Prologue
Darkness looms
Long ago, at the duel academy island, before the principal discovered the three mythic demon cards...
An expedition to excavate the ancient ruins on the island is in progress, among the participants, a couple of archeologists. They explore those very same ruins. The man carries a torch and analyses the underground cave.
The woman carries a baby with light blue hair. She smiles at the sight of the sleeping child, but soon that smile vanishes into thin air when they hear a sound. The engravings on the underground wall shine, a bright and obfuscating light consumes all of them, the couple disappears not leaving a single trace of their presence behind. The engravings slowly become dark and deactivated again.
The man opens his eyes with a startle, he hears the strong wind carrying sand everywhere. He is in the middle of an open construction that has only a ceiling, pillars and the stone ground. The horizon is pure sand. His wife wakes up with the cries of their baby.
Soon, some men in strange outfits appear all around, they have Egyptian clothes and their faces are all covered. The husband puts a hand in front of his family, cautiously watching the movement of the men. Unfortunately, the fight started before he noticed.
With scythes and lances, they attack him, he is wounded and shouts at the wife to run, she tries to escape, but fails, falling to the ground. She is also wounded mortally by the weapons, but in a last desperate attempt of saving at least the child, she musters strength and distracting the guards with her lantern, she runs.
Behind one of the pillars, there is a hole, she looks at the baby peacefully sleeping on her arms and hides it there, putting bricks around it. With tears falling from eyes, she sits in front of it, keeping the sand away and keeping it warm, her breath expires after a moment.
All the men scout the area in all directions to find her. Two of them come across her corpse. With a lance, one of them pokes the woman, and her body falls to the ground with the thud. They hear the crying of a child. Looking at each other, they inspect the hole, finding the baby inside.
One of them drops the lance aside, and pulling away the badly placed bricks, he sees the baby, taking it out. Upon the warmth of a stranger, the crying of the baby ceases, unknown to them those very same hands harmed their beloved parents.
Mesmerized by the tiny child on his hands, he stares in awe for a moment, in a second, he comes back to reality when the lance of the companion points at the face of the child that starts crying once more.
With a frown, he glares at the other man, pushing the lance aside, and holding the small child with only one hand, he picks his own lance with the other, in defiance. His companion is flabbergasted, but seeing the determined look of his friend, he lowers his weapon.
His expression soothes, even more when he looks at the baby that fondles comfily on his arm. They hear menacing footsteps approaching, the two men exchange a worried glance. His friend places a hand on his shoulder and nods.
He looks at the baby in his arms and nodding back to the friend with confidence, he runs away, leaving that place behind. His friend watches as he disappears on the sands of the desert and stares at the other colleagues that appear soon after.
What happened with them is unknown, but 15 years later, the cogs of destiny will move for a bigger change, in the duel academy, where everything starts...
