Yugi and Tea had taken refuge inside the Domino History Museum, the only place (they hoped) that the Duel Monsters mob would not look for them in.

"Good idea, Tea, nobody would dare look for us here," Yugi said.

"You mean you here, because right now you're at the center of the Duel Monsters world." Yugi blushed which made Tea chuckle. The two stopped and looked at a placard that depicted an Ancient Egyptian exhibit.

Yugi gasped. He saw a picture of a blue pyramid with a brass eye and pink bead at the center. "Tea, look that blue pyramid thing looks like my Millennium Puzzle!"

"Yeah, it does," Tea agreed. "Let's go take a look." As the two walked through the museum, they came upon a large sarcophagus.

It was open.

Inside was a mummy. It didn't look special; its body was bandaged as all mummies were. The lower part of its face was set in a muted scream. Its arms were crossed. Resting near the heart (or where the heart would be) was a dagger with a crooked blade made of bone.

Yugi read the title card on the display case. "The Tomb of Anubis, that's weird. Anubis was the Egyptian God of the Underworld. Could this actually be him?" Yugi stared at the mummy. "If it is, it would be one heck of a find. Whoever discovered it must be really, really excited to discover the actual body of a god."

"Well I'm going to be really, really sick if we don't move it."

"Okay, Tea, I get the point, you're not a mummy fan." Tea shoved Yugi along unaware that the eye sockets were glowing red.

When the two arrived at the display case that displayed the blue pyramid, they found that they weren't the only ones there.

"It's my Grandfather!"

"Well looks like great minds think alike," Solomon quipped.

"So you came to see the blue pyramid too?"

"Yup."

Tea read the display card. "This says it's called the Pyramid of Light. Long ago in the Old Kingdom, it belonged to an evil sorcerer tried to bring about the end of the world. He was eventually defeated by a Pharaoh, a Pharaoh who possessed the power of shadows and a pendant that could call on the gods."

"Power of shadows… pendant that could call on the gods… that sounds like my Millennium Puzzle!"

"Yes, but when Professor Hawkins and I discovered the Egyptian Archives, it gave no mention of an eighth item."

"But how was he beaten?" Yugi asked.

"I'll show you." Solomon took the kids to Anubis's coffin. "See that knife in with the body?"

"I wish I didn't," Tea grumbled. "I think I'm about to blow chunks."

"It's called the Dagger of Fate," Solomon explained. "This is most likely the murder weapon. And according to legend, it had only one owner: a Pharaoh wearing a pyramid-shaped artifact, a Pharaoh whose name has been lost throughout history."

"An unknown Pharaoh and a pyramid-shaped artifact…" Yugi held up his Millennium Puzzle. "It's all too much of a coincidence."

"I agree," Solomon said. "I think that this sorcerer who had taken the name of one of the Egyptian Gods has something to do with the Millennium Items and the Shadow Games. But it's strange. In all my years of Egyptology I have never seen or heard of anything like it before. And neither Professor Hawkins nor Dr. Hunter had mentioned anything about it."

"Well someone must know about it," Yugi said. "Otherwise how else would it end up here?"

Pegasus knocked on the door of the small Cairo apartment. After a few minutes, the door opened and a woman answered the door. Her face was rugged, her dark hair was unkempt and her face seemed to be permanently set in a scowl.

"Doctor Sumi Hikari?" Pegasus asked.

"Who wants to…" She gasped as she looked closer at Pegasus. "You're Maxamillion Pegasus, the creator of the Duel Monsters Card Game."

"That's correct but right now it's your work I'm interested in talking about."

"What do you mean?"

"I want to talk about… the Pyramid of Light."

That caused a surprised reaction from the woman. "Please, come in." Her apartment looked more like an old book store then living quarters. Sumi cleared some books on the Crusades off a couch so Pegasus could have a seat.

"Dr. Hikari, I know you were the one who found the Pyramid of Light and the Tomb of Anubis."

Sumi scowled, "No, I was not the only one who found it but I was the only one to emerge alive after it was found."

"What do you mean?"

"There were two others with me, Professor Bartholomew and Sanford, his assistant."

"But then how…?"

Sumi stood by the single dirty window in her apartment as the memories came flooding back to her.

I was only 19, still a kid in the grand scheme of things. I always loved studying the past and majored in archaeology at college. One day I received my dream job, interning on a real archaeological dig. Professor Bartholomew, the head of the archaeology department at the college, had discovered a strange tomb far away from the Valley of the Kings. A team was assembled but only the Professor, Sanford, and me, entered.

The hieroglyphs on the wall told of a great battle. A Pharaoh with a pendant that could control the gods and a dagger forged from human bones fought a man with great power. Though the world was saved by the Pharaoh and his army, it was a bitter victory for the Pharaoh had given his own life to defeat the evil man. The survivors of the Great War entombed the man in a casket designed in the likeness of the god Anubis. For that reason alone, it is called the Lost Tomb of Anubis.

"That still doesn't explain the Pyramid of Light."

"The Pyramid…" Sumi let out a harsh laugh. "If I hadn't discovered that blasted thing, Professor Bartholomew and Sanford might still be alive today."

I was the one who discovered the Pyramid of Light in a side chamber. Why it wasn't included with the body is beyond me. Suddenly the tomb started to come down around us. We were trapped with little air. But that wasn't our real problem. The Pyramid started to glow. It released some kind of light.

"Look, hieroglyphics." Yugi pointed to some scriptures that were written on the side of the sarcophagus. "What does it say, Grandpa?"

"Well let's see, it's been a while since I read Egyptian but… 'The eye that sees what's yet to come, its vision shall be fulfilled. Unless blinded by events of providence, thus light and shadows both be killed.'"

In the next room, the Pyramid of Light started to glow.

"When I awoke, they had managed to dig me out but they couldn't find Professor Bartholomew or Sanford. Nobody believed me about the Pyramid and the only two people who could vouch for my story were gone." She stared down Pegasus with a determined glance. "Now, Mister Pegasus, it's my turn to ask a question. Why are you interested in the Pyramid of Light? It is on display at the Natural History Museum in Domino, they own it now."

"I was afraid of that," Pegasus muttered. He reached into his jacket inside pocket and took out a folded-up picture. He handed it to her. Sumi unfolded it and took a look at the picture, then at Pegasus, then back to the picture, then back to Pegasus. "Dr. Hikari, every Duel Monster card that's ever made has to go through me before being put into production. And I don't remember this card being put into production."

"I see, but the only place that would truly have the answers you seek is at the actual tomb and that's buried under rubble."

"Then I'll have to just start digging until I get to it." He got up. "Dr. Hikari, thank you, you've been a big help."

"You're planning on going to the tomb, aren't you?"

"I am."

"Please, take me with you." Pegasus looked at her out of the corner of his good eye. "Ever since I was pulled from that rubble, people have been treating me like a crazy person. They said that the near-death experience and the death of Professor Bartholomew and Sanford had blinded me to reality. I'm starting to believe that they were right but the only way to put my mind at ease is to revisit the place where it all began. Please, take me along, for my own peace of mind if nothing else."

"Very well, follow me my helicopter's waiting outside."

He was in space. How was he in space? How was he standing and breathing? He heard deep chanting. He looked up and saw two pyramids. One was blue and right side up and the other was yellow and upside down. Slowly the yellow pyramid started to break down. A flash of light and he saw himself facing Seto Kaiba… no it wasn't him, it was the Pharaoh. Suddenly Kaiba's body bulged and exploded producing a large jackal-headed creature. The chanting got louder and louder and suddenly Yugi could understand it.

"From the light comes the dark!"

Tea was the first to awaken. "Anyone get the license on that tank?" She felt the back of her head and felt a small knot. She looked at her fingers until her vision came into focus. She then heard the alarm. "Where's…" She looked around and saw Yugi and Solomon lying on the floor besides her. "Yugi!" She gently shook him. "Yugi, are you okay?"

Yugi moaned and opened his eyes.

"Yugi, are you okay?" Tea asked again

"Just one question: who's Yugi?"

"You'll be fine," Tea said and helped Yugi up. "We have a problem."

"What kind of a problem?"

"That kind." She pointed to the display case that housed the mummy. But the mummy was gone. Alarms were blaring. "What happened to King Tut's freaky cousin?"

Security guards ran in. Two helped Yugi and Tea up while two more checked out the scene. "Oh great, the mummy's gone," one guard moaned.

"That's not the only thing," another said. "The Pyramid thing is gone too." Solomon was given some smelling salts to wake up.

"You two stay here," Yugi instructed. "I have a feeling Kaiba's in danger."

"Huh, why?"

"It's too complicated to explain. But I have to warn him." He paused and turned back. "Keep an eye on Grandpa, Tea." And without any other words, Yugi took off.

"What hit me?" Solomon asked.

"Probably whoever took the mummy."

Solomon looked at the display case. "No, this is impossible."

"What's wrong?"

"Look at the glass, Tea. Now I'm no detective but if someone did want to steal the mummy then breaking the glass would've caused shards to fall into the case. But instead the shards are outside the case, not a sliver on the inside."

"So?"

"Tea… the only way the glass could end up all on the floor is if the case was broken from the inside. Someone didn't steal the mummy, I think the mummy busted itself out."

"That's impossible!"

"Maybe not. There were more scripture on the side of the sarcophagus."

Pegasus's helicopter hovered over a desolate region of Egypt. Near a cliff was a hole that looked like a tear in the ground. Pegasus and Sumi went up to it.

"Is this it?" Pegasus asked.

"Yes, I'll never forget that shape. It's like descending into hell."

Pegasus tied a rope around a protruding rock and threw the other end down. The two lowered themselves. Fifty feet down, they reached the hallway.

"This is the hallway that we took to reach the burial chamber," Sumi explained.

"Strange, I would've thought the whole place would be caved in but everything here seems fine."

"I see," Sumi said solemnly. "They lied to me. They told me the place caved in so I wouldn't go back for the Professor and Sanford."

The two climbed through the small hole and into the burial chamber which was now empty.

"We found the sarcophagus here."

Pegasus looked around and spotted the hieroglyphs on the far wall. "Sumi, is that where the story about the Pharaoh was found."

"Yes," Sumi confirmed. "Professor Bartholomew was able to translate the story before the place started to cave in. Pegasus shined his flashlight over at one particular picture. The picture was of a human, dressed in fine robes.

"This must've been the Pharaoh who defeated whatever was entombed in here." He then gasped as he saw the familiar upside-down pyramid around the Pharaoh's neck. "It can't be, it's the Millennium Puzzle!"

"The what?" Sumi asked.

"Yes, there's no doubt about it. And someone with such hostility… Kaiba would be a perfect vessel."

Sumi went over to the side room. "We discovered the Pyramid of Light in…" She screamed and dropped her own flashlight.

"What is it?" Pegasus shined his flashlight into the room.

Two skeletons lay up against a pedestal. Sumi dropped to her knees, "Professor… Sanford…"

Ignoring the horrible site, Pegasus scanned the far wall. He knew a bit about hieroglyphs so he could somewhat read them. "It's some sort of warning."

"It was some sort of warning," Solomon told Tea. "It warned that a dark spirit dwelled within the sarcophagus, a dark spirit that is connected with the Pyramid of Light."

"You mean the Pyramid of Light is like Yugi's Millennium Puzzle in that it has a spirit inside it?"

"I'm not sure. But there was something I found at the Egyptian Archives that I discovered along with Dr. Hunter and his team."

"This icon means… betrayal. So this man betrayed the Pharaoh to become a god. Must be why he took the name Anubis but it still doesn't explain…" Sumi's loud scream brought Pegasus out of his pondering. He turned and saw that the skeletons have risen up of their own accord and was now approaching her. "Sumi!" Pegasus ran in between her and the skeletons. "Stay away!" He commanded even though he knew they wouldn't listen to him. This isn't good, I don't have anything I can use as a weapon. If I had my Millennium Eye, I could unleash the powers of the Shadow Realm but I don't and I can't.

Just as the skeleton that was once Sanford was about to strike Pegasus with its bony fingers, an off-white piece of cloth crossed Pegasus's field of vision. Next thing he knew, he and Dr. Hikari were on the other side of the room. He looked and saw a dark-skinned man in a white cloak and turban wearing a necklace that was shaped like an ankh.

"Shadi!" Pegasus gasped.

Shadi removed his necklace. "Through the magic of the Millennium Key, I release the powers of the Shadow Realm! Relinquish the magic which moves these creatures!" Dark lightning tendrils emitted from the necklace. Yellow light came from inside the skeletons. "Penalty Game: Shadow Consumption!" The black tendrils wrapped themselves around the yellow orbs. The orbs got smaller and smaller until they blinked out of existence. The skeletons collapsed again. Shadi then turned to Pegasus. "Something is disturbing the balance of good and evil and tracking it has brought me here. It is good to see you, Pegasus, even if it is without your Millennium Eye. But I'm afraid this is no time for reunion. You must get to Domino immediately."

"I know, but I can't until I find out the truth about what's going on. I have a feeling the answer lies literally on these walls."

"Then I will translate them for you to save time." The two men then saw Sumi staring at the skeletons of what were once her friends. Shadi placed a hand on her shoulder. "It was not them, evil magic was manipulating the skeletons like puppets. Their spirits have gone on to their resting place. And their bodies will protect the tomb forever."

"You are probably right," Sumi said. "But that doesn't make it any easier."

Yugi ran out the museum just as a town car pull up. "Yugi!" It was Mokuba. "I've been looking for you."

"You have?"

"Yes, my brother sent me to find you and he told me to tell you that it's real important that you bring your Duel Disk and deck right away."

"So he's all right?"

"I wouldn't say he's all right."