The wind blew ever so softly. There were kids playing on a playground that was not too far. Although the children were having such a great time, their laughter couldn't block out the sound of the soft, gentle breeze blowing in the wind. Not too far from the playground, there was a table. Here is where two high school students played a children's card game. It seemed as though this silence had lasted for a long time between the two.

But in reality, it had only lasted a couple of minutes. The young blond student broke the silence.

"Ah man. How could I lose? I even had moi Red-Eyes out!"

"Yeah well that dragon of yours, " Lucas pointed to himself, "couldn't beat this Red-Eyes."

"Ah you got lucky." Joey began getting his card organized. "But next time, I'll be the one bragging 'bout it. "

"Yea well until then, " said Lucas raised a hand and offered a hand shake, "that was a good game. "

Joey seemed a bit surprised, but accepted Lucas's kind, respectful gesture. They shook hands in sign of respect for one another. For Lucas, Duel Monsters was a game of fun and suspense. Honestly though, it's just card game.

A couple of minutes after Joey had left, Lucas finally decided to take off his school jacket, folded the jacket neatly, takes out his favorite red vest, and puts it on. This was Lucas's signature look; a black, colored shirt(although most of the time, Lucas would wear a black dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up), tucked into his black dress pants, a black belt with a silver brace, black dress shoes, and a scarlet, red vest just to stand out. Lucas believed that black and red was a magnificent combination.

After he "Dressed-up", Lucas decided to walk away. He packed his school jacket, as well as his deck, into his school bag, and started off.

Lucas quickly turned and stared at a tree. For some reason, this tree was giving off some weird vibes for Lucas. His crimson, red eyes were focused straight at the tree, half expecting something to pop out. After a few minutes, the only thing that popped out was a cute little squirrel, scurrying off to another tree.

"I'm starting to lose it." Lucas said. It's funny. He could've swore he saw a figure standing out of the corner of his eye. Oh well. Lucas started to walk again.

As Lucas was walking away, a shadowy figure appeared from the tree: "Oh but you will lose it. Sooner or later."

...

*The Next Day*

Lucas was sitting in his usual seat. He was seated in the middle of the back row of the class. He had the option to sit in the farthest seat closest to the window, but quite frankly, it just seemed too weird. It felt a bit odd and just too cliche.

Class had just ended and Lucas was ready to go and try to duel the King of Card Games again.

"HEY RED!"

Unfortunately, Lucas's fantasy of dueling the Duel King had to wait for he was interrupted by a young student who barged into the class right when the bell rang. It's as though he was outside the classroom waiting for the class to end.

"I told you not to call me that, Jacob. People are still under the impression that I am a part of that one toy company because of that unoriginal nickname you've given me based off the colors of my eyes."

"Oh don't you talk smart with me," said the young man who wrapped his arm around Lucas's shoulder casually, "You love the nickname since your favorite color is red and all."

This young man's name is Jacob Den. Jacob was the same age as well as the same height as Lucas. He is also Lucas's best friend since pre-school. Jacob would also duel with Lucas occasionally, considering Lucas's mentor was too busy to duel him anymore.

"I may like the color red. But I don't enjoy being called the color."

"Whatever. So are you gonna go to that new game shop?"asked Jacob.

"New game shop?"

"Yea," Jacob continued, "This guy, who is said to be the same age as us, had just opened a game shop not that far from the school. It became really popular in the past few days. Let's go check it out and see what they got to offer."

Lucas was very curious in the idea of going to this new game shop. However, Lucas had his eyes set on dueling Yugi Mouto, so he had to decline. Looking at his expression, Jacob grinned and said: "Also I heard that the Champion of Duelist Kingdom was gonna go check the place out as well."

*ear twitches*

Hearing this, Lucas slammed the table and stood up in an instant. With his eyes shimmering, Lucas said, "Let's go look at this new card shop." Lucas quickly took off his school jacket and had put on his red vest, packed his jacket, and headed to the new shop. Oblivious to Lucas, Jacob didn't even know if Yugi Mouto was going to be at the new game shop. Yugi literally lives in a game shop, there really is no reason for him to even go to this other shop. Unless he was just as curious as our two young boys here, it would be quite ironic if that was the case.

...

Our two young characters had just arrived to the new gaming shop. This store could have easily been confused for an office building, if it weren't for the humongous jester figure on the front of the building that held up a sign: "Duke Devlin's Game World". Honestly, this Duke character could of at least come up with a different name for a card shop.

Both Lucas and Jacob had started to walk inside. As they headed towards the opened door entrances, they could see a huge crowd gathered around a wall filled with multiple mini televisions. Each television showed only a part of a figure and when all the television were turned on, these televisions would project an object to a maximum size. Curious as to what the crowd was there for, both Lucas and Jacob try to get by the crowd to get a good view of the screens.

Catching the boys in surprise, what appeared before them was the King of Games himself playing a game with, from what is being spread around through the gossip of the crowd, the owner of the game shop himself, Duke Devlin. The game was quite peculiar. It was a game that neither of the boys had ever seen before. There were holographic images of duel monster creatures that were spread throughout the field, the infamous Dark Magician was one of these creatures. The infamous violet wizard, with his magical, turquoise staff in his crossed arms, was standing on top of an odd-shaped platform. The camera then angled towards the players' perspectives. We could see that both players were holding dice. The dice weren't your average poker dice, these dice had odd symbols on each face. They also came in different colors: red, black, blue, yellow, white, etc. By the looks of it, these dice were used in order to play this odd game. Lucas and Jacob had never seen a game like it. Although, the game these two usually play is Duel Monsters so they are not too familiar with any other game, even if it's a game that is commonly played by many.

Lucas' red eyes had widened with excitement and shimmered a bright scarlet color. He couldn't believe that Jacob had actually told him the truth about Yugi Mouto having come to this card shop. Lucas was anxious. He couldn't wait for this odd game to end so that he can have an opportunity to duel against the King of Games himself. Honestly, why does he want to beat this guy in a card game. This game has way more meaning than it has to have.

"I really shouldn't have doubted you Jacob," said Lucas as his eyes were locked on the spiky haired character on the mini-screens.

"Told ya," replied Jacob with confidence. Although, he himself couldn't believe that the great King had shown up. Jacob had this uncanny ability to persuade people to go with a little white lie and still having to see positive outcomes, however, Jacob couldn't believe it himself how well this lie had led the two.

The game had just ended. Yugi had won the dice game remarkably. This game had many people on the edge of their seats, that's is if they were sitting. Lucas had also found it a bit humerus having seen Joey wearing a dog costume and had to cheer for Duke. Lucas wondered for a moment why would he do that, but shrugged off the thought and wanted to go challenge Yugi for a duel already. Lucas, he's just a person. Not worth the effort.

"Alright! I'm going for it!" Lucas had exclaimed as he started walking away form the crowd so that he could get the opportunity to challenge the King himself.

"Good Luck!" yelled Jacob, "And remember, he's the King of Games. So don't be surprised if he beats you on the first turn!"

"Oh Go to he-" Lucas had suddenly blacked out before he had a chance to finish his remark. Everything went black he couldn't see or hear anything. Lucas saw nothing but black for what seemed like hours. That was until he started seeing this huge eye beaming with a golden light. This eye had resembled the eye that is shown on the card, Millennium Shield. (For those who are not familiar with the card, Millennium Shield is a red shield that is bordered in gold and had an eye that seemed a bit Egyptian like). In that instant, Lucas began to hear voices. These voices were too quick to catch on but from what is being said, Lucas understood: "...spirits shall lead...", "Spirit, attack Jackal and..", " ... Of light shall consume every...", , "...discard the top five...", "... summon Visor Kni...", "... Now I contac...", "...agic attack...".

Lucas was confused. He held his head as more and more voices ran through his thoughts. The Egyptian eye revealed itself again flashing brighter than before.

"AHHHH!"

...

Lucas woke up to the bright light that shimmered from the ceiling of the shop. Lucas saw a few people gathered around him, watching in concern. One closest to Lucas was Jacob, who showed a bit of worry in his eyes.

"Hey man," said Jacob, "are you alright? You passed out all of a sudden. You also hit the floor pretty hard. I was just about to call an ambulance."

"Just about?" Asked Lucas confusingly, he held his own head, "You're just now calling an ambulance? Why didn't you call before?"

Jacob was looking at Lucas with a puzzled face. For what have seemed to be a couple of episodes or possibly seasons for Lucas, well..

"I mean you didn't really pass out for too long," hearing this had shocked Lucas and became more attentive to Jacob's words, " You were out for a good 3 or 4 minutes. It was a bit less than that actually"

Lucas was staring at Jacob with his eyes wide open. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. As Lucas was about to speak, the owner of the shop, Duke Devlin, appeared out of the crowd.

"Is everything alright over here?" asked Duke.

"Duke Devlin," exclaimed Jacob. "well-"

"Everything is fine Mr. Devlin," Lucas interrupted Jacob, "I just got a bit light headed." Jacob looked at Lucas in confusion.

"Alright, well, is there anything I could offer you? Maybe a help you out to a cab or-"

"No I am quite alright Devlin sir." Lucas stated to get back on his legs, Jacob was looking at Lucas with concern.

"Alright then," Duke exclaimed, "Also, please call me Duke. Now if there isn't anything else, I'll be going."

"Wait Mr. Dev- I mean Duke," said Lucas abruptly. The crowd began to fade away now. "I was wondering, you wouldn't happen to know where Yugi Mouto is do you?"

"Yugi?" asked Duke confusingly. "I haven't seen him today."

Both looked at Duke with shocked expressions. Was he not just playing a game with him a few moments ago? Not like I care or anything...

"But weren't you and him playing that strange dice game that was just being shown on the mini-screens upfront?" asked Jacob.

"Dungeon Dice monsters you mean?" Duke responded to Jacob's question with confidence. "That 'strange dice game', that you referred to, is a game I personally designed, created, and had it approved by the infamous Maximillion Pegasus himself." Duke closed his eyes, held his chin with his fingers in a pinching manner, and held the same arm with his other arm as to show his confidence. "A game where lady luck decides what monsters we use, how strong they are, and whether we become victorious in our battle. A game where everything is decided on the roll of a die. Its a whole new game with a whole new set of rules. What you two just saw was the first official match of my incredible creation between me and my friend Yugi. The game was recorded a couple of days ago though, so you won't have any luck seeing Yugi now."

"Jacob..." Lucas muttered under his breath. Although it was barely audible, Jacob was still able to feel a shiver down his spine and notices that Lucas was somehow emitting an aura of anger. "I told you I heard from someone that he was gonna be here. I didn't say when. hehehe..." Jacob was shaking quite a bit.

"Well hey. Since you two are here," Duke intervenes, "How bout you guys try out Dungeon Dice Monsters and be a part of the second official match of my incredible game?" Lucas took his gaze away from Jacob and listened to Duke's proposal. "But we don't know how to play." Lucas exclaimed, Jacob was a bit relieved that Lucas wasn't glaring at him anymore, but was also curious about Dungeon Dice.

"Don't worry," Duke assured the two, "I will teach you guys the rules as you two play the game."

Lucas' eyes shimmered a bit, the scarlet in his eyes radiated at the thought, "Dungeon Dice huh?"