"Hey Yugi! Joey!" shouted Tea near the ships.

"Tea?" Yugi and Joey said in unison.

They ran towards Tea to find Tristan, Yugi's Grandpa, and Joey's sister Serenity there.

"Whoa what are you guys doin' here?" Joey asked them.

"Come on," Tristan said as he walked up to Joey and rested his arm around his shoulder. "You really think we'd let you two go off with out a great send-off? And don't worry, your sister's safe with me!"

Joey's eyes turned white and he grabbed Tristan in a headlock, "I don't think so, BUD!!!"

"Joey, stop playing around," Serenity said cheerfully. "I have something for you."

She handed Joey a card, Emerald Dragon (2400/1400).

"Whoa Sis, you didn't have to do this." Joey said as he released Tristan of his grip and looked at the card in wonder.

"Just think of it as an early birthday present," she told him.

Joey took the card and hugged his sister. "Thanks, Serenity you're the greatest sister ever."

When Joey stopped hugging his sister he pulled out his deck from his pocket and placed Emerald Dragon in his deck.

"I also have something for the both of you two," said Grandpa and he pulled out two cases. "Seeing as how you boys will be dueling and I'm certain you'll be bringing home plenty of new cards so here's something to keep them in." Grandpa then handed them both plastic cases big enough to hold their decks.

"Thanks Grandpa," Yugi said to him and gave his grandpa a big hug and put his deck in the case, as did Joey.

Yugi and Joey waved good-bye to their friends and family and got lost in the large crowd of duelists.

The two of them looked around and they didn't know anybody, probably because there were duelists from all over the world being invited. They looked at the large ships and wondered which one they were supposed to be on.

"Joey! Yugi!" someone in the crowd shouted.

They looked around to find who said that and they still saw no one they knew.

"Over here!" the person shouted again but they still couldn't see the person. "Ugh, I'll come over there, then."

"Oh, hey Mai!" Yugi looked over to her.

"I know, this place is a circus full of the fashionably-challenged," Mai told them.

"Yeah, well is there anyone we know that is here?" asked Joey.

"Over there," Yugi pointed out to the left. "There's Rex Raptor and Mako Tsunami."

"Yeah and there's Espa Roba," Joey pointed near Mako and Rex where Espa was saying goodbye to all of his little brothers. "And on the plus side, I don't see Weevil, that's good news for everyone."

"And there's Ryan Stone and Michael Laskow, the world champion." Mai pointed to where a huge crowd was gathering around. "And there are their rabid fans."

Just then, a loudspeaker rang throughout the docks, "Attention, duelists. Attention, please! Please gather near the ships, they are placed in alphabetical order, last names first."

Near the entrance of the ships were small tables seating four people for each ship and above the tables were banners that read "A-E," "F-J," "K-O," "P-T," and "U-Z."

"Okay, I guess I'll see you later Joey," Yugi told him as he walked towards the center ship, as did Mai.

"Alright," Joey said as he walked towards the ship on the far side.

Yugi and Mai got in a line which seemed like they would be waiting forever but Mai had an idea. She pulled Yugi out of the line and walked up to the front of the line and said to one of the duelists. "Do you mind if we cut you?"

"What? No way!" said the duelist. "Get back at the end."

"Oh..." said Mai and she winked at him. "Please? I promise I'll give you something when on the ship."

"I told you no, don't think that a pretty face will sway me but you're going to the back of the li-" the duelist realized that Mai, Yugi and plenty of other duelists cut him while he was giving his speech.

"Name?" one of the people at the table asked Yugi. "Oh, Yugi Muto," he told him.

The man looked at a clipboard and said, "Okay, your name is on the list," the man pulled from underneath the desk several dueling gloves, one red, one blue, one green, one purple, one black and they all had the metallic gray base with star. "Please choose one colored glove." Yugi chose the black one and slipped it on his right hand and the personnel handed him two gold stars. "Here are your two star chips; you may now enter the boat."

Yugi placed the two star chips in and walked away from the table and looked up at the wooden staircase but waited for Mai to come. After waiting a moment Mai came up to Yugi, now wearing a purple dueling glove, the same color as her jacket and skirt.

"Well kid, let's go now," Mai said as she walked up the ship, Yugi quickly followed her and they looked around the deck to see duelists chatting and trading cards already.

"Excuse me Yugi, but I know there are some suites around here and I've got to sway a chump's decision to let me have it." Mai then walked to the inside of the ship and was gone.

Yugi looked around and walked inside too, looking around and he overheard what some duelists were saying.

"Did you hear? Some guy's already got seven star chips," one of the duelists said to the other. "He's downstairs in one of the bottom floors, one duelist already lost all of his star chips already."

Yugi decided to check this out and he went downstairs and saw a small crowd gathering and two duelists were sitting on the ground. Yugi ran over to the crowd and saw that the duelists were playing some sort of game.

"Pick the monster card, it's really not hard," said one of the duelists in an English accent. "How many star chips will you wager? Or will you wager a rare card?"

"I'll wager just one of my star chips," he said as he picked out one his star chips and placed it in between them but it was closer to him.

"Alright," the English duelist picked out three star chips and placed them with the other star chip making a pile of four. "Now we play."

The English duelist showed three cards, one monster card, one magic card and one trap card. "Now follow the monster card," he turned them all face down and moved them with his finger really fast, switching places with them again and again, "tell me when you want to stop."

After a few more seconds the other duelist got nervous and finally said, "STOP!" The English duelist finally stopped and told him, "Now choose, my good man."

The other duelist didn't know which one to pick but after so much pressure, he chose the one in the middle. The British duelist flipped it over and it was the magic card. "Oh, hard luck there," he then grabbed the pile of star chips and placed them in his duel glove. "That would make eight."

The duelist got mad and stormed out of the room and the English duelist asked the other duelists. "Come now, anyone else want to try their luck?"

The other duelists shook their heads and decided to leave but Yugi wouldn't accept what was going on and his puzzle quickly reacted and he changed into his counterpart.

"I shall play your game and I'm wagering my entire deck and all two of my star chips for all of your star chips but on one condition, you have to use my cards to shuffle with." Yugi said firmly placing his deck and his two star chips in a pile.

"Alright but eight star chips for a deck and two star chips is hardly what I call an even trade, how about that pyramid knick-knack around your neck and we'll call it a deal?"

"Very well," Yami Yugi took off the puzzle and changed back into regular Yugi.

"Wait! Spirit! How will do this?" Yugi asked him through thought.

"Really Yugi," the spirit said. "Have you already forgotten the Heart of the Cards? I believe in you Yugi, you can make the right choice."

"Also part of the deal, you agreed to use my cards as the cards to shuffle with." Yugi told the English duelist.

"Right, right, I know," said the English duelist as he first placed his star chips in the pile of Yugi's and his deck and puzzle, then he looked through Yugi's deck and picked out a monster card, a magic card, and a trap card, Dark Magician, Monster Reborn, and Mirror Force. "Alright then, find the Dark Magician." He turned them face down and with his right index and middle finger he switched the left with the middle, the middle with the right, the middle with the right again and again and again and again then switched the middle with left and the right with the middle, then Yugi could no longer keep track with the cards and he finally stopped after ten more seconds.

"Okay now pick," he told Yugi.

Yugi stared at the cards, the duelist had moved too fast to know exactly where, but he looked over at the pile and saw the Millennium Puzzle and remembered: trust in the Heart of the Cards. Yugi closed his eyes and placed his hands on the card to his left. He opened his eyes and flipped it over... it was Mirror Force. Yugi gasped.

"Well that's hard to swallow now isn't it? Lost all your cards, your star chips and your little pyramid necklace, all before the bloomin' ship even set sailed. Looks like you might as well get off right here and save yourself the embarrassment there, right?" The English duelist told him.

But Yugi couldn't believe that, as the English duelist was taking his spoils, he flipped the other two facedown cards and saw a Monster Reborn and another Mirror Force.

"You Thief! You cheated! I bet you cheated in all your games, so no one could ever win!" Yugi shouted at him and stood up, grabbing his wrist to see his Dark Magician fall out of his Jacket sleeve.

"Yeah? So what if I did cheat," he said standing up completely. "What's a short little nit like you going to do about it? Huh?" He grabbed Yugi by his jacket lapels and threw him to the ground. Yugi saw his puzzle right beside him and put it on and quickly the Spirit took over.

"You like to cheat, steal and lie, do you?" Yami Yugi asked him. "Well that is unacceptable, we shall play a different game and if you lose, I decide your fate." Yami Yugi pulled out a coin from his pocket with two sides marked on it, the same one he used against the Paradox Brothers. "It's a simple game, maybe you've heard of it, I flip a coin, and you call it in the air 'Heads' or 'Tails' call it right you win, call it wrong, you lose." (Para is Heads and Dox is Tails)

"Alright I'll play your game, but afterwards I'll kick your arse after this and throw you off the boat."

Yugi and he flipped the coin high into the air and the English duelist called "Tails" and Yugi caught the coin as it fell into his hand and unfurled his hand to reveal the Para symbol, heads.

"So you won the friggen coin toss, I'm still throwing you off the boat," the English duelist said to him as he pulled back his arm and threw a punch at Yugi.

"I don't think so, MIND CRUSH!" Yugi held out his hand and the Millennium symbol appeared on his forehead and suddenly, the English duelist's punch stopped and the force of the momentum carried him to ground unconscious.

Yugi then took his original star chips and placed them back in his dueling glove. Then he took his deck and took out the extra Mirror Force and ripped it up, and placed his Dark Magician back in it. Afterwards, he returned the six cheated star chips back to everyone that did get ripped off by Yugi and anyone who lost a rare card from him also got it back. Then Yugi took the English duelist's star chips and tossed them into the sea and took his unconscious body off the boat and onto the docks then quickly got back on right when the boat's were casting off.

The spirit went back into the puzzle and Yugi walked to the bow of the ship to look at the rising moon.

"I saw what you did," said someone from behind Yugi. "You took out James Masters, one of England's top duelists."

Yugi looked behind him and saw a fairly tall man compared to himself, about 5'10" and he was wearing a black shirt and a red jacket that was really long in the back and was also wearing blue trousers, he had brown hair fairly similar to Joey's but his hair was shorter in the front.

"Hey you're Michael Laskow," Yugi pointed out.

"Yeah," he said with as he took a step closer. "And you're Yugi Muto, the Battle City champion and the King of Games. You're quite the duelist, one of the best in the world."

"Yeah, well..."

"I should warn you, watch out for Ryan Stone, he's been a real sore loser since my victory, he's not pulling any punches now he threatened me right before I got on the boat and he said something like 'Just you wait till we're on the island then you'll know what the meaning of payback really is' or something like that. I also saw him beating up on a younger duelist before I got to the docks; he's been a wreck since the world championship."

"Thanks for telling me," Yugi said. "I'll be sure to keep an eye out for him."

After that, Yugi and Michael conversed about numerous things, how they got to be such excellent duelists, and even about their personal lives, by the time they realized it, it was 1:00 AM.

"Man we've been talking here for hours," Yugi laughed.

"Heh heh," chuckled Michael. "Well I guess I've made my first friend in this tournament."

Yugi nodded, "I guess we should turn in the boats will be at Duelist Kingdom in about 6 hours or so."

"Yeah I was given a suite being the world champion, if you don't got a room you could crash on the extra bed in there," Michael offered.

"Sure, it's better than the cots," Yugi said.

And the two of them walked inside and went down one floor and walked to one room and Michael had a key and unlocked it and it was a really luxurious room with the finest wood-based walls and Yugi's feet felt like they just sank into the carpet.

"Well I'm getting really tired, tomorrow's gonna be the biggest day ever for us all," Michael said as he opened the double doors to his room.

Yugi sighed and walked to the opposing room of Michael's and opened the double doors to see a room as fine as Michael's, he never expected to ever get this kind of treatment. Yugi took out his deck and set it on the nightstand and took off his shoes and socks and jacket and got into the extremely comfortable bed and quickly fell asleep.

When he awoke it was still dark out, and he got out of bed only to realize the Spirit was leaning against a wall.

"Good, you're awake," said the Spirit of the Puzzle. "I brought you here because I think you should start using the Millennium Tauk, to try to see into the future, we may find out what we're up against with it. Yugi looked off to his nightstand to find that his deck-carrier had fallen over, he placed it back where it was and pulled out from his pants pocket the Millennium Tauk. Yugi then placed it around his neck and focused, to see the future.

After several more minutes of focusing he finally got something. He saw himself dueling against some person, all he could see was their silhouette but that wasn't enough to tell and they had three monsters out on the field and then he saw himself (in Yami form) with three monsters out on the field, Joey was cheering Yugi on as a cold wind blew past them and Yami Yugi had sacrificed his monsters to bring out Saint Dragon, God of Osiris but then as Osiris began to appear, it began to go on the fritz, something was wrong as and Yugi lost focus of the vision and came back to reality, took off the Millennium Tauk and collapsed to the floor.

"Yugi!" the Spirit shouted as he ran towards him. "Are you okay?"

"I... saw you dueling someone, they had Ra out and you were about to summon Osiris, but something was wrong, but before I could see more, I couldn't see it anymore," Yugi said and he passed out.

When Yugi awoke there was a knock at the door, Yugi opened it to find Michael.

"Hey we're here, it'll be a few minutes till we'll be on ashore," Michael said as he ran out of his room to go look at the deck.

Yugi gathered his stuff and placed the Puzzle around his neck again and ran out of the room and up on the deck to see the rising sun right above the castle of Duelist Kingdom.

"Salazar's waiting for us," Yugi said to the Spirit. "And we'll be ready for him!"