"See ya later mom. I'm headed off to the arcade. Alright?" Said a brown haired and eyed boy to his almost elderly mother.

"Don't for get your keys." She said tossing him a key chain with only three keys on it. While still in the air, two cats sitting on the near by couch watched as the keys seemed to fly straight into his open hand. "You'd loss your head if I didn't pack it in your lunchbox every day. What is it that you like about that monster?"

"Huh? Oh, you mean on my key chain? He's the Witty Phantom. I like the way he looks, cool, calm and collected. Well I better be going now. Bye." He said heading down the front steps of their house.

"Bye." She responded.

After walking about two blocks the arcade finally came into view. Finally. We made it. He thought to him self as he entered the arcade. His ears were bombarded by buzzes, bloops, and beeps. He spotted a claw game and went over to it only to find that they had no Witty Phantom plushy.

"Oh well can't win them all. There it is!" He said noticing a large group of pods each with a person in it. Over each pod was a plasma t.v. screen showing what each person was doing. Most were just walking around, but one person was in a battle with a Rabid Horse Man and that person had managed to summon a La Ginn with Dark Energy Equipped. The Rabid Horse Man did not stay a threat for very long.

"What the heck are these things?" Said a goth to no one specific.

"These THINGS as you called them are Kaiba Corp's newest device in virtual reality technology. While in these pods a player's senses are manipulated giving them a realistic dueling experience." The boy said answering his question.

"Sorry," started the goth "but I don't speak nerd." And he walked away.

"Ah man! I didn't even get a chance to battle!" said a child being taken out of one of the pods he had just lost all his life points after jumping off a cliff trying to escape from a herd of wild Kuriboh. All the winning the kid was doing was just making the crowd laugh at him even more.

"Next!" shouted a man. He was allowing people in and out of the pods.

"I guess that would be me." The boy said.

After he walked into the pod and putting on the helmet the pod shut and did its usual start up humming. A menu came down over the screen of the helmet and offered the choice of either new game or continue.

"Continue." He stated in a very clear voice. The pod quickly took a retinal scan and a finger print ID.

"Confirmation of continuation." Stated a robotic voice. This was not the boys first time playing this game. "Character Name: Kelik. Level: 23. Rank: .......Respectable." The voice said, with what sounded like a hint of sarcasm at the end.

"Let's see what fate has planed for me today." He said with a smirk of confidence. As he walked a small group of harpies descended form the sky and began their attack formation.

"Harpies." He said thinking out loud. While drawing his opening hand from the duel disk that had appeared on his wrist. "There tough. So I'll try this. GO SONIC BIRD!" He shouted placing the card in a slot built in to the duel disk. As the monster appeared in front of him. "Now take flight and destroy the harpies. To aid I also summon Harpies brother." He continued, placing another card on the duel disk. The winged monsters took flight.

One by one the harpies were destroyed. In a final attempt for help, the last harpie let out a dying shriek. Racing across the sky to save his masters came the Harpie's Pet Dragon, after seeing the last one finally killed, it quickly destroyed the Harpie's Brother and then the Sonic Bird.

"Oh shit." The boy said with some fear in his voice as he began to run. The dragon chasing him.

"Life points at 3200." Said the same computer voice from before.

"GO TWIN-HEADED FIRE DRAGON!" Shouted a new voice. As the monster flew in, burning up the Harpie's Pet Dragon. "You've been playing this game for a little over a month. Yet you're still playing like a N00b. How sad."

"What? Who is it? Wes is that you!?" the boy asked unable to see the person.

"Gee, what gave it away?" Wes answered back sarcastically.

"Well let's see. The Asian complication. Your glasses so think they could stop a bullet. And oh yeah the hair." He listed continuing their battle of wits.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about we quit now can go cash in those points I won defeating those harpies." He said knowing that what he said would get on the other's nerves.

"YOU DEFEATED THE HARPIES!?" The boy shouted falling right into Wes's trap. "I'm the one who defeated those dumb birds! You just killed their pet!"

"Are you gonna cash in your points or not?"

"Sure I guess." He continued working him self down form a rage. "I think I now have enough to buy that third copy of Shield and Sword I've been wanting for my deck."

"Log out played 8." Said Wes to looking up at the virtual sky. His player body gave off a brilliant glow and slowly dissolved into nothingness. Back in reality his pod was opening up as he took a few steps out and waited for his friend.

"Log out player 3." Said the boy doing the same as Wes. After getting out they headed over towards the area where they cash in their points.

"What will it be boys?" Asked the man behind the counter.

"I'll take a....... Vorse Raider." Wes answered. The man opened the glass case and took out the Vorse Raider.

"And I'll take the Shield and Sword."

"Okay, give me just a minute." The Man said reaching for the Magic card. "You have some extra points you can get a second card. If you like."

"Really? In that case I'll also take a Witty Phantom too." He said without looking back into the case.

"Here you go boys." Said the man handing them their cards.

"Don't you have like 20 of that card?" Wes asked some what annoyed.

"Yeah. So?" He responded.

"I don't think I'm ever gonna understand you." Wes replied giving up.

"Fine then you take it." The boys said pushing the card into Wes's pocket. "It might just come in handy." As the two walked they ran into some one familiar. Quite literally.

"Ow. Sorry I did not see you their little man. Hey don't I know you?" Apologized the stranger.

"No it's my fault; I was not watching where I was going. Hey you're Joey Wheeler! The runner up at Duelist Kingdom." The boy replied excited.

"Yeah I am. But I know I've seen YOU some where before. Now where was it?"

"Here maybe this will jog your memory." Said Wes going behind The boy holding his head in his elbow.

"Help! Please somebody help me!" Said the boy playing along.

"Oh, you're that kid that got kicked off the island!" Joey said some what embarrassed, remembering that even though Yugi got back his star chips they came too late and the boy was shipped out. "Hey what's your name anyways?"

"The names Cameron and he's Wes." The boy replied. "It's a pleasure to finally meat you, again."

"Sorry to hit and run but I gotta go meet up with the rest of the gang over at burger world. If you can keep up your welcome to join us." He said half way out the door starting to run. Cameron and Wes joined him.

Burger World is a part of a chain of fast food restaurants. Tea worked their part time after school. But don't tell the manager that or else she'd be fired. As the three enter the restaurant they see Yugi, Bakura, Tristan, Duke, and some one else all sitting in a booth. The new person looked a lot like a Seto Kaiba if he was a girl and had blue hair that is.

"Well, Bakura looks like I owe you 20 bucks. Joey WAS on time, for once." Tristan said acting very smug hoping he'd get on Joey's nerves. "While we're waiting for Tea to take her lunch hour. How about you explain those freshmen standing behind you. They finally start a Joey Wheeler fan club over at the nursery?"

"For your information they didn't ....yet. These two," He said pointing out the boys "are Wes and Cameron. Cameron was the kid who got kicked off Duelist Kingdom remember, Yugi? I meat them over at the arcade paying that virtual reality game, and to be honest they were pretty good. I thought they might be able to help us fight off them 'Rare Hunters' Yugi called us here to talk about."

"Wait just a damn minute!" Wes demanded interrupting Joey. "Could some one please fill us in here!?"

Yugi began to explain every thing about the Millennium Items (well as much as he knew) about how Marik a.k.a. Malik took over Bandit Keith's mind and almost killed Yugi, also about what they learned at the Egyptian exhibit and, finally about the Egyptian God cards.

"Whoa!" Cameron said in a mental fatigue. "That's a lot of information to learn in one Tuesday."

"Okay now its time for a dumb question," Began Wes "If their called the millennium Items why are their about seven of them? And another thing when did Seto become a girl?" He asked annoyed that he did not ask earlier.

"That's a very good first question." Said the Girl, standing up and speaking to him for the first time. "But I'm afraid none of us have that answer. To answer your second question, I'm Bethany. I'm Seto's older twin sister."

"Oh! So YOU'RE this Bethany Kaiba I have heard about." Cameron said, startled.

"So," Yugi said getting back to the point. "we all should enter the tournament and do our best, even if it's for our different reasons. Oh Cameron, Wes if what I here is correct, I am looking forward to see the both of you duel." He walked out the door. Silently calling this meeting to an end.