cards and Yugi drew an additional one. "I play Beta the Magnet Warrior (1700/1500) in attack mode and I lay one magic or trap card facedown ending my turn."
-Robed Man's turn-
"Very well," said the robed man and he drew one card. "I first play Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier (1500/1000) in attack mode," and with that, a man in a black robe wielding a spear with snakes encircling the base of the blade. "And I play the magic card Gravekeeper's Servant as well as the field card Necrovalley," the eternal darkness the two were in turned into a desert and cliffs rose up on their sides but the dark purple mist remained. "That increases my Spear Soldier's attack and defense to 2000/1500 and I attack your Magnet Warrior."
The Spear Soldier hurled the spear and it impaled Beta deeply and the Spear Soldier pulled out the spear and instead of vanishing from the field like normal, Beta's corpse remained and the wound where it was killed remained as well.
"Don't worry, your monster doesn't remain on the field it's still dead and because of Necrovalley, you can't revive it," he told Yugi.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew one card and said "I play one card facedown in defense mode and I play one more magic or trap card facedown and I end my turn."
-Robed Man's turn-
"I draw one card, and I play Gravekeeper's Assailant (1500/1500)," a black robed man appeared wielding a sword with a jagged blade. "and Necrovalley raises his stats to 2000/2000 and with my Spear Soldier to attack your facedown card."
The Spear Soldier hurled his spear into the facedown card, it was revealed to be Gamma the Magnet Warrior (1500/1800) and it was impaled like Beta but this time through the neck and it fell to the ground with its other fallen comrade.
"Also, my Spear Soldier's special effect allows me to deal damage to you even if they're in defense mode," he added. "And with Gravekeeper's Assailant, I'll attack you directly."
The Warrior ran fast to strike Yugi but Yugi flipped one of his facedown cards and a hexagram went around Gravekeeper's Assailant and stopped him from attacking and it kneeled down.
"Spellbinding Circle stops your monster from attack and it can't attack or change position as long as it is out."
"Then I end my turn," the robed man said.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw my card and play the magic card Dark Magic Curtain by paying half of my life points I'm allowed to Special Summon a Dark Magician (2500/2100) from my deck and then my deck is then shuffled. Then I end my turn playing Magical Knives destroying your Spear Soldier."
The Spear Soldier was gored by several knives and fell to the ground still in his stabbed state.
Yami Yugi: 1900 Robed Man: 4000
-Robed Man's turn-
"I play the magic card Pot of Greed, and play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Spellbinding Circle also, sacrifice my Assailant to bring out my Gravekeeper's Chief (1900/1200)," he said as he drew his card and the Assailant's soul was sucked out and it fell lifeless to the ground and what took its place was a man in a robe with a green trim plus it was wielding a long staff with a cobra's head at the end. "And from Necrovalley, his stats grow to 2400/1700, ending my turn."
-Yami Yugi's turn-
"Well that still isn't enough to vanquish my Dark Magician," Yugi told him as he drew his card. "Attack Dark Magician! Dark Magic Attack!"
As his Dark Magician fired several bolts of black electricity, the robed man discarded a card from his hand to the graveyard and a sarcophagus appeared and blocked the attack and shattered to pieces as it fell to the ground.
"If I discard my Charm of Shabti to my hand to the graveyard, it defends all my gravekeepers and I still have two more," the robed man answered. "Also, because of my card Gravekeeper's Servant, you have to discard the top card from your deck to the graveyard."
Yugi did so but the card he had to discard was Valkyrion, the Magna Warrior.
-Robed Man's turn-
He drew his card and played one magic card, Dimensionhole and his Gravekeeper's Chief got sucked into a hole in the sky and vanished and it would be gone for one turn and he played one card facedown in defense mode ending his turn.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his card, played a magic or trap card facedown and attacked with his Dark Magician but it was a Morphing Jar and due to the rules, Yugi and the Robed Man sent the cards in their hands to the graveyard and drew 5 cards and ended his turn.
-Robed Man's turn-
"I draw another card and my Gravekeeper's Chief returns to the field from Dimensionhole and I equip it with the Magic Card Black Pendant and," he said as the pendant appeared around the Chief's neck. "His power grows to 2900 and now Gravekeeper's Chief! Kill the Dark Magician! Cobra Staff Strike!"
The Gravekeeper threw his staff to the ground and it turned into a green cobra and grew greatly, much bigger than that of the Dark Magician and the pendant suspending from his neck fired a blast of black energy at the cobra making the its fangs grow even longer, now protruding from its mouth as well and its whole body grew several feet and its green scales turned black and it then went to devour the Dark Magician.
"Not so fast," Yugi said. "I play my trap card, Magical Hats, concealing my Dark Magician as well as 2 other magic cards," Yugi shuffled his Dark Magician with two magic cards and placed them down and three huge hats appeared each with a question mark on each of them. "Now choose."
"Very well, I choose the hat on my right," the robed man said as the black cobra obeyed and dove towards the hat and ate it whole.
"Looks like you chose wrong," said Yugi as the remaining hats vanished revealing the Dark Magician on the robed man's left.
-Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw," Yugi did so and smirked at the card he drew. "This Duel will soon be over, thief. I first play Celtic Guardian (1400/1200) and I play Dark Chaos Ritual."
With that Dark Magician and Celtic Guardian and stood beneath a platform with a hexagram on it and their bodies vanished and then what replaced them was a great and powerful spellcaster, the Magician of Black Chaos (2800/2600) and Yugi played the magic card Fissure destroying the robed man's weakest face-up monster, that was Gravekeeper's Chief and the earth beneath him opened up and closed in on him but not before the Black Pendant fired a black blast of energy right at Yugi dealing 500 damage.
"Now I'll attack you directly! Attack Magician! Chaos Scepter Blast!" Yugi shouted and the Magician twirled his staff around and pointed it right at the robed man firing a black ball of energy that grew bigger and bigger as it came closer and when they connected a great explosion came with smoke surrounding him.
Yugi: 1500 Robed Man: 1200
When the smoke began to clear, Yugi saw that the cloth surrounding the robed man's mouth was destroyed from the attack but still couldn't make out who it was.
The wind took care of that by blowing away the smoke and Yugi gasped at who he saw that he was dueling.
"You!" was his shocked response...