A/N: ok, yeah, I know. I said I was done with Fanfiction dot net, but I lied. I just had to post this story up here because it is by far the best story I have ever written. It's funny how I've come so far as a writer in less than a year. Anywho, this is not a very complex story (at least to me it isn't, to others it might be...), but it will most likely be long. Unlike the other stories I have posted on here, I'm not finished it. I'm only on, um, chapter 9 I believe on Anime Spiral, and I'm still in the 'beginning' faze of it all. So yeah. Also, the original summary is too long to put up on FF, so I decided to put the full original summary here, just so you can get an in depth idea. Man, I'm even proud of the summary!! Meh, I'm simple to please. So, here is the original story summary-

The Shadow Gems. Seven magical gemstones used to lock the souls of the Shadow Monsters within their sacred tablets. Each Gem was given to a Gem Keeper, a powerful leader, and hidden away from each other across the world for if all the Gems were to be placed together they would summon a force unlike any other.
But now, one of the Gem Keepers has been corrupted. He wishes to rejoin the Gems and set free The Chaos. To do so he will need all seven Gem Keepers. Already, the Gem Keeper of Japan, Mokuba Kaiba, is in his hold. And now he journeys to find the others.
Yugi, Yami, Ishizu, Marik, Joey, Kaiba, Bakura and his yami join forces to stop this deranged Gem Keeper. They must travel to other countries to find the other five Keepers, before He does. It's a race around the world, and against time. If they win the world will carry on, unknowing of what had past. But if they loose, all can be lost to the shadows....

Sounds cool, eh? I'd also like to say the chapters are much longer than how I use to write (with the exception of a few short ones every here and there, this chapter being one), and more descriptive, for an all around better story. So, without further ado, here's the first chapter: The Key.

The office was silent other than the clicking of keyboard keys. The sun fell in through the window, lighting up the back of the brown haired man. His hard, emotionless blue eyes gazed at the computer screen before him.

Across the room another boy sat, much younger than the first. He lay across one of the white couches. His dark hair fell around him, his eyes shut like he was sleeping. In reality, he was listening to his brother typing.

But then something else reached his ears. He sat up and turned to the office door as if seeing beyond it. He got up as a strange squeaking sounded from the hall. He rushed to the door and pulled it open to see a man in brown uniform pushing a cart with many packages on it. The boy smiled.

"It's here, Seto." He said. He turned to his brother to see he was still intent on the computer. He sighed and gladly went to greet the man.

"Seto Kaiba?" The man asked, looking down at him.

"No, he's in there." He said, gesturing over his shoulder. "But I'll sign for it."

The man nodded and handed him a clipboard and pen. He took both and scribbled on the paper Mokuba Kaiba. He then handed the clipboard back and took the package from the man.

"Thanks." Mokuba told him. The man tipped his hat and pushed his cart along, going to other people in the office building. Mokuba didn't care, he had what he wanted.

He turned and rushed back into the office. He jumped onto the couch and gazed at the thin package wrapped in brown paper he now held. Then, with a greedy grin he ripped the wrapping off. Once it was all gone he sat back and smiled.

In his hands he held a book. An old one at that. The cover was made of a leather. Old writing was at the top of it. Burned into the leather were ancient markings and imbedded in it was many black gems. On the side of it was a metal lock. The lock looked like it was an old, tarnished gold. And shining on the middle of the lock was another very polished black gem.

Mokuba ran his fingers over the gem, then they trailed down a long chain that was wrapped around the book. Attached to the golden chain was a very worn-out key that strangely had no teeth. The only thing that looked new was another black gem imbedded into the gold of the key. Mokuba raised the key to his face.

It was different from the other black gems. Yes, it was the same dark black stone, but this one had ancient Japanese writing carved into it. It also went straight through the key and out the other side. It obviously was some kind of marble before it had been put in the key.

Mokuba slid the key into the lock and turned it, half expecting it to not work for a key with no teeth. But he heard a click and the lock came open. Mokuba smiled and opened up to the worn, yellow pages within it. On the pages were the same ancient text like on the marble. Mokuba sighed as he looked over the page. It seemed he'd have to translate it.

"Look, Seto." Mokuba said, going over to his older brother and pushing the book before him. "It finally came."

Kaiba sighed, a bit annoyed to be interrupted. But he couldn't help but look the book over when he saw how happy his brother was.

"I don't know why you asked me to order it." Kaiba admitted. "What exactly is it suppose to be?"

"A book of old myths." Mokuba told him proudly.

Kaiba sighed. "Ever since Battle City you've been obsessed with mythology. It's just a bunch of fairytales, Mokuba, you're wasting your time looking into them."

"No it's not." Mokuba told him, grabbing the book. "I think it's fascinating. People back then really believed in all this stuff."

"People back then didn't have brains." Kaiba uttered.

He noticed the key dangling from the chain Mokuba was now holding. He took it in his hand and examined it. His eyes fell upon the black marble and he ran his thumb over it.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Mokuba asked as he looked at the black gem as well. "I've never seen anything like it."

"It's obsidian." Kaiba told him, looking at the gem. "It's a semiprecious gemstone. It can be found here in Japan, along with several other places around the world."

"Cool." Mokuba uttered. "But why are there so many all over the book?"

Kaiba shrugged. "Don't ask me. You should go get the writing translated, that would probably explain it."

"Yeah, I'll go do that now!" Mokuba said cheerfully. He slipped the chain and key over his head and grabbed the book, then turned and rushed out the room. "I'll go to the library. I'll be back in an hour or so!" He cried over his shoulder, then vanished around the corner.

Kaiba turned back to the computer screen, half smiling to himself. Mokuba was really getting into this.

He sighed, then reluctantly began to type again, not knowing that in a few moments everything in his world would be turned upside down and most likely changed forever...