"Yea! Another of your monsters is off to the graveyard!" Joey stood grinning in front of the mysterious Ex. Ex had three face down cards in his duel field and no monsters. Joey had Warrior of the Blessed Tomb (1600/1800) on the field in attack mode and one face down card. Joey held two cards, Ex held four.

"It matters not Wheeler, and it is my turn." Ex grabbed a card from his duel disk and grinned. "Another piece of Exodia Wheeler!"

"If you drew a piece of Exodia every time you said you did, You'd have summond it by now." Ex grinned evilly and placed a monster in defense position.

"True Joey, but how many do I have? Feel free to attack again, it's your turn."

"OK then! Go my Warrior! Brightened Bade!" Joey's monster hit the defense card with his sword shattering it in two. But not before Joey saw what it was. "Oh no a Skelangel!"

"That's right Wheeler! No I draw one card. Ill place it face down and end my turn."

'Damn. Joey must destroy him quick... or else Exodia will be made.' Marik held his thoughts on the inside. But, they had already failed. The piece of Exodia glowed behind Ex, flashing powerfully occasionally lighting up the room completely, then retreating into shadows. "Joey finish him quick!"

"My thoughts exactly." Joey drew a card a laughed to himself. "Oh Yeah! Joey scores again! Meet a card Yugi gave me before we left. Card Destruction!" Joey put the card onto the field. "Now to wipe out our hands!"

"Not quite. Observe Black Lightning Trap! This not only stops your magic card, it allows me to either gain 500 life points or destroy 250 of yours. I'll boost mine."

Joey: 4000 Ex: 4500

'Damn not even a dent in his life points... until.' "Alright then. Go my Warrior! Attack his life points directly!"

"Activate Last Ditch Effort!"

"What's that?"

"When my life points are attacked directly, I can shield with any three cards from my deck. I chose these three." Ex placed three cards in his graveyard. Then Observe monster Reborn! Bring back my Fledgling of Exodia! (500/750) This little creature allows me to draw an Exodia piece from my deck whenever I special summon him to the field in attack position. Then Ill play my other face-down card, Graving robbery mastery. I can put any three star monster in my hand from my graveyard for a price of one monster on the field. So goodbye Fledgling! And Hello Exodia!"

"What?!?" Joey was cut short when light shot threw the room with an amazing force. Joey shielded his eyes only in time to see a bright star in front of him.

"Oh, no not again..."

"Oh yes Wheeler. And he wants to consume you." Exodia's arms reached out of the star and broke free from its shackles. The arms grabbed Joey and he cried in pain. Exodia's eyes flashed red, and he pulled Joey back into the golden star, which Exodia was trapped in.

"NO!" was Joeys last words as the star dissipated into nothing and Ex shut his duel disk off.

"What have you done?" Ex glanced over at the stunned figure of Marik and smiled. He flicked a card over to Marik and laughed. On it was Joey. Marik cringed in pity; to be trapped in the shadows is no easy trip. "Free him, now." Marik spoke at such a tone that it made Ex step back in a sudden surprised fear.

"Ishtar. Without your God you are nothing. Your deck does not have the ability to beat mine."

"Lets see about that after I cast you into the shadows."

"Fine then Ishtar."

"Lets Duel."

Yugi frowned and turned around in the darkness. The tomb was a maze of blackness and dreariness. He sneezed on the tomb's dust. There was no light in the tomb and all Yugi could hear was Skullz' footsteps beside him.

"Wait Yugi I have an idea." Yugi glanced over at Skullz who was fiddling around with his duel disk. "There." The duel disk snapped to life and shot some light out from it.

"Great we can at least see now. But that's not going to help us find the right path."

"No but that is." Skullz pointed on the ground. In plain sight were footprints pushed into the sand.

"Great! Lets g-"

'YUGI!' Yugi was cut off by a scream from Yami. He closed his eyes and entered the puzzle. Yami stood in front of him with his hands in his pockets.

"Yes, Yugi?"

"What did you need Yami?"

"Nothing Yugi. Shouldn't we be following those footprints that kid left us?"

"Yes, but..."

"What's wrong Yugi?"

"You yelled my name. I could hear it in my head. I've-I've heard things like this before. A disconnected shout or a scream of pain or something like that. I-I was just wondering... What happened to that other bad Yami guy?" Yami's eyes narrowed and his eyes flickered something that looked like a hate in his eyes.

"My Kuragari was brought here to my puzzle where I sealed his soul in the shadow realm for all eternity."

"But he seemed so powerful..."

"He was but here... he was weakened by the power I hid away here a millennia ago."

"I thought you didn't know how to use it."

"I don't. But the power reacted to our presence. It was an energy that drained him in an attempt to weed out the evil."

"He didn't lose his memory... couldn't he have used the power against you?"

"I don't think he was ready to. The power must have caught him off guard..."

"Yugi...?"

"That's Skullz..."

"We can talk later Yugi."

"OK. Bye, Yami." Yugi's spirit dissolved and Yami felt Yugi begin to move again.

"Yes, so long Nakaba." Dark Yami's eyes glowed and he laughed. "He still believes me. It is almost getting tiring pulling him along by the nose. O well, he has almost served his purpose in bringing me to Point 0. After that, I will control Exodia's power for the rest of eternity and I once again will rule as Pharaoh. Now to talk to my Hikari... he must be punished for his attempted contact..."

Yugi and Skullz stood at the top of a chamber. In the center of the chamber the kid was dueling something in the shadows. And he was winning...