From that point days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into years, 10 years have passed since that day, the construction on their base was fully complete, they practically had a little town underground, the town was about 4 mile radius, it had a hospital where most people slept and where any new people were found were taken to, about 50 more people were found over those 10 years. Even though it was a town that they built the only type of entertainment that they had was the small area that they built for kids to play duel monsters with their duel disks.
Bakura at that time learned the hard way to join Tea and her friends, He more than once over that time went up to the surface went to challenge Shrin and came back battered and beaten from running away. After the tenth time, he finally decided to join Tea in her conquest against Shrin.
Even though Tea took apart the millennium puzzle, she always kept it save. She hid it where no one could find it. She became quite a leader along with her friends. She would call upon Joey and Tristan for any of the real hard work, such as gathering people or supplies that they needed such as food and water. It wasn't the best life but at least they were safe from Shrin.
Shrin at that time had built a fortress with the power of the millennium items that he collected; he called upon the shadow realm to make his monsters real to guard his fortress, and seek out any humans to be captured and tortured unless they joined him and his side. For some people they gave up their pride for life, and for some others, well their fate wasn't as pretty.
At this time Yuri's hair style had changed, it was no longer spiky like Yugi's, it was longer his bangs would cover his eyes at times and he had a small pony tail, his hair split down the middle and cover the top part of his ears. Tea had loved Yuri like a mother because when he looked so young he looked like Yugi, she always kept him close and always protected him. Yuri was now 17 and still had hope in his heart that one day someone will defeat Shrin and bring peace back into the world.
Joey, Pegasus, Bakura and Duke trained civilians how to duel; they even trained some duelists such as Rex and Weevil how to become better duelists. Yuri was no exception on becoming a duelist. He would learn the rules and strategy however he would never win a duel no matter how hard he tried. He would continue to change his deck around but still loose.
"I don't understand, why can't I win?" said Yuri
"Its ok Yuri, you will win one sooner or later," said Tea rubbing his head.
"Well you can always go to Pegasus and ask for his help, he was the one who created the game you know."
"Wait, gramps created the game? No one ever told me that."
"Well then you should go see him, even though he looks old he has a lot of spirit and can help you."
"Thanks aunt Tea, I will go and see him right now," said Yuri as he ran off with a smile.
Pegasus just got done completing his dueling class when Yuri ran up with all excitement, Yuri wanted to know everything that Pegasus knew, and maybe he could help him in some way with his deck. Yuri stopped and panted for breath when he reached Pegasus for the fact that he didn't stop to rest once on his way to him.
"Gramps…huff…puff…I need your help," said Yuri trying to catch his breath.
"What did I tell you, you little ingrate, call me Pegasus."
"Oh sorry gramps, but anyway I need your help, I want you to help me with my deck, aunt Tea said that you were the one who created the game."
"That was once upon a time ago Yuri boy, the only thing I should be doing now is going back into retirement, I bet little Yugi knows I need it."
"Come on Gramps, please," said Yuri giving puppy dog eyes.
"Oh alright, you know I can't say no to that face, lets start with your deck."
Pegasus looked at Yuri's deck, seeing that it was all just random strategies, and there wasn't really anything that combined his magic cards with his monster cards. Pegasus seeing this shook his head in shame. He looked at Yuri with full of hope in his eyes that Pegasus would help him.
"Joey has been helping you, hasn't he?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Let's just say I know how Joey works."
"Is there anything you can do to help me gramps?"
"Well first off, what type of deck do you wish to have? Joey personalizes in warriors and gambling moves to help him win, in which I cannot believe his luck, you would think his time wizard would fail him once in a while, but no, it never does that. Duke is into his dungeon dice monsters game more than duel monsters, so he isn't that much of help and Bakura is just a jerk who doesn't give any advice at all, not to mention that stupid little fool trying to copy my hair style, I say that he should dye his hair a different color."
"Well…I want a deck that revolves around this card," said Yuri as he took out the Dark Magician from his deck.
"ah, so you want to follow in the footsteps of little Yugi, hmm very well however I don't have the cards that I need here, that means we will have to talk Tea into sending Joey and Tristan to the service and look for some in one of the abandoned shops…and the closest card shop I can think of is Yugi's grandpa's shop, hmmm maybe they can look among the rubble to see if there are any cards there and if not they can always look somewhere else."
Pegasus and Yuri went to Tea, they had no problem talking her into their little plan, Joey and Tristan were reluctant at first until Pegasus said that Joey had second claim on the cards that they brought back, seeing how Pegasus had first claims on it. With that Joey was more than happy to drag Tristan along with him to the surface. They both came back about an hour latter with two big boxes full of duel monsters cards.
"Pegasus, you better leave me some really great cards, because these things are heavy," said Joey as he put the box down.
"Don't worry, I will there are only some certain cards that I'm looking for," said Pegasus as he started to look through the box.
"Hey, gramps, you must know the Egyptian God cards more than anyone, can you tell me about them?" asked Yuri
"Well, the god cards are the most powerful monsters in the game, they have always declared victory for the person or persons who wields them, the three are Slifer the Sky Dragon, Obelisk the Tormentor, and The Winged Dragon of Ra, right now Shrin has all three of them, and I believe that there is no way we can defeat him as long as he wields them."
"Isn't there anyway we can defeat them? I mean even Yugi has defeated Obelisk the Tormentor before," said Yuri.
"Yeah, but I don't think that's the god card that Pegasus is worried about Yuri, I think he is more worried about The Winged Dragon of Ra, that Egyptian god card has so many abilities that it's nearly impossible to defeat, heck it knocked me out cold, remember guys?" said Joey as he had a concentrated look on his face.
"Gramps, can't you just make another set of the Egyptian god cards?"
"Yuri, that is something I cannot do I no longer have the items necessary to completely make another set of the god cards, besides I doubt that even you could wield them if you even had them in your possession."
"Why's that grams?"
"It's because your not Egyptian blood nor are you the wielder of a millennium item," said Tea.
"You mean like Bakura's millennium ring?"
"That's exactly what I mean," said Tea as she looked at Yuri with concern.
"Well, I'm all done here," said Pegasus standing after he stood up.
"Alright gramps, come on let's go and make me a deck."
After about an hour of sorting through the cards that Pegasus took, they finally made Yuri an entire new deck of 48 cards. Yuri wanted to make the deck 40 cards, but Pegasus assured him that having a deck of 50 cards would make his dueling options increase and his chances of drawling the cards he needs at the right time decrease by a small percentage.
"Thanks Gramps," said Yuri with a smile.
"Yuri, I purposely put your deck at 48 cards so I can give these last two cards to you," said Pegasus as he reached in his coat pocket and put two cards in then deck before Yuri could see what they were.
"What are they gramps?"
"These two cards are very powerful monsters; I don't want you to know what they are until you draw them ok?"
"Alright gramps," said Yuri with a smile.
