3000 B.C.
Mai stood by the window looking down at the port of her castle. Her thoughts were on a different thing, she was worried about Joey. Her servant came by the door with some palace food, and she thanked him. She barely fit into the clothes she wore a few months back, for she had gained some weight. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She was going to aid Joey and her cousin in the hopes of ending the suffering that upset her people.
She immediately ordered her servant to prepare a carriage immediately to Sweit, the battleground. She got her disks and then headed out the door. When she got out into the open, the golden carriage awaited her. She threw back her cape and then climbed in. there was a man waiting the carriage for her. She was utterly surprised, for he looked like an ordinary servant, but the golden key hanged around his neck.
He stared at her gold item and was as silent as the night. She didn't question, for she understood his objective, to find Joey and the pharaoh and help them defeat Ra and take control of Sweit. The dirt road ahead of them was going to lead Mai for the adventure she had waited for in a long time. She relaxed and decided to take a nap before the battle.
She opened her eyes a little to see that the man was staring out the carriage, his mind on other businesses that she would not dare to bother. The desert soon came and then that is where she fell asleep. Yet did she know that the adventure that she had waited for was yet to have a twist to it, a twist that will come inevitably. The man in the carriage knew, and decided to keep quiet about it a long time ago.
Joey stood outside the temple of Sweit. Tea and Tristan was with him. One of the pharaoh's servants had Seto with him. Slifer was floating in the sky, waiting for the final battle to happen. Ra was going to be set free once again. Suddenly, a golden carriage came down the road, with Mai waving at them! Joey was surprised, and then the pharaoh smiled for the first time.
Seto had his blank face on, and Mai knew something was wrong with him. After the pharaoh explained it to her what happened, every fell silent. Suddenly, a person in a black hood came and challenged the pharaoh for a shadow duel. A mysterious man, however, wanted to duel with the person in the black hood instead. And thus, a new battle began.
The person in the hood revealed himself as a thief of souls and the only desire is to hunt down all of the millennium golden items and then claim the world for his own, Yami Bakura he'll wager his millennium ring. The mysterious man, who is the protector of the millennium items, Shadi, would wager his millennium key.
The pharaoh decided to check out the duel before they went in, and then the darkness consumed the three of them. Joey and others waited outside, ready to wait for the shadow duel. They thought that yami Bakura must have been a duelist used to slow them down for something that Ra was planning. Whatever it was, they had to wait for the pharaoh and Shadi to be done with the duel. And then, the ball of darkness was in full effect. The shadow duel had begun...