Chapter 1

It was almost sunset as Yugi and Yami sat on the rooftop of the Domino high school building. Yugi looked out across the wreckage of their once beautiful city whilst his friend had dozed off beside him. It had been some months since the destruction had happened but Yugi remembered it like it was only yesterday.

It was just like any other normal day. He had woken up, gone to school, met the gang, watched another of the countless arguments between Kaiba and Joey, and then just before lunch something strange happened. The millennium puzzle began to glow more brightly then it had ever done before, and without warning, thousands of duel monsters were released from within, along with Yami who found himself in a body of his own.

The monsters roamed through the streets with many of them destroying everything that they came in to contact with, buildings, vehicles, and living life. More monsters continued to appear as they escaped from the cards where their images had once been. Even as the students were gathering to be lead to safety many of them had witnessed the monsters leave, including Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragons as they burst out of his metal briefcase and immediately took flight up into the clouds.

After a couple of hours of being locked unwillingly in the school's basement the students managed to overpower and even convince some of the teachers to let them search for loved ones, but as they returned outside they found most of the city destroyed and without power.

When Yugi had reached his grandfather's Game shop he had found it in ruins with both his mother and grandfather dead, leaving him devastated with shock. Joey had been met with the same scene when he returned home to his father, but unlike Yugi his father's death didn't affect him at all, he was just glad that his sister had previously returned back home to their mother. Tea and Tristan hadn't found any signs of their families at all and still hadn't found them, but their hope of finding them alive and well slowly disappears after each day that passes. Kaiba had rushed to Mokuba's school fearing the worst, but as he caught sight of his brother he embraced him so tightly that Mokuba had to beg him to let go to stop the painful squeezing. Bakura remained unaffected by the event since he had no-one close to lose, but along with Yami, he was there to give support to his friends to try and help them deal with their loses.

At the time Pegasus had been in the city arranging a new deal with Duke over the Dungeon Dice Monsters game. The two had witnessed much of the destruction of the city and had been first on the scene to help some of the casualties when their discussion had been cut short by the chaos. Many of those they had helped would have surely died if it wasn't for their quick response to the situation, because if their conditions had become worse then they would not have been able to rely on the medical care support as there was absolutely no power supplies left in the city.

Taken by surprise at the outbreak, the surviving residents of the city all took shelter in the high school building as the deep basements there would shield them from any further attacks made by the monsters. Since Pegasus had created the game and knew more about the monsters than anyone else, he had been chosen by the people to guide and lead them through the situation. He had also called upon Kaiba and Duke to help him as they too had a wide range of knowledge about duel monsters, and when they weren't with him trying to figure out an answer to the problem they lead a selected group of people chosen to keep order amongst the others who sheltered at the school. Both Yugi and Yami had also been asked to offer their knowledge too, but Yugi was still in a state of shock and not thinking straight enough to be of any help, and Yami had vowed to spend all of his time looking over his friend to make sure that he was okay.

The sky was now orange as the sun slowly dropped from the sky. Yami woke from his light sleep to see Yugi with a look of terror on his face and shaking uncontrollably. "Yugi?" he asked as he approached him. "Yugi what's wrong?"

Yugi continued to shake. "The city. It's flooded with blood." He began to step away from Yami and closer towards the door leading back down into the building.

Yami looked out across the city and saw that the streets had become slightly red from the light of the sunset, and guessed that it was this which had startled his friend. "It's okay Yugi. It's just a trick of the light, there is no blood." he assured him as he placed both hands on Yugi's shoulders to stop him from shaking.

"No." Yugi shook his head and tears began to form in his eyes. "We have to leave this place. We're not safe here." He broke free from Yami's hold and began to descend down the stairs with Yami following as fast as he could behind him.

When Yugi reached the bottom he saw groups of people gathered together as they talked to one another. He began to shout as he tried to catch all of their attentions. "We all have to leave now! We're not safe here! There is a terrible danger coming!"

The people began to mutter. Some were saying about how Yugi was insane, others were wondering just what the danger could be. A well built man grabbed Yugi by his jacket collar and dragged him to one side. "What do you think you are doing?" he snarled.

"Let him be." Yami told the man as he caught up with his friend at last.

"Pegasus told me to keep the people calm and peaceful." The man glared at Yami as he spoke. "This runt is trying to panic them in to believing that they are in danger." He raised Yugi off the ground with the grip he had on his jacket and shook him.

"Looks to me like you're just bullying someone weaker than yourself." Yami grabbed the man's arms to stop him from shaking his friend, but still he had hold of Yugi, and Yami was nowhere near strong enough to force the man to release his grip. "I'll see to him. He's not been himself since he lost his family, and he doesn't deserve to be treated like this."

Giving in to Yami's harsh stare, the man let go of Yugi. "See to it that he doesn't cause trouble again."

After guiding Yugi to one side away from everyone else Yami spoke to his friend again. "I know that coping with losing your mother and grandpa hasn't been easy for you, but you have to stop acting like this." Yugi stared back at him with sadness in his eyes, which made Yami feel slightly uneasy with what he was about to say. "You're being silly about this whole thing."

"You don't believe me?" Yugi asked in disbelief and close to breaking out into tears.

Slowly Yami shook his head. "There's only so much that I can do to help you back to the way you were. You have to want to help yourself too, and playing along with this charade of yours won't help you." he watched as Yugi began to cry.

"After all we've been through together, and you won't believe me when I tell you that we're all in danger." Yugi stared straight into Yami's eyes. "I'm not making this up. If we stay here, we will die."

Yami felt himself weaken from Yugi's stare and sighed. "Okay, we'll go and speak to Pegasus about this and see what he says."

Together they walked to the room which Pegasus had claimed as his office in the school building and saw Kaiba sat outside its door reading through some papers that he had made notes about possible solutions to the situation that they were in. "What do you two want?" he asked not looking up from his papers.

"We want to see Pegasus." Yami simply said.

"Why?" Kaiba lazily asked, still not looking at them as he turned his pages.

"Please Kaiba." Yugi spoke quietly. "It's important, and I don't wish to explain it more times than what I have too."

Kaiba raised his head and saw that Yugi was shaking with fear as he stood beside Yami, and wondered just what it could be that had him so scared.

The door to Pegasus' office opened and Duke stepped out, closing the door behind him. "What brings you two here?" he asked in surprise. "If you've come to see Pegasus, then you're out of luck. He's busy for the rest of the evening."

"I'm handling this." Kaiba growled. "Why don't you go and start your patrol duty like the good little lapdog that you are." he waited for Duke's reaction.

Instead of the scornful stare that he usually gave after comments like this, Duke just laughed to himself and an amused smile crept on to his face. "Don't forget that you're his lapdog too." he said before he turned and walked away.

Kaiba glared after him as he left, knowing that Duke had only acted like that since there were others around in an attempt to anger him with the remark. And it had. He hated having to do as Pegasus ordered, but if it meant that he could keep Mokuba safe from the free roaming monsters then he was willing to put up with it. He stood up and reached for the door handle. "Follow me." he ordered as he opened the door to Pegasus' office and entered.

Pegasus was seated behind a large desk with papers sprawled out all over it, and maps marked with the worst hit areas of the city and other information pinned on to the walls around the room. "Kaiba-boy!" he smiled. "This is a surprise to see you again today. Whatever do you want, to interrupt my busy work?"

"It's not what I want." Kaiba said un-amused as always in Pegasus' presence. He stepped to one side revealing Yami and Yugi who were hidden from view behind his huge flowing white coat. "It's what they want. They have requested to see you about important matters."

"Ah, the Pharaoh and dear sweet Yugi-boy!" Pegasus spread his arms wide to the side as a welcoming gesture upon seeing the two. He looked back to Kaiba. "Leave." He ordered.

Kaiba left the office and returned to reading his notes. He was still curious as to what it was that Yugi had wanted to tell Pegasus that was so important, but knew that he would find out sooner or later.

"So just what is it that you have to tell me?" Pegasus asked intrigued as he rest back comfortably in to his chair.

Yugi received a nod from Yami that indicated to him to tell Pegasus everything. "We're in danger and have to leave now!" he blurted out. "I just have a feeling that we must do this, if we don't then we'll all die!"

"We?" laughed Pegasus. "Are you referring to yourselves with that term?"

"No." Yugi shook his head. "I mean everybody here in this building, and anybody else who may still be in the city."

There was silence for a moment. "I see." said Pegasus as he turned around in his chair so that his back was now facing them. He had no interest in what they had to say. "And just where should we all go to?"

"I don't know." Yugi confessed. "Anywhere just as long as it's away from here."

"And just how do you expect to move such a large number of people across a distance that hasn't yet been decided, and which would also make them more vulnerable to attacks from more monsters along the way." he asked yawning.

"I don't know." Yugi said again. "But ………." he stopped as he felt Yami's hand rest on his shoulder.

Seeing his friend look to him for help, Yami simply shook his head. It had been cruel of him to let Yugi humiliate himself like this, but he hoped that now he understood just how ridiculous he sounded.

"Fine!" Yugi snapped with tears built up in his eyes. "I tried to warn you both, but neither of you will listen. When everybody dies from the approaching danger, at least I'll know that I did everything that I could to help them!" He stared at Yami. "Their deaths will lie with the pair of you." and then he turned and left the room.

"Oh what nonsense!" Pegasus laughed as he turned back round to see only Yami standing there as he thought about the way that his friend was behaving. "And you actually believe him about this?"

"At first I didn't." Yami spoke to the space in front of him where Yugi had stood just a few moments ago. He raised his head and stared at Pegasus. "But now I do as he seems so sure and concerned about this."

"We both know that Yugi-boy hasn't been in the right state of mind for some time now." Pegasus leaned forward across the desk as he spoke. "Do you honestly trust his judgement over mine about what's best for these people?"

"Do I really need to answer that?" Yami said as he began to head towards the door that was still open from Yugi's exit. He left the room and angrily slammed the door behind him as he watched Yugi who was almost at the end of the corridor.

Kaiba still sat staring down towards his notes. "You should never slam a door."

"Pardon?" Yami asked confused as he stared at Kaiba.

"You never know when you might want to go back." Kaiba put down his papers and turned to Yami with a smile on his face. "But I guess that's one piece of advice that neither of us follows."

Yami flashed a quick smile back to Kaiba before he ran after Yugi. "Wait!"