Thank you for all the review with the very fast time it took me to type up chapter 3, which was only xXxkIkOkEnxXx this time around. I would really like it if more people would review it, please. Look, I even asked nicely.
Now, a few points. One, I can't write duels to save my life. They are just too hard for me to do. So, I will be trying to dodge them. If I have to write a duel, while it will suck. Also, I will try and write this like from the TV show, but it won't be very good. So, it may go off track here and there. And could someone tell me the dragons' names. Yes, I am that stupid.
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. If it did Bandit Keith would have never been on the show, but die a slowly and painful death and never to seen again. And this will be the last update for a month. So you better like even thougth it isn't my best work. DAMN DUEL!
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One Month Later
Yugi laid on his bed staring up the ceiling. He just couldn't believe that Tristan hadn't been seen for over a month. The police had given up on their search for him in belief that he was dead. Well, he didn't believe that nor did the rest of the gang. They have been spent every free moment looking around town; follow every lead they could come across. So far they didn't have any luck. It seems he just dropped from the face of the earth. On top of this, he just couldn't help but continue to have this bad feeling. For some reason he believe it seems to be connected to the Duelists that were falling unconscious all over not just in the city, but the world.
/Yami, do you think someone is causing this/
I just don't know, but I think so
/Is it an other take over the world scheme or something else/
Something else I believe. I feel there some kind of dark energy out there. It started after we receiver our dragon. I believe they are connect to those strange lights we saw
/I just don't want any more people hurt. I just hope we will be able to stop it/
Don't worry, we shall defeat this new evil and find Tristan
/I just hope you are right/
Just have faith and believe in the goodness in man's heart and everything will turn out for the best. Count on it
Paradise Inc HQ…Dartz was standing in the middle of his office looking out the huge window in his mortal clothing. Below him were all the stupid mortals that didn't have a clue of what they were getting into. He smirked as soon the Great Beast would be awaken then it would be too late. The world shall be clean of all the filth. But of course, he would need that Pharaoh's soul from the Puzzle and the other souls that carry the dragons. But, that why he had the DOOM Bikers to take care of them. Soon a young lady entered his office.
"Mr. Dartz, they are all here and ready to met with you," she announced.
He smiled, "Ah, thank you Sara," he said as he started to head to boardroom.
"Oh, Mr. Dartz," said Sara as she came behind in the hallway, "That detective called again, what shall I tell him?"
Dartz frown. It was that Bladen man again. The detective was getting on the last of his nerves. He kept calling him, asking all this questions, question about DOOM itself. No one would have guess that Dartz had connections to it, but this old man. He didn't know how he would have guess, but the detective was getting too close to the truth. Maybe it was time for someone to take care of the old man.
"Tell him that I will call him back," said Dartz as he open the doors.
Sara nodded her head as she turned back around and started to go back to her desk. Dartz smiled as he entered the door to see four Bikers of the Orichalcos sitting there. Waiting for him. Raphael was standing off to the side, looking like his regular emotionless self. Varon was sitting down at the large table with his feet on the table. He was chatting to the group, saying what ever came into that head of his. Alistair was a little ways from Varon. The red head was trying his very best just to ignore the hot head Aussie and wasn't successful. That comes to their newest associate, Tristan.
While, it was only be a month, he seems to fit in with the rest of the bikers. He was sporting the gang's biker look with his own leather jacket with a red muscle shirt under it. He was trying hard it seems to be not to jumped out at Varon and hurt him. With, Tristan's past experiences with Joey, it has seems to have gained him the habit of attacking those kinds with a big mouth.
"Ah, I see that you all have arrive," said Dartz as he took his place at the head of the table.
"Why did ya calls us here?" asked Varon, placing his feet down.
"Can't you kept that mouth of your shut for a second!" shouted Alistair, about to break.
"What if I don't?" sneered back Varon.
"I'll make you stop," said Raphael, as he took a seat down, "Now, let Master Dartz talk."
That was enough to shut Varon up. Dartz looked around the group and was proud to have selected such a powerful group to be his warriors of DOOM. Even their weakest member was strong enough to take down the likes of a regular duelist with ease.
"I have called you all here to push ahead our most powerful step against those who dare try and stop us," said Dartz, "I shall sent you, my warriors to make yourself know to the Pharaoh and his group. You shall also gain his Gods Cards while in Domino City. I believe one of you shall know how to gain them." He continues looking at Tristan.
"Yeah, I know where he keeps them," said Tristan with a smirked, "right easy picking."
"Also, I want someone take care of a little business with a Detective Bladen. He has been snooping around here too much and for far too long and might draw the public attention to us," said Dartz.
Tristan's ears perked up at the name. That was the guy from the night of his mothers' death. Why would he being snoop around here? He frowned at the thought. He must think that they were doing something evil with all the soul catching. Bladen must think that they were the bad guys. Well, he would learn so enough.
"So, you want me to do the job?" asked Varon with a chuckle.
"No," said Dartz, "I want our newest colleague to take care of him."
"Me?" said Tristan, surprise at the suggestion.
"Him!" shouted Varon just as surprise as Tristan,"He isn't much of a duelist! He only has been able to capture ten souls."
"Hey, I am good duelist!" respond Tristan.
"Will you two calm down? I want Tristan to take for the detective because he will be caught off guard, not because I don't trust in your skills, but first grabbed the God Cards. I already have a man in place. He shall follow your orders since you four are my most loyal fighters. Then you may take the detective's soul," said Dartz, "you may leave at once, you are all dismiss."
The four of them rose from their seats and bow to Dartz, "Yes, Master Dartz," they respond as they left the room.
Domino City"Well gang, we might as well face the facts. Tristan is gone," mumble Joey as he crash on to the table.
The five of them were gather around a table at a diner. They were talking about the latest on their searching for their friend. Finally, the stream seemed to have given on them. No one had seen Tristan since the day after his mom die. It was like he has didapper into thin air. They just hated the thought of giving up on Tristan, but there was no luck for any of them.
"Man, I just thought for sure we would have found him by now," said Tea.
"Me too," mumble Yugi.
"There has to be something we missed," said Nikki, "Something we over looked."
"Sorry, but we triple check everything,' said Duke, "Tristan hadn't been seen in the city of over a month. He must have let town."
"There is no way! He would have told somebody, called anyone," stated Joey.
"You are right, Joey," said Tea, "But, who know what he was thinking when he was told his mother was dead. He could have done anything right then to stop his pain."
Yugi looked at his watch for the time. It was 8:56 now. He really didn't realize it was getting that late. Then again, they have been spending a lot of time on their search. He took another slip of his drink to help him think some more.
"Maybe we should try again tomorrow," he offered, "We all need some sleep."
"But, what can we use? We have nothing," moaned Joey, trying hard not to rip his hair out.
They sat in silence. Each of them was just feeling rotten to have given up on their friend. Suddenly, Nikki's cell phone started to ring. She pulled out and answered it. After a few moments, she hang up on it and had this pale look on her face.
"What wrong?" asked Tea.
"That was Grandpa," she answer, "The Kame Game Shop was just broken into!"
The four teens' mouth dropped. Quickly, they ran out of the diner and head straight to the shop. Yugi's mind was all in a panic. He could only hope that his own Grandpa was ok. He didn't want to go through another Duelist Kingdom again. Soon enough, the five of them came up to the game shop. There in front of it was Detective Bladen talking with Mr. Motuo. Yugi ran over to his grandfather.
"Grandpa, are you ok," asked Yugi as he gave his grandpa a hug.
"I'm fine, they just tried to break through your room," said Mr. Motou.
"Did they take anything?" asked Yugi.
"I not sure," answer Mr. Motuo, now puzzle, "I could only guess that creep was only in your room for a minute before I came banging in. Scared him off, I did."
Yugi quickly ran up to his room. He was only thinking the worst. They wouldn't be after what he think they were after. He was only up there for a few minuets before he came back down stairs. They all saw that somber look on his face and knew something was not right.
"Yug, what did they take?" asked Joey.
"The…God Cards," he said, "They knew where they were and took the Three Egyptian God Cards!"
The group gasped except for Nikki and Detective Bladen. They didn't know about the power of the God Cards. They were still new to this whole thing. They didn't know of the power and the danger of these three cards and what they could cause for the world.
"What are these God Cards?" asked Bladen, pulling out another piece of paper from his notebook.
"Only the most powerful cards in the history of Duel Monsters. Yug won them in Battle City. They have the power to take over the world!" shouted Joey starting to panic if only Duke didn't slapped him out of it.
"So, the only thing taken was a few ultra rare Duel Monster Cards," said Bladen, making sure he had this right.
Yugi nodded his head, "I had them hidden under my floorboard near my bed. No one knew about it."
"Well, someone did," mumble Nikki, "They only had one to two minutes to grabbed the cards and escape."
Yugi started to worry more. The God Cards were out there in who knows hands and they could be using them for some evil plan or something. Slowly, he started to think back of who knew where they were. He placed them under that board so that they were out of sight. It was after school and it was Friday. The gang was going to go and do some gaming at the arcade. Tea, Joey and Tristan were in his room when he pulled out the box to make sure the cards were still in there. Then he put it back in its place.
" Well, I have to get back to the station. If your cards are found, give me a call," said Bladen as he turned and started to head back to his car, "Don't stay out too late, sweetie."
Nikki blushed as she waved good-bye, "I won't."
"Don't worry Yug," said Joey as he looked down at his little depressed friend, "We'll get them back."
"Everyone, why do you come inside and have some tea to help calm your nerves," said Mr. Motou.
The group of them dragged themselves into the kitchen and sat down. They were all miserable by now. It seems nothing was going right for them lately. First, Tristan vanished and they couldn't find out where he when off to. Now, the God Cards were stolen. What was going to happen next? The answer would come soon enough. Right at that moment, the phone started to ring. Yugi rose from his seat and walked right over to it and answered it.
"Hello, Motou residence,"
"Missing something?" came the voice on the other line.
"Where are the God Cards?" demand Yugi, almost shouting into the phone.
"If you want them back so badly, you are going to have to duel from them," respond the voice as he gave the location of Yugi was suppose to go.
"Yugi, who was that?" asked Tea.
Yugi handed up the phone and looked at his friends. They all had this worry look on their face from when he burst out over the phone. He sighed and sat down. It was better to tell them what he had to do.
Bladen ResidenceBladen climbed up the long staircase to his apartment. It was getting too late for his liking and with all these double sifts he had pulling at the station. It would be nice to have the house to himself. Nikki was out with her new friends and he would be with a nice cup of tea. Finally. He reached the door and reach for his keys. Just as he touched the doorknob, but found it to be open.
"That is not right," he mumbled to himself for he always locked the door.
His hand reach for his hostler and touch his firearm. He pushed open the door and took a step in. If there were still anyone inside here, they would be sorry for breaking into his home.
"I was wondering how long it would take for you to get here?" came a voice from inside.
Detective Bladen turned to see someone was seating on his couch. It wasn't anyone; it was Tristan Taylor, that kid that was missing for over a month. There seemed something different from the last time they had met. He seemed to be more serious about something. Bladen wonder how he got inside his home without a key.
"Tristan! How did you get inside my home?" demand Bladen.
Tristan just chuckle, "You are the detective," he said, "You figure it out."
The older gentleman could tell that this boy wasn't going to be easy to figure out. Something just didn't seem right with him. Bladen notice that the young man had a duel disk on his arm. It was almost the same to those use during Battle City, but different. It was a grayish green with a malicious shape to it and strange black marking on it.
"Tristan, where have you been? Your friends have been worry about you," asked Bladen, seeing if this smaller question would ease him into a line of questioning.
Tristan snorted at the comment, "Like I could less what those guys think," he said then stood up on his feet and glared at the detective, "Now, listen to me. You are going to duel me now, got that?"
"What? How dare you! You break into my home and act like this. Now demand I duel you. No, I will not," said Bladen, getting sick of this game.
"I don't think you have a choice, old man," said Tristan, his voice raising in anger, "You are going to duel me or some people will have to deal with your precious granddaughter, now you wouldn't like that would you?"
Bladen's face fell. He could tell Tristan would make do well on to his threat. There was something wrong with the boy. He change so much in a month. Even though, Bladen only met the boy once he heard enough from his friends that this wasn't him. Who or what did this to him? Well, Bladen had no choice in the matter. He couldn't let him hurt Nikki.
"Fine," he said reaching for a desk draw and pulling out a box. Inside it was a Duel Monster deck that Nikki gave him for his birthday three months ago. She got him some cards so that they could do something together since her parents were never around to do anything with her. Tristan smirked in victory as he headed to the door.
"We better do this outside," he said with a chuckle, "This could get messy."
Downtown Domino, Three hours later…Yami quickly watch as the symbol on the ground started to disappear under his feet. It started to get small and found itself under the feet on his opponent. He had just won the duel against this fellow but the skin of his teeth. The man used a card that he had never seen before in all his duels or heard of; The Seal of Orichalcos. This one card had almost lost the duel for him, but the pharaoh had over came it, even with Obelisk the Tormentor against him.
Suddenly, the seal surround the man and a bright green light appear from inside it, Yami could hear his screams as something happen to him. Soon enough, the man's body collapse to the ground, his soul taken. Yami had never seen anything like the Seal of Orichalcos before. What ever it was, it was as most powerful as his Millennium Puzzle. The gang ran up to him, as they could enter the seal once the card was played.
"Well, it looked like you won this one," called down a voice from above.
The group looked up to see the three biker boys. They appear above the area of the duel just as it started. They just stood there, not seeming to care about their fallen comrade.
"What do ya think ya are doing?" demand Joey.
"You will find out soon enough,' said the blond man.
"Where are the rest of the God Cards!" shouted Yami.
"What do you think? We have them mate," chuckle the brunette as he held up the last two cards in his hand.
"Hand them back! They don't belong to you!" shouted Tea.
Suddenly, there came a roaring sound. The five of them turned around to see someone riding right at them. He was going at top speeds and showed no signs of slowing down. Quickly, they dove out of the way of the motorcycle. The driver came to a stop in front of body of the soulless man and reach down to his duel disk. Yami knew at once what he was after.
"You leave Obelisk alone!" he sounded.
The biker chuckle from behind his helmet and pulled out the card, "I think you have more important matter to get to," he said.
Yami looked at him. There was something familiar about his voice. He just couldn't make head or tails of it. Suddenly the other three bikers jumped off their own platform with their own bikers and roar out of the area. Joey and Duke tried to run after the four of them, but on those machines, they were long gone.
"Damn it!" shouted Joey, "Sorry we couldn't stop them."
"It ok," he said, "I have a feeling that won't be the last we heard of them."
"What now?" asked Duke.
"Maybe we should head to my apartment," suggested Nikki, "It is pretty close and Grandpa might what to know about the cards. Also on the way you guys can explain this whole thing about Yugi somehow transforming into a another person over 5,000 years old, because I am lost in this."
Yami nodded his head in agreement, "I'm sure that we can answer your question to the best of our ability. Now, we must be going."
"First, we better some help for this guy," said Tea looking at the unconscience man on the ground as she started to dail 911.
Soon enough and 30 minutes later, the gang had finally made it to Nikki's apartment. The police sure did have a lot of question about finding the body. Yugi hated to lied to the police, but it was the only way. It wasn't like that some kind of ancient magic took his soul away after he lose the duel. Then again, after those monster sighting they maybe qould have believe it, but unlikely. Most of the people in town believe that was cause by Kaiba Corp and their holograms.
"Come on, you guys," said Nikki as she urged them up the stairs.
"I…never thought….there would be so many stairs," whimper Joey as he almost collapse once they reach the top.
"You are…such a …bady," responded Duke, not wanting to show his own weakness.
"Why..you," threaten Joey
"Why is your door open?" asked Tea.
They all looked to see indeed the door to the Bladen's apartment was open. "I don't know," siads Nikki, soundly a little worry.
Slowly the group entered the apartment. First, the boys enter with Joey and Duke in the lead. The girls quickly follow them inside. Once in, they found that no one seem to be inside. Nikki ran into the apartment and started to call out for her Grandpa. Yugi couldn't help but have a bad feeling. He realize that he was right by Nikki's screams.
"What is it!" shouted Tea as the group follow where the screams came from.
There laying on the group was Detective Bladen. Nikki was holding his head up in her lap, tears rolling down her cheeks. In her hand was a crumble up piece of paper. Tea walked over and tried her best to comforted Nikki.
"What happen here?" asked Yugi.
"They…They took his…soul," sobbed Nikki, "DOOM took my Grandpa's soul!"