The three stepped out of the elevator and into the lobby. Lucas was giving off a proud/arrogant expression due to the fact he won a Dungeon Dice match. Jacob, however, was a being a bit moody about the outcome of the match.

"I can't believe I couldn't summon a single monster after that," exclaimed Jacob.

"Well what did you expect," Duke mentioned, trying to be a smart aleck, "You had three different levels of summoning crests. There was no way you could summoned anything".

"But still, being able to roll three different levels of Summon Crests twice," Lucas snickered and mocked. He wanted to enjoy this victory due to the silliness of it.

"Shut it you," Jacob snapped at the two. Both Lucas and Duke held their hands up as a sign of "we're joking" and laughed for a bit. Once they finished, Lucas and Jacob faced Duke, thanked him for the match, and left the shop.

"Dungeon Dice," said Jacob, "I'd be surprised if the game became more popular than Duel Monsters." Lucas glared at Jacob, his crimson, red eyes seemed s though he was swearing to Jacob. Lucas loved Duel Monsters. To him, Duel Monsters was an amazing game and could never be replaced. Why the fuss over such childish games? I don't know. Lucas should put more of this passion towards his studies and should try to focus on what kind of career he should have in order to have a bright future. But that's just me, right?.

"So," Jacob asked Lucas as they strolled through a park, "What are you gonna do about Yugi?"

"Well, my best shot at dueling him at this point is to enter a tournament which would be held in Domino City," Lucas told Jacob, "I might as well be patient and hope one will come up soon".

"A Domino City Duel Monsters tournament," muttered Jacob to himself, "The odds of that happening are pretty slim. Do you really think you can wait that long, Red?"

"Maybe," Lucas responded, "But if I tried looking for him, I can guarantee some sort of mediocre stunt or event will occur and will cost me my shot at dueling him". The two decided to sit on a bench for a while. There was a fresh, spring breeze blowing today and both Lucas and Jacob thought it'd be nice to take a moment to take it all in and relax. They continued their conversation of how Lucas could have had a shot at dueling Yugi, but he dueled the runner up of Duelist Kingdom. As the two talked for a while, Lucas's eyes drifted. Lucas thought he was going crazy. He started to see an aura emitting from not just Jacob, but from every person that surrounded the two. What was different this time, Lucas noticed how each person's aura was radiating a different amount. He could tell that the difference of aura between each person was small, but it was different none the less. Lucas looked at Jacob, which for some odd reason, emitted an even stronger aura compared to every other person in the park. Jacob's aura seemed as though it was tamed, it's as if the aura itself could become greater if it wanted to. Sounds were being blocked out of Lucas's mind. He couldn't hear a thing. Lucas thought he might black out again, until he noticed an aura that was emitting the same amount of energy as Jacob's. This aura seemed to be more sensitive, if not, calmer than Jacob's. Lucas looked toward the source of the calmed aura and was met with the eyes of a young girl. This girl had long, brown hair, she had a part of her hair(her bangs I'd assume) held up by two pink hair clips, she wore a long-sleeved, white dress shirt and a black dress vest over, the black vest had a white border that followed the outline of the vest. The girl also had a long, red tie tucked underneath her vest, the red of her tie matched the red long skirt the girl wore. The girl also wore a pair of small spectacles that lay on the basis or her nose. She had brown eyes that shimmered just as bright as Lucas's red eyes.

At this moment, Lucas' eyes met the girl's and for just a moment, everything around stopped. Lucas no longer saw any aura emitting from anywhere, but instead, saw the light brown, almost hazel like color from the girl's eyes. The young girl's eyes widened and then blinked. Lucas's eyes also blinked and they were then back to their normal timel. Lucas finally caught sight of Jacob, who's been trying to grab his attention for a good 5 minutes.

"Hey Red! You in there?"

"Huh, what?" Lucas regained his focus.

"Are you alright man?" Jacob asked with concern in his eyes, "You've been spacing out a lot lately. Should we get you home?"

"No no, Den, I'm fine," Lucas assured, "It's just that-". As Lucas was about to finish his sentence, the girl had just walked past them. Lucas's eyes met with the girl's again, but was quickly to lose track of it.

"Oooh," Jacob said, "Red you sly dog, you". Jacob gave Lucas the look that said "You little rascal", as if Lucas would ever put a girl over his studies. I would never allow this!

"Wait, what?" Jacob began laughing, so did Lucas who was trying to punch Jacob so that he would stop teasing him.

...

The following day, Lucas was walking to school. He was walking a bit faster than usual, due to him waking up a bit late. He does not need to worry; if he keeps up the pace he is currently going at, he should be able to make it to school on time. However, being a bit late to school was the least of his worries.

Ever since yesterday, when Lucas blacked out at Duke Devlin's Gaming World, he has been seeing these strange auras emitting from people, left and right. And just like yesterday, many were hard to see, while some were emitting huge amounts of it; whatever it was. As Lucas continued his way to school, he saw a young girl who was running towards his direction. This girl had brown hair that reached down to the base of her neck, blue eyes that seemed to be filled with concern, she wore a pink uniform jacket, blue tie, white dress shirt underneath, and a blue skirt. This uniform was identical to that of the female uniform worn at the same school both Yugi Moto and Joey Wheeler attended she ran past Lucas and turned the corner. Lucas recognised the direction she was heading.

"I guess she's late to school," Lucas said to himself. But why do I have the feeling that I've seen her somewhere before?

Lucas decided to brush it off and continued his way to school.

…

Lucas rushed to his locker realising that he was almost 15 minutes late to his class.

"I can't believe I'm late," said Lucas. "Mr. Mook is definitely gonna let me have it today if I don't hurry. To be honest, I sometimes feel like he doesn't like me. Well it's probably because I make him embarrass himself in front of the class because of how often I corrected the guy. You'd think that he got his job as a teacher because he already knew the mater-"

Lucas paused when he noticed a heavy smoke that arose far off in the distance. Lucas froze when he saw the smoke. Fire Trucks could be heard from the distance. The scarlet in Lucas's eyes were dead focused on the smoke. Lucas saw an immense shadow emerging from the smoke. The dark energy seemed so powerful to Lucas, it could have covered the world in darkness. The dark aura seemed to not have been at its fullest potential. It seemed as though it was a fragment of what it could be.

THE TIME IS NEAR. I NEED YOU.

Lucas retained his focus and looked around hastly. He could have sworn he heard someone talking to him. He then started off to close, noticing that the smoke he saw earlier was diminished.

…

As metal crates were being lifted onto a cargo plane, a woman in beige-ish white clothing was pondering on what she'd like to when she'd arrive to Domino City. This young lady was in charge of an ancient Egyptian exhibit that is to see the world for the first time. This exhibit consisted of many rare and ancient artifacts which went as far back as 3000 years. As this "Curator" of sorts was pressing against an odd necklace she wore around her neck, one of the security guards who assigned to escort her, came up to the lady.

"We are about ready to departure Ms. Ishtar".

"Thank you very much," the lovely Ms. Ishtar responded, "Once the exhibit is set up, I must go see someone".

"As you wish my lady," the security guard responded firmly, "But may I ask, how long will this take us? You also wanted us to be sure that everything was set up as orderly and precise as possible for when you invited your special guest, Mr. Kaiba".

"Don't you worry about that," Ms. Ishtar turned to face her guard. As she turned, the odd necklace which had a weird eye in the center shined with a small sparkle of light, "I am certain this will not take too long".

…

Lucas was not paying attention in class. He was too busy thinking about what it was he saw in that smoke earlier today.

"...Yuki…"

Does that dark aura have something to do with my optical episodes? And I could've sworn that a voice was calling to me.

"...r. Yuki…."

I'll probably go see the place where the fire happened. I should tell Jacob I'm going home though. He has been worried about me lately. I don't want him to be thinking he's gotta make sure I'm alright. If anything..

"Mr. Yuki!"

Lucas regained his focus on the class as a bright red face teacher was furious with the lack of attention Lucas showed. "Yes Mr. Mook?"

"Once you're done daydreaming, why don't you come up and explain to us what the answer is?" Mr. Mook seemed almost confident when Lucas went up to the board, hoping that the young Yuki boy finally was about to make a fool of himself. Lucas wrote the answer on the board and went back to his seat. He was pleased to see how frustrated Mr. Mook was. He turned an even brighter red, he started to look like a tomato. Lucas decided to discipline himself in his studies for once and planned for an excuse on what to tell Jacob after school.

…

Lucas arrived to the place where the fire had started. It wasn't particularly hard to find. As he was strolling around town, asking people where the fire had started, Lucas found an alleyway with stickers of arrows on the walls. These arrows seemed off, they were pointing in many different directions. They were probably meant to deliberately misdirect people who'd pass by here. They weren't particularly hard to follow, Lucas only had to follow the path of the arrows, not the arrows' directions themselves. The fire seemed to have started in an old warehouse. There was police line which indicated to not enter the premises.

Turn around. WE MUSTN'T GO IN.

Lucas turned around for a second. He could've sworn he heard a voice telling him to leave the premises. He ignored it and crossed over the line and into the yard of the building. Lucas headed to an entrance that seemed to have had it's door broken down. Lucas stepped into the building. He was shocked to see there was a duel stadium in the center of the room. There were two ends of the stadium with two different colored podiums at each end. The platform seemed to have had no damage from the fire. The only sort of damage that could be seen was a hole that seemed to have been pierced into the blue stadium.

We must leave. He's coming.

"You won't be going anywhere".

Lucas turned and saw the guy standing in the way of the exit. Lucas began to lose his eye focus yet again. He went pale. Lucas couldn't believe what he was seeing. The mysterious stranger was just as tall as Lucas. His eyes seemed to have a goldish orange to them. He wore an orange, short-sleeved, button down, unbuttoned shirt with a blue T-shirt. The stranger also wore Orange pants which matched his shirt, he wore a golden bracelet on his right wrist, which seemed almost Egyptian. He had dark blue hair. But what made Lucas go pale was the fact that the stranger's aura was much more flourishing than what he had saw from Jacob's aura as well as the girl from the park. The stranger snapped his fingers, and in an instant, a white, foggy mist surrounded the exterior of the warehouse.

"Now then," the stranger spoke, "Will you come along nicely, Jackal?"